Trip To India

Nirva seemed still anxious. I encouraged him to speak.

“See,” he said, after throwing back a sip of his drink, “I have read many things about Reptilians and aliens that could be in contact with the inhabitants of Earth.”

Giuliano and his friend looked at him carefully.

“They're very dangerous,” Nirvanananda spoke again. “They belong to another dimension, but can also perfectly live in this as long as they feed on negative vibes, suffering, fear, and despair of the living beings that they love to dominate.”

“True,” Riccardo commented. The doctor just nodded.

“Recently I read a very interesting article, which connected the various ufological current to the European folklore stories and in particular to Indian tradition...”

Everyone was really careful. Nirva drank another sip and kept talking.

“According to this last one, there are various humanoid bloodlines that are genetically more powerful than human beings, which throughout history have created outposts and settlements on our planet. The three most famous races are called Rakshasa, Naga e Yaksha. All three of them are biologically compatible with humans and can generate hybrids, which inherit the powers even if on a smaller scale.

While Naga and Yaksha have limited powers and can be quite benevolent with humans, Rakshasa have terrifying faculties with which they're capable of modifying matter only with their thought and they gladly use it to dominate humans. One of the most common examples is the fact that they're able to change their body's aspect. They're called Shapeshifters.”

“Yes! I heard about those Shapeshifters a few weeks ago on the show X-Files!” Josè said. And he nodded to Nirvanananda to continue.

“The ploy comes better when there's less light, so all these groups prefer to take action at night, even though the most powerful ones are perfectly capable of doing this in full daylight. The look that adapts best to their nature and can be considered their true form is terrifying - because what the Rakshasa like the most, more than the physical taste of human or animal flesh, is the emotional energy their preys' emit. Fear, horror, despair, helplessness, humiliation and degradation of their victims are delicious tastes to those creatures, which sometimes are described as ogres or vampires. They're also compared to snakes because they have a hypnotic power on human beings and they love to take these forms that can be defined as reptilians, even though it's known that according to their victims' mind they can take the form of other creepy beasts or composite aspects that remind us of different kinds of animals.”

Total silence came over our group.

Max was deep in his thoughts, probably he was making mental and cultural connections, but didn't show any sign of skepticism anymore.

Now it was Josè turn to hold my hand and he had a worried look.

The doctor and Riccardo were nodding, very seriously.

Nirva kept talking. “Historically our planet had alien outposts almost everywhere, although the principal settlements seem how have been in Sri Lanka for Rakshasa, China for Naga and the Caucasian region just in the north of mount Himalaya for Yaksha.”

Giuliano's friend raised a hand to interrupt him. “Let's not forget about the colonies in Mexico, Mesopotamia, upper Egypt, Cambodia, Israel, Rome, New Orleans and New York.”

“Of course,” Nirvanananda said, “but I'm talking about what Vedic books say, written over five-thousand years ago. Since then, there have been several movements. According to my research, in 1,000 BC a small group of Rakshasa allied with a 'rebel' group of Yaksha, giving birth to a migration from the Caucasian region to Middle East which changed radically the life of the human populations in the entire region, profoundly transforming social relationships and creating new mythologies, which spoke of cruelties and demons, giants of enormous physical power and monsters - that required rituals and blood sacrifices. To those superhuman beings were given different names - both collective like Elohim, Annunaki and Titans, and individual such as Marduk, Aryaman and so on.

The new religion overthrew the matriarchal cultures and introduced rape as a weapon of control, punishment and intimidation over women and the whole social group. Slavery and body modifications as a mark of recognition and belonging: circumcision, extension of the skull, tattooing, teeth reduction, deformation of various body parts such as lips, earlobes and so on, through the insertion of foreign objects. Domestic animals became private property, closed in fences or cages or fastened up and butchered as it pleased. The Sumerian tradition affirms that genetic experiments were made, to create animals and humans for the dominators' purposes. Both human and animal sacrifice rituals were introduced, providing a caste of privileged priests that served as intermediaries between ordinary human beings and their dominators.

The ancient tradition of the alpha-male, chosen every year as tribal leader after a demonstration of physical and mental strength was transformed into absolutist hereditary monarchy, in which the hybrid descendants of the dominators, raised to the rank of demigods, were crossbred between them to maintain as much as possible the superhuman genetic heritage.

To protect them a caste of sired warriors was created, denied of any kind of independence and organized hierarchically in an identical form to that of the armies that we know today. They developed more efficient and cruel weapons; they organized military expeditions to conquer a larger territory to gather fresh resources, slaves, animals and tributes of various natures.”

Riccardo and Giuliano nodded. “Yes, fundamentally this coincides with our information.”

Maximilian went pale. “So these familiars are also trained to use weapons!”

The doctor's friend smiled. “Not all of them are experts as you fear... And we train too!”

Josè intervened. “What is the link with extraterrestrials? From what you have said so far these races are terrestrials even if not human.”

“They have their own planets too,” Riccardo replied, “with little natural resources, so they migrate only to raid on different worlds and to obtain what they need - sand for silicon, gold and ‘livestock’ human and animal. They have spaceships even very big, but their technology is so forward that they can virtually make them invisible. From them the American government got the idea of stealth crafts and others like microwaves, silicon chips and things that have not been released to the masses.”

Josè seemed to be hit by a thought. “In south America they talk about a monster that many consider extraterrestrial...”

Riccardo quickly beat him. “The chupacabra... yes, they're Reptilians.”

He looked around and decided that it was necessary to explain better. “For some decades in the area there have been reports about attacks on livestock, especially horses, cattle and goats. The animals are strangely mutilated surgically, as no beast of prey could do and only certain organs are missing: usually genitals, rectum, or udders or eyes. Often they're completely bled but there's no trace of blood around the body. Just one or three holes generally on the neck or the chest of the victim, more or less as large as a human finger; sometimes marks on the back legs that make you think that the animal has been transported from a different place relative to the place where it was found. There aren't other signs neither of violence that could explain in which way the animal was slaughtered and there aren't human footprints, or predatory beasts, nor of vehicles and no sign from the animals of resistance, but there have been measured high levels of radioactivity and traces found of fluorescent substances.”

Taking advantage of Riccardo's pause, Giuliano intervened. "In the areas affected by these mysterious and macabre events, often there have been seen unidentified flying objects and strange beings that looked like enormous lizards that walk like kangaroos. All witnesses described a strong scent of sulfur, red shiny eyes and an acute hissing sound that causes nausea and might have hypnotic effects.”

I looked at my watch. It was nearly two in the morning.

“Okay, you've been creeping me out enough for today,” I concluded with a pulled smile. The spell broke and everyone looked immediately more relaxed.

“Right,” Nirva said. “I think we all should go to bed... and let's hope not to have nightmares!”

We all laughed and emptied our glasses before we got up and went back to our rooms.

“I suggest we all take it easy tomorrow, and maybe visit the city...” the doctor said. “Not only we need it after a long flight, but it will also give the impression that we're just common tourists to whoever may watch us.”

“Sure,” Josè said. “This is our holiday and even though we also have a mission in Nepal - find Govindananda and make him explain his mysterious dedication - we have all the time to relax and have a look around the place. It would be a pity to waste the chance.”

Riccardo nodded. “We'll be happy to be your tour guide; I have been to India many times. And if you want we could check the tiny book the monk gave you and maybe we could help you solve the mystery...”

“God knows!” It seemed quite a good idea, after all.

Contrary to what I feared, I didn't have any problem falling asleep and I didn't have any nightmares about red eyes or big vampire lizards that smelled like sulfur.

But I had a strange dream anyway. It felt like the sequel of the one I had during my first visit in Nepal, in 1991.

I was again lying naked sunbathing in a cornfield, on a carpet made of rose petals. Suddenly a woman's voice started to sing Hindu songs and I sat up straight with my legs crossed, my hands leaning on my knees in a yoga position... palms up, thumb and index finger united.

This time, just one man came in my presence: he looked like the boy I met in the Good Food restaurant in Kathmandu. He gave me a letter and disappeared. In the dream, I opened immediately the letter and read it, You were a butterfly, I looked for you, I found you. We flew together, for a long time, do you remember?! Our lives pass quickly, but we can still fly.

I woke up startled, all sweaty. The sun was rising. Josè heard me moving and opened one eye. “Is everything fine, little monkey?”

“Yes, my love, just a dream...”

He turned his back to me and I fell asleep again, cuddling up to him.

THE DISCOVERY OF DELHI

We got up quite late that morning; we were on holiday and didn't want to rush.

We met Nirvanananda and Max at the restaurant, for a quick brunch... We couldn't call it breakfast, quite after 11:30 am. A kind and smiling waiter brought us a menu in English and we studied it for several minutes before ordering. There were three sections - Indian, Chinese and Continental. Josè and Maximilian confabulated for a while and laughed a little. In the end we ordered French toasts with apples and vanilla, Double-decker sandwich that unfortunately resulted non-vegetarian, Cheese bread rolls, Tossed salad and Vegetable stew. We excluded the Breakfast sausage casserole (the dish that raised the most irony in Josè), the Pasta ‘all'arabiatta’, with one r, one b and two t to compensate, the English pickled onions and the Mushroom with tomato and white wine sauce, which didn't sound that good. The Lasagna in the menu wasn't available so we didn't insist further, but we asked for an assortment of fresh fruit juice, tea and milk served separately and a big thermos of hot black American coffee.

While we were trying different pseudo-occidental specialties, Riccardo and Giuliano joined us.

“We talked to the travel agency of the hotel,” the doctor said. “A private hotel car will drive us around to visit the most interesting places of the city and then tomorrow we can calmly go to the internal flight airport; there are direct flights from Delhi to Kathmandu every day, at 7:30 am and 1:40 pm with Indian Airlines. They arrive respectively at 9:10 am and 3:25 pm, with enough time to complete the formalities of the local visa and settle down in the hotel before visiting the city.”