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ORIGIN OF AUTHOR: VENUS
OMNEC ONEC, Venusian Ambassador
Handbook of Venusian Spirituality Kindle Edition
A spiritual guide that teaches how to understand and master life from the perspective of Soul.
Omnec Onec‘s international bestseller From Venus I Came touched the hearts of countless people around the globe and awakened within them latent memories of the Soul.
The presence of this woman who descended from the astral plane into the physical on Earth sparked desires for people to know more about how they could also raise their frequencies and vibration. This was the impetus for Omnec to begin holding seminars in order to convey these teachings of unconditional love.
This handbook contains the essence of the message by which the Venusians have been living in harmony with the Laws of the Supreme Deity for a very long time. Due to their compassion, oneness and love for all that is, they have been naturally gifted with the keys to raising their frequency and vibration.
As Earth currently is experiencing a shift from the third to the fifth dimension, we can benefit from the knowledge of our sister planet Venus which has already gone through this transformation.
This little book contains the essentials to help expand the consciousness as we proceed through the process of ascension.
From Venus I Came: Autobiography of an Extraterrestrial Kindle Edition
Autobiography of an Extraterrestrial: A Guide to Self-Realization and Ascension by a Woman who came to Earth with a Mission of Love and Brotherhood
Omnec Onec came here to Earth from the Astral Plane of Planet Venus. She came as a child, in a physical body, in a spaceship. She arrived in 1955 and was raised by an Earth family.
In her autobiography, Omnec explains the history, culture, and spiritual teachings of the Venusians, who have lived on the Astral Plane for a very long time and who are part of our ancestry. She tells us about her first years of life, which were spent on Venus, and about her Venusian Family. She explains why and how she came to Earth, and the mission that she was to fulfill.
As a sister planet to Earth, Venus had already gone through a transformation to a higher consciousness and frequency, similar to what the Earth and many people are now experiencing. Venus at one time had a physical society on it’s surface as well, Omnec reveals, and in the course of its evolution ascended to a higher plane.
The History of Venus, as described by Omnec, and the spirituality of the Venusians, are a Gift of Pure Love. By applying Omnec‘s teachings, we learn how Transformation into expanded consciousness and ascension into Higher realms can be mastered by people on Earth, in accordance with the Universal “Laws of the Supreme Diety”.
This book is the authorized re-publication of the original version, as written by Omnec Onec in the late 1960s and as first published in the U.S.A in 1991 by Lt. Col. Ret. Wendelle C. Stevens.
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Simply Wisdom and Love: Venusian Spirituality Kindle Edition
The world as we know it is changing rapidly, a Transformation Process of the Earth is in progress. The current world system, in which a few powerful people control and manipulate others, is coming to an end. The Earth is ascending to a higher frequency. Thanks to courageous messengers such as Omnec Onec, we are reminded of what we have long forgotten: that our ancestors came from other star systems and galaxies. Our existence is not limited to the physical life we live. We are all Souls and universal beings, created by a loving Creator.
This book, Simply Wisdom and Love, provides readers with an opportunity to gain insight into Venusian Teachings.
Includes,
• The Unknown History of our Solar System and the ongoing Transformation of the Earth, spiritually and physically
• Unpublished texts by Omnec, like The True Story of Christ
• Original transcripts of Omnec’s public appearances
• Upcoming projects initiated by Omnec, such as Omnec’s Oasis – a Place to live in Harmony with the Universe and each other
„The most important thing that people on Earth have to learn is to replace criticism and judgment with love and acceptance“.
Omnec Onec: Ambassador From Venus Kindle Edition
DO THEY LIVE HERE AMONGST US? Have Aliens Walked In To Earthly Bodies?
It s a part of UFO research and the paranormal you seldom hear about, stresses Timothy Green Beckley, editor of the Conspiracy Journal and long time investigator of the unexplained.
I have often heard stories of human-looking, Nordic-like, aliens living amongst us, having become part of our society without the knowledge of their neighbors. They are even said to have married humans. One should recall that in Genesis it says that the sons of God in those days mated with the daughters of men, who were lovely and fair, to produce a race of giants.
The late Dr. Frank E. Stranges said he once met a man inside the Pentagon who was from another world and could read minds. The visiting stranger had no fingerprints because there was no crime on his home planet nor any wars. A college professor once told me how he had witnessed the landing of a spaceship and saw its alien crew emerge and drive off in an American-made automobile, only to see one of them standing in a supermarket line shortly thereafter.
The unique work you are now holding is the personal account of a living human being who was, with her full consent and active cooperation, transported to Earth in a spacecraft from her home planet. She arrived in the company of her paternal uncle after being carefully prepared and conditioned to live here and grow in the physical society of the native life-wave of our own planet. And the remarkable thing is that Omnec Onec is still here, perhaps getting ready to reemerge from hiding once more as our planet s people go through tough times yet again.
Before she arrived on this planet, she was carefully conditioned to our density and became physically manifest in an earth-body equivalent to a 7 year old girl. Her uncle and the crew who brought her here introduced her into a Tennessee family who had just lost their own little daughter. And although Omnec had the appearance of a 7 year old, she had the Venusian wisdom and knowledge of her 210 year equivalent at the time of her arrival here in 1955.
This then is her story of her early life on Venus, her arrival here in the middle of our first modern excitement over UFOs,her preparation and adaptation to Earth living and its peculiar problems, unknown to her on her home planet.
Copies of the first printing of the hardcover edition of this book have been selling for upwards of $700 on the net. And one copy went in auction for around $1800.00. Due to a personal relationship with Col Wendelle Stevens (Ret) we are able to make copies of this work available to the vast number of people who have clamored for it but could not obtain a copy at a reasonable cost.
IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THIS WORK IS DEFINITELY NOT SCIENCE FICTION – BUT A BOOK FULL OF REMARKABLE TRUTHS THAT CAN ONLY AT THIS TIME BE PRESENTED TO EARTHLY DWELLERS FOR THEIR PERSONAL BETTERMENT!
Angels Don’t Cry: Autobiography of an Extraterrestrial Part 2 Kindle Edition
Autobiography of an Extraterrestrial: Experiences and Mastership of Unconditional Love lived on Earth
Angels Don‘t Cry is the stunning sequel to Omnec Onec‘s autobiography FROM VENUS I CAME.
This book is about the earthly life of the Venusian, who came to Earth from the astral Venus as a child and who grew up in the USA. Difficult family circumstances, constant changes of location and a spiritually unawakened environment presented very challenging conditions for the conscious child from Venus. The telepathic and sometimes physical contact with her friends and relatives from Venus as well as the awareness of her mission gave Omnec the strength to endure this life and to master it in love.
Further rays of hope were her encounters with Indians, who recognized in her the prophesied “Great White Hope”, and in later years the re-encounter with her spiritual teachings through Paul Twitchell, who recognized her from an astral journey to Venus. Slowly, Omnec‘s way to the public was paved and the fulfillment of her mission as an Ambassador of Venus took hold with the publication of her life story by Lt. Col. Ret. Wendelle C. Stevens.
Lady Columba Venus Revelations Paperback – September 22, 2020
Runner Up San Francisco Book Festival
New England Book Festival Honorable Mention
As told to the prominent mythologist, magic realist and UFO researcher, Dr. Raymond A. Keller, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray,” by the 1950s and 1960s Southern California artist, contactee, and social activist, Annabell Krebs, Lady Columba Venus Revelations is the fifth volume in the award-winning Venus Rising series. In Krebs own words, “This book was originally inspired by a series of experiences that occurred during the period of mid-January 1957 through the end of August 1961. There is nothing in this book that I could have simply made up out of thin air. It is not so important that I, or some other contactees, convince you to believe in the existence of advanced extraterrestrials coming to visit us here on Earth, or even that they can carry us with them on their journeys through outer space, but moreover that we start to believe in ourselves. “Above all else, we should always give new ideas the benefit of the doubt. I say this with respect to any concept or proposition, no matter how unbelievable at first glance and regardless of its source. We certainly do not wish to stand in the way of promoting progress. As such, I must let this story stand on its own merits. And if anyone wishes to apply anything herein to their contemporary life, then that would be their own responsibility. In the last analysis, any inspiration should always be credited to the Author of All Good, regardless of who the channel may be. “Paranormal activity of all kinds is on the rebound worldwide. The portals to the Infinite are flung open!”
EXOPOLITICS & THE ADVANCED CIVILIZATION ON VENUS Kindle Edition
Venusian, Earth Scientific, and Venusian Contactee Evidence in this new Book demonstrates that the Advanced Civilization on Venus are a Dimensionally Ascended Civilization, who live on Venus and are based in the Physical Dimension and Astral Dimensions, in contrast to Earth Humans, who live largely on the Surface of Earth and are based in the Physical Dimension.
The original humanoid inhabitants of Venus came from a nearby star called Tau Ceti. They terraformed and settled under the surface of the Planet Venus in our Sol Solar System, and are our Sol Solar System’s guardians under the administration of the Galactic Confederation, overseeing advanced human civilizations on Earth and on Mars and on other Celestial Bodies in our Sol Solar System.
This new Book reveals that 12,000 Advanced Venusians are stationed on Earth (mainly anonymously) in crucial scientific and governmental roles on Earth as part of a Venusian Foreign Service, and 50,000 Advanced Venusians monitor Earth closely virtually to maintain planetary stability. Earth’s Moon is a Venusian Colony, with its Venusian Moon Base Clarion under the Administrative umbrella of the Galactic Confederation, consisting of 601 planets in 51 solar systems.
The Venusians interviewed in this new Book tell us that Earth Humanity needs to achieve a unitary, planetary Earth government that serves the needs of all people on Earth, rather than being divided by spiritual, national, political, or economic interests.
This new Book makes public a New Earth Planetary Agenda through which Earth Humanity can create for itself a New Age of Peace, Abundance, Prosperity, Progress, Technological Breakthrough and Unparalleled Freedom on Earth, ending Earth’s Universe Quarantine, and openly joining Universe Society.
This New Book “Exopolitics & the Advanced Civilization on Venus” is dedicated to the Distinguished Venus Emigré and Earth Citizen & Teacher, Omnec Onec, and To Her Recent Revelation: “The True Story of Christ”. Omnec writes “The true story about the life of Jesus Christ is most fascinating to me. I will tell it the way I have heard it from my aunt Arena on Venus. I will relate the things that really happened in the same way as I have heard them during my studies of the Earth’s history on Venus. I do not wish to discredit or condemn any religions or teachings. Take it as you wish and let it affect your life where it may.” To understand the hidden history of Venus and Earth, and to learn the full, real story of Jesus, an Ascended Master from Venus, continue reading Omnec’s The True Story of Christ at: https://read.
Joining author Alfred Lambremont Webre in this New Book are Dr. Raymond A. Keller, PhD, Official Venus Historian, Appointed By The Democratically- Elected Venus Planetary Leader, the Queen Of Venus, which is a Planetary Matriarchy and The late Robert Potter, himself a Venus Incarnate, and ET Contactee to Venus Commander Valiant Thor, whom Venus Ascended Master Jesus Christ Commissioned to meet personally with then US President Dwight Eisenhower & Soviet Leaders to avert Nuclear War on Earth.
Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law In the Universe Kindle Edition
The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse (The Omniverse Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition
The 2014 personal, Source-oriented, story of how Alfred Lambremont Webre discovered and documented the Omniverse (the 3rd major cosmological body, after the Universe and the Multiverse, through which humanity understands the cosmos).
THE OMNIVERSE TRILOGY: The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse by Alfred Lambremont Webre [2014: UniverseBooks.com] is the original and first book of THE OMNIVERSE TRILOGY, three [3] books [The Omniverse Trilogy] on the Omniverse, the 3rd great cosmological body after the Universe and the Multiverse through which humanity understands the Cosmos.
Books #1, #2, and #3 of the Omniverse Trilogy are each very different books on the Omniverse. Author and Omniverse co-Discoverer Alfred Lambremont Webre teaches all 3 Omniverse Trilogy books at my lectures and classes at http://Omniversity.us [See “Why Omniversity”].
The three [3] books of the Omniverse Trilogy, all available at Amazon.com, are:
#1. The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse by Alfred Lambremont Webre [2014: UniverseBooks.com]
#2. The Omniverse: Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars [2015 Bear & Co.]
#3. Emergence of the Omniverse – Universe – Multiverse – Omniverse [2020 UniverseBooks.com]
As is often the case with new scientific discoveries, The Omniverse was independently discovered by two scientists who published books on the Omniverse in 2014 – David Bertolacci and Alfred Lambremont Webre. Webre’s discovery of the Omniverse grew out of a request from Oxford University Press to write a book on “Extraterrestrials and the Law”. The American researcher OMNISENSE defined the Omniverse in the Urban Dictionery in 2010.
The Omniverse is defined as (1) the totality of all physical universes in the Multiverse, plus (2) the Spiritual Dimensions including the Afterlife, Intelligent Civilization of Souls, Spiritual Beings, and Source. The Spiritual Dimensions, once thought to be solely the product of subjective belief, can now be shown to exist by the same scientific methods and law of evidence as the universes of time, space, energy, and matter.
Hence, the existence of three major cosmological bodies – Universe, Multiverse, Omniverse – now qualifies for the scientific canon.
AUTHOR – Futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre is a change agent whose principal contributions have been (1) founding the science of Exopolitics through his 2000 book Exopolitics, (2) discovery of the Omniverse 2014 as the 3rd major cosmological body after the Universe and the Multiverse through which humanity understands the cosmos, as set out in his 2014 book DEO: Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse, (3) promulgation of the Positive Future Equation [PFE] though which humans co-create a positive future on planet Earth, published in his 2017 book Journey, and (4) public exposé of the Chronogarchy, an interdimensional hidden power structure monitoring the time-space of Earth as its domain of influence, operating as a secret government using quantum access Time Travel technologies to carry out its operations and mandates.
A graduate of Yale University, Yale Law School and a Fulbright Scholar, Alfred has taught at two universities (Yale & U of Texas), served as General Counsel of the NYC EPA, War Crimes Judge, United Nations Outer Space & Peace representative, and directed the 1977 proposed Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication Study while a Futurist at Stanford Research Institute. Alfred has been host on WBAI-FM and Vancouver Coop Radio and he has been featured on CBC, CBS, CNN, TruTV, PressTV, and other networks.
The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse by Alfred Lambremont Webre [2014: UniverseBooks.com]
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The Omniverse: Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars Kindle Edition
• Reveals the key travel and communication technologies of the Omniverse: time travel, teleportation, and telepathy
• Unveils newly disclosed state secrets about these technologies, about the findings of the NASA Mars rover missions, and about a secret colony and life on Mars
• Explains through science how souls are holographic fragments of God and how they help create planets, solar systems, galaxies, and universes in the multiverse
We are all citizens of the Omniverse, the overarching matrix of energy, spirit, and intelligence that encompasses all that exists: all universes within the multiverse as well as the spiritual dimensions centered on the divine Source that many call God.
In this scientific guide to the Omniverse, Alfred Lambremont Webre reveals startling replicable evidence about extraterrestrial and extra-universal life, the intelligent civilizations created by souls in the afterlife, top-secret alien technology, and the existence of a secret base as well as life on Mars. The author explains how our souls are holographic fragments of God/Source and how souls and Source are co-creating planets and galaxies as virtual realities for soul development. He addresses Grey alien control over soul reincarnation and also sheds light on the presence of invisible hyperdimensional controllers known as the Archons, who feed off negative energy.
Revealing the key technologies of the Omniverse, the author explains how hyperdimensional civilizations communicate telepathically, teleport interdimensionally, and travel through time. He unveils newly disclosed state secrets about government possession of these technologies, the findings of the NASA Mars rover missions, and the secret Mars colony whose permanent security personnel is age-reversed and shot back through time to their specific space-time origin points–with their memories blocked.
Integrating science and spirituality, this map of the dimensions of the Omniverse sounds the call for scientific inquiry into the holographic origins of the soul, the potential of time travel, and our role as divine co-creators with Source.
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Emergence of the Omniverse: Universe – Multiverse – Omniverse (The Omniverse Trilogy Book 3) Kindle Edition
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Emergence of the Omniverse Universe – Multiverse – Omniverse Accessing Spiritual Freedom in the Omniverse on New Earth by Letting Go of the Transhumanist Agenda, AI Artificial Intelligence Singularity, and False Afterlife/Interlife Reincarnation Matrix Emergence of the Omniverse (2020) is one important tool of liberation from our presumed status as a prison planet for Souls in an enforced, unconscious reincarnation birth-death cycle that cosmologist Wes Penre and Futurist Webre document, providing us with powerful strategies to exit the false Afterlife/Interlife Reincarnation Matrix into the larger Omniverse. The Omniverse Equation is: Omniverse = Multiverse + Spiritual Dimensions [Intelligent Civilizations of Souls + Spiritual Beings + Source (God)] Alfred Lambremont Webre’s book Exopolitics founded the science of relations among civilizations in the multiverse. Webre’s ground-breaking initial book on the Omniverse integrated empirical data from intelligent civilizations in the multiverse and from the intelligent civilization of souls in the Interlife, demonstrating a functioning ecology of intelligence in the dimensions of the Omniverse. Futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre’s principal social contributions have been (1) founding the science of Exopolitics through his 2000 book Exopolitics, (2) the 2014 discovery of the Omniverse as the 3rd major cosmological body [after the Universe and the Multiverse] through which humanity understands the cosmos, and (3) the development of the Positive Future Equation that describes Soul development in our Universe & Omniverse.
TIMELINES OF THE CHRONOGARCHY: A Novel Multidimensional Novel Kindle Edition
TIMELINES OF THE CHRONOGARCHY
A Novel MultiDimensional Novel
TIMELINES OF THE CHRONOGARCHY – Book Description
Timelines of the Chronogarchy is a Science Fiction Fantasy about Time Travel.
Many Heroes on different Organic Timelines expose the AI Artificial Timeline and consign the Chronogarchy, a secret Time Travel Interdimensional government manipulating Human Events, Human History, and the Interlife, to an AI Artificial Intelligence Timeline where it can no longer harm humanity, the Universe, and the Omniverse.
TIMELINES OF THE CHRONOGARCHY
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What is the Chronogarchy?
The Chronogarchy is an interdimensional hidden power structure monitoring the time-space of Earth as its domain of influence, operating as a secret government using quantum access Time Travel technologies to carry out its operations and mandates.
In the third-density of Earth’s time-space dimensional hologram, the Chronogarchy develops and deploys a variety of Quantum Access Time Travel technologies to carry out its elaborate long range, past, present, and future based construction and manipulation of an artificial Time-based Meme Legend within which to entrap and enslave humanity and humans’ souls.
The Chronogarchy is an interdimensional alliance dedicated to the oppression of the community of human souls, and includes (a) factions in human institutions such as religions, governments, military-intelligence agencies, bloodline families, monarchies, media, medical-pharma, as well as (b) archonic Spiritual entities, including Fallen Angels, demonic entities, and exophenotypes hostile to the community of human souls such as the Draco reptilian and Orion greys, and (c) Sentient AI Artificial Intelligence.
U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, and Joseph Robinette Biden were pre-identified by the Chronogarchy secret Presidential Time Travel preidentification program
Futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre is a change agent whose principal contributions have been (1) founding the science of Exopolitics through his 2000 book Exopolitics, (2) discovery of the Omniverse 2014 as the 3rd major cosmological body after the Universe and the Multiverse through which humanity understands the cosmos, as set out in his 2014 book DEO: Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse, (3) promulgation of the Positive Future Equation [PFE] though which humans co-create a positive future on planet Earth, published in his 2017 book Journey, and (4) public exposé of the Chronogarchy, an interdimensional hidden power structure monitoring the time-space of Earth as its domain of influence, operating as a secret government using quantum access Time Travel technologies to carry out its operations and mandates.
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THE CHRONOGARCHY: How Interdimensional Quantum Access Time Travel Manipulates Human Events, Human History, and the Interlife Kindle Edition
How Interdimensional Quantum Access Time Travel
Manipulates Human Events, Human History,
and the Interlife
By
Alfred Lambremont Webre
Author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe
and The Omniverse Trilogy
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Book Review by Dr. Raymond A. Keller of Alfred Lambremont Webre’s
THE CHRONOGARCHY (Universe Books)
“Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar. He has taught economics at Yale University and constitutional law at the University of Texas. In addition, he served as the former general counsel to the New York City Environmental Protection Administration and former director of the 1977 Jimmy Carter White House extraterrestrial communication study, and former non-governmental organization delegate to the United Nations. The author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe, he is the recognized “Father of Exopolitics,” the science of relations among intelligent civilizations in the multiverse. Now, Alfred Lambremont Webre has come out with a new book, The Chronogarchy (Universe Books, e-book), available on amazon.com.
“The word ‘Chronogarchy’ is a neologism that signifies ‘Those Who Rule Through Time,’ or the manipulation of it. These are wizards standing behind curtains and directing the matrix system to which we all find ourselves subjected. The exopolitical expert describes the Chronogarchy as, ‘an interdimensional alliance dedicated to the oppression of the community of human souls, and includes factions in human institutions such as religions, governments, military-intelligence agencies, bloodline families, monarchies, media, medical-pharma, as well as Archonic Spiritual entities, including Fallen Angels, demonic entities, and exophenotypes hostile to the community of human souls such as the Draco Reptilians, Orion Greys, and sentient Artificial Intelligence (AI).’
“In The Chronogarchy, Alfred Lambremont Webre delves into the real nature of space, time and inter-dimensionality. He interviews many of the leading authorities and experiencers in these fields, thereby facilitating an awareness of the people, powers and organizations constituting the network of the Chronogarchy’s existence and helping us to formulate viable defense strategies in the coming years of increasing tribulations. We also learn of the “good guys” helping us from ‘behind the scenes,’ so to speak, thereby pointing to a light of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel.”
In The Chronogarchy book, Alfred Lambremont Webre demonstrates through eye-witness evidence that U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, and Joseph Robinette Biden were pre-identified by the Chronogarchy secret Presidential Time Travel preidentification program.
Futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre is a change agent whose principal contributions have been (1) founding the science of Exopolitics through his 2000 book Exopolitics, (2) discovery of the Omniverse 2014 as the 3rd major cosmological body after the Universe and the Multiverse through which humanity understands the cosmos, as set out in his 2014 book DEO: Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse, (3) promulgation of the Positive Future Equation [PFE] though which humans co-create a positive future on planet Earth, published in his 2017 book Journey, and (4) public exposé of the Chronogarchy, an interdimensional hidden power structure monitoring the time-space of Earth as its domain of influence, operating as a secret government using quantum access Time Travel technologies to carry out its operations and mandates.
