Ep.356 In the Stillness of Night

Ep.356 In the Stillness of Night

Published: 19 October 2025

The first of our two guests tonight is Jessie from Minnesota, USA. After losing her beloved dog, Jessie turned to the CIA’s Gateway Process meditation searching for comfort, and instead opened a doorway to something far stranger. What began as moments of peace soon gave way to visions of crystal spiders and encounters with shadowed figures that seemed to watch from beyond the veil. Then we move on to Soumil in Nashik, India. In a quiet village beside the backwaters of a dam, a still night beneath the stars became extraordinary when two silent objects flew in perfect tandem above the water. Years later, after a near-fatal stroke, Soumil found himself visited by three magenta-robed beings in the ICU, figures that seemed to heal him in silence.

Early Paranormal Experiences

  • Night terrors and shadow entities: As a teenager, Jessie experienced dark shadowy figures and “blobs of black energy” hovering over her while she slept.

  • Red glowing face (age 6 and again in her 20s): A red, menacing face appeared over her bed; it remained visible even when she closed her eyes.

  • Name whispered in the night: Heard her name called while half-asleep.


Crystal Spider Encounter

  • Woke up to a dozen glowing crystal spiders hanging from the ceiling.

  • Each spider was about a foot long with hexagonal pyramid-shaped abdomens and spindly legs.

  • They shimmered like oil slicks and rotated slowly.

  • Jessie was not frightened, describing them as beautiful and delicate.

  • This event occurred before she began using the Gateway meditation techniques.


Gateway Process and UFO/Entity Contact

  • Began practicing CIA Gateway Process meditation after her dog’s death.

  • During her first deep session, she said aloud: “Please show me there’s more to life.”

  • Entered a portal of swirling red and white light, then blackness.

  • Encountered three entities:

    1. A feminine, humanoid being with an egg-shaped head, large eyes, and thin hair.

    2. A darker, bald figure with larger eyes and less human features.

    3. A classic gray alien—large head, black almond eyes—non-threatening, just observing.

  • Experience ended abruptly when her child entered the room.

  • Later meditations produced colors, misty faces, and energy patterns, but never the same intensity again.


Post-Meditation Visitations

  • Line of spirits beside bed: After asking the universe if she could help, Jessie woke to see a line of gray, humanlike figures next to her bed.

  • Dark figure with gold lights: A being “blacker than black” with gold dots outlining its body appeared at the foot of her bed.

  • Jester-like figure: Surrounded by floating candles; no threat felt.

  • Tentacled shadow being: Blacker than the room, with tentacles emerging from its body—this one felt menacing and caused her to scream.

  • Pale humanoid apparition: Thin, skeletal white being with glowing blue eyes and straggly white hair crouched at her bed’s foot.

    • When she shouted “Only love and light are allowed in this house,” it stood up, turned, and ran into her mirror, shrinking as it disappeared.


Mediumship and Spiritual Training

  • Began sessions with a spiritual practitioner, learning to close meditations and create energetic boundaries.

  • Practitioner told her that curious entities were drawn to her “light.”

  • After this training, the experiences ceased.

  • Jessie now feels drawn toward developing mediumship abilities.


UFO and Night Sky Phenomena

  • Reports seeing “moving stars” that behave unlike satellites or Starlink.

  • During one outdoor meditation, she asked for reassurance; the light flashed twice, moved slightly, then faded back into the sky.


Mother’s Near-Death and Spiritual Experiences

  • Jessie’s mother passed from interstitial lung disease in February.

  • Before dying, she saw her deceased dog and spoke to her late father in dreams.

  • During an ambulance ride, she channeled information about the driver’s personal life and future children.

  • Shortly before her death, she said she could “see the gates” and predicted she would die on her father’s birthday (February 15)—which she did.

  • Noted family pattern: her grandfather, father, and she all died at age 65.


Funeral and After-Death Events

  • Jessie, studying mortuary science, personally arranged and witnessed her mother’s cremation, which counted toward her coursework.

  • During the drive to the crematory, she felt her mother’s presence in the car, and a shared song suddenly played on the radio without her phone being connected.

  • Later, Jessie dreamed of her mother taking her hand, saying “I’m always with you.”

  • When Jessie asked what the afterlife was like, her mother replied, “It’s like a centipede—always moving.”

The Gateway Intermediate Workbook
Link to the document itself is 21-page version released via the CIA’s FOIA archives. cia.gov/readingroom/do
 

Soumil’s Key Experiences

  1. Twin UFO Sighting – Backwaters of Nashik

    • Around 2:20 a.m., while sleeping outdoors near the backwaters of a dam in a remote village, Soumil woke to see two silent flying objects moving in perfect tandem above the water.

    • One was larger, one smaller, both glowing faintly white.

    • The objects looped directly over him twice, as if acknowledging his presence, then vanished at high speed without any sound or visible propulsion.

  2. Repeat Encounter

    • The same phenomenon occurred again roughly six to seven months later in the exact same area.

    • After that second sighting, the lights never returned.

  3. Near-Death Experience – Stroke & ICU

    • In April 2021, Soumil suffered a stroke and was admitted to the ICU.

    • While unconscious, he was visited by three short robed beings wearing magenta-colored garments and surrounded by a soft protective bubble or glow.

    • They appeared multiple times during his recovery, performing what seemed like healing actions.

    • Doctors predicted a year-long recovery, yet Soumil walked out of the hospital after nine days, shocking medical staff.

  4. Possible Continuation of Contact

    • Soumil believes the entities in the ICU may have been connected to the same intelligence behind the UFOs he saw years earlier.

    • His experience links physical sightings with spiritual or healing contact, blurring the boundary between extraterrestrial and metaphysical phenomena.

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