At Giant Rock on Monday, June 4, 2024. From left to right Augustus Frates, Apolla Asteria, Andrew Collins,
Zoey Wind, Taylor, and Helena Reznor. Credit: Helena Reznor.
The
Return of the White Buffalo Calf
– a Psychic Quest in California
An Account by Andrew Collins
London, June 10, 2024. I have just returned from Contact in the Desert, one of the USA’s largest UFO conventions. It took place across a period of five days at a major hotel resort located at Indian Wells, California. It was good to see friends old and new, and also to deliver a total of six hours of presentations on everything from Tas Tepeler to Galactic centre, supermassive black holes, hypercosmic suns, Kundalini, Ophite gnosticism, the Milky Way in its role as the cosmic serpent, transdimensional intelligences, plasma consiousness, UFOs, Qesem Cave, Ark of the Covenant, quantum entanglement and string theory, and it all came together to make total sense!
On the Monday of the event, June 3, 2024, I accompanied a group of friends out to the Mojave Desert near the town of Landers to visit Giant Rock. The name refers to one of the largest freestanding boulders in the USA. Made of granite, the rounded rock occupies an area of 5,800 square feet and is described as being seven stories high. During the 1950s it was the focus of massive UFO conventions organised by renowned UFO contactee George Van Tassel (1910-1978). By the end of the decade as many as 10,000 people would turn up for these incredible events, where sky watches would take place and strange lights regularly seen. You can read about George Van Tassel in my book The Circlemakers (1992).
Van Tassel would enter a cave room underneath the rock and channel an alleged visitor from outer space named Ashtar of the Galactic Federation, who haled from Venus. As niave as we might see such practices today there were certain things that Van Tassel came said when in a trance that are only now beginning to make sense of our current understanding of UFOs, which suggests that many genuine objects seen are intelligent plasma constructs acting as conduits or wormholes. See my books Alien Energy (1994), LightQuest (2012) and Origins of the Gods (2022, co-authored with Dr Gregory Little).
At
Giant Rock on Monday, June 4, 2024. From left to right Augustus Frates, Apolla
Asteria, Andrew Collins,
Zoey
Wind, Taylor, and Helena Reznor. Credit: Helena Reznor.
Anyway,
a quarter of a mile northwest of Giant Rock is Crystal Hill. This is a solid ridge
and incline made almost entirely of quartz veins, which have been exposed due
to tectonic activity. The site is considered by many new agers to be a highly
energetic spot—the intense amount of quartz being able to highen psychic
abilities, something I can verify having first visited the site the previous year
and experienced a definite heightened psychic awareness. So we decided to conduct
a meditation on our arrival there. The idea was simply to attune to the site,
connect with the spirit of the place (Latin genius loci), and just try
and see if we could find out something about its history or function.
After some aura exercises and imagining a ball of light that expanded outwards to fill the surrounding landscape I called out to the spirit of the place and asked that we might receive any relevant images and impressions. I then told everyone to allow their minds to freefall and when done open their eyes. For me, I saw Native Americans, seemingly close by at a large lake, engaged in a ritual. They were dancing and stomping within a large circle at the edge of which were cow or bull horns still attached to their skulls.
I got the impression that these people were attempting to fulfil a prophecy concerning the incarnation of a white buffalo calf. It was something they had been waiting for and, for some reason, were imminently expecting to take place. I felt a connection between the Crystal Hill's quartz deposits and the physical appearance of the white buffalo calf. Indeed, it was perhaps for this reason that the information was coming through to me.
The image of the ritual then faded to be replaced with the sight of a live snake emerging from between two members of our group, Apolla Asteria and Zoey Wind, who were in meditation with their eyes closed. The snake slithered past me and followed a route down the side of the hill and then out of sight, suggesting to me that I should follow its movements and see what was down there.
Meditation
on Crystal Hill, June 4, 2024. In view, from left to right, Zoey Wind, Apolla
Asteria (lying down),
Beatrice (sitting up), Andrew Collins, and Augustus Frates.
Credit: Kristan.
Afterwards, I was once more seeing Native American imagery. I could see a square wooden structure flying a stylised banner showing a black eagle insignia. I felt this was relevant somehow to the imagery and related to a local tribe in the area.
Once the meditation was over there was a sudden and prolonged blast of wind, localised to the spot, after which I asked if anyone had picked up anything of interest. Zoey said she saw a woman in white who identified as the “Lady of the Lake.” She was floating down onto the summit of the hill, and with this imagery came the impression that she was the White Buffalo Calf Woman featured in the Lakota and Shoshone prophecy of the return of the white buffalo calf.
What she said about the white buffalo calf instantly took my attention, especially as she had no idea what I‘d seen, and previous to the meditation there had been no mention of the prophecy and, to be honest, I knew very little about the white buffalo calf story. So the fact that the first person to share what they had seen during the meditation was confirming what I'd seen was very curious indeed.
So I mentioned what I’d seen, and, quite naturally, a discussion ensued. It was pointed out to me that just six weeks earlier, on April 25, a rare white buffalo calf had been born on a farm in St Francis, Kansas. The story had gone viral online.
The expected return of the white buffalo calf was incredibly sacred to various Native American tribes who believed that its birth would signal imminent changes in the world coincident to the commencement of a new age of existence. The original appearance of the White Buffalo Calf Woman some 2000 years ago had been to teach humankind how to pray properly and how to live their lives in harmony with nature. The holy woman had then left saying she would one day return. The tribe would know when this was to take place as it would be preceded by the rare birth of a white buffalo calf. Her full story is outlined below.
During a separate attunement at Crystal Hill where my friend Augustus Frates used large Tibetan bowls to shower me with sound energy I gained the impression that the fulfilment of the incarnation of the white buffalo calf was linked in some manner with the full solar eclipse that had taken place across North America on April 8. In some manner it had triggered an increased interest in the fulfilment of the white buffalo calf prophecy, something that made sense if one was born in Kansas just 17 days later.
After this, I thought I would follow the path of the snake towards the base of Crystal Hill. It took me to a tiny rock recess, where I left offerings of tobacco. Just at that moment I heard my friend Helena Reznor shouting for everyone to come and see what was going on at the top of the hill. I quickly approached her and saw the focus of her excitement. It was a rattlesnake crawling down the hill. Realising that it was being watched the creature entered a small area of scrub to hide out of sight. The bizarre thing about this incident is that the snake had taken the same path down the hill as I had seen in my mind during the meditation. More disturbing, however, was the fact that it must have been hiding out of sight in the undergrowth right next to where I’d been sitting during the meditation! Why had we not seen it, and why had we not heard its rattle? Whatever the answer the fact that the rattlesnake followed exactly the same path as I had seen in my meditation seemed too much of a coincidence. Somehow I had been able to pick up not only on its presence, but also the path it would take after leaving the spot.
The
rattlesnake on Crystal Hill, June 4, 2024. Credit: Helena Reznor.
That was it for the day. After a trip to the nearby Integratron, which is a circular wooden building built to a design given by the alleged Space Brothers to George Van Tassel and meant to be used for bodily rejuventation, time travel and anti-gravity, we returned to Indian Wells.
I later read an accout of the White Buffalo Calf Woman and how she appeared long ago to the ancestors of the Dakota/Lakota (Brule Sioux). This particular version of the story comes from the National Park Service website:
“The story of the birth of the white buffalo calf goes as follows: Long ago, there was a great famine and the Lakota chief sent out two scouts to hunt for food. While they were searching, they saw a figure in the distance. As they approached, the figure appeared to be a beautiful woman. One of the two scouts was filled with sexual desire, but despite the warnings from the second scout that the woman appeared to be sacred, the man approached the woman. Soon a cloud enclosed the pair, and the man turned into a pile of bones. The second man approached the woman, and although frightened, the woman explained that she was wakan, or holy. She instructed the scout to go back to his People and tell them of her arrival. When the White Buffalo Calf Woman arrived, she brought the White Buffalo Calf chanupa (pipe) — the most sacred object a person can possess — and taught them seven sacred ways to pray. Before she left, she told the people that she would return again to restore harmony and spirituality to a troubled world. She then rolled upon the earth four times, changing color each time and turned into a white buffalo calf before she disappeared. As she left, great herds of buffalo surrounded the camps. When a white buffalo calf is born, it is a sign that their prayers are being heard and that the promises of the prophecy are being fulfilled.”
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"Apparition
of the White Buffalo Calf Maiden" by Frithjof Schuon (Public domain).
I returned from the USA on Wednesday, June 5 and the following Sunday, June 9, I learned that on Tuesday, June 4, just one day after our meditation on Crystal Hill, another rare white buffalo calf had been born, this one in Yellowstone Park. This was the story published on the Montana's News Leader website:
RARE WHITE BISON CALF SPOTTED IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
“YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - A very rare sight captured on camera in Yellowstone National Park this week has the wildlife community buzzing. The photos are of an extremely rare white bison calf in the Lamar Valley [Wyoming]. Kalispell photographer Erin Braaten snapped the photos while visiting the park with her family on Tuesday.”
The birth of this latest white buffalo calf in Yellowstone Park is certainly not unique. Indeed, investigations by Helena Reznor have uncovered the fact that as many as four such white buffalo calves have been born this year alone (even though this increase in rare births had only really begun the previous year, 2023). The important point about this latest calf, born the day after our meditation, is that it took place within the ancestral territory of the Dakota/Lakota (Brule Sioux), the preservers of the prophecy, something that cannot have gone unnoticed by members of its tribal nation.
White
buffalo calf born in Yellowstone Park on June 4, 2024. Credit: Mark Newman/Getty
Images.
One other point of interest. During the meditation on Crystal Hill I saw a Native American settlement flying a banner showing a black eagle insigni. I felt this was important and related to a tribe local to the region, one perhaps that might also have preserved knowledge of the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman. I looked online and found that Wahweveh, a.k.a Black Eagle, was a famous Native American warrior who lived in the nineteenth century and belonged to the Oregon Walpapi Paiute tribal peoples, who are related to the Shoshone. The Shoshone inhabited a large territory reaching from southern California in the south to Montana in the north. Their elders share in the belief of the “Miracle” that is the return of the white buffalo calf (see Irwin, Lee. 1999. “Review of Seeing the White Buffalo by Robert B. Pickering.” Great Plains Quarterly #1604 (Winter 1999)).
So what is going on? Is this all simply coincidence? It could well be, although my strong sense is that something is trying to convey an important message.
Whatever the answer, this is an exciting story, and we wait to see what might happen next.
Zoey Wind, who was the other person to pick up on the white buffalo calf prophecy on Crystal Hill has written an astrological report relating to the moment in time this happened. She also gives a brief account of what took place tha day. Titled “Gemini New Moon—Of Hearts and Visions” it can be read here.
UPDATE
June 11, 2024.
Who is the White Buffalo Woman?
The appearance of the white buffalo calf is thought signal an imminent change in the world, although, like Schrödinger's Cat, the nature of that change will be dependant on our own actions. It is also a sign of the return to this world of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, also just known as the White Buffalo Woman, who is considered as wakan, meaning "sacred" or "holy."
What is so strange is that her first appearance bears remarkable similarities to accounts of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima in Portugal in 1917. The White Buffalo Woman was seen first floating down towards the summit of a hill. It attracted the attention of two warioors who watched as it became apparent they were seeing a beautiful woman dressed in white and wearing porcupine needles. One of the men desired her so he reached out to touch the form only to be hit by lightning and reduced to a pile of bones. Another version of the story says that after the warrior attempted to touch the holy woman a cloud surrounded him and snakes then attacked him and tore him apart, again leaving him just a pile of bones. My greatest sense is that the figure was the manifestation of some kind of plasma object of the type that can explain so many UFO sightings. It only transformed into a recognisable female form after the two warriors had observed this phenomena floating towards them. The fact that one of them was struck by lightning when he tried to reach out to her only adds to this conclusion, as does the cloud that supposedly surrounded him. This could very well be an example of what UFO researcher and writer Jenny Randles has described as a "time storm." Others have referred to very similar luminous clouds that reach ground level as "fire fogs."
Such statements are not there to take away the potency of the White Buffalo Woman account. Indeed, it only enhances its credibility suggesting that if she really was a living entity then she might well have been what UFO writer John Keel might have described as an ultraterrestrial, one that manifested out of a plasma environment. The story of White Buffalo Woman entering the village and delivering sacred prayers and providing the tribe with a chanupa pipe to use in ceremonies might easily have become attached to a more fantastical story regarding the witnessing of a Fatima-like figure. The Miracle of White Buffalo Woman's appearance and her prophecised return is something that has had a deep impact on a number of tribes from Dakota through to Montana and California. Whatever her origin or nature White Buffalo Woman exists in the minds of many. She has her own reality - one that was certainly experienced by some of those taking part in the meditation on Crystal Hill on June 3, 2024.
The impact on those people has been immense. Not only did it prompt me to write this piece,and Zoey Wind to write hers (well, two actually as she published a second one today, June 11), but others involved are now experiencing what they see as powerful psychic connections with White Buffalo Woman as a response to what happened on that hill. There is talk of people going back there and much research is taking place right now.
What does it all mean, and where will it lead?
On a personal level it is my sense that our actions have forever connected the name of the White Buffalo Woman with Crystal Hill, a site that will now resonate the same influence as the hill on which this female figure landed in the story. I am going to assume that this hill is located somewhere in Dakota and is still revered by current-day members of the Dakota/Lakota (Brule Sioux) tribe.
Right now all I can add is that White Buffalo Woman exists and has made her presence known to the world in a quite dramatic fashion, something my friends will agree with profusely. For them the journey has only just begun and, who knows, just maybe it will be this extraordinary story that I will tell the next time I present at Contact in the Desert.