Seven months later and 2500 miles away at his new home in Silverdale, Washington, Harper awoke about 4 o’clock one morning to find an image of George standing over him in the master bedroom.

George’s skin “looked a lot like liquid-mercury,” Harper relates, and Harper spontaneously asked himself “is George made of mind-metal now?”

George was “wearing a brightly-colored, short-sleeved Hawaiian luau shirt with a white beachcomber hat,” a hat that had several flattened metal beer cans stuffed in its headband.

“I was stunned at first because I was confused by the meaning of the image I was seeing displayed by George. It was in a sense comical and light-hearted play for him but deadly serious for me. I now know that a lot of information was downloaded into me at that event regarding the way the cosmos works in its life, death, and rebirth cycles of consciousness evolution.”

“George was in fact showing me how our DNA is an immortal liquid-crystal organic computer chip made of the languages of light codes that is our soul body. It is DNA that shapeshifts us between our subtle energy body form and dense energy physical body form lifetime-after-lifetime.”

Though the act of seeing George’s image only lasted a couple of minutes, for Harper the passage of time felt like a glimpse at eternity. It was a life altering experience, a mystical awakening, that plunged Harper into ever deeper realms of scientific and esoteric research consuming the next 15 years of his life. He focused on the idea that trance states, as employed by shamans and intuitives, is a doorway and a ‘Rosetta stone’ to a fifth dimensional field of consciousness. An outgrowth of this consideration was his book, TRANCEFORMERS: Shamans of the 21st Century.

Hypnogogic and hypnopompic sleep disorder hallucinations, which I have personally experienced on four occasions, will not concern me here. A future issue of Phenomena magazine will carry an article in which I describe the evidence for several theories that might help to explain the hallucinatory trance states that I, John Jay Harper and many others have experienced in that twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep.

Regardless of whether these experiences occur as internal or external projections, the impact on a person’s psyche erupting from these encounters holds almost as much fascination for me as the catalytic events. Invariably, dramatic life changes are set in motion. In Harper’s case, besides writing this book, he was inspired to found the American Delphi Academy, a non-profit corporation of futurists trying to forsee and offer solutions to emerging crises in climate, culture, and consciousness.

From Terrence McKenna and Edgar Cayce, to the latest DNA research, shamanism, near-death experiences, the holographic universe theory, space as consciousness, all the way to the Maya calendar end-date of 2012, Harper takes the reader of TRANCEFORMERS on a wild and dizzying ride along the frontiers of thought about the evolution of human consciousness.

A Foreword to the book written by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., a former Stanford University School of Medicine research scientist, helps to define the role that Harper and others now play on the evolutionary stage. “Today we are poised on the threshold of a radical revision in our understanding of evolution as formally put forth in the theory of human genetics. Rather than ‘victims’ of our parents’ gene pool, we rediscover the missing link to our well being is our biology of belief...Shamans, these old doctors of souls, are our new prototypes, role models for mankind.”