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Masquerade of Angels
Very rare book! Actual accounts of Alien encounters. Terrifying and nightmare causing, experiences.A must read for the curious.
257 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1994
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Karla Turner
9 books43 followersDr. Karla Turner died of cancer on January 10, 1996, after being threatened for her work. She was just 48. Since then, several other people involved in UFO investigation have also experienced threats followed by highly unusual cancers. Several of her cases studies are now dead.
Karla was widely respected in the UFO community for her research on alien abduction. A scholar and professional educator, she earned a Ph.D. in Old English studies and taught at the university level in Texas for more than ten years. But in 1988, she and her husband and son endured a shocking series of experiences and recollections that forced them to recognize that they were all abductees.
Karla's response was to drop her professional university career and turn her full attention to abduction research. Her first book, Into the Fringe (Berkley Books, 1992), told of her own experiences and those of her family. Her second book, Taken - Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda (Kelt Works, 1994), profiled the abduction stories of eight women whose experiences included both "alien" and human intrusions, and both benign and negative elements, illustrating the profoundly complex nature of the abduction mystery. Her most recent book, Masquerade of Angels (Kelt Works, 1994), was co-written with psychic Ted Rice and recounts Ted's lifelong encounters with strange entities whose identity hovered in a shadowland between angelic and demonic. Karla was working on another book when she became ill in early 1995.
Karla was widely respected in the UFO community for her research on alien abduction. A scholar and professional educator, she earned a Ph.D. in Old English studies and taught at the university level in Texas for more than ten years. But in 1988, she and her husband and son endured a shocking series of experiences and recollections that forced them to recognize that they were all abductees.
Karla's response was to drop her professional university career and turn her full attention to abduction research. Her first book, Into the Fringe (Berkley Books, 1992), told of her own experiences and those of her family. Her second book, Taken - Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda (Kelt Works, 1994), profiled the abduction stories of eight women whose experiences included both "alien" and human intrusions, and both benign and negative elements, illustrating the profoundly complex nature of the abduction mystery. Her most recent book, Masquerade of Angels (Kelt Works, 1994), was co-written with psychic Ted Rice and recounts Ted's lifelong encounters with strange entities whose identity hovered in a shadowland between angelic and demonic. Karla was working on another book when she became ill in early 1995.
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July 29, 2012
Thoughts and prayers to the late author of this book Dr. Karla Turner.
This book is a biographical account of the now elusive and gifted psychic, Ted Rice. The reader is taken through his life from day one, documenting every significant paranormal, spiritual, and inter-dimensional event throughout his life. At times, it is easy to forget this book is based on a biographical account of this person’s life and is not a novel drawn from the ether of one’s imagination. Ted’s life appears designed, guided, and synchronistic right from the very beginning. Since childhood he has followed the clues set out before him, sometimes consciously, and at other times, apparently inadvertently. Ted encounters visions, mysterious people, vivid dreams, ghostly apparitions, and strange beings, which guide him on what appears as a purely spiritual journey throughout his life at first. However, as the years progress, Ted begins to realise there is a non-terrestrial influence in his life as well.
This suspicion is first aroused perhaps when Ted gets a summer job while a student at Alabama State University working for the Sun Valley resort. During his time there, he frequently met a mysterious and beautiful girl named Maya up in the mountains he used to trek alone. This girl revealed very little about herself, and Ted found himself opening up to her. He had bumped into her a few times at work; yet nobody else knew her or had seen her - she wasn’t on the employee records either. This mysterious woman introduced Ted to his psychic abilities, and showed him where he could view his first UFO up in the mountains. When Maya’s time was up at the Sun Valley, Ted tried to keep in contact with her by telephone or mail, however, Maya’s response was, ‘I don’t have either, you won’t understand right now.’ After becoming so close, Ted was heartbroken and frustrated at the news and was left in even more bewilderment as to who this Maya was.
Following numerous other strange experiences and paranormal phenomena which directed Ted’s life on a steered and synchronistic journey, were experiences, memories, and dreams of alien abduction. Moreover, Ted’s neighbours began to be affected by these beings in the mobile home park where he stayed, often sharing similar dreams which Ted had experienced too. In some cases, there were people with Ted who witnessed UFOs in his location, or witnessed some kind of contact. These entities began to affect people associated with him. Ted, a very gifted and qualified psychic, began to question the involvement of these entities in his life. Ted had been reassured by his close friends that these beings were probably benevolent, and he was lucky to have been chosen by them. His spiritual contact and channelling had never been of any detriment to his physical or psychological well-being, yet, these entities masquerading as ‘angels’ were.
Years of alien contact and paranormal activity began to take its toll on Ted’s well being and physical health. Ted decided to seek help in the form of hypnotherapy, to try and untangle what had been going on throughout his entire life. Barbara Bartholic, who regressed Ted Rice said the following: “I’ve discovered that most abductees have been given screen memories. These programs are installed so that if the abductee begins to remember anything, it will not be something disturbing. The abductee often feels that he was chosen and special, and that he is making a great contribution to some scientific endeavor. Many people feel that the alien contact is truly good, but they are programmed to the extent that they’re unable to see anything else, no matter what actually took place.” (Turner, 1994, p. 249)
Ted was able to go into deep regression, and go beyond the screened memory. Under hypnosis, Ted began to recall a memory exactly like what the ETs helped him write during the night - another of his many strange experiences documented in the book – bringing him back to a boy of 8 years old. Ted has no conscious recollection of writing the story:
Ted is then known shown a duplicate of his body on a surgical like table. The lady brings over the black box with his soul inside, attaches the headphone device, and once again, just like in the story the ETs helped him write during the night, he saw the following:
The ETs also have an ability to manifest images of people such as religious figures, or deceased loved ones to lure victims in which is often all that is recalled on the screened memory. Ted recalls an incident a few days before her Grandmother died of a stroke which he always felt a sense of guilt: “They brought in my grandfather, and he was having sex with her. But when he got off her, it wasn’t him, it was a reptilian man. And that’s when she intervened. They wanted me next, I don’t know, but I think it was sexual. That’s when she jumped in front and blocked the reptilian man. They were arguing, and he told her she would die for that. And she did.” (Turner, 1994, p. 235).
What does this all mean? A gifted psychic whose life has been littered with paranormal activity guiding him throughout his life? Could this be related to the soul transfer into a cloned body at the age of 8 under hypnosis? Was this new vehicle of consciousness wired with synchronistic time bombs and armed with psionic ability to serve the aliens in some sort of experiment? And once again, there is another testimony - among many - of someone witnessing reptilian entities before David Icke blew the lid and was ridiculed by the world. Yet, all one has to do is go back and look at every single ancient account in the world to find stories of ‘gods’ coming down from the ‘heavens’ who created and interbred with man. Zecharia Sitchin is most famous for exposing the extraterrestrial origins of Genesis, where the Annunaki created the “A.DAM.U” as a primitive slave race. The Annunaki have a reptilian appearance as told by R.A. Bouley in his book Flying Serpents and Dragons: “The Sumerian people referred to these "gods" as Anunnaki, literally the sons of An, their chief god and leader. The Anunnaki were an alien race. In reality they were a race of sapient reptiles. They required a cheap labour force and for this reason they created a primitive man.” (Bouley, 1990, p. 2).
Indeed, there is evidence from unrelated sources and researchers, postulating the idea that there is indeed a reptilian race which created us, interbred with us, and manipulate us to this day. Is Earth some kind of farming for these inter-dimensional beings in the same way that we treat cattle? Is the human vehicle some kind of physical and energetic food for these parasites which appear under various pseudonyms from different religions and cultures all around the world? What about alien abductions? Are the ETs behind the abductions benevolent? Are they to be trusted? Objectively, there appears to be a hard time arguing that case when one looks at the frequent psychological and physical effects reported by abductees: substance abuse; mental illness; loss of well being; forced intercourse; anxiety; sleep disorders; energy loss; stress in relationships; psychiatric care; health problems; bruises, pain & discomfort. Yet, many abductees are told they are special, the Earth is in great danger, and they are here to assist fellow man.
That is not to say all ETs are bad, all abductions are bad, and all ETs within a specific race are bad. As Dr. Karla Turner states in her book Taken, the abduction phenomenon could be a very sophisticated mind game. Not only are the reptilians manipulating us on the 5 sense level of reality, there appears to be evidence of manipulation with reptilian entities beyond the 5 sense level of reality too. Think twice, and then think again.
This book is a biographical account of the now elusive and gifted psychic, Ted Rice. The reader is taken through his life from day one, documenting every significant paranormal, spiritual, and inter-dimensional event throughout his life. At times, it is easy to forget this book is based on a biographical account of this person’s life and is not a novel drawn from the ether of one’s imagination. Ted’s life appears designed, guided, and synchronistic right from the very beginning. Since childhood he has followed the clues set out before him, sometimes consciously, and at other times, apparently inadvertently. Ted encounters visions, mysterious people, vivid dreams, ghostly apparitions, and strange beings, which guide him on what appears as a purely spiritual journey throughout his life at first. However, as the years progress, Ted begins to realise there is a non-terrestrial influence in his life as well.
This suspicion is first aroused perhaps when Ted gets a summer job while a student at Alabama State University working for the Sun Valley resort. During his time there, he frequently met a mysterious and beautiful girl named Maya up in the mountains he used to trek alone. This girl revealed very little about herself, and Ted found himself opening up to her. He had bumped into her a few times at work; yet nobody else knew her or had seen her - she wasn’t on the employee records either. This mysterious woman introduced Ted to his psychic abilities, and showed him where he could view his first UFO up in the mountains. When Maya’s time was up at the Sun Valley, Ted tried to keep in contact with her by telephone or mail, however, Maya’s response was, ‘I don’t have either, you won’t understand right now.’ After becoming so close, Ted was heartbroken and frustrated at the news and was left in even more bewilderment as to who this Maya was.
Following numerous other strange experiences and paranormal phenomena which directed Ted’s life on a steered and synchronistic journey, were experiences, memories, and dreams of alien abduction. Moreover, Ted’s neighbours began to be affected by these beings in the mobile home park where he stayed, often sharing similar dreams which Ted had experienced too. In some cases, there were people with Ted who witnessed UFOs in his location, or witnessed some kind of contact. These entities began to affect people associated with him. Ted, a very gifted and qualified psychic, began to question the involvement of these entities in his life. Ted had been reassured by his close friends that these beings were probably benevolent, and he was lucky to have been chosen by them. His spiritual contact and channelling had never been of any detriment to his physical or psychological well-being, yet, these entities masquerading as ‘angels’ were.
Years of alien contact and paranormal activity began to take its toll on Ted’s well being and physical health. Ted decided to seek help in the form of hypnotherapy, to try and untangle what had been going on throughout his entire life. Barbara Bartholic, who regressed Ted Rice said the following: “I’ve discovered that most abductees have been given screen memories. These programs are installed so that if the abductee begins to remember anything, it will not be something disturbing. The abductee often feels that he was chosen and special, and that he is making a great contribution to some scientific endeavor. Many people feel that the alien contact is truly good, but they are programmed to the extent that they’re unable to see anything else, no matter what actually took place.” (Turner, 1994, p. 249)
Ted was able to go into deep regression, and go beyond the screened memory. Under hypnosis, Ted began to recall a memory exactly like what the ETs helped him write during the night - another of his many strange experiences documented in the book – bringing him back to a boy of 8 years old. Ted has no conscious recollection of writing the story:
“Drink it,” she communicated, holding out the glass
“No,” Teddy shook his head. “I want to go home.”
“Drink it now,” she insisted, “or you cannot go home. If you want to go home, you must mind me as you do your mother.”
“You’re not my mother,” he thought back at her, but she was unmoved.
“After you drink this,” she continued, “you can go home.” No emotion came from the woman, but Teddy was scared into submission.
Without another word, he took the glass and drank the glowing liquid. Immediately he became sick, nauseated, and pain flared up as if his insides were on fire. He lay back on the table, growing sicker, until he vomited. Tendrils of green liquid dribbled down his mouth and chin, still glowing, but at least he no longer felt ill.
And then, as if he were standing a few feet away from the table, Teddy could see his body lying there motionless. “Am I dead?” he wondered.
Something cloudy and formless began to rise up from the small body. Teddy was amazed as he watched this mass slowly coalesce into a beautiful image of himself, and he saw that it was attached by a bottom tendril to drops of the green liquid on his face.“It’s my soul!” he thought in amazement.
The woman went to the counter for a black, rectangular box, which she carried back over to the table where Teddy’s body lay. With a single motion, she turned his body over and placed the black
box on the shoulder area. Wires were then attached to the box, and the woman somehow activated it. The little spirit image was slowly sucked into the box, which the woman then removed and replaced
on the counter (Turner, 1994, p. 199 & 200).
Ted is then known shown a duplicate of his body on a surgical like table. The lady brings over the black box with his soul inside, attaches the headphone device, and once again, just like in the story the ETs helped him write during the night, he saw the following:
One of the grays then brought the woman the headphone device. She placed it on the body and activated the counter equipment once again.
“I have remembrance!” Teddy thought, “I have feelings again!”
A moment before he had felt nothing and known nothing, but now he was aware of who he was. He remembered everything he had thought and felt when he was in his original body, and with a surge of emotion he mentally cried out that he wanted to go home.
But there was more for him to endure. The grays helped him up from the table-he was now clearly back in a body, the body they had created and activated-and led him out to another room (Turner, 1994, p. 202).
The ETs also have an ability to manifest images of people such as religious figures, or deceased loved ones to lure victims in which is often all that is recalled on the screened memory. Ted recalls an incident a few days before her Grandmother died of a stroke which he always felt a sense of guilt: “They brought in my grandfather, and he was having sex with her. But when he got off her, it wasn’t him, it was a reptilian man. And that’s when she intervened. They wanted me next, I don’t know, but I think it was sexual. That’s when she jumped in front and blocked the reptilian man. They were arguing, and he told her she would die for that. And she did.” (Turner, 1994, p. 235).
What does this all mean? A gifted psychic whose life has been littered with paranormal activity guiding him throughout his life? Could this be related to the soul transfer into a cloned body at the age of 8 under hypnosis? Was this new vehicle of consciousness wired with synchronistic time bombs and armed with psionic ability to serve the aliens in some sort of experiment? And once again, there is another testimony - among many - of someone witnessing reptilian entities before David Icke blew the lid and was ridiculed by the world. Yet, all one has to do is go back and look at every single ancient account in the world to find stories of ‘gods’ coming down from the ‘heavens’ who created and interbred with man. Zecharia Sitchin is most famous for exposing the extraterrestrial origins of Genesis, where the Annunaki created the “A.DAM.U” as a primitive slave race. The Annunaki have a reptilian appearance as told by R.A. Bouley in his book Flying Serpents and Dragons: “The Sumerian people referred to these "gods" as Anunnaki, literally the sons of An, their chief god and leader. The Anunnaki were an alien race. In reality they were a race of sapient reptiles. They required a cheap labour force and for this reason they created a primitive man.” (Bouley, 1990, p. 2).
Indeed, there is evidence from unrelated sources and researchers, postulating the idea that there is indeed a reptilian race which created us, interbred with us, and manipulate us to this day. Is Earth some kind of farming for these inter-dimensional beings in the same way that we treat cattle? Is the human vehicle some kind of physical and energetic food for these parasites which appear under various pseudonyms from different religions and cultures all around the world? What about alien abductions? Are the ETs behind the abductions benevolent? Are they to be trusted? Objectively, there appears to be a hard time arguing that case when one looks at the frequent psychological and physical effects reported by abductees: substance abuse; mental illness; loss of well being; forced intercourse; anxiety; sleep disorders; energy loss; stress in relationships; psychiatric care; health problems; bruises, pain & discomfort. Yet, many abductees are told they are special, the Earth is in great danger, and they are here to assist fellow man.
That is not to say all ETs are bad, all abductions are bad, and all ETs within a specific race are bad. As Dr. Karla Turner states in her book Taken, the abduction phenomenon could be a very sophisticated mind game. Not only are the reptilians manipulating us on the 5 sense level of reality, there appears to be evidence of manipulation with reptilian entities beyond the 5 sense level of reality too. Think twice, and then think again.
October 13, 2020
Like all books by the late Karla Turner, it is surely a must-read for anyone into UFOs and extraterrestrials, especially those with sweet presumptions about aliens and their intentions. Shocking, sometimes downright scary, but always genuine and truthful.
April 3, 2025
What the Ted Rice story brings to the conversation is in challenging the “space brothers” and New Age ( Earth Stewardship and Eco Consciousness) with some really graphic and unsettling statements made under hypnosis, from Barbara Butholic. Co written by Dr. Karla Turner and Ted Rice.
It’s a wild story told sequentially. What I wanted was a summary chapter at the end by Dr Turners in her adroit drill down/summation of themes like she does in her 2 prior publications. Figure these buggers out. Her idea was, if you have to be clandestine then you can be stopped.
It’s a wild story told sequentially. What I wanted was a summary chapter at the end by Dr Turners in her adroit drill down/summation of themes like she does in her 2 prior publications. Figure these buggers out. Her idea was, if you have to be clandestine then you can be stopped.
January 10, 2025
Easy to read and understand. It's written as a fictional story but later come to realize that these are real events of Tim Rice's life, but the story ends with a sequel in mind that I guess never really materialized. In the year 2025, this wasn't ground breaking stuff; I bet it was back in the early 90's and 80's when it takes place. But a great story to remind us that secrecy is a veil for malice. Now I want to read her earlier books.
January 30, 2024
This book is the third written by this author. It is the development in detail of a very enhanced abduction case, actually, many abduction cases are like this one in specific, they start from childhood and the subject becomes a psychic or an artist. Some passages of the book are truly beautiful others are a bit boring, but for the UFO researcher could be a good addition to the collection.
April 3, 2024
A well-told horror story that you pray isn't true.
August 6, 2024
Well that was an absolute whirlwind.
March 25, 2025
Turner writes a biography of Ted Rice. From a young age, he experienced paranormal phenomena like abductions, out of body experiences, and telepathy. In college he then works at a ski resort and meets a mysterious woman that nobody else seems to know and won’t give him much personal info about herself (it is implied she is either not human or part of some breakaway civilization). She encourages him to develop his psychic abilities. He does and these start out as pleasant encounters but then more and more malevolent and start including grey aliens. He eventually goes through hypnosis and remembers being raped as a child, along with his grandma, by reptilian aliens.
He has an overall horrible experience, where aliens and UFOs are mixed heavily with spirits, dead people, and angels. Turner was a firm anti-alien advocate who viewed them as liars and abusers, so it fits in well with her other books. Rice mentions his plans on writing a follow up book but it appears he never did.
He has an overall horrible experience, where aliens and UFOs are mixed heavily with spirits, dead people, and angels. Turner was a firm anti-alien advocate who viewed them as liars and abusers, so it fits in well with her other books. Rice mentions his plans on writing a follow up book but it appears he never did.
June 2, 2016
And the purpose of this book was what?
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