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The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light

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Noted astrologer and spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow channels the voice of Satya, a Pleiadian goddess. Satya describes the huge cosmic drama taking place simultaneously in nine dimensions, with Earth as the chosen theater. The Pleiadians are a group of enlightened beings who believe that the end of the Mayan Calendar will signal a critical leap in human evolution; the Pleiadians will be there to guide us for that leap. This shift is the coming Age of Light, and the entry of our solar system into the Photon Band and the Age of Aquarius.

303 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

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Barbara Hand Clow

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Barbara Hand Clow is an astrological counselor, an editor of books on New Consciousness, and a ceremonial teacher at sacred sites. She lives in rural new England.

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October 22, 2011
Like Clow’s other books, this one is highly challenging. I found it impossible to understand, absorb or digest much of the vast amount of information presented. However, I found the book more positively enjoyable than the others.

Most of the book is channelled from Satya, Keeper of the records of Alcyone, the central star of the Pleiades. She is an engaging narrator, and the nature of her personality is probably the cause of my afore-said enjoyment.

Satya tells us much about the Anunnaki of the planet Niburu, who direct the World Management Team, by others termed the Illuminati. She also mentions that the famous artist Van Gogh was an incarnated Pleiadian, and as such could see the spiral form of stars, which demonstrated his faculties of multidimensional sight. She invites us to study Van Gogh’s star paintings, as this will help us to see how our own Sun is part of the Pleiades.

Satya also advises us to integrate the astrology or stellar orbits and cycles by meditating during solstices, equinoxes, and new and full moons. She tells us about the Sirians, who are “magnificent feline gods from Sirius who built the Great Pyramid and Sphinx to hold open the geometric portals of the stars while our solar system is travelling in the Photon Band”.

We are informed about the importance of creating a sacred altar, and how to do it. This is because we can then “Make Home”. In the glossary at the end of book “Making Home” is defined as “consciousness locating self in linear space and time by being so conscious of the four directions that all dimensions are totally accessible”.

There is a chapter about the alchemy of nine dimensions, which Clow later wrote a whole book about. In this chapter we are told about the value of traumas – “right in those times is where the knowledge about restructuring your whole planet exists! All your traumas and pain happen only to get you to see the worlds of others!”

We learn about the nuclear war that occurred in 2024 B.C. which was “triggered” by Abraham and which “made the Dead Sea into a lifeless body of water”. Abraham’s mission was to “deposit the power of Anu into Annunaki temples, so as to control the emotional bodies of “our ancestors”. (Anu is “the great father God of Niburu”.) Abraham deposited uranium in the temple in order to “begin a new level of Nibiruan control of Earth”.

A section of the book is dictated by Anubis – “The great Sirian/Egyptian god Anubis is the guide who holds Niburu’s orbit in form … Anubis is a being who travels the universe with the consciousness of Sirius, and he is a very, very superior being”. One gem from Anubis is - “The degree to which the World Management Team gets away with murder on your planet is in direct proportion to the degree to which you do not trust yourselves to be creative”.

Enoch also gets a word in. He is a 7D light being when he manifests in 3D and, when unmanifested, he exists eternally in the Galactic Centre. He says the most valuable part of his teachings were the techniques for ascending into the light. That was why the books about him were removed from Scripture.

There are accounts from King Lizard and Dr. Lizard. Yes, it gets curiouser and curiouser. King Lizard instructs us about kundalini. Dr. Lizard, who is a collective entity, wonders why we spend so much time worshipping God when our planet is going to hell. They wonder why we think God is superior to ourselves. This is impossible, they say, since nothing is superior to us.

We also hear from the Moon and Lucifer. It is all fascinating. You don’t have to believe it all, if you don’t want to, but you should read the book.

All this should have given you an idea of the content of this amazing book. I strongly recommend that you read it. As stated above, I found it to be the most enjoyable read of those of Clow’s books I have read so far (though I have many still to read).
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December 26, 2012
This book exhausted me. Throughout the read I felt as one does who listens to a delusional psych patient or an elderly grandparent suffering from dementia, however I kept reading and did the best I could to give this enthusiastic author my undivided attention and give her the benefit of the doubt when she made odd claims. I would summarize this work as manic paraphrase of a half dozen or so books from the new age or fringe science genre, but unlike the works being paraphrased this author has no ability to present an idea with respect for any form of the rational scientific method. History is full of artists, intellectuals, seers, and seekers on the fringes of accepted social thought whose adventurous risk-taking ideas helped human civilization to progress, but there are also those who found only mental illness out on those unstable frontiers. I believe this author falls into the latter category.

If you have a wild idea that you wish to present, you owe the rest of us the respect of developing your hypothesis with care and some form of logic (evidence is always a nice garnish too, by the way). This can be a frustrating process that can make the incubator of such an idea impatient and taking unnecessary shortcuts. It's like they get tired of meandering through the speedbumps of collective doubt that guard the in-roads of common accepted thought, and so in impatience hit the accelerator and try to speed through any obstructions. The most common attitude that you see from the lazy intellectual is forcefully presenting their hypothesis with undertones of the classic "it's so obvious!" attitude, as if that excuses them from having to properly develop the idea. And this book is filled to the brim with it.

It seems to me the tendency in new age circles is to look at the rational scientific method as an oppressive force on one's intuitive intelligence. Because of this view it almost becomes a mark of the faithful to make and accept statements that the intellect will reject. After all, without intellectual restraint the author can write to their readers with the same freedom afforded to an author of a work of fiction. While I personally feel many spiritual concepts are just as difficult to reach full development or mastery when pushed through the lens of the intellect as an expressive dance, a sport, or an art form, to suspend this critical faculty requires the teacher, author or presenter to provide a demonstration of the power of the non-intellectual knowledge they've internalized. This author has provided nothing of the sort for us to warrant putting a stranglehold on our intellect for the duration of her book. I believe she owes her readers the courtesy of either (a) presenting her ideas in the form of a story, myth, dream, or some other raw unconscious pattern, or (b) following the rational scientific method if she truly believes the concepts she discusses belong on the left side of our brains. Rational thinking is not in itself a bad thing and it's there both to help you develop and for your protection from being used to make a stupid idea more powerful. And as Terrence McKenna has pointed out, there's a even a beauty and humility to the scientific method in that it is the only system where you get points for proving yourself wrong. You're supposed to take the initial hypothesis you come up with and then try to defeat it. If the idea survives all of your prudent, logical, and strategic attacks, then you've done your due part and it is ready to be presented to the world.

While we do seem to have an creative, intuitive aspect of our intelligence, we feed this side of ourselves with an entirely different food. Myths and stories are candy for this side of our thinking and it's language is much more visual and symbolic. If this author presented her work under this guise, I'd have no problem reading through it whatsoever. I am a huge fan of myth and of authors like Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung in particular. Those authors point to the functional power myth and symbolism, making them indispensable tools for development of the psyche. In the Jungian model the source of myth and much of our personal creativity as well as instinct comes from the unconscious, so there is certainly a place for artists, seers, and others who have less of a rigid barrier in place between conscious and unconscious thought. But that model also points out that neurotic and schizophrenic people also are swarmed with unconscious imagery, usually to their own detriment. So, the question concerning this work might then be is there any useful underlying functional pattern this author has wrapped up in colorful stories of aliens and ancient cultures. If so, there may be some use in reading through it.

Despite becoming frustrated with the way she writes and presents her ideas (especially her supposed channeling), I still felt that there are things of interest to glean from the unconscious contents she spews forth. Carl Jung pointed to a case where a schizophrenic patient of low education informed him of the presence of a tube protruding from the Sun which is responsible for the wind, which so happens to be part of an incredibly obscure Mithraen myth. The point was made to illustrate his concept of a collective unconscious being a source even the most neurotic, mentally ill person can draw from and pull forth interesting fragments of thought.

My overall impressions of this book are that the author read books by Jose Arguelles, Zechariah Sitchin, Bob Frissell and Michael Baigent, let it digest and mix together, and then started creatively weaving them together into a very spotty and scattered paraphrase. If you've never read those authors, perhaps you'd find food for thought in this work, but you're really only getting a mama bird's regurgitated meal. If fringe science and speculative archaeology are of interest to you (they are to me), go to the sources directly. The authors she paraphrase do a much better job of presenting their ideas without insulting your intelligence while doing so.

Even general literary mechanics are severely lacking in this work. The chapters are very long (not a big deal) and are titled after a topic that has to do with only the first couple of pages of each chapter. She seems to break her paragraphs when she gets tired, not when it makes sense to break them. As evidence of that she overuses italics, exclamation points, capitalization, and tends to do so half-way or three-quarters through a paragraph. Typically, authors see that as a natural place to break their paragraph, since it marks the start of a new thought or a drastically different level of emphasis and the paragraph break is a natural visual indicator of such.

The author channels dozens of entities, from the Sun, Moon, and the Devil himself to the deities of other planets and even King Lizard makes an appearance. Like an episode of scrubs, each character has the exact humor, mannerisms, and nuances as the next, and all are cut with a Charles M. Schultz (Peanuts) sense of humor. Her channeled characters often give shout-outs to her (they refer to her as "their vehicle") and the authors she's read, naming their specific books. Not surprisingly one of those authors was nice enough to reciprocate Isaiah the Prophet's flattering endorsement of his work with a few sentences of recommendation on the back cover of the book.

The channeled characters make some pretty laughable claims:

Satya, the chief Pleiadian deity says, "At the end of 1999 the world economy will have crashed, disease and chaos will be rampant." (page 244)

The author credits herself with enabling all fifth-dimensional beings to understand the sixth-dimension because she herself learned to see things in the sixth dimension (page 171)

Anu - the chief deity of the Annunaki - says they conspired to tell mankind in the 60's to eat margarine instead of butter and then reversing that advice in the 90's (page 181)

She also says that gold crystals are released out of the endocrine glands of women and into their blood each lunar cycle (page 146)

King Lizard says, "You think you are descended from apes because an uneducated country parson, Charles Darwin, said so. The ape family is not an original biological species of Earth. They were seeded on Earth from Orion. . . Meanwhile you humans are descended from us lizards!" (page 113)

Sorry King Lizard, but there's about a 98% match between the genome of chimps and that of humans, and no bone or body chemical we don't share in common (See Matt Ridley's Genome), and that's one of many reasons we believe we descended from apes and not lizards.

If you're looking for fringe scientific ideas that are well-presented and well-formed, you wont find them in this work. If you're looking for mythological motifs or stories layered with functional meaning, you also wont find them here. This book is just a jumbled mess of someone's free-association writing and she is in desperate need of an editor. It's a rare failure by Bear & Company to have published such a raw and poorly written book.
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February 23, 2024
I am very hesitant to leave this review. Barbara Hand Clow is one of the most influential authors on spiritual topics and as an author myself I really feel it's important that we support each other in this industry, but there are things here I feel I must address for those of us reading this in 2024.

The beginning of the book honestly had me hooked. I resonate as a Starseed and have deep connections to the Sirian and Pleiadian star systems and I really connected with the deep insights into what was happening here on earth and was fully immersed in what the author and the beings she was channelling were saying.

However, this book really lost me at the point where information was being channeled from this guide about how as a species we are just too violent and we need to stop harming each other and ourselves, stop watching graphic violence on TV etc. OK, fair enough, good point!

But then this being went on to say that we needed to be eating red meat or we weren't going to survive as a species because becoming a "fruitarian" lowers the sex drive to a point where we will no longer procreate.

This being obviously didn't know about the suffering, pain and violence inflicted on our fellow earthlings through factory farming and slaughterhouses or have any idea about the issues that overpopulation is creating on our planet.

As an ethical vegan who made the decision to no longer consume animal products based off scientific facts, as well as a deep compassion for my fellow beings here on earth, I just could not get behind this. And of course, once you start to question the entity being channelled, it all starts to unravel from there.

Right now on our planet, the way in which animals are killed is incredibly violent. When we unconsciously (because most of us do not want to think about where that food comes from) eat the flesh of animals that have been raised behind closed doors in factory farms and killed in slaughterhouses how can we possibly be aligned to highest peace and compassion?

Also a fantastic documentary has come out recently called the Game Changers which brings evidence forward that men on a plant-based diet are having stronger erections!

I'm going off track here, but I think all of us in the spiritual community need to be cautious when reading channelled material. We should never give our power and trust fully to an entity that we don't know, and when something doesn't sit right, we should always pay attention to that.

Satya also came through as quite dogmatic to me, very much - my way is the right way, there is no other way, which (as some of you may know) is a total turn off for me. The star guides I work with would never push their "agenda" onto me or onto others. They want to see our planet thrive, they do want to see less suffering in the world, and they want us to open our hearts, but it's always our choice. They are our guides and they guide us towards better choices and help us create a better world, but they are not our dictators.

The book was written in 1995, and perhaps it is just simply dated. Maybe this information was what was needed at that time. I don't know. Maybe there is still great stuff in here that people will read and feel deeply activated and inspired by.

But I just urge anyone who wants to read this book to take what resonates and leave the rest.
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June 8, 2009
Some of in the info in this book is just so astonishing. I have not yet on my travels heard someone reveal some of this stuff in such a way before. Very interesting. This book is for someone who's into channeled info, who's into star peops and would like to make a deeper adventure to what's really going on around here. BHC is a very strong writer....I do highly recommend this book.
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July 11, 2020
A tremendous book! Though written in 1995, its as though this book was also written perfectly for these bumpy times in 2020 (spookily so). Hand Clow predicts, with starting accuracy, some of the upheaval we are currently experiencing but also imparts such fine-tuned grasp of what entry into the photon belt might feel like...since which time some of sensitives have felt that for ourselves, so to match up the timings with our own lives is a powerful thing. I heartily recommend this book to all fans of BHC's Alchemy of Nine Dimensions and other works and also to those seeking insight into "what, on earth, is going on" at the cosmic level. This book brings much hope...
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November 19, 2021
A lot of information in this book - overall, it made everything else make sense for me. It clarified a lot of spiritual information given by other teachers, for example, I was extremely lost when people and astrologers talked about increasing light influx onto the Earth, but this book gave me a concrete scientific explanation to it.

I started reading this more than a month ago, and cannot explain how much it has changed me. I felt a 5D activation within me recently.

I'm also using the pleiadian workbook by Amorah Quan Yin, and the basic exercises (grounding and aura cleansing) have helped me take care of my overwhelm, headache and they help me sleep better!

I'm very grateful to the Pleiadians and the author Barbara Hand Clow for this book. I want to read it again some day hopefully and let it penetrate deeper into my Being.
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3 reviews
February 27, 2018
Though was sometimes exhausting to get through parts, was well made up by incredible channeled messages from various sources and priceless information which is rarely found in the modern age. Has pieces channeled by (surprisingly) Anubis, Lucifer and Reptilian beings explaining the importance of many things from non-bias perspective. Egyptian technology is touched upon as well as our purpose and connection to our ET family as a whole. Pleadians are beautiful beings considered our sister species. Learn how the galaxy is orchestrated in this book and our connections within it.
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4 reviews
March 12, 2020
This book is to be despised.
I am all for exploration, expanding horizons, "alternate" history and, of course, channelings...
But this... Makes me feel as a lunatic, and makes me doubt everything.
While I read work from Stitchin, for example, I am intrigued, it seems that all makes sense, that there is evidence for claims that destroy the "official" history/story. But here I get only poppycock!
Badly written, completely illogical, unsubstantiated, hard to comprehend.
BLEAH!
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April 28, 2014
I think there are gems of knowledge I this book. However, I can't help but feel that the message is mixed in with certain opinions that are of a personal nature and not for the source that is giving the information. Like for example, when she talks about not using microwaves, and the internet, etc.
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5 reviews
September 3, 2013
I found some interesting points of view in this book, but on the whole was written pretty poorly. Some parts seemed rush & others didnt make sense very well. Which I felt was a shame coz I wanted it to ne a good book!
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November 14, 2020
Parts of this book are truly wackadoodle. Well the whole book is wackadoodle. I would have LIKED to have shrugged it off and been like... just another weird new age book. But then I've been having vivid dreams that I have really been honing in on. This book, went on in detail, about subjects of these dreams and what they mean. Also a few times, they would say something like "harmony" or "lady moon" and I would pass a street at that moment called that name.

I also picked up this book because I was struck out of nowhere to read a Pleiadian book. I read one like... 10 years ago and it had these channeling exercising and it was one of the most intense, prolific experiences I ever had. As I progress into my spiritual journey, I'm dipping my toes into the powerful Pleiadian information.

V extraterrestrial, spooky, activating, and I am listening!
1 review
March 10, 2019
It is time

This book so lovingly shared with the world really helps in gaining a greater understanding of the truth...
That we are love, light, and so much more than just physical beings. That we are indeed limitless. We must open our hearts and work together to realize that we have the power the potential to make Earth, Mother Gaia better, restoring her to her full beauty once more.
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351 reviews381 followers
January 24, 2021
This was my first Barbara hand clow book, but it surely will not be my last.
It’s hard to review or describe this book, so I won’t. I think it’s a book one must experience for oneself and then (as with all else) feel into it, take what resonates and leave what doesn’t. I’m still processing, and have a feeling this is book that in many ways are a seed, that will keep sprouting new insights down in my intuition/subconscious mind.
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August 18, 2022
This book has some amazing moments. It is a series of channeling with great insight! First it starts out about vibrations and how we are killing ourselves with microwaves and such which honestly draws out a little too much, but then the magic starts. It gives insights into Ancient Egypt, the friendly aspects of reptilians, a few surprising channelings from Anubis and Lucifer which were probably my favorite parts. There is magic in the book after you get through the first bit!
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February 19, 2023
I found the book difficult to read. Interesting but may be over my head.
I do like hearing how apparently earth was formed. I enjoy reading about the Pleidians , the Annunaki. The Reptilian race and such others.
6 reviews
January 31, 2025
Very Interesting

Absorbing all of the detail of this book may take awhile and worth a second read!! So much of this book made total sense to me and I will be doing further research. Thank you for the eye openers.
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March 5, 2018
Awesome book. Hidden history. The last 20% is appendages and such.
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1 review
December 31, 2021
Amazing information! Starts slow but digs deep! Recommend to anyone interested in channeled messages. The messages are from several beings including Anubis which was a pleasant surprise!
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May 21, 2025
There are some incredible insights that feel like you’re opening Pandora’s Box. I also could sense a certain truth at times reading it.
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October 24, 2022
I was definitely more into this one back in 2012-2013 when I first read it. While there were some things in it that were good to reread, overall this one just doesn't vibe with me anymore. Definitely giving this one away to a friend on her beginning journey (as I was my first read time) & clearing a space on my shelf!
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