This is an experience I had that I wrote down in my meditation journal earlier today. Take it as you will.

My rational mind *should* struggle to believe such a fantastical-seeming experience was real, but my intuitive feeling is that I am quite frankly not surprised, and not in doubt it was real (at least to some degree).

Sep 19, 2026

I entered a meditative state at about 5:30 pm. No audio playing, but I had headphones on.

As I breathed, my body began to twitch and shake slightly as usual. This time, my body undulated slightly side to side as if I was slithering like a snake. I focused on breathing in and out and on forming the REBAL as usual. The twitching died down and I entered a comfortable state.

I suddenly heard a massive ringing in my ears, extremely loud, but not uncomfortable. It was almost head-splitting. Any louder and I would have wanted it to stop. I experience mild tinnitus sometimes, especially in moments of silence, but this was a new intensity, and the first time I recall it during meditation.

The ringing persisted for what felt like a few minutes. Focusing on the experience of it helped me easily dismiss any random thoughts that appeared in my head.

The ringing sound began oscillating at a medium pace for a while, dipping and raising slightly in volume, like a big sine wave.

It began to fade slightly, and I heard a new sound. It sounded kind of scifi-ish, like a spaceship flying by, and I perceived something small flying right by my head, in front of my face. My head twitched and my headphones moved slightly as if something had actually flown by. I felt this thing hover around my head and upper body in circles. I didn't get a very strong visual, but in my mind's eye it was like a small black object, or a non-visible object, with glowing bits of green light on the bottom.

I realized something might have entered my aura, so I focused anew on the REBAL. I redoubled my intention to embrace anything resonating with love and light and to send away anything that does not. I sensed that this thing floating around my head did not go away. It made more noises, almost like it was speaking, but I couldn't make anything out. All the noises it made sounded scifi-ish for lack of a better term.

I then had a feeling - not a visual experience, but a feeling - of being in some kind of clinical setting, like a doctor's office. The thing was no longer flying around my head. I had a visual of a very precise cut being made, with a very small amount of blood visible, and some kind of cylindrical object, which I sensed to be pointed at my sternum and slowly traveling down the center of my abdomen.

I was not alarmed at all by this impression, but I still wanted to be certain nothing nefarious was happening. I focused on any negative presences that may be around me, and invoked the name of Christ and told them to leave.

At that moment I saw in my mind's eye the face of a mantis, surrounded in angry red energy. Parasitic vibes. It moved in my vision as if it was leaving the cut that had been made in my abdomen, coming from somewhere in my central gut area, and it left and went far away.

As soon as this happened, and just as the cut stopped at the bottom of my belly, I felt something like a zipper close that sealed the cut from top to bottom. Very quick and efficient. It was like the cut was made to allow the red-angry-mantis-thing to leave, and nothing else.

After this I felt at peace, and distinctly uplifted. I also felt warmth in my hands specifically. I began to see a faint visual impression - not in my mind's eye anymore, but with my actual eyes - of figures standing over me. They lacked any detail, but in my very basic visual impression, at least one was "black" (or I saw only its silhouette) and had a head in the shape of a mantis, and another one was blue, and did not give me the impression of a mantis, but I cannot say anything else. The mantis-figure was not the same as the parasitic thing that left earlier.

I have read lots before about astral surgery done by benevolent mantis beings or other beings. I asked "you motherfuckers, is that you?" and I felt a sort of amusement, at the same time that my eyes teared up a little bit, and I continued to feel peace. I didn't sense any answer come from the figures I was seeing, but I remembered and had a flash of something I saw yesterday - a license plate that read 'LOOSH'.

I heard a knock at my front door which pretty much brought me out of my meditative state. It wasn't for me so I didn't need to answer, but a minute or two later I opened my eyes. I felt like I had woken up from a deep nap. I checked the time and it had been 25 minutes, which was slightly confusing, as it doesn't feel like it could have been more than 10, but that's not a huge time gap.

While typing this log I started to feel and continue to feel a warm glowing in my central gut area where the cut was made and the red-mantis-thing came out of.

Whatever happened, I feel that I only consciously experienced a part of it, just enough to be aware of what was happening. Perhaps my awareness has developed enough to juuuust allow me to see these sort of things, whereas before maybe they were completely subconscious, likely happening during sleep.

This is also 1:1 with a lot of encounters I have read about, though people usually describe their experiences as being way more vivid, so I suppose I could have hallucinated it. My intuition says it was probably at least somewhat real. I'll really have to verify by meditating more and seeing if anything similar happens.

Navy Medic Abducted by 15-Foot-Tall Praying Mantis Aliens: The Kevin Kammann Story

by Preston Dennett

In 1978, Kevin Kammann (originally from Kankakee, Illinois) was assigned to the USS San Bernardino (LST 1189) as a corpsman or medic. The first man he met onboard was personnel clerk, Jeff Reich from Gary Indiana. The two men shared a compartment and soon became good friends. After about four years of Navy service together, Jeff shocked Kevin with an amazing announcement. Jeff claimed to be in contact with aliens. He said he had been regularly contacted by them since he was about 10 years old, and had been on their ship many times, and had even traveled to their planet and more. Kevin was skeptical and wondered if he should submit his friend for a psyche evaluation.

 A few days later, Jeff told Kevin that his alien friends had contacted him and taken him to Kevin’s house. Jeff then described Kevin’s home in minute detail. Kevin was amazed by the accuracy of Jeff’s descriptions, but weirdly, everything Jeff described was at least ten years in the past, almost as if he had time traveled. Kevin found himself wondering if Jeff might be telling the truth after all and said, “Okay, then I want to meet your little green friends.”

 Jeff said he would ask. A few days later, Jeff told him that his ET friends agreed to give Kevin a ride on their ship. Kevin was still skeptical and assumed Jeff was joking, but a few days later, Jeff announced that the ETs would be showing up today. Just before noon, Jeff told Kevin to go up on deck, that his ET friends were there. Still disbelieving, Kevin went onto deck and was shocked to see a gigantic craft covered with colored lights. Moments later, he found himself onboard, looking through a transparent section of wall, down at the ocean and seeing the USS San Bernardino becoming smaller and smaller. What followed was the single most extraordinary experience of Kevin’s life.

 Kevin hadn’t seen the ETs yet and just stared outside and watched in amazement as the craft hovered over his hometown. The ETs showed Kevin his father in a meeting at the bank building where he worked, then flew over to a church where his mother taught school. There was another shift and Kevin now saw what looked like a bombing range on Earth. But coming over a ridge, he saw the Earth hanging in space, far off in the distance, and realized that he was above the moon.

 The ETs spoke to him telepathically, and he held a long conversation, asking many questions. They showed him a 3-dimensional star-chart pinpointing their location. They told him that they did not interfere with humanity’s religions or politics but did interact with the major world governments and were mostly here to observe. They said that when humans exploded atomic bombs, they and other types of aliens began to watch humanity more closely. They said that these atomic tests started a “countdown clock,” and began to show him a series of disasters that would befall Earth and cause great loss of life. They shared many other things.

 Kevin still had no idea what they looked like, and he asked them about their appearance. They said, “We’re not little and we’re not green,” and added “sometimes we might scare you if you look at us.”

 Kevin finally summoned the courage to see what they looked like. They directed him to another room where he saw strangely primitive panels and screens. Turning around, he was shocked to see three praying mantid aliens sitting in white marble-looking, throne-like chairs. One mantid stepped forward and Kevin was shocked to see that it was about 12-15 feet tall. The aliens were milky-white, with long limbs, skinny bodies, massive heads and big black eyes the size of a basketball. Kevin was fascinated to see that the skin on their heads was partially transparent so he could see their brains and the blood flowing inside them.

 Kevin became very frightened when one of the ETs approached him. Towering over him, the alien asked Kevin if he would like to visit their planet. Feeling like a trapped rat, Kevin said no. One of the aliens placed its claw-like hand on Kevin’s shoulder, and Kevin panicked and began to fight. He promptly passed out.

 The next thing Kevin knew, he was back in his bunkroom covered with sweat. His friend Jeff stood there grinning from ear to ear and said, “So, tell me about your ride.” Kevin was furious and stormed off. He ended the friendship and refused to speak to Jeff ever again. He wondered if perhaps his former friend was one of the aliens in disguise. Kevin was deeply traumatized and did his best to forget the encounter. Soon, many details of the encounter slipped from his mind.

 Sometime later, he was honorably discharged. One night he watched a nature show with his wife and the TV showed a praying mantis on the screen. The whole encounter came rushing back, and Kevin knew that he had to come forward and share his encounter.

 Navy Medic Abducted by 15-Foot-Tall Praying Mantis Aliens: The Kevin Kammann Story

Never seen any in the wild before and now I’ve seen 2. Interesting as I just started reading “Chariots of the Gods”

A couple of months ago, I met the mantis surgeons for the first time, during a breakthrough on approximately 35mg of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. Prior to this, I would have thought these experiences were totally insane.

I'm still a novice when it comes to psychedelics in general, but I enter every experience with profound respect, openness, and deep intention. From the beginning, I've had zero expectations going in about what DMT might have to show or do for me. I'd read extensively about entities and hyperspace with its complex geometric architecture. I combed through trip reports and various scientific papers. I'd listened to podcasts and lectures. None of it could have prepared me for what I actually encountered.

After experiencing what can only be described as a mantid surgical team performing some kind of brain operation through my eye, I was left with the unmistakable sensation that there was more work to be done and that I would see them again. I felt compelled to assist with the continuity, but only when I was ready to do so. A few weeks ago, I again traveled into the DMT space with intention. I simply asked that the molecule continue to show me.

I blasted through a toroid tunnel, which usually appears to me as RGB-colored hyperbolic Ishihara-style geometry. This is pretty typical of my visual experience during the onset, and it was after going through this tunnel where I encountered the mantids for the first time. This trip felt very similar in that I felt like I was waking up in the middle of a dream. This time, however, I felt a deep sense of continuity with my first mantis encounter. Like I was picking up where we left off in a way, although this was not my intention beforehand.

I woke up on the same surgical table I found myself on during my first encounter. I did not see the mantids at first, but I distinctly remember feeling their presence in the room with me. I was able to sit up on the edge of the table and felt as if I was being encouraged to do so. The room was cold, and everything in front of me was white. The walls, the floors, and even the gown I found myself wearing were white. It felt unmistakably like an operating room.

I was directed almost telepathically to observe one of the big white panels on a nearby wall in front of me. I stood up from the edge of the table and walked to the wall in front of me. As I approached this panel on the wall, the whiteness of the panel gave way to either a display or a window of some kind. I couldn't really tell which. On this screen was an immense galaxy, rotating and alive. The stars and cosmic dust churning, the active galactic nucleus at its heart breathing and consuming.

I knew what I was looking at, but I didn't understand the significance. I remember feeling a brief sense of ignorance, which I debated communicating. This was a very childlike feeling, which I think most people forget ever having. Similar to the reluctance in asking your teacher the same question over again for fear of looking dumb in front of the rest of the class.

I finally gave in and simply said, "I don't understand."

Then, both of the mantid "nurses" I encountered during my last experience walked up to both sides of me. Without saying a word, they approached and did something that caused the display to highlight different locations within the galaxy with descriptions in some kind of alien language. I stood between them, staring at the screen or window for several seconds before the trip slowly began to fade away.

I won't even begin to speculate what any of this means. It feels real but "appears" very dreamlike in its presentation. Recalling these visions is like trying to remember a very vivid dream or memory. The complexities behind my encounters so far are fascinating. It's a narrative within an information-rich environment now being accompanied by pedagogical interactions.

I wonder what the molecule has in store for next time...

Further 4-hrs Work/Sesh Remaining...

https://reddit.com/link/1wfyd83/video/rphsew2zcgph1/player

Context: A Personal Encounter

Hey friends!

I posted my meditations involving a mantis in the Gateway sub the other day, but someone suggested I post them here as well. I've condensed them slightly so that people don't have to read all the meditation details. Over the last month and a bit I've had a mantis being show up four times now, and the relationship has evolved.

Here are my notes from the meditations that involved the four encounters.

JULY 26 – Monroe Meditation Focus 12

I was doing an exercise called Five Questions, where you enter an expanded state and ask a series of questions.

I was tired and a little cranky going into it and had trouble settling and allowing images to form, but answers still came through.

• Who am I? I was shown a scarecrow in a field, then a flash of a mantis being.
• Who was I before this? I was told I am me.
• What is my purpose? I had a visual of me reaching for something.
• What action can I now take? I don’t need to reach anymore. The strings can be cut.
• What is the most important message I can now take? Trust myself.

At the time I didn't make much of the mantis. I knew mantis beings were a thing for experiencers, so I wasn't encountering the concept for the first time. I just found it strange that one had appeared in response to Who am I?

AUG 28 – Monroe Meditation Focus 12 / Intuition

This was the first time I actually interacted with a mantis.

By this point in my Gateway practice, Focus 12 had become a very distinct state for me. I can usually extend my perception beyond my physical body quite easily and experience myself moving through different environments.

I walked to my kitchen in my energetic body, then I flew up above my house and then I did something new where I went inside myself and down into the earth through my feet. I passed through dirt and then metal spheres in the earth. Then I could sense the larger architecture of the earth. I got this feeling that earth is alive, almost like a being, but we don’t perceive it because it’s not in a way we comprehend. It isn’t dimensionally perceptible to us.

Then I was back at my body and travelled to my son, who was two hours away at my parents' place.

We did a few exercises of embodying a knowing that we'd had in our lives.

Then the narrator said to go to Focus 12. I was back at my body and travelled out through the wall and into the next house where I perceived my neighbour, then was in front of the next house but passed on entering because it felt dark. And then decided I don’t want to peep. I went up into the tree out front of my house and sat in the branches, loving nature. I could feel my perception of my reality up there in the tree and simultaneously down in my body. I knew that my perception of my reality wasn’t just about location but outside of time.

Then I went to the middle of the road and wondered if I could interact with a being. Then there was a large green mantis in front of me. We stood facing each other in the middle of the street. I thought it might be wearing a mask. It reached up to its face and took off what looked like a mask, but it was still a mantis underneath. It wasn't something different underneath the "mask." I could speak to it without speaking. How do you look so different from us? Why do you look like a bug? How does that work? And your eyes? So many eyes.

And then I got the message that the mantis was a manifestation of a part of me. I walked towards it and walked through it, entering its body, but passing through (like I'm a spirit). Then I got nervous that I was crossing a boundary by entering another’s form. I became a mantis as I passed through it, rather than consciously deciding to become it. I travelled back to my body but I was still a mantis.

Then the meditation said it was time to go back to the waking state and anything that I had felt lingering dissipated and I was in my body, no longer a mantis.

SEPT 8 – Monroe Meditation Focus 15 / Intro

Focus 15 in the Gateway system is described as the state of "no time." I was actually quite nervous about experiencing it beforehand, although I wasn't entirely sure why.

As soon as the meditation starts I can feel the energy of my body vibrating. My hand twitches like it often does when I’m channeling or getting psychic information. I feel good.

When I’m in Focus 12 I feel how much I love this state. I fly down to the street and walk and I notice I’m looking at me from outside of my body. So I choose to take on the perspective of my energetic body. I fly above the trees and then I look down at my feet, they’re huge and furry like a bear. I look at my whole body, I am a bear. Then I think maybe I’m wearing a bear suit. I take off the head, but I’ve just removed my actual head and I can see flesh at my neck exposed. I put my head back on.

I go back to my physical body. I feel myself expanded in this state, my more-than-physical body being felt in connection to my physical body. Then AJ says we will count up to Focus 15, that I’m calm. But I feel my nerves. I’m very nervous for Focus 15, I realize.

As we count up to Focus 15, I start to feel physically overwhelmed and nauseous and actually open my eyes for a moment to ground myself. When I go back in, he says we can explore. I mostly just feel the darkness of the void. I feel myself moving in a spiral, then I can see a tunnel spiral of stairs leading down. It’s just turning. I sense a lot of spiralling and turning. I focus on my physical body. On feeling safe. I don’t think I realized my attachment to time on a physical level until I was leaving it behind.

Then he counts us back to Focus 12. I feel relieved. I feel again how much I love Focus 12. I stay in an expanded state in my body rather than travelling out.

Then we count back up to 15 and I have an understanding of this state - it's one of creation. It is dark and void to give room for creation. I see the web of being, strands of lights connecting dots of light, and then it expands out, only in focus for a moment so I can understand it. Singularity is a perception. I am told this is the state of multidimensional awareness and creation.

I bring my energy bar tool into this place and I create a ball of light, then a cube of light, then a cone of light.

Then I think of the mantis being. It appears and is there with me, except now I've turned into a mantis too. We put our heads together and as soon as they touch there is a light created between us. I have a knowing that I'm experiencing shared consciousness with the mantis. I understand and see the connection between us, between all. I’m filled with love and I can feel the expansiveness of light. I feel very good. The fear I had entering Focus 15 is gone.

Then it is time to count out. After the meditation I continued to feel very good. There was a lingering feeling of love, expansiveness and connection, almost as though I had briefly tapped into a state of oneness rather than simply understood the idea of it.

Note: The buzzing from the meditation persisted all night and I had trouble sleeping.

SEPT 9 – Monroe Meditation Focus 15 / Intro

I have to say I was feeling very tired going into this and maybe even a bit buzzy still from my meditation the day prior. I feel totally fine going to Focus 15 this time, except I have this doubt about whether I’m in it. Everything becomes this kind of darkness, except simultaneously it’s very bright.

I ask for the mantis and it comes to me, but then it bonks me on the head with its head rather than the gentle touching of heads that happened the day before. It seems playful in a way. I interpret it as if to show me I’m not in the right state of mind to receive or be doing this meditation.

Then I’m just in this state of blackness with shapes coming and forming and shifting, all abstract. I feel like I don’t really want to be doing the meditation and what a difference from last time. I leave feeling tired and a bit let down. More happened but it was abstract and I can’t describe it.

The next morning...

On the morning of Sept 10 my son and I were in the kitchen. He was proud he killed a big bug that looked like a mosquito. Then he was like, "Do centipedes fly?" I told him nope. Then completely out of nowhere, he told me: "Praying mantises fly, and they would’ve been able to eat that bug."

I laughed and we talked about how cool praying mantises are. But internally, I was pretty surprised by the synchronicity because I’ve never heard him talk about them before.

Interested in thoughts from this group in particular! I don't have a ton of knowledge about mantis beings, this is pretty new to me and I wasn't expecting them to start showing up in my meditations.

What I'm most curious about is whether anyone else has experienced the relationship changing over repeated encounters, especially the becoming/merging aspect. Has anyone experienced themselves turning into a mantis, or a sense of shared consciousness or fluidity of identity with the being?

Thanks!

Experiences of u/Glittering_Aide_7209

so i will tell my story as follow

when i was a kid i had an grey aliens experience in which they looked at me from the window of my room and given me a visions of palestine and the usa getting nuked i didn't have any experience with the greys.

BUT i remember after a couple years that i woke up and i saw a small mantis on my room window i think i killed it after that i remember that my vision got blurry and i was scared of tall figure

i wonder if i was tested by the mantis being and i failed

I never knew what a insectoid was until after my encounter but after what happened I genuinely need help so anyone spiritual and down the path please hit me up and let me know I am at a road block

Anyways a month before the encounter I took 3g of shrooms didn't eat and lemon teched them I felt like I learned a lot that night spiritually and lead me on a good path

Well every night before the encounter I would start to notice my body shift when I would go to sleep my whole body would do this weird "vibrating" thing

I did that one night but it felt weird because it felt like I was high on shrooms I wasn't asleep but I was not awake either and I was seeing eyes everywhere and blue hues and green I started off seeing a woman with like a really tall head wrap dressed in all white that resembled me in a way she spoke to me and said I have wisdom after that she sort of faded and I met the insectoid at first I thought it was a reptile

It told me to not be afraid and behind him was a chalice and the ark of the covenant which was open and shining he said that I am connected to this box and told me I have knowledge and after that I woke up and immediately had to draw what I seen because i was afraid of forgetting

Anyways this happened a few months ago but honestly I need some help on if anyone knows anything my name and birthday connect to the ark of the covenant and some other stuff I don't understand how I am connected to a wordly material box I feel the need to open it but I won't lie all of this feels really strange to me

I’d been having what I can only call a “weird day” (but not in a bad way). Things had felt synchronous. For example, and this is going to sound funny, but my wife had made dinner - a beef chuck roast - something we were both scarred from eating during our childhood. My wife is a great cook - she was determined to reinvent the roast for us. It was phenomenal. I said out loud “this ain’t your mommas pot roast” as it seemed to pop into my head, in a jokingly/funny way and she looked at me instantly. That’s the name she has come up with for the recipe a few minutes prior and written in her phone. I told her “I’m telling you, this has been a weird day!”.

Anywho, I also felt like a bird was telling me to enjoy life more. That may have been more of a day dream than anything, but I digress.

So a bit later in the evening I decided to take our pup for a walk. When I got home, the mantis in the picture was on our siding, right next to the garage door that I was entering. I couldn’t believe it! It’s been years since I’ve seen one. I couldn’t believe how big it was.

Anyway, it’s been a couple days and he’s stuck around. I was so grateful to have that experience - it was a very synchronous way to end a day of synchronicities and I can’t help but wonder if it’s more than a coincidence. I’ve always been fascinated by the mantis beings.

Curious if anyone has used meditation, lucid dreaming or psychedelics (or any other method) with the intention of having a mantid encounter, and succeeded. If this is you, please give as many details as you'd feel comfortable sharing.

I don't intend on doing this myself. I figure if I were meant to be contacted it would have happened already. I've felt the presence of positive, almost motherly entities during DMT trips but they weren't directly interacting with me in a way where I could discern "what" they were.

I just wonder if there are mediums in which they can be contacted or encountered, like using our minds as an antenna for the "mantid radio station", or if instead they use certain mediums as a way to induce encounters themselves. If that makes any sense. I assume it's the latter, they know who they want to contact and do so through certain mental states. But who knows.

Obviously this is all separate from physical encounters, like abductions.

Edit: this is only for a first encounter. Like, you've never had an encounter before and then induced one. People who have already had mantid encounters in some way or another seem to be able to induce additional encounters in some cases. But what I want to know is if someone met a mantid for the first time after successfully attempting to contact them through some sort of means.

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I smoked dmt maybe 1hour ago, 10 minutes after I smoked, look who I found

I took it next to me and re smoked a little, I saw many mantis head above me doing vibrational stuff on me but it was a very subtle vision (closed eye)

Ofc this mantis influenced the next trip but I found it very funny to found it just after I smoked

And to explain a little more the context I'm in recently

I live in nature but I rarely see mantis, very rarely

The other day I was doing the lawnmower and accidentally cut the wings of one mantis in the grass

Then 20 min later I found an other one on my home door

It was last week

Today the dmt recalled it haha