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Jim Sparks Sidebar Article Alien Alphabet By Sean Casteel From the beginning of Jim Sparks’ abduction experiences, he was called upon to convert characters from the English alphabet into their alien equivalents. He did so by watching a large screen onboard a ship and then tracing the designs with his finger on a smaller screen in front of him. Sparks would be rewarded for successfully completing his tasks by pleasing physical and psychological sensations that he felt functioned as the cheese in a mouse’s maze. While he at first—angrily—tried to refuse to do the letter exercises, it eventually dawned on him that he was better off to simply comply with what the aliens wanted. And just what did they want? Were they trying to give Sparks a primer in their language? “I can’t say for a fact that that’s their language,” Sparks said. “I thought that at first, in those earlier months and years, that that’s what that was. Then as time went on, I started seeing it as something that was a middle-ground form of communication. It wasn’t our alphabet and it wasn’t theirs, it was one in the middle with which to communicate.” The aliens have the apparent ability to compress a great deal of information into very small symbols, according to Sparks. “We could take this interview,” he explained, “which you and I are having here, which may take 40 minutes or an hour or however long it takes, and that can be abbreviated in sort of an alien text shorthand, a symbol that’s no bigger than a pea or a dime. And when you look at that symbol, you get the whole hour that you and I just had in conversation. The whole understanding of it, what we talked about, everything there. So you just look at something the size of a dime or pea and—boom!—you’ve got all the text and data in your brain just by looking at it.” The alien written language may also help to facilitate telepathic communication. “It’s not so much you’re reading my mind or I’m reading your mind in words,” Sparks said. “You’re taking your brain waves and structuring them in a disciplined pattern. So if you’re saying ‘Hello, how are you?’ you have to see a symbol for ‘Hello, how are you.’ You see a symbol, whatever the agreed on symbol is.” There is the added requirement of having to view the alien written symbols in three dimensions, not two, as with our printed words. “You have to start it from a certain angle,” Sparks said, “and you have to make the pattern turn and the motion has to be precise and exact. And as you do that, you develop like an energy signal from the little-bitty symbol in your head. Then someone can receive that thought, like you’re the transmitter and they’re the receiver. But they’re receiving that symbol; they’re not receiving the ‘Hello, how are you.’ They’re seeing the symbol and they have the understanding of it.” Sparks compared learning the intermediate alien language with being trained in Morse Code. “If you were studying Morse Code,” he said, “in the beginning, as a student, it would be dots and dashes. As you mastered the code, you wouldn’t hear that stuff anymore. You’d just hear full sentences and paragraphs. You don’t even hear the dots and dashes, you just know what they mean. It’s the same thing with telepathic communication.” Sparks hopes that the language and telepathy skills he has developed will receive genuine interest someday from the mainstream scientific community. “If it ever hit the right ears,” he said, “like a research team that was studying this, studying brain waves or how brain waves are naturally transmitted and received, they might think ‘This guy’s got something and maybe this would work for us.’” END OF SIDEBAR
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