Recently I happened in on the writings of John Lamb Lash and was intrigued by his alternative take on Gnostic explanations of the alien phenomenon. Some years ago I read Nigel Kerner's "Song of the Greys" who also examined these Gnostic references; I was left awestruck by this author's insight and erudite way of making his point. Here at last was literature amongst what seemed to be a melee written on the subject, a melee of reportage at best and new-age mumbo jumbo at worst. The book gave the only comprehensive and for me believable thesis I have read to date on the questions that arise when anyone takes a serious look at the phenomenon. I read his interview on the www.karmapolis.be website, bought the book and I'm now convinced that this man singularly knows what he is talking about.

In "Song of the Greys" Kerner makes the radical suggestion that Jesus Christ himself warned his apostles and disciples about the alien phenomenon and the dangers it presented for them, he quotes several examples of such warnings from the texts of the Nag Hammadi codex. It is Lash's postulation, on the other hand, that these insights in the Gnostic texts are part of an ancient pagan knowledge that the Gnostics, whom he claims were a pagan group, were privy to. These insights, says Lash, did not come from Christ; in fact he contends that Christ himself is no more than a confabulation used by the powerful to control unwitting believers who are deluded into believing that he is an actual historical figure whose life is narrated in the Gospels of the New Testament.

I must say that Kerner's existential perspectives as outlined in his book had great personal meaning for me as for the first time they provided a context in which the seemingly obscure texts of the Nag Hammadi codex in particular could be logically understood. I had always felt intuitively that the reports of Christ's words in certain of these texts (especially the Gospels of Thomas and Philip and the First and Second Apocalypses of James, had profound and exceptional meaning but they were, to a great extent, inaccessible to my understanding until I read 'The Song of the Greys'. Kerner presents his understanding of the alien phenomenon within the context of a compelling overall existential thesis that for me has been a Rosetta stone to unravel the mysteries of many Gnostic texts. The mystical Christ that then comes to light is so exquisitely beautiful and so rationally and logically pristine that Lash's notion of Christ as, in his own words, a 'grotesque' concoction, is so incongruous as to be laughable.

Recent research into the Shroud of Turin suggesting its authenticity and exposing huge flaws in the original carbon dating will, I expect, put the tin lid on the actuality of his existence as the most remarkable individual to live in the last two thousand years. For any open minded, rational sceptics out there. Lash's hysterical denial of the messianic nature of Jesus Christ is so elaborately contrived as to place him with no more significance than any latter day Israel centred zealot.

Funnily enough last year I managed to get hold of a manuscript of one of Nigel Kerner's books that was entitled: "The Margins of Forever." I can't, as yet, find a book of this title in published form but it seems his latest book "Grey Aliens - Harvesters of Souls" is out in January next year. In the manuscript (dated 2000) he predicted that the Shroud's carbon-dating results would be revised and that the shroud would be found to be contemporary with the time of the crucifixion. At that time he felt that all the details that had emerged from the cloth suggested with near certainty that it recorded the presence of an individual who stood with capacities well beyond those of an ordinary man and he was unequivocal in his opinion that this extraordinary man was Jesus Christ. As I have said, the latest evidence indeed points to the authenticity of the Shroud and to the extraordinary manner in which the image was recorded on the cloth, a manner that may well prove difficult for Lash to accept.

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