The Mystery of Life Energy

In this retelling of the Biblical saga, David is a local independent film-maker (Randall Nickerson), Goliath is a billion-dollar media mega-corporation (Netflix), and ET is the alien who was the featured “guest” in Randall’s 2022 documentary film Ariel Phenomenon. I discussed that film in my November 2024 blog post (go here and scroll down a bit) after it was screened as part of our local cinema film series. The film is about the UFO seen by dozens of school children in Zimbabwe in 1992 while outside at recess. The movie’s title is a play on words, as the event took place at the Ariel School – “ariel” being a local species of African gazelle, not a Disney character or a misspelling of “aerial”.

Nickerson at the October 2024 screening of his film

The children were first-hand witnesses, and their stories are compelling in their directness and innocence, as are their interviews with Harvard psychiatrist and Ufologist John Mack; the follow-up clips of them 30 years later as adults looking back show the life-changing impact of their experiences. I highly recommend the film (it was viewed by staffers prior to last year’s Congressional hearings on UFOs).

The reason I talked about it last year was because of the biofield/earth energy/crop circles/UFO connection – probably the furthest-out of the ideas presented in The Mystery of Life Energy. And the reason I’m talking about it again here is that Netflix, the originally-contracted distributor for the film, broke their contract with the Ariel team. While Ariel was in post-production, Netflix went ahead and produced and released their own version of this story in 2023, using some of the same footage, narrative structure, and follow-up interviews with the same persons of interest. It is called Encounters.

Netflix did this without requesting permission from Randall’s team, or even advising them that this new project was being developed. This action created a major legal controversy regarding copyright issues, plagiarism, and powerful corporations usurping the work of independent artists – a true David vs. Goliath confrontation. And it all headed to the public arena when an arbitration hearing was unable to reach a decision that both sides could agree to, leading Randall’s team to pursue legal charges against Netflix in Los Angeles Federal Court.

Randall has more than a theoretical interest in UFOs, having witnessed alien craft quite frequently since he was 10. He now lives on the edge of a forest in Western MA that was considered to be sacred ground by the indigenous Pocumtuk peoples, all of which fits into the crop circle/sacred site theory I discussed in my August 2024 post (scroll down a bit). More details of this theory are discussed in Chapter 8 of my book, which describes how energetic focal points in the earth’s biofield can attract anomalous events like crop circles and UFOs.

More recently, Randall has seen craft hovering just above his home; here’s his sketch of one such disc, which he estimated to be about 100 feet in diameter.

Randall’s diagram of a recent visitor

More details about the lawsuit, and how to support it via Patreon, will be emerging in the days ahead.   It’s not clear how Netflix will respond to this adverse publicity, so stay tuned for the next exciting chapter in the story of the ongoing collapse of a wide range of dominant institutions and paradigms that support our modern world. We definitely live in interesting times!