Writers and Publications

Tom Dongo, author and investigator, also came to Sedona in the year of Harmonic Convergence, 1987. He felt drawn here to write. Like many others, he gave up everything to come. Tom says he spent his first year involved with channeling. Since then he has been reporting UFO and ET events and other unexplained happenings in the area.

The highlight of these Sedona years for him was having an ET ship fly within 200 yards of him. It was round with flashing lights, about 50 feet in diameter. He recalls this as happening in 1995. He has written five books, all available in local bookstores and has been involved mostly with his own interests rather than community activities. His books are Mysteries of Sedona, The Alien Tide, The Quest, Unseen Beings, Unseen Worlds, Merging Dimensions. They have sold well in other countries as well as the USA.
 

Unusual sky phenomenon over Sedona
 

Robert Shapiro, channel and author, also came to Sedona around 1987. He lives very much in the present moment and says he is not good at precise dates.  His chief project lately has been channeling a long history of the Explorer Race (people as they have evolved) given by Zoosh, a spirit being and End Time historian. Robert is working on the 8th book in the series! The first volumes have reached local bookstores, The Explorer Race and ETs and the Explorer Race, both of them exceedingly interesting reading.

Robert's first book was Allies. It was a small collection of channeled messages from different Extra-terrestrial groups. It is out of print in the USA but still in print in Brazil. Robert then produced Awakening to the Animal Kingdom and Awakening to the Plant Kingdom with Julie Rapkin. He has been a main contributor to the Shining The Light series (vols 1-4) published by Light Technology and also to the Sedona Vortex Guide Book.

Sometimes Robert takes people out on the land, and teaches them how to expand their perceptions. He teaches whatever feels right, he says. He has taught a workshop on invisibility. One person who attended was a young woman whose lover was in prison. She wanted to visit him and couldn't do so for more than a few frustrating minutes at a time. Robert says he taught her how to use invisibility to visit him at prison.

Robert has shared this information with a retired Police Officer who then shared it with at least one member of the Border Patrol for protective purposes. It's about how to go unseen and to extend your feeling body to be aware of other surroundings. He says it is learning how to touch things at a distance. But this is designed only for spiritual and benign purposes. It comes under the heading of shamanism.

The military and other people are still recruiting psychics for Remote Viewing warns Robert.  A friend of his had this experience. It was subtle but definite. Robert uses a technique of discernment which he calls "the wand." He points his finger at a person and psychically extends it to get a feeling of that person's energy. He then knows immediately the nature of the person's intentions.

Be aware who you get involved with, he says. This is very important. It's easy to compromise your integrity in New Age activities without meaning to.  Integrity is the number one issue that people need to be conscious of. It will be tested. It's really important to set your standards.

Robert remembers Emergence before it became the Journal. Publisher O'Ryin Swanson lived in a house in West Sedona. There were stacks of paper everywhere in the basement. That was the beginning of Emergence. The first issue was a packet of information. Gradually it turned into a monthly magazine, a calendar of local events together with articles. In 1996 the calendar was finally dropped. The Sedona Journal of Emergence had become a national and international magazine. A very fine edition is published in New Zealand for the South Pacific region and another edition in Brazil [Amaluz]. The print run is about 7000 in Brazil and 14,000 in the USA.

Shapiro says he doesn't get much into group stuff but he supports the Hub and he supported the original Center for the New Age. Recently he did a channeling for the 1996 Sedona Conference of Light sponsored by the Hub.

Robert says Tom Dongo, who has been here longer, is the first line local expert on UFO and ET sightings, the strange and obscure, the wild and bizarre. When you read Tom's book The Quest it gives you a feeling for people who had mystical experiences in Sedona. But, says Robert, "I was all mysticaled out by the time I got to Sedona!"
 
 

Lyssa Royal Holt, internationally known author and channel wrote, "I moved to Sedona from Los Angeles in 1988." ..."As with so many others, Sedona was calling me. Once I got settled in Sedona, I began giving presentations [as a channel] for Light Technology's Sunday Night Salon organized by O'Ryin Swanson. This led to an increase in private session work and the teaching of my ongoing Learning to Channel classes. I also began hosting weekly channeled events at my home. The weekly channeled classes ran from 1989-1991, until the time I moved to Phoenix. These weekly, intimate channeled sessions...provided the bulk of my material for the books The Prism of Lyra, and Visitors From Within. The tapes of these early Sedona sessions are still available to the public and remain popular with my clients because of their deep explorations into all aspects of metaphysics and personal empowerment.
 

The Phoenix airport is 120 miles from Sedona. No wonder Lyssa had to move! Today she takes groups to sacred places all over the world and is author of four books, many articles and hundreds of channeled tapes.