‘We’re clearly not the zenith of evolution.’

Eugene Fields and his wife, Marsha, run a business in Thousand Oaks that changed its name and its clientele when Fields changed his philosophy. In addition to hair styling, Eugene Champs Transformational Gallery now offers books, crystals and New Age music. Fields and his wife live in Agoura. When I was a kid, I was very aware of some kind of an energy that I felt came from the sky. I thought I was an atheist even though I believed in some kind of a power. I didn’t want to call it God, because that’s what organized religion called it, and that wasn’t what I felt.

I was a hippie when I was 16. I was anti-Establishment because I was upset with the racism, the corruption, the whole emphasis on making money at any cost.

When we came out here from New York, we wanted to go into business for ourselves. We thought we’d better fit in, so I joined the Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce, and I was a diplomat. I had powerful friends talking about me running for mayor. I was very much a system player where I never was before.

Then my mother sent me “Emmanuel’s Book” because my middle name is Emmanuel. I sat down and I read it, and it altered my life.

At first I was frightened of it because it was channeled. Channeling is getting in touch with your higher wisdom or disembodied spirits if they exist. It’s like kind of weird, you know, and I didn’t know if I could trust it because of what it proclaimed to be. But I wanted to believe it was true because it was so much of what I felt already. So I read it, and it really made things happen to me.

For three days I had phenomena happening to me which were very strong. I tried to take a drag of a cigarette, and I had a gag response. I loved Camel cigarettes and I couldn’t smoke the cigarette. I used to smoke quite a bit of pot. That left. I used to eat quite a bit of meat. That left. For me not to be able to do these things when I wanted to do them was a little disconcerting. I didn’t want to tell anyone about what was going on because I thought maybe something terrible was happening to me. I was having visions. I was speaking to spirits. I was quite frightened.

After a week I realized that these were all bad things that left and what came forward was a person that was in touch with his God.

I was afraid to tell anyone about it because I was frightened at what this could do to my business. I found myself not able to keep it in because I had a vibration and a heat going up my back. It was like an electronic sound I could hear.

The chair here was a place where I had people for an hour or two, and I could tell them, and they couldn’t leave. It was like forced indoctrination. I got to feel like a broken record.

We lost most of our clients. There was an almost 80% turnover. I didn’t even realize it was happening. When I look at it, almost two years later, I can’t believe I told the collective to buzz off, we want to attract spiritual people now.

We have nicer people here now. We don’t have people that are complaining and looking for something they can’t have. We are very pleased.

If man could see he is part of a universe of life, he would lose this egocentricity he has. When you’ve got thousands of crafts being spotted every year by people all around the globe, coming from someplace else, we’re clearly not the zenith of evolution.

It would be wonderful if they would expose themselves now, but space people don’t want us afraid of them. When we can accept another reality, they will appear. It may happen in our lifetime. I’m looking forward to it.

If UFOs are a phony thing, how do all these pictures get taken all over the world? Why is there secrecy about it? Why is it that every President has to get briefed two weeks before they take office and when they leave their hair is white? What do they find out? I’m sure there are extraterrestrials present, and that they’re aware of it.