Lewels served as a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as a reconnaissance pilot in the Republic of South Vietnam in 1967-1968. He was awarded the bronze star and the air medal with oak-leaf clusters for his service in combat. He was a tenured associate professor and Chairman of the Departments of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1972-1982. He served as a consultant on minorities and the media at the U.S. Department of Justice and at the Federal Communications Commission in 1972-1973. From 1982-2013 he was a Vice President and a Senior International Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch. He edited the Freedom of Information Digest at the University of Missouri and was a writer and editor at the U.S. Army Aviation Digest at Ft. Rucker, Alabama. From 1993 until 2000, Lewels served as Assistant State Director for West Texas and Southern New Mexico for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), . He regularly contributed to the MUFON Journal and spoke at many MUFON conferences and numerous international conferences in the United States and abroad.He holds a Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Missouri, an M.S. in Education from Troy State University, and a B.A. in Journalism from Texas Western College. He was certified as a hypnotherapist by the American Board of Hypnotherapy in 1995.
""In a very interesting and entertaining way Joe Lewels has woven together hypnotic regression work regarding past lives and current life extraterrestrial encounters with scholarly research into the origin of Christianity. This is a truly fascinating read about who we really are and what it means to be here in Earth life."" - Barbara Lamb, psychotherapist (retired) and CHT Regression Therapist, author and speaker barbaralambregression.com ""...there is much truth in Lewels's historical and biblical analysis. I believe the issues in this book will eventually come to dominate religious discussion for decades to come."" -Barry H. Downing is Pastor Emeritus of Northminster Presbyterian Church, Endwell, NY. Author of The Bible and Flying Saucers in 1968 and Biblical UFO Revelations. https: //thebibleandflyingsaucers.com/about/ This is a 'must-read' book, as the possibility of the ETs making more open contact on Earth looms larger on the horizon, with tentative expectations for within the next five years. Joe Lewels, Ph.D., has been investigating ET-contact experiences since 1993, working with a team of psychiatrists and hypnotherapists. He is a certified hypnotherapist with the American Institute of Hypnotherapy, and he has interviewed hundreds of experiencers of ET contact in the U.S., Australia and Mexico. He prefers to use the term ""experiencers"" rather than ""abductees"", as he has found that most do not feel that they are victims, but rather participants, who have made a pre-birth choice to be part of the awakening and evolutionary process being carried out by higher-dimensionals such as the so-called Greys. I find very many parallels between his findings and my own lifelong contact experiences with these Beings."" - Judy Carroll, author of The Zeta Message; Human by Day, Zeta by Night; Extraterrestrial Presence on Earth; Cosmic Spirituality; and An Interview with an Alien. ufogreyinfo.com