Darryl Anka

Darryl Anka is a spiritual medium and kook who claims to channel an enlightened extraterrestrial entity named Bashar. He is also the cousin of 1960s teen idol

Anka describes Bashar as being from an alternate dimensional planet located 500 light-years away in the direction of the Orion constellation, called Essassani. Anka presents "Bashar" in open and private sessions around the world, where Anka appears to be in an altered state of consciousness and open dialogue occurs with an attending audience.

Bashar
In an interview with "Waking Universe," Anka recalled how in 1973 he had a "close encounter of the first kind" with a black triangular UFO:

After the encounter, Anka began researching UFOs and the paranormal. Ten years later, he met a channeller and began to study the practice. Anka claims that through this practice, he became attuned to an extraterrestrial presence named Bashar.

Anka describes Bashar as existing in a parallel reality, in a time frame that we perceive as the future. Anka's monologues and dialogues with Bashar cover a wide range of topics, including spirituality, planetary advancement, sacred geometry, metaphysics and extraterrestrial life. Bashar supposed reasons for contact (or rather Anka's claim about Bashar's motives) is that:

Anka has "revealed" Bashar's Four Laws of Creation, which he claims are intended to assist humanity in recognizing its true nature and function:

Events
Anka markets a series of "educational" events to the public focused on spreading the word of Bashar's messages. Ironically, one event scheduled to be held in Las Vegas was entitled "Going M.A.D. *Mass Agreement Dissociation" where, for $99 per person one could learn how to "go beyond the limitations of the mass consensus reality".

Career
When not channeling space aliens, Anka has worked as a visual and special effects designer for such films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I, Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean, Live Free or Die Hard and Iron Man.

He occasionally appears as a guest speaker in conferences about the paranormal. Anka appeared in the 2008 documentary, Tuning In, alongside other notable channelers such as Lee Carroll.

More recently, Anka wrote and directed a fictional documentary about the afterlife called Dearly Departed through his production company, Zia Films. Anka is currently producing a documentary called First Contact, about channeling and extraterrestrial contact, based on his two UFO sightings.

In popular culture
Indian progressive rock band Motherjane released a single, "Clay Play", in January 2015, based on Anka's character Bashar. Said drummer John Thomas:

Books by Anka

 * The New Metaphysics by Darryl Anka (1987) California: Light & Sound Communications Inc. ISBN 1-55626-000-8
 * Bashar: Blueprint for Change: : A Message from Our Future by Darryl Anka (December 1990) New Solutions Pub. ISBN 1-56284-113-0
 * Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Diary of a UFO Abductee by Kim Carlsberg (Author), Darryl Anka (Illustrator) (1995) Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. ISBN 1-87918-125-8
 * Contact Cards: An Extraterrestrial Divination System by Darryl Anka (1996) Bear & Company. ISBN 1-87918-132-0
 * Quest for Truth: 100 Insights That Could Change Your Life by Darryl Anka and Steve Meyers (1st edition, December 1997) Nobul Press. ISBN 0-9656078-1-X
 * SHARDS OF A SHATTERED MIRROR BOOK I : CRYPTIC by Darryl Anka (September 28th 2017) ISBN 978-1-947532-13-7 (softcover); ISBN 978-1-947532-14-4 (ebook)
 * The Masters of Limitation: An ET’s Observations of Earth by Darryl Anka (May 25th 2020) ISBN 978-1-951985-10-3 (hardcover)
 * Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book II: Nocturnal by Darryl Anka (July 10th 2020) ISBN 978-1-951985-42-4 (softcover); ISBN 978-1-951985-43-1 (ebook)