Hi all. Jim here filling in as Heidi heads off to her Survival Challenge. Best of luck to her!

When people find out that I know Heidi personally and do her web site, they often ask me if she really believes this stuff. They usually approach me and ask "C'mon, tell me the truth, does she REALLY talk to an alien?" I could just answer by saying Yes! but I think it's best to relate some of my personal experiences with Heidi and Cafth - experiences that convinced me that this very odd phenomenon is indeed very real. I really wish you could all have been there to see it for yourselves so you wouldn't have to take my word for it, but I'll do my best to explain it here.

I "met" Cafth late last year. I had just started doing the web site for Heidi. One weekend, Joyce Murphy was in Milwaukee to present Heidi on the Jeff Rense show. Heidi invited me over to her place to meet her.

There were about 7 or 8 people over at Heidi's place for the visit and it was a lot of fun hearing Joyce tell us about her experiences from around the world. After a while, the obvious question came up about Cafth: "Can WE talk to him?"

When Cafth actually audibly talks it's through Amanda. (That's how Heidi does Cafth Speaks by the way, so she can quote him word-for-word instead of just translating the ideas). Amanda never likes to make a big show of her contact with Cafth, so she usually doesn't do it in front of anyone but Heidi. But the fact that this was a special occasion convinced Amanda to call him up for the group.

Now at this point I was thinking the same thing that many of you are. I'd believe it - MAYBE - if I saw it.

So we set the lights down low and Amanda relaxed on the couch. Everyone waited in silence as she meditated. After a few minutes, she started talking. Just a small hello at first, but it was obvious that it wasn't her talking. Her voice was different and she suddenly no longer had her Puerto Rican accent.

Heidi started the conversation with Cafth and after a few minutes Joyce and some of the other people there started asking a few questions of him. He seemed just like a friend you'd meet for the first time - just chatting and cracking an occasional joke. It wasn't the monotone "I alien - I have message for humans" type message that I expected. After a while I started to become convinced that it wasn't a show being put on by Amanda and Heidi. I had seen it for myself, and had finally become more open to the whole idea. That was enough for me, but apparently Cafth had more in mind.

I didn't have any questions for Cafth, and preferred to just sit back and watch. But then between questions Cafth just came out of nowhere and said "His hair looks like my cat's." Heidi got a real confused look on her face like - what are you talking about Cafth? She looked around the room for the one with cat like hair. Mine must have done something for her so she asked "Who do you mean? Jim?"

"I don't know him as Jim" Cafth responded.

Note: Heidi let me know later that they had a cat in the house a little while back and told Cafth he could have it, and after that he always referred to it as his cat, so that's what the hair comment was all about.

Of course, this was completely unexpected. I'd like to add that if Heidi and Amanda were putting on a show, why on Earth would they throw something like this in?

Cafth basically went on to tell me that he knew me from the ship he was on, from before I came to this world, and he gave me a few personal pieces of advice and left it at that. A far out concept for me as you can imagine, and I certainly didn't fully believe it at the time! But I think he just meant it as an introduction.

Since I met Cafth that first time I've started to trust him more and asked him a lot of questions through Heidi, and he's come back with some very helpful and insightful answers. Answers that Heidi could not have come up with on her own.

So yes, I fully know now that Cafth is real and believe that his intentions are pure. But while seeing it sure helped, what has really convinced me has come from inside. I think Cafth knows that just giving answers never really truly convinces anyone that those answers are the truth. Most of the time Cafth gives me little hints about things that I want to know and then ends up with "Pray to The Source" for more information. It's really the only way to know that the information you end up with is the absolute truth.

Good advice as far as I'm concerned whether you believe that Cafth is real or not.

God Bless,
Jim