Start Here: Inside The Experiencer Field

For decades, people who believed they had encountered something not human have found their way to Barbara Lamb. Many arrived frightened and unsure of what they remembered. In her office, with her patient guidance, they explored those memories, and the sessions were recorded. Lamb also spoke about the work in lectures, interviews and conference talks.

That record now forms one of the largest archives of its kind, and Lamb has entrusted it to New Paradigm Institute. The Experiencer Field is our way of sharing it: one story at a time, each built around a theme that runs through the testimony.

This page explains who Barbara Lamb is, what the archive holds, why it matters to the public conversation about disclosure, and the standards we hold ourselves to when we quote it. If you are new to the collection, start here.

Who Barbara Lamb is

A therapist whose clients led her to an unexpected field.

Barbara Lamb. (Photo: Barbara Lamb Archive)

Barbara Lamb is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified hypnotherapist, trained in regression therapy and based in Claremont, California. For years her regression work took clients back to the roots of their fears: early childhood, birth, and what sometimes seemed to be past lives. In the 1980s, she has said, a different source began to surface. Some clients’ distress traced back to partly remembered encounters with beings that did not seem to be human.

By about 1990 this had become a large part of her practice. She has now conducted more than 5,000 regression sessions with people who report contact, and she is still doing the work. Her approach has always been clinical. She listens, she documents, and she leaves the conclusions to others. She also chose her vocabulary carefully, calling the people she worked with “experiencers,” a word that does not prejudge whether what happened to them was frightening, wondrous or both.

What the archive holds

More than 300 hours of recordings, from the late 1980s to 2014.

Barbara Lamb with Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan in a crop formation in England, 2006. (Photo: Barbara Lamb Archive)

The archive holds 551 recordings, some 339 hours in all, most of them from the 1990s and 2000s. Nearly half are hypnotic regression sessions with individual clients. The rest include Lamb’s own lectures and conference talks, where she reflected on patterns she was seeing across her practice, along with radio and television broadcasts, interviews and group discussions.

The people in these recordings come from every kind of life. What they describe varies widely too: terror and calm, examination and instruction, warnings about the Earth, and encounters they remember as profoundly loving. Each story in this collection follows one of those threads.

Why it matters to disclosure

Disclosure is about people as well as evidence.

Much of the public conversation about UAP and non-human intelligence centers on records, sensor data and the testimony of officials. New Paradigm Institute works on those fronts too, through law, policy and support for whistleblowers. But NPI’s mission is to help prepare humanity for a post-contact world, and that preparation has to include the people who say contact has already touched their lives.

For decades, many experiencers carried their memories alone, afraid of being disbelieved or thought unwell. Lamb saw the cost of that silence, and she believed that being heard could change a life.

“When you get past that part and you realize you’re not crazy, that in itself, I think, is really a very significant help for people.”

Barbara Lamb guiding Dr. John E. Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist who studied experiencers, through a crop circle in England, 2004. (Photo: Barbara Lamb Archive)

If the public comes to terms with a non-human presence, it will need more than proof. It will need ways of understanding what contact means to the human beings involved. This archive is one of the richest records we have of exactly that.

How we tell these stories

We come to this archive as listeners.

Every quotation here is word for word from Lamb’s recordings, with any cuts marked and the source cited. Her clients spoke to her in confidence, so we never name them or share details that could identify them. Many of these accounts were recalled under hypnosis, and we say so when we share one. Memory of that kind can’t be checked like a document, so we offer these accounts as testimony, in people’s own words, and leave the conclusions to you. When Lamb gives her own reading of an experience, we present it as hers.

A few words you’ll see

Terms used throughout the collection.

• Experiencer: Lamb’s preferred term for a person who reports contact with non-human beings. It covers experiences people describe as frightening (“abduction”) and those they describe as welcome (“contact”).
• Regression: a form of therapy in which a person, usually in a relaxed hypnotic state, is guided back to revisit a past experience.
• Session: a single recorded meeting between Lamb and a client. Many clients came back for several sessions over months or years.
• Non-human intelligence (NHI): a neutral term, now used in US law and policy, for intelligent beings that are not human, whatever their origin.

Stories in The Experiencer Field

Each story follows one thread through the archive.

Sources: Lamb’s account of her career, case_id -1 (#313A), segments 0 and 1; her quote on the right to know, case_id 104 (part A), segment 3; her quote on not being crazy, case_id 262 (part A), segment 6; her rating-scale practice, case_id 104 (part A), segments 0 and 1.