STARGATES: Ancient Gods, Blue Stones, Secret Programs and the Portals of Consciousness
Nov 14, 2026 · @Janet Kira Lessin
From Sumerian temples to military remote viewing, extraterrestrial contact, artificial intelligence and the blue fire of lapis lazuli
Janet Kira Lessin | Theresa J. Morris
For Cosmos Expanse · © 2026 Aquarian Media · Research: Claudia Lenore
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The Gateway That Never Closed
For thousands of years, people have told of gateways between worlds. Ancient temples guarded doors to the heavens and the underworld, and science fiction turned those doors into machines that fling travelers across the galaxy. U.S. military intelligence named its psychic research program Star Gate, and today OpenAI calls its giant AI computing project Stargate. One thread runs through it all: humanity knows reality holds passages beyond ordinary sight.
We followed that thread in a November 2026 conversation. We have lived as experiencers our whole lives; we research and write, and we host Hybrid Genies together. Our talk ranged from ancient Mesopotamia and Zecharia Sitchin to military intelligence, contact, William Henry, and the storm around OpenAI.
Janet: I receive downloads from higher guidance—information that arrives through consciousness and later shows up in world events and in other people’s discoveries.
Theresa: I carry memories of military intelligence and strange gatherings, along with decades of investigating extraterrestrial and interdimensional contact.
Together we asked one question: how long have people spoken of stargates, and what did the first storytellers mean?
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 2: Two women sit across a candlelit table beneath a vast window that opens onto a swirling starfield and a glowing circular portal. Janet has long red hair with bangs flowing past her shoulders, bright blue eyes, and a youthful, mature face with smooth skin and a smooth neck. Theresa has short gray-white hair and hazel eyes and a warm, commanding presence. Each person has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Seven Gates of Inanna
The word stargate fuses two old words: star, the lights of heaven, and gate, a passage between places. Twentieth-century science fiction gave the compound its popular meaning, but the idea reaches back to the oldest temples on Earth.
Mesopotamian texts describe gates to the divine realms and to the underworld. Egyptian funerary books map the guarded doors the soul passes on its journey after death. These peoples lived long before Christianity, in worlds full of gods, and their gateways linked humans, deities and the cosmos.
In Sumer, the Anunnaki ruled that divine order. When Inanna descended to the underworld, she passed through seven gates and surrendered a piece of her power and adornment at each one. Zecharia Sitchin and William Henry read journeys like hers as memories of real technology, recorded in the only language the ancient scribes had for it: the language of the gods.
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 3: The goddess Inanna descends a stone stairway through the seventh of seven towering carved gates into a blue-lit Sumerian underworld, her lapis lazuli necklace and crown glowing. She has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Lapis Lazuli: Blue Stone of the Gods
Lapis lazuli has dazzled humanity for about eight thousand years. Archaeologists found early lapis beads at Mehrgarh, in present-day Pakistan, and most of the ancient world’s supply came from the mountains of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, carried along vast trade routes.
Its deep ultramarine, flecked with golden pyrite, looks like a night sky full of stars. Sumerians and Egyptians set it into ceremonial objects, royal jewelry, seals, statues and sacred artifacts, because the stone belonged to the gods.
In Sumerian literature, Inanna wears lapis ornaments and carries lapis implements, and the stone shines through descriptions of sacred buildings and divine objects. That gave us our central question: why did the ancients tie one blue mineral to the gods, heavenly authority, and the doors of sacred realms?
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Sitchin and the Anunnaki
Zecharia Sitchin brought the Anunnaki into modern contact with the conversation in The 12th Planet in 1976 and the Earth Chronicles series that followed. He read the Mesopotamian texts as records of advanced visitors from Nibiru who shaped humanity’s development. In those tablets he found divine objects, extraordinary craft, mineral mining and technology described in the vocabulary of ancient scribes, and he wrote about mysterious blue stones with powers far beyond ornament.
Janet: Sasha and I studied directly with Zecharia from 1998 to 2010. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., went on to build his own interpretation of Anunnaki history, and together we compare ancient writings, modern contact accounts and experiences of consciousness. Zecharia’s work shaped the whole field of alternative history, and it opened the door to the search for ancient stargates.
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 5: An ancient Sumerian scribe in a lamplit chamber carves cuneiform into a clay tablet, while a winged Anunnaki craft and the red glowing planet Nibiru hang in the night sky beyond the window. The scribe has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
William Henry and the Blue Stone Portal
William Henry built the next bridge between blue stones and stargates. In the early 2000s, he proposed that the blue stones of ancient divine traditions held powers tied to consciousness, transformation and passage between worlds. His research linked Enki, Mesopotamia, Atlantis and Ireland’s Hill of Tara with traditions of sacred gateways.
Henry described an exotic substance that could carry travelers through wormholes or transform human beings so they could cross dimensional passages. In January 2003, he spoke about wormholes and planetary travel on Coast to Coast AM. He also explored the human light body as the true vehicle between realities, a vessel greater than any machine.
Sasha examined Henry’s work on EnkiSpeaks.com, including a January 2019 article on the links between Enki, Atlantis, Ireland, and Sumer, and a William Henry article that ran on EnkiSpeaks in 2013. Those dates show the blue stone stargate thrived in our community years before OpenAI borrowed the name.
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 6: A radiant, translucent human light body steps through a swirling wormhole of blue crystal light above the green Hill of Tara in Ireland at dawn, a ring of glowing blue stones circling the hilltop. The figure has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Heinlein, Dick and the Literature of Other Worlds
Janet: Science fiction writers explored portals, alternate dimensions and expanded consciousness decades before those subjects filled paranormal conversations. Robert A. Heinlein’s 1941 story By His Bootstraps sends its hero through a time gate across vast stretches of history, and his later books open onto alternate universes, time travel and interlocking realities. Heinlein even named a character Lapis Lazuli in his later Future History fiction, echoing the blue stone of the gods.
Philip K. Dick came at it from another angle. In February and March 1974, Dick saw a pink beam of light that he felt transmitted information straight into his mind. He spent years exploring that experience in his private writings and in novels such as VALIS.
Both men asked whether ordinary consciousness shows us only a sliver of reality. Their work runs parallel to what we call downloads, to interdimensional experience and to the hidden architecture of existence. We want to know where their ideas came from, and how much they drew from science, philosophy, religion and their own encounters.
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The Military Star Gate
In 1972, researchers at the Stanford Research Institute began investigating psychic perception, which the world came to know as remote viewing. Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff led the early work with gifted subjects such as Ingo Swann and Pat Price. American intelligence agencies then sponsored years of programs to test whether people could see distant or hidden targets with the mind alone.
The Army ran related operations at Fort Meade under a string of code names: GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE and SUN STREAK. In its later years, the whole effort carried the name STAR GATE, and declassified government records document it. Robert Monroe’s Monroe Institute, with its research into altered states and out-of-body travel, ran alongside this history.
Theresa: I learned about intelligence activities in the 1960s, and later I found myself in unusual meetings with people tied to programs on consciousness and extraordinary perception. In Hawaii, I attended a gathering where participants lay in a circle, and I recognized Men in Black among them.
Janet: I was expected at one of those gatherings too, and it went on without me.
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 8: A dim 1970s remote viewing room at Fort Meade: a man sits at a plain desk with his eyes closed, sketching on paper, while a faint holographic image of a distant target glows above the page. A reel-to-reel recorder and file folders stamped STAR GATE sit nearby. He has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Dan Burisch, J-Rod and the Egyptian Gate
Dan Burisch, also known as Dan Crain, tells one of the most dramatic stargate stories of the modern era. Burisch says he worked with a being called J-Rod at an installation tied to Area 51. He communicated with this unusual humanoid, and their bond grew personal. He later described an artificial stargate in Egypt and said he helped J-Rod return home through it. He shared this story in interviews through the 2000s, including material with researcher Paola Harris.
Janet: I met Dan Burisch at a conference. I also spent time with Clifford Stone, the former military serviceman who spoke publicly about extraterrestrial recovery operations. Clifford carried his experiences close to the surface, and in our conversations his emotions sometimes overflowed. He gave me a copy of his book, and I still keep it.
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Theresa’s Stargate Writings
Theresa: I began publishing on extraterrestrial subjects, consciousness, remote viewing and interdimensional phenomena through UFO Digest in the late 2000s, under several versions of my name, including Theresa J. Thurmond Morris and TJTM. My August 12, 2010 article, ET Omni Alliance Among Starpeople, Lightworkers, Hybrids, Masters, God, included a glossary that defines stargates as places where energies from multiple dimensions meet and open passage between them. In July 2010, Paranormal This N’ That of Past/Present/Future covered the military Star Gate research and other threads of my investigations. My understanding of stargates grew from my own experiences and from the information that came to me through consciousness.
Janet: When Theresa describes these things, I recognize my own downloads. Again and again, an idea one of us develops on her own lands becomes instantly familiar to the other. When Theresa proposed the name Hybrid Genies, I knew at once it captured everything we wanted to explore.
The word hybrid already lived in contact communities, including the work of Darryl Anka and Bashar, where human and extraterrestrial hybrids stand at the center of humanity’s future. Hybrid Genies gave us a home to explore hybrids alongside consciousness, identity, and humanity’s bond with nonhuman intelligence.
Image prompt · Batch 1 · Image 10: Theresa, a woman with short gray-white hair and hazel eyes, writes at a glowing laptop late at night, while a radiant gateway of swirling multicolored dimensional energies opens in the air above her desk. She has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Stargate on Screen and in Physics
The 1994 film Stargate, starring Kurt Russell and James Spader, gave audiences a giant ring that opens a wormhole to a distant planet. The television franchise that followed built a whole universe of ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial beings and technological gateways, and it fixed the image of the stargate as an engineered passage between worlds.
Physics tells a parallel story. General relativity allows wormholes, mathematical bridges between distant regions of spacetime. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider probes the fundamental particles and the structure of the universe, including theories of extra spatial dimensions. Film, physics and the ancient temple share one question: does the reality we see hold the full structure of the cosmos?
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Sam Altman’s Stargate
In January 2025, OpenAI and its partners announced Stargate, a vast buildout of data centers, electric power, chips and computing for ever more advanced artificial intelligence. The name evokes the famous fictional gateway, and in 2026 the conversation around Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Stargate turned to intelligence, consciousness, and entities from other dimensions.
A New Yorker investigation quoted an unnamed former OpenAI executive who described the work as building portals and summoning aliens. Professor Jiang Xueqin, in conversation with podcast host Robinson Erhardt, explored occult and metaphysical readings of AI development.
Their words describe AI as a new kind of intelligence, something different from humanity’s own. From temple gateways to remote viewers to the engineers of giant AI systems, each generation reaches for the same door and faces the same questions of knowledge, power and the edge of human understanding.
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Downloads and Recognition
Janet: Information comes to me from higher guidance. It arrives as a sudden insight, a complete concept or a pattern I recognize at once. Years later, I often hear other people describe the same information as their own discovery.
Theresa: I experience the same thing in my own language.
When one of us introduces a subject, the other knows it in a heartbeat, and the conversation leaps ahead. Some ideas arise on their own in separate minds. Others travel through communities, books, media and friendships. And when one person speaks openly about an unusual experience, others feel free to reveal what they once kept private.
We keep dated records of our original experiences and compare them with what unfolds later. That record shows when an idea first appeared, how it grew and which later echoes arrived on their own. For Cosmos Expanse, that timeline lets us honor each person’s experience in its own voice.
Image prompt · Batch 2 · Image 13: Janet sits in meditation in a lush Maui jungle garden at twilight as streams of golden light and sacred geometric symbols pour from a starry sky into the crown of her head. She has long red hair with bangs flowing past her shoulders, bright blue eyes, and a youthful, mature face with smooth skin and a smooth neck. She has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Why Blue?
Janet: Our conversation circled back to its oldest question: why did lapis lazuli hold such power for ancient civilizations? The people who first treasured it lived in religious worlds far from modern Christianity. They worshipped gods of heaven and earth, kingship, fertility, judgment and the forces of nature, and every sacred material carried the meaning of those divine beings.
A royal ornament of lapis lazuli spoke of far more than wealth. It announced divine favor, celestial power, protection and the authority of a ruler who claimed a bond with the gods. Ancient texts and surviving artifacts record these meanings.
Sitchin and Henry saw still more: sacred materials and divine objects that preserve memories of advanced Anunnaki technology. Across millennia, the blue stone has stood at the crossroads of religion, royal power, trade, cosmology and human imagination, and it still glows at the heart of the stargate mystery.
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Cosmos Expanse: Through the Gate
The history of stargates braids together ancient religious traditions, modern physics, science fiction, classified intelligence programs, personal encounters and bold readings of extraterrestrial history.
We bring decades of personal experience, research, writing and conversations with experiencers to this subject. We honor every kind of evidence: personal testimony, historical documents, ancient sacred texts, scientific models and working technology. The richest discoveries wait where those streams meet.
Cosmos Expanse gathers those threads: ancient gods and sacred stones, military remote viewing, extraterrestrial contact, human and ET hybrids and the explosive rise of artificial intelligence. At its heart lies the question that has followed humanity from the first temples to today’s laboratories:
What waits on the other side of the gateways our ancestors described, and who will walk through them next?
Follow the sources with us, trace the timeline and step through the gate.
Image prompt · Batch 2 · Image 15: Janet and Theresa stand side by side at the threshold of a shining lapis-blue gateway that opens onto a cosmos of galaxies, facing the light together. Janet has long red hair with bangs flowing past her shoulders, bright blue eyes, and a youthful, mature face with smooth skin and a smooth neck. Theresa has short gray-white hair and hazel eyes. Each person has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. Single image, not a collage. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels, large and highly detailed.
Bells & Whistles
Pull quotes
- “One thread runs through all of it: humanity knows that reality holds passages beyond ordinary sight.”
- “Its deep ultramarine, flecked with golden pyrite, looks like a night sky full of stars.”
- “In Hawaii, I attended a gathering where participants lay in a circle, and I recognized Men in Black among the people there.”
- “What waits on the other side of the gateways our ancestors described, and who will walk through them next?”
Bios
Janet Kira Lessin is CEO of Aquarian Media, a lifelong ET contact experiencer, certified hypnotherapist and past life regression therapist who has worked with thousands of experiencers. She studied with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 to 2010, co-founded Aquarian Radio (1,200+ episodes) and wrote the six-volume Anunnaki series and the Dragon at the End of Time series. She lives on Maui at Synergy Community Farms.
Theresa J. Morris is an experiencer, researcher and writer who has published on extraterrestrial contact, consciousness, remote viewing and interdimensional phenomena since the late 2000s, including her UFO Digest articles as Theresa J. Thurmond Morris. She is writing Cosmos Expanse.
Janet & Theresa co-host Hybrid Genies, where two lifelong experiencers explore contact, hybrids, consciousness and humanity’s bond with nonhuman intelligence.
Author images (for Minerva)
Three collages built from this article’s images: Janet alone, Theresa alone, and the two together. Each faces the camera with hands resting on a desk. Each person has exactly two arms and five fingers on each hand. JPG, 1920 x 1080 pixels.
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References
- Zecharia Sitchin, The 12th Planet (1976) and The Lost Book of Enki (2001)
- William Henry on Enki, blue stones, wormholes and ancient gateways, including Coast to Coast AM, January 2003
- Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., articles at EnkiSpeaks.com, including his January 2019 study of William Henry’s work
- Theresa J. Thurmond Morris, UFO Digest articles, July and August 2010
- Paola Harris, interview with Dan Burisch on J-Rod and the Egyptian stargate
- Declassified U.S. government records on the STAR GATE remote viewing program
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
- Robert A. Heinlein, By His Bootstraps (1941) and the Future History novels
- Philip K. Dick, VALIS (1981) and his writings on the experiences of 1974
- OpenAI’s Stargate announcement (January 2025) and later reporting
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Title: STARGATES: Ancient Gods, Blue Stones and the Secret Programs That Opened the Door
Description: From the seven gates of Inanna to the Army’s STAR GATE remote viewers and OpenAI’s new Stargate, lifelong experiencers Janet Kira Lessin and Theresa J. Morris follow humanity’s oldest obsession: the gateway between worlds. Lapis lazuli, Sitchin’s Anunnaki, William Henry’s blue stones, Dan Burisch and J-Rod, Men in Black in Hawaii, and the downloads that connect them all. Subscribe on Substack for every chapter of Cosmos Expanse.
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