@Dana Renee Darryl Anka is best known as an American filmmaker, special effects artist, and channeler who has claimed to telepathically channel an extraterrestrial entity named Bashar. 1. Early Life & Career Born in Ottawa, Canada, and raised in Southern California, Darryl Anka was raised Catholic and initially had no strong leanings toward esoteric or spiritual subjects. He possessed a creative background from an early age, working as an artist, designer, and writer. This creative interest eventually led him to work in Hollywood as a special effects artist, miniature maker, and set designer, contributing to major feature films, TV shows, and entertainment projects. 2. The 1973 UFO Encounters Anka’s turning point occurred in 1973 around age 23, when he experienced two separate, broad-daylight UFO sightings in Los Angeles within a week of each other: - The Sightings: Both involved a dark, metallic, triangular craft hovering close to the ground (at distances of approximately 150 feet and 70 feet). - Witnesses: He was accompanied by friends and family members who also witnessed the objects. - Impact: The close-range sightings shattered his view of reality and ignited a decadelong search into metaphysics, consciousness, and the nature of reality. 3. The Beginning of Channeling (1983–1984) Ten years after his UFO sightings, Anka attended a class on channeling to research consciousness for a creative writing project: - During a guided meditation, he experienced a strong telepathic connection. He described receiving an instant "download" of memories revealing that the 1973 UFO sighting had been an intentional cue to trigger a pre-incarnational agreement to serve as a conduit for an entity. - Contemporaneous validation came when a fellow student in the room began sketching an image that matched the mental picture Anka was receiving. - Shortly after, in 1983–1984, Anka began publicly channeling the entity known as Bashar.