Editing Star people (New Age) (section)

==Beliefs==
Steiger described "Star People" in his 1976 book on [[contactee]]s as "humans who come from a special gene pool linked to visits by extraterrestrials".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0kFIxtMfkC&pg=PT465|title=Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Religions of the World|last=Beverley|first=James|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|date=May 19, 2009|isbn=9781418577469}}</ref>

They claim to channel human lifeforms and suffer helplessness and total amnesia concerning their identity, origins and life-purpose.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_indigo40.htm|title=Traits of Star People and Starseeds|website=www.bibliotecapleyades.net|access-date=2018-02-04}}</ref><ref name="Stone">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJu-HmbnLzUC&pg=RA1-PA32|title=Hidden Mysteries|first=Joshua David|last=Stone|publisher=Light Technology Publishing|date=December 12, 1996|chapter=32. Star People|isbn=9781622335510}}</ref> The awakening process claimed to be experienced<ref name=dazed/> is described as either a gradual series of realizations over time, or an abrupt and dramatic awakening of consciousness. Through the awakening process, they regain memories about their past, origins and missions.<ref name="Stone"/>

''Washington Post'' journalist [[Joel Achenbach]] interviewed people who said they were starseeds from the [[Pleiades]] for his book ''Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe'', and noted the contrast with [[Ufology|ufologists]]: "the starseed are precisely the kind of New Age figures the traditional ufologists can't stand. Ufologists look outward, toward the universe, for answers to the alien enigma. New Agers look inward."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/aliens_3/|title=Captured and hypnotized by aliens!|last=Achenbach|first=Joel|work=Salon|date=November 3, 1999|access-date=March 5, 2015}}</ref>