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The Grace Space is your cocoon of sanity in an evolving world, a combination of storytelling, interviews, and teachings on Universal Spiritual Law, where each week Claire shares practical, actionable teachings to help you embody your true nature of freedom, authenticity, and spiritual sovereignty.
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Beyond the Visible: Rediscovering Our Cosmic Origins
What happens when childhood UFO sightings in a small Florida beach town collide with adult questions about humanity's true cosmic origins? Today, Claire takes us on a deeply personal journey from the infamous Gulf Breeze UFO phenomenon of the 1980s to our current moment of potential disclosure about non-human intelligence.
Contemplating the pristine white sand beaches of her hometown, Claire draws powerful parallels between taking altitude—seeing the world from above during her flight—and gaining the perspective needed to understand humanity's place in a vastly larger cosmic reality. With disarming honesty, she questions the narratives we've accepted without examination: from how the pyramids were built to what we've been taught about our capabilities as humans.
The coming disclosure isn't simply about confirming the existence of extraterrestrial life—it's about reconnecting with our forgotten history, reclaiming our sovereignty, and understanding the control systems that have limited our perception for millennia. Claire offers a practical approach to navigating this complexity: relax, ground yourself, and turn inward for answers.
We stand at a pivotal choice point between excavating our natural human potential or surrendering to artificial transformation. This challenging journey requires both cosmic expansion and deep inner grounding—going as far outward as we go inward. The paradigm shift ahead will shake everything we thought we knew, but it also promises liberation for those willing to question everything and trust their inner knowing.
For anyone feeling overwhelmed by our rapidly changing world, Claire provides a reassuring framework for maintaining discernment and sovereignty as we collectively awaken to a much grander cosmology. The biggest game in the universe isn't just happening around us—we're active participants in this grand adventure of remembering who we truly are.
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Claire Lautier:I spent a couple of months in Florida over the winter at our family home. I mean, I only lived there myself for about four years of high school, after which I was gone at university and then graduate school in New York and eventually Canada and then on to France. Even though proportionally I haven't spent that much time in Florida compared to other places I've lived, it's the place I've come back to over and over since the 1980s, to the house my parents built when I was 13. And where my mom still lives, one of the places where I'm used to getting together with my family. So in that sense it's still home. Still have my adolescent bedroom there, all my stuff from high school it's like a time capsule All my old yearbooks and stuff. The town where we live is called Gulf Breeze. Sounds picturesque, doesn't it? The mascot of my high school is the dolphins. Gulf Breeze is a little spit of land between the mainland and the beach, surrounded by water on three sides, and the mainland is Pensacola, home to a naval air station, number Forts, the oldest of which is now a museum, fort Pickens, beautiful old fort on the beach, and all around there is now a protected area. So you can actually drive for miles along the beach without any construction until you get to the fort, and I just love going down that road and imagining what this land was like, you know, when it was wild and untouched by the hand of man, specifically the military hand. There's a military presence here that goes back hundreds of years, because this was a strategic location as a port. You know, wherever there's a military base, weird things happen.
Claire Lautier:When I was in high school, there was a mysterious phenomenon known as the Gulf Breeze UFO. It all started when photos of a supposed UFO were published in the Sentinel, our local newspaper, claiming sightings over Gulf Breeze. There was a whole series of photos and videos. Keep in mind this was the 80s, so you couldn't just whip out your phone. Back then you had to have a video camera, and it just so happens that they were taken by the father of one of my good friends. He even described being immobilized by a blue beam that came from the craft and seeing aliens, and there were a number of these encounters and this went on for months, as I remember it, a series of mysterious incidents that sparked a lot of curiosity and speculation in our sleepy little town, and you know, everybody was talking about it. Have you seen it? Have you seen it? Have you seen it? Have you seen it? And my friend's father was not the only one who saw something, although what he captured was what was most publicized and really fit the bill of the typical UFO in appearance and sighting. Lots of people were watching the skies and reported sightings, and it felt like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, and even today it's a quirky part of the area's history. We even made it onto an episode of the X-Files, although Fox Mulder called it a hoax, and eventually it was deemed just that a hoax, a hoax.
Claire Lautier:Years later, when my friend's parents sold their house, the new owner supposedly found a UFO model in the attic, made out of styrofoam and pie plates. My friend's dad claimed it was planted there. I mean, who knows, who knows with these things. The story became part of the eye-rolling National Enquirer type lore of UFOs. Ha ha, it was just a weather balloon. It was a hoax, whatever.
Claire Lautier:I must admit that even though I, like Fox Mulder, wanted to believe, the photos never felt true to me and, to be honest, my friend's dad was known as a bit of a prankster. He was fun, I liked him. But I remember feeling crestfallen and frustrated because if it was a hoax, it simply perpetuated the conflating of the notion of advanced technology and life beyond this planet with styrofoam and pie plates and weather balloons and the cover of the National Enquirer, easily dismissed and discredited. It said this UFO business is all a joke. If you believe it you're a fool. That's for television, that's for movies, it's okay there, but it's not okay in real life. No sane person takes this stuff seriously. Don't go too far with it or people will think you're crazy.
Claire Lautier:I was remembering all of this hoo-ha as I sat on the beach during my recent visit with my feet buried in the fine white sand. We have some of the most beautiful beaches in Pensacola Pensacola Beach. It's called the Emerald Coast, and it really is true. The water is emerald-like and the sand is pure, white like sugar and very, very fine. I was contemplating the tiny crystals as the gulf waves crashed onto the shore and my mind was quickly overwhelmed by their sheer number. And yet I know in the depths of my being that as many grains of sand as there are on the beaches of the world are the number of worlds out there.
Claire Lautier:This world is but one fractal of the entire universe. You are a fractal of the entire universe, and so am I. We contain everything there is. That's what a fractal is. A fractal is, you know you chop it up and it's not a fragment. It contains the totality of whatever you chopped it off from. So it's always whole, it's always complete, and it just contains all of creation in a condensed form. Imagine the power of that. I mean really imagine for yourself. Imagine if that's true, if that's true in me, me, wow, we are more powerful, we contain more energy and have more potential than any other being in this creation. Maybe that's why we've been told that we're small, powerless, inferior, sinful and all alone in this vastness. They must never know how powerful they really are, as if they suspect the game is up.
Claire Lautier:When it was time to leave Florida and fly back to France, I was dropping off my bags and getting ready to board at the Pensacola Regional Airport, which was decorated, as it happens, for an upcoming comic con, with space themed banners renaming it Pensacola Intergalactic Airport, with photos of people dressed up as their favorite Star Wars characters and so on. And I thought boy would I love to live in a world where Pensacola really was an intergalactic airport. And just for a moment I pretended the banners were real and I thought one of these days this won't be said with a wink, it won't be a joke. Personally, I've never believed we were alone here, and in recent years I've grown frankly weary of linear, materialist arguments that seek to prop up such a ludicrous notion. But I do wonder what it will be like for the many people who are barely keeping it together, dealing with one planet, to be thrust into a much bigger cosmology for which they have no context and to simultaneously realize just how much has been hidden from us regular folks for a very long time.
Claire Lautier:Shouldn't we question the history we learned in history class? Why do we take what we've been told about history for granted? What is our story, who decides what makes it into the history books and the textbooks and why? They say history is written by the victors, and I suppose that's true. But the history we're taught in school, and which people generally agree on, is a version of history and very likely engineered, like so many other aspects of our lives, as we're coming to realize.
Claire Lautier:I remember as a child, as we're coming to realize. I remember as a child noticing things that just didn't make sense. Specifically, I recall a children's book on history that covered the ancient Egyptian period and the building of the pyramids. The illustration showed hundreds of slaves hauling these massive sandstone blocks, using ropes to drag them into place. I can't even say it without laughing and I remember thinking as a child that is absolutely ridiculous. Like I know, that's not how they built the pyramids. What a laughable idea. Who would ever believe that?
Claire Lautier:But somehow, because you're a child and you're sold a version of history and they tell you that's how it was and then you're tested on it in school, you have to parrot back the version that you were told or sold, I should say, no matter how far it might be from reality. I mean, I can think of so many instances where something was presented to me a certain way as a child and I thought what, why? But questioning the lesson was not encouraged and gradually I learned to not notice or tune out things that I should have questioned, things that just didn't seem right, things that where there was a disconnect. I guess that's how we become compliant brainwashed automatons. Over time and years later you kind of wake up and start remembering some of the questions you never asked and some of the things that you noticed but never pointed out, such as what about those weird orbs and discs in the sky in some of those medieval and renaissance paintings? What's up with that? We studied that stuff. Nobody ever talked about that.
Claire Lautier:But things have come a long way since the Gulf Breeze UFO gained temporary national attention or notoriety. For the past few years has been a lot of talk about disclosure UFOs or UAPs as they call them now very disingenuously, in other words, unidentified aerial phenomena that's vague for you. Unidentified, I'm not so sure Extraterrestrials, non-human intelligence, non-human technology and craft. The latest thing was all these mystery drones. And there are many different voices in this milieu, most of them intent on shaping your perception of events with their own narratives about these phenomena. It's all theater.
Claire Lautier:What we're seeing right now is only the tippiest tip of an iceberg which is extremely large, complex and multifaceted, and it cannot be contained or compassed by the worldview of the average person right now, especially if your only news source is mainstream media, in which case you're nowhere near to getting anything but a carefully curated narrative. So, at the very least, you should be asking yourself the question what are they trying to get me to think and feel with this story? What do they want me to think? What do they want me to feel? And if you're interested in this topic, you should be seeking out true, alternative sources of information.
Claire Lautier:I don't see how anyone could not be interested in this topic. It's only the most important revelation of the last 6,000 years how anyone could be so incurious as to not want to know everything there is to know about disclosure. I frankly don't understand Well, that's just me, I mean. I understand that some people are just focused on trying to survive, frankly, but this issue is of paramount importance to all human beings because it's not about aliens, which would be an earth shattering paradigm shift all on its own. It's about us. Disclosure is all about our origins, our story, our true nature and potential, the true nature of the universe, science, technology, energy, religion, spirituality, power and the control systems we've been subjected to. It's a major dot connector for the human race. We are in a fascinating, fascinating moment in human history. If you think things are chaotic and confusing in the world right now, just wait till we're trying to get our heads around such beings as extraterrestrial, interdimensional, crypto, terrestrial and technological intelligences. In the next few years, the lid is going to blow off this thing.
Claire Lautier:The question I'm asking myself now is how can we introduce a bigger cosmology and prepare people psychologically in a way that is caring and responsible for what is now known as disclosure, and help them to exercise discernment? This is the most important part Exercise discernment. In the midst of so many competing narratives coming from different sources with different agendas, we are in a vulnerable position, let's say, because we are waking up from a long, long period of sleep, a long sleep of forgetfulness, waking up into the remembering and rediscovery of who we are. Humanity has endured a great deal of trauma along the way and, as we know, trauma is the basis for mind control. So, as we recover our memory and rediscover who we are and why we're here, we are also remembering and processing that trauma. Therefore, we need to be gentle and kind with ourselves, very loving and forgiving and patient, and at the same time, we need to wake up, because the period that's coming now is going to require a great deal of discernment so that we don't get lost or taken advantage of by things that are pretty far out seeming so. The bigger question is really how to extricate ourselves from literally eons of subjugation to control systems and learn to recognize when our perception is being manipulated, how it's being manipulated and to what end. Now, if something in you rises up a bit indignantly saying I'm not being manipulated, I'm not being mind controlled, I would just invite you to notice that voice.
Claire Lautier:As Mark Twain supposedly said, it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. We don't want to look like a fool. We don't want to feel foolish. That's natural. I have to tell you that when I started to realize the extent to which I had been totally asleep to certain realities, I was embarrassed and a little ashamed, but I got over that pretty quickly, because if we truly want to grow, we have to be willing to admit when we've been deceived and be curious as to how we were deceived and why.
Claire Lautier:The truth is, there's no shame in it, however we may feel when confronted with our ignorance of certain things. I mean, in a way, there's something beautiful in there, which is our intrinsic innocence as humans, which has been sorely taken advantage of, and the fact that in our current form, without the intervention of higher levels of consciousness, higher levels of our being, we have a very limited range of perception. Remember, we only see 0.5%, and that's being generous of the visible light spectrum, which, in turn, is only 0.5%, and that's being generous of all the energy in the universe. That doesn't make us inferior, it makes us uninformed. Actually, what it calls us to do is not to purely rely on our senses, right on the gross senses, for our information. In order to know what there is to know, we have to tune into much more subtle senses. We have to be tuned into our heart, we have to be tuned into our intuitive power, otherwise we're going to miss almost everything. That's just the reality that we're dealing with. So I mean, I consider, I consider that a great challenge that we've given ourselves, in a way, from the higher perspective. Being virtually blind means you have to develop your other senses.
Claire Lautier:Back to Florida. That day, as I was leaving, the plane took off to return me to France. The sky was clear and bright blue. I was near the window, so I got a great view of the geography of Pensacola, as we did a big loop to the south before heading upward. I mean, when we do that big loop to the south, we fly right over my house. I love seeing how things fit together from up above.
Claire Lautier:Do you do that on the plane? Look down at your world and try to find all the familiar references like oh, look down there. Look, everything is so cute when it's small, right, everything looks makes so much more sense. You're like there's the restaurant near the airport that we always go to, there's the university, there's the waterfront Look at the little boats. There's the bridge going across the bay and there's the main road going out to the highway. There's our neighborhood going across the bay and there's the main road going out to the highway. There's our neighborhood. There's our house with the dock going out into the water. There's the thin strip of land, beyond which is the beach, and beyond that, the Gulf of Mexico. So beautiful and blue. Wow, the sun was shining on the water and it glittered like millions of tiny diamonds as we were passing over it and I twisted in my seat and pressed my forehead against the window to hold on to the picture as we rose above the wisps of cloud, until things began to just blend into each other. I wonder where the Florida state line is. I thought it's funny how none of that stuff matters. From up there you don't see any boundaries or state lines. It was just trees and trees and rivers and natural things and man-made things looking smaller and smaller.
Claire Lautier:My heart always tightens when I'm taking off in an airplane and I think of all the people I love down on the ground. I guess if you get a far enough away from earth, that's what you would realize as you headed into space. Literally everything I've ever known, everyone I've ever loved, everything that seemed so important, it's all there on that blue dot which is getting smaller and smaller. That would sure give you perspective and bring sense to things that don't make sense when you're too close to them down on the ground. When you're too close to them down on the ground. We need to take altitude in order to get perspective on what we think, we know. We need access to a bigger picture to make sense out of things.
Claire Lautier:Most of the time, we just don't have enough information to make informed decisions about anything. I mean, what do we really know when you only perceive 0.5% of the information? You don't have a lot to go on. And what if that 0.5% that we see is not even what it seems? Don't feel bad human. We've got a hell of a challenge here and we've been kept in the dark deliberately, for a long, long time about a lot of things. We haven't been able to see a big picture, so we haven't been able to understand who we are because we don't have the context.
Claire Lautier:Our world and our perception of the world is about to get way bigger and instead of being overwhelmed by it and swept away by it, or burying our heads in the sand or giving our power away yet again to something we perceive or are told is bigger, stronger, better, more powerful than we are, we have a choice to make. We can choose to honor our humanity and stand for it, because a choice point is coming where we're going to have to decide whether we want to be absorbed and assimilated into the technological intelligence, god, or whether we want to remain human beings with all of our natural powers on this earth, of our natural powers on this earth. There's two paths here. Either we dig into ourselves and excavate our true natural, esoteric power, or we allow ourselves to be convinced that we can be transformed so that we can become superhuman and like gods artificially. So we really have to decide which way we're going to go with that.
Claire Lautier:Here's how I'm navigating the complexity of everything that's being thrown at us, and if it can be helpful to you, then that's great. I reduce everything to simplicity. Number one relax. Breathe and relax your body, all right. Number two get grounded. Spend time with your bare feet on the ground, you know, get some grounding sheets that you can sleep in. Um, do things to be connected to the earth energies. Number three turn inward for your answers and then I open myself to a bigger, a wider open space within myself. That's what turning inward does as above, so below, as within, so without. So when I turn inward and invite more spaciousness within, I'm able to take in a larger perspective, a bird's eye view. Without A bigger cosmology doesn't just mean that we look to the skies and become part of a larger galactic community.
Claire Lautier:Community that necessitates that we dig our roots way deep down inside our own hearts and remember that that is home, no matter where you are in the universe. That's home. In order not to become ungrounded and swept off our feet in the coming years, in order not to be glamored by a Star Trek future or harvested by a technological intelligence at the cost of connection with our own soul, we need to go as deeply inward as we go outward. My Alexander teacher at Juilliard used to say to me go down to go up, find your feet so your head can float upward. Right, that's the law. That's what we need to do too. To go through these next years without losing ourselves. We need to take altitude by keeping our feet on the ground. As we embrace the heavens, we must embrace the earth that much more. Then, when we take altitude, when we take a larger view of things, we can see patterns and connect dots that we couldn't when we were down on the ground with them. That's just the reality.
Claire Lautier:If you're walking around in a field, in some kind of labyrinth, you're lost. It's going to take you some time to find your way out. You're going to have to try this way, that way, and get to dead ends, turn around, come back, try again, because you don't know how things fit together, you can't see the bigger picture, but once you rise above it and look down, you can find the way out becomes obvious. We humans have been trying to understand ourselves and our world and our history with very limited information, and the information that we do have access to is totally distorted and twisted on purpose. Then add to that our personal way of seeing things, which is colored by our own programming and paradigm. We need a much bigger cosmology than the one we've been handed if we're gonna make sense of where we are and who we are, because we have no idea where we came from, what we're doing here. So how can we possibly know where we're going and how can we exercise discernment when we don't know what we're dealing with? So what I want to do this season is to gently and kindly open us up to the possibility that nothing is as it seems, and that's okay. And that's okay. That there is a much grander cosmology that we can embrace, and that's okay. No need to panic. No matter how complicated things appear, the truth is always simple. We just need a bigger picture to expand beyond the boundaries of our comfortable references so we can get to know more about who we truly are. And what if all of this is absolutely amazing which it is? What if it opens up vistas that blow your mind so completely that you're inspired to throw off any remaining shackles and sing your song with absolute joy?
Claire Lautier:The pyramids were not built by slaves. They were built by extremely advanced civilizations. They could do things back then that we have not equaled in our day, at least not the technologies that we, the people, know about. I'm not saying those technologies don't exist currently on the earth. I'm sure that they do, but we don't have access to them. The pyramids were built by slaves. That's a narrative that's disempowering to us. It's the hard work narrative. It's the slave narrative. They want you to think that that's the way history is. Because if we were to all admit that no, it's very obvious that the pyramids were built by an advanced civilization then that changes everything about our history, changes everything about who we are. It changes everything about our cosmology. Then we would have to reconsider everything else that we've been told. Reconsider everything else that we've been told. That's why they teach us that the pyramids were built by slaves, even though any child looking at it can see that that's plainly ridiculous. It's. The emperor has no clothes, right, the child is the only one who sees it.
Claire Lautier:We make sure to stamp out that kind of thinking early on. I'll be the first to admit that everything I had taken for granted as a basis for understanding the universe is up for question. I will tell you that basic building blocks that I had taken for granted as true all right that I had built my life on, have come under examination recently. We call these unexamined assumptions. But when you divest yourself of unexamined assumptions it's extremely liberating and I asked myself how did I come to, how did I believe that that was? Why did I just assume that that was, that that was true, right? Well, because it gets repeated over and over, and over and over, right? So eventually you're going to buy the narrative that the pyramids were built by slaves pulling 10 ton blocks with ropes. Even though it might initially strike you as ludicrous ton blocks with ropes.
Claire Lautier:Even though it might initially strike you as ludicrous, hearing the same thing over and over makes us believe it's true. Essentially, that's what they call the illusion of truth effect. The illusion of truth effect. There's an oxymoron, it's a form of hypnosis. We get entrained in this sort of hypnotic rhythm. Kids especially soak up these repeated stories from teachers and media like sponges. When textbooks and society keep repeating things, they get stuck in our minds and they shape what we think is real. That's how myths and misconceptions hang around for generations without ever getting questioned. So it doesn't mean that whatever gets repeated is true. It just gets repeated and eventually sort of beaten into submission by it and you just go. Okay, all right, you know I'll eat that.
Claire Lautier:But when your awareness undergoes a major expansion, when you're 40,000 feet up in the air looking down, you can see much further than before. You can see how things relate to each other, how they're interconnected. Some people think that we humans only showed up on the radar 6,000 years ago. We have forgotten, utterly forgotten, at least at least 300,000 years of human history that came before. We are not the first humanity to occupy this earth. And what if there are other beings that have been here also far, far longer than we have?
Claire Lautier:I invite you to notice inside yourself when you feel uneasy or uncomfortable with some idea or piece of information, to just check in with the feeling in your body. Am I uncomfortable because this information is challenging my worldview and my feeling of stability. It doesn't mean that you have to believe anything. In fact, don't Don't believe anything. Question everything. Be a real skeptic. A real skeptic is someone who does research and questions things and just you know, rather than holding the line of the status quo. Check in with your inner knowing, your innermost knowing, in your heart. It's about how something is resonating with you energetically. Then you can back it up with research, but ultimately it's a feeling. Does this feel right or no? How is something resonating with me energetically? Not whether my mind likes it or doesn't like it as a concept. There's a big difference.
Claire Lautier:Being curious and aware of where we feel defensive about something can reveal the outlines of a belief system, and a belief system is a structure that most people will not want to question. Most people will avoid areas of questioning that conflict with their belief systems because that would threaten their sense of identity. So if my belief system requires me to put my faith into some deity and then someone says that deity doesn't exist, I'm going to be offended because that belief system is part of my identity. And if you're committed to the pursuit of truth at any cost, you're going to have to be willing to part with any belief system that would cause you not to go down a certain road in pursuit of the truth Because you're afraid that what you find out might shake the foundations of your world and your sense of self. All right, and that's why we have to heal ourselves. We have to heal ourselves, we have to integrate ourselves first.
Claire Lautier:We can't go out if we haven't gone in and we can't accept the truth about who we are and how we fit into the bigger picture if there are certain roads that we're just not willing to go down in pursuit of that truth because we're afraid that it's going to mess with our sense of identity. And even though we might feel temporarily disoriented when a belief system is shaken up, we actually free ourselves from a way that we would limit ourselves. When our familiar references disappear, we have the unsettling feeling of floating in space, feeling untethered and unsure of our direction. But if we don't immediately scramble for something to hold on to, we find ourselves being drawn closer to our center, closer to the heart of truth. We're on a journey to become whole again. We're on a journey to become free again. We are sovereign spiritual beings on a grand adventure to remember our sovereignty.
Claire Lautier:And this is the biggest game in the universe. This is where it's at, and it's fraught with challenges, deceptions and pitfalls. Some people want to stay in the arena and some want to be free of the game. Things are getting pretty wild out there, and this is what we came for. We're going to have to bring our A game to navigate this thing if we want to be free, but I'm up for the challenge. How about you? We will unpack all of this as we go along this season. I'll see you next week. In the meantime, just breathe ground and go within and, of course, walk in grace. Thank you for joining me in the grace space, where you're always in the right place, where you're always in the right place. If you love this podcast, I invite you to subscribe to it and submit a review if you feel called to do so. Also, be sure to sign up for my newsletter using the link in the show notes. I look forward to spending this time with you again next week. Meanwhile, walk in grace.