Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, and Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat. Here he describes encounters with alien gray beings as described by several different sources, particularly Whitley Strieber. He expresses his opinion that they represent a possible future evolution of humanity. He claims that they are associated with the trickster archetype and are not what they appear to be. He also notes that the "grays" are associated with tall, insectoid beings. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration.