It's a natural thing that happens during the transformation. Eventually, this Reform School crowd will not on be on the earth at all. But right now, there's arm wrestling because they're trying to see what they can harvest.
Harvest is a word they use.
Many of our brethren are involved. Most are not visible to people, nor do they encounter people because their physical form would be upsetting. A certain small percentage are here in what human's term light form, although they very seldom display themselves to humans as light, more conversation where the human senses they are having a conversation, there is another entity nearby. Your DNA is rift with places where genes if allowed to express would horrify and surprise you. In no way this is a key to be turned in human time when it is time to make the quantum leap as you describe it.