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- TITLE: UFO ABDUCTIONS: BEYOND MATTER?
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- AUTHOR: Don Sudduth
- c/o META-4, Inc.
- 1401 W. 76th St, Suite 100
- Minneapolis, MN 55423
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- DATE: November 26, 1989
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- There is a certain sense of stability in the physical world that
- most of us take for granted. However, in the current realm of UFO
- abduction literature, the term "physical world" may need some
- redefinition. UFO abductees have found their world stretched and
- distorted in a way that defies modern science. Testimony from
- abductees now includes levitation, paralysis, telepathy, and
- startling visions. To ignore these reports is to ignore the vast
- amount of evidence that seems to be mounting. To accept these
- reports blindly, however, is to accept data whose source is
- testimony from hypnosis, vague memories, and spontaneous recall.
- Are abductees really levitating out of their beds at night, floating
- up to a hovering UFO, and being subjected to physical examinations?
- Perhaps this question can be answered by looking closer at
- abductee's testimony.
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- Recently, Budd Hopkin's and Whitley Strieber's works have strongly
- promoted the notion of physical abductions as a norm for UFO contact
- with humans. However, from a recently published article in UFO
- Magazine (Vol 4, Num 4), Ann Druffel has offered a new perspective
- on the abduction phenomena. This perspective alters the focus of an
- abduction from something physical to something within the mind. Ann
- Druffel, in her book "The Tujunga Canyon Contacts" tells of hypnotic
- regression of a particular abductee named Emily who "learned that if
- she could manage to move even one toe or finger, the paralysis broke
- and the creatures vanished." The article goes on to report that
- Emily could use mental effort to wake her roommate and also break
- the abduction paralysis. In another case Ms. Druffel notes that the
- abductee was able to break out of the "contact" by making a sound or
- mantra within herself.
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- Breaking out of the alleged abduction by shear force of will is just
- one clue of its non-physical nature. Are there others? Looking at
- the varied testimony of abductees, one gets the sense of the lack of
- coincidence from report to report. One person stated that she was
- transported through her apartment wall. While others feel the
- abductors take them "by hand" into waiting UFO's. Whitley Strieber,
- in his book "Transformation", writes about his attempts at astral
- travel and the similarity of that experience to his abductions. He
- also notes the strangeness factor of abduction reports from his
- article in UFO Magazine (Vol 4, Num 2). Strieber writes, "Of the
- 690 narratives sent to me by Communion and Transformation readers,
- only a few appear to support these present theories of abduction.
- The vast majority instead describe perceptions and experiences far
- stranger than any reported by mainstream abduction researchers."
- Another UFO researcher, Richard Grossinger, writes of the inability
- of contactees to distinguish between the concrete or real and the
- psychic or hallucinatory. He suggests that we may be dealing with
- both levels of reality thereby creating the current paradox of
- conflicting abduction testimonies.
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- Before the "Communion" and "Intruders" phenomenon, astrophysicist
- and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee cautioned the conception of UFO's
- as being something truly physical. Vallee's position is that
- individual and social psychological manipulation of UFO contactees
- may not be extraterrestrial at all but encounters with another
- reality. He suggests that the intelligence community worldwide is
- probably "in the dark" about most aspects of the UFO phenomena. On
- the MJ-12 document he writes, "Given the names on the list of MJ-12
- scientists, however, it seems to me their work could have had an
- entirely different orientation, having to do with psychological
- warfare. I scratched the surface of that issue in "Messengers of
- Deception", and I got burned because the UFO research community was
- not ready to even consider that side of the problem". Now that the
- verdict is out on the MJ-12 documents with Bill Moore's revelation
- of planted information, Dr. Vallee's comments seem much more potent.
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- In his book "Dimensions", Dr. Vallee strongly emphasizes the
- psychological nature of UFO encounters. His research has shown that
- historically, UFO encounters have been perceived to be the common
- myths of the time period such as the miracle at Fatima, Portugal in
- 1917. "The events at Fatima involve luminous spheres, lights with
- strange colors, a feeling of 'heat waves'--all physical
- characteristics commonly associated with UFOs...They also encompass
- prophecy and a loss of ordinary consciousness on the part of
- witnesses--what we have called the psychic component of UFO
- sightings" (p 174). Dr. Vallee even implies that much of human
- history may have been shaped by the psychological effects of UFO
- encounters and that the shape may have a purpose.
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- Extraterrestrial or not, it seems that abductions by UFOs are much
- more psychological in nature than physical. Yet the common belief
- is in physical contact! Is this what we are meant to believe?
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