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