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