Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

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Do you remember finding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them?

 

 

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A trick question asked if “Trondant” held any secret meaning for them. Anyone who answered yes to the nonsense word was eliminated as unreliable.

 

The results of the Roper survey took them entirely by surprise.

 

Roper's representative American sample showed that one out of every 50 people met the profile of an abductee.

 

The report was published and distributed to every member of The American Psychiatric Association. Thereafter it made its way to clinical psychologists and other therapists dealing with post-traumatic disorders.

 

 

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The abduction

 

 

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"Tales of abduction are intrinsically absorbing; it is hard to imagine a more vivid description of human powerlessness."

Terry Matheson

 

 

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UFO researcher Thomas E. Bullard argues most abduction accounts feature the following events, though not all abductions feature all the events:

 

Capture.

The abductee is somehow rendered incapable of resisting, and taken from terrestrial surroundings to an apparent alien spacecraft.

 

 

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Examination and Procedures.

Invasive physiological and psychological procedures, and on occasion simulated behavioral situations, training & testing, or sexual liaisons.

 

 

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Conference.

The abductors communicate with the abductee or direct them to interact with specific individuals for some purpose, typically telepathically but sometimes using the abductee's native language.

 

 

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Tour.

The abductees are given a tour of their captors' vessel, though this is disputed by some researchers who consider this definition a confabulation of intent when just apparently being taken around to multiple places inside the ship.

 

 

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Loss of Time.

Abductees often rapidly forget the majority of their experience, either as a result of fear, medical intervention, or both.

 

 

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Return.

The abductees are returned to earth, occasionally in a different location from where they were allegedly taken or with new injuries or disheveled clothing.

 

 

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Theophany.

Coinciding with their immediate return, abductees may have a profound sense of love, a "high" similar to those induced by certain drugs, or a "mystical experience", accompanied by a feeling of oneness with God, the universe, or their abductors. Whether this is the result of a metaphysical change, Stockholm syndrome, or prior medical tampering is often not scrutinized by the abductees at the time.

 

 

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Aftermath.

The abductee must cope with the psychological, physical, and social effects of the experience.

 

 

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"The entire abduction event is precisely orchestrated. All the procedures are predetermined. There is no standing around and deciding what to do next. The beings are task-oriented and there is no indication whatsoever that we have been able to find of any aspect of their lives outside of performing the abduction procedures."

David M. Jacobs

 

 

 

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Psychological explanations of the abduction phenomenon have included hallucination, temporary schizophrenia, epileptic seizures and parasomnia—near-sleep mental states (hypnogogic states, night terrors and sleep paralysis).

 

 

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Sleep paralysis in particular is often accompanied by hallucinations and peculiar sensation of malevolent or neutral presence of "something," though usually people experiencing it do not interpret that "something" as aliens.

 

 

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In The Demon-Haunted World astronomer Carl Sagan points out that the alien abduction experience is remarkably similar to tales of demon abduction common throughout history.

 

 

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"There is no spaceship in these stories. But most of the central elements of the alien abduction account are present, including sexually obsessive non-humans who live in the sky, walk through walls, communicate telepathically, and perform breeding experiments on the human species. Unless we believe that demons really exist, how can we understand so strange a belief system, embraced by the whole Western world (including those considered the wisest among us), reinforced by personal experience in every generation, and taught by Church and State? Is there any real alternative besides a shared delusion based on common brain wiring and chemistry?"

 

 

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The 50's were full of fear... probably the most interesting decade yet... as fear manifests our nightmares

 

The Dark Side of the Moon

 

 

 

 

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In 1959 the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.

 

 

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Its planning included calculations by astronomer Carl Sagan, then a young graduate student, of the behavior of dust and gas generated by the blast.