Have you ever had unexplainable missing or lost time of one hour or more? Have you ever awoken in the middle of the night startled? Have you ever seen a hooded figure in or near your home, especially next to your bed? If you were to answer these questions affirmatively, your chances of becoming a valuable member of the ring of alien abductees are not too bad. However, before jumping to premature conclusions about visitors from outer space, it might be worth asking your drinking buddies what happened the previous night out on the town.
Many millions, it seems, have had encounteres with alien beings. Searching the web for related issues is extremely rewarding. Type in, say, alien abduction, and the search machine Google, for instance, will come up with 13'700 results (that was in 2’000). Here one can learn that most abductees share common indicators of UFO encounters or abductions by alien beings. There are, one site says, 58 such indicators and these include having had sexual or relationship problems (such as an odd „feeling“ that you must not become involved in a relationship because it would interfere with „something“) or having a difficult time trusting people, especially authority figures. Hard to imagine somebody not having had such experiences, one would think. This is however not as UFO-devotees would have it.
There is, for example, the story of the woman who woke up in the middle of the night in mid air falling onto a couch on the other side of her bedroom. Sleepwalking, according to alien abductees, simply cannot explain such a phenomenon. What woman would stand on top of her bed and run to the edge, jump high in the air to land on the couch on the other side of the bedroom? Well, sleepwalking might not sound too bad if the only other explanation is to have been abducted.
Then there are the tales of the ones being passed through windows, walls and ceilings, and then floated up to an awaiting craft where a tall guy, usually perceived to be a doctor, takes over from the „away team“, which consists of very short, whitish, greyish, or bluish beings. Maybe it is true and men are really from Mars and women from Venus, or maybe it is the other way round. It is somewhat unfortunate that abductees frequently seem to have little or no recollection of their experience.
There seem to be virtually no limits to what can be found on the internet in this regard: there is, for example, the man who cannot reveal his identity but claims to have worked at the highest level for Nasa and who now tells us that there is proof of physical contact between humans and extraterrestrials. He also lets us know that the US government is actively communicating with species from other planets (that was before G.W. Bush’s special line to the Almighty), and that new technologies are the direct result of these interactions (Bill Gates would be a good source on that). And there is another man who, in reesponse to these claims, puts forward that such websites are nothing but pathetic excuses for nerdy adolescent males, and suggests youngsters should put their talents and time into something that could benefit us all … like working at the local McDonalds.
Seriously, are there really aliens out there? If there aren’t, then why are so many people imagining that they are having first hand encounters with them? Thirty-one percent of Australians believe aliens have recently (again, that was in 2'000) visited the earth (one cannot but wonder if some decided to stay on and become Austr-aliens). Moreover, there are four, some say five, million people world wide who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
John Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist claims that tales of UFO abductions are real. Under his hypnotic guidance a young man remembered being abducted repeatedly by aliens, and he also recalled past lives. People who come into contact with extraterrestrials, so Mack in his book „Abduction“, show striking similarities within their memories: they are usually taken to a spaceship and have a probe inserted in their anus.
When the writer Donna Bassett heard of Mack’s studies, she decided to test him. She had never seen a UFO herself, but made up a story of otherworldly experiences. After reading extensively on UFO abductions, she participated in three hypnotic-regression sessions. It was clear, she said afterwards, what Mack wanted to hear, and so she told him. When, later on, Dr. Mack was confronted with Bassett’s fake account of her abduction experience, he hinted that he had doubts about her credibility.
Mack, meanwhile ostracised by his colleagues, argues that „we have lost the faculties to know other realities that other cultures still can know, that the world no longer has spirit, has soul, is sacred. We’ve lost that ability to know a world beyond the physical … I’m a bridge between those two worlds.“
Carl Sagan, the great populariser of science, who knew Mack personally, had shortly before his death dismissed what he called „confabulated stories by a sympathetic counselor“ as hallucinations. He also warned that the proliferation of New Age ideas, and the subsequent rejection of conventional science, would eventually bring us back to the Dark Ages. Until then, let’s surf the web, it sure is fun.
PS: I enjoyed most the sites that were easily indentifiable as not being concerned with credibility – they were simply intended to be fun like this testing question for alien abduction: „You have this vague memory of a kinky dream in which you were the kinkee, but can’t remember who the kinkor was.“
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