Alien Abduction - Could Everybody Be Involved?

[swatcher]

I believe that the abduction phenomenon is real. I would even go further and say that possibly everybody will get "tagged" at least once. The sheer number of "subjects" is IMHO not a factor. We need to decouple from our human standard of practicability.

Do a little experiment and ask your best friend if there was one really strange, unexplainable event, dream or missing time they can't explain. I was surprised how many people say: "I'm not sure, but there was something I always found odd". For some reason the screen memory doesn't always work 100%. A small minority can remember part of the event. (While the majority thinks that those stories are fairy-tales.)

To me the funny part is that some of the abduction stories told under hypnosis are bunk. They're part deliberate misinformation and part incompetence (amateur hypnotists). But here is the kicker. I think that even those "unreliable abductees" had real events. (X-Files: "The truth is best hidden between two fat lies"!)

Why do I say this? I've had my own experiences. I initially thought it was sleep paralysis, but I was able to disprove that theory. (Maybe a subject for another thread.) I'm a 100% unremarkable guy. So why me and not just everybody?

Any thoughts ;-)

 

[The Hawk]

After looking at the statistics gathered from researchers for decades; abductees appear to be chosen at random it makes no difference if your "unremarkable". There's a slightly higher number of middle-upper class people who go to researchers like David Jacobs but seems to me the number is meaningless because poor people aren't going to be spending money to fly across country for anything but a rare planned vacation. Mainly judging from my personal experience I think the number of people who have experienced something highly anomalous is high but not extremely high. I haven't and the majority of my friends are pretty open and they haven't.

..Some people I've met have had some very weird experiences..
One friend described experiences to me that sounded so far out the doubt and disbelief messed with my head so greatly I just couldn't stay friends with her.
Stuff that would make Jeff Ritzman's (shared with Paracast) experiences look like a walk in the park.
..Dragons, faeries, tigers, magic..

 

[swatcher]

The Hawk,

Thank you very much for your post.

Why couldn't you stay friends? Did her stories offend you or question your sense of reality too much?

 

[mike]

if santa can manage to visit every little boy and girl, i dont see why a team of greys couldnt do it too..............

perhaps santa's a screen memory

 

[TClaeys]

You'll have to pardon my view on this, but I don't believe in abductions. I think there is a phenomenon, but that phenomenon is not aliens abducting humans. I'm not taking the stance that these people are crazy and deserve to be locked up, but rather a recognition of something that is unexplained and just plain weird, not to mention unresolved.

And I'll also profess my ignorance. I've read accounts, books, etc on the subject but not to any extent to say that I have a grasp of the topic. It just seems unreasonable to me that these aliens are spending their time abducting human beings, millions of them apparently. And only within the last, what, 3 or 4 decades? No accounts of this type of behavior before a certain timeframe.

However, despite my opinion, lots of topics deserve discussion. If this is happening why haven't we gained any iota of data? And I tend to discard the implants Dr Leir has pulled out of people. If this happens often, you would think that we might have a clue to go on, but I haven't seen any other than the accounts of people. So could abductions be occurring in someones head and not actually physically?

What do you think might be the purpose (understandably speculation) of these abductions? Because if we really look at our structure and makeup, we aren't that drastically different than, say, a pumpkin, or even closer a chimp. DNA is what makes us, well,.. human. What would be so important about us that aliens would have to creep into all hours of the night, abduct and transport people to spacecraft, do experiments, and return them without any disturbance whatsoever? I guess I have a really hard time thinking some alien is doing this.

I hope you are not offended by my views. It is not my intent. We live in a different world today than yesteryear. All sorts of chemicals are introduced to our bodies daily. Energetic transmissions are emmitted from satellites, TV's, radio towers, machinery, etc. Media in all sorts of forms enters and interferes, perhaps subliminaly(sp?), with our minds. It seems many times we are on overdrive in many aspects of normal life. Could any of these factors contribute to a phenomenon as weird as abductions and high strangeness??

I don't know the answers. It would just seem to me that alien abduction is highly unlikely. It seems to be a psychiatric and perhaps neurological question. I'm set to be a little more informed on this subject. Is there any other information you might steer me towards besides personal testimony??

I've written this post in haste and it may not be thought out as well as I'd like. But just thought I'd ask a few questions and gleen some more information and feedback.

 

[Siani]

I'm not convinced that extraterrestrials are behind the abduction phenomenon either. However, I feel certain that something is behind it other than human misperception or deception. 'Alien' abduction is not a new phenomenon. In many aspects, it mirrors tales found in folklore. I'm not especially familiar with folklore from outside the British Isles, but British folklore, especially Celtic folklore, is full of tales of people being spirited away by little beings. Often the encounters begin with seeing a bright light, then small beings appear. The abductee is led into a circular structure - a fairy ring - and experiences a period of missing time, before being returned to their own world. Whilst in the fairy world, they may receive special instruction, or be given special messages or wisdom.

Although these accounts are viewed as mere fairy tales, the parallels between tales of abductions by fairies, and abductions by aliens, are quite striking. It suggests that 'alien abduction', whatever its true nature, has been with us a long time, and that the phenomenon has the ability to adapt to changes in our societies and cultures. It's beyond my ability to determine whether this highly adaptive phenomenon is something that has been created by individual and/or collective human consciousness, or exists independently. But one thing I am sure of, is that the abduction phenomenon is very real to those genuinely experiencing it, and deeply intrusive and troubling. I want to believe that the phenomenon has its roots in human psychology or neurology - it would make the whole issue a lot less disturbing. However, I feel that something a lot more bizarre and sinister lies at its heart - but probably not aliens from another planet.

 

[Graphimancer]

I think there is a real possibility that what people percieve as alien abductions are what in earlier times would have been mystic or occult initiations. There is a thread of "postulant enters alternate state of consciousnous, postulant meets spirit chiefs or ancient masters, postulant is reborn as a wizard/shaman." Simply rephrase that with "abductee" for "Postulant" and aliens for the rest.

So, the person has a powerful transformative event, but since we are out of touch with our mystic traditions, we percieve them as aliens. Irregardless of the truth of aliens, they have entered our collective consciousnous a long time ago and become part of our western mythology.

The above is part of my understanding, but it's really just a guess on my part. It fits pretty well into my reality, but it may not fit into everyones'.