Racer X
Paranormal Novice
I recently came across the work of Ann Druffel through her interview (http://binnallofamerica.com/BoAclassic/boaa2.15.9.html ) back in 2009 on Binnall of America. I don’t know how I missed out on this woman’s work during my readings over the last 20+ years. She has a rather extensive pedigree going back to the days of NICAP and was a pioneer in abduction research in the early 1970s.
And then to my amazement I learn that she has written a book entitled How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction (which can be previewed at http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBrY30CijrkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ). It is actually much to my relief that I learned that this book exists.
I was previously a sufferer of the abduction experience. But I was “cured” many years ago through successfully resisting the perceived perpetrators. Before discussing further I should make it clear that I am not a proponent of the ETH. Further, I believe that the abduction experience is not a real experience in the usual sense of the word. I would maintain that the details of the experience are mostly illusory. That said, I also am convinced that there is a real or objective cause behind the illusory facade. That is, big-headed grey-skinned aliens probably do not exist in any meaningful sense of the word. But something which causes us to perceive them does.
Over the years I have often felt guilty about not doing something to spread the word that a person can escape this experience. However, the few times I reached out to anyone online I was just ignored. Moreover, big name folks like Bud Hopkins and David Jacobs maintain that one cannot successfully resist or escape the abductors and that those making that claim have been tricked by the phenomenon itself into believing they can resist. “You haven’t escaped. You only think you have escaped,” was the essence of their argument. How can one argue with that? How can I prove that I have escaped something whose very existence I cannot even prove?
So at this point I at least can somewhat promote Ann Druffel’s work. I have not had access to the entire book yet, having just learned about it yesterday, but what I have seen through the Google preview is entirely consistent with my own experience.
Unfortunately, I cannot agree with some of Ms. Druffel’s wider conclusions which she discusses in her interview with Tim Binnall. Through her investigation of the abduction experience she has concluded that the experience is not “real” in the usual sense and is probably a manifestation of a phenomenon experienced in other cultures as fairies and djinn. With this I agree. At the same time through her work on the general UFO problem, going back to her NICAP days, she knows that UFOs are physical events: things which leave physical traces, are picked up by radar, which can be photographed. With this I also agree. However, Ms. Druffel cannot reconcile these aspects and so concludes that they are two separate phenomena. That is, we are both pestered by djinn and (possibly) being visited by extraterrestrials. This, I am afraid, is too much for me. Mostly because it is not simply the case that we have abductions on one hand and sightings on the other. Both are part of a continuum of experiences which blend too much into each other to be able to meaningfully draw a line separating them. I think that when we find the true answers they will be much stranger.
And then to my amazement I learn that she has written a book entitled How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction (which can be previewed at http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBrY30CijrkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ). It is actually much to my relief that I learned that this book exists.
I was previously a sufferer of the abduction experience. But I was “cured” many years ago through successfully resisting the perceived perpetrators. Before discussing further I should make it clear that I am not a proponent of the ETH. Further, I believe that the abduction experience is not a real experience in the usual sense of the word. I would maintain that the details of the experience are mostly illusory. That said, I also am convinced that there is a real or objective cause behind the illusory facade. That is, big-headed grey-skinned aliens probably do not exist in any meaningful sense of the word. But something which causes us to perceive them does.
Over the years I have often felt guilty about not doing something to spread the word that a person can escape this experience. However, the few times I reached out to anyone online I was just ignored. Moreover, big name folks like Bud Hopkins and David Jacobs maintain that one cannot successfully resist or escape the abductors and that those making that claim have been tricked by the phenomenon itself into believing they can resist. “You haven’t escaped. You only think you have escaped,” was the essence of their argument. How can one argue with that? How can I prove that I have escaped something whose very existence I cannot even prove?
So at this point I at least can somewhat promote Ann Druffel’s work. I have not had access to the entire book yet, having just learned about it yesterday, but what I have seen through the Google preview is entirely consistent with my own experience.
Unfortunately, I cannot agree with some of Ms. Druffel’s wider conclusions which she discusses in her interview with Tim Binnall. Through her investigation of the abduction experience she has concluded that the experience is not “real” in the usual sense and is probably a manifestation of a phenomenon experienced in other cultures as fairies and djinn. With this I agree. At the same time through her work on the general UFO problem, going back to her NICAP days, she knows that UFOs are physical events: things which leave physical traces, are picked up by radar, which can be photographed. With this I also agree. However, Ms. Druffel cannot reconcile these aspects and so concludes that they are two separate phenomena. That is, we are both pestered by djinn and (possibly) being visited by extraterrestrials. This, I am afraid, is too much for me. Mostly because it is not simply the case that we have abductions on one hand and sightings on the other. Both are part of a continuum of experiences which blend too much into each other to be able to meaningfully draw a line separating them. I think that when we find the true answers they will be much stranger.