Sorry, but something just crossed my mind after talking with a friend who is also into paranormal subjects. To be clear, I don't buy into this, but I am going to throw it out for group discussion:
What if Ms. Woods is not acting alone? More specifically, what if she is the front for some type of intelligence operation to discredit Dr. Jacobs and de facto the whole field of abduction research? What if there is more to abductions than most of us are willing to admit, and Dr. Jacobs is getting too close for comfort?
In favor of this theory are the following facts:
- no one knows Ms. Woods' real name, except perhaps Dr. Jacobs and maybe the Paratopia crew; this is even questionable
- she seems to be launching a widespread, long term and well thought through effort to discredit Dr. Jacobs
- if this controversy has been ongoing for a number of years, she seems to have made no apparent effort to seek remedy in a court of law or proper administrative body
- she evidently repeatedly resisted a visit to the U.S. for direct consultation with Dr. Jacobs, even before the controversy exploded
- she apparently lacks any means of financial support, beyond perhaps public welfare support
Against this theory is the following:
- evidently Ms. Woods came to Dr. Jacobs by referral from her (non-U.S. based) psychotherapist; if true, the intelligence agency had to 'turn her' after she started a dialogue with Dr. Jacobs
- she apparently has many legitimate signs of being a genuine abductee, although she could be fed these from the appropriate sources
- Ms. Woods may be more of a risk than the whole alleged scheme is worth; weigh the risk of disclosure of an intelligence scheme against benefits of undercutting Dr. Jacobs
- Dr. Jacobs, Budd Hopkins, et. al. really are on the margin of UFOlogy, are towards the ends of their careers, and this would have been done earlier if it was going to be done at all
- all the factors in favor of this theory above can be explained by other things, including the apparent intensity with which she is pursuing her campaign
I raise this in part because of a video I once saw which attempted to link the 'complex' crop circle phenomenon with an MI-5 sponsored group of individuals. In that instance, I asked the same question: why would fake complex crop circles be worth the trouble on the part of MI-5? The video, which I will try to locate, did a fairly good job of linking the crop circle group to MI-5 (apartments and studios paid for, historical personal linkages, etc.).
I also raise this because a number of level-headed people who listen to the Paracast have broached it with me, but it hasn't appeared on this Forum yet. Again, I personally don't think it is worth any intelligence agency's time and effort, but you at least have to ask yourself the question.
I respect your right to raise any issue in connection with this situation. However, I think that I should say something in response to this. I am not connected with any intelligence agencies whatsoever. Obviously, if I was, I would not admit it. However, to put it on record, it is simply not the case.
I do not know where you got the idea that I “repeatedly resisted a visit to the U.S. for direct consultation with Dr. Jacobs.” At no time did Dr. Jacobs ever ask me to visit the U.S., or to consult with him personally. I have serious physical health problems, and it would have been difficult for me to travel. Dr. Jacobs was well aware of that, and he never had any expectation that I would travel to visit him in person.
I provided Dr. Jacobs with copies of my passport and birth certificate, as well as other information about myself that he could check at any time. He had an open invitation from me to visit me in my country, and I told him that I would introduce him to family and friends, as well as to my former therapist, although he never took me up on my offer.
I will take this opportunity to clarify some other statements that have been made.
I did not ask Dr. Jacobs to conduct hypnosis with me. As I live in a different country to him it was not something that I ever considered. My association with him in the two and half years before he began conducting hypnosis with me was based on communication about my own research that I was conducting on my case, which he was assisting me with. In late 2004 he offered to conduct hypnosis with me by phone. During the period that he conducted hypnosis with me, he usually suggested the sessions to me.
I did not call Dr. Jacobs repeatedly during the entire time that I was his research subject. I called him only occasionally between hypnosis sessions. I called him often for a period of ten weeks at the end of the time that I was his research subject, when his psychological abuse of me had reduced me to an emotional wreck. I did this after he had told me that I could call him, although I realized that I was in a bad situation by then, and was not coping with it.
I did not record all the telephone calls between Dr. Jacobs and myself. I recorded our telephone calls in early-mid 2007, after it became apparent that we were going to have a serious disagreement about Elizabeth’s case. I told him that I would be taping the calls, and he agreed to this. He taped at least two of them himself. The tapes of the calls have not been heavily edited at all. They are the calls that I had with him.
When I first ended my work with Dr. Jacobs, I did nothing about it. He wanted to continue to conduct hypnosis with me (which is on Audio Clip 2 on my website) and he asked me to keep him up to date with my case. However, I simply wanted to get away from him and recover.
At the time that I decided to publish my own research on my website, I tried to come to an amicable agreement with him about how to talk about the events in public in a way we were both happy with. I persevered in trying to come to an agreement with him even after he threatened and bullied me. I published a diplomatic statement about the events on my website, and in response, Elizabeth published a character assassination of me on her blog site, which Dr. Jacobs supported. I also realized that he was defaming me extensively behind the scenes. At that point, I realized that I had to defend myself.
I subsequently was contacted through my website by the research subject who Dr. Jacobs took on after me, who had a similar experience to me. I realized that Dr. Jacobs had just gone on and hurt someone else after me.
Since that time, I have made complaints to Temple University, and to the Office for Human Research Protections. They were the appropriate channels to follow. I am still in that process.
I have made what occurred public because Dr. Jacobs is continuing to work with human research subjects, and if I do not speak out, he will continue to engage in extremely abusive practices unhindered. There are also wider issues involved with the research of “abduction” experiences using human research subjects that are in need of addressing.
I agreed to become Dr. Jacobs’ research subject because he presented himself to me as a professional academic researcher, and he led me to believe that I would be a research subject of Temple University, participating in scholarly research. I allowed myself to be hypnotized by him because of that. I had a right to expect that my protections as a research subject would be observed.
Instead, Dr. Jacobs engaged in psychologically abusive actions towards me while I was in a vulnerable state. This included him putting hypnotic suggestions in my mind that I had Multiple Personality Disorder, because he believed that he was under threat from "hybrids" who were communicating with him on instant messenger. He did not tell me beforehand that he was going to do it, and I did not give him permission to do it. No researcher has the right to do that to any research subject.
Dr. Jacobs has never addressed what he actually did to me. Instead, he has published a statement on his website that is a litany of lies in a concerted effort to falsely destroy my personal reputation, in an attempt to prevent people from listening to what I say about his misconduct towards me. He is now changing his statement radically as I rebut it. The changes that he has made are substantial changes of fact, but he has provided no explanation for why he has published completely different versions of the events that are mutually exclusive.
Dr. Jacobs' attempt at an "explanation" for why he put the hypnotic suggestions in my mind is dishonest. He tries to say that he put the suggestions in my mind in late 2006, after I had been practically broken down by his abuse. In fact, he put the suggestions in my mind months earlier, when he had begun having instant messaging conversations with "hybrids" from Elizabeth 's computer, and he did it because the "hybrids" had been aggressive to him. The fact that he has omitted all references to the "hybrid" IM in his statement, and has given such a dishonest "explanation" for his abusive behavior is further evidence of how unethical he is.
I was a research subject who was on the receiving end of Dr. Jacobs' abuse, and I am now trying to get something done about it. I believe in standing up for what is right, and I have a loving and supportive family and friends (including the research subject of Dr. Jacobs who contacted me), and a therapist, who have helped me to stand up to him. I am doing this both for my sake personally, and for the sake of other research subjects who, for one reason or another, cannot speak out.
Kim Carslberg, The Clueless One and Jeff Ritzmann recognized the important ethical issues involved, and had the courage and integrity to make it widely known in the UFO research field.
