I'm not too sure about our species being at risk at all. If any other life form had the power to move our bodies in an out of our bedrooms at will, without notice, and who also could breed, experiment and hybrdize us as they please then why not already take us over and do these things with much more frequency and lack of care of notice? After all, no one else outside of AP claims have actually ever touched a 'grey' let alone combat them.
I'm curious about what you think is behind this phenomenon, Jeff? Is it all like Oliver Sacks says, that these things are all hallucinations, confabulations and hoaxes along with the rest of the UFO and paranormal phenomenon?
We are more likely to see UFO's when our forebears would see angels
Burnt State,
Honestly, I think the phenomena represents much more than any form of mental illness, intentional premeditated deception, or non intentional hypnosis induced confabulation can account for. I will state that there ARE assuredly high profile charlatans within the grouping of reporters that claim 1st or 2nd party legitimate abduction experience. They are easy to spot however and are IMO most often those that have had a repeat high level of success in professional publishing as well as touring the lecture circuit. Millions of people LOVE to read about this stuff and pay good money to do so. Look at David Icke for example. The man SELLS OUT one tour after another. He's incredibly wealthy as a result. There are also, especially with the rise of the Internet, a myriad of low life delusional attention seekers polluting the informational construct, and mixed in with that grouping exists the hard core mentally ill.
ANYONE, I don't care who they are, or what they represent, that states unequivocally that the whole of what we catalog as paranormal phenomena is utter fiction based solely on cerebral hallucinations, is unquestionably an utter moron. I would certainly hope that's not what MR. Sacks is stating, and therefore IMO qualifying himself as being. As a brilliant man, I honestly think if we were to talk and reason with him directly, he might have a slightly differing amount of reserve for what we perceive as the overall nature of his claims. We all know that at least a very good portion of what is reported as paranormal are in fact hallucinations. However, those who do or those who might make such a shot gun or blanket dismissal of the phenomena, fail to recognize and accept one the most fundamental and rudimentary aspects of scientific progress imaginable. Namely, that up until we know the answers, we simply don't know the answers. EVERYTHING we know is based upon observation in one sense or another. Therefore we can deduce via the mathematically derived average laws of probability that something REAL is occurring whether illusory or precisely as perceived and reported. Whether those observations are illusory in appearance or not, until we can explain the observations clearly, demonstrably, and therefore knowingly, one cannot logically dismiss a multiplicity of similar observations as mere fiction without a SOLID WORKING refutation. In other words you must be able to repeat and demonstrate your proposed refutation. Any halfwit can debunk something with an endless stream of possibilities to counter more possibilities, but what really is that apart from a hypothetically rhetorical cop out? A plea to side step ignorance is exactly what it really is. If science itself were to have progressed in such a fashion dismissing everything that simply seems incredulous on the surface as being an utter fiction, we would still be in the business of stealing fire from one another. The notion is merely an empirical fur cape of blatant unknowing. One that hopes at best to make a soothing impression upon the insecure and feeble minded tribe of scientific cave dwelling brethren in an effort to direct attention away from the fact that it's merely a stone age insulator from the brutal cold of the establishment's vulnerable ignorance. A Wizard of Oz of sorts that never really imparts anything to the tin men that wasn't already theirs to begin with. Still the true believing skeptics follow the old man behind the curtain like the little loyal birds that they are, chasing bread crumbs on a windy winter's day as frightfully cold those little birds may be.
Focusing solely on the Grey Alien's Abduction Phenomenon:
So, do I think that at the core of AP there exists some form of an external agent. Yes, it's quite
possible that the phenomenon exists in tandem with the experiencer's mind, and is not solely dependent on it. Do I think that this agent is
possibly non human? Yes. (but lets not rule out that the non human element in play here might be technologically based and of human origin, ok?) Do I think that a human covert operation might exist to abduct people/victim's psychically? Yes I do. Unlike Stanton Friedman, whom I utterly lauded up until I heard him state in a somewhat recent public interview, that it was his opinion that we were at best 1-2 years ahead of public awareness concerning scientific research and development of technologically progressive means, it is my opinion that we have had technology to do so for many years now. At least 50, maybe more. Do I think that it's a good and effective intelligence procedure to fund, or allow for, the public shill research organizations to declare little real or practical progress in such an undertaking? You're damn right I do.
Bottom line: Do I believe that a non human intelligence is, according to a non human volition, acting out a physical abduction of human beings, that is based on a genetics program that will allow them to create a hybrid race for one reason or another? No I do not. But just as soon as I see one shred of real substantiation for as much, I will solemnly reconsider.
The Hypothetical:
It is my opinion that we have technologies that are beyond almost anything we could typically imagine as being practical and integral to the most elite of society at large. Technologies so bizarre and potentially dangerous that if the wrong organizations or individuals ever became aware of as much there would be little we could do to stop the self serving interest in application of as much. Is ANYONE really stupid enough to think or believe that Tesla was the only genius to be born with the natural prodigious level of scientific insight that he possessed and developed from? Levels of insight beyond ALL contemporary and reasonable application. What about living,breathing Tesla's right now, let alone over the last 70 years? IMO, half of the UFO stuff we learn of as being reported by witnesses are based on elite black funded private sector working technological understandings that we have had for well over 50 years now. I'd be willing to bet dollars to donuts that the plasma based TR aerial vehicles are one such example. I have always said it and I'll say it again and again. Never underestimate the power of a human being in any way.
