THE ALIEN IN THE BOOK
Posted by anthonynorth on May 4, 2008
You’re driving along and suddenly you’re abducted by aliens. It goes like this. You are ‘captured’ by a bright light. Your car experiences technical problems. Suddenly you find yourself on a table in an alien spacecraft.
Small, blubbery, bug eyes Greys are staring at you. Soon, they begin experimenting on your body. Finally, Zap! – and you’re back in your car, driving. But you have lost time, and you are many miles from your last recollection.
You may not realize what’s happened at first.
You just have strange dreams over the coming weeks. Finally, the whole experience is recounted during hypnosis. But is the alien abduction scenario a real event, or something else? How do we begin to understand the phenomenon?
To some, it IS a real event, to the point that they claim to have been impregnated, and over the following months, further abductions will occur until the point arrives that a human hybrid is removed.
Is this a space age interpretation of the phantom pregnancy?
No doubt many will think not. It is all just too real. But the reality is, such pregnancies are quite common, usually formed from a specific psychological event.
So maybe if we can provide a possibility for the initial abduction, the psychodrama that can follow is explained. And whilst the actual prompter for such an event may be specific to the person or circumstance, elements of the alien abduction may be understandable.
The similarity of the event could well be cultural.
Put simply, the idea of the alien abduction is so ingrained in our psyche today that, should we find ourselves driving on a strange road and we are tired, we can become fantasy-prone and conducive to such cultural input.
This said, the fact that abductees lose time and end up having covered ground is intriguing. Is there a known phenomenon that could account for this? In a much more innocuous way, there is.
You’re reading a book.
Suddenly your mind wanders. Eventually, your attention returns to the words, but wait a minute! You’ve continued to read and have to go back to where your mind wandered – AND, time has passed.
Is this a mind mechanism whereby a person could succumb to cultural input, fantasise an abduction event, and simply continue driving whilst it’s going on? Colin Wilson often writes about the ‘robot’ who often takes over his standard tasks.
I’m doing it myself as I’m sat here typing.
My mind is fantasizing on what I’m going to write. The fingers are operating on remote control. Physiology even offers the possibility of the left and right brain.
The one is the rationalist, the other the fantasist. And it seems they can often function independently. Of course, I’m not automatically saying, here, that the alien abduction is a purely personal, psychological fantasy.
For instance, on what level could aliens exist? If we have, say, a universal consciousness, do we continue to live in the ‘real’ world as contact is made within the mind?
We are a long way from an understanding of the alien abduction. But the reality of the duality and independence of body and mind does, in my view, give us a strong indicator of the road to further understanding.
© Anthony North, May 2008
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May 4, 2008 at 11:36 am
although i find it arrogant that we would discount the fact that aliens exist… i spend somewhere between little and no time deciphering where they fit into my life…. i do however read and think simultaneously,,, so if this is an indication that i have in fact been abducted and reprogrammed by aliens…….
May 4, 2008 at 11:43 am
I can’t top what Paisley said. I think she’s on to something.
May 4, 2008 at 11:53 am
Hi Paisley,
It is an arrogance to think there are no aliens ‘out there’, but that’s a different thing to accepting they’ve ‘been here’. I’ve spent years researching Ufology, and it’s quite fascinating.
Have you been reprogrammed by ‘aliens’ reading a book? Quite possibly yes - if we accept them as a cultural phenomenon, rather than extraterrestrial. One way it works is like this:
A Ufologist called Jenny Randles wrote a book called ‘Alien Abductions’, detailing the phenomenon. A short time later, horror writer Whitley Shrieber read it, and connected it to some strange experiences he had been having.
The result was another book - ‘Communion’. In it he introduced the ‘Greys’. And since then tens of thousands claim to have been abducted by them. Are they a reality, or a cultural interpretation from a book? And if it changed their lives, as many claim, then yes, reading a book can reprogram …
Hi Susan,
She sure is. If you’re interested, I’ve got an entire intro to the subject here:
UFO-tastic
May 4, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Of course you would have to discount those who were awake. The corroboration of the UFO by radar on the night of the abduction of Betty and Bernie hill and the many more where adductions were verified by other sauces. Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize” winner, tried in the beginning to discount abduction through all the ideas you are talking about. Budd Hopkins who studied this for 39 year and David Jacobs from temple universities have recounted people wakening up with other people bed closes on….and then finding that person who closes they belong to, who also were having abduction experiences, This is not some metaphysical experience or fanciful dream. Betty Hill still has the dress the entities tore when she fought them.
Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog
May 4, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hi Joseph,
This is one post, concerning one tiny area of Ufology, simply pointing out the time/distance correlation of abduction to attention lapses as in reading a book. I claim nothing more in this post.
I suggest you take a look at the link in comment #3. This gives a fuller study of the subject, from my perspective.
May 5, 2008 at 1:50 pm
You said, “A Ufologist called Jenny Randles wrote a book called ‘Alien Abductions’, detailing the phenomenon. A short time later, horror writer Whitley Shrieber read it, and connected it to some strange experiences he had been having.
The result was another book - ‘Communion’.”
Wasn’t it a matter of Whitley reading Jenny Randles books after his abduction in 1985 because he wanted to read about the experiences of others? Wasn’t ‘Alien Abduction’ published in 1990? Communion was written until 1987.
May 5, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hi Atrueoriginall,
I was working from memory there. I’ve clearly got the wrong book. Jenny has written several on abductions, and was first published well before Strieber’s event. But I distinctly remember one of her books being instumental in this.
Even if I’m wrong, the idea behind the premise holds with Communion defining the ‘Greys’, which was my main point here.
May 5, 2008 at 5:15 pm
There are no such things as aliens. Occasionally however, I find it necessary to abduct humans and experiment on their rectums.
May 5, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hi God,
Are you back? I understand you got abducted yourself, for a while.
May 6, 2008 at 11:54 am
The old phrase “away with the fairies” comes to mind, about someone lost in a daydream, another supernatural/UFO link? I wonder whether we all dip in and out of hypnotic states every day of our lives - the “me” concentrating on making a shopping list appears to be a different sort of “me” to the one wandering about the supermarket trying to remember what else I wanted. Lots of UFO stories featuring people driving, which - especially at night - can be very hypnotic…
May 6, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hi Alex,
Yes, I’m convinced there are various ‘me’ states - and also convinced that they are affected by culture. Hence, today’s alien WAS yesterday’s fairy.
May 6, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I AM NOT BITING ON THE ABDUCTEE SYNDROME HOWEVER I THINK IT QUITE POSSIBLE FOR OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE TO BE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE IN OUR VAST UNIVERSE….. SOMEONE HAD TO HELP OUR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TO ADVANCE IN THEIR TECHNOLOGIES……. I FIND THE MYAN CIVILIZATION QUITE INTERESTING…. JUST A THOUGHT……….. I THINK GOD NEEDS A FLEET LOL!!!!!!!
May 6, 2008 at 4:52 pm
AS FOR PHANTOM PREGNANCIES THERE IS A CONDITION IN WHICH A STRANGE AND FATAL PLACENTA FORMS HOWEVER WHEN EMEGENCEY SURGERY IS PREFORMED THERE IS NO FETUS…. IT HAPPENS IN ABOUT 250,000 PREGNANCIES WORLD WIDE……..
May 6, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hi Glenda,
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t alien life ‘out there’, but whether they’ve been here is another matter.
Phantom pregnancies show an interesting pattern. Since the modern dawn of the UFO, cases in the west have declined from 1 in 250 pregnancies, to 1 in 22,000.
Perhaps they are now expressed differently - in a way medical science ignores - such as abduction.
May 7, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The ‘me’ states idea seems to be a certainty. I first noticed this quite some time ago while driving. I’d been ‘away with the fairies’ for a mile or two when i ‘woke up’. Initially I was quite shocked at what I might have done, but then realised that my robot driver seemed to provide a smoother ride than my conscious self.
May 7, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Hi Matt,
A little scary at first. But I’m sure that, if we all thought about it, we’ve all been there.
Or rather, not
May 9, 2008 at 2:11 am
I don’t know. I just would like to know why the “grey” in the cover of Strieber’s book scares the bejeezus out of me. Watching “The Exorcist” at night all by myself… no prob; but those darn black eyes!
I’ve read it several times (Communion), and on all those occasions I couldn’t sleep with the god damned book faced up. I always had to put it upside down.
I also had to sleep with the lights on; not a very cool thing when you’re already in high-school. And if the lights went out for whatever reason… boy oh boy!
May 9, 2008 at 3:24 am
hi anthoney
interesting thought, mabey this will help, i worked for a company for over ten years. i drove the same route many days in a row to get there, often when i got to work i couldn’t remember the drive or how i got there. that scared me, because with no knowledge of the trip i worried about hitting people or other cars. that never happened though. was i abducted, or does the body posess a sense the allows us to do the usual and mundane without actually experiencing whats happening?
baz
remember you are god
May 9, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi Red,
I don’t think this is so unusual - just truthful. What is it about those eyes? Well, maybe that’s it. They’re not. They’re shaped like eyes, but they remind me of a deeply embedded archetype.
No emotion, no life, no meaning, no nothing. Like the stereotypical pit of Hell, you look into nothingness.
Hi Baz,
This can get quite scary. Mindst you, I’m not exactly saying that when we go like this, we’re being abducted by aliens. What I’m saying is that it is a same mind-state through which the ‘culture’ of alien abduction could arise.
I think you’ve got it right when you say the body takes over the mundane.
May 10, 2008 at 4:03 am
hi anthony
how about all the things in the paranormal spectrum we experience but choose to ignor, forget, or ridicule, just to fit in, and do you know what’s really scary, when i proof read what i wrote yesterday, it read ok in my mind?
baz
remember you are god
May 10, 2008 at 7:41 am
Hi Baz,
I think to ‘fit in’ is a cop out we humans are good at. So much easier than being true to ourselves. Yet it makes us much easier to be controlled.