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An abduction, or Close Encounters of the 4th Kind (CE4), is a phenomenon in which individuals report being taken by extraterrestrials aboard space ships for examinations and various medical tests. The phenomenon is worldwide, but decreases where populations are affected by radioactivity contaminations.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: April 12, 2007 1:07 PM
An abduction, or Close Encounters of the 4th Kind (CE4), is a phenomenon in which individuals report being taken by extraterrestrials (or EBEs) aboard space ships for examinations.
The phenomenon is worldwide but decreases where populations are affected by radioactivity contaminations. The abduction prototype can be identified in the Villas Boas case (1957), even though the first case, accepted by ufologists, is the Hills case (1961). The most common, recurrent patterns are:
- an abduction
- witnesses being subject to painful physical examinations
- missing time
- the previous point being brought back through hypnotic regression.
Some persons, both scientists and not, have got involved in abduction research. Between 1989 and 1991, artist Budd Hopkins writes two best-sellers that spread the word about abductions. Even a journalist, named Whitley Strieber, writes some books about his experiences, the most famous being "Communion". BUFORA researchers Carl Nagaitis with Philip Mantle in England publish "Without Consent" towards the end of 1990's, Johannes Fiebag in Germany his "Die Anderen".
In the early 1990's, after a casual meeting with Hopkins, a Harvard Professor finds out the ongoing abduction phenomenon: John Mack (1929-2004). A respected scientist, Mack studies 200 cases with his professional experience. Mack publishes two books that quickly become best-sellers. His "spiritual" conclusions, though, cause him some critics and issues within Harvard deanery in 1994. A committee of peer is charged to review his work and, in the end, reaffirms Mack's freedom to study abductions (yet, inside Harvard not everyone accepts his conclusions). In Italy, Chemistry professor at University of Pisa Corrado Malanga started his own quest into the abductions phenomenon with Valerio Lonzi in 1993. Further interesting studies arrived when Derrel Sims were identifying and removing the alien implants.
In 1992, the first scientific debate takes place at the MIT: under the direction of Mack, Hopkins and ohers join in to expose their researches and results as well. The overall conclusion is that, if abductions were only hallucinations, then each abductee'd experience different scenarios, including different so-called aliens. Instead, there are common patterns. For the same meeting, Hopkins published The Ropper Poll, the result of a Roper Poll among 5947 Americans. The survey didn't contain a direct question. The following are the points asked:
- Waking up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the room.
- Experiencing a period of time of an hour or more, in which you were apparently lost, but you could not remember why, or where you had been.
- Seeing unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them, or where they came from.
- Finding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them.
- Feeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn't know why or how.
Saying yes to 4 of the 5 statements was taken as evidence of alien abduction. A 62-page report, with an introduction by John Mack, was mailed to some 100,000 psychiatrists, psychologist and other mental health professionals. The implication was that some 4 million Americans or some 100 million individuals have been abducted by aliens. Quite much, if true. Why so many? If American culture accepts abductions (thanks to Hopkins, Mack, ...), it may be that more Americans feel encouraged to discuss their experiences. Elsewhere, the same encouragement does not exist.
Serious studies have also come from the PARSEC group (Mario Cigada, M.D., psychoterapeutist using hypnosis - Giulia M. d’Ambrosio, M.D., psychoterapeutist - Giuseppe Sferrazza, psychologist, psychoterapeutist - Derrel Sims, CM.Ht, Certified Hypnotic Anesthesiologist, Certified Hypnotherapist). Born in 1998, this association of psychoterapeutists for the study of abductions has a protocol and all the serious intentions to succeed. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and internationally. The DSM-IV-TR, published in 2000, includes a paragraph on abductions, a sign that the phenomenon is real.
Mind & sleep paralysis
It is reported by most experts that aliens are able to delete the memory of the traumatic abduction from the abductee's mind. Appearently, this is performed by stimulating various personal memories, so that the brain will order them to a logical setting in place of the abduction. Let's face it: it's not very clear. If aliens are more advanced, why a hypnosis is often enough to unblock the memories? It must be said the human mind reacts to any shocking experiences by removing them from the consciousness. Such traumatic experiences can emerge through psychosomathic symptoms or in dreams. Those scientists not convinced at all about the abductions phenomenon have pointed how each starts from the bedroom, in which the subject is sleeping. Some have suggested abductees are mentally ill, though this is quite rare. The most logical hypothesis could be sleep paralysis. Following Stanford:
"Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form)."
The observed symptoms are:
- A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon awakening
- Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
- Episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation (act or use of the brain).
If you notice, the individual subject to a sleep paralysis wakes up at night paralyzed, feeling terror and invisible entities. This probably can explain many cases. Regarding the stories told by the same abductees, Dr. Susan Blackmore writes that memories can be changed and even completely created with hypnosis, peer pressure, and repeated questioning. I believe that support groups do play a role. Memory recovery is no easy, tape-rewind job, either. During the process, there is a part of memory and another one of recalling (the hallucinatory one): how much of the real memory is connected to the second part? This is science, good to shunt the easiest cases from the most complex. Because let's face it, such kind of researches have considered only the most visible aspects of the phenomenon (paralysis and hallucinations). I can artificially produce a phenomenon that exists. It is also true that a missing time, taken alone, is not always linked to an abduction.
external links
Alien abductions claims explained
Alien abductions: the real deal?
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