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TITLE: UFO ABDUCTIONS: BEYOND MATTER?
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AUTHOR: Don Sudduth
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c/o META-4, Inc.
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1401 W. 76th St, Suite 100
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Minneapolis, MN 55423
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DATE: November 26, 1989
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There is a certain sense of stability in the physical world that
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most of us take for granted. However, in the current realm of UFO
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abduction literature, the term "physical world" may need some
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redefinition. UFO abductees have found their world stretched and
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distorted in a way that defies modern science. Testimony from
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abductees now includes levitation, paralysis, telepathy, and
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startling visions. To ignore these reports is to ignore the vast
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amount of evidence that seems to be mounting. To accept these
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reports blindly, however, is to accept data whose source is
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testimony from hypnosis, vague memories, and spontaneous recall.
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Are abductees really levitating out of their beds at night, floating
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up to a hovering UFO, and being subjected to physical examinations?
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Perhaps this question can be answered by looking closer at
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abductee's testimony.
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Recently, Budd Hopkin's and Whitley Strieber's works have strongly
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promoted the notion of physical abductions as a norm for UFO contact
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with humans. However, from a recently published article in UFO
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Magazine (Vol 4, Num 4), Ann Druffel has offered a new perspective
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on the abduction phenomena. This perspective alters the focus of an
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abduction from something physical to something within the mind. Ann
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Druffel, in her book "The Tujunga Canyon Contacts" tells of hypnotic
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regression of a particular abductee named Emily who "learned that if
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she could manage to move even one toe or finger, the paralysis broke
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and the creatures vanished." The article goes on to report that
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Emily could use mental effort to wake her roommate and also break
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the abduction paralysis. In another case Ms. Druffel notes that the
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abductee was able to break out of the "contact" by making a sound or
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mantra within herself.
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Breaking out of the alleged abduction by shear force of will is just
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one clue of its non-physical nature. Are there others? Looking at
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the varied testimony of abductees, one gets the sense of the lack of
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coincidence from report to report. One person stated that she was
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transported through her apartment wall. While others feel the
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abductors take them "by hand" into waiting UFO's. Whitley Strieber,
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in his book "Transformation", writes about his attempts at astral
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travel and the similarity of that experience to his abductions. He
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also notes the strangeness factor of abduction reports from his
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article in UFO Magazine (Vol 4, Num 2). Strieber writes, "Of the
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690 narratives sent to me by Communion and Transformation readers,
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only a few appear to support these present theories of abduction.
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The vast majority instead describe perceptions and experiences far
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stranger than any reported by mainstream abduction researchers."
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Another UFO researcher, Richard Grossinger, writes of the inability
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of contactees to distinguish between the concrete or real and the
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psychic or hallucinatory. He suggests that we may be dealing with
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both levels of reality thereby creating the current paradox of
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conflicting abduction testimonies.
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Before the "Communion" and "Intruders" phenomenon, astrophysicist
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and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee cautioned the conception of UFO's
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as being something truly physical. Vallee's position is that
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individual and social psychological manipulation of UFO contactees
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may not be extraterrestrial at all but encounters with another
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reality. He suggests that the intelligence community worldwide is
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probably "in the dark" about most aspects of the UFO phenomena. On
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the MJ-12 document he writes, "Given the names on the list of MJ-12
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scientists, however, it seems to me their work could have had an
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entirely different orientation, having to do with psychological
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warfare. I scratched the surface of that issue in "Messengers of
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Deception", and I got burned because the UFO research community was
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not ready to even consider that side of the problem". Now that the
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verdict is out on the MJ-12 documents with Bill Moore's revelation
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of planted information, Dr. Vallee's comments seem much more potent.
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In his book "Dimensions", Dr. Vallee strongly emphasizes the
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psychological nature of UFO encounters. His research has shown that
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historically, UFO encounters have been perceived to be the common
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myths of the time period such as the miracle at Fatima, Portugal in
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1917. "The events at Fatima involve luminous spheres, lights with
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strange colors, a feeling of 'heat waves'--all physical
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characteristics commonly associated with UFOs...They also encompass
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prophecy and a loss of ordinary consciousness on the part of
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witnesses--what we have called the psychic component of UFO
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sightings" (p 174). Dr. Vallee even implies that much of human
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history may have been shaped by the psychological effects of UFO
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encounters and that the shape may have a purpose.
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Extraterrestrial or not, it seems that abductions by UFOs are much
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more psychological in nature than physical. Yet the common belief
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is in physical contact! Is this what we are meant to believe?
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