-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <recipient list not shown: ;> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:02 AM Subject: 60% of Abductees are GAY!(not that there's anything wrong with that:->) The Keith Basterfield Network Australasia - http://www.powerup.com.au/~tkbnetw/new _______________________________________________ Greetings Abduction Researchers and Therapists, "It has also been noted by a number of researchers that gay men and women are overwhelmingly represented in the abduction population. One estimate suggests that as many as 60 percent of those claiming abduction are also gay." (pg.292-The Abduction Enigma) Did that arouse your curiosity? Then read what follows! ______________________ "The Abduction Enigma" The Truth behind the mass alien abductions of the late 20th century. by Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes, and William P. Cone, PHD. "This is an important book that everyone concerned with the alien abduction phenomenon should read. This book deserves a careful reading by all who are concerned with abduction research and the victims involved ~ especially those who are willing to re-examine some of their basic assumptions and put them to the test. The skeptical case against the physical reality of alien abduction has never been made more brilliantly or powerfully." (by Michael Miley from UFO MAG-USA-Dec'99) I have to agree with the above recommendation. I actually found this book at our modest public library, so look for it at your library first. This is the kind of book that "cries out" for someone more qualified and more knowledgeable than me to review and respond to it. I can only say that after collecting and reading just about every book, magazine, article and video from just about every "alien abduction" researcher, therapist, abductee and/or experiencer, this new skeptical book challenges just about everything I thought I knew about the alien abduction phenomena. Here are a few random quotes that jumped out at me from this new book: (my comments & questions follow in parenthesis) 1) "Most abduction researchers routinely withhold specific information from the public as a way of cross-checking the validity of an abduction story. These 'secret clues', when mentioned by someone claiming abduction, provide some validation for the new tale." (pg.59) (for example, I've heard that the "grays" as described by Whitley Strieber and featured on the cover of his infamous book, "Communion" are not exactly what they appear to be. I've heard that those "grays" were not bald, but had fine wispy white hair. So the popular image of the "big-bald-headed" alien is not true but has come to be accepted worldwide. It makes you wonder how much information published on abductions is either incorrect or misleading from the researchers we have come to rely on. So how can we in the public domain ever hope to know what's really going on if every researcher and witness is hiding "secret clues"?) 2) "The sexual component of the abductions has been reduced to reproductive experimentation or genetic research, but when examined carefully, it is little more than sexual intercourse. This is an important aspect that has been generally ignored by those conducting abduction research. A very high percentage of both male and female abductees that we interviewed openly stated a sexual preference of homosexuality or bisexuality. An equally high number were hypersexual and highly promiscuous in their human sex lives. Of the remaining abductees at least half of them claimed they had no sex drive whatsoever. That leaves us with a very low number of abductees who claim to have what would be considered a 'normal' sex life. Beyond that, however, as many as 90 percent of the abductees have some kind of sexual dysfunction. Their tales of rape and sexual activity on board the UFO are evidences of these sexual problems." (pg.97-100) (The sex issue raises it's ugly head here, but take for example the case of Jesse Long, as profiled on my "ALIEN UPDATE-DEC'99 videotape, featuring clips from "Confirmation" and the "Roseanne Files". This lifelong abductee has been forced to give up his "precious fluids" to aliens during hundreds of encounters. And he is also "gay" (not that there's anything wrong with that!:->) Yet nowhere in the abduction literature or from the accounts of "gay abductees" like Jesse Long do we find any descriptions of "gay sexual activity or fantasies" taking place during these alien encounters. So after all these years and literally millions of abductions, and subsequent invasive examinations and mindscans, these single-minded aliens have seemingly failed to grasp that humans have different sexual orientations. Why don't these aliens use "gay" imagery and activity to excite and extract bodily "precious fluids" and emotional bonding from "gay" abductees? I guess there's no such thing as a "gay alien" or we would have heard something about that by now! So it would appear that Mars really does need women!:->)) 3) "There are those who remember their abduction without the aid of hypnosis, but many of those 'conscious' memories first surfaced in dreams. These witnesses are later convinced that the dreams are real and not fantasy." (pg.142) (This has always been a big bone of contention. Could we ever get accurate figures on how many abductees remembered their "encounter" without hypnosis, how many with hypnosis only, how many were actually conscious during the whole or parts of it, and how many remembered only after reporting their dreams? According to these skeptics, no abductee can establish the reality of a genuine alien abduction without the aid of an well-intentioned but misinformed abduction hypno-therapist, and the reinforcement of the popular media and culture. They also say that there's "something" in the human mind that creates these kinds of tales on a regular basis, as shown by traditional folklore, satanic ritual abuse, multiple personalities, and now with "alien abductions" and spacecraft. Are we unknowingly helping to create the very phenomenon that we are trying to understand?) 4) "Not one study has ever shown the existence of screen memories, or that the mind can produce them. There is no evidence that people use sexual abuse as a screen memory to protect themselves from the trauma of being abducted. The only evidence eof this has come from 'abduction researchers' repeatedly using hypnosis. A well-trained therapist knows that traumatic memories are not repressed, and that screen memories do not exist, according to current psychological thought. What is not addressed here is that if, in fact, aliens can instill memories, how can one be sure that the entire abduction event doesn't consist of these sorts of memories? Maybe people aren't actually undergoing any of the procedures they recall. The whole experience could be instilled, and not necessarily by alien abductors." (pg.216-7) (Obviously, there is a considerable gap between popular and professional opinions on critical subjects like recovered and false memory, the value and misuse of hypnosis, and the psychology of sleep disorders and sexual dysfunction. How can we pop the balloons of misconception and get at the truth of how the human mind really works during these life-altering "encounters" with the unknown?) 5) "According to the experts and scientific evidence, there is no difference between a real memory and an induced memory. The scientific data and findings bear this out in study after study. In fact, even the psychologists who do the research have been surprised by the results because facts we thought to be true about memory turn out to be myths. These myths provide what most of us believe about memory. We have been told by various 'authorities', that memory is the storehouse of everything we have ever seen, felt, experienced, or done. We are told that memory is like a giant videotape on which everything we have ever see, done, or participated in is recorded with the accuracy of videotape. And while that point has been strongly contested by psychologists and scientific evidence, we learn that the real purpose of memory is not to store data (that's a computer's job), but to allow us to function on a day-to-day basis. Memory is not meant to be an accurate record of our past or even a storehouse of our experience but rather an inner representation of who we are and how we feel. More important, it does not have to be very accurate to carry out these everyday functions. Most people do not realize just how bad their memory really is." (pg 286-7) (It would seem to me that our understanding of human "memory" is a crucial aspect to the research and validation of alien abductions. So how can we get an accurate consensus on how memory really works? This also reminds me of a spoken sample from the Monkees movie soundtrack album: "The central nervous system, which feeds its impulses directly to the brain, both conscious and subconscious, cannot distinquish between the real experience and the vividly imagined experience.") 6) "The desire to be an abductee or the victim of abuse is not a conscious choice. It's actually the combination of a weak sense of self and desperate need to fit in somewhere. Many abductees wear their experience like a badge of honor. It is the strongest sense of identity they have ever had. And contrary to the opinion of most researchers, it is, in fact, a club that people will fight to belong to." (pg.291) (In addition to all the books, magazine articles, and videos, we now see websites from just about every researcher and abductee in every country. Contamination of witness accounts is at an all-time high. It's like trying to see the stars on a cloudy night.) 7) "Support group members are no longer people with problems; instead they are "abductees", multiples, survivors of incest, and codependents. Instead of people moving towards resolving their problems, they now learn to incorporate them into the very core of their identity. The recovery support groups of today are based on the premises. (1) All psychopathology is caused by abuse. (2) Most abused memories are repressed. (3) The path to healing is to remember the abuse, and often to attack the abusers. (4) The person is forever to be labeled as "recovering". (5) Recovering people need group support in order to function in society. And instead of being a short span of time in which a person recovers from a negative experience, recovery has now been redefined as a never-ending, lifelong process." (pg.308) (So a good question for researchers and abductees would be; how long should one remain in therapy or a support group to overcome the negative effects of an alien abduction and yet avoid allowing the experience to define one's life and identity? 8) "Keith Basterfield, in the International UFO Reporter, wrote 'Given that alien implants are said to have been introduced into us, for what purpose are they placed there? A fairly consistent, small range of options exists.' He expands on the idea of a tracking device, writing that others have speculated that the devices might not only be for tracking but for monitoring, communications, or even control." (pg.318) (This was the only reference I found to an Australian Abduction researcher.) 9) "But how many alien beings, how many ships, and how much equipment is necessary to abduct so many people? A group of American researchers, looking only at the numbers for American abductions, postulated a fleet of 75 ships, each with a crew of 16. It defies logic, but the researchers are still crunching the numbers to prove that alien abduction is not only real but common." (pg.344) (It appears that the authors of this book have not seen the formidable report by Australia's own abduction researchers such as Robert Marx, Rocco Delillo, and Mathew Favloro, who also made an admirable attempt to estimate the logistics of abduction in their 1988 release of "UFOs~ The Conveyor Belt ~ The Real Size of the Problem." Look it up on the Australian Encounters website: http://www.flex.com.au/~eagle1/ or go to direct link: http://www.flex.com.au/~eagle1/conb.htm 10) "The whole concept, in the vast majority of abduction cases, was the belief of the researcher. If we look at the history of psychology we see no case in which someone undergoing hypnosis for something else such as to lose weight or stop smoking spontaneously came up with an abduction story. In other words, as demonstrated time and time again, if the researcher believed in something other than alien abduction, then the subject manifested those symptoms. The abductee sought out someone doing abduction research, so it should be no surprise that the researcher found the tale of alien abduction. The theory of researcher manipulation, though subtle and sometimes unconscious, explains how and why some people believe they have been abducted by aliens. For too long, we have been persuaded by 'authorities' who tell us that alien abduction is real. They present case after case, demanding that we prove that the abduction isn't real. But that isn't the way science is supposed to work. The researchers who claim the abnormality are required to prove that it exists. They have failed to do so." (pg.362-3) (This is how the book concludes. The largest share of it's skeptical arguments are against the "abduction researcher and therapist". In fact, about a third of the book is aimed directly at the abduction researcher and the role they may play in manufacturing the "alien abduction scenario". I for one, would sure like to see some rational responses and healthy debate from researchers and abductees to the detailed and well presented skeptical arguments in this book. At the very least, reading this thought-provoking book should "rustle some feathers" out there! Give it a fair go! You might even learn something new!) ___________________________ THINK GLOBALLY~ACT LOCALLY Mike Farrell PO Box 2526 Port Macquarie New South Wales Australia 2444 Director of Project GUFONE 2000 (Global UFO News/video Exchange) http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new/mikes.htm http://www.flex.com.au/~eagle1/in8.htm We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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