>From Terry: > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-have-been-abducted-by-aliens-says-japans-first-lady-1780888.html >
Yukido Hatoyama sez: "While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," she explains in the tome she published last year. "It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I could say something snarky about Hatoyama's experiences, and no doubt many will and are, but that would be a disservice. While many UFO abduction researchers might vehemently disagree with what I'm about to suggest, Hatoyama's dreams (probably those of a lucid dream nature) reveal classic "abduction" experiences. Such experiences and the underlying content, IMO, will be interpreted differently depending on one's educational & cultural background, and emotional integrity. (As Hatoyama states, she viewed Venus as a wonderful very "green" place. That should be a dead giveaway that we are witnessing a blatant personal interpretation.) Granted, abduction researchers like Hopkins and Jacobs have compiled extensive accounts on abduction experiences that seem to point to the disquieting fact that many abductees experience the same "abduction" environment, where they encounter the same kinds of individuals (aliens), and/or perceive the same "tools of the trade". But then, there are other "abduction" accounts, like those of Hatoyama's which seem utterly devoid of any realistic-like reality that I suspect most UFO researchers would immediately conclude it would be in their best interest to dismiss them as not valid. And there's the rub. While UFO investigators are trying their best to honorably investigate a difficult phenomenon, both scientifically and objectively, how accurate can such compilations be if they arbitrarily chose what to include as a "valid" UFO abduction accounts versus what they might consider to be obviously "invalid" experiences/encounters? FWIW, this is one of the reasons why I tend to take abduction accounts, such as those compiled by Hopkins and Jacobs as having probably been filtered somewhat. What I think is more important is the experience itself - what kind of an emotional/intellectual impact it is having on the experiencer, regardless of what costume the players are currently decked out in. Trying to prove scientifically that these experiences are "real" misses the point. They are real to the experiencer. In the end that's all that really matters. The rest of us can chose to dismiss such accounts and experiences as being ridiculous or as nothing more than harmless psychological aberrations... but I think we do so at our own loss. I suspect if Jung were alive today, he would find that significant portions of the abduction phenomenon would fit in quite well with his understanding of the Collective Unconscious. That is NOT to be taken as an insult to those experiencing these experiences. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
