Dreamcatcher

I’d like to quote part of a letter I received from an abductee, Irene Rea in Oregon. She writes, “One of the most frightening aspects of this phenomenon is the abductor’s ability to manipulate the abductee’s perceptions. I’m frightened by the current trend that many abductees seem to be going through in assigning the abductors benign motives in the spiritual growth of the abductees and planetary healing. In my experience, the abductors have manipulated my reality over and over. In one very telling instance, my partner and I were abducted together.

He thought he was being wooed by a gorgeous and astoundingly remarkable woman. My view of his experience was that he was on a table, strapped to medical gear, and staring into the eyes of a typical “gray.” I find it even more abusive to be told by my fellow abductees that the reason I’m experiencing these negative experiences is because I’m somehow spiritually unadvanced….

Another letter from an abductee, Dana Buyers of Los Angeles, California: “We are nothing more to these beings than a crop to be harvested. They terrorized me, hurt me and nearly ruined my health. An abuser is an abuser. I don’t care what planet they come from or how intelligent they claim to be. So when I get the impulse from them to start thinking that they aren’t so bad after all and are just pursuing some noble purpose that we can’t understand, I show them in my mind all that they have done to me and I say “get real,” there is no way that I’m ever going to change my mind. These aliens are dangerous, don’t ever believe them.”

And a letter from abductee Amy Hebert of Carrollton, Texas: “As a facilitator of an abductee support group, I have observed abductees’ reactions change from deep contempt and anger toward their abductors to acceptance and complete surrender. Some abductees express years and years of anger and confusion, then suddenly announce they don’t think the aliens are really so bad after all and may actually represent some type of spiritual experience. These reactions seem quite surprising, considering the levels of anger and humiliation the abductee expressed only a week before. Could these new feelings be due to the resolution of the individual’s long-term hatred and resentment toward the abductors? Or, could this be yet another example of alien manipulation?

According to Dr. Karla Turner, aliens have been known to lie to abductees for their own purposes and all abductions take place in an alien-controlled environment. These alien-human hate-love relationships seem to reflect alien control more than any spiritually fulfilling promise for humankind. After all, kidnapping and forcing someone to be a guinea pig can hardly be considered spiritual.”

I want to give one last letter I received from a man who is in training as a body-centered psychotherapist, Mark Richards of Boston, Massachusetts. He writes, “It’s of little doubt that the internal confusion and pain resulting from one or more abduction experiences results in some form of compensation. Just as ‘screen memory’ tends to re-shape the horrific experience into more palatable images, it’s possible that this same re-shaping occurs at many other levels, notwithstanding the body’s cellular memory. Given the infinite variety and creativity of the whole mind, how is it that hypnotic recollections of the victims, often including deeply felt sensory experiences, have such striking parallels?

Could it be that a ‘cult’ of some type is forming and having influence upon the story? … Culture and historical factors may strongly influence what comes forth. Here in our technological, educated and motive culture, when something doesn’t make sense in our head, we switch to ‘faith,’ to a spirituality of some sort. Once this switch occurs, we have a ‘cult,’ and in the case of abductees as a group, a ‘cult’-ure built around technological unknowns. Perhaps all semblance of reason is not lost, just put on hold for a while as the body (collective and individual) tries to make some sense out of stuff that cannot possibly find correlation. This trend among the abductee community has not been so named, perhaps out of the same denial which seems to be increasingly prevalent in the various stories .. stories that have begun to shift in character and substance. Now abduction is no longer a horrible violation but a necessary component of a great plan.

Now the aliens who are beaming into our bedrooms are no longer uninvited violators of the human story, but welcome harbingers of our ‘salvation.’ The parallels between various religious mythological systems and the growing abductee community are striking. They spring from the same set of unknowns, growing in the fertile ground of fear and imagination, a set of ideas concerning the history, purpose and future of the human race.”

by Donna Higbee, CHT