Selected valued comments from the Peanut Gallery. >From Mr. Rothwell, responding to Mr. Storms
>> In the case of the UFO experience, the shared >> experience is overwhelming. > If UFOs are delusions, we would expect the delusion > to be shared (stereotyped) and widespread. That's > why so many people used to imagine they saw witches > flying on brooms. What mechanism causes a UFO "delusion" be a shared experience? What delusional mechanisms are in place that cause these so called deluded individuals to independently (with no prior knowledge of such subject material) experience classic UFO abduction paradigms such as... (the following cut-and-pasted from a previous post: * Of being rendered helpless to resist. Not only do some experiencers feel they are rendered helpless many, after they recall their experiences later, feel they have, in a sense, betrayed their own integrity, their own souls, because they were either unable or unwilling to resist. Many can feel a sense of shame and/or defeat because they recall accompanying memories of their own rebellious attitude suddenly, in an instant, shifting or transforming to becoming willing participants. This shift in perception can later cause many experiencers as assume they must have been temporarily "brainwashed" or that some form of alien "mind control" was extended over them. The more emotionally adjusted experiencers, on the other hand, eventually begin to suspect there is something more interesting transpiring between themselves and the "aliens". Many begin to perceive a conscious partnership is in the process of evolving. Granted, some may perceive this transformation, such a partnership, as classic Stockholm syndrome at work. However, and IMHO, there seems to be much more going on here than brutal acts of "terrorism", where victims attempt to align their sense of survival with the enemy in order to regain a sense of safety. For one thing, the "transformation" to a willing participant is often instantaneous, for example, the moment an "alien" touches them. * Of having surgery performed on your body. Of being examined, typically in the gynecological sense. Eggs are removed from females - sperm removed from males. * Of at subsequent abductions being shown their "offspring", the result of their eggs (and sperm) having been "combined" in some fashion with "alien" DNA components to produce "hybrids." * When being shown their "hybrid" offspring, they are asked to "nurture", to extend their human love towards the hybrid. Often the "hybrids" are perceived as weak or sickly. It is often made clear to the abductee, particularly "mothers" that the essential missing ingredient is "LOVE", that the "mother" needs to extend her love towards these "hybrid" children in order to make them healthy. * Of being shown highly detailed futuristic scenes, "movies" of global apocalyptic events that will soon transpire across the planet. They are told these events will occur if we don't clean up our act, especially our misbehavior towards the environment. Such "movies" typically evoke strong and primal emotional responses from within the experiencer. Experiencers often feel overwhelmed, helpless to rectify such catastrophic events. For example, the experiencer I conversed with last month described being shown a catastrophic scene where the state of California simply loses its footing, so to speak, and slides into the Pacific Ocean. --- Please keep in mind that such experiences were independently collected from many individuals who had no prior knowledge or interest in UFOs, especially alien creatures. Such experiential tags have been documented in numerous books. Regards, Steven Vincnet Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
