It seems to me that traditional cases of demon possession over the centuries have been more common with more documentations than the UFO/abductions we have today. Couldn't this all be a new twist on an old theme? Perhaps we tend to embrace this new stuff and reject the old stuff simply because the perpetrators have lured us by putting a scientific flavor on it.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:19 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm >From Mr. Blanton: > John, [Mack] G-d rest his soul, also believed, much like you, > that abductions were not totally physical. He thought it might > be only the spirit that was abducted. I experienced a my own personal Mack of the 3rd kind encounter when I briefly brushed past the venerable doctor at the 50th Anniversary of the Roswell Crash festival held in Roswell, circa 1997. I handed Mack a post card, a reproduction of one of the first *digital* paintings I ever created: "The Seeding". http://orionworks.com/artgal/svj/seeding_m.htm He glanced at it and smiled briefly. As he walked away, he pocketed the image and proclaimed, "You must be on drugs." As Mack walked away, one of his aids leaned over and whispered something in my year, something to the effect, that when Mack sez something like "...you must be on drugs" it was meant as a complement. I took it as such. But in reply to your comment about the abduction of the spirit. I'm not entirely convinced that Mack would have perceived such spiritual "encounters" within the context of an actual abduction scenario. But then, let us not forget that old saying: "While the spirit is strong, the flesh is weak." Personally, I'm not attempting to put forth the premise that such encounters are an "abduction of the spirit." It would be more precise for me to suggest that many of such encounters (MANY, BUT NOT ALL) may be more a matter of the more alienated portions of our "selves" attempting to reunite with the more acceptable portions of our "selves." I suspect we still have a lot to learn about "self." This is a good thing! -- Regards, Steven Vincnet Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
