Jed's right about what he is saying. Carl Jung-wise the abduction bit has entered our collective-consciousness globally to saturation. In short "International Abductee Religion" is upon us; more's the pity.
As 'most' religions usually have a grain of 'original truth;' though later distorted down through time to unrecognizability AS said 'truth;' there is abduction actuality 'also' within this convoluted mess. Betty & Barney hill were modern originals. Their story was contemporaneously unique. Their vehicle showed hard artifactual evidence of having been 'molested' by some heavy-lifting technology that was 'not logically' likely to be out on a lonely highway in the wee hours of the night back in the 50's. Aside from the now legendarily-common/typical abduction story/fantasy; the Hill's is one particularly interesting nugget by way of the fairly matter-of-fact testimony from Betty Hill. Betty, rather soberly and straight-forwardly, asked her abductors to 'show' her where they came from. They funny-gray-guys showed her a star-chart which later she was able to credibly reproduce. CASE IN POINT: That star system was NOT DISCOVERED by earth-bound astronomers for well OVER a DECADE AFTER Betty Hill diagramed it from memories of her adventure with her husband Barney Hill; (no not the Rubbles!~:-) So although Jed Rothwell is absolutely correct with his psycho-social collective consciousness analysis of the matter in the main; let us not throw out the baby totally with the bath-water. As J. Allen Hynek extremely thoroughly researched, tested , & documented; there is a small but definite percentage of this business that is the REAL THING(Spooky Action @ a Distance anybody?) And there is much more within----Dark\ \<O>/ /Spaces-----than we might 'conveniently' &/or comfortably suppose. . . .~JH~:-) Cheers Y'all! > Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:46:23 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:More Abductions > > > > Jed Rothwell wrote: > > . . . > > > > That is the point I have been trying to make, which people here do not > > seem to grasp. Folktales were known to everyone in society before > > there was widespread literacy and later television. People everywhere > > periodically have waking dreams, or dreams they confuse with reality, > > and many people suffer from delusions. The content of these dreams and > > delusions come entirely from their own minds, so they are > > stereotypical and based on stories people hear from others (or see on > > television these days). The stories are not original, because most > > people are not imaginative. The stories all sound the same. There are > > dozens of variations on the badger stories in Japan, all similar. > > There are dozens of similar UFO abduction stories today because the > > people who imagine it happened to them all heard the stories from > > someone else. > > . . . > > > > Nowadays there is no penalty for not believing in UFOs or Lazarus > > rising from the dead. But people are nearly as ignorant as they were > > in 1600 or 1800. Education has hardly budged the general level of > > knowledge. A large fraction of the population does not know that the > > earth circles the sun once a year or what causes seasons. Most > > Americans do not believe in evolution of course, but they also have no > > idea what a calorie is, or amperage and voltage. Japanese people are > > only marginally more educated in my experience, based on attending > > college there and reading their mass media. Most people are incurious > > and seldom bother to learn things that are of no immediate use to them. > > > > So it is not a bit surprising that belief in alien abductions is > > widespread, and it follows from this that many people believe that > > they themselves were abducted. > > That which surprised me about the story wasn't that she apparently > believed herself abducted by aliens. > > It was that she "experienced" being taken to Venus and apparently found > it completely acceptable that it was "very green". Coming from the wife > of the prime minister of a nation which has spacefaring capabilities, > that seems bizarre. > > It has been known for decades, as absolute confirmed fact, that Venus > isn't even close to "green"; they even teach it in at least some > elementary schools in the United States. > _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1
