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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.abduct,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.alien.research
- Subject: Re: ET's Give Reasons For Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions/"Necessity Supersedes Diplomacy."
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- Date: 7 Jun 1996 19:52:21 GMT
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- Dr. Richard. X. Frager (smcqueen@cyberhighway.net) wrote:
-
- : Excerpted From Linda Moulton Howe's Book, "Glimpses of Other Realities -
- : Volume I: Facts and Eyewitnesses."
-
- : The motive issue is complex because the aliens themselves seem to
- : use secrecy and deception about what they are doing and why. Mental
- : communications, automatic writing, or even face-to-face encounters leave
- : human abductees with many different impressions and messages about
- : what's going on.
-
- In normal scientific inquiry, we'd say "the data is unreliable"
-
- : One perspective about different alien types and their motives for
- : animal mutilations and human abductions comes from a 36-year old single
- : mother who lives in Springfield, Missouri. Jeanne Robinson remembers a
- : "skeleton with large dark eyes," standing at the foot of her bed when
- : she was four. When she was twelve, walking in the woods near her home,
- : a light that looked like a tornado funnel "sucked" her up into a white
- : room where she was put on a table. "That was the first time they did a
- : gynecology exam on me," Jeanne said. "They put this thing into me and
- : it was such a shock because I didn't realize they could put anything
- : into me like that. Being twelve, I was pretty naive."
-
- ....and dealing with puberty...!
-
- : Jeanne Robinson was afraid she was going crazy. Budd Hopkins,
- : well-known UFO abduction researcher, referred her to John Carpenter who
- : lived only 40 minutes from her home. Every two or three weeks for over
- : a year, Carpenter explored Robinson's traumatic memories in fifteen
- : hypnotic regressions. Despite the sometimes disturbing information that
- : was revealed, the sessions helped Jeanne gain a sense of control,
- : self-esteem and confidence.
-
- So every few weeks her fantasies are reinforced and extended, and
- suprisingly enough, the become stronger and more detailed. What
- a surprise.
-
- Anyone interested in this phenomena woulkd do well to read the *mountain*
- of literature in pyshology, centering around the seminal works of
- Elizabeth Loftus, *the* pioneer in a false perception and memory
- studies. See her book "The Myth of Repressed Memory" as well as
- the absolute mountain of studies by her, all in refereed publications.
- A search on the web will point you in the right direction.
-
- : Carpenter also arranged for her to undergo a series of
- : psychological tests (MMPI-1, MMPI-2, MCMI, IQ, TAT, Rorschach, Sentence
- : Completions, Proverbs, and House-Tree-Person drawings) to confirm her
- : sanity.
-
- None of these are tests of "sanity". MMPI is set of questions that
- attempts to generate a personality profile in the form of numeric
- scores on various scales. TAT, Rorschach and the others are projective
- tests that are scored subjectively by the typical test giver, though there
- are some list sof correlated responses.
-
- She was "within the normal ranges on all tests" that were
- : performed by a psychologist who had no knowledge of Robinson's
- : experiences or beliefs.
-
- ....which generally means "not institutionalizable ;-)
-
- You don't need to be crazy to have false memories and delusional
- beliefs, especially when you've had profesisonal help in reinforcing
- these beliefs. We all have some distorted and false memories, especially
- from childhood.
-
- Another independent study by the Center for UFO
- : Studies indicated that she was not "fantasy-prone. In fact, she was
- : seen as more honest and sincere than the average person.
-
- Since when did UFO hunters become experts at judging whether someone
- is "fantasy prone"? At any rate, the term does not appear in DSM
- and is not a shared diagnosis.
-
- The supposed revelations that follow seem to be a mix of displaced
- sexual fantasies, science fiction, popular saucer legends and the
- like, all probably reinforced by hypnotherapy.
-
- --mike
-