Re: Men In Black

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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
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Subject: Re: Men In Black
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Date: 1 Aug 92 00:42:01 GMT
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 > From what I have read of old Budd's technique, he is terribly
 > incompetant and seems to be totally unaware of this issue.  My
 > observation is that he is spreading his own beliefs by hypnotic
 > suggestion.  In other words, the explanation is simple--a charlatan
 > is promulgating his own twisted fantasies through abuse of hypnotism.
 >
 > This would be almost funny if he weren't doing such damage to his
 > victims.  Whatever problems these people may or may not have had
 > (and some of them definitely had problems before Budd got them),
 > they now have a firmly entrenched belief that they have been raped
 > by aliens.  In most cases, this belief is incorrect, but the
 > psychological effect is likely to be horrible.
 >
 > Budd and the other "abductionophiles" have a lot to answer for.

I agree that hypnosis is a shaky method of attempting to validate an
experience as real or not, but there is an even bigger problem.  That is that
a good number of alleged abductees are able to recall the experience without
the use of hypnosis at all.  The question of whether or not the experience is
real is the one that must be studied.  The evidence is compelling.  Something
very strange is going on and it is not necessarily fraud.  Explain how people
from different parts of the country, totally unrelated to one another, can
describe the same exact thing?  This happens in a good number of these cases.
The big question is not if the experience is about aliens abducting humans
for genetic experimentation, but rather, what does the experience represent.
Does it represent a physical experience or something else?  These questions
will not be answered properly until we decide on the best methods to use to
validate it.

Mike

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