As always we can also look to science to offer an alternative explaination for AAE. What is interesting is that you can apply these explanations to the older or more traditional belief that i believe AAEC is just another form of.
Sleep Paralysis, False Memories, psychopathology, Abnormal Activity in temporal Lobes. there is alot to look at in relation to theseand you can read it here....instruct1.cit.cornell.edu...&French.pdf......its something to consider. And can applied to the parallels drawn here.....
Aliens have begun to fill the role previously reserved for supernatural beings. Experiences once explained by benevolent or malevolent spirits, then later through angels and devils, now have good and bad aliens as possible explanations. A good example of this would be sleep paralysis: today some have claimed that episodes of sleep paralysis are really incidents of alien abduction, but their reports are eerily similar to much older reports of people being seduced by demons.
Here is psychopathological view on religion.....www.practicalpsychiatry.com...;jsessionid=HtNPRktQq2pQjJ12mcPQfrCJBhLmtNkWCGp GWn9yYnk98d7bxmqx!923867264!181195629!8091!-1
When beliefs are shared by others, the idiosyncratic can become normalized. Therefore, recognition of social dynamics and the possibility of entire delusional subcultures is necessary in the assessment of group beliefs. Religious beliefs and delusions alike can arise from neurologic lesions and anomalous experiences, suggesting that at least some religious beliefs can be pathological. Religious beliefs exist outside of the scientific domain; therefore they can be easily labeled delusional from a rational perspective. However, a religious belief's dimensional characteristics, its cultural influences, and its impact on functioning may be more important considerations.
What AAEC researches say....www.ufoabduction.com...
The majority of evidence for the alien abduction phenomenon is from human memory derived from hypnosis administered by amateurs. It is difficult to imagine a weaker form of evidence. But it is evidence and we have a great deal of it. Still, readers must be skeptical of what I say and of what all others say in this tangled arena of alien abductions, hypnosis, popular culture, and memory. Abduction researchers are mainly amateurs doing their best to get to the truth knowing that objective reality may elude them.
Are we now at a new stage in the constantly evolving life of religion within our society. Has our rapid expansion in knowledge in science and technology over the last century been intergrated into our cultures and traditional views creating a hybrid of science and tradional aspects of religion. We start to believe and accept from science that Alien life and contact is possible and combine that belief with unexplainable personal spiritual experiences.....thus explaining and attributing a source for that experience. What i find exciting though is this....with the exponational growth of knowledge and science, its cultural influence, which i believe includes the growing belief in Aliens, abductions and contacts, may end the war of Religion( in which i'll include AAEC) vs the rationality of science.....Could the AAEC phenomena as a new emerging religious belief be a sign that religion is slowly incorporating science....and thus its rationality.
Alot of what i have read while researching for my thread show that AAEC has many striking similarities to other religious or spiritual beliefs when we look at individuals sharing their experiences and the beliefs derived from them. But it boils down to the same thing......"news from the heavens always carries a fascination of its own, unrivaled among discoveries we can make on our own. The urge to imagine someone or something greater than oneself never dies". It is only that as culture changes and evolves so too does the form and nature of our fascination.
.......not alot of interest in this line of thought. Well maybe that answers some of my own questions in relation to this matter.
This very subject is covered on many threads in skunk works and I think the conclusion is that no
living entity can steal your soul BUT they may be after your spirit so watch out
