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Please just read the book before you start babbling nonsense. Jacobs has several chapters dedicated to topic of false memories and other types of memory confabulation, and his methods for detecting and evaluating rationally such accounts. Jacobs has only been able to reach these conclusions and put these pieces of the puzzle together after over conducting sessions with over 700 abductees that went through a meticulous screening process (which he describes in the book) before even being considered.
You have to ask if a hypno-therapist who has obviously made up his mind that aliens exist, abduction is real, and aliens are evil is able to perform an un-biased hypnosis of a patient without asking any leading questions. Also you should wonder if a "patient" who comes to him has already made up their mind what has happened to them based on Jacobs' published views.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
reply to post by mileslong54
Well, I'm talking more specifically around Earth, not in the entire universe, who could possibly know such things. The fact the greys are so emotionless (and control the hybrids) means they are capable of manipulating our species and using us as tools for their own agenda, without the slightest feeling of empathy.
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
- Whitley Strieber, Communion, p. 25-26
"Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 44-45
"I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 172
"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 181
"Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 96
www.mt.net...
Competent Hypnosis
An experienced and competent hypnotist tests the suggestibility of people who recall
abduction accounts. By asking purposefully misleading questions, he can easily tell
whether the subject can be led. For example, in the first hypnotic session, I often ask if a
subject can see the "flat, broad" chins of the aliens. I ask if a subject can see the corners
of the ceiling; I ask if the aliens are fat. The answer to these questions should be "no"
according to all the evidence we have obtained. If the answer is "yes," I allow for the
suggestibility of the subject when I evaluate the truthfulness and accuracy of the account.
Researcher John Carpenter of Springfield, Missouri, has fashioned this line of
questioning into something of a science. He has developed a list of misleading
questions—some obvious and some subtle—that are calculated to place wrong images
into abductees' minds. In the first hypnotic session, he poses these questions to the new
subject, who almost never answers "yes"; most abductees refuse to be led and nearly
always answer misleading questions negatively, directly contradicting or correcting the
hypnotist.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
Please just read the book before you start babbling nonsense.
The fact the greys are so emotionless (and control the hybrids) means they are capable of manipulating our species and using us as tools for their own agenda, without the slightest feeling of empathy.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
reply to post by mileslong54
Originally posted by goatfish
reply to post by mileslong54
I haven't read "The Threat" but I've read "Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions". I found the book fascinating but I felt in the transcripts there were definitely places where the therapist led the patient. Anyway I personally don't think hypnosis is a reliable way to extract hidden memories and I have a concern that it actually might implant or solidify ideas as memories. But I'm not an expert and it's just my opinion.
Do you have any idea what species may be instructing the greys? I know there is a high force instructing them, but there doesn't seem to be much about that in "The Threat", well I've still got maybe 30 pages to go. He does vaguely mention the taller "hooded robe" species, but the information is limited. IMO, any species that go around in hooded robe type outfits aren't to be trusted.
You are right about the agenda, I don't believe it's the "greys" agenda though.
I wont deny abduction experiences can lead to a form of "enlightenment" with some abductees, but most probably the result of the mental manipulation and telepathic conversations they engage in. Being in a UFO and seeing beings not of this Earth is bound to "enlighten" anyone IMO.
How can you read the works of John Mack (Abduction, and Passport to the Cosmos) and not appreciate that there is some kind of spiritual awakening going on with UFOs?
CERTAINLY if the occupants were evil with destructive intentions we'd all be toast by now.
Get back to me when you've read the excerpt in the OP carefully.
Time and time again we see reports from contactees who express and kind of
Galactic Brotherhood.