I think skepticism is good...... but I find denying completely that the "abduction phenomenon" exists has it's dangers, and is not a healthy
skepticism.
The phenomenon exists......yet, the nature of it is the thing we do not know yet for sure. People have certain experiences, they are effected by them,
that is true.
The experiences that I and my family went through were just as real as this moment now, where I am at work, typing on a keyboard, and reading words on
a screen. Some happened in full daylight, with other strangers around also witnessing them. In one case, on a road in the afternoon, my car and
several in front of me all stalled at the same time and wouldn't start up and we watched a craft of some sort over us making impossible manouvers. Not
until it was gone could our cars start up again.
There is no proof that it wasn't a mass hallucination between strangers- so that is
debunked (according to the way some people think). There is
no proof that it was anything other than coincidence that all our cars had some sort of electrical short or I don't what all at the same time while in
proximity of each other-
debunked!
That sort of reasoning is just as unreasonable as one who would say it is sure that what we saw was an aircraft from another planet and it caused the
problems with our cars! Either way, we don't know the true nature of the event.
So what bothers me about this naysayer thinking is that taking off from that lack of proof for one hypothesis, the further investigation is abandoned.
Everyone wanting to feel secure that they KNOW everything and not admit the unknown, keeps them from going forward to explore that unknown further.
We never went through any hypnosis. My parents are both shrinks and I am well aware of the dangers of info getting screwed and created even
unintentionally with that.
The very real-like nature of what I experienced made me put everything in question- if this moment right now is just as clear and full of physical
sensation as that "impossible" experience, that I cannot be sure ANYTHING is real or true! Not right now, not ever. I do not know. It's a lesson in
humility- accepting that I cannot claim to hold or possess any knowledge for sure.
I am always trying to look into other possible explanations- It has been shown in some studies and experiments that putting a persons head in a very
strong magnetic field can cause them to have hallucinations, see things and beings in the room that are not there and even talk to them. The kinds of
things they see and describe were said to be exactly like those that "experiencers" see and describe!
So there's one possibility.... if it could be that effect, what could be the source of such a field?
Is it truly hallucination, or could that field simply make possible perception of other dimensions always around us that we do not normally
percieve?
Could these beings exist, not from other planets, but other dimensions?
Then there is the one that I rejected at first as just as stupid as the alien thing when a researcher contacted me about it- the government doing
experiments of some sort or another, and implanting these false memories as a cover up. Though you must admit, it would be the BEST cover you could
come up with, exactly because of the way it makes naysayers turn away and look no further!
I thought it was silly until I learned more about my family, and both my maternal and paternal grandfather being stationed in New Mexico at about the
same time, one of them got pulled into working in a laboratory on some sort of top secret program. He died a few years ago, so I cannot get further
info- but it is not normal that a regular GI, who didn't go to school after the age of 14, was a jazz musician, suddenly was working in a lab (my aunt
claiming he worked on the bombs we dropped on Japan). Wierder still, he came out of the army quickly, with a huge amount of money, with which he
started his own business, which became very successful (and was sold to Lockheed right before he died).
The other grandfather, what he was doing there during his service is a mystery, but he came out all obsessed with psychic phenomenon and rather wacked
out. I didn't know him, my mother kept me away from her family, but after his death I learned that he used to gather his family together every night
to teach them what Edgar Cayce said, and how to practice ESP.
This researcher had come up with evidence that some experiments had been done on GI's at that time, and that their descendents had been followed,
observed and even perhaps experimented on further, perhaps in studying how or whether things developed in the subjects could be passed on genetically.
An experience my mother had, when she was young and living alone in a seedy neighborhood in LA, met a man once, went on a date with him, and then woke
up three days later in her apartment in a fetal position, with no memory of anything that had happened at all. She always laughed that he must have
given her LSD. But she could never find the man again.
Then we had an experience in the US while on vacation, which fits under the "Men in Black" type of phenomenon. They seemed very human, and appearences
suggested some sort of government agents.
So I think there could be some reason to explore that possibility too.
I don't know. But as someone who struggles with this phenomenon, I really wish people wouldn't just scoff and leave us alone with this ! Okay, don't
buy the memories of the aliens if you don't want to, but don't walk away! Please! There is a phenomenon, the nature of which is unknown or unproven as
of yet.
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... and it is also what prompted
me to develop a technique for my clients to retrieve their own PLM's without using hypnosis (to avoid false memory) 
