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May 12, 2013
Why You Should Take Alien Abduction Seriously?
By Dirk Vander Ploeg
You and your spouse are en route to your weekend camping enclave near Buena Vista, Colorado. Family and friends await your arrival. You have descended Kenosha Pass, a 10,000 foot high cut that leads toward Jefferson and the South Park Valley, when suddenly your eyes were drawn to a lighted object in freefall. You begin to shift sideward toward the desert floor, under someone else’s control. As if only a moment has passed you find yourself miles away, on a different stretch of road, with no memory of how you arrived there. Fifty-five miles has simply vanished. More startling, hours have passed in the blink of an eye. You search your memory for a prosaic explanation. But you can think of no possible way you could have reached this location on your own. Eventually, you arrive at your destination and are met by frantic family members. You can offer no prosaic explanation for your tardiness.
Months later, you awaken during the night to find shadowy figures with large glistening eyes in your bedroom. You cry out and attempt to flee, but a wave of paralysis sweeps over your body. Instantly, you fly through the air toward a waiting craft and find yourself stretched out on a table in a small, dimly lit room. As if only a moment has passed, you are awake in your own bed feeling perplexed and ill at ease. You are sunburned, even though you haven’t been out in the sun, and find a puncture wound behind your knee that looks like a small section of flesh has been neatly scooped out. You feel unusually exhausted, but discover that you’ve developed new capabilities that you never imagined possible. You want to tell someone, but who can you trust?
Every other aspect of your life is perfectly normal. You hold a job that requires a security clearance, meaning that a background check has deemed you trustworthy. You lead a normal middle class lifestyle and are respected by your peers. Yet you harbor a secret so coveted that its release might bring the world as you know it crashing down, and information so scientifically advanced that it can only begin to be understood using theoretical physics.
This is Denise Stoner’s reality.
But many people, especially scientists, can’t imagine that such abductions could possibly take place. Their immediate reaction is to categorize it as a disorder. A few have vigorously sought prosaic explanations that might account for the belief that one has been abducted, and a variety of hypothetical arguments have been advanced.
Psychologists have attributed alien abduction to a variety of internally generated disturbances. Psychosis, dissociative identity disorder, fantasy prone personalities, weak boundaries, and sleep paralysis to name a few. To test these hypotheses, experimental psychologists have spearheaded several academic studies designed to identify possible psychological aberrations behind the abduction delusion. The result: abduction experiencers are surprisingly normal. Confounded by this revelation, experimental psychologists conjectured that experiencers must have fantasy prone personalities or weak boundaries that make it difficult for them to distinguish between fantasy and reality. More studies ensued. The results: those who meet the criteria for a real abduction are no more fantasy prone than the general population, nor do they have weak boundaries. Denise meets these criteria.
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May 12, 2013
Why You Should Take Alien Abduction Seriously?
By Dirk Vander Ploeg
You and your spouse are en route to your weekend camping enclave near Buena Vista, Colorado. Family and friends await your arrival. You have descended Kenosha Pass, a 10,000 foot high cut that leads toward Jefferson and the South Park Valley, when suddenly your eyes were drawn to a lighted object in freefall. You begin to shift sideward toward the desert floor, under someone else’s control. As if only a moment has passed you find yourself miles away, on a different stretch of road, with no memory of how you arrived there. Fifty-five miles has simply vanished. More startling, hours have passed in the blink of an eye. You search your memory for a prosaic explanation. But you can think of no possible way you could have reached this location on your own. Eventually, you arrive at your destination and are met by frantic family members. You can offer no prosaic explanation for your tardiness.
Months later, you awaken during the night to find shadowy figures with large glistening eyes in your bedroom. You cry out and attempt to flee, but a wave of paralysis sweeps over your body. Instantly, you fly through the air toward a waiting craft and find yourself stretched out on a table in a small, dimly lit room. As if only a moment has passed, you are awake in your own bed feeling perplexed and ill at ease. You are sunburned, even though you haven’t been out in the sun, and find a puncture wound behind your knee that looks like a small section of flesh has been neatly scooped out. You feel unusually exhausted, but discover that you’ve developed new capabilities that you never imagined possible. You want to tell someone, but who can you trust?
Every other aspect of your life is perfectly normal. You hold a job that requires a security clearance, meaning that a background check has deemed you trustworthy. You lead a normal middle class lifestyle and are respected by your peers. Yet you harbor a secret so coveted that its release might bring the world as you know it crashing down, and information so scientifically advanced that it can only begin to be understood using theoretical physics.
This is Denise Stoner’s reality.
But many people, especially scientists, can’t imagine that such abductions could possibly take place. Their immediate reaction is to categorize it as a disorder. A few have vigorously sought prosaic explanations that might account for the belief that one has been abducted, and a variety of hypothetical arguments have been advanced.
Psychologists have attributed alien abduction to a variety of internally generated disturbances. Psychosis, dissociative identity disorder, fantasy prone personalities, weak boundaries, and sleep paralysis to name a few. To test these hypotheses, experimental psychologists have spearheaded several academic studies designed to identify possible psychological aberrations behind the abduction delusion. The result: abduction experiencers are surprisingly normal. Confounded by this revelation, experimental psychologists conjectured that experiencers must have fantasy prone personalities or weak boundaries that make it difficult for them to distinguish between fantasy and reality. More studies ensued. The results: those who meet the criteria for a real abduction are no more fantasy prone than the general population, nor do they have weak boundaries. Denise meets these criteria.
CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/alien-abduction-seriously-0511