Pinchbeck believes that activity in the spirit world can directly impact the physical world. He gives the example of a shaman emerging from a long trance holding a new seed or plant needed for healing others. This suggests that consciousness operating in the spirit world can cause changes in the physical world. In his words, “The energy of conscious or unconscious beliefs and the willpower of human beings may create actual physical manifestations that take on a level of independence from any individual consciousness”. Therefore, we should allow for the possibility that the abductees’ implants and nicks on the skin are side effects of the activities in the spirit world. That is, they may emerge into the physical world prior to the return to a normal state of consciousness.
The remaining aspects of the Type B supporting evidence are more difficult to explain as direct effects of interactions with the spirit world. This evidence concerns observations of other people not directly involved in the abduction. For example, family members have missed abductees for the duration of the abduction, and other people have observed abductions in progress. In such cases, there is clearly the physical displacement of the abductee from one location to another. The most parsimonious explanation is that there actually were abductors acting in the physical world, perhaps using unfamiliar technology. For example, in one case an abductee was seen to be moved to a UFO outside her apartment.
If we can accept the possibility that implants and marks on the skin are transported from the spirit world to the physical during the trance state, we might consider also that the entire abduction scenario has migrated from the spirit domain to the physical domain. Pinchbeck argues that UFOs and their occupants may be material thought forms that popped into existence in the physical world when a sufficient number of people believed in them (somewhat like Tinkerbell in the Peter Pan story). The UFOs and their occupants are both “imaginal” (in that they are created by believers) and real, in that they possess an independent existence. He argues that there is precedence for this kind of phenomenon in the Tulpa thought-forms created from the psychic energy of Tibetan Buddhists. So, the few abductions that have involved other people as observers may have been the work of physical thought-forms bent on carrying out the script usually experienced in the spirit world.
Another argument in favor of a spirit world locus
The recognition that alien abductions take place in the spirit world sidesteps the problem raised by Craig Lang in the first issue of the Journal of Abduction Research (2007). He notes that, given the estimated number of people who have been abducted, there should be about 16 abductions per day in a large metropolitan area. Worldwide, there should be about 32000 abductions per day. This rate of abductions using physical craft and crew would be a severe logistical challenge from several points of view, and secrecy would be hard to maintain. On the other hand, the rate of abductions taking place in the spirit world would have no limit. Thus, the logistics argument further supports the reality of the spirit world as the locus for the abduction experience.
Human involvement in alien abductions
Although the evidence is slim, some abductees believe that a group of humans with their own agenda are collaborators in the abduction phenomenon. Some have reported seeing humans in military uniform participating in activities during the abduction experience. Some also suggest that unknown technological devices are used to control their mental processes. What kind of technology might be used to control a person’s volition, thoughts, and awareness?
Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University, found that when the right brain hemisphere of volunteers is stimulated with a particular electrical pattern, mystical feelings are often elicited such as the “sensed presence”. He also found that altered perceptions and dream-like states are more likely to occur in conjunction with electromagnetic effects resulting from, geophysical activity. Further, he suggests here that it may be technically feasible to affect large populations of people by artificial modulation of the geomagnetic field.
Wilbert Smith, a Canadian government scientist, described another technology that may interact directly with human mental activity. He claimed to have received, via channeling, a description of a tensor beam from extraterrestrial visitors. He understood the tensor beam to be a means for communicating with the aliens, although he never mastered it. He described its use as something like “wiggling one’s ears”. However, the tensor beam may not be a communications channel as we understand it, but a device for inducing a brain state in the user appropriate for contacting beings in the spirit world. The latter is consistent with the way the technical information was obtained; that is, by channeling a being in the spirit world.
Nefarious humans, for some unknown reason, could conceivably be using either form of electromagnetic stimulation to exercise control over the consciousness of a target population. However, it is unlikely that such technology alone would be able to produce the complex imagery of the abduction experience. Therefore, the apparent military abductions would need to involve human participation and physical props. If these were the cause of all abductions, we would again have the logistical problem outlined by Craig Lang. So it is possible that some abductions were perpetrated by humans, but most must still have taken place in the spirit world. It should be noted that David Jacobs’ investigations convinced him that the agents of military abductions are adult alien hybrids in uniform.
Control over the abduction experience
The realization that the alien abduction experience may take place in the spirit world offers therapists a possible means to stop it from happening. They might want to consider the possibility of chemical intervention to prevent the release of excessive DMT from the pineal gland. Medication designed to control the level of endogenous DMT should limit undesired entry into the spirit world. Alternatively, the administration of additional DMT might generate the abduction experience on-demand in susceptible people so that it can be studied scientifically.
Are aerial UFOs a separate phenomenon?
The majority of aerial UFOs observed over the years do not necessarily participate in the alien abduction script. Their occupants may just be extraterrestrials visiting earth from other physical worlds. If so, it is unlikely that they will resemble the “Grays” since these are observed in the spirit world. If physical entities are seen that have the appearance of the Grays, we should entertain the possibility that their origin is non-physical. They may be either thought forms that have spilled over from the spirit world when conditions were right or creations of other physical beings inspired by their own forays into the spirit world.