2007: Interview with Barbara Bartholic 3

Isn’t it time we asked, “Who or what gives the orders?” Why in ‘cosmic’ terms are they allowed to control humans? We all must wake up; demand answers to these questions. Who runs this planet, anyhow? Karla Turner thought that alien abduction process was especially harmful to human beings, and could even prove to be lethal in some cases. Well, it’s an understatement to say that this is not exactly the feelings of many abductees, scholars and researchers like Whitley Strieber or Richard Boyland. What do you think about it ? My deepest respect is for researchers, scholars and many abductees who thankfully remain safe and secure during their valiant attempts to understand the ever-enigmatic UFO phenomenon. However, people must understand that the researchers […] Read More

2007: Interview with Barbara Bartholic 2

It was actually the entrance to an underground facility, camouflaged by an old storefront. Hypnosis revealed three matching descriptions of a large underground reptilian alien base. As the women left the store, they were disoriented, unable to speak properly, and barely able to reach their destination. One nurse sitting in the back seat was writhing in considerable back pain. They begged me to work with them to see what had happened. After extensive regressive hypnosis, they were all in agreement that they had been abducted and subjected to forms of mental and physical abuse. I was curious as to whether they would seek help for their post-traumatic stress from their superiors. They answered in unison, ”Noooooo! They would not believe us and would diagnose […] Read More

2007: Interview with Karla Turner, Ph.D. 2

KT: I think those positions are completely untenable, they grow out of what I call armchair research. I don’t conceive you will find them being espoused by anyone who has actually had the experiences. If they have been through them and want to come back and talk about what happens when they undergo hypnosis, to look at what they consciously remember, then we can have a dialogue. Right now, they are speaking without knowledge. They are speaking hypothetically, and their opinions are based on erroneous understandings of the phenomenon, of the experiences, and of the control exerted upon abductees during these experiences. It is easy to philosophize any number of explanations, but that does not mean that those explanations have any relationship to what […] Read More

2007: A interview with Jim Sparks 6

J: Without going into great detail… after we evolve, I think is where I want to go right now, which is [pause] as we understand things now, as see things now, it’s fantastic. We can’t just sit back and, say, “oh, gee, we do evolve” because we repopulate again, and regroup and so forth. The push is to get us to bring most of us if not all of us there. B: It gets worse before it get better, and we’ve got to rise to the challenge. J: It will, oh absolutely, it will. Oh, but when it will and how it will, it almost doesn’t take much imagination. You know if you start looking at CO2 levels, if you start seeing what the […] Read More

2007: A interview with Jim Sparks 5

J: We have to do it. There’s, technologies out there that exist that are secret, free energy, where we don’t have to derive so much from our environment. And these technologies are in the possession of these Black Op secret organizations, who in their view, and in their eyes, sanctioned or not – most of them are sanctioned – that they are doing this for the defense and the security of our nation, and other free nations. I’m not just being selfish and saying the United States, but we do, we’re up there pretty much at the top with this stuff, okay? And these things need to be cut loose because we do have the global warming. We do have problems with the rain […] Read More

2007: A interview with Jim Sparks 4

J: Right. However, when you’re walking down the beach, and that same thing appears in the sky, and there are many people around you, and it’s over the water and people are jumping up and down in excitement, and others are scared, all that took place and several other experiences within a three week period. So the name stuck with me because of the events that followed and that direct, “The Keepers”. So it referred to itself as The Keepers. B: Very striking. Very appropriate. Where is this going, and is there a program on track? From their point of view, if you were their program manager, would you feel, okay, we’re doing all right here? Or do you think thatthis planet is in […] Read More

2007: A interview with Jim Sparks 3

J: And depending on how significant it is, brings in dimension. Now I’m getting into a detailed aspect. If it’s two-dimensional, it can almost be like a flat thing, like if it was a sketch, but sketched… a snapshot sketch. If it had significance or more importance, then it took on some depth. But these ape-like things, according to them they claim, that they genetically manipulated to make us what we are today, which is a part of them, according to them, and a part of what’s naturally here. B: So we’ve been gene-spliced with them? J: If you want to say gene-spliced. How exactly they do it, I don’t know. B: I don’t even know… that’s a technical term. J: I think, you […] Read More

2007: A interview with Jim Sparks 2

J: Yes! So you know how to behave. Bottom line. Because you’re dealing with creatures that are non-human intelligence. They’re ten to a hundred times faster in the mind. They’ve got the high technology. They can travel time, they can span the universe with no time passing. They can work with other dimensions and these people or beings are so far removed from what we are, particularly socially. They definitely don’t have any social skills as far as we’re concerned. They traumatize you. Interaction is trauma in every way, shape and form. It’s a better thing that the memory is taken away from people, and maybe it comes back to them slowly, so they can cope and deal with it. But in that first […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 17

1. A relationship between sleep anomalies and the abduction experience seems to make sense on theoretical grounds (and in terms of the extent of sleep anomalies in the general population) but is yet to be directly evaluated. 2. The consistency across abduction narratives is obvious, but its statistical deviation from chance (as determined by narrative production for the general population) has not been assessed. In fact, despite the existence of some frequency distribution tables for abduction experience characteristics and content (e.g., Bullard, 1994), statistical analyses of these data have not been done. Also, a much closer examination of cultural variations in the abduction experience needs to be done. 3. The occurrence of certain stigmata (e.g., scoop marks) have been described as suspicious, but no […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 16

DISCUSSION Facts acquire significance only when related to theory, and theory remains empty in the absence of supporting fact. For fact and theory to be of any relevance, a relationship between them must be established. This is especially important, and especially difficult, when dealing with a phenomenon such as the abduction experience. As Morrison (1972) has stated: If we are to believe any hypothesis, however plausible or implausible, concerning new events — particularly those that do not satisfy the easy quality of being reproducible at will by those who undertake to set up a laboratory for the purpose — then we must find … multiple, independent chains of evidence satisfying a link-by-link test. [p. 280] Mindful of this, what can be said of the […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 15

Clearly then, a researcher’s or clinician’s intuitive sense about a child’s testimony (let alone the intuitive sense of the child’s parents) says nothing about the validity of that testimony. And the testimony’s detail, coherence, or consistency with adult testimony, is of significance only in regard to the child’s opportunity for misattribution. As difficult as it may be to document such influence, a child’s exposure to books, movies, television, the media, and the casual conversations of parents, peers, teachers, and the occasional stranger, provide more than ample opportunity for misattribution to occur. Parental assurance that their child had no opportunity for exposure to such influences is naive, or at best unfalsifiable. In addition, a perhaps counterintuitive finding from recent research (Brainerd, Reyna, & Brandse, 1995) […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 14

Physical symptoms are indicative of actual abductions. Abduction experiencers often report marks on the body, or other physical symptoms they suspect may be associated with an actual abduction event. Not uncommonly, these are (at least apparently) mundane conditions such as blemishes, bruises, nosebleeds, and familiar discomforts. In other cases, more serious or unusual skin rashes or other markings are reported. And in still other cases, serious scars of unknown (unremembered) origin are present. These conditions have been considered by some as evidence of alien abduction procedures. Mack (1994) regards “the physical changes and lesions affecting the bodies of experiencers” as a critical factor in understanding the abduction experience. Hopkins et al. (1992) regard the existence of “puzzling scars on [the] body without remembering how […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 13

But by what standards should we predict alien agendas? The “anthropomorphic fallacy” (the assumption that we can attribute the behavior of other animals to human motives and feelings) is well known among behavioral psychologists as an error in reasoning. Certainly, the same caution should apply to speculation about alien behaviors. That notwithstanding, there are reasons consistent with human behavior as to why an alien civilization might not want overt contact. (To name just two: We may be subjects of a research protocol that overt contact would violate; they may be up to no good and don’t want us to know about it.) The argument that abduction reports must be dismissed because the reputed behavior is not overt is based on fallacious reasoning or, at […] Read More

1996: THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE: 12

THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL (ET) HYPOTHESIS Perhaps the most provocative explanation for abduction experiences is that they are essentially veridical reports of actual abductions by apparently extraterrestrial (ET) entities.9 Because more attention has been directed toward this hypothesis than any other, the perspectives of both advocates and detractors will be examined-tined in detail. (a) Arguments Against the ET Hypothesis Many critics of the ET hypothesis argue that in the absence of tangible proof, parsimony requires that the ET hypothesis be dismissed. The relationship between parsimony and evidence has been discussed already and will not be reiterated here. Other a priori arguments for dismissal are discussed below. UFO sightings are not caused by spacecraft, so abduction experiences are not caused by aliens. It would be difficult to […] Read More