Chapter 9 Chapter 6 Hallucinations

Advertisers must know their audience.It's a simple matter of production and coexistence.Therefore, we can know how the United States, a country with commercialization and free enterprise management, views the mystery of UFOs by examining the advertisements published in UFO-related magazines.Here are some (totally typical) ad headlines from a magazine called UFO World: ■A senior scientist discovers a 2,000-year-old secret about wealth, power and romance. ■ Super secret!The most lurid government conspiracy of our time has finally been brought to light by a retired military officer. ■What is your "special mission" in this world?The workers who wake up the cosmic light, the uninvited guests, and all the star-born councilors have started their mission!

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■Men in Black: Government Spokesperson or Alien? ■ Increase the magic of gems, amulets, tokens and tokens.Improve your efficiency.Amplify your psychic power and abilities with the "amplifier" of psychic power. ■The famous money effect: Do you want to have more money? ■The Lyle Covenant, the Bible of Lost Civilizations. ■The new book "The Manipulator" written by "Commander X" inside has confirmed the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the earth.We are the property of alien intelligence. What is the main thread that ties these ads together?Not UFOs.Undoubtedly, the expectation that the reader will be duped without limit.That's why the ads are in UFO Magazine—because, in general, readers are classified according to the specific behavior of the magazine they buy.No doubt the level of generally skeptical and fully rational readers who buy these publications is lowered by this expectation of advertisers and editors.But if most readers are on exactly the same level, what else might the alien abduction stories mean?

Occasionally I get a letter from someone who has had "contact" with aliens.They invited me to "ask them some questions".To this end, I have prepared some questions over the past few years.These aliens are very advanced, keep that in mind.So, the question I ask is: "Please prove Fermat's last theorem or Goldbach's conjecture in the simplest way possible. Then I have to explain what these are, because aliens won't call it Fermat's last theorem. So I wrote simple equations with exponents. I never got an answer. On the other hand, if I asked something like "Can we get along? "I can always get an answer to a question like this. The aliens will be more than happy to answer any ambiguous questions, especially questions of moral judgment. But when any specific questions are mentioned, they will There is something to be learned from the special ability of aliens to keep silent when it comes to asking us whether they really know things that most humans don't.

In the good old days before alien abductions, they reported that people had been taken into UFOs to give illuminating speeches about the dangers of nuclear war.Now, when we humans have come up with this teaching, the aliens seem to be falling in love with environmental degradation and AIDS again.Why, I ask myself, do the owners of UFOs care so timely and urgently about our planet?Why wasn't there even a temporary warning when there were problems with CFCs and the thinning of the ozone layer in the 50's or AIDS in the 70's?And it might indeed have been good for us to have had these warnings at the time.Why not tell us now about public health or environmental threats we don't know about yet?Do extraterrestrials know as much as those who report their existence?If one of the main purposes of alien visitation is to warn people of the dangers of Earth, why is it only being told to a suspicious few?Why not spend the whole night broadcasting in the UN Security Council on the TV network or on the powerful audio-visual system that can warn everyone in the world?This is certainly not too difficult for aliens who can fly across light years.

The first commercially successful UFO "contact" was George Adamski.He ran a small restaurant in the foothills of Palo Alto, California, behind which he set up a small telescope.On the top of the mountain is the largest telescope in the world, a telescope built by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the California State Institute of Technology, which is a 200-inch reflector.Adamski called himself "Professor" Adamski of the "Observatory" on Mount Palomar.He published a book, which caused a sensation.I remember - in the book he described his encounter in the nearby desert with beautiful aliens with long blond hair.Those aliens were still wearing white robes if I remember correctly.Aliens warn Adamski that Earth is in danger of nuclear war.They came from Venus (which has a surface temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit, which we can now take as a discredit to Adamski's claim).People completely believed what he saw and heard.The Air Force officer in charge of the UFO investigation at the time described Adamski in these words, not quite truthfully:

Seeing this man and hearing the stories he tells gives you an immediate urge to believe what he has to say.Perhaps this is a result of his appearance.His clothes were shabby, but generally neat.His hair is a little gray and black.He also has the most honest eyes I've ever seen. As Adamski got older, his stardom faded.But he went on to publish a few books of his own, and took a long-term seat at the UFO "believers" conference. The story of Betty and Barney Hale, a New Hampshire couple, deserves to be the first of the modern genre of alien abduction.Betty is a social worker and Barney is a post office employee. Late one night in 1961, while driving through the White Mountains, Betty spotted a glowing, initially star-like UFO that seemed to be following them.Because Barney was injured, he left the main road and drove up the narrow mountain road, arriving home two hours later than they expected.The experience prompted Betty to read a book about UFOs that looked like spaceships from other planets. UFO riders are small men who sometimes kidnap humans.

Before long Betty was having terrible nightmares.In the dream, she and Barney were hijacked onto a UFO.Barney overheard Betty telling her dreams to friends, colleagues, and volunteer UFO researchers (curiously Betty didn't discuss the matter directly with her husband).About a week after the alien encounter, they described the "pancake" UFO to people, and through the transparent window glass of the flying object, they saw the image of a creature they had never seen before. A few years later, Barney's psychiatrist entrusted him to Benjamin Simon, MD, a hypnotist in Boston.Betty was also treated with hypnosis.Under hypnosis, they each recounted in detail what happened during the two-hour "disappearance".They saw the UFO parked on the highway, they were taken into the UFO, they were partially unconscious, and in that flying object, there were short, long-nosed, gray humanoids (different shape from what is now generally accepted) , the creatures forced them to undergo unconventional medical exams, including sticking a needle into Betty's navel (before amniocentesis was invented on Earth).Some now believe that aliens extracted eggs from Betty's ovaries and sperm from Barney, however this was only part of the original story.The leader showed Betty a map of interstellar space, which marked the route of the spaceship.

Martin M. Kortmayer featured many of the main elements of Hale's narrative in his 1953 film Invaders of Mars.Barney's story about the alien's appearance, particularly the alien's giant eyes, came out during his twelfth day of hypnosis, while the TV series "Outer Worlds" was being publicly discussed , the image of aliens in this series is designed according to his description. The Hale incident is widely discussed in various circles. The event was brought to television screens in 1975, and these television shows told viewers the idea that these little gray alien abductors had entered the hearts and minds of millions of us.But few UFOs, even thoughtful scientists, have thought that some UFOs might in fact be spaceships.Rumored UFO encounters disappear dramatically in a series of evocative UFO occurrences compiled by Arizona State University atmospheric physicist James E. McDonnell.In general, scientists who take UFOs seriously tend to keep rumors of alien abductions at arm's length.Other scientists who dismissed alien abductions saw no reason to analyze the bright lights in the sky.

McDonnell said he does not believe UFOs are based on irrefutable evidence, and he has been forced to conclude that the alternative explanations do not seem to him to be highly plausible. In the mid-1960s, I arranged for Macdonald to discuss in a private conference room with leading physicists and astronomers who had never spoken about the UFO incident, and had him present his best case collection.But not only did he fail to convince them that we had indeed been visited by aliens, he failed to even interest them in the matter.This is a group with a high special IQ.All they needed to know was where MacDonald had seen aliens, and scientists had seen more prosaic explanations than that.

I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with Mr. and Mrs. Hale and Dr. Simon for several hours.Betty and Barney's warmth and sincerity were not misunderstood, and I could understand their mixed feelings about being public figures in this odd and embarrassing situation.With the Hales' permission, Simon played tapes of their hypnosis sessions for me (and for McDonnell, who was by my invitation).What has struck me the most in my life is the utter terror in Barney's voice as he describes the encounter—better, "from a dead end." Simon, an advocate of hypnotism in times of war and peace, was not caught up in the UFO mania.He got a big paycheck for John Fuller's bestseller "Journey Interrupted" because of the story of the Hales.If Simon asserted that their account was valid, the book would be sold in record numbers and his own finances would add a considerable sum.Yet he did not.He also immediately dismissed the notion that they were lying.As another psychiatrist puts it, it is folie a deux—a shared fantasy, a common instance of a humble companion always echoing the thoughts of a respectable companion.So, any more questions?The Hales' psychiatrist said they shared a "dream" experience. News of alien abductions, like UFO sightings, comes from more than one source.Let's examine several possibilities for UFOs. 1894, (A Worldwide Survey of Hallucinations in the Waking State) was published in London.Since then, the results of several surveys have shown that 10-25% of the average normal person has experienced at least one vivid hallucination in their lives - usually hearing a voice or seeing a objects.Even less often, one feels a lingering aroma, or hears music, or receives a revelation independent of consciousness.In some cases, these are increasingly turning into normal occurrences in personal life or esoteric religious experiences.Hallucinations may be a "gateway" for scientific understanding of religious gods that has been neglected by people. After my parents died, there were probably a few times when I heard my mother or father call my name in their usual conversational voice.Yes, when I lived with my parents, they called me that a lot - doing chores, reminding me of an event, having dinner, meeting, finding out what happened that day, etc.Now, I still miss them very much, and it doesn't seem strange at all that I often remember their voices and smiles clearly. Such hallucinations can occur in ordinary people in completely ordinary circumstances.such as around a campfire at night, or during emotional stress, or during epileptic seizures, or during periodic headaches or high fevers, or during prolonged fasts, insomnia, or sensory loss (for example, in solitary confinement), or smoking Lysergic acid diethylamide, hallucinogens, and cannabis preparations can all cause hallucinations when high. (The dreaded alcohol-induced "delirium tremens" is a well-known hallucinatory symptom of alcohol withdrawal.) There are also substances such as phenothiazines (such as chlorpromazine), which can make hallucinations go away.It is likely that normal people produce some substances—including small brain proteins called endorphins, which are shaped like morphine—that cause hallucinations, while others suppress them.Famous explorers (and without hysterics) Edmorow Richard Byrd, Captain Joshua Srockham and Sir Nestor Shackleton all had Live a vivid hallucinatory experience. Whatever the predecessors of neurology and molecular science thought about the problem, hallucinations always felt real.Descriptions of hallucinations can be found in many cultures, and people see hallucinations as a sign of spiritual enlightenment.Among the Indians of the Western Plains, for example, and in many indigenous native Hebrew cultures, the visions experienced by a young man after a successful "vision-seeking" are intended to foretell his future.The meaning of the hallucinations was discussed very seriously by the elders and chiefs of the tribe.There are countless examples of this in the religions of the world.The patriarchs and prophets of these religions all traveled in droves to deserts or valleys, where hunger and loss of sensation helped them encounter gods and demons.LSD-induced religious experiences became a feature of Western youth culture in the 1960s.This religious experience is often respectfully described as "transcendent," "supernatural," "sacred," and "holy." Hallucinations exist all the time.If you've experienced it, it doesn't mean you're out of your mind.We see hallucinations, ethnopsychiatry, REM sleep, and hypnosis everywhere in the anthropological literature, and they share many common elements across cultures and generations.It is customary to explain hallucinations in terms of the effects of the domination of spirits, good and evil, over man.Yale University anthropologist Weston La Barre said in this regard: "Many things in culture can create a kind of amazing and wonderful thing, which is an illusion", "The whole meaning and purpose of religious rituals seem to exist in... ...there is a group of people who wish to fantasize about reality". In Volume 15 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Louis J. West, former director of the Center for Neuropsychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes hallucinations as a signal-noise problem: If we refuse to face up to the fact that hallucinations have become a part of human life, then we are bound to lose something important about our own human nature.But nothing can alter the fact that the hallucinations are psychic, not objective.5-10% of us are highly susceptible to external suggestions and can enter a deep hypnotic state under command.About 10 percent of Americans say they have seen one or more ghosts.This number is more than the number of people who claim to remember having been abducted by aliens, roughly the same number as the number who reported seeing one or more UFOs, and less than the number encountered in the office during the last week of Richard Nixon's presidency numbers — after he resigned to avoid impeachment — despite his excellent job as president.At least 1% of us suffer from schizophrenia.There are 50 million people with schizophrenia worldwide, more than the population of the UK. In his 1970 book on nightmares, the psychiatrist John Mike - of whom I shall speak later - wrote: In childhood, there was such a period.The children think that the dreams they have are real, that the events, the altered forms of things, the pleasant things, the menacing and terrifying things that happen in the dreams are just like what they have experienced in their real life during the day. .It is not easy to determine and maintain the ability to distinguish between dream life and real life for a long time. It takes several years to establish this ability, and even normal children cannot complete this before the age of 8-10. process.Because the content of nightmares is as vivid and real as the things in life, and has a strong shocking effect, it is really difficult for children to distinguish the truth from the false. When a child tells an unbelievable story, such as a witch making faces in a dark room; a tiger hiding under a bed; a colorful bird flying through a window and smashing a vase; Go into the room, mess up the order in the house, etc.Are they consciously lying?Parents will certainly think that children cannot fully distinguish fantasy from reality.Some children are full of fantasy, while others are less gifted in this area.Some families place a high value on developing children's imaginations and encouraging them.At the same time, they say things like: "It's not real. It's just your imagination." Some families can be impatient to have conversations with their children - which can make family squabbles often, or at least somewhat difficult - Warn children not to fantasize, and even educate them that it is shameful to think wildly.Some parents may not understand the difference between reality and fantasy themselves, or indulge deeply in fantasy.Influenced by these competitive personalities and parenting methods, some people are able to preserve their fantasies well into adulthood.Others grow up thinking that people who cannot distinguish reality from fantasy are crazy.Most of us are somewhere in between. "UFO abductees" often say they have seen "aliens" as children who came in through windows, crawled out of beds, or came out of closets.But children all over the world tell the same stories, stories about fairies, elves, ghosts, goblins, witches, imps, and a host of "fantasy friends."Can we imagine two different groups of children: one who sees imaginary Earthlings, and the other who sees real aliens?But wouldn't it make more sense if we said that the two groups of children saw or fantasized about the same thing? Most people recall being frightened at the age of 2 or more by seeing seemingly real but imaginary "demons", especially at night or in the dark .I still remember hiding under the covers when I was so freaked out until I couldn't take it anymore and ran (if I was able to get to their room before I fell into "the clutches") of my parents' bedroom for safety.American cartoonist Gary Larson, who specializes in horror stories, wrote in his dedication to one of his books: When I was a kid, our house was full of monsters.They hide in closets, under beds, in attics, basements, and elsewhere.When night falls, they wander around.This book is dedicated to my father, who kept me safe. Perhaps the abductee's therapists should have done more than his father. Part of the reason children are afraid of the dark may be that, from the beginning of human evolutionary history until recently, children never slept alone, but lived in safety with an adult, usually the mother, in the care of them.In the civilized West, we insist that our children sleep alone in a dark room, say goodnight to them every night, and have no understanding of how unhappy our children are sometimes.For children, fantasizing about scary monsters can give them a great sense of growth.Fancy running lions and hounds that help helpless toddlers stay away from their protectors.But how can a security machine effectively protect a lively, curious little creature without the horrors of industrialization's immense force?People who are not afraid of ghosts and ghosts generally let their offspring live alone.In the end, I suspect that throughout the course of human evolution, most children have become less afraid of monsters.But we can imagine scary monsters as children, so why can't some of us as adults, at least occasionally, have similar, truly terrifying shared fantasies? It is said that alien abductions mainly occur after falling asleep or before waking up, or driving in a long car to a well-known dangerous place, and they enter hypnotic delusions by themselves.Therapists are mystified when patients report screaming in terror while their spouses sleep peacefully beside them.But isn't this a typical dream?Could it be that in a dream, can others hear our cries for help?Is it not possible that these stories are, as Benjamin Simon told Hale, a sort of sleep, a dream? A common, though not well-known, psychological syndrome that resembles feeling abducted by aliens is known as sleep paralysis, and many people experience it, a state that often occurs during hazy periods of half-awake .It lasts for a few minutes or longer, and you are immobilized and anxious; you feel a weight on your chest, as if something is sitting or lying on it; your breathing Feeling rushed and difficult; you may have visual or auditory hallucinations; you may feel that people, ghosts, elves, animals, or birds are around you.Under the right circumstances, such experiences can be "powerful and have real effects," according to University of Kentucky psychologist Robert Bell.Sometimes the hallucinations have a strong sexual component.Bell believes that the real cause of a fair number, if not the vast majority, of alien abduction claims is just plain sleep disturbance (he and others argue that various other alien abduction claims They are also made up by people who love fantasy, or people such as liars). The Harvard Mental Health Letter (September 1994) made the same comment: "Sleep paralysis may last for several minutes, and is sometimes accompanied by vivid dream-like hallucinations, resulting in stories of gods, ghosts, and extraterrestrial beings. of various legends." Early results from Canadian neuroscientist Wilder Ponfield told us that electrical stimulation of a certain part of the brain produces sufficient hallucinations.People with epilepsy who spontaneously generate a series of electrical impulses in the lower prefrontal brain area can experience a series of hallucinations that are almost indistinguishable from reality, including one or more strange objects, anxiety, floating in the air, sexual experience and loss of time. Feel.There is also a sense of the need to gain insight into the most esoteric issues and to put them into words.A cascade of spontaneous temporal lobe stimulation seems to extend from severely epileptic patients to most of us.Another Canadian neurologist, Michael Pasinger, reported at least one case in which antiepileptic drugs eliminated hallucinations of a woman who had been abducted by aliens.Such naturally induced hallucinations, or hallucinations produced with the aid of chemicals or experiences, may have played a part, perhaps a key role, in the various legends about UFOs. However, this view is easy to emulate: various UFO legends use "group hallucinations" as an excuse to explain it.However, who knows if there is an illusion shared by the masses?Yes or no? When the possibility of extraterrestrial life began to circulate, especially at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, Percival Lowell said that since he discovered the canal on Mars, people began to keep talking about them and aliens, mainly It was the event of Martian contact.In his 1901 book titled From India to Mars, the psychologist Theodore Flournoy described a French-speaking psychic drawing images of Martians in a trance state (these Martians are very similar to us), and write the alphabet and language that Martians use (much like French).In his 1902 doctoral dissertation, psychiatrist Carl Jung described a young Swiss woman who sat across from him on a train and said excitedly that she had discovered a "resident" of Mars.She was told that the Martians knew nothing about science, philosophy, or the soul, but possessed advanced technology, that "flying vehicles already existed on Mars, and there were canals all over Mars," among other things about Mars. Charles Ford, a collector of odd reports who died in 1932, wrote: "Perhaps there are inhabitants of Mars who secretly send reports from our planet to their government." Gerald Herd, 1950s In a book he wrote, the owner of the flying saucer is an intelligent Martian bee.Who could have escaped such a massive coverage of UFOs? However, after Mariner 9 in 1971 proved the canal to be fictional, and in 1976 Viking 1 and Viking 2 even showed that there was still no conclusive evidence for the existence of microbes on Mars. Enthusiasm for Mars has subsided, and we hear very little about Martian visits to Earth.But then there was another incident of aliens coming from somewhere.Why is that?Why aren't the Martians coming anymore?Since humans discovered that the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt aluminum, no one has said that Venusians have visited.Can some of these legends be a rule of our faith?What does the source of these legends say? There is no doubt that humans often hallucinate.Do aliens exist, and do they often come to our earth to abduct and harass us?We doubt it very much.We may argue about the details, but there will be one explanation that is sure to be more convincing than the others.Your reservation might be: Why are so many people reporting this particular hallucination today?Why all this shady little creatures, flying saucers and sex experiments?