According to the research of the late ufologist and abductee Dr.Karla Turner, the abduction phenomenon, if true, has deep implications for our life. In one of her articles, Dr.Turner summarizes the main conclusions of the abduction phenomenon (two of them, emphasized in blue, is relevant to afterlife research, as I'll comment below):
If "abduction" reports can be believed--and there is no reason to doubt the honesty of the reporters--the abduction phenomenon includes the following details:
1) Aliens can alter our perception of our surroundings.
2) Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to us in any number of guises, and shapes.
3) Aliens can take us--our consciousness--out of our physical bodies, disable our control of our bodies, install one of their own entities, and use our bodies as vehicles for their own activities before returning our consciousness to our bodies.
4) Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can make themselves only partially visible.
5) Abductees receive marks on their bodies other than the well-known scoops and straight-line scars. These other marks include single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three- and four-fingered claw marks, and triangles of every possible sort.
6) Females abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breasts and uterus, and to hysterectomies.
7) Aliens take body fluids from our necks, spines, blood veins, joints such as knees and wrists, and other places. They also inject unknown fluids into various parts of our bodies.
8) A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious illnesses they didn't have before their encounters. These have led to surgery, debilitation, and even death from causes the doctors can't identify.
9) Some abductees experience a degeneration of their mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Excessive behavior frequently erupts, such as drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating, and promiscuity. Strange obsessions develop and cause the disruption of normal life and the destruction of personal relationships.
10) Aliens show a great interest in adult sexuality, child sexuality, and in inflicting physical pain on abductees.
11) Abductees recall being instructed and trained by aliens. This training may be in the form of verbal or telepathic lessons, slide shows, or actual hands-on instruction in the operation of alien technology.
12) Abductees report being taken to facilities in which they encounter not only aliens but also normal-looking humans, sometimes in military uniforms, working with the alien captors.
13) Abductees often encounter more than one sort of alien during an experience, not just the grays. Every possible combination of gray, reptoid, insectoid, blond, and widow's peak have been seen during single abductions, aboard the same craft or in the same facility.
14) Abductees--"virgin" cases--report being taken to underground facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of human bodies.
15) Abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood, being mutilated, flayed, and dismembered, and stacked, lifeless like cords of wood. Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don't co-operate with their alien captors.
16) Aliens come into homes and temorary remove young children, leaving their distraught parents paralyzed and helpless. In cases where a parent has been able to protest, the aliens insist that "The children belong to us."
17) Aliens have forced ther human abductees to have sexual intercourse with aliens and even with other abductees while groups of aliens observe these performances. In such encounters, the aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, the Pope, certain celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees.
18) Aliens perform extremely painful experiments or procedures on abductees, saying that these acts are necessary but give no explanation why.....Painful genital and anal probes are performed, on children as well as adults.
19) Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and destruction. They say that a certain number of humans...will be "rescued" from the planet in order to continue the species, either on another planet or back on earth after the destruction is over. Many abductees report they don't believe their alien captors and foresee instead a much more sinister use of the "rescued" humans.
"In every instance from this list, there are multiple reports from unrelated cases, confirming that such bizzarre details are not the product of a single deranged mind. These details are convincing evidence that, contrary to the claims of many UFO researchers, the abduction experience isn't limited to uniform pattern of events. This phenomenon simply can't be explained in terms of cross- breeding experiments or scientific research into the human physiology....... Before we allow ourselves to believe in the benevolence of the alien interaction , we should ask, do enlightened beings need to use the cover of night to perform good deeds? Do they need to paralyze us and render us helpless to resist? Do angels need to steal our fetuses? Do they need to manipulate our children's genitals and probe our rectums? Are fear, pain, and deception consistent with high spiritual motives?"
Jime's commentary
Dr.Tuner's conclusions, if correct, have a bunch of scientific, philosophical, religious and (above all) EXISTENTIAL implications, which shouldn't be bypassed by any human being, let alone by any truth-seeker. I'll comment about each point of Dr.Turner's view in future posts.
In this post, I'll like to comment briefly the points number 3 and 17, in which Dr.Tuner says that the evidence from alien abductions suggests that aliens can appear with the form of religious leaders (e.g. Jesus) and even dead spouses (and we can suppose that of other members of the family) of the abductees, or that they can take command of a person's consciousness and manipulate it at will (e.g. so-called "demonic" or "non-demonic" possesions?).
If it is true, then some putative "afterlife" apparitions are not from the afterlife at all. In this case, it would be literally an alien manipulation!.
In the same way in which most scientists are ignorant, and even hostile, to the evidence for the afterlife, I think that many afterlife researchers (and parapsychologists, for that matter) are very ignorant of the evidence from ufology. Some of them seem to think that ufology is a "pseudoscience" and that "no evidence at all" exists for UFOs, or (putautve) alien abductions. This causes a kind of lack of communication among scholars in different fields and therefore the best conclusions or speculations in one field cannot shed light on the other.
But note that if Dr.Turner is correct, then at least part of the abduction evidence is relevant for afterlife research, because a putative afterlife manifestation (apparitions of dead relatives or spouses) is actually (in some cases) accounted for by alien intervention, not by the afterlife hypothesis.
Moreover, if aliens can do such a thing, cannot they to produce (artificially) other manifestations suggestive of an afterlife? After all, if they can appear like Jesus... (I'm thinking in the Jesus "apparition" that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claimed to have experienced. Also, I'm thinking in contemporary mystical or paranormal sources of information and messages which, supposedly, come from Jesus himself... assuming for the argument's sake that these reports are veridical, which is not clear either).
Also, since aliens can take our consciousness, then it is not definitive that each case of mediumship evidence can be explained with the afterlife hypothesis alone. This suggestion would sound ridiculous to many hard-nosed spiritualists, but not to other truth seekers (specially the ones informed by ufology) who want to consider all the relevant hypotheses.
I think we have to be extremely careful here, avoiding to dismiss evidence from other fields which are relevant to own cherished beliefs.
As an reader and student of the ufological literature, I'm increasingly becoming convinced that something very interesting is happening in the best cases of UFOs. I have not clear if we're at presence of an "extraterrestial" manifestation, but the evidence is suggestive. Also, I think this phenomenon is strongly connected with religion.
I'm convinced that an inter-disciplinary approach to these questions (sound intellectual formation, including good understanding of natural and social science, philosophy, parapsychology, religion, theology, ufology, etc.) is absolutely necessary to have an all-around, objective and accurate picture of what the hell is happening in the best cases of ufology and, particularly, of the abduction phenomenon.
Just think about it and think hard about Dr.Tuner's points mentioned above.
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