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From: "Steven J. Powell" <sjpowell@access.digex.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 06:16:21 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:52:41 -0500
Subject: Re: 'The Most Authentic Alien Image Ever'

> From: "Julianne Presson" <earthwrk@cyberport.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Most Authentic Alien Image Ever'
>
> > > These folks seem to have an extremely difficult time
> > > disassociating themselves from the tremendous emotional
> > > attachment to their experience.
> > Anything as seriously traumatic as this is going to present a whole
> > set of separate problems, which is why I think the psychological
> > aspect and any related therapy should be separate from any
> > research/investigation.
> Well, this opens to the question of whether the therapy should
> come before the research.

I think it should.

> Another question that comes to mind is how is therapy
> administered to treat a problem for which there is no precedent
> within the mental health field? To be sure, there has been work
> done with those who have been abducted and held against their
> will, but these cases involved human captors. The equation is
> not the same. I feel that in these regards, those who have
> undergone this type of experience and have been able to deal
> with the problem successfully, would be of some value here.

I think it would be possible to treat the symptoms or treat the
after-effects without having it previously established that alien
abductions are real.

> > There's no reason why abductees can't be involved in the
> > research/investigation but there are some otherwise obvious
> > groundrules associated with that.  It isn't a crime that one or
> > another person has difficulty separating themselves from the
> > phenomenon, I'd be surprised if that wasn't pretty much always the
> > case.
> I was not referring to disassociating oneself from the phenomena
> John, but from the emotional content that came as a result of
> the experience. However, that is also another point. One who has
> had this type of experience and intends to enter into
> research/investigation of abductions and UFOlogy, should become
> capable of laying aside any beliefs and/or assumptions that came
> about as a result of his/her experience in order to be
> effective.

Same thing as I was saying really.  Its much more difficult to be an
objective investigator if you are also a victim of that which you are
investigating.

> > I'm not so sure how overwhelming the number really are.  True, its a
> > lot of abductees but they are mostly coming from a very small number
> > of abductionists.  At any rate, the anecdotal data to date,
> > overwhelming or not, is clearly enough to indicates that
> > _something_, rather than nothing, is going on.
> I will concede that, but it is strange and in my view, real. I
> have seen various tentative hypothesis' put forth in an attempt
> to explain away these phenomena, but frankly John, I feel that
> the majority of these are more strange than the notion of some
> type of being whether from across the galaxy or from a slight
> phase of reality away from that we are used to perpetrating
> these events.

Whatever it turns out to be I'm pretty sure it will be strange...<grin>

> As you know, I have my own idea as to what constitutes these events.
> I feel most strongly that it is a mistake as well as quite
> possibly constituting a great amount of danger for many in
> assuming/believing that these events are perpetrated by beings
> from another world across the galaxy. I feel the truth could be
> far stranger than that.

The risk in thinking that nothing is happenning is the same as thinking
something specific is happenning and being wrong.  Whatever it is that's
happenning doesn't apparently know or care what we think...

--

Thanks, take care.
John.

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