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From: MAC TONNIES <0212104@ACAD.NWMISSOURI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:48:03 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 01:16:32 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'

Steven J. Powell wrote:

>>Gross electrical stimulation like this, say from
>>lightning bolts or electroconvulsive therapy, scrambles peoples
>>minds.  It doesn't produce delicate hallucinations with a complete
>>story line.  If that were true, hundreds of people every day having
>>MRI scans in magnetic fields of 20,000 gauss, would be hallucinating
>>alien abductions all over the place.

>No argument there.  I don't think theories based on this could apply to
>so-called alien abductions.  Maybe they could apply to certain, very
>specific, sightings.

I think the specificity you refer to is the variable structure of
a given "experiencer's" brain.  The brain is an impossibly delicate
organ, and it could be that only a very, very small percentage of
the population has the brain structure needed to "register" electric
fields and hallucinate.  More research needs to be done on the
temporal lobe.

I apologize for not following this discussion from the beginning, but
I recommend Albery Budden's "UFOs: Psychic Close Encounters--The
Electromagnetic Indictment" for anyone interested in this.  He makes a
strange, powerful argument, although I suspect that the phenomenon
of "signal-linking" is not as widespread as he hypothesizes.

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