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From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:18:48 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 13:15:49 -0500
Subject: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'- Persinger!

>  From: missionquest@seanet.com
>  To: Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org
>  Subject: Electrically Induced Hallucinations

>  The Discovery channel aired a show probing possible explanations of "alien
>  abductions," over one million Americans claim to have been abducted. An
>  interview of over fifty abducties found that each had some sort of
>  electrical accident, then strange things began to occur, abductions being
>  only the latest. They all exhibited signs of electrical sensitivity. A
>  woman in the UK was interviewed who had been reporting strange occurrences
>  including alien abduction. An electrical accident and her electrical
>  sensitivity was noted, as well as her neighborhood's electrical transformer
>  station, radio and cell towers.
>  A neurobiologist was shown researching the influence of electromagnetic
>  fields on the brain. Using a helmet than can generate specific fields,
>  patterns and intensities he noted that people reported specific experiences
>  with particular fields such as; feeling the presence of a person while
>  alone in a room, traveling through tunnels, white light, being suspended
>  in  mid air, all commonly reported in abduction cases. All the people knew
>  they were being tested and ascribed the test to account for their
experiences,
>  but he noted that if a person has such experiences at home they will
>  interpret it differently than in a lab and will search for its meaning from
>  their cultural filters. He also noted that the appearance of aliens
>  distinctly changes from country to country, suggesting a cultural influence
>  to how we interpret these bioelecetrical disturbances.
>  I'm interested in following this lead, might you recommend any reports?

Yes. Don't bother.

Persinger's "magic helmet" is an interesting device and he has received
a great deal of attention over the past few years. While some people
(certainly not all) using his helmet report vague sensations and odd
mild hallucinations, their experiences are greatly different from the
complex narratives and reports of abductees and contactees. Persinger's
suggestion that people in a "natural" environment would interpret such
sensations as alien encounters is greatly unsatisfying.

First, where would such magnetic fields come from in nature?
Second, if such fields occur in nature, why do they always induce
alien-specific hallucinations?
Third, how does one make the jump from "odd colors" and "a presence in
the room" to "the alien spoke to me as it inserted a probe into my
genitals"?

Persinger's theory originally was called the Tectonic Strain Theory
(TST) of UFOs because he was adamant that all UFO sightings, reports
and experiences could be explained as related to weak seismic events
deep underground. The events would generate energy which would be the
source for such hallucinations. However, the methodology used to
associate UFO phenomena and earthquakes was shown to be flawed
(although Persinger ignores or denies this). Besides, the intensity of
energy from such sources would be much less than radiated energy from
other souces, such as computers and television sets, in which case
there would be a greater preponderance of abduction reports than is
even claimed now.



--
Chris Rutkowski - rutkows@cc.umanitoba.ca
(and now, also: Chris.Rutkowski@UMAlumni.mb.ca)
University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Canada