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From: "Steven J. Powell" <sjpowell@access.digex.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:06:21 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:38:01 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations' -

>Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:49:37 -0500
>From: Greg Sandow <GSANDOW@prodigy.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'?
>
>Corl Ribl=E9t writes, after watching a Discovery channel show on alien
>abductions:
>Was this Michael Persinger?=20
>If so, his hypothesis is built on a staggering series of assumptions and
>guesses. He hasn't at all demonstrated that tectonic processes generate
>the kind of electromagnetic fields that could account for the effects
>he's demonstrated in the lab.=20

But the combination of his work and the tight concurrence of
electromagnetic activity associated with geologic activity and UFO
sightings in the US and UK are interesting.

I suppose one could assume that UFOs cause geologic activity...<grin>

>Nor has he shown why these effects could cause abduction imagery, as
>opposed to hallucinations of other kinds.=20

He's shown that these effects can cause all sorts of imagery and sensation,
some related to the abduction sub-theme and some not.  Certainly doesn't
explain so-called alien abductions but the coincidence is very interesting.

>I've seen Persinger on TV, and he struck me as something of a crackpot,
>despite his credentials and some impressive research into the
>conjunction of earthquakes and UFO reports.

I doubt he's a "crackpot," just looks that way because some folks have
tried to make too much out of some very preliminary work of his.