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From: "Mark Pilkington" <markp@syzygy.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:45:27 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:24:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Question for Kevin Randle

>From: KRandle993@aol.com
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:45:22 -0400 (EDT)
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Question for Kevin Randle

> >From: XianneKei@aol.com
> >Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
> >To: updates@globalserve.net
> >Subject: Question for Kevin Randle

>And no, this does not mean that the Hill abduction is
>the result of pop culture, only that it could be.

>KRandle

I have to agree with Kevin here, the influence of popular
culture on abduction reports would appear to be extremely
significant, beginning with the Hills, and reaching a
fairly critical  state these days. It's pretty hard to
enter a magazine or bookshop or  turn on the TV (or go
into Hallmark cards in the US!) without being  confronted
with images of the Greys and UFOs.  The greys have become
the standard bogeyman character for kids (and adults), the
things in the closet or hiding under the bed.

I don't doubt that some people are experiencing some
extremely weird stuff, some of it perhaps contact with
some form of intelligence - perhaps human in origin,
perhaps not. But I think that the grey/UFO/abduction
scenario has become a form of template that is bolted on to
the experience either at the time or afterwards
(particularly during hypnosis) by the brain, probably
unconsciously. Whilst none of these ideas are new, the recent
post about facial templates was very interesting and would
appear to suggest this also.

Again, before I am lynched, I do believe that many people are
going through some very strange and important stuff, but I
don't believe the greys are responsible. i have met enough
sane and sincere "experiencers" to recognise this.

As Vallee and others have
pointed out, entity encounters have been going on for ever
 - the imagery changes with the times (as does UFO imagery,
from dragons to airships to saucers to delta wings) but the
core experiences are always very similar. This ultimately
comes down to how  our brains, which we know very little
about, interact with our larger environment, which we know
little about, and the greater natural forces that play on
both of them.

If anyone is interested I elaborate and go into more detail
in a thesis I wrote for a film studies degree. It's at
http://www.hedweb.com/markp/ufofilm.htm

I also recommend the writings of Martin Kottmeyer and  Nigel
Watson in these areas. Some of their stuff can be found at
Magonia.

I welcome anyone's comments, as this is a key  (to me, the
key) area of the UFO mystery.

Mark

Mark Pilkington
Magonia Online
http://www.netkonect.co.uk/d/dogon/idex.htm