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A board of super-machines have been thoroughly examined, so soon after being returned to the place where they were captured, with the memory of the dramatic incident virtually erased. Since then, the lives of these people

The evidence leaves no doubt. Hundreds-perhaps thousands-of such ours have been kidnapped by alleged “aliens” to be brought on board their supernaves and there to undergo a complex physical and mental manipulation, for purposes unknown until now. According to the researchers American John Schuessler, NASA engineer, and Richard Niemtzow-exobiologist-we have at least one hundred thirty cases of kidnapping known. Both researchers took these events to try to find patterns of behavior common in such stories, and found a wide range of truly astounding coincidences that make us believe in the objective reality of those facts.

VISIT project, name given to the work carried out by Schuessler and Niemtzow, also made a sketch of such entities in the most frequently reported events (humanoid in appearance, with an average height of 1.20 meters, head disproportionately voluminous , big eyes and long side, grayish skin, mouth and nose just outlined and very long arms), and traced the outlines found in any reliable account of “UFO abduction.”

For its part, the folklorist Thomas E. Bullard was able to demonstrate in a monumental study conducted over three hundred nine cases of this kind, these episodes follow a surprising and revealing, and which highlights eight key episodes. Namely, capture, review, discussion, tour, travel to other worlds, theophany, return and consequences. While all the elements appear in all cases, it is 84 percent of situations in which the order is fulfilled mathematically.

So we are talking about abductions.

What Does The Term Abduction?

This kind of bizarre incidents linked to the UFO phenomenology ufologists call them “abductions.” According to the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language, this term means in the legal context, “abduction by persuasion or violence.” He would follow four more meanings corresponding to philology and logic, the Militia and Zoology, which do not concern us here. In fact, ufologists have adopted this word to its terms, taking into account only the first definition, being able to specify that in UFOlogy, “an abduction is the alleged kidnapping of one or more human beings by alleged aliens.”

Note that here the same terminology is used wisely and aseptic in Spain used, for example, daily newspapers and the Ministry of Interior to refer to the kidnapping practiced by terrorist groups. Everyone is “alleged” and “alleged” until proven otherwise. It begins, always, the presumption of the facts.

The “Law of Mystery”

From now on, use the term only in its sense abduction UFO. After more than forty years of research on the subject, we are able to say we know about a thousand cases of abduction in the whole world, including and high incidence geographic areas of North and South. Although we assume also that this number is only “the tip of the iceberg”, in keeping with the intrinsic characteristics of the phenomenon in question, and then detail.

First, is the amnesia-or “time lost” in the argot popularized at the beginning of the eighties New York researcher Budd Hopkins, the subject or subjects abducted. This amnesia prevents almost always remember the core players of the incident and we’ve only been overcome with the use of hypnotic regression techniques, by which the abductee was subjected to a state of hiperrelajación in which the images that the conscious memory refuses to recall progressively emerge.

It is quite possible that the abductee remembers the beginning of the episode: for example, a bright light that shuts off while traveling at night in his car, a star that falls from the sky and lands on a nearby field, where resolved in a “flying saucer”, a sudden stoppage of all automotive electrical systems, a lost time, a few hours in which the subject does not know where you’ve been, etc.. If any of these individuals come to the attention of an investigator and it proposes a subject-hypnosis this acceptance is very likely that we can then retrieve a case for the annals of the abduction phenomenon.

Through hypnotic regression, distinguished professionals as the American psychiatrist Dr. Leo Sprinkle, the psychiatrist Dr. Berthold Schwarzy same nationality as the hypnotist and engineer, also an American, Dr. James Harder, have managed to get several hundred reports of abductions. This latest research was to study one hundred and four patients, of whom 39 percent were male and 16 percent were children accompanied by adults. 50 percent were unemployed or unskilled workers, 10 percent office and about 5 percent college students. What in general “implies a level relatively high occupational or educational.”

There is something amazing to entry into these accounts, and consistency is its huge and the like all have each other. So much is because, says the British scholar John Rimmeren his book The Evidence for Alien Abductions (1984), based solely on well-documented stories have been able to build a “model” of abduction, whereby abductees (belonging to both sexes, but with a preponderance of males) healthy human beings, normal and not particularly interested in the UFO problem. Later we will examine in greater detail and detail their physical and mental.

Continuing with the “model” of abduction, it often occurs at night, on a country road, for example (the impact of the phenomenon on motorists is very high). After seeing a very powerful light, or at best, the “dish”, the candidate abducted near the car looks small beings, macrocephalic (large head), after canceling his will carry on board a ” ship, “where the witness observed an even light that seems to come from nowhere, and a” control room “on consoles, chairs sometimes very particular shape and” impossible “(ending in a point” below “) in they feel about humanoid identical to those that have kidnapped, that manipulate light buttons, levers and dials.

Also reported the presence of screens, often compared to our television monitors the abductee. Not be long before our subject to be moved into a chamber adjoining, clinical aspect, with white walls and an “operating table”, similar to operating rooms in the center of the carrier.

Once there, the abductee is stripped of his clothes, and subjected to what appears to be a “medical examination.” This is done by the very humanoid, although there are many cases in which clinical tasks are carried to term by entities that seem to be in a plan of dependence on other, generally higher and more “human”, which apply different equipment to the abductee, they take blood samples, sometimes semen, hair, skin, etc., and if it is a woman, you make what appears to be a “gynecological examination”, introduced by a long navel needle, as in the case of Betty Hill, admirably described by John G. Fuller in his book The Interrupted Journey (1966). Certainly today there are some gynecologists who are surprised to see reflected in this famous case of 1961 ovaroscopia technique does not start until very recently and therefore did not exist at the time the marriage Hill lived experience.

This physical exam is supplemented at times with the “implementation” of “something” (”a microaparato?) In the never or under the scalp of the abductee. However, despite all its efforts in trying to locate these implants, few cases have ended up throwing some kind of “proof.” Without going any further, the September 25, 1986 the U.S. journal Nature published a disturbing letter signed by seven members of the Department of Genetics, Winston Churchill Hospital, Oxford, in asking for help to identify a mysterious object had been detected in some routine chromosome analysis of a patient. The object seemed manufactured, and had the appearance of a crossword puzzle, with black and white squares. To date none of the attempts to clarify the puzzle have been valid, and ‘implant’ continues to defy medical opinion.

The American William Hermann, says in UFO Contact from Reticulum (1981), abducted several times macrocephalic dwarf, called the chamber where all these maneuvers clinics’ inculcation cameras. ” And we believe that this is an appropriate name, since we suspect that the ultimate goal of the abductions of humans is precisely that: the “inculcation” of orders that no further deeper hypnosis can reveal. In fact: when it comes to hypnotic regression at this point, the heart of abducted accelerates, reaching up to 120 beats and stop forcing the experience to not endanger his life. This phenomenon could be noted, inter alia, during hypnosis the abductee Spanish Julio F., who was taken aboard a UFO in the vicinity of Medinaceli (Soria) in 1978. The researcher and psychologist Germain of Argumosa present in regressive hypnosis sessions, noted that if a fraud, would have been impossible to cause such a cardiac acceleration.

Robot Portrait Of Abducted

The range or spectrum of the abductees is very narrow, so much so that you can almost make your robot or identikit portrait. These are usually young men or women (not older than 35 years), healthy in body and spirit, a higher IQ than normal people, without any psychopathological feature, nice and simple. Not necessarily have to be highly cultivated. Abound, including persons belonging to non-intellectual professions: farmers, truck drivers, law enforcement officials, housewives, etc. Many of them never showed the slightest interest in the UFO phenomenon, and no knowledge about it (and much less about something as particular and concrete such as the abductions).

We do not know a single case of abduction of a scientist, a senior military officer, a priest of any religion, or political. Would have said that the kidnappers are interested only chemically pure man, the man untied, or blank minds open, not full of useless knowledge and sclerotic. Why write them as a slate? Maybe.

There is a special case of this milestone abduction phenomenon, which beautifully illustrates the fact that only interested in young subjects. It was published in Flying Saucer Review in December 1983 by the researcher Omar Fowler, and puts the facts as follows: a knight of seventy-seven, was an early morning angling near Aldershot (Great Britain) along a canal, was invited to climb aboard a “flying disc” by the two occupants. There were two large-headed humanoids, of the type commonly reported, dressed in a tight “flying monkey” silver. When the old gentleman who gladly accepted the invitation, was found aboard the ship, two humanoids appeared to confer, and one of them, turning to the abductee, told telepathically that was the wrong target, because of the diffuse light of dawn, taking him for a younger person. “You’re too old and not useful.”

This is a case in point that clearly demonstrates the UFO occupants are only interested in young, healthy members of our own species. But, what is that? What purpose do obey such a selection?

During all these years of research into the phenomenon, ill-informed psychiatrists and psychologists, who know nothing about this aspect of the UFO phenomenology, psychopaths tend to regard as the subjects who say they were abducted. So does, for example, Spanish psychiatrist Dr. Antonio F. Ortega Well, to prosecute the case Prosperous Muñoz, a housewife who lives in Girona, and was abducted when he was only seven years old in Jumilla (Murcia), recalling the events thirty years later, without hypnosis. Quoting from the text book he learned the race, and after giving the reader a “lecture” says Dr. Bueno Ortega in his analysis excellent magazine published by the Journal of Ufology who suffers Muñoz Prosperous “Systematic Transient Delirio” , running “the serious danger of being a schizophrenic.”

Clam-Hynek Experience

It is natural that the good doctor comes to these conclusions if known and studied a single case of abduction, isolated from the general case mix and constants that prevail in it, as natural for a Freudian psychiatrist is to consider the subject delusional make such assertions. But things change if we examine the case within the general context of a phenomenon repeated hundreds of times around the world, the film stars who do not know each other, in times and countries. Thriving When the researcher went Muñoz Antonio Ribera in 1981 to state his case, he offered a few details and constant known for appearing in other cases of abduction, but she could not know because in any Spanish publication of which was to reach such cases had been published. Most of them had only appeared in journals English, French or American.

Fortunately, the psychiatric community is changing their positions before the abduction phenomenon. Since 1989, U.S. center coordinated by Dr. Rima E. Laibow, called TREAT (which stands for Treatment and Research of Anomalous Trauma Lived) has decided to take action, diagnosing and treating the consequences psychomental leaving a case like this one, not wanting to get into the extraterrestrial origin of the phenomenon, as when they tried, right in the UFO community is up to what he believed was an “interference” in its territory, by apriorists minds of these clinicians. However, the incursion of experts in mental health issues within the world of abductions has notable precedents such as experienced by Dr. Aphrodite Clamar.

With the assistance of Ted Bloecher and Budd Hopkins, and thanks to a grant from the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), was the most revealing tests ever performed on subjects abducted. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of the Center for UFO Studies, presented the results of that test in a memorable article in the journal International UFO Reporter, which he titled The abductees are “normal” people (1984). In brief, the experiment consisted of the following: that a doctor in psychology subjected to the regular test battery of psychometric tests (Rorschach, TAT, Wechsler, etc..) Allegedly abducted some subjects, but without the psychologist performing the test knew this very particular detail. It is possible, in this case, the psychologist Dr. Slater who made the tests would think that it was making an assessment of mental and emotional personality of those who, perhaps selected for positions of responsibility in a company. Then sent the results of these tests to Dr. Claman, for it would make a final assessment.

The number of subjects chosen for this test was nine. The five men and four women chosen were young, college graduates, four were single, four divorced and one married. And each of them had been apparently abducted aboard a UFO. Had ‘lost time’ and had experienced in the flesh contact, followed by a detailed medical examination by “aliens.”

Test results were surprising. Write Dr. Crying in its final report: “One of the strengths of this group is their above average intelligence according to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for adults, one of the subject has an IQ (intelligence quotient) of type Very High, and five of them had an IQ falls within the average range Brillante. Only three of the nine fall within the average rate, although all are in the top of this type. ”

It also still says Dr. Clamar, subjects with a relatively rich inner life, this is very interesting, “dominated by an attitude that makes them constantly alert. He concludes: “There is little that one as a group in regard to the overt manifestations of their personalities … (Are) very different, unusual and interesting as subjects. “

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Anxiety also showed several times seems to point towards a “terrible secret” hidden in the recesses of your mind … which makes sense if these subjects were actually abducted, with the psychic trauma can cause such an event.

The reaction of Dr. Slater, when at the end of the experiment revealed that those nine subjects had probably been abducted aboard an alien spacecraft, was one of astonishment and disbelief. Budd Hopkins then said that some of them, with their corresponding cases included in his book on abductions Missing Time (1981), which provided a copy of the doctor. The result of this revelation was an eight-page appendix, which Dr. Slater added to his original report. This appendix was saying, among other things: “The main and most critical issue is whether the experiences reported by the nine subjects could be explained strictly on the basis of psychopathology, ie, a mental disorder. The answer is a resounding no.

If the alleged abductions were fantasies conspiracy, based on what we know about mental disorders, in which case you could come from pathological liars, paranoid schizophrenics and characters very disturbed and extremely rare types hysteroid, subject to fugue states and / or multiple changes personality.

It is important to note that none of these subjects, if we are to heed the information provided by the tests fall within any of these categories. Therefore, although the tests can not prove in any way the veracity of the report of abduction by a UFO, we conclude that the findings made by the tests are not in contradiction with the possibility that the reported abduction actually occurred . In other words, there is an apparent psychological explanation for what they report these subjects. ”

And then Dr. Slater makes an obvious statement: if people had been under consideration such abduction experiences, some of the results of the tests and had been expected.

Traumatic psychological traits examined had all can be compared, according to Dr. Slater, who presented the victims of rape, for example. But apart from the anxiety and the feeling of “violation” that the nine had, people were otherwise completely normal. What’s more-than-normal as far as intelligence and creativity is concerned, though his subconscious fear gave a slight paranoid component, very understandable.

The theory of “birth trauma”

The test conducted by Drs Slater and cry, who has already marked a milestone in UFO research-suggests that the nine subjects experienced a real experience.

And it is precisely the focus of the whole issue. Are abductions real events? Are they, however, episodes purely imaginary fabrications created by the subject allegedly abducted? The implications that flow from each of these possibilities are very different, and very serious in both cases.

If the abductions are real, then there is no choice but to admit that someone is doing some experiments, some human studies, with goals that we fail to see.

But if it is imaginary events, then we have a creation of the collective unconscious of humanity. As at the time said Wray Herbert, editor of the prestigious U.S. magazine Psychology Today, in discussing the book by Whitley Strieber Communion (1987) where he narrates in first person multiple abduction experiences, “whether there is a hallucination … is a mass hallucination that involves family, friends and hundreds of other persons referred to in the book. ” Perhaps, in line psychologistic analysis of this issue, we face the emergence of new archetypes, as postulated by the eminent Swiss psychologist Dr. Carl Gustav Jung to explain the UFO coming to the archetypal image of the mandala, as explained in his work A Modern Myth (1958). But if the mandala is valid, its characteristics (perfectly circular) to explain some cases of UFO abductions with what we have is a little psychodrama, too complicated to be archetypal.

But there is still a third “explanation.” Is advanced by the American sociologist Alvin H. Lawson, after a series of experiments in which the hypnotist was assisted by Dr. William C. McCall. This theory is known as “birth trauma hypothesis.” To formulate, Lawson underwent hypnosis, in four sessions, sixteen students in 1977. Once sofronizados, subjects were presented with a form consisting of nine questions, reproduced below:

Imagine that you are in your favorite place, relaxed and comfortable, when suddenly you see a UFO. Describe what you see.

Imagine yourself on board the UFO. How to get on board?

Imagine you are inside the UFO. Describe what you see.

Imagine you are watching some entities or beings on board the UFO. Describe them.

Imagine that these beings will do a physical exam. Describe what happens.

Imagine that you receive a message sort of occupants of the UFO. What does that message and how it communicates?

Imagine that you return to where you were before you see the UFO. How do you get there and what they feel?

Imagine that some time has passed since I had that encounter with the UFO. Is there anything that indicates that your personality or physiological features and / or psychological has been affected in some way by their experience UFO?

The drawback to this inquiry, is that it predisposes the subject to give predictable responses, not so with a good examination of a “true” abducted, in which the questioner is limited to ask him to recount their experiences, without giving “clues “As with the Lawson-McCall form. The responses obtained by these two investigators are in line with what is asked, and configured in a way a “parody” of a “true” abduction.

Moreover, Lawson says that the form ‘fetal’ small humanoid macrocephalic evocative according to his theory of post-natal trauma, who exhibited widely in the work The Imaginary in the UFO Contact (1990) – how precisely the human fetus. However, we do not understand how the newborn-to be accurate this theory sees himself as a fetus. This is simply absurd.

Also, it seems absurd that the “staging” of abduction reproducing the operating room or maternity ward, delivery takes place. According to Lawson, the subject remind doctors and nurses surrounding her mother at birth, and the very brightly lit room.

Admittedly this may be true for people born in these circumstances. But it would take to conduct an investigation, in many cases impossible to know what were the circumstances surrounding the birth of the abductees. Some, on the date of the incident (1957 of Antonio Villas Boas, 1961 to Betty and Barney Hill) began almost at the beginning of the century, where deliveries are not usually performed in clinical and aseptic conditions today, but many Sometimes at home mother, and the intervention of the midwife figure now practically no longer exists, except for its widespread presence in developing countries clinically.

Antonio Villas Boas, for example (who died in 1985 at the age of 52 years), have been born in 1933, it was twenty years at the time of his famous abduction in Ponta Pora. We do not believe in full sertão Brazil, and in 1933, deliveries take place in pristine clinics, but probably would take place at home, in the light of candles if it was night and with the assistance of a few gossips. This point-very important-has been forgotten by all critics of the hypothesis Lawson McCall.

Let us return momentarily to the case of Prosperous Muñoz, widely exhibited in the play The Time Tunnel (1984). You need to see this case on the global context of similar cases, where the abduction of children aged 7 or 8 years is a fairly frequent. In fact, the UFO researcher Budd Hopkins Yorker now admits that many of the experiences of abduction cases has had the opportunity to investigate back to the first years of witness. “I also discovered,” says Hopkins, the unsettling fact that abduction is not an episode that occurs only once, but seems to be an ongoing process that begins in childhood and reappears later. ”

For its part, the excellent French researcher Geneviève Vanquelef meets many of these “child abduction”, virtually all known, in his UFO: Captures Interventions “(1985), which is undoubtedly the most complete catalog published on these facts there . Seen in this way is that Prosperous Muñoz becomes one more of dozens of abducted children … -And usually followed or monitored, in the jargon-Anglophone UFO then during the course of their lives.

Events “Real or Imagined?

The real cornerstone of this puzzle which presents the enigma of the abductions is whether these are real events (”current happenings”) and imagined (”imaginary happenings”). It depends on what the answer given to this question, which is marked new directions in UFO research. If the answer is that abductions are real, then the implications of this are enormous: as said, mean that a team or teams of entities of unknown origin (aliens, ultraterrestrials or from ‘n’ dimensions), would be programmed to like ours, with goals that we can perceive only slightly.

In the second case, as authors insist that their views shown below as the British Hilary Evans, would mean that hundreds, probably thousands, of human beings (indeed considered perfectly healthy and normal by psychiatrists and psychologists) suffers a hallucination making them believe they have been taken aboard a spacecraft … despite the fact that consciousness does not remember.

As recognized by the ufologist Richard Hall in 1978 (one of the world’s leading UFO researchers, and major supporter of the classic research group NICAP), “or hundreds of people around the world are suffering from hallucinations or delusions similar , and if the source of widespread pathology should be studied urgently, or is something extraordinary, with broad implications for humanity. ” If Hall’s suspicions were true with respect to the pathology of the abductions, this points to a serious disruption of the collective human psyche, into the collective unconscious that Jung spoke. Besides being a more convoluted than the first, perhaps most alarming. The question, then, what is the cause of this mysterious “mental disease or epidemic?”

However, contrasting evidence we have for and against the cases reported, we believe that the abductions reflect actual events. Its very uniformity leads us to think so.

But also, in some cases, even physical evidence: footprints in the soil at the site of the alleged abduction, injury and signs in the body of the abductees, etc. Remember the case of Zanfretta Fortunatto night watchman. Fortunatto is what, in short, could be considered the “prototype” of abducted: young, healthy, balanced, high IQ, simple and open. Perhaps, who beat the record of abductions, six times, for the gigantic creatures that he calls “horrendous.”

 The abduction was beginning to Fortunatto, with a shrill whistle that was inside of the head, accompanied by a strong complaint. He then lost control of his vehicle, a car equipped with radio, and was carried to the top of Monte Marzano in a surprisingly short time. To check whether the car was airborne, the co-Zanfretta, belonging as he himself-a security firm Genovese “Val Bisagno” four wires placed on the four wheels of a new vehicle they prepared for Zanfretta – without it I knew, “said wires connected the wheel to the chassis, and will break if the vehicle was inevitably raised materially.

When distressed Zanfretta reported by radio that he had lost control of the car and “took him away,” his companions left the night in search of finding it, as always, on top of the Monte Marzano, faint, his face flushed. Moreover, as also happened the previous times, the roof of his vehicle was on fire, although the ambient winter temperature was one degree above zero, y. .. the four wires that had previously placed the suspicious fellow Zanfretta appeared broken ..

In addition to those undisputed circumstantial evidence of the reality of abduction, there is no shortage or researchers and Druffel Am Hopkins himself who are working on “evidence” more subtle, designed to demonstrate internal consistency between stories of abduction occurred in very distant planet is overwhelming. Hopkins claimed that “I am currently working on a very particular set of symbols that these guys (the abductees) are seen within the vessels, and that abductees see again and again. They are identical in cases and cases. Keep it a secret, he adds, because it is an easy job to check these symbols with new cases. ”

Lost Time:

One of the constants marked in the abduction phenomenon is the fact that people living one of these episodes only fragmentary memories, as if either the hijackers allegedly extraterrestrials had erased the memory aware of the fact, or as if – more reasonable-even your own mind of the witness before the trauma of this experience, had decided to “forget” these anxious moments and away “as a mechanism of protection-in the conscience of the abductee.

Antonio Ribera Spanish researcher in this regard, in his book Kidnapped by Aliens (1981), writes: “The subjects usually remember the beginning and end of the episode, but the middle part of it-the most important-has been deleted from your conscious mind. This “deletion” has certainly been done through hypnosis: it has imposed a blockade to not remember some experiences, which sometimes could be very traumatic. ”

This constant abductions that has sometimes even led to detect new cases of abduction in which the only thing the witness remembered was having a significant length of time of your life “disappeared”, has been dubbed the “Lost Time” . Responsible for this designation was the New York ufologist Budd Hopkins who, through his work Missing Time (1981), popularized the term and caused thousands of his readers had just reflecting on the possibility of having themselves suffered a similar experience to that of Hopkins seven cases reported in detail in his work. “They own stories,” says the publicity for the book that can happen to anyone: your neighbors, your loved ones and even to you. ”

Hopkins drew throughout his work, “also a number of constants that are systematically repeated in cases of abduction, and may serve as clues to one of these events and work-through sessions of hypnotic regression in recover those lost memories. These clues indicate that along with the feeling of ‘lost time’ strange scars usually appear (usually small craters in the skin, round), and even the sudden appearance of strange phobias are irrational, to some animals such as spiders which, to say Hopkins-can subtly remind the unconscious memory of the shape and appearance abducted by aliens who have abducted prior to the witness.

Bank, to analyze all these constants, has just concluded in his work referred to a revealing reflection: “In the parks and reserves knocks African animals by a narcotic dart. Then they are examined, they take samples of blood, hair, and they make measurements. Then they mark and allowed back into “freedom.” (If this is freedom.) What if he did something similar with human abductees? And yes will be marked with an invisible mark, or incomprehensible to us? “

Humans need to realize that there is a really high chance, if not a 99.9% chance of other life forms in the universe. As a matter of fact, there is really no possible chance of there being NO LIFE located in the universe. This universe is just too ancient and too huge for there just to be natural objects. I’m not speaking aliens or anything, just things such as bacteria, or maybe even some kind of plant/bacterial-like life form that we’ve never discovered. Possibly even so called “Aliens”

People who accept never accomplished an abduction by conflicting or interdimensional Beings will never accept what it absolutely feels like. Akin afterwards decades of compassionate what has been accident to me, and accepting retained abounding acquainted memories of my adventures for best of my life, there are still times back the acquaintance elicits an instinctive, about belly fear. On the added end of the spectrum are absolute adventures that account eustress or acutely acute affable emotions. These adventures are clashing annihilation abroad involving the animal condition. The one activity that never goes abroad – no bulk how abundant we bethink and no bulk how abundant we accommodate these adventures and appear to agreement with them – is the activity that we are altered and abstracted from bodies who are active “normal” lives. Budd Hopkins is one of the few advisers who I accept came actual abutting to compassionate what it was absolutely like to be an conflicting abductee.

Everyone who knows of Budd Hopkins can Google his name and apprehend all about his life’s work, the abounding works of art he has created, the books he has appear and the countless of accessories he has accounting during his life; therefore, I will not echo all of that here. What I do appetite to do is admonish people, not of a few misjudgments he may accept fabricated forth the way, but of how abundant he has helped bodies like me. Over the accomplished 20 additional years that I accept been actively complex in the acreage of abduction analysis and research, I accept been told the afterward phrases time and time and time again: “If not for Budd Hopkins, I would not be actuality today.” “Budd absolutely adored my life.”

“I owe so abundant to Budd Hopkins.”

I began befitting a dream account on the admonition of my grandmother. My ancient anamnesis of what has appear to be referred to today as an abduction acquaintance was in 1967, and the anamnesis of that accident has remained with me anytime since. This was my anamnesis and it was remembered consciously. It was absolutely active and I knew that whatever happened to me, it had happened several times by that point in my life. Because I kept a account of my dreams and memories from my childhood, as able-bodied as assets I created as a child, I accept a appealing acceptable compassionate of what has happened to me.

The afterward excerpts are taken from my aboriginal book blue-blooded The Conflicting Jigsaw, which was appear in 1993. In ablaze of contempo contest that accept occurred aural the ufological acreage of abduction research, I feel it is important to allotment this accurate extract with you. I am accomplishing this because I accept Budd Hopkins, who has generally accurately been referred to as a “pioneer of abduction research,” deserves added acceptable analysis than what I accept apprehend in contempo Internet publications.

It is a aboveboard narrative. It is not accounting in a adorned address advised to arm-twist dank capacity or annihilation appropriate from anyone. It is artlessly the accuracy accounting by addition who knew the man, and although I accept not had the befalling to allege alone with Budd back 2003, I still feel the way I did back I wrote this:

From The Conflicting Jigsaw:

“I purchased the November-December 1987 affair of Omni annual because there was a check in it about UFOs and conflicting abductions. I abounding out the account titled, Hidden Memories: Are You an Abductee? It sat about the abode for a while, and assuredly my fiancé [now my bedmate of over 20 years] insisted that I mail it.”

“Filling out article such as this and commitment it are two actual altered things. I eventually mailed the check anon to Budd Hopkins because I anticipation the beneath bodies who apprehend it, the better…I concluded up sending him pages of answers. I didn’t apprehend how atrocious I was to accept somebody to allocution to about this. I waited in alarming for ‘the men in the white coats’ to access because I anticipation Budd was activity to accelerate a brace of shrinks to my abode to accept me committed to a brainy institution.”

“I wrote to Budd Hopkins on November 29, 1987. He telephoned me anon thereafter and told me he would be in [my hometown] in April and asked if he could accommodated with me back he was in town. Now, I thought, this wasn’t the way this was declared to assignment out. The ‘men in the white coats’ never showed up to booty me away, and actuality was this drifter absolutely telephoning me? [During our buzz conversation] I begin Budd to be acutely affectionate and aboveboard absorbed in talking to me. It didn’t accomplish sense. It was too acceptable to be true.”

“On April 24, 1988, I met Budd Hopkins. He interviewed me for over two hours. I bethink aggravating to apprehend every announcement on his face back I would acknowledgment his questions. I capital to apperceive if he believed me or if he anticipation I was crazy, but it was impossible. Budd didn’t advance any advice to me, and he never showed any acknowledgment to my answers added than actuality aboveboard absorbed in what I had to say. I didn’t apperceive whether I was answering the questions ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ and this fabricated me actual nervous.”

“Later, afterwards the interview, Erik came home and I conflicting him to Budd. He asked me if I would be absorbed in aggravating hypnosis, and the three of us agreed to accommodated after that evening. I didn’t do a lot of talking during the analgesic affair and Budd was actual patient. We looked into the time I was declared to go to my Brownie meeting. The afterward day during [the second] analgesic session, we looked into the abduction acquaintance that occurred on 9-12-87. The capital affair we abstruse during the additional affair was there was a blue-skinned babyish and a blue-skinned Being. Again, although we didn’t bare annihilation astonishing, my memories were actual salient.”

“After my aboriginal anesthetic corruption with Budd, Erik and I concluded up activity to bed about one o’clock in the morning. I kept alive up periodically during the night alone to acquisition that I had been crying. I was absolutely arrant in my sleep, but it was a acceptable affectionate of crying. I bethink activity an astronomic relief. It was as if twenty-eight years of affliction and abashing were actuality appear from my benumbed mind. It is about absurd to acquisition the words to alarm the animosity I was experiencing. For the aboriginal time in my life, I was absolution this, and I knew I was activity to be okay.”

“I connected to accumulate the account I began in 1983. I recorded what happened that weekend and my animosity about it. I acquainted acutely advantageous to accept had this opportunity. It was a actual absolute experience, and Budd was actual affectionate and sensitive. I owe abundant to him. He accomplished out to me, a stranger, and offered to listen. I accept my activity would be actual altered today had he, and my bedmate Erik, not been there to advice me through this final date of my awakening.”

“Budd told me he had afresh met a woman who lived adjacent who was accepting adventures agnate to mine. He acquainted it was important for me to accept addition I could allocution to if Erik were anytime out of town. He additionally told me about a woman who was a MUFON investigator…”

“The careful bank about my conflicting encounters had been breached, and it was time for the memories to tumble out. Over the abutting several months, I would acquaintance the cesspool ad-lib memories can accept on the apperception and body. I would additionally acquaintance added abductions. Today, I durably accept the aliens gave me a posthypnotic advancement which acted like a brainy block, and inhibited my adeptness to absolutely bethink my accomplished abduction experiences. Afterwards my analgesic sessions with Budd, I acquainted a activity I can alone alarm as an astronomic release, accompanying with a activity of peacefulness.”

I underwent actual little analgesic during my investigation, but my assignment with Budd was active in my healing process. I was additionally actual advantageous to accept the adulation and accompaniment of my bedmate Erik forth the way. In a apple area the enactment still refuses to accept to the absoluteness of adorable or interdimensional Beings, bodies like Budd Hopkins are one of the few choices we accept to acquisition abutment and understanding. Budd has done an astronomic bulk of acceptable for hundreds, conceivably akin thousands, of individuals experiencing conflicting contact. He never already told me that what I was experiencing was acceptable or bad. He never already told me what I should anticipate about one accurate aspect of this abnormality or another. He was aloof there. He listened, and he learned. We all abstruse because of Budd and because of added advisers who congenital aloft his basal findings.

Abduction analysis – Experiencer analysis – whatever you ambition to alarm it – is still in its infancy. There are few set and close guidelines for administering this blazon of research. Everyone who has anytime been complex in this acreage has stumbled or misjudged at atomic one attestant or some aspect of the abnormality forth the way. Everyone has. There are, understandably, an accretion cardinal of bodies who accept spent years of their lives investigating these ambiguous Beings who are growing weary. They are growing weary because, as abounding of them say, “…nothing fresh has been learned…it’s the aforementioned old story.” So, a few of these balked bodies leave the acreage of abduction research, and some of them – nonabductee and abductee akin – accept concluded up advancing those they larboard behind. They chase for faults because they are acutely there. Afterwards all, they didn’t acquisition the answers they were analytic for. Why should anyone else?

To those who booty a altered path, I ask that you not booty your claimed frustrations out on those who accept to accumulate analytic for the accuracy – and angry for the truth. Your adolescent animal beings who are actuality abducted do not accept the affluence of walking away. Budd never forgot that about us. He never forgot about the bigger account and he consistently knew that it was abundant beyond than he was. In time, bodies will apprehend that Budd gave abundant added of himself than they could accept anytime fathomed. He gave those of us who had no voice, a adventitious to be heard – if alone for a abrupt moment in time.

Kathie remembers the encounter with the following words: “And then… a little girl came into the room… escorted by two more of them. And she stood in front of the doorway… She looked to be about four… she didn’t look like us… she looked like an elf, or an… angel. She had really big blue eyes and a little teeny-weeny nose, just so perfect. And her mouth was just so perfect and tiny, and she was pale, except her lips were pink and her eyes were blue. And her hair was white and wispy and thin… fine… real thin and fine. Her head was a little larger then normal, ‘specially in the forehead and back here… The forehead was a little bit bigger… but she was just a doll.”

Reflecting on this case and others that he also came across, Hopkins raises the question of the purpose and meaning of it all: “And what is the ultimate purpose of these abductions, these examinations and implants, these genetic attempts to produce hybrids, which have inevitably created emotional havoc among many innocent people? Do the UFO occupants want to lessen the distance between our race and theirs in order to land, eventually, and join us in this planet? And if so, would this be an operation conducted in the open, or in a more sinister, covert manner? Or do these aliens merely wish to enrich their own stock and then depart as mysteriously as they have arrived, having achieved their goal and revivified their own endangered species? Or is there yet some other goal we have not even imagined, something unknowable at this point in our intellectual evolution?”

Pertinent as these questions are, some years later, UFO expert David Jacobs claimed to have found the right answers. In his book “The Threat” (1998), Jacobs exposes the theory that aliens are creating what he terms “Homo Alienus” and this by a step by step hybridization process: “Late-stage hybrids possess the aliens’ extraordinary mental abilities. They can engage in staring procedures, Mindscan, visualizations, envisioning, and so on…They can reproduce with humans… These resulting hybrids are barely distinguishable from “normal” human beings.”

And this brings us to the secret alien agenda. According to Jacobs all efforts are “geared toward complete control of the humans on Earth.” Their goal seems to have four specific programs, namely: Abduction, Breeding, Hybridization, and Integration. This last and final stage surely means that “the hybrids or the aliens themselves integrate into human society and assume control.”

The belief that humans can have intercourse with non-human beings to produce offspring is widespread. One form of producing hybrids involves human pairings with gods, aliens, devils, incubi, succubi, fairies and other potential supernatural partners. The children of these unions have special characteristics associated with their parentage. According to tradition, fairies appear to have an independent existence of their own but, nevertheless, depend upon mankind. One primary reason is their genetic evolution: human blood is needed to improve the fairy stock.

Fairies, like aliens, abduct mortals to fairyland, and women are also in much more danger then men. They are taken to be wives and mothers, and they need during fairy births the aid of mortal midwives because of their intrinsic nature. Regarding this theme, Le Men writing in 1870 about the traditions of Brittany, France, says that “I have met old people that, not only said they had seen fairies, but claimed to have been abducted by them during their infancy, and have been saved only by the prompt and timely intervention of their parents.” The fairy hybrids resulting from fairy-human pairings are special children, like their alien-human counterparts. Mortal nursing mothers are in great demand to suckle fairy babies, apparently because the quality of fairy milk seems to be poor. Likewise, a female abductee says about her experience, “it wants me to nurse the baby… It seems to want to watch, to see what I do with it… This baby’s so odd, I don’t really… It’s weird.”

So, as we see, numerous features of UFO abductions have precedents in fairy tradition, and as Kathleen Raid noticed in “Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland”: “The only change technology appears to have made to such claims is in the form of apparitions-where the ancestors saw the “Sidhe” mounted on horses with silver bells on their harness, the Age of Aquarius sees Flying Saucers.”

References:

-  Hopkins, Budd, Intruders, New York, Ballantine Books, 1988.

- Jacobs, David, The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, New York, Fireside Books, 1999.

- Le Men, R.F., “Traditions et Superstitions de la Basse-Bretagne”, Revue Celtique, V. 1, 1870-72.

- Yeats, W. B. (Ed.), Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland, London, Picador, 1979.

Regarding this particular topic Hartland recorded the following curious story:

“A peasant going with corn to market at Nordhausen, drove by the Kyffhauser, where he was met by a little grey man, who asked him whither he was going, and offered to reward him if he would accompany him instead. The little grey man led him through a great gateway into the mountain till they came at last to a castle. There he took from the peasant his wagon and horses, and led him into a hall gorgeously illuminated and filled with people, where he was well entertained. At last the little grey man told him it was now time he went home, and rewarding him bountifully he led him forth. His wagon and horses were given to him again, and he trudged homeward well pleased. Arrived there, however, his wife opened her eyes wide to see him, for he had been absent a year, and she had long accounted him dead.”

However, there are cases of humans that have gone in and out of Fairyland with no alteration of time. In the 17th century several people claimed visitations to Fairyland. J. F. Campbell gives this account in “Popular Tales of the West Highlands”:

“Another story was about a boy of the name of Williamson… The boy disappeared often for two and three, and often ten days at a time, and no one knew where he went, as he never told when he returned, though it was understood the fairies took him away. Upon one occasion the Laird of Barmagachan, was getting his peats cast, and all the neighbours round were assisting. At this time the boy had been away for ten days, and they were all wondering where he could be, when lo and behold, the boy is sitting in the midst of them. “Johnny”, said one of the company, who were all seated in a ring, eating their dinner, “where did ye come from?” ”I came with our folks,” said the boy (meaning the fairies). “Your folks; who are they?” “Do you see yon barrow of peats a couping into yon hole? there’s where I came from.”

With UFO abductees a break in the continuity of time also occurs; what sometimes appears to be a relatively short period of time, turns out to be quite a few unexplained hours that somehow remain lost from their conscious life. However, this loss of memory doesn’t seem to be a characteristic of folklore narratives, and in Fairyland the time distortion is measured in years rather then hours. Another interesting feature of some UFO abductions is the “time compression” distortion. In these cases a UFO encounter which seemingly last for hours actually occurs in the space of a few minutes. UFO expert Mark Moravec reports the following incident:

“A young American contactee living in Adelphi, Maryland, claimed a number of UFO contacts. In February 1968, a UFO entity allegedly guided him to an isolated farm area where a large, egg-shaped object on tripod legs was waiting. He went inside and was sealed alone in a compartment containing a contour chair and a large “TV screen”. The percipient went on a trip which lasted four to five hours. When he returned to his apartment and was confronted by his room-mates, the percipient was amazed to discover that little more than an hour had actually passed since the beginning of his experience.”

Moravec concludes suggesting a link between UFO experiences of this kind (and this conclusion can also largely apply to fairy encounters) and altered states of consciousness. Research has shown that in these states the alteration of the sense of time and chronology is a frequent feature of such conditions.

References:

- Hartland, Edwin S., The Science of Fairy Tales, London, Walter Scott, 1891.

- Campbell, J.F., Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. 1, Edinburgh, Berlinn, 1994.

- Moravec, Mark, “The Psychology of Close Encounters”, in Evans, Hilary (Ed.), Frontiers of Reality, London, Guild Publishing, 1989.

- Vallee, Jacques, Passport to Magonia: on UFOs, Folklore and Parallel Worlds, Chicago, Contemporary Books, 1993.

After the mid-1970s more people came forward with descriptions, most of the times fragmentary and memory-disconnected, of UFO abductions. It was then that Budd Hopkins decided to explore these memory gaps with the help of routine hypnosis techniques. This led to a proliferation of abduction cases as discussed in his first book, “Missing Time” (1981). Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and David Jacobs also became investigators, both convinced of the physical reality of the phenomenon. Jacobs founding in the abduction accounts intentions of hybridization and alien domination of the earth, as described in his book “The Threat” (1998), while Mack, in “Abduction” (1994), was convinced that the purposed intention of these encounters was the changing of human consciousness towards spiritual goals.

The majority of abduction reports originate in North America, with also representative cases from South America and Britain. Continental Europe also contributes with a fair amount of cases, especially France. However, abduction narratives from Europe and South America differ substantially from the American patterns of capture by the “grays”, time spent aboard a spaceship, and bizarre medical examinations.

In the last few years the controversy surrounding these incidents has been intense, with some skeptical analysis of the phenomenon being put forward. Susan Clancy, at the time a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Harvard University, after several studies involving abduction victims says, “alien-abduction memories are best understood as resulting from a blend of fantasy-proneness, memory distortion, culturally available scripts, sleep hallucinations, and scientific illiteracy, aided and abetted by the suggestions and reinforcement of hypnotherapy…Being abducted by aliens is a transformative event. Not only does it furnish an explanation for psychological distress and unsettling experiences; it provides meaning for one’s entire life.”

Bridget Brown, who has a Ph.D. in American Studies, offering a more broad analysis, concludes by suggesting that: “The story of abduction by extraterrestrials is the story of biotechnological progress told from the perspective of the anesthetized patient; of military-industrial advancement told from the perspective of the species struggling to avoid extinction on a polluted planet; of national progress and imperialism told by the citizen betrayed and colonized by his or her government…The alien abduction phenomenon provides a narrative outlet for various and interrelated cultural anxieties, while the abducting alien offers a location and source for these anxieties.”

Proponents of a real physical phenomenon focus instead on the evidence of a single order and similar descriptions in report after report. The coherency of the abduction reports and the powerful and traumatic memories evoked by abduction victims is, to some researchers, proof enough that something very real and strange is indeed happening.

References:

- Pritchard, Andrea et al., Alien Discussions – Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference, Cambridge, North Cambridge Press, 1994.

- Randle, Kevin D., Estes, Russ, Cone, William P., The Abduction Enigma, New York, Forge Books, 2000.

- Clancy, Susan A., Abducted – How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2005.

- Brown, Bridget, They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves – The History and Politics of Alien Abduction, New York, New York University Press, 2007.

Nevertheless, British author Jenny Randles, has discussed this topic from a different perspective. She used the term “time storms” to describe a particular subset of cases that have certain specific characteristics, namely the presence of dense mist or small clouds, effects on electrical and metallic artifacts, skin burns, buzzing sounds and the impression of a weight pressing down on the witness, accompanied by the notion that time had somehow been altered.

Let’s take a look at the following case from Castro Daire, Portugal. On the last week of August 1979, Augusto Azevedo, 34 years old, was driving near the mountain locality of Montemuro. Suddenly, he noticed a loss of mechanical power and a dimming of the car’s electrical lights. Immediately, Azevedo started having a sensation of buzzing sounds located at the base of the head. Then, before he lost consciousness, he managed to park the car. When Azevedo regained his senses some time later (one hour?) he was not able to estimate exactly how many time he remained in this situation of “black-out”. The temperature of his body and of the surroundings seemed too high, and he had a skin burn just under his stopped wristwatch.

During the following days after the incident, he complained of secondary effects: nausea, loss of memory, difficulty moving and loss of visual acuity. His car, a Morris 850, needed to replace several items: the battery, the respective coil and voltage regulator. The interesting detail about this incident is the fact that no luminous or structured UFO was ever seen, despite the apparent electromagnetic effects registered.

Examples like this one prompted Jenny Randles to suggest alternative explanations to these unusual events. Any time anomaly, says Randles, “is just a jump in the sequence of events. Molding the experience to fit some alien abduction scenario is a dangerous distraction taking us away from the real issues… Based on these cases, I searched for other examples of the core phenomenon. I decided to use the term “time storms” to describe them, thus avoiding UFO-speak, because they resemble storms and one of their most unusual effects is the apparent time distortion.”

The presence of powerful electromagnetic (EM) fields is also a recurrent factor in this type of cases. This brings us to the work of Michael Persinger and the phenomenon of temporal lobe epilepsy induced by such electromagnetic fields. Many of the symptoms listed above can be the result of exposure to various forms of EM radiation which may induce altered states of consciousness. So, concludes Randles: “From an unbiased view of these time storms, the evidence points away from aliens and spaceships. Instead, we seem to be dealing with a natural occurring but extraordinary phenomenon.”

References:

- Persinger, Michael A., Lafreniere, Gyslaine, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1977.

- Persinger, Michael A., “Possible Infrequent Geophysical Sources of Close UFO Encounters: Expected Physical and Behavioral-Biological Effects”, in Haines, Richard (Ed.), UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist, Metuchen, The Scarecrow Press, 1979.

- Randles, Jenny, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts and Time Travel, London, Piatkus, 2001.

- Fernandes, Fernando, “Magnetic Fascinations: From Mesmer to Buck Rogers”, (in Portuguese), Anomaly, V.3, Porto, 1995.

Everyone is aware of the now classic 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is about one man’s (Richard Dreyfuss) obsession after seeing a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) and determine to meet the extraterrestrials despite the government’s efforts to hide the fact that a landing is going to take place, making this the “first contact” encounter with peaceful beings.

But the public views on aliens have shifted over the years due to the recent reports coming in since 1980. UFO’s sightings are frequently reported worldwide. But reported encounters with aliens have turned into a much more darker and sinister tone. Either abduction cases have increased over the years or more people are simply reporting them, less fearful of ridicule than they were before. The newest film to address the issue is “The Fourth Kind”. Starring Milla Jovovich in a fact-based thriller about a psychologist investigating why an entire Alaskan town is besieged by strange alien-like visitors and unexplained disappearances. The real psychologist, Dr. Abigail Tyler, when dealing with traumatized patients would videotape the sessions, and the disturbing footage is integrated into the film revealing good evidence that something supernatural is happening here.

Weather one wants to believe in alien abduction as a real phenomenon or simply people having mass hysterics, the fact still remains that people are missing and survivors report the same terrifying M.O. ( modus operandi or method of operating) when encountering these aliens even breaking into their own homes and walking through walls. These type of creatures seem to be a common theme dating back thousands of years of similar reported cases.

Another compelling fact is that the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has reported that recently over the years that over 800,000 missing cases of people exist and that the number is steadily increasing each year. The FBI claims that up to 60% can be explained away by crime activity, but that the remainder is totally unsolved. The FBI has been at least impartially involved in UFO investigations since the 1940’s and animal mutilations (this phenomenon is associated with UFO’s and is still happening today) which were first reported during the late 1970’s, but the FBI’s early inquiry into the subject of UFO’s was stalled by the CIA and US military, to this day the FBI will not openly emit that the alien abduction phenomenon is real.

The United States government was very interested in UFO’s, especially the military and intelligence gathering agencies. Dr. J. Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and UFO researcher. He was working with the US Air Force involving UFO investigation starting back in 1948 on “Project Sign”. Other study groups like “Project Grudge” and “Project Blue Book”, all had Hynek as a leading investigator. Dr. Hynek is credited for developing in 1972 the classification term we use today for encountering UFO’s.

1. Close Encounter of the First Kind, a ground or aerial sighting, seeing objects in the sky, either odd lights or metallic objects flying beyond human technology.

2. Close Encounter of the Second Kind, physical evidence, deep impression in ground or soil, crop circles, radio signals blocked, and anything resembling physical damage to people or land due to exposure to high doses of radiation.

3. Close Encounter of the Third Kind, actually observing alien entities within or outside their craft and meeting them. The Steven Spielberg film is an entertaining and admirable attempt to show what happens when the government and local citizens encounter UFO occupants up close, making “first contact” in a friendly way.

4. Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind, this was added in later by other Ufologist who soon realized the growing rate of this type of encounter. Numerous case studies involving alien abduction where people encountered UFO’s and their occupants would be taken aboard the alien craft and forced medical examinations.

Ever since the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case psychologist have tried to understand this disturbing experience when encountering UFO’s. Ufologist like Budd Hopkins (who wrote “Intruders” in 1987) and Dr. Leo Sprinkle have done extensive research in UFO contactee and abductee cases. The difference is a contactee is meeting benign aliens who seem to have a spiritual message to give and an abductee is more a victim, taken against their will, and deeply traumatized. Well known author, Whitney Schreiber, wrote about his personal experiences involving alien abduction in his book “Communion“ which was made into a film starring Christopher Walken.

Many abduction cases also involve the victims suffering from mysterious bruises, needle marks, scars, nightmares, frequent nose bleeds, missing time, a memory of looking at something that is really a different object, and deterioration of health. This is very real and fully documented. Who believes in this type of phenomenon? Psychotherapist, Ufologist, hypnotherapist, medical doctors, scientist, and of course the victims do. But the simple question is why? What purpose does it serve? Why is it happening? Who benefits? The Alaskan case which “The Fourth Kind” film is based on has since the 1960’s unexplained disappearances of people in that area. One should be open-minded to unheard of possibilities and ask the question: has this been going on throughout human history?

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