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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:41:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Francisco Lopez 
Subject: UFOR: ::: Jacobs -- Resisting Abduction ::: (fwd)
To: updates@globalserve.net
From: Blue Resonant Human 
::: Jacobs -- Resisting Abduction :::
Some brief musings on Jacob's New book:
The Threat -- The Secret Agenda:
What the Aliens Really Want ... and How They Plan to Get It
1998 by David M. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Simon & Schuster  ISBN 0-684-81484-6
There is an interesting section in this provocative work which
documents the apparently successful efforts of a young woman to
sabotage the parasitic abductors' attempts to perform their
presumably all-important "MindScan" on her.  I found the account
of interest for a number of reasons.
It has been noted by a prominent science fictionist that
sufficiently advanced technology may be virtually indistinguish-
able from magic.  Now this is a very popular quote amongst many
UFOlogists, yet raised on a diet which consists largely of
materialistic scientism, it may be difficult for many of us to
perceive that the converse may apply equally well; that
sufficiently advanced magick -- when filtered through the lens of
our own culturally-imposed perceptual framework -- may appear to
be high tech gadgetry, in much the same fashion that the angels
and daemons of yesteryear have now morphed into good and bad
space aliens before our very eyes.
To his credit, Dr. Jacobs can perceive one side of this with a
great deal of clarity.  In fact, he makes the particularly
convincing point that John Mack & Edith Fiore (for instance) are
therapists, not investigators.
Therefore, as Jacobs so poignantly puts it, "finding out exactly
what happened to the abductee is less important than what the
client THINKS happened to him -- the account's accuracy or
truthfulness is of little concern." [p.53]
Yet to his detriment, he then turns right around and allows his
own scientific bias to run amok; fabricating an elaborate
conceptual construct upon his own theory-embedded perceptions and
presuppositions:
 "The aliens' ability to stare into the abductees' eyes and effect
  a wide variety of changes in brain function is extraordinary.  At
  first it seems almost supernatural or mystical, as if Svengali
  were peering into Trillby's eyes, mesmerizing her to do anything
  he wanted.  But the mystical and supernatural are not part of the
  abduction phenomenon.  The aliens use their advanced knowledge of
  human physiology to control humans..." [p.83]
The list of assumptions in the above paragraph is literally
staggering when viewed with the childlike eyes of an innocent,
untainted by the clever sophistry of modern scientism.
 o  What is an "alien"?  Is it a faerie?  A gnome?  An earth
    spirit?  An elemental?  A leprechaun?  An angel?  A daemon?
    An elf?  A goblin?  A martian?
 o  An "abduction."  Is it a literal, physical 3D event, or an
    etheric ("astral"), non-physical OOBE type experience?
 o  Why is the clearly magickal influence of these transmundane
    entities stripped of it's mystical wonder and relegated to the
    hopelessly mundane realm of some misfiring neurons?
 o  Why are the clearly mystical and supernatural elements of the
    "alien" encounter mythos unwelcome in the dogmatic camp of
    latter-day scientism?
 o  Do we feel somehow safer or more secure if we perceive the
    "bewitching spell" of the unimaginably different entities to
    be merely the mechanistic employment of physical technologies
    which affect us merely physiologically?
It strikes me that a large portion of the culturally-validated
methodology of modern science en toto consists of merely labeling
things in lieu of understanding their true dynamics.  Our modern
medical shamans, for instance, often mask the outward symptoms of
a dysfunction, quietly afraid to admit they haven't a clue as to
the root cause while our finest physicists have dutifully
provided us with labels for 'lectrons, protons, neutrons, gluons,
and even klingons yet still can't explain what holds an atom
together or whether light is a particle or a wave.  But hell, at
least we've done a fine job labeling everything!
::: sigh :::
So we'll grant Dr. Jacobs the liberty to speculate a bit here,
based upon his perception of the perceptions of others who find
themselves suddenly thrust into an environment wherein there are
no culturally-validated entries in the symbol-table of the
language (or even the conceptual matrix of consensus reality!)
with which they may adequately describe the bizarre events.
  "The aliens' ability to control humans comes through the
  manipulation of the human brain.  For example, when the
  alien moves close to the abductee's eyes to begin the staring
  procedure, almost immediately the abductee feels emotional
  and physical effects.  One way to explain this is that the
  alien uses the optic nerve to gain entrance to the brain's
  neural pathways.  By exciting impulses in the optic nerve,
  the alien is able to 'travel' along the optic neural pathway,
  through the optic chiasma, into the lateral geniculate body,
  and then into the primary visual cortex in the back of the
  brain.  From there he can travel into the secondary visual
  cotrtex in the occipital lobes and continue into sites in the
  parietal and temporal lobes and the hypothalamus.  Through
  that route, the alien can stimulate neural pathways, travel
  to many neural sites, and cause the 'firing' of neurons at
  whatever site he wants.
  "Brain stimulation allows the alien to produce a range of
  effects.  If the alien can connect into the neural pathways,
  he can reconstitute an abductee's memories.  He can inject
  new images directly into the visual cortex, bypassing normal
  retinal observations, and cause people to 'see' things that
  become a part of their abduction 'memories.'  He can activate
  sites within the limbic system and cause strong emotions, such
  as fear, anger, and affection.  He can create feelings of
  sexual arousal that build relentlessly to a peak.  And he can
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