Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 21:07:49 -0500
To: "Sensible And Nothing Else UFO Research Into Abductions":;
From: Joseph Polanik 
Subject: Dr Jacobs, the Skeptibunker!?
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I am going to quote a short section titled 'Unaware Abductees'
from Dr David M. Jacobs' new book, 'The Threat --- The Secret
Agenda: What the Aliens Really Want and How They Plan to Get It'
[pages 120-121]. Then I'll ask a rhetorical question that
expresses my concerns.
[Begin quote]
Although unaware abductees are a silent population who confound
accurate statistics, they provide an excellent "reality check"
for the abduction phenomenon.  We can compare reports abductees
made before they became aware of their abductions to those they
made after hypnosis with a competent therapist.  As a group, the
unaware abductees consistently report a similar pattern of
experiences before becoming aware of abductions.
When unaware, they explain their strange experiences in ways
acceptable to society.  For example, an unaware abductee will
explain his nighttime odd and half-remembered visitations as
"guardian angels" calling on him.  An unaware abductee might
explain a visitation as a deceased relative or friend reassuring
him that "Everything is all right." An unaware abductee may think
that he has seen "ghosts" and that his house is "haunted." One
woman told me she and her family had moved many times to get away
from ghosts, but every house she ever lived in was haunted.
Unaware abductees also frequently report seeing religious figures
or the Devil. They report have had intense and profound
communication with an animal. They describe having unexpected or
unwanted "out-of-body experiences" that take place apart from
trauma or meditation. They travel on the "astral plane," from
which they can look down and see rooftops in their neighborhood.
The case of one graduate student is typical. She told me of
seeing ghosts, UFOs, and bizarre occurrences throughout her life.
In one spectacular event, when she was a young girl, she looked
out of her bedroom window and saw a UFO landing in her backyard.
Suddenly her distraught mother came running into her bedroom,
yelling that the aliens were going to get them and that they had
to hide. The student remembered nothing else in the incident. I
asked her what she thought about these unusual events. She
answered that her mother had told her this was just part of life,
that life has its mysterious side, and that what she experienced
was just a part of growing up. She was able to categorize a
lifetime of extraordinary events as "normal".
[End of quote]
Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't Jacobs admitting
that a competent hypnotist can debunk people who don't believe
that they've been abducted by aliens?
Oh, not just anyone, just those crazy enough to believe that
they've had contact with guardian angels, deceased relative,
religious figures, ghosts, the Devil  or some other, socially
acceptable form of anomalous experience.
Joseph Polanik
Trionic Research Institute
http://www.trionica.com
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