I listened last night to Dr Rick Strassman interviewed by Sariya on Where Did the Road Go on the topic of DMT. I wasnt aware of the the conceptually strong overlay between many of the reported DMT experiences and the classic abduction recounting. Nor was I aware that Dr Strassman met informally with John Mack to compare notes on the simlarities.
It serves to make the point that assuming extraterrestrial involvment, and all the mountains of baggage it carries, is unwarranted.
Beyond psychosis and fabrication I think a third option, that needs dismissing from actual contact with non-human intelligences, is just how common it might be for people to have spontaneous, repetitive visualizations that involve seeing the same damn goblins, ghosts, or greys that they did once before in their lives.
Reading about that British cyclist who was seeing goblins again, following sleep deprived late night cycling across various countries, along with this repetition in the DMT event for people who see certain characters again and again there, suggests that there is a mind responding to previously established, co-created patterns of cultural encoding. Maybe we see the monsters that we do because of who we are and what it means to us at the time - for Ray's partner it was angels was it not?
Given how internal these experiences are, it strikes me that the threshold for proof of alien abduction will need to be extremely high and require actual physical concrete evidence of an external agent at work, for the discussion of altered internal or screen experiences created inside the minds of subjects will never be discernable from dreams. Generally speaking, the experience appears to have no real concrete exterior environment that exists for others to witness, with things that people say that they have touched, smelled, tasted as a real experience aboard an alien craft, where they heard things like voices but only mostly inside their heads. This has happened for a very select audience and these cases are more legendary in nature - and with them there has been very limited evidence, though the grill marks on Stephen Michalak certainly makes one sit up and take notice. But if there is no external, physical reality associated with the abducting greys, whom we also believe to operate the flying craft and come from other places in the stars, and the abduction experience is internal, than what is it people are seeing in the skies, and when they touch down on the ground the occupants may come out to invite one in to see the interior and get a quick exam. Are there many different things going on here and just how many of them are happening inside our heads? Is this experience, or the simulation of it, of value to humanity in any way? Or is it just a programmed childhood fear of being taken away from home by faeries, elves, goblins, ghosts or aliens?
In light of current digital social communications, where we pursue internal experiences with more vigour, I am surprised that more people do not talk about digital monsters - outside of the ones who are actual real, albeit disembodied people, who work to make other people's lives a living hell through various online stalking and torture techniques. As we start to spend more and more time indoors as a culture, will our narrative hallucinations simply flow in an out of our virtual online experiences, digital work activities and sleep stimulation aids? What will the monsters of the succeeding generation be? I really hope it's not going to be Slenderman or Black Eyed Children. What's that all about, that Black Eyed Children thing anyway - is that about a fear of being a bad absentee parent who created just another homeless street youth, who is now coming after you for revenge?
The DMT alien connection has had some discussion in various other threads here, which can be a resource environment with many tendrils:
Looking for doped-up ufologists | The Paracast Community Forums
Regarding abduction stories. | Page 2 | The Paracast Community Forums
This link really is expansive around the nature of perceiving the UFO stimulus and our relationship to hallucinations:
The UFO Stimulus | The Paracast Community Forums
. But I guess at least Stanford talks at Mach 5. And I'm sure Ray H. had some interesting stuff to say but for my tastes, he just takes way too long to get to the point. I finally said to myself "ok, I cant take this anymore." and took the headphones off and went to sleep. I am already looking forward to next weeks episode though. Just my two cents which I realize in the grand scheme of things, doesn't really matter.
(you know, there should really be a "broken record" icon with these smilies)
