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Hypnosis, Just Say No.

Have or would you ever be regressed to reclaim abduction memories?


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Posey Gilbert

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I tell most people who I speak to about this do not go under hypnosis for your remembrances can be tainted by the hypnotist depending on how they feel about these things.



I know this to be true from an experience I had in my late teens.



I brought a book on self hypnosis which also taught you how to hypnotize others.



I was thinking it would help my recall for the coming regents exams in school.



Hint, studying does more for you.....



Anyway I asked my friend Wilson if I could try to put him under.



At first he was a bit put off by it but I explained that I was only going to see if I could put him to sleep and showed him in the book where it says you can't make anyone do what they would not do normally so clucking like a chicken was out.



(After I bribed him with the promise of getting him anything he wanted to eat no matter what) He agreed, and I had him lay down on my bed and focus on a red dot I had put on my ceiling.



I then began to try to put him under but he never went to sleep.



While I was talking to him my mind was on what I was going to do once I was finished.



I wanted a pizza and was thinking I wanted it with mushrooms extra cheese and heavy on the garlic with a grape soda.



My friend was a Kentucky Fried Chicken fiend so I knew it would be a bucket off twenty pieces so pizza was out.



After about an hour of trying I gave up and said,



"Lets go get something to eat what do you want?"



You guessed it he wanted a pizza heavy on the mushrooms cheese and garlic with a grape soda.



The thing is he did not only disliked mushrooms but also garlic.



This was the first thing that stood out in my mind for it was a complete reverse of his nature before that time he might have asked for a pizza but never with mushrooms or garlic.



Sausage, pepperoni, ground beef, yes but never those hated mushrooms.



It was not only that but there where other things that had crossed my mind during the time I was trying to put him under that he had acted on later that day and was still influenced by even years later.....



These were things only I could recognize for I had never given voice to them.



There was no way he could have known that scared me so bad that I never bothered with it again.



Today this has become big news and is now used to discredit any one who has been put under hypnosis and regressed as having false memory syndrome or being influenced by the investigator.



After my abduction in 1991 which was the one that made me realize that all the other encounters I had, had since childhood were real and not vivid dreams because it left physical evidence, I started to seek out a Hypno therapist after reading a book about abductions.



I was still against hypnosis but the encounter and the realization that it was real caused me to suffer sleeplessness, panic attacks, and to develop bells palsy.



Even though I had been video taping UFOs over my home and seeing them over my area for four years before then, even though I had, had an near abduction where I saw one of the entities that would later abduct me appearing as if it was smoke or fog in the yard across from me and by the way I only saw it because my German shepherd Lady, two malamute wolf mixes Tica and Luna, Pit bull and wire hair terrier mix Shadow, and his and Ladys' offspring Cyn all saw it first and started to bark.



Even though there were incredible events and things that followed this, that I have documented on audio and video tape, in hindsight, I now see I was literally being told I was going to be visited, but when it came it was like a landslide and I was almost mentally crushed by it.



All of this was spoken fully of in my article Skyroglyphics



It was the weight of this that for a moment caused me to let my guard down and seek help from a Hypno Therapist I contacted the late Dr. Jean Mundy.



Every time I made and appointment when the time came I canceled it, I could not get over the thought of what had happened to my friend Wilson when I tried to put him under.



Finally I contacted Walt Anderson of MUFON and he eventually sent and investigator out to hear my case and see my evidence.



I was later invited to a MUFON conference in the TRX Building in Manhattan one of the guess speakers was Dr. Jean Mundy.



She is a small woman well to me she is I stand six foot four, she must be under five foot tall maybe four foot five.



During her lecture she was asked if she ever went under while trying to hypnotize others to my shock she said, "Yes all the time."



It was then I thanked God for my listening to my own misgivings.



This to me is like, let's say you and I are driving a big rig cross country and I say to you,



"I am tired, will you take the controls while I sleep?"



To which you then say,



"Sure I will and in fact I will take a nap along with you also as I drive."



Now let's say I had let her put me under, and as I know I do I have some horrific memories things I still remember with out hypnosis, from the time they happened, say that the reason I don't remember everything is not because of aliens making me forget them but because my own psyche knows this is much too raw for me to view at this time.



Now one of the most feared entities that I and my brother Ralph encountered as we were growing up we called the Window Peepers.



This too I have written about in the article






They were small things big heads, huge cat pupiled wrap around eyes,
long arms and fingers, slight bump of a nose with slits for nostrils and a mouth.
As I was later to be shown, as I wrote about in an article called






I have a uncontrollable rage of anger and fear toward these things because
of the things these entities did during our encounters.
Now let us suppose, while under I came upon this rage and while still under looked at Dr. Mundy she stood the approximate height as did these things.



What could she do against a six foot four three hundred and seventy five pound man raging in terror of his life and bent on the destruction of his tormentor, while sitting there with her eyes rolled to the top of her head too?



There would be no one in that office that could control this big rig she would have been torn from limb to limb and I would be in jail or hell by now.



This is why I warn against hypnosis for it puts not only you in danger but those that do these things in danger too.





 
Too bad the choices are so limited on the poll. If I thought I had any memories to retrieve, I would try it. I know quite a few people who have had experiences but I am not one of them. I do feel hypnosis is a somewhat subjective experience. People often end up with very different experiences depending on who they work with. I know that the process works because I have used it with great success for several things. But repressed UFO memories are not one of them.
 
While I do think that hypnosis can help remember things that have been buried in the subconscious, I'm afraid it also gets rid of the need to restrain one's imagination. I've read that hypnotic trance resembles the hypnagogic state, the state you get into just before falling asleep or before waking up. From my own experience I can say that in this state my imagination runs wild, misinterpreting sounds (for example hearing some kind of whispering chant where there was in reality just a train going by in the distance) or tactile perception (like feeling my cat under my hand, fur, purr and all, while there really was only a slightly fluffy cover). So I think information gathered under hypnosis is likely to be "contaminated" by your subconscious mind roaming free. Although I guess I'm a believer in reincarnation, for example, I can't count so-called past life memories gained during regression hypnosis as proof. But I also don't think they are nothing but fantasy. More like a kernel of truth here and there, but also a lot of free association.
 
That's a common problem with these things, the authors may offer limited choices attached to a faulty premise. I'd like to see polls used less frivolously and be subjected to moderator review.

Actually you are allowed a limited amount of questions you an ask.
 
Too bad the choices are so limited on the poll. If I thought I had any memories to retrieve, I would try it. I know quite a few people who have had experiences but I am not one of them. I do feel hypnosis is a somewhat subjective experience. People often end up with very different experiences depending on who they work with. I know that the process works because I have used it with great success for several things. But repressed UFO memories are not one of them.

That's is why I am against hypnosis.
 
While I do think that hypnosis can help remember things that have been buried in the subconscious, I'm afraid it also gets rid of the need to restrain one's imagination. I've read that hypnotic trance resembles the hypnagogic state, the state you get into just before falling asleep or before waking up. From my own experience I can say that in this state my imagination runs wild, misinterpreting sounds (for example hearing some kind of whispering chant where there was in reality just a train going by in the distance) or tactile perception (like feeling my cat under my hand, fur, purr and all, while there really was only a slightly fluffy cover). So I think information gathered under hypnosis is likely to be "contaminated" by your subconscious mind roaming free. Although I guess I'm a believer in reincarnation, for example, I can't count so-called past life memories gained during regression hypnosis as proof. But I also don't think they are nothing but fantasy. More like a kernel of truth here and there, but also a lot of free association.

What you remember can depends on the hypnotist's feelings about the phenomena.
Budd Hopkins was guilty of this, wether he knew it or not I can't say.
 
Human memory does NOT work like a tape recording or binary storage file. It is malleable and prone to ongoing re-interpretation.

Everything I have read on the subject of hypnosis suggests it is worse than useless for increasing the accuracy and detail of past events. If anything, it enhances confabulation by encouraging the subject to free associate without constraint. If anything, it is probably a tool better suited to scrambling a person's recall of past events, or modifying behavior and attitudes, than a magic memory enhancer. Note that the MK Ultra folks seemed to have had a special fascination with hypnosis. IMO, ufology would be better off without it.
 
Human memory does NOT work like a tape recording or binary storage file. It is malleable and prone to ongoing re-interpretation.

Everything I have read on the subject of hypnosis suggests it is worse than useless for increasing the accuracy and detail of past events. If anything, it enhances confabulation by encouraging the subject to free associate without constraint. If anything, it is probably a tool better suited to scrambling a person's recall of past events, or modifying behavior and attitudes, than a magic memory enhancer. Note that the MK Ultra folks seemed to have had a special fascination with hypnosis. IMO, ufology would be better off without it.


Bingo my point exactly.​
 
Human memory does NOT work like a tape recording or binary storage file. It is malleable and prone to ongoing re-interpretation.

Everything I have read on the subject of hypnosis suggests it is worse than useless for increasing the accuracy and detail of past events. If anything, it enhances confabulation by encouraging the subject to free associate without constraint. If anything, it is probably a tool better suited to scrambling a person's recall of past events, or modifying behavior and attitudes, than a magic memory enhancer. Note that the MK Ultra folks seemed to have had a special fascination with hypnosis. IMO, ufology would be better off without it.

I totally agree.​
 
"Paracast" wrote your post?

Nope, I wrote it like I did them all but each time I previewed it , it was as you as you see it.
Even when I posted it, it came out as you see it.
I then edited it, in the edit box it seemed correct but hen I saved it, it kept posting it as you see it.
It is only that post that does that, none of my later post did that.
Go figure.
One more weird thing.​
Why the hell did this reply come out as I wrote it but not the article?​
 
Heres a tip , which may work

Copy the text into notepad, and tidy it up to your specs, then copy and paste it back from there.
This often removes hidden formatting in my experience
 
Heres a tip , which may work

Copy the text into notepad, and tidy it up to your specs, then copy and paste it back from there.
This often removes hidden formatting in my experience

Thanks Mike, but I did that with Tex Edit, Microsoft Word, AOL, even in Simple Tex, and my Optonline E-mail.
It comes out fine on the copy but they all did the same thing when I posted them to Paracast.
 
there is the problem you used Tex Edit and Simple Tex instead of Text Edit and Simple Text.... AOL? really?
 
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