Emma,
I personally think you should continue to stick around and actively post on the Paracast Forum, but perhaps avoid discussing your situation with Dr. Jacobs (which hopefully other Forum members will respect). Your notes strike me as very level headed and thoughtful. In my view some of the most insightful posts come from people who claim to have actually had abduction experiences. While abductees don't always agree, they provide frontline feedback which the rest of us armchair researchers cannot offer.
Tom
Tom, thank you for your post. I appreciate it.
I have been giving some thought to as whether I should post on the forum or not, in light of the fact that I am personally involved in the issue of Dr. Jacobs’ research, and critical of it, as there is some support for his conduct here.
After thinking about it overnight, I have decided that perhaps I should participate in the discussion more after all, as I do have opinions on it, and they add to the various views that are being expressed.
My views on how abduction research should be conducted, and on Dr. Jacobs’ research, are obviously informed by my experience of being his research subject. Therefore, what I have to say comes from that. I think that instead of trying to avoid it, perhaps it is best if I simply acknowledge that, and post what I know about it from that experience. The concrete experience and examples that I have are useful to the discussion precisely because they are the reality behind the theory.
There are other people posting different opinions, including other research subjects of Dr. Jacobs, so all views are being expressed.
In that light, I think that an important issue that needs to be addressed in regard to Dr. Jacobs’ research that has been conducted using hypnosis, is the issue of his leading and suggestion. My contention is that the reason that his research subjects “remember” such uniform events, which he promotes as evidence that they are real memories, is actually because his leading and suggestion creates these uniform memories.
In my own hypnosis sessions, Dr. Jacobs engaged in extensive leading and suggestion. I do not know how Dr. Jacobs conducted hypnosis with all of his other research subjects. However, I have spoken to one other research subject of his who says that he also engaged in leading and suggestion with him. He now doubts many of his hypnotically retrieved “memories” because of this. Through him, I learned of another research subject of Dr. Jacobs who said that he had led her to believe that she was being abducted by aliens.
In my own case, Dr. Jacobs conducted ninety-one hypnotic regressions with me, and he told me that I am one of three people with whom he has conducted the most amount of hypnosis. Therefore, I think that the hypnosis that Dr. Jacobs conducted with me is likely to be representative if the hypnosis that he has conducted with his other research subjects as well.
To illustrate Dr. Jacobs’ use of leading and suggestions while conducting hypnosis with me, these are audio clips from my hypnosis session of him doing it:
Hypnosis Session 2
In the following audio clip from my second hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs implants a false memory in me of an “alien” performing a procedure on me. He goes on to tell me that he has many examples of this procedure. In view of the way that he implanted the memory in me, I think that this is why he has many examples of it.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-2-alien-throat-catheter.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-2-alien-throat-catheter.wma
Hypnosis Session 7
In the following audio clip from my seventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized to expect "aliens" to "chastise" me one of those days, and to tell me that I should not talk to him about my experiences.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-7-chastise-tell-david-jacobs.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-7-chastise-tell-david-jacobs.wma
Hypnosis Session 8
In the following audio clip from my eighth hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that if I were to remember a "hybrid" having a conversation with me, that the "hybrid" would be the one who was in control and that I would be in a "second class situation".
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-8-hybrid-control.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-8-hybrid-control.wma
The following excerpts from my hypnosis sessions are of Dr. Jacobs telling me about his other research subject’s experiences of threats and abuse from “aliens” and “hybrids”, while I am hypnotized, which amounted to direct suggestion.
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "hybrids" put intense pressure on Elizabeth (his research subject who is also his webmaster) not to talk to him.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-hybrid-pressure-elizabeth.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-hybrid-pressure-elizabeth.wma
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that a former research subject cut off communication with him after being warned by "hybrids" not to see him.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-warning-research-subject.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-warning-research-subject.wma
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "aliens" put intense pressure of some of his former research subjects not to talk to him, to the point of threatening their children.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-threats-research-subjects.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-threats-research-subjects.wma
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "hybrids" put intense pressure on Elizabeth not to see him ever again, and that this included threats on himself as well.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-elizabeth-hybrid-threats.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-elizabeth-hybrid-threats.wma
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "hybrids" assaulted Elizabeth and threatened to kill him.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-elizabeth-assault-death-threats.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-elizabeth-assault-death-threats.wma
Hypnosis Session 11
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that he was concerned about Elizabeth's "hybrids'" threats to him, and that she was "bathed with guilt" over it.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-concerned-threats.wma
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-11-concerned-threats.mp3
Hypnosis Session 12
In the following audio clip from my twelfth hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "hybrids" used threats to bend people to their will.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-12-hybrids-use-threats.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-12-hybrids-use-threats.wma
Hypnosis Session 12
In the following audio clip from my twelfth hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs tells me directly while I am hypnotized that "aliens" threatened a research subject by showing her an image of her son being pushed into an oncoming truck on the street.
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-12-aliens-threaten-son.mp3
http://www.ufoalienabductee.com/hypnosis-session-12-aliens-threaten-son.wma
Dr. Jacobs goes to lengths in his interviews to tell people that he is aware of the problems of leading, suggestion, and confabulation in hypnosis. He has also talked about a book that he is writing on the methodology of the hypnosis of “abductees”. Consequently, I am of the opinion that he cannot be unaware of the fact that he was engaging in extensive leading and suggestion with me while I was hypnotized, and that this was the cause of the hypnotic “memories” that I subsequently confabulated. In my opinion, it is likely that this is the case with his other research subjects as well.
I think that the difference between the false memories of sexual abuse that have been generated in patients using hypnosis, and the false memories of alien abduction that have been confabulated in “abductees”, is that in cases of sexual abuse, innocent people have been convicted and served prison terms. Consequently, as it became clear that people were forming false memories of sexual abuse under hypnosis, it was brought out into the open.
However, in the case of abduction research, there is not that impetus for having the false memories examined. Although people may have numerous false memories as a result of hypnosis, including traumatic memories that cause suffering for the person concerned, the issue has not been brought out into the open yet in the same way.