Unravelling the “Abduction” Issue: The Ultimate Disclosure, or the Real Scarlett Letter in the Gray Area?
If and when the government – or a highly informed citizen’s group -- ever comes clean about what or who UFO’s /UAP’s are, the discussion will be far from over. In fact, it will most likely be just the beginning of sorting truths from fictions, the real metal from the tinfoil. There’s simply a lot of ice beneath the tip of this galactic iceberg. Among a myriad of issues, a real disclosure will have to deal head on whether the so-called “abduction” experience is a real one, real in the literal sense that people are/were taken in the night from a home or other location out in the wilderness, for example, into a hovering spaceship.
Chapter 3 of The Space Pen Club – “Psychotronic Nightmares and the Alien Abduction Blues?” -- ploughs into this discussion in a big way. And yet, one could write an entire book about it, as Harvard’s John Mack did, which almost cost him his position at the Ivy league school. This was by far the hardest chapter of the book to write. And most likely, it is probably the most difficult for readers to read. Why? Because it gets into such densely controversial territory.
The chapter raises the possibility that some of the high strangeness events in my home were abduction-like events – like the five little red orbs that show up at 4:03 in the morning, for example. But are red orbs ET’s? I didn’t see any squat, big-eyed creatures preparing to beam me and my girlfriend into any spherical object. But a Puerto Rican UFO researcher I met later, Jorge Martin, said quite frankly when I explained the episode to him that “they were the Grays. They’re shape shifters.”
Years after that pat explanation, I’m still not so sure. Especially given the extensive research I shared in Chapter 3 from Martin Cannon’s “The Controllers” paper, which pretty clearly states that intel agencies and select branches of the military have had off-the-shelf psychotronic weapons for decades (as part of the MK-ULTRA and related behavior modification programs) that can induce a fake “alien abduction” episode, along with hoaxing other mental and physical states.
In 1999, Helmut and Marion Lammer published MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction, laying out a similar scenario. I didn’t read it, other than to review articles written about it. I had moved on from the experiences, and frankly, did not really want re-enforcement of a sociopathic reality that select governing forces were capable of perpetrating on its citizens. Nonetheless, their Amazon book page describes the contents of their book like this: “In this well-documented book, the authors review top-secret mind control projects ARTICHOKE and MK-ULTRA, and utilize unclassified documents, photos, and firsthand testimony to expose the shocking story behind alien abductions.”
But some matters don’t easily lie down, no matter how hard you try to avoid thinking about them. As I was finishing The Space Pen Club last spring, I discovered another new book that questioned whether abductions really were physical at all – that “abductees” experienced these strange events in their consciousness; beings of some sort had figured out how to hack consciousness and were deploying such manipulations on unknowing humans. God knows how it works, or where in the universe or other dimensions these dark controllers lurk. One of John Mack’s subjects had expressed this idea years ago, but here it was again in 2021 adding weight to the possibility that the conventional abduction narrative may not be so black and white.
Mike Damante’s book -- Punk Rock and UFO’s, is described on the Coast to Coast radio website (after a guest appearance not so long ago) as “a book based around the idea of rebelling against our conventional beliefs, challenging our own inner thought process by examining our cognition, memories, and media literacy….” The summary notes that “Two areas where science falls flat is connecting UFOs to religious texts and consciousness, Damante proposed. Alien beings have figured out consciousness and with it the ability to travel to other universes. Different states of minds, even death, may one day allow humans to travel to other places in the universe as well, he speculated. Damante also suggested abduction cases involve the transfer of consciousness rather than the abductees physically being taken into mechanical craft” (my italics).
So as far as your chronicler can see, we are still in a solid gray area. “It’s complicated,” as that reliable expression goes. And who would have guessed a 21st century version of The Scarlett Letter “A” might stand for Abduction?! Bearing that in mind, some levity is definitely in order from Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks – one of the favorite music artists of The Space Pen club members back in college. The tune is called “Hell, I'd Go.” It doesn’t need much explanation other than to say, Dan probably didn’t care what you call it, he’s ready to take off for space with “the boys upstairs.” Just like Richard (Baby, I’m a Rich Man) Branson did today (as I write this) -- unattended, however, by ET, the Space Brothers, ancient aliens, the enigmatic visitors, or the Ovnis’ (the Unknowns) as the Mexican media has called “them.”
Keep your seat belt fastened.
