Ufology which excludes abduction reports is like if sociology solely studied photos/videos of distant airplanes

In the wake of a thread I recently made here, which asked the question of what is "positive" about the abduction phenomenon, I've written the first part of a two-part essay exploring the subject. I wanted to share it, hoping that it will stimulate further (non-hostile, non-dismissive) discussion. I know that any good faith exploration of abduction reports unavoidably makes one sound delusional, and leads to a lot of strange hypotheses.

What is “Positive” About the Abduction Phenomenon? || Reexamining the Data (Part I)

Here are a few of the key points I make:

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While the study of craft has long settled as a stagnating puddle consisting of a tiring obsession with the Roswell crash (and, now, the USS Nimitz case), a handful of multimedia, and U.S. government coverups — a stagnation contributing to a popular belief that the evidence for UFOs is minimal, and suspect, to the extreme — , the abduction phenomenon has evolved, right in front of our eyes, so to speak. Contactee and abductee accounts give us not only an abundance of interactive and communicative data, but data which, for decades now, has been internally consistent enough to at least give the abduction phenomenon an experiential veridicality...

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There is [...] a critical misalignment between a consistent set of physical acts, performed by the ETs, and the acts’ metaphysical rationalizations by “converted” abductees. It is as if one disparate narrative has been fitted on top of another.

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...exceedingly few of these claims to enlightenment derive from anything inherent to the relevant recollected abductions. That is to say, it is not rendered by anything the ETs reportedly communicate or do. There is no dominant pattern wherein the abductee recalls being brought before a committee of aliens to be educated about souls, energy, and love. Rather, all of this comes across as a sort of a posteriori effect/affect.

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How persons who have suffered decades of traumatic intrusions, allege little to no prior exposure to or interest in UFO/ET material, avail themselves of hypnotherapy with a fear so strong it almost makes them reconsider, and might otherwise express no spiritual inclinations, arrive at [a point of conversion] so quickly, and so consistently, within the relevant cases is a fact which should arouse suspicion and scrutiny.

In the essay's second part, I'm going to explore sub-topics like persons being healed of ailments and the pattern of abductees being shown "end of the world" scenarios. The latter has baffled me for a long time; but I've recently arrived at the hypothesis that these stagings have a logical purpose. That is, I think they may be shown in order to gauge an aspect of humans' emotionality -- a trait which the ETs seem to lack, and may need to understand/incorporate for their own programmatic purposes. In other words, they are misleading to the extent that their specification of the events' impending occurrence is a device used to stimulate an abductee's most powerful emotions of dread or anxiety.

Submitted September 21, 2022 at 11:06AM by Abrbarzan https://ift.tt/mbRN1Vp