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by
Alison Davidson
From Borderlands 1993-vol 49,
No.2
from
BorderLands Website
A fiction no matter how bizarre, if
repeated often enough becomes accepted as fact especially if it’s
reinforced by the voice of some Authority or other. This goes on all
the time, especially in the media and their propaganda bulletins
passed as network news, to take an obvious example. But the
frightening thing is that once a fabricated belief is established in
the mass mind, anyone who tries to expose the original fiction is
almost certain to be set up as a liar, a lunatic, or worse...
Fortunately for us there are still lunatics in the world who pan for
truth in the polluted rivers of disinformation. Borderlands has long
been one of those rare places where the odd, the avant garde
and heretical have found their voice. For example, way back in the
1950s, long before UFOs became popular Borderlands was seriously
investigating this phenomenon and over the years has observed and
recorded all the extraordinary and bizarre developments in this
field, always with a mind open to the infinite possibilities of a
greater reality. In the early days of Ufology the extraterrestrial
contacts claimed were usually of the benevolent space brothers type
(Ashtar
Command), Adamski’s voluptuous blondes from Venus, etc. It
was all rather harmless and the messages were even quite inspiring —
never mind that the technical information on how to ’get there’
never quite materialized. People believed what they wanted and
reached out to other worlds and other possible states of
consciousness, perhaps for the first time in their lives. It became
a movement.
But over the past few years everything has changed. A disturbing
element has entered the once bright arena of ufology and a shadow
hangs heavy over the whole question of extraterrestrial contact.
Somehow, since the mid-seventies, the storyline has been twisted,
the stereotypical image of the ’space people’ has been subtly and
deliberately altered to reflect a very different mood. According to
the proponents of this new wave of Ufology, extraterrestrial contact
isn’t desirable anymore — unless you happen to be a masochist with a
penchant for painful ’medical’ examinations of a sick sexual nature.
One thing is for sure — the space people aren’t benevolent any more;
they’re cold and gray and their intentions are increasingly sinister
— they want to control your mind, and steal parts of your body.
This about-turn in the field of ufology, I mean 180 degree turn,
from the white voluptuous fantasy to the politically correct ’grays’
(these aliens are neither white nor black) is quite remarkable.
While claims of the earlier and more esoteric extraterrestrial
contact were mocked by most normal people including the media, now
the media is becoming saturated with stories of alien abductions and
those same sane people are parroting all the latest details. There’s
a belief here verging on hysteria; so where, we have to ask, are
these stories coming from? And if they’re true — show us the
evidence!
ENTER
THE GRAY ALIENS
The two main images in the lurid ufology sweeping into public
consciousness today are — gray aliens and abductions of humans by
these aliens. Together they form the key components of a cosmic
conspiracy theory with elements of high level government involvement
and mass genetic manipulation, to say the least, and it’s a
conspiracy that’s spreading. A postcard just received in the mail
from Paramount Pictures states that "2.5 million Americans claim
they have had an alien abduction experience", as part of their
promotion for the upcoming release of a major movie called Fire in
the Sky very loosely based on the Travis Walton incident well known
to ufologists, one of the early abduction cases which has been
neither proven or refuted. The image of gray aliens is infiltrating
the gray matter of the public like the sinister shadow reflex of
those ubiquitous little troll dolls, insinuating itself into every
level of the media.
Grays are finding mention in television
shows, such as the documentary A Strange Harvest, the TV movie
Intruders, a recent episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, that
well known prototype vehicle for the
New World Order federation
propaganda... advertisements, almost every new age consciousness
publication, gutter press and otherwise intelligent magazines. Their
mutated bland bug-eyed heads have sent ET back to kindergarten.
Abductee has become a fashionable state of being and abduction
seminars, workshops, support groups and private counseling for
abductees are spreading like an epidemic.
Here at Borderlands under siege from the stacks of hype from the
New
True Believers, we have also received information from the other
more skeptical side of the story and this article is an attempt to
gather together some of the kernels of truth, if truth is to be
found, from the bloated fiction being sold by the sensation hungry
press to the ever gullible public.
THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF ABDUCTIONS — WEAK LINKS IN THE CHAIN
One of the most rational and scholarly investigations into the
claims of human abduction by extraterrestrials is a meticulously
researched paper published recently by the
International Fortean
Organization, titled Demons, Doctors, and Aliens by
James Pontolillo,
subtitled:
"An Investigation into the
Relationships Among Witch Trial Evidence, Sexual-Medical
Traditions, and Alien Abductions."
But don’t expect to find any serious
review of this work in the mainstream ufological press, as James
Moseley of the Saucer Smear cynically comments:
"If it ain’t real-life aliens, true
ufologists don’t want to hear about it!" The author is concerned
about "the central role of cultural misogyny in the origin and
development of the alien abduction phenomenon"... the shallow
contradictions and misrepresentation of facts in the reports,
and the lack of substantiating evidence... as he says, "nothing
but the human imagination is required to produce an abduction
narrative."
He begins by questioning the numbers of
alien abduction cases claimed by such prominent researchers as Budd
Hopkins (100’s of 1000’s — or 1 million last count), or Donald Ware
from MUFON (approximately 6 million Americans "whether they know it
or not"). The figures claimed are extrapolated from individual cases
(including friends and acquaintances) to the general population, and
from a poll containing five leading questions that was apparently
distributed to several thousand people, and quoted in Fate magazine.
Have you ever experienced missing time... felt you were flying...
awakened with a strange presence in your room... seen unusual
lights... found puzzling scars on your body...? You might be an abductee and not know it. This is the theoretical basis of the
abductionists’ extravagant claims (but they don’t ask if you take
drugs, drink alcohol, engage in subtle energy practices, or watch
too much TV...)
Skeptics, of course, deny that anyone has ever been abducted.
Pontolillo goes on to question the evidence of which the
overwhelming majority is unsubstantiated eye witness (and alleged
eye witness) testimony from the purported abductee. Most abductees
are anonymous and the crucial medical and psychological
documentation on their cases is inaccessible. He questions the use
of hypnotic recall procedures by pro-abduction therapists with
little knowledge of the scientific literature on hypnosis and its
proper application. Most of the abduction evidence hinges on
hypnotic regression and, as Pontolillo points out,
"a casual examination of all major
pro-abduction books reveals the use of leading questions by
researchers on their hypnotized subjects" — while Hopkins
categorically states in UFOs And The Alien Presence: "You can’t
lead people."
(Another question that presents itself
here is: How is it humanly possible to conduct in-depth
psychological tests for such a vast number of traumatized victims —
if their claimed numbers are true?)
As there is no physical evidence or objective testimony the author
digs more deeply into the psychological interpretation of the
abduction phenomenon to seek out the underlying archetypal imagery.
In doing so he draws a compelling thread between UFOs, abductions
and ancient folkloric tradition, or as he puts it
"The core abduction event, sexual
and medical experimentation by extraterrestrials on unwilling
human (primarily female) subjects, is only the latest variation
in a time-worn cycle of misogynistic folk tradition endemic to
Western civilization."
He takes the reader back to the first
abduction story ever recorded, in Genesis, with the sons of God
taking the daughters of men, beginning a cycle of domination and
abuse of women not merely tolerated but aggressively pursued by the
Judeo-Christian authorities. In the early days of
the Church,
intercourse between female saints and angelic lovers in male form
was quite acceptable, as was the idea of human-angelic
interbreeding, but later on woman was made into the evil seductress,
the insatiable succubus depicted lewdly cavorting with demons.
The sadistic trials of the Great Witch
Hunt (15-17th century) with their countless victims, mostly women,
were a direct result of this misogynistic mythology, and the
physical and sexual torture of the mediaeval inquisitors with the
lurid confessions extracted from their helpless victims were only a
few steps away in time from the "scientifically proven" fledgling
disciplines of crude gynecology and psychiatry. It’s chilling but
true that normal female sexuality in the 1800s was ’treated’ with
flogging, clitoridectomy and female castration. As Pontolillo
states, these are the roots from which much of our 20th
century philosophical, intellectual and scientific modes of thinking
grew. Under the cloak of science, intercourse with the supernatural
faded from public view but in the mid 1950s it returned in another
guise, the early contactees such as George Adamski, and an
increasingly religious tone to the UFO encounter.
It was in the 1960s that the claimed
abductions of Betty and Barney Hill, Antonio Villas-Boas and Betty Andreasson-Lucas were reported, setting the theme for all subsequent
abduction stories. While abduction proponents claim the media had no
influence on the reports of these famous cases, Pontolillo points
out the great tide of pulp sci-fi magazines and movies conveying
"the paranoia about alien visitors that had permeated American
culture and its resultant influence on the development of the alien
abduction phenomenon" with examples like the ’39 novel Sinister
Barrier where extraterrestrials artificially inseminate human women,
or the ’57 film The Mysterians where alien men take human
wives for breeding purposes.
The media hype following the Betty cases saw a phenomenal upsurge in
reported abductions and with them a return to the mythic theme
proposed by the author. The blatantly sexual medical procedures
practiced by aliens on the abductees uncannily echo the reports of
the demonic liaisons extracted under the inquisitor’s torture — the
icy demonic phallus becomes a cold instrument inserted by aliens;
the ’pricking’ of the accused witch becomes a recurrent needle motif
in the alien ’medical’ examinations; some of the aliens copulate
with the women but there is no pleasure involved, and human
interbreeding with fairies or demons is transcribed into alien
genetic manipulation, forced interbreeding, the stealing of ova and
sperm and brief pregnancies with the fetus mysteriously vanishing
into yet another unverifiable report — while the experiences of male
abductees have received very little attention.
As Pontolillo states:
"The abductee testimony of various
medical and sexual experiences is a convoluted mix of lurid
dream imagery, confabulated medical and sexual experiences, and
iatrogenic effects."
While he focuses on the psychological
aspects and the mythic quality of abduction reports the author also
brings up the subject of devices allegedly implanted in abductees’
bodies by aliens for purposes of tracking and mind control, although
it seems none of these implants have been made available for
independent scientific evaluation — they have the habit of,
"vanishing mysteriously, being lost
in the mail, misplaced, stolen by unknown entities or seized by
unnamed federal agents as the ufological worldview usually
requires."
THE
SINISTER WORLD OF "SPY-CHIATRISTS"
Another nail in the coffin of the gray alien syndrome is added by
Martin Cannon in a manuscript entitled
The Controllers: A New
Hypothesis of Alien Abductions, in which the author asks some pretty
basic questions that seem to be conveniently overlooked by the
abduction proponents.
Firstly,
"How do we know that the abductors
are alien at all?
And if the abductees are placed under some
kind of mind control through implanted memory as claimed by Budd
Hopkins and others: How can we trust the perceptions of someone
whose perceptions have been altered?
What if the kidnappers were
actually human beings, using advanced hypnotic techniques to
create the ’alien’ screen memory?"
Cannon doesn’t question the validity of
the abductee experience, but rather he seeks to unravel the deeper
layers of the mystery from a pragmatic and definitely Earth-oriented
approach. With a formidable list of resource references he puts
forward his case that the claimed UFO abductions might well be a
continuation of clandestine mind control operations including
hypnosis, drugs, psychological conditioning, microwaves, brain
implants and even more disturbing technologies. Having spent a great
deal of time reading, researching, contacting other researchers and
conducting interviews, Cannon has come up with shocking evidence of
the sinister and covert world of the "spy-chiatrists" who have been
experimenting with mind control technologies for decades.
He says:
"If my hypothesis proves true, then
we must accept the following: The kidnapping is real. The fear
is real. The pain is real. The instructions are real. But the
little grey men from Zeti Reticuli are not real; they are
constructs, Halloween masks meant to disguise the real faces of
the controllers."
And who are the controllers?
"Substantial evidence exists linking
members of this country’s intelligence community, including the
Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Intelligence, with the
esoteric technology of mind control."
He traces clandestine behavioral
research going back to World War II with the developing tools of
hypnosis, truth drugs and a pharmacology of chemicals. After the war
the Navy continued this research, then in 1950 the CIA began its own
mind control program with Project BLUEBIRD, which became ARTICHOKE
and later
MKULTRA, regarded by some as the most heinous of all the
CIA’s disreputable covert operations — with its most secret area of
study being psychoelectronics. That these programs existed is an
established fact, as the author states,
"...the existence of mind control
was verified in two (heavily compromised) congressional
investigations and in thousands of FOIA documents."
For those who doubt the power of
mind
control over unsuspecting victims, he includes this anecdote about a
MKULTRA veteran and author on warfare hypnosis George Estabrooks,
who,
"once amused himself during a party
by covertly hypnotizing two friends, who were led to believe
that the Prime Minister of England had just arrived; Estabrook’s
victims spent an hour conversing with, and even serving drinks,
to the esteemed visitor."
As Cannon asks,
"If the Mesmeric arts can
successfully evoke a non-existent Prime Minister, why can’t a
representative from the Pleiades be similarly induced?"
As far back as the 60s, he states, and
possibly earlier, scientists have had the means to create implants
similar to those claimed by abductees. Around the late 50s a
neuroscientist named
Jose Delgado invented a device known as a "stimoceiver"
— a miniature depth electrode which can receive and transmit
electronic signals over FM radio waves. With this the controller can
wield a surprising degree of control over the response of the
subject, playing the emotions electronically "as easily as a musical
instrument."
Delgado stated quite clearly in 1966 that,
"motion, emotion and behaviour can
be directed by electrical forces and that humans can be
controlled like robots by push buttons."
Other researchers have induced memory,
sexual arousal, fear, pleasure and hallucinations in their subjects,
and devices have been created for tracking people over long
distances, leading to "electronic house arrest" devices approved by
the courts. (Mind machines of a supposedly more innocent nature have
also become commonly used in New Age circles, such as the Synchro-energizer,
TENS machine etc.)
The early implants were soon replaced by
tiny miniaturized intracranial receivers, which in turn have been
superseded by microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic
radiation to elicit mind control. How far the technology has
progressed is hard to monitor, Cannon admits, as the press stopped
reporting on brain implantation in the early 70s, but journalists
have asserted that the CIA now has mastered "Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control" and "Electronic Dissolution of Memory" —
being able to induce hypnotic trance, give suggestions, and erase
memory ("missing time" is a common claim of abductees), all at a
distance and "triggered at will by radio transmission" surpassing
even the sophisticated horror of The Manchurian Candidate.
Intramuscular implants have also been developed with the small
resultant scars reminiscent of abductee reports.
Perhaps the most ominous proposals for
mind-management, says the author, come from people like Joseph A
Meyer of the National Security Agency (NSA) who proposed implanting tens
of millions of "subscribers", as Meyers put it, (about half of all
Americans arrested) who could be under constant computer
surveillance wherever they went. As this frugal fellow stated,
"implants are cheaper and more efficient than the police." And the
operation can be done right in the office taking less than 20
minutes, as a Florida doctor brags, who also suggests implanting
children with transmitters for constant monitoring for their own
safety! With such sophisticated techniques at their disposal Cannon
asks the key question: Why are ’advanced aliens’ using old Earth
technology?
It all sounds very fishy and yet the lure of the little gray alien
has been swallowed by otherwise intelligent people, hook, line and
sinker.
"Perhaps," says Cannon, "one purpose
of the UFO abductions is to engender and maintain the legend of
the little gray aliens. For the hidden manipulators, the
abductions could be, in and of themselves, a propaganda coup."
(It may be mere coincidence but
"ex"-intelligence agents are very prominent in such highly
sophisticated disinformation schemes as the ’cosmic conspiracy’, the
UFO and alien abduction plot, e.g. John Lear,
William Cooper, Bob
Lazar, etc — although on a recent radio show both Lear and Cooper
were both heard back-peddling on the alien angle of the conspiracy
caper).
But for what purpose? One chilling
possibility put forth by Cannon concerns "the disposal problem" of
the mind-control experiments, or "What do we do with the victims?"
Another possibility is to prepare earthlings for a simulated alien
invasion which could bring into effect an international state of
emergency — remember the film The Day The Earth Stood Still?
CATTLE
MUTILATIONS
Another atrocity that has been linked to alien abductions by the
thinnest threads of evidence (so thin as to be practically
invisible) is the disturbing cattle mutilation enigma. In one case a
young woman claimed she was taken by aliens to a facility where they
were processing the body parts of a mutilated calf. In the New
Mexico area where cattle mutilations have occurred, strange lights
have been repeatedly seen in the sky along with other unusual
activity such as helicopters that can be seen but not heard, or
heard but not seen.
Common in abductee accounts is the
memory of a helicopter turning into a UFO. According to George Earley who in a
Fate interview with Hopkins is surely fantasizing
about equipment on an alien space ship: "Such equipment might
function in a manner similar to the Klingon cloaking device in the
Star Trek TV series." And in a similar vein Linda Moulton Howe,
creator of the TV film A Strange Harvest, and a major media
proponent of alien abductions, states,
"...they (the grays) have the
technology to camouflage themselves however they want to."
Drawn into this highly contentious area
was Peter Jordan, author of The Psychometry of Cattle Mutilation,
and founder/director of the Association for the Study of Unexplained
Phenomena. As an independent investigator Jordan, with a fair amount
of skepticism, took photographs of mutilations to four separate
psychics, each with a well established reputation for accuracy. He
was amazed by their independent analyses which showed a stunning
similarity of impressions, each describing a military or
paramilitary operation involving helicopters, sharp surgical
instruments, the necessity for fresh animal samples, hovering craft
with lights to give the impression of UFOs, and a strictly
terrestrial but massive covert operation. In one way or another each
of the four psychics insisted that,
"phenomena suggestive of
extraterrestrial involvement had been introduced to create
confusion."
So we have two diametrically opposed
stories:
What would you believe?
WHO
CONTROLS THE CONTROLLERS?
While Pontolillo and Cannon present enough evidence between them
from a psychoanalytical and physical standpoint to deflate the gray
alien bubble, there still remains a nagging feeling that something
strange is going on.
Deep within the ancestral memory of every race lies the tradition of
space contact, of communication with divine or other-worldly beings
and it seems that at certain times, perhaps during powerful
planetary alignments, the barriers which separate humans from other
worlds and states of being become more tenuous, more easily crossed.
During the 1960s and ’70s for example an intense occult revival
began to surface across the planet inspiring individuals and groups
to alter their modes of perception, to penetrate other dimensions
and extraterrestrial spaces and make contact with ’those beyond.’
Occult technologies for accelerated spiritual development became
suddenly available and so did a strong desire for freedom from the
prevailing and intensifying state of global materialism.
It was also during this time that the alien abductors made their
first much publicized appearance. Was it a deliberate attempt to
close down the newly opened ’doors of perception’ — to make people
fearful of something beyond the control of earthly powers? Or was it
merely coincidence?
One of the major influences on this occult revival were the prolific
writings of the English magician
Aleister Crowley, who was
instrumental in merging the occult knowledge of the orient with the
western mystery tradition, and who could be called one of the first contactees — in particular a book transmitted by a
’trans-mundane’
intelligence called Aiwass in Cairo in 1904. Several years later in
America Crowley made contact with another
extraterrestrial entity
called Lam and the reason I mention this is because a portrait drawn
by Crowley of this entity bears a startling resemblance to the
modern ’gray alien.’ In recent years others have also made contact
with this entity which is regarded by the respected occultist and
contemporary author Kenneth Grant, as a potent "Gateway to other
dimensions, other worlds or aethyrs." And, he says, this image of Lam is "fast becoming a focus for those interested in the occult
implications of ’Ufology’ and intradimensional psionics."
From The Magical Revival (1972) to Hecate’s Fountain, his latest
work, Grant has explored the occult ramifications of
extraterrestrial contact throughout human history, through
"dimensions that scientists are only just beginning to explore." He
identifies the ’gateways’ through which alien forms of consciousness
are manifesting and the reasons why a rapidly growing number of
people are experiencing an explosion of consciousness, felt as
disturbing because most are without any occult, metaphysical or
scientific discipline.
Through the manipulation of natural forces such as nuclear and
electrical technologies man has unleashed certain energies (or from
an occult point of view, has invoked certain entities) over which he
has lost control and is now totally unprepared to face the
consequences. The elemental constituents of the material world have
been blown apart, the ’gateways’ have been opened once again between
the worlds and real contacts are being established between the inner
consciousness of evolving humans and outer, or inner, space
intelligences. For those who can’t detach themselves from a
materialistic world view these subtle contacts are translated in
material terms as physical beings, ’the grays’ with their equally
solid space ships (of which no material evidence exists), rather
than being recognized as grossly deformed shadows reflected into the
subconscious from cosmic individualities beyond the ken of the
rational mind.
It’s obvious that our world is undergoing a violent transformation.
All concepts of what constitutes a stable universe are daily being
swept away. Who can say with all certainty what is real, or what is
not? As for the ’grays’, the only ones I’ve seen with sinister
intent are the gray faced, gray-suited politicians on the network
news deciding your fate. As to whether they’re human or not — well,
that’s another story...
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