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by Mike Clelland __________________________________________________________________________ Something extremely strange is interwoven into the UFO phenomenon. There are weird coincidences and synchronicities that seem to tie in to the overall topic in ways that defy any easy explanation. This includes a kind of predictive manifestation in our pop culture. If you dig just a little bit youll find that movies, radio drama, literature and (especially) comic books all have a way of anticipating the plot points of the unfolding UFO drama. Anyone of a certain generation will remember the ABC Movie of the Week. It featured hour and a half long made for TV movies each Tuesday night. I clearly remember sitting on the floor in front of the family television set and watching one of these movies. It was about a women who is mysteriously pregnant with an alien child. I am 50 years old as I write this and I would have been 12 years old on that long ago Tuesday night in 1974. For reasons I dont quite understand, bits of that movie have been stuck in my head for the last 38 years.
Ive been actively studying the UFO abduction phenomenon and I recently reviewed a series of questionnaires that abduction researchers will use with their clients. One of the consistent questions is: Do you crave salt? When I read that I immediately went back to that TV movie, and I clearly remembered a scene where a pregnant woman would compulsively put salt on her salad at an outdoor restaurant. This inspired me to search for more info on-line. It didnt take but a few mouse clicks to get me to Youtube, and I watched that very scene.
Surprisingly, the scene played out exactly as I remembered it. The fact that my memory was so eerily precise after all those years piqued my interest, so I ordered a used DVD copy of the movie, and in less than a week I was watching it again. The movie is titled The Stranger Within, and watching it opened up a a deep dark hole of synchro-weirdness. Before we examine the movie, its important to explain what has emerged in recent years concerning the strange experiences of women abductees.
Women are telling stories of being abducted by what would appear to be aliens from some other realm, most commonly described are the short spindly gray skinned entities with the big bald heads and huge penetrating black eyes. These are now commonly known as The Grays. These abductions will start in their youth, and upon puberty a nightmare set of procedures begin to unfold. These young women are somehow impregnated during an abduction event, it might be done by mechanical means with some sort of technology or it might be done with someone (or something) onboard the craft. Like almost all abduction events, they are subjected to some form of mind control that makes them follow commands and erases their memories. These women will tell of having the all symptoms of pregnancy, but often it will happen without them being sexually active. Later, usually within the first trimester, the women will awake one morning with the very real knowing that they are no longer pregnant. They might have memories of an abduction during the night where the fetus is removed.
Sketch of incubation chambers drawn by an abductee from memory Both men and women abductees tell of rooms onboard ships that are lined with some sort of liquid filled glass aquariums, each with a fetus floating inside. Or, theyll see a room full of glass tubes, again with a fetus floating inside. These incubation chambers are reported with consistency. Sometime later these woman will be abducted again, and presented with a tiny baby, and theyll be told that they are the mother. The infant isnt normal, it appears sickly and thin, it seems to be a hybrid of us and them. I.
There is a wide range of emotions that get reported, from revulsion to a profound maternal love. The women are encouraged to embrace the baby, of even breast feed them. Women will tell of being able to lactate even though this should be impossible in their waking life. These women will experience ongoing abduction events where, over the years, they will see their children growing up. They will appear in nurseries and classrooms and they will be growing up at an accelerated rate that wouldnt match their life on earth. Eventually, these woman may meet their children as young adults, sometimes this happens here on earth while they are awake and fully consciousness. This summary of experiences doesnt emerge in any kind of linear construct, it is usually a mess of fears, impressions, dreams and mixed-up snippets of memory. There are plenty of variations in this narrative. The mind control and the erasing of memories makes it extremely difficult to truly grasp the entirety of what might be happening. There are plenty of reports in the literature of children born to abductee mothers with curious traits and abilities, often the mother will remember being taken during the childs pregnancy. Indigo children, Star Seeds, Light Workers and Crystal Children are all terms used to describe these kids. I am cautious to give a percentage, but anecdotally it is nearly consistent that pretty much ALL women who claim the abduction phenomenon will have experiences that involve cryptic pregnancies. I need to emphasize that these experiences are happening to real women, and they are profoundly challenging and emotional. When someone shares their life events with me, and when they tell about their unaccountable pregnancies, they will almost always end up sobbing. There are reoccurring accounts of women who will be told by their gynecologist that they are pregnant, and during a follow up examination the fetus will be gone. I was told one deeply distressing account where the doctor got openly angry and accused the woman of getting an abortion. I spoke with another woman with a long history of UFO abduction experiences. She told me that she was in a severe car accident and her injuries required the doctors to give her a hysterectomy. Afterwords, while still in the hospital, several gray aliens entered her room and told her that she was no longer any use to them and there would be no further contact. I have to say, this woman acted extremely sad when she told me this story. One woman told me a horrifying experience when she was 16 years old and still a virgin. She woke up because she was bleeding heavily, she went to the bathroom, but couldnt
understand what was happening. She sat on the toilet and aborted a tiny fetus. She spoke in an emotional panic when she described flushing the gruesome evidence away. There is probably nothing more devastating in the human experience than a mother who loses a child. Compounding the bizarre context of alien abduction and hybridization must make the events all the more shattering.
In addition, some researchers have noted that an overwhelming percentage of abductees are creative types. In the movie Ann is a painter. In the movie, the fetus was growing much faster than a normal child, the gestation was accelerated, and the birth was due months early. These same points about the pregnancy occasionally show up in the abduction literature. In the reports from women who see their hybrid children onboard ships, it is often noted that they are growing up much faster than a normal child on earth would.
Abduction questionnaires
UFO abduction researchers will have a set of questions theyll ask their clients. You can infer a lot from these questions. A lot of these questionnaires are posted on-line, and Ive collected some relevant questions from a series of questionnaires with a connection to the movie, these are listed below:
Do you have an unusual fear of doctors or medical treatment.
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Have you ever experienced a dramatic healing Do you feel that aliens have come to create mutants through a process ofinterbreeding accomplished by their superior science Do you have an obsessive memory that will not go away, such as seeing an alien face or a strangebaby,or an examination table or needles, etc.? For women only: Have you had frequent female problems and reproductive difculties? If you are a female, have you experienced a gynecological problem that yoususpect is related to an abductionexperience? Men and Women: Have you had frequent urinary tract infections? Have you had any disturbing or realistic dreams about babies or small children? If you are a woman, have you ever felt certain that you were pregnant, but the pregnancysuddenly disappeared? Have you ever had a false pregnancy or missing fetus? Have awakened with soreness in your genitals which could not be explained? Do you crave salt?
The director of The Stranger Within was Lee Philips (19271999). He was a busy guy during his years as a director for TV. His credits include an episode of Kung Fu and several of the ABC Movie of the Week productions, including Sweet Hostage with Martin Sheen and Linda Blair! Philips was also an actor and he played the role of radio DJ Gene 'Buddy' Maxwell in the very first Outer Limits episode, Galaxy Being.
Yes Master!
Ms. Eden has always had a rather strange halting voice, and this serves her well in this eerie movie as well as in her role as Jeanne. Curiously, the name Eden seems appropriate for a woman who is bringing the first alien hybrid child into our world. Barbara Eden has recently penned a 288 page autobiography where she writes exactly two sentences on this film: In 1974 I appeared in a real howler of a TV movie of the week, The Stranger Within, in which I gave birth to an alien baby, ate raw meat, and drank a lot of coffee. Sigmond Freud probably would have had a field day analyzing that script! Alas, Im no Freud, but I am having a field day. There is a long list of plot points within this made for TV drama that are extremely predictive in a way that stretches my mind. Present day UFO lore is flooded with stories from women who tell of UFO abduction experiences and weird issues surrounding mysterious pregnancies. All too often, there isnt any consciously remembered sexual event that would account for the conception. There are endless reports of hybrid offspring and these enigmatic children seem to have miraculous abilities. These issues are at the core of this fictional narrative. That said, there doesnt seem to be any logical inspiration for the original story. The movie was aired on October 1st 1974, but it was based on a short story from 1953. This story was written over 30 years before any of these bizarre claims from abductee women and hybrid offspring had entered the collective consciousness. I believe that it was Budd Hopkins 1987 book Intruders where the initial reports of strange pregnancies first appeared in print. Initially, it was called: the tiny baby syndrome. Raymond Fowlers 1991 book The Watchers, the third in the Betty Andreasson Luca series, has further reporting of odd pregnancies and hybrid fetuses. This was followed by Abducted! (1994) written by Debbie Jordan and her sister Kathy Mitchell. This is a first-person account from the two main characters from Hopkins book. In 1995 Kim Carlsberg published her firstperson account of the now prototypical experiences with missing pregnancies and children onboard UFOs in her book Beyond My Wildest Dreams.
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Pregnancy and UFO abduction are part of the 1957 Antonio Vilas-Boas case in Brazil. The 23 year Boas was taken onto a craft, and after a series of examinations he was left alone in a room with a humanoid woman. He said he was strongly attracted to the woman, and the two had sex. When it was over the female smiled, rubbed her belly and pointed at the sky. Boas took this to mean she was now pregnant and was going to raise their hybrid child in space. When the Boas story was initially published the sex and pregnancy stuff wasnt included in any of the public reports, it was deemed to bizarre to be taken seriously. I should add that I worked with Budd Hopkins starting in 2007, and he seemed very interested in my experiences. He was a deeply caring man, and I feel honored to say I knew him. During my one and only hypnosis session with Budd the issue of sex and pregnancy came up when we examined a strange event from 2001. Ive tried to examine these confusing issues in a blog posting, HERE.
In both versions the wife begs for the husband to believe her, and she says she wants to be hypnotized as a way to prove her honesty. In the short story the husbands closest friend states: ...do what she suggests and try hypnosis, truth serum, anything. They follow up by using a truth serum and the results read like a hypnosis transcript. Near the end of the short story, as the wife is going into labor, she slips in and out of consciousness and she tells the husband her memories of the event while he was away. In the yard, David, she muttered, still unconscious... I heard a sound and I went out. The stars were bright and there was a crescent moon. While I stood there I saw a white light come over the yard. I started to run back to the house but something hit me but then it was black and I couldnt remember. Anything. I tried to tell you but I couldnt remember, I couldnt remember, I couldnt... The use of the term crescent in her description made me take notice. David Huggins is a UFO abductee and artist. His experiences involve a lot of weird sex and hybrid children. He tells of having a life-long loving relationship with a chalky white alien named Crescent, in reference to the crescent moon. His story is chronicled in words and pictures in the 2009 book Love in an Alien Purgatory.
A painting by David Huggins, one of hundreds that depict his relationship with an alien named Crescent, seen holding the hybrid baby.
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In the movie there is a slightly different account of Anns abduction. It happens during a hypnosis session performed by her husbands friend. She tells of being hit with a ray while she was painting in the hills. She says it came from a space ship above her. Both versions of Anns contact experience describe the now prototypical UFO abduction event, complete with the mind-controlled amnesia and some sort of beam of light. In the book, as in the movie, its the husbands friend who solves the mystery by piecing together the clues. In the 1953 book the conclusion was that the baby is a Martian. That quaint presumption certainly matches the mindset of the era, where Mars seemed like the only logical source for UFOs. Also in the book, the friend concludes that the Martian hybrid fetus is telepathic. This really surprised me because telepathy is a nearly universal component to all UFO abduction narratives, and I feel strongly that this would have been entirely unknown in that time. In the 1974 movie the source of the pregnancy reflects a more sophisticated view. The term Martian isnt used, its replaced by extraterrestrial. I read a handful of on-line reviews of the 1974 movie and several noted that it was merely a knock-off of Rosemarys Baby with an alien twist. That doesnt fit when you realize that the original short story was first published in 1953, pre-dating Ira Levins 1967 book by 14 years. The more logical conclusion would be that Levin was inspired by Matheson. Again, 1953 was a long time before any UFO abduction reports were known publicly, let alone the bizarre pregnancy aspects.
Rh negative blood
The issue surrounding Rh negative blood type is something that has only recently emerged within the community of UFO abduction researchers. Blood types are either negative or positive, this is noted in the suffix after the letter or letters. It is estimated that only 15% of the entire world's population are known to have the RH negative blood factor, and some estimates are as low as 5%. But research (albeit limited) shows that well over 50% of the people that claim the UFO abduction experience have RH negative blood. This is a weird statistic, and it implies that the abductors have very specific interests in the people they abduct. Also, Rh negative blood is often associated with clairvoyance and psychic skills. In the movie, the doctor is perplexed and says that Anns blood was changing to Rh Positive. This means that her blood was RH negative at the time of her abduction. This is a curious issue to show up in a script from over 38 years ago, especially given its relevance to present day UFO abduction research.
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surgery, and while under he said some things that terrified the Doctor. He was never able to get the Doctor to tell him what he said, but the implications are creepy indeed.
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worshipped as the ideal mother. Isis is often portrayed nursing her infant son, Horus God of the Sun. Some scholars point out that the mythology of Horus has compelling parallels to the story of Jesus. This would put Ann in the role of Mary (more on that later). There was a live action saturday morning series called The Secrets of Isis where a mild mannered woman would change into the Goddess Isis, given the absurdly low budget of the show the transformation would be implied buy using a close up of the sun complete with shimmering lens flare. Isis had super hero powers to fight crimes and right wrongs. This rather terrible show ran for two seasons, 1975 and 76.
1974: lame TV / Boss cars In the movie, Ann drives a bright yellow Chevy Nova, as did my mother around that same time period. The Latin translation of Novais new or strange and its a feminine word. The Latin word for star is Stella, also feminine; and some translations for nova say it is a shortening of nova stella (new star). In astronomy, Nova is a star that suddenly increases its brightness, and then fades away. This certainly matches Anns behavior in the movie, during her pregnancy she becomes tremendously bright by obsessively reading textbooks. After the child's birth she simply fades away, this happens in a lap-dissolve where she quite literally fades away to nothingness. The color Yellow, the color of her NOVA, represents the third Chakra, the Solar Plexus. In its Hebrew origin, the name Ann means "He has favored me" and He implies God himself. In the story, Ann has certainly been favored by the mysterious alien Gods.
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Windows as portals
This is a UFO movie without any UFOs, instead we see mystical imagery of the sun, and often its seen through windows. Throughout the film, both the Ann and her husband are seen repeatedly standing near windows and sometimes they even. Ann is always opening the windows and the husband is always closing them. This plays out because she is desperate to be in a cold environment and he is worried shell get sick. The thin gossamer curtain is an annoyance to the husband, where he repeatedly get tangled in the long flowing fabric as he forcefully closes the windows. The curtains, the veil, look extremely thin. The husband is challenged by these windows and their veiled guardian, but the wife seems to embrace it. Near the end of his life, when J. Allen Hynek was asked about the cause of the Hudson Valley UFO flap of the 1980s, he would calmly puffed on his pipe and reply, Windows.
The movie reaches its climax as Ann walks in a trance with her newborn child along a path through a forest, she is obviously mind controlled by her alien abductors. She is soon joined by other women carrying babies. These women are all wearing robes or flowing garments and their hair has been done up to mimic Greek Goddesses. The overall effect is of some sort of ancient ritual or occult offering. They all march willingly into the sun. Our collective society is overtly influenced by organized Christianity, so much so that the starting point of our calendar is synchronized to the birth of Christ. Within this framework nothing is more revered that The Blessed Virgin.
alien visitation? In The Book of Luke, Archangel Gabriel visits Mary and tells her, Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son... and she is told that the child is destined for greatness. How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin? A mysterious visitor from the heavens and the impregnation a young virgin? That story is commonplace in the reports of women abductees. And the phrase Do not be afraid, is probably the single most repeated quote that gets attributed to the aliens in all of abduction literature.
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In the story, Ann obviously isnt a virgin, but the implication that she is pregnant by unknown means is central to the plot. And like Mary, her child (a son) is somehow profoundly different. Few things in the western world are more fraught with uneasy drama than a miraculous pregnancy. In the nutty community of UFO researchers and experiencers, the question of whether Jesus was a product of direct tampering by aliens is the stuff of endless conjecture. Was the Star of Bethlehem a flying craft checking in on their hybridization program? And in the end, Jesus was ...carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:50-52) and his apostles were witnesses to his ascension, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." (Acts 1:9) This very much matches the conclusion of the made for TV movie, where the parade of goddesses and their divine newborns are whisked away into the sun with a lapdissolve and a cloud.
Pop-culture foreshadowing
1974 was a year with another odd predictive show involving UFOs. During my youth I was absolutely fascinated with the nightly show, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. It was on a local AM radio station each weeknight at 11:07, and I would lie in bed and listen to the drama on my clock radio. There were stories of the paranormal, ghosts and monsters. There was a strangely predictive episode titled: The Sighting. Its a fictional re-telling of a series of UFO abductions. The original air-date was November 25, 1974, less than two months after The Stranger Within aired on TV. In this radio drama, the set of plot points closely matches a lot of elements within a typical UFO abduction account; including mind control, multiple abductions, telepathy and implants. Again, this was long before the proliferation in the media of abduction accounts.
those early years, and something weirdly predictive seems to have been manifested in this tight little story. These ideas have been explored magnificently by Jeffery Kripal in his book Mutants and Monsters and by Christopher Knowles on his blog The Secret Sun. Both these authors have examined the strange emergence of mythology in the tawdry pages of super hero comics and low-brow magazines.
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Matheson's science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, has had three different film adaptations. The Last Man on Earth (1964 with Vincent Price), The Omega Man (1971 with Charlton Heston), and Am Legend (2007 with Will Smith). None of these movies followed Mathesons book very closely, and he says that George Romeros Night of the Living Dead (1968) comes closest. So, our present zombie-craze traces back directly to Matheson. Matheson's short story Button, Button was filmed as The Box in 2009, a film much heralded by Christopher Knowles at The Secret Sun. Mathesons 1978 novel What Dreams May Come was later filmed in 1998. This movie was referenced in the trilogy of channeled books Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch (at left). During the back and forth dialog with God (yes, him), Walsch is given information about the afterlife and how heaven and hell actually manifest for the recently departed. Walsch excitedly references the movie What Dreams May Come (staring Robin Nanu Nanu Williams), he is shocked at how the movies plot perfectly matches the description of the afterlife given by God. So, it seems Mathesons metaphysical ideas are confirmed by none other God himself! More about Walsch, he was the lead actor in the 2003 movie Indigo. He plays the grandfather of a psychic 10-year old girl. The implication is that the girl might be a hybrid alien. A hardcover collection He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson was released in February 2009. This book is an anthology of 16 original stories inspired by Matheson's works. Contributors include none other than alien abductee Whitley Strieber. A character named Senator Richard Matheson appeared in several episodes of The X-Files. The series' creator, Chris Carter, was a huge fan of Matheson's work including his scripts for The Twilight Zone and The Night Stalker. As noted above, Matheson wrote the original screenplay for The Night Stalker where the character of Karl Kolchak was introduced. This 1972 movie was the genesis for the 1974 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. The show premiered on September 13th.
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Darren McGavin in the role he was born to play This series was only around for one season and it plays an important role in my life. It is directly connected to the very reason I am so obsessive about the UFO topic. I was a super nerdy little kid and O how I loved that show. On a Friday night in 1974 (that year again) I was walking home from a high school football game, I left early to make sure to be home in time to see this very show. During the short walk, I saw a jarring orange flash in the sky, and when I got home my parents were angry with me. Its hard to know exactly, but I cant account for close to two-hours of time. I remember that I was really upset because I had missed The Night Stalker, if this story of missing time didnt include my favorite TV show as a kind of anchor, I am quite certain I would have forgotten the whole thing. I knew the show was on for one-hour starting at 10 oclock, so I was very aware of where I was and what I was doing leading up to the missing time.
Heres another personal UFO experience from 1974, unfortunately I cant remember the exact date. While looking out a window at night, I saw a metallic looking coffee can shaped craft moving slowly above the neighborhood. No way to know its size, but my guess is bigger than a van, smaller than a box car. I was it with my boyhood friend Kenny.
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There is a cluster of resonant events in the year 1974. Along with witnessing the coffee-can shaped craft, there was the premier of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (Sept. 13), The airing of The Stranger Within (Oct. 1), the radio drama The Sighting (Nov. 25th), my own missing time experience (sometime in Autumn). Four weird events, all within 54 days of each other. There was a profound flap of UFO sightings from 1973 to 1975, this basically frames 74. John Keel referenced this worldwide peak in witness reports. I have spoken or corresponded with 4 other people who born in 1962 and had a UFO sighting in 1974. I need to add that I met each of these people under odd synchronistic circumstances. And, the movie The Stranger Within is 74 minutes long, whatever that means.
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Addendum
Ive included some extra stuff that wasnt included (or was severely edited) with the initial posting of the meat of this essay (above) on Robbie Grahams Sliver Screen Saucers on 10/11/12. Also included (below) is a lot of relevant information dealing with the challenging issues that surround the UFO abduction lore. Alas, the text below isnt organized in a tidy linear progression.
Vocabulary words
The word abduction is loaded with baggage. There are other words such as experiencer and contactee that could be interchanged, but these are fraught with a separate meanings too. The term abduction implies that these aliens are forcibly taking someone else away against their will. The person involved is a victim andsadlythey are labeled as an abductee. Experiencer implies that the person is dealing with more of a spiritual component to the overall set of events. Contactee implies a willing dialog these unknown entities, and there is no sense of anyone being victimized. Unfortunately, none of these terms can fully express the subtleties and complexities of the overall phenomenon. Throughout this essay I have grudgingly used the biased terms abduction and abductee. I feel strongly that there needs to be a new word that more accurately defines what people are experiencing, something that can transcend the limiting framework of the old words. Ive spoken with people who tell of benevolent angelic experiences awash in profound love, and Ive heard some some of the scariest shit imaginable, things that can only be called demonic. Both these opposing testimonies seem real, but I honestly have no idea what is truly at the source of these experiences.
What if?
If what the women abductees are saying is actually happening it implies something staggering. This means that there are literally alien hybrids of all ages out there somewhere. Are they on spaceships, on other planets or in other dimensions? The big question is, are they coming back? What would this even mean? By all accounts, these beings are telepathic and psychic. Would these hybrids walk among us emanating love
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and goodness, heralding a new age of Christ Consciousness? Or, would their presence here shatter our fragile psyches in a way that would leave us enslaved. Would they live here on earth playing a covert role, somehow staying hidden and all the while advancing some agenda that we might not be able to understand? Are they doing that now?
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A series of images drawn by an abductee woman. (from upper left) 1. A procedure on a table, after it was done, the entities said, Now you are pregnant. 2. A room full of incubation chambers seen onboard a craft. 3. A hybrid child is presented to the mother.
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Both parties also like to diminish the tremendous potential of the human mind to assess information via unconventional processes. There are plenty of examples where fictional novels predicted future events with uncanny precision. An example would be the novel in which the cruise ship 'Titan' sinks after crashing with an iceberg, before the tragedy of the Titanic.
Synchro mysticism
Jake Kotze (left) is an insightful young guy who makes funny little videos about the quirky coincidences in our modern society. He coined the term synchromystical and it follow up, synchromysticism. I really like these words, for me, they describe a kind of cryptic playfulness within the overall phenomenon. This long-winded essay about The Stranger Within might be a tidy example of synchromystical forces at work. Ive been attempting to examine the echo chamber of popculture and esoteric coincidence. Presently here are a lot of on-line 20-something hipsters with blogs that have followed Jakes lead, and what has emerged is a kind of game of cleverness. One could make the argument that the frenzy of pop-cult associations is degrading the phenomenon. Is the whole "synchromystic" thing dragging a profound phenomenon into the gutter? Maybe, but we no longer live in the forest where we are surrounded by totem animals, lilypads and butterflies, where an innate organic mythology would be ever-present. Instead, were are swallowed up into a materialistic domain of crass TV shows and ham-fisted advertising. I still see a mythology struggling to emerge, even within the the confines of our modern world. I think this long-winded essay about The Stranger Within could be dismissed as just a tawdry synchromystical thrill ride. But I wrote it because it had meaning to me. I sense that there are things that emerge from our popular culture that are genuinely mysterious. I wanted to explore one example. In doing so, I was amazed all the interlocking details, and how some of it tied right back into some of my personal experiences. I realize that these connections might seem ego-based and delusional, but I am trying to following my gut on this stuff, not my intellect. As corny as it sounds, this essay is part of a spiritual journey.
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Blogger Dan Mitchell writes about the enigmatic forces that are at play in our world. He wrote an relevant essay titled Synchronicity and The Loss Of Meaning in his blog Transmissions from the Imaginal. I am quoting it below (italics is my own): I have to be honest here...all of this [synchromystical] talk leads to a gradual denouement of the phenomenon in general. Synchronicity is not about the connections between science fiction movies and emerging mythos, it is the language that a higher order of life uses to connect with a lower. This truth is being squandered by neo-gnostic and neooccultist wannabes that couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag intellectually speaking. This is exactly what happened in the realm of the UFO. It became so ingratiated into the science fiction culture from the late 1940s to the late 1990s that it became meaningless. So much so that most people won't bat an eye if they hear about a UFO sighting that goes mainstream. That's what the mainstream consciousness does to the strange and the sacred, it suppresses it by merely making it common. Mythology, no matter if it is ancient or modern, is a disguise laid over the sacred, a kind of protection from profane minds. But the disguise must never be mistaken for the real thing or a very serious problem will emerge. The people behind this suppression and mistaken perception don't even realize what they have done until it is already too late. What they do, whether they realize or not, is sap the meaning out of the phenomenon itself. When I read those words I felt that they were directed at me and my essay about The Stranger Within (they werent). None the less, I took it as a kind of cautious feedback, it forced me examine the seductive urge to connect everything to everything, no matter how willy-nilly. There is a real phenomenon at play, and I work hard not to trivialize its mystery. Curiously, Dans quote (above) was posted on the very same day that my essay appeared on Silver Screen Saucers. That day on the calendar reads as 10/11/12, its own playful microsync. There, I did it again, twice. I'm including an on-line comment (edited slightly) posted by a young woman below Dan Mitchell's essay: When I was consumed in alien/UFO/abduction research, I really felt like I was traveling at light speed towards some ultimate answer that would provide an explanation for why I felt the way I did and this sense of utter alienation from the world at large. It would only make sense that 'abductees' would feel a sense of belonging to another home off planet. Or, as in the hybrid baby mythos, is it any wonder that women are experiencing dream-like states in which there is a baby inside of them that is of an alien nature?
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Perhaps this is a reflection of the universal feeling of alienation that modern women feel, from the Earth and from her own 'inner-child.' A result of the modern culture we live in. The deep recesses of the mind speak a powerful, wordless language. I think it speaks to us through powerful symbols, archetypes, metaphors. I see the alien abduction stuff as a mythology... an explanation for something going on within the human psyche. It doesn't mean there are LITERALLY aliens impregnating women with alien fetuses, I think this is dangerous thinking. In my experience, UFO lore has majorly impeded any real spiritual development. As far as synchronicity goes, I really dont think it is all that strange that patterns show up in culture and in the world around us. Coincidences, syncs, trends, it seems more bizarre that patterns WOULDNT emerge in our lives. I used to get very wrapped up in the syncs that occurred in my own life, which really proved sort of meaningless. She beautifully articulates something that many within the UFO abduction community dare not whisper. Could we be dealing with an entirely different phenomena? Is it something etherial that somehow masquerades as aliens and at the same time, manifests very real psychological and physical effects? I am fascinated by this avenue of thinking. Would it be a welling up of some unconscious shadow, or is it something from another intelligence completely outside our domain? Could it be a complex cosmic process that expresses itself differently in different people? Some are moved by UFOs and some by religion. I think of Catholics in a deep stare of religious contemplation and how they can actually experience stigmata. This is confirmed bleeding in their palms and on their feet and sometimes on the side of their torso where the Roman centurion cut Jesus with his spear. This is a rare malady, but it has been studied by the church. The blood and open wounds are entirely real, but there isn't any logical explanation of their source. Could the UFO phenomenon be manifesting itself with similar, and very real displays? NOTE: For this sub-chapter Ive made heavy use of a post and the follow-up comments on Dan Mitchells site (linked HERE).
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Throughout this essay Ive made a bunch of personal references to my own fan-boy tendencies. As a 12 year old boy, I dearly loved both Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. As an adult, I found great solace in the three volumes of Conversations with God. These were each acutely important to me, compulsively so. I also make note of 1926, the year my father was born. This is something I see when I dig into these esoteric issues. Ill add that while watching the movie, it felt strange to watch a suburban housewife get into a bright yellow Chevy Nova and pull out of a driveway, I have defined memories of my mother doing exactly the same thing. These points might seem insignificant to you, but not to me. Each of these things are full of emotions. Its hard to explain, but this is deeply personal stuff and it tugs on me. It might mean nothing at all, but I am forced to pay attention.
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There is a central phenominon and then there is an outlying phenomena. It seems that Budd was trying to document and educate on the core mystery within his research, something he did beautifully. I guess I've been trying to make sense of the mess that splatters off from that core. This essay is an example, there are threads that seemingly go everywhere. I am not trying to contain any of this into something manageable like my intellect tells me to do. I am ignoring that side of my brain, and wallowing in the messiness of my intuition. The problem is that you, the reader, might feel lost in the maze of chaos. If so, you and I share the same response.
Acknowledgments
Huge thanks to Erika Earles who played editor. And more thanks to Robbie Graham, Dan Mitchell, Meghan and Red Pill Junkie.
Still from The Stranger Within. Joyce Van Patten (the friend), George Grizzard (the husband),David Doyle (the hypnotist)and Barbara Eden (Ann, the abductee)
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Note to the reader: This essay was originally published in a shorter format on Oct. 11th 2012 on Robbie Grahams Silver Screen Saucer site. As I was writing, the threads and connections were getting to be a bit much, and it grew into something unnecessarily massive. I felt the need to pare down the manuscript I sent to him. What you have before you is that longer version. The first half roughly matches the shorter piece, with some extra details added in as away to round out some ideas. Midway down youll find an addendum where I share more thoughts about the phenomena in question. This latter information was a place to try and articulate some of the complexities and subtitles of alien abduction and its implications. Mike C
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