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From: robert.mitchell@awaiter.com (Robert Mitchell)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Hypotherapist on Abductee Brainwashing
Date: Wed,  8 Mar 1995 18:53:00 GMT
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Originally posted by Goodhigbee@aol.com (Donna)
To: All
Subj: Hypotherapist on Abductee Brainwashing
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Donna is having a small problem with her software and ask me to post this for
her. Please all comments on this subject should be directed to Donna at
Goodhibee@aol.com. or on the open web. Thank you. . . Robert

This is a response to the people who have posted inquiries to the letter
written by the hypnotherapist in Santa Barbara who wrote on abductee
brainwashing.  I'm the hypnotherapist and I'd like to introduce myself to you
and give you some background information.  I originally wrote the letter to a
group of abductees on AOL.  It was a private letter to about 40 or so people,
asking for their input and experience with regards to a new pattern I was
seeing.  A recipient of my letter then sent it around to other boards and I
understand it ended up on ParaNet.  Although I had no idea that my letter
would travel to other BBSes, I'm not at all displeased because I do feel that
what I have to say needs to be read by people who have had abduction
experiences and who are suddenly undergoing a drastic change in their
attitude towards the abduction scene.  I was not writing as a professional
hypnotherapist when I wrote that letter, I was writing from a gut reaction to
what I had witnessed in my own group and the "programmed" way the two people
mentioned in the letter had responded.  I should mention that although it is
a support group and I do work with hypnosis and abductees, not one person in
that support group had felt that they were ready to pursue their experiences
through hypnosis at the time I wrote that letter.  They all had waking
memories that were traumatizing them and that is why they had come to my
group. The support group consists of a group of people who need each other
for open talk and support, and at each meeting I present a talk on a
different aspect of abduction or a UFO-related phenomenon (last meeting was a
talk on MIB).  At one recent meeting I presented Ann Druffel's work on how to
stop an abduction before it gets fully started.  Ann has worked for years in
Los Angeles and has come up with several ways that *sometimes* are successful
in stopping the abductors.  I do personally feel that what I and other
researchers are seeing is a little frightening.  People are suddenly falling
into what Karla Turner calls "love your abductor" behavior.  I had read a
little about this and I know about the Stockholm Syndrome (aka Hostage
Syndrome) and I had assumed that this is what was happening to people.  After
witnessing what happened in my own group, I no longer think that is the case
in every instance.  It may still account for a few people but there is
something else operating here, too.

Anyway, just in case my full letter didn't make it to the board, I have
attached my original letter below. I just want people to use their heads,
that's all.  I'm not trying to sway anyone to
how I'm feeling about this whole thing.  I just don't think some people have
carefully and logically thought out what *abduction* means.

I certainly welcome any further discussion/comments anyone would like to make
to me.  I'm not trying to be some kind of
behind-the-scenes expert here.  I'm just reporting my strong gut feeling
about abduction and saying why I think so.

Donna

(Original letter to abductees on AOL)

Date:     Sun, Feb 12, 1995
From:    Goodhigbee@aol.com
Subj:    Abductee brainwashing?
To:       (A large group of abductees)

Hi everyone,

As most of you know, I'm a hypnotherapist in Santa Barbara.  I have a support
group here with 15 people in it.  I am very disturbed by a new pattern that I
see occurring.  When I check with other researchers, they are seeing the same
pattern.  I want to tell you what I see is going on and ask that each of you
tell me honestly how you feel about it and what your own experience is (if
any) with this occurrence.

We are noticing that abductees who have a history of being taken against
their will, being physically examined and violated, and being studied in many
ways, had been saying that abduction is wrong.  That being taken out of one's
bed or car against their will, sometimes experiencing awful, painful
procedures, being lied to and given screen memories, being paralyzed and
manipulated and controlled was offensive to them and frightening --- they are
NOW suddenly changing their tune.  What we are all hearing is that the
abductors are showing them how everything happening to the abductees is for
their own good and that the abductors are very advanced spiritual beings.
 What this information does to an abductee (whether told to him in words or
shown to him in pictures) is to make him give up seeking to end his abduction
experiences and instead start to welcome them.  Instead of the abductee
coming into a sense of his/her own power as a spiritual being and one who
does not need to give up his/her free will to anyone, what we are now seeing
is a group of submissive, controlled abductees who are passively letting the
abductors do as they want with them, all in the name of spiritual progress.
 This is very frightening.

First let me make something very clear.  I DO NOT BELIEVE FOR ONE MOMENT that
technological advancement equals spiritual advancement (it may, but it is NOT
a given).  Also, anything that makes a person give up his own personal power
and integrity is definitely not spiritual.  In my mind, anything that keeps a
person in ignorance, from progressing spiritually, from learning the truth,
and from taking responsibility for his own growth and awakening to his true
nature as a spiritual being in his own right, is wrong and bad. Anything that
allows the person his free will, responsibility for his own spiritual
progress, and aids in the process of discovering his true unbounded spiritual
nature is good.  I have noticed that just when a number of abductees are fed
up with being toyed with and are ready to learn to fight back, it is as if a
switch goes off in their heads and they suddenly start saying how spiritual
their abductors are, and they give up wanting to be personally powerful and
instead just let the abductors tell them anything and they go along with it.

I certainly believe that there are wonderful spiritual beings in our midst
who are guiding and aiding us in more ways than we can imagine.  BUT, I also
believe that we have some very devious entities in our midst who lie, use
screen memories, manipulate an abductee's emotions with virtual reality
scenerios, and in general are totally into control and power.  How can an
abductor who has been abusive and controlling suddenly be seen to be advanced
spiritually, unless the abductee's own mind has been lied to and toyed with
in some way.  I agree that truth is almost impossible to find in this maze of
experiences that abductees are going through.  But a manipulative control
monger doesn't SUDDENLY become an advanced spiritual being.

I'm sure there are people who have had contact with spiritual entities who
impart information and simply aid in the spiritual process, I feel that I
have encountered that type in my past.  I have no doubt that there are dozens
of very kind, helpful groups of entities here with us.  BUT, there are also
the other ones here, and we have to be VERY CAREFUL to analyze why we are
believing what we are being told by anyone who would come and kidnap us and
do whatever they want.  All I guess I'm saying to anyone who feels that they
are in this boat, is PLEASE don't immediately believe everything you are
told/shown by these guys.

Many abductees have been shown nurseries which seemingly house containers
with hybrid babies in them.  Sometimes the abductee is asked to hold a hybrid
infant, as if the point was to bond with it for the baby's sake.  I have to
seriously question the motives of these aliens.  One would think that they
had only caring and concern for the hybrids, but there are reports (not being
given out much by researchers because of their negative impact on people)
where an abductee is taken into the nursery and then asked to watch as the
abductors systematically break open the containers and kill the babies.  I'm
not making this up.  A number of researchers know this is true.  What then is
the motive and agenda of these beings, if they can do such things?  Can the
whole hybrid thing be a great cover for some other agenda that we don't even
have a clue about?  All I'm saying is that things are not to be taken at face
value and these beings certainly should not be believed just because they say
something or show someone something.  If they can (and we know they can)
manipulate a person's mind with screen memories and virtual reality scenes,
then they can easily have that person believing that they are wonderful
spiritual beings.  Just be careful and don't necessarily believe what you are
told outright.  We presently have no way to know the truth about what is
really going on.  Many abductees feel strongly that they really do know what
is going on.  I'm saying that we don't have any way to know that anything
they show us or tell us is true.  Be careful and be smart and don't be so
trusting that you get led off in a direction that looks promising and one
that you believe, just because it is nice and easy to believe in.  I feel
that we haven't even begun to get to the bottom of what is going on.  The
worst thing you can do for yourself is to believe something just because it
fits nicely with the picture you would like to see happening to this world in
the future.  I know that it takes great strength and courage to put aside a
glowing, positive picture and admit that you really just don't know for sure.
 We would all like to believe the wonderful reports of the aliens doing DNA
studies on you and raising hybrids so they can somehow save our planet or
theirs, but I don't think that is going on at all.  I think we aren't seeing
clearly.

Anyway, I think you have a good idea of where I'm coming from.  I personally
watched two people in my support group (two people who had terrible
experiences for years and whose lives were thrown upside down by their
abductions) walk into the meeting last Wednesday and tell everyone that they
had been wrong all this time.  That they were now shown that it was all for
their own good and that they should care deeply about these "spiritually
advanced" beings.  Their lives are a wreck, their marriages have ended, their
children are a wreck, they are as far from happy and content as anybody can
be -- and they say it is a spiritual being their are working with.  I say -
no way.  But we are gullible human beings and we do like to buy what is easy
and makes our world view easy to accept.  Just think about it .... what would
a truly spiritual being be like and what would he do to help a person grow?
 Not terrorize him, surely.  Anyway, I really do want to hear back from
anyone who will be kind enough to respond.  And I truly apologize if I have
hurt anyone's feelings here, that is certainly not my intention.  I just
don't want us all being sheep, brainwashed by those less-than-honest groups
who want to control us.  Be discerning and be careful with what you accept as
your truth.  Thanks for your time.  My warmest regards to you all.
Donna



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