What is going on in our skies? More important, what is the reason benind the UFO and close encounter phenomenon? In decades of UFO researcch, including nearly 20 years of close encounter narratives, experiencers have described increasingly consistent patterns in their encounters. The phenomenon is extensive, intruding in the lives of people across all cultures, social, political and economic strata. It appears to have an agenda, a plan, a goal. So just what is the phenomenon up to?
I just got done reading the book, "Walking Among Us," by David M Jacobs. Like his previous book, The Threat, this book is a spooky read. It portrays a dark scenario of alien infiltration and describes how "They" have carefully laid plans to take over our world. It is an alien invasion by stealth.
In summary, Walking Among Us makes the following points:
- The UFO phenomenon is a nuts and bolts intervention in our society.
- Paranormal, metaphysical and/or spiritual models of the phenomenon are incorrect.
- Our alien visitors do not have positive intent. Positive views of alien visitation are not correct.
- These beings have been carefully monitoring and intervening in our affairs for hundreds of years.
- They are conducting their operations in secrecy, avoiding public scrutiny.
- They have conducted a careful, selective breeding/genetics program resulting in the creation of human(oid) beings with a mix of human and alien characteristics.
- Human-Alien hybrids (Jacobs refers to them as "hubrids") are now present on Earth in large numbers.
- Their task is to study and then integrate/assimilate into our society.
- Their intent is to assume positions of authority in our society and ultimately usurp control.
- At a time referred to as "The Change" they will take over over the earth, bringing it (and us) into their dominion.
This scenario is consistent with some interesting observations which researchers (including myself) have noted in recent years. Among them is the appearance of apparently-human but very unusual entities. Many experiencers have described encounters with these "human-aliens." Are these the beings Dr. Jacobs describes? Descriptions of them would fill books in their own right, but the overall description would be of a person who is very psychic, does not have a clearly traceable origin or life story, and who appears to be awkward and out of place in our society. This does lend credence to some of the ideas presented in The Threat and Walking Among Us.
Dr. Jacobs describes a high degree of consistency between the narratives of his clients. He claims that most narratives seem to support the overeall scenario. What are we to make of this result?
Claims made by Dr. Jacobs in his books, particularly about hypnosis, have especially given me pause.
- Hypnosis can accurately recover memories of experiencers (abductees) interactions with "Them."
- Hypnosis must be done correctly, so as to ascertain the correct result.
- The variety of reports that many other researchers discern during hypnosis sessions are the result of confabulation (Narratives derived from metaphor or imagination) and/or erroneous hypnosis technique
- If the result doesn't conform to the standard scenario, the hypnotic technique must be incorrect
As I described in The Cosmic Bridge, I have found a continuum of descriptions, variations on a theme from the "Standard Model" as described by and Dr. Jacobs and by the late Budd Hopkins. I find a large number of variations on that theme, however. I've found that nearly every experiencer will have a wide variety of encounters in their lives including those matching the standard-model, as well as others that include non-abduction contact and spiritual/metaphysical experiences.
In the hundreds of hypnotic regressions I have conducted, I have not observed the consistency Dr. Jacobs describes. In conversations with him, I have pointed this out. To this, he has replied that I am not looking deep enough, not asking the right questions. I have always been willing to step back and examine the way I do things. Am I not digging deep enough? pushing hard enough? Yet at the same time, I have made every attempt to keep my hypnotic technique careful and non-leading. Perhaps as a result, I have needed to tread more lightly. Perhaps therefore, I have not seen the consistency that Dr. Jacobs has described. Does this imply that his results are more accurate, or is the opposite true?
I must note that I have conducted far fewer sessions with each experiencer than has Dr. Jacobs. Does this mean that he is getting to a deeper core of the phenomenon? Or does it mean that such a long progression of hypnotic work might result in a "normalization" of the narrative toward the "standard scenario". Is this the case? Since I am not close to the work behind The Threat and "Walking Among Us," I couldn't say. But I always view it with discernment when a single hypnotist has many independent clients describing the same scenario.
I have seen other cases where a hypnotist elicits a coherent scenario from a wide range of clients. Clients seem to come away with a viewpoint that at least to some degree seems to align with that of the researcher. Yet I note even where this is the case, researchers involved tend to describe very different (even mutually exclusive) scenarios. In addition, the narrative-consistency they describe is very different from the variety of descriptions experiencers have described to me. So I need to ask - am I asking too few questions? Am I not digging deep enough? Or since every access of human memory effectively alters it, by remaining more neutral (and thus less agressive), am I instead minimizing any possible alteration of experiencers memories?
In addition, the scenario in The Threat, and Walking Among Us does not explain several key issues we have noted in this "standard scenario" of close encounters. Several of these I have described in The Cosmic Bridge.
1) The Air Traffic Control Problem - to sustain the volume of alien abduction activity, an absurdly large volume of UFO traffic must be present. The volume of UFO traffic would have to rival (or exceed) that of commercial air traffic in our skies.
2)) The Infrastructure Problem - Such a vast amount of alien activity necessitates an extensive alien support effort and organization, roughly on the scale of the allied war effort during World War II.
3) The Paranormal Fallout Problem - A wide variety of paranormal effects are observed associated with the UFO phenomenon. UFO encounters appear to be just one aspect of a continuum of phenomena, including cryptocritters, balls of light, ghosts and other anomalies, psychic and metaphysical experiences, electrical sensitivity, etc.
4) The Reality Paradox Problem - A pure nuts and bolts view of UFOs does not seem to account for the apparent non-physical nature of many encounters. Many seem to involve dream entities, spiritual and out-of-body experiences, altered elements of the experiencer's known environment (the Oz factor), and the list goes on.
These limitations suggest that one or more of the assumptions behind the standard scenario are incorrect. We need to again ask, what are the possible explanations for these events? Are they all "nuts and bolts" visitations as Dr. Jacobs maintains? Or are there other, more esoteric explanations - spiritual, multidimensional, temporal, etc. If so, could more than one of them true? Are any of the explanations of the phenomenon mutually exclusive?
I don't know the answers but I am leery of any answer that is too clear, too coherent - and above all, too easy. As I read through the dark descriptions of the alien agenda as portrayed in Secret Life, The Threat, and now in Walking Among Us, I sincerely hope he is wrong.
