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 counselling
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
practised 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 behavioural 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 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 — UFOs manned by "advanced"
aliens cloaking themselves as helicopters — or — military
helicopters cleverly disguised as UFOs. 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...
