UFO Religions

Archive for the ‘Alien Abduction’ Category

Gary Bates has written a lengthy review of The Fourth Kind. If you haven’t seen the movie yet amd care about reading spoilers, you may want to defer reading the review. If you have no time at all for a spiritual explanation for alien abduction, you won’t want to read it, either. Whether you think “alien abduction” is a synonym for demonic activity or not, it’s hard not to put such deliberate trauma (whether events in the movie are real or not) in the category of evil.

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I know — where’s the news in that?  Well, it’s being promoted as based on a true story, but it isn’t, at least as far as the investigative journalists who’ve looked into it can determine.  Details are in this review.

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Such is the title of this essay from the Journal of Popular Culture, a peer-reviewed resource. The article deals with alien abduction researchers like David Jacobs and John Mack, and it’s fairly sympathetic to them. I post it here so you know that this kind of stuff does indeed get discussed in mainstream scholarly journals.

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Nick Redfern recently posted something on night terrors put together by Tim Binnall.  Interesting reading, but there was a curious omission.  Binnall’s work (at least in this installment) neglects to mention the major scholarly work on night terrors and its relation to sleep paralysis and “otherworldly” visitations: The Terror That Comes in the Night (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series), by David J. Hufford.

For those who may have curled up by the fire at some point to read Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference Held at M.I.T. Cambridge, Ma., Hufford’s name will be familiar.  He delivered a paper at the conference entitled, “Awakening Paralyzed in the Presence of a Strange ‘Visitor’.”

People on all sides of the abduction phenomenon ought to pay closer attention to Hufford’s work.

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All you ever wanted to know about Joe Jordan and his work with abductees — halting abductions in the name of Christ (well, Part 1 anyway!).

Readers know I’ve blogged about Joe before — so here is a good, recent overview of who he is and what he does.

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