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as role as a kind of exchange student between the nonphysical universe from which the aliens or “light beings” emanate and the earth on which she has committed herself to live. Sara tried repeatedly in our sessions to put into words the process by which she believes the alien beings can enter our physical unverse and she, in turn, can access theirs. One striking image was that of a powerful cellophane membrane that is shattered, creating a slit through which some connection with the other, non- physical, dimension may become possible. She says that she herself can access this other universe and that she has radical adjustments that must occur for us to connect. Much of the intense bodily dstress that Sara and other abductees experience during their relaxation sessions may relate to the bodily releasing of these vibrational incongruities that have been held in check, sometimes throughout the individual’s life, by powerful repressing forces that may derive both from the human psyche and possibly from controls imposed by the aliens themselves. Some of the most intense moments in Sara’s first session occurred when she recalled having been struck or “bumped” painfully when she misperceived a mirror in her hotel room for an open corridor, a “mistake” that might have been engi- neered by the _ beings themselves. Immediately following this shocking and painful impact she reported being able to recognize in her room a representative of another, more reptilian appearing, species of alien beings that she felt was possibly connected with her friend Miguel, as she has been linked with the Mengus-like species. The intense physicality of this sort of experience may be employed so that Sara and other human beings are forced to acknowledge the reality of entities and domains that our Western acculturation have taught us in recent centuries cannot, even must not, exist. Yet this kind of ontological, physical shock may, in my view, be an essential initial step in the process of human consciousness evolu- tion that seems to lie at the core of the alien abduction phenomenon. the longed to surrender herself over entirely to the other domain, which she, like so many abductees, considers to be “Home” and the place of her true parents. But she feels she is constrained from going there altogether by the continuing earthbound challenges of overcoming her own egoistic needs, especially the desire to be loved. Sara, like other abductees, understands that as she transforms her own consciousness and _ shares this process, she contributes in a subtle way at a wider level. As she put it, “If you truly do what’s good for yourself, you’re doing what’s good for the world.” Sara, like all abductees perhaps, may be participating in some sort of project of species merger and_ evolution. The purpose of this project may be to create new life-forms that are more spiritually evolved and less aggressive, while retaining the acute sensory possibilities that accompany the dense embodiment of human physical existence. One Part of our lone hypnosis session involved Sara’s memories ot an encounter with an alien being that she experienced as occurring partly in our physical reality and partly in another, nonphysical, dimension. The most diffcult aspect of the various kinds of interdimensional, interspecies connec- tion that Sara described is the different vibrational frequencies by which beings from the other dimensions live and the own John E. Mack, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder. 39