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scale. Such people are easily hypnotized and tend to daydream a lot. So, there does seem to be a direct connection between thinking that ET The skeptics jumped for joy at this news. They leapt onto the idea that Ring’s experiencers were all simply inveterate fantasizers, or if they had in fact been abused, this “traumatization” led to a “need for attention and self-esteem” which led them to fantasize these attention and which led them fantasize these to experienced experienced “positive alien interactions” and clearly pathological states, the label was slapped on everyone who acknowledged the possibility that the alien reality was more than just a meme infection. Ring suggested that childhood dissociation might be a technique that an abused person could develop to adapt to a difficult situation. Because these people become strong dissociaters from an early age on, they find it easier to enter altered states of consciousness. Ring then proposed that since people in such altered states might have a wider range of perception than ordinary people, they might be more “prone” to experience paranormal events than a control group who might also be exposed, but unable to perceive them. There is another way of looking at Ring’s findings: it may be that people who are not able to perceive more subtle realities, might very well be the ones who are viewing reality in a dissociated state: dissociated from what is, the objective world. Whether they are promoting the “alien reality” as a positive experience, or the SETI reality, or any other reality that does not take into account the broadest range of observable facts, such individuals may be operating in pathological states of dissociation. In this sense, the idea that “God is in heaven and all is right with the world” is as much a fantasy as the idea A very simple way of looking at it is in terms of what is popularly called Stockholm Syndrome. A person who is not aware of the subtext of the play of forces in our world, a person who, as I had done, compartmentalizes things so they do not have to see the implicatory connections, may be the one who has dissociated and identified with the rationalist, materialistic interpretation of reality. In other words, if there is a control system as Vallee suggests, an Evil Magician, as Gurdjieff called it, it very likely promotes this view in order to conceal itself. The term, Stockholm Syndrome, was coined in the early 70’s to describe the puzzling reactions of four bank employees to their captors. On August 23, 1973, three women and one man were taken hostage in 105 High Strangeness — Part One is “good” and dissociation. experiences. Since there was a clear correlation between those who had that mankind is the result of mindless evolution.