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awakened reversed in the bed? What about all the gynecological mishaps I had suffered? On and on he went. And as he ticked off each item, I felt more and more nauseated. Frank’s theory was that the whole drama of recent times - a series of events spread across several counties, including dozens of witnesses, most of whom I didn’t even know - was “staged” to get my attention; to wake me up. What was more, even our meeting was obviously a “destined” event.’ I did not like what Frank was saying. Like the incidents of the wet nightgown and the strange lights, I was really struggling to ignore the anomalies in my life. I did not like the connotation Frank was putting on my experiences. In the first place, I had studied too much, seen too much, and worked with too many troubled people to overlook the dangers of ego and subconscious tendencies to distort. When anyone starts to think they are “special”, that God is “talking” to them, it’s a sure sign of descent into delusion and “magical thinking”. Nevertheless, I had read many cases by now of strange events similar to my own that were attributed to “aliens”, and that was the problem. If it wasn’t “aliens”, who or what was it? If it was what people were calling “aliens”, did this mean they literally visitors from deep space? Or were so-called aliens merely artifacts - induced perceptions - of victims of some vast government mind control experiment? Most terrifying of all: were aliens what had been known as demons throughout history? Of course, in my own mind, there was an additional twist to this line of logic: Why would anyone or anything go to so much trouble to set up so many bizarre things to get my attention if I wasn’t supposed to do something about it? If I was supposed to do something, they had certainly picked the wrong person, because it was becoming pretty clear that I was probably not going to live a lot longer. grieving. I mourned. the years I’d spent studying and digging for answers, only to have it all trashed in one night by a stupid black boomerang. “Why me?" 109 High Strangeness — Part One Considering “this UFO business” had another effect on me: I was “That’s what you need to figure out”, Frank said. '* There was a bizarre series of synchronicities surrounding this that I have also recounted a rr in Amazing Grace.