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Many people reporting “abductions”, when the surface or screen memories have been probed in a competent way, reveal memories of events so chilling in their implications that the first interpretation must be looked at carefully. The fear evoked in these experiences is tangible. Yet, these other beings somehow convince their victims that all they do is for “the good of the planet” or “the enhancement of our race”. Even the esteemed John E. Mack, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard, seems to have been taken in by such a view. He writes in Abduction: The idea that men, women, and children can be taken against their wills from their homes, cars, and schoolyards by strange humanoid beings, lifted onto spacecraft, and subjected to intrusive and threatening procedures is so terrifying, and yet so shattering to our notions of what is possible in our universe, that the actuality of the phenomenon has been largely rejected out of hand or bizarrely distorted in most media accounts. .. My own work with abductees has impressed me with the powerful dimension of personal growth that accompanies the traumatic experiences .. especially when these people receive appropriate help in exploring their abductions histories. ...Let us suppose that [Cosmic Intelligence] ... is not indifferent to the fate of the Earth, regarding its life forms and transcendent beauty as one of its better or more advanced creations. And let us imagine that the imbalance created by a a c ata c ws 1 aod the over growth of certain human faculties ... were diagnosed...as the basic problem. What could be done as a corrective? The two natural approaches of which we can conceive would be the genetic and the environmental. Is it possible that through a vast hybridization program affecting countless numbers of people, and a simultaneous invasion of our consciousness with transforming images of our self-destruction, an effort is being made to place the planet under a kind of receivership? '° This view is rooted in emotional beliefs that cling desperately to any straw offered that those more powerful than we are “good”. If they are As I waded through the literature, I came across many controversial accounts said to originate from military intelligence officers, physicists hired to work on secret projects, and others claiming inside knowledge of a vast government cover-up. Some of these revelations match the reports of other individuals who claim to have recalled, either reports of other individuals who claim to have recalled, either consciously or under hypnosis, scenes of unparalleled horror and abuse at the hands of some of the so-called alien visitors. This is generally taken as corroboration of one by the other. But we have to ask: why would participants in a cover-up be motivated to come forward? Is it either 113 High Strangeness — Part One not, what are we to do? 'S Mack, Abduction 1993