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Chapter Eleven There have been proposals made in certain quarters that invoking the name and power of Jesus will “stop” abductions. I am sorry to have to say this, but experience and research simply does not support this claim. There are a number of reasons why it would appear to be so In the first place, an individual who is a “Christian” in the usual sense of the word, which is to be “born again” and most likely one who relies wholly on faith to solve their problems, has already given their power away to the forces behind the imposition of Christianity, i.e. the Dark Forces in the guise of angels of light. An additional factor is the fact, by virtue of “living in faith”, one has closed off a large portion of the mind and is more susceptible to being deceived. For example: say that such an individual finds themselves in the midst of an abduction experience and “calls on the name of Jesus”, and observes that the abduction is “stopped”. We cannot rely on this observation because it is based on “belief” which literally determines what a person perceives! Remember the stories of the Third Man and the Evil Magician. Each and every human being perceives the Third Man according to their programming which activates or is activated by their belief system. This is their “State of Awareness”. They can only be aware of what they believe they can be aware of, and all else becomes either “invisible” or “anomalous” and disregarded or covered up by the survival program of the subconscious mind. As one continues to think about this problem, one realizes that there is a possible huge gap between what we perceive as real and the actual objective reality... and no matter how we try to be objective, we can never be sure. The only thing that seems to offer a way out is to simply observe the phenomena and compare the perceptions with a lot of other folks and try to narrow down the “constant” that is present in all of them. In this way, we can have a closer idea of what the Third Man really is, and what he is really doing, and what then, should be our best response. And, of course, “observing phenomena” means, in its most literal sense, to gain and gather knowledge of every form and sort so that one has a sufficient database from which to draw conclusions about But, this is difficult to do because one’s beliefs are intimately tied to emotions! Remember: our beliefs are formed in emotional situations of interactions with our parents and other “authorities” of our infancy and childhood! It is very frightening to even contemplate breaking free of this safe, inner “environment.” 310 which I will outline briefly. observations of one’s environment.