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Chapter Three as a form of mass hysteria. I attributed the physical scars and traces of abduction to stigmata-like effects, or poltergeist type events. Clearly, there was very little about UFOs and aliens that couldn’t be explained by these theories. So, when Frank wanted to discuss the “alien business” as a reality, we fell into disagreement. We were at an impasse on this subject. I even became contemptuous and sarcastic when referring to it as The Alien Rapture Theory. I held it to be about as reasonable as the various Pre-Tribulation, Mid-Tribulation, and Post-Tribulation Rapture theories Frank frequently asked me to use hypnosis to help him “channel”. He would say: “The one thing I can do is channel. I do it all the time." I didn’t have a very high opinion of “channeling”, having read reams of it while writing Noah, but I decided it wouldn’t be scientific to discard Frank’s claims to be an “exception” without at least a trial. I suggested he just simply go into a relaxed state and try automatic writing. My opinion of channeling was not changed. Frank produced the same “cosmic word salad” that’s been around for years. the word that’s been around same the same “cosmic word salad” that’s been around for years. Nevertheless, in discussing the matter with Frank, I began to think about my own experiences in “getting answers”, as well as the historical fact that “channeled” material can often be so close that it is clear that something other than just chance is operating. The little glimpses of truth intrigued me. So, Frank and I continued to discuss it and a theory began to take shape in my mind in response to the question. Part of the theory I hammered out was that the reason other sources proved, in the end in case after case, to be so human and fallible, was because an initial error was made in the thinking of the various individuals who acted as channels or mediums. They assumed that a higher source could just be dialed up on the phone, so to speak, and that was that. I theorized, from the few flashes of light I could discern in the vast body of material, that an occasional truly higher source would manage to connect momentarily, or in a skewed or corrupted way, but that, for the most part, it was either discarnates who didn’t know a whole lot more than humans did, or that the phenomenon was produced by psychological pathology. I studied the ‘matter from a number of directions trying to discover a clue as to what the obstruction was, if higher sources did, in fact, exist. of the fundamentalist Christians. Frank was not deterred by my rejection of the subject. The chief obstruction seemed to be this very cloud of theoretical lower level beings and/or thoughts that apparently surrounded our