Who does the marketing for these thing? 3 Year Olds randomly punching buttons?

[dolari]

Someone wrote to me regarding the last post about reading of Alien Abductions, actually fearing for me. He didn't get too too into it, but I'm assuming that he meant "Don't think about these things, because your fears will manifest them."

Well, he's a couple of years too late. :) Not that I've been abducted, but that I've been reading about UFOs, Ghost, Ghouls and things that go BWAAAAA! in the night since I was about eight. When I was a REALLY REALLY REALLY little kid, I used to see the Shadow People that you see in AWFW. I haven't seen the shadows since I was about 6 or 7, but I read about them, here and there.

I first read about Betty and Barney hill prolly at age 10 or so. Read their whole story, about being abducted and put back on the road. Read about all these alien encounters, Mothman, the Texas Big Bird, Loch NEss Monster, Bigfoot. You name it, I prolly read about it.

Sure at night, all those pics would come back to haunt me, but that's all they were, pics and memories. Nothing tangible or specifically out to get me. Mind you all those years seeing the shadows as a kid left me with a fear of the dark that only RECENTLY has been vanquished, but it was the POSSIBILITY of things in the dark I was afraid of. I never saw anything after the Shadows left.

When I had my brief foray into Wicca, Erin and Marca taught me about how our own fears could maifest the things we were actually afraid of. People who believed they were being persecuted MADE something that pursecuted them. People who believed you cured them could actually leave their manufactured "things" with you (which is bad).

One thing that I noticed was that after about 1978 or so, all these Bug-Eyed-Monsters, Golden Spacesuits, Giants in Silver and Walking Tree aliens all became The Greys. Big head, big eyes tiny beings. Just like that Close Encounters movie. About 18 or so was when I said, despite reading all the Von Daaniken books, and all those reports of UFOs and such that, well, they didn't happen.

I didn't say DIDN'T EXIST. Life exists out there. I'm absolutely sure of it. But I'm also sure that travel betwen the stars is a lot of work, and we're pretty insignificant, and only a threat to ourselves. Best to leave the kids in their room till they learn there's an attic to play in.

I'm a big believer that most alien abduction stories are they same kind of stories that gave birth to Vampires sneaking into your rooms and sucking your blood, or cats stealing your breath, or succubi/inccubi coming in and having their way with you.

The Hills story is different, though. I actually do believe that happened, and was prolly a group from somewhere doing research on what was on this planet. The story is too...realistic. Test the bodies, check intelligence, hit the next group.

The story that "Fire in the Sky" is based on might be real. The jury is out on that one. The rest...fakes, or hallucinations. Some might be real, but I doubt it.

So, I'm not worried about my fears manifesting Greys - because I don't fear them. I don't worry about my fears manifesting Shadows - I've dealt with that already. And while I won't claim to be a JedI Extraordinaire, I like to think that I've learned enough protection to deal with MOST of my own Creatures from the Id.

I'm skeptical enough to say "These don't exist." And open minded enough to keep a well maintained shield. :)

Comments

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

As a teen, my first Big Long Epic Novel Project that I planned to do but never really did much on was based on the idea that nearly all manifestations of supernatural "beings"--angels, wee folk, Sasquatch, aliens, Anna Nicole Smith grays, etc. were ethereal or organic projections of a hivemind intelligence bent on shaping humanity and spurring on evolution in fits and spurts by a series of subtle and not-so-subtle societal "nudges."

Funny how we don't hear much talk about abductions any more, in the popular press such things have been partially written off as a combination of night terrors and post-hypnotic suggestion. And yet, there have been more and more sightings of the "giant triangle ships" over major metropolitan areas...

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>And yet, there have been more and more sightings of the "giant triangle
>ships" over major metropolitan areas...

I'm a big believer that the triangle ships are part of the Aurora Project. But I guess we won't be sure till we see it. :D

[purple-roses.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I remember seeing the "shadow people" until I was about 12. Then, it just stopped. I still dismiss it as a trick of light and my imagination, but the fact that so many other people see them does make me wonder.

I have to agree with much of what you say. I do believe that there is life on other planets. I'm on the fence about whether or not they bother to visit, much less abduct us. I just think it far to arrogant of us to believe we are the only ones in a rather large universe.

BTW, you have me on the edge of my seat with "A Wish For Wings"!

Love,
Staci

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>Oddly enough, I remember seeing the "shadow people" until I was about
>12. Then, it just stopped. I still dismiss it as a trick of light and
>my imagination, but the fact that so many other people see them does
>make me wonder.

I used to think the same thing until I started hearing other people's experiences. Wierd stuff there....

>BTW, you have me on the edge of my seat with "A Wish For Wings"!

Glad you like it. :) Makes me almost sorry for the dirty trick I'm going to play on Sunday. :D

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the theory that, instead of aliens, the grays are actually time travelers. ;-)

Personally, I don't know, but I never found much to fear from anything outside the skin, so I'm with you on the rest of it. :-)

[renahyrota.livejournal.com]

The only thing I've ever feared is the dark, and I conquered my fear when I was 14. Besides, I figure if anything comes for me, they're gonna have to deal with my awesome abilities with sticks/staves and then they'll have to deal with my reality-twisting luck. My belief has always been that there are spirits that can manifest themselves as anything as long as the fear exists. Aliens exist, and have likely abducted a few people, but I believe that the mass-visions are an effect of these spectres who can control people's fears and make them really happen. As for the shadow people, I've never seen the shadow people but if I ever do, then I'll make them afraid of /ME/ >:)

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

funny, some guy on the forums was ranting about that recently. Said that Jennifer Reitz's heart attack and his recent injury were related to aliens. --;