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dolariSomeone 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. :)
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. :)
