I just heard of the passing of Dr. Tom Hawkins yesterday. Those who follow this blog of who have read The Facade have likely not heard of Tom, but he figures in the novel and his work will again constitute part of the plot line of the sequel. Tom spent the better part...
Alien Abduction
Night Terrors and Sleep Paralysis
Nick Redfern recently posted something on night terrors put together by Tim Binnall. Interesting reading, but there was a curious omission. Binnall’s work (at least in this installment) neglects to mention the major scholarly work on night terrors and its...
Short Article on Sleep Paralysis
It starts about half way down the page at this link. Personally, I think it is very likely that sleep paralysis explains a lot of "abduction" experiences. Anyone acquainted with the literature, though, will know it doesn't explain many experiences, though. Editor's...
Articles 8 Through 14 from Psychological Inquiry
Here are the rest of the articles: 8. Alleged Alien Abductions: False Memories, Hypnosis, and Fantasy Proneness . By: Lynn, Steven Jay; Kirsch, Irving I.. Psychological Inquiry, 1996, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p151, 5p; Abstract Comments on the article ‘Toward an...
4th and 5th Articles from Psychological Inquiry
I’m going to take these two at a time to speed up going through this issue (and to get you the articles). My next post will be about the contents of the third and fourth articles, but I will likely skip any comments on the fifth article. Here are # 4 and # 5: 4....
Third Article from Psychological Inquiry
Readers recall that, back in 1996, the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Inquiry devoted an entire issue to discussing alien abduction. The second article (posted a few weeks ago), agreed with the first one by Newman and Baumeister with respect to the notion that...
Second Article in Psychological Inquiry
I’m guessing anyone who’s interested in the first article has read it by now. I enjoyed some of the humorous responses. Yep, it’s another one-size-fits-all explanation from the psychiatric community. They can’t seem to deal with those...
Professional Psychiatry and the Abduction Phenomenon
Well, I’m finally back at blogging after some brief travel. I had meant to go into the third group that would use UFO beliefs as propaganda, but to be honest, I’m more interested now in the next trajectory. For those who are curious, I may go back to this...
Joe Jordan on Abductions and Spiritual Warfare
Follow this link to an MP3 file of a very recent interview of Joe Jordan on this subject. Joe, as you recall, was one of the central figures of the Roswell session that Greg Bishop blogged about dealing with deliverance from abductions via the name of Jesus. We...
Can Non-Christians Appeal to Jesus for Deliverance from Alien Abductions?
Dave Ruffino posted a good comment to the recent thread on “Stopping Abductions with Prayer.” For those who haven’t been following the comments, here’s the part of Dave’s post I want to focus on: The one thing that I really wanted to...
Stopping Abductions with Prayer?
Greg Bishop recently blogged about the experiences of some of acquaintances (he missed the event itself) at a recent session during the Roswell UFO Festival. You can read the full entry for yourself, as well as comments, but I’d like to say a few things about...