That’s NOT the case with the vast majority of UFO cases with qualified professional practitioner
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Reading back through your comments to me it appears to me that the only place we part company on hypnosis is that you actually believe in “recovered memories”, and believe that the “vast majority” of UFO cases using “recovered memories” to be true.
It is mine and about 99.9% of Psychiatrists opinion that “recovered memories” have no basis in reality whatsoever, are totally improper and unreliable in a clinical application. Which is why it has been left to charlatans practicing past life regression, telling people their parents killed babies in Satanic rituals every Saturday night and UFO support groups who tell stories of being abducted, anally probed and forced to copulate with aliens.
It seems my information on hypnosis and it’s proper uses is clear and accurate, and my only “wrong” information is that I do not believe in “recovered memories” of childhood abuse, Satanic Rituals, and UFO abductions.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
The Hill case is fascinating, and everyone is entitled to their opinions.
But as for unknown objects, freepers have privately freepmailed me (and quix) about their sightings of a McMinneville like object, (both daylight and nocturnal sightings.) Of which I take a very special interest in.
You may wish to review the analysis by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, (his PhD is in optics), of the photos that were taken in 1950 over the Trent Farm, McMinneville, Oregon, and published in Life magazine.
http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html
1. I agree that great inaccurate horrors have been visited upon folks by very wrongful, unethical, distorted etc. use of hypnosis by thoughtless, unscrupulous, even charlatan types of investigators and even trained therapists.
2. I do not know the percentages. I don’t think you do, either.
3. I do not believe it is wisdom nor accurate to reality nor justice to the victims to BLACKWASH the tool.
4. In Betty’s case, there was ultimately scientific evidence that verified what she revealed under hypnosis—even though NO astronomer AT THE TIME knew of such a star configuration anywhere in the universe. She turned out to be accurate on 3 dimensions. That’s more than just a bastardized parlor trick.
5. I don’t like hypnosis for spiritual reasons. I believe it teaches folks to open themselves up to demonic forces and in many cases does so through demonized hypnotists.
6. On the other hand, spell-binding orators, white stripes on the highway, commercials, certain kinds of music . . . all contribute to essentially every one being hypnotized to some degree at some times in their lives.
7. There are solid workable, practical protocols to insure that no one is being led in any particular direction by a hypnosis session.
8. I do not believe anyone should be incarcerated or judged guilty on the basis of hypnosis—particularly without serious, hard-fact corroborating OTHER EVIDENCE. It may well be the case that hypnosis can be useful in directing investigators down a line of investigation which they were not aware of and that might prove fruitful.
9. I don’t think it is overly earth shaking that any given hypnosis story has any list of particulars about it. Things are incredibly complex in life and certainly in using such methodologies.
10. HOWEVER, the collection of credible cases taken as a whole is quite substantial. And, “fantasies” just does not explain it. The events uncovered are incredibly consistent on a list of particulars. This is true with folks who’ve never been exposed to the literature at all.
11. HYPNOSIS by itself and certainly as “a fantasy” does NOT EXPLAIN the missing end of 3rd trimester babies taken out of mothers’ wombs unless the baby is truly missing after earlier medical exam that day demonstrated the baby was present and healthy.
12. Hypnosis, by itself, as a “fantasy” does not explain typical “scoop” marks and other standard body marks and scars resulting from an abduction.
13. Hypnosis, by itself, as a “fantasy” does not explain electrical, magnetic etc. effects on cars, engines and the like.
14. Hypnosis, by itself, as a “fantasy” does not explain cattle being demonstrably dropped on to snow or muddy ground etc. from a hundred to a few hundred feet up—having earlier been taken from the same field—in some cases being seen rising in a beam of light—seen without any hint of hypnosis being used on anyone involved.
15. Hypnosis, by itself, as a “fantasy” does not explain cattle [and an alarming number of humans] having their genitals, an eye, half a jaw and rectums cored out with incredible precision unavailable to our medical profession—certainly at the beginning of the phenomena. IIRC, we still don’t know—at least normal uninvolved human medical personnel do not understand how every last drop of blood can be so fully removed with not a drop detectable on the snow nor on/remaining in the animal.
16. I used to have a rather cheeky dismissive attitude toward the Betty and Barney Hill case, too. I’m not sure why. I think it was uncomfortable to me, somehow. I did not WANT to believe it. It may have been Stanton Friedman’s investigation into it that raised my respect for it. He’s a solid, very methodical, very scientific researcher.
Cheers.