The Thing from Inner Space, Part Four The UFO As Trauma

When trauma strikes the developing psyche of the child, a fragmentation of consciousness occurs in which the different pieces (Jung called them splinter-psyches or complexes organi!e themselves according to certain archaic and typical (archetypal patterns, most commonly dyads or sy!ygies made up of personified "eings#$ %&onald 'alsched, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defense Systems of the Personal Spirit ( have written a"out the connection "etween early trauma and alien a"duction experiences in great depth elsewhere (for an on-going we"-site pro)ect, *he +risoner of (nfinity,$ at www.crucialfictions.com , so ( will merely sum up "riefly my position here "efore going on to ,ualify it# -ll that we know of the ./0 and the alien%outside of any direct experiences we might have%come from stories, i#e#, from accounts of eye witnesses and experiencers, some of whom have, ( think "eyond all dou"t, experienced something# What they have experienced is unknown, "ut what we can "e sure of is that they have perceived something and that they have then done their "est (or at least made a cursory effort to descri"e their perceptions accurately# *hese partial descriptions of unclear perceptions have then "een collected, organi!ed, and interpreted "y researchers and, over time, "een turned into hypotheses and, in most cases, articles of "elief# 1y own investigations lead me to the following hypothesis2 it is not possi"le to separate the faculty of perception from the element of "elief, "ecause we not only develop "eliefs "ased on our perceptions, "ut our perceptions are, likewise and to an unknown degree, limited, directed, and shaped "y our "eliefs# 3oth perception and "elief develop in human "eings at an early age, at a pre-rational stage of development# &uring this early stage of development, there is a primary experience of powerlessness and of the corresponding potential for trauma# *here is also the inevita"ility of at least some degree of trauma informing our psychological development, limiting our a"ilities to perceive and giving

rise to a certain set of "eliefs# *o an unknown degree, "oth our perceptions and our "eliefs are shaped, then, to protect us from the full "runt of early trauma, and from "eing overwhelmed "y a feeling of powerlessness# *he depth psychological view sees early trauma, and the resulting psychic fragmentation and dissociation, as at "ase of all our su"se,uent experiences, perceptions, and "eliefs# *his is most unmistaka"ly evident in the way we encounter divine or transcendental realities, for the simple(4 reason that the way we deal with early trauma is viadissociation, "y calling upon and5or withdrawing into the realm of phantasy# *hrough phantasy, the greater, more transcendental part of the psyche intervenes and rescues us from intolera"le reality "y a"ducting$ us into its realm# *his is not an unreal realm (the psyche is real , "ut it is a dissociated one# -n experience of the psyche that isnt grounded in the "ody cannot "ecome fully real, "ecause it will always "e diluted, or polluted, "y the defensive fictions that have arisen to keep the trauma out of our awareness# *his is what ( have termed crucial fiction,$ and while ( extend such fictions to every aspect of our existence (starting and ending with the ego itself , once again, ( think the ./0 is a perfect opportunity to map the ways in which such fictions are created and made crucial,$ i#e#, "ecome articles of faith, fanaticism, irrational conviction, and out-and-out o"session# What ( discovered in the writing and dialogues for *he +risoner of infinity,$ and which ( hope is "eing communicated to at least some of its reader and listeners, is how the experiences of 6trie"er (and "y extension other a"ductees , whether phantasy, reality or some little understood com"ination of the two (the model ( lean towards , are filled with very clear sym"olic$ elements# *hese sym"olic elements point towards early childhood trauma (which may "e universal which the psyche is attempting to address and integrate through psychic re-enactments# *his re,uires re-experiencing trauma in an unconscious attempt to make conscious the original experience# (f psychology is sufficiently accurate a"out this, then early trauma is the "asis, the driving factor, not merely

"ehind ./0 encounters "ut all human history and experience, at least until that early trauma is made conscious and can "e integrated# *he purpose of the ./0 experience, then, like all other traumatic5transcendental encounters, is a re-experiencing of trauma to "ring a"out healing in a conscious, contained fashion# *his can "e compared to the many types of initiation through trauma found in shamanic traditions, and even in 1asonic and other western forms# 7owever, its essential to point out that it is not the trauma per se that allows for integration, "ut the erasing or dissolving of previous traumata$ trapped in the "ody, "y way of the traumatic reenactment#$ (f this su"tle distinction is missed, new trauma is caused, and what occurs is merely a new layer of conditioning to override the old, which is likely only to "ury it still deeper in the unconscious# *his can appear to "e effective, however, "ecause experiencing a new trauma will sometimes re-activate the dissociative mechanism developed in childhood to escape the original trauma# *he person may then have a transcendental experience,$ "ut if so, the danger is that it will take them further from em"odiment and not closer to it# ( have come to see 6trie"er as a clear example of this in the way that his later trauma at the hands of human agencies and5or the visitors$ can "e mapped onto (and feeds into his earlier 8atholic conditioning# (-nd many of 6trie"ers experiences, "oth early and later, entail out of "ody )ourneys, which seems to mirror the early experience of dissociation# (n the case of many other a"ductees also, ( would suggest theres more evidence for the experience "eing un"alancing and deranging than initiatory#$ (t may activate psychic potential,$ as many experiencers report, "ut activating psychic potential, also from what (ve seen, is as often as not deranging, rather than conducive to a persons psychic wholeness or em"odiment# (ts here that the alien a"duction lore overlaps with that of the infamous intelligence programs such as 1'-.9*:-, which often entail, or at least hint at, the conditioning-via-a"use of children (which 6trie"er also "elieves he was su")ected to # *he evidence would suggest that such programs are aimed at tapping into the psychological survival mechanism

of dissociation, "y which the psyche summons daimonic complexes$ from the 3eyond$ (the deeper unconscious to "ring a"out some kind of healing intervention for the child# (f so, it may "e that 6trie"er, along with thousands of others similarly interfered with (and not necessarily "y government , has unwittingly summoned his own visitor$ phenomena, one which is "oth highly personal and, paradoxically, universal%since the human psyche reacts to trauma in more or less the same way every time# *he danger in this is o"vious# +eople who have suffered such early fragmentation, "y whatever outside agencies (( include myself in this camp , who are then exposed to the alien a"duction literature are likely to reframe their trauma within this new context, as a way to re-experience it safely#$ -s a result, the phenomena will then, over the generations, "ecome viral$ and, as already suggested, generate its own proofs#;<= *his may all "e part of the larger plan, and its certainly worth looking into for anyone who wants to get to the "ottom of the ./0 "ottle# 3ut whats more interesting to me, at this stage in my life, is how all of this can "e seen to demonstrate the way the psyche works# 3ecause if the ./0 is evidence not of outer "ut inner space, then the psyche, not ,uite literally perhaps "ut very nearly, "ecomes the creator and destroyer of worlds#

[1] If abductees on the whole seem closer to what weve seen or heard about victims of mind control than shamanic initiates, the aliens must be deduced to be closer to CIA agents than to shamans or s irituall! evolved beings.