Debunking And Discrediting Witnesses
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
In
my research I have come across witnesses and contactees who have retracted
their stories. Some have disappeared from public (and maybe private) view.
Alex Collier , as referenced by Michael Salla, claimed to have been contacted
by a race from the constellation of Andromeda and was disseminating information
through a popular website and public lectures before being visited by a
group of Navy Intelligence officials who intimidated him into silence. Apparently
Collier was releasing sensitive information despite the government’s position
that since the closure of Project Blue Book, no government agency is actively
investigating the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomena.
Beginning with pilots and other military personnel who had experiences of
interacting with craft and witnessing things they couldn’t explain, the
strategy of “psychological warfare” against witnesses and experiencers has
been quite successful. In the military, people were not only threatened
with their careers being jeopardized, they were actually made to question
their own perceptions in light of their mental stability. In my experience
as a psychotherapist, I believe that to cause a person to doubt his own
reality it is the most damaging thing that can be done to a person. Not
only will his perception of his current experience be questioned, but all
future perceptions as well. This strategy can lead people to hide thoughts
and experiences in a way that cuts them off from intimacy with loved ones,
the world and themselves. People who are not mentally unstable at the time
of the experience can become unstable as a result of this strategy. The
more unstable they become, the more they begin to discredit themselves.
When David Icke speaks of how humanity (he compares us to sheep) have been
controlled and regulated, he talks about how it would be impossible for
any outside force to monitor every one of us on the planet. The strategy
has been to get us to monitor each other. This has been accomplished by
teaching us to fear each other’s judgment and observations. We effectively
now keep each other in check and inside the box through this insidious and
very effective strategy. An example of this would be, for instance, the
societal rejection of anyone who steps outside of the norm, or anyone who
questions the norm.
When Jim Adair, a retired commercial pilot, told me his story I was highly
affected by his integrity, intelligence, passion and innocence. As a 23-year
old 1st Lt. in 1959, he was flying a B47 at 30,000 feet on a training mission
at night over the Nebraska-Dakota area. From his canopy perched atop the
plane he and his co-pilot were awestruck to find a cigar-shaped luminous
craft flying alongside them. Their navigator immediately asked them if they
could see anything, as he had picked it up at the same time on his radar
screen. Never feeling any fear, they began to interact with the craft. They
sped up. It sped up. They slowed down. It slowed down. They changed altitude.
Regardless of their maneuvers the craft continued to stay right with them
“as if it was playing with us.” Then, in the blink of an eye, the craft
appeared on the opposite side of the plane, and they continued their game.
Jim said his only fear the whole time was that it would go away. After approximately
20 minutes his fear came true. In another blink of an eye, it was gone.
Jim noted that this time frame was only a year or two after Project Blue
Book, the military department formed to “investigate” sightings, had been
formed. He said that of course he knew of other pilots who had had experiences
and that the paperwork procedure was tedious and voluminous. But this was
not the concern for the disciplined military men. Their comrades who had
got through this reporting process were obviously being scorned and punished
in the aftermath. Promotions were denied, the worst assignments given, repercussions
that would obviously be devastating to a career military man, dedicated
to providing for his family.
“We were of one mind,” Jim said of he and his crew. This experience would
never be publicly shared. On the surface this may seem like the easier,
most logical decision for a person to make in this situation. But talking
with Jim and hearing the vulnerable emotion in his voice I got a picture
of a lifetime, until his sixties, of holding in an experience that profoundly
changed his life. This was an experience that he might want to shout to
the rooftops, but instead he held it inside to protect his career and his
family. It wasn’t until he happened to see a tape of Dr. Greer’s press club
event that he was able to burst forth onto the surface with his story. He
and his wife were both crying as they contacted CSETI for Jim to proudly
offer his services as “a disclosure witness.”
I asked him, do you think you were somehow chosen for this experience by
a Higher Intelligence? Why me and for what purpose is a question that often
comes up for experiencers of Close Encounters for the rest of their lives.
His description of he and his crew being “of one mind” caught my attention.
It is thought that advanced intelligences operate out of a state of group
mind, a more collective than individual state of being. I wondered if this
crew of young, dedicated, inquisitive, fearless humans did attract this
particular consciousness and experience. Perhaps their “team” mentality
was easier to relate to than the more individualistic approach many humans
live by. These are examples of questions of expansion that could lead us
into higher, broader understanding of ourselves and our Universe. These
questions should not be repressed or ridiculed, but nurtured and expressed.
I am grateful to and have the highest regard for Jim Adair and all the men
and women like him who have made it to a world where they can finally begin
to contribute wisdom born of their experience.
Although I am not a witness, contactee, abductee, or channeler of ET information,
in my small role of “interested investigator and believer” I have experienced
the success of the debunking strategy first hand. I am continuously amazed
at it’s power and effectiveness.
Even though current poles report percentages ranging from 50-80% of Americans
believe in intelligent life in the Universe, that we have been and are now
being visited by beings and representatives from other planets and galaxies
and that the government is keeping information about all this from us, I
have found myself to be extremely reluctant and guarded about sharing my
interests and beliefs with other people.
Some of the stereotypes that society puts on those who have reports of Close
Encounters are:
- crazy or psychotic
- trailer trash with tin foil antenna on my head
- gullible
- a dreamer (I actually kind of like this one)
- unprofessional or unscientific
Or the most confining one of all in my own head since I am a therapist:
- unfit to be a mental health professional
I find myself experimenting with how, when, and whether or not to tell people.
In the beginning my gut clenched, my voice cracked and my palms would sweat.
Of what was I afraid? What controlled me and kept me in fear of speaking
what I knew to be true?
Military and government personnel can be controlled by the threat of loss
of security, stability and possibly family. The only thing ordinary people
like ourselves stand to loose is each other. When we fear each other, this
is an example of the societal control that I spoke of a moment ago, the
rejection of those outside the norm. When we fear other people’s judgment
of ourselves, we are enslaved and confined to a definition of identity of
which we hope others will approve. We are prone to depression, anxiety,
chronic fatigue, cancer, and a host of other maladies that are aggravated
by stress. The stress is the fear of what others will think of us. We fear
that others will think there is something wrong with us, and worse, reject
us.
Freedom is living my life outside the need of the good opinion of others.
Will you join me?