tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post1088565498289770713..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: BREAKING OUT OF THE FRAMEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-36646322961504880872017-03-15T20:14:14.865+00:002017-03-15T20:14:14.865+00:00Very good comments by purrlgurrl.
I just have one...Very good comments by purrlgurrl.<br /><br />I just have one comment.<br /><br />> Despite the popularity of Fuller’s 1966 book on the Hill abduction, it didn’t spark a wildfire of abduction claims. These came much later<br /><br />The Hill case was more influential than PG suggests. In his first book, Hopkins uses the Hills as an index case to diagnose his own subjects as alien abductees. Missing Time (1981) came out 15 years after Fuller, but Hopkins' first AA article was in 1976, shortly after the TV movie about the Hill case, <i>The UFO Incident.</i> After Hopkins' article, he began receiving letters from numerous people who suspected they'd met aliens. I think this indicates that a substantial stack of dry kindling had built up before the Whitley bonfire. All alien abduction lacked to qualify as a moral panic was a practitioner who would shape and polish disparate claims into a single, homogeneous phenomenon. Benjamin Simon didn't scour his patient files to create more Hill-like abductees; that attitude had to wait for Budd Hopkins.<br />Terry the Censorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442516952399215568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-37909920574548534642017-01-11T11:57:39.574+00:002017-01-11T11:57:39.574+00:00I think Brewer’s expose of the alien abduction res...I think Brewer’s expose of the alien abduction research scam is extremely well done. I highly recommend the first part of the book to anyone interested in the now mostly defunct alien abduction craze that swept the US a decade or more ago, no matter what their position on UFOs or aliens. He deftly kills off the sacred cows of abduction “research”, and has done some solid investigation of his own on the malleability and fallibility of memory and the use (or actually mis-use) of hypnosis for recovering memories.<br />Where the book got sketchy for me is when Brewer started trying to lay not only alien abductions, but by implication the UFO phenomenon, at the feet of the US intelligence community. <br />Though I believe from time to time there were intersections where the worlds of intelligence operations and Ufology collided (Paul Bennewitz and probably other accidental witnesses of classified R&D or clandestine operations), Brewer failed to make a case for me that the intelligence community, the US military, or the US government for that matter, had anything substantive to gain by torturing a sizable population of human guinea pigs into believing they were abducted by aliens.<br />Admittedly MK-ULTRA was despicable, and we’ll never know its full extent. However, the US would have gone broke abducting and conducting mind control experiments on all the people who outright claimed or else suspected they were abducted in the 90s and 00s. <br />Brewer fails to consider the alien abduction phenomenon had all the earmarks of a fad prompted by the best-selling Communion, the first of a series of books about its author’s abduction experiences, and the almost cultish popularity of The X-Files TV series. This fad was later sustained by the self-promoting activities of unethical abduction researchers. (Despite the popularity of Fuller’s 1966 book on the Hill abduction, it didn’t spark a wildfire of abduction claims. These came much later, after Strieber’s 1987 Communion topped the New York Times bestseller list and the The X-Files debuted in 1993.)<br />In a communication from Brewer, he stated he felt the intelligence community’s objective in engaging in alien abduction mind-control was to influence popular culture. But to what subversive end? That, he didn’t say. <br />purrlgurrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519835482606629362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-81237489451832795142016-02-25T16:34:45.078+00:002016-02-25T16:34:45.078+00:00The proof sought is in a durable record vis a vis ...The proof sought is in a durable record vis a vis both Hopkins and (imo) stealth psychopath David Jacobs. There are, truly, none so blind as those who _won't_ see! http://alienviewgroup.blogspot.com/2015/10/nine-points.htmlAlfred Lehmberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028589165474437987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-75960777060099205532016-02-25T03:00:40.897+00:002016-02-25T03:00:40.897+00:00It would help if she actually proved her claims, i...It would help if she actually proved her claims, instead of simply alleging them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-88569681952770563192016-02-23T19:07:32.418+00:002016-02-23T19:07:32.418+00:00Readers may be interested too in seeing Carol Rain...Readers may be interested too in seeing Carol Rainey [not 'Railey']'s latest revelations about Budd Hopkins's relentlessly objective, scientific, but ever-caring and warm-hearted research here:<br /><br />http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The tale comes in two parts. Be prepared to wince.<br />The Duke of Mendozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335501899298333878noreply@blogger.com