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Experiencers: Alien Abduction Documentary

The ‘alien abduction’ phenomenon tends to be one that polarises opinion. Skeptics often characterise ‘abductees’ as being either (a) deluded ‘woo-woos’ without a firm grip on reality or (b) outright liars. On the other hand, true believers take the phenomenon at face value, interpreting everything seen and heard as being literally true.

To me, the truth is more likely to lie in the middle. My personal opinion is that these experiences are not what they seem to be – however, I do believe that there is something strange happening which is beyond the control of the abductees. And this is a crucial point: even if the explanation turns out to be prosaic, the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of people out there who are undergoing terrifying experiences which, to them at the very least, are absolutely real. Seen in this light, the off-hand comments and jokes by debunkers about anal probes seem horrifyingly insensitive.

A brilliant documentary that drives home this point is StĂŠphane Allix’s film Experiencers. Allix talks to a number of people who have been profoundly affected by their personal experience of the alien abduction phenomenon, showing that these are normal people, seeking answers to what has happened to them. Allix makes them human (pun not intended), rather than objects of ridicule. He also talks to abduction researchers Budd Hopkins and John Mack about their thoughts as to what is happening. The entire documentary is on Google Video; I highly recommend watching it:

With so many documentaries and features on these topics descending into hyperbole and sometimes outright farce (cue shadowed lighting of interviewees and X-Files music), it’s refreshing to find films that actually document the topic and the thoughts of those intimately involved. Just as Circlespeak offers perhaps the definitive view of the crop circle topic, Experiencers is the must-see documentary on the alien abduction phenomenon.

(For those who would prefer the documentary broken into shorter segments, visit this website).

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  1. Brilliant documentary
    Allix’s documentary should be compulsory viewing for everyone who’s got an opinion about the alien abduction phenomenon. Like Mack, Allix interviews real people who have had (to them) real experiences. No judgements are made by the filmmakers, it’s just a refreshingly balanced chance for real people to relate their experiences.

    It’s a particularly important documentary because it exposes the skeptics — Penn & Teller’s Bullsh*t comes to mind — who cherry-pick the “oddballs” and “weirdos” as a representation of all alien abductees. Ridicule one, and you ridicule them all in the eyes of the public.

    Whether the experiences are real or imaginary is besides the point, in the end — it’s how we treat experiencers that’s important. With dignity, or ridicule? John Mack knew what it’s really about, and so too does Stephanes Allix.

  2. I will check this one
    I will check this one out.

    One of my faves is author Lysette Larkins who had abduction experiences then went on to channel some good ET material. Her later books explain how to call on and get coaching from our “older brothers” from the stars. Haven’t finished all of ’em but I did have some interesting experiences after reading her material.

    My general take is that there are Ets and that some of them are gently preparing us for open contact— BUT they’re also saying that it ain’t gonna happen until we evolve into a globally peaceful race (until then we’re mostly quarantined except for the occasional stealth mission)

    1. globally peaceful
      Well, if they are waiting for us, or any race on earth, to be globally peaceful – they must be really naive.

      Not even plants are peaceful, it won’t happen.

      I seriously doubt that it can happen on other planets. You won’t advance without some sort of challenge. You have to compete, otherwise any society will stagnate.

      Perhaps some ETs who have found us are afraid of us – they want to dominate us and exact tribute, like the ancient gods did.

      Now we won’t let them do that to us. So they hide, like the cowards that they are 🙂

      —-
      It is not how fast you go
      it is when you get there.

      1. Expressions of competition
        The survival instinct triggers violence to fuel the acts that sustain an organism.

        But I would say that with intelligence those instincts need to be quelled. What is society but a communal effort to find a balance between our individual urges and those of others?

        So, if I have a need to reproduce, society has tried to find an appropriate approach accomplish it—this of course, is a work in progress…

        Likewise with violence: Instead of killing each other we should find productive endeavors that can re-route that primal urge. Some people do sports, for example.

        So maybe those ‘others’ out there have managed to work out those problems…or at least, come to a level as close to eradication of violence as possible, maybe 80-90%, which is not as good as 100% but that is unattainable, but definitely better than our own 35-40%—and I’m being optimistic with that estimate!

        Or it could be that ‘they’ form a kind of super-organism, like insects of Earth, with a hive mind; in that case they have never had to deal with all our problems that derive from our individualism.

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. hives
          Even completely cooperative super-organisms face adversity. Bees make war on intruders, as do ant hills. In some sense the individuals of many ant species are the ant hills, not the ants.

          My guess is that the “others” would know and practice dealing with adversity, at least externally. Entirely peaceful and content “others” would be too content to come here. Even if they did, they would not be abducting people, because they would not want to cause them anguish.

          If “they” are here and waiting for us to be all peaceful and harmless, it is because then we won’t fight back.

          The sad reality probably is that they can’t be here, because the travel is too expensive. But that’s just my guess, nobody really knows.

          —-
          It is not how fast you go
          it is when you get there.

  3. I have had strange experiences – abduction?
    When I was small, around 4 to 5, I used to have a recurring dream. This dream had me wake up from my bed, I would run outside into the yard (we only lived in two rooms at the time) and I would see fire all around me on the walls and the door.

    I knew this fire would not burn me but I was always so scared for my mother I would try to get back inside to find her, but never succeeded.

    As we had a lot of fires, always seeming to occur unexpectedly in my lifetime I considered the dream to relate to that.

    Also as a small child I was always pushing the eyes of my dolls inside the head. The large black spaces would frighten me so much I would immediately cry. The doll would be fixed and I would do the same again – stupid but that was me as a child – and then cry again as I hated the dark spaces.

    The film The Man with the X Ray Eyes also had a horrible image at the end which on the big screen was very frightening.

    For years I never saw anything in this other than what I have just said, but then I realised that the modern version of the “greys” and “alien abduction” could easily fit with these experiences if we wished to make it so.

    I don’t say I was abducted but I have seen ufos at various times in my life, especially around 13, in my late teens, and my early twenties, and these are often the times when people remember seeing ufos or being abducted. Small children under 5 have also remembered strange experiences which have later been attributed to alien abductions, so were mine the same or not?

    Remember, when I was young alien abduction was not even mentioned in the public arena. I am now almost 60. During the past 56 years there has been a groundswell with regards to UFOs and Alien Abductions.

    I am with Greg in that I do believe there have been strange experiences which cannot be explained in the normal sense and which do make it difficult for some people to cope with.

    I was always frightened of fire from the moment I had these early “fire” dreams. I also hated clowns with very large heads, and the dark space in the eyes were also linked to the opening up of toilets exits in trains etc, where there was always a dark space which automatically frightened me. I would add that toilets in general, at least the idea of toilets being in bits or damaged, always frightened me and remained for many years in my dreams. I think I am now coming out of the fear but it has taken a lot of effort, and the whole thing has been haunting me throughout my life.

    Why should I be frightened of fire and dark spaces? Was I abducted by aliens who had large dark spaces for eyes? Could the fire surrounding me be a spaceship with a lot of energy and light being given off? Could the large clowns head be reminiscent of the large heads the greys are said to possess? Questions that I have no answers to, but I have listened to many stories of abduction and I believe there is something unworldly, not quite fitting in with the normal logic, but what that is is still beyond my comprehension.

    Carol A Noble

    1. I don’t know
      I only know that this scares the sh*t outta me.

      I wish I knew why.

      God damned book caused me a lot of mock & ridicule with my family. Who ever heard of an 18-year-old who had to sleep with the lights on for 6 months, right? 🙁

      I doubt I’m an abductee; but with a person with such a vivid imagination such as I, Strieber’s books produced a lot of disturbing images, and at night they were harder to control.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

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