'"who, sent, the Dream?"'??????????????????????

Basileios Drolias b.drolias at ic.ac.uk
Wed Jan 18 08:31:53 CST 1995


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On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Jan KLIMKOWSKI wrote:

> 
> Way before the alien abduction story started being discussed on telly 
> individuals were telling their shrinks about aliens, and they were always 
> gray.  Why is there such resistance to a genuine exploration of this aspect 
> of the phenomenon? - ie that all these people are describing a gray alien, 
> and that not all aliens in popular culture are gray.  Surely such a 
> discussion merely takes us to Jungland rather than to anywhere as 
> scientifically disreputable as a belief in real aliens.
> 

In Castaneda's "The teaching's of Don Juan' Mescalito is always (from
person to person) the same person, with the same glow in his eyes. Yet you
surely must agree that it is just the drug (peyote) that creates this
image in a persons mind... I cannot say it with certainty but in the case
of the abductions it may be that the state of mind is such that creates
the grey aliens... 





























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