VISITORS IN THE NIGHT DEPARTMENT Seducers from Inner Space - how to defend yourself
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Seducers from Inner Space
by Randy Fitzgerald
(from Conspiracy Journal)
Randall, what’s wrong?!” Edward blurted, fumbling for a lightswitch
on
the nightstand. Turning on the lamp, he saw me across the room
sitting
bolt upright, staring at something.
My conscious recollection of this episode begins with a woman’s face,
a
disembodied face, hovering in the darkness at the foot of my bed. She
had brownish-blonde hair, wide prominent facial features, a mole or
dimple on the right side of her chin, and a smile spread almost the
entire width of her face. I was sitting up in bed transfixed by the
image of her, not knowing if I was asleep or awake, when I heard a
voice
loudly shout “Hey”, and heard Edward call my name. Instantly, as the
lamp came on, the face disappeared in the flood of light.
So began my initiation into an ancient mystery. This first in a
series
of unsettling experiences occurred in Austin, Texas, where fellow
screenwriter Edward Kovach and I had flown for a business meeting
with
another filmmaker. Our second night in the city, at about 3 a.m. on
May
3, 1991, that voice in our motel room pierced the quiet with a shout
of
“Hey”, awakening both of us.
As we tried to make sense of what happened Edward expressed an
opinion
that the high-pitched voice was female. Though I have a deep voice
and
had no memory of having spoken, I felt it could have been me reacting
to
seeing the face. On a hunch, Edward suggested there might be a
connection to his lunch companion later that day, a woman he had
never
met, an archaeology professor at the University of Texas. Edward had
encountered her research partner in Belize the previous year while
visiting Mayan ruins.
If the face I had seen that morning matched or resembled Barbara, the
archaeologist, Edward asked me to signal him over lunch by saying to
her, “haven’t we met somewhere before?”.
When I caught up with Edward and Barbara at a Mexican restaurant they
were deeply immersed in conversation about her unusual experiences
exploring Mayan caves in Central America. I approached their table
just
as she was describing eerie blue lights the size of basketballs that
she
had seen floating inside a cave once used as a burial and ceremonial
center. She believed these lights possessed intelligence and could
have
been spirit faces.
As soon as I sat down her uncanny resemblance to my own nocturnal
visitor became apparent. It took a few minutes of absorbing this
shock
before I could address her with “Haven’t we met somewhere before?”.
Edward stiffened in his chair. Barbara spread a wide, familiar smile.
“Not that I’m aware”, she replied.
Afterwards, Edward and I speculated whether it was conceivable that
Barbara had been remote viewing us that morning. Or perhaps the image
had been part of a lucid dream, even a precognitive dream, its
meaning
enhanced by the coincidence of her resemblance to the image.
The Visitations Intensify
Edward flew back to Los Angeles and I returned to my home in suburban
Washington, D.C. Ten days later, once again around 3 a.m., I awakened
to
see another unfamiliar woman’s face hovering at the end of my bed,
right
at the level that someone about five-feet-seven-inches in height
would
be if they were standing over me.
This face appeared angular, with alabaster skin, burgundy-colored
hair,
and bright green eyes. Her features were out of focus, indistinct as
the
previous image had been, which suddenly made sense to me since I am
nearsighted. The observation that I was viewing the image as I would
normally with uncorrected vision registered in me simultaneous with
the
shock of realizing that I was wide awake.
Keeping my attention riveted on the face, I slowly snaked a hand over
and into the bedside table drawer where I kept a pair of glasses.
Unfolding the spectacles, I slipped them on and instantly the face’s
features came into focus, enabling me to see for the first time how
her
thin lips were curled into a slight smile.
A surge of adrenaline-fueled thoughts zapped me. Can this be a
hallucination? Is this for real? Reflexively I reached over and
turned
on a lamp. Just as in the previous incident, this light made the face
immediately vanish. I jumped out of bed like a man possessed and
searched every square foot of my apartment. There was no one there,
nor
any evidence of anyone having gained entry.
The next day I phoned Edward and his wife, Lisa, and described this
latest encounter. They wondered whether Barbara or one of her friends
had been out mentally scanning again. I speculated these were
projections from my own unconscious, either revealing future
acquaintances, or continuing a lucid dreaming cycle which, while I
had
never experienced anything remotely similar before, might be
symptomatic
of dramatic forces of change in my psyche. Somehow, none of these
explanations felt entirely adequate. My internal skeptic kept working
overtime in its usual dismissive fashion, never suspecting that the
strangest experience was yet to come.
At the bewitching hour of 3 a.m. on May 25, I felt myself jerked
awake
by the awareness of heat and intense pressure pinning me to the bed.
I
was on my back and, except for my eyes, no part of my body would
respond
to any attempt at movement. No matter how hard I tried to squeeze my
fingers into a fist or curl my toes, I felt securely and inexplicably
paralyzed. My next sensation was of a presence, invisible to me in
the
darkness, moving up and down atop the nakedness of my groin.
Thoughts began colliding rapidly in my mind, a carnage fired by
competing emotions--curiosity, fear, anger, disbelief--all merging
into
a confused swirl. Why can’t I move? What is this presence engulfing
me?
It has a feminine feel to it, gripping me deep within a woman’s sex.
This is coercion! This is rape! Suddenly one thought alone possessed
me
with a grim certainty. If I climax, if I allow myself to release
inside
this presence, whatever it is, some part of me, perhaps my soul, will
be
lost.
With ferocious effort I attempted to struggle free, concentrating on
moving my arms and legs. The more I struggled the tighter the
pressure
and paralysis seemed to restrain me. Finally a voice at the core of
my
being spoke up internally, a quiet whisper, advising me to relax my
body
and resist mentally. I willed myself the refusal to submit to this
presence, this entity, this experience, and I began relaxing my body,
first my feet and hands, then each leg and arm, feeling the numbness
retreat. In a flash I was free and able to move.
My entire body and the sheet beneath me was soaked in perspiration. I
sat up and turned on the lamp. As I expected there was nothing out of
the ordinary to be seen. Yet the room felt abnormally hot, absolutely
stifling, and this awareness prompted my discovery of the most
provocative evidence of all. Above my bed was a thermostat set at a
customary 70 degrees, but the gauge indicated that the temperature in
the room had shot up to 98 degrees! I dashed into the other two rooms
of
my apartment and checked the thermostats--each still set at 70
degrees,
which also corresponded to the temperature in those rooms. Somehow
the
temperature in my bedroom alone had skyrocketed 28 degrees above the
thermostat setting.
Even though it was after midnight Los Angeles time, I phoned Edward
and
Lisa and described what I had just seen and felt. I tried to calm
myself
by speculating out loud to them. Could this temperature anomaly in my
bedroom, perhaps caused by a faulty thermostat, have stimulated or
intensified the sleep paralysis and vivid imagery of my lucid dream
state? Were these three apparitional experiences, so closely bunched
together in time, and unlike anything I had ever encountered in my
life,
simply a confluence of bizarre coincidences?
Edward and Lisa countered that the anomaly of the heat differential
could have been a byproduct of something extraordinary-- a
spontaneous
generation of heat from my own body, or even evidence of a visitation
by
aliens. They voiced an opinion that the impact had catapulted me into
a
rationalist’s denial. At that moment, I felt too stunned to offer any
rebuttal.
A Search For Answers
During the ensuing months my readings introduced experiences similar
to
my own, categorized as Incubus and Succubus visitations. Incubi and
Succubi are the Latin words for alleged demons which, throughout
history
and across many cultures, have been reported as engaging in sexual
relations with men and women in their sleep. These critters reached
the
peak of European public exposure in 1484, when the Catholic Pope
Innocent VIII issued an edict chastising followers of the faith of
both
sexes for having been tempted into “intercourse with evil angels,
incubi
and succubi”. With this declaration the Pope launched an Inquisition
of
torture and executions to purge Europe of witches--those “wicked
women
perverted by Satan”-- who supposedly sent the incubi and succubi on
their salacious missions.
Other accounts come from Islamic theologians who described these
occupants of the “realm of the unseen” as jinns, which in Middle
Eastern
mythology are a species of demon. As described in the Koran, jinns
can
shapeshift in order to kidnap humans and fornicate with them. During
the
19th century, leaders of the Spiritualist movement in Britain coined
the
term “elementals” as a label for denizens of the supernatural or
imaginal realms, a form of spiritual parasite that was said to prey
upon
human beings.
To my rational mind the jinns, the elementals, the incubi and the
succubi, even Celtic descriptions of faeries and their rituals and
behaviors, sounded suspiciously like the alien abduction reports of
our
present day. This linkage initially came to my attention in Jacques
Vallee’s wonderful book, _Passport To Magonia_, first published three
decades ago.
Many researchers have reached a similar conclusion. Are “demons” and
“space aliens” one and the same?” ask British researchers Peter Hough,
a
journalist, and Moyshe Kalman, a psychotherapist, who in 1997
authored
_The Truth About Alien Abductions_. “Comparisons with folklore
indicate
that they are. Further, the literature clearly illustrates how the
root
phenomenon adapts to social and individual experiences. This is often
referred to as ‘cultural tracking’.”
Faeries and the Inccubi, just as our modern alien abductors, are said
to
possess the power to paralyze a person with a mere touch or even a
glance. All of them, faeries, incubi, and aliens are described as
seeking sexual relations with humans to improve their own, or our
own,
species.
Visionary images do seem to conform to our cultural expectations.
Swiss
psychologist Carl Jung believed that at the deepest levels of our
psyche, where we each tap into the collective unconscious of
humanity,
we are awash in a sea of symbolic images--archetypes--common to our
evolutionary experiences as a species. Our individual egos project
onto
these symbols our repressed, shadow parts of self.
In an extraordinary treatment of apparitions, _Daimonic Reality:
Understanding Otherworld Encounters_, Patrick Harpur in 1995 drew
numerous striking correlations between the folklore reports of
incubi,
succubi, and faeries, and the gray aliens supposedly involved in
abducting humans. Taken together, he gives all apparitional figures
the
Greek name of daimons. “The truth behind apparitions is, I fear, less
like a problem to be solved than an initiation into a mystery,” he
writes. Apparitions such as inccubi and succubi could be “images of
the
soul projected by the soul itself”, and in a concession to Jungian
psychological theories, he speculates that “it is a psychological law--
a
law of the soul--that whatever is repressed returns in a different
form”.
More evidence for the common origin of all these apparitional
phenomena
springs from a finding that the ancient remedies for warding off
Incubus/Succubus attacks, recommended by the Catholic Church, have
also
proven effective when utilized by abductees wanting to stop nocturnal
alien visitations and abductions. Longtime UFO researcher Ann Druffel
revealed this connection in her 1998 book, _How To Defend Yourself
Against Alien Abduction_. She listed nine techniques people have used
to
successfully “ward off alien entities and even break off abductions
in
progress”. These include a recited appeal to spiritual personages
such
as Jesus, summoning a righteous anger, and wearing objects made of
iron.
It seems the techniques that work most effectively are those the
person
most believes will work. “Our own faeries and jinns are merely an old
human problem, shape-shifted and wearing space garb to fool us”,
Druffel
concluded.
Bizarre Sleep Disorders
British psychologist Stan Gooch wrote a book, _Creatures From Inner
Space_, in which he described his own sexual encounters with succubi,
experiences that he conceded were “actually more satisfying than that
with a real woman, because in the paranormal encounter archetypal
elements are both involved and invoked”, Gooch decided after much
consideration that succubi and other entities are created and
projected
by the human mind.
A similar account and conclusion comes from Dr. Ronald Siegel,
associate
research professor at the UCLA School of Medicine’s Department of
Psychiatry. In his 1992 book, _Fire In The Brain_, Siegel recounted
waking at 4:20 a.m. when he heard footsteps and heavy breathing
followed
by a weight on his chest. He was paralyzed. The more he struggled the
less he could move. He felt a cold hand grasp his arm. “Then part of
the
mattress next to me caved in. Someone climbed onto the bed! The
presence
shifted its weight and straddled my body...There was a texture of
sexual
intoxication and terror in the room.”
After this horrific “Old Hag” experience, as Siegel called it, he was
able to classify it as sleep paralysis combined with hypnopompic
hallucinations. (Hypnogogic is the borderline state when falling
alseep;
hypnopompic is the transition state when waking up.) Siegel noted how
his encounter resembled, in a striking variety of details, author
Whitley Strieber’s alien abduction report in his 1987 book,
_Communion_.
According to prevailing physical theories, we normally experience a
disconnect between body and brain while we are asleep. This
disconnect
is a safety mechanism to prevent us from physically acting out our
dreams. When this safety mechanism malfunctions, bizarre effects can
happen.
Take the case of Mrs. Jeane Dammen of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Since
the
age of seven she had been a sleepwalker, and as an adult began
driving
automobiles while in a dreamstate, sometimes driving up to 50 miles at
a
time. She would awaken at department stores and friend’s homes with
no
memory of having traveled there. She never had an auto accident
during
several decades of sleep driving.
Sleep researchers contend that more than half of all humans have a
hypnogogic or hypnopompic sleep hallucination, or experience sleep
paralysis, at least once in their life. ”Ordinary, perfectly sane and
rational people have these hallucinatory experiences”, says Robert A.
Baker, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, and
an
expert on the phenomenon.
Numerous clinical studies of sleep paralysis have found up to 75
percent
of persons surveyed were on their backs when the experience occurred.
I
found this statistic of particular interest to my own case since I
was
also on my back during each of my three encounters, though I normally
always sleep on my side.
One of the more intriguing cases I found of a sleep disorder that
could
have been mistaken for succubi visitations or even alien abductions
involved a retired engineer in Connecticut. He inexplicably began
experiencing, at age 64, both nocturnal and daylight encounters with
an
extraordinary range of images, especially female human faces and
gray-faced entities that resembled classic descriptions of alien
abductors. (To respect confidentiality between this man and his
psychologist, I will refer to him as Rob Greeley.)
Over several years, into the early 1990s, Greeley kept a meticulous
daily log of these visitations, a copy of which I have acquired. Here
are a few representative descriptions taken at random from 1988 and
1989
entries. At 4 a.m. on May 2, he woke up “looking at a glowing
alabaster
sculpture of a cherubic-like child’s head” that soon morphed into “a
gray faced image” of an alien being. He goes on to describe instances
of
feeling “a vibratory paralysis coming over me”, of seeing “smiling
women’s faces”, and of “being shaken awake” and feeling “a tremendous
blast of heat” and hearing “gibberish being spoken”.
“I am not alarmed or frightened by any of this”, Greeley told his
psychologist, “because I know I am normal and feel well in every
way”.
Determined to document his experiences within a framework of
objective
reality, Greeley set up a video camera that he turned on during these
manifestations of vivid imagery. Nothing out of the ordinary ever
appeared on this videotape. The phenomena seemed to be generated and
projected solely from his unconscious mind.
We might otherwise dismiss Greeley’s experiences as merely odd
examples
of anomalistic psychology, his brain playing perceptual tricks, a
neurological malfunctioning, if it weren’t for some other provocative
evidence of unexpected effects in his outward life.
For one thing, Greeley’s experiences began to infect, much like a
contagion, other people close to him. His 34-year-old son, Scott, and
Scott’s girlfriend, both saw similar images and entities on some of
the
nights they stayed at Greeley’s house. These visitations periodically
continued even when Scott and his intimate partner were away in other
cities. (In the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric
Association, this type of contagion is explained away as a “shared
psychotic disorder”.)
Equally puzzling, Greeley and the people around him began to notice
strange marks and wounds appearing on his body in the aftermath of
the
more intense visitations. For the first time in his life he had
spontaneous nose bleeds while reading a book or eating a meal. He
would
awaken to find one eye severely bloodshot, or a finger swollen as if
smashed by a sledgehammer, yet he retained no memory of having been
injured.
Try as I might, my intuition does not facilitate me fully embracing a
traditional psychiatric perspective explaining away all of these
phenomena, though I do feel these images and experiences are
primarily
projections of the unconscious human mind. As evidenced by research
into
stigmata, our beliefs and unconscious desires can even produce wounds
and other physical effects. But the triggers for these events, a
partial
reason why some of us are more susceptible, may exist independent of
our
brains.
An Electromagnetic Theory
An idea deserving continued investigation holds that electromagnetic
fields, both natural and human-made, interact with some human brains
to
produce hallucinations, even dramatically staged event scenarios such
as
alien abductions. The pioneer researcher in this realm, Dr. Michael
Persinger of Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, has been
stimulating the temporal lobes of test subjects for more than two
decades using pulsed electromagnetic fields, releasing an exotic
range
of archetypal imagery from human consciousness. (Temporal lobes are
found in the brain areas above and around the ears.)
Persinger’s experimental subjects have reported visual phenomena from
floating human faces and ghostlike apparitions and angels, to
experiences resembling aspects of alien abduction reports. For a 1996
television program, Jay Ingram, a host of the Canadian Discovery
Channel, had Persinger bathe his temporal lobes in a pulsed
electromagnetic field, resulting in what Ingram described as “faces
floating in front of me...all female, on a dark background”. He
experienced moments of “rapidly changing dream-like images, but the
faces impressed me the most”.
Even more far-reaching electromagnetic theories have been advanced by
British authors Paul Devereux and Albert Budden. Devereux’s 1989
book,
_Earth Lights Revelation_, made a compelling case that some UFOs are
a
product of a mixture of electrical, geological and gaseous processes
and
conditions, and any nearby human consciousness can be impacted.
Budden’s
1998 book, _Electric UFOs_, expanded that theory to link paranormal
experiences, hauntings, and alien abductions as hallucinatory side
effects of electromagnetic sensitivity.
Beyond the impressive imagery, however, Persinger’s experiments
apparently have failed to reproduce the range of reported external
effects that seem dependent on the nature, intensity, and projective
power of a person’s conscious or unconscious fears or belief system.
After sifting through the theories and apparitional evidence, and
returning like a devoted ego to the memory of my own succubi
experiences, I remain baffled by one nagging, anomalous detail.
How did the temperature in my room inexplicably shoot up 28 degrees
above the thermostat setting during my last of the three encounters?
Beyond this personal mystery, larger issues loom. Can human
consciousness alter our consensus material reality? Are
electromagnetic
facilitations of paranormal experience, in the wild, so to speak,
meaningful coincidences? Can more elaborate theories,
interdimensional
portals, for example, help to explain the broad range of paranormal
phenomena?
Randy Fitzgerald's new book _The Hundred Year Lie_ is being released
in
June.
Source: Phenomena
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