Fw: Are UFO abductions akin to NDEs? (1994 / 1996)

[Terry W. Colvin]

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Subject: Are UFO abductions akin to NDEs? (1994 / 1996)


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Hard-core UFO researchers will probably reject S.W. Twemlow's associating UFO abductions with NDEs
(Near-Death Experiences). Here is an abstract of his 1994 paper published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies.




"This article proposes an integrated psychodynamic perspective to account in part for a variety of similarities
between near-death experiences and UFO abductions. The psychodynamic psychology of these experiences
implies that their "realness" is mainly a function of that psychology, rather than primarily of an objectifiable
external reality. Clinical and research examples highlight the theoretical and practical usefulness of this model."




(Twemlow, Stuart W.; "Misidentified Flying Objects? An Integrated Psychodynamic Perspective on Near-Death
Experiences and UFO Abductions," Journal of Near-Death Studies, 12:205, 1994. As abstracted in: Exceptional
Human Experience, 14:261, 1996. Address of the latter: 414 Rockledge Road, New Bern, NC 28562.)




Comments. If one prunes away the psychological verbiage, Twemlow seems to be saying that in the minds of
the percipients, NDEs and UFO abduction experiences are pretty much the same; that is, both phenomena are
mental and not physical. However, in the same issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, K. Basterfield asserts
that physical evidence exists for UFO abductions but that there is none for NDEs! Apparently, an abductee has
brought back a piece of a UFO or something like that. That's news to us, be we are not well-versed on these subjects.




From Science Frontiers #120, NOV-DEC 1998. (C) 1998-2000 William R. Corliss
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