“This is excerpt #2 from the rough cut of “Priests of High Strangeness: Co-Creation of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon.” Producer/Director: Carol Rainey. The series of excerpts focuses on the controversial research techniques used by some well-known alien abduction investigators.
Their subjects certainly are having inexplicable and baffling experiences and the researchers do offer the therapeutic, healing benefits that come from any empathetic, willing listener.
But what have we actually learned about the phenomenon? The how, the why, the who, the where, and when? Coming out of the humanities and arts, the few researchers making the most lurid claims are simply extrapolating far beyond what their actual data or evidence can support. The tools used–primarily hypnotic memory retrieval–are also so unreliable that the testimony based on hypnosis is not allowed in the U.S. courts.
This segment looks at the obligation an abduction researcher has to ensure that his subject is trustworthy–starting with the factual details of his/her past and present life history as they are presented to the researcher over a period of many years. It also suggests reasons why both researcher and subject, when their story is challenged, only redouble their efforts (along with the efforts of stone-throwing friends) to speak with absolute authority about the soundness of the questioned case.”
SMiles Lewis on THE WEIRD tv SHOW with Russ Dowden
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Tune in to THE WEIRD SHOW‘s Live VodCast via the San Marcus based SMTX NetTV station at www.SMTX.com this Wednesday night from 9-10pm Central Standard Time. Host Russ Dowden‘s guest is SMiles Lewis. Stephen Miles Lewis (“Gonzo Alt-Media Proprietor”) is the manager of the Elfis-Anomaly Network , PsiOp-Radio co-host, and Founder and President of the non-profit community lending library The Anomaly Archives. He’s also served as past leader of a local Austin UFO Experiencer Support Group and the Austin Mufon chapter.
The Anomaly Radio Network will be simulcasting the audio of The Weird Show live Wednesday night. You may tune in to the audio stream by going to www.AnomalyRadio.com at 7pm CST.
Check out the links below to read a past interview of SMiles Lewis in the pages of Weird Magazine and to watch past archives of The Weird Show with Russ and guests like Cheech and Chong, Stanton Friedman, Barry Cooper, and many more (including in-studio musical guests):
Intro Song: Flowers & Blood by Adam Gorightly
Aeolus Kephas and Adam Gorightly discuss UFOs, Astral Projection, the JFK Assassination, the Occult, Parapolitics, Kerry Thornley, Gonzo Journalism, Anton LaVey, Charles Manson, the 60s Counterculture http://www.adamgorightly.com/
Aesir video of its prototype vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft, which uses the Coanda effect to generate lift by blowing air from a central fan over its curved surface. Aesir was formed to develop the UAV when original developer GFS Projects ran out of money – GFS stood for Geoff’s Flying Saucers, named after original designer Geoff Hatton. See www.aesir-uas.com
Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway. At the end of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley. Hundreds of lights were observed. At the peak of activity there were about 20 reports a week.
Project Hessdalen was established in the summer of 1983. A field investigation was carried out between 21.January and 26.February 1984. Fifty-three light observations were made during the field investigation. You may read the details in the technical report. There was an additional field investigation in the winter of 1985. However, no phenomena were seen during the period when the instruments were present.
Lights are still being observed in the Hessdalen Valley, but their frequency has decreased to about 20 observations a year. An automatic measurement station was put up in Hessdalen in August 1998. Both data and alarm-pictures can be viewed on this website.
Excerpts from the April 11, 2010 episode of The Paracast, where Nick Redfern, Greg Bishop and I joined host Gene Steinberg to talk about Mac Tonnies’ last book, The Cryptoterrestrials. In this clip, we talk about the similarities between religion and ufology, and the fundamentalist way of thinking that is found in each.