Section VI

A Dubious Defense

Due to individual belief systems, there will probably always be people who will resist believing in alien abductions and mind control. There are also going to be people who will attempt to disprove and even discredit these individuals. Why not calling them outright liars like the debunkers often do, some skeptics claim that abductions are no more than the abductee's "memories" from schizophrenic or delusional episodes. The same has been said of victims of mind control.

John Carpenter, John Mack, and the late Nicholas Spanos have done a noteworthy job of defending abductees and explaining the truth about bona fide mental disorders and their relationship to alien abduction. And, I believe William Bowart's foundation is striving to educate the public about mind control experiments. Unfortunately, there is yet another obstacle we will all have to "step over" in our journey toward enlightenment.

FMS or False Memory Syndrome is an unproved "syndrome" that is popular to use in order to attempt to discredit several unpleasant subjects, one of which is "alien abduction." However, FMS is not officially recognized in the DSM-III-R, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental disorders, so how has it become such a powerful weapon?

Remember Dr. Martin T. Orne, (who helped the CIA develop coercive uses of hypnotic mind control) from our previous discussion about hypnosis? You might find it somewhat of a conflict of interest to know that he "is also an original member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's advisory board."

Author of Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. Alex Constantine writes, "The recovered memory debate was discussed at a 1993 conference on multiple personality disorder. Richard Lowenstein, a psychiatrist from the University of Maryland Medical School, argued that the Foundation is 'media-directed, dedicated to putting out disinformation.'

Constantine claims, "The FMSF board is almost exclusively composed of former CIA and military doctors currently employed by major universities. None have backgrounds in ritual abuse - their common interest is behavior modification."

Although I would personally like to see more references sited to back up all of Constantine's claims, his chapter on the False Memory Syndrome and the "Foundation" behind it should be reviewed. Lee and Schlain's Acid Dreams and Marks' The Search for "The Manchurian Candidate" verify Martin Orne's and Louis Jolyon West's connections to the CIA, both of whom were once members of the FMSF.

Section VII

Virtual Surgery - Virtual Reality

There is a new operation in town - almost. It is called "telepresence surgery" and it is expected to have even greater effects in medicine than laparoscopy did when it came into full use.

Telepresence surgery is "a new technology in which a human surgeon manipulates surgical instruments that appear to extend into a three-dimensional image of a patient's body while computers perfectly translate the surgeon's movements into the parallel actions of a machine wielding real surgical tools inside a flesh-and-blood patient."

Army colonel Rick Satava, who is a laparoscopic surgeon as well as a program manager at the government's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) is known as "the father of telepresence surgery."

The telepresence surgery system was developed at a company called SRI, Stanford Research Institute in California. "The apparatus is the creation of Phillip Green...who has been inventing medical diagnostic equipment since the 1960s."

The ultimate goal is to have remotely operated surgical robots that will enable surgeons to perform surgery hundreds of miles away from the patient.

Another quiet revolution, this time in the manufacture of computer chips, is occurring as well. In January 1996, Popular Mechanics ran a short article titled "Wire Tapping The Brain." This article explained how scientists at Cal Tech created a silicon chip that can hold nerve cells apart while still allowing them to form interneural connections. Their chip "has 16 micro-machined wells, called neurodungeons, into which immature neurons are injected. Each well's top is covered with a grille that keeps the neuron trapped, but allows it to send out tendrils and connect with other neurons. Researchers tap into electrodes at the bottom of each well to hear what the neurons are saying to each other."

While telepresence surgery has not arrived yet - not to the public at least - virtual reality has. It can be argued that some of the experiences abductees describe may be explained by virtual reality technology. I believe this is a possibility because of the extent to which implant technology has been studied and developed. In addition, the late Karla Turner, author and abduction researcher, described this possibility in her book Taken: Inside The Alien-Human Abduction Agenda. Dr. Turner called these types of experiences VRS or Virtual Reality Scenarios.

If someone has been implanted with an intracerebral device, then the operators of the implant may be able to abduct someone by "abducting their mind" while their body stays in bed. The unexplainable vividness of some abduction accounts may be explained by the electronic implantation of memories into the brain of the abductee. Certainly this cannot be the case for all abductions, but it may explain a small portion of abductions.

The rare cases that come to mind are those individuals who seem to have some type of memory or experience every night for weeks on end. Can these people really be taken from their homes each night, night after night, with no one seeing anything; or is information being forced into their mind by some type of virtual reality chip? Either way, the poor individual is living the nightmare. As we learned in our discussion of electroencephalography, "Words that are spoken and images that are shown to a subject may actually have physical effects on the subject, so "verbal therapy might be neural therapy."

I sometimes refer to these intensely vivid memories as "neural dumping," and I am well aware of how this can take its toll on a person. It feels as if the events you are being forced to live through are coming "from the outside," in other words, the scenarios are coming from the aliens (or the agents of mind control).

Certainly many abductions are physical, in that the abductee is floated through the ceiling or the closed window and into the hovering UFO. Reports of abductions with multiple witnesses and participants strongly support the reality of the "physical" alien abduction. However, it is important to consider that some abductions may be "virtual abductions." We must understand that regardless of whether the abduction is physical or mental, the abductee (or mind control victim) still experiences both the physical and emotional trauma related to it.

The Origins of Technology

According to Walter Bowart, author of Operation Mind Control, "There is usually a twenty-year lag between the laboratory development of new technology and its application at large."[108] Begich and Manning have an interesting time-line in HAARP that includes some of Nikola Telsa's inventions; and I have researched the origins of laparotomy and laparoscopy (with interesting discoveries) for the second half of Project Open Mind.

Looking Back

One of Delgado's colleagues, Dr. Stuart Mackay published a book in 1968 titled Bio-Medical Telemetry. He stated, "Among the many telemetry instruments being used today are miniature radio transmitters that can be swallowed, carried externally, or surgically implanted in man or animals...Transmitters introduced through normal body openings in the human can sense pH in the stomach, the site of bleeding along the gastrointestinal tract, radiation intensity, [and] pressure changes in the bladder due to micturition..." Dr. Mackay continued by stating, "...it is hoped that these few preliminary words will give a feeling for the scope of this activity...The possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the investigator."

Take note also of what P.M. Persson, a researcher at the Swedish Defense Research Institution wrote in an article in 1965: "An essential part of bio-telemetry encompasses the transmission of data. This occurs mostly with help of a surgically implanted transmitter...The technology has been developed quite extensively in medical research."

Moving even further back in time, consider the following: Implants were being used on unwitting people "...as early as fifty years ago [as shown] in x-rays from operations which took place, for example, at Karolinska Hospital in 1946, or Sachska Children's Hospital in 1948, both located in Stockholm [Sweden]....It was first discovered by the mother after an un-appointed [unscheduled] visit. On hearing of her son's screams from an operation theatre, she rushed in to find a surgical team and nurses under senior physician Alm, who ushered her out, not, however, before she had witnessed how they were driving a large amount of electrodes through the base of her son's still soft skull."

One very well documented case of the implantation of an electronic device into an unwitting victim is the case of Robert Naeslund. Naeslund was unwittingly implanted during an operation in Stockholm, Sweden, during the late 1960s. He has x-rays that clearly show the mushroomed-shaped transmitter in his brain. Quoting Naeslund, "I have been used in a medical experiment which has meant a lot of suffering and [has] been very painful. The operation was performed by Dr. Curt Strand, who inserted a foreign object, a so-called brain transmitter, in my head through the right nasal passage."

How many times have we heard abductees painfully relate how the aliens implanted them by placing a small object up their nose through the nasal passage and sinus cavity? Far too many times for us to ignore this (overlap of) information coming from alleged victims of mind control.

It appears that implants of various types have been placed in humans, with and without their consent, at least since the 1940s. According to who you ask, alien abductee or mind control victim, it is believed they have been placed there either by alien doctors or human doctors. A good question to ask at this point is, "If human beings had the technology to make it to another planet where we could carry out experiments on the life forms on that planet, how advanced would our bio-medical technology be"? In other words, why are advanced alien Beings using what might be considered terrestrial technology?

Two possible explanations are: 1) The aliens are not as technologically advanced as we believe they are, or 2) The technology is not "alien."