d. “Abductions” and “Revelations:” A Common Method
Strangely enough,
there is more than just a passing similarity between the “alien
abduction” experience and religious revelations, for as Cannon
notes, many of those who have been victims of the abduction
experience — and let’s be honest, they are victims — “have been directed to join certain
religious/ philosophical sects.”150
I strongly urge abduction researchers to examine closely any small “occult” groups an abductee might join. For example, one familiar leader of the UFO fringe — aman well-known for his espousal of the doctrine of “love and light” — is Virgil Armstrong, a close personal friend of General John Singlaub, the notorious Iran-Contra player, who recently headed the neo-fascist World Anti-Communist League. Armstrong, who also happens to be an ex-Green Beret and former CIA operative, figured into my inquiry in an interesting fashion: An abductee of my acquaintance was told — by her “entities,” naturally — to seek out this UFO spokesman and join his “sky-watch” activities, which, my source alleges, included a mass channeling session intended to send debilitating “negative” vibrations to Constantine Chernenko, then the leader of the Soviet Union.151
With the tenuous
connection of all this bizarre and goofy activity to the World
Anti-Communist League, headquartered in Taiwan at that time, the
historical circle closes on the place that modern mind manipulation
investigation began in earnest — Nazi Germany — as Cannon’s
descriptions of the organization as “Neo-Fascist” is truer than he
perhaps guessed, for the organization is now well-known to have
been one of the havens of postwar Nazi activity, ostensibly in
behest of its American “masters.”152
Well might Cannon
note the connection between mind manipulation, abductions, and
cultic activity, for the data of two of them — mind manipulation
and abductions — overlap: “If we could chart these phenomena on a
Venn diagram, we would see a surprisingly large intersection
between the two circles of information.”153 In other words,
there are too many overlapping data points for the parallels
between them to be entirely coincidental; the mind manipulation
thesis, he notes,
explains the reports of abductee intracerebral implants (particularly reports involving nosebleeds), unusual scars, “telepathic” communication (i.e., externally induced intracerebral voices) concurrent with or following the abduction encounter, allegations that some abductees hear unusual sound effects (similar to those created by the hemi-synch and cognate devices), haywire electronic devices in abductee homes, personality shifts, “training films,” manipulation of religious imagery, and missing time.154
This same methodology
— comparison of detailed data points between the mind manipulation
technologies and the details of “religious revelations” — will
inform the final section of this chapter.