Hypnotherapy with UFO Abduction Clients

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Hypnotherapy with UFO Abduction Clients

• National Guild of Hypnotists
• 2007 Convention
• Craig R. Lang, MS CH
• Researcher/Investigator, MN MUFON
• www.craigrlang.com
• craig_at_craigrlang.com

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Introduction

• How many have had clients who have had issues due
  to unexplained experiences?
• Missing time
• long-term fear from unknown or anomalous origin
• At some point most of you will have at least one
  UFO abduction client
• Percentages from 1991/1998 Roper Poll
• Up to 1 of population have had unexplained event
• 10 of population has seen a UFO of some sort
• Up to 10 of meaningful sightings are close UFO
  encounters (abductions?)

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Talk Overview

• Goals
• Look at ways of working with the client
• Understand a little more about the phenomenon in
  the clients life
• Talk will cover...
• Brief snapshot of UFO/Close-Encounters 101
• How to work with an encounter experiencer
• Implications for experiencer and therapist
• Conclusions/Results I have noted

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UFO 101

• What is a UFO?
• Anything that is unidentified in the sky
• Many have prosaic explanations
• Others do not have conventional explanations
  (yet?)
• Still others are of high strangeness
• (Most Close Encounters fit this category)
• Close Encounter (UFO sighting/encounter up
  close)
• 1st Kind CE1 (an object up close)
• 2nd Kind CE2 (physical evidence)
• 3rd Kind CE3 (see entities)
• 4th Kind CE4 (abduction)
• No explanation - a mystery, ambiguous, breaks our
  present paradigms of reality

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Close Encounter Example Evelyn The
Laundry Room CE4

• Witness awoke at about 3AM
• Observed object across field in trees to north
• View out of laundry room window on N. Side of
  house
• Object rose over trees, approached house
• Attempted to lock down house
• windows, doors, etc
• Too late entities entering front
• Memory discontinues at that point

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Signs of possible UFO abduction

• What will you hear during intake interview?
• Missing time
• Theme of the unexplained throughout life
• Frequent meaningful UFO sightings
• Sudden unexplained changes in life/health
• Overriding sense of mystery/fear about the sky,
  UFOs, etc.

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Working with client- what do you do?

• Not much different from any other client
• Session work will be similar
• First goal is healing - hypnosis is first and
  foremost, a healing tool
• May be a case of trauma - the need for adjustment
  
• Often coming to terms with shattered reality
• Second goal is understanding - what really
  happened (from experiencer's perspective)
• Followup goal is/can-be research - learning more
  about the extraordinary realm
• Need to be open to whatever the client may say -
  avoid any agendas.
• May be paradigm stretching
• Both client and therapist need to be open to
  whatever may arise

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Healing top priority

• Experiencer is a bridge between worlds
• Goal often is to help experiencer to resolve
  these two worlds
• Healing work as needed
• Based upon clients goals some may not need it
• Is post-contact trauma present?
• check for fear response
• Treat as any other case of long-term fear
• Parts work often extremely useful at the get-go

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Example 2 Evelyn (continued) The Pulled out
of Bed CE4

• Awoke to sense of entity along side of bed.
• Entity touched her on shoulder
• Flipped over onto front unable to resist
• Felt self being floated out of bed - pulled by
  feet
• Memory switches off at time when body about half
  way off of foot of bed.
• A day later, found burned spot on the lawn
• Subsequent months fear of being alone in house

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Parts work Resolving fear-instilling event

• Couldnt start with regression, due to fear
  factor
• Called out part that helps Evelyn feel the fear
• Source religious teaching to fear unexplained
• Also called out a Spiritual Explorer part
• Able to resolve between Spiritual Explorer and
  Fear parts
• Allowed Evelyn to explore experiences on
  condition that rest of life normal/grounded
• Subsequently, a great deal of info emerged
  regarding events

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RegressionGetting to the heart of the matter

• To learn sequence of events in encounter
• Clean regression is paramount
• Limit vocabulary to generic, non-leading
  questions/instructions
• Please continue
• What are you experiencing?
• How do you feel about that?
• What else do you notice?
• Multiple passes through event
• Other techniques available but this is the
  cleanest way to develop detail

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Multiple Passes

• First few passes Allow account to develop
• Should be stable, with increasing detail.
• If core account varies, may be "creative" in
  nature
• look for metaphor material.
• If stable, look for increasing detail.
• Dream test
• ask generic question about what is in the
  distance
• if detail is present, then may be biographical
• If blank, fog, no detail then may be a dream

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Later passes

• Secret details description of the "interior"
• Comparison with commonly described classic
  abduction events.
• Similarity suggests that it may be a abduction
  event
• Ask "false lead" questions
• Avoid leading questions in all cases.
• Can ask check questions that lead toward the
  mundane (no aliens, no abduction, etc)
• Can ask more detailed questions (stay generic)
• Followup healing work (next slide...)

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Reframing and other healing work

• Reframing
• Client specific viewpoints of the event
• Goal is understanding, (self)forgiveness,
  empowerment
• Re-examine meaning of a given event
• Chair/gestalt therapy
• Put the leader of the aliens in the chair
• Empowerment of experiencer
• Release and forgiveness of them
• Parts work as needed
• Emotional protection imagery
• Finish with emotional ecology check

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Understanding ResearchResults What have I
observed to date?

• A core of standard events - the classic abduction
  scenario
• Capture
• Taken aboard UFO
• "small gray" aliens with tall gray the
  leader/doctor/etc
• Medical examination
• Apparent sexual/reproductive focus of procedure
• Release and subsequent confusion/mystery
• Purpose/mission/knowledge
• Many experiencers describe encounter purpose -
  many and varied.
• Phenomenon has a role in their life - a core
  purpose for them
• The experiencer has sense of secret
  purpose/mission/knowledge
• will understand when the time is right

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Results (continued)

• Encounters A lot of outliers
• Sometimes "non-standard" aliens -10-tentacled
  monsters, blobs, human-aliens, many others...
• Nature of encounter is sometimes very different
  places, events, etc (subject of some other
  talk)
• Metaphysical events common
• Past-Lives/Interlife or characters from other
  lives
• Theophany (meeting God)
• Near-death events
• Out of Body events
• Sometimes find that "nothing" happened
• Awareness during Sleep Paralysis (ASP)
• Dream or metaphor material
• Missing time due to some other reason (alcohol,
  mis-accounting of time, etc...) may be
  meaningful even if not UFO-related

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Results (continued) What are close encounters?

• Dont know what close encounter actually is
• Physically real or metaphysical in nature? the
  jury is out
• Some indications of physical reality, yet
  dream-like behavior
• Superposition of realities?
• (topic of another talk)
• Most important meaningful to the experiencer,
  where hypnotherapist can make biggest contribution

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Coming to terms with UFO AbductionWhat do we
need to do?

• Do everything possible to help heal the
  "shattered reality" of the experiencer
• Experiencer is a bridge between worlds
  realities in both realms
• Reconcile world of us and them
• Treat phenomenon with Wonder/Discernment/Caution
• We don't know what it is...
• We dont know its motivations
• Determine/Evaluate the scientific reality of the
  phenomenon
• Understand and manage its impact in our society
• Manage the fear that often results from an
  encounter
• Understand that you are not alone
• Form picture of overall social implications

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Conclusion

• Ultimately - CE4 work is little different from
  any other HT work, with the exception that the
  material is an ongoing mystery
• Clean regression and healing hypnotherapy can
  help experiencer come to terms with experiences
• The more I learn the less I know
• A riddle, concealed in a mystery, wrapped within
  an enigma
• - J. Allen Hynek
• Experiencer is a bridge between realms a
  Cosmic Bridge

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• The Cosmic Bridge
• Close Encounters and Human Destiny
• Explores
• Impact of encounter on the experiencer
• Evolving relationship between humans (individual,
  society) and the phenomenon
• Possible reasons/agendas for presence of the
  Visitors
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  website www.theCosmicBridge.com

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Contact Info

• Craig R. Lang, MS CH
• CE4 Researcher/Investigator
• Minnesota MUFON
• Minneapolis, MN
• 763-257-7334
• crlang_at_mm.com
• www.craigrlang.com
• www.theCosmicBridge.com
• MUFON Mutual UFO Network
• www.mufon.com