Shamanic Dreamwork as a Precedent for Alien Abduction Experience Hypnosis

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This paper offers the hypothesis that shamanic dreamwork may be a primary precedent for alien abduction and NHI/UAP associated hypnosis, rather than memory enhancement. Hypnosis is a controversial means of knowledge regarding the ET/NHI contact experience. The field of hypnosis has been associated with ET/NHI missing time since the famous Betty and Barney Hill case. The memory enhancement hypothesis of hypnosis suggests that ET/NHI contact is unremembered because of either a) alien mind control, b) trauma, or c) ontological shock. The hypothesis suggests that hypnosis can bring forward veridical historical accounts regarding unremembered contact events.

However, the evidence for memory enhancement is complex. When hypnosis is understood as a veridical means of knowledge, it because problematic because it implies that the fantastic and often imaginal events within the hypnotic trance are historic memories. A huge crisis regarding false memories arose in the 1990s when people used hypnosis to accuse others of sexual abuse and satanic rituals. Most courts of law no longer admit hypnosis as evidence, although it may be used to inform forensic investigations.

There is evidence that hypnosis is meaningful, transformative, and healing. Thousands of people testify that hypnosis reveals their forgotten missing time episodes or their past lives. How can we reconcile these two perspectives? The hypothesis that hypnosis is misattributed shamanic dreamwork may integrate the two schools of thought regarding the truth or fiction of hypnosis.

Shamanic dreamwork is a natural and universal human experience that has been set aside by post-industrial Western cultures. Dreamwork is central to 90% of Earth’s cultures and all of its major religions. These cultures understand that dreams are real and involve interactions with fantastic beings like ETs, nature spirits, and ancestor spirits.

This paper suggests that hypnosis is meaningful because it is unrecognized shamanic dreamwork, which people natural perform through instinct or training. If hypnosis is dreamwork, we would then need to shift our ethics and epistemology from forensic investigation to transpersonal psychology, which is inherently nondual and participatory.

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