Dr. Kary Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993, for his discovery and development of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), which is a means for amplifying specific DNA sequences. It is reported that in the year following his Nobel Prize, that Dr. Mullis revealed that in his twenties he had taken “plenty of LSD,” which he felt actually helped him to develop the PCR/DNA process.

Dr. Mullis also believes that he may have had an alien abduction. Back in 1975, he purchased land and a cabin in a secluded location of Mendocino County, California, near the Navarro River, for the purpose of tree farming. He proved good at growing the trees, but then he found that he didn’t have the heart to cut them down afterwards. Still he enjoyed visiting the cabin on weekends, while living in Berkeley during the rest of the week.

One night in 1985, Dr. Mullis arrived alone one Friday night around midnight. He turned the lights on and placed a bag of groceries on the floor. Then he picked up a flashlight and headed for the outhouse, which was about 50 feet west down hill. As he got near to the outhouse he noticed a glowing white light. He felt no fear, even though he describes seeing what looked like a raccoon [not to be confused with the genetically engineered raccoon Rocket of the motion picture Guardians of the Galaxy] that next spoke to him saying, “Good evening, doctor.” He thinks he replied with something like “Hello,” but then his next memory is he’s walking along a road uphill from his cabin and even though in the summer it gets damp at night in the woods, his clothes are dry and even clean. He returns to the cabin and finds the lights on [he normally turns them off to conserve energy], although they’re a little dim. He has solar panels with batteries placed under the cabin. The grocery bag is still on the floor, and freshly squeezed orange juice, that had been cold before his departure, was now warm.

Dr. Mullis is confused. He walks outside, goes down to the outhouse, but finds no trace of the flashlight or any sign of any raccoon. He decides to return to the cabin and feeling sleepy. He then decides to lie down and take a brief nap. When he awakens he feels his memory is a bit sharper, though his memories still remain uncertain as to what exactly happened during his walk the night before to the outhouse.

He decides to walk up to a pond in the woods that is spring fed. The woods are about 200 yards from the cabin. The pipe going into the pond periodically gets clogged and so he wants to clean it out so that it will keep flowing properly. On his way, he crosses through a meadow, but when he reaches the end of it and is about to enter the woods, panic comes over him and he turns right around and walks back out into the light of the meadow. Then he gazes back towards the woods and realizes that something happened to him there the night before, something that disturbed him. But he still couldn’t remember what it was. A place that had always seemed enjoyable to him now was causing him fear. He waited to come back until about six months later, accompanied by two of his children. For some reason, he felt safer with someone else there. At that point, he went ahead and unclogged the pipe.

About a year or two later, Dr. Mullis one weekend night returned to the cabin by himself. Grabbing an AR-15, with a flashlight attached, he ventured outside. “This is my property and I’m coming in,” he yelled. “Anything moves - I’ll shoot it. If it doesn’t move I may shoot it anyway. I’m pissed off.” He fired off a clip and then reloaded another. Afterwards he felt better and had overcome his fear of being in the woods.

Shortly afterwards he was at a bookstore in La Jolla and came upon a newly released “Communion” by Whitley Strieber. He felt drawn to the alien pictured on the cover of the book. [How many times have we all heard this type of thing before?] He was reading it when the phone rang. It was his daughter Louise in Portland, telling her father that she was reading the same book! She confessed that she too had been drawn to it’s cover, and furthermore, that she and her fiancé had been at the cabin late one night and how she had missing time after she had walked down to the outhouse, with three hours unaccounted for, during which time her fiancé had been frantically searching for her and calling out her name. When her memory continued she was walking on the same road above the cabin that her father was when he came out of his fugue. Then he shared with his daughter the experience he too had had, something he had not previously shared with another living human soul.

Dr. Mullis summed up his thoughts on this matter: “I wouldn’t try to publish a serious paper about these things, because I can’t do any experiments. I can’t make glowing raccoons appear. I can’t buy them from a scientific supply house to study. I can’t cause myself to be lost again for several hours. But I don’t deny what happened. It’s what science calls anecdotal, because it only happened in a way that you can’t reproduce. But it happened.”

References:
1. http://www.dailygrail.com/Mind-Mysteries/2009/1/Kary-Mullis-DNA-LSD-and-Alien-Abductions
2. http://ufomig.yolasite.com/nobel-prize-winner-abducted.php

Source: AP Magazine
http://apmagazine.info/index.php/component/content/article?id=615

Randall, what’s wrong?!” Edward blurted, fumbling for a lightswitch on the nightstand. Turning on the lamp, he saw me across the room sitting bolt upright, staring at something.

My conscious recollection of this episode begins with a woman’s face, a disembodied face, hovering in the darkness at the foot of my bed. She had brownish-blonde hair, wide prominent facial features, a mole or dimple on the right side of her chin, and a smile spread almost the entire width of her face. I was sitting up in bed transfixed by the image of her, not knowing if I was asleep or awake, when I heard a voice loudly shout “Hey”, and heard Edward call my name. Instantly, as the lamp came on, the face disappeared in the flood of light.

So began my initiation into an ancient mystery. This first in a series of unsettling experiences occurred in Austin, Texas, where fellow screenwriter Edward Kovach and I had flown for a business meeting with another filmmaker. Our second night in the city, at about 3 a.m. on May 3, 1991, that voice in our motel room pierced the quiet with a shout of “Hey”, awakening both of us.

As we tried to make sense of what happened Edward expressed an opinion that the high-pitched voice was female. Though I have a deep voice and had no memory of having spoken, I felt it could have been me reacting to seeing the face. On a hunch, Edward suggested there might be a connection to his lunch companion later that day, a woman he had never met, an archaeology professor at the University of Texas. Edward had encountered her research partner in Belize the previous year while visiting Mayan ruins.

If the face I had seen that morning matched or resembled Barbara, the archaeologist, Edward asked me to signal him over lunch by saying to her, “haven’t we met somewhere before?”.

When I caught up with Edward and Barbara at a Mexican restaurant they were deeply immersed in conversation about her unusual experiences exploring Mayan caves in Central America. I approached their table just as she was describing eerie blue lights the size of basketballs that she had seen floating inside a cave once used as a burial and ceremonial center. She believed these lights possessed intelligence and could have been spirit faces.

As soon as I sat down her uncanny resemblance to my own nocturnal visitor became apparent. It took a few minutes of absorbing this shock before I could address her with “Haven’t we met somewhere before?”. Edward stiffened in his chair. Barbara spread a wide, familiar smile. “Not that I’m aware”, she replied.

Afterwards, Edward and I speculated whether it was conceivable that Barbara had been remote viewing us that morning. Or perhaps the image had been part of a lucid dream, even a precognitive dream, its meaning enhanced by the coincidence of her resemblance to the image.

The Visitations Intensify

Edward flew back to Los Angeles and I returned to my home in suburban Washington, D.C. Ten days later, once again around 3 a.m., I awakened to see another unfamiliar woman’s face hovering at the end of my bed, right at the level that someone about five-feet-seven-inches in height would be if they were standing over me.

This face appeared angular, with alabaster skin, burgundy-colored hair, and bright green eyes. Her features were out of focus, indistinct as the previous image had been, which suddenly made sense to me since I am nearsighted. The observation that I was viewing the image as I would normally with uncorrected vision registered in me simultaneous with the shock of realizing that I was wide awake.

Keeping my attention riveted on the face, I slowly snaked a hand over and into the bedside table drawer where I kept a pair of glasses. Unfolding the spectacles, I slipped them on and instantly the face’s features came into focus, enabling me to see for the first time how her thin lips were curled into a slight smile.

A surge of adrenaline-fueled thoughts zapped me. Can this be a hallucination? Is this for real? Reflexively I reached over and turned on a lamp. Just as in the previous incident, this light made the face immediately vanish. I jumped out of bed like a man possessed and searched every square foot of my apartment. There was no one there, nor any evidence of anyone having gained entry.

The next day I phoned Edward and his wife, Lisa, and described this latest encounter. They wondered whether Barbara or one of her friends had been out mentally scanning again. I speculated these were projections from my own unconscious, either revealing future acquaintances, or continuing a lucid dreaming cycle which, while I had never experienced anything remotely similar before, might be symptomatic of dramatic forces of change in my psyche. Somehow, none of these explanations felt entirely adequate. My internal skeptic kept working overtime in its usual dismissive fashion, never suspecting that the strangest experience was yet to come.

At the bewitching hour of 3 a.m. on May 25, I felt myself jerked awake by the awareness of heat and intense pressure pinning me to the bed. I was on my back and, except for my eyes, no part of my body would respond to any attempt at movement. No matter how hard I tried to squeeze my fingers into a fist or curl my toes, I felt securely and inexplicably paralyzed. My next sensation was of a presence, invisible to me in the darkness, moving up and down atop the nakedness of my groin.

Thoughts began colliding rapidly in my mind, a carnage fired by competing emotions--curiosity, fear, anger, disbelief--all merging into a confused swirl. Why can’t I move? What is this presence engulfing me? It has a feminine feel to it, gripping me deep within a woman’s sex. This is coercion! This is rape! Suddenly one thought alone possessed me with a grim certainty. If I climax, if I allow myself to release inside this presence, whatever it is, some part of me, perhaps my soul, will be lost.

With ferocious effort I attempted to struggle free, concentrating on moving my arms and legs. The more I struggled the tighter the pressure and paralysis seemed to restrain me. Finally a voice at the core of my being spoke up internally, a quiet whisper, advising me to relax my body and resist mentally. I willed myself the refusal to submit to this presence, this entity, this experience, and I began relaxing my body, first my feet and hands, then each leg and arm, feeling the numbness retreat. In a flash I was free and able to move.

My entire body and the sheet beneath me was soaked in perspiration. I sat up and turned on the lamp. As I expected there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen. Yet the room felt abnormally hot, absolutely stifling, and this awareness prompted my discovery of the most provocative evidence of all. Above my bed was a thermostat set at a customary 70 degrees, but the gauge indicated that the temperature in the room had shot up to 98 degrees! I dashed into the other two rooms of my apartment and checked the thermostats--each still set at 70 degrees, which also corresponded to the temperature in those rooms. Somehow the temperature in my bedroom alone had skyrocketed 28 degrees above the thermostat setting.

Even though it was after midnight Los Angeles time, I phoned Edward and Lisa and described what I had just seen and felt. I tried to calm myself by speculating out loud to them. Could this temperature anomaly in my bedroom, perhaps caused by a faulty thermostat, have stimulated or intensified the sleep paralysis and vivid imagery of my lucid dream state? Were these three apparitional experiences, so closely bunched together in time, and unlike anything I had ever encountered in my life, simply a confluence of bizarre coincidences?

Edward and Lisa countered that the anomaly of the heat differential could have been a byproduct of something extraordinary-- a spontaneous generation of heat from my own body, or even evidence of a visitation by aliens. They voiced an opinion that the impact had catapulted me into a rationalist’s denial. At that moment, I felt too stunned to offer any rebuttal.

A Search For Answers

During the ensuing months my readings introduced experiences similar to my own, categorized as Incubus and Succubus visitations. Incubi and Succubi are the Latin words for alleged demons which, throughout history and across many cultures, have been reported as engaging in sexual relations with men and women in their sleep. These critters reached the peak of European public exposure in 1484, when the Catholic Pope Innocent VIII issued an edict chastising followers of the faith of both sexes for having been tempted into “intercourse with evil angels, incubi and succubi”. With this declaration the Pope launched an Inquisition of torture and executions to purge Europe of witches--those “wicked women perverted by Satan”-- who supposedly sent the incubi and succubi on their salacious missions.

Other accounts come from Islamic theologians who described these occupants of the “realm of the unseen” as jinns, which in Middle Eastern mythology are a species of demon. As described in the Koran, jinns can shapeshift in order to kidnap humans and fornicate with them. During the 19th century, leaders of the Spiritualist movement in Britain coined the term “elementals” as a label for denizens of the supernatural or imaginal realms, a form of spiritual parasite that was said to prey upon human beings.

To my rational mind the jinns, the elementals, the incubi and the succubi, even Celtic descriptions of faeries and their rituals and behaviors, sounded suspiciously like the alien abduction reports of our present day. This linkage initially came to my attention in Jacques Vallee’s wonderful book, Passport To Magonia, first published three decades ago.

Many researchers have reached a similar conclusion. Are “demons” and “space aliens” one and the same?” ask British researchers Peter Hough, a journalist, and Moyshe Kalman, a psychotherapist, who in 1997 authored The Truth About Alien Abductions. “Comparisons with folklore indicate that they are. Further, the literature clearly illustrates how the root phenomenon adapts to social and individual experiences. This is often referred to as ‘cultural tracking’.”

Faeries and the Inccubi, just as our modern alien abductors, are said to possess the power to paralyze a person with a mere touch or even a glance. All of them, faeries, incubi, and aliens are described as seeking sexual relations with humans to improve their own, or our own, species.

Visionary images do seem to conform to our cultural expectations. Swiss psychologist Carl Jung believed that at the deepest levels of our psyche, where we each tap into the collective unconscious of humanity, we are awash in a sea of symbolic images--archetypes--common to our evolutionary experiences as a species. Our individual egos project onto these symbols our repressed, shadow parts of self.

In an extraordinary treatment of apparitions, Daimonic Reality: Understanding Otherworld Encounters, Patrick Harpur in 1995 drew numerous striking correlations between the folklore reports of incubi, succubi, and faeries, and the gray aliens supposedly involved in abducting humans. Taken together, he gives all apparitional figures the Greek name of daimons. “The truth behind apparitions is, I fear, less like a problem to be solved than an initiation into a mystery,” he writes. Apparitions such as inccubi and succubi could be “images of the soul projected by the soul itself”, and in a concession to Jungian psychological theories, he speculates that “it is a psychological law--a law of the soul--that whatever is repressed returns in a different form”.

More evidence for the common origin of all these apparitional phenomena springs from a finding that the ancient remedies for warding off Incubus/Succubus attacks, recommended by the Catholic Church, have also proven effective when utilized by abductees wanting to stop nocturnal alien visitations and abductions. Longtime UFO researcher Ann Druffel revealed this connection in her 1998 book, How To Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction. She listed nine techniques people have used to successfully “ward off alien entities and even break off abductions in progress”. These include a recited appeal to spiritual personages such as Jesus, summoning a righteous anger, and wearing objects made of iron.

It seems the techniques that work most effectively are those the person most believes will work. “Our own faeries and jinns are merely an old human problem, shape-shifted and wearing space garb to fool us”, Druffel concluded.

Bizarre Sleep Disorders

British psychologist Stan Gooch wrote a book, Creatures From Inner Space, in which he described his own sexual encounters with succubi, experiences that he conceded were “actually more satisfying than that with a real woman, because in the paranormal encounter archetypal elements are both involved and invoked”, Gooch decided after much consideration that succubi and other entities are created and projected by the human mind.

A similar account and conclusion comes from Dr. Ronald Siegel, associate research professor at the UCLA School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. In his 1992 book, Fire In The Brain, Siegel recounted waking at 4:20 a.m. when he heard footsteps and heavy breathing followed by a weight on his chest. He was paralyzed. The more he struggled the less he could move. He felt a cold hand grasp his arm. “Then part of the mattress next to me caved in. Someone climbed onto the bed! The presence shifted its weight and straddled my body...There was a texture of sexual intoxication and terror in the room.”

After this horrific “Old Hag” experience, as Siegel called it, he was able to classify it as sleep paralysis combined with hypnopompic hallucinations. (Hypnogogic is the borderline state when falling alseep; hypnopompic is the transition state when waking up.) Siegel noted how his encounter resembled, in a striking variety of details, author Whitley Strieber’s alien abduction report in his 1987 book, Communion.

According to prevailing physical theories, we normally experience a disconnect between body and brain while we are asleep. This disconnect is a safety mechanism to prevent us from physically acting out our dreams. When this safety mechanism malfunctions, bizarre effects can happen.

Take the case of Mrs. Jeane Dammen of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Since the age of seven she had been a sleepwalker, and as an adult began driving automobiles while in a dreamstate, sometimes driving up to 50 miles at a time. She would awaken at department stores and friend’s homes with no memory of having traveled there. She never had an auto accident during several decades of sleep driving.

Sleep researchers contend that more than half of all humans have a hypnogogic or hypnopompic sleep hallucination, or experience sleep paralysis, at least once in their life. ”Ordinary, perfectly sane and rational people have these hallucinatory experiences”, says Robert A. Baker, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, and an expert on the phenomenon.

Numerous clinical studies of sleep paralysis have found up to 75 percent of persons surveyed were on their backs when the experience occurred. I found this statistic of particular interest to my own case since I was also on my back during each of my three encounters, though I normally always sleep on my side.

One of the more intriguing cases I found of a sleep disorder that could have been mistaken for succubi visitations or even alien abductions involved a retired engineer in Connecticut. He inexplicably began experiencing, at age 64, both nocturnal and daylight encounters with an extraordinary range of images, especially female human faces and gray-faced entities that resembled classic descriptions of alien abductors. (To respect confidentiality between this man and his psychologist, I will refer to him as Rob Greeley.)

Over several years, into the early 1990s, Greeley kept a meticulous daily log of these visitations, a copy of which I have acquired. Here are a few representative descriptions taken at random from 1988 and 1989 entries. At 4 a.m. on May 2, he woke up “looking at a glowing alabaster sculpture of a cherubic-like child’s head” that soon morphed into “a gray faced image” of an alien being. He goes on to describe instances of feeling “a vibratory paralysis coming over me”, of seeing “smiling women’s faces”, and of “being shaken awake” and feeling “a tremendous blast of heat” and hearing “gibberish being spoken”.

“I am not alarmed or frightened by any of this”, Greeley told his psychologist, “because I know I am normal and feel well in every way”. Determined to document his experiences within a framework of objective reality, Greeley set up a video camera that he turned on during these manifestations of vivid imagery. Nothing out of the ordinary ever appeared on this videotape. The phenomena seemed to be generated and projected solely from his unconscious mind.

We might otherwise dismiss Greeley’s experiences as merely odd examples of anomalistic psychology, his brain playing perceptual tricks, a neurological malfunctioning, if it weren’t for some other provocative evidence of unexpected effects in his outward life.

For one thing, Greeley’s experiences began to infect, much like a contagion, other people close to him. His 34-year-old son, Scott, and Scott’s girlfriend, both saw similar images and entities on some of the nights they stayed at Greeley’s house. These visitations periodically continued even when Scott and his intimate partner were away in other cities. (In the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association, this type of contagion is explained away as a “shared psychotic disorder”.)

Equally puzzling, Greeley and the people around him began to notice strange marks and wounds appearing on his body in the aftermath of the more intense visitations. For the first time in his life he had spontaneous nose bleeds while reading a book or eating a meal. He would awaken to find one eye severely bloodshot, or a finger swollen as if smashed by a sledgehammer, yet he retained no memory of having been injured.

Try as I might, my intuition does not facilitate me fully embracing a traditional psychiatric perspective explaining away all of these phenomena, though I do feel these images and experiences are primarily projections of the unconscious human mind. As evidenced by research into stigmata, our beliefs and unconscious desires can even produce wounds and other physical effects. But the triggers for these events, a partial reason why some of us are more susceptible, may exist independent of our brains.

An Electromagnetic Theory

An idea deserving continued investigation holds that electromagnetic fields, both natural and human-made, interact with some human brains to produce hallucinations, even dramatically staged event scenarios such as alien abductions. The pioneer researcher in this realm, Dr. Michael Persinger of Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, has been stimulating the temporal lobes of test subjects for more than two decades using pulsed electromagnetic fields, releasing an exotic range of archetypal imagery from human consciousness. (Temporal lobes are found in the brain areas above and around the ears.)

Persinger’s experimental subjects have reported visual phenomena from floating human faces and ghostlike apparitions and angels, to experiences resembling aspects of alien abduction reports. For a 1996 television program, Jay Ingram, a host of the Canadian Discovery Channel, had Persinger bathe his temporal lobes in a pulsed electromagnetic field, resulting in what Ingram described as “faces floating in front of me...all female, on a dark background”. He experienced moments of “rapidly changing dream-like images, but the faces impressed me the most”.

Even more far-reaching electromagnetic theories have been advanced by British authors Paul Devereux and Albert Budden. Devereux’s 1989 book, Earth Lights Revelation, made a compelling case that some UFOs are a product of a mixture of electrical, geological and gaseous processes and conditions, and any nearby human consciousness can be impacted. Budden’s 1998 book, Electric UFOs, expanded that theory to link paranormal experiences, hauntings, and alien abductions as hallucinatory side effects of electromagnetic sensitivity.

Beyond the impressive imagery, however, Persinger’s experiments apparently have failed to reproduce the range of reported external effects that seem dependent on the nature, intensity, and projective power of a person’s conscious or unconscious fears or belief system. After sifting through the theories and apparitional evidence, and returning like a devoted ego to the memory of my own succubi experiences, I remain baffled by one nagging, anomalous detail.

How did the temperature in my room inexplicably shoot up 28 degrees above the thermostat setting during my last of the three encounters? Beyond this personal mystery, larger issues loom. Can human consciousness alter our consensus material reality? Are electromagnetic facilitations of paranormal experience, in the wild, so to speak, meaningful coincidences? Can more elaborate theories, interdimensional portals, for example, help to explain the broad range of paranormal phenomena?

Randy Fitzgerald's new book The Hundred Year Lie is being released in June.

Source: Phenomena
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