Touched - A Documentary on Alien Abductions
Posted by Greg at 11:58, 28 Aug 2011With the recent passing of Budd Hopkins, I thought it might be worth posting something that gives an insight into 'alien abduction' research. So here is the entire, award-winning 2003 documentary Touched, directed and produced by Laurel Chiten. Touched sits apart from other mass-market cable documentaries on this topic that trade in hype and gullibility, and instead does a great job of looking at the human story behind the phenomenon:
A few years ago, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, a leading researcher in the alien encounter phenomenon, approached me after seeing my recent film The Jew in the Lotus. He wanted me to consider making a movie about encounters with these alien life forms. I told him no. I knew next to nothing about alien abduction, had no interest and thought it was all rather foolish. Then, he invited me to meet some of the people who claim to have had these experiences. They seemed rather normal and spoke about their feelings of connection and longing for these uninvited intruders to return. I had stumbled into a world filled by people who had been touched by something ... and had their lives blown apart because of it. I was mesmerized. I feel that I was abducted by John Mack.
This started my journey into the lives and minds of alleged abductees around the world, and into my own personal journey through skepticism, fear, insomnia, fascination, confusion and led to many many questions.
...As there is no conclusive physical proof, the debate as to whether these stories are true or not could go on forever. Instead, I became more interested in the people — those who have had their lives both torn apart and transformed by this experience.
What happens when the unexplained intrudes into our lives, and how do lives and relationships respond when credulity is strained to a breaking point? This is the leading question I set out to explore. This is a film about the human experience — about longing for connection and fear of separation.
If you would like your own personal copy, and/or want to reward the film-makers for their presentation of the topic, you can purchase the documentary on DVD from Amazon.com.
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18 September 2007
10 hours 50 min
This does a beautiful job of pointing out the real value of the abduction phenomenon - its effect on human consciousness which was invariably mind expanding and mind blowing. That was the main point of encounter. It little matters whether these were actual physical encounters or extra-dimensional intrusions into our dreams. The end result was the same - transformed people.
14 April 2009
4 min 29 sec
I noticed Karin reported blue light during her first experience...hmm, Orgone Energy?
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
14 April 2009
4 min 29 sec
Beautiful experiences :3
I like how different each person's experiences are.
It sounds like Karin started grokking a truth: that the self does change moment to moment.
They all remind me of initiatory experiences -- the old life goes away and a new one takes its place.
I guess I can write that, say, Jesus had these experiences and then tried to tell people aboot them. So then the world's major religions, possibly, are centred around people having these experiences.
(certainly I think it can be fairly said that all G_ddesses and G_ds are pretty alien, despite our attempts to domesticate them)
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
15 October 2005
37 weeks 16 hours
More likely the blue light of alien encounters is related to different energy states colliding when the alien world touches our world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_r...
for the same hue. Something similar (but not lethal, obviously),
30 April 2004
18 min 39 sec
More likely the blue light of alien encounters is related to different energy states colliding when the alien world touches our world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_r...
for the same hue. Something similar (but not lethal, obviously),
Nice to see you're still around Will. Hope all is well! :)
Kind regards,
Greg
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15 October 2005
37 weeks 16 hours
Nice to see you're still around Will. Hope all is well! :)
Thanks for remembering me, Greg. I hope you are well too. All my best.
14 April 2009
4 min 29 sec
willbueche,
I was thinking that too when I first saw it and cringed a little at the notion of someone being close to that much radiation.
It could also be from the fact that these entities are coming from a place that is higher on the Imaginarium scale than our denser world, and following the law of thermodynamics, they 'leak' when here...so perhaps that is a good side-effect of these incursions; our reality's Imaginarium index goes up a bit each time :3
So that, eventually and hopefully, we'll stop having people whose imaginations and senses of humour are so low that they do silly things like fly planes into buildings.
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
15 October 2005
37 weeks 16 hours
It could also be from the fact that these entities are coming from a place that is higher on the Imaginarium scale than our denser world, and following the law of thermodynamics, they 'leak' when here...so perhaps that is a good side-effect of these incursions; our reality's Imaginarium index goes up a bit each time :3
So that, eventually and hopefully, we'll stop having people whose imaginations and senses of humour are so low that they do silly things like fly planes into buildings.
I love that idea, and hope it is true (even if it was said in jest!) -- though my only familiarity with "Imaginarium" is from the film with Lily Cole!