An Experiencer’s Perspective
‘… if nothing else, as abductees, our perspective has been inexorably altered, so that we may no longer see our world without the fullness of the universe filling our minds as well.’
If the abduction phenomenon were a part of our religious or spiritual paradigm, it would undoubtedly be a welcomed event. Perhaps the experience might even be one of joy and exhilaration for those so chosen, rather than one of dread. But societal norms, those things deemed valid or invalid, real or not by society, are something to which all of us inadvertently tend to adhere, and therein lies the difficulty. For the most part, the emotional turmoil created by these so-called abduction phenomena is merely a result of society not having a place for such experiences. If that were not the case, and society saw these experiences as normal, valid or beneficial in some way, the trauma, which appears to be associated with such events, would not exist to the extent that it does. This trauma is simply the result of not having a socially accepted way in which to chronicle and in turn deal with such phenomena.
Simply put, the emotional pain that confronts experiencers is the result of not being able to justify, categorize and explain something, which society views as not being real, and, in the process, attempting to make it somehow fit within the individual’s belief system as well. Ultimately, each experiencer is forced to stand their ground and say; “... wait, I’m not crazy, this was a real experience, whether or not it fits into what society says is acceptable, and whether or not it fits into my current belief system.” From there, we need, or rather we are required to integrate these experiences into our belief system. The world does not provide a template for us to do this - therefore it is the responsibility of each experiencer to undertake his or her own journey, a journey specific to the individual, and that is as it should be – that is the way in which it was designed to be.
Experiencers must surely be one of the most misunderstood factions within our society. We have been disregarded, ridiculed, exploited and censured. And all of this taking place while we ourselves struggle to determine our own identity, an identity that encompasses all of our extraordinary and varied experiences. It’s rather like coming to terms with your surroundings, as your surroundings are continually changing - constantly being held in flux relative to who and where you are. In short, we are asked to understand what has and is continually happening to us as we exist on this untenable ground. Never knowing from one moment to the next, with any degree of certainty, what might be next for us, what might lie around the next corner or the next night’s incident. We exist as nomads wandering through our very lives as it were, and living without the luxury of the apparent normalcy which others seemingly take for granted. But for us, those of us known of as abductees, contactees, experiencers, or whatever term one might choose to label us, this is our normalcy - this is our existence whether we choose to acknowledge and accept it or not.
We have been burned, subconsciously etched as it were by our experiences, constantly reminded of our plight with each new occurrence, with each new episode encountered. Add to this the fact that each one of us is at a different point in the cycle of our experience, a different point in the realization and integration of our experiences and you may come to understand that no two of us are alike. We are all constantly evolving in the experiencing and integration of our individual experience – that experience being peculiar, or inimitable to each and every one of us.
There is a natural rift, which exists between experiencers and non-experiencers that can never be bridged, which can never be overcome. It is not our doing, it exists through no fault of our own, but rather, it is the nature of things. As experiencers, we understand the non-experiencers, but they do not understand us. We are as human as they, but they not having experienced the abduction phenomena, nor being genetically altered and programmed as we are, can never come to understand who or what it is that we are. We understand our humanness and the extent to which we have become enlightened. Non-experiencers understand only a narrow aspect or portion of their humanness, never having seen themselves through the eyes of the abduction experience, never having received their baptism by fire, as it were - never tracing the true depth of their fears, thereby becoming enlightened at the hands of their keepers, those guardians that all experiencers have.
As experiencers we are more, not less, because of our experiences.
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‘… if nothing else, as abductees, our perspective has been inexorably altered, so that we may no longer see our world without the fullness of the universe filling our minds as well.’
If the abduction phenomenon were a part of our religious or spiritual paradigm, it would undoubtedly be a welcomed event. Perhaps the experience might even be one of joy and exhilaration for those so chosen, rather than one of dread. But societal norms, those things deemed valid or invalid, real or not by society, are something to which all of us inadvertently tend to adhere, and therein lies the difficulty. For the most part, the emotional turmoil created by these so-called abduction phenomena is merely a result of society not having a place for such experiences. If that were not the case, and society saw these experiences as normal, valid or beneficial in some way, the trauma, which appears to be associated with such events, would not exist to the extent that it does. This trauma is simply the result of not having a socially accepted way in which to chronicle and in turn deal with such phenomena.
Simply put, the emotional pain that confronts experiencers is the result of not being able to justify, categorize and explain something, which society views as not being real, and, in the process, attempting to make it somehow fit within the individual’s belief system as well. Ultimately, each experiencer is forced to stand their ground and say; “... wait, I’m not crazy, this was a real experience, whether or not it fits into what society says is acceptable, and whether or not it fits into my current belief system.” From there, we need, or rather we are required to integrate these experiences into our belief system. The world does not provide a template for us to do this - therefore it is the responsibility of each experiencer to undertake his or her own journey, a journey specific to the individual, and that is as it should be – that is the way in which it was designed to be.
Experiencers must surely be one of the most misunderstood factions within our society. We have been disregarded, ridiculed, exploited and censured. And all of this taking place while we ourselves struggle to determine our own identity, an identity that encompasses all of our extraordinary and varied experiences. It’s rather like coming to terms with your surroundings, as your surroundings are continually changing - constantly being held in flux relative to who and where you are. In short, we are asked to understand what has and is continually happening to us as we exist on this untenable ground. Never knowing from one moment to the next, with any degree of certainty, what might be next for us, what might lie around the next corner or the next night’s incident. We exist as nomads wandering through our very lives as it were, and living without the luxury of the apparent normalcy which others seemingly take for granted. But for us, those of us known of as abductees, contactees, experiencers, or whatever term one might choose to label us, this is our normalcy - this is our existence whether we choose to acknowledge and accept it or not.
We have been burned, subconsciously etched as it were by our experiences, constantly reminded of our plight with each new occurrence, with each new episode encountered. Add to this the fact that each one of us is at a different point in the cycle of our experience, a different point in the realization and integration of our experiences and you may come to understand that no two of us are alike. We are all constantly evolving in the experiencing and integration of our individual experience – that experience being peculiar, or inimitable to each and every one of us.
There is a natural rift, which exists between experiencers and non-experiencers that can never be bridged, which can never be overcome. It is not our doing, it exists through no fault of our own, but rather, it is the nature of things. As experiencers, we understand the non-experiencers, but they do not understand us. We are as human as they, but they not having experienced the abduction phenomena, nor being genetically altered and programmed as we are, can never come to understand who or what it is that we are. We understand our humanness and the extent to which we have become enlightened. Non-experiencers understand only a narrow aspect or portion of their humanness, never having seen themselves through the eyes of the abduction experience, never having received their baptism by fire, as it were - never tracing the true depth of their fears, thereby becoming enlightened at the hands of their keepers, those guardians that all experiencers have.
As experiencers we are more, not less, because of our experiences.
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