Tag: Abduction
Shamans in the Amazon and "alien abduction": the strange case of Bernardo Peixoto
With the consent of Venexia Editrice, we publish almost entirely chapter 8 of John Mack's book "Passport to the Cosmos" (Italian translation: "Passport to the Cosmos"), focusing on the bizarre experiences of some Brazilian Amazonian tribes in recent decades and their connection with ancient legends and folkloric traditions.
Video: "Alien Folklore"
Online on the Youtube channel the video of our speech a โBEYOND: Ufology & Esotericism. National Conference XNUMXst Edition ", aired last night on the channel of the Society of the Sulfur.
"The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves
Usually, when we talk about UFOs and "alien abductions", we tend to mistakenly consider the phenomenon as exclusively Western, mostly limited to American citizens of European descent. However, on the same US soil, the native Amerindians also live within the reserves have a lot to tell about it, and after decades of silence they opened up with author Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who has collected their testimonies in some books, including "The return of the Star Peoples", recently translated into Italian by Venexia Editrice.
The kidnappings of the Fairies and the mystery of the "Missing 411"
Every year dozens of people suddenly disappear in US National Parks, in unexplained situations and without leaving any trace; Detective David Paulides, who for decades has been studying these mysterious cases he defined as "Missing 411", has identified some recurring patterns which, analyzed with an eye to ancient traditions (both European and Native American), bring us back to the folklore beliefs concerning the "water-babies" and other feral entities residing in the "invisible world", to which it is sometimes believed that the human being, willy-nilly, is able to access, sometimes never to return to our world.
Some reflections on "abductions"
Although we are talking about the phenomenon of so-called "alien abductions"ย only from the second half of the last century, some of its characteristics would suggest a certain contiguity with ancient descriptions of experiences that were equally branded as "supernatural".
Fairies, witches and goddesses: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal"
An analysis of some beliefs concerning the "subtle nourishment" of witches and fairy beings will lead us to the discovery of a recurring mythology through the millennia, from the archaic times of the shamanic cultures of hunters to the era of inquisitorial processes: that of the so-called "renewal of the bones ".
Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis
The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallรฉe based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtลn ยปBy Filolaoย
Access to the Other World in the shamanic tradition, folklore and "abduction"
The study of the theme of ยซdifficult access to the other worldยป reveals indisputable correspondences between various phenomena considered to be "supernatural" by experimental science.
The phenomenon of sleep paralysis: folkloric interpretations and recent hypotheses
di Marco Maculotti
cover: Johann Heinrich Fรผssli, Nightmare
Sleep paralysis, also called hypnagogic hallucination, is a sleep disorder in which, between sleep and wakefulness (therefore in the moment before falling asleep or in the instant before waking up) one suddenly finds himself unable to move. Most of the time, according to what those who suffer from this disorder say, the paralysis begins with a tingling sensation that goes through the body, reaching the head, inside which the subject feels a kind of hum "like a swarm of bees โor a sound similar to that of a washing machine or aโ thumping and screeching of metal objects โ. Often the victim of this experience tries to scream for help, managing at best to whisper faintly, also experiencing the unpleasant sensation of hearing his own voice suffocated by something abnormal.
Often, if the victim is in bed with someone, the latter cannot notice anything, to the point that often even the most disturbing phenomena (terrifying sounds and noises, incomprehensible voices, sometimes even strange unnatural lights coming from outside) succeed to arouse the attention of those who do not undergo the episode in first person. It can also happen that the succubus (which, if once the name for the mysterious entity causing the phenomenon, is now the term by which medical science refers to the 'victim') hears familiar voices - or, sometimes, even 'demonic' - calling him, or arguing with each other behind the subject's back or, worse still, whispering close to his neck, often from behind, in a disturbing voice.
Science believes that this abnormal state is due to the persistence of the state of atony that the muscles present during sleep and is caused by a discrepancy between the mind and the body: with the consequence that, although the brain is active and conscious and the subject can often see and perceive clearly what surrounds him, despite this the body remains in a state of absolute rest, to the point that any movement is precluded for the duration of the experience. Of course, science denies the reality of the experiences experienced during this mysterious experience, reducing them to mere hallucinations caused by equally mysterious alterations in the subjects' brain balance, which would occur at the exact moment of the transition between wakefulness and sleep โ and vice versa.