Abductions and Altered States: Conclusion
- Side Stream News Reporter
- May 6, 2025
- 6 min read
Jellyfish UFO captured over Afghanistan by US Military ; released in 2024 by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp
Carl Nally and Dermot Butler
In today’s world of instant communication, we are very familiar with television, radio, internet, mobile phones, etc. These technologies allow us to contact each other around the world, twenty-four hours a day, all year round. We were brought up familiarising ourselves with these forms of communication, so it may not be credible that communication outside of these parameters is happening.
However, it is very possible that communication between otherworldly beings and humans, in an altered state of awareness and free from conscious restriction, is already taking place. From all of the information available on the abduction phenomenon, it is readily apparent that something very strange and very important is happening to certain individuals around the world.
Our conscious mind is very limited. We are restricted to experiencing the world around us through our five senses. We are being bombarded with approximately 70,000 bits of information every minute. The conscious mind is capable of processing only between five and nine chunks of information at any one time. That is its limit. The unconscious mind, however, has no limits. As we take in information it is selectively deleted, and the remainder is then distorted as it passes through our filters, which are our values, beliefs, attitudes, likes and dislikes, life experiences, and so on.
From this filtered information, we then form an internal representation of our experiences from our environment.
Nobody knows what the world is really like. We each have our own personal map of the world, and not one of these maps shows the definitive territory. Neither are any two identical. We can have a map of Dublin, for example, and say that we know the city, but we don’t. To know Dublin, we would have to walk the streets, visit the shops and restaurants, explore the city’s businesses and hotels, sample the food, converse with its inhabitants, and so on.
Our own internal model of the world, though, allows us to individually interact with our environment. Humans couldn’t communicate effectively with higher intelligences while in the conscious state. We are archaic and vulnerable in our waking state, and this is the form we use primarily for communicating with each other. It is possible however, that we have advanced as far as we can on the conscious plane, and that we are now ready for a leap of consciousness that may allow us to take our proper place in the scheme of things, and that will enable us to communicate with other intelligent forms of life.
In short, if we are ever to communicate with a non-human intelligence, then we must leave the confines of conscious awareness and move to a different state of consciousness, where restrictions don’t apply. It could be that awareness and dialogue at this level is normal where advanced intelligent life is concerned.
The unconscious mind communicates with the conscious mind through signs, symbols, dreams and flashbacks. We cannot consciously understand our dreams, as we do not possess the techniques to decipher them. In other words, the language of the unconscious mind is foreign to us on the conscious level.
When we sleep and enter an altered state – a dream – it feels totally normal, understandable. We don’t ask any questions. However, when we wake up and thus revert to normal consciousness, we
can make no sense of the dream whatsoever. We might well say to ourselves “what was that all about!” More often than not, we then forget about it.
Let us assume that intelligent beings are abducting particular humans and preparing them as future ‘ambassadors’, and that they are communicating with these humans on an altered level of consciousness. Then, because we cannot consciously understand the language of the unconscious mind, might the seemingly strange conscious memories that abductees have of their communications with these beings actually make perfect sense, if we could just consciously decipher the experiences?
An example of the conscious mind trying to understand the language of the unconscious mind, and not being able to make sense of it, came from a British woman who claimed she had been abducted. Her conscious memories were of being taken to a place where weird creatures were climbing over buildings, and where she then saw a gigantic bird. This was followed by her ‘hearing’ a voice, which told her that she had a mission in life which would be revealed to her in the future!
How could she make sense of this unconscious communication when the conscious mind is so limited?
Another interesting case was of a woman who woke up suddenly one night and sat up in bed. She was then overtaken by a strange paralysis that affected every part of her body except her eyes. Here was muscle rigidity at work. She saw four grey figures beside her bed. Her next memory was of being in a totally different environment, but she had no memory of how she got there. Here was evidence of amnesia. She then heard the words “do not be afraid, we only want to help you.”
She thought at first that the words were spoken, but then realised that no words had actually been uttered. She had evidently been spoken to telepathically. She was then asked to memorise
sequences of symbols. The symbols were circles, squares and triangles (the language of the unconscious mind), and there were ten sequences containing between five and
fifteen shapes.
The theme of signs and symbols also occurs in the realm of crop circles. Could that phenomenon be linked to abduction accounts? Do crop formations - the genuine ones – contain messages for us that we cannot understand in our conscious state? Might the unconscious mind be aware of these formations’ contents? The peculiar nature of abduction episodes, at least as far as our conscious minds are concerned, can be studied in the work of Whitley Strieber. His experiences were also portrayed in a 1989 movie, Communion. The appearance and behaviour of the entities portrayed were truly bizarre, but what needs to be appreciated was how difficult it would have
been for the filmmakers to portray something that is extremely difficult to put into
words.
Some ufologists and abductees attach great importance to the signs and symbols recalled after an abduction experience, as they endeavour to ‘break the code’ of what they believe to be information of crucial importance held on the unconscious level. Abductees recall seeing symbols and ‘hieroglyphs’ similar to those left by ancient Egyptians. Researchers such as the late Budd Hopkins used these symbols as a means of cross-checking abductees’ accounts.
The information that is received by abductees from these beings is stored on an altered state of consciousness, to be used at some future time. Meanwhile, it is safe from any conscious scrutiny, as the only recollection of it in the waking state will be in the form of gobbledygook.
In summary, the characteristics of abduction cases compare very closely with those of the altered state we know as hypnosis. It may that these entities, these ‘aliens’, can alter the state of consciousness of individuals. As this state is being experienced, the ‘Oz factor’ comes to the fore, where the abilities of the five senses diminish, and a change in consciousness takes place. The abductees may also be shown signs and symbols such as squares, circles, triangles, etc., and may experience some seemingly very odd events.
However, these signs, symbols, and odd events may be remembered in the waking state, in a totally misunderstood form. It is very possible – indeed, likely – that communication between entities and human beings is happening, on a level that is far removed from our conscious level of
awareness.
Carl Nally and Dermot Butler upri98@gmail.com
Authors: Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland
States of Denial: The Tuskar Rock Incident and Other Mysteries
Circle of Deceit: A Terrifying Alien Agenda in Ireland and Beyond.
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