Interview with the alien encounter researcher Mary Rodwell examines the stigma of extraordinary human experiences, and why science turns away.
http://www.skeptiko.com/233-mary-rodwell-extrodinary-human-experieences-matter/
Totally mind blowing interview!Interview with the alien encounter researcher Mary Rodwell examines the stigma of extraordinary human experiences, and why science turns away.
http://www.skeptiko.com/233-mary-rodwell-extrodinary-human-experieences-matter/
I’ve made posts in the past along the same lines as Mary regarding the creative capacity of the sub/unconscious mind to create or invoke the perfect scenario for a person to heal past life trauma as well as other areas. As far as needing scientific proof that the scenarios that appear under hypnosis literally occurred in history: Mary’s sentiment of “why does it matter” I think is spot on with a couple of qualifications. The first being that some of them do and that would add weight to the shift of world views in the culture. My main position is that the Hypnotherapy process is enough in itself phenomenalogically as it presents (which you alluded to) to make some major inroads toward an expanded view of the consciousness. There would be no need to claim the images that occur under hypnosis are anything other than metaphors, yet stuff still happens that defy our current understandings in science. This could possibly free research from the new age metaphysical taint and open it up to more main stream exploration.
I’m not so much referring to the alien phenomenon here as to healing trauma in general with Hypnotherapy.
The alien stuff seems to be disturbing to even some of our long term members and is unlikely to be an avenue toward legitimizing hypnosis.