Crop Circle customisation for your iPhone

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Well there’s crop circle t-shirts, mugs, key rings, even make-up, and in Wiltshire (home of the crop circle) and beyond you can here the ringing of the cash register with crop circle related merchandise. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, someone decides to release a crop circle skin for your iphone. Ker-ching, ker-ching!

http://www.customizemyi.com/iphone-themes/crop-circles/

False Memory Syndrome – The real dangers

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After posting my piece about Richard Dawkins I had a few emails about  the issue of False Memory Syndrome or to be accurate False Belief Syndrome (You can’t have a memory of what never happened – false or otherwise – it is correct to say you can have a belief of what you think may have happened).

I do not make light of the issue of False Memory Syndrome. It is a serious situation when incompetent therapists lead their clients to conclusions about what never happened. The many false allegations of satanic abuse that tore families apart during the 1980’s and 1990’s stands testament to this. I’m not going to get into the whole argument of the validity (or in my opinion the lack of validity) of satanic abuse, but the following is a timely reminder of how incompetent therapists can ruin lives.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/11/carole-myers-satanic-child-abuse

Alien Abduction – False Memory Syndrome – Richard Dawkins and many others get it so wrong…

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As you will see from the link below, Richard Dawkins has a new book coming out this year (2012). Titled “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True”. In which he states that people who experience UFO encounters or alien abduction actually suffer from false memory syndrome. Now, I knew this was coming and that I would have to explain it at some point. So lets put the brakes on here and put this right. It is impossible to have a false memory. You cannot remember what never happened. Period. You can have false beliefs about things you believe may have happened. But you cannot remember what never actually happened. So technically, it should be called False Belief Syndrome. When I trained in clinical hypnotherapy/psychotherapy, this concept was pretty well drummed into us.

Dawkins also sadly falls for some common abduction misconceptions. Typically the knee-jerk reaction to point to sleep paralysis. Of course, this fails to explain how people claim to have been abducted from cars or in the environment outside the bedroom. Also, whilst dealing with sleep paralysis you have to explain how many people who suffer from sleep paralysis do not have the same vivid images of alien abduction. (On a personal note I have had several periods of sleep paralysis and have seen nothing remotely alien).

Then Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) rears its head as a contributing factor. Again, the research here is lacking any credibility. Because if PTSD was a contributing factor to fooling people into believing they were abducted by aliens, then surely those in the armed forces would be more likely to be reporting abduction by aliens. Following that thought we should be experiencing a huge rash of ‘abductees’ coming forward from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact remains that the vast majority of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens do not suffer from PTSD or have had episodes in their life that would point to PTSD being an un-diagnosed factor.

I don’t believe that anyone who claims to have been abducted by aliens is automatically telling the truth, but science has yet to properly deal with the issue. It’s theories are easily picked apart and I still fail to believe that anyone within the scientific community has effectively ‘solved’ the mystery of alien abduction.

http://www.huliq.com/10282/ufo-sightings-and-alien-abductions-now-blamed-false-memory-syndrome

Exopolitics: The credibility gap

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I have not been a huge fan of the Exopolitics movement. There are some within the movement who do talk some sense, but the overwhelming majority I find to be away with the fairy’s. Below is a link to a claim by one of Exopolitics main men, Alfred Webre, who is reporting that Barack Obama actually travelled to Mars. Now this is the issue that I have with UFOlogy at the moment,  the huge credibility gap that is opening up within the subject. Don’t get me wrong, there have always been those who were a little ‘out there’ but this is just ridiculous.

Many within UFOlogy constantly discuss issues around why the general public are not ‘awake’ to these subjects, or are being mis-informed etc etc Well, if you are publishing articles that without any evidence whatsoever are so incredulous, most people will ignore it. Most people will view the subject as not worthy of their interest. Maybe I’m showing my age (all of 41 years), but there was a time when UFOlogy was about good investigations, evidence, thought out logic. Now it seems to be about the opposite. Anyway, read on about Obama and his journey to Mars

http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/mars-visitors-basiago-and-stillings-confirm-barack-obama-traveled-to-mars

Alien Abductee Leah Haley: It’s still rumbling on…

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Since Leah Haley came forth with her revelations that her much publicised experiences did not in fact happen in the manner that she believed they did, many, many people have had their noses put out of joint. It is easy to understand why, Leah has had quite a celebrity-like status amongst the UFO community, so she had become something of a spokepersaon or voice for the abductee community. Now, her comments are hopefully making abductees/researchers realise that once you have a mouthpiece, you can sometimes be held hostage to that mouthpieces’ utterings.

It hasn’t been a good time recently for the abduction phenomena. The Emma Woods scandal, Budd Hopkins’ ex-wife making some serious allegations, the death of Budd Hopkins and now Leah Haley.  She won’t be last to come forward and refute her claims…