Just when bionet.neuroscience was getting boringly scientific...
cyrano at twics.com (Claude de Contrecoeur*) writes:
>The USA has been submerged by bizarre accounts of "Ufo abductions"
>since the publishing of a book called "The Interrupted journey",more
>than 20 years ago.
>This book gave the impetus for others to believe in such crazy
>stories...
>Movies such as the grotesque and childhish "X-Files" only spread these
>delusions.
>"Ufo" "abduction" became popular folklore in the USA,a country where
>some people have lots of difficulties to distinguish between reality
>and their imagination!
Says someone posting from the UK... home of the Piltdown Man, Loch Ness
monster, House of Windsor, etc.
>The scientific study of hallucinations and consciousness(see:
>http://dog.net.uk/claude )
>demonstrate that purported alien abductions are only hallucinatory
>phenomena.
>ALL "abductions" reports are misinterpreted phenomena
>hallucinatory in nature.
What about Bigfoot sightings? Explain those!
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Needing more coffee today,
Kevin
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Kevin Spencer
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kspencer at p300.cpl.uiuc.edu
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