From: Robert Marx <robm@flex.com.au>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:51:56 +1100
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:12:46 -0500
Subject: Confirmation of Masking

From: matthew <eagle1@flex.com.au>
Subject: re: masking event

The following is a draft report of a case my collegue Matthew
worked on.  I thought the Net might find it interesting. It's the
first case we've seen where the masking is so vividly revealed
AND has independent evidence to back it up.  Matthew and I lead a
group of non-aligned researchers who are professionals
(hypnotherapists, physicists, etc.) called Australia UFO
Encounters.  The slow motion recall hypnotic technique is one we
are exploring.

To network group

Two people were recently sent to me over a possible UFO
Abduction. The husband and wife were driving home late at night
when the husband had the urge to take a "short cut" home.
Normally the trip would take 30 minutes. This trip, the supposed
short cut, took one and a half hours.

During the hypnosis session the man only saw bits and pieces of
his alien experience (his wife, terrifyingly, remembered more as
we progressed into the session with her husband, though she was
not under hypnosis).

Normally, the wife, "other abductee" would not be present during
a hypnotic regression. But this was no normal regression. We had
a film crew in making a documentary called "Romancing the
Chakra". They supplied to me the abductees to work upon. My
office was lit for filming so I suggested to the husband he wear
a sleeping mask across the eyes so that the lights would not
bother him. He readily accepted.

He remembered going down the road and then the road looking
strange. He could not easily recognize common landmarks. He knew
something had happened but could not recall what.

On further deepening he recalled that the car was frozen, he was
alone and that there was a light to the left up in the sky. He
heard a buzzing or humming sound and next recalled a corridor. As
he was remembering this, he said he felt warm and good, that the
light outside that car was making him feel "warm, good, and
happy". Then as he tried to focus upon the experience he heard in
his mind another thought --which he said emanated from (in his
words) "The right side of my brain" . He turned to his right as
if following the memory visually.

He literally tracked the thought coming in. It said: "Nothing
happened, you just drove home, you feel so warm, happy and good".

(It is interesting to note that in his recall of the abduction
memory, --in hypnosis and when recalling the event BEFORE the
Hypnotic induction-- he would gulp and you could easily see his
fear and terror. He said "It took me and my wife over a year to
go down that road again and when we did, it was in the daytime")

Now he was remembering two simultaneous experiences. Driving home
feeling good. And the other, the terrifying UFO abduction. He
laughed as the conflict amused him. The thought that "nothing
happened" comforted him and primarily took over, and masked the
memory of the experience.

One would wonder if he simply made the whole alien abduction
thing up! But looking at his terrified wife, in the room with us
proved that she remembered the incident and not the happy one.

Talking to her later she recalled (without hypnosis) that the car
was frozen and that she was alone. Remember that he recalled the
car being frozen and being alone. I conclude that both had
missing time, and away from each other.

Clinically it was interesting to note that I relaxed him to see
things in slow motion, bit by bit, piece by piece. So when I said
focus on the light outside the car, he literally was aware of his
own brain firing (uploading a new program?) a new memory pattern
into his mind. He said it "emanated from the right side of his
head". This unfolded so slowly, we could track its influence and
power, simply because the alternative thought was becoming
dominant in his mind=85 "Nothing happened, you simply drove home"
You feel happy, peaceful, warm"

The more he tried to get the original memory, the more warm and
fuzzy he felt, (appeared almost drunk). His wife however, wanted
to run from the room, remembered more of the experience=85. "The
UFO room with metal protrusions, a factory of some sort". He has
a scoop mark and his daughter has one too.  The wife has
developed only recently, hyperthyroidism, and the doctors cannot
explain her condition coming on so swiftly and late in life=85

On awakening he still had the two memories, the happy one
dominating, triggered by us probing into the abduction
experience. Both are willing to have more investigative hypnotic
work be done

Post note:

(Now I stress, as we probed his UFO abduction, this new "masking"
memory triggered itself within him and eventually took over his
experience and memory of the event. I did not create this
hypnotically, nor suggest it. I was somewhat powerless to stop
this, and the more I focused him on the "abduction experience",
the stronger the alternative trigger got. I saw this unfold in
the hypnosis chair in front of me, he felt "warm happy and good".
You could see the new thought triggering a new experience and
warm happy feelings washed in and became the more dominant memory
of his experience. "Nothing happened, you just drove home, you
feel so warm, happy and good". )

Matthew Favaloro

Australia UFO Encounters
http://www.flex.com.au/~eagle1