From: SMiles Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:23:50 -0600
Fwd Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:53:08 -0500
Subject: Bugs Bunny & Other UFO Victims by RAW


 From one elist to the next...

Source: www.gettingit.com


Bugs Bunny and Other UFO Victims
Reality isn't always consensual
BY ROBERT ANTON WILSON

12.13.99

Although few people remember this, Bugs Bunny was the first UFO
"abductee" in a 1952 cartoon called "Hasty Hare."

The next case did not occur until nine years later, in 1961,
when Betty and Barney Hill famously encountered the "greys" from
Zeta Reticuli, who molested them sexually and otherwise, and
were also wearing Nazi uniforms. At least, Barney Hill
remembered the malign midgets as garbed in Nazi regalia; Betty,
for some reason, never did recall that poignantly puzzling
detail.

Now, many millions have allegedly suffered the same sort of
"extraterrestrial" sexual abuse, according to Abductees
Anonymous, a support group for survivors. Budd Hopkins has
become rock star famous for helping people "remember" such
experiences. And this is not just another New Age fad. Dr. John
Mack, a distinguished scientist on the staff of the psychiatry
department at Harvard University, has written two books on the
subject. And Harvard, which once gave Dr. Timothy Leary the
bum's rush for having weird ideas, allows Dr. Mack to remain on
their staff, with all the prestige that bestows upon this
eldritch and Lovecraftian topic.

I've met Dr. Mack, and he seems like a sane and sensible man. He
frankly admits that he's not quite sure what kind of "reality"
these experiences occur in, except that it sure ain't consensus
reality. It's something more like the non-ordinary reality of
Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan books, or of the mystics of all
traditions -- or of Leary and his merry band of acid astronauts.

Peculiarly, both law enforcement and mainstream science seem to
have no interest in this matter at all.

I find that startling. Imagine what would happen if "many
millions" of U.S. citizens said they had been sexually assaulted
by aliens from Mexico or Iraq, instead of aliens from Outer
Space. Obviously, there would be no scientific taboo against
investigating such cases, and Congress might even have declared
war on the invaders by now. If the subjects claimed, as most of
Dr. Mack's subjects do, that they now love their kidnappers and
have received important ecological warnings from them, as well
as learning from their extraterrestrial sermons about how wicked
and wretched our society is, this would be considered evidence
that they had been "brainwashed" as well as raped (think
Stockholm Syndrome). The differences in scientific and political
reactions to atrocities by human aliens and nonhuman aliens seem
even more confusing than the rest of this mystery.

Bill Cooper, who claims to be a former Naval Intelligence
officer, alleges that he saw papers revealing a treaty between
our government and the "greys," who are providing our military
with advanced technology.

The little bastards have broken the treaty, Cooper says, not
only by meddling sexually and/or genetically with our citizens,
but also by mutilating a lot of cattle. But our government can't
stop them because of their superior weapons. The Outer Space
monsters were also behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
he says.

Dr. Mack, on the other hand, isn't sure about the literalness of
alien abductions. In his second book, Passport to the Cosmos
(Crown) he no longer calls his subjects "abductees," but
"experiencers," although he remains convinced that they
experienced something and that the experience is real in some
sense.

Consider, in this context, the investigations of Dr. Corey
Hammond of the University of Utah, former president of the
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Hammond has had a lot
of clients who, under hypnosis, remember hideous incidents of
Satanic rituals, infant sacrifice, sadomasochism, coprophilia
and assorted horrors. Dr. Hammond believes that these cases, and
the data he has unearthed on Satanic cults in general, prove
that three distinct groups are working together -- Nazis, the
CIA, and NASA -- who have been secretly and brutally programming
American children for over 50 years to make them part of "a
Satanic order that will rule the world."

Can we believe both Dr. Mack and Dr. Hammond at the same time,
and accept that while extraterrestrials or even weirder
nonhumans have been raping people and teaching ecology, another
conspiracy is simultaneously torturing and reeducating children
to make them Slaves of Satan? Or might we more economically
assume that a lot of people have had a lot of non-ordinary
experiences -- psychedelic trips without drugs -- and we all
tend to interpret these according to our own hopes and fears?

Consider the model offered by Dr. Jacques Vallee, who has been
investigating UFOs for more than 30 years. Dr. Vallee has
suggested as one possible explanation a vast experiment in mind
control and behavior modification by some Intelligence Agency
(he doesn't try to guess which one). Could both Dr. Mack's cases
and Dr. Hammond's cases represent persons who fell victim to
this and retain only shattered and distorted memories of their
ordeal? Considering what has already leaked about the CIA's
MK-ULTRA research, this hypothesis does not seem altogether
extravagant.

Bill Cooper, the guy who says the greys were behind the JFK hit,
has also considered a variation on Vallee's theory. He himself,
Cooper says, may have been deceived by his superiors in Naval
Intelligence. But in that case, he points out, the government (I
no longer feel safe in calling it "our government") must be
using the "grey mythology" as a cover-up to hide something else
-- something even worse than selling us out to rapists from
Reticuli.

Frankly, I cannot accept either the blind faith of the True
Believers or the dogmatic denials of the Establishment. Like Dr.
Mack, I think the whole topic needs less sensationalism and more
open-minded research.

After all, the next person engulfed by this non-ordinary reality
might be you or me.

Robert Anton Wilson is the author of 32 books, including
Everything Is Under Control, an encyclopedia of conspiracy
theories, and maintains the Web's strangest site @
www.rawilson.com. He also serves as CEO of CSICON (the Committee
for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal).

Robert's column runs every other Monday on www.GettingIt.com