Business of LifeYou know all those people who believe they've been kidnapped by aliens? Haven't you wondered how could they believe in something so preposterous? I certainly have.
Harvard psychologist Susan Clancy tells us in her new book, Abducted
At a basic level, Dr. Clancy concludes, alien abduction stories give people meaning, a way to comprehend the many odd and dispiriting things that buffet any life, as well as a deep sense that they are not alone in the universe. In this sense, abduction memories are like transcendent religious visions, scary and yet somehow comforting and, at some personal psychological level, true.
Posted by Jill Fallon at August 10, 2005 06:33 AM | PermalinkI've always had a huge problem with alien abduction stuff, as much as I did with all the "ritual abuse" stuff. I was way up to my eyeballs in the New Age movement when the latter stuff came along, and it truly soured me on all of it...John Mack was the first, I believe, to give credibility to the whole alien abduction thing. It made great X-Files episodes, but that's about it. I feel sad that there are people who need the illusion of little green men to feel comforted.
Posted by: Tish G at August 10, 2005 12:07 AM