Hypnotherapy with UFO
Abduction Clients
National Guild of Hypnotists
2007 Convention
Craig R. Lang, MS CH
Researcher/Investigator, MN MUFON
www.craigrlang.com
craig@craigrlang.com
Introduction
How many have had clients who have had issues due to
unexplained experiences?
– Missing time
– long-term fear from unknown or anomalous origin
At some point most of you will have at least one UFO
abduction client
Percentages from 1991/1998 Roper Poll:
– Up to 1% of population have had unexplained event
– 10% of population has seen a UFO of some sort
– Up to 10% of meaningful sightings are close UFO encounters
(abductions?)
Talk Overview
Goals
– Look at ways of working with the client
– Understand a little more about the phenomenon
in the clients life
Talk will cover...
– Brief snapshot of UFO/Close-Encounters 101
– How to work with an encounter experiencer
– Implications for experiencer and therapist
– Conclusions/Results I have noted
UFO 101:
What is a UFO?
• Anything that is unidentified in the sky
• Many have prosaic explanations
• Others do not have conventional explanations (yet?)
• Still others are of high strangeness
(Most Close Encounters fit this category)
Close Encounter (UFO sighting/encounter up close)
1st Kind = CE1 (an object up close)
2nd Kind = CE2 (physical evidence)
3rd Kind = CE3 (see entities)
4th Kind = CE4 (abduction)
No explanation - a mystery, ambiguous, breaks our
present paradigms of reality
Close Encounter Example: “Evelyn”
The Laundry Room CE4
Witness awoke at about 3AM
Observed object across field in
trees to north
– View out of laundry room window
on N. Side of house
Object rose over trees, approached
house
Attempted to lock down house
windows, doors, etc…
Too late – entities entering front
Memory discontinues at that point
Signs of possible UFO abduction
What will you hear during intake interview?
– Missing time
– Theme of the unexplained throughout life
– Frequent meaningful UFO sightings
– Sudden unexplained changes in life/health
– Overriding sense of mystery/fear about the
sky, UFOs, etc.
Working with client- what do you do?
Not much different from any other client
– Session work will be similar
First goal is healing - hypnosis is first and foremost, a healing tool
– May be a case of trauma - the need for adjustment
– Often coming to terms with “shattered reality”
Second goal is understanding - what really happened (from
experiencer's perspective)
Followup goal is/can-be research - learning more about the
extraordinary realm
– Need to be open to whatever the client may say - avoid any agendas.
– May be paradigm stretching
– Both client and therapist need to be open to whatever may arise
Healing – top priority
Experiencer is a bridge between worlds
– Goal often is to help experiencer to resolve these two
worlds
Healing work as needed…
– Based upon client’s goals – some may not need it
Is “post-contact” trauma present?
– check for fear response
– Treat as any other case of long-term fear
Parts work often extremely useful at the get-go
Example #2: “Evelyn” (continued)
The “Pulled out of Bed” CE4
Awoke to sense of entity along side of bed.
Entity touched her on shoulder
Flipped over onto front – unable to resist
Felt self being floated out of bed - pulled by feet
Memory switches off at time when body about half
way off of foot of bed.
A day later, found burned spot on the lawn
Subsequent months: fear of being alone in house
Parts work:
Resolving fear-instilling event
Couldn’t start with regression, due to fear factor
Called out part that “helps Evelyn feel the fear”
Source = religious teaching to fear unexplained
Also called out a “Spiritual Explorer” part
Able to resolve between “Spiritual Explorer” and
“Fear” parts
Allowed Evelyn to explore experiences on
condition that rest of life normal/grounded
Subsequently, a great deal of info emerged
regarding events
Regression:
Getting to the heart of the matter
To learn sequence of events in encounter
Clean regression is paramount
Limit vocabulary to generic, non-leading
questions/instructions
– “Please continue…”
– “What are you experiencing?”
– “How do you feel about that?”
– “What else do you notice?”
Multiple passes through event
– Other techniques available but this is the cleanest
way to develop detail
Multiple Passes
First few passes: Allow account to develop
Should be stable, with increasing detail.
If core account varies, may be "creative" in nature
look for metaphor material.
If stable, look for increasing detail.
Dream test:
ask generic question about what is in the distance
if detail is present, then may be biographical
If blank, fog, no detail then may be a dream
Later passes
Secret details: description of the "interior"
– Comparison with commonly described “classic”
abduction events.
– Similarity suggests that it may be a abduction event
Ask "false lead" questions
– Avoid leading questions in all cases.
– Can ask “check” questions that lead toward the
“mundane” (no aliens, no abduction, etc…)
Can ask more detailed questions (stay generic)
Followup healing work (next slide...)
Reframing and other healing work
Reframing
– Client specific viewpoints of the event
– Goal is understanding, (self)forgiveness, empowerment
– Re-examine meaning of a given event
Chair/gestalt therapy
– Put the “leader of the aliens” in the chair
– Empowerment of experiencer
– Release and forgiveness of “them”
Parts work as needed
Emotional protection imagery
Finish with emotional “ecology check”
Understanding & Research
Results: What have I observed to date?
A core of standard events - the classic abduction
scenario
– Capture
– Taken aboard UFO
– "small gray" aliens with tall gray: the leader/doctor/etc…
– Medical examination
– Apparent sexual/reproductive focus of procedure
– Release and subsequent confusion/mystery
Purpose/mission/knowledge:
– Many experiencers describe encounter purpose - many and
varied.
– Phenomenon has a role in their life - a core purpose for them
– The experiencer has sense of secret purpose/mission/knowledge
– “will understand when the time is right”
Results (continued)
Encounters: A lot of outliers
– Sometimes "non-standard" aliens -10-tentacled monsters, blobs, human-
aliens, many others...
– Nature of encounter is sometimes very different – places, events, etc…
(subject of some other talk…)
Metaphysical events common
– Past-Lives/Interlife or characters from other lives
– Theophany (meeting God)
– Near-death events
– Out of Body events
Sometimes find that "nothing" happened
– Awareness during Sleep Paralysis (ASP)
– Dream or metaphor material
– Missing time due to some other reason (alcohol, mis-accounting of time,
etc...) – may be meaningful even if not UFO-related
Results (continued):
What are close encounters?
Don’t know what close encounter actually is
Physically real or metaphysical in nature? – the
jury is out
– Some indications of physical reality, yet dream-like
behavior
– Superposition of realities?
(topic of another talk)
Most important – meaningful to the experiencer,
where hypnotherapist can make biggest
contribution
Coming to terms with UFO Abduction
What do we need to do?
Do everything possible to help heal the "shattered reality" of the
experiencer
– Experiencer is a “bridge between worlds” – realities in both realms
– Reconcile world of “us” and “them”
Treat phenomenon with Wonder/Discernment/Caution
– We don't know what it is...
– We don’t know it’s motivations
Determine/Evaluate the scientific reality of the phenomenon
Understand and manage its impact in our society
– Manage the fear that often results from an encounter
– Understand that “you are not alone”
– Form picture of overall social implications
Conclusion:
Ultimately - CE4 work is little different from any other HT
work, with the exception that the material is an ongoing
mystery
Clean regression and healing hypnotherapy can help
experiencer come to terms with experiences
The more I learn the less I know…
“A riddle, concealed in a mystery, wrapped within an
enigma…”
- J. Allen Hynek
Experiencer is a bridge between realms – a “Cosmic
Bridge”
(a shameless plug for my book… )
The Cosmic Bridge
Close Encounters and Human Destiny
Explores:
Impact of encounter on the experiencer
Evolving relationship between humans
(individual, society) and the phenomenon
Possible reasons/agendas for presence of the Visitors
Newsletter: News from the Bridge – signup from website:
www.theCosmicBridge.com
Contact Info
Craig R. Lang, MS CH
CE4 Researcher/Investigator
Minnesota MUFON
Minneapolis, MN
763-257-7334
crlang@mm.com
www.craigrlang.com
www.theCosmicBridge.com
MUFON: Mutual UFO Network
www.mufon.com