Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Chapter 20
The skeptics jumped for joy at this news. So they leapt unto the idea that Ring's experiencers were all simply inveterate fantasizers, or if they had in fact been abused, this "traumatization" led to a "need for attention and self-esteem" which led them to fantasize these experiences. And, since there was a clear correlation between those who had experienced "positive alien interactions" and clearly pathological states, the label was slapped on everyone who acknowledged the possibility that the alien reality was more than just a meme infection. Ring suggested that childhood dissociation might be a technique that an abused person might develop to adapt to a difficult situation. Because these people become strong dissociaters from an early age on, they find it easier to enter altered states of consciousness. Ring then proposed that since people in such altered states might have a wider range of perception than ordinary people, they might be more "prone" to experience paranormal events than a control group who might not be able to perceive them. There is another way of looking at Ring's findings: it may be that people who are NOT alienated in the terms in which we are discussing the word, might very well be viewing reality in a dissociated state: dissociated from what IS, the objective world. Whether they are promoting the "alien reality" as a positive experience, or the SETI reality, or any other reality that does not take into account the broadest range of observable facts, such individuals may be operating in pathological states of dissociation. In this sense, the idea that "God is in heaven and all is right with the world" is as much a fantasy as the idea that mankind is the result of mindless evolution. A very simple way of looking at it is in terms of what is popularly called Stockholm Syndrome. A person who is NOT alienated from a world run amok, a system that is clearly operating based on manipulation and terror tactics has dissociated and identified with the oppressor; he or she has "sold out" in order to survive. The term, Stockholm Syndrome, was coined in the early 70's to describe the puzzling reactions of four bank employees to their captors. On August 23, 1973, three women and one man were taken hostage in one of the largest banks in Stockholm. They were held for six days by two ex-convicts who threatened their lives but also showed them kindness. To the world's surprise, all of the hostages strongly resisted the government's efforts to rescue them and were quite eager to defend their captors. Indeed, several months after the hostages were saved by the police, they still had warm feelings for the men who threatened their lives. Two of the women eventually got engaged to the captors. Psychologist Dee Graham has theorized that Stockholm Syndrome occurs on a societal level. Since our culture is patriarchal, she believes that all women suffer from it - to widely varying degrees, of course. She has expanded on her theories in Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence, and Women's Lives, which is well worth reading. The dynamics of Stockholm Syndrome directly address the issue of those who view life as "meaningful" in the terms described in the SETI study as "desirable." Victims have to concentrate on survival, requiring avoidance of direct, honest reaction to destructive treatment. When there is a socially imposed mandate to "think nice thoughts" and view the world in a positive light, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, people find it necessary to become highly attuned to the approval or disapproval of the "social norms." As a result, they are motivated to learn how to think in social norms, and do not examine their own, honest experiences. As victims of Societal Stockholm Syndrome, we are encouraged to develop psychological characteristics pleasing to the system. These include: dependency, lack of initiative, inability to act, decide, think; strategies for staying alive, including denial, attentiveness to the system's demands, wants, and expressions of approval of the system itself. We are taught to develop fondness for the system accompanied by fear of interference by anyone who challenges the system's perspective.Most of all, we are conditioned to be overwhelmingly grateful to the system for giving us life. We focus on the system's kindnesses, not its acts of brutality. Denial of terror and anger, and the perception of the system as omnipotent keep us psychologically attached to the Matrix Control System. High anxiety functions to keep us from seeing available options. Psychophysical stress responses develop. We might even think that ET would land on the White House Lawn to "serve mankind." But the "alienated person" is one who does not succumb to the system, the terrorists, the Matrix. To be alienated, in the terms of the SETI study, is to be FREE of Stockholm Syndrome. And this, of course, poses its own set of problems.
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