| I am in close agreement with Hancock on this matter. Graham Hancock has done an excellent job of showing the similarities between the shamanic initiation “ordeal” and the medical examinations and “experiments” of some UFO abductees in his book “Supernatural,” in which he cites the works of Lewis Williams and Mircea Eliade. The Tungas shamans in Siberia claim that the A. muscaria experience causes them to feel like they are being pierced with multiple arrows, of having their flesh cut off and their bones torn out. (131) In another shamanic context, the Kazak Kirgiz shaman told ethnographers, “I have five spirits in heaven who cut me with forty knives, prick me with forty nails.” (132) In another shamanic “ordeal” description according to Yakut shamans the initiate is grasped by “black devils who cut his body to pieces, thrust a lance through his head and throw bits of his flesh in different directions as offerings.” (133) Eliade describes an entire procedure of the initiate as follows: “The candidate’s limbs are removed and disjointed with an iron hook; the bones are cleaned, the flesh scraped, the body fluids thrown away, and the eyes torn from their sockets . . . The ceremony of dismemberment lasts from three to seven days; during all that time the candidate remains like a dead man, scarcely breathing, in a solitary place.” (134) The other important quality of this type of experience are the “sacred stones” or crystals that are planted in the bodies of these initiates during their experiences. The shamans of the Binbinga tribe describe their initiation under the spirit they call Mundadji and his son Munkaninji: “Mundaji cut him open, right down the middle line, took out all his insides … At the same time, he put a number of sacred stones in his body. After it was all over the younger spirit, Munkaninji, came up and restored him to life, told him that he was now a medicine man, and showed him how to extract bones and other forms of evil magic from men.” (135) It is the understanding of at least some Australian aboriginals that surgical operations take place in which entities insert small pieces of rock crystal (called atnongara) into the initiate’s body. In some cases, they are not “inserted” but thrown at the person, which could possibly be considered as “arrows” or even “darts.” A description of one of these instances from Eliade’s book reads as follows: “Some hit him on the chest. Others went right through his head from ear to ear, killing him. The old man then cut out all his insides, intestines, liver, heart, lungs – everything in fact – and left him lying all night long on the ground. In the morning the old man came to him and looked at him and placed some more atnongara stones inside his body and in his arms and legs…” (136) Several UFO related cases are surprisingly similar in context. “Karin,” an abductee, cited by Mack in his book, Passport to the Cosmos, underwent a type of examination where she claims, “They opened up my chest and took out my heart.” (137) Another case cited in Mack’s book: “a female being with oblique eyes, but hardly a nose or hardly a mouth instructed reptilian-faced, insect bodied, or ‘robot- |
like entities’ to perform an operation on the subject which was excruciatingly painful and involved the use of crystals.” The description from the abductee is reported as follows: “Whatever these crystals are, metal-like more than glasslike, there is light. I can see it . . . It is like a squared tube of crystal with the sides lopped off so that at the ends each tube appears eight-sided . . . And then the end of it is shaped like a step-pyramid. It shoots laser light into the body, but it feels like a needle because it hurts, and it resembles a needle.” (138) In the preceding case, it is difficult to say whether or not a government MILAB situation was at work or this was a genuine experience. The instrument the abductee is describing sounds to me like the MILAB abductors are attempting to replicate the UFO abduction experience and the use of crystals or something similar, for healing and have disguised their instruments to appear this way OR the previous stories we read, from Vallee’s accounts, which involved the blue laser, were fabricated. Let’s keep an open mind on this, for the moment as we continue. In yet another UFO abductee description Hancock gives in his book, borrowed from John Mack, one abductee Jerry reported: “something sharp, like a needle” being driven from a high angle down into the side of her neck . . . A small being plunged “a large needle about a foot long, with a kind of hilt” into Joe’s neck below the ear, “against the skull,” causing severe pain . . . A metal instrument “maybe a foot long” was inserted deeply into Catherine’s brain through one of her nostrils, “he broke something to get it through, to get it into my brain . . .” (139) This particular type of description is common, and I have read about instances like these numerous times, over the years. This next comparison Hancock gives is noteworthy. Sandra Larson was abducted aboard some type of UFO and she described how “beings removed her brain and set it down beside her . . .” In a similar context, Eliade cites a Yukut case in which “The spirits cut off his head, which they set aside.” (140) (131) ibid; Lewis Williams, The Mind in the Cave, p. 265 (132) ibid; Eliade, Shamanism, p. 44 (133) ibid, p. 37-38 (134) ibid, p. 84-85; Eliade, Shamanism, p. 36 (135) ibid, p. 85; Eliade, Shamanism, p. 39 (136) Supernatural, p. 85; Eliade, Shamanism, page 47 (137) ibid, p. 110, Passport to the Cosmos, p. 142, Mack (138) ibid, p. 114; Passport to the Cosmos, p. 355, Mack (139) ibid, p. 114 (140) ibid, p. 116; Eliade, Shamanism, P. 36-7 |