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Anthropologist: Alien Beings from Another Dimension Are Invading Our Brains

4/14/2013

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In the current issue of Paranthropology: The Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal (4.2, April 2013), anthropologist Dr. Steven Mizrach of Florida International University has an interesting if unsatisfactory paper on “The Para-Anthropology of UFO Abductions.” Mizrach correctly notes the extreme unlikelihood of UFOs being alien spaceships, and he also correctly looks for anthropological and psychological origins for the Grays, lizard people, etc. However, Mizrach appears to be reading too much into U.S. government UFO reports and the skeptical position on UFOs in order to bolster an unusual conclusion that beings from another dimension are invading our minds, a conclusion he reached, he said, by using the methodology of Sherlock Holmes: eliminating every possibility until only one solution (alien mind invaders) remained.

Mizrach discusses the University of Colorado UFO Project's Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, better known as the Condon Report of 1969, and the work of Philip Klass, Robert Schaeffer, and CSI (formerly CSICOP), and he complains that the scientific and skeptical view is that UFOs are misidentifications of natural phenomena or hoaxes and therefore do not contribute to scientific knowledge “in any useful way.” This is where he takes issue:

I mean, even if the essential model is correct, science could still learn something from studying UFO reports. Perhaps we could learn more about human misperception of stars and planets, the inability for people to correctly estimate the size or distance of aerial objects, or even the mechanisms behind the confabulation of false stories. Yet, that is the mantra of the 1969 report, that nothing of scientific value can be gained from studying UFO reports, and therefore the Air Force and other branches of government have no need to investigate them. 

Let’s back up and look at the exact wording of what the U.S. Air Force-funded Condon Report said, all the more important because Mizrach does not provide this information:

We feel that the reason that there has been very little scientific study of the subject is that those scientists who are most directly concerned, astronomers, atmospheric physicists, chemists, and psychologists, having had ample opportunity to look into the matter, have individually decided that UFO phenomena do not offer a fruitful field in which to look for major scientific discoveries. (p. 2)

It’s interesting that the Condon Report does include psychologists among the hard scientists who have no interest in UFOs. However, I don’t know any skeptics and few scientists who doubt that UFOs can be used to teach us about human nature. Susan A. Clancy’s Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens (2005) is a great example of this, as is Thomas Bullard’s work on the folklore and mythic correlates of UFO abduction narratives.

It’s fairly obvious that the Condon Report was heavily implying that the “major scientific discoveries” were related to “extraterrestrial life,” not human perception of the supernatural. This is confirmed a few pages later when the Report writes:

As the reader of this report will readily judge, we have focussed attention almost entirely on the physical sciences. This was in part a matter of determining priorities and in part because we found rather less than some persons may have expected in the way of psychiatric problems related to belief in the reality of UFOs as craft from remote galactic or intergalactic civilizations. We believe that the rigorous study of the beliefs--unsupported by valid evidence--held by individuals and even by some groups might prove of scientific value to the social and behavioral sciences. There is no implication here that individual or group psychopathology is a principal area of study. Reports of UFOs offer interesting challenges to the student of cognitive processes as they are affected by individual and social variables. By this connection, we conclude that a content-analysis of press and television coverage of UFO reports might yield data of value both to the social scientist and the communications specialist. The lack of such a study in the present report is due to a judgment on our part that other areas of investigation were of much higher priority. We do not suggest, however, that the UFO phenomenon is, by its nature, more amenable to study in these disciplines than in the physical sciences. On the contrary, we conclude that the same specificity in proposed research in these areas is as desirable as it is in the physical sciences. (p. 6)

So, in short, Mizrach is wrong about the Condon Report and about the skeptical position on the value of studying UFOs, alien abductions, and by extension ancient astronauts. I do not know if he simply failed to read the Condon Report and relied instead on secondary summaries or if he purposely misrepresented the material, but either way this is a serious error for a university scholar, especially one who is lending academic authority to an extreme claim about reality.

Since his premise is that “official” science rejects any value in studying UFOs so therefore “alternative” views proposed by ufologists therefore have value, the fact that Mizrach has seriously misread the Condon Report casts doubt on his discussion of ufological theories as a serious attempt to take back the value of UFO studies from an uncaring mainstream science. In other words, if scientists are not rejecting the value of UFO studies, then there is no false dichotomy that forces us to accept extreme views of UFOs as the only acceptable alternative.

This becomes obvious as he moves toward the conclusion of his article, in which he advocates the Ultra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (UTH) whereby we are meant to understand aliens as an expression in this dimension of actual living beings from another plane of existence. Mizrach recognizes that skeptics will see this as “magical thinking,” but he suggests that it is the only way to explain why visions seen in altered states of consciousness are so powerful and convincing. He claims that UFO phenomena and ancient myths and legends are all of a piece, and all of this is related to a controlling intelligence from another dimension. His evidence, however, is extremely shoddy.

We can’t prove the existence of other dimensions or planes of reality. But a growing number of physicists do claim that our scientific models suggest they should exist. Still, those predictions also suggest that movement from one universe to another should be impossible. But, again, is this something we know for certain? The one thing I am sure of, however, is that there is an intelligence behind the phenomenon, and that whatever we are dealing with cannot be visiting us on a regular basis from somewhere in our universe that is thousands of light years away. [...] Perhaps, as Patrick Harpur (2003) has argued, these entities in some way interact and mold themselves to our perceptions and beliefs, in some way crossing the Cartesian divide between physical reality and imagination, and this explains the nature of their manifestations.

This is anthropology?

Mizrach concludes by suggesting that the entities “conform” to our cultural perceptions and that the Condon Report is shackling science from finding these creatures, even four decades later.

I find it very difficult to understand how Mizrach can discuss Carl Jung and shamanism but seems to either be unaware of or is choosing to omit the anthropological and archaeological work of David Lewis-Williams, now more than a decade old, which very clearly lays out the neurological basis for the phenomena Mizrach ascribes to magic beings from another dimension. Briefly, Lewis-Williams found that altered states of consciousness induced by meditation, drugs, or dreaming produce a fixed range of images that are defined by the structure of our brains and that cultural conditioning interprets as various monsters, gods, and objects. He found that this holds true across cultures and through time, from the Paleolithic to today, and can be traced in everything from cave art to religious myths.

As someone who has (rarely) experienced the types of intense dream states that Lewis-Williams identified with the apotheosis of gods or monsters, I can attest that there is nothing in them that cannot be attributed to mental effects. I’ve written before about how when I was sick as a child I experienced a vision of a frog with a Mohawk haircut wearing a leather jacket, and years later I had an “abduction” experience, though more Gothic horror than techno-epiphany. The monster vanished as soon as I realized I was dreaming, but while it was present it was excruciatingly real. I just can’t see why we need to imagine another dimension of reality interacting with this one to explain how our brains work.

At any rate, I found Mizrach’s paper particularly noteworthy because it involves a real scholar amassing a large bibliography in service of creating a false dichotomy based on a misrepresentation in order to lend credence to the idea that monsters from another dimension are invading our brains. Given its scholarly patina, I imagine it will become a staple of ancient astronaut and ufology literature for years to come.
21 Comments
Tara Jordan
4/14/2013 09:06:50 am

You should stay away from loony academics like Dr.Steven Mizrach. Some establishments of higher learning are nests for unrepentant academic Tartuffes like James Hurtak,Lambert Dolphin,Stanley McDaniel.Mizrach belongs to the Club.Emory University,once, the home of the infamous Courtney Brown,the remote aficionado who played a major role in the events leading up to the Heaven's Gate tragedy.The Stanford Research Institute,who used to promote alternative wacky archaeologists,New Egyptologists,& financed goofball in chief,Richard C Hoagland,the Big mack Daddy of Martian crackpottery.The same SRI who also does contracts for DARPA...These individuals are intellectually confused but are geniuses at marketing dysfunctionality. Smells like psychological warfare.

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Jason Colavito link
4/14/2013 09:10:46 am

But didn't Sts. Wolter and Tsoukalos tell us that academics are in a conspiracy to suppress the truth? Yet somehow academics can propose ideas like this!

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Tara Jordan
4/14/2013 05:19:27 pm

In a perfect world, academics & scientists should be immune from irrational thinking but in terms of brain development,we are only + 10,000 years from the Mesolithic mind frame. Still a long way to go.

Tarat Jordan
4/14/2013 05:43:07 pm

PS. Jason.it would be interesting to know what is your take on the UFO phenomena

Jason Colavito link
4/15/2013 08:00:58 am

I don't think there's much to say about my views. I think UFOs are a myth that have been created from a wide range of stimuli, including altered states of consciousness, deliberate hoaxing, and the fact that so many people no longer have a working knowledge of what the sky is supposed to look like or what's in it. The label "UFO" provides a probably spurious cover that makes many different events and phenomena seem related even though the only real relationship is in the human mind.

John
4/17/2013 05:59:29 am

the aliens are coming to kill you

Gunn
4/14/2013 01:22:58 pm

Spooky is as spooky does. But does it have to be spooky?

Watch for the cross-over...how can a person walk through a wall but still be able to eat something? There is a record of such a thing. Let's see if you can find it yourself.

What is an illusion and what is real...and what invisible, living beings may share part of our experience alongside us? Are those the questions?

Obviously, people across the ages have known, have realized, that other entities live alongside us. It is not a strange idea at all. Evidence is not needed, even in modern times. Science cannot prove this notion, but science has its limitations. Some things are not measurable. A belief system is usually required at this point...often extrapolated out to a faith in a God or lessor "gods," and of course often not extrapolated out at all, or to no god at all.

I think It is okay to consider the possibilities for other invisible life forms around us, for they seem to be known about or imagined by many. But, where will we look for answers? How will we explain the inexplicable?

Jason, I recommend a thorough study of demonology. I wouldn't normally advise this to anyone because of the inherent dangers of getting "too involved." Was it CS Lewis who advised likewise? Except that you apparently have an extensive "horror" background of study anyway, so I suppose you should be able to handle it as well as, say, Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe.

Again, I see all of this alien-UFO stuff as a delusion from actual demonic forces, who, along with good angels, live among us. I know this sounds bizarre, but it is the common Christian viewpoint taught in the Bible. I'm not purposely harping on Christianity here...I'm just explaining "on subject" what the belief system is for millions of TV viewers across America.

Apparently, there is some reason for this seemingly para-normal activity. If not as a delusion to masses of people, then what? And if meant as a delusion, why?

Is it possible that we humans are being "set up" for some as yet unseen mischief in the near future...resulting in a great falling away from an earlier, establish belief system?

(Best Georgio smile, eyebrows straight up): "Yes, OF COURSE this is possible!"

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Joseph Charles
4/8/2022 10:24:28 pm

Ah, you’re just a Christian propagandist. You people are tireless and...annoying.

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Jim
4/14/2013 04:35:56 pm

Mizrach: "The one thing I am sure of, however, is that there is an intelligence behind the phenomenon, and that whatever we are dealing with cannot be visiting us on a regular basis from somewhere in our universe that is thousands of light years away"

How is it easier to believe that an intelligence could visit us from another dimension when the existing models state that "movement from one universe to another should be impossible"? If we use the "Sherlock Holmes" method, then shouldn't we eliminate an impossible hypothesis (movement between galaxies) before we eliminate one that is just extremely unlikely (movement across vast distances of space-time within a single, known universe)?

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tubby
4/15/2013 05:35:36 am

While I frequently have vivid, detailed dreams that I can remember after waking, I'm pretty sure that no matter how real those rat/human/alien hybrids out mowing their lawns and gardening in their yards while being supervised by the Rove/Rumsfeld/Cheney-looking scientists who made them that all it is is the benign antics of a dreaming brain and not a mental invasion from another dimension. Besides, I'm late for my dream bus because I got too distracted with the fleet of snail trailer homes slowly slugging down the street! There were windows in their iridescent shells and I could see there was something happening inside of them just slightly out of view.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not aliens.

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Christopher Randolph
4/15/2013 04:12:40 pm

The UFO people irk me because it seems likely that there's other life out there. I just don't think that life visits secretly, anal probes and suggests pyramids.

My last serious ex before I met my wife was a pretty impressive anthro PhD who specialized in healthcare (initially I was specific in this sentence as to where and what she did but realizing what a small world it is I cut that out!) It was interesting to me how different people in her field approached folk healing. Some of them seemed to run with the idea that spells and curses worked if the target thought they did.

It's a notion that seems to have developed out of a combination of pomo thinking and an extreme PC wish not to offend, but in either event struck me as a failure to do basic science. Some academics do just have wacky ideas.

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4/16/2013 01:42:30 pm

I should probably preface my comments with that I have little to no respect for "social scientists" other than the austrian school of economics (human action). My view is you can't apply the basic principle of science (a repeatable experiment to test your hypothsis) with humans. This is why the whole field of macro economics is such a failure-we belive we can mathmathically model the human being/actions and you can't. People's actions are not repeatable and for that matter you can never get enough information that is accurate fast enough to "guide" humans as some keysnians want to do with printing money, keeping interest rates artifically low and offering too much credit to the marketplace.

So my first point is all these fields of study which call themselves "social science" are just folks who have their pet theories and then pick and chose empirical data to support their views (I won't even go into the popularity of eugencis back 80 years ago and how all the academics and institutes supported it).

As a physicist, the whole field of consciousness is still not very well understood (I have a friend who is a neuroscientist..in college she particpated in monkey experiments where they surgically cut the connetiions between the left and right parts of the brain to "Learn"). I thought is was barbaric..and ran into her a few years ago..it had been 25 years since college and I asked her how much more we learned about the brain..she said "very little"...so maybe our approach to the human life form needs to change. Even our medicine focuses on the body as seperate systems almost mechanical..now we are finding out the complexity of the holistic nature of all the "systems" and what we thought was proper treatment 10 years ago is now considered very wrong. Our social scientists should look at the human condition not as a model to use statistics in but as a creation that is almost divine in its order and complexity yet eligence. I'm pushing that we were created by a higher order...but all life is so unique..we really shouldn't be creating scary stories to explain what we don't really understand.

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titus pullo
4/16/2013 01:46:20 pm

Opps..I meant to say "I'm not pushing that we were created by a higher order"...left out the word "not"..typing too fast..ha ha

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4/17/2013 05:23:16 pm

Amazing what a difference one word can make!

Paul Devereux
4/16/2013 10:43:15 pm

If anyone bothers to find a copy and read 'UFOs and UFOLOGY' (1997) by Peter Brookesmith and myself it will be seen that we thoroughly analysed the 'abduction' phenomenon, and much of the alien contactee reports in terms of altered states of consciousness, and went into the nature of those states in some depth. And we also took apart much of the claimed "government conspiracy" beliefs. The book was more or less ignored in America, not being part of the then ufological fashion. This present spasm evinced by Mizrach seems to be following on the coat tails of Graham Hancock's approach, which will doubtless swamp popular debate in this field (linking extra/ultra-terrestrials with ASCs). A parallel effect occurred in 'alternative archaeology', largely drowning out other, authentic research.

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John
4/17/2013 06:04:03 am

if you find an alien corps hide it in a burger king dumpster so the feds dont kill you

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John
4/17/2013 06:07:26 am

sorry i had a lot of purple kush today

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Steven link
4/22/2013 04:08:57 am

Fair point, Jason, on the Condon Report. I agree it does leave some openings for studies in areas other than astronomy or biology. However, saying I think "monsters are invading peoples' brains" is about as unfair to what I was really arguing as that. I mostly argued that we might be dealing with something whose perceptions & descriptions shift with cultural morays. The only way that differs from the Folklore hypothesis is that it might be an objective cause to the varying subjective perceptions. (And I suppose that might be something other than the objective structural unity of human brains.)

As for false choices, let me make one point clear, I only put forward the UTH as a hypothesis. Not necessarily even the best or only one, just one that could be considered for some cases. In fact, I even said quite clearly that I accept the usefulness of the Folklore or Earthlights theories in some cases.

Just a question for you. Do you also consider Jacques Vallee, John Mack, and J. Allen Hynek as magical thinkers? (Keel is not an academic so I won't bring him up.)

Poor Mack was villified and even investigated at Harvard, but I remember even Allan Dershowitz came to his defense.

I like Lewis-William's work on ASCs. However, to me the interesting question is whether we are dealing with a phenomenon that solely results from ASCs, or induces them. After all, not everyone is in a cave with Paleolithic cave art when they see a UFO.

I had a word limit and was just trying to summarize approaches, so I admit not going into evidentiary detail. But the bottom line for me is this. It does appear to me that UFO encounters involve ASCs and show a similarity to mythological encounters - this is precisely what Vallee deals with.

But if we are dealing with a purely subjective experience, how do we explain objective traces, multiply witnessed events, and physiological effects on witnesses? I of course don't want to get into photographs, because it involved so much fakery even before the age of Photoshop. These things make me wonder about purely subjective experiences. It is the same stuff Vallee deals with.

I hate writing on these subjects. People accuse you of holding all kinds of beliefs you do not hold. And I am just plain insulted to be lumped with people like James Hurtak or Lambert Dolphin. I have no Keys of Enoch nor do I await the Apocalypse.

I also fully admit I could be wrong in saying it MIGHT be worthwhile to consider an alternative approach to the ETH and the 'pure' Folklore theory. For which, in advance, I say mea culpa, but that was my only point.

I hate writing about the Paranormal. It seems to be an academic taboo. I stopped writing about it a long time ago because of reactions like this. I was asked to do that article, otherwise, I would stay out of this minefield. The thing that irritates me most is all the assumptions people make about you when you touch on these subjects.

BTW, Jason, I think a lot of "alternative archaeology" (especially the kind that denies indigenous people the ability to build their own buildings) is crap, and I think "ancient astronauts" theories are also rubbish. Von Daniken looks at a Mayan king descending into the maw of the underworld, and says he is in a spaceship. But I had a word limit, and as I repeat, I was mainly trying to suggest approaches and the possible validity for an eclectic approach.

It's interesting, but it's not my own idea - it's Vallee's - and I find the people who are most dismissive have not read his work or his arguments, either, and that is hardly fair and scholarly, either.








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Jason Colavito link
4/22/2013 05:45:07 am

Thank you for writing, Steven. I appreciate your comments, and I do recognize that you threw this out there as a hypothesis, albeit one that you said you found to be the best available explanation.

There is, as you note, no way to distinguish whether altered states of consciousness (ACS) actually give access to another dimension, or whether beings encountered during ACS have reality outside our minds. That said, the speculation about how these beings enter our minds and construct shapes for themselves from our memories without actually imparting much of anything from their dimension to us seems to me to be a needless complication better explained by their non-existence.

The thing is that I think that we are framing the question wrongly. Your article, and Vallee before you, look at myths, legends, folklore, UFOs, etc. as all of a piece, aspects of a single phenomenon. I think that the more reasonable answer is that we today are imposing a UFO-myth explanatory framework to tie together diverse phenomena of different causes. There is no reason to assume that blips on radar ("objective evidence") are related to anal probe night terrors absent the UFO myth.

In fact, the very fact that the ancients did not see all the different pieces as part of the same story--they did not view lights in the sky as related to nocturnal visitations by sex-crazed demons, for example--implies to me that the fault lies in the attempt to impose a single story to explain several different phenomena that have a variety of causes. So, while Vallee's ideas are interesting, they seem to me to be an example of myth-making, of trying to explain unrelated ideas by linking them to an overarching idea, just like the way Atlantis and ancient alien speculators try to invent a pyramid-building global superculture out of the fact that Mexicans and Egyptians both learned to stack stones in the only way physics makes possible.

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tim brigham link
5/5/2013 09:42:29 pm

not to mention, Condon wrote the summary which contradicts much of the data, so quotations from the same same source may differ in opinion completely.

good to see mizrach at it.
guess i'm a 'spook' too.
im a spook youre a spook everyones a spook spook
more later.
Tim Brigham

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XNB3A
5/5/2015 09:21:53 am

I am one of the extra dimensional aliens many people are concerned about. We are just like you. We eat, digest, and create.

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