Some Classic Sci-fi Inspired by Abductions?
I was inspired the other day while watching an episode of the classic 1960s, The Outer Limits which featured, of all things an alien/human hybridization program. Now a few years ago I remember catching a show on abductions where one of the things they tried blaming the Betty and Barney Hill abduction on was dreams about some old science fiction programing. I must admit that I could see a few abductions (not the Betty and Barney Hill one though) being dreams brought on by sci-fi TV, but what if it was the other way around; sci-fi TV indirectly inspired by abduction.
Abductions had at least been going on for decades before the Betty and Barney Hill incident. This means that there is large percentage of abductees from that time that probably never knew they were abducted because part of the time the memory blocks do work. So just about anyone, including classic sci-fi TV writers, could have been abducted and not even known.
Perhaps on the subconscious level, some writers of classic sci-fi shows featured elements of their own, unremembered abductions into their stories. It would explain a lot of the reoccurring themes in the shows such the bug eyed aliens, abduction/kidnapping by aliens, and in the instance of The Outer Limits episode I watched, a hybridization program.
There is also the chance that perhaps some of the writers for these programs knew they were being abducted, but were to afraid to come forward. Instead they channeled their feelings and memories into their writings for the various sci-fi series of that era.
I think it would be a rather ironic twist in the real plot don't you?
Naveed
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Naveed,
Thanks for a thought provoking post. Interestingly enough, I have been thinking along the same lines (sort of) for some time now. By sort of, I mean not as concerns abductions themselves, but the messages translated through popular movies and such.
For example: what about the classic movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still"? I am referring to the original 1951 film, not the remake. What I find fascinating is this movie came out around the same time that the contactees started telling their stories. And what is the message of this timeless movie? It concerns the danger to humanity from nuclear weapons and an ingrained cultural acceptance of war. The message was essentially the same one promoted by the contactees.
Is this cultural contamination, or is there a consistent message being relayed through the agency of these different types of message mediums? If we go back in time and compare these messages to the great prophets of old, we find very similar themes. To my mind, this is not so much a case of simple cultural cross pollination as it seems to be a persistent and consistent message delivered to us unhearing humans, well, as long as we have had culture. Perhaps the cosmos utilizes these various ways of speaking to us.
Coincidence? Or, are there no coincidences? Either way, I think it is about time we started heeding those warnings......
That's an interesting thought there Mike,
The way humans have communicated to the masses over the centuries has changed dramatically. However if something in the cosmos is utilizing our methods of communication to give us a message, it would perfect sense to spread it through our modern methods of mass media as opposed to the ones of old. After all, movies and television for the most part have replaced theater and public forums, and currently the internet seems to be slowly replacing books and magazines.
And indeed we do need to start heeding those warnings that were presented to us in the past and those presented to us now.
Maybe the screenwriters of some of the '50s Sci-Fi movies were abductees themselves and utilized what they could remember.
Could it be possible that we have created the aliens? Just thinking of the Tulpa theory. I don't necessarily believe that, but I suppose with those thoughts within the mass consciousness it could be possible.
It could also be possible that these writers were also experiencers and maybe didn't even know it, but those memories somehow surfaced and showed up in their writings.
Lesley said, "It could also be possible that these writers were also experiencers and maybe didn't even know it, but those memories somehow surfaced and showed up in their writings."
Or, it could be that their "creative inspirations" (seemingly pulled from the "ether") were put there by some cosmic agency (not necessarily other "beings") in order to enlighten us to the correct course for our spiritual evolution. Quantum physics seem to point to our material universe as being nothing more or less than an expression (out-pushing) of consciousness.
Where do our inspirations arise from? Our human collective consciousness? Or is there a greater universal consciousness (the akashic field as the Indians and author Ervin Laszlo call it) that speaks to us in our times of need?
We humans have been a truly bumbling race. We are, more often than not, the agents of our own miseries, invariably caused by our selfish desires and a failure to grasp the required mindset for living on our small world in peace and harmony. We decry "God" as some wrathful beast for not intervening on our behalf and preventing us from our often self inflicted troubles. Who says that we have not been given a pathway to our salvation at every turn?
Sages, shamans and oracles have always given us warnings and philosophies for turning the destructive course of man toward more constructive outcomes. The knowledge has always been there. The fact that we fail to heed it is not due to a wrathful god or a cruel universe, but due to our own arrogance and lack of humility.
Those messages are out there. They keep on coming. Why should we be surprised when they are transmitted to us through the agency of our popular cultural clarions? I think there are greater forces out there than funny dudes flitting through our reality in liminal space ships.
And, who is to say that the green guys are not spreading their messages to us through the "inspirations" of that same universal agency?
For even higher weirdness, here is another seeming example of a "rogue" transmission that came through thousands of TV sets in England on Nov. 26, 1977:
http://labyrinth13.com/OtherWorks_Vrillon.htm
The link also includes a recording of the actual broadcast.....! Same message, different medium. It is worth a listen.
I have wondered about some writers being experiencers myself. When I saw the TV series TAKEN by Stephen Spielberg I became overwhelmed by memories of my childhood camping out in the woods with a friend of mine. The memory of waking up in my sleeping bag on the opposite of the tent from which I went to sleep. My friend and myself laughing about how we managed to do that without knowing about it. I was hit with the realization that we were probably abducted and put back in the wrong position. I remember us talking at breafast and learning we had the same dream that night.TAKEN really made an impression on me. It was done too well to just be someones imagination.
Speilberg might have had imput from some aductees. He must have done lots of research. We had seen a bright ball shaped light in the distance about 5 feet off the ground on several occasions just like in the series.
This took place around 1960.
Mike -- thanks for the link to that transmission! I had heard it on Art Bell years ago and I am glad it is still out there. One of those things that are truly unexplained. Could be a prank, but a pretty elaborate one if it is.
Anyone remember alleged remote viewer Courtney Brown's claim that indeed aliens did influence sci fi writers (I remember he mentioned "Star Trek" at least) via telepathy? Not direct contact but through telepathic influencing.
Isn't Courtney Brown also the guy that stirred up all that trouble with Hale Bopp using fake photos or something?
Then there is the late L. Ron Hubbard, a sci-fi writer who created Scientology - basically an alien focused cult.(imo)
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