Mar 17 2010
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Coping With Roswell
Tony Bragalia has an interesting new post over at The UFO Iconoclast(s) that looks at the psychological impact on those involved in the Roswell affair of 1947, as well as the way in which they coped – or perhaps struggled to cope is a better description – with what happened and what they may have seen.
Tony says: “Some drink to forget. Those who have experienced a severe traumatic event often feel compelled to abuse alcohol to dismiss it from their minds, so great is the mental pain. But there could be no greater shock than being suddenly confronted by something so utterly alien as aliens. The crash of an extraterrestrial craft and pilot bodies onto the New Mexico desert floor in July of 1947 adversely affected the psyche of many of those involved in its discovery and aftermath. A new review of the witnesses at Roswell reveals that many were in fact driven to drink by the sight of the unearthly.”
Here’s the rest of the post…
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March 18th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
The idea of coping with trauma through the abuse of alcohol seems like too much of a b/w 1950’s-film kind of cliché. The idea of strong men scared to show any sign of weakness, finding comfort in the stupor of booze. Back in those days men didn’t cry also, right?
Speaking about movies, last Monday I rented ‘Waltz with Bashir’ (bear with me, I think I know where I’m going); a poetic animated docudrama that follows the self-exploration of a 40-something Israeli man that tries to reconnect with his past. In the 1980s he was a young soldier fighting in Lebanon, and although he was certain he had been a witness of the horrible events of the Palestinian massacre performed by right-wing Christian forces, he had absolutely no recollection of it —none, except a weird dream-like incoherent vision of him and his companions floating naked in the sea in front of Beirut [do check it out, really good flick].
So I guess my point is, if something as traumatic as war can certainly make some people hit the bottle hard, and even others to lose their memory, what about something as paradigm-changing as witnessing the remains of an (allegedly) extraterrestrial craft and its occupants?
Wouldn’t the mind try to cope with such a bizarre memory in some other imaginative means? Maybe, I don’t know, something akin to what we are fond to call ‘a screen memory’…
Because, now that you think about it, many researchers are convinced that ’screen memories’ are implanted by the aliens to somehow conceal their nefarious clandestine activities; and yet those memories can be easily by-passed with simple hypnotherapy techniques.
What if the aliens don’t give a damn about those flimsy ’screen memories’, for the simple reason that they don’t have anything to do with them? what if the ’screen memories’ are put there by the abductee’s *own* mind?
Anyway, what I liked about the movie I mentioned earlier, is that it explains memories are not these ‘fixed photos’ engraved in stone. They are alive and dynamic, and the holes in them are easily filled by our mind with elements from our subconscious or imagination. That’s an alternative to Jim Beam Whiskey we should also be exploring, don’t you guys think?