Oh yeah the reason I tried to remember Prometheus was because Calvin pointed out that for a short-term memory to become a long-term memory it most trigger a certain intensity of experience. So for things not important to us our brains consciously ignore the short-term memory, thereby storing it deeper into the subconscious then a typical long-term conscious memory. Or so I posed as I used Prometheus as a test case. I justified my inability to remember that publisher’s name with my conscious decision not to remember it since I almost always dismiss a book after seeing it’s published by Prometheus. But still I wanted to remember the name so I tried focusing my brain on that lower left temporal lobe area (or maybe it was the right parietal upper area?). Anyway the point is I was using my left-brain to carry out this operation when anyone knows, from experience, that the best way to remember something is to consciously let it go, thereby letting the subconscious right-brain retrieve the information. Then usually the next morning after a good nights sleep the answer will pop into the left brain out of nowhere. And so it happened the next morning: Promethus books.

Narrative fantasy. My real point in the above rant is that left-brain dominance IS the alien abduction — prose, polemic, deduction, etc. Edgar Allen Poe figured this out and called pure logical inference: “beyond genius.” So the modern human struggles with left-brain dominance not meeting the emotional balance that the right-brain provides and therefore the left-brain is subconsciously controlled by the cerebellum (the reptilian) brain, bringing with it subconscious fears: The alien abduction. Stan Gooch’s book, recently reissued, on alien abductions and other paranormal phenomenon is spot-on.