Rasputin Returns
Apparently at some point Dr. Hynek, who was in public skeptical but privately convinced of extraterrestrial origins of UFOs, told Jacobs not to use hypnosis. There are some pretty serious claims below and on first blush it doesn't look good for Jacobs, a proponent of the "hybrid breeding campaign" UFO-ET theory.
Full text and links at URL above. I haven't looked into the podcasts etc.
But there are times when, even in an era like this where things are so routinely screwed up, indulging certain spiritual yearnings can get you into trouble. I believe that is at least partly the case with Dr. David Jacobs, the abduction researcher who seems to be, in recent months, coming apart at the seams psychologically.
Jacobs is currently mired in a nasty controversy involving an ex-client. She claims he had psychologically abused her and had “engaged in extensive leading and suggestion” (from Emma Woods' Introduction on her website) over the course of 91 hypnotic regressions and 37 hypnosis sessions. The sessions averaged 5 hours, according to Emma Woods (EW, not her real name).
Jacobs counters that EW is suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder...
Jacobs claims that EW was abducted 50 times over the course of their work together. Thirty-two events included warnings from the perpetrators about her writing her record and 24 events included warnings about Jacobs. To Jacobs, these constituted two sets of “threats.”
“One set of threats was directed at writing her records,” he wrote in the DC. “[A] second set of threats was directed at working with me.”
“If the situation [EW] reported was true and actual ‘hybrid beings’ were threatening her, I felt I had to try to protect her from them,” Jacobs wrote. “And obviously if [EW]’s reports were true, I had to protect myself as well. If abduction research can be trusted, alien beings have telepathic abilities and know what people are thinking; therefore, protecting both [EW] and myself was a major challenge. I thought long and hard about what, if anything, I could do. I decided that one approach would be, during hypnosis,to give [EW] ideas to think about that would throw ‘mindreaders’ off my trail. I explained my thinking to her before I acted. Then at one point during a hypnosis session I told her that as a researcher I was interested not in abductions but in multiple personality disorder. I chose this because it is believable--the disorder has characteristics in common with the effects of abductions. I hoped that she would be able to keep this idea in her mind and convey it to her abductors, thereby relieving some of the pressure both she and I felt. At no time did I think that [EW] had multiple personality disorder, and of course neither did she.” (Emphasis supplied.)
The fact is Jacobs did not just give EW ideas. He implanted into her mind a psychiatric diagnosis. Even if she understood the suggestion was a maneuver by Jacobs against the aliens, that was a psychologically irresponsible thing to do. If EW had integrated that hypnotic suggestion into her life, chaos would have resulted. Chaos obviously has erupted.
Let’s go over what he said to EW in the hypnosis session in question:
I am going to count from five to one. Just remember now my diagnosis is that this is multiple personality disorder and you should take medication for it. I have seen lots of cases of MPD and this absolutely fits the MPD profile. And my professional diagnosis therefore is multiple personality disorder. I am studying it. I am writing a book about it. That is my next book. I feel that the whole sort of alien business is all a matter of multiple personality disorder. It’s a much more widespread phenomenon than people think. Lots of people are walking around with it. It’s a public health problem and that you are unfortunately suffering from it. So now I’ll count from 5 to 1 and bring you out of this and we’ll talk about MPD a little bit more… five …. (Paratopia Episode 57.)
Spurred by a fanatical belief that hybrid aliens exist and pose a threat to humanity, Jacobs irresponsibly conducts a schizoid covert operation in his client’s mind against hypothetical beings he is personally obsessed with. He is attempting to infect his client with his own schizoid faith in aliens. He conducts this psychotic covert operation in his client’s mind while she is under hypnosis.
Mr. Jacobs admits he is not “a psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychotherapist...” [Jacobs has a Ph.D. in history.]
This case certainly calls alien abduction research into question, at least with regard to researchers who utilize hypnosis in evidence collection. What is to prevent an abduction hypnotist from hypnotically stitching an abduction narrative into the minds of his clients and then writing about those narratives in books that eventually become bestsellers? [One] could conceivably hypnotically concoct a great deal of corroborating data, all of it fictional, and create fictional superstructures or metanarratives that gain momentum in the culture and create crops and crops of new customers eager to experience something of wonder and awe in their lives.
You get the movie deals, the book signings, the residuals, the conference bookings, free marketing from all the podcast and radio broadcast appearances. The culture of contact has already gifted you with a healthy population of good hypnotic subjects. They already believe. They already want to go where you want to take them. You don’t have to charge them. Your book goes to number one on the New York Times list. You get a TV movie of the week. You’re going to make money. No problem.
The first law of hypnotic dynamics is satisfied: you can’t make anyone do anything they don’t want to do. But if they are sick with loneliness and starved for attention and are living an extremely impoverished life [me--a useless and largely disproven smear], why wouldn’t they want to be part of a cosmic plot to take over the Earth? Why wouldn’t they want their lives to be meaningful? They’ll gladly partake in visualizing their own abduction.
Why wouldn’t you, Mr. Abductee Hypnotist, want to be a part of the same cosmic plot, the same universal drama? Why not believe in your own horrible phantasm? At least it is a lot better than waking up every day and learning your country slaughters civilians and tortures goat-herders and monitors your every phone conversation. Why live in a real horror when a cosmic horror is much less lethal and you have some power over its story and can conceivably get a giant book deal out of it?
Why deal with real life alienation in the forms of joblessness, endless war, tea parties and riots when you can fight the Alien Nation invading us from another planet?
ng something that was against their 'desires'.
