A Day in My Life: Post 7 for Rave Reviews Book Club: Linking Alien Abductions and Consciousness Expansion

Is it Sunday already? I hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful weekend! 

So, I left off in a previous post that after witnessing a large, luminous, spherical UFO outside my family’s home, my entire body shook, almost as though I were experiencing a grand mal seizure. What I endured, however, was not actually a grand mal seizure. Nevertheless, soon thereafter, I started hearing ringing in my ears. I also noticed electronics malfunctioning in my presence and, even more disturbing, paranormal activity was beginning to take place around me. The nail in the coffin was when I started hearing words and phrases – inside my head!

At the time, my husband was aware that I had seen a UFO, but he did not comprehend the totality of the effect it was having on me. Additionally, while I suspected something may have occurred to me neurologically, I had no real understanding back then of the human chakra system. Having said this, by the time I started hearing words and phrases inside my head, I grew concerned for my mental health. Needless, to say, I called a psychiatrist - right away.
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Without going into too much detail, over the course of several weeks, I recounted everything that had taken place. I did not leave out any details. I made clear to the psychiatrist that I had no desire to harm myself or anyone else. Even so, being a Christian, I prayed and prayed and prayed for protection. After all, nobody wants to end up in a psychiatric hospital.  

Calling all dermatologists! Can any doctors reading this provide any explanation (other than an ET abduction) for these skin lesions which mysteriously appeared over night? Pictured on the left are unexplained red marks on Donna's arm (not itchy). On the right, an unexplained bruise on her leg. Both cleared up on their own within several days.

All I can say is, someone must have been watching over me. That’s because this particular psychiatrist was not only aware of, but accepting of the fact that, sometimes, anomalous experiences really do happen to everyday folks. In retrospect, I can’t help but wonder if he was familiar with the work of Dr. John Mack.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with his career, Dr. John Mack was a professor and the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. He was also an author and won the Pulitzer Prize (biography) in 1977 for his work on T. E. Lawrence.

It is well known by ufologists that as a psychiatrist, Dr. Mack had no serious interest in UFOs or the alien abduction phenomenon - at least not early on. Naturally, when he was approached in the early 1990s about interviewing people who claimed to have been alien experiencers, he wanted nothing to do with the project. However, after enough time and persuasion, he did eventually agree to take this task on, albeit rather begrudgingly.

Much to his surprise, Dr. Mack found the one common theme with the two hundred abductees that he interviewed was that they were mentally stable. They were confused and frightened at the prospect of having been abducted by extraterrestrials, but they were, for lack of a better term, sane. These people came from all walks of life. They had differing levels of education and religious affiliations. They resided in a wide variety of communities, consisted of different races and both genders were represented. While it’s true that some had experienced serious trauma in their lives, others had not. In other words, despite the surprising diversity of people included in the alien abductee cohort, Dr. Mack, found these individuals to be healthy - at least from a psychiatric standpoint.  
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Below are some thoughts shared by Dr. Mack during an interview in the late 1990s with Public Broadcasting Station’s, program, Nova. I think readers may find what he had to say helpful, at least in terms of understanding what it is that ET and paranormal experiencers go through.

“Just how literally to take this, is one of the most interesting and complex aspects of this. And I want to walk through that as clearly as I can. There are aspects of this which I believe we are justified in taking quite literally. That is, UFOs are in fact observed, filmed on camera at the same time that people are having their abduction experiences.

People, in fact, have been observed to be missing at the time that they are reporting their abduction experiences. They return from their experiences with cuts, ulcers on their bodies, triangular lesions, which follow the distribution of the experiences that they recover, of what was done to them in the craft by the surgical-like activity of these beings.

All of that has a literal physical aspect and is experienced and reported with appropriate feeling, by the abductees, with or without hypnosis or a relaxation exercise.

....There is a—I believe, a gradation of experiences and that go from the most literal physical kinds of hurts, wounds, person removed, spacecraft that can be photographed, to experiences which are more psychological, spiritual, involve the extension of consciousness. The difficulty for our society and for our mentality is, we have a kind of either/or mentality. It's either, literally physical; or it's in the spiritual other realm, the unseen realm. What we seem to have no place for—or we have lost the place for—are phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm, and cross over and manifest and show up in our literal physical world.”

-Dr. John Mack
 
Until I sat down to write this post today, I honestly did not know that Dr. Mack had, at that time, already started to grasp, the existence of different dimensions and other types of intelligent physical and energetic forms of "life" as well as the spooky, non-local, simultaneous action of particles in quantum mechanics, as noted by Dr. Albert Einstein. 

I must say, this was a gratifying piece of information to discover! 

Before I end today's writing, I would like to add some additional information about myself. For starters, I would like to state very plainly that I believe in God. I Pray every single day. I pray for others who need help. I pray for protection, loving guidance and wisdom.  I also meditate, as I find that it keeps me calm and helps me to focus.

As for my background, I was raised Christian and have studied a number of the world's religions, most notably Judaism. I have friends of differing backgrounds and faiths. I cherish each and every one of them. Having said this, for the life of me, I'm not sure why all of this "UFO stuff" has happened to me. (It started in childhood, more on that in another post.) 

One theory I have is that it's possible my prayers are actually being answered! After all, these orbs do seem to function like guiding lights for me. (Again, more to come on this topic.) For example, I have the strong feeling that I'm supposed to help others who may be going through the same types of experiences that I've gone through. This is why I created Alien Experiencers Network - to reach out to other experiencers who are frightened by what is happening to them. 

In my next post, things get scary when I'm exposed to the unseen world's dark side. Stay tuned!

What about you? Have you ever experienced something paranormal? If so, how did you react? Did the phenomena return? Do you continue to see things? Please share only if you feel comfortable doing so.

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Wishing you love and light,
Donna M. Atwood

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

​Donna M. Atwood, founder of ALIEN EXPERIENCERS NETWORK is also an American writer of suspenseful paranormal and science fiction as well as spiritually based non-fiction. In her fictional works, she draws upon her B.A. in psychology to develop flawed and complex characters, while her background as a nanotechnology start-up owner serves as the foundation for her sci-fi's exciting, futuristic technologies. In addition, as a trained massage therapist and ET/UAP experiencer, when it comes to her non-fiction writings, Ms. Atwood is comfortable exploring some of the more esoteric aspects of the human condition. Ms. Atwood is known for reaching out to other experiencers as she maintains that there is nothing more important than supporting one another during this time of ascension.

Donna M. Atwood is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the American Massage Therapy Association, the Exoconsciousness Group, the New York Writers Association and Rave Reviews Book Club. Additionally, she proudly supports Phoenix, Arizona's chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. Currently, Ms. Atwood resides in Tucson, Arizona where she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, including her grand dog, Luna. She is also frequently sighted around Sedona, Arizona where she partakes of its vibrant arts community, New Age shops, and world-class hiking. 

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