Mysterious Universe

Hi guys great show!
I don’t doubt for a moment that Suzanne Hansen has had some sort of experience. And I will go further and say that I completely believe she has been contacted by some sort of beings.
However, if you look at hypnosis and how it affects the perceived memory – hypnosis actually muddles the truth. We are no closer to the truth when someone goes under hypnosis.
There are many documented cases within the childhood sexual abuse cases and satanic ritual abuse cases that have proved hypnosis to be a way to collect distorted and inconsistent memories. These memories have also been called, “false memories”.
This type of therapy is not considered to be reliable in court cases in many counties and it has been shown to create more traumatic and unreal experiences within the mind of the subject.
Anything gathered from a hypnotherapy session regarding passed “repressed” events should be absolutely scrutinized. It should be considered at the most a tertiary support of already proven facts and occurrences.
How is it that a whole industry is built up around such an unreliable tool which can be easily manipulated.
Why is it that these experiencers, who have by their own accounts, had life changing and enlightening experiences – have to say throughout interviews… “I have learned so much but I can’t talk about it here because it will be in my book” or “I have wisdom to impart to humanity that will help us grow and evolve as species – but you will have to buy my book to find out what it is” or “I was show technology in the past that is being used today and if you want to know that I was shown an iPad in 1986 and if you want to know what else I saw like Blue Ray, buy my book”?
If these were such profound and life changing events wouldn’t it be a responsibility to share the information with everyone at every time available like on an international radio program?
There is enough evidence in the standardized medical fields that proves hypnotherapy is unreliable. We should be more responsible and not let hypnotherapists and experiencers calculate a narrative which is easily digested by the book buying/convention attending public.
There is something happening – most of us know this. As I said I don’t that something happened to Ms. Hansen. But it is ever so clear to me that she is not ready for or does not want to know the real truth of her experiences. If she did want to know the real truth she would not have wasted her time with the manufactured narrative and the hypnotic suggestions of the day.
Good luck on your quest Ms. Hansen… when you want to really know the truth… it will come to you without the assistance of charlatans and myth creators.
(P.S. you lost points with me by suggesting bitter grapes regarding Carol Rainey… if it were an ex-husband exposing the unethical dealings of his ex-wife would you honestly have had the same reaction?)

Interesting that a common theme in abduction and encounter reports is hearing a ‘buzzing’ noise and/or seeing lights and balls of light and feeling paralyzed. Some types of epilepsy and temporal lobe disorders can cause these types of perceptual disturbances as well as complex hallucinations. It’s also interesting that Suzanne mentions members of her family having similar experiences, since epilepsy is thought to have a genetic component.

Could it be that Suzanne, and other ‘abductees’, are suffering from temporal lobe disturbances and look to popular UFO culture to try and contextualize their experiences, much as historically, people have reported ‘angelic’ and religious experiences that share many similarities to alien abduction experiences? And perhaps these contextualizations are further reinforced by the highly, highly dubious process of hypnotic regression ‘memory’ recovery. Interesting play between biology, culture and sociology.

Yes, I’m a proud skeptic, but a skeptic who loves paranormal topics and this show especially! The idea of different ‘dimensions’ and planes of existence intrigues me, but I think that these places only exist within our own individual brains as opposed to being ‘real’ (meta)physical places. But, since everything we can experience is ‘in our own brains’ so to speak, are these parallel universes no less real than the ‘real’ world?? I love that kinda stuff!

Keep up the good work, lads.

Hey guys, enjoyed this show quite a bit! In defense of skeptics, however: a true skeptic DOES have an open mind… just doesn’t leave it so open their brains fall out. We also reserve judgement until enough information is in before jumping to conclusions. Anecdotal evidence is usually all that is given as proof of UFOs, ghosts, goblins, etc, and anyone should reserve judgement until supporting evidence is provided. What is usualy taken for derision or “close-mindedness” is simply the will to not jump to conclusions. Sure: there’s LOADS we can’t explain, but just because you or I can’t explain it does not justify jumping to conclusion X. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A lone anecdote falls well short of providing such evidence.

I still enjoy listening to the show. I have an open mind, and I enjoy hearing people’s stories. It’s a great way to hear what people claim, and I practice casting a skeptical eye over their claims. Could they be true? Indeed they could, I don’t think anyone can dismiss claims outright… but there can also be OTHER explanations to their claims no one has thought of yet. The burden of proof is always on the claimant – not the skeptic to DISprove it. I can no more disprove person X saw a UFO than they can disprove my belief that an invisible dragon exists in my garage, and only I can see him – both are equally justifiable or easily dismissed as made-up because they have precisely the same amount of evidence. What makes a skeptic automatically scoff at the idea is that no solid, hard evidence for aliens visiting us has ever been revealed. It is always stories, drawings, blurry photos – the occasional hoax – and arguments from authority: person A has a degree in such-and-such, is an upstanding citizen, helps out at the local mission, is NOT crazy… and saw a UFO. So what? Without evidence, the claim has no weight. I can be just as upstanding and still make stuff up, relying on my own social standing, too, but I should also be required to present evidence to back up my claim. The more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary the evidence needs to be.

I look forward to more shows, guys. I think you guys do a TERRIFIC job, and the interviews you get will never appear on the more skeptical and science-based podcasts I also listen to.

When I was young (don’t remember when) I had a similar ‘memory’ as Suzanne’s that I ws part of a committee with a map on a big conference table describing a plan and asking for volunteers for certain experiences.  There was a ‘director’ type person that approved the ‘map’. 

I do not have any memories of being ‘abducted’ but I have seen a lot of ufos and my children and I did have one experience of a visitation.  In that experience I gained time.