|
By Hal McKenzie
 
|
Cover of book and author, psychotherapist Constance Clear
|
A salient fact emerges from Constance Clear's book, Reaching for Reality: Seven Incredible True Stories of Alien Abduction. The Gray aliens who are doing the abducting apparently don't have a clue about nurturing people.
It is also clear that the human ability to bond with and nurture one another, which Clear encourages in the support group she formed among the seven, is a source of strength and an antidote to the trauma of alien abduction. The book reads as an inspiring story of the triumph of human kindness over the cold logic of non-human and human violators.
The aliens' heartlessness is not only apparent in the way they treat their human subjects, which they appear to be processing on a massive, industrial scale for genetic purposes without regards to their feelings or rights. Even young children are given no quarter, which caused the most outrage among the seven.
It also applies to the pathetic results of the alien breeding program: sickly human-alien hybrid children that were presented to some abductees with pleas that they "nurture" them. Andrew, one of the seven testifiers in Clear's book, recounts in hypnotic regression that he was shown some compartments in a wall, kind of like morgue drawers, containing hybrid children immersed in a blue gas.
"I was taken to one of the containers and told that it was my child. I was told that it was very ill. The child was very frail. I told them that it is not doing well because it is not getting any affection, no nurturing. I am real mad. 'How can you just stick a child in a box? Get the child's mother to nurture it.' The aliens said they can't because the child's mother is like them."
Andrew's memories are the most detailed of the seven and accompanied by precise drawings. As an aircraft engineer, he had been trained to memorize and draw accurately what he saw in the innards of airplanes. He put these skills to good use in describing his abduction memories and illustrating them.
Andrew, the oldest of the group, also seemed to have been "picked on" the most, not only by aliens, but by humans -- the infamous "Men in Black." He recounts that he was driving to a session with Clear, having had an encounter in which the aliens assured him that they had finished with him. An alien presented him with a lump of galena, or lead ore, as a parting gift, and said he would find it later.
Sure enough, he found it the next morning on his dresser. He arranged to meet with Clear on April 22, 1997, and was driving to her office with the ore and some pictures he had drawn and other papers on the front seat.
He was driving to his 10:30 appointment when a black Chevy Lumina with a red light flashing on its dash pulled up. Thinking it was an unmarked police car, he pulled over.
"I see two tall man get out of the car. Both are dressed in black suits, sunglasses and hats," Andrew writes. He notices a third man in the back seat of the car. They order him out of the car, then take his alien gift and two of his drawings, throwing the rest of his papers on the road.
When Andrew protests that he is an American citizen, one of them says, "that doesn't mean much in this case. You are expendable." The MIB also warned him not to report it to the police, because "We don't exist according to your government. No one will believe you and you will only make it harder for yourself."
Clear said this encounter upset Andrew more than his long years of abuse by aliens. It means that even as non-humans are abducting people, some of our "fellow" humans are standing by watching it go on without intervening and showing even less consideration and respect for the victims' rights.
The group of seven all came to Clear originally with complaints of depression, anxiety, and night terrors. Some had suspected the alien connection and had sought help from writers like Whitley Strieber, who referred them to Clear.
"What are the odds that these seven people, each living within two hundreds miles of San Antonio, Texas and each having maintained silence regarding his or her suspected lifelong involvement with alien abduction, would decide to seek professional help and would end up in my office within fourteen months of each other?" Clear writes.
After 22 years in private practice, including 15 years of working with support groups, Clear recognized that what her new clients needed most was to meet each other. She formed the Friday Night Group in 1996 where each could find the strength to face their ongoing experiences more consciously.
She told them to write down their memories, at first for therapeutic reasons. Eventually they agreed to allow their stories to be published, with their names being changed to preserve their privacy, for the sake of others who may be going through the same experience.
The two men and five women in the group are "ordinary people," Clear writes. "Though two of them are married to each other, the rest met for the first time through me. Their ages range from the twenties to the sixties, and their politics range from liberal democrats to conservative republicans. Six of the seven are married, four have children, and one has grandchildren. Their educational backgrounds include education, computer programming, drafting, mathematics, linguistics, and counseling. Four of them are public school teachers, one works in the aircraft industry and two are currently staying home raising young children."
All of the seven testified to feeling a close bond with their co-experiencers and that sharing helped them to come to terms with their experience, as outlandish and traumatic as it is. The book includes an appendix with suggestions for anyone facing alien abduction.
The book's message, whether to abductees or not, is you are not alone. By bonding together, we can survive anything the aliens -- or their MIB counterparts -- can dish out.
|