Should we pay attention?

The passage below appears as an introduction to the 2nd chapter --

"The power of the encounters comes from acknowledging your helplessnes and keeping the whole matter in question, because the deeper the question goes, the more you attempt to come to some kind of resolution. If you keep asking them [the beings] questions, they keep reforming the thing in such a way that the questions get more provocative but can't quite be answered...If you start saying, "Well, they are aliens and they're from this planet," you're lost...I've often been in situations where the question has been impossible to live with. You can't not answer it, and you can't answer it either. And there you have it. You sit in a situation where you can't bear to be -- and you grow."

WHITLEY STRIEBER 

Interview with Dr. J.E. Mack

Wagner, South Dakota

June 16, 1996

Some additional food for thought --

Although abductees cannot be distinguished physiologically from others, when an abduction is relived or remembered, a frontal-lobe hyper-arousal pattern is detected by EEG. This pattern is similar to the one seen only in advanced spiritual meditators.

I'm just amazed at how much more human beings need to learn and how far we need to go to grow. As I said earlier no matter how ridiculous it sounds I am keeping my mind open, far from judgement and fear. Perhaps that might be the only way to free it!