UFOs and Mental Health, Book One: A Briefing on the Phenomenon

UFO Reality?

There Isn’t One!

Right here, right now in our 3-D existence on earth, all we collectively know about UFOs is that they are about various, sometimes competing, human beliefs.

If you are a healer, you may occasionally find a client who wishes to explore what s/he perceives as past UFO experiences. And if you are a UFO "experiencer" in search of answers to or relief from perceived problems associated with UFOs, you will often discover that the answers you find and/or the degree of relief you experience may well depend on which healer you choose. It can all be quite confusing for both the healer and the experiencer because each of you may find yourself mired in a sticky array of belief systems…including your own! It’s little wonder, because when you compile a broad listing, you will find belief systems ranging from known government and military complicity to new science and exotic technology, from philosophy to archangelic realms, and from interstitial spaces to planetary consciousness.

It’s a bewildering mix. And there are many, many believers advocating for each system.

Here’s an example:

Say a client reports to you disturbing experiences involving abduction by UFO occupants/aliens. Based upon available research, here is a sample list of potential causes of the client’s experience (please note—these are not ranked according to importance, nor is this a comprehensive listing):

A. S/he was abducted by aliens.

B. S/he was the subject of human or "other," or a combination of human and other-sponsored mind control experiment(s) or programs and/or related ritual-oriented and/or related accelerated learning scenarios—and was, via intense trauma-based programming and/or induced amnesia (possibly including a combination of intense hypnosis and/or psychoactive drug and/or electroshock and/or internal/external electromagnetic and/or other "non-lethal" means) or by other means "implanted" with "cover memories" to convince him/her of an alien abduction scenario.

C. S/he was convinced of an abduction experience by another therapist or third party (regardless of motivation), or perhaps by exposure to wide media coverage of "UFOs" or entertainment vehicles (books, movies, etc.).

D. S/he experienced, whether intentionally or not, an intense psycho-spiritual episode which could have been self-induced or triggered by human, supra-human, or non-human intelligence which s/he interpreted as—or was convinced or coerced into believing was—connected to "UFO aliens."

E. S/he experienced another kind of paranormal event (voluntary/involuntary accessing of the "collective unconscious," spontaneous out-of-body scenario, a "channeling" event, spirit possession, etc.) which s/he interpreted as alien abduction.

F. S/he is experiencing one or more psychological disorders.

G. S/he is otherwise culturally predisposed to interpreting some potentially troubling or traumatic events as being connected to alien abduction. (There is little literature to directly affirm this possibility, though one can draw at least an oblique connection from a mention in the DSM of cultural predisposition to certain psycho-spiritual conditions, such as spirit possession.)

There are other possibilities you can probably enumerate, of course (and certainly the potential exists to combine any or all of the above), but this list suffices to illustrate my points:

1. that throughout history and throughout our society, there is evidence to support each of the above categories;

2. and that, given equal weight to each separate possibility, there is at best a one in seven chance of any particular category adequately portraying your client’s condition.

Kind of puts a whole new spin on the importance of proper diagnosis, doesn’t it?

The Matrix

A few years ago I worked as a consulting editor/researcher for the non-profit Human Potential Foundation, Inc. (HPF) in Falls Church, Virginia. HPF’s mission was to study ways of bridging so-called "New Science" with more traditional scientific modalities. Exciting research was occurring in areas of inter-species communication, consciousness, life-after-death, non-human intelligence and alternative energy sources, all of which the Foundation wanted to examine and to then aid via scientific research in whatever ways seemed possible. When I first joined HPF, I was surprised to learn that all of these areas under investigation were connected in some ways with another subject the Foundation was studying—UFOs! The primary funding source for the HPF, Laurance Rockefeller of New York, recognized these connections and was attempting to encourage governmental openness regarding the UFO phenomenon as part of an overall plan to examine these areas, he said. This gave rise to a presidential briefing paper (see below) that can now help you to identify belief systems and to then use that knowledge in ways to possibly benefit your clients.

The following "Matrix" document, then, is the essence of a briefing paper prepared for President Clinton and presented in 1993 to his science advisor, Dr. John Gibbons. It was written by my former HPF colleague and journalist friend C. Richard Farley, Jr., and remains to this day the best and most comprehensive thumbnail overview of the UFO phenomenon I’ve seen.

Note that when considering the following you should first take into account your client’s belief, then compare and contrast it with the following:

Human Potential Foundation

UFO Matrix of "Belief"

The following is a matrix of the spectrum of scenarios found in current literature which are used to try to explain so-called UFO or ETI activity, or the lack thereof. Each matrix entry has a supporting constituency. Some of these constituencies are quite vocal, but no less confident that their current belief structures are the most reasonable, given the data which are generally accepted. There most certainly is a large minority which is not willing to commit to one matrix entry over another, or in combination, until additional data are available. For years, opinion polls have consistently measured that a comfortable majority of the American public believes in the reality of UFOs and Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

0. All sightings except for a small minority which lack detail can be explained in terms of naturally occurring phenomena.

1. Craft from "off planet," but from the visible universe.

2. Interdimensional penetrations by other intelligences or life-forms, based in or operating from another (parallel) overlapping dimension than our own "time-space."

3. Earth-based "others," referenced throughout history, who may be other life-forms, or predominately resident in realms or dimensions we term "spiritual."

4. Hoaxes or "dramatic" scenarios perpetrated by various intelligence organizations as part of broader security or disinformation campaigns.

5. Broader "social engineering," or population mind-influencing programs, designed to promote a more "universal" planetary consciousness and to reduce the influence of nationalistic or religious traditions.

6. Any combination of the above, including "all of the above." Intent: unknown.

Possible U.S. Government levels of awareness, involvement and/or "control" of the phenomena termed "UFO."

0. No activity, inasmuch as the phenomena are explained by naturally occurring events.

1. Aware, but not directly involved or in contact with the perpetrating forces.

2. In contact to some degree, and "co-operating" with at least some of the source-phenomena or intelligences, either for technology trading or because government believes it has no choice.

3. Government is the perpetrator of at least some of the phenomenology, perhaps drawing on the source experience for ideas and methods, but employing the events for other purposes, such as intelligence, disinformation or to alarm other nations.

4. At least some UFO phenomena are results of government or other agency sponsored experiments in "mind-control," or "social control" experiments or initiatives.

Please Note: The Human Potential Foundation, Inc. does not endorse any of the entries of the preceding Matrix of Belief. The Matrix has been prepared to stimulate discussion and research into the broad spectrum of ideas that are represented in current literature addressing what are popularly known as UFO phenomena.

Copyright 1993

by the Human Potential Foundation, Inc.

(Reprinted with permission)

Discussion

Matrix of UFO Beliefs was designed to be a multifaceted investigative tool

by Dick Farley

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WASHINGTON, DC - In October, 1992, philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller asked the Human Potential Foundation, Inc., (HPF) to staff his UFO declassification initiative to the White House.

I had been hired as the director of project development for the HPF, chaired by Rhode Island’s U. S. Senator Claiborne Pell, a close friend of Mr. Rockefeller’s who also was serving at that time as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In turn, Laurance Rockefeller was at that juncture essentially our "sole source" benefactor, helping Senator Pell and HPF’s president, Dr. C. B. "Scott" Jones, Jr., get the foundation up and active. We were developing a spectrum of program initiatives designed to bring exotic or emergent new scientific paradigms into closer and more objective evaluations by "establishment" disciplines than "new science" had usually received in the past.

My task in support of our White House UFO disclosure effort was to recommend and produce background materials for Mr. Rockefeller to leave behind after his meeting to make his case. One of these documents HPF later sent to White House Science Advisor, Dr. John Gibbons, was the Matrix of UFO Beliefs, on which I had been working long before signing on with the HPF.

The Matrix of UFO Beliefs is an investigative and analytical tool that had its genesis during my 20 years of active inquiry into "UFO" phenomena. It reflects primary categories into which beliefs about UFOs seem to fall, when allowing for the broadest range of reported phenomena and perceptions.

Contributors to my thinking included Dr. J. Allen Hynek, in a series of conversations we had (1981 to 1984), as well as Dr. Jacques Vallee, who played an early consultative role in what HPF did to support Mr. Rockefeller’s interest in UFO disclosure.

Diversity and apparent divergence of various UFO-related experiences are relatively well-represented in the Matrix of UFO Beliefs, because it does not require immediate exclusions and preconditions before a belief or "causality" is considered.

The Matrix of UFO Beliefs was not designed to suggest to the President or his advisors what "all the UFOs might be." And the paper reflects my assumption that, for at least some publicly perceived "UFOs," various of our government’s branches would be expected to know very well what may have been witnessed.

Primarily, the Matrix of UFO Beliefs was to serve us as our outline for a briefing of the President and his senior advisors on the range of public opinions and beliefs about UFOs as had been determined from: the popular literature; activity at UFO conferences; and throughout respective UFO venues into which beliefs evolved or had been seeded, manipulated or reinforced.

The second part of the Matrix of UFO Beliefs is reflective of our assessment (5/14/93) of the range of citizen beliefs about what our government might know, and what roles its agencies may have been or be playing. These analyses I also arrived at by sifting through most of the organizational venues of "UFOlogy."

Mr. Rockefeller’s first meeting on this matter was with White House Science Advisor, Dr. John Gibbons, in mid-April, 1993. It had been preceded by an exchange of preparatory letters among Mr. Rockefeller; then-Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin; Rockefeller friend and former (Nixon era) Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird; the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, and important others.

Mr. Rockefeller had invited some of these men to "sign on" to his proposed UFO disclosure letter to President Bill Clinton. HPF’s staffers and consultants joined with Mr. Rockefeller’s advisors in drafting and revising this letter, both before Laurance’s meeting with Dr. Gibbons and during HPF’s subsequent support.

The Matrix of UFO Beliefs was delivered to Dr. Gibbons at the White House in mid-May, 1993, along with a dozen selected popular books about the UFO phenomena that had been chosen (by me) to be representative of the various UFO beliefs as my document reflected, as outlined in its annotated bibliography.

Mr. Rockefeller’s second meeting on this matter, along with Dr. Jones and Washington attorney Henry L. Diamond, was with Dr. Gibbons and several White House staff members, Feb. 4, 1994.

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If you use your own knowledge of human psychology/altered states of consciousness and then open your current belief system to incorporate and to overlay this Matrix, you may well discover a dynamic new structure capable of helping you to help your clients in more meaningful ways.