posted on May, 17 2007 @ 06:19 AM
I see this as absolutely nothing more than another great example of how absurdly susceptible the human brain is to tricking itself. Instead of taking
a placebo pill, these people take placebo words.
What i mean by that is this- the only person who is going to use the name of jesus christ to stop aliens from nabbing them is someone who believes in
god and jesus christ. They have been raised their entire lives being taught that if you are ever in a bind, just ask for jesus and he'll set things
right.
So it makes sense that this person would believe jesus christ could set things right...right?
Belief is incredibly scary. It has the power to cloud people's vision over everything else. If you honestly believe something, the way you see the
world and interpret situations will morph to adhere to your beliefs.
Heck, this is most evident in the very thing that causes a lot of people to think they have been abducted- sleep paralysis.
I am very aware this topic has been done to death, but let me summarize the phenomenon as it directly relates to my idea here. This will be old hat
for those familiar with sleep paralysis.
When you sleep, your brain paralyzes your body so you don't lash out and act out your dreams. Sometimes your conscious mind wakes up before this
paralysis wears off. When this happens, your eyes can move but your body can not. Shortly after becoming conscious, people very, very often see
shadowy figures, hear noises, feel something evil is around, or see whatever scares them. I have experienced sleep paralysis dozens of times, seeing
everything from giant spiders to lenky jungle cats to yettis to aliens.
A big reason why the visions that go hand in hand with sleep paralysis happen (at least as most who have studied it say) is because your brain has to
conjour a reason for why your body isn't moving when you want it to. What better way to do this than to lay the blame on something
else?
"Oh, hey Conscious. This is Brain, just calling to let you know that it isn't my fault i didn't work perfectly for once. You can blame these
spindley grey figures hovering above you. Whatever you do, absolutely do not blame me for not being able to move."
How does this relate to beliefs? Well, if your own brain literally makes things up as excuses for things you don't readily understand, wouldn't it
make perfect sense that you can inadvertantly nudge the brain into fooling you some more?
"Pssst...Brain....this is Subconscious...I need a favor. I've run into a bit of a problem. Due to your little sleep paralysis antics lately,
Conscious has been pacing steps, and needs to be calmed down. I have an idea.
Conscious is really big into the religious scene, and if they believe that saying the name 'Jesus Christ' and asking him for help will prevent
those aleins (the ones you keep using as an excuse for him not being able to move) from abducting him, do you think you could lay off the visions?
You've already been blatantly fooling him into seeing things, so how hard could it be to stop making him see those things?
Look, I know it's a lot to ask, but if you think about it, it gets you off the hook entirely. Since Conscious will believe that God and Jesus are
stopping aliens from coming to get him, whenever you fall asleep in the command chair and forget to un-paralyze him, he's not going to see aliens
anymore.
Why would he? He thinks Jesus is fighting them off before they can even get to him, so instead of you having to make up more excuses, you can let him
sit there and not move for a few seconds. He'll probably see it as the 'touch of God' holding him down in safety"
By the way, I have taken a little liberty in showing 'Brain' and 'Subconscious' as two different characters. Seems that in this case they're
actually one in the same, but for the sake of a more coherent fake dialogue between two intangible things, I think it's ok.
[edit on 5/17/2007 by Ack]