Recovered Memories of Alien Abductions and Satanic Ritual Abuse, the start and comparison .(Gwen Dean)
Both emerged as widespread phenomena in the late 1970s and early 1980s
both often use hypnosis to recover lost or suppressed memory.
Furthermore, the scenarios and narratives offered by abductees and SRA victims feature many similar elements:
both are typically said to begin when the experiencer is in their youth;
both are said to involve entire families and to occur generationally;
the alien examination table is similar to the satanic altar;
both phenomena focus on genitals, rape, sexuality and breeding;
witnesses often report that the events happen when they are in altered states of consciousness;
both phenomena feature episodes of "missing time" when the events are said to occur,
but of which the victim has no conscious memory. (Bryan, 138-139)
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ALIEN ABDUCTEES AND SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE ARE PRETTY OBVIOUS AND DISCRIBED IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY without prejudices as “new age movements both and neutrally compared”
One of the few general studies but does not focus on specific things like diseases because this does not seem relevant ( SAME AGE AS THE GROUP I AM IN TOUCH WITH BY THE WAY )
Christopher D. Bader Associate Professor Sociology of Religion Criminology
Burleson 318B (254) 710-6238 Christopher_Bader@baylor.edu Education
•Ph.D., University of Washington (2002)
•M.A., Bowling Green State University (1995)
•B.A., The Evergreen State College (1991)
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php?id=18953
CHRISTOPHER D. BADER
In the 1980s two different groups emerged that exhibited a strikingly similar combination of the quasi-religious and psychotherapeutic—UFO abductees and ritual-abuse survivors
In the mid-1980s an increasing number of support groups appeared that were centered around so-called UFO abductions. UFO abductees support groups attempt to help people recover repressed memories of victimization at the hands of extraterrestrials. Also in the mid-1980s an increasing number of therapists and support groups focusing on “ritual abuse” began seeking clients/members. Ritual-abuse support groups also attempt to recover repressed memories of past abuses. In this case, the abuse is believed to take place at the hands of secretive, underground, usually Satanic, cults.
Although much has been written about both these movements, little of this research has focused on the members themselves;
Ritual-abuse survivors skew slightly older with an average age of 48 (47.7).
The UFO abductees were slightly younger with an average age of 44 (43.69).
As discussed above, there has been significant overlap between the increasing popularity of multiple personality disorder (now referred to as dissociative identity disorder) as a diagnosis and claims of ritual abuse (see, e.g., Brown 1986; Fraser 1990; Friesen 1991; Hector 1991; Ryder 1992). The survey of ritual-abuse survivors indicates that MPD is a part of the survivor
experience. Eighty-six percent of survivors reported that they have multiple personalities and the mean number of personalities reported was 100 (median = 50). Consistent with earlier surveys of ritual-abuse survivors, most (87.5 percent) were not aware of the ritual abuse, or of their numerous personalities, until they began therapy. Survivors reported many different reasons for entering therapy in the first place, such as bulimia and other eating disorders, marital problems,
depression, and nightmares