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| Alien Experiences BOOK REVIEWS |
“abduction” phenomenon with the stereotypical large-headed “Grey” alien firmly at the
forefront. Veteran abduction researcher psychotherapist Barbara Lamb and Nadine
Lalich have teamed up to publish a series of new cases that promise to push the
boundaries of abduction research still further.
In fact, the book’s centerpiece is the series of consciously-remembered events by Lalich
herself, a level-headed, perceptive woman whose reluctant encounters with the unknown
run the gamut of day-time experiences to more typical abductions at night and
precognitive dreams. Lalich is relatively new to the UFO field and it shows. Crisp word
pictures and her transparent openness to what is happening to her seem refreshingly
uncontaminated by conventions and standard terminology.
Paired with cases culled from Lamb’s massive regression base, Alien Experiences makes
a perfect book for both the experienced researcher looking for answers and for anyone
new to the subject wanting a clear overview of an enigma that refuses to go away. That
includes skeptics who would have us believe that alien abductions are a cultural
construct with no physical reality at all. Interestingly, Lalich in particular seems open to a
variety of explanations for her own experiences but is equally adamant that something is
happening. The consistency of the various elements in her stories with those reported by
other experiencers is striking.
Running almost unnoticed throughout the accounts is a thread suggesting some kind of
covert military involvement in many of the cases, although this too is subject to seemingly
endless possibilities. Are abductions simply staged events by military operatives to
manipulate and to instill fear or are they real “alien” events that are monitored by the
military and perhaps assisted by them? Are the military/human figures simply an alien
creation to assert control over the subject? Or, are human elements involved in joint
genetic experimentation over generations? Is this pure science or is the intention the
creation of hybrid or biological entities? Are some extraterrestrials covertly monitoring
other alien group’s activities? Or, all of the above?
More research is needed. In particular we need to integrate “abduction” data from other
countries and cultures, something the late John Mack was beginning to do. This needs to
expand to include earlier time periods. Dr Richard Leir’s search for indisputable ET
technology in implants holds great promise. In my opinion, the answers we all seek to this
aspect of Ufology will eventually prove to be not simple but complex; they may prove to
be quite unexpected. Alien Experiences does not provide those answers. Indeed, it
generates more questions and puzzles. It is, however, a valuable step along the way as
we move further toward a greater awareness of the beautiful complexity all around us
and the answers to earth’s greatest mystery
| by Barbara Lamb and Nadine Lalich Warren P Aston Copyright 2008 New abduction cases generate still more questions |
by Barbara Lamb and Nadine Lalich
Alien Experiences is a significant contribution to the literature on close encounters.
Written with commitment and clarity and drawing on the great deal of experience both
authors bring to the table, this book will benefit all who are struggling to understand
how first contact is playing out in the lives of individual human beings.
Californians Barbara Lamb and Nadine Lalich have come together to co-author this
book, and it is a fruitful collaboration. Marked by mutual tolerance of their diverging
points of view—Barbara Lamb sees close encounters as spiritually transforming;
Nadine Lalich wishes the beings would go away—the book comes together around one
positive theme: helping people who have the phenomena in their lives and must learn
to cope with it. The authors’ desire to help abductees shines through every page.
Alien Experiences covers a lot of territory. Overview sections summarize lots of data
along with 25 case histories, the all-important close look at unfolding personal dramas
of alien contact.
While this book should be first pick for readers just getting into a study of the
abduction phenomena, it will be no less valuable for experienced readers. Experienced
readers will find something new in Alien Experiences. I did.
Helpful portions of the book explain the dynamics of hypnotic regression in alien
abduction cases, and one chapter is designed to help individuals analyze whether they
may have been involved in such experiences and have reason to look into it by seeing
a regression specialist.
The Authors
Barbara Lamb
Regression therapist and experiencer Barbara Lamb has devoted 17 years of her
professional life to working with abductees. She is a leading therapist in the field with a
huge body of case work amassed since 1991—1800 regressions of some 560
individuals. Finally, with Alien Experiences, Barbara begins to share with us what she
has been doing all these years.
Trained in past life regression therapy in the 1980s by the Assn. for Past Life
Research & Therapy (APRT), Barbara holds a masters degree and is a licensed
family therapist. She has trained and taught other regression therapists and she is
President and a leading light in the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists
(ACCET). Barbara is also an editorial board member of The Journal of Abduction-
Encounter Research. Here at JAR, she is our very own Barbara Lamb!
Barbara has lectured widely in the US and Europe and appeared on many media
programs concerning close encounters and crop circles, Barbara’s other area of
expertise. She is co-author of Crop Circles Revealed, 2001, available on Amazon.
In Alien Experiences, Barbara acknowledges an “eternal” debt to John Mack, the late
Harvard professor and UFO abduction researcher. Dr. Mack, Barbara writes,
“encouraged me in my work and validated my findings of spiritual transformation”
among abductees. He “substantiated and enlarged my perspective of a multi-
dimensional, paranormal cosmos, and of other-dimensional beings. We were
collaborating on bringing forth the reality of reptilian interactions with humans when he
suddenly met his death” a few years ago.
Nadine Lalich
Nadine Lalich is a Renaissance woman and a voice in her own right. Entrepreneur,
administrator, writer, natural health advocate, student of mental development, artist,
designer, it is Lalich’s vivid and mysterious painting which adorns the cover of Alien
Experiences. Inside the book are found several more of Nadine’s drawings in B&W.
They illustrate her close encounter story told under the name “Marie”—and Marie’s
story, based on journal entries since 1991 and transcripts of regressions with Barbara
Lamb, is well worth the read.
Nadine is a keen observer of the aliens. She has an eye for detail, she made
tremendous efforts to remember her experiences, and she is not impressed with what
she sees. “They try to make you believe it’s the right thing and they [the abductions]
are ok. There’s nothing ok about it.” Nadine doesn’t like the way the aliens look, she
doesn’t like they way they smell, and she doesn’t like having her body meddled with. “It’
s a real bad situation to do that to me,” she says.
Like most abductees, Nadine has been told things the aliens plan to do. In one
startling example, she recounts the aliens informed her they plan to deposit enormous
burrowing machines near large cities, machines which will dig themselves into the
earth. The machines, Nadine was told, will emit fields of energy to pacify the people
living in the large cities.
After 19 years of being closeted with her abduction experiences, Nadine writes of her
relief at finally getting the story out in the open. “I was fed up with the isolation, so I
took charge by speaking out.” Now, she tells us, she is no longer tormented. This is an
important lesson for all abductees.
One bone to pick
Along with Nadine’s story, Alien Experiences presents 24 other cases from Barbara’s
files. The cases are in short form, but highly interesting. I have a bone to pick with how
one of these cases is presented.
Under hypnosis, Ken unwinds a long story about getting in his van one day, picking up
other California abductees, driving to Ohio to a large field where hundreds of cars are
parked. All the people are loaded on to a disc also parked in the field and transported
for an extended period to an off-planet location.
On reading this, I called Barbara excitedly. “Did this really happen?” I asked, since the
book makes it sound as though it did. No, it did not really happen.
Hypnosis, we recall, is supposed to help abductees remember real events. Instead it
appears the aliens placed an elaborate, full-length movie in this abductee’s mind which
he then spun out to resemble a memory. This is the first time I have heard of this exact
manifestation. Instead of allowing a mis-impression to accumulate in the reader’s mind,
Barbara should have carefully characterized Ken’s account and commented on it.
That is the only bone I have to pick in this otherwise excellent book. Alien Experiences
is highly recommended.
—Elaine Douglass
Alien Experiences is a significant contribution to the literature on close encounters.
Written with commitment and clarity and drawing on the great deal of experience both
authors bring to the table, this book will benefit all who are struggling to understand
how first contact is playing out in the lives of individual human beings.
Californians Barbara Lamb and Nadine Lalich have come together to co-author this
book, and it is a fruitful collaboration. Marked by mutual tolerance of their diverging
points of view—Barbara Lamb sees close encounters as spiritually transforming;
Nadine Lalich wishes the beings would go away—the book comes together around one
positive theme: helping people who have the phenomena in their lives and must learn
to cope with it. The authors’ desire to help abductees shines through every page.
Alien Experiences covers a lot of territory. Overview sections summarize lots of data
along with 25 case histories, the all-important close look at unfolding personal dramas
of alien contact.
While this book should be first pick for readers just getting into a study of the
abduction phenomena, it will be no less valuable for experienced readers. Experienced
readers will find something new in Alien Experiences. I did.
Helpful portions of the book explain the dynamics of hypnotic regression in alien
abduction cases, and one chapter is designed to help individuals analyze whether they
may have been involved in such experiences and have reason to look into it by seeing
a regression specialist.
The Authors
Barbara Lamb
Regression therapist and experiencer Barbara Lamb has devoted 17 years of her
professional life to working with abductees. She is a leading therapist in the field with a
huge body of case work amassed since 1991—1800 regressions of some 560
individuals. Finally, with Alien Experiences, Barbara begins to share with us what she
has been doing all these years.
Trained in past life regression therapy in the 1980s by the Assn. for Past Life
Research & Therapy (APRT), Barbara holds a masters degree and is a licensed
family therapist. She has trained and taught other regression therapists and she is
President and a leading light in the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists
(ACCET). Barbara is also an editorial board member of The Journal of Abduction-
Encounter Research. Here at JAR, she is our very own Barbara Lamb!
Barbara has lectured widely in the US and Europe and appeared on many media
programs concerning close encounters and crop circles, Barbara’s other area of
expertise. She is co-author of Crop Circles Revealed, 2001, available on Amazon.
In Alien Experiences, Barbara acknowledges an “eternal” debt to John Mack, the late
Harvard professor and UFO abduction researcher. Dr. Mack, Barbara writes,
“encouraged me in my work and validated my findings of spiritual transformation”
among abductees. He “substantiated and enlarged my perspective of a multi-
dimensional, paranormal cosmos, and of other-dimensional beings. We were
collaborating on bringing forth the reality of reptilian interactions with humans when he
suddenly met his death” a few years ago.
Nadine Lalich
Nadine Lalich is a Renaissance woman and a voice in her own right. Entrepreneur,
administrator, writer, natural health advocate, student of mental development, artist,
designer, it is Lalich’s vivid and mysterious painting which adorns the cover of Alien
Experiences. Inside the book are found several more of Nadine’s drawings in B&W.
They illustrate her close encounter story told under the name “Marie”—and Marie’s
story, based on journal entries since 1991 and transcripts of regressions with Barbara
Lamb, is well worth the read.
Nadine is a keen observer of the aliens. She has an eye for detail, she made
tremendous efforts to remember her experiences, and she is not impressed with what
she sees. “They try to make you believe it’s the right thing and they [the abductions]
are ok. There’s nothing ok about it.” Nadine doesn’t like the way the aliens look, she
doesn’t like they way they smell, and she doesn’t like having her body meddled with. “It’
s a real bad situation to do that to me,” she says.
Like most abductees, Nadine has been told things the aliens plan to do. In one
startling example, she recounts the aliens informed her they plan to deposit enormous
burrowing machines near large cities, machines which will dig themselves into the
earth. The machines, Nadine was told, will emit fields of energy to pacify the people
living in the large cities.
After 19 years of being closeted with her abduction experiences, Nadine writes of her
relief at finally getting the story out in the open. “I was fed up with the isolation, so I
took charge by speaking out.” Now, she tells us, she is no longer tormented. This is an
important lesson for all abductees.
One bone to pick
Along with Nadine’s story, Alien Experiences presents 24 other cases from Barbara’s
files. The cases are in short form, but highly interesting. I have a bone to pick with how
one of these cases is presented.
Under hypnosis, Ken unwinds a long story about getting in his van one day, picking up
other California abductees, driving to Ohio to a large field where hundreds of cars are
parked. All the people are loaded on to a disc also parked in the field and transported
for an extended period to an off-planet location.
On reading this, I called Barbara excitedly. “Did this really happen?” I asked, since the
book makes it sound as though it did. No, it did not really happen.
Hypnosis, we recall, is supposed to help abductees remember real events. Instead it
appears the aliens placed an elaborate, full-length movie in this abductee’s mind which
he then spun out to resemble a memory. This is the first time I have heard of this exact
manifestation. Instead of allowing a mis-impression to accumulate in the reader’s mind,
Barbara should have carefully characterized Ken’s account and commented on it.
That is the only bone I have to pick in this otherwise excellent book. Alien Experiences
is highly recommended.
—Elaine Douglass
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