naturalplastic wrote:
It may not even be that the Hills were influence by an obscure Swedish novel. But both the Hills and the Swedish author may have been subject similar brain tricks, and both tapped into that common primordial brain fart to spin similar tales independently of each other. Its some same age old hallucination that humans have been getting for centuries. Its not either real incubues, real old hags, or real space aliens.
The problem here is the phenomenon is not understood by psychologists and it seems to be people who are not qualified in the area (physicists and the like) from the American skeptics association are the only ones who claim to be experts on this topic (?) yet do nothing more than lampoon experiencers.
The late Professor John Mack (former head of Psychiatry in Harvard) was convinced the evidence pointed to some type of intergalactic or inter dimensional beings. The only known skeptic in the psychiatric field is Professor William Cone (also from Harvard) who has published in the field. Cone was also an abduction experiencer but caved in to pressure from Harvard when his tenure was threatened and published a rebuttal to Mack's thesis. But even he (Cone) did not entirely close the door to some type of inter-dimensional interaction outside of our sensory perception.