The Singularity of Alien Abductions and Near Death Experiences

The Anthropology of Anomalies

If the basis of human consciousness is the enfolding of images onto imagination that is organised by thought and language, are there similarities in what we classify as two entirely different events?

One could say that the basis of our knowledge is incomplete and so the matrix of mythologies may constitute a living organism whose orientation resembles our own and yet evolves over time, borrowing from our cultural environment, for which the paranormal reflects by the borrowing it's adaptations as a inverse mirror of our state of self awareness.

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth


A Societal Confluence

The Near Death Experience is directed inwardly and the resulting examination as a constant is based one's choices in relation to thought as a reactive behaviorism.
The Alien Abduction is positioned outwardly, and the consistent examination of the experiencer’s body, rather than the former. One could characterize both as ritual initiations where the individual is isolated from the larger community of consensus and shown other forms of sentience manifested as humanoid who perform a set pattern repeated again and again.

Both involve radiant energy or light as formulated and expressed by a tunnel whose main function is to draw the individual from one orientation to the other. One is the physical body being lifted in defiance of gravity and the other is the same effect focused on the separation of the mind from the body. One is the aspect of our existence by immersion into a technologically driven society where individual choice is a lesser commodity as in the Alien Abduction ritual and the Near Death Experience is focused on the individual as master of their fate. Both statements could be said to be true only in the presence of the other, otherwise, our portrait of our own orientation would be incomplete.
One easily looks at oneself as the embodiment of both the tangible body as well as the intangible thought of the mind and yet these two aspects of ourselves represent a symbiosis or, another way to represent the two aspects of ourselves as organisms is to say we bridge two worlds.
One is the exterior environment and the other is the interior environment or ecology in nature. 
Yet both are dependent on one another in our specific orientation. One does not exist in our terms without the other.

One version of this tunnel of light leads to a spacecraft peopled by exploiting humanoid extraterrestrials ( "others") and the other leads to a “heaven” where this version is peopled by guiding and emphatic humanoid Angels.  
The alien abduction scenario has all the chief characteristics of physicality and the other is characterized by it’s non material nature, and yet both represent a transpersonal experience that relates to images embedded in the mind by way of stored memories provided by social scripting that are patterns of various stereotypes arising by the sharing and transference of set images that lead to conceptual modelling. One could say the dualism perceived in the individual being represented by the intangible versus the physical is mirrored by the same in the individual versus the society he or she is
within, and the confluence results in hybridised experiential anomalies that reflect this divide while being two sides of the same coin.

One could fall back onto the duality represented by the innovation of a religious theology invented by Zoroaster and also promulgated as an extension by the Egyptians. In this case of dualism you have a metaphysical basis of dualism expressed by a brotherhood of light versus a brotherhood of darkness. In the case of Zoroaster, the realms occupied by meta-realities and that of sensate reality are bridged literally by the image of the Chinvat Bridge that serves as a means of conveyance from one realm to the other, which has been replaced by the metaphor of light energy being channeled within the linearity of a tunnel, solar light being the source of living organism whether they be as intangible as thought or as physical as the body. In both cases of Alien Abduction and Near Death Experience the simulation of light unites them.

Living Metaphors

One could say in theological terms ( borrowing from Christian texts) one is a greater resurrection and the other, the lesser resurrection. One is characterized by the return of the physical body to earth as in Alien Abductions and the living from the dead and the other is separation from the living to the realm of the dead in Near Death Experiences

Both have been characterized as the myths of the eternal return. or the passage from one state to another that transverses both directions.

The alien abduction scenario is characterized by a societal emphasis where one is admonished to “do as I say” whereas the other is characterized by individual choice.

One is a closed room and the other is a open universe.

One could say this was a meta-reality that denotes a relationship between the two positions of the individual thus uniting them and yet most paranormal studies separate them into isolated categorical events while completely ignoring their context in everyday life which is why in the past I have said that the paranormal is dependent on what we have identified as normal without looking below the surfaces of their appearance.

However, before a veneer of charismatic mysticism descends on this portrait we must consider neurology as being a carrier of such experiences, either as a root cause or a carrier and in either circumstance, the relationship in the mind of processing information from the environment as simulations is inverted where the inside becomes the outside or appears to be so and as a result we fall into labeling all such experiences in a false ontology that, in turn denotes this as a example of physicality whereas much like a dream , it is both non existent in physical terms and yet is experienced.

If any of this is true to any extent, then the question is not one of analyzing the effect as isolated from the triggering mechanisms but rather what environmental and internal factors as precursors create the conditions where such extraordinary waking dreams occur.