How the Science of Memory Recall Is on My Side
Excerpt from the Preface of The Rising: And the Alien Plan to Build an Enlightened City on Earth…
Discovering I Had Alien Contact
The day I discovered I had a lifetime of alien contact was July 1st, 2019, at the age of 41. When I first was gaining my memories of these events, I just couldn’t understand how I didn’t have any knowledge that it was occurring at the time - and why did it take twenty years to find out? I take comfort in a quote from abduction researcher Dr. David Jacobs’ book The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda (1998):
“Most people who have a lifetime of abduction experiences remain unaware of what has happened to them. They would deny as lunacy any suggestion that they were involved with the abduction phenomenon, even if they had been abducted just hours before.”
Apparently, it is common for a person that has had alien contact for it to begin in childhood and continue throughout their entire life, and then to not know about it until much later, such as myself. The Beings are well-known for having strong supernatural abilities to obscure memories, be discreet, unobtrusive, and cover up their tracks with extreme efficiency. From my experience they are in control of the entire interaction. Whatever evidence does exist for the contactee will be small and I’m certain that is done on purpose, I presume to allow the individual to put together that they are having alien contact, but it is often subjective evidence and once removed from a degree of separation from the contactee, allows the skeptic to find plausible excuses.
It is very easy to see why the Beings are not leaving proof, as it would speed up disclosure, and therefore not be in the hands of proper leadership who could help create a peaceful process for the public. The world needs strong confident leadership to address the reality that alien contact has already been occurring, and it's likely the Beings know the world isn’t ready for such a thing.
So, a conflict becomes created for those who have had contact but can’t provide proof, not just to the public but also to loved ones, family, and friends - lives can be ripped apart.
Retrieving Obscured Memories
As you may never have experienced awakening to memories of alien contact, I could understand if you were asking yourself, how did he know these were memories and not figments of his imagination? All I can do is be transparent about how I proved to myself that contact with aliens occurred to me and did so exactly as I had remembered it.
The story that unfolds is pieced together from flashbacks of teenage and young adult moments of being on alien crafts, with the morphing and changing emotional landscape of those early years still preserved in the individual memories - indicating another life behind my own. In some cases, the entire contact event was remembered through a flashback, but in most I required other methods to retrieve the details associated with the memory, including hypnotic regression.
Recollection of obscured memories of alien contact is obviously controversial, especially when retrieved years later, as most assume it’s easy to create false memories, but it should be noted that the science of accurate memory recall is on my side.
In a November 2020 publication in the journal of Psychological Science, a research study titled, The Truth is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events, looking at the prevailing view that memory is prone to error, had 74 participants visit an art gallery and tested their level of detailed recall months later. Researchers found, on average, participants remembered over fifty details with 93% accuracy, much higher than the 40% accuracy a panel of 68 psychological experts on memory, who were part of the research team, predicted of their participants.
The point is, high memory recall is very possible, especially when the conditions are right in their formation, and it turns out that was the case for me.
Memories are made when a stimulus outside of us is perceived and combined with our thoughts and emotions, which form neural connections in the brain. When a memory is retrieved, the brain revisits those neural pathways, and if it is repeatedly recalled, then those connections are strengthened. Journaling is considered one of the best ways to strengthen our memory and this is because, besides creating repetitive recall, the act of writing helps us organize the memories with additional brain processing, helping to further solidify them.
As a young adult I journaled the years I was having contact events, specifically in 1997, unbeknownst to me, recording their impact in my normal life. Then in the year 2001 I wrote a private autobiography, as I felt the events of my life up to that point had been very strange and that it was important to document them, again not realizing I was recording the impacts of alien contact. Also, as a musician I still have audio recordings of this period. When it came time to piece together alien contact, I had plenty of documentation which would assist me in remembering who I was, and the way I thought, all of which would be helpful in conducting hypnotic regressions.
Hypnosis is used to restore hidden memories in the subconscious mind based on the idea that it records everything it experiences. When I started, I was amazed at how it brought to mind details I had long forgotten, such as: the clothes I wore, the habits I had, mannerisms, my frame of mind, the weather, and the sensations of the moment. You probably don’t remember the type of shoes you wore when you were sixteen, or the poster on your wall when you were seventeen, but you would in hypnotic regression. Bringing up details that seemed irrelevant as a youth and long forgotten was the first evidence of hypnotic regression's effectiveness as a tool for memory recall.
Typically, skeptics of hypnotic regression argue that hypnosis is a highly suggestible state, therefore the hypnotist, who wants to believe their client has had alien contact, leads the regressed individual into an imagined scenario.
But a trained hypnotherapist, such as the one I used, does not lead the regression, but facilitates, giving space for their client to explore their memory. Any individual who leads a regression is not a clinically trained or certified hypnotherapist, as this is not part of the practice.
Also, many of those who studied the phenomenon in its early years, such as Harvard University psychiatrist John Mack, who conducted hypnotic regression on alien abductees, concluded these were real experiences because imagination cannot create the intense, deep-seated, emotional conflict that manifests from alien contact. Likewise, imagination cannot create the emotional healing that results from having the obscured memories exposed, just as it did for me, and this is because the brain knows these are real memories and not figments of its imagination.
Critics argue that the recipient of hypnosis simply isn’t aware that they can be believing in false memories, and it’s just not their fault as they are made spontaneously in the mind, called confabulation. They also argue there are plenty of experiments in which false memories have been induced into subjects.
But in these experiments, they are induced in single instances; the subjects are never those who have had a lifetime of alien contact, creating a narrative that intertwines with their world in a complex emotional manner. The abduction phenomenon is not a single event in a person's life but can represent a lifetime of contact, which is why John Mack spoke highly of its use:
"The validity of information obtained under hypnosis has been a source of controversy in both the psychiatric and the UFO communities. Nevertheless, it is my impression that data obtained through hypnosis in abduction cases is often more reliable because it comes without the conscious mind's distorting efforts to provide reasonable, coherent narratives."
Dr. John E. Mack, Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Response to Nova, February 22, 1996
The key to Dr. Mack’s quote is the creation of a narrative. I came to each hypnotic regression with flashbacks, pieces of witnessed events on crafts, only to watch them be slotted into a seamless narrative, with a start and a finish. When the entire story was complete, the long-term narrative stunned me, at times being so complex that the Elder could be referring to something she said sixteen contact events ago, such as in the 24th contact event when she referenced the 8th. My mind has absolutely no way of creating the complex narrative that is my story, especially in a subconscious regressive state.
The Case for Hypnotic Regression
During the hypnotic regressions a fascinating and significant series of events began to occur, again, confirming for myself how effective it can be for memory recall. In wanting to understand the origin of the flashbacks, not knowing when or where they originated, I was surprised to learn they largely occurred outdoors in nature, in parks, while on hikes, or on my way home from hanging out with friends. I began seeing places my conscious mind had long forgotten, including small details I simply didn’t remember all these years later. With the help of Google Earth, and in some cases being able to drive to these places, I was stunned to realize what I saw in my hypnotic regression was accurate, proving to me that indeed I had alien contact in these locations.
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University recently discovered exactly how the brain encodes spatial information into "geotags" that are linked to specific memories. In their study titled Neural Activity in Human Hippocampal Formation Reveals the Spatial Context of Retrieved Memories published in the November 2013 issue of the journal Science, they demonstrated how the hippocampus in the brain, which is responsible for our ability to remember a specific event in time and space, creates a flood of memories when we remember specific places.
Michael Kahana, professor of psychology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences, and lead author of the study says, "These findings provide the first direct neural evidence for the idea that the human memory system tags memories with information about where and when they were formed and that the act of recall involves the reinstatement of these tags."
Their research unequivocally demonstrated what occurred to me; episodic flashbacks of alien contact revealed their geotags in hypnotic regression as stored in my own hippocampus, thus confirming these as memories.
Hypnotic regression also proved effective in memory retrieval by conducting repeat regressions on the same contact event, known as retracing, allowing me to test myself if specific details would repeat themselves, including those that my mind had forgotten between sessions, which they did, showing me I was definitely looking at real memories with details that were accurately preserved. Retracing provides the subconscious the ability to focus on other content that was confusing or obscured during the initial retrieval. Typically, the flood of information from this retrace creates a fuller three-dimensional perspective of the subconscious memory and is considered to be correct.
The Aliens Facilitating Memory Recall
Knowing the aliens themselves wanted my experiences to be remembered and turned into a book, they appeared to have conducted the contact events in a way that would later support memory recall.
Visual memories are easier to recall from the brain, therefore having the majority of my contact events in nature with distinct visual environments aided me, and this was assisted when sensations of the environment were remembered, such as the weather, or if it was dark or light out.
Memory is context-dependent, meaning understanding the context within which memories are created helps with memory recall. Without overwhelming you with too much detail that you will eventually read about, the Beings themselves would be the ones to facilitate the process of me gaining awareness of my contact events with them, and those memories will start from the beginning, the first contact event, which provides context for all the memories with them.
Repetition of the content desired to be remembered is important for memory recall. For all the strange and highly unique things I experienced with them, they were often conducted or witnessed twice.
Critics of memory recall also point to memory degradation as plausible, but the method the Beings used to segment my mind from my everyday life meant those neurons containing the awareness of my alien contact remained undisturbed. When it was time to open and process the memories it felt like pockets of my brain, that is untouched neurons, were now exposed and could finally be accessed.
The Advantage of Good Memory Recall
Lastly, after explaining to you the science of memory recall, the advantages I had, and even how the Beings helped, it has long been known in the science of the mind that individuals can partake in specific activities to facilitate a healthy memory. I had seemingly separate skill sets developed over my life that would all come together to assist me during this period of memory retrieval.
During my teenage years I was interested in Carl Jung’s concepts of dream analysis and began remembering and analyzing my dreams, which exercised listening to the impulses and sensations of the subconscious. Remembering dreams has been linked to improved memory.
In my twenties I began practicing Vedic meditation twice a day, which I have been doing for twenty years. This gave me the skill set of controlling the mind, holding it back from interpreting the images and sensations of the subconscious, which helped in preventing confabulation in memory retrieval. Aside from this, in meditation research on the brain, it has been shown to improve and maintain memory function, with experiments showing increased ability to maintain focus which enhances memory recall.
Science is discovering memory is not strictly relegated to the mind, as we also have somatic memory. As per Thomas Verny’s book, Embodied Mind (2021) the body encodes its own memory into its structure and function, which is interconnected to our experience of memory in our mind. Having a regular mindfulness practice of focusing on the sensations in my body was helpful in retrieving the somatic memories that were a part of my experience.
Corroboration
When you’re a contactee you don’t have easy access to other people’s contact events, so for a while I was unaware of the similarities and differences between mine and others. Plus, when I was discovering my memories, I was simply too overwhelmed with what had happened to me to read about other people’s experiences. Once it was completed, I began speaking publicly and doing presentations at UFO groups. Eventually, I would learn elements of my story are in so many others. That first day I spoke publicly, July 5th, 2020, the organizer herself, a contactee, told me she witnessed the same light grid that I saw in a room onboard a craft that I call ‘the white room.’
Initially, I have recorded twenty-three corroborations with other contactees, some things too specific and detailed to have made up, such as lifetime experiencer Suzy Hansen’s ‘white room,’ a recreational consciousness room that matched my white room, and appears to be the same room Linda Porter, from Linda Moulton Howe’s investigations, called the ‘soul transfer room.’
Other examples were procedures they used on me that I had no knowledge were common in other people’s contact events, such as medical procedures.
I once heard a lifelong contactee in an interview say, as far she was concerned, Grey aliens don’t have names but instead use telepathic signatures or frequencies, which matched my own experiences in which the Beings used telepathic impressions that constitute their individual identity.
But since going public with the first edition of the book the list of corroborations has grown considerably, with so many now that they could make up their own book.
So, as we move forward it’s important to remind you that the story you are about to read is not just recalled through hypnotic regression, but from several different methods which were all proven effective to me, including flashbacks, somatic memory, and the revisiting of the many locations in which the contact occurred.