The 2003 Alternate Realities Conference

Jeffrey Foss Morgan doesn't know
it but, like alot of these "abduc-
tees with elaborate stories, he suffers from seizures in his Tem-
poral Lobes.

Author Whitley Strieber has been
officially diagnosed with this
particular seizure disorder, he
admits he has it, but he doesn't
see any connection between it and
his his abduction experiences.

Jeffrey reports himself to be
very interested in details, and
collected an amazing amount of
detail about the measurements of
the rooms in the crafts he was taken aboard. The writer of the
story comments on how irrelevant
these measurements are to anything.

In fact, though, they constitute
a big, bold-faced arrow pointing
at temporal lobe seizures. A large
percentage of people with these
seizures develope alterations in
their personalities. A common one
is that they become meticulous,
and detail-oriented. They are
likely to step from detail to detail, losing sight of any overall course, and come off in general as meandering thinkers.

If we were to see Jeffrey or
Whitley during a seizure there
would be no convulsions or muscular involvement at all. They
would simply appear to be "spaced
out" - staring at nothing with di-
ated pupils, non-responsive, or
incompletely and peculiarly re-
sponsive like a sleepwalker.

-zoob

 

Ivan,

I'm not a skeptic. I started out
believing all abduction stories.
Then I realized some could be
better acounted for by seizures.
Then I found out more about seizures and realized most could
be better acounted for by seizures. Persinger really sews
up all the loose ends. I was never
out looking for a way to explain
abductions away.

Being abducted could make a person
nutty but most abductees don't
come off as nutty: they don't seem
emotionally off or out of touch
with reality in general the way
a mentally ill person does. The
main problem is the content of
what they're saying.

Whitley Strieber speaks very
articulately in an even tone even
when mentioning in passing how he
once noticed a creature with bat-
like wings standing on the roof of
his house.

And, you cannot guarrantee all
abductees are not having seizures
for the same reason I cannot guarratee they all are.

-zoob

 

Ivan,
You write:
"There are just not that many people running around with undiagnosed episodes of hallucinations."

Unfortunatly there are more people
running around undiagnosed than
you would ever imagine. The main
reason is that people resist tooth
and nail the stigma of being labeled as "crazy". Most voluntarily seek out a doctor only
as an absolute last, last, last
resort. The ones who are both
hallucinated and delusional and
obviousy so, still go undiagnosed
because a person cannot be taken
to a psyche ward against their
will unless it can be shown they
are a danger to themselves or
others.

Seizures are more insidious than
mental illness in this regard be-
cause they are brief and isolated
events from which the person re-
covers quickly with no necessary
impairment of their overall sani-
ty.

A list of Simple Partial seizure
symptoms was made and presented
as a poll to the general popula-
tion once (Have you ever had any
of the following experiences?)
And an astonishing fifty percent
of the general population ticked
off at least one.

These people are not epileptics
and the poll isn't implying that.
Epilepsy refers to chronic seizures. It is generally reserved
or people whose seizures are the
symptom of an underlying patho-
logy.

Anyone can have a Simple Partial
seizure simply because of a com-
bination of, for instance, bad
diet, lack of sleep, and unusual
stress. It happens once in their
life and then never again.

The thing to realize is that it
flows in a smooth continuum from
those people up to people who have
been in Simple Partial Status
Epilepticus for years, with everthing in between.

Here's a paper that gives a broad,
I repeat, broad, overview of the
partial epilepsies.

eMedicine - Partial Epilepsies : Article by Selim R Benbadis, MD
Address:http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic623.htm

My sence is that you are not fam-
iliar with Persinger?

-Zooby