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Above-left and center: A coastal area that, under hypnosis, I remembered
"aliens" and alien-human "hybrids" taking me to. (Potentially
identifying
features have been digitally removed.)
Above-right: A nearby wooded area that, under hypnosis, I remembered
alien-human "hybrids" showing me from a distance.
It is probable that many of my hypnotically retrieved memories were
confabulated following leading and suggestion by Dr. Jacobs.
For a number of years I was a research subject of "alien abduction" researcher, Dr. David Jacobs, of Temple University.
In December 2004, Dr. Jacobs offered to conduct hypnosis with me over the telephone to investigate my anomalous experiences. We live in different countries so we were unable to do the hypnosis face to face.
At that time, I had been in communication with Dr. Jacobs by email and telephone since mid 2002. I had made contact with him through my former therapist, Justin Armstrong (pseudonym), who had sent him an email about my anomalous experiences.
Dr. Jacobs said that he would prefer to obtain Mr. Armstrong's agreement before proceeding with the hypnosis. Mr. Armstrong had by then retired as a therapist (at the end of 2002), but he had been continuing to assist me with my research on my anomalous experiences. Both Mr. Armstrong and I were aware of the potential ethical issues involved with him helping me because of our previous therapist/client relationship. Therefore, we had arranged that we would not continue to relate to each other in our previous therapist/client roles; he would not provide me with any therapeutic support, and I would not talk to him about any personal issues that I had. Because of this, Mr. Armstrong said that he could not give Dr. Jacobs formal approval as a therapist to proceed with the hypnosis, and that he also could not give me formal advice as a therapist on whether to proceed with it or not.
Dr. Jacobs suggested that I have someone with me during the hypnosis to provide support should I need it. Mr. Armstrong said that he did not want to be present, in case it led to him providing me with therapeutic support. Instead, I asked a close friend of mine if he would be with me. He agreed to be present and to offer any support that I might need.
As I had arranged for support during the hypnosis, Mr. Armstrong said that he did not have any personal objection to Dr. Jacobs proceeding with it. However, he made it clear that he would not formally monitor the effects of the hypnosis on me as he was no longer my therapist and he considered that it would not be ethical for him to do so.
Dr. Jacobs asked me to read information that he had sent to Mr. Armstrong, about suggested techniques for the hypnosis and therapy of "alien abductees" and about the pros and cons of investigating unusual personal experiences, before going ahead with the hypnosis. In addition he asked me to read an article on hypnosis and to fill out a questionnaire that were on his website (see the current versions at Hypnosis and Questionnaire.) Although I had previously filled out the questionnaire in 2002, and had provided him with subsequent additional information about my anomalous experiences, he said that he was interested in some of the questions that I might not have covered in the information that I had already provided to him.
Prior to the commencement of the hypnosis sessions, Dr. Jacobs and I signed a Temple University research consent form and a research agreement. The Temple University research consent form states that I was participating in "scholarly historical research on the subject of UFOs and abductions", and that every effort would be made to keep my identity confidential.
After I had arranged for my friend to be present during my first hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs said that he had to reschedule the date. My friend was unable to come on the new date, although he said that he would be available at a later time to provide me with support if necessary. I told Dr. Jacobs that I was comfortable proceeding with the hypnosis while alone, and that I would probably find it easier to talk about personal memories without anyone else there. He said that he thought that as I had already been involved in recording my anomalous experiences and was aware of the "alien abduction" phenomenon, that it would be appropriate to proceed without my friend being present. Dr. Jacobs said that I could call or email him if I felt that I needed support.
Dr. Jacobs and I went ahead with my first hypnosis session, over the telephone and without anyone else present, on December 24, 2004. He conducted all of the subsequent hypnosis sessions with me over the telephone while I was alone.
Between December 2004 and February 2007, Dr. Jacobs conducted ninety-one hypnotic regressions, during thirty-seven hypnosis sessions, with me. The sessions were on average about five hours long. He told me that I am one of three research subjects with whom he has done the most extensive amount of hypnosis.
During each hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs typically conducted one hypnotic regression with me on an anomalous experience from my distant past. These experiences ranged from my early childhood experiences through to my experiences of 2004. He also generally conducted one or two hypnotic regressions with me on my ongoing current experiences, several of which had occurred as recently as the day before the hypnosis session.
Dr. Jacobs and I decided together on which of my experiences to conduct the hypnosis. In regard to my experiences from my distant past, I typically chose several experiences that I was interested in, and he made the final choice from that selection, in consultation with me. I tended to choose experiences where there had been some form of external corroboration, such as a witness to aspects of the event, or a physical trace of some description. In regard to my ongoing current experiences, I provided Dr. Jacobs with sections of my ongoing record of my experiences on a regular basis, and he made the final choice from them, in consultation with me.
Dr. Jacobs told me before going ahead with the hypnotic regressions that it is possible to confabulate false memories under hypnosis. He advised me to be critical of what I remembered because of this.
Most of my memories of my experiences are fragmentary conscious memories. Dr. Jacobs' hypnosis with me covered a small percentage of my experiences, and I had some conscious recall of them before the hypnosis. He told me that this was generally the case with other people with whom he had worked as well.
Later, in mid-late 2009, an analysis of the recordings of all of the hypnotic regressions that Dr. Jacobs conducted with me showed that he engaged in extensive leading and suggestion, which I was not fully aware of at the time. It is probable that many of my hypnotically retrieved memories were confabulated as a result of this.
Dr. Jacobs has studied the literature on hypnosis, and he has written about it in his books. He knows that the use of leading and suggestion during hypnosis causes people to confabulate false memories. As his use of it was so overt, in my opinion he had to have been aware of what he was doing. In my opinion, his actions amounted to the systematic implantation in my mind of false hypnotic memories, including of violent assault and rape, which fit his theories.
Dr. Jacobs aggressively planted in my memory under hypnosis the suggestion that hybrids were going to contact me, have sex with me and dominate me.
For example, in the following audio clip from my eighth hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs told me directly while I was hypnotized to expect to be dominated by a "hybrid", saying that that if I were to remember the "hybrid" having a conversation with me, that he would be the one who was in control and that I would be in a "second class situation".
In the following audio clip from my eleventh hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs told me directly while I was hypnotized that "hybrids" had sexually assaulted another research subject of his and had threatened to kill him.
In addition to leading me while under hypnosis, Dr. Jacobs talked to me in the discussions just before he put me in the hypnotic state about what to expect to remember. For example, in the following audio clip from the discussion at the beginning of my fourteenth hypnosis session, he told me that "hybrids" often sexually assaulted "abductees" and were in a "total power situation" over them.
During my twenty-eighth hypnosis session, Dr. Jacobs suggested to me while I was hypnotized that I wear a chastity belt that he would send me, ostensibly to make it harder for "hybrids" to have sex with me. He said that he had found one in a sadomasochistic sex shop that had nails sticking across where the vaginal opening is. Although he did not send me the chastity belt, he told me that he had bought one for another research subject to wear.
Gary Haden published on his former Speculative Realms blog a two part analysis of the hypnosis sessions that Dr. Jacobs conducted with me, containing audio from my hypnosis sessions.
While Dr. Jacobs was conducting hypnosis with me, he put hypnotic suggestions in my mind that I had Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and that I should take medication for it.
This is an audio clip of Dr. Jacobs putting the hypnotic suggestions in my mind that I had MPD:
Dr. Jacobs did not ask my permission before he put the suggestions in my mind that I had MPD, and I did not know that he was going to do it.
Dr Jacobs is not a medical doctor. He is a historian. Even if he had really believed that I had MPD, which he did not, he would not have been able to diagnose it.
In my opinion, Dr. Jacobs' actions were the self absorbed and unethical actions of a researcher so involved in his fantasy world that he lost total regard for my well-being, and had no concern for the injury and ramifications that those hypnotic suggestions might ultimately have on me.
For further information about Dr. Jacobs' hypnotic suggestions that I had MPD, as well as a transcript, see:
• Dr. David Jacobs' Hypnotic Suggestions of Multiple Personality Disorder
Gary Haden published on his former Speculative Realms blog an analysis of, and additional information about, Dr. Jacobs' hypnotic suggestions that I had MPD.
At times Dr. Jacobs did not bring me out of the hypnotic state at the end of the hypnosis sessions. Instead, he left me to gradually resurface from it myself in the hours afterwards.
Dr. Jacobs began to give me post-hypnotic suggestions that I would not remember the content of some of my hypnosis, which wiped my memory of sections of it. By the time that my hypnosis sessions with him came to an end, I had no awareness that he had given me hypnotic suggestions that I had Multiple Personality Disorder, and I used to wonder why I had an underlying sense that I had it. Neither did I have any awareness that he had suggested to me under hypnosis that I wear a chastity belt. These are things that I would normally never forget. I only realized that Dr. Jacobs had done these things to me much later, when I listened to the recordings of the hypnosis sessions.
This is an audio clip from my thirty-first hypnosis session of Dr. Jacobs giving me post-hypnotic suggestions to forget the content of the hypnosis:
Although I believe that most of my hypnotic memories were confabulated, I was able to confirm that some of the everyday events that I recalled under hypnosis, such as the date that an event occurred, which I had forgotten, were, in fact, accurate. Therefore I know that hypnosis assisted me in recalling at least some accurate memories. In addition, when I first read Dr. Jacobs' book, Secret Life, about the anomalous experiences of "alien abductees", prior to contacting Dr. Jacobs, I was struck by how similar they were to my experiences. These factors appear to mitigate against all of my hypnotically retrieved memories of my anomalous experiences being the result of suggestion, whatever their actual origin.
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