Flying Saucer Review October 1983 [antikvár]

reason why one should harbour such a hope!For, if Dr. Lawson is wrong, then it could well be (though God forbid it!) that the well-known modern American artist Budd Hopkins is right when he claims that, on the contrary, he, with the help of a number of New York doctors and psychiatrists, has investigated in depth a total of nineteen American UFO abduction cases (involving a total of thirty-seven victims) and has found out that the abduction experiences are genuine, and discovered what the UFO critters are up to.Budd Hopkins' remarkable book, Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions (Richard Marek Publishers Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, 1981) has already been reviewed for us by Janet and Colin Bord in their FSR Bookshelf 13 (Vol. 27, No. 5). And, as the Bords observe, anyone who believes that he is going to learn anything about the cause of the UFO Phenomenon or its possible motivation from the evidence given under hypnosis by the abductees "is likely to be disappointed, since all abduction cases generate more questions than answers."For our part, however, as we say, we fervently hope that Dr. Alvin Lawson and the Bords are right and that Budd Hopkins is wiong. For, if it does turn outthat Hopkins is right, then it looks as though poor old Homo Sap (self-christened) could possibly be in for heap big trouble.Budd Hopkins explains that, in addition to the nineteen abduction cases examined in detail in his book, he has also studied closely the Bloecher-Webb HUMCAT Lists and the 105 abduction cases discovered by Dr. James Harder, plus all those gathered for APRO by Dr. Leo Sprinkel, and that he has come up with a grand total of at least five hundred individuals in the USA who were known to have been abducted by UFO entities up to the date when he wrote his book.We plan to publish very shortly, in full, an extraordinarily interesting and extraordinarily long and detailed new abduction case from Spain which has been supplied to us by Antonio Ribera. We hope that this splendid Spanish case, with its superb Freudian undertones, will put paid to the argument, will set everyone's mind fully at rest, and will prove to everyone's total satisfaction that the brilliant thesis of Dr. Alvin Lawson is well-founded. We shall then be able to terminate the whole of this argument about pre-natal and peri-natal birth traumata, and, hopefully, be ready to move on to something more important.A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THE "UFO ENTITIESGordon Creighton ONE of the more curious features of the followers of the various current religions is that, being so dogmatically certain that in their own particular little faith they already possess the whole of Truth about all things in Heaven and Earth, it almost never occurs to any of them to look elsewhere and find out what the followers of the other religions may know or may have discovered.This is certainly a pity, for study of all the great world-religions and notably of Islam would yield valuable clues as to the true nature of the so-called "UFO Phenomenon" and would rapidly eliminate much of the fatuous "Space-Age Mythology" that has been spawned in such profusion over the last three decades.Islam knows in fact of the existence of three entirely separate and distinct species of intelligent beings in the Universe, and indeed can furnish surprisingly precise details regarding their nature and roles and activities.Angels, Men, and JinnsThe first category is of course that of the Angels orJJMessengers (Greek: Angelas; Hehrew: Malach; Arabic: Malak). These are high beings created of lightThe third category are Men, with bodies created, according to the Qur'an, of clay, or, in other words, this being poetic language, they have physical bodies assembled from the mineral and chemical elements of our Periodic Table the "planetary body", as Gurdjieff used to call it.The second category, however, and the one with which we are here concerned, is the category of those beings (created before man was) who are referred to collectively in Arabic as Al-JinnK Although there is some dispute about it among Arab grammarians, most of their lexicologists seem to hold that the word derives as Arabic words almost invariably do from a verb-root, namely janna, "to hide or to conceal" indeed a very fitting derivation for the name of these creatures.Whereas the bodies of Angels are of light and the bodies of men are of the gross elements of the Earth, the bodies o{ Al-Jinn consist of what is variously translated as "essentialfire"'^ or "essentialflame", or "smokeless fire",^ or "smokeless flame", and it is specifically stated in the Qur'an (Surah XV, 26 and 27) that they