After the Saucers Landed by Douglas Lain

Author:Douglas Lain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: after the saucers landed
ISBN: 9781597808231
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

10

UFOs and skepticism

The hypnotic session lasts for three hours and includes a lot of repetition, going over the basic facts again and again until we finally come up with something new that’s even more absurd.

First off, to reiterate, Patricia had switched bodies. The woman who had been an artist’s model became convinced that she was Patricia and the opposite happened as well. But then, after this switch what Asket, or maybe Patricia, figured out while at the Portland Art Museum, what the work of Barbara Kruger inspired her to remember, was that her real name, Patricia’s real name, was Carole. Patricia was really Carole Flint.

Apparently before that art class, before the aliens even landed, Patricia had seen a UFO, and then, while trying to remember that encounter with the help from a prominent Ufologist, she’d switched bodies with his wife…with Harold’s wife. And, what’s worse is that this story involving Harold is something I remember. I’ve heard part of it before. That is, we did work with a contactee named Patricia. She’d auditioned for Harold and me back in 1986 and we ultimately decided not to work with her, not to include her in the book.

Harold nicknamed Patricia the Rainbow Woman because she’d come to Harold with this story about seeing a UFO at a Rainbow Gathering. We were especially allergic to what she had to offer us at the time as the book we were working on was entitled UFOs and Skepticism, but before we rejected her Harold spent several weeks working on her case. He’d examined her drawings, staged a Happening and, if I’m remembering correctly, gotten into a bit of trouble with this girl. Something about a visit to a hotel room.

“I went to his lecture at the Blue Stockings bookstore. He spoke about how Ufologists needed to stop seeking explanations and accept the experience as something that is opposed to all explanations. He thought he was being smart, but I knew. I knew he was lying,” Asket says.

What happened was that Patricia participated in group sessions for several weeks, all the while repeating her story about the Nordic types who visited her during the Rainbow Gathering.

Back then, before the landing, Patricia was in her late twenties and floating around Haight-Ashbury as if she believed she would never reach thirty. She would work as a temp sometimes, usually as a secretary or in data entry, and on the weekends she helped out with a ’zine called Processed World. That was how she first heard about Harold. The people around that little ’zine were all big fans of Fluxus and mail art.

“Johnny invited me to the Rainbow Gathering. I was about to turn twenty-five, I had enough money for the trip, and we wanted to see a UFO,” Asket says. “You were there,” she says. She opens her eyes at this point, sits up and looks at Charles Rain.

“Relax,” Rain tells her. “You’re still relaxed,” he says.

Asket closes her eyes again and lies back down on the couch.

“What?” I ask.

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