Alien Abduction Experience, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Cognitive Motivational Hypothesis of Alien Abduction
Newman: People who claim alien abduction experiences are looking for a narrative that will provide us an escape from ourselves. He says it represents a masochistic wish to experience pain, powerlessness and humiliation on a grand cosmic level. Newman: I immediately thought that this is like cosmic horror as some kind of existentialism. And there's this idea that these might have been some of the key individuals who were pining for this release.
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