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Recieved: 2001/02/25 17:25
Subject: Re: [K-list] Entity? sleep paralysis
From: Druout
On 2001/02/25 17:25, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
In a message dated 2/25/2001 9:12:30 AM Pacific Standard Time,
a_chapATnospambigfoot.com writes:
> his morning I awoke from a dream with a sudden start. i felt this
> entity grasping at my neck with a flapping sound , and 'it' jumped in
> my body ,causing my body to jerk noticeably in the bed .
> In the dream Iwas walking down a local road and passed a woman coming
> out of a car . She was very attractive and as I was walking past her
> I mentally drew her towards me ...That was when I woke up .
> Any similar experiences out there ? Is this a 'possession'?
Dear A Chap,
There seems to be a connection between what science calls "Sleep Paralysis"
and Kundalini "entity" phenomena. You might find the poll below somewhat
related to this.
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poll.txt
In the Science Times section of the NYTimes July 6, 1999 there was a
fascinating
article on "sleep paralysis." The "catalepsy" some of us experience seems to
be a variation of this--but a blissful version. I apologize if I sent this
before. I couldn't find it in the archives, though.
*********
"I feel an intense pressure in my head, as if it's going to explode," said
Mr. Terrillon, a Canadian physicist doing research in Japan. Sometimes he
finds himself transported upward and looking down on his body, or else sent
hurtling through a long tunnel, and these episodes are terrifying even for a
scientist like him who does not believe that evil spirits go around haunting
people.
"Called sleep paralysis, this disorder--the result of a disconnect between
brain and body as a person is on the fringe of sleep--is turning out to be
increasingly common, affecting nearly half of all people at least once.
Moreover, a growing number of scholars believe that sleep paralysis may help
explain many ancient reports of attacks by witches and modern claims of
abduction by space aliens.
"I think it can explain claims of witchcraft and alien abduction," said
Kazuhiko Fukuda, a psychologist at Fukushima University in Japan and a
leading expert on sleep paralysis. Research in Japan has had a headstart
because sleep paralysis is well-known to most Japanese, who call it
kanashibari, while it is little-known and less studied in the West.
...
"In Newfoundland, it is called "old hag" because it is associated with
visions of an old witch sitting on the chest of a paralyzed sleeper,
sometimes throttling the neck with her hands.
"Sleep paralysis seems to have been described since ancient times, and an
episode appears in "Moby Dick"...Chinese called it "gui ya," or ghost
pressure, and believed that a ghost sat on and assaulted sleepers. ...In the
West Indies, sleep paralysis was called "kokma"...
"People will draw on the most plausible account in their repertoire to
explain their experience," said Al Cheyne, an associate professor of
psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada....
"A sensed presence, vague gibberish spoken in one's ear, shadowy creatures
moving about the room, a strange immobility, a crushing pressure and painful
sensations in various parts of the body--these are compatible not just with
an assault by a primitive demon but also with probing by alien
experimenters," Dr. Cheyne said. "And the sensations of floating and flying
account for the reports of levitation and transport to alien vessels....
"Even after many years of study, particularly in the last decade, it remains
mysterious. Experts have trouble even saying definitively whether a person
is asleep or awake during sleep paralysis.
"In the classic definition, you are awake," sand Emmanuel Mignot, director of
the Center for Narcolepsy at Stanford University Medical School. "But in
practice, there's a gradient between being awake and being in REM sleep,: he
said, adding that sleep paralysis lies in a murky place on that slope.
"During REM sleep--the period when rapid eye movement takes place--the body
essentially turns itself off and disconnects from the brain. This is a
safety measure, so that people do not physically act out their dreams, and it
means that people are effectively paralyzed during part of their sleep....
"Just what is going on in the brain during sleep paralysis is unclear. The
person experiencing the paralysis certainly feels completely awake and "sees"
the room clearly, but laboratory experiments in Japan show that sometimes
people experiencing sleep paralysis do not even open their eyes....
"Men and women seem to suffer it at equal rates, and although it is most
common in the teen-age years, it is reported at all ages...
"Aside from witchcraft and alien abduction, sleep paralysis is also sometimes
mentioned as a possible link to shamanism and to dream interpretation and
even to near-death experiences. But for many sufferers, the growing research
in the field is reassuring simply because it demonstrates that they are not
alone in their terrifying night-time paralysis and hallucinations. ..."
*********
Hillary again: There is a sexual component in all this that the article
fails to
talk about but is obviously common with "alien abduction" stories. In my
experience, "breathing" is a factor--and obviously fear and love and beauty
take the breath away, and this may account for the feeling of being throttled.
Perhaps there is another state that is a "sexual energy" state of some kind
that causes catelepsy, and this in turn, along with powerful sexual energy,
causes these experiences.
From my experience, the energy is so incredibly powerful that the only way
to
"translate" it is with metaphor. And Rape or being made love to by Gods is
the closest parallel we have. The catelpsy may also translate as
powerlessness.
This is my take only, and is in no way an attempt on my part to say these
things don't actually exist. :))
Love, Hillary
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