In an effort to simplify the reporting and matriculation of abductions, Richard D. Butler devised this system to categorize the most common types of abduction experiences.
AE-1 "Lucid Dreaming": Lucid Dreaming is the act of dreaming while in a semiconscious state. The subconscious mind guides the dream. In lucid dreaming cases there is no extraterrestrial influence.
AE-2 "Telepathic Lucid Dream": Lucid dream experiences influenced by exterior stimuli. It is theorized that a Telepathic Lucid Dream is achieved via technology that enhances psychic ability, allowing the intrusion of the subject's subconscious. In cases of Telepathic Lucid Dreaming, the subject reports the dissociation of the typical dream state and the insertion of messages and scenarios that often induce a feeling of dread. If the subject awakens immediately afterward, they report a circle of glowing whitish-colored energy on the ceiling, approximately two to three feet in diameter, with a shaft of similar energy slowly retracting back into the circle. This shaft usually is approximately three to six inches in diameter and two-point-five to four feet long.
AE-3 "Psi- or Bio-Energy Field Extraction": The extraction of a "conscious energy field" from a subject. Subjects usually describe a feeling of "deep penetration" throughout the body followed by a pulling sensation. This is the abduction classification that accounts for "missing time" experiences.
AE-4 "Physical Abduction": The physical removal of the subject from their natural environment to an alien environment. In almost all cases the subject reports a sensation like "being drugged" and are removed from the scene with military precision to an alien craft. Most abductees report being subjected to various physical tests and procedures once aboard the craft; such experiences typically include physical exams, genetic experimentation and sperm and ovum extraction. After the experiments are concluded, the subject is returned to his or her original location relatively unharmed.
AE-5 " Past Life Recall": This process uses hypnosis to bring memories of past lives to the conscious mind. Abduction cases using Past Life Recall often represent events of past lives where the subject lived as an alien. Subjects relate being in an underground military facility, sometimes on Mars, the Moon and even under the Earth's oceans. This suggests two very interesting possibilities.
- During telepathic communication some memories are subconsciously transferred.
- The subject is recalling actual past life memories of their own.
What is interesting is some researcher also link these type of experiences to Out of Body Experiences [OBE] and Near Death Experiences [NDE] as well. All three of these experiences are usually explained away as a physical reaction such as stress, seizure, lack of oxygen, or chemical imbalances ti name a few. While those are typical things that can induce an episode, we need to look at the theming and consistency of certain repeatable events.
For example in Abduction Scenarios why are the same number or types of beings the same? How is it that the narrative evolves and continues on a certain theme? How is that it can even become interactive?Why are different and unrelated individuals reporting similar themes? The answers to these questions show that there is a difference from a few episodes that can be explained away as a physical manifestation from an actual abduction.
Butler's categorization includes some metaphysical items that some might discount or seem to muddy the waters of studying the Alien Abduction Phenomena, as it includes psychic abilities, dreams, and past life regression. It doesn't help that most Contactees and Experiencers ascribe to some sort of spirituality, crystals, psychic phenomena, faerie lore, and cryptid zoology.
Despite this..... there is a level of strangeness we don't exactly understand as our minds try to come up with some rationalization of the technology involved in this. What they do seems like magic or psychic abilities...and some of it border lines our fringe science.
