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UFOs "abductions" are imaginary:Bertrand Méheust

patanie at my-dejanews.com patanie at my-dejanews.com
Sat Mar 27 19:01:50 EST 1999


In article <7dh9hi$q82$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  hemidactylus at my-dejanews.com wrote:
> (crossposted ng's trimmed)
>
> In article <7dfkop$b6j$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   patanie at my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here are 2 important references for those naive and immature Anglo-Saxons
who
> > continue to believe in "extraterrestrial" "abductions" :
> >
> > References:
> >
> > Bertrand Méheust, qui fut l’un des précurseurs de l’anthropologie des
> > extraterrestres:
> >
> >  1.Science-fiction et soucoupes volantes, Paris, Mercure de France, 1978 ;
> >
> > (Science-fiction and Flying Saucers,Mercure de France editor,Paris 1978.)
> >
> >  2.En soucoupes volantes. Vers une ethnologie des récits d’enlèvements,
> > Paris, Imago, 1992.
> >
> > (Aboard Flying Saucers. Towards an Ethnology of abductees'stories.
> >  Imago editor,Paris 1992,France)
> >
> >
>
> I'm assuming these references deal with the neurobiology of UFO beliefs in
> some way, perhaps? Or is it more like the neuropsychology of imagination.
>
> Has anybody compared the fMRI's of X-files watchers versus nonwatchers. Maybe
> there is relevance to Brodmann's area 51 ;-)
>

Hi,

Bertrand Meheust has discovered something very important:that tales found
in descriptions of "ufos" of today could be found much before 1947,when UFOs
became a fashion,in science-fiction books...


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