Hope

By Linda Murphy 

It is about hope.   Hope for someone who is experiencing alien abductions.  I read a journal  entry from someone I knew from years ago who makes the comment or assertion in the form of a question and asks, "Don’t you think this is all benign in the end?"  The other comment from another person was given after I had recounted a rather lengthy episode, "Deception!  It was deception."

Both of these comments are from the opposite ends of the belief spectrum about abductions.  One is the attitude that alien abductions are spiritual and nothing bad ever happens to you.  The other attitude is alien abductions are evil and the phenomenon is all to be mistrusted.

Both of these comments left me coldly frustrated and I had felt like I had been punched in the stomach.

Both of these belief systems take hope away from me as a person dealing with this unknown that we know as alien abductions.

If you assert this is all spiritual and benign, then you invalidate and remove any hope of my attempts that I make to try and heal from my physical and mental traumas I have endured since I was a child.

If you assert this is all demonic or deceptive and nothing can be trusted or learned from, then you take away all my hope that I have experienced a truly astonishing and personally elevating event.

Why do people want to remove hope?  What do we have without it?  I work hard to retain my hope since it is not an easy thing to keep within the cold blackness of space.

by Linda Murphy, © 2007

Linda Murphy Biography

My name is Linda Murphy. I have been married for 25 years and I am currently a full time student studying for my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  My interests are writing, reading, drawing, painting, science and nature, and I also play the guitar.  I am a cat lover, but I would love to have horses one day as well as some dogs, and maybe some other types of critters as well. 

I have been facing the reality of aliens since the mid-1980s.  I never had an interest in UFOs or considered the concept of alien beings until a life-changing moment occurred that made me look at this phenomenon in a new light.  It took years after that to make me realize the scope of this new reality, and I am still learning about it all the time.