This week I'm reading from Elizabeth Anglin's book 'Experience: Memoirs of an Abducted Childhood'.   Elizabeth Anglin was a skeptic. Though she had experienced some strange things, and was afraid of aliens for most of her childhood, she considered her fears to be irrational. She didn’t believe friends and family members who said they saw aliens, or had relationships with aliens, or even...had been alien in a past life. She thought they were suffering from stress, or an inability to distinguish dreams from reality. Then, on November 29, 1989, she found herself face to face with an alien in her apartment, and realized this kind of event had happened before. Even worse, she realized that a boy she knew growing up had probably been killed when an abduction experience went wrong, and that aliens can make mistakes…sometimes deadly mistakes. Terrified, she contacted abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, who put her in touch with Dr. John E. Mack at Harvard University. Soon after, she became one of the first abductees to research abduction experiences with Dr. Mack. This is the story of what happened before that research. Bio Elizabeth has spent much of her life involved in exploring the line between intuitive and scientific thinking. Raised by a science educator with psychic abilities and an agnostic university researcher, her understanding of spirit and consciousness is derived from experience, not belief. That experience naturally lead to study, Tibetan, Korean, and Japansese Buddhism, Gnostic Gospels, Spiritualist Studies, Anatomy and Physiology, Cosmology(s) and more. Starting in 1990, Elizabeth researched Transpersonal Psychology through the Center for Psychology and Social Change, now the John E. Mack Institute and became peer mentor for people undergoing extreme spiritual emergencies, especially anomalous extraterrestrial experiences. She appears as experiencer "Anne" in John E. Mack's book "Abduction" and spoke at the Abduction Studies Conference at MIT in May, 1992 and at The Forum at The Macht Building for the Committee of Inquiry at Harvard University in 1995. An award-winning writer as a teenager, she published a full length memoir, "Experience: Memoirs of an Abducted Childhood" the first in a series of three regarding her paranormal life experiences. Her next book "Inquiry: Memoirs of an Abduction Research Subject" is in progress for publication in 2025. Searching for a way to heal herself from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome after a traumatic childhood and young adulthood of intensive research, Elizabeth learned Reiki and quickly began to heal. She became a Reiki Master in 1994 and naturally developed Animal Communication skills at the same time. She founded Mystic River Reiki, and became a Medical Intuitive (1995), Remote Viewer (1996), and Evidential Spirit Medium (1997). Her original intuitive training began through working with the I Ching and the Rider-Waite, Herbal and Haindl Tarot (1991 to 1996). Her intuitive reading skills turned to direct clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient observation and reporting in 1996. While strengthening her intuitive and healing skills, Elizabeth worked as an editor, grants manager and research group coordinator at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, She has also worked as a licensed riding instructor and equine communicator for performance horses and riders. Her strengths during readings are in receiving, interpreting and balancing information from many sources - the physical body, the mind, the emotions, spirit guides, the angels, the Akashic records, parallel lifetimes, concurrent past and future lifetimes, the astral and mental fields, and the probability field. As a multi-event Near Death Experiencer, she brings a grounded personal understanding of the afterlife to her Spirit Medium Sittings.  She currently lives in Madrid, New Mexico, an artist's colony on the historic Turquoise Trail...