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| | Alien Psychology |
 | | These sorts of unusual experiences are a source of skeptics’ favorite explanation for the current spate of alien abduction experiences, especially, sleep paralysis and associated hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations (i.e., hallucinations just prior to falling asleep or upon awakening). |
 | | Glanvill, Boyle, and some current apologists for alien abduction all arguing not for credulity (whether or not they encouraged, or even succumbed to it, is another matter), but for open-minded investigation. |
 | | Glanvill's "more-scientific-than-thou" arguments are echoed today by the apologists for taking the alien abduction experiences at face value, i.e., as what they seem to be. |
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