Remember the nineties with their abundance of so-called contactees? People who declared their contacts with aliens sometimes gave lengthy descriptions of other worlds. As a rule, the other worlds they described were just a slightly improved Earth. But sometimes there are cases that go far beyond such mediocrity. It comes down to describing huge space empires and socio-political relations within them.
PATIENT FROM NEW MEXICO
One of such cases, which, curiously, is known to both ufologists and psychiatrists, is the story of the American Kirk Allen. This pseudonym was given to one of his patients by the psychotherapist Dr. Robert Linder, who practiced in Baltimore for many years. The Doctor described this strange incident in detail in his 1955 book, An Hour of Fifty Minutes: A Collection of True Stories from the Practice of Psychoanalysis. An employee of a US government unit in New Mexico consulted a doctor after his boss became very worried about the strange behavior of his subordinate. Note that the famous ufologist Jacques Vallee in his book "Reveals" claimed that Allen worked in the department associated with the development of thermonuclear weapons. The performance of the department where Kirk Allen worked was falling,so he had to promise his leadership to pay more attention to earthly concerns.
At public expense, Allen was sent to Baltimore to meet with Linder. At first glance, Allen gave the impression of a well-dressed, pleasant man. “Any speculation about him as a mad scientist vanished when I saw him in my office,” Linder wrote. - An energetic-looking man of average height, with clear and light eyes, in a suit of Indian striped fabric without folds, despite the long journey and the humidity … he looked like a junior administrator. He spoke confidently enough to let me know that the situation he was in now seemed awkward to him.”
However, the stories that Kirk Allen told and cited written documents to support looked very strange. One got the impression that he wrote a series of fantasy stories, where the main character appeared under his name, and then began to perceive this fiction as a real story happening to him. The action in these stories took place in worlds distant from us by many light years. Kerk has created an extensive account of life on distant planets. Trying to comprehend what he considered inconsistent, the civil servant became convinced that he himself traveled through these worlds and even ruled some galactic empire far from us.
BOOKS, TABLES, DRAWINGS
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Already at the first session, the doctor found out that his patient had been in love with science fiction since childhood, and over the years he literally moved into the speculative world. Linder asked to demonstrate the documents with which Allen supported his fantasies. He presented a typewritten autobiography of 12,000 pages and 200 chapters. Kirk Allen also provided 20 pages of various handwritten notes and scores of scattered scraps of paper in his own handwritten cursive, envelope sketches, laundry bills, mathematical equations and symbols, and other such nonsense. which, however, was carefully numbered in red pencil.
In addition, the materials included a voluminous dictionary of alien terms and names, 82 color maps of planets from other worlds and continents located on them, 61 architectural sketches, a selection of genealogical tables and star maps made from the planetary systems where the fictional Allen lived. The patient also authored a 200-page historical monograph on the empire he allegedly ruled. At the end of the monograph there was a table with the dates of epochal events and battles. He had a dossier of 44 thematic folders containing information about various planets from his imaginary reality. The folders had titles such as Fauna on Srom Olma I, Transporting the Seraneb System, or Application of Unified Field Theory and Celestial Mechanics to Space Flight. Allen also provided the doctor with 306 drawings with images of alien animals, plants,insects, clothing, vehicles, weapons, musical instruments and furniture.
GOING IN FANTASY
Linder realized that he was faced with a medically difficult case. He abandoned shock therapy as too extreme a method, and hypnosis treatment, fearing that these procedures could worsen the patient's condition. Linder decided to enter Allen's fantasy world and try to dissuade him from the reality of this space empire. He carefully studied Allen's documents, finding points that required clarification, and asked the patient to provide the missing material evidence.
Linder was so imbued with the fantasies of a civil servant that he almost fell into the trap of the imagination himself. He became simply interested in learning everything new and new about these fictional worlds. Finding discrepancies in the star charts drawn by the patient, the therapist used his findings to heal. By dissuasion. At the same time, Allen himself increasingly lost interest in his own space possessions. Finally, he told Linder that the entire imaginary world he created was nothing more than nonsense and his material travels were "stupid inventions." Having recovered, Allen returned to work. It looks like his star empire was not created to be divided between two. When the doctor entered this imaginary world, Kirk had no choice but to return to reality. Along with this, mental health returned to him. Years later, Dr. Linder saidthat is still under the impression of Allen's imaginary world and still thinks about it often.
BORDER PHENOMENA?
The over-aged inventor almost drove the doctor to insanity. The case may not be so rare. From a medical point of view, some individuals, who in many respects are no different from normal people, exhibit a tendency to fantasize and hallucinate easily. It is these individuals who often experience a state of detachment and may lose some or all of their sense of time. Bizarre images appear in their brains, and this happens especially often just before the moment of falling asleep or the moment of awakening. In a series of such images, frightening-looking humanoids may appear, which a person then passes off as aliens. The duration of the visions reaches several minutes, and the "pictures" are both moving and static. According to one hypothesis, it is individuals who are prone to fantasizing,often belonged to statements that they saw "aliens", moreover, without leaving their bedroom.
Ufologists have their own term for such phenomena - borderline phenomena. This term refers to those phenomena that arise on the border between "ordinary" reality and some other, unusual kind. It has been suggested that borderline phenomena are perceived by a person when his ordinary consciousness and sensations are completely changed.
Be that as it may, whether Kirk Allen faced some invisible reality or was haunted by strange hallucinations, his case remains unique in many ways. Thousands of pages of texts, colored star maps, space architectural projects … Even if this is just nonsense, it is far from simple, but the most luxurious. Quite corresponding to the intellectual potential of a nuclear physicist, if he really was.
Pavel BUKIN