Alien Abductions = Jinn Abductions?

A few “alien abduction” investigators have given some thought to the notion that the “Grays” and other described alien types may actually be jinn manifestations. Here, for example, is a rumination from a now-defunct website called www.abductions-alien.com:

Islam has considerable material that helps identify these “energy-people” and give an idea just what they are. They provide a term that we can use: Jinns; call them Jinns. Most Jinns are good and live mostly in the wilderness. In fact, they appear to “run” nature. Jinns have free will. They can be good or bad. Jinns can shape change and use this ability to trick humans.

Those few Jinns that turn bad enough to take up harassing have found out the new “in” way to harass humans is: Alien abductions! Apparently designing their harassment after the “new” human obsession, aliens, and especially those few original accounts of truly physical abductions, the bad Jinns decided to drop the old fairy appearance and begin shape changing to grey aliens. With their minds, the bad Jinns can rustle up “mother-ships” and their interiors, examination rooms, weapons, instruments, anything. (You can create things too when out of body! But they are good at it for they have lived “there” (higher vibration level) for untold centuries.)

Unwittingly, your own thoughts help these harassers form the surroundings. You expect a ship, an examination room and its instruments, so your thoughts, energized by fear, construct the surroundings. The Jinns themselves mostly only have to “look like”greys then your mind does the rest!

Here is part of another, more recent web posting on alien abductions that toys with the idea of aliens actually being jinn:

Basically, according to research carried out in USA (where else?), 1.5% of the population has been abducted at some time in their life. Doesn't sound much, does it? Well this equates to 4 million Americans and, if consistent around the world, 100 million people. That's a fair amount, not to be sniffed at really.

Abductors come in many forms. Chiefly they're what are called 'Greys'. These are the clichéd alien type. Grey in colour, very large coal black eyes, eyes just like an ant, a slit for a mouth, no visible ears. You know the kind. We've all seen them, just mostly on TV. These extraterrestrials are fairly nice guys, they don't carry laser guns, and seem to want to make peace with Earthlings: they tell the abductees to remain calm, they won't be harmed, and appear to have strict rules about their interaction with us.

The other main, and definitely more interesting, abductor type is 'the Jinn'. They're badder, meaner aliens. They are also the oldest form of aliens known to man: mentioned in the Bible and Koran no less (so they say). They don't have an actual physical presence and are more like what people describe as angels. Islamic texts state that the Jinn are able to materialize or disappear at will: this is because, it is suggested, "they are a form of conscious intelligence just like humans but they live on a higher vibratory level without physical bodies". Yeah, right.

They are said to be the reason that fairy stories exist in most civilisations. These mischievous, sometimes downright evil, pixies have always 'played' with humans just because they can. However, in recent times, they have found a new way to harass humans: alien abductions.

Purportedly, with their mind power, the Jinns can rustle up space ships and their interiors, complete with examination rooms. In your dreams... well, just maybe.

Most cultures acknowledge the abduction of humans by otherworldly beings of some kind. Patrick Harpur, author of Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld, says these abductors look different to each society, but they have some constant characteristics: “they are elusive shape-shifters, always ambiguous, notably part-material, part-immaterial, as well as being sometimes benign and, at other times, dangerous and malevolent. Following the ancient Greeks, I call them daimons.”

Modern daimons include the little gray aliens who snatch people from their cars or beds. Sometimes, Harpur notes, it seems as if the abductees are taken out of their bodies, as if in a waking dream. These are the same kind of ambiguities found by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski in his studies of the Trobriand Islanders, whose practicing witches seemed to be able to leave their bodies in similar fashion.

“All cultures recognise daimons who abduct us – from the kwei-shins in China and the djinn in Arabia, to the Yunw Tsunsdi of the Cherokees,” Harpur contends. In Newfoundland, the daimonic abductors were called the “Good People” – fairies who seem to have come over with the Irish immigrants and who were known for abducting young people while they were out picking berries. The abductees would eventually be found in a state of disarray, bruised and suffering from loss of memory, like many victims of alien abduction. Like the UFO abductees, the berry-pickers would later begin to recall bits and pieces of what happened to them: often they had been lured by exotic music, and were swept up in a bizarre dance. Other berry-pickers returned after a much longer period of time, looking quite different or much older, wracked by fear or rendered simple-minded.

In Ireland, those abducted by the Sidhe – nature spirits or fairies – were occasionally allowed to return to their homes after seven years, or after multiples of seven. But they were only sent back to the human world when their years on earth had run out – “old spent men and women,” as Lady Augusta Gregory describes them in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920), “thought to have been dead a long time, given back to die and be buried on the face of the earth.” The reality of these abductions cannot be doubted, Harpur observes, given the many descriptions of “tradition-bearers weeping, sometimes after the passage of many years, as they narrated memorates [i.e., remembered events] dealing with the abduction of their children or other relatives.”

Sometimes the Sidhe may leave the physical person and take only his or her soul. From that moment, the victim begins to waste away in this world. The person is said to be “away” or a “changeling.” What remains, says Lady Gregory, is "a body in their likeness, or the likeness of a body." It may be a “log” is left in the victim’s bed, or a broomstick, or a heap of shavings.

In the case of zombies of Haiti, instead of their souls being taken while their bodies are left behind, their souls remain behind (imprisoned in a sorcerer’s jar) while their bodies are abducted into the Otherworld of the “slave camps.” When they return they are recognized by strangers who take them for dead relatives; whether they are truly lost relatives seems irrelevant.

This reverses the European folkloric tradition in which it is the abductees who become strangers, mere “likenesses” which are barely recognized by their relatives. “Such reversals,” says Harpur, “show how the archetypal motif of abduction by daimons, or daimonic humans, occurs in different permutations: sometimes the soul alone is taken into the Otherworld; sometimes only the body (zombies); sometimes both. We should not, in other words, regard the physical, literally, as an absolute barrier. All cultures other than ours regard the body as quasi-spiritual, just as the soul is quasi-material.”