To begin with, lemme say that I have not seen nor read the Miriam interview, so I'm basically reacting to the reactions, but here goes anyway. I am hesitant to judge another's experience. I mean, to draw an impression from someone else's impression is already 2nd order info, at best. Not only that even our own impressions are/could be subject to something planted within our own experience. Then theres a quote I picked up from the Camelot side...
"The lie is different ar every level." 
Besides, as anyone who was there could tell you,
"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful man I have ever met."
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"Do not be afraid, I kept hearing in my head. Do not be afraid."
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Hauntingly familiar... I recall having a "lucid dream" back in about 1980 (the time's a bit dodgy, but at least 2 decades ago). I awoke on a table, in a room with maybe 4 "others" around me. The room table, people, everything was so brightly illuminated I couldn't make out anything distinctly. It seemed a surgery of some sort, whether physical, or "electrical" was going on. I was dinner. Upon discovering I was aware, someone said, "It's ok, relax. Go back to sleep, you're being re-wired."
Next morning when I woke up ,what bothered me as much as the possibility of the entire event was the fact that I simply went along with it. "Oh. Ok"
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One I wrote off long ago, which has given me a bit of pause is from early childhood; say 7 to 11 yrs of age. That was the notion I was one of "the ones" that an off-world race was here to observe. That those chosen for this scrutiny had watchers assigned them. These watchers could make their perceived shape exactly like anyone you'd pass on the street.
I wrote off this whole notion soon after as either some childhood fantasy, or some "race mind" shared illusion. Almost embarrassed to say that for a few months, this bothered me enough that I would make noise on purpose walking down the hall, lest I sneak up on my parents, before they could "done the disguise (seems a riot now). What made me discard and then bring back the memory of it was the true shape of these critters, as I had never seen/read anyone who came up with the same description. Till a lil while ago. They were close to, but not quite like a preying mantis.
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i think we are projecting our own limited scope of understanding and quantifying things in ways we can understand- just like when they said god was an old man with a white beard.
i was just thinking today, no matter what we think we know we are limited by our 3D worldview and still dont except that its literally (from what i know) impossible to leave a human 3D perspective.
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Kinda funny, ain't it? Our two failings in life appear to be:
1. The inability to lift our own body, no matter how firm the grip on our belt loops, and
2. The ability to fully envision and comprehend an intelligence greater than our own. The reverse of the "Thick As A Brick" notion.
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Whatever other manner in which you wish to quantify our existence, I am certain we are an infinite being (soul? etc) created by another one. That this physical investiture is an appendage, of sorts.
That, coupled with the fact that as a child, I lived in another country for several years. One where "whites" were both a miniscule minority, and largely disliked. What I gained from this, then returning to the US, was a genuine experience of what it's like from both sides.
What I have taken from this includes:
1. Race ain't nuttin! If you gots a belly button then you're in the club. (Yes I know Hitchcock didn't have one, but that was surgery. He arrived with one)
2. The notion theres any difference, other than being physically better endowed for different part of this rock, is a bit silly. After all, to follow this notion to some semblence of a logical conclusion would take you to some notion that the soul either doesn't exist, or emanates from the body. Both are non-starters for me.
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Nordics! Greys! Reptiles! Heinz 57! Oh my!
And they say WE'RE the ones over-populating this rock!! JEEZ!! He heh.
Not being able to see 100% beyond the veil of all this, I really can't say who is "real", who isn't, etc among all this lot. But one thing I do suspect is true is this:
Though some fear it, loathe it, envy it, or just plain can't figger it out, what we do have they all place value on is our free will. That this even includes some agreeing through the excercise of same, to give it away has got to be an attraction all on it's own. But I have a hunch this is at the crux of the attraction. And whats brought so many here, now.
Anyway... I've wandered as far as I can for the moment.
Fred