There are some people in the world who believe without the need for provable facts, and hold to the idea that aliens kidnap people from time to time, maybe though not necessarily counting themselves among those who have gone into space when they thought they were going to bed or for a walk in the woods. The belief in, and experience of, alien abduction is not too far removed at all from spiritual ideas and experiences of all kinds. It is essentially benign. When you consider that there are some truly dangerous people walking the streets who we should be really concerned about, people who should be locked away, psychos and paedophiles and murderers, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that it’s very wrong to try to force often gentle and sincere people into silence, or push them to the margins of society simply because their ideas are seen as ridiculous and kooky. There is a reason for everything. And not everything is what it appears to be upon first examination. Alien abduction is real to those who experience it, whether it happens or not. Fairies, too, are real in the same sense, as is the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot or Spring-Heeled Jack. Despite the advance of science down the centuries, the powerful need for myth and mystery is undiminished since we first started daubing paint on cave walls.