If you accept this book's premises as true -- that alien beings from alternate universes are traveling to the Earth using "dimensions" that we perceive as ordinary forces (gravity, electromagetism etc), and these aliens are conversing with / experimenting upon Earthlings all the time -- then this is an extremely solid and interesting, very seriously composed literary work. And at the same time, a phrase from the film "Terminator II" kept arising in my mind as I read about the different defensive techniques: "delusional architecture." Every single occurrence of one of these abductions sounds identical to a standard-issue, plain old deep dream.

Like others, I assumed this was a joke when I bought it, but was delighted to find it not only serious, but highly practical and refreshingly free from dogma. This book could save many abductees much misery.The best thing about this book is its essential phenomenalism: it doesn't need to make any assumptions about what UFOs actually are, only the (surely incontrovertible) observation that there are people being troubled by abduction experiences. The methods here are appropriate no matter whether "alien beings" come from outer space, the spirit world, or the unconscious mind.Also notable is the challenging of the highly destructive notion of absolute impotence before the alien beings. This is a modern notion, I believe, nowhere found in the fairy-lore precursors to the UFO phenomenon. Be true to yourself and fight back! Actually I wish people were more aware of the folklore connection between fairies and UFO aliens. When you read the original material there's little doubt that the two are no more that two popular explanations for the same phenomenon.

"How To Defend Yourself....," by Berthold E. Schwarz, M.D.

"Ann Druffel is an indefatigable, veteran UFO researcher who has for more than 40 years completed intensive, first-hand investigations and authored numerous articles and books on close-encounter UFO cases, the witnesses, and also abductees: i.e. those people who claim intrusion into their lives by the actual presence of UFO entities..... The popular explanations that infest the media today usally ascribe these unusual events to extraterrestrial visitations. Ann Druffel contributes through HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN ABDUCTION countless examples from her long-term database which demonstrate how these unwanted intrusions can be successfully resisted... specific "how to" techniques [such as] mental struggle, physical struggle.. protective rage, intuition, and metaphysical methods... Rather than being a cookbook-like expiation, Druffel's exposition is an in-depth and scholarly probing, replete with seminal references and footnotes, often accompanied with stimulating and challenging speculations.... She shows how these invasions induce trance-like states in the afflicted person and how these can be broken or ameliorated with relief from the immediate attack and, in many instances, how to prevent repeat episodes of atack. She stresses the apparent psychobiology and possible genetics of the invasions, i.e. how these involve various family members, sometimes unknown to each other and extending over generations...."Druffel also presents medically sophisticated details that make HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN ABDUCTION a most valuable book and more meaningful than what the perhaps restricted title might suggest... By delving into ancient religious and cultural paradigms inclding Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Persian beliefs and so forth.... Ann Druffel presents strong evidence for the interdimensional hypothesis.... There is also the question of alleged alien implants which begs for study... [I]f these were proven to exist, this should only push further researches suggesting the possibility of apportations which happen in dissociative states with paranormal physical effects. [Her] view that these alien abductors are interdimensional and pose as physical UFO occupants.. is practical and possible to study through paranormal research in experimental Ufology; this might be more pragmatic than invoking fanciful theories without any substantive documentation....HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN ABDUCTION is an easy to read, focused book destined to become a classic. [It] transcends the literal meaning of its title and presents in a lively and stimulating manner an entire hostr of often surprise issues that are dealt with in a scholarly and yet mouth-watering manner. Quench your thirst with HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN ABDUCTION and be prepared for a roller coaster ride into the unknown.(Whole review can be found in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 1999, pp. 230-233.