SKEPTIC - The Physics of UFOs

[AtheistCrusader]

82. It's in the first chapter, IIRC.

It's also one of the first thing she discusses when speaking publicly about the book. We have a 'visiting speaker' series where I work, and get CEO's, authors, artists, politicians, visiting from time to time. I enjoyed her lecture a lot, and that was one of the very first things she discussed. All of her work starts with the assumption that no aliens are visiting the earth, at least not in the manner claimed by abduction 'victims', and that the people claiming abduction aren't necessarily crazy, nor intentionally lying. (Edit: or rather I should say, she came to find that her assumption they were crazy wasn't accurate)

Walton's article is hilarious. I've never seen such widespread [citation needed] through an article. Of course, I do not believe a word of that account. I don't even find the idea of 'suppressed memories' credible, let alone 'guided hypnosis' to 'recover' them, rather than 'construct' them.

I have witnessed some pretty awful shit, and I have seen other people witness the same, and experience it to a degree, and not a single person I have ever met has been unable to recollect any of those events. Certainly experiences FAR worse than the horseshit abduction stories 'recovered' by hypnotherapists. Most of them are ridiculously benign, far less terrifying than even a criminal abduction of a human by a human for a variety of horrific purposes. I've seen people unwilling to discuss an event, unwilling to revisit or dwell on it, or even think about it, but NEVER have I met one that COULD NOT recall it.

The idea of hypnotherapy recovering these 'traumatic' 'suppressed' memories flies in the face of even the general concept of hypnosis, as widely understood by most people. Most if not all 'professionals' in the field insist you cannot compel someone to do something in a suggestive state, that they wouldn't otherwise do. If that's the case, how in the hell are they able to guide the person to 'recover' a memory their mind found so horrific it had to 'suppress' it? That makes precisely zero logical sense.