Topic: Post Traumatic Stress

The "Visitors in the Trees" account includes physical details such as a being wearing a specific necklace and the extreme physiological stress experienced by the witnesses. The mother required hospitalization for dehydration and fever, while a child ground their teeth down during the night. Strieber argues these severe physical reactions serve as evidence that the encounters are real rather than imagined.

Biologists Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton explore morphogenetic fields and cellular receptors that receive signals from outside the body, suggesting life has a fundamental existence beyond the physical. Immanuel Velikovsky argued that humanity suffers from a collective post-traumatic stress disorder due to ancient catastrophes. This irrationality manifests in modern society as mass psychosis driven by doomsday narratives from media and politicians.

Leslie explains that learning to remain conscious and manage fear during an abduction is key to interacting with the beings and remembering the event. High levels of trauma often trigger "shut down" responses from the entities, including paralysis and memory erasure. From a psychological perspective, the human brain also walls off these memories as a defense mechanism against severe post-traumatic stress.

NLP techniques are described as "15-minute mental tricks" used to eliminate fear by altering internal imagery. Bandler explains that people with phobias, such as fear of snakes or heights, often hold "larger than life" mental pictures that trigger physiological fear. By shrinking these images to the size of a quarter or running memories in reverse, individuals can flatten neurons and interrupt the neurological firing patterns associated with anxiety.