In other words, if the facts don't fit our current theories, it's not the facts that have to change, it's our theories. Well, that's right. I'd like to, if you don't mind, go over a few points that we covered in Part 1, and for the benefit of our listeners let's review that a little bit. And you responded that there's good evidence to suggest that when people are reporting a trauma, that the trauma itself is real, even if other memories are not. Fantasy isn't like that.
Fantasy is highly individualized.
You know, if I look at the literature of these things and talk to other therapists, I realize that there's a group of people who are dealing with alien abductions very similar to what you've described. There's another group of people dealing with Satanic ritual abuse, another group of people dealing with past-life memories, another group of people dealing with spirit possession, and another group of people dealing with apparitions of the Virgin Mary. And they all, each group, has a certain coherence about it. I don't think we should accept anything as for sure. I think we should be skeptical about everything.