”She blows me kisses and closes the door. I cry because I miss her already, I cry because of the friendship we could have had” (12)

Aww poor girl. I was a bit worried she would be too judgmental of Nadia given the various comments about her friend’s lifestyle and clothes, but I am glad to see she opened up her heart to her—even if it was a bit too late.

I’m hoping this means we get to see some more depictions of good friendships moving forward? Fingers crossed. I love love and I love friendship ☺️

Do you find her hypnosis sessions compelling?

I think this second one was much more compelling than the first one. I specifically found the part where she remembers a feminine voice telling Whitley not to be afraid the most interesting and scary part! His visitors seem to say that to him a lot and if we take his word that he hasn’t told Anne anything then—wowowowow!!!

The stuff about the white figure seems to be very different from his previous testimony about the visitors as he knows them. It does sound a bit more like Casper than the spiritual/intelligent bug people he typically describes.

That being said I think we can pretty much scrap the rest of the session. I felt it was too leading and too clouded by her deep beliefs in the roles she and her husband are meant to play in the family and in society.

What do you think?

Does anyone else feel frustrated by Whitley’s analysis of this session? He seems to be implying that this hypnosis session backs up his theory about the visitors since her memory is mysteriously blocked—in a way he seems sure is intentional.

What kind of evidence is that? These evenings may have been just too insignificant for Anne to easily differentiate it from the rest of their quiet evenings in the country. I think it detracts from his credibility that he is trying to present this first session in any way other than a challenge to his own understanding of events

Not only that, this hypnosis session by Dr Naiman and Budd Hopkins used incredible leading questions for half of it. They seemed to be trying very hard to push her toward a narrative that she had some kind of frightening or disturbing evening that she very clearly does not seem to relate to. The part where they kept pressing her to say someone was controlling her was very alarming

I just wasn’t very impressed with the first hypnosis session with Anne and I’m disappointed in Whitley for presenting it as some kind of memory intervention to explain it all away