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D: Then if someone had a tendency to exaggerate or to manufacture a story, they would do it under hypnosis also. P: That is accurate. D: Would they make it up out of whole cloth, or would they just change some ofthe details? I'malways curious as to how I can tell P: There is perhaps no realway of discerning that which is "whole cloth" and that which is true experience. The pathology of the personality of the individual would dictate the moral standards which the individual followed. Therefore one would necessarily need a complete understanding of the pathology of that indi- vidual, in order to ascertain the degree of coloring given to the information. The need to embellish would perhaps be more prevalent in a somewhat less refined personality. Although, not to say that all of the less refined personalities would embellish. Simply that the ... (pause, looking for word) predisposition to embellish would perhaps be more prevalent in the less refined personalities. D: Iwasjust wonderingif therewas a chancethattheentire story they were tellingme could be made up. P: That ispossible, although not common. D: Then it would be more common for it to have some facts thanjust embelishment. P: Thatisaccurate. To perhaps relate it in terms of misperceptions rather than deliberate falsehoods. accuracy. P: Based on some actual fact. However, again, the pertion of said fact dictates that which is translated or related. D: Those are things! worry about,how canI besure when workingwith this type ofinformation. Butyou mentioned that these memories are buried deep into the subconsciousand thepsyche topotect theperson. I canagree with that. Some people who have hadthese experiences with extraterrestrial beings begin to have nightmares. Is there a reason for that? There was a long pause, then Phil opened his eyes, unexpectedly breaking the trance. He simply said, "I'msorry. I'm up. I'm awake." Apparently I had inadvertently trespassed into the forbidden area. They apparently had not perceived my other questions as threatening until I inadvertently crossed the line into what they thought might relate to Phil's own experiences. Even though Icould 272 The Keepers of the Garden D: Then basicallywhen they telme a storyI canassume itis basedon some