This was the first stage of spiritual warfare. These distractions were effective for most abductees from getting to the core issues of their alien abduction memories. Deeper levels of spiritual warfare presented itself as “reprisals” to the abductee and/or researcher after any truthful information was shared in support group or during counseling sessions. These reprisals often took the form of abductions, verbal threats in vivid dreams, or virtual reality scenarios where something terrorizing or painful was done.