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Post by sunbow on Jan 8, 2012 13:08:46 GMT -6
Just got it yesterday and am half way through it. An excellent read. Anyone else here reading this?
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Post by lois on Jan 8, 2012 18:25:15 GMT -6
No I have not read it. It is a new book? Or one I just missed along the way..
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Post by sunbow on Jan 8, 2012 20:36:03 GMT -6
I pre-ordered it when the release was announced and it came yesterday. It is the first non-fiction book dealing with the alien subject in over a dozen years by Whitley.
I have read some of his fiction and while sometimes interesting, it is too dark for my liking or for me to recommend. This one has been well thought out. It does reflect a certain consciousness of being under scrutiny and therefore all of his conclusions are very logically shown and there is no unsubstantiated speculation. Some good thoughts so far, I'm about half way through it. I'll post quotes when I can get time, after completing the whole book.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2012 6:03:18 GMT -6
Thanks for telling us about it, sunbow . I had wondered if and when Mr. Streiber would write a book about all this again. I know he has had a website. It's been awhile since I read his "Communion series". Personally, I think his fiction subject matter is kind of dark because of what he has been through. IDK.
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Post by auntym on Jan 10, 2012 15:06:17 GMT -6
www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120109/GJLIFESTYLES/120109698/-1/foslifestyles "Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come" [/color] In new book, Strieber says brushes with paranormal continueJEFF AYERS,For The Associated Press Monday, January 9, 2012 "Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come" (Tarcher/Penguin), by Whitley Strieber: In his new book, "Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come," author Whitley Strieber tries to explain the strange happenings surrounding his life since he wrote "Communion" 25 years ago. "Communion" chronicled what Strieber claimed was his abduction by alien beings and the events that followed. He wrote two more books about his experiences and received thousands of letters from people who said similar events occurred in their lives. He also became a laughingstock among his friends and lost his financial stability. His wife, Anne, supported him, though it was difficult for her to understand what he was experiencing. Strieber reveals that brushes with the paranormal haven't lessened over the years. He uses his personal connections and in-depth research to rationalize his experiences. The UFO culture is hard to grasp, but Strieber tries his best to tie together diverse subjects such as cattle mutilations, crop circles, strange implants and the afterlife. He even questions whether the aliens he claims abducted him were from outer space or another dimension. What it boils down to is whether the reader believes Strieber. Are his experiences real? Strieber doesn't resolve the issue conclusively, and the majority of the stories in "Solving the Communion Enigma" have been told on his radio show, "Dreamland." Still, there's enough compelling material to make even the rigid skeptic ask questions. ___ Online: www.unknowncountry.com/
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Post by auntym on Jan 10, 2012 15:07:43 GMT -6
Just got it yesterday and am half way through it. An excellent read. Anyone else here reading this? i've not read this yet...but it on my 'to get" list...
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Post by sunbow on Jan 11, 2012 16:54:48 GMT -6
I recommend this. I think it is well written and thought out. It contains several very interesting ideas about the motives of the visitors. He believes that the visitors don't just believe in a soul, they are their soul which has a body, and what they are trying to teach us is to expand our reality. The burning questions of the abductees leave some of them striving for answers more than the average person, thus the experience is a catalyst for growth.
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Post by Steve on Jan 11, 2012 18:09:04 GMT -6
I think I am going to get this book to read now. Thanks. I read 'Communion' in 1989. I remember because my wife and I were house sitting for a year or more. After being married several years, my father in law asked if we would house sit his home for him (and us). My father in law was a distinguished civil engineer, who frequently traveled to the far east. So it allowed us to live rent free, which served us - as well as my father-in-law. We could save to put a down payment on a home, and he had someone he trusted to keep his place looking great and safe. The whole point was reading 'Communion' late at night, in a big unfamiliar home made reading Strieber's book all the more eerie, when a unfamiliar house settling sound would click at night. I would always turn the face of the book upside down. Seems many did. I have always thought the cover of that book was one of the most powerful illustrations ever put on a book cover. I remember I thought the end of Strieber's book became very incoherent. It was clear Strieber had no difficulty expressing what he wanted to write, he was just in this looming conundrum in his life trying himself to make it all make some kind of sense. The first half of the book was hard to put down. It is very interesting too what you describe from his new book. Mary and I in our medium or whatever experiment - Mary has commented recently at the matter of fact and actually quite logical explanations this so called Han has been relating. Han has commented to Mary a number of times his role is to broaden our sense of reality too, and I was particularly struck by you relating Strieber the entities he has been in contact with state basically a soul has a body, and not a body has a soul, implying there is a life force that transcends our physical or material dimensions. This seems to echo what we seem to be communicated. An interesting co-incidence I will have to check out further. Good for his wife she has done what she has been forced to do supporting him. It takes some mojo and courage to do what he has done. Any book Mary and I hope to write I am definitely going to use a pseudonym. It must be hard to go through life having been laughed at. He married a wonderful companion, herself admitting she does not quite understand it all. I don't think any of us really do, and the entities do not seem to be making themselves available for interviews. Thank you for your book review. Steve.
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Post by paulette on Jan 11, 2012 22:20:42 GMT -6
I agree with you that the first half of Communion was intense and engaging and he lost me at the end. I figured that it was because I hadn't come to any way of integrating the information that he wrote about and that I experienced and therefore was muddled up myself. But maybe a little of both.
The book cover freaked my daughter (then about 12) totally out. She had never noticed what I was reading but she would turn the book cover over.
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Post by Steve on Jan 12, 2012 3:35:16 GMT -6
I agree with you that the first half of Communion was intense and engaging and he lost me at the end. I figured that it was because I hadn't come to any way of integrating the information that he wrote about and that I experienced and therefore was muddled up myself. But maybe a little of both. The book cover freaked my daughter (then about 12) totally out. She had never noticed what I was reading but she would turn the book cover over. Hi Paulette, Difficult to imagine you being muddled about much of anything. You carefully seem to go over everything when it interests you. The abducution mystery excepted. At least we must all graciously allow that much for our ourselves. I think Streiber was fundimentallly muddled, and was describing in himself a mental process everyone in that situation goes through. We may have all been muddled reading it. Steve
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Post by auntym on Jan 12, 2012 14:25:04 GMT -6
www.unknowncountry.com/news/visit-new-communion-enigma-website Visit the NEW Communion Enigma Website[/color] Thursday, January 12, 2012 Solving the Communion Enigma has a new website, CommunionEnigma.com. On it, you can listen to Whitley Strieber read Chapter One, read excerpts from other chapters, post your comments about the book and ask Whitley questions. The site also enables you to find your nearest independent bookstore or Barnes and Noble in the US. The book is also available in Kindle and Nook editions on Amazon.com and BN.com. The book is getting very strong comments and reviews because Whitley has broken new ground with it. He has taken understanding of the close encounter experience far beyond where it has been before, coming to powerful and exciting new conclusions not only about close encounter, but the whole array of anomalous events that are happening all around us. He shows why our era IS different from every past era, and makes it crystal clear that, while it has historical precedent, what is happeng now is much more extensive than ever before. And then, in a brilliant last few chapters, he eloquently explains WHY this is so. Read the original source: www.unknowncountry.com/news/visit-new-communion-enigma-website#ixzz1jHGbGE2H
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Post by paulette on Jan 15, 2012 13:03:40 GMT -6
I wish I hadn't listen to him read the bit he does (above post). He sounds so smug. I'll try to forget the tone before I read the book.
I do believe that ETs may well be time slippers and multi dimensional travelers. That puts us in about the same relationship as a human has with his dog. He leaves his dog, goes to work, makes decisions that affect his and others' futures, makes a withdrawal from the bank grid, buys some groceries and comes home. The dog is not able to understand any of this although, if the man has encountered another dog or a cat, that is worth sniffing out. The dog doesn't know where the food came from (maybe China) or what is was before he ate it. They have a meanful relationship however it is limited to the immediate now. If the man wants to talk, the dog will sit and watch his mouth and maybe read his body reaction and give him a lick. The dog's knowledge is basically meaningless to the man (unless he is training it so he has a sheppard or defence dog).
We live in the now even though we are able to imagine the future - we refuse to factor in the effects our livestyles in USA and modern Europe and increasingly everywhere is having on the planet. The dog would eat the last cow and enjoy it. The Easter Islanders chopped down the last tree and then starved with no more boats and no way to escape. We are fundamentally the same as they were. Perhaps we are not able to understand consequences - much like our teenagers who we hope will grow up. On the large scale - we don't get it.
So maybe Whitney's book touches on the lessons to be learned. But we already know them even without outsiders telling us. Don't we?
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Post by skywalker on Jan 15, 2012 13:16:03 GMT -6
That is an excellent analogy comparing the ET's relationship with us to our relationship with a dog. It makes perfect sense. Good job, Paulette.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 13:58:08 GMT -6
That is an excellent analogy comparing the ET's relationship with us to our relationship with a dog. It makes perfect sense. Good job, Paulette. and this is one reason why I think Paulette has the "experiences" that she does . Her experiences (IMO) are intense and noteworthy. What does she do with them? After initial human response, she "sees beyond" the initial experience and shows us how to apply the reminders to our blinders ;D.
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Post by paulette on Jan 15, 2012 17:07:10 GMT -6
Thanks guys. Talking to you and others on this site has resulted in me thinking a lot about our ET and paranormal topics, the future, and everything in between. I've been wanting to have these discussions all my life. As I grew older, I've had a continuing desire to tidy up all the varied bits of information (personal and from studies) in my life. It's like my life was a big jigsaw puzzle and each experience and all the years gave me more pieces to fit in. I had given up on fitting in the UFO experience for decades! Now I realize that there were many anomolous things that occured in my life that were at least out of usual reality. And that most people who are active here are doing the same thing. So for all of this and more, I thank all the people who are here, sharing their own stories, asking useful questions, and carrying on in spite of blue beams, deep orange orbs, missing time, strange childhood memories...
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Post by Steve on Jan 15, 2012 19:50:19 GMT -6
I am reading his new book now on my Kendel fire. I am reading about the implants a few chapters in. He gives the many radio frequencys these tiny devices detected seem to be transmitted at. And science is not in th eleast bit interested? Quite a range of frequencies. The bewildering thing is how in a controlled laboratory setting under an X-ray they can be seen becoming invisible to X-rays! Checks of the x-ray equipment with other materials show the detection machines in good working order. Strieber relates some distrubing childhood history, not with family, but with perhaps government experiemnts with children incredibly. As the book progresses he slowly reveals his new perspectives on the phenomnion. The local community in upper New York marginalized him, he lost his home, and has moved to San Antonio where he grew up. BTW, Strieber mentions his first time noticing when the first image we recognize as the iconic 'gray' may have first appeared in our culture. Early in the book he mentions the cover of the June 1957 issue of 'Fantastic Universe' magizine. I looked it up and here it is. So far, a good book. Steve
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Post by Steve on Jan 24, 2012 3:15:49 GMT -6
www.amazon.com/Solving-Communion-Enigma-What-Come/dp/1585429171Reading the last chapter. Wow. A good book I think. Very interesting. I like his commentary about many things surrounding this phenomenon. His new insights given to him and Whitley endeavoring to process it all. I think I have more clarity now about some long lingering questions than perhaps ever before. Good summaries and emphasis on a number of facts ignored or marginalized by the public and media about their significance. Regarding Implants, crop circles, cattle mutilations. Glad he emphasizes these again. They need to be. Several fascinating questions in his new book, which I don't think have ever been really discussed before perhaps? Could crop circles have been originally created by hoaxers, but aliens perhaps innocently unexpectedly have responded with their own own crop circles? Their replies reflecting methods and skills beyond human in the brief time they are created (some in just 15 minutes according to one Stonehenge guide between glances into the same field). The circles now are very elaborate and sophisticated, showing complex mathematical and musical concepts. Could all the sexual and genetic aspects associated with abductions be not about creating a secret race of aliens hybrids here, but instead to urgently adapt humans genetically to survive off the Earth somewhere else should Earth fail? Could disclosure ever happen? It maybe but not as we would wish or imagine it. Direct contact with individuals, yet stealthy and concealing obsessively also at the same time. No direct contact before the world, but with some individuals over time to raise our technological abilities on a level so we can meet on a more level playing field in time. Why? Because if we are flooded with their presence, our own desire for progress would collapse, hurting perhaps their own wishes for that too. Self defeating. Inundated with new technology, and 'free energy', Humanity would become 'dependent' on them. Who wants that by either party. Too much too soon, or too little too late? Both can be harmful. Whitley does ponder very articulately in ways it actually all makes good common sense. There is an order to the chaos that forces most to marginalize the phenomenon and so naturally confuses those involved or touched by it. Since his frightening encounters and the publishing of is book 'Communion' (1985 and beyond), Strieber knows painfully all about being marginalized. Literary friends and personal friends marginalizing him and his wife (because of 'Communion'), plummeting book sales, threats in the community in which he once lived in and eventually loosing their upper state New York sprawling wilderness home (foreclosed). Strieber & his wife now live in San Antonio, Texas (BTW) - in his deceased mom's former town home. Love to talk with him perhaps someday if that was ever possible. I so wish him and his wife so much success in his new book. There is much more, and astonishingly even much related to our Han experiment. About the soul, life / death, radiant beings. The difference about these that distinguish us from them that whether we realize it or not we are a part of too perhaps. But without spoiling for you, you will just have to purchase a copy and enjoy for yourself. Thank you Sunbow for bringing this new good book to my attention. Thanks. Steve
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Post by sunbow on Jan 29, 2012 19:15:28 GMT -6
"Could all the sexual and genetic aspects associated with abductions be not about creating a secret race of aliens hybrids here, but instead to urgently adapt humans genetically to survive off the Earth somewhere else should Earth fail?" - Steve
I have believed that this is at least part of what is happening. The other side would be to re-introduce us to an Earth that has a changed environment. In either case one can only imagine the implanted myths that would be instilled in the new 'humans'.
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Post by sunbow on Jan 29, 2012 19:22:50 GMT -6
"At the same time, I have come to think that contact is not rare. As some of the most remarkable cases suggest, it may be, effectively, universal. What is rare is noticing it." Pg. 15
If this is the case, the implications are huge. He discusses how many people who's sense of a stable reality being shattered have increased chance of being one of the rememberers. This is another thing I have believed for a long time. They take every single person at some point in their life. Kind of like a rancher giving a checkup to every cow on the range. However, I feel that they checkup has more to do with the psychic/paranormal abilities, than with genetics.
At another point he apologizes for calling them visitors, since he knows that have been here for a long time and are not leaving. They are a part of what is happening on Earth and always have been. In some ways this is comforting, as it implies that they have cultivated us and are likely to continue to do so.
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Post by paulette on Jan 29, 2012 19:59:50 GMT -6
"At the same time, I have come to think that contact is not rare. As some of the most remarkable cases suggest, it may be, effectively, universal. What is rare is noticing it." Pg. 15 At another point he apologizes for calling them visitors, since he knows that have been here for a long time and are not leaving. They are a part of what is happening on Earth and always have been. In some ways this is comforting, as it implies that they have cultivated us and are likely to continue to do so. It's not terribly comforting to me. I believe it is likely true - but I don't get warm fuzzies from it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2012 20:22:55 GMT -6
"At the same time, I have come to think that contact is not rare. As some of the most remarkable cases suggest, it may be, effectively, universal. What is rare is noticing it." Pg. 15 At another point he apologizes for calling them visitors, since he knows that have been here for a long time and are not leaving. They are a part of what is happening on Earth and always have been. In some ways this is comforting, as it implies that they have cultivated us and are likely to continue to do so. It's not terribly comforting to me. I believe it is likely true - but I don't get warm fuzzies from it. Same here... I start to get the warm fuzzies... then the nervousness sets in again and overwhelms the fuzzies...
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Post by Steve on Jan 29, 2012 20:32:45 GMT -6
A family recently became known to me in which the entire family over several generations have been abducted. Of particular interest is a 8 year old in this family, who seems to have this knowing look, and knows what people do or are about to say before they say it minute to minute. Those who told me about this said he looks unusual in some subtle ways. I don't see it. Is this all part of this continuing situation? Could this young man be all part of a genetic legacy of these encounters?
I bring all this up, because having just finished Streibers latest book too, this is the fourth time someone has mentioned to me and introduced me to someone they suspect being much more than what appears on the surface as human. Around these one must be careful with ones thoughts too.
So far, a 8 year old male (elementary school student), a 22 year old female (college student), a 25 year old male (employee at a electronics chain store), and another female of similar age (health food store). Some described themselves as having two mothers - one human and another not. They look perfectly normal to me, just maybe a little peculiar. I remember being approached by one saying "I know who you are.....!". I did not think much about that till told later in confidence to a mutual third party they thought they could be a hybrid. Hybrid does not seem really the correct word for these persons. They seem to have this heightened awareness, a bit somehow detached and fully aware at the same time. And this was all before being told by others what they told me privately. They just seem to be extraordinary aware and gifted with something.
They maybe more embedded in our world and all around us than we imagine. I know how far out all this seems, but maybe I hope an opportunity will come to work with this family.
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Post by sunbow on Jan 29, 2012 21:08:41 GMT -6
I agree on several points, They are embedded. The implication of even just the last few generations seems a long time span for us. A million year old culture might thing in terms of long time spans of thousands of years that make us miss the point of their agendas due to our short sightedness. No idea how old each individual gets to be, but I think it might be very many times a human life span. The same individual being could be working with a family for many many generations.
Many on this board who have had experiences also have psychic components to their lives. If we are to believe the tales from around the world, the human race is a hybrid race from ancient days. So these new children, the evolutionary future potential being manifest, is it natural or is it being helped along? Perhaps They are just watching what they know is happening naturally and studying it rather than causing it? If it is being helped along, then why? I would suggest because we are causing the sixth great extinction of species and without major changes, we will find ourselves on the list.
Sorry about the lack of warm fuzzies (or cold shivers), but if we do not reason our way to understanding, then I believe we will miss what little opportunity we may have, to have a say in our future. I would love to hear one of these Indigo/Starseed Children's take on all this. My compassion and appreciation goes out to all involved in this most important quest ever: to understand the fate humanity.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2012 3:52:31 GMT -6
. . Perhaps They are just watching what they know is happening naturally and studying it rather than causing it? If it is being helped along, then why? I would suggest because we are causing the sixth great extinction of species and without major changes, we will find ourselves on the list. I agree with this point of view . Let's say "they" are the "Watchers" of old; whatever that term was meant for. If (big if) at some point "they" realize that they may be able to subtly influence some positive changes of this world, wouldn't it be worth a try? ;D I'm thinking along the lines also of the "first time" 'they' became aware that some of us could "see" them in broad daylight. Or remember an encounter with "them". After years and years of doing the same thing, if it was us, would we scramble for a stronger anesthetic? A better cloaking device? If we could elevate all pain involved (psychic included), would we allow our "experiments" to interact with us? I wonder. . .
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Post by sunbow on Jan 30, 2012 15:38:30 GMT -6
I agree, they seem very capable and aware, therefore they know that some of us are catching glimpses of the truth. Even more so, some of the scoop marks are just too bold, like they want to leave someone a reminder. This implies to me a change from historical norms, though perhaps some were aware of them in the past, but had no reference or communication channel to share? The church has been hunting demons (even if they were not demons) for a long time and historical accounts of contact fill ancient books. I tend to think they were among us, then hid while we grew, and are preparing to re-emerge.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 30, 2012 20:51:53 GMT -6
A family recently became known to me in which the entire family over several generations have been abducted. Of particular interest is a 8 year old in this family, who seems to have this knowing look, and knows what people do or are about to say before they say it minute to minute. Those who told me about this said he looks unusual in some subtle ways. I don't see it. Is this all part of this continuing situation? Could this young man be all part of a genetic legacy of these encounters? I bring all this up, because having just finished Streibers latest book too, this is the fourth time someone has mentioned to me and introduced me to someone they suspect being much more than what appears on the surface as human. Around these one must be careful with ones thoughts too. So far, a 8 year old male (elementary school student), a 22 year old female (college student), a 25 year old male (employee at a electronics chain store), and another female of similar age (health food store). Some described themselves as having two mothers - one human and another not. They look perfectly normal to me, just maybe a little peculiar. I remember being approached by one saying "I know who you are.....!". I did not think much about that till told later in confidence to a mutual third party they thought they could be a hybrid. Hybrid does not seem really the correct word for these persons. They seem to have this heightened awareness, a bit somehow detached and fully aware at the same time. And this was all before being told by others what they told me privately. They just seem to be extraordinary aware and gifted with something. They maybe more embedded in our world and all around us than we imagine. I know how far out all this seems, but maybe I hope an opportunity will come to work with this family. Steve What you are describing hear sounds very similar to the plot of a book I recently read called Star Begotten. The basic idea of the book was that there were aliens on the dying planet of Mars who were zapping the earth with artificial cosmic rays in order to genetically alter some of the people. They were making them more intelligent, more talented, and genetically superior to the other average humans. The Martians were supposedly hoping that these superhuman hybrids could be infused with all of their own Martian intelligence and would thus preserve their race...kind of like a long distance surrogate. The interesting thing about this idea is that it is not as recent as you might think. The book was written by H.G. Wells back in 1937. It appears that the idea of human/alien hybridization has been around for a pretty long time.
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Post by paulette on Jan 31, 2012 10:48:26 GMT -6
I always figured that Strider (in the Lord of the Rings) who watched over the hobbits but could not help them except to give advice (that wasn't always taken) was a Watcher. No one (that I've read) have ever commented on this character in the books.
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Post by sunbow on Aug 11, 2012 8:28:39 GMT -6
I have always admired Strider the Ranger. It has been long since I read the books, but the character of Strider who moved behind the scenes is an archetype close to my heart.
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Post by auntym on Aug 19, 2012 11:06:43 GMT -6
ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/communion-whitley-striebers-original.htmlSunday, August 19, 2012 "Communion" - Whitley Strieber's original book[/color] Posted by Pauline Wilson at Sunday, August 19, 2012 Dear readers, My last post took a look at US author Whitley Strieber's new book, 'Solving the Communion Enigma: What is to come." As I was very young when the book "Communion" came out, I thought I had better read it. I located a copy in a second hand book store, and have just read it in one session. As I would think that a number of younger blog readers will be in the same position as me; that is will not have heard of the book, let alone read it, I thought I would provide some context, for you, to his latest work. My copy of "Communion" is dated 1988 and titled "Communion: A True Story: Encounters with the Unknown," published by Arrow Books, London. ISBN 0-09-053420-7. At this stage of his career, Strieber had already written and published a number of novels, namely "Wolf of Shadows;" "Catmagic;" "The Nightchurch;" "Black Magic;" "The Hunger" and "The Wolfen." The pivotal event: Anne and Whitley Strieber owned a cabin in upstate New York in the USA. It was a quiet and hidden location. On 26 Dec 1985 both were in bed by 10pm and asleep by 11pm. "I do not know the exact time - I abruptly found myself awake. I heard a peculiar whooshing, swirling noise coming from the living room downstairs...I noticed that one of the double doors leading into our bedroom was moving closed...Then I saw edging around it a compact figure...A few moments later, when it was close to the bed, I saw two dark holes for eyes and a black down-turning line of a mouth that later became an O...The next think I knew, the figure came rushing into the room. I recall only blackness after that, for an unknown period of time...My next conscious recollection is of being in motion. I was naked...The next thing I knew I was sitting in a small sort of depression in the woods...there was a small individual...on my right was another figure...The next thing I knew I was sitting in a messy round room...an extremely shiny, hair-thin needle ...they proposed to insert this into my brain...they had performed the proposed operation on my head...I had seen four different types of figures...I was being shown an enormous and extremely ugly object...They inserted this thing into my rectum...One of them took my right hand and made an incision on my forefinger...Abruptly my memories end. There isn't even blackness, just morning." (pp19-30.) After this event, Strieber describes a change in personality which came over him. "I became mercurial, frantic with excitement about some idea one moment, in despair the next." (p.35.) Science and the UFOs: Strieber's brother had given him a book "Science and the UFOs" by Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, which he then read. He came across reports of alien abductions. "They were talking about people who think they're taken aboard spaceships by aliens. And I seemed to be such a person." (p.40.) Strieber contacted New York abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, met him and later underwent regression hypnosis, and retrieved further detailed memories of the events of 26 Dec 1985. Second pivotal event: Talking to Hopkins brought back another experience to Strieber. In this one, the Striebers were at their cabin, with Jacques Sandulescu and Annie Gottlieb. During the night he "...Startled awake and saw, to my horror, that there was a distinct blue light being cast on the living room ceiling...I watched this blue light slowly creep up the ceiling...I fell back to sleep...I was again wakened this time by a loud report...I was stunned to see that the entire house was surrounded by a glow that extended into the fog...the glow suddenly disappeared...The next morning little was said about the incident." (p.45.) Later Strieber questioned his wife; Sandulescu and Gottlieb about the event, and underwent regression hypnosis where more detailed memories of the event were recovered. A lifetime of events: In section four of the book, Strieber described a number of memories of unusual events which occurred to him between 1957 and 1984. They varied in content and details. CONTINUE READING: ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/communion-whitley-striebers-original.html
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