Communion: A True Story

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Strieber collaborated with religious scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal on 2016's Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained, a study of occultism, supernatural experiences, and parapsychology that explores "why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life". [ citation needed] Media appearances [ edit ] And, at least to begin with, those outside of the UFO community appear to take these “celebrity accounts” a little more seriously. That is certainly the case of author, Whitley Strieber, who with several successful horror novels behind him and a bright future ahead, began experiencing incidents that would change his life forever during Christmas 1985. Most importantly, to me, are those passages where Mr. Strieber talks about “ strengthening our souls.” I see this material as both a logical response to the visitor experience and as a profound inspiration in any case. In 2022, Strieber appeared in the upcoming documentary, Alien Abduction: Answers. [49] Cultural influences [ edit ] Eventually absorbing every single written word Carlos Castaneda ever produced, I met the man in a powerful out of body experience not long after he had died. I wasn’t sure it was him at the time but I worked it out because of who was with him.

Then, in a state of confusion but still hypnotized, Strieber began exclaiming that the “house is on fire!” It was around this point that he came out of regression. He did, however, recall the events that caused him to believe the house was burning down. At the same moment a few miles away, Katelyn Burns, who adored Love Boat, watched and received advice from her mother about painting her toenails. Very red, and use a polish that hardens slowly. They last longer, chip less, good on the toes. Next week school was out and she wanted---had---to paint her toenails for Beach Day. For years I have told of being present at the University of Texas when Charles Whitman went on his shooting spree from the tower in 1966. But I wasn't there. ... Also significant is his idea of a “presence” behind the visitors. He describes it as some kind of “field” that is positive and uniformly good. I’ve noted similar descriptions from people relating out-of-body experiences. So I can agree with the concept, but it seems to me that there is a “negative field” as well. Mr. Strieber alludes to this when he speaks of the human “death wish” that is so prevalent. I see it as Thomas Merton’s unspeakable evil that, for instance, deliberately spreads toxins via atmosphere and ocean, destroying the Earth as a viable habitat.

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Strieber would elaborate that the incident took place at some point in 1957 when they were on a train from Wisconsin. Suddenly, he and his father and sister were on the strange craft. Strieber writes: Then he knew that his toes had touched the floor, and he was up in the flowing stars. Then he floated to the window. As he moved closer, he saw it sliding open. Then he went faster and moved through it. He tried to grab the sash as he passed, but missed. Then he was moving through the limbs of the oak that stood in their front yard, struggling and grabbing at them. He has been having 30 year of experience of this and now he wants all of us to do the same to protect the planet. I consider this book the most definitive of Mr. Strieber’s visitor writings since Communion. Certainly, it is the most insightful, offering an explanation for the visitors and the UFO phenomenon that is based on his personal experience and years of study and collaboration with many people also knowledgeable in this field. At least, his explanations for what the UFO phenomena represents (the “aliens,” cover-ups, paranormal aspects, etc.) feel solid and in line with my own view of such things. As someone who's followed Strieber for many years, this essay really showed how he can't be trusted as someone who can distinguish between imagination and reality. He avoids criticism by calling critics conspirators and doesn't call out researchers who have been shown to be untrustworthy in their methods.

I quite literally didn’t know anyone in that town and was scrambling through my spare time from work in a haphazard manner to say the least. In 1987, author Whitley Strieber published Communion about his own close encounter. It was met with brutal skepticism…but not from other close encounter witnesses, who wrote him in the hundreds of thousands, telling of their own experiences. With these overwhelming accounts of alien encounters, Rice University in Houston, Texas, has archived these letters as a testimony that we are not alone.I awoke and not long after was guided to Communion. Here we all are, all these years later, grateful for grace and particularly grateful for the patience of the Goddess our Mother and Sister, our best friend. The thing that made me wary was when he incorporated his deceased wife into his ever evolving story, speaking for her from beyond. Talk about disrespectful and egomaniacal - Speaking for your wife when she has no ability to verify her own words. Because of something buried deeply in his genes, he was of more than normal interest to someone that is supposed not to exist, but does exist---in fact, is master of this earth.