Communion: A True Story

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Where the book lost me was in the odd discussions of ancient gods and reports of "visitors" throughout the ages, and some of the claims from the colloquy of abductees. The sincerity and detail of Strieber's account of his experiences is powerful and it will force every reader to ask: what are the aliens trying to communicate, are they here to guide and transform mankind, has the greatest mystery of our time been solved?

When the visitors entered my life in 1985, they used the same teaching techniques that I was familiar with from my Gurdjieff Work. The message of Communion, that something unknown is really happening to people but that we have not studied it enough to understand it, remains as timely now as it was in 1987 when the book was first published. Colin Groves in Skeptical - a Handbook of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989, ISBN 0-7316-5794-2, p. He talks about the triangle for dozens upon dozens of pages and goes into diatribes about how legitimate the tarot is and even makes some predictions (which oddly enough based on the date when the book was written have not come to pass). TheBookAtWar by Andrew Pettegree is the perfect present for bibliophiles and history buffs alike – a fascinating exploration of the role of books in wartime.Since our earliest beginnings, every documented society has gathered to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies - from mass worship to body modification - yet ritual poses a deep paradox: why do we give the utmost importance to otherwise pointless activities?

The author’s writing style could be too self-referential, as he was constantly name-dropping the titles of other books he’s written and assuring readers of his sanity. Regardless of if it was an actual visitor from somewhere unknown or if it was a figment of their imagination, for them, it's real, and they're scared and they're anxious and they're confused. In fact, what we see is a "pilgrim's progress", with Walken fighting against various attempts (by others and by himself) to explain it away. The dreamlike way it all unfolds makes the visitors much more nightmarish and believable than a more straight forward account would be. Strieber compares the "familiar" being he sees, whom he describes as female, to the Sumerian goddess Ishtar.Our cabin is very hidden and quiet, part of a small group of cabins scattered across an area served by a private dirt road, which itself branches off a little-used country road that leads to an old town that isn't even mentioned on many maps. The verbatim accounts of hypnosis sessions are a revealing read, but can be slightly irritating when the subject repeats over and over again some silly phrase such as, in one instance "something was going on and I wanted to know what was going on! When I read it I was living in Austin which is where Whitley Streiber was living when he claims these events happened. More telling is the fact that most sightings and experiences have occurred at the rise of communism.