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Communion: A True Story

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This book is difficult to rate because I am not sure how much Strieber is telling his initial "alien contact" experiences the way they happened to him, or how he has ended up remembering them after gaving gone into hypnotherapy and discussed the subject with other contactees. While serving as executive producer, author Whitley Strieber, whose experiences serve as the basis of the film, expressed concerns about Christopher Walken's abilities in portraying him. The book is based on the experiences of Whitley Strieber, who experiences "lost time" and terrifying flashbacks, which hypnosis undertaken by Budd Hopkins later links to an alleged encounter with aliens. The result is more gripping and dare I say entertaining a reading experience, but ends up questionable in regards how truthful the account of Strieber's encounter with the paranormal really is.

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. Although I am pretty much an outcast and a pariah when it comes to the mainstream, I lead a blessed life and consider myself the luckiest of the lucky. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Alright, about fifty pages into this book I started to realize what direction this book was heading in. His attempts at theory about what is in fact going on behind the scenes range from the very insightful and creative ( I especially liked the theory that UFOs are contacting humanity across all eras of time simultaneously, which explains why they can have been around for thousands of years and still be inquisitive about humanity) to an incredibly stupid and treacly epilogue where Whitley's attempts at poetic philosophizing are especially grating and facile.No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. He still insists to this day, as a 40+ father of three children, that something odd happened that night. Whitley comes up with a lot of different ideas about what his and others experiences could mean, what they are, and why they're happening. In particular, Strieber emphasises the similarity to mediaeval stories of fairies and elves as well as lore surrounding angels and demons, even vampires. The end credits roll over a night time aerial shot of the Strieber family standing on the shore with New York City behind them.

He looked us dead in the eyes individually and said "it's not the communion you're thinking" and walked away with his book to hide under a tree. I believed I had previously read it as a teenager, and Texas Monthly published an article at some point stating that The Secret School is one of the ten best reads by a Texas author written in the last 100 years. Now, having read at least five of Streiber's science fiction and horror books, now, many years later, I have finally obtained a copy of Communion thanks to the generosity of my stepbrother's girlfriend.Without giving a spoiler I will say that the most beautiful and thoughtful thing about this book and his reaction to his experiences is this: while most UFO/ abduction/ ET studies look to the skies and obsess over government cover-ups for discovery and understanding, Strieber looks more often to the uncharted hallways of the human soul.

Christmas is just around the corner, but DON’T PANIC: we’re here to provide you with the ultimate festive gifting inspiration, and remind you that books are certainly the easiest presents to wrap…! Even for non-believers, if you simply treat this as a good read, it is an incredible, powerful and sometimes uncomfortable story. It is the home of my podcast, Dreamland and offers extensive social media platforms both for subscribers and non-subscribers.I should add this is the same camp as John Keel arrived in a decade before in UFOs Operation Trojan Horse, but it's only Keel's fellow New Age hippies who read his books. He presents a powerful new perspective on the deep psychological mechanisms behind birthday parties, royal coronations, fire-walking and terrifying rites of passage. Bottom line: if you're interested in this sort of stuff this is one of the all-time classics on the subject.

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