Whitley Strieber is of course known throughout the world as a famous novelist but recently, with the advent of his own UFO abduction by the 'Visitors', he has written a series of best selling books about his experiences. The previous titles of his UFO related books include "Communion", "Transformation" and "Majestic" (about the Roswell Incident). In May of 1995, his new book, "Breakthrough" was released further expanding upon his insights related to UFO abduction experiences. I think that we own Mr. Strieber a great deal of gratitude for his courage to publicly share about his experiences. As a result of his book, many other abductees, who were afraid to share their own abduction, now are seeking answers and coming out publicly as well.
In addition, Mr. Strieber is interacting with other people through various computer online systems. We are including a link from this page to some of the other interviews he has given online ( including Compuserve and America Online). Also Mr. Strieber is open to answer people's questions and you can send him an email (see my questions listed below or at the end of this page for his address). So I felt it was important to share some of the information he is providing as I feel the abduction experience is increasing these days. Below you will find an index for the information contained on this page or link to a few other pages containing information by Mr. Strieber. Happy reading ..................
ILLINOIS
This section will link you to various portions of information on this page and also there are links to other pages connected with information from Mr. Strieber. Just see the Indexes listed below. At the end of each section on this page is a link to send you back to this Index.
From: wstriebe@InterServ.Com
( Q: - Question (Joshua); A: - Answer (W.Strieber) )
Q: There is a great controversy at the moment about abductions. First, some
people feel violated because they are taken without permission. From
your first two books, it seems this process happened with you as well.
What is your viewpoint about this scenario?
A: The abduction is a horrific experience. It was the scariest thing that ever
happened to me. To wake up, as I did, and find yourself surrounded by
monstrosities is absolutely appalling. With God as my witness, I will remember
that moment forever and ever. BUT it was also the beginning of my awakening. I
would never, ever have made the journey I have without it. Good or bad? You
decide for yourself. For me, it became good because I made it so.
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Q: Do the visitors you discuss have some connection with the race known in
UFO circles as the Grays/Greys?
A: Most of my visitors appear to be grays.
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Q: In your experience do you remember seeing a blue color light, this seems
to come up for people who have some type of contact. If so, what does
this light represent?
A: Blue light is probably the most common effect. Read the Grimm's tale The Blue
Light. In past times, it was also called the ghost light. I've seen it many
times.
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Q: In your new book, it seems that you are looking at a new perspective of
this abduction experience, more of the spiritual aspect. It seems that
when one has a contact to these beings, they are exposed to a new reality
and it effects them by making them more psychic or telepathic. Was this
true for you and why do you think this happens?
A: The visitors tell me that there is an organic quality in our skulls that
dampens telepathy, and that this is going to fade.
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Q:If you could summarize in a few sentences, what is your opinion about why
abductions are occurring (at least being reported) more frequently now?
What is the purpose of this? Are all the ET races who are doing this of
a beneficial nature for humanity?
A: This is occurring because humanity is changing in some way. I suspect that we
are going to take a leap ahead in the evolution of consciousness.
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Q: What suggestions would you give to other abductees how to better deal
with their experience. It seems that quite a number suffer either
mentally or emotionally from this traumatic experience. How we can
educate or help these people to get past this?
A: Getting past the trauma is important if we are going to increase the value of
this very difficult experience. That's why I wrote Breakthrough.
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Q: Do you have any insights into what the Government knows about the
visitors or contact we are having?
A: I'm not real interested in the government because the visitors have bypassed
it. It isn't up to the government to confirm. They don't have that right. It
will be done by the visitors at a time of their choosing.
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Q: In your book Majestic, you presented many new aspects to contact with the
aliens, such as people who were abducted having their soul transferred to
another body, being controlled by the ETs and even Government officials
being controlled by the ETs. Was any of this information substantiated
via some research you have done?
A: The visitors orchestrate the secrecy, in my opinion. In this sense, they are
behind the coverup.
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Q: What do you see in the future in regards to relations with the visitors?
Will the visitors come out openly one day?
A: As we grow and evolve, our relationship with the visitors will become more
open. When we develop hyperconsciousness and are fully invested in reality,
with full self-knowledge and a richly rewarding understanding of the universe,
we will be on our way beyond the visitors.
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Q: Besides, writing your new book, what activities are you involved in at
this point in time?
A: Right now I am very involved with the visitors, trying to change in ways that
will enable more fully realized and intimate contact. I would like to go to
another world, if that is possible.
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Q: Do you have a personal message you wish to share with others, related to
any thoughts or feeling you have about UFOs in general, ET Races (the
visitors) or Abduction?
A: My personal message would be that we need to work through our fear and denial
so that we can make informed decisions about how we want our relationship with
the visitors to evolve.
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Q: Is there something people can do to help you in your own research related
to these topics?
A: What we can all do to help each other is work on our own individual contacts.
Where one goes forward, all go forward. In this, we are always together--no
leaders, no followers, no authorities, no rulers. Here, everyone is his own
leader, and we all are at the same level.
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Q: If people have questions about Abductions, can they contact you via
e-mail?
A: People can email me.
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Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 06:45:51 -0500 (CDT)
Mr. Strieber,
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions. What I hope to
do this weekend is to take these response plus the information on your
new book that you published (BTW, congratulations on the book, being a
fellow author I know how time and energy this takes) and add it to our
Abduction section.
One quick question: From the answers below, it appears that after
analyzing all that has happened to you and is happening to you, even
though the visitors did experiments upon you, you still feel that they
have a positive work to do with humanity.
This issue is probably the most debated issue at the moment, for to some
they would see this as a violation of their free will. On the other
hand, if we accept, from a spiritual perspective that we are responsible
for all things in our lives, then each experience we have, whether the
most joyous or one of pain, is involved in the evolution of the soul.
If I might, I will share with you my observations and insights and if you
wish to comment, please feel free to do so.
I believe there is a divine plan to move our Earth into a higher level of
consciousness, vibration or dimension. The visitors are a part of this
plan as they are indirectly stimulating awareness that there are far more
things in God's universe than our reality here. I believe that they are
working with humanity for their own purpose, perhaps a survival or to
find a way to go past some situation they find themselves in at this
time. The survival of their race requires a contact with humans. But I
think just as we can learn from them, they can learn from us. I believe
that inherent within Man, or at this point of time, is an explosion
occurring to reveal to man his true spiritual identity. I think that we
have an easier time to evolve in that direction than the visitors, who
lack our emotional or flowing nature. If the two races would work
together instead of taking things from each other, the possibility of
advancement is great.
I feel that the process of abduction although on a higher level is
serving a purpose, is not in their best interest. We as researchers
should try to the best of our ability to educate people what is
happening, as far as we know it, and to send to these visitors the love
energy in our hearts and not fear them. This love energy invites them to
open up to their more spiritual side and to work hand in hand with us.
There are many souls being born now, who's true essence (i.e. Brad
Steiger's Star People) is cosmic and they are here in an Earth body to
awaken their brother and sisters too. Unfortunately, I think the people
on the Earth work in extremes and change only comes from some very
tramatic challenge.
Indeed it will be interesting to see how events go forward. I believe
each of us must know send our mother earth and all living beings somehow
connected with her this love energy. The old pattern of competition and
mistrust will no longer work. I agree with you, I am expect our visitors
from many different worlds and dimensions, to do something soon that will
be quite visible for all to see. The official agencies who have the
information are caught with their pants down thus they are permitting
more of a free flow of the truth to come out via other sources. If my
guidance is correct, something major will occur before the end of the
year is out.
I send you all the best on your work to help to make sense of the UFO
situation with others. I know that many respect your perceptions as it
is helping them to deal with their own situations.
Again, I appreciate you taking the time to address my questions. If we
can be of some assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Joshua Shapiro
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The issue of free will is an enormous one. I was initially approached and abucted without my knowledge. Nobody asked me my wishes. However, in my case I would definitely have asked for it! I do not feel that I would have noticed the visitors or even believed that they were real unless they hit me over the head--which they certainly did!
The moral problems comes with people who do not want the experience but get it anyway. This problem seems to me to have three levels. First, there is the question of whether or not the people felt more co-operative consciously than unconsciously. Second, there is the issue of hypnosis. Is it a reliable way of uncovering memories or not? Third, and related to the previous issue, is there a difference between the experiences and the memories?
My response to the first level of this question is unequivocally that people who don't want the visitors should not be compelled. I feel that these people should seek any means that they can to break off contact. It seems to me that the support of mental health professionals is an appropriate recourse as well.
What we need to do to help these people is to find ways of breaking off contact that work reliably.
Now, the issue of hypnosis. I got 140,000 letters from people who'd had contact or were curious about it. Of these, only a very few reported a desire not to have it, or what I would describe as a dysfunctional relationship with the visitors, and these few had, without exception, been hypnotized. A small number of the hypnotized people reported the "abduction scenario," which I suspect is probably an artifact of hypnosis and not, in general, a real thing.
What I think happens with hypnosis is that the person perceives the hypnotist's request that he remember as a demand for narrative, and he and the hypnotist then construct the "memories" out of what they expect from things they've read, playing off subliminal cues from each other. Hypnosis is not a window into the truth, it is a demand for narrative issued to a mind in a very suggestible state.
This reaches the third level of this issue. People who have never been hypnotized usually report concern, confusion and a relatively minor level of fear. I was much more fearful than most of my correspondents. They have a lot of trouble rendering their experiences into a coherent narrative.
I do not think that we presently have the tools of concept and language necessary to really create an accurate narrative of contact. As a result, it is ineviable that fear of the unknown will enter into it, especially when the mind is in a suggestible state and narrative is being demanded.
I feel that contact should be approached with open-minded caution, and that the fearful abduction scenario should be questioned very seriously. It should also be borne in mind that the number of people who need help with their experiences appears to be quite small--but it is also true that the UFO and mental health communities see ONLY these people, and are therefore unable to correctly assess the situation. Their view is distorted by a self-selected sample of help-seekers.
This is nobody's fault. It is a side-effect of the fact that our culture denies contact and heaps ridicule on the claimant. Therefore, people who are not in trouble keep pretty much to themselves. I was fortunate that so many of them wrote me, I think.
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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 22:16:57 +1100
selected excerpts follow:
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Based on the actual outcome of what they did to me, they must
be counted the allies of our growth.
This is a subtle, complex group of phenomena causing experience
at the very limits of perception and understanding.
There may be quite a real world that exists between thing and
thought, moving easily from one to the other - emerging one
moment as a full-scale reality and the slipping the next into
the shadows.
The visitors have forced me to....seek a completely new vision
of this magnificent, mysterious and fiercely alive universe.
Abduction by non human beings is a part of much folk-lore.
Whether the abductors are called demons, gods, fairies or
ailiens the experience is always devastating to its victims.
....a few of the modern abductees have been dirven mad, died
or disappeared. The great majority have simply borne their
difficult, incomprehensible, and socially unacceptable
memories in silence.
.....an encounter....can either be destructive or it can be
used as a golden door to inner understanding....people who
cannot make use of their encounters are often shattered. At
its best the experience shocks minds to openness. It creates
in its victims a hunger to develop and enrich their spirits.
There is no certain way to know how many people are being
affected but the numbers are very large and they are growing.
Precognition, apparent telepathy, out-of-bod perceptions and even
physical levitation are commonplace side effects of contact with
the visitors....some of them have happened to me as well.
A typical night-visitor episode begins with a sudden awakening...
the victim opens his eyes and usually sees entities standing
around the bed. The victim cannot move at first,, but the
moment the paralysis breaks, the entitites disappear.
What I saw in the sky, apparently no more that a few hundred
feet above treetop level, was a gigantic blackness. It covered
easily a third of the firmament, blotting out the stars. It was
simply immense, a featureless void.....it could as easily have
been a hole in the real as a disk hanging silently in the air.
Suddenly I heard a voice, clear in the silence. "Can you go back
upstairs by yourself or do you want us to help you?" ...on the
far side of the road I saw three dark shapes hanging above the
brush. ..... I realized what was happening: there was a gigantic
unknown object up there, and my son must be in it.
...the object...seemed to be shrinking....now disappeared
completely - suddenly reappeared as a flat yellow disk about
half the size of a dime. Its glow took on a faint pink tint
and it darted off to the north, streaking like a meteor.
Half a dozen solidly educated scientists and medical people
had offered me professional support....their counsel had been
brilliant, supportive and useful. Learn to live at a high
level of uncertainty. Keep the question open.
I know there are priests who would have thrown me out of their
rectories, and priests who would have proclaimed me the
victim of demons. But I did not meet such priests. The
priest I talked to said: "No matter what they are, they
can only increase the glory of God."
I sensed that they were in the bedroom with me, but that didn't
seem to matter. I might as well have been paralysed for all the
control I had over myself....morning...I heard the pad pad pad of
my son's footsteps....he was warm and real and I hugged him hard.
I was eager to tell the scientists.....about this new experience,
a waking hypnopompic state with extensive hallucinatory involvement.
My boy...grew tired of his game.....
"Y'know. I've been thinking. Reality is God's dream.........what
happens if God wakes up?"....Later...."The unconscious mind is
like the universe out beyond the quasars. Its a place we want to
go to find out what's there.".....after sunset...."I dreamed I
was floating in the woods and this huge eye was looking down
at me...like it was real but it was a dream."
Somewhere there is a place where the truth is known.....
....discovery that the star language spoken by Betty Andreasson Luca
when she was under hypnosis might have been Gaelic.....phonetic
renderings are taken from _The Andreasson Affair_ ....a careful and
accurate job of transcription...The Translation therefore reads:
The living descendants of the Northern Peoples are groping
in universal darkness. Their (My) mother mourns. A dark
occasion forebodes when weakness in high places will
revive a high cost of living, an interval of
mistakes in high places, an interval fit
for distressing events.
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Subject: Strieber on Harassment
The following was written by Whitley Strieber and is replicated here
with the permission of ISCNI.
UFO Watchers Item
Here is a short piece on Harrasment by Whitley Strieber, author of
Communion and Transformation.
Quite a number of witnesses report harrassment after their
experiences. I have had a hell of a lot of this myself - a protracted
reign of terror, in fact, that includes many provable incidents.
A few days ago I got an incredible letter from a friend who was
threatened while breakfasting with me at a hotel in New York two years
ago. A business partner was accosted on a plane in Feburary and asked
questions about me by a person showing an NSA identification card. My
home was broken into on May 28 of this year and a virus was put on my
computer and a six thousand dollar check stolen. Ultra-high-tech
electronics that involved the reprogramming of my alarm system's CPU
were used in the break-in and the virus was extremely sophisticated.
These are only a few of the things that I've endured, and others have
been much worse. My first run-in with the CIA came in 1983 when I was
doing research for a book about mind control called BLACK MAGIC.
Ironically, and to my own disgust, Wm. Cooper has accused me of being
a CIA agent, which is utterly false. Budd Hopkins has said in lectures
that I probably know more about what is going on inside the government
than anybody, implying that I am somehow a part of the "inside" - I,
who loathe the whole concept of insiders and consider official secrecy
a crime against the Constitution.
I have written the whole story of these problems and will publish it
in BEYOND COMMUNION. But I'm REAL interested in other witnesses who
have been harrassed. I know that there was a harrassment panel at the
Whole Life Expo in LA last year. Was anybody on this forum there? What
was said? I am being practically beaten to death by this. Literally,
in one case. About two weeks after I refused to help (the) CIA in '83,
I was beaten almost senseless, and bear some permanent injuries to my
diaphragm. Of course, I was never able to prove a connection. But when
I went to the NYPD, I started getting death threats on the telephone,
a nasty male voice threatening to pull my son's head off. He was just
a baby then. Attempts to follow up these calls with the NYNEX nusiance
bureau and the police were unsuccessful, and no charges were filed as
a result of the beating, although I was able to identify the
assailant.
I consider the secret government a costly, unconstitutional and
downright evil enterprise that we ought to get rid of. Period. It has
no business existing in a free nation like ours. No more CIA, DIA,
NSA, NRO, or military intelligence beyond the battlefield. And throw
open every single existing file to public scrutiny, without exception.
Maybe it was OKAY during the cold war, but that's over.
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Peace -
-Steve Frost
To: rshapiro@interaccess.com
Hi Joshua! This reply from Whitley Strieber explains a bit about
what's been happening to him over the past nine years. What
do you think? --Shelly
I'm interested to hear that you were in a Communion Group. I intentionally
broke off contact with them because of the fact that the press was trying
to say the whole thing was a cult. I have no idea if they're still going.
Perhaps I might also expand a little on what has been happening over the
nine years. What I have essentially been doing is attempting a
communication that would establish the degree to which the visitors were a
separate physical reality from us, and to determine what they were actually
doing or--if 'they' were us--what we were doing to ourselves.
In 1989 I was handed a very elegant proof that they were, in some sense,
real. However, it and all else that emerged suggests that they are not only
physically present, they have an incredibly detailed and intimate
connection to us, one so profound as to make it impossible to find a clear
dividing line between 'us' and 'them.'
I decided that the best thing to do was to try to determine what they were
actually engaged in, rather than address the question of who they were
directly. I set up very specific criteria: I would not respond to anything
they did that emerged out of my dream life, or happened when I was alone.
There had to be witnesses, and we had to be awake.
The results are: I was taken by them to the home of friends and was able to
observe them engaged in what would normally be taken as an 'abduction'
sequence. Over the next few years, I followed the results of this contact
in the life of the family involved.
With another witness present, I went either into
another dimension or forward in time, I don't know which, but it was a
physical experience.
A group of witnesses had an encounter with a
visitor at my cabin and were able to touch him, then observe him move
through a series of different physical states, including complete
invisibility.
With a close friend who was dying, I had a
face-to-face exchange with a visitor, and was then able to participate in
the process of his dying from within his mind.
Sheldon, these were profound and unprecedented
experiences. They have completely overturned my sense of the real. I have
also had numerous extraordinary events happen while I was alone. These
include movements backward in time, and a two-year period during which I
meditated with a visitor nightly for as long as six months at a stretch,
and became, to a small extent, a shared mind with him.
Still, though, I don't know what they are!
However, I do know why this is. It is because they possess a dimension of
mind that enables them to address physical reality as a plastic, and
enables them to see it from outside of time. Their message is actually
quite clear: we can reach this also. The reason that I cannot articulate
what they are is the same one that would prevent a two dimensional
creature--the proverbial flatlander--from describing a solid object except
in terms of the lines it presented as it moved through his plane.
I have discovered that there appears to be a very
broad extension of the physical world that includes the aspect of being we
have intuited as the soul. My impression is that the most fundamental forms
of the real emerge here. I also feel that there is--or must be--a sort of
hyperphysics to describe movement in this context. This post-quantum
physics, for example, would include time as a physical dimension of
objects, and they would be perceived physically with this dimension.
Understanding all this as part of the physical,
identifiable and eventually measurable world has been essential to my work
with the visitors. I am not interested in dreams and superstitions. We have
thus addressed this realm for years, and it's enough.
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Date: Wed, 17 May 95 21:30:59 PDT
Subject: Re: Breakthrough -- Reply
To: "Richard L. Shapiro"
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( May 18th, 1995 )
From: Richard L. Shapiro
To: wstriebe@InterServ.Com
Subject: Re: Breakthrough -- Reply
V J Enterprises
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(Email received from Mr. Strieber, May 26th, 1995)
From:
To: snet-l@world.std.com
Subject: Incredible but Credible Whitley S.
to while away ten happy minutes
per day in reassembly.....]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Transformation"
Whitley Strieber
(Beech Tree Books 1988)
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 06:41:00 -0400
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From: charlefr@qm.wv.tek.com (Steve Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Strieber on Harassment
Date: 27 Dec 1994 23:27:12 GMT
Saturday, November 5, 1994 12:36:19 PM
From: Linda Goranson, Dimensions Online
Subject: Harassment
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Subject: Strieber message...
From: Sheldon.Wernikoff@ocular.com (Sheldon Wernikoff)
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 21:53:48 -0600
Organization: Ocular Resources 708/299-1291 Voice
FORUM: Internet/UUCP HOST: EYERES
DATE: Dec-28-94 2:53pm MSG: 202 PVT
FROM: Whitley Strieber
TO: Sheldon Wernikoff
SUBJECT: Physical Reality
I'd be glad to be in touch with him.
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wstriebe@InterServ.Com
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