Communion: A True Story

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Indeed one gets the impression that the more weird things about Whitley Strieber's life surface, the more Strieber looks like an unreliable narrator or at the least a person with an unusually weak mental barrier between fantasy and reality.

I wish to be clear that I felt, at that moment, wide awake and in full possession of all my faculties. Frankly, I’m skeptical about hypnosis, and when a book relies so heavily upon it, I feel a little cheated. Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement Have You Got Good Religion?

More telling is the fact that most sightings and experiences have occurred at the rise of communism. I was suspicious, having known its author as the source of The Hunger and Wolfen, two decent horror movies based on novels by him. 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.

It is a philosophical parable, saying that any explanation would be nothing but a mask over the truth, which cannot be expressed in words. Before becoming an author, he worked at an advertising agency from 1970 to 1977, going from account supervisor to vice president.Discover your next non-fiction read and brilliant book gifts in the Profile newsletter, and find books to help you live well with Souvenir Press. When the visitors entered my life in 1985, they used the same teaching techniques that I was familiar with from my Gurdjieff Work. You can tell that the author is a skilled horror/suspense novelist, whom I already know from his unconventional werewolf novel "The Wolfen": "Communion" is structured more like a novel with a clear narrative, than like most nonfiction books about UFOs I've read. The raw power of the original cover which featured a painting of one of the unknown entities Strieber encountered was one of the most unsettling images I've ever seen and should be on the book!

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. Existen realmente estas vivencias o son producto de la mente del autor, aumentadas a través de la hipnosis? Sahar is seen reading a well worn copy of this book in "Love Language" (S1, Ep5) of the SyFy series Resident Alien. Hopkins is a painter by trade who became obsessed with UFOs and turned amateur hypnotist also writing a book about "missing time". Perhaps books like this are better viewed as religious texts, and debating their literal truth is about as useful as debating the literal truth of the Bible?TheBookAtWar by Andrew Pettegree is the perfect present for bibliophiles and history buffs alike – a fascinating exploration of the role of books in wartime. As they close outward, this meant that the opening was getting smaller, concealing whatever was behind that door.

Not badly written and some happenings have traces of suspense, but the author's insistence that these are true events brings down readability. 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. After reading his descriptions, hypnosis transcripts and polygraph results, I'm definitely convinced that something happened to him and his family. And transcriptions of interviews with the author’s young son don’t really ring true; they do not seem to follow the way a child would normally talk.

My books the Wolfen, the Hunger, Communion and Superstorm have all been made into films (Superstorm as the Day After Tomorrow). 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. Then there was the Superstorm, which predicted that climate change would be much more sudden and violent than was thought in 1999 when it was published. His copy was a hardcover and he had removed the dust jacket probably at the request of his mother so all we actually saw was a white book with the word "Communion" on the side. 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.