These are the questions Streiber raises in his book, probably the all-time definitive book about alien abduction. Strieber also includes a very trying, extended hypnosis interview with his wife—whose experiences are mainly peripheral to the main story—and it is an absolute chore to read. When the visitors entered my life in 1985, they used the same teaching techniques that I was familiar with from my Gurdjieff Work. Our need for ritual is primordial, and embracing its logic can help us connect, find meaning and discover who we are.

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. This was no random creak, no settling of the house, but a sound as if a large number of people were moving rapidly around in the room.

The dreamlike way it all unfolds makes the visitors much more nightmarish and believable than a more straight forward account would be. 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. When I read it I was living in Austin which is where Whitley Streiber was living when he claims these events happened. I wish to be clear that I felt, at that moment, wide awake and in full possession of all my faculties.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.His other non-fiction works include Transformation, Breakthrough: The Next Step, The Secret School, Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come, and Miraculous Journey. Freidman (Basil Hoffman), he describes the visitors while watching a salamander frolic in the physician's aquarium. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The alien on the cover was so frightening to me that I’d take occasional peeks at it just to give myself a chill.

Furthermore the author finishes the book with a mind numbingly dull chapter about his belief in the special nature of "the triad". 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.I liked reading this twenty-six years after it was published, because it makes things like the "visitors" trying to help mankind because of the ozone hole a little bit discredited. Hopkins is a painter by trade who became obsessed with UFOs and turned amateur hypnotist also writing a book about "missing time". Al final, al ir a dormir en un lugar apartado, hay que perder toda esperanza de que no seas observado por mentes alienígenas.