Strieber Whitley - A new world

A New World

Whitley Strieber

Walker & Collier, Inc.

A New World is a Walker & Collier book, copyright 2019, Walker & Collier, Inc.

Preface by Jeff Kripal is copyright 2019, Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Strieber, Whitley

A new world / by Whitley Strieber

ISBN (Paperback) 978-1-7342028-0-9

(Electronic Book) 978-1-7342028-1-6

(Audio Book) 978-1-7342028-2-3

Cover design by Lisa Amowitz

Printed in the United States of America

First Edition

This book is dedicated to the children, to whom this world belongs.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the liedeliberate, contrived and dishonestbut the mythpersistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichs of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

---John F. Kennedy,

Yale University Commencement Address, 1962

Mythology exists at a level of our social reality over which normal political and intellectual action has no power.

---Dr. Jacques Vallee

We are part of a symbiosis with something that disguises itself as an alien invasion so as not to alarm us.

---Terrence McKenna

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the help and support of Lorie Barnes, Josh Boone, Raven Dana, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, Leigh J. McCloskey, Anndrea Taylor, Prince Stash Klossowski de Rola, and too many others to name. Their help has been of inestimable value, and I can only hope that I have met their expectations. I would especially like to thank Dr. Kripal, Anndrea Taylor and Stash de Rola for their extensive and patient editorial help, and Josh Boone for reading all seven drafts with such care and insight.

I wish also to honor all the witnesses and researchers who have struggled with the close encounter experience and the effort to understand it for so many years.

I would especially like to thank Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rice University for creating the Anne and Whitley Strieber Archive, which preserves thousands of the letters that we received after the publication of Communion , and were collected and cataloged by Anne Strieber.

When Col. Philip Corso asked one of our visitors what was on offer for us if we let them into our lives, the answer was A new world, if you can take it.

In Memory

Not a page of this book is absent the influence of my beloved wife, Anne Strieber. Meeting this brilliant human being blessed and defined my life. She brought crystalline insight into the ambiguous and yet real events that we experienced. The byword of her life was have joy, and it is in that spirit that I have written A New World .

A Note from the Author

Most of what you read in these pages is going to be strange beyond belief. This is because it is about events that are supposed to be impossible, a level of reality that isnt supposed to exist and relationships that are entirely new. Knowing this, I have made every effort to tell my story accurately. I have never left anything out, changed anything or edited anything because it seemed too unbelievable. It bears essentially no relationship to any of the popular narratives about alien contact, even less those of ordinary life. And yet it is, word by word, based on observation and experience.

Unlike many stories that deal with strange experiences, I have attempted whenever possible to add the texture of witness to my narrative. Given what I am asking here, readers deserve to know the degree to which every experience I relate was shared by others.

It is also important to add that the close encounter experience only begins with what we now know as the physical. As you develop your relationship with the visitors, you discover that what we call the physical is only part of a huge tapestry of reality. The vision of those who do not strive to gain from their encounters remains bound to the familiar world, though.

Presently, their physical appearance, although only a small part of what they are, is all most of us know about the visitors. For example, it is my belief that most people operating behind the curtain of secrecy have rarely experienced them except physically, and therefore have a very limited vision of them. But for anybody willing to see and accept the mystery that they actually present, there is so much more. It is this group that has the potential to lead the world to real change.

Engaging with the visitors more deeply is extraordinary and rewarding. It is also completely different from living life as we have come to know it. The laws of reality change. Above all, the very nature of communication changes. The rules are much different and, by our standards, very strange.

I could have edited my story to make it easier to believeleft some things out, changed others to make them seem closer to the familiar than they are. Like the visitors who are part of my life, I hate deception and will have no part in it. To make my story more believable, I would have had to turn it into a lie.

Preface

This Book Is Contact

by Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD

This is a book about a new super natural world in which communication between the visitors and us, between the dead and the living, enters a new level of intensity, where physicality is extended into some other new materialist or superphysical dimension, where time, and so evolution, do not work like we think they work, where astonishing sensing capacities or parapsychological abilities run in genetic lines (otherwise called families), and where the UFO is as much a vehicle of soul as it is a source of metamaterials or the invisible object of new radar returns or classified military attention. There is also a model of embodiment shining between these remarkable lines, constituting a paradoxical vision in which we use the physical body as a kind of temporary portal into these physical and temporal dimensions, even as we also remain outside the body and its particular sensory-generated reality. This is a new world not because it is really new (I assure you that all of these themes are very old convictions in other cultural codes), but because it depends on us right here and right now to take shape and appear.

The deepest message of this little book, then, is an intimate one: that the actualization and appearance, or continued distortion and camouflaging, of this new world depends on us and, more particularly, on how we choose to interact with the invisible presences of our cosmic environment. These choices include whether and how we read this very book, which, in the intentions and understanding of the author, is itself an urgent communication from the visitors. The intended implications are clear enough: to the extent that you really and truly interact with and so actualize this book, you really and truly interact with and so actualize the visitors. This book is contact, but this contact depends on you .

Allow me to be nerdy for a moment, as this new world and our uncanny reading role in bringing it into focus intersects directly with my daily life and work.

I live and work in an elite academic world, in a school of humanities at a major research university with some of the smartest people on the planet. (I am not sure how I got here, but that is another story.) These remarkable intellectuals see through things, like so many X-ray machines in a doctors office. They see into the bones, organs, and mostly unconscious structures of whole societies, nation-states, empires, value systems, and religions. Nothing is sacred here.