Will the Real Whitley Strieber Please Stand Up?

[OP ED]

So strange there's still para-politic researchers who think all UFO sightings/contactee/abductee cases are all "military black budget psyops"

Or hallucinations, swamp gas, etc.

The UFO/contactee/abductee phenomenon IS a massive psyops...

just not by the "government/military" or "aliens"

The self-transforming machine elves maintain their independence from materialist institutions, stating: "we cannot be held responsible for lost or stolen items or for the actions of any human governing authority, please check your baggage to make sure all items are intact".

[brekin]

Moya wrote:

"A couple of months ago I was laying in bed, eyes open and seemingly awake when the room started shaking, as if there was a diesel engine pressed up against the wall behind me. Suddenly a blinding light came through the window, and I could only move my head and eyes. It hit me that this is the usual prelude to an alien abduction report, so I had better brace myself for total anal destruction."

Could this be the funniest thing I have read in a couple of months? It sounds like a Steven Wright bit. In fact if you read it with Steven Wright's voice you will piss yourself!

I think one thing that has gone unnoticed with Whitley Strieber's career is the cover of Communion. I remember as a kid browsing in a book store and coming upon Communion for the first time and the cover literally taking my breath away. The book itself, ah I lean to the open-minded but it doesn't seem to even work as good fiction. But I don't want to potentially invite any cosmic anal destruction, so who knows- could of happened.

Anyways here is the cover:

[brainpanhandler]

I think one thing that has gone unnoticed with Whitley Strieber's career is the cover of Communion.

Is this sarcasm?

Definitely the Mona Lisa of grey depictions. I bought the book for my father before I ever had any real interest in the subject or in fact even before my father had any interest. I really bought it for myself, based on the cover. I read it before I gave it to him, in one sitting.

I recently reread it after scrounging it out of their basement. Not nearly as good a read this many years later. In fact, pretty bad as fiction goes.

Interesting thread.

[brekin]

brainpanhandler wrote:

Quote:
I think one thing that has gone unnoticed with Whitley Strieber's career is the cover of Communion.


Is this sarcasm?

Nope. I think like you if the cover was your stereotypical flying saucer I probably would have passed at the time. Something about the alien psygionomy painted in a somewhat classical way was intriguing/disturbing enough to grab my attention at that age.

I imagine the phenomeon has mutated into Manga now for that age group.

[Crow]

I remember as a kid browsing in a book store and coming upon Communion for the first time and the cover literally taking my breath away.

I had the same experience. I was ten years old.

[teamdaemon]

The self-transforming machine elves maintain their independence from materialist institutions, stating: "we cannot be held responsible for lost or stolen items or for the actions of any human governing authority, please check your baggage to make sure all items are intact".

Nice.

[OpLan]

You caught Mac Tonnies eye..
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"Here it is: the most devastating and articulate summary of Whitley Strieber and his works that I've ever read. Neither facile dismissal nor endorsement, Rigorous Intuition's analysis is propelled by a sincere interest in Strieber's writings that illuminates the often schizophrenic nature of his alleged experiences"

http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com/2008 ... g-and.html

[Aeolus Kephas]

thanks for bringing that to my attention

[Crow]

<3 Mac.

[Jeff]

I've emailed Mac asking that Aeolus be credited for his own work. I'd be proud if it were, but it's not "Rigorous Intuition's analysis."

[elfismiles]

thanks for bringing that to my attention

Hey Aelous, is this the same article that is in the latest edition of ALIEN WORLDS magazine?

Through a Fractured Glass
Aeolus Kephas dissects Whitley Strieber

http://www.AlienWorldsMag.com

Congrats on the kudos!

Greg Bishop's picked it up and pointed to it as well...

Whitley Strieber And His Aliens Deconstructed
http://www.ufomystic.com/wake-up-down-t ... criticism/

SMiles

[Aeolus Kephas]

thanks, i didn't even know the mag was out yet!

[guruilla]

The saga continues

[justdrew]

so was Horsley the same Aeolus Kephas that used to post here?

[elfismiles]

so was Horsley the same Aeolus Kephas that used to post here?

Yes and he is guruilla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Horsley

Oh yeah, he was also Jason Wynd:

"Ufobia: E.T-B.S" From the Mess Age: Investigations in Eschatology and Paranoid Awareness - Jason Wynd
http://web.archive.org/web/200202181542 ... g/ufo.html

https://www.google.com/search?q="Jason Wynd"