American writer best known for his novels The Wolfen,The Hunger and Warday and for Communion, a non-fiction description of his experiences with apparent alien contact. He has recently made significant advances in understanding this phenomenon, and has published his new discoveries in Solving the Communion Enigma.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.
His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.
Whitley Strieber is one of the most prolific and talented writers in both the non-fiction and fiction areas, as well as an amazing contributor to various areas of film/video. Yet, the Path seems to be completely divergent of even those areas, as focused on the Tarot as it is; yet it is no less amazing.
In fact, Strieber’s style in this little gem reads like a little pocket book full of truismatic wisdom. Streiber has lived quite a challenging and exciting life, and seems to have learned quite a bit on his sojourn in this dimension and on this plane. Wisdom that he is happy to share with others, should we be so inclined to receive it.
Truth be told, however – and much to the consternation and disbelief of many if not most Taroists – the Tarot was not originally designed to be a divinatory system, which most believe it to be; it was designed to be a facilitator on one’s spiritual evolutionary journey upwards towards Ascension. Something akin to the Hero’s Journey with a much more spiritual bent. And in this book, Whitley seems to be taking the Tarot back to as close to its original intention as possible.
Additionally, the Tarot that is being utilized in The Path – The Marseilles Tarot (also known as The Tarot de Marseilles) – is quite a bit different than most Tarot decks. Some of the cards seem to have different names, while having the same meanings or vice versa. And most have additional meanings that fit right in to Whitley’s The Path. Plus, from what I can tell after having perused The Path and a basic book on the Marseilles Tarot is that Whitley may have added his own interpretation of the cards. No matter. His take on this version of the Tarot seems to work quite well. For me, anyway.
Thanks for your amazing insight, Whitley. As always, it’s a pleasure to share your journey.
Required reading if you would like to learn how to live in this world free of the treadmill of life. I first stumbled on this many years ago and it's still applicable today.