Christopher Miller
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Whitley Strieber:
After all these years, have you come to terms with what has happened re: the visitors? (I've followed your work since Communion.)
Whitley Strieber
If by 'come to terms' you mean reached a conclusion, I haven't. The reason is that there simply has not be adequate study either of the observed phenomena or the people who have close encounters, so we have no baseline.
I have co-authored a book with Jeff Kripal, the Religion Chair at Rice University in Houston which is called Super Natural: a New Vision of the Unexplained. It re-envisions the whole spectrum of paranormal events and rejected knowledge. It will be out from Tarcher/Penguin in Feburary of 2016.
We have been debating whether or not these strange manifestations were real or not since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is time to step back and re-address them as an unknown that is accessible to culture and science in any number of ways that have nothing to do with that fruitless argument.
So, in a sense, I have come to terms with the unanswered question. I have found a new focus that accepts it as something that can be answered, but does not speculate about what that answer may be.
I have co-authored a book with Jeff Kripal, the Religion Chair at Rice University in Houston which is called Super Natural: a New Vision of the Unexplained. It re-envisions the whole spectrum of paranormal events and rejected knowledge. It will be out from Tarcher/Penguin in Feburary of 2016.
We have been debating whether or not these strange manifestations were real or not since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is time to step back and re-address them as an unknown that is accessible to culture and science in any number of ways that have nothing to do with that fruitless argument.
So, in a sense, I have come to terms with the unanswered question. I have found a new focus that accepts it as something that can be answered, but does not speculate about what that answer may be.
More Answered Questions
Jeanne Coppola
asked
Whitley Strieber:
Has any alien investigator ever spent the night in an experiencer’s room to obtain a video of the aliens, or to capture an alien with lasers or electromagnetic radiation? Could an alien be photographed with heat or radiation sensitive cameras? How can I assist alien researchers find tangible proof? I am a senior citizen, who recently read your book "Transformation." It was confusing and frightening.
Irene
asked
Whitley Strieber:
You're an excellent author but perhaps you should've kept to fiction? Although I believe in magick, reincarnation, the "visitors", cryptozoology & more, I do not believe you yourself have had any supernatural experiences. I consider your books well-written, imaginative works of fiction. I don't hold it against you though since you gave voice to otherwise voiceless abductees & frightened witnesses of the inexplicable.
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