Communion Quotes

“Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a lady in a flowered dress.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

“Maybe you and I are larvae, and the “visitors” are human beings in the mature form. Certainly, we are consuming our planet’s resources with at least the avidity of caterpillars on a shrub.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reality together until they begin to seem what they probably are - different aspects of a single continuum. To really begin to perceive the visitors adequately it is going to be necessary to invent a new discipline of vision, one that combines the mystic's freedom of imagination with the substantial intellectual rigor of the scientist.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

“According to studies led by Dr. Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, there is genetic evidence that the entire human species arose from a single female in North Africa between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago. In other words, it is conceivable that we all started from the womb of a single woman.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“They are, if anything, more full of contradictions than we are. And indeed, if human beings were able to travel to a distant planet inhabited by a less advanced species, they would see a vast array of different approaches. Missionaries, anthropologists, soldiers, criminals, biologists and so many others would all have different agendas, and their understanding of those motives might be very confused indeed.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“According to studies led by Dr. Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, there is genetic evidence that the entire human species arose from a single female in North Africa between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago. In other words, it is conceivable that we all started from the womb of a single woman.
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Or would we find an even greater mystery, that the whole pantheon of our reality was somehow contained in the wobbling mind of that creature, who fell down to thank her raw new gods after a panther leaped at her throat, and by a miracle missed devouring us all.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

“I think the most interesting thing is that I went to a meeting up in Massachusetts and there was a whole bunch of people—and for some reason three people who had been abducted all came together in the middle of the room. It was very strange, and we all knew immediately.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Interestingly, one sound that is reported other than the various voices is a very low-pitched noise. There is a small body of research suggesting that low-frequency sound may have biological effects, especially in the area of disorientation.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“The truth is that we do not and cannot know the actual condition of life elsewhere in the universe because we are presently too ignorant of conditions outside our own immediate solar neighborhood.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“It appears that there is more than a shred of evidence that there are visitors here, and that they are doing something that involves us. It is also obvious from their secrecy that they want very much to hide. Can it be that the government is inadvertently helping them do this, or even that they have somehow compelled it to act as it does?”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Cornell University professor Dr. Carl Sagan has stated many times that there is no evidence that unidentified aerial objects—and presumably visitors—exist. To be precise, there is no publicly acknowledged physical artifact. The large body of encounter memories, some heavily freighted with imagination, others more sparse, amount to an artifact of something.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Perhaps there are natural electromagnetic anomalies that trip a certain hallucinatory wire in the mind, causing many different people to have experiences so similar as to seem to be the result of encounters with the same physical phenomena.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“They are not afraid of man’s savagery or his greed, but of his capacity for independent action.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“It could easily be that the visitors are affecting the temporal lobe in such a way as to induce abnormalities that would later be diagnosed as epileptic conditions.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“People with temporal-lobe epilepsy report déjà vu, unexplained panic states, strong smells, and even a preoccupation with philosophical and cosmic concerns. They also sometimes report vivid hallucinatory journeys.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“If all these objects were the results of pranks, then the pranksters would have been operating for more than thirty years—”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“And yet, despite the fact that we don’t understand it, we have an immense presence in this unknown world, so much so that it might turn out that the human species is much more a non-physical than a physical one.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Our health care system must go beyond where it is now, which is leading from an assumption that close encounter reports are false memories of child abuse or the result of other known psychological issues.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“If I am right about them, it is unlikely that there will ever be the kind of open contact between our two species that seems so logical and useful to us. Even a well-intentioned human being would pose a threat, in that his accidentally taking an action they had not anticipated might cause them literally to lose track of him right in the middle of one of their own craft.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Can we help you stop screaming? Can we help you stop screaming?’ “‘You could let me smell you.’ She puts her cheek up by my face. They are here. You have to understand that. They are here. ‘I’m not going to let you do an operation.’ “‘We won’t hurt you.’ “‘I’m not gonna let you do an operation on me. You have absolutely no right.’ “‘We do have a right.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion