Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is To Come

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The bestselling author probes the ultimate significance behind today's increasing reports of UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, and other unexplained phenomena-and what they mean for humanity's immediate future.

In 1987 writer Whitley Strieber exposed the world to the truth about alien abduction in his landmark memoir, Communion. For the first time in years, Strieber revisits his encounter with alien intelligences-but now dramatically widens his search to explore how "the visitors" connect with today's persistent and globe-spanning reports of anomalous phenomena, such as crop circles, cattle mutilations, UFO sightings, alien abductions, near-death experiences, close encounters, and unexplained bodily implants.

In his magisterial style, Strieber contextualizes these bizarre and unsettling reports with his own childhood memories of strange schools, sinister experiments, and family secrets. In exploring today's most convincing cases of unexplained phenomena, Strieber reasons that they are not unrelated events. Nor are they the result of mass delusion. In some of his most persuasive writing, Strieber argues that the wave of mysterious episodes marks a transition that humanity is undergoing right now. Against all conscious understanding, we are experiencing a broadened awareness of dimensions of reality that exist beyond our current perceptions.

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4.3
10 reviews
Ike McFadden
July 17, 2014
I've read the majority of Strieber's books on this subject, and this is unfortunately one of the slightest in terms of actual content. There are some fifteen or so incidents recounted herein...a dozen of which all are carryovers from prior books, where they were in fact often treated with greater detail. It's an unfortunate habit that's cropped up in his prior works - the tendency to re-tell the same incidents repeatedly. Repetition would be acceptable if some new detail or insight was forthcoming, but generally that's not the case...it's just repetition. In summary, there's not a heck of a lot of new material here. And what remains of the book is some fairly surface-level rumination on the environment, humanity's place in the Universe, and the meaning of it all. While I've enjoyed his other works on the subject, this is perhaps the first time I've actually regretted the purchase. The last three or four "Communion" books have all suffered from the above issues; Mr. Strieber just doesn't seem to have too much left to bring to the table on the topic, at least for the time being.
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Sonia Ninala
February 10, 2015
I think I read about 5 of his masterpieces & I luv'd everyone of them;) I gotta put a shout out to my brother Sunil' for giving me my first Whitley Strieber' book which was the best ever written COMMUNION! He told me it'll freak me out. I lol & I opened it & started my adventure & boy was I scared at age 14' I had to put the book outside my bedroom door as I closed it & went to bed. Haha I'll never forget that. Now I'm planning on giving my son a copy so he can experience the Strieber effect!
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Jennifer Adamek
October 23, 2016
He is a masterpiece, when spirit made him they definitely broke that mold! Awesome books..
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About the author

Whitley Strieber is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty novels and nonfiction works, including The Wolfen, The Hunger, and The Coming Global Superstorm, which was made into the feature film The Day After Tomorrow. He lives in California.

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