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Nov. 19, 1995 - Art Bell
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Dreamland with Art Bell - Communion - Whitley Strieber
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art bell
Chronicles his efforts to find a sensible explanation.
Communion, for your information, has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, has been made into a film with Christopher Walken playing Whittle.
It is the best-selling film of the modern times.
So Noah's taken every minute.
unidentified
The door is back up.
art bell
And you also might want to know, he's passed three independently administered lie detector tests.
He still does not know what happened to him, only that it is not explainable.
In his latest book on the subject, Breakthrough, he offers strong circumstantial evidence that the strange beings he calls the Vinceverse are real.
What's he doing now?
Well, he's working on a book called The Secret School, which is designed to shed light on what he believes their, meaning the aliens, aims or motives might be.
So coming up in just one moment, it's Whitley Streeber, and let me clear a little content here, and we'll just roar to the top of the hour.
We'll be right back.
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All right, Thanksgiving is coming right now.
And so right now I want to tell you, if you're not going to be with your family, here's a way you can be in spirit.
Trust me when I tell you, absolutely fresh flowers is, by a dimension, the best deal in flowers in America, period.
They go out when you call, they cut the flowers, put them in this big triangular box along with your message.
I don't know where to begin with you.
I tell you, I'm going to sort of jump into a strange question and then we'll backtrack.
Okay.
A very good friend of mine lives in Las Vegas.
His name is John Lear.
And I have interviewed and known John over the years.
He once told me something on a talk show that he said you had told him that I have never forgotten and never been able to get over.
He said, when you die, don't go to the light.
It's a trick.
Go to the dark.
whitley strieber
I said that?
art bell
He said that you had said that to him, and possibly you've forgotten it, or possibly it was never said, but I wanted to add.
unidentified
Who knows?
whitley strieber
I mean, I've said a lot of things in this lifetime.
I wouldn't say I haven't said that.
But at the same time, I don't know quite what the context of it would have been.
I don't remember the conversation.
I had some conversations with John, though, so it's possible, I guess.
art bell
Interesting.
whitley strieber
I don't know why I would have said it.
It's kind of an interesting thing to say.
art bell
Well, it's, you know, we all have the, you go to the light.
Obviously, the light is a good concept.
whitley strieber
Boy, that's creepy.
art bell
Isn't it creepy?
whitley strieber
But I have been talking about, you know, I once wrote a horror story, but it was fiction about that, about the light being a trick.
art bell
Oh, really?
whitley strieber
Yeah, and it's possible that...
that, uh...
Yeah, I mean, that might have been what I was talking about.
Or it might be that there was a time when I...
I'm trying to remember.
I think I read that somewhere, which is what gave me the idea for the story.
But goodness, that's certainly an interesting thing to contemplate, though.
If it is a trick, how creepy.
art bell
How creepy is right.
Somehow, I finally concluded, after this bothered me for literally years, I finally concluded, look, you know, getting into heaven isn't which door do you choose kind of situation.
whitley strieber
No.
art bell
So it's not going to be a trick.
whitley strieber
I don't think so either.
I think that, I mean, there may have been a time when my fear system that I was trapped in for so many years would have caused me to cough up an idea like that.
But I don't think so, anything like that anymore.
I don't think it's a very...
I think if you're going to go somewhere bad, it's because that's where you decide to go.
art bell
I'm with you.
whitley strieber
You know, that's my feeling now.
I don't know if it was then or not, but that sure is my feeling now.
art bell
One of my favorite novels, and I love the genre, was War Day.
I really, really loved War Day.
And how do you feel about that as part of what you've done?
where does it fit in?
whitley strieber
Well, it fits in an interesting place because Ward A was a And what this scenario was, by the way, was that a limited nuclear war could be a very, very, very dangerous affair for two reasons.
One, that a burst of X-rays could be sent out from a nuclear bomb set off high in the atmosphere that could blow out every electrical uh uh every electronic circuit in a in a ho in in a whole hemisphere.
art bell
EMP pulse.
whitley strieber
Yeah, right.
I mean it's an EMP pulse.
And that that caused, interesting, a lot of people in Congress did not know anything about EMP until they read Ward and they started asking the Defense Department questions about whether or not the United States had a hard, an EMP safe communication system, which it did not and does not.
And so it caused that and it caused some other repercussions because it became obvious that the idea which was current in those days that a limited nuclear war was winnable and survivable was not a true idea.
And there were some changes in strategic thinking at the time that were probably good, because you remember back in those days we had a, we were supposedly at the Soviet Union, the United States were ready to push the button at all times.
And one of the problems was that we'd been in a stalemate because for a long time, the guy that pushed the button first was probably gonna, gonna get himself blown all the hell.
hell.
And the difficulty was that if the one side became convinced that the other was gonna had to push the button first, then they therefore would have to push the button first and we'd have a repeat of World War I, which would last about 10 minutes and end the world.
Slightly different outcome.
Where, in other words, where in World War I, once they started mobilizing, everybody had to fight.
There was no way to stop.
That was the danger.
That was what was so destabilizing about the limited nuclear war scenario.
art bell
From that day, when you wrote that, to today, when we supposedly have love and kisses between ourselves and the Soviets, or the Russians, excuse me, and we've got Yeltsin hanging on by a thread, and the possibility of a military guy if Yeltsin should assume room temperature.
Are we still at risk in reality?
whitley strieber
Oh, sure.
It's absolutely a very unstable situation in Russia, and most of the Soviet, of the old Soviet missile system is still operational in theory.
Whether or not those big old liquid-fuel rockets that they've got can go anywhere significant, no one knows, but it only takes one or two of them to make it, to really, really create a tremendous disaster here.
Because some of them are MRV and they carry quite a number of nuclear warheads.
So, say if they fired off 30 or 40 and two of them made it, our country would be devastated.
I mean, we would really be hit hard.
That's a highly unstable situation politically.
I think it's more dangerous now than it was in 1980.
So do I. In 1980, frankly.
So do I. I also feel that some things have emerged on our side that are extremely disturbing.
In the fallout from the Aldrich Ames fiasco, it's become clear that the CIA was knowingly feeding its various governmental clients tainted information, information that it knew had been supplied to it by intentionally disinformation.
Well, yeah, that they were passing on information that was being generated essentially within the KGB, which is why the United States did not understand that the Soviet Union was falling until it actually happened.
unidentified
And that's...
whitley strieber
It means, to me, I mean, I know a fair amount about the intelligence community.
James Angleton was struggling for years to try to find a mole within the CIA.
He felt that the CIA had been turned, James came in verbatim.
My problem is this.
The people who were there are still mostly, a lot of them are still there.
Now, if they are knowingly passing information that was handed to them by the KGB to the administration, not telling the administration that this stuff is painted, not telling the national security agency, the Defense Department that it's no good, why aren't they KGB agents?
Who do they serve?
art bell
Whitley, how many of them do you think reasonably for this to have occurred would have knowingly had to have passed on the disinformation?
whitley strieber
A significant number.
I mean, way up the line, because if you look at the structure of the CIA, it is designed to filter out disinformation like that.
There's lots of safeguards, and they were all being bypassed.
And Angleton was eventually retired in disgrace, and everyone said he was paranoid for looking for a mole.
And I just, I think that the CIA is a major, major problem at this time, because I think that because we can't trust it, remember the KGB stayed intact.
It rocked around a bit at the changeover, but it's basically still an intact organization.
Therefore, why aren't those lines of communication between KGB and CIA still functioning?
There's a big article in Parade magazine about how Deutsche is going to change things around at the CIA.
But I think there's probably got to be a very, very major house cleaning in that agency before we can even tell what's going on in the Soviet Union for sure.
I have a feeling that the administrations, U.S. administrations have been basically flying blind on the Soviet Union and the Russian government.
art bell
Let me probe a little on what you might know was past.
Do you have any idea regarding the importance of the information in the past, how important it was?
whitley strieber
Well, there was quite a long article in the New York Times two weeks ago.
I can't give the exact date.
I don't have it in my head.
And I'm not in my office.
and apparently it was everything.
art bell
It was just a, it, it, it, it, it, it.
whitley strieber
In fact, the word cataclysmic was even used in the article.
in other words, it's an absolute disaster.
art bell
What do you know of the nature of the information?
Do you actually know what kind of stuff?
whitley strieber
Oh, they were vague or more vague about that because they would have to be, but but primarily what was passed was uh an a lot of information that that created uh a false picture of the Soviet Union as a healthy, functioning economic, political, and military organism when in fact it was in it was collapsing.
art bell
All right, well if you look at motive, the motive for such a thing obviously would come from, for example, the giant defense industry.
whitley strieber
Well but wouldn't the primary motive have been Russia?
Wouldn't the Soviets have wanted to conceal their weakness from the United States as long as possible?
art bell
Absolutely.
whitley strieber
Of course.
I mean there was certainly a windfall handed to the American defense industry, but I'm not I don't think you can look that far for a conspiracy.
I mean they were and also there's another factor in that that the military buildup we we engaged in in those days may very well have been a destabilizing influence in the Soviet Union because it required them to spend so much of their more of their GNP on military.
What I don't think we realized was it was probably far more effective than we ever dreamed it would be because they were much weaker than we thought they were.
art bell
However, having said all that, again, the present Russian government is incredibly unstable and anything could happen any day.
One of these days we'd hear Yeltsin out art attack and he didn't come out of this one.
And here I am taking over at the Kremlin, whoever it is.
whitley strieber
We have absolutely no idea what will happen when Yeltsin's government falls or dies, or Yeltsin dies.
I don't think that there's any meaningful information at all, inside or outside of Russia, about that.
It's even true, by the way, that there's a secret society in Europe devoted to the restoration of the crowns in Eastern Europe.
They tried to get the Romanians to accept the return of their king recently, unsuccessfully.
And they apparently are planning to get the Romanov heir into St. Petersburg if the government in Moscow falls into chaos and to declare a new Tsar.
art bell
Oh, boy.
whitley strieber
So that would create...
I mean, who knows what's going to happen there.
art bell
All right, and all of that aside, there are also very strong rumors that Iran, possibly others, have obtained old Soviet nuclear devices.
What's your best information on that one?
whitley strieber
If they haven't obtained semi-operational nuclear devices or enriched uranium in some quantities, it would be extraordinary.
The Soviet system has been hammeraging that kind of stuff because the payment that has been offered has been so huge and it has mostly been gold offered, where individuals who are presently living in a very,
very dismal circumstance are offered the equivalent of $4 or $5 million in gold for a relatively easily smugglable amount of enriched uranium.
And I'm sure that's been successfully done.
I mean, when you look at the condition that the CIA is in and that German intelligence is in, which is also in a very poor state, those are the two primary intelligence organizations that could stop something like this.
You see that they're not capable of doing it, and therefore it's happened and is happening.
art bell
If a nuclear device were to detonate in an unfriendly manner, would you expect the primary target to be Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or Washington?
whitley strieber
Well, first of all, the detonation will be totally unexpected.
It'll happen all of a sudden with absolutely no warning at all by a device that's been reassembled on site.
It depends on whether it is intelligence or fanaticism that causes the, that guides the hand.
If they're smart, they will do Washington.
If they're not smart, they will do Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
If they blew up Washington, the world would be thrown into absolute chaos.
I don't know what would happen to the United States.
I think that it would be a break in history.
art bell
Would our constitutional system even survive it?
whitley strieber
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I don't think anyone would be able to tell.
art bell
It would be at least an open question, I'm sure.
Things would change.
whitley strieber
There's no meaningful contingency plans that I'm aware of that speak to the sudden and unexpected and complete destruction of the United States government.
art bell
Should that occur, get your neck out a little further.
We're about at the top of the hour here.
Let's say Washington evaporated.
What would you surmise the U.S. response to be?
whitley strieber
There wouldn't be one.
art bell
There wouldn't be one?
unidentified
No.
whitley strieber
How could there be?
There would be nothing to respond with.
We wouldn't have, first of all, it wouldn't be a dropped weapon.
It would be something that had been reassembled on site.
art bell
Absolutely.
whitley strieber
There would be no warning.
There would be no way of telling where it had come from, and there would be absolutely nobody intact to investigate it.
art bell
You know, boy.
Whitley, we've got a break here at the top.
It's a fascinating area.
Stand by.
We'll be right back to you.
Whitley Streeber is my guest.
We began with War Day, and we're way into the future now.
unidentified
Stay right there.
art bell
Russia.
And Whitley Streeber is my guest.
We were talking about apocalypse, in a way.
His book, War Day, and his comments on the current situation, CIA, nuclear devices getting loose, the possibility of one detonating in our country.
And it's all part of what the apocalypse is not the word I use.
I use the word quickening, as you know, many of you.
And what it means is the quickening of social, economic, events, the monetary events, the movement toward one world, this or that, whatever you want to call it, the quickening events, the ring of fire, the volcanoes, the predictions of Scallion and others, events appear to be accelerating.
And I wonder if you've noticed that, Whitley.
whitley strieber
Well, there is an acceleration across the board.
From in the UFO area, there is, since in the past three or four years, there's been what I would describe as just an outburst of sightings and other phenomena, videotaped, for example, in Mexico to the point where it's not really disputable that there's something there.
I mean, I don't think that it's possible for a sane person to dispute that.
art bell
Hundreds of thousands of people seeing them, yes.
whitley strieber
Well, yeah, and video being taken that, as I say, that can't be disputed.
And in fact, over Colorado just recently, there's been a UFO, huge UFO sighted.
And the interesting thing, by the way, is that some of this old stellar calendars that operate on the 26,000-year cycle of the procession of the equinox are indicating a major change of the age taking place.
In some cases, 2005 is the year, in others, 2012.
I think five or six of those calendars do that.
And of course, our stellar calendar, which is the zodiac, is changing from Pisces to Aquarius.
It's starting to just, really, the most significant part of the change began a couple of weeks ago when Uranus, shortly followed by Pluto, entered Aquarius to remain there for the duration, I mean, for a very long time.
And what's interesting is that there is a mathematical study that's been done of the rate at which human knowledge is increasing.
And human knowledge will be doubling daily by the year 2010, I think, and will reach the infinite in 2012, just on the mathematical statistics.
That's incredible.
Yeah.
Now, what does that mean?
Well, all it adds up to is really something very straightforward.
There is going to be a lot of change around here.
It is not going to be like this for very much longer.
And now I notice that now that we're reaching the so-called millennium, the sort of conventional press is beginning to beat the drums for no change.
But that's not going to happen.
There is change.
There's massive changes on the way.
Change in the way we act and think, change in the world around us.
That book I just wrote, The Secret School, is all about this, about the changes that are going to take place as I understand them.
art bell
I'm with you, Whitley.
Animals have instincts.
I believe that human beings either had them at one time and to some degree do or are now developing them.
I can't tell which.
I'm a mere mortal.
But a lot of us can feel it.
You know, you can feel something about to happen.
The other foot about to come down.
whitley strieber
Yeah, I've been feeling that very strongly since I first had my encounters with the visitors because there's been a, I had a real quickening of that take place in 1989, too.
And then again in 1994 when I started writing Breakthrough, and then again just recently there have been some like the finishing of The Secret School was accompanied by the biggest physical encounter I've had with non-human beings in years.
art bell
Can you describe, would you describe that?
whitley strieber
Well, I can, sure.
What it was, was the encounter was directly related to the end of the book and forms the last chapter of the book.
Which, I mean, in other words, it was a direct communication that was placed where it was placed in life to provide me with the last chapter of the book.
And the chapter was literally written the next couple of days.
It happened about, I guess, two weeks ago, about a week and a half ago.
It was a week ago last Wednesday that it, I mean, excuse me, a week ago last Sunday that it took place.
art bell
Are you a messenger?
I have no idea.
whitley strieber
I never think about that kind of stuff.
I quit worrying about what the devil I am.
I'm just doing it at this point.
I don't even want to think about it because, you know, it might be interesting for other people to think about a thing like that, but to live in, to be in here and not to know the answer to a question like that, it's not even something I care to speculate about.
But anyway, this encounter began with a heavy-duty allergic reaction that woke me up from a dead sleep in the middle of the night.
And I associate that with the close physical approach of the big, the ones with the great big eyes, that people call the grays, in my life, I have a very strong allergic reaction to their presence.
At the time, at the moment it was happening, I did not see anything unusual in the room, and therefore just assumed it was an allergy attack.
art bell
That's what I was going to ask.
You mean an actual physical sneezing eyes running?
unidentified
Absolutely.
whitley strieber
I mean, it woke me up out of sleep, eyes burning, swollen nearly closed, unable to breathe, both nostrils closed, sneezing like crazy, and at the point where it felt like the sneezes were going to blow out my eardrums because everything else was sealed up.
And I staggered off into the bathroom to get an antihistamine and then went to bed in another room because I did not want to bother my wife with all of this noise.
I mean, that was really, I sounded like a backfiring truck.
I lay down on the bed.
A second later, I saw one of these familiar faces peering in the doorway of the room.
And I thought, well, that's a surprise.
And what then happened was that I was plunged forward.
The whole book, Secret School, is about moving through time and about experiences.
And you'll find if you talk to people who are inside the witness experience a lot recently, everybody in the whole experience is beginning to realize that they have moved through time, they can move through time, they've been taken back and forth in time.
And so people outside who aren't on the witness hotline, so to speak, or in the witness underground, wouldn't know this.
But in fact, this is what we're really beginning to deal with now.
art bell
What can you tell us about the nature of time?
It's been one of my favorite topics all my life.
whitley strieber
Well, I'm telling you, the lesson I got from, not from the Grays, but from another group of visitors who were I had about a 10-month relationship with when I was at my old cabin in upstate New York.
They said this, that, and this is really interesting, and they were much easier to communicate with it than the Grays were difficult, but not impossible.
Their concept of time was you looked at the future as water.
The present was something that compressed water, and the past was ice.
And that you didn't look forward to the future, but rather the future was on your right, the present in the center, and the past on your left.
And the real mystery was outside of all three of those things.
And they had the idea that you could go back into the past and change the present to some extent, but not completely, because obviously a lot of it's frozen.
But nature being nature, there's always, you know, there's always a way out.
art bell
Frozen.
You remember, I'll bet you saw the movie Langoliers, didn't you?
whitley strieber
No, I didn't touch it.
art bell
Okay, well, simply, it was a TV movie about an airplane.
And all of a sudden, everybody except those who had been asleep on the airplane were gone.
I mean, they were gone.
And what had occurred, without dragging this out, is they had flipped in time back about, I don't know, only 15 minutes or whatever it was.
But it was in a kind of a virtually frozen world where there wasn't activity and movement as we have it in, you know, as we go along the timeline.
Everything's active.
Everything there was sort of unreal and was slowly being destroyed, as in time not being forever.
It's fascinating.
Yeah, fascinating.
If you get a chance to see the Langleyers, you ought to.
whitley strieber
Anyway, what happened was this.
I went forward in time, a short distance, probably about 20, 25 years, and saw myself and my wife in a garden picking up.
We were picking pecans off the ground.
art bell
Probably retired.
whitley strieber
We were old, yeah.
We were old.
I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean that this is a future that's going to happen, but it's one that, obviously, that could.
It's one place in that water that's unlikely to reach, or I wouldn't have happened.
But here's what then subsequently happened was that for a moment when I was there, myself from there was seeing me and was laughing.
I mean, it was obviously, he knew I was going to show up, as he would.
unidentified
But now...
whitley strieber
Sure.
Yeah, I must have.
My memory is changing.
And it's beginning to feel like I have memories that are from the future.
In other words, there's some kind of a link between myself then and myself now.
unidentified
And I'm beginning to pick things up.
whitley strieber
And I'll tell you what I think.
Without, I can't, unfortunately, give you very exact predictions about earth changes and stuff.
Because where I was standing, there weren't any, obviously.
I mean, this place is still there.
And I don't know yet.
Maybe in a couple of months or six months' time, I'll have more.
But it's like a channel's been opened up to the Whitley of that particular future.
art bell
Oh, that's absolutely amazing.
You, of course, only one little tiny slice, but maybe next time.
whitley strieber
But I'll tell you something.
I want to tell you, I've really got a message about this from this already.
And there's more to it than I said just now.
Because I'll tell you, I know where we are in our history, okay?
And this is where we are.
We're where the Roman Republic was right before it ceased to be a republic and Augustus became the first emperor.
We're there.
We are well on the way to ceasing to be a republic.
It's definitely not a republic As we know it at that time.
And that's all I know about it.
I can't give you any specifics.
art bell
All right.
whitley strieber
Well, but that I do know.
It's some kind of different thing.
I don't know if it's bad or good.
I wouldn't say, but it ain't this.
art bell
Boy, we could be blood brothers.
I want you to listen to something.
I gave an analogy, and have been over the last couple of weeks, Whitley, the following.
The old movie, High and Mighty, maybe you remember that one.
No years ago.
I saw it when I was a little child.
And it was about an airplane.
You go midway across the Pacific.
Well, at that point, about halfway across the Pacific, the halfway point, a little red light came on, point of no return.
Now that means if something goes wrong, you go forward.
You're certainly not going back to where you took off from.
And I've been saying on the air, I think mankind's little red light came on not very long ago.
whitley strieber
Sometime in the late 80s.
I think it did too.
I think you're absolutely right.
We're going.
We're going.
art bell
To whatever is next.
whitley strieber
But here's the thing about time and about it becoming hyper-conscious and getting to the point where the human mind exits time.
Does that mean that we then go back across time and rebuild ourselves and we learn how to shift between parallel universes into the one where we want to center our attention into the one that's the most acceptable for us?
Exactly what happens.
I don't know, but I do know this, that the changes that are going to take place are far more fundamental than just Earth changes.
I am talking about a change of mind so great that it becomes possible for human beings to gain control over the physical environment with the mind.
That the mind is about to make a gigantic evolutionary leap.
art bell
I was going to say evolutionary leap.
whitley strieber
Absolutely.
No question about it.
And my guess is that the whole visitor phenomenon and the cracks that have opened up in reality and the near-death experience, like Daniel Brinkley's book, Embraced by the Light, my wife was pointing out to me the other day, Saved by the Light, pointing out to me the other day.
He describes, after his near-death experience, a trip back in time just like what I had back in 19, right before I had my first visitor encounters.
I mean, he describes this, I had this in Breakthrough and in Transformation this thing about these nine knocks that seem to be the harbingers of change coming on the side of my house in three groups of three.
Other people in the encounter experience have had this.
He talks about it as nine chimes in three groups of three that he heard when he was in the world of the dead.
art bell
Same vision, different words.
whitley strieber
Same vision, different words.
We're coming, we're getting somewhere, and I am not at all pessimistic about the human race.
I think that the old car is going to shake and rattle a lot in the next 25 or 30 years.
But this is a case of someone being born here, not somebody dying.
art bell
Well, having said all that, there are people like Scallion, as you know, who predict earth changes that they too say could be very positive out on the other end.
But along the way, all that shaking is going to cause a lot of human misery.
whitley strieber
Well, I brought the word shaking into it for obvious reasons.
art bell
We're not going there without misery.
whitley strieber
You go down the birth canal, it can't be fun.
Let's face it.
I mean, you look at what babies look like when they're born.
That's not fun.
art bell
Well, that's sure not the way mom remembers it.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
whitley strieber
And it's hard for mom, too.
And look at old mom.
I mean, she's having a hard time.
The earth is.
I was just reading the other day in USA Today that the rate of extinctions of species on this earth is 50 to 100 times greater than it was anticipated that it would be in 1985 because of the expansion of humanity.
You know, I'm not a believer.
I was a big environmentalist 10 years ago.
art bell
So we're close.
whitley strieber
Well, I don't think it matters anymore.
I think it's gone so far that you're wasting your time.
I mean, you can't put a band-aid on Niagara Falls.
art bell
You know, it's interesting.
That's about where I got to with John Lear.
And, you know, he concluded he still investigates ufology and follows it, but he's kind of retired.
And his attitude, Whitley, is, look, enjoy your family, live your life, take it a day at a time.
What's going to happen, you can't prevent.
whitley strieber
Yeah, that's right.
unidentified
But I think that...
whitley strieber
Well, yeah, I think that you do get a little bit more fatalistic as time goes on in that sense, because you begin to see the scale of what's happening here.
It's so huge that it's beyond world historical events.
I mean, world historical events are events larger than history, in a sense.
in a way that what we're looking at is mankind in the process of reaching a state that's kind of beyond history uh...
where uh...
where uh...
the mind of man has has made an evolutionary leap so great that it is extra temporal and hyperphysical and this earth is simply a staging point for a We're at a break.
art bell
Okay, we'll be right back.
Whitley Strieber is my guest.
unidentified
Thank you.
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art bell
It is indeed I'm Art Bell.
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More of it coming up in a moment.
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Whitley Strieber is my guest and we've got a...
Be patient.
We're going to go through some rapid-fire, Important questions, hopefully, and then we're going to get to the phone.
So stand by.
Jodi in Hawaii writes, Whitley, that she bought a few years ago, Communion.
Scared us badly.
She couldn't finish reading it.
She didn't even want it in the house, got rid of it.
Now, because of Dreamland, she's getting ready to read it again.
And I just thought you'd like to know that.
whitley strieber
Well, I think she should read Breakthrough.
art bell
Oh, do you?
whitley strieber
Absolutely.
Why bother with Queen and Transformation when I've got Breakthrough now?
art bell
That's true.
All right, here comes some tough.
I'm going to ask some fast questions.
Hopefully I can get some fast answers, and we can go to the phones.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
You said you'd had, really, were ready to have nothing more to do with UFO research, and now you seem to be back, changing your mind.
whitley strieber
Yes.
art bell
Why?
whitley strieber
Well, for two reasons.
I backed away from this whole thing because there was so much, as far as the UFO research was, there was so much hostility towards me in the UFO community and fear that I could not function.
And therefore, I mean, there was nothing to do but back off.
It was unbelievable.
I still don't understand why what happened.
It's over now.
I mean, people aren't like that toward me anymore.
They realize that I'm, I guess they've just gotten used to me.
art bell
I don't know.
So it's Satan to get back.
whitley strieber
But the more critical thing was this.
I was terribly concerned that the visitors were evil and that the human mind had to accept their presence in order for them to really penetrate our reality.
And that I was a shill for these things.
And I did not want that.
I did not want to be someone who was opening people's minds to something that we, in the end, could not handle.
And I just basically backed off in 1989 at a moment when things were just on the edge of really, I think there was really going to be a big, big change.
And I just backed off because I was not ready for that.
I did not know what would happen.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
You made lots of comments that insiders have approached you with unreleased information.
Is that true, and can you tell us any more about it, or is it still undercover?
whitley strieber
It's a complicated situation.
I've been approached by lots of insiders, ranging from the leaders of different countries to people inside the various parts of the United States government that are referring to this in different ways, to congressional investigators investigating them and trying to put pressure on me to give me their names, etc.
It's been a long, boring thing, and I'm not very interested in it.
I'm not a big...
There is a very complicated and pretty big thing in the United States within the government and outside of it that knows a lot about the UFO business, studies it, and has used it in various ways, and has a pretty unsuccessful relationship with the visitors.
I'll show you how unsuccessful.
If you go to places near certain military bases like the Antelope Valley down in California around Edwards, you will find that the ordinary people out there have horrible encounter experiences almost exclusively.
You go to a place like the Hudson Valley where I live and the experiences are still difficult, but they're very livable and they're very interesting by comparison.
The reason is that the way the visitors around those bases and that are connected with those bases are is very, very different from the ways that the ones that are not connected with the bases are because apparently you're looking at an incredibly tough military operation around those bases and something much more humane and much more viable out where more ordinary people live.
Now what does that tell you about our government's relationship with the visitors?
art bell
Well I can't imagine a military involvement with the visitors being benign.
unidentified
Being what?
art bell
Benign.
whitley strieber
I think it's a disaster.
I think they are locked in a disastrous relationship that they can't get out of, and they have jumped to the conclusion that it's going to be like that for everybody when it actually isn't.
When loads of people, not in just this country, but all over the world, are learning to really work with this.
And that means not saying it's demons and not saying it's angels, but learning to work with it on their own terms without regard.
Who cares what the visitors are or aliens are or not doing.
The point is, what do I get out of it?
art bell
Maybe when Eisenhower was warning about the military-industrial complex, he was talking about them.
whitley strieber
Well, he could have been.
I don't know.
art bell
So the military is involved, obviously.
whitley strieber
But there's a lot of private money involved there, too.
It's not just the military.
Like, for example, recently the National Reconnaissance Office was caught by Congress with a $1 billion slush fund hidden.
unidentified
That's right.
whitley strieber
And I'm pretty sure that slush fund had to do with this.
Because I said to these guys in Congress years ago, I said, look, don't bother me.
Look at the names of people.
I can't help you.
But you go look for the, follow the money trail.
You follow the money trail at Area 51, and you'll get to the bottom of this.
And that's what they've been doing.
art bell
You know that's where I am, by the way, right out next day.
whitley strieber
No, I know you are.
Well, they found out already that a lot of that thing out there isn't funded by the United States government.
It's not the funding, the expenses that are being incurred out there are not fully covered by the U.S. Treasury.
And I don't think they know yet how that money comes.
art bell
Boy.
You know about the recent autopsy video.
Do the creatures depicted therein look familiar to you?
whitley strieber
I'll tell you, there's one thing, just very succinctly, one thing and only one is familiar.
That is the covers over the eyes that are removed.
I've seen humanoids with eyes just like that.
They were so striking to me, I had a painting made of myself with eyes like that.
Because, of course, I didn't realize they were contact lenses.
I thought they were the eyes.
And that painting is on the cover of Report on Community, and I described some of those beings in Breakthrough that I saw.
Okay, next step.
If and only If the film stock is actually from 1957 or before.
art bell
47.
whitley strieber
No, no. 57.
unidentified
57.
I'll tell you what.
whitley strieber
Super X Pan stopped being made in 1957.
The film stock is Super X Pan.
I've had that confirmed by an expert in film stock who could tell just by looking at the quality of the gray colors of the black and white film what stock it was.
art bell
You're well aware of the Shell report.
whitley strieber
The Shell report, no, I'm not.
art bell
Bob Schell.
He was an FBI analyst, Whitley, and he took some of the actual imagery, not the lead, but the imagery, and he was given that, and he said two things.
One, it was from that particular year.
He pinned it down all the way to 1945 to 7 and said, because of the kind of film it was, it would have had to have been exposed within two or at the most three years.
whitley strieber
That's what Kodak told me, Olsa.
art bell
Yeah, so.
whitley strieber
Now, however, the film stock I have already determined could be completely counterfeited today from the get-go using.
It could be seamlessly counterfeited.
What you have to do is you have to find a way to date the chemicals that are in the stock that you're given.
That has not been done yet.
That type of laboratory analysis has not, to my knowledge, been done.
However, I will say this.
If the stock is definitely that old and is not a recently constructed counterfeit, then I think it has to be real because I don't think those eye coverings would be something someone could have dreamed up then.
It's too unusual a detail.
See what I mean?
art bell
Oh, yes.
Well, I've heard people speculate those were, in effect, sunglasses, that, of course, our sun might produce rays that they couldn't handle.
whitley strieber
Well, I've seen them wearing them at night.
So you figure out what kind of glasses they are.
I don't know what they are.
art bell
Really?
whitley strieber
But yeah.
But another thing, though, and don't forget this, there are people with incredible resources involved in this thing, doing things and trying to do things with it that are absolutely beyond belief.
I mean, in terms of using it as a means of controlling human society and controlling the way our thoughts happen.
And from the distant past, when there was apparently a very extraordinary civilization on this planet some thousands of years ago.
art bell
How likely is it that we are confusing altogether beings from another place with beings from another time?
whitley strieber
It's of course possible.
And since the visitors have a completely breathtaking command of movement through time, who knows where they come from in terms of time.
However, with regard to this Roswell footage, until the chemicals themselves are not just the film, not just the type of film is identified, but the chemicals are dated to that period.
It's not certain that it's genuine.
I would say that it's about an 80% chance that it's genuine.
But the 20% is a big 20% because there are people out there with the resources and the motivation to go to the trouble of counterfeiting that film on empty celluloid.
Absolutely counterfeiting it from the GitHub.
art bell
All right, I will give you without question that they have the resources.
Let me question you about the motivation.
In other words, why would they do that?
whitley strieber
They would do that to first convince the world that put out the film, the thing that's put out, which is a hugely rated thing that was incredibly convincing to the public, and then reveal it to be a fraud, to pull the rug out from under the whole UFO thing.
art bell
It would do that.
At least in part, if not in full.
whitley strieber
But I have only got one question.
If that's true, then why did the alien look so totally different from everything everybody's been describing from the beginning?
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Why not make it something I've seen them many times.
whitley strieber
They don't look like that at all.
art bell
That's right.
No, I've wondered about the same thing and the sort of uncomfortable similarity to a human being in so many ways and yet enough subtle differences to give you the heebie jeebies when you first saw it.
So, very interesting.
All right.
Look, you said in older books that the visitors showed you something, a box with a red button on it, maybe, or something like that.
You couldn't remember what they said it was for, but were told that it was important that you would remember when the time comes.
Is that true?
And do you remember what the mission was or whatever?
whitley strieber
They've never lied to me about a thing like that yet.
And I've often been very greatly surprised when the answers came.
I don't know yet.
I don't have an answer to that, but I would like to know.
art bell
All right.
I would like to turn over questions to the audience.
They're supposed to get a crack at you, and if they don't, I get hung.
So let's try it.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Streeber.
unidentified
Hi.
whitley strieber
Hi.
art bell
Where are you, sir?
whitley strieber
I'm in Vancouver, British Columbia.
art bell
Very good.
whitley strieber
Go ahead.
Oh, yeah, I'd just like to know if he's ever read any of Zachariah Sitchin's books.
Yes, The Twelfth Planet or Genesis Revised?
art bell
Revisited.
Yes, I had him on the air, Zachariah on the air, as a matter of fact, Whitley, last week.
whitley strieber
Well, I met him a few weeks ago, and he turns out to be a really brilliant man.
art bell
Oh, yes, yes, indeed.
whitley strieber
And I've read his books, yes.
And my thought is that Siginus is onto something for a very simple and straightforward reason.
He's onto something because if you look at the historical record, you will find all of the greatest works in stone of mankind date from the beginning of civilization, when we supposedly could hardly even make a pot.
What is that about?
It just doesn't make sense that the Baalbek platform has got stones in it that are so large that we still could not move them.
That's right.
That the methodology by which the pyramid of Giza was built is unknown.
That the means by which the sarcophagus in that pyramid was hollowed out, they used a drill press with an eight-ton weight to core that sarcophagus, we've got the cores.
The angle of the declension on those cores indicates the presence of an eight-ton drill press.
There's a big problem with that.
This was an early Iron Age thing.
They did not know how to make any kind of metal that could withstand an eight-ton press against granite.
art bell
So, really, a lot of what he says underscores a lot of what you're saying and vice versa.
whitley strieber
Oh, yeah.
He's onto something.
I'm sure of it.
art bell
Okay, he said, you know about Halebop, the comet out there.
whitley strieber
Yeah.
art bell
Beyond Jupiter.
He talked about that.
Yeah, he said he thought Halebop is not the 12th planet, but it is a harbinger of its coming.
whitley strieber
Well, it's an interesting phenomenon, Halebop, because it's going to be a major comet, apparently.
And cometary passages are associated also with great change, especially when the comets are unknown, as this one indeed was.
It seems to have come out of nowhere.
I do not view the universe as being an accident of all.
I don't think that the Earth-Moon-Planetary system was even created by accident.
Simply because of the fact that, and I'm only speaking now from the standpoint of statistical analysis, the likelihood of a system like this coming about is so small that it's almost at the vanishing point.
Because you see, we don't live just on the Earth.
We live in a machine that's built of the Earth and the Moon together.
The Moon's rotating around the Earth in the direction it does, and with just the right amount of gravitational pull on the Earth, is what slows the rotation-driven winds of this planet down to the point where life can exist.
If there was no moon, we would have a continuous 300-mile-an-hour maelstrom going on around this planet.
There would be no higher life forms on Earth.
art bell
You need not go any further in describing the apparent perfection.
It is that.
whitley strieber
Somebody did it.
art bell
Okay, well, there is where I'm going.
Now, are you adding a case up that talks about a creator or intervention of beings who themselves had been created?
whitley strieber
Well, I will tell you this, that what my experience has led me to is the realization that there is somebody out there who, for want of a better word, I would call God, who is not only incredibly ancient and great, but also extremely personal.
Extremely personal.
unidentified
More personal than I can express.
art bell
Most of us feel it.
Yeah, it's hard to express.
You just feel that relationship.
You sure do.
whitley strieber
And I think that this being is creating companions.
I mean, it's alone, and it wants companionship, and that's what we're all about.
art bell
I wonder when we graduate to companionship status.
whitley strieber
I think we've just started to take off finally.
And are abandoning all of our old mythologies and coming face to face with what's going to turn out to be the most extraordinary friend you're going to be able to do.
art bell
Almost the premise of 2001.
whitley strieber
Almost, but even less mythological than that.
I think it's going to be incredibly personal.
That this relationship between the individual and God is going to be like the deepest, oldest, most perfect, most difficult, most beautiful, most sentimental, most objective marriage that could ever exist.
art bell
All right.
On that note, relax.
You've got several minutes.
Whitley Streeber is my guest.
I'm well aware you're going to want a copy of this interview.
If you do, you can get it by calling 1-800-917-4278.
I'm going to repeat that number, and I will not repeat it again, so perhaps at the end of the show, take it down.
I know you want a copy.
It's 1-800-917-4278.
unidentified
is CBC.
art bell
Whitley's Treeber, and there's a million people waiting, of course, to talk to you.
Somebody, Dave from Redwood City, just said simply, bingo, God was lonely, thus man was created.
whitley strieber
Yeah, I think that's something like that.
art bell
Something like that, huh?
All right, and one other fact.
Whitley might be able to answer this for me.
I've heard that if you have been abducted once, then you'll be kept track of, or in all likelihood you will, for the rest of your life.
Is that, do you think, a general truth?
whitley strieber
Well, I think that in my own life, the evidence I see of that is that wherever I go, and this has been documented not only by me, but by many other people.
It's in many lives.
Walking under streetlights, driving under them, they will go out.
Electronic appliances are affected by my presence.
There's even an organization in England for people who have this phenomenon around them.
And there has to be a reason for it.
I think that we must be giving off some kind of a signal.
My guess is this would be why.
art bell
Well, whatever it is, stay away from my network.
One other question.
I have believed for many years that man is a transitional being, not final.
This is another fact.
The step from man to superman, if you will, is the next approaching achievement in the Earth's evolution and its inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process.
Maybe we don't need any computers, mental aerobatics, to prepare us for the next man.
Maybe we don't need religions, spiritualism, or anything else.
Maybe perhaps being is enough.
Do you agree, or are those tools to take us up the steps?
whitley strieber
Well, I think that what we need, and the reason we're not, the main reason that we're not like that now, is that there has to be at peace with ourselves internally.
I mean, I'm not talking about peace in Bosnia necessarily, but enough people have to come to the point where they are, in effect, not afraid to see themselves as they are, which includes seeing the whole presence of their soul across all of time and everything that it has done and the whole significance of its life.
That's being at peace with yourself.
When you're at peace with yourself in that way, and you can see that clearly across what in some of the old esoteric traditions is called the long time, it's referred to in Ecclesiastes, not in the same words, but in the significance of that particular book of the Bible, then you begin to ascend into this hyper-dimensional mind that we've been talking about.
but that's what you have to get to it's really a matter of finding that kind of Have joy.
Find joy.
And it's really hard to do.
The world is like a test that is constantly pulling you down and pulling you down and pulling you down so that when you do come to joy, it will be your joy.
It will be something you have taken from the universe that has been brought into your heart forever.
art bell
All right.
You said two things that set off alarm bells.
You said hyperdimensional.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
So obviously the name Richard Hoagland comes immediately to mind.
And you mentioned Bosnia.
And do you find it a little more than passing curious, as Mr. Hoagland does and did recently, that the Bosnian peace talks of all places are being held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?
Very unlikely.
whitley strieber
Well, not that unlikely.
It's possible.
There's two reasons it's not that unlikely.
First reason, that it's an extremely secure environment because there's so many very secret things that have gone on there.
Second, is it possible that there's some kind of a contact point with visitors there?
art bell
That's exactly what it is.
people are being exposed to it because if they are being exposed to it they're going to come out with a very very extraordinary Well, the hypothesis given by Mr. Oagland was, put simply, you take them down the long elevator to the bottom and you show them some secrets that make their little squabble look like absolute baloney.
And he was hoping there could be some camera shots of them if there is an agreement in their faces as they come out, just to try and judge what it is they might have seen.
It's a fascinating hypothesis.
whitley strieber
Well, indeed.
And I was also struck by it.
I thought it was very strange that Wright Pad had been chosen.
And I even made some inquiries about it among friends who might or might not know why.
And the theory was that it was so secure.
So I immediately started asking, well, why is it so secure?
Why that particular airbase would be so secure?
And so, oh, it's the most secure facility in the United States.
art bell
Camp David's very secure, too.
whitley strieber
Not that secure.
Not as secure as I asked about Camp David.
I asked about there's another real secure one.
Oh, I split its name and split my mind, but there's another base that's got a lot of high-level security there at it, too.
But this is the most secure.
art bell
All right.
Well, we'll leave it there.
whitley strieber
They wouldn't tell me why.
art bell
Wildcard Line, you're on the air with Whitley's Streeper.
Hi.
unidentified
Yeah, hi, Art.
Hi, Whitley.
Whitley, I wanted to ask you if you've ever looked at the connection between the psychedelic experience and UFO contact or alien abduction.
art bell
All right, that's not a bad question.
Where are you, please?
unidentified
In California.
Let me tell you the reason I'm asking this.
It's because I've done a lot of work with psychedelics for my own spiritual development and to improve my intelligence and so on.
And I've noticed, especially with the tryptamine psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms, DMT and so on, this is a motif that comes up very frequently is the motif of the little man with big eyes.
Often there's some high-tech.
art bell
All right, we've got it.
We've got it.
Believe me, we've got the question.
Are chemicals?
whitley strieber
Terence McKenna told me the same thing that this listener is telling me, that psilocybin brought this motif up.
and it's interesting i mean i think that uh...
there's definitely an interdimensional aspect of this thing and that there's something about the way though That apparently these drugs can change.
Some of them can change this.
And you begin to be able to look into other worlds.
But you can do that without the drugs, I think.
art bell
But they are a path.
whitley strieber
No, I don't know what they're a path into.
Whether they're a path into memory or they're a path into really an ability to look into another world or not.
art bell
No, they are an altered state.
whitley strieber
Or an altered state.
I do know one thing, that the whole way this Country deals with drugs is nuts.
It's crazy.
We're in bloomy land when it comes to that.
We have not figured out how to deal with these substances, but these substances are so powerful and many of them are so new or so new to this society that it's not surprising that we don't deal very well with it.
Give us time.
art bell
Yeah, hopefully.
Hopefully, maybe in the next evolution, East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Streeber.
Hi.
whitley strieber
Hello, Art.
unidentified
This is Dave from Cape Coral, Florida.
art bell
Cape Coral, Florida.
All right.
unidentified
Yeah, I was wondering if your guest could tell us anything about the Philadelphia experiment.
Know something about time travel.
art bell
All right.
Whitley, what do you know about the Philadelphia experiment?
Did something back then really happen, or do you think not?
whitley strieber
I don't have an answer to that question as to whether or not something really happened.
I do feel that experimentation with super high intensity magnetic fields suggests that there can be warping of space-time connected with that.
However, what is strange about the Philadelphia experiment is that the intensity of the fields that I'm talking about is far greater than anything that we can achieve now.
So whether or not they could have actually gotten a magnetic field going that was that powerful then, I don't know.
However, you then get immediately into the hidden or the suppressed work of Nikola Tesla.
And once you start to talk about Tesla, then you get into a whole different ball of wax with regard to things like that.
And the answer then becomes a lot of argument about whole public disclosure.
unidentified
Whole public disclosure.
Simply because there's no way to tell.
whitley strieber
What the significance of Project HAARP would be to the natural environment and to the ionosphere.
And they say, well, the actual amount of energy involved is so insignificant compared to the amount of energy in the ionosphere.
unidentified
But who knows?
art bell
Yeah, who knows?
That's right.
I feel the same way.
unidentified
Who knows?
art bell
And so you think they may be tampering with forces that they have no moral, ethical right to be tampering with without our permission.
whitley strieber
Without our permission.
Spending our money on this without our permission.
This whole secret, the whole black budget, the whole thing, which is a cancer that's grown up on the body of this American Republic, and it should be exercised.
We should have only a line item budget.
Solars could be classified as line item by line item.
No more great big black hole to drop $50 billion a year into.
art bell
Well, that sounds good, but it's not going to happen.
whitley strieber
No, it's not, and I'll tell you why it's not.
Because the politicians in power, the people in power, they like that black hole to drop a lot of money into their own districts and so forth.
art bell
Of course.
whitley strieber
And in addition to that, the FBI gets stuff on these guys, and they come under control.
And they come to the point where there's things they can and can't do.
I mean, I've seen that happen with federal judges right in my hometown.
art bell
All right.
Let's go back to the phones.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Striever.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, this is John from Torrance, California.
Torrance, yes.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
I'd like to quickly address a question one of the other callers addressed.
That would be, when these things put probes in you to track you, you can short-circuit that.
The fact of the matter is, I was from Rockland County, New York.
I'm sure Whitley knows who that is.
Yeah, sure.
I had an experience when I was about 13.
I was abducted, and as you know how that goes.
So anyway, years later, through the occult, I know there's a big connection between the UFO phenomenon and the occult.
It's linked very closely.
And I know I've read in Whitley's books that you study witchcraft and the sort?
whitley strieber
I went through a period of that years ago, yeah.
unidentified
I looked into that seven years ago to write a novel about it.
Right.
And I found that it really enhanced the experience.
And I was able to cut off Well, I was having communications with these things, and then I was told that I should stop this channeling I was doing and this communication because it was an abomination and I was told religious things and I've spoken to a major UFO organization and they've wanted to meet me and they told me not to tell anybody about this because it's because people aren't ready to hear it.
art bell
Well then what are you doing on a radio show?
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Well I get where this caller is going.
whitley strieber
Yeah I do too.
I will say this about the the issue of implants.
There's now I think one of the MUFON groups, maybe it was the Houston Mufon, has videotaped the removal of implants from a couple of people and there's an individual out on the west coast who had the removal of an implant in him videotaped.
So yeah, in a very practical way these things apparently do exist and occasionally can be found usually when they obstruct a person's functioning somehow, when they're not there, you know, they're not hidden well enough.
They can be removed.
The connection between this and the occult though, and I do want to address this just for a minute.
art bell
Good.
whitley strieber
I mean there's obvious the guy that was calling has got fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
Which are fine.
I mean they may be true.
I don't know whether they are or not.
I'd be the last person to say they weren't.
Betty Luca, who I love and respect deeply, is a very fundamentalist Christian and does a great job with this experience.
Anyway, there is some kind of connection.
There seems to be some kind of connection between, for example, old pagan or pre-Christian religious sites in Europe and UFO activity or crop circle activity and that sort of thing.
What that connection means, I don't know.
art bell
Okay, let me stop you there.
I'm glad you answered that way because my question now is, okay, having said that, Whitley, isn't it possible, and don't you wonder, and are you not concerned sometimes, that the people or things or beings you're dealing with are indeed from the dark side?
whitley strieber
Yeah, that's why I dropped out for so many years, because I was afraid that they were and that I was operating as a conduit to draw them into our world.
art bell
So what's changed?
whitley strieber
What's changed was that I demanded that they show me what they did and they did that.
And that's why I wrote Breakthrough.
Because I went through this.
I went through ten months of living.
There was one of these little humanoid type beings living, I was in our cannon every night, and in fact living in the place during the day even.
We didn't see him during the day, but we damn well came close.
And I got to know a lot about this, what they were doing.
And while I admit that the fundamentalists always are saying to me, well, the demons could be very tricky.
That's true.
But what I found were people who were, I mean, when I say people, I'm talking about visitors who were just as scared and having just as much trouble in their own way with this as I was, who were imperfect in the sense that I could see lots of different ideologies of contact from different places around.
I've read over 100,000 letters from people around the world having this experience.
And it's different from place to place.
It's not the same all over the world.
like different visitors have different personalities and different personalities produce different types of contact experience.
So you would No, I think that they are very tough and they are very difficult to deal with, but that we can get, I got things I consider incredibly valuable to me out of this.
And there were two ways I did that.
One was by working through my fears and coming to love the part of me that is afraid and not to try to push it away.
And two is keeping the questions open about what was happening to me and what this was.
I learned to seek out the questions I couldn't stand not to answer and to live with them.
And those two things are what helped me to expand my mind.
And I think my mind is expanding because of this.
art bell
Interesting chronology.
All right.
Stand by, Whitley.
We're at the bottom of the hour again.
My guest is Whitley Streeber.
Boy, what an interview.
If you want a copy of this, it's 1-800-917-4278.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
On the Kingdom of Not.
art bell
You're hearing new members.
Back now to Whitley Striber.
What an interview.
It has been a good one, Whitley.
You're an easy interview.
Whitley, the bigger picture for a second.
You said eventually humans will, in effect, evolve past perhaps even their physical bodies.
How far are we from this kind of change?
whitley strieber
I don't think we're far from it at all.
My guess is that evolutionary processes started probably even hundreds of years ago, and that some of our visitors could very well be people who are entered into and living in this state already.
I know that I've encountered occasionally human beings in the context of the visitors who seemed to be completely comfortable in the situation they were in.
I have had encounters with people who were working with the visitors who in their everyday life did not know it.
And I have an absolutely confirmed encounter of that in breakthrough.
art bell
Is that to suggest that occasionally today that a person, a mortal person, as though some switch is thrown, takes the leap?
whitley strieber
Absolutely.
I think it happens all the time.
unidentified
Wow.
whitley strieber
I think that it's that it that gradually right now we probably live about 95%, 90% on this level.
That at some time in the future we'll be living on this level like 5% and 90% in other levels.
There's also another interesting thing about this I referred to earlier in the interview the relationship between this and the near-death experience.
Something I learned from my letters, I have not had too much direct experience of this myself, some, is that there is a big connection between encounter with aliens and encounter with the dead.
The two come together sometimes.
To give you an example, a family is at home.
The son is asleep on the second floor.
The parents are downstairs with the dog.
The dog becomes very nervous.
The wife starts to take the dog out.
As she steps out onto the porch, she sees a huge ball of light go flying away from the upstairs of the house out across the woods.
The little boy comes downstairs yelling, Mommy, daddy, little blue men came into my room and they had his older sister with him, with them, and she said to tell you that she's okay.
She had died recently, just previously, a few weeks previously.
art bell
So it's connected.
whitley strieber
There's some kind of connection, yeah, absolutely.
art bell
All right, again, returning to some of Mr. Hoagland's theories, you know what he found, the Sidonia region on Mars.
Now, newer findings on the moon, the existence of these 500,000-year-old ruins would seem to tie in with exactly what you're saying about a past sophisticated civilization here on Earth.
whitley strieber
Oh, yeah.
art bell
Lots of evidence.
whitley strieber
First of all, the face on Mars is absolutely central to my own encounter experience.
And the new book, I just finished The Secret School, it starts with my relationship to the face on Mars.
And in 1985, Dick Hoagland and Dr. John Gleidman showed me the pictures that Vince DiPietro and Greg Molnar had created out of the digital data from the Viking orbiter and that face staring up from Sidonia was a stunning thing.
And I embraced that immediately and I gave Brian O'Leary and Mark Dr. Mark Carloto money to do a more complete study of it.
Dr. Carlotto is an imaging expert and I think everyone knows that Brian is the former Mars, was going to be the Mars astronaut.
And they did the study that led to the even more detailed photograph of the face that shows almost like teeth in the mouth and so forth.
They published their results in the Journal of British Interplanetary Society and they proved conclusively at least that the face is definitely an anomalous object and should be studied further.
art bell
And yet, as Mr. Oagland is quick to point out, NASA goes out of its way to avoid any further look at the Cydonia region.
whitley strieber
There's only one explanation for that.
You talk to people at JTL.
Anyone talking off the record will say the face has got to be studied further.
The fact that they have not only have avoided studying it...
Two probes, I mean, three probes.
The two Prometheus probes that Russia sent and the spacecraft, the recent orbiter that we sent have all mysteriously been destroyed.
And you talk about a civilization 500,000 years in the past.
When I saw it, Dick a couple weeks ago, I said, hell, I think Mars is still alive.
I mean, I'm serious about that.
The Russians, they have video of an object approaching their probe just before it disappeared as it was on its way to analyze the moon photos.
art bell
I've heard that.
whitley strieber
Well, I've seen the video.
The video is publicly available.
It's no secret.
The Russians themselves, NASA says it's an artifact of the tape.
The Russians themselves say absolutely not that it's an object approaching the craft.
art bell
Well, everything is an artifact of the tape.
Remember STS-48?
whitley strieber
Yeah, there's only one explanation for why NASA does what it does.
They know something that they don't want us to know.
art bell
All right.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Streeber.
unidentified
Hello?
Yes, this is Dorothy in Louisville, Kansas.
art bell
Hi, Dorothy.
unidentified
Yes, oh, what an interesting guest.
Mr. Streeber, you mentioned one time about the three knocks.
I've been experiencing this now very frequently.
Three either three knocks on the door, three knocks on the wall, or the bone ringing three times.
Nobody's there.
Also, on one of my encounters, they were explaining to me how we are all asleep, and our future is really our past.
And then we would come awake, that we're reliving our past at this time, or that time at the time it happened.
By the way, I have also been given something from them.
It is three blue locks that vibrate.
whitley strieber
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yes.
whitley strieber
Well, that's really interesting that you've been given anything.
I was given a little black stone that's beautifully carved.
It's a little egg-shaped black stone.
But it's not, it's nothing, there's nothing unusual about it in terms of my being able to say it's definitely an artifact from another world.
unidentified
Well, mine are blue, and they definitely vibrate.
They tingle.
If you hold them in your hand, they get extremely hot, and you can feel.
art bell
Well, it's certainly better than I visited the aliens, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
whitley strieber
Yeah, right.
Well, the three, the three, in communion, I talked a lot about threes.
And, you know, Buck Minister Ford considered that the building block of the universe is a positive force and a negative force opposing each other in balance and creating a third force.
So, and of course we have in our, in Christianity, we have the idea of the Trinity.
And in some of the older religions, there were different ideas of the triune God or the Triune Goddess and different Trinities.
And this idea of the two being in balance to create the third is very fundamental to the visitor experience.
I go into that in communion.
art bell
All right, look, I haven't let you, I'm going to make you now.
What do you want to plug?
You've written so much that is available nearly everywhere.
It's not like you've, or do you have numbers to give you a book?
whitley strieber
What do I want to plug?
art bell
Yeah, what do you want to plug?
whitley strieber
I'll tell you what I want to plug.
I don't want to plug books.
What I want to plug is the human future.
I think we have an incredible future, and that the thing we need to do is whatever we can to get ready for it.
Whatever that means to you, whether it's read my books or whoever's books or do whatever you feel you need to do, but to get ready for it.
Because I think this lady's right.
art bell
While you're asleep.
I'll make you plug it.
whitley strieber
Let's wake up.
art bell
What of your books, Whitley, is the most important one people could read?
whitley strieber
Right now, Breakthrough.
I would say read Breakthrough.
Don't bother to read Communion and Transformation.
I mean, we all went through, all of us in the experience went through that together.
We went through the communion level of the thing of absolute fear, the transformation level of the thing, of starting to find handles where we could start to work this thing.
Breakthrough shows the beginning of the tools that we'll be able to use to really make this work for ourselves.
Without regard to whether the visitors are good or evil, have it in for us or don't have it in for us.
That doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter.
We need to use this.
art bell
Breakthrough they can find anywhere.
whitley strieber
Anywhere, yeah, it's in the hardcover, and it'll be in paperback probably next summer.
art bell
All right, good.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Streeber.
Hello.
whitley strieber
Hello.
art bell
Yes, sir.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm calling from Marin in California.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Yeah.
And I've been a big fan for quite a long time.
I've read most of his books.
And one thing I wanted to ask, you were talking about other races.
And I was wondering what races are you talking about?
Other besides the Greys.
whitley strieber
Oh, okay.
I can tell you what I've seen.
I've seen the greys in two forms.
One is taller.
I've also seen other blonde beings that were that had very strange, kind of empty face and were shorter.
I have seen and been close to human-like beings who were about three and a half feet tall, whom I at first took to be children, but weren't.
Obviously children, and I got more clear about what they were.
The one time I saw one of them up close, I thought it was a child sitting under a tree in the woods behind my old house in New York.
And I walked up to him thinking he was smoking a cigarette.
He had something between his fingers.
But I leaned over.
I saw, obviously, that I was dealing with something very, very strange.
And he opened his mouth and growled and scared the hell out of me.
And I ran away.
art bell
I didn't do it.
Whitley, I ask all the researchers I talk to what's most likely that they're visitors from our future or visitors from elsewhere.
And the most frequent answer I get is probably both.
whitley strieber
Well, I'll tell you what I think they are, just to sum it up quickly.
Some of them are from elsewhere.
Some of them are born and raised here, but essentially from non-human origin.
Some of them are from our future, human and non-human.
Some of them are from our past, human and non-human.
Our own dead are involved in this and are actively participating.
What's happening is huge.
It's massive.
art bell
What would you say to the average person?
If they are on the edge of or beginning to experience an encounter, would you say, A, embrace it and go with it, or B, run like hell?
whitley strieber
Neither.
I would say take what you can from it, but be cautious and be wise.
Because if you embrace this totally, you're making yourself out to be a fool.
If you run from it, you're wasting it.
So go for it.
Take what you can from it.
art bell
Be careful.
Take each wary step one at a time.
unidentified
Exactly.
whitley strieber
Take it a step at a time.
art bell
I've got you.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
East of the Rockies, not a lot of time.
You're on the air with Whitley's Dreeper.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, this is Dave in Illinois.
art bell
Hi, Dave.
unidentified
Hi.
And I was wondering if, well, you were talking about the past sophisticated civilizations.
whitley strieber
Yeah.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And in light of the things on the Mars and on the moon, did you see any correlations between the statement at the end of transformation and the ancient language thing?
whitley strieber
Oh, at the end of transformation, there's a statement in...
And this is a very old, ancient language.
I mean, it's...
And many of the words in it are very prototypical of the...
So yeah, there could be some kind of connection.
art bell
Incredible.
Well, Whitley, it sounds like Whitley Streeber is really back in top form.
And we're glad to have you back.
whitley strieber
Well, I'm excited to be back because there was a time when I thought I never would again, and I had given up entirely, but the visitors never gave up on me, and that's why I'm back.
art bell
Well, it's great to have you, and I'm honored to have been able to interview you, and it went so well that I would beg that we do it again someday.
whitley strieber
Oh, well, you don't need to beg.
We'll do it.
art bell
Whitley, thank you so very much.
whitley strieber
Oh, it's been a pleasure, Hart.
art bell
Take care, my friend.
You too.
Well, wasn't that something?
I'm going to give you a little bit of information prior to the ending of the show here.
That was, of course, Whitley's Treeber, and I well understand, because of the massive faxes I'm getting, that a lot of you are going to want copies of this very important program.
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