This series of interactions I have just described is a perfect example of how communication with the visitors unfolds. I asked a question and was answered with a series of demonstrations. The first manifestation forced its way into me. The second beseeched, then suggested that a threat was possible if I continued to refuse it entry. I felt an acute sense of failure and sought to open myself. When it came back this time, I did not resist.
And now here I am face to face with what seems to me to be something of great beauty, at once real and unreal, a challenge, as it were, from Stevenson’s land of counterpane, the sweet winds of Asphodel singing to my heart.
Still, practical, crucial questions remain. Will the visitors come closer? Can they ever be physically real enough to matter as more than hypothesis? In other words, will the conjuring that is this book work? If so, will they turn out to be impossible for us to bear, or will they become in general life something like the engine of joy that is beginning to seek toward me?
If these questions are to be addressed usefully, the visitors cannot just come to me, sly in the whispering night, not anymore. The visitors must open the doors of their school wide, to us all. We have a planet to lose and our lives along with it, or we have a journey to take.
Which shall it be? The decision belongs to all of us and each of us, and to them. Shall we join in what is essentially a new world and a new way of life, or do they disappear into the dark and we into the storm?
We must decide, and now, and so must they. It is time.
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The End
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About the Author
Whitley Strieber is the author of over 40 books, including the Communion series: Communion, Transformation and Breakthrough, and now the final book in the series, A New World.
Among his notable nonfiction titles are The Key, Solving the Communion Enigma and Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained.
His most famous novels are The Wolfen, The Hunger, Warday, Superstorm and The Grays. His novel series Alien Hunter was made into the TV series Hunters for the SciFi Channel, The Wolfen and The Hunger were both made into films, as was Superstorm (As The Day After Tomorrow.)