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A Notable Difference in the Omega Point
a review of Beyond 2012, The Omega Point
Whitley Strieber seeks answers through writing. Through a brilliant progression of books over the past quarter century, he has continued to ask and offer answers to some of life's most mystifying questions. It is to his credit that he can accomplish that feat by utilizing the vehicle of spell-binding fiction, much of it empathically linked to his personal encounters of the fourth kind. [See ,Communion 1987]
As another male of the Baby Boomer generation, I can personally relate to his evolution of consciousness. Strieber's personal path to wisdom has run a crooked path through a paranormal labyrinth, often causing him and his readers to question their grasp on reality - and to ask the disturbing question first put forth by anomaly investigator, Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?"
In "2012: The Omega Point," the author weaves a good Hollywood tale. As with his earlier collaboration with Art Bell on "The Day After Tomorrow," this latest work begs a screenplay adaptation. For the sake of extended sales, Strieber is smart to speculate that Winter Solstice 2012 marks only the beginning of a decade-long deterioration in the physical dynamics of our solar system.
Readers experience through Strieber's colorful characters the manner in which individuals psychologically deal with eminent collapse of the world as they know it. To do so, provides more food for thought than your standard, annihilation-by-the-billions apocalypse.
A notable difference in "The Omega Point" is Whitley Strieber's personal attempt to make peace with his Creator. To that end, he has added twenty-two pages of Author's Notes to the end of the book seemingly as clarification and explanation not only to the prophetic and spiritual ramifications of this novel but of the total body of his works - post-"Communion" - and how it has shaped his current syncretic theology.
Yet, this too is indicative of the threshold where we Boomers now stand. With the vanguard of our generation entering their mid-sixties, we must face the naked truth of our own mortality. The Peter Pan Generation that never wanted to grow up is now growing old - and maybe, just maybe, we are not so damned special that the whole world is going to collapse when we croak.
This reviewer finds somewhat of a spiritual kinsman ship with Strieber, knowing that he has come full circle through the possibilities of the mystical universe and landed right back here on earth, on a wind-swept natural amphitheater in northern Israel where a penniless rabbi is teaching the meek that ultimately they will inherit the Earth - and with it, the Edenic paradise this planet was meant to be.
Truly, with this latest work, Whitley Strieber has now taken us, his readers, from the beginning to the end; the A to the Z; the Alpha Point to the Omega Point.
-- Gerald Logan MacLennon, July 30, 2010
Whitley Strieber seeks answers through writing. Through a brilliant progression of books over the past quarter century, he has continued to ask and offer answers to some of life's most mystifying questions. It is to his credit that he can accomplish that feat by utilizing the vehicle of spell-binding fiction, much of it empathically linked to his personal encounters of the fourth kind. [See ,Communion 1987]
As another male of the Baby Boomer generation, I can personally relate to his evolution of consciousness. Strieber's personal path to wisdom has run a crooked path through a paranormal labyrinth, often causing him and his readers to question their grasp on reality - and to ask the disturbing question first put forth by anomaly investigator, Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?"
In "2012: The Omega Point," the author weaves a good Hollywood tale. As with his earlier collaboration with Art Bell on "The Day After Tomorrow," this latest work begs a screenplay adaptation. For the sake of extended sales, Strieber is smart to speculate that Winter Solstice 2012 marks only the beginning of a decade-long deterioration in the physical dynamics of our solar system.
Readers experience through Strieber's colorful characters the manner in which individuals psychologically deal with eminent collapse of the world as they know it. To do so, provides more food for thought than your standard, annihilation-by-the-billions apocalypse.
A notable difference in "The Omega Point" is Whitley Strieber's personal attempt to make peace with his Creator. To that end, he has added twenty-two pages of Author's Notes to the end of the book seemingly as clarification and explanation not only to the prophetic and spiritual ramifications of this novel but of the total body of his works - post-"Communion" - and how it has shaped his current syncretic theology.
Yet, this too is indicative of the threshold where we Boomers now stand. With the vanguard of our generation entering their mid-sixties, we must face the naked truth of our own mortality. The Peter Pan Generation that never wanted to grow up is now growing old - and maybe, just maybe, we are not so damned special that the whole world is going to collapse when we croak.
This reviewer finds somewhat of a spiritual kinsman ship with Strieber, knowing that he has come full circle through the possibilities of the mystical universe and landed right back here on earth, on a wind-swept natural amphitheater in northern Israel where a penniless rabbi is teaching the meek that ultimately they will inherit the Earth - and with it, the Edenic paradise this planet was meant to be.
Truly, with this latest work, Whitley Strieber has now taken us, his readers, from the beginning to the end; the A to the Z; the Alpha Point to the Omega Point.
-- Gerald Logan MacLennon, July 30, 2010
