Ask Whitley Strieber discussion

Well everyone is too shy to go first, so I will just jump right in. I'll start with an easy question. I just reread Transformation for the first time since its original release, and so much of it that probably went right over my head in my 20's really resonated with me this time around.

One of the little things I was curious about-do you still follow the visitor's dietary warnings? At this point do you feel that it was a literal warning about your physical health or an allegorical lesson about self-discipline and desire, or a bit of both?

good question, everything Whitley writes seem to resonate with me today, 20 years later.

It was first and foremost a literal warning, in my opinion. I went to an allergist and found that I had a number of food allergies, most of them quite typical. The chocolate allergy was there, but no worse than the rest. However, he was quite concerned about the allergic reaction I was having to the visitors. In fact, it was happening to everybody who came into physical contact with them at my cabin. So we were provided with epinephrin injectors, and I would carry one with me when I went into the woods. We never had to use them, although the morning after Raven Dana touched a visitor, she had a terrific allergic response, but not enough to require emergency treatment.

The allergist was surprisingly comfortable with the whole idea of the visitors, and seemed well able to handle the concept.

With the visitors, everything that happens has multiple meanings, and the specific admonition against chocolate was probably also an effort to get me to pay attention to my desires, and work with them. (I was equally allergic to strawberries, but I liked chocolate far more.)

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Whitley,
I'm a big admirer, I've followed Unknown Country for many years, Read many of your books, including "The Key." Which is amazing. I wonder if you follow the online investigations of David Wilcock and Benjamin Fulford. What do you think of all that? You seem to focus upon "the Grays" in much of your work, yet you have commented that the physical encounters ceased when you moved from New York. Do you feel you still maintain a psychic contact, and do you think you have contact with with entities other than the Grays?

I find myself reading Communion and Transformation over again every couple of years. Each time I think I grasp a little more.

Absolutely love all his work. He writes from his heart and it certainly comes through to the reader. Somehow in his writing I always feel a touch of sadness like from a child, like something inexplicable coming through from him. Compassion flows from my heart and I want to dig deeper into his writings and his mind to try and fix it. Finding his books in the eighties was an epiphany for me, a jolt that I know I will never recover from. A most interesting person........he is!

I wish I knew what the entities were. Early on, I was fairly well convinced that, in the end, they would turn out to be aliens, but I am not so sure of that now. For example, it's routine for people to find that the spirits of dead people they knew are present with the visitors. Also, frequently, people sense that the apparent aliens are members of their family. To me, this suggests that we are just at the beginning of what is going to be a long journey toward objective understanding of something that is really very enigmatic.