Joining us for the 15th edition of our special Quarantine Series is best-selling author and the host of Dreamland, Whitley Strieber in Southern California.
He studied English, law and film at the University of Texas at Austin and was active in the Gurdjieff Foundation for many years. He went on to author of over fifty works of both fiction and nonfiction. His books The Wolfen, The Hunger, Communion, and The Coming Global Superstorm (as The Day After Tomorrow) were all made into feature films. His sci-fi series, Alien Hunter, became the SyFy Channel series Hunters.
His website, unknowncountry.com, was founded by his wife, the late Anne Strieber, in 1998. It is the largest website of its kind in the world, reporting on the genuine edge of science. It includes his long-running podcast, Dreamland, begun by legendary broadcaster Art Bell in the early 1990s, his highly informative blog “Whitley’s Journal,” meditations (including his popular “sensing exercise”), daily science news, and a large community of what Whitley calls “spiritual explorers.” Most of the content is free and affordable subscriptions are available for full access which includes the entire archive of Dreamland episodes with notable guests such as Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, New York Times journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, and Jacques Vallée.
In 1985, Whitley experienced a close encounter of the third kind. It led to the writing of his New York Times #1 bestseller Communion which changed the way the world thinks about this highly enigmatic experience. When he eventually realized that it could not be attributed to known factors, he began making an effort to recontact what he calls “the visitors.” This has been ongoing for nearly forty years, and is chronicled in his follow-up books Transformation, Breakthrough, Confirmation, The Secret School, and most recently, A New World.
His latest book, Jesus: A New Vision, outlines a completely new approach to the meaning and message of Jesus, and asks was he exercising human powers which are buried within us all and we don’t suspect are there? In it, Whitley also details his investigation into the Shroud of Turin and what really brought down the Roman Empire, including pandemics and climate change. All of this, and more, are the subjects of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. It’s 01:20:04 long and 65.7 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music.
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SHOW NOTES
Unknowncountry.com The website of Whitley Strieber
Conscious Life Expo February 2021 presentation
Ozark Mountain UFO Conference Virtual conference, April 10-11, 2021
Contact in the Desert Virtual conference, June 25-28, 2021
Scarritt Bennett Center Nashville, Tennessee
Translation of the Unas Pyramid Texts Complete text from the Pyramid of Unas, based on translations by Faulkner, Piankoff and Speleer
Jesus: A New Vision Audible edition read by Whitley Strieber
The Apocryphal New Testament Translated by Montague Rhodes James (includes the Infancy Gospel of Thomas)
Contra Celsus by Origen Adamantus
The Aliens & the Scalpel by Dr. Roger K. Leir
UFO Crash in Brazil: A Genuine UFO Crash with Surviving ETs by Dr. Roger K. Leir
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus & the First Woman Apostle by Karen L. King
Shirley MacLaine Official website
Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Christiaan Barnard: His First Transplants & Their Impact on Concepts of Death by Raymond Hoffenberg (full text)
Physics from Fisher Information: A Unification by B. Roy Frieden
The Shroud: Fresh Light on the 2000-Year-Old Mystery by Ian Wilson
The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? by Ian Wilson
The Resurrection of the Shroud: New Scientific, Medical, & Archeological Evidence by Mark Antonacci
Test the Shroud: At the Atomic & Molecular Levels by Mark Antonacci
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BOOKS BY WHITLEY STRIEBER
Communion: A True Story (Republished in 2022)
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us
Evenings with Demons: Stories from 30 Years (out of print)
In Hitler’s House: Volume 1 – What the Thunder Said A novel by Jonathan Lane (Whitley’s pen name)
In Hitler’s House: Volume 2 – Unreal A novel by Jonathan Lane (Whitley’s pen name)
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life
Miraculous Journey with Anne Strieber
Nature’s End with James Kunetka
Nightman (out of print)
Pain A short story (unknowncountry.com subscription required)
Solar Flares: What You Need to Know
Solving the Communion Enigma: What is to Come
The Afterlife Revolution with Anne Strieber
The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell
The Communion Letters with Anne Strieber
The Edge: Man’s Mysterious Past & Incredible Future with Art Bell
The Grays: They’re Already Here
The NYE Incidents A graphic novel with Craig Spector
The Secret School: Preparation for Contact
The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained is Real with Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D.
Transformation: The Breakthrough
Warday with James Kunetka
MOVIES
In memory of Anne Strieber (1946-2015) and Art Bell (1945-2018)