Communion: A True Story

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Without giving a spoiler I will say that the most beautiful and thoughtful thing about this book and his reaction to his experiences is this: while most UFO/ abduction/ ET studies look to the skies and obsess over government cover-ups for discovery and understanding, Strieber looks more often to the uncharted hallways of the human soul.

As the scientific evidence that the Turin Shroud really is a very unusual object has grown, it seems to me that a new look at Jesus, seeing him neither as a god distant from us or as an ordinary man was essential to deepening our understanding of what his teaching means, and what his life really was. He looked us dead in the eyes individually and said "it's not the communion you're thinking" and walked away with his book to hide under a tree. The message of Communion, that something unknown is really happening to people but that we have not studied it enough to understand it, remains as timely now as it was in 1987 when the book was first published.The 3rd (and thankfully the last) UFO that I saw hovered above my head (slightly above the 40' oak tree that I was standing next too! My son had discovered to his delight that the snow would fall in perfect crystalline flakes on his gloves if he stood still with his hands out. Frankly, I’m skeptical about hypnosis, and when a book relies so heavily upon it, I feel a little cheated. As I read this tale of a helpless, terrified being taken against his will from his home and studied by strange creatures whose motives are a mystery to him, I couldn’t help but think about the situation of nonhuman animals, especially those held in laboratories.

Now either this guy is bat shit crazy and I am actually fucking normal (which is highly unlikely according to my therapist) or there are ALIENS flying around Earth taking people and doing some creepy stuff. Tough one to rate as it seems to meander back and forth between a non-fiction account with heavy fictionalized sections. You can tell that the author is a skilled horror/suspense novelist, whom I already know from his unconventional werewolf novel "The Wolfen": "Communion" is structured more like a novel with a clear narrative, than like most nonfiction books about UFOs I've read. Still, I was very curious and began going out into the woods at night from our little upstate New York cabin to try to somehow re-engage.

These are the questions Streiber raises in his book, probably the all-time definitive book about alien abduction. At about eight-thirty I turned on the bur I alarm, which covers every accessible window an all the doors. I am in no doubt that something weird has happened to them but not sure it happened exactly as described here.