Whitley’s Journal (Page 49)

Normally, I don’t write journals about political matters. That isn’t what this website is for, and I want people of every political persuasion to be comfortable here. Of course, the people of the extreme left and the extreme right are never comfortable anywhere that every detail of their ideology isn’t served, so they don’t count. But certainly, liberals, moderates and conservatives deserve to be comfortable. I have not seen any evidence that people suffering abductions and close encounters are exclusively limited to any one political ideology, and our responsibility is to provide a forum that reflects that.
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Americans have always assumed that first open contact will unfold in the United States. In fact, this has never been a very likely scenario, not from the time that the US military began shooting at UFOs back in the forties. Also, the US population is heavily armed and full of people whose ideologies and beliefs make them unpredictable.

The visitors can avoid attack reasonably effectively when they are prepared, but in a situation where they are attempting open face-to-face contact, they are vulnerable. Therefore, the first place that this contact might take place has to be chosen carefully.
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This week’s Dreamland (09/05/09) features an interview with a pioneering timeworker, Starfire Tor. The reason is that, as our relationship to time changes, certain people are tuning to it in a different way, Starfire among them.

The reason I know this is simple: while with her and after being with her, Anne and I have actually experienced the kind of time slips that she talks about. In the interview, we both describe some of these timeslips, among them an incident where I read a listing to her in the newspaper six weeks before it actually appeared.
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Recently I had an experience that convinced me that there is an afterlife. Actually, it was two experiences, which came after a lifetime of episodes that have suggested, with varying degrees of conviction, that the soul exists and persists after death.

In the year after I had the close encounter experience that led to the writing of Communion, I became extremely interested in the soul. I was seeing things, and experiencing things, that suggested that it might actually exist. Prior to this, though, I’d more or less given up hope in it. I just didn’t feel anything except my body. Like anybody, I feared death. In fact, I was terrified of an end to myself.
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