UPDATE 12/18/12: Internet hucksters have been using this journal entry to claim that I think that there will be a UFO landing on December 21. This is absolutely not my intent. Sure, it could happen, but I’m not predicting anything here. I am simply speculating and, no, I have absolutely no idea whether or not it will ever happen, let alone on any specific date.
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Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old–it contains at least 100 billion planets–so aliens should have visited us by now (Whitley Strieber thinks THEY HAVE!) This is what’s known as the Fermi Paradox.
In Discovery News, Ray Villard talks about science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, who has come upon a solution to the Paradox. He thinks that aliens have "gone green" and generate no waste products that we can detect. They therefore blend into the galaxy. Villard quotes him as saying that, in their case, "artificial and natural systems are indistinguishable." Villard theorizes that maybe only ecologically-balanced civilizations survive in the long run (that means WE won’t last long!)
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Last week, this journal started with the paragraph: "My new book, Solving the Communion Enigma is being murdered in the bookstores. There is no other way to say it. Try finding it in a bookstore."
Now it turns out that it is moving out of the stores very well, and that’s thanks to you. There have also been some good reviews of it, for which I could not be more grateful. Communion Enigma is important. It breaks new ground and, to my joy, the reviewers are beginning to recognize this.
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Since Whitley Strieber published Communion in 1987, UFO sightings, crop formations, close encounters and many other unusual phenomena have become more and more common, to the point that the first few weeks of 2012 have seen yet another upsurge in UFO activity. Now, Whitley has published Solving the Communion Enigma, in part as a response to this increase in contact, but also to try to break new ground in terms of understanding. The more we understand, the more coherent direct contact is going to be. This weekend, Whitley begins a series of talks about the process of contact, how it is likely to unfold if it happens, and the changes that it might bring.
This commentary will also be available in Whitley’s Room as ‘Contact, Part 1.’