Quotes from Whitley Strieber

As is said in the film Jacob's Ladder, "The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

What we need to do now," he mused, "is make better sci-fi movies so that we can have better contact experiences." That is hermeneutics.

the entities that possess them, and the extraordinary power that accompanies them, are not necessarily going to also be more ethically advanced than us.

their vulnerabilities, while different, may be profound.

Max Tegmark in his book Our Mathematical Universe.

Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property.

78 million in 1900 to 230 million in 2000

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.

But why is laughter so creative? It reacts to contradiction with delight is why, thus opening the road to new discoveries.

This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.

If I look into the wings, I can see Mom standing like a statue, Medea or Lady Macbeth, one of those tragic horrors, her face zombified by the steely reflected light from my funeral pyre.

the shimmering movement of God's hand across time, drawing life toward the knowledge of him. I

I have learned, over the years, to see the actions of our visitors as a sort of illustrative language, communication built out of images and events. For

they want to join us and live in conscious contact with us. They need us, but more, we need them—their wisdom and their devastatingly accurate insight into the fragile truth of the world.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar …" —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

A police force is like a lake. When you get out, you don't leave a hole.

In spite of rationalism's disdain for the particular, the personal, and the unwholesome [the modern debunker's anecdotal], the drift of all the evidence we have seems to me to sweep us very strongly towards the belief in some form of superhuman life with which we may, unknown to ourselves, be co-conscious. We may be in the universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

The dead do not need to be called by any special techniques. The essential element is not skill, it's love—that is to say, the creative power of objective love.

A soul tool is being used to make physical changes that will in future generations enable contact across the bridge.

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The tools that strengthen the soul are understanding and living in objective love, engaging in the sensing exercise and meditation to strengthen the soul, and practicing love, compassion and humility to free it from the bondage of ego. Those are the basics." "That's

Funnily enough, Paul was in his work because he liked people. He'd seen the CIA take such incredible shit over the years and save so many damn lives. The Company could not defend herself, not without giving away secrets she was bound to keep. So she just took it. He'd seen the effects of all the Company bashing in his own life.

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

In the higher world, we don't live our lives, we wear them. And that's what it means to rise above life on the wings of objective love. That's where she was.