- Whitley's Strieber's recent book, The Grays, reinforced
my view of him as a propagandist for the establishment's story line on
UFO's, aliens, "What it's all about", etc. The message of the
book is that "Grays" are physical beings (definitely not spiritual
nor interdimensional entities), that they are members of an ancient civilization
that has reached the end of its possibilities for further progress, and
that they need to interbreed with us to give themselves a further lease
on life and give us their wisdom and technology.
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- In order to paint this picture of these beings, the
author indulges in some simply amazing lapses of the rationality of his
own story line.
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- For example, the reason you ordinarily cannot see
them is that they are able to synchronize their movements with the tiny
movements of our eyes. Since our eyes only see movement, being still
with respect to our eyes, renders them invisible. The author claims that
they can do this for as many as two people at a time, but admits that
with three or more, they cannot achieve invisibility. This completely
unworkable plot device seems to me to indicate the importance the author
places on Grays being material. He obviously does not want to deal with
the possibility that these beings may not be physical in the ordinary
sense. Or that they are illusionary entities of some other sort (e.g.,
induced by hyposis.)
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- The author has the Grays manipulating peoples' lives
in various ways: inducing couples to meet, fall in love, and marry, for
example. Yet, they are also supposedly unable to communicate well with
humans, nor understand them very much. This concept is essential to the
key idea of the plot, which is that this one boy is the result of generations
of directed breeding in order to facilitate communications between humans
and grays.
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- He also makes a number of other assertions about
Grays that cannot be reconciled with common features of stories many people
have told about contacts involving Grays. For instance, that there are
only three [groups] of them operating on earth -- the rest are travelling
across the universe due to arrive (guess when? Hint: Mayan calandar).
Some of the things said in the book imply that there may be some more
here, however, at a certain critical point in the plot, only three were
available to intervene.
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- Another amazing plotting failure: these physical
beings have almost totally artificial bodies, and are for all practical
purposes eternal in life span. And yet, with bodies like that, one is
destroyed in a fire, and another is torn up by a dog! They suffer these
events, giving up their otherwise eternal existence, in an attempt to
save some earth people, including the boy who is the main focus of the
plot. And they did this heroically and self- sacrificially (they are good,
wise, benevolent, heroic, and saintly).
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- There are a number of interesting features in the
book and I wonder if these qualify as either "limited handouts"
or just "street creds".
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- There is a faction of extremely powerful men who
are equal to our outrank the President of the US. They have access to
triangular air craft. In this case, not much of a limited hangout -- these
triangles are essentially dirigibles with low observables technology,
plus something like a skin of LCD material which paints the sky behind
the craft, rendering it fairly invisible. No zero- point or other non-disclosed
tech.
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- However, one of their operatives uses a device which
broadcasts a signal from an antenna which causes people to become violently
upset. He also enters peoples' houses at night and hypnotizes them to
carry out his objectives.
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- So much for the book "The Grays". Whitley
himself, in one of his other books, which is written in the first person
and purports to be a truthful account of events which happened to him,
admitted, in effect, to being a mind control victim. There is a scene
where he is in his bedroom and someone enters it and grabs Strieber. When
he struggles, this man spoke a word to him, and Strieber became paralyzed.
He did not pursue in that book any further implications of this. However,
it established in my mind that he, at least at that time, was under someone's
mind control.
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- Ed Walsh
- ewalsh@rochester.rr.com
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