Striebers Latest Word

The Coming of the Dark Side and How We Can Defend Ourselves

I have been thinking for a while about whether or not I would ever write this
journal entry. But I am going to write it, and I�m going to tell you things in
it of a kind that I have always kept to myself in the past. For years, I�ve
watched in silence as certain things have happened regarding UFOs and the close
encounter experience, and these are not good things.

The reason that I've hesitated to write about these things is not that I think
that they should remain hidden, but that this is a very subtle experience, and
our entire culture tells us to see things in black and white. People who are
full of anger want to indulge themselves by believing in evil aliens. People who
are starved for spiritual food want to believe in good aliens. Evil vs. good. It
just isn't enough. The experience is too big for this simple-minded approach. If
you think in terms of black and white, you lose your chance to make the most of
this.

This is the reason that I hesitate to write about the dark side. I don't want to
contribute to this polarization. But things are changing. The dark side is
getting very aggressive, and it must now be met with something like direct
resistance.

The close encounters I had between 1985 and 1994 were scary, but only because
they were so unusual. The people� or beings�I met were complex and, in the end,
gentle. They had a wonderful, subtle sense of humor. There were many
personalities involved, obviously many different individuals. My life with them
was spiritually and intellectually rewarding. They responded with deep
understanding to the path I was on, and worked with me as true masters work with
a student on the journey toward higher consciousness.

That is not true now. What is happening now is absolutely terrifying, so much so
that I have kept it to myself in hopes that I was wrong, or that it would
change.  I have watched a world in denial, and I have watched the dark side of a
phenomenon that is the strangest, most powerful and, I think, most complex thing
mankind has ever faced gradually drawing into sharper and sharper focus.

Some of what I see, even from this dark side, I like and I welcome. I feel that
there is a lot of evolutionary pressure being applied, both to individuals and
to the whole species. I see us responding, as a species.  People have brought me
children who are miracles. Such children are present in my own life as well.
Despite all the lying of the fragile and immature egos that infest the media,
the average person knows that something very real is happening, that somebody is
really here, and that our official world, and our visitors, are keeping that
fact secret.

I am beginning to see a pattern emerging in what is happening to people who can
effectively and convincingly challenge that secrecy, and I don't like what I
see.

Some years ago, a very brave congressman, Steven Schiff (R NM) challenged the
silence of the government and initiated a General Accounting Office
investigation of the Roswell Incident. That investigation revealed that all the
records from the Roswell Army Air Field had been destroyed for the years
1947-1952. Illegally. The secret stayed kept, but it could not have been more
obvious that an extreme and long-term cover-up was in place.

The secret survived, but the congressman did not. Mr. Schiff got cancer, a form
of skin cancer that is not usually life threatening. But it grew and changed and
could not be controlled, and it killed him. Okay, I said to myself, it�s an
unfortunate coincidence. But then another young congressman, who I shall not
name, had a massive and essentially unexplained heart attack in a Washington
airport. He was going to be very important in the disclosure process. He
survived, and was given advice by friends to stay away from theUFO topic. He
has.

Now a dear friend of mine, Bill Mallow, has died after getting two different
forms of leukemia at the same time, a most unusual circumstance. Oncologists I
have talked to say that it happens, but it�s extremely rare. Bill was crucial to
the work I do with unusual materials. If you saw the Confirmation TV special on
NBC in February of 1999, you�ll remember Bill. But you�re unlikely to see
another such documentary. The producer�s business partner was murdered a few
months after it was aired. A coincidence? Could be. But maybe not. Certainly,
despite that program's decent ratings, nobody has even come close to doing
another UFO special on national television.

Bill Mallow did some of the most important research into unusual materials that
has ever been done. Despite the fact that his employer, the Southwest Research
Institute, took a dim view of his work, he kept right on. He had just enough
knowledge, based on his long years of experience in classified areas, to KNOW
that something was to be learned from the materials I and others were giving
him, that he would not stop. He was a powerful man at the institute, one of its
most respected scientists. They let him do his work.

Did you know that he discovered that a magnesium-barium material that I brought
him (from the Art�s Parts cache) was made of a unknown type of foamed magnesium,
with a thin layer of barium sandwiched between�and there was absolutely nothing
between the barium and the magnesium, nothing holding it together except empty
space? No, you probably don�t know that. Bill certainly couldn�t publish. He was
often forced to give me his reports verbally. But this material is definitely
manufactured. But how? By whom?

And a piece of iron that was extracted from a witnesses� hand by Dr. Roger Leir
was definitely iron. It was magnetic. But it was also invisible to x-rays,
something that remains totally unexplained.

Bill couldn�t publish in the scientific press about it. No journal would dream
of taking such an article. Not because there�s anything wrong with the work, but
because the scientific community dares not do real science anymore, cutting-edge
science, because avoidance of the unknown�and especially this one�has been
institutionalized by organizations like the sclerotic US National Academy of
Science. Depart from accepted orthodoxy and, unless you have fifty years of good
science and dozens of key discoveries under your belt like Bill did, you�re out
on the street.

Bill discovered a lot. Now he�s gone. But we had another scientist, as close to
Dr. Roger Lier as Bill was to me, who had a big metallurgy facility and also a
sterling reputation. So surely he would take up the slack.

He�s just been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, a disease with a mortality rate
well over 90%. Another coincidence? Perhaps. But the fact has to be faced: three
of the men who were most crucial to disclosure�who had real power and real
abilities�are dead or dying.

We have nobody in congress and no real chance of getting anybody into office who
might help anytime soon. And, quite frankly, there are awful whispers along the
halls of the capital about this subject. People are afraid, and I think they
have reason to be afraid.

It is my belief that a very dangerous presence of some kind is working hand in
glove with the intelligence community to keep us from gaining any real knowledge
of what�s happening. Organizations like the Air Force go along with it because
they don�t want to admit that they�ve been hiding the most important thing that
ever happened to mankind. I think that their Office of
Special Investigations uses many agents, ranging from members of the skeptics
community to seeming UFO investigators, to enforce a UFO ghetto.  They
absolutely hate me because my voice is heard outside of that ghetto. I�m
dangerous to them, to the more knowledgeable and sinister forces in the
intelligence community, and to whatever higher power is orchestrating this. And
so are people like Roger Leir and Linda Howe�all the free voices who will not be
quiet.

The reason that elements of government and big corporations can be induced to
abet this evil scheme, I believe, is that they are offered a vision of power and
control over we the people that they find irresistible. They do not adhere to
the gospel, these people. They have forgotten, "Again, the devil taketh him up
into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world,
and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if
thou wilt fall down and worship me." (Matthew 4: 8-10) They have not recognized
what they are dealing with, because we are in a state of amnesia about the
invisible world that exists all around us. They have forgotten how Jesus
responded. He said, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." The men and women who
are keeping this matter secret are not servants of God. Most of them are very
secular people, who tell themselves that there is no soul. Others are the exact
opposite. They are religious fanatics who have justified their evil lives by
twisting the Word into a mockery of its true meaning.  Unlike these officials,
the first visitors I met most certainly were servants of God. For all their
ugliness and strangeness, they offered me help on my own path, real help,
compassionate help, help that I was eventually able to use in writing the Path.

No matter what happens to me, I�ve made this book. I�ve created a machinery of
inner strength that cannot be defeated by evil, not in a good- hearted person.
If the dark things I have seen ever emerge into our world, it is going to be
truly awful. It will be as if planet earth has been physically dragged from the
starry sky into the depths of hell. Our lives will become a monstrous parody and
an illusion. There will be no protection, nowhere to hide, and no escape.

Even if they do not emerge, there are powerful elements at work above the level
of government that are drawing us inexorably down the road to spiritual--not to
say physical-- slavery. Over time, the use of genetic engineering by morally
evil governments and corporations is going to create new kinds of human beings
that will not have free souls at all--that will, in fact, be living, breathing
perversions of God�s work on earth. Right now, countries like China are
developing massive human genetic engineering programs. Behind these programs, as
also behind the more immediate attacks on our freedom such as the grotesque
efforts being made in the United States to wreck freedom in the name of homeland
security, there is a conscious presence, totally committed to one thing: the
destruction of the will of man.

We are coming to a time when we are going to have to hide our freedom in our
hearts. Over thirty years of my life, I have been working toward the creation of
a tool that will preserve and even strengthen freedom even in the most
oppressive times it is possible to imagine. For better or worse, the Path is now
published. It�s out.  As a result of what I have done, I think, quite frankly,
that I am under attack.

For two weeks, I have been dogged by one of the most horrible and just plain odd
experiences of my haunted life. Normally, I don�t think that I would even know
what�s been happening to me. But I have become so sensitized to the world when I
sleep that I do know.

I believe that all the people who are working toward real disclosure of actual,
physical proof of the presence that is here are vulnerable. That's because they
are dangerous to this presence. On the scale of a single man, its power can be
very great. But when it comes to all men, it has little real power. So it
requires secrecy.

If it was strong, it would be doing its worst among us out in the open right
now. No, it�s weak or it would not need the secrecy provided by government, big
companies, the media and big science.

If the people who know the truth told the truth, we would, at a stroke, be free.
I have written before in these columns about what they fear�that official
disclosure would lead to profoundly unpredictable and unexpected consequences,
even to a change in the nature of our world.

The truth is, if they had the courage to make the official admissions that would
lead the average man to know for certain that there was a presence here, that
presence would become unable to do its will in our world. The secrecy that they
believe is protecting us, is actually dooming us to capture by inches, over
generations. There is an invasion taking place all right, but so slowly and so
secretly that we are not aware, as a species, that we need to mount a defense.

I said that I thought I was under attack, and I do. But please remember what I
said earlier: this is a subtle, complex experience. The attack could be an
attempt to teach me, to get me to use what I've learned from books like
Practical Psychic Self Defense, for example, to start becoming an active
participant in the invisible world, rather than a passive infant.  In other
words, I could be describing something that only looks like a malignant attack,
but could actually be an initiatory challenge.

What has been happening to me is this: every night as I go to sleep, something
begins moving against my skin, creeping like some sort of very slow insect. I
have seen and held this object. I have tried to crush it. But I cannot. I cannot
get a sample. It seems like a living thing, but I do not believe that it is
alive in the same sense that we are.

About a week ago, I woke up and found it penetrated into my chest just above my
collarbone. I pulled it out and tried to crush it between my fingers, to gouge
it with my fingernail. It struggled furiously in my hand. It would not break up.
I turned on the light and sat up, with the intention to take it into the
bathroom and capture it in a water glass. But when I relaxed my grip just a
little, it disappeared before my eyes, for all the world like some kind of a
magic trick.

It has tormented me night after night. I�ve examined the bedding and the
bedclothes. There's nothing there. But this thing is there, and it is doing
something to me that I cannot stop. I�ve tried moving into other rooms, but it
is soon there, as well. I have no doubt that it would be there wherever I went.
Is it real, or some kind of odd hallucination? Could be either, and I know from
experience that this is another burning question that I must not answer until I
have absolute proof one way or the other.

But I am wondering: were the others who have been destroyed visited first by
such things? Perhaps they were, but were not hyper-sensitive like I am and
simply didn�t notice. And perhaps their health later was destroyed. Maybe people
like me and Roger Leir and Linda Howe, who remain dedicated to getting physical
proof, are now in danger also. Or maybe its all a bunch of coincidences and the
experiences I'm having are just my fears going into overdrive.

Nevertheless, one fact cannot be ignored: physical evidence is the one thing
that would expose the visitors as being real. If they want to stay in hiding,
they cannot allow such evidence to become widely known. So we could be next in
line, especially if we continue our work--which we, of course, will do.

There could come a time in every life when a choice must be made between living
as the servant of a dreadful power, whether it has a human face or an alien face
or no identifiable face at all, or being enslaved by it. If that happens, then
the good must choose slavery and lock our freedom in our hearts. In those days,
hidden freedom will be the only freedom that is true.  Six months ago, I
wouldn't have written about any of these things. There was no point. I had no
exit to offer, no route toward empowerment.

I do now. It is the Path. Thirty years of travel along this path has told me
that it is a source of very real empowerment. It is a fortress for free souls,
in protection of their freedom, which I define as their ability to see the will
of God and serve it. The fact that I was on this path was why the good visitors
came to me in 1985, and why the dark side has worked so hard to hurt me, to
minimize me, to make a joke out of me.

I'm on a mission for people to get on this path, and I'm not ashamed to say it.
It's unique in the world, it's powerful and it is precious beyond price.

-Whitley Strieber, Unknown County.