"Ugly Bob" <ugly_bob42@hotmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Nary a soul. I won't even tell Harlow...
You mean, 'cuz he's dead?
-Harlow
: The Key, Part I
: Copyright © 2003 Unknowncountry.com
: This is Whitley Strieber: I've ended up living a lifetime of the
: unusual and the unexpected and the unknown. Many, many things
: have happened to me, some of which I've written and spoken about,
: others of which I have not, but I think that perhaps the central
: experience, at least that I remember right now, was my
: conversation with the man I have come to call the Master of the
: Key. This conversation happened in the small hours of the night in
: June of 1998 in the Delta Chelsea hotel in Toronto, Canada. I was
: awakened by a knock on the door. I had eaten late and room service
: had not yet picked up my tray, so I assumed that it was the room
: service boy. I did not realize that it was two o' clock in the
: morning or shortly thereafter, so I jumped up and threw the door
: open, and immediately a man came in. He was dressed in a gray
: sweater and pants, he had white, thinning, hair, and he was about
: 5'7" or 5'8"; he was not a large man, in fact he was rather a
: slightly built man, an older man. He looked to be in his 60s or
: 70s, and he had a slight smile on his face.
: He walked past me very quickly and to windows at the far end of
: the room, where he turned around in front of the closed curtains
: and immediately began to speak. I began to think that I'd made a
: major mistake, that I had let somebody into my room who should not
: be there. This has happened before. I was once in a hotel in Chicago
: when a fan came into the room late at night. The woman came out of
: the closet and engaged me in conversation. It turned out she had
: bribed a bellman to let her into my room in order to tell me her
: story. Obviously, this was not a good way to get somebody's attention
: and I thought a similar thing had just happened, only this time,
: since I had been asleep, I had let the individual in on my own.
: I was just getting ready to try to throw him out when he began to
: speak, and this is how the conversation went:
: I said or I yelled something like, "Why are you here?" And instead
: of saying, "I'm here to pick up your tray," he said, "You're chained
: to the ground."
: "Excuse me?"
: "I'm here on behalf of the Good. Please give me some time."
: "Who are the Good?"
: "Those whose lives are directed toward ascension."
: "You mean like religious types?"
: "Belief impedes release. The ascension I refer to is the process of
: finding God within, and the Universe without."
: "Meaning?"
: "Mankind is trapped. I want to help you spring the trap."
: "What makes you able to do this?"
: "The key I offer you consists of a new way of seeing yourselves that
: will free you."
: "There's nothing new under the sun."
: "There are thoughts unthought and words unspoken. For example, I have
: a message for you about the next Age and the one just passed."
: "Dare I ask?"
: "The most important thing about the last Age was the Holocaust."
: "An Age means what?"
: "An Age is a bit over 2,000 years, the length of a Zodiacal sign."
: "Yes."
: "And the Holocaust was the most important event in the past 2,000 years.
: You were meant to have acquired the ability to leave the planet by now,
: but you are still trapped here."
: "You make me irretrievably lost."
: "This is of absolutely fundamental importance, because the Earth will
: soon be unable to support you, and yet you will not be able to leave.
: This is because of the Holocaust. The destruction of six million may
: well lead to the destruction of six billion, so it is the most important
: event, by far, of the Age."
: Now, subsequent to that, I have made a study of Nazis and interstellar
: travel, trying to find out if there was something that ended up lost or
: hidden that was discovered at that time that could have taken us off the
: planet. Incredibly enough, I found an ally in none other than the editor
: of Jane's Defense Aerospace Weekly, Nick Cook, who says that the Nazis
: did develop anti-gravity craft, and that this technology is still being
: worked on even in modern times by Boeing. Boeing has denied it, but
: nevertheless, Mr. Cook, who is one of the leading aerospace reporters
: in the world, says he was shown internal documents from Boeing
: indicating they are indeed working on this technology now.
: It is 60-plus years since World War II ended, and we are still flying
: old-fashioned jets that were invented during and right before
: World War II. We have made no progress in terms of propulsion since
: then, none whatsoever. And I think the Master of the Key knew that,
: and that's why he said what he said.
: Now let's continue with the conversation:
: Next I asked him, "Why has the Holocaust prevented us from leaving
: the planet?"
: And he said, "The Holocaust reduced the intelligence of the human
: species by killing too many of its most intellectually competent members.
: It is why you are still using jets 75 years after their invention.
: The understanding of gravity is denied you because of the absence of the
: child of a murdered Jewish couple. This child would have unlocked the
: secret of gravity, but he was not born. Because his parents went, the
: whole species must stay. In other words, we were tested. World War II
: was a test: Would we tolerate Hitler, or would we not? And we did.
: In 1937, '38 and '39, the world had many opportunities to overthrow
: Adolf Hitler, and we did not do that. We elected not to intervene in the
: actions of a sovereign state, and so therefore condemned our species to
: becoming trapped on the Earth, at a time when we must find a way out;
: we must."
: This is why, a few months ago, I wrote in my Journal on
: unknowncountry.com, that we should intervene in Iraq. I don't think we
: should make the same mistake twice. The peace movement is quite right
: that Iraq is a sovereign state and under normal circumstances, we should
: not have the right to intervene in the affairs of a sovereign state, but
: is it a legitimate state when it is run by a vicious dictator? Is any
: such state legitimate? I think we should have learned a lesson from
: Adolf Hitler, and that the world should proactively intervene in these
: cases. We need to establish standards of statehood that are
: internationally recognized. We have not done that yet, and as a result,
: we have suffered immense damage. We should have intervened in the
: creation of the soviet state. We tried to, but failed. We should have
: put more energy into it. We should have intervened in the case of Hitler.
: If we had done those two things, millions and millions of lives would
: have been saved, but more importantly even than that, as the Master of
: the Key has said, we would now have the ability to leave the Earth in
: large numbers, because the mind that was available to us, or would have
: been available to us to solve the riddle of gravity, would have already
: been born and done his work. Extraordinary.
: So let's go on with the conversation:
: I asked him, "You're saying that the catastrophe we're facing now,
: too many people and no ability to leave the planet, is punishment
: for the Holocaust?"
: "What is happening is consequence, not punishment. The Holocaust was
: triggered when economic disorder combined among the Germans with the
: feeling of being trapped, due to overpopulation. The resulting explosion
: drove the German tribe to lash out against other tribes, especially the
: one that lived in its midst. Unfortunately, they murdered the bearers
: of the intellectually strongest genes possessed by your species."
: Then I asked him, "Why are we so blind?"
: This is his fascinating answer: "At deeper levels, you are a very
: different species than you appear to yourselves. Just as the biblical
: story of the fall of Man and the banishment from the Garden is really
: an allegory of the destruction of the previous civilization, so, also,
: the story of the Fallen Angel is an allegory of your fallen heart.
: The Demon is the part of you that hungers for destruction."
: Interestingly enough, some months after The Key was published, I
: interviewed William Henry on Dreamland about his book the Cloak of the
: Illuminati, and what did he say? He refers to the Garden of Eden being
: an allegory for a lost civilization, the exact same thing that the
: Master of the Key told me in 1998, before I had even heard of
: William Henry!
: I asked him then, "Why do we do these things?" and he said,
: "This is a fallen world." And there followed one of the most profound
: moments of my life when I asked him, "What is a fallen world?"
: He said, "Be as the lilies of the field."
: When we hear that, we think: 'How can we possibly do that? We need to
: make shelter; we need to gather food.'
: "You are at war with your fate."
: And then I thought to myself, 'At war with fate' I always have seen
: fate as being another word for God's Plan,' so I asked him, "Are we
: a species at war with God's Plan?"
: And he said, "Because you have no plans for yourselves, there is no
: Plan for you. God wants companions, not supplicants. Become the
: friends of God, and you will find your Plan."
: Amazing. We spend so much of our time passively saying, "Oh, well it
: must all be part of God's Plan..." when the truth is, if we don't plan
: for ourselves, there is no Plan.
: "What is God?" I asked him. I figured at this point, why not? Maybe
: he's got a good answer; he's got some fascinating things to say,
: goodness knows.
: He responded in an unexpected way. He said, "An elemental body is a
: mechanism filled with millions of nerve endings that directs the
: attention of God into the physical."
: I immediately responded, "That didn't answer my question."
: He said, "It did, very precisely. If you were a friend of God, you
: would have understood. There is a much larger world behind your
: backs; it is to this world which man is blind. Man is soul-blind and
: God-blind."
: At that moment, I realized I wasn't really talking to a man, not to
: an ordinary man like you or me, but to a man who had been exposed to
: something very great, and I thought, "Maybe this is an angel," and
: I thought, 'Maybe this is a dead man.' And I wanted to touch him,
: and I wanted to put my hand out to him, but I thought there was
: something about the moment; he was so contained and he looked,
: in a way, so beautiful, that I resisted the impulse to stop the
: conversation and hug him, which was very strong. And I asked him,
: "How can we change?"
: He said, "Surrender to God."
: And I said, immediately of course, "What about free will?"
: He said, "Free will is only possible in God. The will of the
: fallen is slavery."
: So I asked him, "How do we surrender to God?"
: And here came an answer that I really hated to hear: "Return to the
: forest, otherwise you will destroy the Earth and yourselves."
: "Six billion people can't return to the forest!" I said,
: "The forest can't possibly support us!"
: "I agree; it's impossible."
: At this point, there was a whole other line of questioning I could
: have followed. I could have said, "What do you mean by this phrase
: 'Return to the forest'?" Instead, I jumped ahead. I know now what
: he would have answered, or I think I do. "Return to the forest"
: means, essentially, become a good husband of, take care of, the
: Earth. And it's an old message, but coming from this man, at this
: moment, it's a really important message. It's implicit in what's
: written in The Key. I didn't ask him the question. I should have.
: I went on, "But if we destroy the Earth, we end up dead, so what
: happens to us, then?"
: And then he says, "You go forth, even though you aren't ready."
: "Go forth? To where?"
: "To another state of being. Your access to elemental bodies ends."
: And then I thought, 'What is this elemental-body deal he keeps
: talking about?' so I said, "What is an elemental body, anyway?"
: He said, "A body formed out of chemical elements, something drawn
: from the dust and made alive."
: Now what's so interesting about this is, I learned from the visitors
: (and this was repeated in a funny way, recently) that the way we
: think and act and are an expression of the elements that we're made
: of. We are, in that sense, an idea created by the earth. We are a
: carbon-based species, and therefore the way we see the universe
: around us is determined by the way this element is.
: I don't pretend to know how that all works, but at Chilbolton, the
: summer before last, there was an incredibly interesting crop circle
: image of the medallion on the Pioneer spacecraft. And in the place
: of Man on it, was one of the little gray creatures, and the
: symbolism indicated that this was a silicon-based species, that
: they were telling us, if this is real (and I frankly think it is
: real on some level), that they are from a different element;
: They are from silicon rather than from carbon. And, according to
: what I have understood from them, that they literally see the world
: around us in a completely different way than we do, and this might
: account for the extraordinary gulf between us and all of the
: secrecy and all of the confusion that surrounds our attempt to come
: together. It may be that there is some deep, universal level of
: reality that keeps us from coming together in the sense that we
: see the world one way and they see it another. We think one way,
: they think completely in another way because they're built out of
: a different element. I can't take it further than that because no
: one has ever really thought: 'Would a creature that is formed from
: another basic elemental source necessarily have a fundamentally
: different way of thinking and seeing the world than we do?' Well,
: interestingly enough, practically the only other element that
: scientists believe complex creatures could be formed of would
: be silicon.
: I asked him, then, "What sort of body would we have without
: elements?" because I thought to myself, 'Well, if elements are
: a problem, a confusion creating this gulf, maybe there's something
: beyond that.'
: He said, and this is one of the most important things that he
: said (and we'll develop this over the course of this conversation),
: "A radiant body potentially formed out of conscious energy."
: Now, this is the first time I had ever heard the phrase "conscious
: energy," no
"radiant body" (I'd heard that somewhere before),
: but conscious energy. So I said, "What is this? How can we put it
: to use?"
: "Conscious energy", he replied, "is not like unconscious energy,
: the servant of those who understand its laws. To gain access to
: the powers of conscious energy, you must evolve a relationship
: with it, learn its needs, learn to fulfill them. But also remember:
: It is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, easily detectable by
: your science as it exists now. You can learn to signal and be heard
: and to record a response. The veil between the worlds can fall.
: The undiscovered country can become your back yard."
: At that point, I was immediately reminded of the
: spirit-communications field and the people who are trying to
: create communications using simple technology like tape recorders
: and video recorders, between us and other levels of reality.
: And they do record voices, spirit voices. Some of this material
: is hoaxed; there is no question in my mind about it, but some of
: it is very genuine. Are those voices just random sounds that came
: from some radio station a thousand miles away, or is it really
: communication with the other side? He says that using technology
: that we have now, that we can do this. Is this the correct use
: of it? I don't know. You can explore this a little bit more
: thoroughly, and I'll tell you how: Go to unknowncountry.com.
: Click on the Mindframe tab. On the right-hand column below the
: Dana Augustine section (You'll see Dana's picture there), there's
: a section called Other Websites. Go to Other Websites and scroll
: down to the section called Ghosts and the Afterlife. Click on the
: World ITC tab, and you will find Mark Macy's World ITC group.
: They have really raised spiritual communication, electronic
: voice recording, to an electronic art, and you can try it
: yourself; it's not hard. The equipment is very low-tech.
: I have tried it; I have not tried it much, and I have never
: gotten anything, but that doesn't mean that you won't.
: So, give it a shot and see what you think. Is this true?
: Can the "undiscovered country" become our backyard?
: Well, your backyard might not be a bad place to try this.
: I asked him, "But how can you do this?"
: And he said, "By first realizing that you are not cut off.
: There is no supernatural; there's only the natural world,
: and you have access to all of it. Souls are part of nature."
: Now, this is an amazingly freeing concept. We are dividers;
: we divide everything: soul and body, natural/supernatural.
: Science is constantly saying, "We can't study the
: supernatural," and here the Master of the Key is saying,
: "There is no supernatural." And if you think back to 100,
: 150 years ago, radio would have been part of the supernatural.
: We couldn't study that because it's impossible, it's magic.
: Yesterday's magic is today's science, yesterday's supernatural
: world is today's nature, and that has been going on for
: centuries. This conversation suggests that a soul is
: conscious energy, is in some way part of the electromagnetic
: environment, that presumably we can detect it and communicate
: with it.
: I might add, however, that this level of consciousness must
: be highly intelligent, and my guess is, it is in absolute
: control of the degree to which we have access to it. As things
: become more desperate in our world, we have to ask the question:
: Will it abandon us to our fate because we have failed in some
: fundamental way and must then go extinct, or recycle in some
: long term process? Or will it intervene and help us? I think
: that the Master of the Key is an example of that kind of
: intervention. This is a little book that has only been read
: by a few thousand of you, of the people I regard as sort of
: the spiritual elite, who are willing to entertain these ideas,
: keep open questions, who disdain cults, who are old souls,
: spiritually advanced people, and with open minds and the
: willingness to entertain these things--but not necessarily to
: make them into a belief system. And I think there's a reason
: why this material is going to just this small group of people,
: because you're the ones who can actually make use of it and
: spread the ideas into the culture in a healthy way rather than,
: God forbid, "gurufy" me or decide that the Master of the Key is
: the Second Coming or some idiotic thing like that. You take it
: like adults, with a grain of salt, with an open mind, in proper
: perspective and with questioning.
: I then said to him, "I don't feel that we have access to the
: whole of the physical world. We're trapped here on Earth, for
: example. Our space program has lead feet."
: He said, "When you were challenged from the outside, your
: government chose the path of public denial and secret defiance.
: This is the path to failure. It must change its policy to one
: of public admission and open defiance."
: Now the interesting thing about this is that he didn't say,
: "It must change its policy to one of public admission and open
: acceptance," he said open defiance. And this gets me to
: something Colonial Philip Corso said to me. Corso said he had
: had a direct, face-to-face encounter with an alien. Did he or
: not? I don't know, but the thing that rang so true about this
: is he had been told to ask this being a question. The question
: was essentially: What's in this for us? The answer is a terribly
: authentic answer no matter where it came from. The visitors, as
: I know them, would have answered the question this way.
: The answer was, "What is in it for you is a new world, if you
: can take it." If you can take it! That means, on a number of
: levels, if you can grasp it, if you can bear it because of the
: enormous change involved. Public admission and open defiance.
: It does not say that the government should open the doors to
: the visitors or that we should, it says that we should defy
: them, and out of that friction, there will come the new world;
: We will, in other words, take it. The reason for open defiance
: is very simple: The visitors will not give us anything, we have
: to take it. Everything's a test of strength. If we are strong
: enough, this new world will be available to us, but it's going
: to take tremendous strength and courage on the part of the
: government to admit its mistake, and enormous courage on the
: part of the individual, especially if the visitors actually
: show up in a public context. After a very short time it would
: be discovered that they were not all that easy to deal with,
: and they would be demonized. They would be the source of terror
: and fear. However, for those of us who know how to handle this,
: they would be the source of incredible knowledge and incalculable
: new energy. A relationship that is connected, that is based on
: friction, is very, very valuable if you know how to handle it and
: balance it. It's a constant state of testing, so I think that in
: that sense, Colonial Corso's statement was absolutely authentic.
: What is on offer is a new world if we can take it.
: I don't believe I had spoken to Colonial Corso yet at that time,
: but I'm not sure. Anyway, I then asked him, "You speak of secrecy
: concerning the alien presence here."
: He responded, "Until you take your place, you will remain trapped.
: The threats that have been delivered to your government in secret
: are a test. To pass it you must defy them. Your place will not be
: given to you; you must be strong enough to take it." Exactly what
: Colonial Corso said, in effect. Now this is interesting, because
: back after I wrote Communion, I talked to my uncle, who's passed
: on now, Colonial Edward Strieber, who was a very, very interesting
: man. He was a lieutenant colonial in the Air Force, and he told me,
: after he read Communion, that he had helped to assemble the debris
: that had been brought to Wright Field from Roswell. And, he had
: introduced me to his commanding officer, General Art Exon. And I
: had quite a long conversation with both of them, and Exon said,
: "Oh, we knew everyone from the White House on down knew within
: hours that this was not of this Earth, the Roswell crash."
: And he went on to say that he had worked with the Air Force to
: liaison to what, he said, you know as MJ-12, although that's not
: its name. He said, "I can't tell you its name, but I worked until
: 1963 in liaison with them, and I still go to meetings at Wright Pat
: all the time." This was in about 1988, and I based my book Majestic
: on what General Exon and my uncle told me, which was essentially
: that the Air Force had wanted to reveal this to the public, but
: that the CIA had stopped them they felt like the government had
: gotten itself into an awful fix because of this. I don't know if
: they were right or wrong, if they were just trying to get the Air
: Force off lightly in history, but that was certainly their message.
: In any case, my uncle said an interesting thing, "The government
: had been told that if they revealed the presence of the visitors
: publicly, on their own without permission and without agreement,
: the visitors were liable to destroy the entire planet immediately,
: without warning. And this is why people have died to keep this secret,
: and why the government will never divulge it, never."
: "A new world if you can take it." The Master of the Key says you
: must be strong enough to take it. He says the threats that have been
: delivered to our government in secret are a test. Does this mean the
: threats are hollow and empty? If I know the visitors, and I think
: I know them fairly well (I refer to these little gray beings),
: it's not that kind of a test. It would be very, very dangerous
: indeed to defy them directly and openly. In other words, there are
: much deeper, more complex reasons for the secrecy. I am actually
: communicating one of them, maybe the most telling one, without doing
: it in such a way that it becomes an official pronouncement and ends
: up being open defiance, but nevertheless, the secret is sort of out
: at this point.
: I then said to him, " I have the impression that the government
: knows very little."
: He said, "Then you have the wrong impression. But remember that
: government is also very complex, and a good deal of it is not what
: it seems at all. Much is hidden from your public officials.
: This world is run in secret."
: Now that started me on a journey that I have not yet left.
: It got me interested in people like Jim Marrs and it got me
: interested in the realities behind all of those conspiracy
: secrets and so forth, the people like James Branford's Body
: of Secrets, and the work that we've been doing on Dreamland,
: talking about books like The War On Freedom and Peter Lavenda's
: Unholy Alliance: The Continuing Presence of the Nazis In Our World.
: The things like Hitler's flying saucer--the strange, weird idea that
: the Nazis did learn to leave the cosmic egg; they did learn a method
: of traveling in the cosmos. And something happened as a result of
: that, because of the Holocaust, and because of who, therefore, gained
: a hold of this secret, we ended up trapped here, isolated in the
: Earth at a time when we really need to figure out how to get out.
: I said, "So the government is not what it seems."
: He said, "Form an assault on secrecy. You are right to fight against
: official secrecy; it is the greatest present evil." That defines my
: career, basically, on Dreamland, or one part of it. I am assaulting
: secrecy, and you'll see in my Journal entries, in the one on my
: childhood that's up just recently, that I am always saying we must
: get past the secrecy. We must find a way to do this. He said,
: "You must find a way, because the alternative is to be denied your
: place in the higher world."
: And I said, "What is this higher world?" Because I wanted to know
: if it's going be a struggle (and it's obviously a tremendous struggle
: to gain our place in it), and is it worth it?
: He said, "What difference does that make to you?"
: I said, "I'm trying to find out our relationship to it."
: He said, "Not all human beings are radiant bodies, but all may become
: such." In that sense, for every path that everyone of us has ever been
: on, from the beginning of time to now, there is the aim. That's what
: it is all about. It is what all prayer is about, it is what all
: meditation is about, it is what all spiritual journeying is about.
: I'll repeat what he said: "Not all human beings are radiant bodies,
: but all may become such."
: I said, "You're saying that we don't all have souls?"
: He said, "I'm saying that you are not all discrete, radiant beings,
: but all participate to some degree or other in conscious energy.
: To remain a separate being after death, there must exist the ability
: to maintain the structure of the radiant body by the action of
: attention. This is why we have been so insistent that you meditate;
: otherwise we will lose you when we die, and we don't want that.
: If a being cannot self-maintain after the elemental body no longer
: does it automatically, it is absorbed into the flux of conscious
: energy. You go into the light, as it were."
: You know, I always had the feeling that there was something about
: going into the light that was a kind of defeat. No, that's too
: negative a word: it's a wonderful experience to rejoin the wholeness
: of consciousness after death, but potentially there is more--coming
: back to, becoming a companion of God. True surrender is not a matter
: of being absorbed, true surrender, ironically, is becoming a discrete,
: separate radiance. It got me to thinking, what is a radiant body?
: And thinking to myself about meditation. Then I remembered I had met
: this man before, back in the early seventies, I remembered that
: meeting very clearly. Afterwards and before it were what were hard
: to remember. As I recall, I was sitting in my little office in our
: apartment on West 76th St., just off Central Park. It's where I wrote
: The Wolfen. I used to go for walks at two or three o'clock in the
: morning in Central Park, and it was while I was on one of those walks
: that I was shadowed by a pack of dogs, and out of that experience came
: the inspiration for The Wolfen. By the way, you'd think: 'Who in the
: world would go walking in Central Park at two o'clock in the morning?'
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