1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,970 by 2 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:17,420 i'm whitley strieber and i have returned 3 00:00:26,210 --> 00:00:20,630 to speaking in public after many years 4 00:00:29,859 --> 00:00:26,220 because i have been now involved with 5 00:00:34,430 --> 00:00:29,869 this experience and the visitors for 6 00:00:37,420 --> 00:00:34,440 over 30 years and for most of my life 7 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:37,430 and if what happened in my childhood 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:40,350 really happened as I remember it then 9 00:00:46,660 --> 00:00:41,610 for all of my life 10 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:46,670 I have come to a point of understanding 11 00:00:54,709 --> 00:00:51,510 of this that I think is pretty unusual 12 00:00:57,860 --> 00:00:54,719 in the sense that I don't know of anyone 13 00:01:01,990 --> 00:00:57,870 else who has been as involved in this as 14 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:02,000 long as I have and what I want to do is 15 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:04,890 basically to communicate what I found 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:10,410 I've written a new book called super 17 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:15,570 natural to words a new vision of the 18 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:17,880 unexplained with Professor Jeffrey 19 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:21,450 from Rice University and in it 20 00:01:27,139 --> 00:01:24,690 we alternate chapters I describe 21 00:01:31,609 --> 00:01:27,149 experiences and then he interprets them 22 00:01:35,359 --> 00:01:31,619 from an academic viewpoint and the book 23 00:01:37,219 --> 00:01:35,369 is I think of one of the reviewers 24 00:01:40,010 --> 00:01:37,229 called it the most important book on the 25 00:01:41,990 --> 00:01:40,020 paranormal in 40 years and certainly 26 00:01:44,770 --> 00:01:42,000 it's an important book for me because 27 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:44,780 it's a culmination of a lifetime of 28 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:48,410 strange experiences but what is 29 00:01:56,059 --> 00:01:52,080 happening that's the question we always 30 00:02:01,850 --> 00:01:56,069 have answers and if you look closely at 31 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:01,860 this you find that it has precedent 32 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:05,280 throughout our history these events have 33 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:08,489 been reported in different forms dr. 34 00:02:15,610 --> 00:02:10,709 Jacques Vallee and his groundbreaking 35 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:15,620 book Passport Touma Gonia gave a 36 00:02:23,390 --> 00:02:19,530 brilliant us a brilliant look into the 37 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:23,400 way this affects us over history and has 38 00:02:32,210 --> 00:02:26,209 affected us over history 39 00:02:35,510 --> 00:02:32,220 so is it really alien contact we don't 40 00:02:37,430 --> 00:02:35,520 know the public doesn't like that they 41 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:37,440 don't like people to say we don't know 42 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:39,330 they found that annoying they want to 43 00:02:43,790 --> 00:02:40,650 know they want something to either 44 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:43,800 believe or disbelieve yes or no keep it 45 00:02:50,390 --> 00:02:44,340 simple 46 00:02:52,759 --> 00:02:50,400 going to get us anywhere belief isn't 47 00:02:55,009 --> 00:02:52,769 going to get us anywhere as Jeff says in 48 00:02:59,300 --> 00:02:55,019 Supernatural it's time to make the cut 49 00:03:02,270 --> 00:02:59,310 to for the scientific community to make 50 00:03:04,940 --> 00:03:02,280 a cut with the assumptions by which it 51 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:04,950 lives in relation to this not to 52 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:07,650 therefore say well it must be UFOs from 53 00:03:14,089 --> 00:03:10,950 another planet but to say that is at it 54 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:14,099 is a genuine human mystery which it is 55 00:03:21,020 --> 00:03:18,170 and can be studied physically 56 00:03:22,970 --> 00:03:21,030 anthropologically social socially and 57 00:03:25,729 --> 00:03:22,980 the social sciences it can be studied in 58 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:25,739 many different ways and scientists will 59 00:03:33,349 --> 00:03:28,290 dismiss it as anecdotal that means a 60 00:03:35,810 --> 00:03:33,359 unique data point nothing else like it 61 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:35,820 but that's not true in this case it's 62 00:03:41,690 --> 00:03:38,670 not anecdotal there are millions of 63 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:41,700 people who have this experience millions 64 00:03:49,099 --> 00:03:45,630 of them and they are being told each one 65 00:03:50,660 --> 00:03:49,109 individually it's just you you you woke 66 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:50,670 up in the middle of the night you maybe 67 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:52,530 you had something strange to eat go to 68 00:04:01,699 --> 00:03:57,690 go home that's no answer there is a big 69 00:04:06,289 --> 00:04:01,709 mystery here but the first place to look 70 00:04:10,990 --> 00:04:06,299 is not to the skies it's to us we must 71 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:11,000 look into ourselves to find out what our 72 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:15,260 reaction to this mystery means meanwhile 73 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:18,450 academically in the community that Jeff 74 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:21,229 kraepelin habits which is a community of 75 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:25,200 religious scholars and mythologists and 76 00:04:33,589 --> 00:04:29,510 people like that it's necessary to 77 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:33,599 redress this whole phenomenon as the 78 00:04:40,930 --> 00:04:37,040 core human experience that it is 79 00:04:49,380 --> 00:04:40,940 this is essential in terms of my own 80 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:49,390 work what I'm doing is has to do with 81 00:04:59,860 --> 00:04:55,130 looking at this as something that can 82 00:05:02,980 --> 00:04:59,870 enrich a person's life or otherwise in 83 00:05:05,290 --> 00:05:02,990 other words many people have experiences 84 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:05,300 that they find very difficult and very 85 00:05:11,110 --> 00:05:08,420 frightening many people have experiences 86 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:11,120 that are not that way I've had both I've 87 00:05:16,870 --> 00:05:14,210 had the worst they have this has to deal 88 00:05:20,470 --> 00:05:16,880 out aside I suppose from being just 89 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:20,480 outright killed and the best I have been 90 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:26,090 in a school that has led me over thirty 91 00:05:34,330 --> 00:05:29,270 years to an extraordinary place in my 92 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:34,340 opinion this place is at the edge of a 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:37,670 bridge between our lives and the lives 94 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:41,570 of what we call the dead it's not what 95 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:43,550 you would think that finally oh he's 96 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:46,070 finally got blueprints for a flying 97 00:05:50,650 --> 00:05:46,790 saucer 98 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:50,660 not at all this is not about that on at 99 00:05:58,570 --> 00:05:52,730 least not in the surfaces in which I 100 00:06:02,430 --> 00:05:58,580 address it it's about us my wife Ann who 101 00:06:09,010 --> 00:06:02,440 died last August in August of 9 to 20 16 102 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:09,020 was an incredibly brilliant woman and a 103 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:14,300 deeply conscious human being she we got 104 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:18,470 after communion was published in 1987 we 105 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:20,930 got hundreds of thousands maybe even 106 00:06:25,170 --> 00:06:22,970 millions a million letters quite 107 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:25,180 possibly over the next few years she 108 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:28,730 read these letters all of them and the 109 00:06:32,650 --> 00:06:30,590 the letters are now being collected the 110 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:32,660 months we have we have about 30,000 of 111 00:06:37,570 --> 00:06:35,570 them still they are being collected by a 112 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:37,580 university so they won't be lost I'm 113 00:06:43,090 --> 00:06:41,630 happy to say in any case in reading 114 00:06:44,770 --> 00:06:43,100 these letters she said of the 115 00:06:48,580 --> 00:06:44,780 fascinating things she said you know 116 00:06:50,470 --> 00:06:48,590 Whitley this this has something to do 117 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:50,480 with what we call death 118 00:06:55,870 --> 00:06:53,450 and there were story after story in the 119 00:06:59,680 --> 00:06:55,880 letters from people who would have close 120 00:07:02,350 --> 00:06:59,690 encounters with aliens and also with the 121 00:07:05,860 --> 00:07:02,360 dead and then that began to happen at 122 00:07:08,980 --> 00:07:05,870 our cabin in upstate New York we had for 123 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:08,990 example a situation where in the living 124 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:11,750 room sleeping or but and they weren't 125 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:13,370 sleeping no one slept in that cabin 126 00:07:17,110 --> 00:07:14,770 except me and my wife and my son 127 00:07:19,530 --> 00:07:17,120 everyone else was always awake all night 128 00:07:21,850 --> 00:07:19,540 when they came and had a an 129 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:21,860 extraordinary ability to choose the 130 00:07:26,650 --> 00:07:24,350 people the visitors would respond to and 131 00:07:29,230 --> 00:07:26,660 so we had a group of such people in the 132 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:29,240 cabin four of them sleeping upstairs in 133 00:07:34,650 --> 00:07:31,610 the living room one up two of them in a 134 00:07:37,030 --> 00:07:34,660 private context a couple in the basement 135 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:37,040 the four people in the living room 136 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:39,770 encountered what I call kobolds the 137 00:07:44,860 --> 00:07:42,950 little dark blue figures which began 138 00:07:46,690 --> 00:07:44,870 leaping around in the living room in the 139 00:07:48,370 --> 00:07:46,700 middle of the night and they could see 140 00:07:50,590 --> 00:07:48,380 them and hear them and they could talk 141 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:50,600 to each other but they couldn't move 142 00:07:55,450 --> 00:07:53,510 they were all paralyzed there was a 143 00:07:57,460 --> 00:07:55,460 magazine editor there who had promised 144 00:07:59,170 --> 00:07:57,470 that if he saw them he would make it a 145 00:08:02,770 --> 00:07:59,180 big story in his magazine that's why 146 00:08:06,130 --> 00:08:02,780 they came meanwhile in the basement the 147 00:08:08,550 --> 00:08:06,140 couple woke up to find a friend who had 148 00:08:11,050 --> 00:08:08,560 died in an earthquake three years before 149 00:08:14,230 --> 00:08:11,060 standing at the foot of the bed biggest 150 00:08:16,590 --> 00:08:14,240 life and she said I want you to know I'm 151 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:16,600 all right 152 00:08:23,980 --> 00:08:21,110 that was typical so this what is this 153 00:08:26,860 --> 00:08:23,990 doesn't sound like aliens from a flying 154 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:26,870 saucer come down to test us and see what 155 00:08:31,690 --> 00:08:30,170 we're like probe around this is a big 156 00:08:35,050 --> 00:08:31,700 universe and there may be some of that 157 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:35,060 going on but there's more and the more 158 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:38,510 is what interests me the more is about 159 00:08:43,510 --> 00:08:42,710 us who we are where we are and why we 160 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:43,520 are here 161 00:08:52,890 --> 00:08:48,590 I seek answers that's what I'm doing and 162 00:08:58,420 --> 00:08:52,900 why I'm back I've thought a lot about 163 00:09:02,230 --> 00:08:58,430 what their basic reality is what the 164 00:09:08,980 --> 00:09:06,370 have had I meditated for a long time 165 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:08,990 probably a year or more with a group of 166 00:09:15,010 --> 00:09:11,510 people who could materialize to an 167 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:15,020 extent who claimed to be from between 168 00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:17,570 lives they weren't they were they were 169 00:09:22,510 --> 00:09:20,750 in another level of reality and if when 170 00:09:26,380 --> 00:09:22,520 one of them was material you could touch 171 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:26,390 him he very very light physically but 172 00:09:37,329 --> 00:09:33,529 had a human feel and smell and and but 173 00:09:39,990 --> 00:09:37,339 then also appeared as a in two other 174 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:40,000 forms they used to appear as seven 175 00:09:47,949 --> 00:09:43,910 globes of light floating through our 176 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:47,959 woods and they in the last night I saw 177 00:09:52,630 --> 00:09:50,450 him we had lost our cabin and we lost 178 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:52,640 everything because you talk too much 179 00:09:57,340 --> 00:09:54,529 about this stuff and people stopped 180 00:09:59,680 --> 00:09:57,350 coming they stopped reading your books 181 00:10:02,500 --> 00:09:59,690 you become a laughingstock which is what 182 00:10:06,460 --> 00:10:02,510 happened to me and so we lost everything 183 00:10:09,220 --> 00:10:06,470 we went bankrupt but the last night of 184 00:10:13,630 --> 00:10:09,230 that time we spent with that those 185 00:10:16,630 --> 00:10:13,640 people he came out into the front yard 186 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:16,640 from the meditation room floating as the 187 00:10:25,780 --> 00:10:21,110 most beautiful little like star you 188 00:10:27,340 --> 00:10:25,790 could imagine with these Ray's shining 189 00:10:31,090 --> 00:10:27,350 off of it there were not they were like 190 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:31,100 laser beams and they touched me my skin 191 00:10:35,949 --> 00:10:33,350 and penetrated I could feel him and I 192 00:10:38,139 --> 00:10:35,959 could it was like having the essence of 193 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:38,149 another person touching you not like a 194 00:10:45,010 --> 00:10:41,450 finger but like something much deeper it 195 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:45,020 was a wonderful brilliant experience and 196 00:10:53,420 --> 00:10:49,250 then the next morning we left forever 197 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:53,430 we've never been back where 198 00:10:59,329 --> 00:10:57,330 do they come from they certainly inhabit 199 00:11:01,760 --> 00:10:59,339 both what we call the world of the 200 00:11:05,269 --> 00:11:01,770 living and what we call the world of the 201 00:11:07,850 --> 00:11:05,279 dead and that's what I think we can do 202 00:11:10,010 --> 00:11:07,860 there is a notic we call it the veil 203 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:10,020 between the worlds it's not a veil for 204 00:11:16,570 --> 00:11:12,930 most of us it's a brick wall we can 205 00:11:22,190 --> 00:11:16,580 raise that wall we can get that wall 206 00:11:26,449 --> 00:11:22,200 down and become a bigger species there 207 00:11:28,820 --> 00:11:26,459 is reality beyond the physical we are 208 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:28,830 being told the scientific and 209 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:30,690 intellectual communities in the media 210 00:11:38,389 --> 00:11:33,930 are screaming at us you're only a body 211 00:11:42,470 --> 00:11:38,399 you're only a meat puppet buy more cars 212 00:11:45,380 --> 00:11:42,480 eat more hot dogs live in the physical 213 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:45,390 and ignore everything else you don't 214 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:47,930 matter at all you are small 215 00:11:54,710 --> 00:11:51,510 insignificant and worthless essentially 216 00:11:57,769 --> 00:11:54,720 is what they're saying I say no I say 217 00:12:00,769 --> 00:11:57,779 you are large you are highly significant 218 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:00,779 and you have inestimable value because 219 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:02,970 you are building what could potentially 220 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:06,510 be an immortal being I guess I'm out 221 00:12:11,329 --> 00:12:08,910 here looking to help people become 222 00:12:15,019 --> 00:12:11,339 immortal beings to bridge that gap 223 00:12:17,449 --> 00:12:15,029 between the worlds to engage with the 224 00:12:20,949 --> 00:12:17,459 other side I'm engaged with my wife I'm 225 00:12:25,370 --> 00:12:20,959 still married that's Ann and this is me 226 00:12:30,949 --> 00:12:25,380 old marriage was until death do us part 227 00:12:35,269 --> 00:12:30,959 new marriage is as we abide I'm about 228 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:35,279 the new about recognizing the true 229 00:12:41,690 --> 00:12:38,610 richness of every human being the 230 00:12:43,970 --> 00:12:41,700 potential that's there you know I asked 231 00:12:46,370 --> 00:12:43,980 Ann I've talked to Anna Watson she died 232 00:12:49,010 --> 00:12:46,380 I've other people have too and we've 233 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:49,020 gotten Ann was a teacher in her life and 234 00:12:52,579 --> 00:12:51,930 in her afterlife she's an even better 235 00:12:55,550 --> 00:12:52,589 teacher 236 00:12:57,410 --> 00:12:55,560 I asked her what happens to the evil 237 00:13:01,180 --> 00:12:57,420 what happens to bad people than they die 238 00:13:03,829 --> 00:13:01,190 and she her answer was extraordinary I 239 00:13:06,590 --> 00:13:03,839 expected some kind of explanation of 240 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:06,600 what really you know comp law inflation 241 00:13:12,949 --> 00:13:07,170 she simply 242 00:13:16,550 --> 00:13:12,959 said nothing nothing I don't think we 243 00:13:20,329 --> 00:13:16,560 want that I think that you give up a lot 244 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:20,339 in this life if you're not compassionate 245 00:13:27,290 --> 00:13:24,300 and loving and above all the three 246 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:27,300 things compassion love and treating 247 00:13:35,930 --> 00:13:31,610 every person as equal and equal to you 248 00:13:38,930 --> 00:13:35,940 you do that you enrich your soul you 249 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:38,940 don't I think you're kind of like a 250 00:13:44,329 --> 00:13:41,250 little piece of dust that sort of blows