Over this past weekend I’d read the short work by Whitley Strieber, called, The Key, about his weird encounter with a strange man, whom he’d come to call “The Master of the Key,” or, simply, “The Master.”
It was definitely in keeping with who Mr. Strieber is and the angst he continues to apparently shoulder. While the book was riveting and fascinating, it is largely couched and framed in traditional religious frameworks and symbology (except for where the being really gets into some things…), which was quite off-putting–though understandable (Mr. Strieber’s background and religious preference, so I can see how difficult it would be to reconcile such arcane knowledge with this kind of belief system). At one point he even says to the being that he feels he should worship him/her/it! He just did not get anything this being was trying to convey, which was quite frustrating (that God is in everything–including in Whitley himself, therefore you don’t need to be worshiping others…). It was sad to read, after knowing most of what Mr. Strieber has been through, as documented through his books.
Id est…
I have read many of Mr. Strieber’s works, including his Communion series. In them he quite admitted to his angst and refusal to deal with certain issues, eventually walking away from his relationship with a possibly extraterrestrial being. I have not followed him since, nor searched his site, because, frankly, I don’t know that I want to get caught up in all that again, and because of what I’ve seen in this, The Key, and the titles of his latest works. With all due respect to Mr. Strieber (we all have our journeys), he remains quite rigid in certain very critical ways, I’m sure levied upon by his chosen belief system, and this being said, I do see why any such being would have to communicate with him in similar symbology to “get through” to him. When it really comes down to it, we can only communicate with those to whom whose languages we speak.
I do have to ask a striking point: why this continued perseverance by this/ese being[s] at targeting Whitley?
Why not pursue someone more open to their messages? Less confined by their belief systems and angst who can better insert their messages out into the world (and I’m not suggesting myself–it’s obvious I am not that guy!)?
He’s constantly rejected and fought and balked at their contact and continues to have difficulty with them. Even during the discussion documented in this book, he tried to one-up the being in a couple of word games and tried to “run circles around him logically,” as Monty Python might put it. But put simply, this being wasn’t having any of it and called him out on it several times.
So, why do I think this/ese being[s] are continuing to pursue him?
I believe they’re actually related! That the being is a future version and/or form of Whitley Strieber…and is therefore never going to give up, much like a mother to a willful child.
I liked a lot about the book, and what the being said rings true with less religiously troped messages I’ve read from other such “beings.” Don’t get me wrong, I don’t claim all-perfect secret knowledge, but I have read all of one set of another’s works who also gave insight into the nature of reality “and all that,” and that person was Jane Roberts, along with her husband Rob Butts (both deceased). They both transcribed information from an entity that called itself, “Seth.” I have also read other messages from other purported entities, and none of them, including Edgar Cayce, had a more neutral and “factual” delivery that wasn’t couched in human-developed “camouflaged terms” and belief systems.
There is no one way to answer all of these issues, and it is critically important that souls of all faiths come to grips with what is going in our world. To deal with climate change, stupidly prevalent secrecy, greed, and all the other inequities that are going on out there. Or as much as the Human Race can take on.
I do not believe there will be a singular “end of the world,” however, because, as the being stated, all time happens now–simultaneously–so that being the case, if we were to obliterate ourselves, how does that fit in with everything else the being states? Don’t probabilities also exist in this simultaneous time? I have direct, personal experience with “probable realities.” What about all the myriad of probabilities existing within “all time is simultaneous”? So, to me, even if we do kill ourselves off…there are other probabilities just as real where we do not. But it is still eminently critical we take responsibility and control of our mistakes.
If I am so entirely vexed with Mr. Strieber, I have nothing against him and am actually quite impressed with the man, because for all his difficulties–including having sworn off any more such contact–he continues to try to branch out and understand and reconcile and assimilate these messages that these beings are continually trying to impress upon him. He is brave and meticulous and honest in all that he does and think. He lays it all out there. He strives to be a better Human.
In the end that’s all any of us can ever do.
Reality Check 