For our third episode, we welcome the #1 New York Times best-selling author Whitley Strieber. Whitley discusses his boyhood as a Roman Catholic, the erotic dimensions of alien contact, his lifelong meditative practice, evolving views of the afterlife, and the recent U.S. Congressional testimony concerning Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).

Whitley Strieber is the author of Communion, one of the most iconic books in the literature of the unexplained and the bestselling nonfiction book on UFO-related subjects in history. His most recent book about alien contact is Them, published in 2023. In 2021, he published Jesus: A New Vision, and in 2022, A New World. Both Them and A New World are follow-ons to Communion that extend his research beyond personal issues of contact and into broader areas.
He is the author of over 40 other books, including the Wolfen, the Hunger and Superstorm, all, like Communion, made into films.

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References from the episode:
The Afterlife Revolution
The Super Natural, by Jeffrey Kripal and Whitley Strieber.
American Cosmic by D.W. Pasulka
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee
Intimate Alien by David Halperin
The Myth and Mystery of UFOs by Thomas Bullard