The Key: A True Encounter (2011)

I’m not being facetious: my ‘initiation’ into the Inner Guide Meditation was totally self-directed, while retaining the instructions from the author of the book.

What the Sun wanted from me was to be mindful of his existence every day. What he gave me was a skeleton key. The reason for the key was to unlock secrets of the universe. He placed it in my heart and that was to remind me that I had to ‘feel’ how others feel, in order to help them with healing.

I came away from the experience as if a light had been turned on in my body.

This book by Whitley Strieber is in the form of a dialogue between himself and only a Canadian man who doesn’t pay taxes. That seemed a strange detail. His name might be Michael, or it might be Legion. Hmm. In format, it is identical to Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations with God”. That’s a clue, folks.

Several sections of this dialogue seem to refer to other publications or films that I’ve seen over the years.

Don Juan‘s hints to Carlos Castaneda:

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 you 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.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 48). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Philo of Alexandria

What of Jesus? What of Buddha? Those are two different, but intertwined, questions. First, you must understand that the teachings of Buddha had reached the community of Hellenized Jews in which Jesus lived. So they form a part of Christianity. He was a spiritual revolutionary who brought a message of mercy and compassion and the dignity of man to a world of unimaginable terror.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 61). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The Age of Aquarius

I have written of it—evolutionary pressure. It explains what’s being done to us—the theatrical appearance of UFOs in the sky, the assaults on us by night, the ferocious official secrecy, the collapse of the environment—all of it. It is all part of the plan of your evolution. Pisces, the little fish, will be poured out onto dry land by the stream of Aquarius. Then, how will you live? How will you breathe? You will make a leap of evolution. You will square the circle or die.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 76). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The Celestine Prophecy

An attempt is being made to induce an evolutionary leap. Only desperation will do this. There will come a time when your planet is dying and you are dying, and you will see these aliens all around you. But they will not help you, no matter how hard you beg, and you will beg, believe me. Their inaction, however, is their help. As agonizing as it is for them to see you suffer, they do it out of compassion, for without it you will not succeed in the mission of this age, which is to open the elemental body to ecstasy. Mankind, over the next two thousand years, is destined either to go extinct or ascend. The elemental body will become transparent to the radiant body, which will shine with the light of God.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (pp. 82-83). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The Refiner’s Fire

You cannot bear to be seen or to see the glory around you, which seems to you like a searing fire, so you turn inward, shielding yourself as a man would shield himself from the burning sun. But you cannot escape. For you, the fire of ecstasy is the fire of agony.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 93). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The Matrix

How can they be exploited? Material of souls is harvested and used to make intelligent machines. An intelligent machine is a being without the potential to be free. In this sense, it is not alive. It must act as it acts.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 117). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Proof of Heaven

What is heaven? Music.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 118). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

2001: A Space Odyssey

But a machine intelligence might be very dangerous. Very.

Could such a machine create itself without our realizing that it was intelligent? It’s possible.

And would it keep itself hidden? Certainly.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (pp. 125-126). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Fountain International

What happens then? By then, you must have perfected techniques like mass prayer. If a human being prays, a voice is raised. But a million human beings make an even greater voice, and if all pray in the same hour, the whole universe will hear you. But remember this: in that terrible hour, you will be greatly afraid. It will be difficult for one voice to be raised, let alone the billions. But between now and then, mass prayer can be used to change the world. It isn’t necessary to pray the same words or to the same god. But only to raise your voices. There is a music, then, in the world of the soul, a fine music.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 128). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Golden Gates

How do they get them? Soul traps. The lures are the lusts and hungers of this life. The dead man, exploring the newfound freedom of the energetic world, finds himself able to visit his friends and enemies, to see their innermost being and thoughts, even to converse with them in ways that their elemental selves cannot perceive. He is in danger, but he does not know it, for he has not ascended. He is still ensnared by his lust. Soon, he will be shown something that perfectly fulfills his most hidden and cherished desires, desires he has never fulfilled. Unable to resist the chance to do it at last, he enters by a golden door into eternal captivity.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (pp. 128-129). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

A Christmas Carol

Am I marked by the sins of my nation as well as my own, or the sins of mankind? You are marked by what you know should mark you, and no matter how much in this life you tell yourself you should not be marked, your soul’s conscience is never wrong. When you die, you see yourself truly. Better to see the truth now, when change is possible, than find out later that you must remain strapped to the wheel of life. The longer you delay your ascension, the longer you deny God the chance to taste of your ecstasy. When you sin, you hurt yourself, but more than that, you are cruel to all the rest of us. You are cruel to God.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (pp. 140-142). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Upon waking up later that same morning, Whitley Strieber said to himself:

“That was the best conversation I’ve ever had.”

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 155). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

I agree, wholeheartedly. And that phrase I posted yesterday? It was stated aloud, here:

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.

Strieber, Whitley. The Key: A True Encounter (p. 42). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Hmm.