Category Archives: history

When a Future Self Channels Through Its Present Incarnation

Posted on June 16, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Bashar: Blueprint for Change (1990) My daughter, Rosanna, sent me the link to this book’s pdf version. It’s not often that one of my children gets to do this. But I so appreciate her ‘intervention’. This one is an eye-opener. … Continue reading →

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We are One with All Creation

Posted on June 15, 2021 by cdsmiller17

My Octopus Teacher (2020) As a documentary, this little film is perfect. From our usual limited perspective (meaning, on dry land), we presume to be the Masters of the Universe. But, underwater, we are just observers, normally. Welcome to a … Continue reading →

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Who is the Real Doctor Zhivago?

Posted on June 14, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Boris Pasternak (February 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960) I watched this BBC program some time in 2018. It inspired me to read “Doctor Zhivago” all over again. It helped me to appreciate the man who wrote the book. Most … Continue reading →

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Why Does It Take So Long for the Penny to Drop?

Posted on June 13, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Communion When I first read Whitley Strieber’s book (“Communion”) in 1987, I didn’t pick up the huge hint that Anne Strieber had implanted into the title. In fact, it wasn’t until this morning that the penny finally dropped. What was … Continue reading →

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How Did George Gurdjieff Know, All Those Years Ago?

Posted on June 12, 2021 by cdsmiller17

A Meeting With a Remarkable Man It seems the most unlikely of links: Whitley Strieber follows the ‘sensing’ exercise as suggested by George Gurdjieff. This brought the light of his soul to the attention of the ‘visitors’. Creating this type … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Time Travel: We Know Where, But Not When

Posted on June 11, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Time Passages I’m not being glib, here: these things happen all the time, it seems. You travel along a road in the country, one that may have even been familiar to you at some time in the past, and suddenly, … Continue reading →

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Revealed: The True Spirit Behind the Communion Experience

Posted on June 10, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Anne Strieber (August 25, 1946 – August 11, 2015) Sometimes, one wonders if the death of a spouse is such a traumatic experience that everything that occurs after it seems to take on extra significance. Such is the case with … Continue reading →

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I Love It When Several Streams of Thought Converge

Posted on June 9, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Whitley Strieber (June 13, 1945) As I intimated in my post yesterday, I’m reading Whitley Strieber’s latest book, “A New World”. It’s good for me since this book goes back to the original narrative of the events covered by “Communion”, … Continue reading →

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Returning to the Scene in the Library

Posted on June 8, 2021 by cdsmiller17

A New World (2019) It’s hard to believe that more than 35 years have passed since Whitley Strieber had his close encounter of the third kind. Since Anne, his wife of 45 years, died in 2015, Whitley has come to … Continue reading →

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Was There Something in the Air That Year?

Posted on June 7, 2021 by cdsmiller17

No Man’s Brother (1984) There I was, writing a book about furtrading in the Canadian North, and suddenly I realized I’d been pipped at the post. Obviously, these things happen, but it knocked the wind out of my literary sails. … Continue reading →

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