Sinister Forces - The Manson Secret by Peter Levenda

Author:Peter Levenda [Levenda, Peter]
Language: rus
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936296798
Publisher: TrineDay
Published: 2006-05-30T21:00:00+00:00

Is this the devil? What the hell is this?

—Whitley Strieber, under hypnosis to recall details of his abduction8

Whitley Strieber was born a Roman Catholic. Although, as we see from his writings both in print and on his Web site, he and his wife were involved with the Gurdjieff Foundation for a while (and he also admits that he has attended witchcraft ceremonies, of the “New Age” pagan variety9), he nonetheless retains a great deal from his Catholic upbringing. A gifted storyteller, several of his novels have been made into movies (including The Wolfen and The Hunger) and, indeed, he worked as a screenwriter for a while (The Owl and the Pussycat). But Strieber came to international prominence largely on the strength of one book, a non-fiction bestseller in which he claimed to have been abducted by an alien force.

Communion: A True Story was not only a bestseller, but it became a feature film starring Christopher Walken as Strieber, a film that was unsettling and eerie to many audiences and made even more so by the filmmakers’ insistence that it was based on actual events. That the title, Communion, has special reso- nance for Catholics should be obvious: it is the name for the ritual involving consumption of the body and blood of Jesus. It is one of the seven sacraments in the Catholic Church, and signifies full membership in the Church.

Yet “communion” also means “communication,” albeit on a deeper level, and this is the emphasis of the film and especially of the book, as well as of all the others from Whitley Strieber that have followed Communion, and which deal with the same phenomena. In fact, one of the sequels to Com- munion is Confirmation, a word that describes another Catholic sacrament, this time the ritual in which a young boy or girl reaffirms the vows made by their godparents at their baptism; i.e., confirms that they renounce Satan and believe in Jesus. The titles of the other sequels are not so openly sacerdotal, however, being Breakthrough, Transformation, and The Secret School. (One does suspect that it would be difficult to use Extreme Unction as a title, although Penance, Baptism and even Matrimony have possibilities, not to mention the potentially sinister Holy Orders.)

Briefly, the story is this:

On the night of December 26, 1985 Whitley Strieber—on holiday at his cabin in the woods in Ulster County, upstate New York—was awakened by a strange noise in the living room. It would later be recorded that a UFO had been sighted in the area that night, but at the time Whitley had no knowledge of this and did not associate his experience with UFOs and alien visitors until months later. 10He sat up in bed, startled, but then lay back down to return to sleep. He says that this type of strange behavior would be “repeated many times,”11 a kind of nervous reaction to events so out of the ordinary that there does not seem to be an appropriate response based on the usual fight or flight instincts of our lower brains.

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