Pulling back the veil

Although I long had an interest in paranormal phenomena, I held these conceptually at an arm’s length, not knowing how to include them in my worldview, influenced as it was by secular 20th century European philosophers who had no (admitted) interest in such things. Then, in 1988, I read Whitley Strieber’s bestseller, Communion, about his frequent and bizarre encounters with alien Others who would take him away against his will. Strieber’s effort to make sense of these “abduction” experiences in terms of mind-brain disorders, such as temporal lobe epilepsy, made the book all the more compelling. He concluded, however, that he was in fact encountering an Otherness that could not be explained away in terms of materialist categories.  The veil had been drawn back for Strieber. 


Michael Zimmerman
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