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Chapter Three Several years and a number of very strange events went by. In 1991 I met a young man, Frank, with whom I had many conversations about metaphysical and philosophical subjects. Very early on, I shared the manuscript of Noah with Frank. ‘ Grea t!” “No I didn’t”, I insisted. “It’s right there in the chapter about The Rapture!” In Noah, I had alluded to the New Age belief, shared in part by some fundamentalist Christians, of miraculous rescues off the planet during some End Time event. “There is nothing on the planet more important and worthy of study than the alien problem. Trust me, I've been studying it for years!” Frank Frank responded with a long monologue about aliens that gave me serious doubts about the stability of his intellect. It was so hard to I was, I admit, a flaming skeptic about aliens. I had spent so much time poking around in people’s heads in therapeutic ways, that, with only a cursory examination of the issue, I’d decided that sightings and claims of abductions were strikingly similar to past life dramas. After reading Whitley Strieber’s Gothic book Communion and Ruth reading Whitley Strieber’s book and Ruth Montgomery’s patently ridiculous Aliens Among Us, | refused to give any serious consideration to the subject. The stories were so crazy I simply could not consider them to be real in any context other than as useful metaphors of psychological struggles. I was trying to keep an open mind from a clinical and scientific viewpoint. I wasn’t sure that 14 e our whole existence, as we perceived it, wasn’t simply a series of chemical reactions in the brain of the Cosmic Dreamer. In short, stories of aliens and abductions seemed an archetypal drama of the subconscious mind. I called it the Millennial Disease and saw it “Tt’s fascinating”, he said. “Brilliant. I couldn’t put it down." “But there’s only one problem”. “What’s that?” I asked. “You failed to include the UFO and alien phenomenon.” intoned with great import. “Nonsense!” I snorted. reconcile his brilliant expositions on so many subjects with this silly, childish belief in “little green men!”