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distribution" of diverse information. The presence of such material is not innocuous, nor is its active component confined to the personal imbibition of content. It is not in the contents alone that such media carry their infectious messages. Everyone reading this review section should take to heart the real lesson contained in the incident reported by Strieber in Transformation, i.e. that of the psychiatrist who upon seeing the cover of the book felt compelled without knowing its contents to purchase it, the next day being greatly surprised to hear a number of patients report dreams of UFO abductions for the very first time. It is revealing that the covers of both Strieber's books depict the alien countenance of his abductor, for in Communion we learn that the entity actually modeled for Strieber at the interior space of his "third eye", specifying that it wanted the artist who would transcribe the description to get it right!! To initiated understanding this clearly shows that the accurately—rendered image was to be used as a kind of talisman, or a material basis for the manifestation of that force—influence to which it corresponded. Stneber gives vent once or twice in Transformation to the sentiment that, if he really thought the creatures with which he was dealing were negative or harmful he could not in all conscience expose people to what was clearly a powerful and unpredictably commanding influence. He should have held on to that thought. He should have made every effort to penetrate the shallow rationalization by which he "forgives himself for his recalled participation, in youth, as the apparent ringleader of the "children's circle" whose job it apparently was to lure acquaintances out into the haunted woods of night where presently, amidst the horrified shrieks of many, they would find themselves face to face with something unspeakable. In addition to Strieber's books, there is a motion picture of Communion soon to be released, as well as a spate of other movies already primed for the competition that purport to depict true—life alien encounters. These should not be considered ordinary modes of entertainment. They must be understood as vehicles, very potent types of imagistic "talisman" supplying the material basis for a mass manifestation of unprecedented character. We need to listen more closely than ever now, to a channeled source that dates back to 1957, for in The Secret of the Andes we find a corroboration of the Ra source which predates that communication by many years, in which it is specified by name that we are under invasion by the Orion Empire. It is necessary to understand this for what it is, and not treat it as a removed spectator witnessing another phenomenon of mass entertainment. Everyone is involved, and there are children present. As was indicated, in last month's review titled Movie and Dream, the Qabalah of Star Wars, motion pictures have a profound correspondence with and influence upon the dream psyche, owing to the structure of the medium. That harbinger of the "Freddie" films, in which there arises an incursion into waking consciousness of the terrible content of dream and nightmare such that they are presently confounded and inextricably entwined, is poised to take place "in reality" the same as it was prefigured on film. In the specific instance of the Strieber books it is very advisable to neither buy nor read them, and this not the expression of some "censorship of content". There is something else going on altogether, something for which the public, in its wildest dreams, is scarcely prepared. It is advisable that the new films such as Strieber's dealing with UFO abduction etc be given a wide berth, and certainly children should be kept away from them! They are not just "spooky" movies, good for Halloween-type thrills. This is not an easy month for your reviewer. The decision to advance this discussion and extend such difficult, goblin—ridden counsel has not been made lightly. But the truth should at least be put out, out on the bookstall floor or streetcorner along with every other conceivable kind of information in the endless bid for the ephemeral attention of this place. What people choose to do with it, is a whole other column. E. T, go home. 40 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm But do it we must, and did. This is the ghostbusters boys, your cover is blown and your time's at hand.