One of our favorite travel activities is reading. On our recent trip to Costa Rica, I had a selection of books – three on my Nook and two actual books. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, is over 700 pages long and I was totally wrapped up in it until Megan absconded with it. So then I started reading Whitley Strieber’s The Key. Rob and I read it years ago, but this reading felt like the first time.
The background about the book is as fascinating as the book itself. On June 6, 1998, Strieber was in Toronto, on a book tour for Confirmation. At 2:30 in the morning, someone knocked on his hotel room door and when Strieber opened it, a stranger swept into the room. At first, Strieber thought the man was an overzealous fan and tried to get him to leave. But the stranger said something that seized Strieber’s attention. “…he offered the arresting thought that, because of the murder of a couple who had been killed in the Holocaust, the person who would have cracked the mystery of gravity was never born…” As a result, mankind would “remain trapped on a dying planet.”
Now put yourself in Strieber’s shoes. What would you have done?
For Strieber, their subsequent conversation was “life-changing.” As I read the book, I dropped by his website, and recognized just how profoundly this single conversation seemed to have sculpted Strieber’s interests from that point forward. His website isn’t just about contact and the visitors; there are articles about climate change, reincarnation, 2012, astrology, anomalies, dreams, politics, psychics, the economy, communication with the dead. All of these areas are touched upon in The Key and the stranger’s take on these areas is intriguing – and disturbing.
According to the stranger, “the living and the dead share the same world. Your dead are not off somewhere in space. Their lives and beings are intertwined with yours. They see all that passes here, but can only affect it indirectly, if they can make themselves heard in the minds of the living.” The stranger goes on to say that we, the living, are changing, evolving to the point where we’re better able to detect the presence of the dead.
He talks a lot about the radiant body, the part of us that is conscious “in the energetic world.” It enables us to remain separate beings after death. “If a being cannot self-maintain after the elemental body no longer does it automatically, it is absorbed into the flux of conscious energy.” The stranger advocates meditation as a means of attaining the radiant body. “Who does not meditate, disintegrates.”
I was particularly intrigued by the stranger’s discussion of devices to detect magnetic fields and electromagnetic plasma – the spirits of the dead. He pointed out that crop circles are “two-dimensional portraits of these beings, self-created. They are trying to introduce themselves to this age.”
The most disturbing parts of the book concern climate change. According to the stranger, we have reached the end of our planetary resources. “After the suffering you are about to endure, mankind will never again lust after material wealth. You are about to suffocate in your own garbage.” In other words, our consumer society has pretty much done us in.
He goes into detail about the form climate change will take and much of what he says seems to have been happening since he provided the material thirteen years ago, in 1998. More violent storms, disruption of the Gulf stream, the melting of glaciers. If you click this link, you’ll see exactly what the master of the key was talking about. Interestingly, he says that humans didn’t cause this – it’s part of a natural cycle –but we sped things up.
Then there’s the secrecy of governments. All governments. He says the U.S. is ruled by secrecy and until that ends, this country is in its death throes. “Human life is about freedom, and secrecy is the murderer of freedom.”
Interestingly, as I was writing this, MSNBC noted that today, June 13, is the anniversary of the publication of The Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg, then an analyst for the Rand corporation, was disturbed by the real reasons for the Vietnam War, and began Xeroxing the classified documents about it and removing them from his office. He eventually released them to the New York Times and Richard Nixon went after him to discredit him. It all led to the Nixon’s resignation and an end to the war. Tonight, Ellsberg told MSNBC that Afghanistan has disturbing parallels to Vietnam.
It’s the kind of secrecy, I think, that the stranger was referring to when he said, “You must face the fact that the American intelligence establishment is just as rotten and just as evil as every other secret human government that has ever existed.”
There’s much to contemplate in this book. And despite all the gloom about climate change and the extinction of mankind, I found the stranger’s take on laughter enormously liberating. “Laughter is the key to everything.” More powerful that prayer or meditation, he says. It’s “the stuff of which the world is created. Find laughter, find freedom.”
If you want to learn more about The Key, visit the excellent micro-site for the book at https://www.motkbook.com
There’s a video, background info, extracts from the books and well as a comments and reviews section.
Great!
Thanks, James. We’ll check out the link.
Terrific write up.
And a terrific book!
Hhhhmmmmmmm. Again, I agree with Marcus regarding the “disintegration” of a soul and that the only way to avoid that is to “meditate”. For me, that has the sound of a Christian saying the “only way to eternal life is through belief in Christ as your personal saviour; accepting that He died on the cross for your sins”. I have some deep-seated issues with any person, no matter who they may be or how astute and enlightened they may be, stating that there is only such-and-such a way to survive the death of the physical body intact as a spiritual being, or consciousness. In my lifelong experiences as a medium, there seems to be virtually every type of personality survival beyond the physical vehicle. Some whose light is so radiant I want to immerse myself in it; some whose essence is so black I want to shrink and hide from it. I can only speak from my own experiences, of course. But I’ve been taught that when we leave these particles of dust and move into a finer, less dense state of being, we do not immediately lose the personality/ego of that particular expression of our WholeSoul, and that we work when we are without physical bodies, just as we work when we are in physical bodies, to continue to learn and to grow. It’s my understanding that when we depart these mortal shells from each incarnation, we transition into a frequency, (dimension), that is compatible with the current spiritual space occupied by that specific fragment of our soul, and that we have opportunities, via free will, to shift into more enlightened frequencies as we progress Over There. Or, we can maintain the status quo until we decide to reincarnate. It’s a complex, complicated subject with diverse concepts. To greatly simplify it for my own mind, I choose to envision the OverSoul as a round circle, like a “pie”, and a portion of that circle, or a piece of that pie, separates from the Whole and incarnates as an individual but is always “connected” to its Wholeness and will never lose that connection, returning to the “circle” of the OverSoul at the death of that particular physical cocoon. I have no problem with the concept that several fragments, or pieces, of the OverSoul may choose to express individually simultaneously, thus, parallel lives, if you will. I do have a problem, however, as previously mentioned, with any “disintegration”. That doesn’t resonate with me as a truth, and especially when paired with a statement that the only way to avoid such disintegration is to meditate. My experiences don’t support that concept. Contrarily, I most heartily agree with the concept that LAUGHTER is indeed the very best medicine in the world. Almost without exception, the amazing folks I’ve met who live past the age of 100, when asked their “secret” for such a long and healthy life, reply, “I laugh a lot!” 🙂
Nice contribution, mathaddict. Yes, laughter is really important, as is just plain smiling a lot! Perhaps as R & T said, “disintegration” – as used – means something more akin to fragmentation, rather than non-existence.
I’d be interested to know where the stranger got his knowledge from. Is it some personal experience, direct perception, from a master… channeled?
I’m not quite sure what to make of the idea of a couple being murdered in the holocaust changing human history re. understanding gravity. I believe that in the end, regardless of whatever ‘evolution’ the collective is making, we as individuals have the power of liberation within us, and that becoming fully present and embodied is, ironically, the simplest way to do it. That’s where meditation – or mindfulness – is so important, as it grounds us within the body, within the present, if it is done correctly. Perhaps the stranger meant something similar.
I see you have a favourable review from the man himself;
https://www.unknowncountry.com/whitleys-space/interesting-insightful-review-key
” Interesting, insightful review of the Key. This review points out the extent to which I have been influenced by the Key in my subsequent work–in fact, in everything that I do. I hadn’t really thought of it before, but when I look at it, it is certainly true. ”
Quote by Whitley Streiber from the Unknown Country website.
Well done,Trish.
Thanks for the link, Daz – and letting us know!
A lot of people are focusing on the word “disintegrate” and are missing the point of the statement. Meditation in the method mentioned in both The Key and The Path, helps one to be aware of the sense of a physical body. This sensation helps with maintaining human rebirth and eventually coming off the rebirth cycle (samsara) altogether.
By disintegrate, the MOTK refers to the spirit / soul dispersing (being dis – integrated).
Yes, when I read it, I thought ‘disintegrate’ referred to the soul being ‘absorbed into the flux of conscious energy,’ as stated in the earlier sentence, rather dispersed as if into non-existence.
Wow! So much going on here. I will have to read it, though I feel a bit sceptical at this point for some reason.
My understanding of the oversoul is the same as Connie’s, but like she also said, who really knows until we get there/here. Interesting take from Nicholas C. too. I can resonate with that as well.
In my city recently,and Daz’s too I believe, a HUGE solar power generator thingamy thing, thing was unveiled. Apparently new technology. I will put it up on my blog in a minute for you to see. All is not lost in Newcastle yet, so get thy butts down under.xx
Will run over to take a look!
https://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/worlds-largest-solar-plants-for-nsw-qld-20110618-1g8my.html
Thanks for the link, Nat!
That should read “maternal” grandmother. I sure wish she would saty “external”!
The book sounds intersting, altough having someone burst into your room at 2.30 am is a bit weird. Then again, its not half as strange as most things Streiber talks about!
From my work with ‘energy’, it seems that the stranger’s insights parallel my own. The one thing that does not appear to be true from my experience is the idea of disintegration of consciousness, and that meditation is necessary to avoid this. Many of my own dead relatives certainly never meditated, and were amongst the most dysfunctional and literally mad human beings imaginable! Their energy still persists, and I have to deal with it almost daily. For example, my external grandmother was pretty screwed up and degenerated with alzheimers. However she still tries to ‘influence’ my mind. As far as I can tell, her psyche persists, and this includes all the psycho-spiritual issues that she left unprocessed in her life. However some interactions with her indicate that some level of healing has taken place. Quite clearly her consciousness is involved with ‘interactions’ with others (both living and dead) in her current location, and this is helping her come to terms with her issues.
I have to say though that most of my ‘interactions’ with those who have passed on has been ‘negative’ – attempts to gain power and control over me, or use my mind as a channel to get to others they want to control. It is not a one-way process however, as parts of my mind/psyche are seeking power and control over them at some level (it’s a bit complex to explain here). To be honest, it’s a pain in the butt. The last thing I would ever want to do is go to a medium to contact my dead ‘loved ones’. As far as I’m concerned, I just want them to stay dead!
So the stranger is correct that the spirits of the dead interact with us all the time – its just that most people are unconscious of it.
My mother had alzheimer’s when she died and her spirit persists, too, marcus. But I’ve seen her healed and laughing with my dad, who was walking (he was in a wheelchair with parkinson’s when he died). So I’m with you on this one.
did you ever read “THE OZAWKIE BOOK OF THE DEAD Alzheimer’s isn’t what you think it is” by Elmer Green, Ph.D.? He is the founder of ISSEEM, and kept a journal about his experiences with his wife, who developed Alzheimers. His experience was that part of her consciousness was in a kind of bardo, another realm, and only a small part of her energy was in her body.
Never read the book, Lauren, but onto my list is goes. My take on my mother’s Alzheimer’s sounds similar to this book. When she told me her mother had visited, I believed there had been an actual visitation. My mother was terrified of dying and I think Alzheimer’s enabled her to move into an afterlife state while she was still in her physical body. There’s a definite spiritual element to that disease.
Yes, I think it likely that Alzheimer’s is in part a psycho-spiritual degeneration, where consciousness begins to split from the body. This is the case with all of us to some degree (splits), but as people age they often lose focus with the present and with the body, and begin to live in the mind (the past, and in their imagination). Possessio0n states (becoming too entangled with another’s energy) are often a part of it, and the most common entanglements are with one’s own deceased parents. It will take mainstream science a long time to “get” this though, as material reductionism so completely dominates its thinking.
I read the Key, 2 weeks ago. The radiant body & meditation is same teaching we have in Tibetan/Nyingma regarding our death. This is how the Tulkus, such as the Dalai Lama, reincarnated over the centuries, while retaining some of the prior life memories. They also have a concept: they can incarnate- “projection”- into more than one body at a time. The next Dalai Lama could incarnate in 3 bodies (like the movie “Little Buddha”).
I found the idea of the savior of humanity dying in a concentration camp, a bit strange. Too simplistic.
The global weather patterns are changing and it does appear to be both cyclical and manmade.
Strieber always writes in a compelling way.
BRAVO, Sansego! I totally agree.
The author was on Coast to Coast AM the other night. The stuff on Climate Change is fascinating. I agree that we have over-consumed and based our entire economy on endless consumption. The scary aspect is knowing that it would take four planet earths to sustain the average American lifestyle for the entire planet. With China’s population and their desire to live in first world luxury and consumption, I’m afraid that their demands (as well as India’s) will exhaust our planet’s ability to cope. Is it right for us who live in such beneficial lifestyles to deny others the right to live our lifestyle? Do we need to downgrade?
What I disagree with, though, is the idea that because some couple died in the Holocaust, this prevented a person from being born who would make an important discovery about gravity that would affect our world. This idea seems to stem from the belief that souls are born / created at conception, and if that fails to occur, the world lost something. This existential fear of not existing is what drives the anti-abortion movement, I believe. If you believe in reincarnation, though, then that belief does not make sense. All that was lost was the chance to be born into that family or circumstance. There are other opportunities for souls to be born on earth if their original plans failed to come true. For instance, I believe that my soul had a choice to be born into two different families in this lifetime. I felt a deep family bond with my best friend, his brothers, and his parents…like I had the choice to be born into that family, but my soul chose a different family because they offered something more that I wanted: a life of traveling and moving every few years. In life, I did get to meet up with my best friend and when I first met him, I felt that he was the brother I had been looking for all my life. I feel a part of his family and even though he has three brothers, he considers me an unofficial fourth brother.
So, in other words…the soul who was to have the profound revelation about gravity could have been born into a new family and still bring about his theory.
My daughter (who is now 26) has always said to me that she knows she would have been my daughter no matter who was my husband. For her, the father didn’t matter. I found the idea very interesting.
I find the idea comforting!
I’ve known a few couples who had miscarriages and decided to adopt. Based on what they shared, I think its possible that the adopted children might have been the previous soul in the body that had miscarried, so they found another way to get into their family of choice.
Interesting what your daughter believes. I wish more people would consider that possibility. I suppose a lot of people suffer an existential crisis if they thought about what might happen if their parents had not met or had them when they did…thus why abortion is a scary thing for evangelical Christians. They believe it is their duty to save all those souls from non-existence that they believe such medical procedure causes.
But it’s these same evangelicals who applaud war. Go figure.
I guess for evangelicals…nonexistence because a lady aborted the fetus is scary to contemplate, but once you exist, being sent off to war or being given the death penalty in prison is okay, because you exist and its your choice to heaven or hell. The fear is in the non-existing at the start.
Reincarnation is liberating from that kind of fear. When you believe you are an eternal being, you don’t fear non-existence or eternal damnation in hell.
Fascinating, Sansego! Other people have said the same thing about their birth families, that there were choices. I agree with you about the child and gravity.
I also believe that some souls can “compete” for the same individual body, and the spirit guides decide which soul would benefit more from the experience. I try to remember this when I’m struggling and discouraged with life. I just remind myself that my soul might have earned the right to be born as me over another soul, so I better make something of myself.
Interesting concept, Sansego. I’ve never heard about this competition factor. But it makes a kind of sense.
I don’t see how this infers that souls are created at conception. Whitley believes in reincarnation and that souls are eternal beings. So does the so called, “Master of the Key”, who claims Whitley fought in an ancient war between Man and “God” [a collective of “radiant beings”]. We lost, after having “murdered Mars”, and the winners sentenced us to our current shameful existence [a never ending cycle of death and rebirth].
>All that was lost was the chance to be born into that family or circumstance.
Intelligence is in the genes, in the physical body. The soul must work with the tools that are available to it. The only family who had enough smarts to solve the problem got wiped out. If true, there may not be another chance in a very long time. This is of course what “God” (the collective) wants. They want us down here, in chains.
I read the book and also frequent Streiber’s website. I think you did a service to this book. Clear and concise. Not an easy thing to do, as the material was sometimes easy to understand, and sometimes not so easy to understand. I definitely agree with the secrecy and government issues – it’s rotten to the core. Our government has been hijacked. After reading the book I had to go back and watch his movie based on what he learned from the stranger – Day After Tomorrow. Interesting in that he spells out how climate change can take place in a matter of days and hours.
I haven’t read the book but lots of interesting stuff in your post. Climate change, for example, I have always believed that this is caused by natural cycles. It’s interesting how it was first called ‘global warming’ in the media but is now referred to as ‘climate change.’
I’m sure that secrecy rules not just the USA but all of the world. We can see our freedoms being eroded all the time – in the name of the supposed war against terrorism or crime prevention or other similar created ‘reasons.’
And yes, laughter is a great power for good. But have you noticed how some people no longer laugh, not fully? Their mouth may turn up in a smile but it’s not a ‘real’ laugh. Many have forgotten how to laugh, even small children.
May just have to read this book!
I agree with Mike wholeheartedly on his above comment.I too,think climate change is caused by natural cycles and that most of the media hype is just a push to scare people into passing bogus carbon taxes so the (secret) governments can suck more money out of the tax payer.
If they were serious about climate change,they would be doing things like getting behind solar power,alternative fuel sources and hemp,instead of just dangling carrots at tax payers.
I would be right behind (am right behind) a push for those alternatives ,but not another bogus tax.
And I agree with Whitley when he says “Laughter is the key to everything.” More powerful than prayer or meditation, he says. It’s “the stuff of which the world is created. Find laughter, find freedom.”
Some of the most spiritual and politically conscious people on the planet are/were comedians (e.g. Bill Hicks,Emmet Kelly,Patch Adams) ,because they see right through the BS of our everyday world and reflect it right back at us,so we can see the absurdity of our lives from a truer and usually funnier perspective.Look at shows like “The Simpsons” and (OK,some of you won’t like this one) “South Park”.Why are they so popular ?
Because they allow us to see ourselves from a truer,although more exaggerated perspective.
Most people that don’t have a sense of humour,I’ve noticed, aren’t very spiritual people,they usually take themselves and life way too seriously and pick everybody else apart,before they will even look how imperfect they are as a being (which is one thing rammed home during the watching of Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry”,we are all too busy seeing the faults in everybody else,when we should really be working on our own ugly faults first).
So I think Whitley is on to something with “The Key”, and oddly enough,I’ve been seeing key synchros everywhere,so maybe this is one of those keys…one that I’ll have to read this time.Thanks for the tip,Trish.
Will definitely check out that link. Thanks. Some of the comments also seem in conflict with the Jane Roberts/Seth material, and Abraham-Hicks material, in terms of the post-death circumstance of the Soul. (Am speaking of the OverSoul, or WholeSoul concept, and in my understanding of these concepts, there would be no disintegration of an OverSoul or WholeSoul, but there could be disintegration of a particular EXPRESSION of same.) Gives us much to consider, much to ponder and digest or to toss away or store until later, considering that anytime we cease to learn and grow and be williing to change our minds or expand our thoughts, we cease to be the best we can be. And at the end of the day when everything is said and done, we’ll only know as a certainty when we return to our natural state of being, unencumbered by these rags of flesh….one person’s truth may not be another person’s truth, which is what makes life so compelling and intriguing! Love this post, bty, and enjoy the sharings from Strieber always.
I haven’t read The Key, but there is something familiar in your post that reminds me of a message from Spirit given to me more than once. I have no way of proving the validity of the content in the message from Teacher but, for me, it has a distinct ring of Truth to it that I personally can’t deny. More than once, one of my Other-World Teachers has told me that the discarnate Spirit-Souls of the living entities of planet Earth, including the human species, occupy dimensions of Being that are indiginous only to this specific planet. Teacher goes on to say that the dimensions of Being occupied by Earth’s entities, post-death of the corporeal bodies, differ from those dimensions occupied by entities indiginous to other planets, stars, etc. He tells me that our post-physical-death situation is relevant to the energies and frequencies of our planet and that these dimensions co-exist parallel to and are intertwined with, our material dimensions. When I’ve asked him about the capability of discarnate human souls to travel beyond the dimensions that are indiginous to Earth, his response is that our souls possess such capability, but that such travel is a “learned ability” that is mastered only when the individual soul releases its attachments to Earth….attachments that are carried beyond the restrictions of a physical vehicle. When these attachments are released, the Earth Spirit-Souls have no boundaries or parameters and attain access to any and all dimensions of Being. Having been raised baptist, (left at age 18), I tend to relate this particular circumstance to “the second death” mentioned in the Bible when Jesus is teaching His disciples in parables. Regarding the “disintegration” of a soul that doesn’t “meditate”, I don’t accept that, as it is in direct conflict with my most fundamental convictions…..which is the law of physics stating that nothing is destroyed but merely changes form. It also denies the law of karma. To disintegrate is to vanish/disappear/dissolve, and my perception is that such a statement of “disintegration” is wrong-thinking and negative. However, “disintegrate” may also be defined as dispersing into separate fragments or to lose cohesion, and if that is what is meant by the remark in The Key then I can accept that definition because it indicates that the Soul fragments and its particles shift and divide…not that it experiences dissolution. Just my personal take on the matter.
I think you hit it here: “However, “disintegrate” may also be defined as dispersing into separate fragments or to lose cohesion, and if that is what is meant by the remark in The Key then I can accept that definition because it indicates that the Soul fragments and its particles shift and divide…not that it experiences dissolution.”
Take a look @ this link, where strieber talks about how the previous edition of the key was censored: https://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/old-edition-key-was-censored-new-one-not