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Breakthrough: the Next Step
Published April 1995
(Paperback May 1996)
After telling the world of his remarkable contacts with apparent aliens in
his mega-bestsellers Communion and Transformation, Whitley Strieber
suddenly and mysteriously retired from public life in 1989. At the time he said
only that he would not return until he had something fundamentally new to say
about the beings he had come to call “the visitors.”
What had happened in 1989 was that he had gotten
compelling proof that the visitors were real. His first impulse was to rush
this information to press, but then he stopped, concerned that publication might
be interpreted as some kind of signal to the visitors to initiate wider contact.
He was worried what this might mean. Not all encounter experiences were good.
People were afraid. Strieber himself was afraid.
He embarked on what became a five-year struggle
to understand. The visitors responded by taking him on an astounding and extensively
witnessed journey of revelation. He asked many questions: Who were they? What
were their intentions? What did they want or need from us?
They answered with some extraordinary disclosures.
– He observed as they entered the lives of a family he considered among
his closest friends, watching over the years how the family changed and the
remarkable effect of the visitors on their child.
– He witnessed direct contact between a visitor and a desperate, terminally
ill friend. This led to stunning new realizations about the true wonder of life
and the rich, almost totally unexplored experience we call death.
– In an incredible few minutes a group of people at his isolated cabin
had a face-to-face encounter with a creature from another world, touching hands
across the gulf of the unknown.
– The overwhelming impact of what he discovered made Whitley Strieber search
his own soul as well. He became a virtual hermit, living in close touch with
the visitors for months at a time. He feels that he has understood their aim,
and that there are priceless new potentials available to everyone through contact
with them. At last he received the epiphany he has been seeking since the first
moment he met them.
What has happened to Whitley Strieber is completely without precedent. There
has never been an unexplained experience so carefully documented or extensively
witnessed by others. He has passed four lie detector tests. He has been examined
for many diseases both physical and mental.
Not only is he entirely normal, the proof he advances
in this book would convince a jury.
They are here. They are waiting for us to take
the next step. To Breakthrough.
Text of Spoken Message in the Breakthrough Multimedia Sampler
“Breakthrough is probably among the strangest books you will ever
read. I think that this is because it is an honest account of contact with people
and a culture very different from our own, but obviously very concerned with
us, in their own way. The book contains proof that they are real, and one respected
book review, the Kirkus Reviews, has already stated, that it will give you pause.
Breakthrough is very different from most
books about visitors and aliens. First, there are many named witnesses who are
willing to step forward.
Second, it is not a horror story, but rather the
story of a struggle that remade a man intellectually and spiritually.
In this sense, it is much more like real life
with the visitors than the scary stories that come out of the UFO community.
Only a small percentage of people who wrote me told such stories. But obviously,
we should proceed down this very new path with caution. But also, I think, with
curiosity and love. Welcome to Breakthrough.”
Breakthrough
© 1995 Whitley Strieber
Synopsis courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Jacket Illustration by Lee MacLeod. Jacket Design by Doreen Louse.
Breakthrough Multimedia Sampler © 1995 Whitley Strieber
Originally distributed in May 1995 via C-Serve New Age Forum B,
Communion Library Section.
