My new book the Omega Point comes out on June 22, and I must say, it seems a very odd time for it. The story revolves around changes on the sun that are gradually making life on earth impossible, and it asks the questions, what is the last judgment, and, more importantly, is there a plan for us? This week's New Scientist came in the mail, and I...

Every few weeks, it seems, another announcement appears claiming that some authoritative group, usually involving the pope, the president, Edgar Mitchell and whomever, is about to announce that UFOs are no longer unknown, but are alien craft. I've been hearing about pending announcements like this for as long as I've had an interest in the...

There is no apparent relationship between this week's Dreamland and the show that will air next week, but, in fact, the two are profoundly related because they end two related controversies, which are, without question, the most important in the world. The scientific community and the mass media will not react. Nobody is going to send up rockets....

For the first time in our modern history, the United States is vulnerable to the destruction of its currency and the end of its role as a world power. The last time the US currency was as vulnerable was when the British invaded during the War of 1812, but at that time the dollar was very far from being the world's reserve currency, and the country...

It's the end of another decade, and a time like the late eighties when, if things were to fall together right, the visitors might become a more public presence in our world. So I have been thinking a great deal about what this may mean. On the one hand, I look back on my own experiences and I reflect that, as hard as it was, I got a lot out of it...

It is Christmas eve, and I'm enjoying the deep peace of an evening with my family, and I am thinking about this beautiful season and the hope that it brings, and also about people celebrating the season around the world under very different circumstances. These are the Christian communities in peril in places like southern Sudan, Iraq, Iran,...

I have gone on record as saying that I doubt that anything particularly noteworthy will happen on December 21, 2012. However, this does not mean that I don't think we are in an era of great change that is going to impact life on earth profoundly. We are in such an era, and the changes are not simply of our own making. At the Dreamland Stargate, I...

Once again there are rumors that the United States government may make some sort of admission that there is an unknown intelligent presence here. Whether these rumors mean anything or not I do not know. I do know this, though: unless we begin to address this phenomenon intelligently and make use of the knowledge that it offers us, we are going...

Unfortunately, the financial crisis may not be over, and it is to be hoped that, this time, it can be handled correctly. The bailouts did not fail, but the cost was enormous and unnecessary. It was probably the least efficient possible means of correcting the situation. The crucial mistake was made by the Bush Administration when it began...

Americans have always assumed that first open contact will unfold in the United States. In fact, this has never been a very likely scenario, not from the time that the US military began shooting at UFOs back in the forties. Also, the US population is heavily armed and full of people whose ideologies and beliefs make them unpredictable. The...

Recently I had an experience that convinced me that there is an afterlife. Actually, it was two experiences, which came after a lifetime of episodes that have suggested, with varying degrees of conviction, that the soul exists and persists after death. In the year after I had the close encounter experience that led to the writing of Communion, I...

On December 26, 1985, I was raped, and yesterday I made yet another visit to the doctor to be treated for the consequences. The injury has long healed, but the body remembers, and every few years, the excruciating pain of it returns. At the time, it was mentioned in passing in a hypnosis session with Dr. Donald Klein as a "rectal probe." This...

This year's crop formation activity suggests that the grays are coming ever closer to us. I don't think that anyone except those in a compulsive state of denial can still rationally claim that the crop formations appearing in England are, in general, made by drunks with boards strapped to their feet. Of course, the news media, many scientists and...

Last week I experienced two odd little slips in time, to add to a growing list of such events in my life over the past thirty years. On the same day that one of the slips took place, I opened the New York Times to find shocking confirmation of the biggest one that ever happened to me. Last week's slips involved seeing things online and in the...