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Many Native American tribes have a deity called “Trickster Coyote,” who plays pranks on people in order to bring them enlightenment. From reading so many letters, I can attest that the Visitors often do this to people. Whitley himself has been caught up in this at times.

In Whitley’s family there is a long tradition of playing practical jokes, which is why, when he first published Communion, a lot of his old friends thought he had played the ultimate practical joke on them. Personally, I think the visitors have a sense of humor, too, which is part of the reason that they picked him in the first place. It’s a sort of joke on the joker to put him in the position of having to tell a truth that most people think is a joke.
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If BACTERIA do it, you can too! Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it. A group of researchers in the US and Israel worked together to examine microorganisms living in environments that change in predictable ways. Their findings show that these microorganisms’ genetic networks are hard-wired to “foresee” what comes next in the sequence of events and begin responding to the new state of affairs BEFORE it happens.
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Gangs are a major problem in urban areas, and now scientists have discovered that boys who carry a particular variation of a gene known as MAOA, which is sometimes called the “warrior gene,” are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons. This finding does not apply to girls (who also join gangs).
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AGAIN – The Tunguska mystery has been solved: it was a comet, not a UFO, that flattened leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908. But now NASA scientists have verified this by studying the exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a century later.

Engineer Michael Kelley was able to connect the two events by what followed each one about a day later: brilliant, night-visible clouds, or noctilucent clouds, that are made up of ice particles and only form at very high altitudes and in extremely cold temperatures.

The researchers contend that the massive amount of water vapor spewed into the atmosphere by the comet
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