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Earth’s climate has entered the state of chaos I have been predicting since the publication of Nature’s End in 1984. The terrible fires predicted on the west coast in that book started to happen this year, and the great midwestern drought will inevitably follow, when I cannot tell. But with arctic temperatures soaring beyond all expectation, even beyond belief, it must happen. With it will come reduced grains production and, quite possibly, for the first time in American history, food shortages.
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The end of the UFO coverup is the beginning of the next phase of the phenomenon. Initially, there will be resistance to even mentioning the close encounter phenomenon, but gradually this will move to the center of the human colloquy about this unknown presence that is among us. I say "unknown" not "alien" because that is the essential truth of the matter. It is an unknown presence, not a definite alien presence.
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The Afterlife Revolution is now on sale. I’m hoping that people will see it for what it is and not think ‘ho hum, another Whitley Strieber book.’

There has never been anything like it in this world.

Working on it has been the peak writing experience of my life. It wasn’t just that it involves contact with Anne, which is lovely, but that she has brought forth such knowledge and wisdom, and in the context of the warmest, deepest sort of relationship I have ever known or known to be possible.
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Small miscalculations create great wars, and the law of unintended consequences governs the way the unfold and how they end. In June of 1914 when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, nobody imagined that the greatest war know to that time would be triggered as a result, and that it would destroy an orderly world and lead to another eighty years of upheaval. Similarly, when Dean Acheson made a policy speech in 1950 that failed to mention that Korea was considered an ally by the US, nobody realized that North Korea would then start the horrific Korean war that has led to the situation we face today, with the possibility that a hot war could break out at any time.
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