A beautiful change of pace for Unknowncountry.com subscribers.

This week in Whitley’s Room, Whitley Strieber reads poems that have been his favorites over the course of his life, and tells why each one affected him and became a favorite because of his close encounters and other powerful life experiences. He includes two poems he wrote himself when he was young–one in the year before he had his major childhood encounters, and the next in the year after. The difference between these two poems, first published in his high school literary anthology, will shock you.
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There’s an old fashioned ‘UFO flap’ going on at present. I don’t think that it’s because of new methods of communication like YouTube and the tendency of the internet to amplify provocative claims. There isn’t really any online hysteria about it, at least not yet. In fact, the community of interested parties is quite calm so maybe this time the crazies and the hoaxers will look in other directions.read more

Tantrism is very little understood in the west, or, for that matter, in the east. But what is it, and how does it relate to the evolution of the human heart and the human soul? In this discussion, Peter Levenda tells us about his journey among the Tantric Temples of Java, and explains the relationship between human sexuality and human spirituality in a frank and mature manner that will enable us to start down a path of renewal of our sexuality as the spiritual experience that it was meant to be.
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Unknowncountry’s web designer James Beeson is also a deeply knowledgeable researcher of the unknown, with unique insights and some very surprising information to communicate. He tells us about his life oddyssey, like so many of us being profoundly changed by an ultra-high strangeness event, and as a result setting out on a life-changing mission to do serious research into the unknown. He has had numerous anomalous experiences, and describes many of them, including one that involves a multiple witness sighting of an unusual object just a few months ago.
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