Cosmic Sex
Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible
and UFOs: By Virginia Billeaud Anderson
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n December 26, 1985, weird creatures carried Whitley Strieber naked and paralyzed from his upstate New York cabin. He perceived flying above trees, then didn’t know where he was. They “manhandled” him, shoved an object up his butt. It felt like a rape. “What can we do to help you stop screaming?” one entity asked. The following day his “abduction” faded from memory, yet rectal soreness and vivid impressions of a needle being jammed into his head persisted. Strieber was so freaked-out he nearly jumped from his Manhattan window, but fortunately found abduction researcher Budd Hopkins who assured him others shared his experience. Hopkins encouraged Strieber to explore suppressed memories. With hypnosis, he recalled a lifetime of traumatic events. What really happened? Research indicated the phenomenon was vastly more complex than abduction by space-traveling aliens. It manifests in many ways, including fairies and ancient gods. It’s existed throughout human history, and appears differently to different cultures. Whatever its ultimate reality, science hasn’t yet discovered it. Strieber published his book “Communion” in 1987. Rice University’s Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, called Communion the “finest and most widely read autobiographical abduction account of the twentieth century.” Letters arrived, over 10,000 a month, from around the world. Strieber stopped counting at 200,000, but believes by the late90s he’d received nearly 500,000. The phenomenon’s scope was immense. Others had similar encounters. One woman wrote her two year old son recognized the creature on Communion’s cover. It swiped his toys. Some levitated in the presence of the phenomenon. Strieber did that. Strieber’s wife Anne analyzed many of the letters, no easy task. She observed that encounters often accompany perceptions of dead people. Strieber donated the Communion Letters to Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible. From 1972 to 1995 the U.S. government ran a secret ESP spying program. Project Stargate’s military and civilian psychics performed psychic espionage or “remote viewing” to detect enemy weapon systems. Nuclear physicist Dr. Edwin C. May joined Stargate in 1976, then served as its director from 1985 to 1995. After 18 | Intown Intown|| July March + April2022 2022 18 | + August
Image on cover of Communion. Copyright Ted Jacobs 1987
