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But for some of 'em who can't adapt, survival will be very difficult. But it
will be a good place. The world will be a more stable place or maybe a
different place."
Sam: "More artificial."
Mary : "Truly different from this place here. That's for sure. She says that
it is for the young and strong. She doesn't quite know whether that means
physically young and strong or mentally young and strong. But it will only be
for those people."
Sam: "In fifteen years?"
Whitley: "I have a feeling it's right on top of us, too. My feeling is that a
cycle sped d up recently, a lot. It's going fast, not slow." (I wish to add an
aside here to expand on why I made that statement. In the form of what can
only be described as vivid bursts of information, I
have received a great deal of material about the perilous condition of the
earth's atmosphere.
Much of this material came in February and March of 1986 and concerned the
danger of impending atmospheric deterioration. In March I called a dress
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conference of environmental reporters in Washington, D.C., to discuss a book I
wrote with James Kunetka, Nature's End
, and to warn about the serious implications of the hole that had been
detected in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. My apparent visitor
information suggested this hole would lead to further holes over the Arctic
and thereafter a thinning of the ozone layer over the Northern
Hemisphere, with measurable crop damage from excessive ultraviolet light
beginning to occur in the 1990-1993 period. At the time I gave this warning,
the only stories about the hole were saying that its significance was not
understood. I had also been told that the atmospheric problems will cause a
reduction in immune system vitality in all animals, and the consequent
resurgence of disease. As yet I have seen no scientific corroboration of this.
The damage to the immune system seemed related to excessive ultraviolet light,
but the information emerged visually, appearing as complicated images that I
may not have understood fully. This information may indicate, by the way, that
the ozone holes will open and persist m a single place rather than circulate.
Additional information suggested that volcanic activity had exacerbated the
ozone problem, and that there would be some reduction of the size of the major
holes during the eleven years from 1986 to 1997, but that this would be only a
temporary respite.
After the conference I was careful to mention to one reporter that I had had
an extremely strange experience that had, in part, led up to my warning. I
told this to UPI reporter Ed Lion
and explained that it would be the subject of my next book. Lion asked what
exactly I was talking about. In his May 16, 1986, review of
Nature's End he wrote, "Asked what that subject could possibly be, he shook
his head mysteriously. 'You'll have to wait."' I felt embarrassed to have been
so cryptic with him, but I wanted a record of some sort of the real motive
behind my calling the conference. If I had told the reporters that alleged
visitors were in any way involved, it seemed to me that there was a high
probability that my credibility would be destroyed. I hate the idea of
repeating predictions because I cannot assess the correctness of the
"information" that appears to have come to me through the visitor experience.
However, in the past year the atmospheric predictions have emerged as being
quite accurate, and I thought it best to mention them in view of the obvious
seriousness of the problem that they address.)
Sally: "How many people really feel used? Is that a feeling?"
Mary: "I don't feel it's bad."
Amy: "I wouldn't use that adjective. Things happen in certain places to
certain people."
Sally: "I felt somehow psychologically violated. There was nothing in my life
that would indicate that kind of trauma. There was nothing in my life. Then
what happened when this media thing happened and they used my name I felt like
it was happening all over again.
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