Famous Author Whitley Strieber talks about our energy bodies in his book The Key. When it was published in 2001 it was censored after the author proof read it. This year he has came out with a new uncensored version.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/communion-author-whitley-strieber_n_943681.html
http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/showthread.php?21004-Whitley-Strieber-CENSORED-THE-KEY
A few days ago, an astute reader informed me that there were differences between the new edition of the Key and the one I published in 2002.
The 2002 edition, it turns out, was secretly censored by unknown parties. Crucial changes were made, that had the effect of obscuring and diminshing the message of the book.
For example, the Master of the Key spoke of general mind control of our world. His words appear in the new edition exactly as I remember them. They were secretly censored from the old edition.
When I asked him if I was under mind control, he said that I wasn't. That was removed.
He offered an extremely clear explanation of what happened during the resurrection. It disappeared.
I provided Tarcher/Penguin with the same copy of the dialog between myself and the Master of the Key, dated November 16, 2000, that I used in the creation of the first edition.
My edition was changed by an unknown party. The current Tarcher edition reproduces the actual dialogue exactly, changing only a few typographical errors and misspellings. Thus the Tarcher edition contains the actual, correct dialog, while the one I published in 2002 does not.
The file that I sent to the printer of the orginal edition and to Tarcher is dated November 16, 2000. It was generated by converting the a Word file into PageMaker using the conventional process, which certainly wouldn't have led to the changes that appeared in the book.
At some point prior to being printed, the file was edited by somebody other than me, and the edits resulted in crucially important changes. When I got the proofs back from the printer, they corresponded with the original, but when the book was actually printed, changes had been made.
These changes are extremely subtle and brilliant. They were made by a skilled censor with a very definite agenda, which was to diminish the ways in which the dialogue offers empowerment to the reader.
Since the proofs were accurate, I did not think to check the finished books, and thus have been unwittingly selling the edited version for ten years.
I have to say that I am appalled and horrified by this, and extremely glad that the actual conversation, as I remember it, has finally been published.
I just thank God that the Tarcher edition contains the actual dialogue, as it was meant to be read. In a sense, therefore, the SECOND edition of the Key is really the first!
Here are some of the notable differences between the Tarcher edition, which follows the original transcript, and my edition, which does not:
New Edition:
Ah. I’m lost.
All being includes all elements of the earth, and thus all are part of all bodies. We are the consciousness of the planetary level that it has spent all of its life evolving, each and all of us. My being is the awakening earth. As is yours. The destiny of earth and the destiny of man are one. If we kill earth, we kill ourselves. If we die before our time, then we will not be able to enter ecstasy as a whole being. You are not a whole being, child. And ‘Whitley’ is only a tiny part of you. All mankind in all time is a whole being.
Old Edition:
Ah. I'm lost
All physical being includes the same elements, and thus all are part of the earth and of each other. Living bodies are the consciousness of the planet. Man is earth's mind. If man kills earth, then earth has committed suicide, because its mind has reached the next level, which is ecstatic union with the rest of the universe.
Comment: The statement in the new edition is closer to what I remember being said, and it is profoundly empowering because it contains the powerful sentence, "All mankind in all time is a whole being."
New Edition:
If we kill earth before we have all reached ecstasy, what happens?
We wait until and if the earth spins elemental bodies once again that fit all the attachments of our energetic bodies. If it does not, then we wait forever. We remain incomplete.
Old Edition:
This crucial idea is not present in the text of the 2001 edition. It is a gentle warning, but a very important one. It shows us why we need to preserve our planet, how deeply this matters to us.
New Edition:
What’s it like, going to another planet?
Other worlds exist on many different levels, and contain beings of many different levels and appearances. The details from world to world can be very different. But the basic laws of reality remain the same.
Old Edition:
What’s it like, going to another planet?
The details from world to world can be very different. But the basic laws of reality remain the same.
Comment: The text in the current edition adds the concept that worlds "exist on many different levels and contain beings of many different levels." This would appear to include the possibility of parallel universes.
New Edition:
There are aliens here?
Using you and guiding you.
Old Edition:
There are aliens here?
Some using you and some guiding you.
Comment: The original transcript and current edition imply a consistency of policy among all aliens who are here, who are both using us and guiding us. The first edition suggests that different groups may have different motives—a skillful lie, I believe, intended to convert an empowering statement into one that will lead only to confusion. It strikes me as a small but extremely sinister edit.
New Edition:
We're being exploited?
You are, but also helped. You are being guided to your place as guides of another world.
Old Edition:
We're being exploited?
You are, and in some respects horribly, by creatures of the dark. But you are also being helped. You are being guided to your place as guides of another world.
Comment: This difference is consistent with the one noted above, where the original transcript suggests a single alien presence both exploiting us and guiding us, while the first edition suggests different types of aliens with differing agendas. The first edition added the idea that 'creatures of the dark' were present. There is nothing else in the book that suggests 'creatures of the dark' and the phrase, with its lurid, horror-story overtones, doesn't sound like the Master of the Key. I think that this was added so that people would seize on it and waste their energy indulging superstitions of demons and such, when the truth is that we need to see ourselves as we are, a mysteriously self-aware presence in an unconscious world, facing not illusory "creatures of the dark," but rather facing ourselves.
New Edition:
Another world is in control of this one?
Yes.
Old Edition:
Another world is in control of this one?
Other worlds participate, both elemental and energetic.
Comment: At least the censor was consistent. The simple "yes" has been replaced by a statement that can, once again, send us into a labyrinth of confusion.