The Key: A True Encounter

San Antonio, Texas: Walker & Collier, Publishers, 2001. Stated First Edition at copyright. Glossy pictorial wraps, white spine titles, fine. Front panel features illustration of hand holding vintage key over black background. Back panel features summary. Pages fine, no writing. Bind fine, square. Scarce fine first edition. At three o'clock in the morning on June 6, 1998, Whitley Strieber was awakened by somebody knocking on his Toronto hotel room door. Presented here is the intriguing and provocative transcription from memory of a conversation Whitley had with this man whom he describes as: "the most brilliant person I have ever met." From the bestselling author of Communion comes the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel room late one night - and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every assumption about the meaning of life. At two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998, Whitley Streiber was awakened by somebody knocking on his hotel room door. A man came in, and everything he said was life-altering. This is the unsettling and ultimately enlightening narrative of what happened that night. Strieber was never really sure who this strange and knowing visitor was - a "Master of Wisdom"? A figure from a different realm of consciousness? A preternaturally intelligent being? He called him the Master of the Key. The one thing of which Strieber was certain is that both the man and the encounter were real. The main concern of the Master of the Key is to save each of us from self-imprisonment. "Mankind is trapped," the stranger tells Strieber. "I want to help you spring the trap." In a sweeping exchange between Strieber and the stranger - which takes the form of a classical student-teacher dialogue in pursuit of inner understanding - the unknown man presents a lesson in human potential, esoteric psychology, and man's fate. He illuminates why man has been caught in a cycle of repeat violence and self-destruction - and the slim, but very real, possibility for release. In its breadth and intimacy, The Key is on par with contemporary metaphysical traditions, such as A Course in Miracles, or even with the dialogues of modern wisdom teachers, such as D. T. Suzuki and Carl Jung. Whitley Strieber is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, among them the landmark work Communion, his account of a close encounter of the third kind that took place in December 1985. He is also author of The Wolfen, The Hunger, and The Coming Global Superstorm, all of which were made into feature films, most recently Superstorm as The Day After Tomorrow. 105 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.