Communion: A True Story (38 page)

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

11. Did you ever lie for personal gain prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated true.)

12. Do you think those things happened to you in late March 1986 as outlined in your letter dated October 17, 1986? (This referred to the intrusion of the needle into my nose and my visit to the doctor to have the injury examined.) Yes. (Evaluated true.)

13. Did you ever lie to anyone in a business venture prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated as possibly untrue. A correct response. I've been in business for twenty years and I'm not sure I haven't lied occasionally.) 14. Have you lied to those people who interviewed you with respect to the tour items we discussed?

No. (Evaluated true.)

15. Are you a free-lance writer?

Yes. (Evaluated true.)

16. Did you ever lie to someone that trusted you prior to 1984?

No. (Evaluated false. Again, he was right. I lied to my parents, for example, when they asked me if I knew what could have burned the house down when I was a boy.) 17. Have you ever intentionally ingested any hallucinogenic drug?

No. (Evaluated true.)

18. Did you ever take any prescription medication without a doctor's permission?

No. (Evaluated true.)

Note: Some control questions are dated "prior to 1984" to more clearly separate my responses to them from surrounding key questions. They are not meant to imply that my responses would have been any different after 1984.

Document Outline

• When you read this incredible story,
  
• Acknowledgments
  
  • PRELUDE
    
    • • The Truth Behind the Curtain
        
        • ONE
          
          • THE INVISIBLE FOREST
            
            • First Memories
              
              • • TWO
                  
              • Stare, stare in the basin
                
                • DOWN THE CAVE OF MIND
                  
• "Do you recall what went on?"
  
  • • • • • THREE
            
          • THE COLOR OF THE DARK
            
          • FOUR
            
          • THE SKY BENEATH MY FEET
            
          • FIVE
            
          • ALLIANCE OF THE LOST
            
• "Did that give you a feeling of security?"
  
• "You heard that?"
  
• "You recognized her voice?"
  
  • • • • • SIX
            
          • A STRUCTURE IN THE AIR
            
• So man, who here seems principal alone
  
• Sally, business executive, age 36
  

Table of Contents

Communion

by Whitley Strieber

Acknowledgments

EPILOGUE

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