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Publisher's
Information: Millennial Hospitality is not like any
other book you may have read about aliens. You will find out many new
things such as the answer to the question, "Where do the children of
aliens play?" This book is about friendship, romance, and terror and is
based on the true-life experiences of the author, who claims he is not an
alien.
Pat's Review:
A paradigm shift is when you see the
world one way, then new information comes in and you begin to see the world
in a whole new way. The process the mind goes through during a paradigm
shift is, to many, fascinating. At first, there is often a tremendous effort
to not acknowledge the new information in order to hold stable one's
existing (and, at least familiar if not comfortable) world view. As the new
information persists, however, the (typical, healthy) mind makes
adjustments, allowing a bit in here and there, reorganizing, editing,
changing, and restructuring the old information in light of the new. Finally
the new information is integrated into one's world view and viola!–—you have
undergone a paradigm shift.
Millennial Hospitality is many
things, including the story of a paradigm shift. Presented as fiction, it is
in fact based on the experiences of Charles James Hall during his military
service in the 1960s. The story's main character is Airman 2nd Class Charles
Baker, a bright and dedicated soldier, whose job it was to send up weather
balloons, take readings, and report them to the base. The weather station
was in the desert. While there, in the course of performing his duties
(which included taking weather readings in the early hours of the morning),
Airman Baker saw and eventually became fairly well acquainted with a race of
extraterrestrial beings he calls the "Tall Whites."
The Tall Whites are, as the name implies,
tall with skin so white as to be akin to paper. They are thin and somewhat
fragile beings compared to humans. They are the possessors of advanced
technology which they use to protect themselves. According to Hall, they
have agreed to share some of this technology with the "American
Generals" in exchange for being able to maintain their base in the Nevada
desert. Apparently this base is used as a way-station for their people,
allowing them to rest and retool during long trips through space.
When Airman Baker first sees the Tall
Whites, he finds explanations for them that fit within his existing world
view—they are "white patches," hallucinations. Even after rescuing a small
alien girl who was trapped and unable to get out of some sagebrush, he still
told himself that she wasn't real and that it had probably been his
imagination. After a number of experiences with the Tall Whites, he
eventually came to accept their reality and interacted directly with some of
them.
Many will rightly question the validity of
such a tale. I tend to take it at face value and accept that Charles James
Hall had the experiences he describes in the Millennial Hospitality series.
His writing style is clear but not polished. It reads as authentic, full of
details that would be truly laborious to conjure up for so many pages!
In a wonderful way, you live the experience along with him, thinking his
thoughts, feeling his feelings, alternating between being mystified,
terrified, and delighted, just as he was. As you read, you feel you are
there, experiencing with him the desert, the Tall Whites, and being in the
military.
Whether or not his story can be proven, I
think it is valuable to read all three volumes in the series for the
exercise it gives the mind! How wonderful to be stretched into new
territory! How challenging to consider how I, the reader, might respond in
such a situation (whether in the role of human or ET)! How expanding to
think that it might be possible for off-planet beings to exist here on
planet Earth today, in our midst, independent of our awareness!
The books are recently published (the first
in 2002) but there is a fair amount of information now available on the web.
A good place to start is by visiting the author's website: Millennial Hospitality.
Scroll down the page for the section titled, "Additional True Accounts from
Indian Springs, Nevada" and click the link to
The
Wayward Wind. This .PDF file is the story of an experience Charles James
Hall had with the Tall Whites that is not relayed in the books. It will give
you a good feel for the writer and his story. In addition, at this website,
you can find links to radio interviews with the author. I encourage you to
listen to at least a few. To my ear, there is a ring of authenticity in his
voice. (You, of course, will need to judge this for yourself.)
But whether or not you will ultimately
believe in the reality of the Tall Whites, I hope you will take the trip to
the Nevada Desert with Charles James Hall. See if you can find parallels in
your own life of times you saw but did not see, times you were challenged to
embrace a new or foreign idea, times when you (you now realize) experienced
some or all of the stages of a paradigm shift. For most of us, our paradigm
shifts will not be so exotic! But whether they are past or future shifts,
they may well be as powerful to the development of our lives as the Tall
Whites were to Airman Baker's.
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