

A great Swedish seer, Emanuel Swedenborg, went floundering around the cosmos in the 1700's, leaving behind a score of ponderous books written in Latin.

Indeed, the beginning of Whitley Streiber's COMMUNION, the big bestseller of 1987, is uneasily similar to Enoch's account. Since then, thousands of other people have claimed almost identical experiences. Although he supposedly underwent those adventures more than 4,000 years ago, copies of his “books” (scrolls) were smuggled out of Russia about 1,500 years ago. Enoch saw worlds of dazzling lights and allergy, too.

Gray beings with withered faces who mumbled and marked in dreariness. Some were occupied by deliriously happy people while others were gloomy and dark, filled with Gregori.wretched According to the Books of Enoch, which were once part of the Christian bible, he was sleeping alone in his house one night when he was suddenly awakened by “two men, exceedingly big, so that I never saw such on earth.They were standing at the head of my couch and began to call me by my name.” The two giant entities plucked Enoch from his bed and escorted him into outerspace where, during the next sixty days, they gave him a guided tour of ten different worlds. Even Enoch, the traditional son of Cain and father of Methuselah, is supposed to have visited other worlds where he had such harrowing experiences that they became a part of religion and folklore. Men (and some women) have been circumnavigating the cosmos for thousands of years, leaving extensive records of their travels behind for us to puzzle over. Lobsang Rampa actually go buzzing through the solar system in a flying saucer? Or was he just another deluded psychopath dredging up a good yarn from the dark depths of a twisted mind? If he was a nut, he had plenty of company.
