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Title: Transformation The Breakthrough

Author: Whitley Strieber
Edition: NA
ISBN: 0-688-07700-5
Date: 1988
Publisher: Beach Tree Books
Binding: Hard Cover
Size approximately (inches): 6-1/2 x 9-1/2
Pages: 256

Book Condition: Good. Previously owned. A bit of foxing and toning but not badly.

Special Notes: NA

About the book*

Transformation picks up where Communion left off: the strange “Visitors” didn’t stop appearing. Initially terrified and in denial, Strieber eventually confronts the persistence and intelligence behind these encounters, recognizing them as real and deeply transformative. The book chronicles his emotional evolution—from fear and resistance to empathy and understanding—as he forges a working relationship with the Visitors. Along the way, he explores themes of altered consciousness, the nature of reality, spirituality, and human evolution. Far from mere alien abduction, Transformation becomes a profound journey inward and outward—into hidden realms of psyche and universe—culminating in what Strieber terms a personal “breakthrough” in understanding the Visitors and their potential significance for humanity.

📚 Complete Chapter List (1988 Edition)

Introduction (p. 9)
Part One: Secret Journeys

1. The Lost Boy (p. 15)

2. The Golden City (p. 27)

3. Extreme Strangeness (p. 33)

4. The Storm Gathers (p. 43)

5. Lightning (p. 52)

6. The White Angel (p. 70)

7. Transfigured Night (p. 78)

8. Long-Ago Summers (p. 90)

9. [Unnamed?—possibly continuation]

10. [Unnamed? continuation]

Part Two: Life in the Dark
11. The Lost Land (p. 107)
12. Secret Knowledge (p. 115)
13. The Terror of the Real (p. 123)
14. Fire of the Question (p. 134)
15. The Jolt of the True (p. 141)
16. Distant Witness (p. 147)

Part Three: Beyond the Dark
17. The Woods (p. 155)
18. Passage into Death (p. 157)
19. Fury (p. 163)
20. A Soul’s Journey (p. 175)
21. December 23, 1986 (p. 203)
22. The Razor’s Edge (p. 212)
23. The Visitors Emerge (p. 221)
24. Beyond Nightmare (p. 239)

Appendices & Afterword

• Appendix One: Health

• Appendix Two: Truth

• Appendix Three: Gaelic

• Afterword (around p. 253) 

(Pagination may vary slightly by edition.)

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