WHO ARE THE WHISPERERS? WHERE DO THEY COME from? What do they want? Where are they leading us? In the light of history, these are clearly important questions, yet they are almost never asked, let alone answered. When it comes to the nature of spirits, the world may be divided into two contrasting camps: the True Believers, who accept spirits as independent entities, and the Devout Skeptics, who prefer to claim spirits simply do not exist.
Yet it is clear that spirits do exist, at least as a recurring experiential phenomenon. Thus the fundamental question becomes: what is their actual nature? In this section we concentrate initially on the experience of contact as a foundation for evaluating various theories in a search for the answer that leads to a wholly unexpected and far-reaching conclusion.