I am puzzled by what the book doesn't say. Phillip states the Verdants would give him total memory to write his account, and yet considering he spent 3 days on their ship asking all sorts of questions he provides very sketchy details about the nature of the beings who abducted him. There is little or nothing about their culture, government, economic system, art, music, what they do for fun, their spiritual beliefs, and many other subjects. This seems strange for a newspaper man.
The Verdants claim of being among the most intelligent beings in the universe doesn't seem to apply to intellectual honesty. Besides very limited disclosure, they said they found heaven and God the Father. Philip dismisses this as metaphor, but why would the Verdants use a metaphor without explanation knowing Philip would be writing a book? There are a few other inconsistencies in the book which Philip acknowledges in the Epilogue without much comment or response.
The Verdants claim to be the most intelligent beings in the Universe and supposedly know everything there is to know about human society and psychology, yet they had to postpone their plans for contact because of the World Trade Center disaster. This is typical of the claims of religion, mythology, and channeled material that beings will come to save us, but "strangely" it never seems to happen. Humans are wanting to believe these stories but unless there is substance they are only stories.
Despite all the challenges to logic the book was fun to read and to at least stimulate the imagination as to what might be possible, but it is better to regard it as a vivid altered-state experience or a fiction-enhanced experience.
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