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http://members.aol.com/lalarie353/
Illusion and reality collide in Jon Fischer?s outstanding debut novel ?The Creature of the Wildcard.?  Creating a psychedelic-type atmosphere, Fischer explores consciousness, leaving readers to question their own preconceived notions of the material world.

(North Providence, RI)  Inspired by visionaries of human consciousness such as Timothy Leary and John C. Lilly, MD, author/artist Jon Fischer has created a confounding and contemplative science fiction/fantasy novel based on his own inner musings and experiences with consciousness altering substances. 

?The Creature of the Wildcard? (ISBN 1424118557) erases the line between genius and insanity as gifted artist, Alaric, searches for total control over reality and his experience within it.  With his drive to create a higher level of consciousness too abstract to comprehend in his confined sense of mortality, Alaric experiments with dreams and visions as a gateway to his own conscious evolution.

Pursuing total control and an alternative to death, Alaric?s program with the Neuro Art Institute reveals shocking truths about who he is and his natural inclination for future explorations in expanded consciousness.  Naturally selected and wired with a messianic complex, Alaric opposes conventional thought about religion and delves deeper into the possibility of being the sole creator of his own version of existence. 

Alaric?s hunger for power leads him on a search to reach Alternity, a real-life state of being which is reached by ketamine, and coined by the inventor of the sensory deprivations tank, John C. Lilly.  In ?The Creature of the Wildcard,? Alaric?s trip to Alternity isn?t induced by psychedelics, but rather through exploring artwork, dreams, and visions brought on by biofeedback techniques designed to manipulate the brain. 

Fischer?s remarkable talent for inducing a pseudo-psychedelic state through his writing draws the reader into a paradoxical world of alternative realities. ?Some cultures invest more in their dreams than they do in their waking life? says Fischer. ?We live in a fast-food society that is concerned with image, and looks outwards for the truth.  There are tremendous treasures within the soul waiting to be discovered. I hope to inspire readers to look to the world within.?

?The Creature of the Wildcard? is visionary, metaphysical, and supernatural.  It explores complex concepts of reality, religion, and our personal place in the creation of the world we find ourselves in.  Jon Fisher has created an elaborate work of art to be pondered by others in their search for truth.

Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (8/06)

I have never read a fantasy as unusual as ?The Creature of the Wildcard.? It is a cross between a metaphysical philosophical book and a fantasy novel. The fantasy part, involves a story about a man named Alaric Fischer. The metaphysical philosophy that I feel is in this book comes from Alaric?s musings. Alaric is a talented artist that gets caught up in the dream world. He gets involved with the Neuro Art Institute. The institute views the mind as a work of art and the brain as its artist. He goes there to take a course on dream imaging. Alaric wants to test a program called ?The Eclipse? which is designed to bring an escape from suffering. While Alaric is trying to learn how to control some delusional thoughts, he discovers that he has the power to change reality. As he further explores who he is, he uncovers some shocking truths about who he is and why he has his talents. He is told that he is the God of Alternity. Alternity is described as ?being coined by John C. Lilly, the inventor of the sensory deprivation tank, to express an altered state of being on the drug ketamine. In actuality it is an alternative to death.? The doctor, helping Alaric learn what his purpose is, tells him that it is his job to ?condition mankind in the paradox of being alternative to known existence.? Alaric will be going into an alternative state of existence and be able to achieve immortality to accomplish what he needs to. The author?s style of writing makes it easy to visualize the scenery as it unfolds around Alaric. It made me feel like I had entered into a psychedelic state. The story holds a great deal of depth and involves concentration and contemplation to seek out the deeper meanings. It is not a light fantasy. It is a book that will be enjoyed by people who enjoy the deeper, darker side of fantasy.

Jon Fischer is a resident of Rhode Island. He was born with a medical condition suffering from severe headaches and mood swings. A therapist once claimed that Jon was "Touched with Fire," which is a very popular book about the Manic-Depressive illness and the artistic temperament. He started to draw and paint as a child, furthering his education in the arts at college and taking up writing later in his life. Jon lives a very simple life. He is 32 years of age. People would never know he has an intellect unless they saw what he produces while in the creative process. He has been under the care of the mental health system for the past decade or so. He is always upfront about his illness and the people that know him best understand how he has struggled with depression and mania. He is very humble towards others and maintains a quiet life of contemplation

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Blackfoot Physics
http://www.fdavidpeat.com/bibliography/books/blackfoot.htm

Blackfoot Physics
A Journey into the Native American Universe
One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to the Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony in Alberta, Canada. Hitherto having spent all his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native world view and, through dialogue circles between scientists and Native Elders, he began to explore it in greater depth. Blackfoot Physics is the account of his discoveries. In an edifying synthesis of anthropology, history, metaphysics, cosmology and quantum theory, Peat compares the medicines, the myths, the languages, indeed the entire perceptions of reality of two peoples: Western and Indigenous. What becomes apparent is the amazing resemblance between Indigenous teachings and some of the insights that are emerging from modern science, a congruence that is as enlightening about the physical universe as it is about the circular evolution of man's understanding.
To see Chapter 1

To write a book that would explore the dialogue between Western and Native American realities seemed an impossible task, despite the fact that some of my Native friends suggested that I should attempt to articulate my experiences. In the end my decision to begin the book grew out of something that was said to me, something that moved me deeply. I had been visiting with Betty Bastien on the Blood reserve and our talk one day had ranged from conditions on the reservation to problems that children faced at school. She had touched on the meaning of the Sun Dance that was taking place, on the significance of the Blackfoot medicine wheels and the connection between the cosmos and society. I can remember being excited by what she was saying and pointing out how close that Blackfoot vision was to the way I had begun to see the world through science. I told Betty that there were times when we both seemed to be seeing reality from the same side.

Betty replied in words something like these, "For so long our culture has been ignored, dismissed and laughed at; our beliefs have been called superstitions and we have been referred to as primitive people. In most schools our children are never taught about their own history, and for them the only truth about the world is that given by Western science. As a result, the young people don't listen to the words of our Elders, they simply laugh at them. But now a physicist comes along and says that he respects the way we look at the world, that he can begin to understand the reasons for some of the things we do and that he can see connections with things from the frontiers of his own science. I think that it is important that other people should know this."

[Summer Wine]

Do you ever just have something pop in your mind and just won't leave you alone. This book that I read over 20 years ago has popped into my consciousness and just won't go away.

So here is the wiki link - it won the Hugo Award in 1981, probably the year that I read it. And going back to read the wiki link, was WOW - how timely, with 2012 so close. And all the little tantalizing "easter eggs" hidden within this story. I'll be back later to explain, have to go to work (boo! hiss!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen_(novel)
(why don't these stupid wiki links work after you post them???)

The Snow Queen is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Joan D. Vinge, published in 1980. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1980.

Based on the fairy-tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat, whose sun orbits a black hole, which facilitates a type of interstellar travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the civilized galaxy (the "Hegemony", the remnants of a fallen Galactic Empire).

[edit] Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The residents of Tiamat are split into two clans: "Winters" who advocate technological progress and trade with offworlders, and "Summers" who depend on their folk traditions and rigid social distinctions to survive on this marginal planet. Every 150 years, the sun's orbit around the black hole dramatically impact the planetary ecology and to keep the uneasy peace, the government switches from Winter rule to Summer rule under a matriarchal monarch. Interstellar travel between Tiamat and the Hegemony is only possible during the 150 years of Winter rule, and a single woman rules the entire planet: a "Snow Queen" in Winter, a "Summer Queen" in Summer.

The reason for the Hegemony's interest in Tiamat has to do with the "mers," sentient sea-dwelling creatures whose blood provides the "water of life," a substance that totally inhibits physical aging. The most valuable substance in the galaxy, mer hunts go on as frequently as possible during the Winter years, to the point of extinction. This also allows the Snow Queen to reign for the entire 150-year season, and it is with the Snow Queen, Arianrhod, that the story begins. She has secretly implanted several Summer women with embryos, clones of herself, in the hopes of extending her rule past her ritual execution at the end of Winter.

The novel follows the only one of these clones, Moon, to survive to adolescence. She and her cousin Sparks are lovers, both sharing the distinctive status of being "merry-begots", children conceived during the planetary festivals held every 20 years to remind Tiamat of the cycle of power. Moon becomes a sibyl, a position of high status among the Summer people, since they are keepers of knowledge freely available to anyone who asks. Sibyls enter a trance and by mysterious means, can answer questions. Sparks, unable to join her among the sibyl mystics and curious about his offworld heritage, travels to Carbuncle, Tiamat's capital, where he is immediately caught up by Arianrhod and eventually becomes the "Starbuck," her lover?a position that not only requires him to do away with the previous Starbuck (Herne) but orchestrates the mer hunts, a capital crime in the summer islands.

Moon manages to secure transport to Carbuncle, where sibyls are proscribed, and is eventually smuggled off-world, a one-way trip for a Tiamatan citizen, as the Hegemony forbids Tiamat full access to their worlds. She is taken to the capital planet, Kharemough, and discovers that the prejudice against sibyls is a political tool used by the Hegemony to keep the balance of power on Tiamat skewed in their favor. Sibyls are also highly respected throughout the eight planets of the Hegemony, only on Tiamat, due to a careful reinforcement of superstitions during the reign of Winter, are they considered dangerous and mentally unstable. Eventually, despite the waning window of safe travel offered by Tiamat's orbit, she negotiates a return after finding out from a trance that Sparks is in danger.

After being derailed by a crash landing and short sojourn as a captive by an outback tribe of Winter fugitives in the north, Moon returns to Carbuncle and confronts Arianrhod for the fate of her beloved Sparks. Here she discovers the truth of her heritage and that Arianrhod considers her a failure; she wanted a clone in spirit, not just in body, a clone who would keep the Summers from throwing all the technical advances offworld trade brings to Tiamat into the sea during The Change. Moon proves her wrong by participating in the ritual competition for the Summer Throne, and winning. The Change will proceed, and Winter will end?but with an enlightened queen, preparing Tiamat to face the Hegemony as a peer when the 150 years of summer end and interstellar travel is again possible through the black hole.
Spoilers end here.

[edit] Sequels

Vinge also wrote a sequel to The Snow Queen called The Summer Queen (1991), with a novella, World's End (1984), linking the two. A third novel, Tangled Up In Blue, was published in 2000.

(mers - sea creatures - blood line - merovingians)

Note: Edited by Kephra to fix wiki link.

[Summer Wine]

Some interesting links regarding the Merovingian Kings.

http://www.themasterofspeech.com/shugborough.html
2. Shugborough Coat of Arms Relates To
Merovingians and the Alien Nummo
by Shannon Dorey

http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/merovingian-twyman.htm

The Merovingian Mythos:
Its Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantis
by Tracy R. Twyman

And mer means "sea" - mermaid

And there is also an African tribe called the Meru I believe who have an ancient history and talk of their race being established by ancient sea kings - one who parted the Red Sea allowing them to escape to Africa. Sound familiar?

[Summer Wine]

I guess you can tell that I love books. Usually.

Something about this one though, scared me so bad. It pushed some kind of button in my brain. It absolutely terrified me.

Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Here is someone's description of Ghost Story. I have to say by far and away this is the most damn scariest book I have ever read. I think the damn book scared me so bad that I threw it away.

Another interesting modern literary adaptation of the "Other
Folk" or "Parallel Race" theme was Peter Straub's 1979 novel
'Ghost Story', the basis also of a 1982 Fred Astaire movie.
Straub's 'Ghost Story' depicts a cross-section of the
inhabitants of the imaginary small upstate New York town of
"Milburn," who gradually become aware that they, their families,
and Milburn are being stalked by a clan of alien, inhuman
"Nightwatchers" or "Shapechangers," demonic tricksters capable
of assuming outward human form who enjoy playing sadistic games
with humans. The "Shapeshifters" or "Nightwatchers" are long-
lived, quasi-immortal creatures whose true or basic form, as
implied in a few passages of the book, is that of a sort of
insect, but who can and do frequently assume various human and
animal disguises. The "Nightwatchers" hate and despise
Humankind, and their main pastime is to drive their chosen human
victims to insanity and suicide by assuming the outward form of
the girl of your dreams or a long-lost parent, brother, sister,
or friend, exploiting their victims' sexuality, compassion, or
loneliness, and then disappearing after playing a few very cruel
twists. They often "pick on" a family, playing with the feelings
of its members for several generations on end, or a whole small
town (like Milburn).

The particular "Shapeshifter" clan that has decided to play its
cruel games with a few Milburnites and their families appears
over and over again, down through the years and in many places
around the world as well as in Milburn itself, in the form of a
beautiful and intriguing but cold, cruel, and heartless woman
with the initials A.M., a handsome but sinister young man named
Greg or Gregory, and Gregory's mentally retarded 10- or 12-year-
old nephew or kid brother with the initials F.B. At the same
time, the "Nightwatchers" simultaneously also torment and
"spook" Milburn by producing animal mutilations and "Bigfoot"
and UFO sightings - basically, playing their sadistic
exploitative emotional games with members of Milburn's educated
upper-middle-class cultural elite, and doing the UFO, Bigfoot,
animal mutilation, and weird footprints in the snow bit with the
local proles and Archie Bunkers. However, on several occasions
the "Nightwatchers" also "spook" their upper-crust victims as
well with blatantly supernatural stuff: like levitating in full
view of a father whose love-struck son their beautiful
"daughter" has just driven to suicide!

Straub's 'Ghost Story', by the way, also features what at first
glance looks like an inbred, dysfunctional, genetically
challenged family of mentally retarded rural ne'er-do-wells of
the Jukes or Kallikak type living in incestuous squalor in a
tar-paper shack in the boondocks of upstate New York. The Bates
of Four Forks, however, turn out to be something far more weird
and sinister.

Straub's 'Ghost Story' is mainly set in the seemingly quiet,
pleasant, sleepy upstate New York town of "Milburn," and
initially focuses on the "Chowder Society." The "Chowder
Society" is a little club of four elderly, moderately well-to-do
gentlemen from locally prominent and respected Milburn families
who periodically meet in evening dress at each other's houses to
exchange stories of every kind, including ghost stories and tall
tales. 'Ghost Story' begins shortly after a party at which one
of the Chowder Society members, Edward Wanderley, had died - or
was killed. The Chowder Society, who for years had met in
evening dress to tell each other tales of every kind, now find
themselves drawn toward the supernatural, as some sort of solace
for Edward's loss. They begin to tell ghost stories, ghost
stories that do not always stop when the teller has finished
speaking.

The Chowder Society members next begin having dreams shared
simultaneously by all of them forecasting horrors the four
elderly gentlemen can scarcely bring themselves to discuss. From
farms surrounding Milburn come reports of animal mutilations:
animals assaulted and drained of blood in the fields. As the
cruelly cold winter settles in, freak incidents seem to escalate
in and around Milburn, forming themselves into a sinister scheme
of chaos and terror.

Edward Wanderley's nephew Don, an aspiring novelist and English
teacher at Berkeley, returns to Milburn from California, with
his own pressing personal reasons for wanting to join the
defence against whoever - or whatever - is perpetrating these
obscene outrages. As he and the reader gradually discover,
Milburn is up against a macabre cast of characters who appear
and tauntingly reappear in different guises throughout 'Ghost
Story' and who have the power to insinuate themselves wilfully
upon the mind.

Don Wanderley and the Chowder Society discover that over the
years they themselves or people they know have all experienced
encounters with "Nightwatchers" or "Shapechangers" in disguised
human form. The "Nightwatchers" are entities that derive a
sadistic amusement from toying with the feelings of their human
victims and driving those victims to despair, violence, or
suicide. The Chowder Society gentlemen, Don Wandereley, and a
teen-aged Milburn boy, among others, all learn that they, close
friends, or close relatives have at one time or another all met
shape-changing "Nightwatchers" motivated by hatred of Humanity
capable of assuming the form of the perfect girl of one's
dreams, of a dead parent, brother, or friend, or of a lonely,
abused or friendless child yearning to be rescued and
befriended. The long-lived, almost though not quite immortal
Nightwatchers are very patient, if need be quite willing to wait
and try again a half century later if thwarted the first time in
their effort to destroy a victim - or to pursue the intended
original victim's family. They also have a sadistic playfulness,
delighting in tantalizing their victims with elaborate clues and
inside jokes about their true identity. They love to play jokes,
and to slyly flaunt themselves.

The Nightwatchers sometimes torment, confuse, and madden their
victims by assuming the appearance of a dead brother, parent, or
friend. However, they most frequently take the form of an
alluringly beautiful and seductive but ultimately cold, cruel,
and heartless young woman with the initials A.M. (Alma Mobley,
Amy Monckton, Anna Mostyn, Ann-Veronica Moore, etc.), a
sinister, dissolute, evilly handsome youth named Gregory, and
Gregory's mentally retarded teen-aged younger brother or nephew.
Those three recur continually throughout 'Ghost Story' under
various guises - cropping up in the present and half a century
ago, and in Milburn, in a rural "Tobacco Road" community, in San
Francisco, in New Orleans, and elsewhere. My own two favorite
episodes of 'Ghost Story' are a Chowder Society member's
reminiscences of his youth as an idealistic schoolteacher and
his terrifying run-ins with Fenny, Gregory, and Constance Bates
in a one-room rural schoolhouse and tar-paper "Tobacco Road"
shack in the 1920's, and Don Wanderley's Berkeley/San Francisco
romance with the enchantingly beguiling, too-perfect, ultimately
terrifying "Alma Mobley."

The Bates family at first seem just a pathetically flagrant case
of Jukes- or Kallikak-like rural "white trash" cultural,
intellectual, economic, and genetic deprivation cemented by
abusive homosexual brother-brother incest on top of all their
other problems - but soon turn out to be in fact something far,
far worse and scarier. I got a real kick out of the scene where
the teacher is shown Gregory Bates' GRAVE by the local Lutheran
pastor, who had been exiled by the Lutheran hierarchy to the
boondocks for his obsession with "hermetic matters," as
indicated by his private library with its little collection of
Lully, Fludd, Bruno, and books on witchcraft and Satanism. No
doubt the good Rev. Gruber's library also included the
'Necronomicon' of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred! The good pastor's
revelations, and the retarded Fenny Bates' voodoo-like voluntary
suicide by heart stoppage, disabuse the young teacher of his
idealistic dreams of rescuing and uplifting the unfortunate,
impoverished Bateses.

Half a century later, the young novelist, teaching English at
Berkeley, meets in "Alma Mobley" a girl who at first seems too
good to be true - but grows progressively spookier, more
unnerving, and ultimately more terrifying and hateful. She turns
out to have had an affair a year or two earlier with his half-
brother who had then committed suicide, and to be involved with
a cult called the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis) in the hard-cover
version of 'Ghost Story', and the XXX (Xala Xalior Xlati) in the
paperback edition. He discovers her to hang out with a sinister,
disreputable drug dealer named Greg Benton and his mentally
retarded kid brother, supposedly old home-town neighbours of
hers from New Orleans - a pair whose descriptions are almost
identical to those of the rural "Tobacco Roaders" Gregory and
Fenny Bates a half century earlier! After his breakup with Alma
Mobley, Don Wanderley does a bit of detective and library
research work, and discovers that all her autobiographical
references to her own family are fake - but based on the true
family story of a New Orleans artist some 20 or 25 years earlier
whose young son had committed suicide after an ill-starred
romance with a beautiful and enchanting but weird girl named Amy
Monckton who had inveigled him into a bisexual threesome, drug
abuse, and voodoo worship with her handsome but dissolute and
sinister family chauffeur Gregorio!

Regards, T. Peter Garden City South, LI,
NY

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I haven't read the following book, today is the first time I have even heard of it (found it mentioned on a Mind Control forum) and on first reading of the introduction and then the fact that the book's site also offered T-shirts and Mugs turned me totally off. But for the heck of it I did some further sleuthing and it appears that there are layers within layers here. (see at the end of the post)

Anyone read this book or heard of it?
http://www.amazon.com/Obergon-Chronicles-Rayelan-Allan/dp/1419630172

The Obergon Chronicles (Paperback)
by Rayelan Allan (Author)

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Rayelan Allan is the publisher of Rumor Mill News, one of the oldest and most popular web based alternative news sites. She is a researcher well-known for her interest in secret societies, occult information, covert intelligence operations and in particular, the Knights Templar. Best known, before Rumor Mill News as a speaker on esoteric history, she presented workshops throughout the United States and was a regular guest lecturer at the United Nations. Her second husband was Gunther Russbacher, the October Surprise Pilot. He was imprisoned two days after they married. For four years Rayelan worked to keep Gunther alive by publicizing his status as a political prisoner. While doing this she met with imprisoned CIA, FBI, DEA operatives and others who provided documents implicating Bush Administration figures in drug and arms smuggling. Further investigations uncovered government mind control operations that are linked to assassinations, Satanic cults, New Age channels and a world wide conspiracy to change culture through "media programming". Rayelan is a former English teacher and radio talk show host who lives on the Monterey Bay in California.

This book is a rough ride, but it has enough unpleasant realities in it to merit a careful reading. Among other things, it is the story of Gunther Russbacher, the Austrian-born CIA op pilot who flew George H. W. Bush to Paris to arrange for Iran to hold 444 hostages until AFTER the Presidential election of 1980 (in which Carter lost to Reagan), and his relationship and marriage to Rayelan Allen. Gunther was subsequently imprisoned for trying to tell the truth about this action. According to Rayelan, he was subjected to sophisticated mind-control treatments, causing erasure of memory, and he never got out of U.S. Government control until his death in 2005.
Personally I tend to take the starry origins of the human race with a full shaker of salt, but the "mind control" theme rings true in this age of assassinations and mass murders by hypnotized folks of all ages, from teen-age to adult.

We live in a strange and unfamiliar world, dominated by politicians who have unpleasant plans for most of us, and we need all the help we can get to perceive what is going on around us.

http://www.obergonchronicles.com/
The website for the book and you can read the introduction and the first chapter. It just sounded so hoakey and new agey when I first read it. And then Tshrts and mugs? Come on -

then googling the book ran across this site
http://passagetopeace.com/

and here is a snip of the discussion here in regards to the book
http://www.openseti.org/GnosticA.html

Metahistory
Metahistory.org, the work of John Lash and Joanna Harcourt-Smith, seeks to create or recreate what they call the "Gaia Mythos", an essential part of which is the "Gnostic Archon theory" which is derived from the old Gnostic lore.

What is an archon? The term is mentioned many times in the Nag Hammadi texts. In terms of Metahistory, archons are a species of "predatory inorganic beings".

As a momentary aside, does that last phrase sound familiar to you? It would if you were a fan of the writings of Carlos Castaneda, who frequently used that very term.

In my 17 July 2004 posting to the Open SETI Forums II review of Paul Von Ward's Gods, Genes, and Consciousness, I quoted from Castaneda's The Active Side of Infinity:

    "In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver - stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now."
I about jumped out of my chair when I read this, remembering Daniel's quote that the little men are inside of us and the trips that people have written about while being under psychedelics!

Lash finds great concordance between Castaneda's depictions and those of the Gnostics. See for example his article THE TOPIC OF TOPICS: Gnostic Parallels in the Writings of Carlos Castaneda (or the French version), and the June 30 2005 interview with Karmapolis.

This interview brings out so much essential information that I cannot recommend it too highly. It is an indispensable introduction to the "ET/Archon Theory" or what I sometimes call the "Gnostic Archon Theory".

Here is a link to the Metahistory NAVIGATOR for ET/Archon Theory. This will provide further links to definitions of terms and to the entire theory.

There is so much on Lash's site that it would be hard to encapsulate it on this page. However, a useful list of key points has been derived from an interview given by John Lash to Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM, March 19, 2005:

    * The gnostics were seers, initiates, and shamans. They practiced many psychic arts and developed them to a very high degree. They developed "Siddhis". They were remote viewers.
    * They were "qualified to see and correctly evaluate other worlds".
    * They were stargazers and cosmologists. Their history of the solar system matches modern understanding in remarkable ways.
    * They obtained their picture through direct observation.
    * A massive and deliberate destruction of their documents, including the burning of the library at Alexandria, took place from 150 CE to the middle ages. Only the Nag Hammadi Library documents survive.
    * These were discovered in December 1945.
    * They knew the structure of the Galaxy (the "pleroma") and the position of our solar system within it.
    * There is an infinite plenitude of other galaxies.
    * Occasionally, the Galactic core emits plasmatic surges.
    * The energy of these surges produces certain configurations in the Galaxy.
    * There are "tunnels" within our Galaxy. He says that astronomers discovered these in 2003.
    * The surges can give rise to certain forms of life.
    * From their perspective, before the earth became a living environment, the solar system surrounded it like a crust.
    * Early in the life of our solar system, a galactic surge produced a wave that created inorganic forms.
    * The earth is "captured" within the solar system.
    * The solar system is "inorganic". Only the earth within it is "organic".
    * The picture corresponds to today's Gaia Hypothesis (Lovelock and Margulis) in which the earth is the only planet with a biologically alive atmosphere.
    * Other solar systems have biospheres similar to the earth.
    * The gnostics were specifically concerned with "alien" intrusions.
    * They described two types of aliens: reptilian and the "embryo" type that can be equated to modern "Greys".
    * They called the aliens "archons" (Greek: authorities).
    * These are equivalent to the "watchers" described in The Book of Enoch.
    * Archons were formed in the early stage of the solar system. Therefore they are inorganic beings.
    * Archons cannot and do not live on this planet with us.
    * The gnostics concluded that the archons are bullies. A predatory species.
    * According to the "First Apocalypse of James" (from the Nag Hammadi texts), "They will take away souls by theft." We would use the term "abduction".
    * The archons are still with us.
    * They are neither more powerful nor more evolved than we are.
    * They lack our evolutionary drive. They are like cyborgs; a robotic race that can imitate but not innovate.
    * From the "Second Apocalypse of James": "They are not over you but they are in the solar system with you and you must take account of that."
    * They must be kept in their place. They don't observe their correct boundaries. Life on earth depends on observing boundaries. They intrude.
    * They envy us. They intrude into our reality and try to be like us. They envy our ability to innovate. That we are driven, goal-oriented. They are robotic. They lack what we have.
    * They operate only by imitation and by taking orders. They do not have our "intention".
    * There was no description of their hardware. The gnostics believed we needed to know about the "software" side.
    * They describe the archons as engineers and mechanics who live in the solar system and maintain it.
    * The archons are delusional and those who are associated with them become delusional.
    * The most important thing about them is the way they intrude into our minds.
    * Their technique of intrusion and mind control makes use of simulation. The coptic word for this is "HAL".
    * The intrusion probably plays a great role in mental illness.
    * They make something appear to happen that does not actually happen. They can induce a virtual reality experience.
    * Some mentally-ill people have perceived the archons but cannot deal with the experience. Gnostics taught how to deal with them.
    * Certain religious beliefs such as divine redeemer / messiah are injected delusions.
    * They observe our emotions as if they could absorb them and use them as their own.
    * They feed on our fear. It's an energy that "gives them a kick" like a drug.
    * The word for "terror" occurs frequently. It is connected with "error".
    * What they are attempting is absurd. They can't succeed, but they are driven to do it anyway.
    * Jacques Vallee: "The way to a man's belief is through absurdity."
    * They can't overpower us but we can abdicate.

Expanding on that last point, Lash writes:

    In their attempt to intrude upon humanity, which has been ongoing for millennia, the Archons use a lot of bluff and bravado. they affect our minds to get us to believe they can do far more than they can actually do, but in so believing, we unwittingly surrender our power to them ? the result is, they get their way with us, because we have betrayed our own capacities. Hence the Archons claim to rule over humanity, and even pretend to have been our creators, as is recounted in the Sumerian cunieform record of the Annunaki, accepted as true by Zecharia Sitchin and many other sincere investigators. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at the very moment the Nag Hammadi texts were initially recognized to be rare gnostic materials, contain explicit accounts of direct threats posed by reptilians.

Concerning the Sumerian cuneiform record, "accepted as true by Zecharia Sitchin and many other sincere investigators", John Lash points out that the Gnostics did not accept that record so easily. They knew these were recorded by scribes and pointed out that scribes were not historians, after all. They were skilled artisans, laboring in service to ruling families, officials, and high priests. What they wrote had been dictated to them by their superiors in that theocratic society. And to Lash and the Pagan Gnostics, "theocracy" is a red flag.

Putting it bluntly, to the Gnostics, the creation of humanity via Annunaki intervention, along with other ancient creation myths, was a delusion transmitted by Archons through their channels.

Now, the Gnostics had and have their own creation myth, derived not through channels and prophets but through observation by skilled shamans who are also scholars and historians. On his site Metahistory.org, Lash says that he is attempting to recreate the Gnostic creation myth in which the Aeon Sophia becomes embodied in the Earth. The Earth is her body. This is connected with the Gaia idea, he says, and the two myths are going to converge.

One more descriptive quote:

    Metahistory.org contains numerous passages on the ET/UFO enigma, treated in the perspective of gnostic teachings. Here and there I equate the Archons with contemporary ETs, those "alien" entities who seem to flit in and out of our world, particularly the Greys and Reptilians widely associated with UFO sightings, encounters, and abductions. There is, as everyone knows, a vast mythology developing about these entities.

...and Open SETI has from its beginning advocated the seeking of knowledge through mythology.

Speaking of encounters and abductions, Malou Zeitlin notes that since the perpetrators, whoever or whatever they are, seem to be involved in people's lives from their earliest days, they may be making use of the process well-known to naturalists as imprinting. She explains the concept in an excerpt from a private letter.

She also reminds us of "stories of visits to young children...the little friends, the little doctors, so-called imaginary playmates, etc."

These are so widespread that they have come to be considered just a part of childhood development. Perhaps they are a part of all childhood development. That is just the point, isn't it? Readers who are familiar with the "UFO phenomenon" are aware of how often these stories blend into the encounters of later years. The "little doctors" remain "doctors" of a sort. Still little, but more problematic.

Imprinting can be used to insert what computer hackers call a back door - a means of entry that remains, unnoticed, for future use. If widespread in our society, this can allow any desired ideas or choices to be inserted into the group mind, dynamically, as needed.

If Lash can demonstrate that ETs of our contemporary experience are the very Archons of the gnostic seers, a powerful support for the objective reality of these beings will have been established. Moreover, the deep philosophical insight of the gnostics then becomes a resource for understanding who the beings are and what they are doing or trying to do here with us.


Interpretation by Cliff "Web Bot"71
Cliff ?Web Bot?, another student of the Nag Hammadi texts, reports that this literature discusses ?incorrigibles? on ?incorruptibles?, which would be our frequently-encountered Grays, that do not have bodies or minds as we would understand them. They are ?like really smart ants?, capable of independent thoughts, yet their thoughts are directed by a common interconnection, an overmind.

This information, he says, is also found in Sanskrit, Egyptian, and Taoist texts, some of which have not been translated from the original. ?Web Bot? has some ability to read in the original Sanskrit.

The incorruptibles, their common megamind, and ourselves, were all originally created by a very remote ?creator group?.

In this process, humans were given the capability of guiding their own growth. The megamind does not have this, and unfortunately has become very envious and jealous of it. It has essentially ?gone insane? and no longer does the bidding of its master.

Thousands of years ago, working alone, and through its hive-minded robots, the megamind manufactured the three major western religions and their concept of an external saviour, a God to be worshipped, and a heavenly state in which one can continue to worship, eternally. This of course is intended to deprive humans of their hated innate capability and to control them.

The ?nasty little gray banditos? manipulated and placed the powers that be, to manipulate the rest of us.


Conclusion
With all of the myths provided on this page, it would seem that our quest for understanding has now begun. However, it has just begun. Many points on this page need to be expanded and they will be expanded over a period of time. For now -- and to bring us back to our original subject of greys and controllers -- we leave you with one more quote from John Lash, taken from his article The Gnostic Theory of Alien Intrusion, a guest column in the magazine "Phenomena":

    Gnostic texts use mythological language to describe actual events in prehistory as well as long-term developments in the human psyche. According to the ancient seers, Archons cannot access our genetic makeup but they can fake an intervention. Considering the confusion of humanity in modern times, a faked intervention would be as good as real. This typifies the Archon tactic of getting us to imagine and believe things that are not true, and to accept simulation for reality. In this way, gnostics taught, these alien cousins can deviate the human species from its true and proper course of evolution.

But this is according to the information found in fragmentary texts, written by diverse pagan orders and priestesses in the centuries leading up to the time of the advent of the Christian church... and interpreted by John Lash with the aid of his considerable intuitions. Remember, this information concerns events going back into the very night of time, relating even to the formation of the planet Earth. Can we be completely certain of the integrity of this body of information?


just a snip but damn -

so anybody here read this book or know anything about it?

[Summer Wine]

http://www.tricksterbook.com/

OVERVIEW

    The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge.  The mix seems incoherent.  But the trickster makes sense of it.

        Among other things, this book explains:

        * Why parapsychology and UFOs are shunned by establishment science.
        * How anthropology and literary criticism apply to the paranormal.
        * Why psychic phenomena are associated with mystical practices.
        * Why tabloids often put paranormal features on their front pages.

        Trickster theories are not well known.  They are scattered across disciplines and hidden in obscure academic tomes. The Trickster and the Paranormal brings them together.
     
http://www.tricksterbook.com/Intro.htm
click here to read the introduction

This book is about foretelling the future, the occult, magic, telepathy, mind over matter, miracles, power of prayer, UFOs, Bigfoot, clairvoyance, angels, demons, psychokinesis, and spirits of the dead.  These all interact with the physical world.  This book explains why they are problematical for science.
     These topics provoke ambivalent feelings.  They hold a strange place in our culture.

[Summer Wine]

http://www.amazon.com/War-Times-Kathleen-Ann-Goonan/dp/0765313553/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4306275-7756737?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186767849&sr=1-1
In War Times (Hardcover)
by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Author

Adult/High School–This alternate history with multiple threads blends bebop, physics, molecular biology, politics, and ethics into a compelling story of one family's journey through the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Sam Dance is a soldier who, in early December 1941, has been sent by the army to study physics and other esoteric subjects in Washington, DC. One of his teachers, an Eastern European woman, seduces him and gives him a device–and the plans for it–that she says will change the course of world history. The next day, Pearl Harbor is attacked, and Sam spends the rest of the war trying to figure out what the object exactly does, and what his role is. This novel is full of thought-provoking ideas about people and conflict. Can people be changed at the molecular level to cause them to prevent war? Can societies thrive and prosper without war? What are the connections between music, especially jazz, and physics? Readers with some knowledge of World War II and of the postwar period will probably get the most out of this book, and they will enjoy seeing where events in the novel diverge from what really happened. But any reader who likes alternate histories; strong, appealing characters; and provocative ideas will find plenty to admire in Goonan's book.–Sarah Flowers, Santa Clara County Library, CA
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[Summer Wine]

[Summer Wine]

Run, don't walk, and get this book today, it's magical and wonderful!




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A scene takes place in the film Patton, where the General stands on the site of an ancient battlefield and describes his experiences as a combatant in a previous life on that very field. In THE SECRET TEACHING OF PLANTS, Stephen Harrod Buhner describes a similar experience on a battlefield here in Virginia where the narrator "felt" the presence of the dead and dying soldiers. While this episode might seem farfetched, Buhner has woven a story that will lead you to believe this event can and did take place, no matter how rational you think you are.

Buhner's book is about plants, but more than that it is about the human heart and its capacity to understand more than the head. The heart does indeed have its own reasons, and has much to communicate if we would listen. As one who has a deep affinity for living organisms especially, birds, dogs, cats, and trees, and having lived with said creatures all my life and knowing for a fact that they all communicate with me, I do not believe that humans are the "be all end all" they believe themselves to be no matter how much they have recorded their own self importance in ancient texts. In the end, belief is belief, but Buhner suggests there is much one may be missing if she does not listen to her heart. THE SECRET TEACHING OF PLANTS is a delicious wonderful treat, and I have taken weeks to read and reread a man who may indeed be a reincarnation of Thoreau or Goethe.

I remember the Gospel of Thomas and Jesus teaching his apostles as he held up a tiny plant, and said all the secrets to the universe were hidden inside of one tiny plant.

Learn to listen with your heart.

[Kephra]

This looks really interesting.

1. OUR DISCRETE WORLD - It takes an infinite amount of resources to create a continuous reality, but a finite amount to create a quantized reality. The very nature of the computational mechanisms of a computer are essentially the same as Quantum Mechanics - a sequence of states, with nothing existing or happening between the states. The resolution of any program is analogous to the spatial resolution of our reality, just at a different level. In fact, if you carry Moore's Law forward (which has been consistent over the past 40 years), computers will reach the Planck resolution in 2192. Not too far off. However, you don't need to model reality all the way to that level for the model to be indistinguishable from our reality. Let's say you want to examine the guts of a tree. You cut it open, scrape off a few cells and put them under a microscope, maybe an electron microscope. To simulate this computationally, one doesn't have to model every single tree down to the Planck level. Only the OBSERVED tree needs to be modeled, and then only the cells selected, and then only down to a resolution that matches the observational limitations of our measurement devices. The program can do that dynamically. And all quantum effects can be programmatically modeled without building a reality model to the Planck level. So, given Moore's law and the limitations of "observational reality", we should be able to create Virtual Realities that are indistinguishable from our current reality within 20 years or so. The very fact that our reality is quantized may be considered strong evidence that reality is programmed.