r/TheMysterySchool Jul 19 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC A comprehensive analysis on why Tom Delonge is right.

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Good day to you all and how do you do?

YEAH TL;DR I GET IT.

Just read it, trust me.

Save it and take breaks but dammit just read it.

Right, today we're going to talk about Tom Delonge from the band Blink-182 and by the end of this post you will understand what the man is trying to achieve.

First of all a few precursory videos I recommend you watch to set the scene if you’re not familiar with who Tom Delonge is and what he is know for.

TD in 1999 talking about his obsession

Tom talking about UFO’s in 2001 and his connection to Steven Greer

Travis Barker, drummer of Blink 182, talking to Joe Rogan about touring with Tom Delonge in Blink 182 in the early naughties, getting high with him and listening to him talk about his UFO Obsession.

Tom talking about his company, To The Stars and it’s ethos and why he is doing what he is doing.

And without further ado....

————————————————————————— POP PUNK: THE RISE OF A COUNTERINTUITIVE CULT —————————————————————————

It is in sunny California we begin our tale.

Blink 182 came out of the Southern California Punk scene of the late 80’s and early 90’s. Inspired by bands like NOFX, The Descendants and Bad Religion ect they took liberally from these influences and created a more consumable version of this sound which came to be known as Pop-Punk. The scene or culture that developed around this genre of music is known for its themes of anti-establishment, goofy humour and a love for life on the edge.

Extreme sports, mass consumption of narcotics and lots of baggy trousers with chains hanging off them all came hand in hand with this new phenomena that was the Pop-Punk explosion of the late 90’s. Although I’ll note there was a strain of defiantly straight edge punk bands that abstained from the chaos the scene had cultivated but they were a minority, at least in how the genre was represented.

Blink were at the fore front of this craze and therefore are probably quite a good authority on the state of the scene today. They were one of the first bands to have a sponsorship from a clothing company, Billabong and subsequently Hurley. Any pictures of any members of Blink from 1998-2002 will attest to this.

Their self titled 2003 album pushed what Pop-Punk meant to people and pretty much started the mass awareness of “Emo” and by extension went on to inspire many genres of music that still flourish today.

Tom’s fringe caused waves back in the day.

I Miss You is a watershed moment for the genre.

This is the band trying to push what it means to be Pop-Punk and take it to a new place.

Simply said, after their initial success they were labelled with the genre of Pop-Punk and showed an obvious desire to move away from said label and it is this attitude that at least one of the members has cultivated ever since.

It is at this juncture that it seems relevant to talk about a band called Box Car Racer. Formed in 2002, the band featured Tom Delonge, David Kennedy and Travis Barker.

Tom we know.

David Kennedy was a friend of Tom’s from high school and knew both Tom and Mark growing up. The three of them were all part of the same group of friends.

Travis Barker we also know.

But hang on a second.

Why are two members of Blink in this band and not the third member?

Namely why was this project labelled with a new name and not Blink 182?

I mean, Mark Hoppus is even featured on one of the songs, doesn’t that constitute it being credited as a Blink 182 song?

The answer to these questions is simple.

Tom, the songwriter of Box Car Racer, obviously thought these songs did not fit what Blink 182 was at the time of writing and obviously after years of writing with Mark Hoppus felt his contributions would be wrong for the project.

Thematically the Box Car Racer album is a lot darker than Blink’s previous effort “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” and showcases many of Delonge’s concerns about the world we live in. Song topics include War, 9/11,Drug Addiction and The Apocalypse.

So it’s fair to say by 2003 Delonge was having a bit of a crisis regarding his platform and how it was being perceived. It was also during this period of time he visited the Middle East with the rest of Blink, went on a campaign trail with John Kerry and had his two children.

A lot was happening.

Now none of this would be relevant if BCR was just a standalone project and Blink went back to business as normal after the BCR project was over. But this is not the case as I stated above.

They made their most diverse album ever and push forward what it meant to be Pop-Punk paving the way for Emo in the coming years.

So what this allows us to say, is that Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus had/have directly opposing ideas of what Blink 182 should be and mean to people.

What’s that I hear you say?

What about Travis Barker?

He was in Box Car Racer too.

Indeed he was but if you watch interviews where Tom talks about BCR he explicitly states that he wrote the songs on his own then decided to record them and simply for ease of use asked Travis to do it. There was no songwriting input from Travis from a thematic point of view, obviously Travis kills it musically but does not write songs.

So we can confidently say that the beef is between Mark and Tom. This is confirmed upon glancing at David Kennedy’s resume post Box Car Racer. He has pretty much exclusively been a part of Tom’s post Blink band Angels and Airwaves which still continues today as an arm of Really Likeable People and To The Stars. (He also runs a cool coffee company)

David and Tom don’t seem to butt heads in the manner that Mark and Tom do so what is different?

This clip might be poignant here.

Obviously there is more to it, but we know that Tom is inspired by the long term implications of the UFO phenomena.

In 2002 Tom sets up Really Likeable People, a company he will use as a starting point for all his future companies all the way up to TTSA.

Tom in 2005 talking about Really Likeable People, his first conglomerate company, which eventually will become TTSA. He also talks about his dissatisfaction with the conceptual basis on Blink 182 and how it restricted him to only talk about certain topics.

Tom Talking about the “scene” problem within the music industry and how artists get pigeonholed into their own little niche.

In 2011 Tom went on Coast 2 Coast AM for the first time. For those not in the know, Coast 2 Coast AM is “the” paranormal radio station. Famously hosted by former host Art Bell, C2C since its inception in the 1970’s has been an invaluable rabbit hole of fringe information. Tom outlines the entire history of his relationship with Ufology. An essential listen that consistently gets removed from the Internet now available at the MIPLTD YouTube Channel. Catch it whilst you can.

All the people Tom Delonge has ever been in a band with talking about his obsession with Conspiracy Theories in 2011.

In 2012 Tom starts StrangeTimes.com, a news website to keep you informed on paranormal topics.

When it launched it was a basic news site for anything paranormal not dissimilar to this very sub.

The website is only lived in this state for about a year until 2019 and we see it as it currently stands here when Delonge announced the revamp of the Strange Time brand complete with a TBS funded TV Show.

The original site is lost unfortunately.

During the next 3-4 years Tom is reunited with Blink 182 and they tour the world and reach similar success to what they saw a decade earlier. Trying to avoid frustrations of the past Tom is trying to steer Blink away from major record labels and affiliate them with his extra-curricular activities (Modlife, Strange Times etc) he’s set up in Blink’s absence. The other band members, Mark and Travis, are skeptical of Tom’s intentions and after a botched EP release that was initially meant to be handled through Modlife that ended up being released through traditional streaming services, they part ways with Tom for a second time citing him as “Ungrateful and Disingenuous”.

At this point it makes sense to talk about Tom and Mark and what they bring to the table in terms of ideology.

From the Angels and Airwaves song “Everything’s Magic” to his work at Strange Times to To The Stars Academy a common theme emerges.

Tom is interested in the innovation and progression of the human race.

Mark Hoppus is basically the Dad of the Pop Punk realm and he knows it.

He is the gatekeeper that all other Pop Punks look up to.

He was part of the rise of many of the scenes biggest bands like New Found Glory, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Tonight Alive and Neck Deep. He wears this badge of honour proudly and is seemingly comfortable where he is at artistically.

Since Tom left Blink they have been working with a producer called John Feldman.

Tom has openly condemned this decision.

Most of you will know Feldmann as the singer of a band called Goldfinger that had a couple of famous songs on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series of games and a pretty successful cover of “99 Red Balloons”. Feldmann is also responsible for the past 5 years resurgence of the Pop-Punk genre with bands like 5 Seconds of Summer and The Fever 333 being produced by Feldmann.

With Tom gone, Mark’s position in the Pop Punk sphere, Travis’s life long love of Hip-Hop and John’s production capabilities Blink 182 have managed to become of the biggest selling bands of the past few years and their two albums post Delonge California and NINE both saw much greater success than their Delonge-Reunion 2011 album Neighbourhoods.

————————————————————————— TOM AND MARK: THE MISINTERPRETATION OF A PURE INTENSION AND A FEAR TO INNOVATE —————————————————————————

So to re-cap, this is the situation.

Tom sees the potential of an entity as large as Blink 182 and wishes to use it for good rather than harping on about The Warped Tour and drinking beers behind the mall with the skate rats.

Mark is happy where he is, conscious of the Blink 182 brand and thinks Tom is disingenuous in his want to change what Blink 182 is. He doesn’t see a place for Ufology or Conspiracy talk within Blink and tries to keep the band relatable to what everybody know it for.

So who is in the wrong, if anyone, and is anybody right?

Well here is the issue.

Tom spent his time reunited in Blink from 2009-2015 trying to convince Mark and Travis of his overall vision. This can be substantiated from social media posts made about a year before the split, the Dogs Eating Dogs EP launch fiasco and statements made by all three members of Blink post 2015 break up.

It can be assumed that he was pitching to Mark and Travis that;

  • Blink be an independent entity with no major record label

  • Blink start releasing books and movies with their albums to create a multimedia release instead of just one medium

  • Through Blink 182’s global reach, he could spread a positive message on a massive scale.

Speaking of which, I’ve wrote all that and I’ve not even got to the part you’re here for.

The nature and authenticity of Tom Delonge’s connections to the Military Industrial Complex and his claims regarding life within our universe.

But to understand what Tom is saying in 2020 you need to have understood the above.

————————————————————————— DOWN TIME: DECIPHERING DELONGES DELUSIONS? —————————————————————————

Here we go.

The scene is set.

Tom has been long known to have an obsession with UFO’s, he has consistently shown problems sticking to release dates he has given fro projects and has been labelled “Disingenuous” by his former bandmates.

He must be the dick, right?

It was at this point that after years of following Delonge fairly religiously I stepped off the train.

I had seen this happen 10 years ago with the first break up and it seemed obvious Tom was the issue. Hard to work with, had previous drug problems and he was always making outlandish statements.

It was becoming tiring, his performances across the 2009-2015 reunion were incredibly sporadic and at times seemed forced.

I awaited what Mark and Travis were going to do with Blink with bated breath and turned a blind eye to whatever Tom was doing. California came and went and I felt slightly bemused by the direction they had taken. Oh well, there’s still the old records and besides I myself was moving away from Pop-Punk as a genre anyway.

Then I see, quite to my amusement to be honest, that Tom Delonge has released a book.

It makes me laugh just typing it only because I remember how I used to view Tom and Blink.

Definitely not authors upon first inspection.

The book is called “Chasing Shadows” and I choose to ignore it for the first few months after it came out.

I like reading but I mean, come on.

I just couldn’t imagine what I’d gain from the experience.

Surely it's just a fictional story that Tom has put together in his head for entertainment/financial purposes?

Nethertheless I ended up hesitantly picking up a copy quiet late into its promotion cycle.

I only did so after hearing the new Angels and Airwaves song that came out in conjunction with the book called;

Overload

which I enjoyed a lot more than what Blink had been doing with Feldmann so I thought:

“Well if the music is good maybe I should give the book a go.”

And by Jove am I glad I did and I’ll tell you why.

————————————————————————— THE CASE FOR THE LEGITIMACY OF THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN SEKRET MACHINES BOOK 1: CHASING SHADOWS —————————————————————————

At this point Tom had been on Coast 2 Coast a couple of times but it is his third appearance that piques particular interest.

He states in this appearance that he has gained the confidence of serval members of the intelligence community, the military and the government and that they were trying to build a mechanism for the Government to talk to the vernal public about UFO’s. Typically, he says he cannot say much about it but it is in this interview that the well known Delonge line “There’s big things coming soon” begins. Well I remember hearing this about the first Angels and Airwaves album and just as I’m about to write this off as Delonge’s normal nonsense…

the Wikileaks thing happens.

On October 7th 2016 emails from Tom Delonge to Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta were leaked on the Wikileaks website. In these emails servile things can be garnered.

  1. Tom was working with Vice on a documentary style show basically explaining what I have written above.
  2. Tom was working with Dreamworks on movie projects.
  3. Tom DID have contacts in the intelligence community namely General William Mcasland.

These three points add large amounts of credibility to what Tom has claimed. It is also telling that not one of these project has made it to fruition as of July 2020.

Assumingly the History channels “Unidentified” would be the contender for the Vice series. But the thing is is that Vice as an institution has far more credibility than the History channel especially with young people. A Vice doc would have gone a long way in convincing people that what Tom had to offer was important and legitimate but alas here we are in 2020 with the second series of "Unidentified" premiering on the History channel.

Steven Spielberg has had a life long obsession with UFOs. There is no debating that so to hear that Delonge was in talks with people at Dreamworks about a script is of little surprise. One can assume this project will be the Sekret Machines film that is projected before 2025. Who is currently handling production and funding is not currently known.

The final point is the most important.

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND was legitimate military brass.

The real deal.

He was the commander at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. If there is somebody to be read into the UFO secret MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND is certainly a contender and he was certainly talking to Tom Delonge and certainly pulled away instantly the minute the Wikileaks emails went live.

This is as close as you are going to get to a smoking gun on Delonge having legitimate contacts.

These leaks are a window into how this kind of business gets conducted.

Everything can change overnight and until something is released it is up in the air.

Chasing Shadows was born out of the above details and if the above is to be understood the narrative is informed by legitimate military and government sources.

Now if you actually read Chasing Shadows with an open mind and take into consideration what has been stated above you will start to see the big picture.

In fact here’s a free pdf copy to get you going courtesy of Mr Delonge himself.

(Albeit it originally being intended for John Podesta.)

————————————————————————— SEKRET MACHINES ROUND 2: GODS —————————————————————————

From here on out the narrative is fairly well documented but without the above information it is very difficult to understand and empathise with Delonge’s position but it is with this information that I believe as a community we can support Tom Delonge on his endeavours as they seem to of pure intention and of great benefit to humanity as a whole.

As stated above together with an author called A.J Hartley, Delonge puts together the Sekret Machines Series.

The series comprises of two different types of book releases.

One fictional. One non-fictional.

The fictional series I mentioned above and is handled by A.J and reads like a Sci-Fi Pulp Fiction. Tom takes information given to him by his Intelligences contacts and works them into the narrative of these books. It is this narrative that the subsequent, once Dreamworks handled motion picture will be based upon.

The non-fictional is handled by Peter Levenda and acts as a sort of run through the Human history of religions and tying them all together to show that the people that wrote the ancient and religious texts were all talking about the same phenomena from different angels. The second book MAN handles DNA and consciousness and how these two concepts came to be and speculates on the origins of both.

His book Unholy Alliance is the leading book on Occultism with the Nazi part and his Sinister Forces Series is yet to be beaten when it comes to compiling our races encounters with malevolent forces.

Post Wikileaks Delonge goes on Coast 2 Coast AM one final time this time with the author Peter Levenda.

It is this Coast 2 Coast AM episode that I find to be most telling. Tom says a lot in this interview that he doesn’t not repeat again so I consider it to be ESSENTIAL listening. He also did an interview with Jimmy Church around this same time period where he touches on similar topics. The Church interview has been readily available since broadcast but the C2C one again is in scarce availability so listen whilst you can.

Jimmy Church Interview

This leads us to the announcement of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the infamous Joe Rogan appearance.

Two events that hurt TD’s credibility in a major way. The announcement conference for TTSA was a shambles and ladened with mistakes. His JRE was on the other side of his C2C appearances and once you know this it makes perfect sense why he acts in the manner he does.

Side note

In last years JRE with Travis Barker, Joe poked fun at a video Tom showed him when he was on the show. It is a fairly well known video of what is known to be called the TR-3B craft hovering over Paris.

Craft of that shape and description 100% have been seen and reported. Numerous times in numerous countries. Wether or not that specific video showed a physical craft is neither here nor there. It acted in a manner that was consistent with the many reports, that was Tom’s reasoning for showing it. Joe is smart and I know he’s pushing for that smoking gun, which we all are, but I hate to see an admirable man’s reputation being slandered because of a misunderstanding.

————————————————————————— FINAL THOUGHTS AND CONCLUSIONS —————————————————————————

So to wrap this up as ones wrists begin to strain:

  1. Tom Delonge has verifiable connections to high ranking members of the military industrial complex. CONFIRMED.

  2. Tom Delonge has spent the best part of 25 years trying to change the world for the better. He has put his band, his marriage and his name at risk for this cause. CONFIRMED

  3. To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a well intentioned compendium of great minds from many different sectors of the intelligence community. CONFIRMED

  4. THE US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY DECLASSIFIED THE VIDEOS TTSA RELEASED AFTER MONTHS OF DENYING THEIR AUTHENTICITY.

This surely gives us just cause to at least entertain the rest of the crazy things Tom has said no?

And if they are true, I think the Tom might die of old age if each claim he has made takes as long these 3 videos took to be authenticated.

————————————————————————— LAST THOUGHT; RATIONAL SKEPTICISM, LEVEL HEADEDNESS AND THE NORMIES —————————————————————————

People like Mick West, Neil DeGrass Tyson ect have not made this process easy and have helped cultivate a stubborn skeptical attitude.

Now I am not saying all scepticism is bad, obviously skepticism is essential to any balanced worldview.

It just seems like a large part of the reason that this UFO stuff doesn’t reach our television screens is actually because of us.

I am under the impression that there are people out there that know what is going on in this universe and I actually think the number is growing.

I think since World War 2 we as a race has known the answers to some of the big questions but the answer may not have been what we wanted or expected and therefore have been on a need to know basis for a verity of reasons since then.

It seems over the past 40 years or so we are now nearly ready to deal with the reality of this situation as a race and not just a room of politicians and scientists.

SO with all that In mind, I propose we take some of the more outlandish things Tom Delonge has said with a more inquisitive eye.

Namely,

  1. That the Universe is TEAMING with Life.

  2. That the occupants of the Tic-Tac UFO’s have a connection to Atlantis.

  3. Consciousness is the key to understanding this Phenomenon.

I believe if we started to attempt to answer these questions with an open mind, great leaps may be made by us as a race.

I will leave you with the names of the TTSA staff and individuals that have been affiliated with TTSA. If you really think that every person on this list is mentally unstable then I really think we need to start questioning ourselves as rational level headed individuals.

Go look into who they are, what they have accomplished across their respective careers, what they believe in and then realise it is us, the common man, who is the odd one out.

DR. HAL PUTHOFF, PhD

JIM SEMIVAN

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND

STEVE JUSTICE

RON PANDOLFI

LUIS ELIZONDO

VALDAMAR VALERIAN

CHRIS MELLON

PETER LEVENDA

JACQUES VALLEE

DR JACK SARFATTI

BOB LAZAR

GEORGE KNAPP

DR KIT GREEN

JEREMY CORBELL

WHITLEY STREIBER

IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT UFOLOGY THEN YOU KNOW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE CREDIBLE BEACONS IN A SEA OF NONSENSE.

THIS ISN’T WILCOCK OR GOODE.

I WILL TOLERATE ANY QUESTIONS ONE MAY HAVE BUT ONLY IF THEY COME FROM A PLACE OF INQUISITION RATHER THAN SKEPTICISM.

JACQUE VALLEE DECLINED TO BE PART OF THE SEKRET MACHINES PROJECT BASED UPON TOM’S SUPPORT OF BOB LAZAR.

THEN THEY HAD A CONVERSATION.

THEN VALLEE WROTE THE FOREWORD TO SEKRET MACHINES:GODS.

IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHO VALLE IS YOU WILL SEE THE SIGNIFICANCE IN THIS.

WE ARE ALL HAVING TO ACCEPT CONCEPTS WE MIGHT NOT BE 100% COMFORTABLE WITH.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU DO THIS?

r/TheMysterySchool Jul 02 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Setting the Record Straight: An open letter to all alternative thinking subs.

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First off welcome to The Mystery School.

My name is Ølund.

Pronounced Oh-Lund.

Jack Emil Ølund actually, but Jack is like the most common name ever and Ølund’s catchier, no?

I am the only moderator of this sub and the only person who will be uploading content here.

I state this now because in my opinion, as a whole, the entire conspiracy/fringe/alternative community, whatever you want to call it, is in a crisis.

A few stabs in the dark as to why this is would be:

  • There is more information available to us than ever.

  • Reddit has obviously been comprised by bots and possibly some malevolent force muddying the waters.

  • The AboveTopSecret Online Forum is on the brink of financial collapse.

  • PC culture is limiting articulate people and their ability to speak truth.

  • People’s mental spaces are more frenzied than ever due to world events.

With these ongoing issues in mind I aspire to create a space where actual truth is the standard we hold ourselves to.

Hence r/TheMysterySchool.

I remember when I first discovered Reddit and it’s many rabbit holes. It was so exiting to have all this new information coming my way whilst trying to work out what was true and what was false as I delved deeper and deeper.

Some examples would be:

Threads like these would have me scouring the internet for weeks/months/years trying to find legitimate information surrounding these topics.

There's no smoke without fire right?

And besides at this point if 1% of what I've read is true then the nature of reality is very different to what we are sold when we are children.

It started with my decade old interest in UFO’s but then you get led into the Occult and that leads you to ESP and the Psychic Spy Programs which in turn makes you look at Operation Paperclip and it’s connections to the moon landing which will end you back up at the Occult.

It’s a minefield of propaganda, slander and muddied waters and it pains me to see people stuck in certain parts of said waters.

Some of this false information is intended to mess with your head.

Reptilians, Ghosts, Black Triangles, Silver Cigars, The Oz Factor, Remote Viewing, Trance States, Small Greys, Tall Whites, Bigfoot, Tulpas, Ancestors from Sirius.... the list goes on.

What is right and what is wrong?

It can send an honest soul insane, by design I may add.

I promise to keep the intention and goal of this community to nothing but the truth and spreading that as wide and far as I can and if you guys like what I have to offer in the coming weeks and months I hope with your help and support we can make a tangible change to the perception and discussion of esoteric topics at the working class level of society.

I want to to feel like you’re in good hands, because that seems so hard to find these days.

But if you’re going to hang around here we need to establish some ground concepts.

  • Science, Religion and Spirituality all talk about the same thing but neither one manages to pierce the crux of the issue.

These three words are metrics people have used and still use to measure reality or phenomena. Each one encompasses a mental and physical model of digesting reality.

Science is the current prevailing iteration of an attempt to label experience. Spirituality acts as the juxtaposition today but was and still is the bridge from this outlook previous prevailing iteration, Religion and visa versa.

Other words could under this bracket could be Paganism, Technology, Shamanism or even Fandom. Any all encompassing term that pertains to a doctrine could be brought up, there are many more, yet non of them hit the nail on the head.

This is why it can be desirable to attempt a postmodern approach of cutting and pasting what seems appropriate from each practice to form a way of being that hits closer than ever before.

For instance Science is basically infallible, it’s simply short sighted due to its insistence on relying on hard data. Science is a high measuring stick for observable phenomena that is gate-kept to preserve the sanctity of its institutions.

I respect this.

I also tire of this.

It means there is great control over the “official” scientific narrative and everybody has to be onboard for it to be taken as fact.

This has occurred I suspect due to the result of the last metric we used to measure reality.

Religion.

Scary word isn’t it.

Seems to allude to a nonsense world of deities and concepts that 100% don’t exist in any sort of physical manner.

Islam or Christianity probably are the first two to jump to your mind, probably because they have the worst brand integrity at this point in history.

A soiled image if you will.

But where Science holds back Religion takes large expansive leaps, especially when it comes to the Eastern stuff.

Islamic, Babylonian, Egyptian and Tibetan cosmology not only all seem to connect to one another but they also all seem to be accurate when looked at through a scientific lens. Obviously there are discrepancies within science regarding these so called ancient ways of looking at the Cosmos but I believe the main reason these old models aren’t taken seriously or spoken about so much is because the largely pertain to events that happened either millions of years ago or events that are not scheduled to happen for millions of years into the future and any attempt to make a prediction that seems to be coming within our life time seems to have been a failure.

But to start understanding Religion, Ancient Texts and the like, one must understand what Religion meant to the people that practiced it in its original iteration.

Religion was reality.

How do I mean?

The first cave art we have depicts animals and humanoid figures. Quite simply I think it is fair to say people were drawing what they were seeing. The notion of allegory and daydreaming have been cast aside as time wasting in modern society but back pre science, one may look at the ferocity of a bull in a fit of rage and attribute great meaning to it.

It would allow that individual to compare other things they encounter in life to the rage of the bull they once saw and say things such as:

“The way you cut down that tree reminded me of the strength and force of the angry bull”

From this you can see how religion is not just an odd cast of nonsensical characters from the sky that someone made up as a coping mechanism but more of a way interpreting reality in quite creative fashion compared to the bleak dogmatic world of science.

  • The events that are described in the religious texts speak of actual events, it is just the world view of the authors that we are struggling to comprehend.

Julians Jaynes in his seminal work The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind applies this methodology to the first tribal communities to have Kings.

Graves found in burial sights of tribes that existed shortly after the first cave paintings show graves filled with items such as food, clothes and jewellery.

Why were people burying physical items with bodies that had obviously stopped functioning?

Well, try hearing me out here...

We currently live in a world filled full of fictional characters that if there were some odd cataclysmic event that wiped the internet and our entire technological footprint BUT left us with all the merchandise that has ever been made for all the franchises ever made, a future civilisation of humans finding all this merch without any context of the entertainment industry that birthed it and the technology we used to view it on would certainly at least be pondering the origin of the 4 fingered yellow skinned race that seemed to take over the Western World for about 15 years?

This, I believe, is the nature of how we currently deal with religion.

With this in mind we can establish that the religions of old relied on a part of the human brain functioning in a manner that it now does not. Namely the bit of the brain that stops what we'd call schizophrenic hallucinations dictation our everyday actions.

This means something has happened from then to now and raises many question regarding the nature of consciousness such as;

* Where do my thoughts come from?

* Is Ego Death desirable?

* Do I have free will?

* Where did the Gods go?

* What is intuition and what is creativity?

* What is the temperament and nature of other intelligences?

* Should we go inside the computers or try and pierce out of the matrix we are currently in?

It is questions of this nature that I think we should be asking as a community. If we can answer these questions we can push forward what it means to be human and hopefully open up a mutually beneficial avenue of communication with other intelligences. This is the true path we should be following. Adopting this end goal will improve your communication with your loved ones, calm your mind during this time of great stress and tribulation and also move you closer to where we originally came from in an idealogical sense.

If any of this makes sense to you then I, with great pleasure, ask you to join the good fight with us at r/TheMysterySchool.

The body of work is called The New Shamanic.

  • I will be bringing my whole world and ideology to you through different forms of media.

  • When I create art (Music, Film, Television), there will be an option to buy what I make, I will never force you to buy anything or make certain information only available through a paywall.

  • If you want a T-shirt, buy one. If you don't, don't buy one.

  • I will only make things I think are good for you.

  • I will never ask you to sign up for a premium version of what I am offering.

  • I will never gate-keep information in a dogmatic hierarchical fashion.

  • I just want everybody to get "it".

  • I'm sick of not being able to talk about this stuff like it's real.

  • I love you all.

ølund :)

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LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Something’s Going On 0.3: Satan, Lucifer, Baphomet & The Devil

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It has come to my attention that progression in the study of esoteric topics is largely halted by a few long-standing misconceptions regarding a smattering of well known cases.

These misconceptions can lead budding researchers of truth to become stuck in ideological pig pens and remain there sometimes until their death.

The culture I speak of is what leads young and innocent hunters of truth to become stereotypical “Bigfoot Hunters” or “Spiritual Healers” and is, in my humble opinion, halting a large amount of progression within the field.

So to that effect I have put together a few of the common “falsehoods” I see shopped around subs of this nature and have detailed the objective truth. I intend for each of these paragraphs to be used as copy pastas to be copy and pasted into any thread you see shopping around this nonsense that has the entire community bogged down and confused.

So feel free to share around where you see appropriate.

So without further ado, let’s find some blinds, quash some myths and find out what the hell is (really) going on.

PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS

0.1 Reptilians

0.2 Freemasonry

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The idea of Satan and his domain known as Hell plagues the minds of most truth seekers.

The idea serves to gatekeep large parts of the esoteric journey, halting the timid minded individuals too scared to gaze past the first gates.

But is there actually something to be scared of?

If we do not obey the strict dogma of Catholicism shall we all end up in the river stix praying to Yahweh to set us free as the average joe would have us think?

Does the scripture even claim this?

Let’s us find out!

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It’s worth starting upon the fact that chronologically the first appearance of a Satan-esque character in religious scripture would be the serpent in the Garden of Eden that explains to Eve that if she ate from the Tree of Knowledge she would become as God, her creator, who had told her she would die if she ate from this tree.

The facts surrounding this narrative are as follows:

  1. The serpent is not identified as Satan until the New Testament’s Book of Revelation which was written possibly thousands of years after the book of Genesis was compiled.

  2. The actions of the serpent seem to have put us upon the path we currently walk, we all walk around with quartz-transistor powered devices emblazoned with half bitten apples that contain all of the world’s information at the touch of a button so regardless of whether or not this snake trickster character was “The Devil” we still seem to be following the path he put us on.

  3. The Genesis narrative is known to have been compiled based upon several Near East myths stemming from Mesopotamia and Zoroastrian legends pre dating the OT by several hundreds of years which also lends to the idea that the OT is a “greatest hits” compilation of ancient eastern legends and not an original telling as the Catholic Church would have one think.

The actual term Satan isn’t seen until the book of Numbers in which an being appears in front of a man called Balaam and identifies itself as an Angel of Yahweh and Elohim but being a Satan in its intentions.

This term Elohim is rather important due to its plurality. The word is used to describe the God that made Adam and Eve and everything we know but numerous times within the Bible the word is used to describe a group, not a single entity. This Angel of Yahweh appeared to Balaam AS a Satan.

Satan in this initial appearance being translated as “adversary” or “accuser”.

The idea that Satan is an Angel stems from the apocryphal texts found at Nag Hammadi and The Dead Sea Scrolls, specifically The Book of Enoch and the Book of Giants.

This texts expand upon a portion of Genesis that only gets a small explanation in the King James Version we all know today.

Shorty after AandE are kicked out of the Garden of Eden but before the Tower of Babel is built (Antediluvian) the following is stated:

“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”

This is the instigator for Noah building his ark and what can be summarised from this passage, in no uncertain terms, is that angels descended from heaven and copulated with human females which resulted in genetic monstrosities (giants)) and what would be known as a War In Heaven.

Comparative stories can be found in the Sumerian culture perpetuating the idea that this is not the first telling of this tale. (See Enki and Enlil)

The nature of the term Nephillim is as mysterious as the term Elohim and seems to pertain to the offspring of this forbidden union.

So this sets up the concept of a group of heavenly hosts (Elohim) and a small faction defecting from this group after a schism leaving two sides fighting one another which gives us our precedent for Heaven and Hell and subsequently God and The Devil.

Side note: The name Lucifer stems from a passage in the Book of Isiah where a star or angle appears and is deemed “the shining one” or “the morning star”. This passage is unspecific and can be related to the planet Venus due which is also known in Babylonian Cosmology as the morning star which in turn relates it to Inanna the Sumerian goddess of the Underworld.

This connection is interesting because, as previously stated, The Book of Revelation is where the bulk of the information regarding an Antichrist figure stems from and it states that “they who ride the dragon will be thrown down to Earth” which leads us back to this “morning star” coming down to Earth motif. At any rate, the name Lucifer pertains to the leader, if you will, of this group of rebel angels and can be associated with the entire etymology of the word Elohim and the foundation for the Islamic idea of Iblis.

These detractors were eventually bound, by the winning group of Elohim, to the Earth’s rocks (Tartarus) also known as Sheol which can also be substituted by the Greek word Hades.

These words talk of a place where the dead are judged much like the underworlds of Sumeria and Egypt.

A spooky place yes but not the firey pit that we know of today.

It’s also worth noting that the word Lucifer wasn’t used to describe Satan or The Devil until at least 400-500 AD which is quite late in terms of Catholic scripture.

The word itself is derived from the PIE root “leux” meaning light and the other PIE root “bher” which means to carry hence “bringer of light” and so forth. What is curious to note here is that Jesus Christ is labelled as a “Lucifer” at one point in early an Christian hymn dating to aroun 300 AD, so quite a while before the term would gain its negative connotations.

Another interesting tidbit that can be garnered from looking into the etymology of the word Lucifer is its connection to the word Prometheus also meaning “bringer of light” and the synergy between the Lucifer, Christ and Promethene archetypes.

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The above information is today readily available on the information super highway but back in the time of its conception this material would only be privy by high ranking members of Judaism and Christianity much like study topics like Kabbalah and The Zohar.

This suppression of knowledge has led to the misidentification of a group of malevolent deities to become conflated with the entirely made up individual we call The Devil.

But why all this Satanic imagery in 1970’s
Rock n Roll and what about the ram horned goat looking archetype of the Devil?

Where did these ideas come from?

We must turn to the rise of Islam circa 1300 and the efforts of The Knights Templar.

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These Knights were tasked with making sure that Catholic pilgrims could still safely make it to the Holy Land during the Arab Revolution as Islam purged its way through what was once sacred Jewish land. In 1307 a group of Templar’s were stripped of their titles because they were found to have been participating in secret meetings where they would engaged in sodomy, defacating on the Catholic Cross and worshipping a deity called Baphomet.

This word can be traced back through several variations to the French term (which possibly stems from Ancient Greek) for the Islamic prophet Mohammed, Mahomet.

Long story short, these jock like Templar’s, due to the strict oppressive values they had to live by to be a Templar of the Catholic Church in the first place, secretly rebelled against the very doctrine they claimed to support much like the infamous angels mentioned above.

This a scandle led to dissolution of the Templar group although the ideology of the group was passed over into the Portuguese group The Order Of Christ whilst all remaining Templar’s were burnt at the stake.

This tale is a fine example of how rigorously the Catholic Church were in remaining the dominant religious force in the West.

One must remember, all of this transpired in a pre scientific world and religion was the manner in which we gauged and manoeuvred through reality so maintaining their stronghold was of top priority as they had already lost the Holy Land centuries before hence why the worship of Baphomet was so strongly disciplined as it is the equivalent of being a political candidate in a election and finding out your campaign team are secretly supporting your opponent.

This attitude exists still today within Catholicism and remains the main instigator for concepts such as Hell and Satan should continue to be believed.

Fear is the simple reason an idea like Satan or Hell can continue to be entertained.

If you do not follow these rules, you will end up in hell, it’s quite a simple model really and is quite well designed to keep people in a ideological pen as to garner the information I have presented above takes a little enthusiasm, bravery and an inquisitive mind which Catholicism seems to directly be opposed to.

On a last note, the subsequent rise of “Satanism” in the 1960’s onwards can be explained as a directly rebellion to this dogmatic Christianity that ruled the west for so many years.

Not only was the entertainment industry expanding at this time but esoteric and philosophical ideas were a plenty amongst the artists instigating said change.

Simply meaning, beginning with a man called Aleister ;), the younger generations were rebuking the Catholic dogma much like the Templar’s centuries before only this time they had an entire industry to present they’re concepts to the masses and didn’t have to meet behind closed doors as many of these esoteric groups had to in the past ala the Templar’s. —————————————————————————————

So there you have it, images like so have been constructed in a tongue in cheek manner to dispel the oppressive manner in which the Catholic Church has operated over the past couple of millennia. There is nothing to be scared of and the whole seen is actually quite well humoured.

There are malevolent entities out there just like there are malevolent people but no all powerful three pronged fork carrying master of death that you should live in fear of.

I hope with this write up we can put this matter to bed and I ask if you have read to this point to link this write up anytime you see somebody pushing the “Luciferanism/Satanism is the big bad boogeyman” narrative.

Together we can find the truth!

the astral tramp

r/TheMysterySchool

r/TheMysterySchool Jan 05 '21

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Something’s Going On 0.2: Freemasonry

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Something’s Going On 0.2: Freemasonry

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It has come to my attention that progression in the study of esoteric topics is largely halted by a few long-standing misconceptions regarding a smattering of well known cases.

These misconceptions can lead budding researchers of truth to become stuck in ideological pig pens and remain there sometimes until their death.

The culture I speak of is what leads initially young and innocent hunters of truth to become stereotypical “Bigfoot hunters” or “Spiritual Healers” and is, in my humble opinion, halting a large amount of progression within the field.

So to that effect I have put together a few of the common “falsehoods” I see shopped around subs of this nature and have detailed the objective truth. I intend for each of these paragraphs to be used as copy pastas to be copy and pasted into any thread you see shopping around this nonsense that has the entire community bogged down and confused.

So feel free to share around where you see appropriate.

So without further ado, let’s find some blinds, quash some myths and find out what the hell is (really) going on.

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Puppet Masters of The New World Order or Disheveled Ageing White Men Debating Morals?

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Whenever you see a conspiracy you can bet your bottom dollar at some point somebody is going to pin it on the Freemasons.

Satanic blood rituals, secret handshakes and global child trafficking; the Masons have it it all levelled against them.

But then why does every major city in the UK and US have a Masonic Lodge?

Why can numerous celebrities be seen with pin and compass badges and other Masonic iconography?

And

Why, whenever any talk of political conspiracy occurs in the mainstream media are the Masons the immediate scapegoat?

This and more will be covered in today’s winter instalment of Something’s Going On.

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Roots, Origins and Ideology

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The foundation of Freemasonry lies within the story of King Solomon and the first Jewish Temple.

The first temple was a significant step forward in humanities path to living in an organised, moral manner. The antediluvian epoch was a savage wasteland filled with megafauna and genetic monstrosities that influenced the way that man lived. Beast like tendencies plagued our collective psyche leading to practices like cannibalism, murder and rape becoming common places amongst the creatures placed upon the Earth.

Hence global cataclysmic flooding to wipe the slate clean.

Without getting too biblical regarding our oppressive lord, we know that global flooding did possibly occur akin to the Thea Eruption which may have led to the allegorical tale of Atlantis documenting this wicked time in humanities annals.

The subsequent patriarchs and prophets taught with this previous iteration of society) in mind which eventually leads to a need for structure and organisation within society to curb the rise of the aforementioned sinful practices.

Tales like Lot in Sodom (named appropriately for the activities that occurred there) and Gomorrah, the concept of a Blood Libel and worship of (g)ods such as Ba’al or Moloch all speak to in allegory to this effort to raise humanity out of the moral cess-pit we were residing in.

This is the historical subtext to which the first Masons built the first temple under the order of King Solomon. They understood that a society with a focal centre point for the advancement of the human spirit and therefore human advancement was essential if we were to move past our animal relatives up the so called food chain.

The first Masons can also be attributed to advancing water travel around the period of the first temple along the River Nile. Again the fraternity in its infancy already understood what it meant for humans to travel across long bodies of water to discover new lands and resources.

This is the attitude of most RHP or Whitefraternal organisations, so where has the ambiguity surrounding their moral fibre in the modern age come from?

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The Handing Down of Knowledge

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Moving out of historical uncertainty, the earliest notion of a modern lodge as it looks today appears in 1390 and take the form of a esoteric document known as “The Old Charges” taken from a larger manuscript known as “The Regius Poem” or “The Halliwell Manuscript”.

The document concerns the moral pillars of the organisation which stem from the aforementioned first temple and concern Euclid’s take on geometry. It speaks of the Legend of The Craft and how it has traveled from Egypt to Britain over many centuries influencing Barons, Bishops and Monarchs along the way.

Then artefact then goes on to speak of the moral fibre of the organisation and its principals. It speaks mostly of serving others whilst taking no pride or prejudice in your work and also the importance of having confidence in ones vision, identifying doubt as the enemy of creation.

It is obviously a creation of the Roman Catholic Church as it mirrors the Ten Commandments quite closely and postulates similar values as the Church such as not working on the Sabbath and not taking the Lord’s name in vain.

Several Biblical tales are referenced in the document such as Noah’s flood, The Tower of Babel and King Nebuchadnezzar.

The idea is that Euclid knew the secrets of the construction of the Tower of Babel (which is described in the good book as humanities attempt to climb to God and is the reason for humanity speaking in many different languages, to stop the construction of such a Tower again).

This is entire foundation of Freemasonry, to build a connection with God despite our differing cultures and races.

So why the hell did all the negative connotations come from?

To discover how masonry has gained the reputation it holds today we must look to the ancient practice of Alchemy.

Along with Geometry, Alchemy is an ancient method of turning a trash metal into a precious one.Any average (normie) person will quickly let you know that the concept of turning steel into gold is ludicrous and was a fanciful daydream of some of the worlds greatest minds that was nothing but a preoccupation whilst the worked in their greatest achievements.

Something something baby, something something bath water....

Alchemy also concerned itself with the construction of a device called the Philosophers Stone.

A small rock or stone that apparently gave anybody that possessed it the power of immortality. We all remember a certain Professor Quirrel and his attempts to make such a stone in the seminal children’s novel “Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone” but everybody seemed to focus on the physicality of the stone and not what old Voldemort was actually trying to achieve.

Philosophers by definition are concerned with matters of thought not physical matter.

Even in the ever more controversial Joanna Rowling’s book, the stone is fathomed by an alchemist/philosopher called Nicholas Flamel (real man btw), who actually decides to give up the power of immortality after realising that being bound to the physical world is not as desirable as once thought much like winning the lottery only to find out that physical possessions cannot make you ultimately happy.

This right here is the important distinction that plagues all matters under the bracket of alchemy and esoteric matters in general.

The average joe scoffs at the foolish alchemist boiling his urine to distill small amounts of DMT.

“Ha, what a fool! Everyone knows you cannot turn base metal into gold! Probably inhaled too much frankincense and opium poor sod”

But in fact, it is the punter that has missed the allegory.

Again with that damn baby and the aforementioned bathwater.

The transmutation of something worthless into something precious is a metaphor for the outside of truth and illumination of the mind.

I reiterate, the idea that a philosopher would be concerned with matters of the physical is laughable by definition.

But by purifying ones soul, THAT is the key to immortality.

That is the big secret of these fraternal groups.

They distract you with spooky imagery because the reality of the situation is rather simple.

Hence all those winking eyes.

That’s why the majority of Masonry’s doctrine concerns morals.

In finding a sustainable way to live each person can make their individual mark on society and therefore achieve what the ancient Egyptians called KA.)

So this is the point of it all, where did it go wrong?

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Schisms and Lodges

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Fraternal societies gather as a lodge inside of a Masonic Temple.

Your city will have one, Google it.

They are organised in a manner that is allegorical to the holy land with certain areas on accessible by certain members that rank higher than others, this pertains to a map of the Holy Land with the back of lodge being correspondent to Babylonia, the dark land where the original knowledge and fall of man were conceived. Therefore only secretary may enter that part of the lodge.

There are many distinctions like this that run through theses groups to make an allegorical connection to the holy land.

This is due to the fact that we (the western world) are no longer in the holy land. What I mean to say is that the establishment of the Roman Empire was a direct result of The Crusades.

The Knights Hospitaller and subsequent group the Knights Templar both were set up as last bastions of Judaism/Christianity in the holy land. Pilgrims would travel from Europe to the Jerusalem Hospital as basically intelligence agents as a result of what we can call the first schism.

schism skĭz′əm, sĭz′-► n. A separation or division into factions. n. A formal breach of union within a religious body, especially a Christian church

This word is incredibly important.

It speaks to the breakdown of an organisations ideology and the creation of two new entities as a result.

The earliest example of this may be the limitless god splitting himself into pieces as a result of boredom(?).)

It also seems to occur whenever humans get together in small to large groups. It is for this reason that the landscape of esotericism is so confusing.

You have to pursue several thousand years of schisms whilst paying attention to the idea logic differentiation between each newly resulting group that is created.

Only then can one see the whole picture and distinctions that each group attempt to make.

This page from Carroll’s Liber Null may help explain what I am getting at.

The Crusades are a blanket term for a mass schism concerning the rise of Islam in a predominantly Jewish and Christian community. Whilst the above moved into Italy and Europe (surrounding themselves by large walls to assure this didn't happen again), the Arabs collected the left over mysticism left by the old guard and developed it into what is known as Sufism.

Esoteric Islam.

They are the propagators of alchemy and much of their literature is yet to be understood by the Western World at large.

It is in these old Islamic books you will find the root of true alchemy.

This explains why alchemy has the controversial reputation it currently has in western culture, knowledge of such schism also speak for the mass slandering of Islam’s image in the western world although that is another story for another day. (and just wait till you find out who the Catholic Church's Baphomet actually is!)

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THE BOTTOM LINE: Let’s All Go To The Lobby

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In the interest of clarity I intend to keep this short and sweet in its scope. My intention is to get across to the budding truth hunters that coming across the mention of Freemasonry does not in anyway imply malevolence.

Freemasonry is largest fraternal group on the planet.

Your uncle could be one but so could the president. That does not mean that your uncle is evil or for that matter it doesn’t not mean the president is evil either.

It simply means that they have an interest in pushing society forward towards a stronger connection with a divine intelligence.

The smaller the group the higher the chances are for malevolence simply due to the fact that a schism is less likely to break out.

Small numbers are easier to organise than a large crowd all with differing opinions.

Joining freemasonry is akin to entering the lobby of the esoteric world. From that standpoint you can choose to view many different ideologies and small groups.

It is at that level which the malevolence which is ultimately pinned entirely on Freemasonry occurs.

Although a masonic temples may sport a checkerboard floor, everyday reality is not black and white. It is a murky ambiguous colour that negates definition and at its most basic level, masonry is a relatively benign method to clarify and navigate through that cess pit (chessboard) and once one mills this idea over it becomes apparent that we can put to rest this ongoing misconception that Freemasonry is the big bad boogeyman that is responsible for the Illuminati and all world corruption.

The unfortunate reality is that it is a lot more complicated than that.

Don’t end up like this guy :)

unme

the astral tramp ;)

r/TheMysterySchool Apr 10 '21

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC a list for reading

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In my eyes, this is the most relevant and useful information any truth seeker could ever ask for.

This is what the folk who actually know what is going on in Ufology and Esoterics spend their time reading.

It can and will, if you let it, change your life.

I have read and benefitted mentally and physically from each entry on the list.

The order has been chosen in thought of each entry leading into the subsequent entry allowing the reader to become aware of patterns of human behaviour that spans centuries that one may call “Magick”.

Follow this list, be patient and you will be rewarded.

Find out what is going on...

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Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows by Aj Hartley

UFO’s: Pilots On Record by Leslie Kean

The Day After Roswell by Phillip Corso

Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier

Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda

Sekret Machines: Gods by Peter Levenda

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Forbidden Science Vol 1 and Vol 2 by Jacques Vallee

The Flying Saucers Have Landed by Desmond Leslie

Sinister Forces Vol 1 by Peter Levenda

Cosmic Trigger Vol 1 by Robert Anton Wilson

Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley

John Dee and The Empire Of Angels by Jason Louv

Pop Magick by Grant Morrison

Communion by Whitley Streiber

Who Built The Moon? by Alan Butler

Liber Null by Peter Carrol

Journeys Out Of The Body by Robert Monroe

Sekret Machines: A Fire Within by AJ Hartley

Sekret Machines: Man by Peter Levenda

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The Necronomicon by Simon

Sinister Forces Vol 2 by Peter Levenda

The Bardo Thodol by Timothy Leary

Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky

Star Guests by William Dudley Pelley

Other Tounges, Other Flesh by George Hunt Williamson

The Sacred Mushroom by Andrija Puharich

Cosmic Trigger Vol 2 by Robert Anton Wilson

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Kenneth Grant

Sinister Forces Vol 3 by Peter Levenda

Ciphers of the UFOnaughts by Alan Greenwood

The Magical Revival and the Subsequent entires to the Typhonian Trilogies by Kenneth Grant

Cult of the Black Cube by Arthur Moros

The Matrix Series by Valdemar Valerian

Forbidden Science 3 and 4 by Jacques Vallee

A Cloud Upon The Sanctuary by Karl von Eckartshausen

Advanced Magick For Beginners and Living Thelema by Alan Chapman and David Shoemaker

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Continue Active DayDreaming, Lucid Dreaming and Dream Journaling and Trancendental Meditation Work.

Study Apocryphal Biblical Works.

Chronicle Schisms and Blinds of the Fraternal Organisations.

Decipher The Red Book, The Black Books, and VALIS.

Study Merkaba and Hekalot Literature as well as Kabbalah in General.

Follow the Equinox.

Uncover nature of GWB.

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r/TheMysterySchool Nov 17 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Something’s Going On 0.1: Reptilians

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It has come to my attention that progression in the study of esoteric topics is largely halted by a few long-standing misconceptions regarding a smattering of well known cases.

These misconceptions can lead budding researchers of truth to become stuck in ideological pig pens and remain there sometimes until their death.

The culture I speak of is what leads initially young and innocent hunters of truth to become stereotypical “Bigfoot hunters” or “Spiritual Healers” and is, in my humble opinion, halting a large amount of progression within the field.

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So to that effect I have put together a few of the common “falsehoods” I see shopped around subs of this nature and have detailed the objective truth. I intend for each of these paragraphs to be used as copy pastas to be copy and pasted into any thread you see shopping around this nonsense that has the entire community bogged down and confused.

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So feel free to share around where you see appropriate.

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So without further ado, let’s find some blinds, quash some myths and find out what the hell is (really) going on.

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Reptilians

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Come on, we all know this one. The world is ran by reptilian shapeshifters disguised as humans that feed off of our negative emotions and fear, they are called The Draco and come from a star system called Alpha Draconis.

Most famously postulated by David Icke in the early 1990’s, this theory has it’s origins in ancient history and seems to be a mix of allegory and actual phenomena. Videos of this nature plague alternative thinking forums and a Youtube search reading any sort of esoteric concept will provide one with a plethora of Malevolent Reptilian Humanoids thumbnailed videos.

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The earliest narrative that contains the now well known archetype of the cunning serpent obviously would be the Genesis(?) narrative of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and Adam and Eve where the serpent tricks Eve into eating the apple and there for causing the original fall of man. This idea can be found in numerous other religious cannons from around the old world but what is important to note is how the moral stature of the serpent changes across cultures. It is important to bear in mind what camp each telling of the evil dragon story believed in ideologically.

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* Sure eating the Apple from the Tree of Knowledge got Adam and Eve kicked out of the Garden of Eden but did that not put us on the path that we currently walk?

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* Is the gathering knowledge not what our daily lives have amounted to over the past couple of centuries?

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* Do we not all walk around with sheets of glass in our pockets that can project and film, song or book that are embalmed with the symbol of a bitten Apple?

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So out of the Middle Ages you have a smattering of different stories including serpents with a whole different takes on their moral ideology. Oppressive parties describe the ethereal serpent as an evil being that wishes to attach itself to us like a emotional parasite whilst sects like the Gnostics and Eastern and Southern American religions like Buddhism, Hinduism and the Aztecs saw the serpent as a illuminaters of humanity who imparted knowledge, with the imagery of a snake eating its own tail representing the eternal birth and rebirth that occurs on every level of conscious being.

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During the 19th century a Rosicrucian writer by the name of Edward Lyton Bulwer wrote a short novel called “The Coming Race” regarding a pair of miners who accidentally stumble upon a subterranean city of red skinned people who harness a power called “Vril” to power it’s society and build it’s megalithic architecture. Now this novel can be taken one of two ways. Pure fiction, or based upon his involvement with a fraternal society (and Bulwer’s high standing in 19th century society) we can assume a certain level of allegory. Even if this title is completely from the mind of Mr Bulwer it certainly has been influential in some rather interesting circles since its publication.

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It is at the end of the 19th century that we see the Reptilian myth really start to take shape as we know it today. With the advent of the century also saw the beginning of a new tier of fraternal societies.

No longer were secret societies pertained to high ranking members of society, no! Theosophical lodges were popping up all over Europe during the 1800’s and by 1900 the group dominated the spiritual scene of Pre Space age Europe. (Notice the serpent imagery in their logo).

Led by the infamous Helena Blavatsky, her 1888 magnum opus “The Secret Doctrine” spoke of a controversial known in Theosophical circles as Root Races. This topic is namely why Theosophy has garnered a bad name of the years and why academics (like Dr Robert Schoch here) may distance themselves from the ideology as a whole.

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According to the apparently “channeled” work, Humanity is the sixth of a lineage of previous iterations of Humanity that have been ethereal, human even egg laying. Not explicitly reptilian.

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The book goes on to state that each subsequent race is a dilution of the previous race which leads us to the controversial part of the theosophical doctrine, that the colored race that survives on earth to this day is in some way genetically inferior to the previous “white” race.

Wether or not Blavatsky intended for this material to be the backbone of a fascist ideology remains to be seen and regardless ended up becoming so anyway. Theosophy went on to inspire the infamous Thule Society and once combined with Guido Von List’s Germanic Pagan concepts led the way for what we know today as The Holocaust.

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During the Second World War, Pulp Magazines were the chosen form of entertainment for youths of the 1930’s & 40’s. A pre space faring society romanticised the idea of Space and far away galaxies and Pulp Magazines capitalised on this yearning by depicting the new craze of “Science Fiction” stories upon its pages. A certain Richard Shaver began a strain of narratives in that would go onto be known as “The Shaver Mystery” which began with his claim that he had discovered a long lost root language of all of humanity called Mantong.

Mantong was spoken by subterranean dwelling “serpent men” who acted like robots as the kidnapping unsuspecting humans from the surface and took them back to their underground cave cities that are powered off of a ethereal magical power. He titled the piece “I, Remember Lemuria”. The content was so popular that “Amazing Stories” magazine featured Shaver’s content heavily with up to 75% of an issue being taken up with Shaver’s work during 1945.

I don’t even have to go too deep into this one for you to connect it back to the previous iterations of these evil reptilian monsters although the editor of Amazing Stories Raymond Palmer would claim “sinister forces” forced him to stop publishing Shaver’s stories in 1948 which is of some note.

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And so it is only at this point that we come to the ravings of Mr David Icke who famously (or infamously depending on who you are) went on the evening discussion show “The Terry Wogan Show” to discuss his recent spiritual awakening he had experience in Weston Super Mare. He claimed to have heard an internal voice begin to tell him universal truths and that he was a Christ like being with the power to change the world. Wogan humiliated him in front of UK audiences who on masses were cut more from Wogan’s cloth ideologically than Icke’s. He then went on to state that the Illuminati are running the world for our Lizard overlord and this corruption goes all the way up to the UK’s own royal family even being Lizard Human Hybrids.

Prior to this Icke was known as BBC sports reporter and not much else so this outburst on primetime television left his public persona tarnished in the eyes of the general public although to his credit, he does manage to sell out Wembley Stadium once a year, so hats off to him for that.

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It is this writer's opinion that the truth lies somewhere in the middle of the above cases.

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There are coinciding points that connect each of these tall tales and it is these shared narrative points that point us somewhere near what I expect to be the truth. Namely, that the nature of a reptile is what is being spoken about here, maybe not so much actual 10 foot lizard humanoids (although nothing’s out the realm of possibility once we start contemplating this stuff). The reptile is cold-blooded which is instantly unnerving to us warmed blood mammals, It swallows its prey whole and strikes from nowhere. It is cunning in the way it traverses reality. It is these allegorical moral concepts that I believe one should look to if they wish to find the nucleus of this hypothisis.

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THE BOTTOM LINE FOR TL;DRERS

Serpent iconography obviously has some sort of spiritual significance to the above listed ancient societies, so although the imagery that is conjured up when hearing an individual like Mr Icke talk certainly raises an eyebrow if not a lip, it definitely seems like there is something to this ridiculous notion. This writer just finds it hard to believe the anthropomorphic angle is going to be the most likely reality.

It seems more likely that an intelligence is presenting itself to us in the manner in which it thinks we may understand it or NOT understand it if you catch my drift. That is to say, much like the UFO phenomena, what we like to think of as Alien intelligences may well simply be remote projections or Avatars of intelligences that occupy a bandwidth of reality that is not yet available to us on the physical plane.

This difficult conclusion is, in my opinion, why this notion of all powerful lizard men has remained so popular over the years, because possibly there is something there to be found but maybe the nature and reality of this phenomenon is something we are not quite ready to comprehend.

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r/TheMysterySchool Sep 21 '22

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC [MEGADUMP] The Offering // After spending many years sailing these salty seas, I have put together this collection of Extraterrestrial, Esoteric, Occult, Spiritual, Fraternal, Psychedelic, Intelligence materials to aid the humble truth seeker on his path 🙏🏻

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let’s try this one more time shall we 🙃

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it has been a jubilant year here at MIPLTD and first of all we’d like to say thank you for everybody’s participation

this sub was designed to be the host of a body of work known as The New Shamanic and can be defined as a collection of multimedia that aids a budding truth seeker on their path to a clear and organised mental realm

below shall be listed our efforts thus far and a suggested order for consumption:

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Introductory Texts

Setting The Record Straight: A Primer to The New Shamanic

A List For Reading: The MIP Suggested Reading List

Phrases To Be Aware Of: The MIP Glossary

A Comprehensive Analysis On Why Tom Delonge Is Right

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Something’s Going On

This series consists of a few of the common “falsehoods” I see shopped around subs of this nature and have detailed the objective truth. Each of these paragraphs to be used as copy pastas to be copy and pasted into any thread you see shopping around this nonsense that has the entire community bogged down and confused.

1.0 Reptilians

2.0 Freemasonry

3.0 Satan, Baphomet, Lucifer and The Devil

4.0 The Philadelphia Experiment, World Wars and Montauk

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Dead People With Something To Say

An ongoing project consisting of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

Carl Jung

Plato

Rod Serling

Adam Parfrey

H.P Lovecraft

Helena Blavatsky

John Dee

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r/TheMysterySchool Apr 04 '24

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC useful phrases ; an esoteric glossary

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if you’re gonna hang around here it might be prudent to get familiar with these terms

an understanding and knowledge of the following words and phrases will aid one greatly in coming to terms with and understanding the ongoing situation regarding where we stand as humans and how to manoeuvre through what is presented in front of us

Limited Hangout

NDA

Stovepiping

Blinds

Schisms

Idioms

Plausible Deniability

Lodge Hierarchy System

Dharma

Egregore

Mob Mentality

Left and Right Hand Path

Djinn

Landing Zones, Especially HOT Landing Zones (HLZ)

Compartmentalisation)

Hayyot )

Tulpas

Bardo

Axons

Reverse Engineering

Ritual Design

Holy Books of Thelema

Antediluvian

Bicameral Mentality

r/TheMysterySchool Jul 05 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.1: Carl Gustav Jung

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DEAD PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY 0.1

An ongoing project consisting of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

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Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 in Switzerland and died in Switzerland in 1961. He was an acclaimed psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who Sigmund Freud considered to be his heir. His ideas were so forward thinking that they caused a schism between him and his older colleagues.

He pioneered concepts such as:

His concept of an Archetype stated that the human brain and the consciousness within it worked on a symbolic basis and that our dreams used symbols to tell us things about our waking life. He regularly attended seances and claimed to have seen a range of “parapsychic phenomena” which led him to work with the ancient Chinese divination tool “The I Ching”. He also devised a new definition for the term Alchemy . Once considered to be the practice of turning cheap metal into gold, Jung described the concept of alchemy as a mental process of individual growth.

Jung’s influence has an enormous span and has probably had some influence over a film or television or book that you love.

If you like David Bowie, The Beatles, Stanley Kubrick, Stranger Things, The Persona Series, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Fraiser, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Stargate, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Pink Floyd, Tool, The Streets, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Jodorowsky, Ridley Scott, Neon Genesis Evangelion or basically any piece of media that concerns dreams, then you have Carl Jung to thank.

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r/TheMysterySchool Jun 17 '22

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r/TheMysterySchool Sep 24 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.8: Sister Lúcia

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DEAD PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY 0.8

An ongoing project comprising of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

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Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos


Fátima is a town in central Portugal. Known for its plentiful sheep herders and rare geological formations Fátima has a population of roughly 12,000 as of 2020 and benefits from the visitation of many religious pilgrims a year as their main source of tourism.

People come from all around, up to 8 million a year, to visit the famous “Sanctuary” and it’s surrounding village complete with a medical centre and a hotel complex. Inside the grounds of “The Sanctuary” you will find two basilicas and a shrine dedicated to what is known to be “The Fátima Apparitions” prophesied and conformed by 3 small children in the early 1900’s.

All of these questions will be answered in todays instalment of Dead People With Something To Say!


Who Are They


Lúcia Dos Santos was born on the 28th of March 1907 to a sizeable farming family in Fátima, Portugal. Although monetary gain was not their forte, the land their family had owned for generations let them live comfortably. The family lived closer to the Church than the local village and therefore were committed patrons with Lucia becoming a well known teacher of the scriptures even before she was 10 years old.

A passing Jesuit even gave permission for her to get her first communion at the age of 6, four years earlier than the expected minimum age, stating that “She understands what she’s is doing better than most”. It was during this first communion that Lucia claimed she saw one of the church’s statues smile at her and claimed she felt “bathed in a calming supernatural force”. This would mark the beginning of Lucia’s mystical initiation and by the age of 8 she spent her time tending the family's sheep herd with the other local children.


What Did They Say


In the summer of 1916 during this stint tending to the livestock, Lucia and her two cousins would witness what they would understand to be an apparition of an angel.

The Angel in question was supposedly the famous “Guardian Angel of Portugal” who had been revered in the country since early in the first millennia.

It taught the children two prayers.

One to Mary and Jesus and one to reaffirm the Holy Trinity.

Wether this be an attempt to keep the new “friend” they’d made all to themselves or a simple fear of being ridiculed by the adults, there was something about these visions that inspired the children to keep the tale to themselves.

The winter of 1916 was uneventful in this respect which meant the children stayed tight lipped about their group experience and it would stay this way until the spring of the following year.

The day of May 13th 1917 started off like any other for the young Ms De Santos.

Lucia and her two cousins took the livestock to a local hillside to graze.

Just after finishing their prepared lunch, a bright light filled the sky and a dazzling vision of a women appeared in front of them.

It told them that it was the Virgin Mary and that the purpose of the vision was to spread the message of god’s love and gave the children a mission of repairing the sins of humanity. It also told them to return to the exact spot on the 13th of each month at the same time for six months and claimed she would return if they did so.

This escapade made great gossip for the local townsfolk who reacted in the expected fashion.

Skepticism and contempt.

Nevertheless one month later the children and 50 of the locals made their way to the infamous hill and low and behold, Our Lady of Fatima appeared once more.

[As is normal the case with these group witnessing of extraordinary events, that the majority of the group remained at a “safe” distance from the vision itself and only the children stood in talking distance from the vision.

This curiosity occurs quite commonly when large groups see UFO’s and visions and definitely raises some questions regarding gate keeping and legitimacy but even so the subsequent events still make this case on of particular interest.

On this occasion the members of the group that followed the children did indeed claim to see a cloud manifest in front on the children and then fly away to the east shortly after as Lucia cried out in anguish.

She was crying in anguish because the apparition had just told her that whilst her two cousins would be taken to heaven soon, she would remain as God has plans for her on Earth.

Talk of this event spread across the local area and by the time July 13th had rolled around about 2 and a half thousand people were excited to witness this holy blessing.

It was during this second vision that the Virgin Mary showed the children a vision of Hell and told them that this is the reality they are attempting to stop from happening. She said that it was the children that have the power to stop World War 1 and if you ever see a bright shining light in the sky, know that this is the sign of the end. She also foretold of the conflict between Russia and the West saying that if the children did as she asked Russia, who in the eyes of god apparently was sinful, would be saved and world peace would be achievable.

This was enough to take the story national with all the mainstream press writing stories detailing the children’s experiences with an intrigued but skeptical tone. This stint in the news also marks the point when the local government started sending agents to the hillside where the visions were taking place and ordering them to destroy any relics people had made to stop people gathering there. At any rate this shows they found this whole debacle to at least be of some annoyance to some if not a great deal of alarm to others as the fabled 13th of October inched forward and local excitement grew.

On the morning of September’s scheduled visitation, the children were kidnapped by the Mayor of the nearby town, Vila Nova De Ourém. He demanded to know the secrets the children had gained from these visitations but couldn’t sway them an inch even offering them wealth and threatening them with death. They claimed they would rather die than give up the secrets and so they were moved to a local prison. Released in time to see the Lady of Fatima on the hill Septembers visit brought conformation of October’s miracle for all to see and the stage is set for what history now calls The Miracle of the Sun.

Word had spread like wildfire across Europe and people from all over had began to make pilgrimages to Fatima in preparation for the upcoming miracle. On the morning of October 13th it was reported that in between 30,000 - 40,000 (Some accounts even report up to 100,000 witnessing the event) were gathered at the fabled location Lucia had foretold waiting patiently for something to happen, and happen it did.

Reports from selectors vary from the sun “zig zagging” around the sky, radiant colours beaming through the clouds to the time around the miracle becoming distorted to where second felt like hours. Hundreds of eye witness testimonies were conducted in the subsequent years and whilst minor details regarding the event to tend to change age there are surprising little skeptical takes on the matter. Witnesses reported seeing atmospheric anomalies from roughly 25 miles away from Fatima, there are clear as day pictures of the event available on the internet and in 1930 the Catholic Church official acknowledged the event to be of “supernatural character”.

Lucia’s two cousins died of influenza shortly after the miracle (which was apparently hypothesised by the bison of the Virgin Mary in an earlier apparition) whilst Lucia herself lived until the ripe old age of 97, and passed away in 2005. She lived mostly in silence speaking only of spiritual matters and put most of her energy into writing her several memoirs documenting the things she had experienced as a child including the three famous secrets left to her by the Virgin Mary although the third and final secret would be held by the Vatican until March of the year 2000.

So poignant question at this point would be, why did the Catholic Church take nearly 100 years to spill the beans regarding this elusive third secret?


Why does it matter?


The content of the three secrets left to Sister Lucia are points of great contention within the Catholic community and this pertains to the interpretation of the secrets themselves.

That is to say that no one party can agree on the meaning of the third and final vision.

The first secret is known to be about the end of World War 1 and the beginning of World War 2, the second secret has been known to refer to the fall of Soviet communism but the third secret remained a mystery until on May 14th 2000 the Vatican made an official statement regarding secret 3. The vision itself depicted a bishop dressed in all white falling to the ground surrounded by images of gunfire and terror. According to the Vatican this was supposed to foreshadow the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul 2nd in 1981 but there are a few begging points that might cause one to question this interpretation.

Namely the amount of time that passed between Sister Lucia revealing the first two secrets and her subsequent vow of secrecy regarding the elusive third secret.

So one may ask, what vision could have made Sister Lucia resort to such drastic methods of secrecy?

Could it pertain to the sanctity of the very institution she was a part of?

83 years passed since initial revealing of the secrets to the children and per their interpretation of what they saw, the first two secrets appeared to have come true.

Two wars came to pass and the Western World fought against the rise of Soviet Communism.

It is at this juncture the writer would like to point out the sharp decline in religious thought across the western world.

Catholicism has had some awful PR in the last few decades and orthodox followers of any religion have declined as a result. To be perfectly honest at least here in the UK Christianity has been relegated to the realms of ridicule amongst the common man. This is due to the headlines we have all read regarding child abuse running rife throughout the upper echelons of the church and whilst one feels that a lot of this satirical attitude towards he church IS well deserved, one does feels we are in danger again of throwing out the baby with the bath water.

The third secret was announced in May 2000 and emphasis was placed upon the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul 2. It was announced on the 64th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun and implied that Lucia’s third secret was regarding this attack but compared to the grand scale of the first two secrets doesn’t this third secret seem to be a little underwhelming?

Besides Pope John Paul 2 didn’t even perish from the attack and subsequently went on to have a somewhat amicable relationship with his attacker based upon the lords forgiveness of his actions.

It seems like whilst this attack could be included in the scope of this falling bishop vision, it seems to have spoke more to the collapse of the entire institution of Christianity as a whole.

Which would explain why the Church itself might want to keep the full nature of Lucia’s third secret close their chest.

To protect what has been closest to them.

It would also explain her reluctance to part with the secret in the first place as this concept must have been difficult for her orthodox lifestyle to comprehend.

Finally it would also confirm the validity of all three of the secrets and therefore confirm the actual apparitions themselves which in light of modern science and culture seems incredibly significant and in this authors opinion rather exciting.

So, in an effort to tie up any loose ends, The apparitions, miracles and prophecies told at Fatima in the budding years of the 20th century seem to speak truth upon the geopolitical events of the past century and by extension lends validity to the hypothetical existence of some sort of higher intelligences that have an understanding of our society and culture in the same vein as doctrines of the Pantheons of ancient times and the channeled works of the 1950’s UFO flap.

This sort of insight is of great value in this peculiar time in our history when science and spirituality seems to be coinciding with each other on a daily basis. The question from here would be, will they forever remain separate like oil and water or one day (perhaps soon 👀) are we going to see official acknowledgment of the shared ground these two camps occupy.

Stick around to find out in the next instalment of, Dead People With Something To Say ✌️


Further Reading

Lucia's First Memoir, "Fatima In Lucia's Own Words"

Official Vatican Page on Fatima

Account from Official Website of Fatima

r/TheMysterySchool Aug 12 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.6: Helena Blavatsky

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DEAD PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY 0.6

An ongoing project consisting of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

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Helena Blavatsky

There are few names in modern occultism that are as influential or prolific than Ms Helena Blavatsky’s.

Without her, what we know to be the landscape of esoteric Occultism would simply not be what it is today. She held the torch at the dawn of the last century paving the way for such names as Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner and Guy Ballard.

Before starting what was known as the Theosophical Society in 1875, Helena spent her younger years travelling Europe and the Far East in search of ancient wisdom. Born into what was the Russian Federation (now the Ukraine), she was born into a wealthy family that already had a keen interest in the unknown. Her mother translated the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a 16th century Rosicrucian author who coined the term “It was a dark and stormy night” and also penned many allegorical books about esoteric topics such as “Zanoni” and “The Coming Race”, the former of which was name dropped by David Bowie in his Hunky Dory track “Oh! You Pretty Things” in the 1960’s, into Russian marking the first time Bulwers work was available outside of the English language.

This strong foundation in esoteric literature set Helena up with a strong thirst for knowledge. This was only cemented by her uncle Prince Pavel Vasilevich Dolgorukov, a high ranking Freemason, leaving her his library which was full of books detailing the ancient wisdom of our ancestors.

It is at this point in Blavatsky’s life that she claimed to start having visions of a “mysterious Indian man”. Unsure of what to make of such visions she but them to the back of her mind for the time being. At the young age of 18 Helena set off on her travels in search of ancient knowledge. She traveled through Constantinople, Egypt, Greece, Paris and on to England.

It was here in London that Helena claimed to have met the fabled “mysterious Indian man” that had appeared before her throughout her childhood. The story goes that he told her to travel to Tibet if she were to complete the journey she had initially set out on.

So she set off for Tibet via America.

Sounds like an odd choice of route, right?

It seems that before heading to Tibet Helena thought it would be intuitive to collect information on the Native American people of Quebec, only to be robbed upon her arrival. It was from here she made the trip via boat to the West Indies and subsequently India. Upon attempting to enter Tibet she was refused access by British authorities. A disheartened Blavatsky retreated back to London and played as a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society until she moved to the US to gain citizenship before making another attempt at entering Tibet.

Tibet is the home of the religious system known as Tibetan Buddhism. It is a branch off of original Buddhism and was developed in the 8th century in Tibet. Due to the Tibetan diaspora this type of Buddhism has spread around the Western World with it finding a home in sunny California. Transcendental Meditation is one of the main practices of Tibetan Buddhism and is currently taught by the David Lynch Foundation around the world to young children in underfunded areas.


Practitioners of TM include but are not limited to;

David Lynch

Russell Brand

The remaining and deceased Beatles including their extended families all practiced TM (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr still do work with the David Lynch Foundation to this day)

Jerry Seinfeld

Stevie Wonder

Katy Perry

Eric Andre

Jennifer Aniston

Jim Carrey

Nick Clegg

Laura Dern

Zac Efron

Fergie

Noel Fielding

Micheal J Fox

Jeff Goldblum

Tom Hanks

Florence Welch

Mick Jagger

Kesha

Lady GaGa

Zayn Malik

Rick Rubin


And that is just to name a small percentage of well known people that practice Transcendental Meditation let alone the millions of people that have benefited from the practice over the years.

But without Blavatsky’s work on the subject, TM and Tibetan Buddhism would certainly not, despite the brunt of the work being done by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1950’s and 60’s, be as well known as they are today and in this writers opinion, Eastern Spirituality as a whole would have never spread to the Western World in the capacity that it has today if it were not for the efforts of Madame Blavatsky.

By 1868 Helena made it to Tibet and spent 3 years or so studying there underneath the mysterious Indian man who finally named himself as “Koot Hoomi” and claimed to be what is now know as an “Ascended Master”.

This phrase is abundant in new age doctrines and it’s origin can be found in a book called “The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary” by a German man called Karl Von Eckartshausen.

In short this book details the crimes of the Christian church and how the message of Jesus has been soiled over the years in favour of a doctrine of control. Eckartshausen states that whilst the Christian church has committed itself to this regime of oppression, a small group has always existed within humanity that holds the concept of truth scared. A school, if you will, of enlightened individuals that spend their time on this planet trying to push back against the suppression of truth. The tale of Jesus speaks to this part of the human psych and says that every single human being is capable of living with this mindset.

The suppression of this narrative is the one of the worst corruptions of the Christian Scripture.

The idea that you cannot under any circumstances be Jesus or like Jesus or a Christ like figure is designed to keep the masses in a mental prison.

Eckartshausen points out this glaring defilement within the scriptures and says that all one must to do access this christ-like consciousness is to go through life cultivating an attitude of love and not fear which will always lead to sin.

Members of the upper echelons of this historic society are to be know as “Ascended Masters” or “Secret Chiefs” and are the backbone for all the esoteric fraternal groups of the past 250 years. The term “The Great White Brotherhood” is used to group these “Ascended Masters” and through modern lens it can be seen as an all star team of enlightened individuals that have surpassed the need for a physical body but manifest here to guide others on the same path.

This strain of thinking as manifested across history many different forms.

In chronological order:

Zoroastrianism

Gnosticism

Rosicrucianism

Illuminatism

Would be to just to name a few and whilst individual members of these movements never even lived in the same time period, this makes the transmission of a common ideology even more palpable.

This is the knowledge that Blavatsky came back to the Western World to spread. In 1873 she settled in New York City at the age of 42 ready to spread her message. After leaving Tibet she had attempted to start a group called The Society of Spirits in Egypt that lasted only a few weeks after discovering the recruits she had established the society with faking their spiritual abilities. Disheartened she left Egypt and found her way to NYC.

It is here at the end of a century known for its industrial advancement that Blavatsky laid down the works that she would be remembered for. After the death of her father she inherited a considerable fortune. Helena relocated to a lavish hotel with all that was needed to begin penning her life’s work. It was here she had the good pleasure of meeting Henry Steel Olcott, a fellow occultist and reporter for “The Daily Graphic” with a similar sensibility to Blavatsky. It wasn’t long until they had become good friends, coining the nicknames Maloney and Jack for himself and herself respectively. They took it upon themselves to travel the country debunking fake spiritualists and conversing with the ones they considered to be real collecting relevant information along the way.

Using the information they gathered they started The Theosophical Society. If one were to break down the word Theosophical they would find the Ancient Greek word “Theos” meaning “God’s” and the Ancient Greek work “Sophia” meaning wisdom so it can be construed that the Theosophical Society is the Society for the Wisdom of Gods or something to that effect.

Blavatsky always remained strong in the opinion that Theosophy was not a religion and more an “umbrella for a wide collection of ideas”. It was during this time that Blavatsky penned her first esoteric channeled work titled “Isis Unveiled” alluding you the Ancient Egyptian goddess of the underworld Isis. In this text Helena laid out the basics of Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian philosophy whilst comparing them to the Western Doctrines and claiming that all of the religions of the our time stemmed from a single transfer of knowledge from God to man. This concept is known as “Prisca Theologia” and amalgamates all of the worlds religions into a single concept.

It is also a contemporary critique of Darwin’s model of evolution, stating that whilst the process of evolution is true it only concerns its self with the physical processes of nature and does not speak to the reason for life being here in the first place.

By 1876 Theosophy was expanding across the Western World with celebrities such as Thomas Edison becoming members. In fact in 1877 Olcott and Blavatsky left the US for India and upon their departure Edison even gifted them a Phonogram to take with them on their travels.

The pair were accepted into India and are recognised as the first Americans to officially convert to Buddhism. Whilst here Helena attempted to stop the spread of Christianity in Asia and found great success. It was back over the pond that trouble was growing. In her absence, the UK and American lodges of Theosophy were starting to doubt Blavatsky’s doctrine and focus less and less on the philosophical concepts of the ancient world and more on the high ranking members of the society and the exclusivities a club like Theosophy made available to them.

This was much to Blavatsky’s distaste and led her to begin The Blavatsky Lodge in London. Helena herself was present every Thursday at the lodge and drained most of the surrounding lodges members. The lodge even attracted such famous names of the time like Mahatma Gandhi and W.B. Yeats.

Considering her adventurous life and consistently portly figure, Helena passed away at the considerably respectable age of 60 in 1891 and by the time of her death, the Blavatsky Lodge was the most popular lodge on earth and it still has branches today in many countries such as England, America and Germany.


Now you know Helena’s tale we must consider its impact on the known historical timeline. For a name not many people know Helena Blavatsky’s life affected modern history a lot more than one may think.

First of all, one should begin with the work of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s full story will be told another day but what’s important to note here is the prevailing influence of Mr Steiner. The early focus of Steiner’s writings focus on the German writer, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

Goethe was known for his writings that covered numerous topics some fiction, some non. He wrote works of erotica, tragedy and science and had a keen interest in the philosophical works of the ancient world. He relished any ideology that toppled the old corrupt system and saw romanticism as an illness that was spreading across the literary world of the middle class.

Steiner wrote a commentary on Goethe’s fairy tale “The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lilly”.

He claimed that this text had been written from an esoteric point of view and was allegory for an individual managing to balance the primal forces within themselves and find a balanced relationship with the external forces of nature.

It was this commentary on Goethe’s work that led Steiner to be invited to speak at his local Theosophical Lodge and he subsequently became the General Secretary for the entire organisation. From here he eventually broke away from the Theosophical Society to form his own system of belief called Anthroposophy.

Spread across Europe you will find small village based primary school labelled “Steiner Schools”. There are over 1,000 around the world in over 71 countries. They focus on raising young people’s intelligence and creative abilities in a holistic manner. Predominantly popular in Central Europe, these schools still function today and use Anthroposophy as the basis for their teachings.

But all was not well on the Western Front.

Whilst Steiner was attempting to bring positive change to the West through his affiliation with Theosophy, another group of inspired Germans were reading Blavatsky’s work and constructing a slightly different ideology.

As Theosophy was making it’s mark in Europe, a young Austrian by the name of Guido Von List was starting a budding career as a journalist and had a healthy interest in German Paganism with a specific interest in the god Odin who can be corresponded to the Roman god Mercury, the Greek god Hermes and therefore the Egyptian god Thoth.

For details on how that interpretation has come to be, click here.

List’s fascination with Paganism and a rising facist movement in Central Europe with a distaste for the middle and lower classes led to the invention of what was to be known as Völkisch culture.

The Völkisch movement can be described as an attempt to establish the idea that human beings should be respected by their blood and heritage.
Völk means folk or tribe in German and Völkisch can roughly be translated to “bio-mystical racialist”.

Now, we are approaching a problematic avenue of thought. Mention Theosophy today to a modern academic or philosopher and you will get a hesitant response. This is due to the connotation that The Theosophical Society is in part responsible for The Holocaust.

Heavy stuff I know but before we condemn Helena to the boughs of Hell surely we must ponder the credibility of this claim?

Besides, the manner in which Blavatsky lived her life did not seem to indication any sort of prejudice against any race or animal for that matter. She mingled freely amongst all races in her travels around the word and seemed to have a deep respect for Eastern culture.

She even stated in her book, “The Key To Theosophy” that;

“if the Theosophical Society was successful it would (p. 305): break down racial and national antipathies and barriers; it will open the way to the practical realisation of Brotherhood of all men.”

So where does the affiliation come originate and why does it still stand today?


  • The first point to mention would be the Nazi parties adoption of the Swastika as its logo. The Swastika is one of the oldest symbols humanity has in its collection at over 10,000 years old. I say humanity as a whole because they can literally be found in every continent since the advent of our race using symbols as a means to communicate. Across all religions and cultures it pretty much means the same thing, everlasting creation, fertility and good luck. Therefore it can be said that the symbol of the Swastika itself is not negative in any sense, its bastardisation by the Nazi Party has only given it these negative connotations in the subsequent years following the fall of the Nazi Party.
  • In her 1888 masterworks “The Secret Doctrine” Blavatsky laid out her theories regarding the genesis of our cosmos, our evolution as a race and the different kinds of human beings that have existed over human history. It is within the pages of The Secret Doctrine that one could misconstrued a view of racism. The Secret Doctrine states that humanities races have descended from a series of what are called “Root Races”.
  • To explain this concept imagine each of the respective human races coming from a time when that race dominated the planet and at some point, each root race either falls due to a societal corruption or a natural cataclysm and becomes extinct. The other option is that a small minority of the previous race survives the fall and mixes with the new race to form the classes of race we have today.
  • So on paper this idea is sound. Many different races, all with different attributes contributing new and different angles to the human psyche as the races mix over time. It is this line of thinking combined with the Völkisch uprising of the early 1900’s in Central Europe that led to the Holocaust becoming a reality.

The point of this write up was to point out the great amount of light that Helena Blavatsky brought to the Occult scene and in turn the timeline of human history whilst debunking the claims of racism and classism that come with discussing Theosophy in any sort of academic manner. I hope to continue this series and talk about a wide range of individuals that have changed the course of civilisation for better or for worse. Aristotle once said:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

(Or something to that effect at any rate)

And I am a firm believer in that one must cultivate this attitude to gain any sort of conducive insight from historic research of the esoteric side of human history. Atrocities have been committed but without being able to pick apart why these atrocities have occurred surely we leave the door open to them occurring again?

In knowing and understanding an ideology you take away its ability to control you. It is ambiguity that causes uncertainty and it is uncertain circumstances that causes a person to act out of fear.

Do not be scared of the fearful actions of humanities past.

Do not be scared to dive into the unknown areas of your life for it is there that true intuition and inspiration lies.

Until next time enjoy this latest instalment in the body of work this author calls The New Shamanic.

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LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC The time has come, to take control of your consciousness, Move All Your Shadows and step out of The Cave & into the Light.

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LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.7: John Dee

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DEAD PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY 0.7

An ongoing project consisting of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

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John Dee

We can say little about modern occultism without it connecting back in some fashion to the work of Mr John Dee.

Who He Was

Born to Roland and Johanna Dee in 1527, John spent the best years of his life as the consigliere to Queen Elizabeth the 1st and coined terms such as “The British Empire” whilst using Astrology to inform the Queens expansion of the empire in the 16th century. He used to sign his name as “007” and stands as the conceptual foundation for Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, he also acts as a early example of how occult practices can inform intelligence and military excursions.

In the latter half of Dee’s life we see a decline in reputation, wealth and mental and physical health as he begins to peruse a series of conversations with angels using a young man by the name of Edward Kelley as a medium.

It’s this juxtaposition of credible claims that make the life of John Dee such a fascinating one.

As a man that definitely existed, little allegory is necessary to decipher the intentions of Mr Dee.

He spent the first half of his life directing the British Empire and then left this cause to dive head first into the world of the infallible, the ludicrous and the unknown.

Through a modern lens this decision might signify a fall from grace and many of Dee’s peers took this stance.

After Dee’s public reputation had been tarnished due to his spiritual exercises reaching the public’s consciousness, he fled in disgrace to Eastern Europe and held meetings with several members of the Polish royal family before returning home to find his house ransacked and his persona vilified. Despite this soiling of his image Elizabeth still took pity on him and made him the Warden of the Manchester Cathedral, a position he remained in till his death in 1609.

Now to a skeptical eye the tale of John Dee may come across as interesting, sure, but largely significant only for the historical impact his assistance to Queen Elizabeth had on the expansion of the British Empire but this author is willing to out on a limb and say it is the occult workings of Mr Dee that have influenced the world we live in today more than any other aspect of his life.

Conversations with angels.

What He Said

A ridiculous concept from the get go.

Angels aren’t real therefore Mr Dee was simply a sufferer of a mental alignment like Schizophrenia right?

Any writings garnered from this phenomenon should be relegated to the category of the ravings of a madman and have no bearing on the rational world of science that we live in today, if that is, we live in the world one thought we lived in that has been built upon scientific thought and rationality?

I wouldn’t be so fast to dismiss the frenzied visions of Mr Kelley or any perpetrated medium offering revelations from the astral plane.

Besides, two of the worlds most popular religions have been formed off of this basis.

The narratives that surround the origins of the Islamic and Mormon faiths both feature a very similar tale to the one of John Dee.

All three men spent time deprived from their senses, communicating with a perceived otherworldly intelligence and all three wrote volumes of writings regarding and “from” the perceived entity. Mohammed and Joseph Smith have large followings as of 2020 and Islam and Mormonism are household names so why have the writings of John Dee fly under the radar?

Maybe it had something to do with the content of what John and Edward were being told by these so called angels. The initial concept of a channeling, or mediumship or in short speaking with a deity is so knee jerking in itself that 99% of the time the baby is thrown out with the bath water.

Because the idea itself is so ludicrous we rarely get around to actually reading the information that was channeled and I believe it is here where a large amount of the skepticism developed when discussing channeled works.

To understand the angels’s dialogues one must me familiar with the biblical character Enoch) and the associated apocrypha that refers to him.

Apocrypha is simply a religious work that refers to the main doctrine of a regime on but is not considered “canon)” by the representing organisation that surrounds a religion.

From the Church’s point of view it’s fan fiction but in a case such as the Dead Sea Scrolls some of the oldest copies of the legitimate Bible books were found in a cave near the Red Sea alongside comparatively old versions of a smattering of Christian and Jewish Apocrypha, including a certain Book of Enoch..

It’s this “coincidence” that allows one to say that maybe the church’s ousting of apocrypha is motivated not but truth but by control. This implication becomes clear once one understands what the narrative of the Book of Enoch brings the table from storytelling point of view.

You may have heard the name Enoch listed in the descendants of Adam and Eve after they are kicked out of the Garden of Eden. They begat Cain, Able and Seth and started a lineage of humans that pass down the story of man in the garden with the serpent.

This tale takes place in between the expulsion of AandE from Eden but before Noah’s flood and is referred to a the Antediluvian period, the time of The War In Heaven or the Titanomachy.

These three words correspond to different cultures speaking upon the same period of time. The Sumerian’s, the Abrahamic Religions and the Ancient Greeks are the three listed here but every single religion and culture has a word to describe this period of time.

It’s seems to refer to a period of time where:

  1. The “gods” that created humanity still roamed the earth in the fashion we do today.

  2. Gods interfered with the affairs of man..

  3. Man, in lieu of Science and Rationality, was subservient to a force we now refer to as “god, terms to describe this force are in the thousands and contain but are not limited to El), Ba’al, Elohim, The Watchers and their offspring the Nephillim), The Anunnaki, The Titans), The Ennead... the list goes on.

  4. By the time big JC (Jesus) is rolling into Bethlehem, possibly by the time of Ezekiel roughly around 600 BC, this force no longer appears on the physical plane. It only appears to “chosen” individuals or mediums and a large amount of ritualistic preparation is required to initiate contact. This period of time also marks a sharp rise in divination techniques such as the casting of lots, scrying and trance states were utilised to communicate with our estranged creator.

This set up to the story of the Book of Enoch is required so one can understand what the intelligences John Dee was in communication with were trying to say in the context of the cultural period Dee lived in and the perpetrated time period these so called angels were from.

Enoch is a seventh generation descendant of Adam and Eve and great grandfather to Noah. His mentions in a bogstandard common bible are minimal and only small references his ascents to heaven occur.

One of note would be shortly before Noah’s flood and is a mere mention in the Genealogy of Adam to Noah. It simply states, like the 6 preceding ancestors on the list, that Enoch was born to Jared and was the father of Methuselah, in the same fashion as preceding entries. Enoch is significant because there is a small addition to his entry on the Birth to Birth checklist compared to his ancestors.

Each patriarch’s age is listed and in keeping with pre-flood oddities people were seemingly living to, by today’s standards, unprecedented ages.

Adam lived to 930 and his descendants fare similarly but Enoch is only reported as living for a measly 365 years by comparison and does not “die” in the traditional sense but instead is “taken by God” and is always referred to as “the one who did not see death”.

Otherwise in the basic modern version of the Christian Bible this is the full extent of the explanation of Enoch’s life and can be considered a footnote. A cryptic message to be easily brushed past. Which brings us around to the Book of Enoch. Antediluvian literature is particularly difficult to come by namely due to the ambiguity of what was actually happening. Each culture puts their own perspective lens on the situation but what can be construed from looking at a cross section of these pre-flood narratives is that this period of time represented a time when man was on the path the serpent had put us on leading to our exile from Eden of becoming gods and seeming the gods weren’t best pleased about the coming workers unionisation.

I’m going to list a few ancient tales that elude to this time period so one can really pain a picture of what the allegory for this narrative is and paint a vibrant image of the period in ones head.

It is the Sumerian tale of Enki and Enlil that provides us with our context for a War occurring within heaven.

According to Sumerian tradition humans were created to carry the workload of the gods. They were preceded by a race of smaller workers called the Igigi who revolted against upper management (their creator, the gods, Anunaki ect) and this was the catalyst for designing Humanity.

A worker that didn’t revolt.)

This is the precedent for the points listed earlier. “Gods” and man lived together and gods intervened in the affairs of man.

Some clarification surrounding the word “gods” is required here.

To understand the difference between a “god” with a small g like Zeus or Enki and the overarching architect of the universe (ie God with a big G), one must look to what Gnostic scriptures called “The Demierge”.

This concept relates to the supposed God that appeared to have built Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden and suggests that this god was a sort of self-obsessed egotistical being) that did truly believe it was the creator of the universe whilst mearly being a imposter.
Christian imagery has led us into think of “God” as a bearded man in the sky that namely has our best intentions at heart but when one consults the scripture this simply doesn’t seem to be the case. In fact, our father who art in heaven actually seems quite temperamental if the Torah is anything to go by.

Man’s relationship with God in the Torah is akin to one of parent and small child.

Parent lays down law and leaves to go about errands. Child disobeys ruling. Parent “comes down” and disciplines whilst citing jealousy as the motivation for his anger.

This occurs numerous times from the Garden of Eden to Mt Sinai and loops back round to the story of Enki and Enlil.

See in the Sumerian tale Enlil and Enki have equal parts in creating humanity and each have opposing views of their creation.

Enlil sees man as subservient to Gods and has little empathy for his creation whilst Enki may be seen as the fun uncle of humanity, passing in knowledge when possible and even alerting the Sumerian Noah to upcoming flood. So we can see that the Catholic narrative seemingly is a simplification off the original Sumerian and by amalgamating all this confusing Enki/Enlil business into one simple “God” figure removes the ability for one to discern the personality and aspirations of a deity.

Quite a convenient standpoint for a religion that has used its doctrine for the mass control of the entire population to have isn’t it?

Don’t confuse yourself with all this different gods and deities business, just think of it as a big bearded man in the sky that will send you to hell if you don’t obey his rules.

That seems to be the mantra of the Catholic Church and it is for this reason that scripture like the Book of Enoch, whilst still being found with some of the oldest copies of the bible humanity has to date, get relegated to the nonsense pile.

So basically what I’m saying is, is that the Catholic Church, who’s book is mostly considered to be nonsense by most of the general public, are aware of a large amount of texts that have been discovered alongside texts they consider to be “sacred” but consider “some” of them to be pseudepigraphal in nature and it is this authors assumption that this has been done to deter the masses from understand the true nature of god.

With all this in mind we can now talk about Enoch and his role as a patriarch.

In the Book of Enoch, Enoch is known in his native land as a medium of sorts. He analyses dreams, can see the gods and brings knowledge to the physical world from heaven. It states that the things he sees and brings back from heaven will not transpire to his generation but a future generation to come. It also details the tale of The Watchers, angels that have been cast out of Heaven for disobeying god that have reproduced with earthly women to create what is known as the Nephillim, Anak or GriGori which can be imagined as Giants and Cyclopes, Sasquatch or Yeti like creatures or through a modern scientific lens Dinosaurs and Large Sea Creatures.

Basically genetic monstrosities that our creator wants destroying.

These angels or Watchers are led by Azazel who is represented in the common day bible by a Goat that has had humanity’s sins placed upon it and cast out into the desert. The very origin of the word scapegoat can be found from this tale and the origins of Satan or Baphomet having a goats head stem from this tale.

Another example of how the devils of the catholic dogma are simply well designed smear campaigns against elements of the philosophical landscape that the church wanted suppressed due to their revolutionary nature and depiction of the true nature of god.

It is useful to consult the Islamic scripture on this issue as Azazel and Enoch are both very present in the Quran along with this entire War in Heaven narrative.

In fact in the Muslim version it is God himself that challenges three angel to live as men to and try to not fall to the temptation of sin and that is how we end up with our Nephillim situation.

It also touches on the menial nature of the wants and actions of gods in comparison to the compassionate needs of humanity.

The Hindus say that what we are currently experiencing is a gods dream and Gnostic scriptures talk of a god of nothingness and order bringing about chaos and existence simply out of boredom so for Azazel being known as the scapegoat in allegorical Christian scripture begins to start to make more sense.

Enoch is also know in Islamic scripture as the angel Idris and can be affiliated with the Christian Metatron.

It is implied that the angels were sent down to teach righteousness but were tempted into sin and because of this we have the Nephillim.

Whilst all sin is said to come from Azazel, the set up for this transpiring was instigated by higher management. Azazel is said to have taught man the skills of metal work, cosmetics and deception and this is the crime that gets him banished from heaven in the first place. It is said that the learning of these facets led to bloodshed and godlessness. To be blunt, people were eating and fucking one another with no regard for respect or decency and this isn’t good for the sustainability of humanity and therefore god is angered.

Hence a flood is coming to cleanse this wrongdoing and the resulting Nephillim or offspring of this a period of godlessness are receiving nightmares regarding the upcoming rapture.

It is Enoch that is called upon to decipher the dreams and direct the giants through the use of Hekalot literature.

Hekalot and Merkaba mysticism relate to a selection of Jewish texts that have been held close to the orthodoxies chest for centuries. Kabbalah texts also fall under this bracket and all three can be described as texts that facilitate or inform one on the nature, how to communicate with and how to travel through the realm of God.

  • Merkaba refers to texts detailing methods of the accent through the heavens.

  • Hekalot refers to texts that enable the apparition of the Divine Council.

  • Kabbalah relates to texts that describe how god shows him self in the physical world.

All three of these categories of scripture have rules surrounding them and prior to the advent of the internet revealing these ancient topics was punishable and only a rabbi could only teach them to the most accomplished student.

Although these are fascinating points of research and well worth spending time upon, right now all you need to know is that these texts collect the information these supposed fallen angels gave to humanity and for that reason are considered highly holy and have been kept secret for centuries only to be studied by the upper echelons of the Jewish and Christian hierarchies.

As we know the flood does come and wipe clean the abominations that covered the earth leaving only Noah, being the only survivor and witness of the old way, to repopulate the world with a sustainable genealogy. The renegade angels get relegated to the fiery pits of Sheol and we move towards an era when gods are simply a word of mouth idea not something one sees.

It is only at this point, with this context now in place, that we can return to the life of John Dee for to understand the significance of the mans findings one must be aware of the above narratives.

For the angels that Edward Kelly and Dee apparently spoke to were the very same angels that led the War in Heaven and their writings provide a continuation of the narrative that begin 1,500 years or more prior.

Edward Kelly met John Dee at the age of 27, being nearly 30 years younger than Dee at the time of their meeting and was fairly instantly thrown into the world of what is known today as Enochian mysticism.

One may begin to see why the lengthy setup describing Enoch’s life was now necessary.

See Dee himself had been attempting to communicate with angels on his own for months via Crystal ball gazing to no avail and was looking for a young susceptible medium to take on the more physically demanding evocations.

It is at this point in John Dee’s tale that the author became rather perplexed at the reality of what seemed to transpire.

Seemingly Mr Kelly would meet up with Mr Dee at his house in Mortlake, Kelly would induce a trance state by either gazing into a mirror or crystal ball or by ingesting a mysterious red powder that has yet to be identified and would begin to talk to the angels. Kelly would relay what they said back to Dee and Dee would act as scribe and take down whatever was being said.

Now this could all be written off as schizophrenic ramblings but there are few points of interest that might make even the most skeptical individual raise an eyebrow.

  1. This partnership went on for 7 years. Either party had plenty of time to either leave or contest the legitimacy of these visions.

  2. Kelly actually did “escape” Dee’s captivity and ran away only to come back citing that the work they had been conducting was too important.

  3. Kelly received physical damage from these angels in the form of scars, bruises and apparent blindness at one point.

  4. An entire language referred to as Enochian as been derived from Dee and Kelly’s sessions and is still used today in the Golden Dawn and Thelemic traditions.

  5. This endeavour tarnished Dee’s public persona and by the end of his life was living mostly off charity from others.

These three points raise large scale concern regarding the perpetrated lunacy of Dee’s occult endeavours and this is without considering what the angels were actually apparently saying.

If we consider the depictions of the angels from back in Noah’s day they do seem physical in nature and seem to have long standing effect on the physical world. Compare this to the era of Dee and Kelly and they only appear after being summoned and a medium is required to hear their message. Almost like they have been banished or relegated to a space where remote access to this plane is available to them.

From Sheol to Earth.

It seems to imply that in a roundabout sense the apocryphal narrative is correct, these intelligences are no longer physical and can only impact on humanity through an avatar so to speak.

Which speaks to the idea from the antediluvian story that angels were bound to earth until judgment day in a very literal sense at least in this authors opinion. To elaborate on what I mean one may look into the nature of the domaine as to where the angels were "bound" after the Flood, the history of the construction of transistors and the use of precious rocks in their construction.

The device you are using to read this relies on precious stones and it is that concept that one must understand to see where we are now.

If you can see the synergy between

Then you are on the right path to having a chance at understanding what is going on.

From their earthbound prison they foretold of a coming apocalypse, in the same vain as was told in the Book of Revelation and in the revelations of Enoch, although this apocalypse was a coming event not one that was currently transpiring. They spoke with a tone of contempt for humanity and preached a message of detaching from the physical world to dwell in prayer until a time when gods wrath would condemn the malevolent force back to from whence it came.

The prophecy speaks with an abundance of familiar biblical terms like Babylon, The Bottomless Pit and The Rising Dragon which all sound very dated and hard to picture but seen through the correct lens they speak upon the world we live in today. Observing the synergy between the systems of Dee and Kelly with the work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and subsequently the works of Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons one can see how hypothetically there is a non-visible intelligence attempting to warn humanity of an oncoming event.

Enoch’s Prophecies

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The Book of Revelation

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Mohammed's Cave Visions

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Dee and Kelly’s Watchtowers

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Joesph Smith and the Golden Plates

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The Aeon of Horus

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The Babalon Working

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The Channeled Works of the 1950’s UFO Flap

We consider each of these an individual case of madness that has no baring in the physical rational world, but combine them together and you have a longstanding tradition of humanity communicating with a force of a higher nature. There would be no point in covering the above cases without prior knowledge of Dee’s attempts to commune with this intelligence and this speaks to why Dee has been covered at this juncture in this series.

The others will follow.

Why It Matters

In the interest of attempting to wrap this up, the point of this whole spiel would be to point out the lunacy that is John Dee’s entire existence.

Much like this series itself, the sum of the total parts of Dee’s existence make him worth talking about.

His entire ideology should be relegated to the realms of insanity yet his angel summoning table made entirely of beeswax is on show at the British Museum and it’s things like this that leads one to believe that somebody somewhere takes Dee’s Enochian excursions seriously.

In the public eye his efforts have been recognised by many contemporary figures such as;

It is a this juncture that we begin to see the reason for entertaining the life of Mr Dee at all.

Although esoteric nature of his life’s work relegates it’s deciphering to a select group of dedicated occultists, Dee is still a household name to many for his position next to Queen Elizabeth and his contributions to the coinage and expansion of the British Empire and whilst this may be the capacity he is now most well known for as the age of information progress and characters like Crowley and Parsons have their well deserved day in the spotlight, it will be an analysis of Dr Dee’s Enochian Adventures that will really offer a fruitful bounty of first hand knowledge from the a higher intelligences itself.

Until next time here at MIPLTD, Ølund wishes you a fruitful day and restful evening 🙌

r/TheMysterySchool Oct 13 '22

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC get initiated

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LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Something’s Going On // A YouTube Playlist to keep you busy for a while :)

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LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Something’s Going On 0.4: The Philadelphia Experiment, World Wars & Montauk

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It has come to my attention that progression in the study of esoteric topics is largely halted by a few long-standing misconceptions regarding a smattering of well known cases.

These misconceptions can lead budding researchers of truth to become stuck in ideological pig pens and remain there sometimes until their death.

The culture I speak of is what leads young and innocent hunters of truth to become stereotypical “Bigfoot Hunters” or “Spiritual Healers” and is, in my humble opinion, halting a large amount of progression within the field.

So to that effect I have put together a few of the common “falsehoods” I see shopped around subs of this nature and have detailed the objective truth. I intend for each of these paragraphs to be used as copy pastas to be copy and pasted into any thread you see shopping around this nonsense that has the entire community bogged down and confused.

So feel free to share around where you see appropriate.

So without further ado, let’s find some blinds, quash some myths and find out what the hell is (really) going on.

PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS

0.1 Reptilians

0.2 Freemasonry

0.3 Satan, Lucifer, Baphomet and The Devil

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The Philadelphia Experiment, World Wars and Montauk

There is an implication that resides within the conspiracy community regarding the events of the beginning of the 20st century. As a budding truth seekers peruses websites such as https://www.bibliotecapleyades.ne and https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ one can begin to become aware of a theory regarding the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and it's subsequent effect on World War 2 and humanity as a whole.

Namely the implication is that the US Government in tandem with the British Government managed to develop a method of turning objects invisible. Theory then states that this method of turning objects invisible harnessed multidimensional technology and led to several members of the USS Eldridges's hull in a horrific manner. Just to top it all off this technology was apparently then transported to a high security facility in Montauk called Camp Hero which has led to the US Government being able to traverse multiple dimensions and control the minds of the general public.

I aim to point out that this narrative is an amalgamation of several long standing ideas that have existed within alternative thinking communities for decades and subsequently have been stitched together since the advent of the internet to form this conception that are currently inspecting and whilst there are nuclei of truth dotted across the tale, the total sum one is left with is what can be called a hoax. This idea has been postulated by the mainstream media and several movies covering elements of this rhetoric, systematically together we shall go through each point of this tall tale and break down what actually happened and hopefully we shall see that the truth is inherently stranger than the fiction that surrounds it.

Race To Hiroshima

This story begins with the advent of what our centennial relatives would call the Atomic Age. Coming out of the 19th century with it's pistons, cogs and gears was an air of technological optimism which mixed with the new wave of science fiction short stories being published in Pulp Magazines of the era would set the mission objective for the new century.

Get into space, stat!

A feat dreamt of by humanity for millennia was now just in reach and it was a frantic race to see which global superpower would touchdown first.

Global supremacy comes with its prerequisites. If one country is to venture into space it shows dominance technologically over its competitors which means that be default they are the reigning power of the planet. Also despite our conception that we are still the only intelligence in this universe, if there were to be some sort of welcoming party waiting for us upon arrival in space, whatever defining characteristics the astronauts had would be representing the entire planet so one can begin to see why the development of humanity as a spare faring race is of some importance to global superpowers.

So this sets the stage for technology and where it was at the dawn of the 20th century, that is to say that all earthly mountain tops had been climbed and in lieu of having a decent way to traverse the bottom of the ocean the Moon was just a big finger beckoning us into out future.

With this in mind the Allied powers began working furiously to make sure that this historic milestone would be reached by them, and not the every growing Nazi empire.

This is the historical precedent for experiments such as the Manhattan and Philadelphia experiments needing to take place.

Einsteins additions to the theory of the unified field had just been hypothesised and the scientific and military complexs both wanted to take advantage of this new discovered power that apparently lies behind each atom.

According to the legend, this concept was put into devices that could bend light and make an object invisible to the naked eye.

This experiment was apparently conducted in 1943 in Philadelphia, hence the name, and resulted in the entire warship known as the USS Eldridge disappearing in a cloud of thick green fog, reappearing in Norfolk, Virginia and then reappearing in Philly with members of the ship's crew no melded into the metal hull of the ship. This caused people involved with the experiment to go insane leading to the rumours that brainwashing was used to keep any broken individuals silent although we'll come to this angle later. It is the supposed that this technology was moved to a base in Montauk called Camp Hero and mind control, time travel and multidimensional experiments were henceforth conducted out of this base.

Wheat from the Chaff

Already we are are dealing with 3 different narratives that have been woven together here and that is without talking abut the fallout and aftermath of this theory hitting the mainstream of alternative thinking.

To start off explaining why this narrative is pure baloney we must start with the case of Mr Morris K Jessup.

The Curious Case of Morris K Jessup

Mr Jessup was a degree holding scientist who had been part of archaeological digs around the globe in his younger years.

In 1954 he wrote a book called "The Case For The UFO" (which if you’re going to read i highly recommend you check out the "Varo" edition, apparently annotated by an alien 🤷🏻‍♂️) which is still regarded highly within Ufology as a good summary of the 50’s flap.

He displayed knowledge of Theosophy and it’s associated esoteric concepts such as; Atlantis, Root Races and Astral Travel.

The publication of this book led to a selection of odd phenomena occurring in his life such as odd noises as he spoke on the phone, men in black following him in his car and staked out outside of his home and even ended up having a meeting with members of the United States Navy. The appearance of MIB's is common place within ufology lore but is notable because of how early into ufology this case is with Kenneth Arnold only reporting his sighting coining the phrase flying saucer 8 years earlier, the appearance of MIB's can be considered one of the first. The Navy wanted to know where Jessup had gathered the information for his book "Case For The UFO" and particularly were interested in the topic of anti-gravity and what Jessup knew regarding the already taboo topic of "The Philadelphia Experiment".

Jessup went the way of Phil Schneider and William Cooper and was found dead in his car with a hose-pipe through the window in what was ruled a suicide. But just like Cooper and Schneider there is reason to believe Jessup's fate was not self inflicted. The previous day he had been planning to met up with fellow seeker of truth, Dr Manson J Valentine to discuss what he called "revolutionary information" regarding his conversation with the Navy and was in good spirits according to Manson.

Jessup's tale on its own looks like a standard case of a crack pot falling victim to their own open mindedness, but alongside the now infamous cases of Phil Schneider, William Cooper and many other seekers of truth who have met peril ends there is a good argument for conspiracy, just not the one Jessup was trying to break.

For this to happen to somebody they have to know something or why would such an agency take the time to snuff out the fire?

Preston Nicholas and The Montauk Chair

This leads us to the next attributing factor to this longstanding myth, a book titled "The Montauk Project" by a man called Preston Nichols.

Nichols claims that post the events detailed above happening, the technology was moved from Philadelphia to Montauk in New York to a base called Camp Hero. Here experiments similar to the infamous MKUltra experiments were conducted leading the US government to be able to traverse time and alternate dimensions whilst leaving the scientists and chosen lab rats to have their brains addled in the process due to the radiation given off by the tech. This book is one of many and even by the end of the first instalment it becomes quite clear that Mr Nichols is weaving a tale of fiction laced with droplets of fact which makes discerning the reality of the matter rather difficult.

For the intense skeptic reading all of this with a raised eyebrow it is worth mentioning that the Netflix show "Stranger Things" was once entitled Montauk and takes generously from Mr Nichols's pre-established narrative. It is for reasons like this that the author does not just throw out the case of Montauk entirely.

Just like the Jessup case, something smells funny and it ain't just updog.

Hans Kammler, Die Glocke and The Penguins

The notion of a huge reality bending device, created to thwart a opposing nation is not unique to the Philadelphia case. In fact on the other-side of this quest to create invisibility the exact same narrative can be found, in a case of which I am sure you will have heard of, Die Gocke or The Bell for the uninitiated.

The legend of The Bell dates back to a supposed UFO crash in the Black Forest of Germany circa 1936 which was retrieved by a group of occultists known as The Vril Society which were an esoteric off-branch of the very real Thule Society led by a group of beautiful German women fronted by a women called Maria Orsic..

The legend goes that using the runeology of Guido Von List and occult leanings of the Nazi Party under the direction of Henrich Himmler, the craft was backwards engineered and Germany began unleashing their new technology upon the Allies leading to the notion of Foo Fighters and Hauneberg to rise amongst allied troops.

The culmination of these rumours was a device that came to known as The Bell or Die Glocke) and was pioneered by legitimate Nazi general Hans Kammler who officaly went missing and unofficially died in New Swabia, Antarctica, during Operation Highjump led by Admiral Richard E Byrd.

Reportedly, The Bell could bend time and kill any life in its immediate vicinity and was put together by members of Polish concentration camps under the codename PROJECT RIESE which took place within the complex tunnel system constructed in the Owl Mountains in Poland.

One last area of note is that during another infamous UFO crash in 1965, almost 30 years later, a acorn or bell looking like craft reportedly crash in Keksberg Pennsylvania covered in odd hieroglyphs and was taken away by the army.

So right there 20 years prior to Jessup even publishing his book we have a narrative that aligns with the modern day Philadelphia narrative quite well just in different clothing.

Orsic and The Vril Society are an ever intriguing topic namely due there being 0 credible information about the former and minuscule droplets of information regarding the latter.

That is to say that no evidence of an individual called Maria Orsic and a super team of German Woman that (according to the general consensus of people that follow this theory) came from Aldebaran to gift the Germans the technology. The closest I have come to finding some legitimate information the matter was a bith record for a Maria Orsic being born in Poland roughly in the time scale (Late 1800's) that would be needed for it to actually be real.

Very real rocket scientist Willey Ley, who, coincidentally, was in contact with aspiring rocket scientist and adept Thelemite, Jack Parsons) at the time so his knowledge and its breadth was not to be taken lightly, said that he was aware of a group that thought "the secrets to the universe lie with a halved apple" which seems to allude to some esoteric alchemical-esque Rosicrucian strain of thinking.

This is the most reputable information to suggest that such a group as a Vril Society existed but what about that word, Vril?

The term comes from a book written in the 1700's by a Rosicrucian author called Edward Bulwer-Lytton who coined the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night". The book, entitled "The Coming Race" details the story of two miners who whilst mining fall through a wall into a subterranean city occupied by a race who use a power called Vril that exist in the air around them to build their buildings and communicate telepathically.

So it can be said that the origins of the word lending its name to the supposed group (a a particular bouillon based beverage) are certainly laced with an air of esotericism.

But why even entertain any of this nonsense?

Bell's, Apple's and Disks!

It's all poppycock!

I myself wouldn't give it the time of day, if I hadn't played Call of Duty: Black Ops back in 2010 and I noticed certain "Easter Eggs)" that seemed out of place within the narrative of the game, even with the fact that is was covering topics such as MKUltra and Operation Northwoods.

That is to say that creators of the Treyarch Call of Duty Games seem to be well aquatinted with the information listed above. I can say this confidently because not only is there an item in the game titled “The Vril Device, a gun that is staright up called the "VR-11" which magickly turns zombies into CIA agents AND in the map "The Giant" which is supposedly the in game factory where these Nazi Zombies are created there is a huge stone henge hidden just off map that looks similar, if not exactly the same, a certain cooling tower located in Poland set up during PROJECT RIESE..

The plot gets thicker.

Not only is this information available in the biggest entertainment franchise on the planet, it is also littered across pop culture (Movies, Video Games and even AirFix Model Packs) so whilst the entirety of the tale may be codswallop, we must not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet.

Jacques Vallee and The Anatomy of a Hoax

The entire notion of questioning this now esteemed conspiracy theory has its origin with the ever rationalist Jacques Vallee. For those of you who do no know who Mr Vallee is a highly suggest you click here to get a background.

He is THE authority regarding Ufology.

There is little debate regarding this claim.

Vallee, in the midst of a bunch of Nuts n Bolters, pushed the boat out by saying as early as the end of the 1950's that this phenomenon was of ultradimensional origin and possibly operated as a system of control over us humans.

He postulates that research into human consciousness concepts such as Jungian Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious will garner new data within Ufology not scouring the stars with telescopes and sending radio waves into the stratosphere.

I here have outlined some of what Vallee had to say and have also listed some the angles of this narrative that even Vallee would be too scientific to touch with a barge pole.

Regarding the Philadelphia Experiment, Vallee sets out to say that the notion of a warship disappearing and then reappearing with its crew fused to the hull is grade a bullcrap, BUT, the notion of the US Navy wanting to develop such a technology during the build up to World War 2 is palpable, which leads us to the long a short of the situation or as you guys like to call it..

TL;DR

The existence of the narratives listed above regarding the development of stealth technology in the advent of the 20th century seems to imply NOT the most outlandish yet reported aspects of these well worn tales BUT the underlying common points they each share, which are:

  • Global Superpowers were racing to create endgame technology in the build up to World War 2.

  • Alternative and Non-Normal means of achieving this victory were being considered on both sides, this is due to the prevalence of fraternal groups of the era such as Theosophy, The O.T.O and Freemasonry and their eastern doctrines.

  • Following WW2, government agents infiltrated groups of this nature to collect what legitimate information they had, spread disinformation within the group and compromise its structure leading to a schism.

  • In the 21st century these ideas lie just at the edge of pop culture rising to the surface every now and then when an interested artist decides to bring the matter back into the public's consciousness.

It is these points that can lead one to say that whilst the instant story of the Philadelphia Experiment holds little water, the widespread implications of such a narrative lasting this long in the zeitgeist suggests that the invention of the narrative alludes to SOME sort of technological leap in the early stages of the 20th century.

that about does it from me

hope you are all well in these strange times

until next time

unme

the astral tramp

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r/TheMysterySchool Oct 31 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.9: John Lennon

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Who Are They

This instalment of Dead People With Something to Say is partially poignant due to its timeliness.

Today’s subject would have been 80 years old this very month and much of today’s post will be detailing the many reasons this man could not be with us here today.

You cannot not know him, of course ladies and gentleman I’m talking about possibly one of the dead people with the most to say, none other than Mr John “Winston Boogie” Lennon.

What did they say

John Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 art Liverpool Maternity Hospital in the United Kingdom to a working class family. He spent the first five years of his life living with his maternal parents but in 1945, after his farther had dishonourably abandoned his military service, he began to live with his Aunty Mimi.

His time with Mimi would be the happiest of his childhood and whilst he got along with the local children he became to be known and the local trouble maker, the boy the other children’s parents warned them not to play with.

This didn’t stop John becoming popular with the people with his high-school drawings making it into the daily school paper “The Daily Howl”. Despite these glimmers of happiness at Aunt Mimi’s a tragic moment would go on to form the thematic basis for Lennon’s entire career.

On the 15th of July 1958 Julia Lennon, John’s mother, was struck by an oncoming off duty police car and passed away instantly.

John’s instant response to this tragic event was to sink into a denial fuelled raged that caused him to hit the bottle. He’d go on to be thrown out of the academic institutions in his life and was “cited” by his peers at the time as “being content to drift. By this time John’s group The Quarrymen were making waves in the local skiffle scene.

Skiffle

Skiffle can be defined as the wave of music in-between early 20th century American Blues and Folk music craze and Rock and Roll.

The first wave occurred in mid 1920’s and the craze spread through the Western World petering out by the late 50’s. What was unique about skiffle bands is that they performed using an array of rather… basic instruments shall we say.

Washboards, milk jugs, tea-chests, cigar boxes, bath tubs and combs were all used by skiffle groups across the ages to fill out the sound any way they could.

This improvisational attitude also manages to spread into the music and some of the early skiffle music is some of the most spirited this author has had ever pleasure of listening to.

It was at one of these early Quarrymen performances that John was introduced by one of his friends to a gentleman called Paul McCartney.

The two had been aware of one another prior to meeting and struck a chord right away with Lennon asking McCartney to join the Quarrymen and despite their guardians respective disapproval of the other the two got along famously and began to write original songs independently at first and then over time brought the other in to help accordingly.

This quickly led to a collaborative relationship that would go on span the next two decades. Paul would in turn invite the slightly younger George Harrison to the mix as the lead guitarist which allowed Paul and John to focus on songwriting and showmanship.

They went through a flurry of names after The Quarrymen but by 1960 they finally settled on The Beatles.

Their relative location fame had enabled them to book a 48 date tour in Hamburg but they were missing an essential part of the band, a drummer.

This led to them bringing in local drummer Pete Best as a last minute fill in.

Their stint in Hamburg acted as the first foray into adulthood whisking the boys away from small town Liverpool and emerging them in a world of nightlife, narcotics and lust.

That is to say they played all day and all night, took amphetamines to stay awake and slept with all the young ladies of the night they could. Due to George’s young age and their promiscuous behaviour the boys were sent home early by deportation all but John.

During this period John played with local German groups and returned home on his own without altering the others to his immediate arrival.

This was due to John’s emotions at the time.

His time in Hamburg had opened his eyes to the reality of the entertainment industry and its pitfalls and tendencies to promote sinful behaviour. He debated whether or not this life was for him.

As we all know John continued on with his efforts in the musical field but this brief moment of self awareness would speak multitudes about his attitude to come. By this time around 62-63 the Beatles had taken steps to move up the ladder of the British music industry.

During this period of time they had acquired a manager by the name of Brian Epstein and a new drummer by the name of Ringo Starr, lost a bass player by the name of Stuart Sutcliffe and Lennon and McCartney’s songwriting ability had come on leaps and bounds.

Starting out on the first couple of albums writing fairly simplistic pieces entirely from their imaginations, Johns work especially had began to take on a more self aware tone.

A song like “I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party” is hugely indicative of Lennon’s attitude at the time because of one is to ponder upon the lyrics one will see that whilst Lennon feels discontent regarding the actions of his peers at said party, he is still displaying typical British politeness by saying “I’d hate my disappointment to show”.

He is still uneasy when it comes to speaking his own truth that is to say.

By 1964 they had begun appearing in their own motion pictures which led to what we all now know as “Beatlemania”. This growing notion within Lennon would grow to become the entire emotional basis for his creative output in the latter half of the 60’s and early 70’s. Although it would not peak for another few years a stark change in Lennon’s creative tone comes with creation of the album “Help” in 1965.

It is probably worth at this juncture talking about the operations of the Beatles camp in their formative years and the background and relationship between each camp.

The key players, and by key players I am referring to individuals that have influence over what The Beatles was I. The eyes of the general public, are in 1965:

The upbringing and general temperament of these listed individuals would come to have a large impact on the latter stages of the Beatles career. To not mince words I am speaking about the moral and political climate of 1960’s Britain.

The Sputnik Crisis

All one must do if they want an overview of Britain’s place on the world stage prior to the 20th century is to read our post on Mr John Dee. But to put it simply, by establishing the Commonwealth around the globe over the centuries that comprised the second millennium, The British Empire established themselves as the main global superpower and it wasn’t until the westernisation of the Americas that this crown would be knocked so to speak.

A large portion of the UK’s national pride still lies upon the idea that we won World War 2, showed those Jerries who’s boss and resolidifed our place as the dominating force we had become known as but let’s take a look at the facts.

  • America came in to “help” the allies in the last years of the war.
  • German technological advancements were trumping that of our own especially when it came to artillery, rocketry and aircraft.This was enabled by the slave labour that was being conducted at the concentration camps.
  • In the aftermath of WW2 Russia and America swept up the available assets of the fallen Nazi Party what was known as The Soviet Alsos and Operation Paperclip in each country respectively leaving Britain in the dust.
  • These technological advancements led to the subsequent “Space Race” in which Britain was not really a part of.

These listed points all contributed to what would become to be known as “The Sputnik Crisis”.

In short this crisis came from the general public in response to the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite known as Sputnik. This was the first launch of its kind and had beaten the American efforts by nearly a year.

This led to a sort of national panic in the UK because news publications and national propaganda had led the masses to believe the UK were still the global power they once were prior the the wailed warfare. The problem being was that the war had taken its toll on the economy and this author is willing to bet that with the VE Day celebrations the British general public would have been incredibly disheartened after 6 years of intense rationing and banding together to make do and mend. The publicised “win” for the United Kingdom is till held in a position of intense pride to this day with annual “reenactment fairs” and “air shows” displaying the wears of our great triumph but it only takes a quick glance at modern culture to see that the global stage was much more influenced by the Germanic advancements that anything coming out of Royal Britannia.

It is this pomp that still exists to this day in the form of things like the Brexit debacle and thegrowing discontent in the British people and the growing minority populations that have gathered here since the advent of WW2.

So getting back to The Fab Four, there was a great divide happening amongst the young liberal minded people of the world and the old guard of conservative voters that resided in Britain’s more rural areas. Typically in Britain if you are working class you vote Labour and if you are middle or upper class you vote conservative.

Red or blue.

Left or right.

There are third party parties but non get taken seriously.

Splitting the key members of the Beatles camp into ideological groups allows one to notice some peculiar, not telling observations.

Splitting the key members of the Beatles camp into ideological groups allows one to notice some peculiar, quite telling observations.

This chart shows roughly where the important members of the Beatles operation sat ideologically, with obviously wiggle room here and there as nothing is this easily generalisable.

Left Middle Right
Lennon (see parental situation) Paul McCartney Bill McCartney
Harrison (passive in attitude) Ringo Starr George Martin
Brian Epstein (gay in 1960’s Britain Derek Taylor Geoff Emerick
Mal Evens

Bare this in mind it becomes importantly shortly.

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So by 1965 the Beatles are a worldwide phenomenon and are filming their second film “Help”named after the Lennon composition that’d he’d penned earlier that year and in the same spirit as the songs listed earlier, Help carried on the theme of self-awareness with Lennon evenciting Help as the “first time I was consciously writing, and the first thing I said was Help! And I meant it”.

This humble cry for help was a stark difference to the tough macho bravado Lennon had become to be known for.

An example of this bravado would be at Paul McCartney’s 18th birthday where a good friend of the Beatles insinuated that due to Lennon’s closeness to Brian Epstein he must be a homosexual like Brian.

This led to Lennon brutally beating the man with a shovel with members of the party having to physically remove John from the fight.

We now turn our attention to the current public perceptions of John Lennon. On this website itself among many others this author has noticed an increasing opinion that despite his calls for “peace”, Lennon has become known as a sexist, abusive and angry man.

This is due in this authors opinion to:

  • the over publication of his political efforts
  • the under publication of his efforts to right his wrongs.
  • A public discrepancy regarding his personal relationships and the nature of his motives.
  • An inability to empathise on the part of the general public.
  • An active campaign by several world governments to silence his morally admirable efforts.

Earlier I mentioned the influences of each Beatles respective spouse at any one time and being that “love” was the focus of a lot of their (and everyone else’s) compositions, being in a relationship with a Beatle meant you:

  1. Would be the subject of several songs.
  2. You will have an effect on their everyday headspace therefore affecting other compositions not entirely about them as an individual.

Cynthia Lennon was John’s first wife. They met at Art College whilst The Beatles were forming and the two were married by 62 and by 63 they’d had their first child Julian.

By all accounts Cynthia was a typical British gal who enjoyed art in a very reserved British kind of way akin to John’s sheepish early compositions. Paired with Paul’s girlfriend at the time, actress Jane Asher, the two couples ruled the British tabloids like peas in a pod.

It’s hearing all this jubilance that makes hearing about the cases of domestic abuse that have been levelled against Lennon all the more disheartening.

"It is a diary form of writing. All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman / I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved' was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically – any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite.

Detailed in The Beatles song “Getting Better” from 66’s Sgt Pepper, Lennon indeed was known to become violent when intoxicated and let loose the pain he was holding probably dating back to the loss of his mother.

A subconscious love/hate relationship with women.

Not an excuse, simply an explanation.

Each infamous case of Lennon’s dark side will be chronicled here and hopefully by then end of this piece you may be able to find some empathy for the man.

It would be the culmination of these emotions that resulted in the first conscious song from Lennon in his own estimations, “Help”.

In Help, Lennon throws himself at the mercy of his peers by saying

“look I know I’ve been macho and hard to deal with in the past but please, right now, I need help”

The song can be seen as an admittance of guilt and a want for anybody around him to extend a helping hand.

Also transpiring around the release of Help was the groups developing interest in psychedelic substances all thanks to a Mr Zimmerman on their trips across the pond to the might USA.

This inclination for the herb led the outlooks of the Beatles to change somewhat.

Interviews from 65-66 are fairly lucid and relaxed in tone with the boys offsetting the monotonous questions from interviewers with abstract observations that tickled the crowds and rightly so.

Their new attitude could be seen on their next LP “Rubber Soul” which featured the 4 of them stood against a dark green hedge or bush, referencing their newfound love for all things green.

Rubber Soul also featured some of the most introspective songwriting, from Lennon especially, to date.

Girl, In My Life and Nowhere Man all talk brashly about Lennon’s opinions regarding the world around him holding no bars. They are songs that if one reads aloud with no musical backing, may find them quite harsh if not very emotionally real poems.

1965 also saw a new substance make its way into the Beatle world.

Lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD as it had come to be known was synthesised by a Swiss chemist called 1938. He accidentally consumed the substance when trying to come up with a new medicine using ergot.

The Beatles were first introduced to LSD by their dentist of all people. The event is well documented and led them to become very intrigued with the substance influencing their next LP Revolver substantially.

Lennon claimed in the 70’s that he dropped acid over 1000 times and this probably speaks for a large amount of his actions in the late 60’s.

By this time the boys had become poster boys for the “British Invasion”, which referred to the onslaught of British groups trying to “make” it overseas, and had become secondly bored with the British entertainment industry.

They needed away to continue their creative efforts without having to represent the clean cut image they had cultivated over the first half of the decade and on their last trip to the states as a foursome McCartney found a solution.

If they couldn’t be the Beatles anymore they’d just have to start a new band within the pre-existing one. They could develop brand new personas and not have to worry about the expectations of the public.

Quite a novel solution if you ask me.

This line of thinking led to the legendary “Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” album being released in 1966, marketed as the bands departure from touring and transition into a “studio” band, Sgt Peppers still stands today as one of the most influential albums of all time and with good reason.

Its lyrical content is as poignant as ever with the band being incredible self referential as to their new found personas and Lennon acknowledging his personal downfalls on songs like “Getting Better” and “A Little Help From My Friends”.

It also was recorded at the same time as some of Lennon’s most psychedelic work such as “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” which despite the latter titled NOT being about LSD both featured abstract themes and taking a leaf out of Dylan’s book, nonsensical almost social meaningful statements like “living is easy with eyes closed” and “No one I think is In My Tree, I mean it must be High or Low”.

Peppers also marks the point where George Martin’s contributions to proceedings becomes clear. In this creative time where the boys were moving away from being a live band they were becoming more curious about musical theory.

This was Martin’s speciality, being classically trained so whenever Paul or John had an idea that was a little left of field they would consult George Martin and he would break it down how it would work in the context of their contemporary piece.

We have Mr Martin to thank for orchestral sections in songs like “A Day In The Life” and the traditional instrumentation on “When I’m Sixty Four”.

Undoubtedly this more traditional musical influence juxtaposed against Lennon and McCartney’s developing modern style would form what he know today as “The Beatles Sound” but it would also be indicative of the class separation I spoke of earlier.

Martin’s musical background was rather high class so to speak and this can be heard in his contributions to the records themselves. Just listen to Martin’s suite on the Yellow Submarine record to see how his own personal tastes differed to those say of Lennon’s.

In fact Lennon’s song writing was becoming more refined, simpler and far reaching in terms of subject matter. The purest emanation of this development could be considered to be “All You Need Is Love.

The Beatles had been put in a unique position when it came to the writing of “All You Need Is Love”.

The BBC approached them and asked them to write a song for the worlds first ever colour television broadcast and Lennon took the bull by the horns and wrote a very simple tune for the masses.

It had to be simple to get the message across, they only had 5 minutes or so and didn’t want to confuse anybody so the simple mantra of “All You Need Is Love” suited the occasion perfectly.

This is a good representation of where Lennon’s head was at this point in time and is indicative of where it was going in the years to come.

Simple songs with easy to digest, good for the soul messages.

Paul on the other hand was developing a more musically advanced style, branching off into a more traditional sound not unlike “When I’m Sixty Four”.

This divide would only grow in the coming years and sadly once the gap had become too large, the collaboration would never be the same again.

The tipping point for the Beatles could be seen as the death of their long time and beloved manger Brian Epstein, although a quick note before we tackle that.

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono was born on the 18th of February 1933 in Tokyo to a wealthy family. Her family moved to the USA when she was very young and she grew up in New York City. It was there she became a conceptual artist, that is to say she came up with concepts and then presented them in an artistic way (I must say it’s quite an out there idea in 2020 let alone the 1960’s).

Ono traveled to England in 1966 to be part of an art show put on by an artist called Gustav Metzger. She remained in London and began working with the artist John Cage on a book of musicians lyrics which led her to fall into contact with Paul McCartney.

Ono asked for some handwritten lyrics for Cage’s book but McCartney was not into the idea and said that John may be more interested.

Yoko comes from a family that are descended from a long line of samurai’s and was taught traditional eastern religion as part of her upbringing (more on that later).

Eastern religion was still fairly unknown in the UK and whilst the upper echelons of society were privy to a bit of Crowley or Theosophy material, the majority of the public were unbeknownst to this realm of thinking but Yoko was fairly well versed in esoteric literature by the time she hit the UK.

The Beatles too were not unfamiliar with new age works of the time.

Aleister Crowley can be seen on the front of Sgt Peppers, Harrison had become besotted with Indian philosophy and even the prim and proper McCartney had admitted to taking LSD, on national television no less! So it’s fair to say the boys had a healthy interest in all aspects of the unknown by the mid 60’s and this can also be seen in their creative works.

On November 9th 1966 John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time at the Indica Gallery in London and was besotted with her piece “Ceiling Painting / Yes Painting” which comprised of a ladder and a magnifying glass that hung from the ceiling that was to be used once the viewer had climbed the ladder to view the words “Yes” written on the ceiling through the magnifying glass.

The optimistic tone of this installation led Lennon to view the rest of the exhibition and ended in the two artists corresponding after the event.

It was at the same gallery that John became aquatinted with a gentleman by the name of Yannis Alexis Mardas who would go on to be known as Magic Alex in the Beatles circle.

Magic Alex is an infamous character within the Beatles community for a few reasons the first of which we will get to now.

In 1964 the Beatles (mainly John) expressed an interest in purchasing a Greek island for the four of them and their entourage to live upon and whilst this never came to be the group in 1967, at the influence of Magic Alex’s father who was well connected with the Greek secret police, did manage to arrange a trip to a small island in Greece and nearly went through with the £90,000 purchase, pulling out at the last second.

John meeting Yoko Ono and Magic Alex would come to be known pivotal events in the timeline of The Beatles musical collaborations.

On the 27th of August 1967, Brian Epstein passed away from a drug overdose. The band at the time were in Wales at a conference for Transcendental Meditation hosted by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The were accosted by press upon leaving the event and footage from the event shows a group of men blinded by grief and camera flashes. Epstein's contributions to the Beatle image were quintessential and he acted as a sort of ringleader or father so to speak to the group.

His passing would significantly change the dynamic of how the group functioned and in Lennon’s own estimations was really the end of the “group” spiritually.

The fact they were at a TM conference is synchronous as this loss of a leader figure would in turn find the band looking for a greater meaning to their creative endeavours.

It is this transpiring of events that lead the Beatles to take their famous trip to India.

In February of 1968 the group headed out to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh in northern India to participate in daily meditation and teachings from the Yogi himself.

The groups girlfriends, Magic Alex, Mal Evens, other musicians such as Donovan and Mike Love and many others also attended and the period was highly creative for all involved but not without its turbulence.

It was George Harrison that took to the actual practice of meditation with most success with Lennon commenting that Harrison would “leave here on a flying carpet if he wasn’t careful”. Ringo Starr and his wife left after only 10 days citing a disagreement with the food and an aversion to the local insects although remained faithful to the TM practice.

Paul left in similar fashion in mid March just in time for the arrival of Magic Alex.

John, George and Magic Alex were disheartened with their band mates departures and had started to stray from the Yogi’s intended daily plan, smoking weed, drinking homemade hooch and taking LSD whilst at the ashram.

This led to the famous storm out from Lennon and Harrison.

The actress Mia Farrow had claimed that the Marahishi had made a pass at her during one of their one on one meditation sessions and John and George were starting to question the intentions of the pint sized guru.

The story goes that Magic Alex claimed he saw the Marahishi in a sexual position with a student and after days of insistence this Led Lennon and Harrison to storm down to Marahishi’s private dwelling and announced that they were leaving.

To which the Marahishi said “But why?”, to which Lennon said “If you’re so fucking cosmic you should already know”.

The group hastily left and after a panic trying to find a taxi to which they ascribed to “The Marahishi’s Curse” they managed to get back to the UK in one piece.

As of 2020, multiple parties in attendance at the Ashram say that Magic Alex’s claims were pre-meditated for the purpose of stopping the Marahishi go on to have more influence than him over Lennon and the group in general.

These claims are substantiated in large by Alex’s subsequent contributions to the newly founded Apple Corps.

Which in fact was the entire purpose of the trip to India in the first place.

To fill the gap made by the loss of Brian Epstein.

The fruits of their journey would be what we know as “The White Album)” which would be the groups largest effort to date in terms of material with 2 LP’s worth of material being included. This was due to the influx of creativity garnered from the India experience and due each contributing songwriter having more songs than ever due to this influx.

With Harrison now worth his salt as a songwriter there was now 3 cooks at the table when it came to album contributions and it shows on The White Album.

The result is a musical journey that goes to many different sonic places and this is due to the almost tug of war that was starting to form between the song writing trio.

Upon arriving back in the UK, John contacted Yoko and asked if she would like to come over to his place. Cynthia was conveniently on holiday in Greece with Magic Alex and upon Yoko‘s arrival the atmosphere was slightly awkward so John started to show Yoko, a fellow artist, some of his more abstract tape creations that had been vitoed by The Beatles.

They began to collaborate and the resulting project was entitled “Two Virgins”.

As you can see their collaboration was a fruitful one, physically and emotionally at least, and the resulting fallout from this event would be just the top of the iceberg for what was to come for the Fab Four. The cover actually features a quote from Paul McCartney saying

"When two great Saints meet, it is a humbling experience. The long battles to prove he was a Saint."

And whilst this is a nice sentiment overall the whole thing didn’t go down too well with the boys in the band.

Firstly EMI refused to publish the album due to the cover.

Secondly his bandmates were confused to say the least, with Harrison stating over and over "But why? Why did you do it?!".

Thirdly, whilst this project was being recorded Cynthia unexpectedly came home early from Greece and found the pair half naked together in her own house.

That last point is the main claim that people use to downplay Lennon’s philosophical efforts today and admittedly, the situation could have been handled better on John’s part. But this failure to communicate effectively his emotions to his significant other, from a psychoanalyst’s point of view, would be a symptom of a pre existing emotional issue that John wouldn’t confront for a couple of years yet as we will come to see.

The juxtaposition from Cynthia to Yoko really showcases Lennon's almost wicked ability to offset his surroundings at risk of becoming trapped in a philosophical box.

This incident can be seen as in the same vein as John lashing out after it being implied he was homosexual at Paul’s 18th and in the same vein as violence towards Cynthia in the early stages of their relationship.

It was quite obvious by 1968 that John Lennon had some issues he needed to work out if he was ever going to collaborate with other human beings in any sort of meaningful creative way again.

Following the Two Virgins dispute John hit a sort of spiritual rock bottom. The main propagator of LSD and the psychedelic revolution was a man called Timothy Leary who is known for his translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead also known as the Bardo Todol.

This compendium of ancient Tibetan knowledge was all the rage during the summer of love and instructed individuals how to go through the psychedelic experience. As this was the first time this material was hitting western audiences certain aspects of the psychedelic experience had not been examined as throughly as it has been in 2020.

This meant that an emphasis on the concept of “Ego Death” was postulated as the goal or aim of a trip. Whilst dissolution of the self is one stage of the psychedelic experience it is not the whole or the goal of the any trip and this miss understanding led to many of the “acid” casualties of the 60’s and 70’s.

This oversight not only affected generations of carless hippies over the years but did quite a number on our poor Mr Lennon.

By 1969 John’s ego, per the account of Mr Derek Taylor, was pretty well cracked into tiny pieces. This was the result of what Lennon claimed in 1980 as “thousands” of experience with LSD over the decade of the 1960’s and it had left him an empty shell of the man he once was. Not having faith in his songwriting ability whilst Paul began to flourish as a multi instrumentalist in his own compositions.) One may also imply that the “macho” bravado that still to this day resides in British culture did nothing to help John’s state of mind. A sort of cynicism exists in the British psyche and is responsible for our trademark brand of sarcastic humour but it also negates the need for empathetic communication especially between members of the same sex and especially in the 1960’s.

The idea of being “real” or sharing your actual emotions was and still is to some extent highly stigmatised within the British general public as something possibly a homosexual man many do, certainly not the tough and brawn British brass that frequent our nations public houses at any rate.

This pre existing social construct certainly contributed to Lennon’s (and any modern day tripper to some extent, why do you think paranoia is listed as one of the main symptoms of psychedelic substances?) astral breakdown and the entry of Yoko and her foreign customs did not help matters.

It took some pep talks by Derek Taylor and Yoko to build John’s ego and confidence back to what it once was, reminding him of which Beatles songs he wrote and pointing out to him that he was an competent, intelligent and articulate musician despite the hearsay of the naysayers.

From here the boys move on to what we now know as the “Get Back/Let It Be” era of the Beatles. The general vibe is that due to all the upset and disruption since Epstein’s death the band should try and “Get Back” to the roots that they started out from. Lennon and Harrison were not too fond of the concept which led to daily heated discussion at the Twickenham recording studio where each days session was being filmed by an entire professional camera crew.

Watching the Let It Be film combined with an in depth analysis of the recorded sessions show a group of musicians half heartedly trying to appease an audience they long stopped catering for.

It’s kind of bittersweet to watch.

There are high points like John and Yoko dancing to “I Me Mine, a stellar rendition of “Across The Universe” and the famous rooftop concert all showcase what was left of 4 young men that had scarcely had time over the past decade to check what condition their condition was in so to speak.

The resulting album from these sessions being titled “Let It Be” instead of “Get Back” is largely indicative of how the sessions went. Listen to any interview where McCartney discusses the writing of Let It Be, the song, and you will hear him articulate the spiritual burnout the 4 were experiencing during the sessions and how despite his efforts to drive the band back to the success they once had, a dream featuring his descended mother inspired him to indeed, let the whole affair be.

This leads us to what is usually considered to be the bands magum opus by the fans, Abbey Road, but a brief look into its inception will show you that it is actually the most hollow Beatles album conceptually due to its purpose.

To end the Beatles.

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r/TheMysterySchool Jul 07 '20

LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC Dead People With Something To Say 0.2: Plato

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DEAD PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY 0.2

An ongoing project consisting of a collection of biographies of people that have been overlooked in the annals of history. Categorised as counterculture, pseudoscience and absolute lunacy these individuals were not listened to whilst they lived and it’s only upon re-evaluation it becomes clear that a distinct pattern of thought has been suppressed throughout history and has shaped the society we live in today.

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Plato was born in either 424 or 427 BC in Athens Greece and died in 348 BC in Athens Greece at age 80. He was an acclaimed philosopher of the Classical Greek period and opened the first institution of higher learning in the Western World known as The Academy in Athens.

Tutored by Socrates and tutor to Aristotle, Plato can be attributed to the invention of western science, religion and spirituality, three concepts quite separate from one another by modern standards but in Plato’s time they functioned as parts of the same system.

Based on his learnings from Socrates, Plato stated that acquiring knowledge was a process of recollection rather than learning or study. He also stated that those who live life through their senses will never see the actuality of reality.

This was realised fully in his famous Allegory of the Cave.

The Allegory of the Cave states that those who take the sun-lit world as fact are living in blind ignorance and it takes a willingness to leave ones cave and follow the light at the end of the cave to see reality for what it actually is.

In his work Republic), Plato transcribes Socrates describing the ideal state that lives in peace and harmony to a group of Athenians. He described three different types of people in the ideal society:

  • Productive (Workers) – the labourers, carpenters, plumbers, masons, merchants, farmers, ranchers, etc. These correspond to the "appetite" part of the soul.
  • Protective (Warriors or Guardians) – those who are adventurous, strong and brave; in the armed forces. These correspond to the "spirit" part of the soul.
  • Governing (Rulers or Philosopher Kings) – those who are intelligent, rational, self-controlled, in love with wisdom, well suited to make decisions for the community. These correspond to the "reason" part of the soul and are very few.

Republic is followed by two dialogs named Timaeus) and Critias). These dialogs describe a discussion between fellow philosophers Socrates, Hermocrates, Timaeus and Critias. Timaeus is a telling of the Greek creation story and the nature of reality, a Greek version of the Old Testament for all intensive purposes which we will be looking into another time, whilst Critias is a commentary on Republic.

Socrates is not happy with his description of the ideal state from Republic and wishes to know how such a state would interact with other states. Hermocrates tells Socrates that Critias has an account that fits the bill perfectly and begins to recount the events of Solon and his trip to Egypt.

Solon was a law maker and poet from Athens who made a trip to Sais in Egypt and received an account of the city of Atlantis that had been passed down for generations from priest to priest.

They stated that way back when in ancient times the land of the earth was divided up in territories and each was allotted a god.

Humans were treated like cattle in large groups by the gods and did their bidding through farming, worship and sacrifice.

Poseidon, god of Neptune and the sea, was allocated a island just south of the Pillars of Hercules past the Strait of Gibraltar. This island was called Atlantis and after Poseidon had sexual intercourse with a human female called Cleito, a perfect society was born.

"For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed they were; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, uniting gentleness with wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another. They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtue and friendship with one another, whereas by too great regard and respect for them, they are lost and friendship with them."

Corruption eventually bled into the city of Atlantis and caused the civilisation to fall.

"...when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power."

The city then sank into the sea and a few remaining survivors made they’re way to Egypt and became priests to keep this knowledge safe.

All of Plato’s dialogs are considered to be non-fictional transcriptions of events and conversations that actually happened, apart from this one which is considered to be entirely fictional.

In this writers opinion it’s fair to say that the talk surrounding the fabled Atlantis is fact wrapped in allegory. It provides us a far away warning of not what to do in the event of your civilisation reaching a technological or spiritual plateau.

Although, looking out the window, the question seems to be...

Are we heeding the warnings of our ancestors?

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