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That’s one of the conclusions in Col. John Alexander’s new book, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2011).  You can read a full review over at the Magonia blog entitled, “Why the Pentagon Pantry is Empty.”

Technorati Tags: alexander, military, myths conspiracies, UFOs

My blog reader treated me this morning to this post from UFO Mystic. It is headlined “NSA Document Verifies ET Contact” and touts a de-classified NSA Technical Journal article by H. H. Campaigne that examines radio signals from space.  The article determines that the signals show intelligence and then ends by saying that more signals from space have been received.  Must be Disclosure!  A little digging would show that wasn’t and isn’t the case.

The PDF at the UFO Mystic link takes you to an NSA Technical Journal article from volume 14, issue no. 1.  The first paragraph alludes to an earlier article (volume 11, no. 2) which is not provided by UFO Mystic (or the site from which it got the story), nor by many other websites tossing this “disclosure” around.  Here is the earlier article (also written by Campaigne), which took less than five minutes of my time to find.  That article in turn refers to yet another previous article (NSA Technical Journal, volume 11, no. 1) written by Lambros Callimahos.  Another five minutes of work.  So what’s the point?

The point is that, taken in order and context, this whole thing is a thought experiment between Callimahos and Campaigne, and their readers, in the NSA Technical Journal on hypothetical contact and decipherment of an ET signal. These were released in 2004 to boot — to no hullabaloo. Disclosure Gullibility FAIL again. The whole exercise is sketched out here if you are curious.

Technorati Tags: Callimahos, Campaigne, disclosure, ET, NSA, NSA technical journal, radio, SETI, signal

The Magonia Blog posted a review today on an important new book by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck entitled, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times, and Their Impact on Human Culture, History and Belief (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010). You can read the review here. Two paragraphs of note:

Of course these accounts are not without interest, and the portions relating to strange lights in the sky may well contain material of interest to astronomers and meteorologists. This is particularly true of the material from the nineteenth century. For example some of the observations of dark objects crossing the sun might be early accounts of near-earth asteroids.

Though the second section entitled ‘Myths, Legends and Chariots of the Gods’ is supposed to be the one in which more mythical or even fictional material is presented, once it moves out of modern hoaxes, the differences between the two sections become rather academic. Again, it seems to invoke the sort of arguments which plagued projects like INTCAT, trying to separate out the ‘genuine’ from ‘spurious’ cases, often on the basis of personal belief and boggle factor. Again if we cannot make easy judgements about events in our own time, how can we possibly make them about events and experiences centuries ago?

I’m reading the book now, and will no doubt have similar sentiments, though I’ll probably be harsher. To this point, while this book will be valuable as a reference source, it is a parade example of over-promising and under-delivering. Stay tuned to find out why.

Technorati Tags: ancient, Ancient Astronauts, signs and wonders, ufos antiquity, Vallee

I just heard of the passing of Dr. Tom Hawkins yesterday. Those who follow this blog of who have read The Facade have likely not heard of Tom, but he figures in the novel and his work will again constitute part of the plot line of the sequel, now titled The Portent.

Tom spent the better part of two decades ministering to people who were the victims of ritual abuse (the term used for such is actually “survivors”).  This is what (in part) used to be called MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) but which is now called DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). His patients included people deliberately traumatized as the result of mind-control experimentation aiming at the deliberate creation of “alters” (yes, it’s real – just look up MK-ULTRA in the Congressional record). More often, though, the abuse was the result of “less weird” traumatization, such as satanic ritual abuse (SRA). Tom was a graduate (PhD) of Dallas Theological Seminary and not a crank. He fit the template of a normal evangelical pastor. He stumbled onto the DID problem while in the pastorate, when it turned out his wife Dianne was a survivor and neither of them knew it (she was “triggered” and certain behaviors and memories resulted). Their story, along with a range of materials on the subject and its treatment, is available through his website and ministry, Restoration in Christ Ministries.

So what’s the connection to The Facade? Well, in the latest version, recall the revelation of the name “Gottlieb” (Sydney Gottlieb). A number of Tom’s survivors spoke of the same types of trauma and, in particular, the messaging, as reported by so-called alien abductees: nephilim babies, hybridization, OBEs, etc. – except no aliens. That isn’t a coincidence.

It turns out that Tom was able to help many survivors become re-integrated or whole as a result of his research in “the cosmic hierarchy” (aka, the divine council). I never figured on it, but my own work in the divine council was of help to him. He focused mainly on the New Testament, while most of my work has been in the Old Testament and ancient Near East. But gods are gods, and they do what they do. And their over-arching agenda is clear in terms of the big picture, if not the immediate details that swirl about us.

Providentially, the only time I have ever presented anything approximating a start-to-finish overview of the divine council worldview covering both testaments was this past October in Lehighton, PA, at the request of Tom and some of his assistants. I’ve never been asked by a church to do so.  I’m so glad I made time for it now. It was all recorded, and can be purchased in support of Tom’s ministry (I don’t sell the disks and earn nothing from them – per my request everything goes to this ministry). The DVDs cannot as yet be ordered online, but you can inquire about and order them via phone.

pretty cool – interesting and entertaining.