An Aberrant Gnostic

  If you follow UFOlogy at all, you might be familiar with the Betty and Barney Hill incident from 1961. There is a lot of “stuff” attached to this incident: Aleister Crowley, the television show “The Outer Limits,” possible psychological operations, or maybe, just maybe, a good old-fashioned encounter with extraterrestrials. If you aren’t familiar with the alleged incident, I asked my newfound friend, Gemini, to summarize it for those who might need a refresher course: In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, were driving home to New Hampshire from vacation when they observed a strange, bright light following their car. They experienced a period of missing time and unsettling physical and emotional symptoms afterward. Troubled by the experience, they eventually sought help through hypnosis therapy. Under hypnosis, they recalled detailed memories of being abducted and taken onboard a disc-shaped craft. Within the craft, the Hills described encou...

    Do you ever have those crazy, vivid dreams that seem to reveal a hidden truth, only to fade away upon waking? I do, and they're always a little frustrating. I might hear incredible, never-before-released music, watch mind-bending movies, or even dream of reading a revelatory passage hidden in a familiar book. Last night's dream was one of those. The Dream Bookstore The dream was as such : I was in bed, browsing my nightstand for something to read, when I stumbled upon a battered old paperback by Jacques Vallee. Musty and yellowed, covered in scribbles, it was titled something like "An Analysis of the Color of UFOs and Parameters Pertaining to Deity." Intriguing, but the real mystery lay in the book's first four pages. Printed on the glossy paper common in vintage UFO books, they were covered in cryptic symbols and English letters. Vallee's hypothesis, as I recall, was: "Transitioning from Man to God through Color." Accompanying this was a childli...

 In a republished The American Weekly article in the The San Francisco Examiner , published on April 07, 1957,  we get the first quotes of early translations from the lost "Fifth Gospel."  As the article states, the Apostle Thomas recorded these sayings while with Jesus and when Jesus spoke at Capernaum, on the Mount, by the shores of Galilee, in Bethany, and on the road to Jerusalem.  Quotes reference included:  Jesus said: He that is near Me is near the fire. He that is far from Me is far from the fire.  Jesus said: He that searcheth findeth.  He that findeth will be astonished. He that is astonished will be in admiration.  And he that knoweth admiration will reign over the world. And Jesus said: Man is like unto a clever fisherman who casts his net into the sea draws it up full of little fishes.  And among the little fishes he finds one good big fish.  And the wise fisherman takes the on big fish and throws back into the sea all the l...

  Per the The Dayton Daily News of November 1953, a query on my favorite newspaper database queues up an article regarding the Jung Codex .  The article hints that one book of the NHL curiously made its way out of Egypt and into the hands of Dr. Carl Jung at his Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology.  No real details are given on how the Institute managed to obtain the copy; however, it hints that a "lengthy and somewhat bizarre negotiation" was required to obtain the leather-bound book. Jung is referenced in the article with respect to his interest in Gnosticism.  Gnosticism, as I think the article defines Jung's reference of the ancient religion, is "a process of discovering the self in response to a call of God and by doing so renewing man's lost knowledge of God and his oneness of God."  The human experience is constantly encountering problems of reality and illusion...unconscious and conscious stimulation,...symbols, dreams, and images...and the re...

  Once more, if you found this post, you don’t need a definition as to what an Archon is.  Years ago, at a very highly, highly, highly uneducated attempt to translate some original digital NHL texts online with the Google machine, my first sense of the source material was that Archons related to tax collectors.  Am I surprised that someone was bitching about tax collection in ancient Greece/Roman times?  Would I be surprised if the whole sensibility of Gnosticism was a gripe about church collection/state collection of personal funds?  Absolutely not! Money makes the world go round, and human beings love it, cherish it, and will do whatever it takes to get more of it.  If you take it away from someone…look out.   Yet, that isn’t as exciting as some other work and thoughts on Archons.  Archons being a symbol of the tax man?  George Harrison would probably agree…but let’s pretend that Gnostic thought didn’t originate as a complaint about mo...