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In 1975, John Keel published his strange and classic
Mothman Prophecies about the even stranger events he experienced and investigated in 1966-67 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The book, and the articles he wrote nearly 10 years before, were decades ahead of their time, identifying and taking seriously countless topics that most people ignored or wrote off as fantasy, but which are now being taken seriously by many in the field of ufology. Today, we took a broad look at the book and the phenomena Keel described.
We also discussed the latest iteration of the
X-Files TV show (see SOTT editor Ennio Adams' series on the show starting
here): what it gets right, and what it gets wrong, and why it matters. In the last half hour we gave brief updates on the situations in Syria and Ukraine, as well as the U.S. presidential election. Tune in!
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It is interesting that John Keel’s conclusions from his last book The Cosmic Question of the Eighth Tower, have been rarely taken into account, such as:
”You and I are biochemical robots controlled by the powerful radiations being broadcast from the Eighth Tower [supercomputer]. Our brains are programmed like computers, and many of us are suddenly and completely reprogrammed at some point in our adult life. At birth our entire lives are planned for us, and as we weave and totter through our allotted three score and ten, we find ourselves manipulated by ‘luck’, by strange coincidences, and by sudden changes in ourselves and our environment.
Visualize a mad scientist who needs someone to clean out his secret laboratory in his castle on a forbidding mountaintop.
He constructs a mechanical robot for the job and programs it so it can move freely within the lab, but if it should open the door and try to move out of the laboratory, it is programmed to self-destruct.
The robot calls it slavery. We call it free will. We are free to pursue our life in our own way so long as we conform to the hidden master plan. If we try to circumvent that plan by zigging instead of zagging, we self-destruct.”
We are biochemical robots helplessly controlled by forces that can scramble our brains, destroy our memories and use us in any way they see fit. They have been doing it to us forever. We are caught up in a poker game being played with marked cards. Yet, in the closing years of this century, we are like the inveterate gambler who, when informed that the game is crooked, shrugs and says, “I know… but it’s the only game in town”!
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All of our beads are wired to a central switchboard [supercomputer]. That switchboard is the only God and the only reality. Illusions and delusions are piped down from it to further confound our perception of reality.”
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The manifestations around us are not the work of the gods but of a senile machine playing out the end game.”
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So, no wonder that these conclusions are not popular, however, there is a lot of indications that Keel was spot on. We seem to be living in a virtual, computer programed reality, where our personalities would be just a part of the program, as characters in a computer game , i.e. artificial (regardless how spiritual or creative they may seem). Today, we have many scientist confirming the virtual nature of the reality and some calling it a “virtual simulation”.
John Keel did not bother with figuring out how to overcome the state in which we are in, i.e. how to free ourselves from the AI, which runs the show program in this reality. The only serious efforts in regards to that, we can find in Eastern Gnosis, as represented by Gurdjieff, Uspensky and Mouravieff. According to the eastern gnostic sources - from the “General Law’ (which controls everything and everybody and has all the attributes of an AI), human beings can free themselves only by recognising the falsehood of their personalities and connecting themselves with their Real Is, and therefore with the objective or true consciousness (as personalities or False Is, we are familiar only with the subjective or the false consciousness, which does pretty good job in confirming our false existence in a false reality).
So, John Keel figured out the problem, but not the solution.
I would recommend for a contemplation the following materials dealing with these issues:
Project Camelot Interview - James Mahu: [Link]
The Fifth Interview of Dr. Jamisson Neruda: [Link]
(at the above sources, the term “Sovereign Integral” would mean the same as the Real I and the “HMS” would imply the gnostic General Law)
And, of course, we should be aware of the “vicious circle” which goes on and on, just by imagining a possibility where somebody manages to overcome his “foreign installation”/predator’s mind/”machine”/False I/Trojan horse/the coachman… and to connect with his Real I. So, when talking to others, he would, in fact, be talking to - other people’s… “foreign installations”. This is why Gurdjieff was saying that the truth can be told only in a form of lies (parables, myths, fairy tales…), however, it seems that it can not go forever?!
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