Feb 11 2007
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Occult Arts and UFOs - Pt. 1
Part 1: Just What Is All This Mumbo-Jumbo Anyway?
Occasionally in our posts, Nick and I have been bandying about a few names and concepts related to the western occult belief system. How in the hell does this have anything to do with UFOs? Plenty, if you allow yourself to consider a few concepts. These are not easy to explain concisely.
In the late 1980s and early ’90s, I was a member of a group called the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), based here in Los Angeles. Through them, I enrolled in a correspondence course in Western Magic. (This is usually distinguished from the pulling-rabbits-out-of-a-hat definition by putting a “k” at the end, i.e. “magick.”) While I was free to attend “services” and classes, the few I did get around to made me want to continue in private. Nothing against the group, I’m just a solitary type by nature. I didn’t get very far–just to the “neophyte” level, but I probably didn’t need it anymore after that.
Before some of you start waving your hands in the air and saying “wooooeeeooo” we need to understand what all this stuff is about–at least as I see it.
The simplest way to explain this is what I say to people who are in some sort of personal or spiritual trouble, and are considering the Western Magical System, since it seemed to help me, at least for awhile. Different things work for different people so it takes some investigation. I look at Magick (sometimes pronounced “mage-ick”) as one of the oldest forms of self-therapy. People have always had personal problems and questions about the meaning of life. All cultures have been working on this for thousands of years. The east came up with Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Islam, among others. The culture I was raised in seems to be dominated by Christianity, and there have always been a few who had problems with it. It’s not that bad, as a concept. All systems and philosophies are more or less perfect until you get people involved. The magickal route worked for me when I needed it.
I mention this previously private part of my life here to emphasize that I am talking from some personal experience.
Why do you do what you do? Do you enjoy your life? What are we supposed to be doing here?– these are a few of the most important questions we can ask. Just about everything we are involved with in our day-to-day existence flows from these questions. I was wondering about this myself in the mid-1980s. The enculturation process teaches us to shut up and parrot back what we hear so that we will be acceptable to parents, teachers, peers and (ugh) employers. This leaves little room for what WE want. Magick tries to light that spark, and if it works, clears out the cobwebs of what others expect of us, and what we think we expect of ourselves. What the student is left with, if all goes well, is a clear understanding of what he or she wants to do, and perhaps a path to follow. Of course, some people will never have any idea about what they are here for, and nothing will get them there.
During the evolution of this system, people and groups like the ancient Egyptian priests, the Roscirucians, the Masons, the “Illuminati,” The Golden Dawn, John Dee, Macgregor Mathers, Aliester Crowley, and Jack Parsons have come along with their own versions of how these questions can be answered. Some of them involve a lot of drawing of symbols, chanting gibberish, dancing around fires, meditating and so forth, but it is all in pursuit of finding the “true will.” Unfortunately, it sometimes involves how to impose that will on others, but again of course this is when people and their pesky, selfish egos get involved. In the course of this chanting and drawing of symbols and all, some practitioners started to notice something strange: occasionally, there seemed to be something or someone answering back.
Part II: Conjuring Up Things, and Who’s that at the top of the post? (Many of you already know, but I’ll get to it in the next post.)
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February 12th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I’ve never understood the western civilization’s belief that less(?) technologically advanced cultures are somehow not as smart as we modern Westerners are. We’ve dismissed reports of the supernatural or paranormal as superstition or misinterpretation. It doesn’t take a lot of intelligence to observe and perhaps for lack of a better term, reverse engineer a localized effect that ancient peoples had probably been observing in conjunction with UFO activity for thousands of years. If a crashed or downed UFO was discovered in the ’30’s or ’40’s and we managed to reverse engineer some of it’s hard technology, couldn’t some of the older occult groups learned mental or psychic manipulation long ago and passed down the knowledge to a select group of disciples? Both the Hindu and Chinese have mastered biofeedback techniques long before western scientist even acknowledged the effect.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Before you go on the LAM…so to speak…I’ll tell you I think this might be a great thread starting. And crgintx is right about Western cultural hubris ,especially with regard to materialist scientism. One example of look-down-your-nose dismissiveness on the part of Western “know-It-ism” was acupuncture. All this silly stuff about body meridians and sticking little needles into specific places to achieve specific curative ends was just so much:
(A) tommyrot, (B) balderdash, (C) horse manure, (D) bull ploppings, or (E) All of the above.
The correct answer is, of course,(F) NONE of the above, because the system is physiologically valid and the treatment works. Western Ooga-Booga (known often as “Science”) didn’t…and largely still DOESN’T…WANT TO HEAR IT
because it didn’t originate HERE. It’s…ugh…”foreign” (how distateful)…and comes from an entirely different philosophical tradition. Gads, how embarassing.
And this stuff about parallel realities and crossover beings and summonings and invocations and magicks and perpetual life as sentient energy….and all that malarkey kind of stuff…is all a bunch of hooey!! Just ask US Western materialists!! WE know! Randi knows!!
Phil Klass knew!! Joe Nickell knows!!!
Don’t believe any of this paranormal, metaphysical, supra-normal hugger mugger! That pen-and-ink drawn figure at the top of this post…why, look very closely at its features and you’ll recognize in a instant what it is!!! It will come to you in a flash of brilliance! A divine revelation of Western Materialist Intellect!!!!!
Its an Owl!!!!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Greg;
My personal belief is that the further our science and technology advances the more it will confirm that much of what it ridicules, is actually true. And I have a sneaking suspicion that ultimately science will accumulate enough data that it will have to admit in the existence of some higher being (God.) Of course this may be along time from now but I think it is inevitable.
February 12th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I’ve dabbled in that stuff before. But just like you said about some things working for some people and not for others. It didn’t work for me, it only made things worse. Needless to say, I stopped.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
First of all, thanks to all commenters for not being judgmental on this part of my life, which I admittedly was reluctant to discuss. Actually, this is one of the first posts I composed, but it’s been sitting on the sidelines for over two months, until I got up the gumption to make it public.
Like all of you said, essentially the “parnormal” seems to encompass things that we just don’t have an explanation for, YET. I tend to look at it in light of the oft-cited example of the discovery of bronze: people didn’t know how it worked, it just did. Lack of an explanation does not exclude its usefulness.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Annie,
I guess I went a little further than dabbling, but I never went hardcore. Israel Regardie often remarked that a course in psychotherapy was recommended before plunging into the intricacies occult studies. It tends to show people parts of themselves that they’d rather not deal with. I ran up against that phenomenon, but not to any degree that it made me want to stop.
Later, I studied Buddhist thought, mainly because I was going to get married in a Buddhist temple and wanted to know more before I took that step. Also, the priests who performed the ceremony were teaching the class! The marriage ended, but my study continues.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
crgintx,
Exactly.
Every culture has something to bring to the table. We all have pieces of the puzzle, but the resistance to a syncretism of these philosophies and methods holds us back.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
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February 22nd, 2007 at 2:56 am
After reading Stargate Conspiracy, and all 3 Sinister Forces books recently, I’m absolutely convinced that much of what we have witnessed within UFOlogy stems from a deep seated belief by a few with access to political power in concepts first touted by Andrija Puharich via The NINE.
I recently wrote an article titled “Nazi’s, NASA & The NINE” showing the link of occult practices and beliefs. I apologize in advance if we are not allowed to post links in our comments.
http://wyzwyrld.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=1382.html
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Shawnna,
Links are fine, and your article is a great overview of occult influences in politics and the space program. The infamous Ira Einhorn once told me about a meeting/dinner he attended at Pucharich’s home where Geller effected a sort of controlled psychic pandemonium. I don’t recall the details. This was sometime in the early 1970s.
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Greg - Thanks, Greg.
I am researching Ira right now and have exchanged multiple letters with him.
Kit Green also had quite an experience while investigating Uri’s skills - as I understand it.
Based on what I’ve learned so far, Puharich was working for the govt at the time he was involved with The NINE and Uri. Have exchanged info with Phil Coppens on this as well.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:06 am
This is fairly off topic, but an interesting albeit small epiphany. I am doing some research that involves Crowley, and in the process writing and ruminating about things that I find interesting/pertinent regarding his influence within a current occult-paranormal-culture. Anyway, although I have seen his rendering of Lam that is posted here a bazillion times, and noted its obvious grey-prototypical features, I never noticed the sort of hidden face that is present, that represents almost exactly the streiber/communion realized grey. Note the highlit areas above the drawn/real eyes. Further, if you cover up the real eyes with your pinky, leaving only the mouth and highlighted eyes, the resemblance is absolutely striking.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Richelle,
My GOD, you’re right! The left eye (from our POV) has a swirl or something in place of the eye, which looks pretty nice, actually.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Yes, it’s swirlish. Almost like a pupil. On an assumption that Crowley was actually in touch with some kind of entity, either by methods of channeling, actual ET contact, or whatever, or if he was tapping into some just-forming collective archetype that has now fully evolved, the idea of projecting a humanoid form as evidenced in the ‘real eyes’, is obvious, but almost a statement or question as it manifests as that human looking swirly pupil. The drawing is remarkable on many levels. If interested, I’ll post a link when my article is published.