Jan 02 2008
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UFOs & Allende
If, like me and Greg, you are a fan of old-time Ufology and that long-gone era when (A) UFOs really were shaped like Flying Saucers; (B) long-haired space-beings with entertainingly-stupid names and from far-off galaxies demanded we disarm our nukes, stole our soil and stopped the engines on our cars; (C) there existed a UFO research group - NICAP - that actually achieved things, beyond the bickering and name-calling that typifies much of today’s scene; and (D) Ufology was actually fun, rather than just deathly serious, pompously self-important, and amusingly ego-driven, then this is a book you are definitely going to want: a very-welcome reprint of a decidedly strange book that has become legendary in ufological circles: The Allende Letters and the VARO Edition of The Case for the UFOs.
For those who may not be aware of the full story (or even part of it), here, below in italics, is the publisher’s burb for the book. I may not have lived through the 50s, but when it comes to Ufology at least, I kind of wish I did. Sometimes. Mind you, if I did I’d either be old or dead by now, so perhaps not…
DID THE PUBLICATION OF THIS RARE MANUSCRIPT CAUSE FAMED ASTRONOMER DR MORRIS K. JESSUP TO ‘COMMIT SUICIDE?” Or was he murdered because of what he knew? Only a handful of copies were originally printed on an office copier by a private government contractor.
NOW AVAILABLE AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS On the evening of April 20, 1959, an astronomer committed suicide in Dade County Park, FLorida. Inhaling automobile exhaust fumes which he had introduced from the tail pipe through a hose into his station wagon, he died in the same academic obscurity in which he had lived, unheralded and almost unrecognized in his discipline. Ironicallly, the scientists only public recognition had come from lay people, who had read his series of four books about UFOs.
Morris Jessup’s first book, THE CASE FOR THE UFO, had tended to alienate him from his colleagues. It was a paperback edition of this volume published in 1955 that enmeshed Jessup in one of the most bizarre mysteries in UFO history. An annotated reprint of the paperback was laboriously typed out on offset stencils and printed in a very small run by a Garland, Texas manufacturing company with military ties.
Each page was run thrugh the small office duplicator twice, once with blank ink for the regular text of the book, then once again with red ink, the latter reproducing the mysterious annotations by three men, who may have been gypsies, hoaxters or space people living among humankind.
The spiral bound volume contained more than 200 pages ane became known as the Annotated Edition. A reprint quickly became legend. A few civilizan UFO enthusiasts claimed to have seen copies, but there were only known to be seventeen in existence one of which Jessup possessed. . . but which mysteriously disappeared after his death. . . never to be seen again.
This is a once in a lifetime offered reprint of the Case For The UFO with all the rare notes exactly as presented by these “strangers.” The big mystery is why the government would go to so much trouble to reprint a book that had been rejected by the scientific community and further to include mysterious letters to the author and even more bizarre annotations.
This manuscript is the first to hint at the Philadelphia Experiment, Time Travel and other scientifically “oddities.” It is a manuscript which has been long searched for because of its quite peculiar nature and its rarity among “those in the know.”
There are some who say this book is among the weirdest ever published on unidentified flying objects. One copy is known to have been sold for $1200. This reprint is but a fraction of the cost.This edition also contains a rare introduction by Gray Barker.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Awesome. I remember reading about this in one of Jenny Randle’s books. By the way Nick, that recent interview you did with Tim Binnall was fantastic. I had just been reading about Alexandra David-Neel (not sure if you’ve heard of her) and her involvement with a tulpa so what you said about tulpas really hit the spot. Was really food for thought and helped to give shape to some vague thoughts I’ve been having about this whole area. I wish more researchers took your non-dogmatic approach.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Ben
Cool, glad you liked the interview. I am indeed very conversant with David-Neel’s work and, as Greg and others know, I have done a lot of research into the Tulpa phenomenon - both historical and from a perspective of invocation and manifestation.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I’ve read David-Neel’s books but if you really want to be an expert then the biography of her life called “Forbidden Journey” is a must-read. The second edition is actually much revised as the authors continued to dig.
I mention it because the book reveals how David-Neel’s attempt at “tummo” or yogic inner heat was sincere yet a failure: She got a very bad cold, the reverse of the goal to dry several ice cold blankets thrown on the meditator’s body. Her “tulpa” was created based on a process that David-Neel acknowledged commonly created insanity — the confinement of an individual to a very restricted box for what could be over three years. For example in the Catskill Mountains there is a confined Tibetan training — 3 years, 3 months and 3 days — but even then it’s house with outside access and several people together, etc. So it’s hard to say how much David-Neel’s “tulpa” was the result of some sort of group hallucination, as could easily be the case in such scenarios.
I think Milarepa, the acknowledged leader of Tibetan meditation, reveals the true methodology for tulpa creation. Full-lotus was his means and it’s one that can not be hallucinated. I was reading an excellent book on dakinis (a type of tulpa) stating Milarepa would have to eat normal food when he was not in full-lotus samadhi but otherwise he was fed by what could also be called tulpas — spirit-energy channelled through the third eye. As the energy gets stronger then it certainly can take real physical form but in the West it’s much more common to hallucinate such experiences, as is the case with drugs (just an override of the thalamus as the cerebellum directly downloads images to the cerebral cortex). What enables a true tulpa to be created is the same as the conversion of tummo — electrochemical heat — into electromagnetic-light energy that becomes so intense it enables telekinesis. Since David-Neel failed at tummo we can therefore logically conclude that her tulpa was also unreal.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Just so you guys know, you can find a reproduction of the Varo edition here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Varo-Jessup.PdF
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Too bad the publisher couldn’t come up with a better cover, but this will put an important document in the hands of a new generation (and devalue the rare copies still in existence!)
What is still interesting is how Allende managed to come up with all the weird info and ideas, unless he was some sort of idiot savant who read a lot.
Even if we look at the 1950s with filters of nostaligia, the people I’ve talked to who lived through that era also seem to think things were a lot less serious and more fun at the time.
Don’t worry Nick, the longevity drugs will be much better and chaper by the time we need them!
See my earlier post for more on Jessup and Allende.