May 01 2007
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William S. Burroughs, Whitley Strieber, and UFOs
One night a couple of years ago, I was privileged to have dinner with Whitley Strieber, his wife Anne, and a few other UFO researchers. While there were hundreds of things I wanted to discuss with Strieber, one subject that really interested me was the rumor I’d heard that he had invited William S. Burroughs, one of my favorite authors, to his famous cabin in upstate New York.
Strieber said that Burroughs had indeed visited his retreat in the woods, made famous in the Communion books, not once, but twice as I recall. Apparently, Burroughs wished to encounter the “visitors” firsthand. Unfortunately, nothing notable happened when he was there. He told me that Burroughs was almost overly polite and very curious about Strieber’s unusual experiences.
It seems natural that someone who had written about drugs, Mayan gods and paranormal voices would seek contact with extra-human intelligence. Burroughs most likely saw it as an opportunity to examine and perhaps question something or someone who inhabited the realms beyond western, 20th century ideas of “reality.” Without specifically mentioning it in his writings, Burroughs was treading the path of the occultist and shaman. What he found, among other secrets, was something that had been there all along: the struggle between good and evil, freedom and control.
William Burroughs’ reference points were outside most of ours. Like any explorer, he searched for the highest peak for a better point of view. If he could establish some sort of connection with non-human intelligence, he may have thought he could finally crack the hard shell of what he called the “Nova Conspiracy”: one of his models for the drive that makes some humans seek total control of others. Burroughs was apparently convinced that this meme was so dastardly that it had to be due to an outside influence, namely what we would sometimes call “aliens.” It probably did not matter to him if the contact was with “good” or “bad” aliens. He could glean information from either source.
The ultimate goal, it seems, would have been to reveal what he had found and use the information to free the rest of us from our illusion of freedom when (as he saw it) we are ultimately controlled at the most basic level by artificial constraints put on our thoughts by those who wish us to remain mentally enslaved to the idea that we have no control over our own destiny.
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May 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Good article, Greg.
-Jason
May 1st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
“Without specifically mentioning it in his writings, Burroughs was treading the path of the occultist and shaman.”
Well, Burroughs was a member of Peter Carroll’s chaos magick group Illuminates of Thanateros http://ashejournal.com/index.php?id=166, and the Golden Dawn http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/2005/phantom.htm, and wrote the glowing review of the Simon Necronomicon, did the narration for “Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages”, his art graces the cover of Phil Hine’s Prime Chaos and he wrote nice blurbs for Hine’s books http://www.philhine.org.uk/books/index_mine.html. I’d argue that for example Cities of the Western Night and Western Lands are implicitly occult, as well as ideas in for example Adding Machine & Electronic Revolution being explicitly magickal.
He didn’t have to specifically mention it - he lived it, and everything he wrote is drenched with it…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pm
sorry - that should say ‘OTO’ not ‘Golden Dawn’
May 1st, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Very nice Greg; I enjoyed that.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 am
Jason & Regan,
Thanks!
I think that Burroughs had a deep understanding of how to access the “symbolic dimension,” as I call it, and that’s probably where them “aliens” hang out at least part of the time.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 am
P.S.
I have a picture somewhere of me wearing the hat on Burroughs’ head in the picture above, which a friend of mine picked up from Burroughs’ estate sometime after he had passed on.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:20 am
Fascinating. The professional parapsychologist George P. Hansen turned to anthropology as the means to access the key for universal freedom. http://tricksterbook.com
I studied with qigong master Chunyi Lin who constantly does long-distance full-lotus healing while working with the Mayo Clinic. http://springforestqigong.com
I’m always amazed at the left-brain, right-hand Matrix mind-control delusions of westernized materialists. Anger, sadness, overexcitement, worry, fear — these are our alien possessions.
Full-lotus pyramid power transforms the imbalanced electrochemicals of the main body organs so that the heart shoots love up into the 3rd Eye and back into the formless awareness — the Womb-tomb.
Nonwestern music is the model to access and resonate with the formless awareness. As Kurt Godel stated (in “Infinity and the Mind” by Rudy Rucker) for those who can time travel there is no desire to change their future. The ratios of music is the Perfect 5th as 2:3 which is YANG and the Perfect 4th as 3:4 which is YIN. I discovered this in my masters thesis freely online as “epicenters of justice” (2001, U of Minnesota). The ratios of nonwestern resonance literally are the mathematics of spacetime desire.
BTW after reading “In Search of the Miraculous” everyday for two months I finally cracked the sublime kernal of ideology in Gurdjieff (Streiber’s secret influence). Gurdjieff states that if the coefficient of frequency in the Law of Octaves is properly understood then alchemical transformation will take place at a much greater rate. He stated this is a secret that he will not tell.
Gurdjieff knew what he meant, of course, but he was being a Trickster! Coefficient is a western term but the Law of Octaves relys on asymmetrical resonance whereby C x G does not equal G x C. There is no “frequency” or “amplitude” when you use asymmetrical resonance with the Law of Pythagoras (the “shocks” of alchemy).
So the waveform of the Tai-Chi has spontaneous symmetry breaking BECAUSE 2:3 and 3:4 as the Tetrad (Yin and Yang) are asymmetrical with C to G as 2:3 and G to C as 3:4. Just as the 1-4-5 intervals of music naturally DESIRE to resolve (the blues progression for rock) so too does the equilateral triangle of the Big Black Triangle aircraft create ionized vortex plasma propulsion.
Gurdjieff gives an exercise called “circulation of energy.” In fact the same principle is detailed in Mircea Eliade’s book on Yoga and Immortality as well as in Charle Luk’s translation of “Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality.” There are 12 harmonic nodes along the outside of the body — based on the blacksmith alchemy of the elements cyclings with the ratio 2:3. This practice, turning the body into a Tesla harmonic oscillator, is called the “microcosmic orbit” or “small universe” practice. If done properly eventually the body turns back into formless awareness.
I only got to chapter six — by practice. I had strong electromagnetic fields suffuse my body and extend about ten feet from me. I had telepathy, telekinesis, and healing powers. I went 8 days with no food and half a glass of water. By the end of 8 days I needed only 5 hours of sleep a night even though I had never been hungry. This is called the “bigu” state in qigong.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 am
Greg
Very cool post.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 am
He probably had a lot of contact with the Tykes through DMT.
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 am
Drew,
So peace, happiness, a normal level of excitement, and condfience are natural human emotions and their opposites are “alien” in nature? How could we fully know those states without their opposites? It would seem better in that case not to have any emotion at all. The interplay between these states is what makes the positive so much more rewarding, I think, and it makes us sentient.
The goal of many spiritual disciplines is to realize what emotions are for, to be sure that we are experiencing them for the right reasons, and not to dwell on them.
At least, that what it seems like to me.
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:17 am
Nick,
Thanks Nick!
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
Daath,
I didn’t know that about Burroughs. It makes perfect sense. Perhaps Burroughs didn’t really need to join these groups, as he had already surpassed them by his own efforts. It would seem that they were after him for his blessing, rather than the other way around.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:49 am
Barry Miles biography of Burroughs “William Burroughs - El Hombre Invisible - A portrait” (1993) mentions Burrough’s meeting Strieber. He seemed convinced of Strieber’s experiences and commented on missing out: “It may mean that it was not propitious for them to come and pick me up at that particular time. It may mean that they would contact me at a later date or it may mean that they regard me as the enemy … We have no way of knowing what their motives are. They may find that my intervention is hostile to their objectives. And their objectives may not be friendly at all.”
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Greg,
Is there anyway to get Nicks e- mail?
I have tried to e- mail you or Nick a few times.
Jess
May 4th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
“William Burroughs’ reference points were outside most of ours. Like any explorer, he searched for the highest peak for a better point of view. If he could establish some sort of connection with non-human intelligence, he may have thought he could finally crack the hard shell of what he called the ‘Nova Conspiracy’: one of his models for the drive that makes some humans seek total control of others.”
Sounds like good thinking on Burroughs’ part—well, as long as he considered the possibility that the “Nova Conspiracy” had its source in the very beings he was seeking out for contact.
Sometimes the Abyss has a way of looking into those who peer too long into It.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:05 am
“He probably had a lot of contact with the Tykes through DMT.”
Or through his use of his “Dream Machine”
http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=347&fmt=page
May 6th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
24601,
“as long as he considered the possibility that the “Nova Conspiracy” had its source in the very beings he was seeking out for contact.”
I thought that I had implied that pretty clearly. If not, I apologize.
June 8th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Dear Greg, in brief; having viewed a star in the sky i mentioned to friends that i felt this star had a life/soul -i can say that because i’m clairvoyant and have channelled for many people. Someone mentioned that it could be a satalite. On my walk home from work I snapped a shot on my nokia mobile and what appeared was a formation of spherical balls travelling in a straight line. I have read Streiber’s comment in Confirmation that this is quite common. I have other shots in the morning where these spheres of light are around me on my way to work. I would love to send them for your perusal. Could you please send an e-mail address. It is refreshing to communicate with someone who actually believes in this fantastic phenomeon. PS - my encounters albeit few are only fueled with a great love for mankind and our planet. kind regards, Caroline