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Ronald Reagan: Occultist

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Photo: Blatant News/Flickr CC

I wonder if it means you’ve drunk the conspiracist’s Kool-Aid when you say to someone, abruptly, and for no apparent reason, “I’m not a Freemason.”

That’s what I said to a colleague at Emmanuel College, Friday, when I was blabbing about how, when working with someone, “I need to know if he’s on the level.”

Perhaps my self-consciousness was provoked by this bit about “the Great Communicator,” excerpted below (via Christopher Knowles). The piece, by occult historian Mitch Horowitz got me thinking about how our use of the language reveals our beliefs, and programming.

“At a 1957 commencement address at his alma mater Eureka College, Reagan, then a corporate spokesman for GE, sought to inspire students with this leaf from occult history. ‘This is a land of destiny,’ Reagan said, ‘and our forefathers found their way here by some Divine system of selective service gathered here to fulfill a mission to advance man a further step in his climb from the swamps.’”

You can listen to a wonderful interview with Horowitz, by Occult of Personality host, Greg Kaminsky, here.

And for Christopher Knowles’ analysis, click here.

via Political Bookworm – Reagan and the occult.

The Heretic's "10 New England Esotericists to Watch in 2010"

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New England is home to some of the biggest brains in the businesses of esoterica and mad science.

But you knew that already.

Here then, is my list of the busiest folks we know in the worlds of offbeat science publishing, UFOlogy, cryptozoology and the occult — even comics. Ghost-hunting? That is sooo last decade. But keep these peeps on your radar in 2010. They make for an eclectic mix, alright, but I think the list somehow works:

Marc Abrahams announcing "The Penguin Prize" at the annual Ig Nobel Prizes ceremony, at Harvard U. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ig Nobel Prizes.)

1. Marc Abrahams. Few can match the wit, charm and energy of this singular Cambridge, Mass. personality. Abrahams is the publisher of the uproarious Annals of Improbable Research, and organizer of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony, which honors  “research that makes people laugh and then think.” He also writes a weekly column about wacky science (think bras that double as gas masks, and astrology charts for bacteria), for the UK Guardian.

Tim Binnall. (Photo: Courtesy of BoA)

2. Tim Binnall. Did you know that one of the planet’s fastest-growing podcasters to the “Coast-to-Coast AM” crowd is based right here, in the Hub? The young genius behind the whole thing, Tim Binnall, is relaunching his website, Binnall of America, with another season of podcast interviews with big-name UFOlogists and conspiracy researchers, from Texas to Sweden.

Binnall also organizes a successful paranormal confab in the Hub.

3. Loren Coleman. This legend in the world of cryptozoology (2010 marks his 50th year in the business) will be surprising us again with new insights, and new guests and events at his Portland, Maine-based International Museum of Cryptozoology.

A regular contributor to Coast to Coast AM, Boing Boing, and The Anomalist, Coleman is also the keeper of the world’s most popular cryptozoology blog, Cryptomundo.

Loren Coleman and friend. Photo: Loren Coleman (via Thomas Roche/Flickr CC

Coleman this year will be speaking at Bigfoot and “big cats” conferences — both at home and across the pond, in Glasgow, Scotland. This spring, he will also be lending his expertise to the ongoing search for the Loch Ness Monster.

In addition to his ongoing consulting work for History’s “MonsterQuest,” and Animal Planet’s “Lost Tapes,” Coleman will also be working on (we kid you not) five new books.

4. Stanton Friedman. I met Stanton Friedman at a UFO conference in Washington, D.C. a few years ago, and I’ve been trying to keep up his research ever since. But I only learned (after listening to Mr. Binnall’s interviews with this UFO luminary) that Friedman resides in the Northeast. Friedman jokes in his BoA interviews that he is one of the few surviving members of UFOlogy’s “old guard.” But I expect he’ll have a lot more to say at his conferences appearances this year.

5. Greg Kaminsky. If you like your occult podcasts served-up hot, and packaged with vintage Black Sabbath tracks, Beverly, Mass.-based Greg Kaminsky is your guy. Kaminsky is the host of the fantastic website and podcast, “Occult of Personality,” which — like BOA — is poised for big changes (including a subscriber section, with extended interviews) and breakout success in 2010. Kaminsky has landed interviews with leading occult scholars on both sides of the Atlantic since making his quiet start, just a couple of years ago. To taste some of that OoP magic I am talking about, check out this fascinating interview with Penguin’s occult books editor, Mitch Horowitz.

John Rozum and son, at the International Museum of Cryptozoology, in Portland, Maine. (Photo: Loren Coleman)

6. John Rozum. Scooby-Doo. The X-Files comics. The supernaturally-talented writer may be in the business of inventing things that go bump in the night, be he is also said to be living quietly on Cape Cod. One of Rozum’s latest creations, The Hangman, is fighting human trafficking in DC Comics’ just-released The Web #4.

7. Joe Moore. Commended to this list by OoP’s Kaminsky, Moore is a New Hampshire-based podcaster, a breathwork facilitator, and onetime Evolver spore group leader. (Click the links if you are as mystified by these terms as I was.) Not sure if magic is for you? Try the “Mr. Spock” ritual that Moore discusses in his latest podcast with chaos magic expert Andrieh Vitimus. (Skip to the 17-minute mark, if you can’t wait.) Next: Moore and Kaminsky in 2010 are collaborating on a documentary film.

8. Joseph Citro is sick of ghosts. Yeah, that’s right. Ghost-busting, the bane of Binnall and other esotericists — driven half-mad by hacks seeking quick paranormal fame — is tired. Citro made his break from the past last fall, with one of his latest titles, The Vermont Monster Guide, a roundup of the land, air and sea creatures haunting the North.

9. The guys behind NE FOR (the New England UFO Research Organization). When Tim Binnall hints at the political infighting within the New England UFO community, he might be referring in part to the guys who last year formed this New England MUFON splinter group. But more UFO researchers might mean more eyes on the sky, and more thorough documentation of sightings

10. Mr. Crowley. Just be sure you pronounce the first syllable of his name correctly, like the bird, while in Salem, Mass. (Not the way Ozzy Osbourne does in his classic song about the Beast.)

And yeah, I know the guy’s dead. But when the Heretic placed its call for nominees last weekend, a bunch of folks, from Salem and beyond, tapped their peers in magical orders that derive their inspiration from Crowley. Crowley-inspired authors and booksellers, too, all got a good talking-up.

So, stay tuned on this one, because I’m going to need a week-or-two to share with the rest of you, what our magician friends have been sharing with me.

Sticky, Sweet, Madonna a riddle

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Matt Drudge‘s best headline, ever (image, caption, below, left): this is FREAKY. Perhaps the synchromystics, or the occultists, can explain this latest exhibition?

Bonus: This bit, about her carbon footprint (right):

My Way News – Madonna kicks off `Sticky and Sweet’ tour in UK
However, others wondered at the singer’s carbon footprint, questioning the amount of carbon dioxide pumped out by ferrying Madonna’s wardrobe, makeup, and freezers (for ice to soothe the dancers’ aching feet) across the world.

See also: Lady Di, Mind Controlled

OOP takes on the "secret cipher of the ufonauts"

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Listen, and experience the synchronicities

Make new friends, but keep the old. The Rt. Rev. T Allen Greenfield with his Fiji mermaid. 

Greg’s podccats at Occult of Personality are a must-listen if you want to rekindle your studies of Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky and other occult figures of the early 20th century.

In his latest piece, Greg talks with ufologist and occultist T Allen Greenfield, who claims to have discovered a secret code that ties together ufology and occultism (see book cover, left).

The code “is definitely a cypher that is decipherable and comprehendible,” Greenfield tells Greg in the interview.

On another note: I’ve been experiencing the most interesting startling synchronicities in my life after listening to Greg’s chats with Todd Campbell at Through the Looking Glass, and Synchronos23.

I will eat my hat if–after listening to the podcasts–you don’t start experiencing some synchronicities, too. (I don’t know why, it just happens.)

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Podcast 17 – T Allen Greenfield and the Secret Cipher
the Rt. Rev. T Allen Greenfield, who joins us to discuss one of his books, “Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts.”

Blue Moon tonight

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Here’s how to find it.

Bad weather and light pollution in the Boston area often ruin skywatching opportunities such as this (see link and excerpt, below).

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Tonight’s Blue
Moon has a companion: Jupiter. All night long, the giant planet
will be located right beside the Moon. You can see them with the
naked eye or, for a real treat, scan the pair with a backyard telescope.
Behold the moons of Jupiter, lunar mountains and craters, and maybe
even the Great Red Spot

It's "eso-researcher," not "conspiracy theorist" (about labels)

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Mists and winds mark Greg’s worldview

Occult of Personality (link and excerpt, below, and thanks to Red Ice), notes the recent and rapid rise of eso-research websites. Eso-researchers search for answers to our earthly problems through mysticism, occultism and the study of stargates and secret societies.

I agree with webmaster Greg that many people knock eso-researchers for their willingness to discuss topics outside the mainstream. “Conspiracy theorist” is one label that rankles Alan Watt, for example.

Greg describes his own, personal (and, I imagine, typical) experiences and motivations for pursuing eso-research, in this fairly purple passage: “The mists of illusion and deceit were thick enough to obscure the reasons for my wandering. The winds of wisdom blew away the mists and cleared my vision to allow me to understand much better what was going on around and within me.”

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In the past year, there has been a virtual explosion in the field of eso-research on the internet. I include myself in these ranks as Occult of Personality 1.0 went live in October of 2006.
Many people use derogatory labels in an attempt to sideline, minimize, and relegate our ideas to a dustbin, easily emptied when it gets too full.
Whether the subject is geo-political intrigue, banking and economics, social planning, world history, entertainment, celebrities and pop culture, or religion and spirituality, the ancient Mystery schools and their ideas have had some (or a lot) of influence, in some way or another, on all of them. The analysis being presented via the internet is not only timely, but I believe it to be crucial to accurately understanding who we are and where we are going.

57 ET species doing business on Earth

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Civilization is inhuman, Austin-based says eso-researcher Freeman. His guest, Dr. Michael Salla, agrees. Salla says there are 57 different alien species interacting with planet Earth at this moment.

“Short grays” are among the few interacting with the U.S. government. The short grays are known to abduct humans for genetic experiments, says Freeman.

Freeman also suspects the alien short grays live underground. And he finds it very interesting that computers are made from “silicon, gas and gold”–all subterranean materials.

Salla suggests the activities of the small grays are directed by a race called the tall whites, or tall grays, and other races of reptilians and praying mantises.

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Dr. Michael Salla joins Freeman on a discussion of everything extraterrestrial. As head of the Exopolitics Institute, Dr. Salla has much to say about ET activity on planet earth.

Lady Di, mind-controlled

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Just discovered this blog, courtesy of Red Ice Creations (www.redicecreations.com). Blogger Ben Fairhall is about the business of uncovering an occult conspiracy. He’s among the watchers I’ll be watching…

Also, from Fairhill’s blog (re: Scarlett Johansson, which he spells “Johannsen”):

“Is Scarlett also bloodline, perchance; being groomed as a future Marilyn/Diana by forces unknown?”

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Miss Scarlett: the (mind controlled) Lady in Red?

Readers with a fairly long memory may recall my article entitled Series of Dreams, a synchro-mystical investigation of (amongst other things) the murder of Princess Diana, as seen through the work of Chris de Burgh. The Lady in Red, the song that will follow Mr de Burgh (and the people of Iran, quite possibly) to his watery grave, is closely associated with Diana via her mistaken assumption that it was written about her, and by dint of its obvious similarity to Elton John’s tribute to the Queen of Hearts, Something About The Way You Look Tonight. There is another lady in red in The Matrix movies: a ‘sentient programme’ or hologram. Thus, synchro-mystically- to borrow Jake Kotze’s terminology- we have connected Princess Diana and ‘programming’… and hence to the inevitable conclusion that Diana was under some heavy form of mind control.

Homer's "on the square" (from the Freeman Perspective)

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Description at Google Video: Explore hundreds of photos of the elite in politics, banking, religion, and entertainment, as Texe and Freeman illustrate their vast…knowledge on the subjects of Freemasonry, goddess worship, and occultism. Witness a ritual of witch-craft being performed in the full public view. Understand the meaning behind the kiss of Britney and Madonna. Know that your world is manipulated by occultists.�
Improved production values…freemanperspective.jpgFreeman regularly posts his public access television show from Texas. He’s also been a guest on Red Ice Radio, where he delivered a fascinating analysis of the “sex slave” roles of Madonna, Britney and Anna Nicole. This episode is an interview with Christian end-timer Texe Marrs. (Note the improved production values: type, image overlays, even lighting and sound are improved, compared with Freeman’s earlier videos.)