Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

According to Picknett and Prince, authors of the Stargate Conspiracy, the concept of nine legendary leaders plays an important role synarchism. The Brotherhood Polaires, who shared extensive links with the synarchists, claimed to have channeled a Rosicrucian brotherhood of nine Unknown Superiors who had migrated from Thule to Shambhala in Tibet. The Grand Master of the Brotherhood Polaires was Victor Blanchard, who founded the Ordre Martiniste et Synarchique (OMS), from which emerged the Mouvement Synarchique d’Empire (MSE), who were exposed in the Chavin Report as the synarchist conspirators behind the Vichy regime. Andrija Puharich (1918 – 1995)—a friend of Aldous Huxley, who was connected with the synarchists through his friendship with Jean Coutrot, leader of the MSE and purported author of the Synarchist Pact—ran psychic experiments on behalf of the CIA’s MK-Ultra program that established contact with group of discarnate entities who called themselves the Council of Nine.

Puharich primary medium for contacting the Counci of Nine was Mossad agent and spoon-bender Uri Geller, who confirmed they were behind the surge in UFO activity, starting from Arnold’s sighting of 1947.[1] On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, an American businessman from Boise, Idaho, reported a sighting of ten shining discs over the Cascade Mountains while flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Western Washington. According to Arnold, “they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.” While there had been sightings of “balls of fire” (nicknamed “foo fighters”) by World War II fighter pilots, or cigar and disc-shaped objects, such as the wave of Scandinavian “ghost rockets,” the research of Robert Bartholomew and George Howard has shown that before 1947, “there is not a single recorded episode involving mass sightings of saucer-like objects.”[2]

Puharich admitted that his early experiments at his Round Table Foundation were inspired by reading the theosophical works of Alice Bailey, who played a formative role in the founding of the Eranos Conferences, through her friendship with Olga Froebe-Kapteyn. Puharich also received the support of former Vice-President Henry Wallace, who was a student of Nicholas Roerich.[3] The surge of sightings signaled what Alice Bailey called the “Externalization of the Hierarchy,” when the Spiritual Hierarchy or Shambhala—in other words, the Fallen Angels—will make themselves known, heralding the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, and establishment of a one-world government headed by “Jesus Christ the Avatar” at the United Nations. These events were foretold to Bailey by her “Ascended Master” Djwahl Khul, whom Carl Jung interpreted to her higher self.[4] Jung also believed that the surge of reports heralded a transformation of archetypes resulting from the dawn of the Age of Aquarius. In one of his last books, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1958), Jung argued that the strange circular flying shapes were mandalas from outer space, “projections” formed by the psychic tension produced by the Cold War, and suggested that a collective shift in human consciousness was on the way. UFO sightings were so significant that, referring to his prophecy of the “blond beast,” Jung felt “compelled, as once before… to sound a note of warning”:

My conscience as a psychiatrist bids me fulfill my duty and prepare those few who will hear me for coming events which are in accord with the end of an era,” he told his readers. “As we know from ancient Egyptian history, they are symptoms of psychic changes that always appear at the end of one Platonic month and at the beginning of another. They are, it seems, changes in the constellation of the psychic dominants, of the archetypes or ‘Gods’ as they used to be called, which bring about… long-lasting transformations of the collective psyche.[5]

As famed UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, who inspired Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, indicated, most witnesses do not typically report seeing an object or a craft, but a massive, multicolored, intense, pulsating light, accompanied by strange sounds. Actual entry into “space crafts” is typically described as an out-of-body experience. Occurrences often involve losses of memory, recaptured only through hypnosis. And a professor of English at California State University in Long Beach, Al Lawson has demonstrated that contactee experiences can be induced in almost anyone.[6] Vallée began exploring the commonalities between UFOs, cults, religious movements, demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena. In Messengers of Deception, Vallee concluded: “I believe that UFO are physically real. They represent a fantastic technology controlled by an unknown form of consciousness. But I also believe that it would be dangerous to jump to premature conclusion about their origin and nature, because the phenomenon serves as the vehicle for images that can be manipulated to promote belief systems tending to the long-term transformation of human society.”[7]

The CIA’s pursuit of programs such as MK-Ultra and Project Stargate represent attempts to explore ideas and reproduce phenomena experienced through their associations with the occult. Ultimately, the entire basis of occult ritual in Freemasonry is communication with discarnate entities, referred to as “demons” in former times, more popularly now as “extraterrestrials,” through séances and channeling. Inspiration for the occult practices of the CIA derived from séances, which represented the age-old phenomenon of mediumship. Interpretations of the nature of the entities contacted has varied over time. In ancient times they were worshipped as gods, whereas in more recent times they have been interpreted to represent the spirits of the dead, or Ascended Masters who have achieved existence on higher planes of existence.

Most recently, the common astrological association of these spirits with the stars and planets has been readapted through the influence of science fiction, and are now commonly identified as “aliens” from outer space, or extra-terrestrials. The notion that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) belong to extraterrestrial life or non-human aliens from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth, is known as the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). ETH can be traced back to a number of earlier ideas, starting with Emanuel Swedenborg, who in The Earths in the Universe stated that he conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond our solar system, describing them as human-like but immaterial beings who communicated telepathically. Blavatsky asserted that the ancients had first-hand knowledge of extraterrestrial life on planets such as Venus, which she suspected may have “influence” or “control” over the earth. When the theosophist William Scott-Elliot described life in Atlantis in The Story of Atlantis & The Lost Lemuria in 1896, the aircraft of the Atlanteans are propelled by Vril-force. George Bernard Shaw read the book and was attracted to the idea of Vril, according to Michael Holroyd’s biography of him. Ancient Martian civilization was promoted by astronomer Percival Lowell, and the science fiction writings of H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Charles Fort (1874 – 1932), an American writer and researcher, collected accounts of anomalous physical phenomena from newspapers and scientific journals, including many reports of extraordinary aerial objects. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize such phenomena. These reports were first published in 1919 in The Book of the Damned. In this and two subsequent books, New Lands (1923) and Lo! (1931), Fort theorized that visitors from other worlds were observing Earth. Fort speculated that old stories of demons could be related to “undesirable visitors from other worlds,” who may have communicated with ours in the distant past, left behind advanced technology, or attempted to colonize the earth.

While the UFO religions first “contacts” were telepathic communication with Ascended Masters, it was not until the advent of the Roswell that the myth of extra-terrestrials as pilots of “flying-saucers” emerged. It was Kenneth Arnold’s “flying saucers” that both began the modern waves of sightings and ushered UFOs into popular culture. According to Partridge, “the interest in Arnold's story was immediate and massive.”[8] Public interest was such that the US Air Force felt compelled to carry out an investigation. By the end of the year, 850 UFO sightings were reported in America alone. Within a few weeks of the Arnold incident, the famous crash took place at Roswell.

The FBI also proceeded to investigate the Maury Island Incident, which took place three days before the incident at Roswell. According to report by Kenneth Arnold, Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl claimed to him that they were harbor patrolmen on a workboat near Maury Island and that they saw six doughnut-shaped objects in the sky. According to Crisman and Dahl, one of the objects dropped a substance that resembled lava or “white metal” onto their boat, breaking a worker’s arm and killing a dog. Dahl also claimed he was later approached by a Man in Black and told not to talk about the incident.

The CIA’s MK-Ultra project ARTICHOKE was headed by H. Marshall Chadwell, a man with a keen and well documented interest in UFOs. It is by now fairly well known that Chadwell was an early advocate of CIA investigations into UFOs and that he was behind the creation of the infamous Robertson Panel. The Robertson Panel was a scientific committee that met in January 1953 headed by Howard P. Robertson. The Panel arose from a recommendation to the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) in December 1952 from a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) review of the U.S. Air Force investigation into unidentified flying objects, Project Blue Book. Most UFO reports, they concluded, could be explained as misidentification of mundane aerial objects, and the remaining minority could, in all likelihood, be similarly explained with further study.

Artificial Telepathy

A key agent of the CIA’s paranormal technologies, known as psychotronics, was Puharich, an expert in both hypnotism and microelectronics. Puharich was best known for having brought the Israeli spoon-bender Uri Geller to the United States. During World War II, Puharich attended Northwestern University as a student in the Army Specialized Training Program. He earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and pre-medicine in 1943 and received his M.D. from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1947. His residency was completed at the Permanente Research Foundation in Oakland, California, where he specialized in internal medicine.

Puharich’s interest was immediately attracted to the paranormal. According to Aldous Huxley, one of the earliest members of Puharich’s Round Table and who worked with Puharich in experimenting with hallucinogenics, “…whatever may be said against Puharich, he is certainly very intelligent, extremely well read and highly enterprising. His aim is to reproduce by modem pharmacological, electronic and physical methods the conditions used by the Shamans for getting into a state of travelling clairvoyance.”[9] After being introduced to the work of Alice Bailey, on telepathy, Puharich decided to give himself two years to prove to himself that he could communicate telepathically with another mind. In university, Puharich developed the “Theory of Nerve Conduction,” which proposed that neuron units radiate and receive waves of energy in the ultrashortwave bands below infrared and above the radar spectrum. Therefore, Puharich concluded, neurons are a type of radio receiver-transmitter that could communicate thoughts from one person to another. Puharich’s theory was well received by leading scientists, including one Jose Delgado, who would later become one of the pioneers for the CIA in implanting electronic tools in animal brains to influence their behavior.

Although Puharich’s aim was to become a doctor, during his internship he had carried out research into digatoid drugs sponsored by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, the company that distributed LSD, first discovered by Albert Hofmann.[10] Puharich was interested in ESP (extrasensory perception), which he believed was an extension of his previous theory on nerve conduction. The brain and the nervous system were linked to cells, and instructions in the form of energy flowed between them. “The point that I am trying to establish is that the brain is an area wherein is localized the cell energy of the body. I shall label this cell energy ‘dynamics.’ I further venture to say that transference of dynamics from one person to another is possible.”[11] According to Puharich himself, it was around this time that he was recognized by the intelligence agencies as a potential asset and recruited to a “Project Penguin,” begun in 1948, to test individuals with “psychic powers.”[12] In that same year, Puharich had set up the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology, outside of Camden, Maine, a front for the Army’s parapsychological experiments.[13]

Puharich was aware of the work of J.B. Rhine (1895 – 1980), an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology and the Parapsychological Association. In 1949, Puharich met Eileen Garrett, a well-known Irish medium and founder of the Parapsychological Foundation in New York, who had been tested by Rhine. Garrett’s parents committed suicide and she went to live with her aunt. Garrett admitted she had a very unpleasant childhood and because of the anger of her aunt would “separate into a world of her own” where she could dissociate from her surroundings. She later married and claimed to hear voices and showed symptoms of a DID. Both Garrett and her husband believed she was on the “brink of madness,” however, Garrett came to accept her condition and took up trance mediumship.[14] Puharich was very impressed by Garrett’s psychic abilities, and she accepted to help him conduct research on sending telepathic messages between two Faraday Cages. Puharich believed he proved that information could be exchanged in this way, via both telepathy and clairvoyance. He also believed he proved that a clairvoyant could look out into space and predict a cosmic pulse before he could detect it on one of his recording instruments. In other words: precognition.

Garrett then introduced Puharich to John Hays Hammond, Jr. (1888 –1965), and the two became close friends. Known as “The Father of Radio Control,” Hammond’s pioneering developments in electronic remote control are the foundation for all modern radio remote control devices. Hammond also believed that the mind could be influenced by radio waves.[15] According to Puharich, Hammond was the only student Nikola Tesla ever had.[16] Tesla was also a close friend of ardent Nazi George Sylvester Viereck, who was a close personal friend of Hitler, as well as Aleister Crowley, and sexologists Magnus Hirschfeld, Albert Moll and Dr. Harry Benjamin—who were part of the World League for Sexual Reform—and Alfred Kinsey. Tesla dedicated his poem “Fragments of Olympian Gossip” to Viereck, in which Tesla ridiculed the scientific establishment of the day. Tesla’s work was concerned with transmitting electrical power without wires. Tesla believed that transmissions of sufficient energy at extremely low frequency (6-8 Hz), could travel through the Earth and behave as terrestrial standing waves. In 1899, in Colorado Springs, Tesla built the largest induction coil ever seen and succeeded in lighting nearly 100 light bulbs 26 miles away. In 1930, Tesla announced the invention of a “death beam” which could shoot down planes at a range of 250 miles, but he never offered a detailed description of it.

Puharich also claimed that Tesla was contacted several times by extraterrestrials who imparted to him their knowledge so that he could produce detailed drawings of inventions without having previously worked on them.[17] Puharich and Tesla shared an interest in a common Theosophical belief that one may access a compendium of mystical knowledge called the Akashic records. Akasha is the Sanskrit word for “aether” or “atmosphere.” In his classic Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda described the Akasha as: “The whole universe is composed of two materials, one of which they call Akasha [the other is Prana]. Akasha is the omnipresent, all-penetrating existence.”[18] The term Akasha was popularized in the West by Theosophy writers including Helena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner. In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of thoughts, events, and emotions believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the astral plane. The Sanskrit term akasha was introduced to theosophy through H.P. Blavatsky who characterized it as a sort of life force, referring to “indestructible tablets of the astral light” recording both the past and future of human thought and action, but she did not use the term “akashic.”[19]

The notion of an Akashic record is attributed to Alfred Percy Sinnett, who in Esoteric Buddhism wrote of a Buddhist belief in “a permanency of records in the Akasa” and “the potential capacity of man to read the same.”[20] With C.W. Leadbeater’s Clairvoyance, he identified the “akashic records” as something a clairvoyant could read. In Man: How, Whence, and Whither?, Leadbeater claims to record the history of Atlantis and other civilizations as well as the future society of Earth in the twenty-eighth century. [21] In “Esoteric Buddhism” (London, Chapman and Hall, 1885, available online as a free download), A.P. Sinnett was among the first to note that early Buddhism “held to a permanency of records in the Akâsa, and the potential capacity of man to read the same when he has evoluted to the stage of true individual enlightenment.” In The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field, Ervin Laszlo noted that Nikola Tesla, who was influenced by Vivekananda, “spoke of an ‘original medium’ that fills space and compared it to Akasha, the light-carrying ether.”[22] In his unpublished 1907 paper “Man’s greatest achievement,” Tesla wrote that this original medium, a kind of force field, becomes matter when Prana, or cosmic energy, acts on it, and when the action ceases, matter vanishes and returns to Akasha.”[23]

According to Puharich, in charge of Penguin was Rexford Daniels, who owned a company that did research into an area in which Puharich was a world-renowned expert: how proliferating electromagnetic emissions interfere with one another and may work harmful environmental effects on man.[24] Puharich’s research included studying the influence of extremely low frequency ELF electromagnetic wave emissions on the mind, and he invented several devices allegedly blocking or converting ELF waves to prevent harm. Examples of the potential technology used in psychotronics is electroreception, which is the biological ability to perceive natural electrical stimuli. It has been observed almost exclusively in aquatic or amphibious animals, since salt-water is a much better conductor than air, the currently known exceptions being echidnas, cockroaches and bees. Electroreception is used in electrolocation (detecting objects) and for electrocommunication. Another example is what is known as the microwave auditory effect. The first American to publish on the effect was Allan H. Frey, in 1961. In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of 100 meters from the transmitter. This was accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a pins and needles sensation. A decade later, an overview, in the American Psychologist, of radiation impacts on human perceptions, cites investigations at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research that demonstrated: “Appropriate modulation of microwave energy can result in direct ‘wireless’ and ‘receiverless’ communication of speech.”[25]

The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of audible clicks (or, with speech modulation, spoken words) induced by pulsed/modulated microwave frequencies. The clicks are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II. These induced sounds are not audible to other people nearby. The microwave auditory effect was later discovered to be inducible with shorter-wavelength portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

In 1951, Puharich received a research grant of close to $100,000 to build a Faraday cage to test Garrett, supported by both the US and French government. In addition, Puharich was also carrying out secret research into techniques of psychological manipulation, including the use of hallucinogenic drugs, and the military and intelligence capabilities of psychic skills. In November 1952, Puharich delivered a talk to Pentagon officials which was published as “An Evaluation of the Possible Usefulness of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological War­fare.” The Round Table Foundation functioned when, from 1953 to 1955, Puharich served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps. In this capacity, he was assigned as Chief, Outpatient Service, U.S. Army Dispensary, Army Chemical Center, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-Ultra experiments, and where numerous Nazi scientists were employed under Operation Paperclip.[26] Puharich supposedly specialized in chemical and biological warfare. During that time Puharich met with various high-ranking officers and officials, primarily from the Pentagon, CIA and Naval Intelligence.[27]

In 1954, Puharich wrote The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity and Beyond Telepathy. Puharich tells how he received a transcript of medium Harry Stone who became possessed by a persona that they later identified as Rahótep, a man who had lived 4600 years ago. What fascinated Puharich was the description Stone had given of a plant that could separate consciousness from the physical body. Over the next three years, Stone spoke Egyptian, wrote hieroglyphics, and disclosed the role of amanita muscaria, the magic mushroom, in Egyptian cult and divination. Stone’s drawings of the plant looked like mushrooms, and the description he gave was that of the amanita muscaria, or fly agaric of Mexican shamans reported by Gordon Wasson.

Council of Nine

Puharich’s Round Table Foundation was founded in 1948, a year after the Roswell crash, and which had been conducting investigations of psychic abilities on behalf of the CIA, eventually made contact with a group of extraterrestrial entities who referred to themselves as The Council of Nine, nine discarnate entities who claimed to be the Ennead, the nine gods worshipped by the ancient Egyptians. As the authors of The Stargate Conspiracy, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, point out, there are numerous occult associations with the number nine. In Greek mythology, when Prometheus gave Fire to mankind, an angered Zeus chained him to a rock and to punish mankind, he and eight other deities gathered to form the Council of Nine. The council members were Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus. Together this council created Pandora, and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus who was told never open it. Unable to contain her curiosity she opened the box, releasing all of the misfortunes of mankind.

The number nine also recalls the Enneads, the nine sections of the six books of Plotinus, considered the founder of Neoplatonism. What was distinctive in Plotinus’ system was the unified, hierarchical structuring of these elements, and the theory of ten divine emanations or spheres, corresponding with the ten Sephiroth of Jewish mysticism, and the Pythagorean Decad. For Pythagoras, the number Nine, the ennead, was considered “the greatest of the numbers within the Decad” for “everything circles around within it.” According to Iamblichus, a key figure in the Mithraic bloodline and ancestor to Charlemagne, the ennead was known as the number that “brings completion.”[28]

Albert Pike also records a Masonic legend that specifically links the number nine to a stellar tradition connected with Sirius. The “Nine Elect” are the apprentice Masons who sought to avenge the death of their Master, Hiram Abiff. The Nine Elect are symbolized by the sequential rising of nine bright stars, including those of Orion’s belt, which precedes the rising of Sirius.[29] The Elect of Nine are the ninth degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

According to Picknett and Prince, the concept of nine legendary leaders plays an important role in synarchism. It is partly derived from the tradition that of the Knights Templar were founded by nine French knights shortly after the First Crusade. Because they were able to remain a highly secretive order, despite their political, religious and financial power, were Saint-Yves d’Alveydre believed the Templars to have represented the ultimate expression of synarchy in the medieval world. Saint-Yves also adapted the “Unknown Superiors” from the Templarism rite of the Strict Observance, expanding the concept into spiritually advanced beings from Tibet. Similarly, the Brotherhood Polaires consisted of a central group that was led by “The Nine,” chosen through the aid of the Oracle of the Astral Force, or the “Rosicrucian Initiatory Centre of Mysterious Asia” who supposedly resided in Agartha.[30]

Reference to the Ennead, the ancient Egyptian pantheon, as “the Nine Principles,” the same language that the Council of Nine used for themselves, was mentioned by the synarchist Schwaller de Lubicz, a student of sacred geometry known for his study of the architecture of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his book The Temple In Man. De Lubicz put forward a Pythagorean system that featured the number nine, and believed that the Ennead of the Egyptians was an expression in mythological terms of certain fundamental philosophical principles.

The Council of Nine was also mentioned as the secret guides of American Rosicrucianism. Reuben Swinburne Clymer claimed that the doctrines of his society, the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, were endorsed by a secret order that directed it from France, known as the Council of Nine. Clymer also established a society known as the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was revered by the Sufis as al Khidr, or “the Green One.” The name is also related to the Asiatic Brethren who were known as Melchizedek Lodges, and where the highest degree was that of “the true Brothers of the Rose-Croix.”[31] And, Guénon equated Melchizedek with the “Lord of the World,” the ruler of Agartha. Clymer claims the order was well established in France and that its secrets originated with a manuscript handed down from the Templars.[32]

Part of Alice Bailey’s work as instructed to her by her Master, the Tibetan Djwhal Khul, was to set up a series of disciples to be known as the Groups of Nine. Djwhal Khul often referred to the two other masters with leading roles as Master R and Master M, while the representatives of The Nine who spoke to Puharich through Dr. Vinod called themselves “R” and “M.”[33]

Round Table Foundation

Among Puharich’s associates was neurophysiologist Warren S. McCulloch, who worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York, and was an early advocate of electronic brain implants. Andrew Pickering referred to McCulloch, who served as chairman of the Cybernetics Group conferences, as “the guiding spirit of cybernetics in the United States.”[34] This research went on between 1950 and 1955. Puharich also worked with the Dutch psychic, Peter Hurkos (1911 – 1988). It was a fall from a ladder and a violent blow on the head that suddenly opened Hurkos’ psychic abilities. Among other things he could visualize a picture inside a sealed envelope. Puharich found that when Hurkos was most successful in remote-viewing when his brain produced an ELF wave of 8 Hertz. Working with Indian mystic named Dr. D.G. Vinod in 1956, Puharich found he could consciously control his brain waves, deliberately shifting himself from one level consciousness to another. From this, Puharich concluded that people could be trained, with bio-feedback, to produce the 8 Hertz and other ELF waves consciously. Puharich also tested Huxley’s wife Laura, who was doing psychic healing. She could supposedly heal a woman of her heart trouble by making magnetic passes over her. Puharich measured that these passes produced large waves or vibrations of eight cycles per second in the patient and found that Laura's brain rate was also 8 Hertz.[35]

In December 1952, Vinod had begun to channel The Nine or “the Nine Principles.” The Nine also claim to be extraterrestrial beings, from the star Sirius. According to popular writer Robert Anton Wilson, one of his contacts from secret societies in the US and Europe told him that the secret of the 33rd degree, the highest rank in American Freemasonry, was that the order was in contact with beings from Sirius.[36] In Freemasonry, Sirius is the Blazing Star, which Albert Pike equated with Osiris, and the “Star of Initiation” followed by the Magi. Sirius, known as the Dog Star among the ancient Egyptians, also featured prominently in the Mysteries of Mithras.

Sirius has a central role in Theosophy, where it is considered a source esoteric power. To Alice Bailey, Sirius channels energy from the “cosmic center” through the solar system to the Earth. According to Bailey’s “Ascended Master,” Djwhal Khul, Freemasonry is very ancient and an earthly version of an initiatory school that exists on Sirius, and the various hierarchical degrees of Freemasonry parallel the different levels of initiation of the “greater Lodge on Sirius.”[37] Bailey saw Sirius as the true “Great White Lodge” and believes it to be the home of the “Spiritual Hierarchy.” For this reason, like Pike, she considered Sirius as the “star of initiation.”

Genealogy of Astor Family

• John Jacob Astor (Robber Baron) + Sarah Cox Todd

  • William Backhouse Astor Sr. + Margaret Rebecca Armstrong

    • William Backhouse Astor Jr. + Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn

      • John Jacob Astor IV (died on Titanic) + Ava Lowle Willing

        • Alice Bouverie (participant in seances of The Nine at Puharich’s Round Table Foundation)

        • Vincent Astor

      • John Jacob Astor IV + Madeleine Talmage Force

        • John Jacob Astor VI

    • John Jacob Astor III

      • William Waldorf Astor + Mary Dahlgren Paul

        • Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor + Nancy Astor (Cliveden Set, a.k.a. Round Table)

          • William Waldorf Astor II (associated with Stephen Ward, who “pimped” Christine Keeler in Masonically-theme “black magic” parties in Profumo Affair)

          • Jakie Astor + Ana Inez "Chiquita" Carcano y Morra

            • Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor + Daphne Warburg

Further séances in 1953 were attended by other members of Puharich’s Round Table Foundation, including Henry and Georgia Jackson, Alice Bouverie, Marcella Du Pont, Carl Betz, Vonnie Beck, Arthur M. Young and his wife Ruth. Marcella Du Pont was a member of the wealthy Du Pont family, and Alice Bouverie, born Ava Alice Muriel Astor, a descendant of John Jacob Astor, was the daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who had died aboard the Titanic. Her first husband, Prince Serge Obolensky, had been an officer in the Czarist Army, and went on to become a major operator in the OSS during WWII.

Arthur M. Young (1905 – 1995), the designer of Bell Helicopter’s first helicopter, was also an influential philosopher who, inspired by the process theory of spiritual evolution of Alfred North Whitehead, proposed theories that combined Darwinism with traditional wisdom, Jungian archetypes, Theosophy, astrology, yoga, mythology and other forms of knowledge. Young married artist Ruth Forbes of the Boston Forbes family, a great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ruth was also a close personal friend of Mary Bancroft, devoted student of Carl Jung and mistress to Allen Dulles and later to Henry Luce. In 1949, while living in New York, Young and his wife met Mary Benzenberg Mayer and enrolled in her school, the Source Teaching Society. Mayer had trained under Freud and was later associated with Carl Jung and used dreams and the study of earlier religious traditions.[38] In 1952, Young and his wife Ruth organized the Foundation for the Study of Consciousness in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, founded in Berkeley in 1972, for the scientific investigation of the phenomenon of ESP.

In 1955, Gordon Wasson had mentioned to Puharich the divinatory potential of the mushroom he had discovered in Mexico, and invited him to join that summer’s expedition to Oaxaca, which was later described in the Life magazine article of 1957, but Puharich declined due to other obligations. But, by the fall of 1955, Puharich had an ample supply of the mushrooms to experiment on his own. In a trance experiment involving a Ouija board, Alice Bouverie contacted telepathically Wasson’s Mexican Shaman, Maria Sabina, who advised them correctly that a specimen of amanita muscaria was to be found nearby in Maine.

Silver Shirts

After first communicating with them through Dr. Vinod, Puharich’s next contact from The Nine apparently emerged as part of a chance encounter with a curious couple in Mexico on July 26, 1956. While in the town of Acambaro, Puharich and Hurkos ran into an American couple from Arizona, named the Laugheads, who eventually claimed that they had been receiving instructions from The Nine. Acting as their medium was a “young man” who was described as being involved with “the Brotherhood of one of the ancient Mystery Schools in South America.”[39] According to his biographers, Michel Zirger & Maurizio Martinelli, the young medium was none other than George Hunt Williamson, one of the original “Four Guys Named George” UFO contactees, who was associated with William Dudley Pelley (1890 – 1965).[40]

A key early fascist organization behind the rise of the right in the United States were Pelley’s Silver Shirts, modeled after Hitler’s Brownshirts. Pelley was a successful Hollywood screenwriter at the height of the silent-film era, who after an out-of-body experience became a spiritualist and fascist political activities. In the late 1920s and 1930s, he popularized the idea of near-death experiences; beginning in 1929, Pelley wrote the first widely read article on the subject, describing his visit to the spirit world where heavenly Mentors counseled him in the hidden truths of life. However, acting under “clairaudient” instructions from his Mentors, who extolled the destiny of Adolf Hitler, Pelley was inspired to form his own pro-Hitler, fascist paramilitary order, the Silver Shirts, begun in 1932. By the mid-1930s, Pelley attained such infamy that Sinclair Lewis was inspired to model his American dictator, Buzz Windrip, after him, in It Can’t Happen Here. Pelley was later interned during World War II for his Nazi sympathies.[41]

Pelley published a major work on extraterrestrials called Star Guests, which consists mainly of channeled communications that Pelley claimed to have been receiving since the late 1920s. According to Pelley, sentient beings came to Earth from planets near Sirius, who interbred with the indigenous apelike life forms. This interracial breeding, which caused the Fall, he linked to the Genesis account of the “sons of God.” According to Pelley, the hybrid races became corrupt, so the intelligences sent messengers, of which Jesus was one, to repair the damage. If the Evil spirits are not stopped, wrote Pelley, “a coalition of oriental nations—of which Russia is leader—… [will] subjugate the globe, reducing its white and Christian peoples to bondage.”[42] He believed that all is building up to the Second Coming with the advent of the Age of Aquarius. Acting under “clairaudient” instructions from his Mentors, who extolled the destiny of Adolf Hitler, Pelley was inspired to form the Silver Shirts. By the mid-1930s, Pelley attained such infamy that Sinclair Lewis was inspired to model his American dictator, Buzz Windrip, after him, in It Can’t Happen Here. Pelley was later interned during the War for his Nazi sympathies.[43]

Mount Shasta

Closely connected with Pelley were the founders of the “I AM” Activity, Guy and Edna Ballard, who founded the Saint Germain Foundation in 1932 after coming into contact with the Mahatma called “Ascended Master” Saint Germain.[44] The Ballards enlisted Pelley’s senior staff, and plagiarized his books and ideas to create the “I AM” cult, which shared overlapping membership with the Silver Shirts [45] The movement had up to a million followers in 1938.[46] The I AM” cult is what Christopher Partridge has characterized as a “UFO religion,” all of which were influenced by the works of Alice Bailey and Theosophy.[47] During his first telepathic encounter, Ballard met St. Germain in a cave underneath Mount Shasta, who showed him a television set that could receive transmissions from the planet Venus.

Mount Shasta is a volcanic peak in northern California, which has long been rumoured to be inhabited by faeires and Sasquatch figures and known for frequent UFO sightings. It was first brought to attention in novel A Dweller on Two Planets (1894), in which Frederick Oliver related information he received telepathically from “Phylos the Tibetan.” Oliver’s account, which discussed a hidden citadel of Atlantean Masters within the mountain, became popular with occult and Theosophical communities in America. Spencer Lewis, founder of the Rosicrucian order AMORC, published Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific (1931), which claimed Shasta was riddled with caverns in which ancient Lemurian masters preserved their ancient wisdom. According to the ancient manuscripts allegedly in his possession, northern California was once part of Lemuria, where Shasta was among the highest mountains in the world, making it an ideal refuge for those seeking to escape the great deluge.

A similar account was also put forward by Maurice Doreal, also known as Claude Doggins—or Dr. Doreal as he preferred to be called. In Denver about 1930, Doreal founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple, the first major occult movement to refer to Shambhala as an underground city. Doreal claimed that as he was lecturing in Los Angeles in 1931, the year after Ballard’s experiences, he met two Atlanteans who transported him to a gigantic cavern twelve miles beneath Shasta.[48] Fearful of nuclear attack, he relocated the Brotherhood to a rockbound valley west of Sedalia, Colorado, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Doreal was also in part responsible for the dissemination of the theory that linked UFOs to Reptoids, which gained popularity in UFO and conspiracy circles. In a pamphlet called Mysteries of the Gobi, Doreal offered a revisionist history of the world, which featured an ancient war between human beings and a “Serpent Race.” The latter, he wrote, had "bodies like man, but... heads... like a great snake and... bodies faintly scaled." They also possessed hypnotic powers that allowed them when necessary to shapeshift into fully human form.[49] Similar ideas appeared in a long poem, The Emerald Tablets, reputedly the work of “Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King.” The work recalls a text by the same title prized by the Arab alchemists, which claimed to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus, who was a combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Doreal claimed to have translated the work when he was given the tablets from the Great Pyramid of Egypt in 1925. In his accompanying commentary, Doreal adds a dire political warning about this Serpent Race: “gradually, they and the men who called them took over the control of the nations.”[50]

Great Old Ones

These ideas, suggests Barkun, may have their origin with an obscure pulp fiction author, Robert E. Howard (1906 – 1936). Howard is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre and is probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian. In 1929, Howard published a story in Weird Tales magazine called “The Shadow Kingdom” in which the evil power was the snake-men whose adversary Kull came from Atlantis. These creatures had bodies of men but the heads of serpents, and like Doreal’s Serpent Race, had the capacity to shapeshift into human form. In Howard’s story they were thought to have been destroyed, but returned by insinuating themselves into positions of power.

Howard became a member of “The Lovecraft Circle,” a group of writers all linked to H.P. Lovecraft, who consequently incorporated serpent men into his own work. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."[51]

Lovecraft subscribed to a nihilistic philosophy of cosmic indifferentism, referring to a horror similar to that portrayed by Munsch’s The Scream, stating in the opening sentence of his 1926 short story “The Call of Cthulhu” that, “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”[52] Lovecraft believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and merciless universe that human beings could never fully understand, and that the cognitive dissonance caused by such a realization leads to insanity. To Lovecraft, there was no room for religion which could not be supported scientific fact, and therefore, in his tales, he portrayed cosmic forces that had little regard for humanity.

Lovecraft constantly refers to the “Great Old Ones,” a pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from outer space who once ruled the Earth and founded ancient civilizations and were worshipped as gods. Lovecraft summed up the significance in “The Call of Cthulhu,” wherein a young man discovers the shocking secret of a race of aliens that served as gods to a strange cult:

There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them… were still be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.[53]

The Great Old Ones formed a cult in dark places all over the world, “until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R’lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.”[54] At the time, according to Lovecraft, in his diabolical pessimism:

free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the Earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."[55]

Lovecraft derived his notion of extra-terrestrial visitors from his reading of both Fort’s The Book of the Damned and Scott-Elliott, in the compilation volume The Story of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria (1925). Although Lovecraft referred to Theosophical material as “crap,” he drew inspiration from the Book of Dzyan, which formed the basis of Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, in developing the Cthulhu Mythos’ own account of pre-human or occult texts. Blavatsky claimed to have discovered the book, written in the language of Senzar in Tibet, where it was guarded by an Occult Brotherhood. Lovecraft declared that they “antedate the earth,” in The Diary of Alonzo Typer, in which he transformed Theosophy’s spirit Venusians into aliens who flew across the solar system in space ships to “civilize” planet Earth.

The Necronomicon is a fictional 1,200 year old grimoire mentioned in Lovecraft’s stories. It was supposedly written by the "Mad Arab" called Abdul Alhazrad, who worshipped the Lovecraftian entities Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. The book was supposedly originally titled Al Azif, an Arabic word Lovecraft defined as "that nocturnal sound (made by insects) supposed to be the howling of demons." Alhazred was born in Yemen, a country with historically a strong Jewish and Kabbalistic community. Alhazred is said to have visited the ruins of Babylon, the "subterranean secrets" of Memphis, and discovered the "nameless city" below Irem in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, living his last years in Damascus, before his death in 738 AD. Al Azif was translated into Greek and Latin, and despite attempts at its suppression, was finally acquired by John Dee. According to History of the Necronomicon, the very act of studying the text is inherently dangerous, as those who attempt to master its arcane knowledge generally meet terrible ends.

Also contributing to the Reptoid theory was the 1951 publication of Robert Ernst Dickhoff’s Agharta. Dickhoff styled himself the “Sungma Red Lama of the Dordjelutru Lamasery,” though his lamasery was located in his New York City bookshop. Dickhoff referred to The Emerald Tablets, but without mentioning their “translator” Doreal. Dickhoff claims to have studied in Asia, from a Buddhist Lama who told him—in apparent reference to Blavatsky’s Satan, Sanat Kumara—that the King of the World came from Venus, and initially inhabited a serpentine or reptilian form, but has since transformed into a human one. Dickhoff asserts that this being is the serpent of the Bible. In addition, Dickhoff also wrote about humanoid serpent men who came from Venus, who exploited an antediluvian tunnel system in order to infiltrate and capture Atlantis and Lemuria. Survivors of these sunken continents supposedly escaped to underground hideouts in Agartha and in the Antarctic Rainbow City. Although the serpent men were to have been defeated, they and their agents have infiltrated circles of political authority through their powers of mind control. The remaining reptilians lie in polar suspended animation, waiting for the moment to strike.[56]

Four Guys Named George

Also involved with Pelley in the “I AM” movement, were two of the first UFO “contactees” George Adamski (1891 – 1965) and George Hunt Williamson (1926 – 1986), the first to  appropriate Swedenborg’s descriptions of beings from other planets. While the UFO religions first “contacts” were telepathic communication with Ascended Masters, it was not until the advent of the Roswell crash of 1947 that the myth of extra-terrestrials as pilots of “flying-saucers” emerged. Adamski’s purported saucers were identical to those depicted in alleged captured Nazi blueprints, fueling the mythos that the Nazis had developed anti-gravity crafts. He claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with “Venusians” he called “Space Brothers,” and to have taken flights with them. The “Nordic” spaceman he encountered was described as “Aryan” looking, with long blond hair and blue eyes.

In letters to Emma Martinelli, a member of the San Francisco Interplanetary Club, regarding his first “science fiction” book Pioneers of Space, published in 1949, Adamski wrote: “…speaking of visitors from other planets, you see, in the physical I have not contacted any of them, but since you have read Pioneers of Space you can see how I get my information about these people and their homelands.”[57] In an earlier letter he wrote of his near-death experience:

In this letter I have explained, using illustrations, how one may venture from one place to another, while his physical is one place and he is in another. That is the way I have written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of; I actually have talked to the ones I speak of. To you I can reveal this since your letter reveals much, while to others I keep silent about this.[58]

There have been persistent rumors that Williamson supposedly held functions in a secret society at a high level of initiation and authority. He was viewed as a Freemason, Rosicrucian and Knight Templar. Researchers Michel Zirger & Maurizio Martinelli have confirmed that he was affiliated with the Order of the Knights of Malta, where he seemed to have held the functions of Grand Prior.[59] Williamson was a prolific writer on occult matters. About 1950, Williamson had begun writing for Pelley’s periodical, Valor. After hearing about the flying-saucer-based religious cult of Adamski, perhaps through Pelley, Williamson and his wife became members of his Royal Order of Tibet. Subsequently, in 1952 and 1953, Williamson and his associates supposedly established radiotelegraphic contact with extraterrestrials, in which they received Morse code messages from “the Planet Hatonn in Andromeda,” the alleged site of the universal “Temple of Records.”[60]

Williamson served as a medium for Charles Laughead, a former staff physician at Michigan State. Laughead was part of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers, who believed in an imminent apocalypse which did not occur. Charles and his wife Lillian were former Christian missionaries who become prominent in the burgeoning UFO contactee movement. After having become disillusioned with Christianity the couple had become interested in the writings of William Dudley Pelley. After a meeting with Adamski, they became convinced of the reality and spiritual significance of UFOs.[61]

The doomsday prophecy was delivered by Marion Dorothy Martin, a Chicago housewife influenced by Theosophy and Scientology, who experimented with automatic writing. Jesus Christ had supposedly appeared to her while she was dying and cured her by his laying on of hands. Martin’s extraterrestrial sources from the planet Clarion informed her that “there will be much loss of life, practically all of it, in 1955.”[62] The seekers then sold their belongings to prepare for their departure on a flying saucer which was to rescue the group of true believers. Martin spent several years in the Peruvian Andes, before returning to the US in the 1960s. By then known as “Sister Thedra,” she founded the Association of Sananda and Samat Kumara (named by Blavatsky as the King of the World residing in Shambhala and the equivalent of the Christian Satan) in Mount Shasta, California.

University of Minnesota social psychologist Leon Festinger and his colleagues infiltrated the cult to later write the classic When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World. Festinger’s mentor was the Tavistock Institute’s Kurt Lewin, who also attended the Macy Conferences. Following B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Bandura, Festinger was the fifth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[63] The book was the genesis of Festinger’s theory of “cognitive dissonance,” the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced as a consequence when a person performs an action that contradicts their personal beliefs, or is confronted with new information that contradicts those beliefs.[64] Among the psychologists influenced by Festinger’s theory was Philip Zimbardo, designer of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, where guards and prisoners were chosen randomly from the volunteering college students to test their roles in a mock prison.

Williamson eventually combined his own channeling and the beliefs of a small contactee cult led by Martin, known as the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, to produce a series of books about the secret, ancient history of mankind: Other Tongues—Other Flesh (1957), Secret Places of the Lion (1958), UFOs Confidential with John McCoy (1958), Road in the Sky (1959) and Secret of the Andes (1961). These books rewrite the Old and New Testaments to depict every key figure as a reincarnation of one of only six or eight different “entities,” and expanded on Theosophical teachings that friendly Space Brothers in the distant past had taught the human race the rudiments of civilization. According to Williamson, spacemen had also helped in the founding of the Jewish and Christian religions, impersonating “gods” and providing “miracles” when needed.

Other Tongues–Other Flesh, was an extended treatment on the benevolence of the extra-terrestrials from Sirius, who supposedly provided mankind with civilization in the far distant past. In Secret Places of the Lion, speaks of the “Goodly Company” or “Star People,” who migrated to earth, the “dark star,” many millions of years ago and have worked ever since as the Creator's mentors to advance a fallen race. In the same book, Williamson outlined the entire significance of the UFO mythos in its relation to the aspirations of Zionism and AMORC’s Rosicrucian myth of Egyptian Freemasonry, which traces its origins to a sun cult of which the Pharaoh Akhenaten was an exemplar:

Throughout the entire history of the earth, the “Goodly Company” or the multitude of “Christ Souls” have incarnated in a group…

Pharoah was addressed as “The King, the Ra, the Sun.” This signified his position as leader of the “Goodly Company” of star born beings dedicated to the salvation of a planet!…

A special hereditary order of men was now created to keep a semblance of Aton (One God) worship amongst the Israelites; although the Greater Light could not be theirs because they were not yet ready for it, a less spiritual worship was set up, based on pagan ritualism, that nevertheless was symbolic in its sacrifices, ceremonies, vestments, etc…

The promise of an Eternal King, to arise out of David’s Family, was repeated over and over again: to David, to Solomon, and again and again...

There are references to the breaking of the bread and drinking of the wine as a symbol of “the sacred repast.” The wine represents the “Holy Vine of David” and the bread “the life and knowledge of God.” Those “Children of the Greater Light” who are descendants of the “Holy Vine of David” serve, through the “sacred repast,” “the life and knowledge of God!! God made a covenant with David of an eternal dynasty.”...

David and Bathsheba prepared the way for the coming of the Master or the Fulfillment in Israel…

When Solomon ascended the throne of his father, he consecrated his life to the erection of a temple to God and a palace for the kings of Israel. David’s faithful friend, Hiram, King of Tyre, hearing that a son of David sat upon the throne of Israel, sent messages of congratulation and offers of assistance to the new ruler…

Now we are entering the “twilight of the gods,” when the final destruction of the Old Age will take place and man and the gods will be regenerated and reunited! Man will have revealed unto him a true vision of his eternal heritage--that earthly things may show him the nature of his spirit![65]

The other two contactees were George King and George Van Tassel, who founded the Aetherius Society, a UFO religion that combined UFO claims, yoga and ideas from various world religions, notably Buddhism, Christianity, and Theosophy. George van Tassel began to channel an extraterrestrial entity named Ashtar whose messages became the basis for Van Tassel’s Ministry of Universal Wisdom. Van Tassel hosted the annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert that at its peak in 1959 attracted as many as 10,000 attendees. The gatherings began in 1954 with Williamson and Adamski prominent among the speakers. Also in 1954, Van Tassel and others began building the Integration based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials, to perform the “rejuvenation.”

Williamson's “Hatonn” was later metamorphosed from a planet into a being through the experiences of Richard T. Miller, a Detroit television repairman who heard a lecture by Williamson in 1954. Inspired by Williamson, Miller and some friends established radio contact with extraterrestrials and entered his spacecraft the Phoenix. The entity they spoke with was not Hatonn, however, but a being named Soltec. Miller and Williamson jointly founded an organization called the Telonic Research Center in Williamson's home in Arizona, but parted company about a year later. Miller finally published space messages of the being named Hatonn in 1974.

In the 1970s, other channellers claimed access to Ashtar’s messages. The most prominent among them was Thelma B. Terrell, also known as Tuella, who emphasized the role of extraterrestrials in evacuating “purified” souls from the earth in order to escape coming calamities. While Tuella’s messages come from many of Ashtar’s associates, Hatonn seems to have gained a special prominence among them. Hatonn is not only a “Great Commander” but also “the Record Keeper of the Galaxy and the records are kept on the planet bearing his name.”[66] Hatonn went on to inspire the creation of Phoenix magazine to publish his radio communications. Central to the development of Phoenix publications was George Green who claimed to have seen an alien craft at Edwards Air Force Base in 1958. According to Green, he was contacted by "space beings" and entered into an agreement with them to "publish the material transmitted from the spacecraft called ‘the phoenix.’" Hatonnn’s full title is Commander Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, and he claims to be “Commander in Chief, Earth Project Transition, Pleiades Sector Flight command, Intergalactic Federation Fleet—Ashtar Command; Earth Representative to the Cosmic Council and Intergalactic Federation Council on Earth Transition.” He said that he had “well over a million ships” under his command and that his mission “is to remove God’s people from the planet when that becomes necessary... if that becomes necessary.”[67]

In May 1959, Adamski received a letter from the head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society, informing him that they had been contacted by officials at the palace of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, wife of Prince Bernhard, former SS officer and founder of the Bilderberg meetings, and “that the Queen would like to receive you.” Adamski informed a London newspaper about the invitation, which prompted the court and cabinet to request that the queen cancel her meeting with him, but she went ahead with it, saying, "A hostess cannot slam the door in the face of her guests."[68]

[1] Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince. “Behind the Mask: Aliens or Cosmic Jokers?” New Dawn, Issue 17. Retrieved from https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/behind-the-mask-aliens-or-cosmic-jokers

[2] R. E. Bartholomew, K. Baskerfield & G.S. Howard. “UFO Abductees and Contactees: Psychopathlogy or Fantasy Proneness,” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, (1991), vol 22, pp. 215-22.

[3] Andrija Puharich. “A Way to Peace through ELF Waves.” Cited in Picknett & Prince. The Stargate Conspiracy.

[4] Alice A. Bailey. The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey (New York: Lucis Publishing, 1951), p. 164.

[5] Cited in Gary Lachman. Jung the Mystic (Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition), p. 92.

[6] Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (Brisbaine: Daily Grail Publishing, 2008) p. 46.

[7] Ibid., p. iv.

[8] Partridge. UFO Religions, p. 5.

[9] Philip Coppens. “The Stargate Conundrum,” Chapter 1, A Man for All Psychics. PhilipCoppens.com Retrived from http://www.philipcoppens.com/starconundrum_1.html

[10] Jim Keith. Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness (Kempton Ill: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999), p. 176.

[11] Cited in Coppens. “The Stargate Conundrum,” Chapter 1.

[12] Terry L. Milner. “Ratting Out Puharich,” posting from Jack Sarfatti’s website (1996). Retrieved from http://www.hia.com/pcr/

[13] Picknett & Prince. Stargate Conspiracy (New York: Berkley, 1999), p. 209

[14] Jenny Hazelgrove. Spiritualism and British Society Between the Wars (Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 127–128.

[15] Terry L. Milner. “Ratting Out Puharich,” posting from Jack Sarfatti’s website (1996). Retrieved from http://www.hia.com/pcr/

[16] Ibid.

[17] Farooq Hussain. “Is Legionnaire’s disease a Russian plot?” New Scientist (December 15, 1977), p. 710.

[18] Cited in Ervin Lazlo. The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009).

[19] Katharina Brandt & Olav Hammer. “Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy”. In Hammer, Olav; Rothstein, Mikael. Handbook of the Theosophical Current (Leiden, NL; Boston: Brill., 2013) pp. 122–3.

[20] Ibid.

[21] Ibid.

[22] Lazlo. The Akashic Experience.

[23] The Milwaukee Sentinel (July 13, 1930).

[24] Geraldo Rivera Show (October 2, 1987) cited in Philip Coppens. The Stargate Conundrum: The US Government’s secret pursuit of the psychic drug, Chapter 1. A Man for All Psychics.

[25] D.R. Justesen. “Microwaves and Behavior”, Am Psychologist, 392 (Mar): 391–401, 1975.

[26] “Andrija Puharich Résumé.” Andrija Puharich. Retrieved January 17, 2015. http://www.puharich.nl/Bio/Resume.htm; Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda: the United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip (St. Martin’s Press, 1991); ABC PrimeTime Live, Operation Paperclip, 1991, and hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, 1991.

[27] Albarelli. A Terrible Mistake, p. 53.

[28]  Iamblichus. The Theology of Arithmetic, 105-106.

[29] Morals and Dogma, p. 489-99.

[30] Mike Bogard. In the Wake of the Astral Force ( Independently published, 2020).

[31] Wesbster. Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, p. 91.

[32] Clymer. Dr Paschal Beverly Randolph and the Supreme Grand Dome of the Rosicrucians in France, p. 24.

[33] Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince. Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt (New York: Berkley Books, 1999), p. 282.

[34] Andrew Pickering. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (The University of Chicago Press, 2011) p. 4.

[35] “A Way to Peace, Through ELF Waves.” Transcribed by Elaine Peick From a Talk Given By Dr. Andrija Puharich at the Understanding Convention at Astara, Upland, California (November 6, 1982).

[36] James Nye. “Chromosome Damage! A Random Conversation with Robert Anton Wilson,” Fortean Times, no. 79 (February/March 1995)

[37] Alice A. Bailey. A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Vol. V: The Rays and the Initiations, p. 418.

[38] “About Arthur M. Young.” Retrieved from http://www.arthuryoung.com/about.html

[39] Andrija Puharich. Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller (Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1974), p. 18.

[40] Gregory Bishop & Kenn Thomas. “Calling Occupants (The Giant Rock Conventions).” Fortean Times 118 (January 1999).

[41] Scott Beekman. William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism And the Occult (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press:, 2005) p. 165.

[42] Michael Barkun. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2003 2003), p. 154.

[43] Scott Beekman. William Dudley Pelley, p. 165.

[44] Levenda. Unholy Alliance, p. 62.

[45] Mark Ames. “Meet Charles Koch’s Brain.” Pando Quarterly, issue #7, (September 30, 2013).

[46] David Barrett. Sects, ‘Cults’, and Alternative Religions: A World Survey and Sourcebook (London: Blandford, 1996).

[47] Christopher H. Partridge. UFO Religions (Routledge, 2003), p. 8–9.

[48] Barkun. A Culture of Conspiracy, p. 115.

[49] Ibid., p. 119.

[50] Ibid., p. 120.

[51] Curt Wohleber, “The Man Who Can Scare Stephen King,” American Heritage Magazine. (December 1995)

[52] H. P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu (1928).

[53] Lovecraft. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of orror and the Macabre (Del Rey Books. New York, 1982), p. 88.

[54] Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu, p. 139.

[55] cited in Jeff Wells. “From beyond the stars,” Rigorous Intuition, (Sunday, May 15, 2005).

[56] Barkun. A Culture of Conspiracy, p. 121.

[57] (January 16, 1952); cited in “The George Adamski correspondence.” Håkan Blomqvist´s blog (October 29, 2013). Retrieved from https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-george-adamski-correspondence.html

[58] (August 16, 1950); cited in “The George Adamski correspondence.”

[59] Michel Zirger & Maurizio Martinelli. The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson: Mystical Journey (Verdechiaro Edizioni, 2016), p. 311.

[60] Ibid., p. 150.

[61] Picknett & Prince. The Stargate Conspiracy.

[62] Whet Moser. “Apocalypse Oak Park: Dorothy Martin, the Chicagoan Who Predicted the End of the World and Inspired the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.” Chicago Magazine (May 20, 2011).

[63] Steven J. Haggbloom, Jason E. Warnick, Vinessa K. Jones, Gary L. Yarbrough, Tenea M. Russell, Chris M. Borecky, Reagan McGahhey, et al (2002). “The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century.” Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139.

[64] Leon Festinger. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (California: Stanford University Press, 1957).

[65] Jim Keith. Saucers of the Illuminati (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2004), pp. 50-51.

[66] Barkun. A Culture of Conspiracy, p. 151.

[67] Ibid., p. 14.

[68] "The Queen & the Saucers.” Time (magazine). (June 1, 1959), Retrieved 2007-04-27.

Volume Four

1. MK-Ultra

2. Council of Nine

3. Old Right

4. Novus Ordo Liberalism

5. In God We Trust

6. Fascist International

7. Red Scare

8. White Makes Right

9. JFK Assassination

10. The Civil Rights Movement

11. Golden Triangle

12. Crowleyanity

13. Counterculture

14. The summer of Love

15. The Esalen Institute

16. Ordo ab Discordia

17. Make Love, Not War

18. Chaos Magick

19. Nixon Years

20. Vatican II

21. Priory of Sion

22. Nouvelle Droite

23. Operation Gladio