"What we call the human race has been living under the most fundamental misunderstanding. It doesn't know who it is and, without that prime coordinate, everything else is out of kilter. We have been identifying who we are with a biological computer and the electrochemical processes we call 'thought' and 'emotion'. That is not who we are, it is a computer program. When 'we' think or feel emotions it triggers an electrochemical process in brain and body as a result of the electrical signals and chemicals it causes the body to transmit and release. In the same way, the reverse is true: chemicals and electrical fields can cause 'us' to feel emotions." - David Icke, Global Conspiracy (and how to end it)
I have to admit my favorite area in the book store is, and has been for a long time, the esoteric section. The shelves are filled with literature (if you can call it that) on discovering the lost city of Atlantis, UFO abductions, bigfoots, yetis, Loch Ness monsters, alien greys, the reptilians, the Nordics, manuals on how to read auras, cast spells, and how to calculate life paths in numerology. This is not a new fling in my love affair with the unknown. In my elementary school library, it was not the young adult literature I was fascinated with, as it was with most of my peers, it was the books on real-life monsters, aliens, and ghosts. I can remember checking them out so many times and careening through their pages to be shocked by first-hand accounts of encounters with the sublime, the dastardly picture of Grendel ripping men apart, stories of green Marsian men attacking a farm in the middle of nowhere, and a gory image of a knight being strangled to death by a serpentine dragon. I even remember where these books were located in that library so many years ago--though I bet it is larger in my mind than in real life. Dr. Sexson opined that as kids, ogres, witches, and dragons were real. A part of me couldn't accept that. The greys could be real. So could the reptilians. So could bigfoot and the yeti.
On these shelves in Hastings you can see books on witchcraft, meditation, magical herbs, a Wiccan Bible, the Necronomicon, Nostradamus, and 2012. I can also guarantee that further down the aisle there was a plethora more on aliens, Atlantis, Mayan mythology, and a host of other strange things. If you look closely, you can even see a book on Self-Hypnosis. I wish I had gotten the idea from Hastings' new age section, but sadly, it was my all my own. There is something magical about these books though, and it's not just their names. Is it nonsense? Probably. Is it fun as hell? Most definitely.
Why have I always been fascinated with these illusive monsters? I wanted, I want, them to exist. As a little kid (couldn't have been more than five) I recall asking my grandma if she believed in aliens. Even at that age, when the thought of beings existing on a planet far, far away was a new concept, I wanted to know more--and yes, the Star Wars films were my favorite. I love mysteries, but not detective stories dealing with things like murders or burglaries, but mystical/spiritual/cosmic ones. Unveilings, if you will, of something that would not only reshape one person's life, but everyone's. During the summers, I would wake up early every morning before my mom went to work to watch a show called "Sightings" on the SciFi network. The host, Tim White, would report on unusual events across the nation and world: ghosts, close encounters, and cryptozoology. Some of it was very convincing to my young mind, but one day the channel stopped airing the show (I had been watching reruns from the early 1990s'). I was distraught. I needed my fix.
Lucky for me, in middle school I discovered Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio show which talked about similar things. George Noory has been a constant in my life ever since (I do miss Art Bell though). To add to my mystery-obsession, television programs like LOST and Heroes began airing during this time as well. Both revolved around central mysteries which always left the viewer wanting more. Between LOST, Coast to Coast AM, and my fascination with mythology, the occult, and philosophy, I started to create my own grand theories. They slowly became influenced by literary theorists, philosophers, the ancients, and conspiratorial radio hosts like Alex Jones. I love conspiracy theories and am proud of it. They, like most of the things I have been describing, are real life ghosts stories (some literally). I am not going to pretend like the information discussed in the next paragraphs is new to me. I have been following out-there stuff since way before this class, and I am aware of the perceived lunacy of this material. As an academic, it slightly scares me to cite such sources; however, it is very much within the theme of this project. I hope you enjoy what's to come, if not for its craziness.
A few months ago, after a terrible bout of what I will call a series of momentary lapses in judgement, I purchased a book from Barnes & Noble titled The Global Conspiracy. It was written by David Icke.
I can guarantee this man is a nutcase. He rarely cites his sources, which drives me crazy, seems to have it out for particular races, and is somewhat of a self-imposed Christ figure. Just read his Wikipedia article to get a feel for him.
He is also a proponent of the reptilian-shapeshifter-bloodline agenda of our ruling elite. Ever see the video of George Bush's eyes going repto? Okay, here we go:
Anyway, I would take all of what he says with an extreme grain of salt (extra salty salt), but for all his far-out talk on reptilians in power, he does prove to be quite philosophical when it comes to theories on consciousness and personalities. Everything about our person is a downloadable program, according to him, and the body itself is in fact similar to a computer. Icke says that "'we' don't die because 'we' can't. We are Infinite Awareness--not a body. It is our computer that dies when either its communication system has broken down and is no longer able to function, or consciousness chooses to withdraw from this reality and end the experience" (Global Conspiracy 4). He compares this Infinite Awareness to a user on a computer. If you were to tell a computer it was being handled by an outside force to do what it does, it would call you crazy (if it could, of course). "Our hunches, our intuition, or what I call 'knowing', come from Infinite Awareness--not intellect. The 'scientific' and 'intellectual' professions, like teachers, university lecturers, and those in media, are awash with unconscious people" (6). These people have been tricked into identifying with their bodies, personalities, emotions, and egos--these things are not you, but the computer you use to interface with the world. It would be like an astronaut saying that he is his spacesuit.
In my entry Total Recall and Dreams, I mentioned the Hindu god Shiva tricking himself into seeing the world through each of us. The god Brahma also said, "The universe is an Idea, my Idea." I have heard the Infinite Awareness which Icke describes called many things, the Cosmic Consciousness, the Pantheon, Universal Unconscious, or just plain God. To illustrate a point, rat brains can be manipulated into controlling airplanes in a simulation. According to an article by Robin Lettice on The Register, "Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds." One has to wonder if there isn't something behind the computer-consciousness theory if even a rodent can be taught to control a jet. Icke says the brain, rather than being us, is a receptor for the greater consciousness, and the main receptor is the third eye, the pineal gland, which I talked about in another entry. All reality is simply energy frequencies. Most of the 'solid world' we see is empty space (remember, atoms are 99 percent empty) and is an illusion. We have dialed up to a certain frequency--it is why radio waves can exist in the same space you are in--and our senses are simply what our brains use to pick it up. "You don't see with your eyes," says Icke, "You see with your brain."
Some of the most fascinating ideas I read from Icke dealt with archetypes. "I have heard it said by psychologists that there are only a small number of what they call archetypal 'personalities'. Some say there are no more than twelve basic ones. [...] Humans did not have separate, or personal, unconscious minds and instead shared a single Universal Unconscious, Jung said. What we call the conscious mind was rooted in this, he believed, and to him the mind was shaped according to universal patterns" (16). This makes sense in that we are very much part of this universe--our minds should be continued to be shaped by it because we are 'it'. When we see the patterns in the heavens, or the earth's cycles, we feel separate from them, when in fact, we are them. "Like everything in this reality, 'human' is a computer construct and not who we really are. Psychiatrists and mainstream therapists who work with the 'human mind' are like computer tech-support and hypnotists are re-programmers. They are not dealing with Infinite Awareness, but the computer 'mind'" (6). These archetypes, says Icke, would contradict our basic assumptions about ourselves--if there are so few, is there any real freedom or are we just living out these stories already set up for us? I recently bought a book by the psychologist Jean Shinoda Bolen titled Gods in Everyman. In it, she tries to help men find the archetypes within themselves (she uses the Greek pantheon). It startled my friends how closely they matched up with various gods in the book. One of my buddies was so clearly Hephaestus, another was Apollo, another was Hermes, and as for myself, I had followed a Dionysian life path pretty closely.
On a recent night, I was listening to Coast to Coast AM Monday night and a lady named Pamala Oslie discussed auras (you can even discover what yours is if you visit her site). I think these various spiritual beliefs can all be linked back to the energy flows Icke describes. The more connected you are to a particular god, the more of his or her aura will shine through. These archetypes are just computer programs we download. "As with an inherited disease that some children get and others don't, the 'personality' programs are sitting there waiting to be triggered. A conscious person can overcome and inherited tendency through the enlightenment of Infinite Awareness, but a non-conscious person, following the program and thinking it is them, may fall into the inherited response" (17). Icke goes as far to say that our demons are in fact downloaded programs. I would relate that the images of hell, the devil, and his minions are images of our own internal dilemmas, nightmares, and problems.
Gender is also another aspect of our computer-body. We identify with a particular sex; however, as Judith Butler pointed out, this is often just a role we play for others. Everything is energy, and our body is simply the interface we have been given to interact with it, and make it solid to touch.
These ideas are nothing new. According to Erik Davis in his book, TechGnosis, "The electromagnetic universe set the stage for the final deconstruction of atomic materialism: the dissolution of the ether, the emergence of Einsteinian space-time, and ultimately the arrival of quantum mechanics and its colossal oddities. [It] catalysed the alchemy that revealed the physical universe to be an enormous vibrating mantra of potent nothings" (62). In the rise of this new era, esoteric teachers began to incorporate new technologies into their teachings. Col. Henry Steel Olcott and Madame Helena Blavatsky formed the Theosophical Society in 1875, which wanted to understand the universe by combining modern ways of thought with hermeticism and Eastern religion. "They were the gnostics of modernism" says Davis. The Theosophists weaved together the mind before matter universe (as well as the power of thoughts to influence the material world), with "the language of etheric waves, vibrations, cosmic frequencies, and fields of force" (63). David Icke is the progression of this--the melding together of ancient myth with new age pop Buddhism and new technology. "Consciousness is like an FM radio band," said William Irwin Thompson, a social philosopher from the 20th century, "as long as one is locked into one station, all he receives is the information of one reality; but if . . . he is able to move his consciousness to a different station on the FM band, then he discovers universes beyond matter in the cosmic reaches of spirit" (Davis 64). As I delve deeper into my project, I will continue to explore identity and look at it through different media, which is where my particular interests are leading me.
Okay, maybe I do need an editor.
During the research for this blog I stumbled on a site called "Unexplained Mysteries" (are there any other sort of mysteries?). To leave you in a creepy mood, I will post some of the videos appearing on the site.
Ghost horseman during the Egyptian riots:
Alien in Brazil Rainforest:
Dead alien found in Siberia snow:
Mwahaha. Wait, those videos were clearly all wrong. If I saw an alien in the forest I would be freaking out a lot more than those kids were.
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