Once upon a time, my straight brother and I were driving through one of those tidy middle-class neighborhoods of the American Dream made manifest (the kind Audrey dreams of in Little Shop of Horrors), when we saw a teenager mowing his lawn. “Jeezuz, do ya think he works out?” asked my brother, and I caught the quickest glimpse of a muscular titan mowing his lawn in nothing but his shorts as we drove past. That moment may have lasted only a few seconds for my eyeballs, but my imagination has turned that anonymous lawnmower stud into a thousand fantasies: the groundskeeper, the poolboy, the gardener, Adam.
James Whale was a British born film director and troubled homosexual (we’re always troubled, aren’t we?) who’s credits include Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man - all huge blockbusters of their day. Frankenstein = the Creation = the Monster = Adam. As the director, Whale also gets to play God, and his name syncs up nicely there. I imagine James seething with jealousy during the scenes with Elsa Lanchester (Eve), because he secretly desired Adam for himself!
Baptized in the name of the son...
Gods and Monsters (1998) stars Ian McKellen as James Whale in later life, after his career has faded. His housekeeper hires a new gardener, who turns out to be major beefcake Clay (Earth, Adam) Boone played by Brendan Fraser.
Brendan is a sync hole all on his own, which Jake Kotze is currently documenting at The Blob: K2 and the 2012 Maya Maga Ritual. Odd, that.
If I happened home one day to find Brendan Fraser mowing the lawn in a sweaty wife-beater, I would either pass out or desperately invite him in for lemonade. James manages considerably better than that, and soon has Brendan posing shirtless for a drawing. Much drama ensues when the groundskeeper realizes the homosexual intentions of the older man, and it got me to thinking...
Maybe Adam is a vision of masculine perfection who doesn’t even understand why he was hired. He was told it was to tend the Garden, but the REAL reason is because the Owner of the Garden delights in his every move, from the sun glistening off his sweat dappled brow to the powerful thrust of his arms and legs as he pushes the lawnmower across the lawn.
Which is just a roundabout way of saying that maybe the Creation really DOES revolve around Man. If we let it.
Dad (Abba) is hopelessly in love/lust with his son/twin, and wouldn’t it be typical if the greatest taboo on earth ends up being the greatest joy in heaven?
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Ian McKellen (his slight frame notwithstanding), is a major sync heavyweight, with LOTR, X-Men, The Da Vinci Code and The Golden Compass under his belt. In a way, Ian has been playing the same role over and over - the Grail Quester - and in Gods and Monsters, he comes perilously close to realizing his goal.
My folks and I saw Little Shop of Horrors last Saturday - at my 17 year old nephew’s high school production. The school mascot is a purple kangaroo, the pink elephant of Oz. Frank Oz directed the film version in 1986, so that made perfect sync sense.
I haven’t been back to high school in... ages. Going back in time like that sort of puts me in a different place, where symbols live and syncs flow. As we found our seats and waited for the lights to go down, music played softly through the loudspeakers, and the first song up was Stairway to Heaven (yea, I know). It seems like every high school dance I ever attended always ritually ended with Stairway to Heaven - the most undanceable song ever written. God I hated that song. I hated the dances too, but they were ‘required’.
So I’m back in high school, except the last song I heard is now the first. Taking up where I left off?
Little Shop of Horrors was a 1982 off-Broadway alien invasion musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, based upon the 1960 B-movie of the same name. The invader takes the form of a Venus flytrap like plant that appears suddenly during a total solar eclipse. The plant is found by (chooses) Seymour Krelboyne (Rick Moranis), amateur horticulturalist and inept employee of penny pinching Jewish/Indian Gravis Mushnick (Vincent Gardenia) - proprietor of a down and out florist shop (Eden) on skid row. Seymour is an orphan who was taken in by Mushnick as a child. Parents unknown, though his last name is a clue.
This plant has the power to make all your dreams come true as long as you keep it well fed, the downside being that it eats only fresh meat - human blood sacrifice. Seymour names the plant Audrey II, after the sweet but dotty Audrey Fulquard (Ellen Greene): the other employee at the florist shop, and Seymour’s secret love interest.
Audrey Tautou (Tau Cross + King Tou, the sender of golden cups as tribute to King David) played Sophie Neveu (New Wisdom) in 'The Da Vinci Code', and along with the Venus sync, the plant resonates the divine feminine (devouring black hole), but oddly it has a deep masculine voice, obviously a male personality. Male and female.
Is it just me, or does this little pistil look like a stamen?
The florist’s shop has a few regular customers, one being Mrs. Siddie Shiva, who has a very large family and comes in almost daily for flower arrangements for her many relative’s funerals. “Sitting Shiva” is the Jewish custom of a week long period of grief and mourning for relatives. I saw shiva on my funeral visit to NYC.
“Hinduism identifies Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva as each representing one of the three primary aspects of the divine in Hinduism, known collectively as the Trimurti. In the Trimurti system, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the maintainer or preserver, and Shiva is the destroyer or TRANSFORMER.”
Shiva’s weapon is the trident (We have the Trident Nuclear Subase on Hood Canal, which has been called the "deadliest weapon ever"). Shiva is also known as Ardhanarishvara, “the lord who is half woman” (which is not the same as "half-man, half-woman", says Ellen Goldberg).
Jesus calls himself “the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star” in Rev 22:16 (4x4), signifying Venus, who is also the divine feminine. Both Jesus and Shiva are to return at the end of the Age.
Anyway, back in the florist’s shop: Seymour accidentally pricks his finger on a rose (another divine feminine symbol) and ritually castrates himself (According to Christopher Knowles.) The plant opens wide when it smells blood, and Seymour feeds it, singing “grow for me”. Almost at once, wealth, fame and love come into Seymour’s life, which shows the plant to have Godlike power - the ability to grant wishes, or alter reality. It is also the power of the Cosmic Cube.
Seymour protects his power plant.
As the plant grows, the financial success of the flower shop keeps pace. Mr. Mushnick is thrilled with the miracle, but he overhears the wicked dentist whisper temptation into Seymour’s ear: Take the plant and leave this dump on skid row for a better neighborhood. Mushnick is struck with fear at the prospect of his “golden goose” flying the coop, so he proposes a clever ball and chain: to make Seymour his legal son - Mushnick & Son.
Mushnick is a Jewish Indian, representing both the Abrahamic religions and the religions of the East (the two Shivas). Once the power of Seymour and the plant are shown, both East AND West want a piece of him, and claim him as their own. But in truth, neither East or West are Seymour’s true father, because he’s a foundling. So where’s he from?
Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." --John 18:36
As the plant grows it continues demanding more and more blood. Seymour can’t keep up, and is forced to take advantage of “accidental” deaths in order to feed the plant. First Audrey’s sadistic dentist boyfriend, then Mr. Mushnick, and eventually even Audrey the first.
Size (Mass) does matter.
Finally, Seymour realizes the plant’s cunning plan: to have cuttings taken and then be distributed all over the country! He tries shooting, cutting and poisoning the plant, but its hide is too tough. He then runs into its open jaws with a machete - planning to kill it from within.
Of course, Shiva/Jesus isn’t so easy to kill anymore, and Seymour is the one who is eaten, the plant spitting out the machete. The following day, the plant’s four new buds open, each bud showing the living face of a victim - born again.
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. --John 15:5
As we left the auditorium and walked to the parking lot, I noticed a bright bumblebee yellow and black striped Ford Mustang in the parking lot, hiding in plain sight, and when I got back home from the show, I tossed our ticket stubs out on the kitchen table, and noticed that one of them was number 666. Sheesh!
Feed Me!
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Seymour’s leap into the maw of the plant reminds me of Agent K’s (Tommy Lee Jones) leap into the gullet of the giant Bug in Men In Black. This bug was also an alien invader, intent on consuming a world. Perhaps the same entity? “Destroying from within” might represent the takeover of the church, media and government by people who are not what they seem.
A skid row or skid road is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large population of impoverished abusers of alcohol and, often, other drugs. In a related expression, someone who is down and out is said to be "on the skids". The term originally referred literally to a path along which loggers skidded logs; that literal meaning is now obsolete. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. --wikipedia
Apple is an influence upon the upcoming Disney Pixar release, Wall-E.
CNN Money writes that when designing the movie's heroine, Eve, director Andrew Stanton described her as "high-end technology – no expense spared" and wanted it "to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous." --Macnn
Pinwheels anyone?
Added 4/14:
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, scheduled for June 9-11, has sold out for the first time ever. Attendance at the event has rapidly grown as interest in the Mac platform has snowballed in proportion to rapid new sales of Macs. --Apple Insider
My head has been working overtime connecting a few Deloozian dots, brought about by the amazing equation:
Respect = Worship = Energy = Food of the Gods
In this world, energy is essentially invisible to us, though a roaring fire can be cozy. Mass is the only thing we can touch or own, though mass is also a form of energy, at least according to Albert: E = mc2. We know energy is essential for life, and we’ve learned how to harness fire, and then electricity, fission, fusion, and God knows what’s next. In religious texts, the spirit is said to be invisible and necessary for life - and it has finally dawned on me that they are one and same. Spirit = Energy.
Electricity is the ultimate symbol of invisible energy, which mythically even creates life - Frankenstein (who Mary Shelley called ‘Adam’). The Freemason Ben Franklin is famous for harnessing electricity via a kite (the power of the air in diamond cruciform) and thus illuminating the key. Which is like harnessing Zeus. The Sky God made Demiurge.
"...and one day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies..." --Edith Keeler - The City on the Edge of Forever
The symbol of both energy and idea has become the electric light bulb (a “Hermetically” sealed vacuum SPHERE). Thomas (the twin) Edison, the 20th century light bringer. Speaking of twins, everyone knows electricity requires two poles in order to flow - the positive and negative, black and white, duality. The spice must flow. The Gestapo SS symbol - two electric lightning bolts - lightning storm troopers? Throw a KISS to the boys in the band.
Twin poles like the twin towers, or the twin spires of so many cathedrals. If great symbolic monuments are built in order to collect human spirit energy, then perhaps they are literally vaults, saving up the worship energy over time. The older and more mythic an object, the more respect it garners - the more energy INVESTED. A piggy bank must be broken in order to make a withdrawal, and this apparently holds true for ALL vessels of symbolic power, from buildings to pop stars - the long established and sacred ritual sacrifice.
A "spiritual treasury"
The Catholic ceremony is called Mass - converting the masses into energy, (bread into the body of Christ) which is food for the Gods. Religious relics and shrines are great little dynamos, and it doesn’t even matter if the relic is “genuine”, as long as the worshiper believes it. Same energy made, and I’m sure it tastes great, though possibly less filling.
Stick 'em up.
The elite are frequently photographed making the sign of the “devil’s hand” - a twin fingered symbol. perhaps they imagine their hands sucking energy from the masses, like a toaster oven suckles energy from the (checkerboard) grid, via a plug. We have many twin fingered salutes, and maybe they all plug into the same outlet?
Electric motors operate by spinning, which reminds me of spinning wheels, planets, galaxies, merry-go-rounds, tornadoes, helicopters and stargates. Matthew has noticed the prominent placement of ferris wheels in the most mythically CHARGED locations, which makes them generators, spinning up the energy field like a turbine.
"Do you think my horns are sexy?"
The old Gods always had horns - symbols of power, especially sexual potency. Two nodes - plug head. Plugs have two prongs, and many have three. That prong goes to Ground, like a terrier. (Fertile ground, Gaia, earth, clay, Adam) I suspect the phallus is the third prong. Men don’t have horns (with the possible exception of GWB). Like Hellboy, our horns (our spirit energy receivers), have been either lost or cut off, but we do still have our grounding rods.
In 'Transformers', the cuboid Allspark was hidden beneath Hoover Dam, whose immense mass is compared to the Great Pyramid of Egypt, of which we are all so fond. Perhaps they are equivalents, with equivalent purposes. Curiously, the dam is the harness of the potential electrical energy of water. If we think of ourselves as water molecules in the river of cosmic consciousness, then maybe the damned are the dammed.
If Earth is a spirit energy mining operation, then we’re the workers on the surface of Bespin, making “Tibanna Gas“, while the “Overlords” float above in their cloud cities. I’m reminded that Cloud City’s Baron was a former space pirate. How interesting that pirates are all the rage.
Money makes the world go round, but it runs on oil. Oil = Energy = Spirit, so could it really be any other way that the world’s largest oil deposits lie directly below the richest source of Tibanna Gas? As Muslims circle the Kaaba in Mecca, do they create the black gold below?
I have a feeling I know why the basic rule “As above, so below” is so utterly reliable. Because the Gods never had an original idea in their lives. They simply made an earthly version of heaven, in every detail.
It's weird how the elite's heaven on earth is my hell. Maybe we can figure out how to reverse the flow. Pole shift, anyone?
Video: Kelly Clarkson asks for your respect.
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Rock and Roll is obviously a huge respect/worship/energy maker, and it even has a shrine: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by I. M. Pei (I am pie?), the same gent who gave us the Louvre pyramid. He sure loves him his tri-angels (sic).
In the comments to Mayday!, Christopher Knowles reports that on or about May 5 is Old Beltane - the “astrologically correct” May Day.
The old Celtic name for May Day is Beltane (in its most popular Anglicized form), which is derived from the Irish Gaelic 'Bealtaine' or the Scottish Gaelic 'Bealtuinn', meaning 'Bel-fire', the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel, Beli or Belinus). He, in turn, may be traced to the Middle Eastern god Baal. --Mike Nichols
Cinco de Mayo is a minor regional Mexican holiday turned into another major U.S. beer marketing bash (on par with Oktoberfest and St. Patrick’s day), that synchromystically happens to land on a day celebrating a solar deity.
And people say there will be no choices in the NWO.
May 1-8, Seattle is hosting the National Level Exercise 2-08 "terrorist drill".
The overall exercise scenario unfolds as a Category 4 hurricane threatens the National Capitol Region (i.e. Washington DC) while events in the Pacific Northwest include terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the state of Washington and an accidental release of a chemical agent at chemical stockpile facility in Umatilla, Oregon. The scenario culminates with the hurricane's imminent landfall combined with a credible terror threat which causes the federal government to invoke continuity plans and capabilities. (i.e. martial law)
We may recall that both New York on 9/11 and London on 7/7 were also hosting terrorist "drills".
Considering May Day is a cross-quarter day and the Feast of Beltane, (think Scotland and Ireland), which featured the crowning of the May Queen (think Carrie) as well as the Druids running their cattle through the flames of purification (think "us"), I gotta bad feelin' about this.
As luck would have it, the regional Scottish Rite Leadership Conference is to be held in Seattle concurrently - May 2. Mark your calendar.
1776 - Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
1915 - RMS Lusitania departs New York City on her final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
2003 - In what became known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.
Matthew Delooze holds that the world is in thrall to trans-dimensional beings (trannies?) who feed on our spiritual energy. This energy is created via emotion and ‘respect’, AKA worship. The general idea being that these “reptilians” have bribed the elite with wealth and social position in order to facilitate the flow of this spiritual “spice”. The spice is created via spectacular public events (sports, concerts, religious festivals, disasters) and then siphoned off to these beings through symbols, the most powerful being monumental architecture - the spiritual milking machines of the human race.
That’s pretty wild, but no crazier than any other religion - and it would explain a lot. So lately I’m trying it on for size, and using it to analyze popular media. Which brings us to my latest victim: Thunderbirds.
Thunderbirds are GO!
Set in the 21st century, the show depicts the adventures of the Tracy family, which consists of millionaire former astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons: Scott (pilot of Thunderbird 1 and principal rescue co-ordinator), Virgil (pilot of Thunderbird 2), Alan (astronaut in Thunderbird 3), Gordon (aquanaut in Thunderbird 4) and John (principal duty astronaut on the space station Thunderbird 5) - each named after a Mercury astronaut - Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn, respectively.
Together with Jeff's elderly mother called Grandma Tracy, the scientific genius and engineer "Brains", the family's manservant Kyrano and his daughter TIN-TIN, the Tracy family live on a remote, uncharted Pacific island (Tracy Island). They are, in secret, the members of International Rescue, a private and highly-advanced emergency response organisation, which covers the globe and even reaches into space, rescuing people with their futuristic vehicles, the Thunderbirds. --Wikipedia
Thunderbirds is also one of my childhood favs. I loved Gerry Anderson’s “Supermarionation“ (a super-sync word evoking Superman, Mario Bros, Puppet Masters, Mary, and God knows what else) animating technique, and his vision of a high tech and high style tropical island populated by handsome young men and secret space ships was just the thing for a preadolescent gay boy.
I finally rented the 2004 live action film last week (directed by Star Trek’s Jonathan Frakes) which had my third sync eye's full attention from the very start: the production company logo spinning out of a stargate:
The opening credits are done in a computer animated cartoon 60’s style - probably the best part of this "workmanlike" movie. They prominently feature monuments from around the world (note the sun behind the Eiffel Tower), and we see that even little Seattle gets a nod with the Space Needle: long the focus of New Years Eve rituals - our own ”Chronos’ Square“.
All the sons are named after Mercury astronauts. Mercury is the Roman version of Thoth, Hermes. Getting our first good look at Tracy Island, we see the serpentine Caduceus design motif in the villa - a Hermetic ‘pied-a-terre’:
Frakes doesn’t leave us guessing regarding the secret identities of our heroes, he tells us straight out through the words of the movie’s chief antagonist - The Hood (Ben Kingsley):
”Ahhh, the chariot of the Gods. Having dabbled with the mortals, they return to Olympus.“
Chariots swinging low past the Golden (star)Gate.
The first action scene involves youngest son Alan Tracy (Brady Corbet) enviously watching his family’s rescuing exploits from a private boy’s school. The entire school (including staff) is totally focused on the drama unfolding on the TV screen, and they cheer like football fans after the rescue is made - showing us the desired form of ”worship“?
Alan is picked up from school by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (Sophia Miles), the London agent for International Rescue. Penny is an ”international socialite“ and fabulously wealthy, so the Gods are well connected to the British aristocracy, but we already knew that. Her butler/chauffeur Aloysius ”Nosey“ Parker ferries Lady Penelope across the sky in a 6-wheeled (like Cherubim) pink chariot of fire called FAB-1, which is both amphibious and rocket propelled - perhaps a Dagon model.
"You left me to die that day, you may have broken my body, but you have no idea how powerful my mind has become. Now you will suffer, as I suffered."
The Tracy's have a pretty good thing going until a certain malcontent upturns the applecart: The Hood. The Hood (who is never seen wearing an actual hood) seems to carry a personal grudge against the Tracy’s, along with a desire to rob all the banks of the world, starting with the Bank of London.
The Tracy’s, the Elite and the Gods are all conflated - being rich, gorgeous and satisfied - defenders of the status quo faith. The elite’s wealth is stored in a bank - the Bank of London. But what really IS wealth to a god/angel (trans-dimensional being)?
As above so below, and while the dollar is symbolically the currency of Hermes, I keep musing about the possibility of there being some heavenly form of currency - the energy postulated by Matthew Delooze.
We might theorize that this energy is somehow stored in the trans-dimensional equivalent of a (battery)bank. And somehow, this treasury is almost, but not quite, secure. Perhaps a thief is lurking about? Considering how all the wealth in the Bank of London is actually milked from the suffering of the colonies, and how the aristocracy are glorified pirates, and a pattern begins to emerge.
Interestingly, Sir Ben Kingsley’s greatest role (next to The Hood) was Gandhi - the Savior of India. India was the greatest diamond in the British Crown - and a classic colonial victim. Maybe The Hood's first name is Robin.
The Hood has a formidable octagonal/pyramidal submarine from which he fires a missile at T5 - the orbiting space station. This causes the Tracy's to fly up and attempt a rescue, but instead become trapped in the station, with life support running low. The Gods return to heaven, but become trapped in Hades (the lower 4th dimension). The end of the Golden Age.
The Gods are near death in their frozen tomb, awaiting rescue. They talk amongst themselves:
”Come on dad, the situation’s hopeless.“
”No it’s not. There’s still time. We’ve got people on the ground working for us.“
The Great Work? The Tracy’s are finally revived by ”Brains“ (knowledge), who awakens Jeff from near death by loudly swearing his name. Hmmm. Once revived, the family departs Hades in the triad signifying T3 - and head straight to the bank, overcoming The Hood and safeguarding the stash.
"Thanks for waking me!"
Yea. No problem, Herm.
Video: Thunderbirds TV Theme
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Thunderbird (from wikipedia): The Thunderbird is a mythological creature common to Indigenous peoples of North America. It is a popular concept in northwestern coastal artwork of indigenous origin, often appearing on totem poles.
There is a story that in April 1890, two cowboys in Arizona killed a giant birdlike creature with an enormous wingspan. It was said it had smooth skin, and featherless wings like a bat. Its face resembled an alligator. This description has more than a cursory similarity to the prehistoric pterodactyl. They dragged the carcass back to town, and it was pinned, wings outstretched across the entire length of a barn. There is supposed to be a picture of this event, that may or may not have been published in the local newspaper, the 'Tombstone Epitaph'. Despite numerous people who have claimed to have seen this photograph recently, no one has ever been able to produce a copy of the picture nor make historic corroboration that this event ever occurred.
F.A.B.: The characters use the radio sign-off "F.A.B." rather than "Roger" or "Out". Anderson was often asked what F.A.B. stood for, but stated it in fact simply stood for "fab" (short for "fabulous"), a 1960s catchphrase.
Mullion & Transom: The Hood's two main assistants are named with architectural terms for vertical (Mullion) and horizontal (Transom) pieces used in the construction of doors or windows.
Thunderbirds March: A crucial element of the show's success was its thrilling music score, composed and conducted by Barry Gray, who provided all the music for the Anderson series up to and including Space: 1999 series one. His instantly recognizable "Thunderbirds March" is one of the best-known of all TV themes and has become a perennial favourite with brass and military bands around the world. [Much like the Star Wars march]
Level 42: The "Thunderbirds March" and the 5-4-3-2-1 countdown from the top of the show, were adopted by the British band Level 42 for its live shows, as captured in the video release of its 1987 performance at Wembley Stadium in London. An updated version, blended with the opening fanfare to the band's own hit "Heaven In My Hands," kicks off L42's concert gigs to this day.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of time travel, so I've taken to the Star Trek Time Travel Fan Collective like a duck to water. Star Trek made the multiple universe/timeline theory a pop culture fact, and the religious ramifications of that idea are never far from the surface. The Original Series was perhaps truest to the concept of a Secret Sunday School, and watching those old episodes with newly grown symbolic sensors never fails to send me directly down the rabbit hole.
Tonight, I’m examining The City on the Edge of Forever, "the penultimate episode of the first season of Star Trek". Episode 28, production 28, first broadcast April 6, 1967. This episode introduces themes explored again and again in time travel fiction - the core idea being that it is possible to visit the past, make historical changes, and then return to the present to experience a different reality than when you left. This episode also explores entheogenic drugs, self-conscious stargates and ritual blood sacrifice... fun for the whole family!
As a heads up to the reader, I have come to view Star Trek (and many other sci-fi movies and books) in the same way that I view the bible - as metaphor and mythic allegory. To me, Star Trek isn’t necessarily a vision of the future, but an akashic memory of the past - the Ages of Gods and Heroes.
We join the crew of the Enterprise as they are drawn to a mysterious planet from which time displacement waves are emanating. The waves jar the Enterprise as she passes through, causing an electrical malfunction on the bridge, injuring Sulu, perhaps mortally. Doctor McCoy is summoned to the bridge, who decides to “risk” a few drops of “cordrazine” to revive him.
“It’s tricky stuff, are you sure you want to risk it?”
Which is an odd thing for a Captain to be asking his chief medical officer, especially one he holds in such high regard. What makes this stuff “tricky”? We’re about to find out. Sulu “miraculously” recovers after the injection, but as the Enterprise is struck by another temporal bubble, McCoy accidentally injects himself with an overdose of cordrazine. He begins exhibiting signs of paranoia and madness. Delirious, he beams himself down to the planet’s surface.
"Hi ho, hi ho!"
Cordrazine = entheogenic drugs, the magic mushroom, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Everything that subsequently happens to the crew is a result of McCoy’s “trip”.
Kirk and a landing party soon follow McCoy to the surface, where they meet “The Guardian of Forever” - a living time machine/stargate. “I am my own beginning, my own ending.” says the Guardian in a commanding masculine voice, which is close enough to “I am the Alpha and the Omega” to make the point.
The Guardian shows earth’s history (beginning with ancient Egypt) like a movie - in black and white - which is a nice reverse of Dorothy’s mushroom trip - like looking at Kansas from a TV in Oz.
The landing party is too late to stop McCoy from leaping through the stargate, “incarnating” himself on three dimensional earth. McCoy becomes Adam, the first “angel” born as a mortal man. Immediately afterwards, the Enterprise ceases to exist, and the landing party is stranded. McCoy went back into earth’s history and changed it, thereby altering the future. In other words, the creation of Adam resulted in the destruction of Oz, or at least the angel’s exalted place in it. They find themselves imprisoned on a desolate planet, with no past and no future.
"Captain... I'm frightened!"
Captain Kirk and Spock go through the stargate after McCoy, to attempt a rescue and to set the timeline right. They tell the rest of the landing party that if they do not succeed, they are to follow them through the gate and “incarnate” into the earth’s past as well, each attempting the rescue.
The stargate lands them in Depression era New York City, which has symbolically become Eden - the home of Adam/McCoy.
Kirk and Spock materialize in front of a poster promoting a boxing event at Madison SQUARE Garden, (Interesting how boxers box inside a “ring”) and noting that Mike Mason is on the bill, I'd say we’re in the middle of another Masonic ritual drama.
Meanwhile, McCoy incarnates on Earth as a milkman does his rounds, frightening a bum into dropping a milk bottle from the WIDIN Dairy Farm in the alley. I’m not sure what milk represents, but I’ll take a stab that it represents Manna (eternal life).
McCoy meets his first NYC native, and remarks on his small stature, yet good cranial development. “No doubt considerable human ancestry”. Spoken like a true Nephilim.
The aliens quickly locate clothes to help them fit into Depression era NYC. Kirk wears red and black checkered flannel, and Spock is in wizard blue and grey. They encounter a social worker, Edith Keeler (Joan Collins), who helps them find work to pay for the equipment Spock requires to build a tricorder interface (crystal ball).
"...and one day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies..."
Edith Keeler runs the 21st Street Mission, and while feeding the hungry, she preaches a vision of man’s eventual enlightenment and ascension via star ships, and little does she know that she is soon to be harboring refugees from her future utopia - entertaining angels unawares. Edith is Eve, and she has two suiters...
Unknown to Kirk and Spock, Edith has taken in the recently-arrived and ill McCoy. Kirk promptly falls in love with Edith and is devastated when Spock completes his tricorder and discovers that in order to repair history, they must let Edith Keeler be killed in an auto accident. If they allow McCoy to save her — as he did before — she will start an effective pacifist movement that will delay the United States' entrance into World War II, thus allowing Hitler's Germany to develop the atomic bomb first and conquer the planet. --StarTrek.com
It really IS All About Eve. So we have Adam and Eve in the Garden, and who else in this ancient triangle? The serpent. It’s interesting that even though McCoy was first through the stargate, and thus the cause of all that then occurred, it was Kirk who landed first in the garden.
Spock’s tricorder needs a computer interface in order to extract the data it contains (the true history of mankind). Spock endeavors to create the interface using “stone knives and bearskins” - primitive technology. The tricorder is an ancient angelic/Atlantean artifact (the Hall of Records), requiring Hiram’s “key”. Spock’s revelation is given via a newspaper of the day called the “Star Dispatch”, which is perhaps a clever reference to astrology. Spock is a Magi and alchemist of high degree.
"Edith Keeler must die."
Unfortunately, the key reveals that Edith must die in a traffic accident in order to restore the timeline. The accident is "allowed" to happen.
After the ritual sacrifice, all is returned as it should be, and the angels are restored to their proper places in heaven. Edith is mute. As the landing party departs the God forsaken planet, Kirk exclaims “Let’s get the hell out of here.” Hell being Sheol. Telling us quite literally where these fallen angels have been doing time.
There are two things I love about this little story from CNN. The first is that it showcases the dowry as the husband's source of political power (even reminding us of Teresa Heinz and John Kerry), echoing Jasmin from Aladdin as well as the grail. The other is that Cindy has apparently become a member of the Vulcan High Council.
(CNN) — John McCain and wife Cindy do not file joint tax returns, and the campaign said Friday they will not release her 2006 and 2007 tax returns along with the candidate's.
The McCain campaign notes John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz, did not release her tax returns during the 2004 campaign.
An heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, Cindy McCain's worth has been estimated to be around $100 million.
