The War of the Worlds - 2012

“On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts announced the arrival of Martians. They panicked when they learned of the Martians' ferocious and seemingly unstoppable attack on Earth. Many ran out of their homes screaming while others packed up their cars and fled. Though what the radio listeners heard was a portion of Orson Welles' adaptation of the well-known book, ‘War of the Worlds’ by H. G. Wells, many of the listeners believed what they heard on the radio was real.”

On May 22, 2011, National Geographic ran its own version of the War of the Worlds, creating a “documentary” on the subject of an alien attack on earth, and how that might play out. They pulled out all the stops: big CGI effects, dramatic music, “expert” testimony, etc. I finally watched it today. Jesus... they hit all the buttons:

• Compared the aliens to Nazis, and predatory cats.
• Portray the aliens as incommunicative - “unknowable”.
• The aliens destroy “civilization” (F-18’s, missiles, bombs, weapons factories, etc.)
• In the absence of alien communication, they assume the worst.
• Invoke Ronald Reagan’s famous alien invasion speech.
• Showed human beings at our worst in a disaster, using Hurricane Katrina as an example. (looting Walmart - the horror!)
• Shock and Awe, or Shekinah.
• Portray the aliens harvesting all organic life, beaming up the trees, cows and people.
• All the nations of the world combine to combat the threat (Armageddon).

Artful propaganda to be sure, and why the hell National Geographic has become a Fox News - Steven Spielberg clone is a great question - sort of exceeding their mandate. What was wrong with bare breasted African ladies?

I dunno, but with 2012 coming up and Terrance McKenna’s prediction of the Id manifesting as an alien spaceship in 2012, I find this all very curious. I'd link to the NG site tonight, but apparently their server is down... just like in their alien invasion scenario.

UPDATE:

I've been checking out the NG site (now that they're back online) and wow have I been out of touch. NG doesn't do trips into the Amazon much anymore, now it's all 911, Hitler and aliens. They're like the Discovery Channel - war, disaster and paranoia, 24/7. It reminds me of Popular Science magazine, which became "Popular War" magazine after 911. A small sampling:

If I Could Turn Back Time

The Cosmic Revision

People who know me know I have a bit of a fixation with time travel. Time travel, muscle and big dicks. But we’ll stick with time travel today. Mostly. Even as a kid I read all the time travel fiction I could find and last winter I finally read 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court', by Mark Twain. Why time travel? Why is Back to the Future so important to me? Why did I hear The Power of Love piping through the muse ack as I walked into Trader Joe’s on 9/1/11?

Well, I dunno, so I decided to ask the Goddess:



If I Could Turn Back Time

Those are some pretty big guns (dicks) you’re dancing around, little girl. Cher’s “comeback” video was filmed aboard the battleship USS Missouri (rhymes with Misery). The USS Missouri played a huge part in WWII, being the vessel upon which the Japanese surrendered.

Oddly enough, I saw the Missouri every summer as a kid, because we drove by the Bremerton Naval shipyards on our way to the beach cabin, and there she was floating, in mothballs.

But even more than that, Missouri is a great river, much like the Nile, Jordan or Hudson. The Missouri is the longest river in North America, and drains into the Mississippi. If the Mighty Mississip is the North American Nile, then Missouri is the Upper Nile, or headwaters, while New Orleans lies in the delta, the capitol of Lower Egypt.

Horus is the God of Lower Egypt while Set is the God of Upper Egypt, the God of the desert. I’ve mused that these rivers and gods represent some kind of spiritual energy that flows through us, the Kundalini, Tree of Life, etc. The Source, or the “headwaters” is Upper Egypt, and like the Nile, I suspect the river runs south to north, or from base chakra on up. So the Source, or Set, is the primeval force of nature, creation, the urge, also the “headwaters”. Confusing? Well, yes, until we realize we have two heads. Here’s the "headwater". Naturally, he's a red head.

Naked Justice by Patrick Fillion

It seems pretty obvious to me that Set is Eros, and possibly Yahweh, the primeval force of creation. But he’s not very smart, and mostly just thinks with his dick. He’s kind of a dick head.

Dr. Dick by HvH

The Prophecy states that Horus (our higher selves, Lower Egypt) is the crowned and conquering child, the one who overcomes Set, wrestles with the Angel of God and earns the name Israel. (sorry for mixing religious archetypes, they are all blending into one). This is essentially what I was writing about in the Sync Book. Set can’t really be beaten, or beheaded. Like the Hydra, he grows back two heads to replace the one cut off. The traditional mythic road of the hero is to attack and conquer the enemy, from Hercules to St. George to GWB. But it’s not so simple anymore. Terror only grows stronger the more you attack it. Was Jesus talking about Set when he told us the greatest commandment?

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. -Mark 12:30

Well, again, I dunno. But Cher is the queen of turning back time (via the magic of plastic surgery) and now her daughter (Chastity/virgin) has become a hermaphrodite and is dancing with the stars.

Maybe the only way to beat Set is to surrender to him. Or at least, give him what he wants. We need to be a bit clever, Horus and I.

When Doves Cry

This was written on August 23.

Today an old Ford Falcon, license plate FALCON passed me. The Falcon is the symbol of Horus, the avenging son of Osiris. This particular Falcon is stored in a garage nearby in Louie Park. Louie, or King Louis, is the Sun King.

A few days ago I walked through the park, and a pair of hawks or perhaps immature eagles circled above me, crying. They were beautiful.

In other news, an earthquake in Virginia cracked the capstone of the Washington Monument. The monument is a “titanic” version of an ancient Egyptian obelisk. The obelisk is also the symbol of Osiris, or Ra, the eternal hard-on, may the Force be with you. Via the Sync Whole:

“The Obelisk had an earlier progenitor in ancient Egypt called the Benben stone. This pillar or mound was the home of the Bennu bird, said to be the soul of Ra, who topped the sacred phallic object. The capstone part of the Obelisk, cracked on 23 August during the Virginia quake, is thus associated to the resting place of the Bennu whose modern parallel is the Phoenix.”

While leaving Orcas Island on Aug. 3, I was for some reason entranced by this piratical looking craft at anchor in the harbor, and I took pic after pic, but only later did I see it’s name was the Phoenix.

It occurs to me that Phoenix/Horus is cracking the shell of the calcified remains of his father. I wonder if the status quo will welcome the son of Isis and Osiris? When the dove becomes the hawk.

When Doves Cry. Prince - Revolution

Tainted Love

Today’s “destructive” 5.9 earthquake on the Atlantic coast has Twitter all in a twitter. I think Bill in Exile sums it up best:

BREAKING! DC EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATION PIC

Via the comments: "...the religious statement that this was god’s punishment for the USA supporting the homosexuals comes in 3.. 2…"

FOX News was quick to suggest that the Washington/Osiris Memorial/Phallus had perhaps been “tilted”:

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 pm their bureau received information from a producer saying that a Captiol Hill Police officer was saying the Washington Monument may actually be tilting as a result of the earthquake. Seismologist John Rundle joined Kelly on her show and confirmed that the Washington Monument could very well be tilting as a result of the earthquake and the structure should be checked out. Two nuclear reactors have reportedly been taken off line near the epicenter of the earthquake.

A tilted phallus? Two testicular reactors off line? That almost sounds as if Osiris is finally losing his hard-on for the good ol’ US of A. The trident strikes again. Looking at that lawn chair pic it reminds me of musical chairs. Who’s the odd man out?

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

The Peacemaker

I got an email from Var that that said “Make Peace” yesterday. Morning after I get an email from ‘Peacemaker’. OK....

Colt Peacemaker

Convair B-36 Peacemaker

Peace comes via the sword, gun, bomb or light saber. I've seen it a million times but I'm still not convinced. The threat of violence doesn't bring peace, only a sort of truce, welcome as that may be. It just doesn't last.  Knowing that all truth is revealed in 'Back to the Future', I realized that Marty Mcfly took the name Clint Eastwood in BTTF III. Clint carried a Peacemaker in the iconic spaghetti Western 'A Fistful of Dollars', but besides the offensive weapon, he covered his heart in a metallic shield. It saved Clint, and it also saved Marty.

I saw Captain America today, and his weapon is his shield, emblazoned with the star of the Divine Feminine. It's a defensive weapon, able to absorb and defuse all energy. I thought hearts, metal, and realized we're talking about the Tin Man. His heart is protected.

And then he kicks some serious ass.

It's funny because at the Holy Mountain, we all threw the ax. And like the Tin Man, it had a hollow heart. And you know, it was a woman who could hit the target way better than all the men. Damn, I really need to embrace my inner feminine, but I'm not sure I'm man enough!

Porn Star Jesus

That’s the title of my contribution to The Sync Book (see pic in the right column), so it was very cool to find this image at Bill in Exile on Aug 9, the day after the Sync meet up on the Holy Mountain on 8/8/11.

The Sync Book is a collection of stories by 26 synchromystic bloggers, artists and authors, edited by Alan Abbadessa-Green, who blogs from New Jerusalem (NYC) at Look at All the Happy Creatures. It includes contributions from some heavy hitters in the genre and I feel really honored to have been invited to contribute.

The gospel of erotic salvation certainly comes from out of left field, so pretty perfect that I played left field in Little League. Actually, a baseball broke my nose out there... should learn to stop day dreaming.

Due to a series of fortunate events, Alan and Melissa were in Seattle for a wedding this summer, and they brought the first proof of the book with them. Their visit was the catalyst for a meet up at a rustic cabin on the Skagit River, in the foothills of Mt. Baker, or the Holy Mountain. The gathering drew from Boise, Seattle, Olympia, San Francisco, and it was my first chance to “hobnob with my fellow wizards” so to speak.

All I can say is that it was mind blowing. I dunno, I’m still processing, but it felt like family.

The Skagit (Egyptians) are either of two tribes of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Skagit (Upper Nile) and the Lower Skagit (Lower Nile). They speak a subdialect of the Northern dialect of Lushootseed (Alexandria), which is part of the Salishan family. The Skagit River, Skagit Bay, and Skagit County all derive their names from the Skagit people (The People).

The People. 1972. Starring William Shatner.



I have something brewing about who and what 'The People' really are that may evolve into a blog post, but until then, refresh yourselves with Mr. Knowles' Astrognostic: Trapped Here on this Alien World and The Martian Chronicles, which really just gives it all away.