Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

[American Dream]

Incredible footage of Pentecostal snake handling and more set to a dub reggae soundtrack
(For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/p ... lick-image)

[American Dream]

MAY BE TRIGGERING!


Teenage members of the Christian cult Children of God/The Family International
sing a song to their leader, David Berg, in 1980
(For more info on Berg and the cult, click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg)




Young Pentecostal girls crying and speaking in tongues on a church floor





Another girl speaking in tongues.

[American Dream]

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Close Encounters of the PSYOPS Kind Part III



This is part three of my UFO series. Parts one and two can be viewed here and here.

And now onto the intelligence links behind the Nine. While Andrija Puharich is generally portrayed as an accomplished scientist and inventor with heavy New Age leanings, he also has a very deep background, in the Peter Dale Scott sense.

"According to Jack Sarfatti, a physicist on the fringes of the Puharich-Geller-Whitmore events of the min-1970s, Puharich 'worked for Army Intelligence in the early fifties -which perhaps implies that his 'discharge' was a cover for continuing to operate in an apparently civilian capacity. It also appears that some of Puharich's medical inventions were originally developed as part of classified Army projects.

"In 1987, Puharich himself claimed that he had been part of a US Navy investigation called Project Penguin that researched psychic abilities back in 1948. He named the head of this project as Rexford Daniels, who lived close to his home in Glen Cove in the 1950s. According to writers Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Daniels -who studied the effects of electromagnetic waves on human beings -became convinced, in the 1970s of the existence of some kind of intelligent force in the universe operating through electromagnetic frequencies and that 'human beings can mentally interact with it.'

"Ira Einhorn, Puharich's close associate in the 1970s, told us recently that, although Puharich had worked for the CIA during the 1950s, he was no longer doing so twenty years later. However, evidence points very much in the other direction. Puharich's relationship with intelligence agencies almost certainly did not end in the 1950s. Uri Geller told us at a meeting in his home near Reading in England in 1998 that: 'The CIA brought Puharich in to come and get me out of Israel.' Jack Sarfatti goes further, claiming: 'Puharich was Geller's case officer in America with money provided by Sir John Whitmore.' And according to James Hurtak, via his Academy For Future Sciences, Puharich 'worked with the US intelligence community.' By implication this was during the early 1970s when he, Hurtak, was also working with him.

"We know Puharich was working with the CIA on experiments with various techniques for inducing altered states of consciousness, which is another way of saying he worked on the potential of mind control. We also know, at least up to a point, that Geller worked for them -they wanted to know how he could use his mind to influence inanimate objects and see distant locations -in other words, to test his remote-viewing abilities. Were the Nine somehow part of a CIA mind-control experiment?"
(The Stargate Conspiracy, Picknett and Prince, pgs. 206-207)



Further, Puharich was deeply involved in hypnosis.

"...his [Puharich] personal training in hypnosis to the level of master hypnotist, at which stage are revealed such mysteries as the 'instant command technique' so often used, and arguably abused, by stage hypnotists...

"Writer Stuart Holroyd later (rather worryingly) described hypnosis as 'a routine procedure in Puharich's investigation of pyschics', which raises some ethical questions about his methods. The altered state of consciousness known as hypnosis is by no means fully understood, but it is well known that entranced subjects are notoriously eager to please their hypnotists by creating fantasies that comply with his or her own predilections or agendas. Hypnotist and subject can soon become partners in a strange and wild dance in which sometimes one person leads and sometimes the other, although it is usually the hypnotist who calls the tune."
(ibid, pgs. 169-170)



Hypnosis can have far more sinister implications than Picknett and Prince address. Two prior blogs I wrote on hypnosis address some of these implications here and here. In the case of the Nine, many of Puharich's 'findings' occurred while the subject was under hypnosis. Continuing with Picknett and Prince:

"From the accounts of contact with the Nine, it is obvious that Puharich steered his 'contactees' very much in the direction that he wanted them to go. When he first hypnotized Uri Geller, who then began to speak of extraterrestrials, it was Puharich who asked whether or not they were the 'Nine Principles' spoken of by Dr Vinod twenty years before. Perhaps not surprisingly, the answer was yes...

"...Similarly, when Puharich put Bobby Horne into a hypnotic trance and he began to speak the words of an extraterrestrial intelligence called Corean, Puharich suggested to him that it was really the Nine, and the 'entity' immediately agreed. In fact, one of Puharich's close colleagues during this time, Ira Einhorn... confirmed Puharich's determination to turn all psychic communication into contact with the Nine, and that he was 'humanly directing' the pattern of the channelling."
(ibid, pg. 216)

Puharich even went so far as to experiment on children in a hypnotic state in an attempt to induce extraterrestrial contact.

"Consider, for example, Puharich's Geller Kids or Space Kids, whom he tested and trained during the 1970s. There were twenty of them, the youngest nine and the oldest in their late teens, culled from seven different countries and taken to what became jokingly known as Puharich's 'Turkey Farm' at Ossining in order to develop their psychic potential. As we have seen, Puharich trained them in remote viewing, but target locations he set them were significant: they were military or intelligence interest and included the Pentagon, the Kremlin and even the White House. It seems clear that there was an official element to these experiments, as they were being carried out at exactly the same time (1975-8) that defense and intelligence agencies were studying remote viewing in adults. We can speculate that the Ossining establishment was chosen for the children's project because it was a conveniently 'civilian' location: questions would certainly have been asked if youngsters had been experimented on inside military facilities.

"The Ossining programme had even more disturbing elements: Puharich experimented on the children in order to contact extraterrestrial intelligences. As with Geller and Bobby Horne, he regularly hypnotized his young subjects, apparently in the belief that their powers did indeed come from 'aliens'. As Steven Levy wrote: 'The Kids describe strange cities with science-fiction trappings and claim to be messengers from these distant civilisations.'

"Given Puharich's obsession with extraterrestrial influence, not to mention his indiscriminate use of the most powerful sort of hypnosis, it would be strange if the Space Kids had not come up with such descriptions. But was Puharich simply releasing memories of real events, or was he in fact implanting them? In either case, his use of hypnosis, in what were clearly uncontrolled conditions, on children as young as nine, is extremely disquieting."
(ibid, pg. 226)



Puharich's 'Space Kids' make for some interesting implications. One of the main arguments for the existence of the Nine is that to many individuals have encountered them without direct contact from Puharich. On the other hand, what if other groups of children were 'programmed' earlier in much the same fashion Puharich is described as doing above, with the good doctor then using certain 'triggers' to bring back these memories? Consider, for instance, a strange experience Dr. Jack Sarfatti had as a child.

"Jack Sarfatti, on the other hand, had been a gifted child who won a scholarship to Cornell to study physics in 1956, when he was only seventeen years old. In 1953, however, and during the same year as Puharich and the Round Table were in contact with The Nine, Sarfatti had been getting strange phone calls at home. Much later, Puharich's book, URI, brought it all back. Sarfatti's mother began reading the book -which contains a description of the Round Table seances with the Dr. Vinod who channled The Nine -and suddenly recognized the symptoms. She brought the circumstances to her son's attention and the memory of the strange phone calls came back in full force.

"Sarfatti had been getting calls from someone speaking in a strange, metallic voice stating that it was the voice of a computer aboard a spacecraft hovering over the earth. These calls went on for a while, and would cause the young Sarfatti to wander around dazed. Evidently, the memory of the calls receded into his unconscious as he pursued his career in nuclear physics, and only the book by Puharich about Uri Geller brought it all back. The Nine claimed to be aboard a spacecraft, hovering over the earth, called Spectra. Sarfatti himself seemed selected at a very early age for something of importance. He was being tutored in a separate program for gifted children by a founder of American MENSA, Walter Breen, in a program that was funded (at least in part) by the Sandia Corporation. Some of this extracurricular training included lectures on patriotism and anti-Communism: heady stuff for a bunch of thirteen-year-olds. It would be Breen who would recommend Sarfatti for the Cornell scholarship."
(Sinister Forces Book Two, Peter Levenda, pg. 244)



Essentially Sarfatti began receiving these phone calls at the same time as he was being groomed for his future career in nuclear physics. The possibility that the phone calls could have been related to his time in the MENSA program was not lost on Sarfatti.

"Given this background, it is tempting to speculate that Sarfatti was part of a sinister, X-Files-type experiment in 'programming' children as part of some long-term government project. Sarfatti himself acknowledges the possibility, but thinks too much remains unexplained by this scenario. Tellingly, in a question-and-answer session on the Internet in March 1998 with one Mark Thornally, when asked whether Walter Breen could have stage-managed the phone calls and computer voice, Sarfatti admitted that he could, then volunteered: 'Andrija Puharich, who was in the Army at that time I think, would have been able to do it."
(The Stargate Conspiracy, Picknett and Prince, pg. 244)

Is it possible that individuals like Sarfatti and Geller were experimented on as children by Puharich, or someone in the same line, in a fashion similar to the Space Kids? Was it mere chance that Sarfatti, Geller, Robert Anton Wilson, Jacques Vallee, Saul Paul Sirag, and many more were brought together in a loose collective that Ira Einhorn dubbed the 'psychic mafia' around Puharich in the 1970s or was it some how arranged through years of subtle conditioning? And was this simply the work of human agencies, or was there something else at play?


Vallee


Robert Anton Wilson


Puharich and Pope

Sarfatti takes a wise stance. I have read a lot of material on the Nine and am relatively convinced that some kind of nonhuman intelligence is at play in this whole affair. On the other hand, the obsession Puharich and others have had with making this intelligence into some kind of extraterrestrial being is most curious. As previously stated, the entity or entities calling themselves the Nine did not claim to be extraterrestrial until several years after initial contact. Is it possible that the expectations of Puharich and others heavily involved in the early stages, such as Arthur Young, for the intelligence to be extraterrestrial factor in to this direction? Or did human agencies opt to portray this intelligence as extraterrestrial for their own purposes?

One final point I would like to consider in the strange saga of the Nine is the role various 'human potential centers' have played in spreading their mystic amongst the academics, and the patrons behind these centers.



"A further integral part of this movement was the Institute of Neotic Science at Palo Alto, which was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in March 1973, and is 'dedicated to research and education in the processes of human consciousness to help achieve a new understanding and expanded awareness among all people... They were heavily involved in the psi testing of the 1970s, partly funding the Geller experiments at SRI and, until the CIA came clean about their involvement in the remote-viewing experiments in the mid-1990s, it was the Institute of Noetic Science that claimed to have funded the initial programme. At the very least, this shows that the Institute allowed itself to be used as a cover for the CIA, and perhaps even as a conduit for the funding of the agency's more controversial experiments.

"Arthur Young's highly influential Institute for the Study of Consciousness at Berkeley, founded in 1972, also provided a forum for some of the most daring thinkers of the day. It was here that Richard Hoagland had his meeting with Paul Shay of SRI, and also where he gave his first lecture about Cydonia in 1984. Later he was to acknowledge Arthur Young's personnel influence...

"Institutions and foundations only succeed because of the individuals who breathe life into them. One of the key figures on this scene was avant-garde physicist Jack Sarfatti, the first director of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group at the Esalen Institute, which was funded by Werner Erhard and money covertly channelled through from the Pentagon. His seminars were attended by Stanislas Grof, Russell Targ, Timothy Leary, physicist Saul Paul Sirag (who became director after Sarfatti), Robert Anton Wilson, Fritjof Capra, and Ira Einhorn, who was Sarfatti's literary agent.

"The work carried out by this interlinked network of organizations was imaginative and innovative, presenting a serious challenge to the previous arrogant certainties of the scientific world. It was undertaken in a genuine pioneering spirit, largely born of the idealism of the youth culture of the 1960s and a desire to change the world for the better. However, a dark shadow was cast over this early idyllic promise by the involvement of the Pentagon, CIA and other security and intelligence agencies, who soon realised that the breakthroughs of these idealists had great potential in their own spheres, such as remote viewing. And they did not fail to note that research into altered states of consciousness, including the use of LSD and other drugs, also had darker applications in the various techniques of mind control. So often this research was encouraged and funded -although often covertly, through other channels -by organizations such as the CIA and the Pentagon. One of the pioneers of LSD and consciousness research, John C. Lilly, worked at the Esalen Institute for several years, as well as for the CIA, but only on the condition that his research remained unclassified. This made things difficult for him professionally, because nearly all other researchers in the field were also working on classified projects, so he was unable to share data with them or vice versa.

"Another case of behind-the-scenes agendas in this milieu involved Dr Brendan O'Regan, research director of Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences and a consultant for SRI, as well as research director for the scientist-philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. O'Regan arranged the experiments into the strange talents of Uri Geller at Birkbeck College, London in 1975 and was also closely involved with the Puharich-Whitmore circle surrounding the Nine. And, since O'Regan's death in 1992, Jack Sarfatti has claimed that he was also working with the CIA at this time, writing:

"I was then [1973] simply a young inexperienced 'naive idiot' in a very very sophisticated and successful covert psychological warfare operation run by the late Brendan O'Regan of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the late Harold Chipman who was the CIA station chief responsible for all mind-control research in the Bay Area in the 70s."
(ibid, pgs. 235-237)

http://visupview.blogspot.com/2011/07/c ... -part.html

[American Dream]

Dapping up Ravi Shankar, Owsley the LSD chemist looks on.

Photo by Jim Marshall at Monterey (1966)

[American Dream]

left: astral body awake
right: astral body asleep

artist: Mati Klarwein

[American Dream]

[American Dream]

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/25/critic ... ar-on.html

Critical history of the war on sympathetic magic

By Cory Doctorow

"Very Superstitious," Colin Dickey's essay for Lapham's Quarterly, presents a critical take on The Golden Bough, James G. Frazer's 1890 classic text on superstition. Dickey frames contempt for sympathetic magic and its practitioners in the context of the decline of the British empire, and connects it with earlier critiques stretching all the way back to Plato. The essay ends with a section on witchhunting and the persecution of both midwives and promoters of the germ theory of disease, who were accused of practicing their own form of sympathetic magic.



The conviction that witches were behind dangerous storms and other unexpected perils highlights a curious reversal that had taken place with regard to sympathetic magic. If it had once been used as a ward against uncertainties, against the caprices of nature and sudden death, now many saw it primarily as a cause of these dangers. (The Malleus Maleficarum warns that witches “can also, before the eyes of their parents, and when no one is in sight, throw into the water children walking by the waterside; they make horses go mad under their riders.”) These primal anxieties, of course, hadn’t gone away, and James, afraid of drowning at sea, certainly hadn’t yet learned the Christian art of dying well.

Such subtleties were no doubt lost as the crush and waste of humanity that was the European witch panic took on a logic and inertia of its own. After all, it was good business. Agnes Sampson’s torture and execution, like most witch trials, wasn’t cheap, employing judges, scribes, bailiffs, jailers, and executioners—each of whom had a financial stake in further trials. The trial record of Suzanne Gaudry, executed in 1652 in Ronchain, France, notes that each member of the court was to be paid 4 livres, 16 sous, while the soldier who accompanied her to Roux for the trial was to be paid 30 livres. Around 1593 in Trier, the scholar Cornelius Loos quipped that witch persecutions were a new kind of alchemy, whereby “gold and silver [were] coined from human blood”—before all his books were burned and he was forced to publicly recant ever having said such a thing.

As the world was becoming more ordered and codified via patriarchal religion and a burgeoning system of capitalism, magic was seen as a threat because it circumvented these structures: it offered a life outside the authority of the Church and the hierarchies it had carefully cultivated. Little had changed; people still felt powerless in the face of nature, but now instead of turning to magicians, they blamed them. The Church, after all, rarely attacked sympathetic magic on the grounds that it was empirically fallacious or ineffective—rather, it was a rival source of power. Among the many scandalous aspects of witches’ sabbaths as they were popularly depicted was the commingling of social classes: women—and increasingly men—of all walks of life, from peasants to the aristocracy, all were equal at the Midnight Mass. This vision of a dark Utopia was as threatening—if not more so—than any of the black rites practiced therein.

Very Superstitious (via Kottke)

[Alf]

[American Dream]

[American Dream]

Dhammapada 25, 379


By your own efforts

Waken yourself, watch yourself,

And live joyfully


trans Byrom

***

Admonish yourself

Control yourself.

O bhikku, self-guarded and mindful.

You will live happily.


trans Fronsdal

***

Rouse thyself by thyself, examine thyself by thyself, thus self- protected and attentive wilt thou live happily, O Bhikshu!


trans Muller

***

Your own self is

your own mainstay.

Your own self is

your own guide.

Therefore you should

watch over yourself —

as a trader, a fine steed.


trans Thanissaro



http://fuckyeahdukkha.tumblr.com/post/2 ... ada-25-379

[American Dream]

Dhammapada 25, 376

Let him associate with friends who are noble, energetic, and pure in life, let him be cordial and refined in conduct. Thus, full of joy, he will make an end of suffering.


trans Buddharakkhita

***

So live in love.

Do your work.

Make an end of your sorrows.


trans Byrom

***

If one is friendly by habit

And skillful in conduct,

One will have much delight

And bring an end to suffering.


trans Fronsdal

***

Let him live in charity, let him be perfect in his duties; then in the fulness of delight he will make an end of suffering.


trans Muller

***

Living purely, untiring,

hospitable by habit,

skilled in conduct,

gaining a manifold joy,

he will put an end

to suffering & stress


trans Thanissaro


http://fuckyeahdukkha.tumblr.com/post/2 ... ada-25-376

[American Dream]

[American Dream]

Much Madness is divinest Sense--

To a discerning eye--

Much sense--the starkest Madness--

'Tis the Majority

In this, as All, prevail--

Assent--and you are sane--

Demur--and you're straightaway dangerous

and handled with a chain.



by- Emily Dickinson

[American Dream]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/ju ... sfeed=true

Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts - review



Phil Baker takes an eye-opening trip through Britain's relationship with acid

The Operation Julie drug bust in 1977 had an unexpected effect on three police officers, who walked out of a pub and suddenly found themselves under the most brilliant moon they'd ever seen. More than that, their vision seemed so sharpened, they said, that "we could read the print on thrown-away cigarette packets as we passed". They were accidentally tripping from contact with the LSD laboratory and one of them later described it as a profound experience, leading him to discover that life was "a deeper and more subtle business" than he'd previously imagined.

Many people have reported similar revelations in the 70 or so years since the Swiss research chemist Albert Hofmann took his first trip. LSD is a European invention but its history has seemed disproportionately American, hijacked by the preternaturally smiley, snake-oil-salesman figure of Timothy Leary. Andy Roberts redresses the balance in this book – revised and expanded since its first appearance in 2008 – in which the focus is on Britain as a "major crucible of LSD culture". In fact his story is so British that trippers include Sean Connery and Frankie Howerd, both of whom took the drug in LSD therapy.

Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain
by Andy Roberts



Just as the early history of LSD in America was bound up with the CIA, so Britain too had secret-state experimentation. Soldiers were dosed with the drug at Porton Down, "hallucinating for Queen and country" after volunteering to test a cure for the common cold (the idea was that LSD might incapacitate enemy troops on the battlefield). Moving on from psychotherapeutic and military uses, Roberts's book soon blossoms into a rich exploration of British counter-culture in the 60s, when, in the words of Barry Miles, "the King's Road led straight to Glastonbury."

The vision of the late John Michell, Stonehenge scholar and counter-cultural philosopher, seems to have been substantially acid-inspired, with seminal books such as The View over Atlantis feeding into a zeitgeist of flying saucers over Albion. Outer space and inner space were coming together as never before, and the UFO nightclub on the Tottenham Court Road in central London, scene of early Pink Floyd gigs, was named both for "Unidentified Flying Object" and "Unlimited Freak Out". When you went to UFO, says one of its founders, "the grinning crocodile of psychedelics wrapped its lips around your ankle, dragged you in and licked you all over." The broader cultural fallout from LSD included the popularity of tie-dye fabrics and macrobiotics. Roberts even links the rise of organic food to the psychedelic movement, and particularly to the Sams brothers, Greg and Craig, originally from America. "The natural foods industry was largely founded by people who experimented with LSD," says Greg, who founded Ceres restaurant in 1969 and apparently invented the veggieburger, while Craig went on to found Green & Black's chocolate.

Roberts also looks at LSD's connection to free festivals and squatting, both the subject of major crackdowns. The fact that LSD has been associated with certain lifestyles seems to play a larger than acknowledged role in its unacceptability to the powers that be. Certainly the magnitude of the Operation Julie case, on both sides, could be called political in a larger sense of the word. One of the guilty parties, aiming at little less than psychic revolution, was caught with a staggering 13m doses, and the police operation was one of the largest mounted in Britain, with 800 officers swooping to cut phone lines and smash down doors. "Ah," said one of the conspirators, "I expect you've come about the television licence."

Roberts doesn't shirk the serious issue of "acid casualties", the small but significant minority of people who develop serious mental illness, and whose plight underpins the official justification for making LSD such a thoroughly illegal drug. We meet Syd Barrett sitting cross-legged on a lawn in 1965, cradling a plum, an orange, and a matchbox. "From time to time he would smile at them in a friendly way" – and the rest, tragically, is history. Less well-known casualties include the British rocker Vince Taylor, credited by David Bowie as the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust.

People's experiences under the influence of the drug vary drastically according to their setting and mindset. Jonathan Aitken saw "visions of hell. Continents dripping with blood. Black men fighting brown men, fighting yellow men." Others have reported that "the sound of the sea was a symphony" and "the world was as if newly created … It brought an inner joy … to be part of the miracle of Creation". Aldous Huxley found that LSD, together with Bach's B-minor suite, convinced him that ultimately "the Universe is All Right".

Most of the players in this book are manifestly decent people, from Hoffman onwards. Shortly before his death in 2008 at the age of 102 (he had appeared on stage the year before and apologised for being a little unsteady, saying "I must remind myself that I'm no longer in my 90s"), he wrote: "Alienation from nature … is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change. Therefore I attribute the highest importance to consciousness change." Even the judge in the Operation Julie case noted the "excellent characters" of the people involved.

Reading this book, it is hard not to feel that the largest mental health problem – the really crazy thing – is society's attitude to drugs in general and LSD in particular, whereby we love psychedelia and its various luminaries (with a Tate gallery exhibition of psychedelic art, and knighthoods for Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger) while handing out heavy sentences to ideologically motivated chemists, one of whom was given 20 years as recently as 2004. Albion Dreaming is a solid work of well-researched cultural history, and its larger issues make it not just a highly readable book but an important one – two things that don't always go together.

[American Dream]

Nonlinear

July 26, 2012

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

~ Khalil Gibran



Paris, July 2009