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Orion the Hunter had boasted that he was mightier than all the beings in heaven and earth. For his boast, the gods sent a Scorpion to sting
him…
BOOK REVIEW:
PART ONE Now that’s spooky! It’s almost another version of the
oddly reverberative “self-reference” paradox (you know, the
Changing Channels peculiar conceptual log-jam which occurs when a categori-
cal negative is expressed in first-person, i.e. “all statements
What could be a more perfect topic to begin our Book
are false, including this one”. Richard Hofstader would have
Review section during the month of Halloween, than discus-
a field day deciphering the Moebius code which the general
sion of the various books on channeling? Channeling is not
program of “channeling” carries!)
only a popular sport at present, but if examined closely an
To be fair, the exhortation to “meditate” that emanates
intriguing one. It’s not at all clear, for example, what the pur-
from channeled sources, like t.v.’s exhortation to watch t.v.,
pose of channeling is; this lack of clarity actually gives it a
ostensibly points to a content beyond the significance of its
“spookiness” that’s almost independent of the fact that dis-
own form-in-itself; i.e. just as television bids for your atten-
embodied or otherworldly intelligences, personalities and
tion presumably because of the information it carries, so
even (shudder) “entities” are central items of the channeling
channeling claims your attention by way of the meditative
phenomenon.
mechanism apparently because of its unique power to bring
Consider, for example, the most common means of es- a stream of extraordinary news. People consult the chan-
tablishing the “inner plane” or channel connection: medita-
neler, after all, not only or even particularly for the edifica-
tion. This is the method most recommended both by chan-
tion of the standard message to meditate, but largely be-
nelers and the given channelled source. Meditation is of
cause it’s expected the source can produce a verbal descrip-
course, as we should all know by now, a means of stilling the
tion of conditions and events beyond the ordinary ken of
mind so that our ordinary thinking faculties are temporarily
three-dimensional faculties.
vetoed; this provisional silence of the otherwise constant
We consult the channeler because, basically, we are
“interior monologue” is the means whereby the meditator is
concerned, in a very ordinary conceptual way. Like every per-
supposed to bypass the conditioning screen of (culturally
sonality anxiously poised on the psychological tightwire
programmed) concept, in so doing becoming ideally recep-
spanning the temporalized chasm of existence, we grope in
tive to holistic dimensions otherwise recessed into the un-
ambiguity over the Questionmark of chronic incompletion
conscious beyond the focus of ordinary “notice”. However, supplied by the tenses in which we conjugate the terms of
as the very object of channeling, out of those ostensibly
ego-identity; it would always be oh-so helpful if we could see
more holistic zones of being comes charging…more verbi-
the future in advance, be informed of the respective conse-
age! Out of the meditator’s mouth issues another voice. In
quences in the alternatives confronting the present perplex-
Los Angeles alone, in fact, the phenomenon is so prevalent
ing moment of decision. We would like if possible to be un-
that it seems every other face has “someone else’s” voice
derwritten not only for our monetary but for our psychic
coming out of it (although this is apparently such a com-
commitments, insured in advance against the usual contin-
monplace of filmland that “channeling” seems more a logical
gencies; and the channeler proffers the prospect of just this
extension than an abrupt break).
excelsior potential.
And a great deal of the content of such channeled infor-
The channeler in a sense, then, exchanges the personal
mation from coveted “higher sources”, is taken up by odd
power of verbalization born of limited perceptions for the
black-key vibrations inflected into the upper registries of transpersonal power of verbally portraying dimensions or as-
haunted nasality extolling the virtues of…meditation!
pects of being otherwise inaccessible. The myriad channeled
This of course can only mean one of one thing, ulti-
voices to which we have been opened in recent years do in-
mately, amounting to a largely unnoticed metaphysical tau- deed present an avalanche of prediction, of advice on prin-
tology; you’re being encouraged to meditate in order to still
ciple and in particular, and a massive characterization of
the chronic cover of the verbal mind, thus putting you in the
planes, states, levels and dimensions of reality which intro-
properly receptive condition to pass a sonorously-rolling
duce whole other magnitudes to the ultimate questions of
Voice not your own around the glottis in elicitation of a
purpose and consequence. Through the innumerable contri-
Speech which inevitably extols the virtue of meditation, as
butions of channeled sources we have been, in a certain
means of extracting a verbal instruction that tells you…
sense, asked to reappraise the whole matter of success in
Rating system for all book, film, tape and video re-
views:
***** Has Gong Fu; has technical and intellectual/emotional
power.
**** Has Gong Fu; has a measure of both technical and intel-
lectual/emotional power.
*** May or may not have Gong Fu; has a measure of tech-
nical and intellectual/emotional power.
(Since Gong Fu is the principle that sets a work on fire, intensifies it
to the degree of boiling, then a 3 or 3½ that has Gong Fu possesses
It to the extent that the work, at least in part, exhibits first signs of
real kindling; it strikes a genuine spark of combustion, at least in
* * *
Indeed as we of the winged T-Bird floated over the for-
ested, two-lane Arizona highway in our rented van, detour-
ing to catch the Canyon in a sheer gauze of rain while mak-
We Go to the Tim Beckley ing our angular route to Phoenix and the “Tim Beckley An-
nual UFO Convention”—miles and outstretched miles
National New Age and Alien across that reminiscent ribbon of blacktop beneath beaming
arches of a double rainbow, L.A. behind in a rapidly-dissi-
Agenda Conference [Chapter 1] pating dream of departure through a smokering shroud—it
felt as if one could be perfectly at peace with any tidy version
by MT of America, any hallowed parchment in an empty gallery…
The world isn’t what you think it is. It all seemed perfectly permissible since this was the
Unless of course you’ve always thought that “Through storybook version, these unspoiled hills and diamond
The Looking Glass” is a documentary description of the way skies—any retrogressive estimate, any gradeschool atavism
things are, that every official science and social-study is a molded again to manageable proportions and all ringed
“tale told by an idiot”; unless you’ve always thought that se- ’round with the safely-habitable, politely conformable world
cret societies, hidden governments and controlling families would suffice and survive in an atmosphere so equal to the
hold the keys of power while everything’s intentionally ori- simplicity such sentiment required; all could be sustained
ented in the wrong direction, unless you’ve always thought without subscribing to a single thing. Here in this very place
that conventional interpretations of reality were a deliber- if anywhere at all that ultimate vision of man’s politicized
ately administered drug, doping into a collective dream so peace could find its suitably pastoral correlative—here in
that ineffectual gestures cast shadows on a wall that accord- the very place where in fact it was most perfectly belied…
ingly moves but by means of cables concealed behind; and It was all like a typical Hitchcock movie—opening shots
that those cables extend down old abandoned elevator of a bucolic American burg clean as the angle on a T-square
shafts and derelict mines into tunneled phantasmagorias and background music belonging to Mister Rogers’ Neigh-
that effectually honeycomb the Earth’s insides hiding cav- borhood—but wait, that set-up innocence is by now dead
ernous fortresses, halls of civilizations “lost” and exotic ar- giveaway that there’s something rotten, basically awful lurk-
mamentariums where refugees from unknown eras of the ing just below the kodachrome surface! The now-famous
planet’s surface mingle with interdimensional mercenaries, Lynch would continue a brain-damaged version of such a
and every manner of being from beyond the parochial theme as the ’80s slouched toward the inevitable ’90s, ren-
framework capable of streaming the proper—dimensional— dering the whole wholesome scene as a surreal commercial
pockets formed in the seals of the Earth’s concentric “cen- skimming over the happy hamlet on the camera-wing of a
ters”; unless you’ve always thought that from such sealed golden oriole, over treetops and firehouse and across leaf-
centers, the various influences of divers agencies are sent to rustled schoolyard dropping softly on a garden beneath the
the surface on beams of technical magic generating stresses sunny shale of which, lifted just a little, we see a crawling
in our psychic atmospheres according to some desire to ac- beetle in the bright-green blades, and leveraged a little more
celerate or retard the evolutionary development of the con- so as to rip up some of the overgrown slipgrass we begin to
sciousness on the crust; unless you’ve always thought that, see first signs of real vermin…and as the rock is peeled back
through the interaction of such criss-cross rays there con- like the back of a skull from a rotted corpse the whole mias-
vened the secret histories behind all pasteboard fictions— mal swarm of centipedes and maggot-brood overspills in
the basic Unity in the mock “plurality” of powers detectable soundtrack amplification like the munching of a million
at those blurred seams of conspiratorial overlap where cer- mites on gristle…
tain officers of the mundane order always hold concurrent— So one muses while taking in the pine and scented cedar
if camouflaged—posts upon interlocking boards of “occult” of whistle-clean Flagstaff (that evening, indeed, first glimpse
directorates through which the kingmakers are actually
Phoenix
ment than might be suggested by our collective excuse of “r
and r”. There were objectives formulated beforehand, and
though the eyes of that colossus would certainly be alert to
On Sept. 4, 1990, AAA, MT and several of the T-Bird staff went to Ar- extemporaneous cues, it’s far-vision had already focused and
izona to attend the National New Age and Alien Agenda Conference.
locked in particular targets from as far back as October of
AAA rarely leaves her room; MT hasn’t been out of the state in 19
years—but for reasons which will become apparent in this and the 1989 when the Chronicle first printed a devotedly “UFO” is-
installments to come, they did not want to miss this one; for, as sue.
Holmes would say to Watson, “Come, my good fellow—I can tell the Indeed that fateful issue had been projected for produc-
mind of Moriarty is at work here. The game’s afoot!” tion months prior, when MT had first prophesied to student-
staff and crew that October of the decade’s last year was to
We Go to the National New Age be a hallmark time, not only for the field of “UFOs” in gen-
Speakers
man turningpoint insufficiently appreciated by the public-
at-large) but primarily for the abrupt explosion into the pub-
lic purview of left-field themes issuing from unanticipated
We of the reportorial T-Bird arrived in Phoenix at the
or unlikely sources: there was the surprise Soviet TASS re-
Quality Inn West, host site of Tim Beckley’s 2nd Annual Na-
port carried by international news-service re the public ap-
tional New Age and Alien Agenda Conference, late in the af-
pearance of an alien disc 300 miles south of Moscow (from
ternoon. We’d driven flat miles of commercial lane to the
which “giant pin-headed beings” emerged); there was the
edge of the city where the Inn was located; the buildings of
sudden exteriorization of data relating to long-term al-
downtown Phoenix rose abruptly out of nowhere, architec-
ien/military interaction presented primarily by government
turally clean and consistent as if it had all been built over-
scientist Bob Lazar over Las Vegas television, and through
night under a single zoning ordinance, and stood uniformly
joint disclosures issued by William Cooper and John Lear—
empty in the late day like a model township with colored
respectively, ex-U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team mem-
banners inviting inspection for prospective occupancy.
ber and airforce test pilot (scion of Lear Jet); there was the
The sky was the cool, unblemished blue that precedes a
KORG, Los Angeles radio broadcast in which a member of
postcard dusk.
passive security (code named “Yellow Fruit”) from Area 51-
As we pulled into the drive-through register of the ho-
Dreamland in Nevada revealed some of the disturbing facts
tel, the simple cubic spacing of light and color outside in the
associated with these and similar facilities—all of which
Phoenix atmosphere looked, from the air conditioned van,
served to shake the settled lees around such subjects, accel-
like the signature of a world made out of clear-water crystals
erating public turbulence to a degree just short of rolling
and icecream showerstalls—until the sidedoor slid open and
boil.
one realized that there were hells as formidable as the ap-
Now it was all being driven again into the foreground,
parently peerless hell of El Centro where one was raised.
all of that which had for so long been hanging out in the
Six worn travelers unloaded with surprising speed so as
wings—some of it coaxed from its entrenched reluctance on
to escape the insistent furnace-blasts of the exterior, quickly
the strength of increased (probable) acceptance for testi-
located their second-floor hotel rooms in the building be-
mony formerly subject to ridicule and indifference, some ea-
yond the Lobby with its alien-welcome signs—and disap-
gerly leaping to the opportunity like folded acts that had just
peared behind their respective doors.
got news of vaudeville’s revival…
Tomorrow was another day—Friday the 7th of Septem-
There was the “old stuff (“old”, that is, for the cogno-
ber in fact, first day of the 4-day event, press conference con-
scenti), that hadn’t enjoyed the real buzz of currency in dec-
vening at 11 where one could preliminarily meet and ques-
ades, things that hadn’t been spoken with topicality for years
tion scheduled speakers…First lectures that day also, then
such as the Allende letters and the Men-In-Black fate of
lectures and workshops with one’s preselected presenters
Morris K. Jessup; the perennial Hangar 18; the mysteries of
Saturday through Monday.
Mothman trotted out of mothballs; the anomalies of the Ber-
* * * muda and Great Lakes Triangles and the Toronto under-
ground….and there was truly fresh stuff to update and even
There were many more speakers than we would be able
upstage the standbys, the business with Area 51 and Dream-
to catch; mathematically of course, if we divided ourselves
land in Nevada, the Roswell crash landings that seemed to
evenly we’d be able to cover most of those lecturers in at-
be accepted already as de facto curtain-raiser of the modern
tendance; but, truth to tell, we were just not interested in
era, the Los Alamos genetic experiments and joint So-
them all equally; although we did occasionally split duty to
viet/American space ventures both predating the supposed
cover simultaneous presentations we would more often than
44 T-Bird vs. The Flying Saucers – Michael Topper
advent of molecular genetics on the one hand and human voluntary visitations of joint alien/government under-
planetary exploration on the other… ground facilities, her ghost-pregnancies leaving real afteref-
Indeed the next day at the 11:00 press conference we fects and the peculiarities of her “star-crossed” daughter; in-
would sample just such a cross-section of old and new pre- deed the keynote speaker at the Saturday banquet was to be
senters composing the present circuit, who therefore on the the most celebrated abductee of all, Betty Andreasson Luca
basis of pure box-office calculation represented a fair mirror along with her husband Bob. And there would be Alfred
of the audience cross-section—the composition of the gen- Bielek recently surfaced out of literally nowhere in order to
eral public with respect to the current status of America’s authenticate the perdurable rumor re the notorious Phila-
most secretly savored topic. delphia Experiment; Ed Conroy and Dora Ruffner (author of
In assessing just this current mix (some would opine Report On Communion and editor of Communion Letter re-
“mixed nuts”) and finding once again as always the same spectively) who would discuss the explosive strangeness of
breathtaking range wrapped in one compass, one was re- the Whitley Strieber case and related abduction testimony,
minded that the whole topic of UFOs had ever resembled as well as the freshly fashioned fixture Mr. William Cooper
what was once observed about visiting the Sudan: i.e., while whose composite portrait of the Secret-Government al-
a tourist to that desert would gaze upon its formidable ex- ien/world power structure alliance had rapidly become the
panse and see nothing but vacant hillocks to the far horizon, model with which all other—including critical or contrary—
his Arab guide could identify every tribe encamped behind models would have to reckon.
each dune and name the relations on either side of the So there was, proverbially, “something for everybody” at
chiefs’ families to the fifth generation. the Tim Beckley National New Age and Alien Agenda Con-
In exactly this way, a cross-section taken on the general ference. Most marvelously, each such speaker would get up
state of knowledge with respect to the “UFO” phenomenon to the platform to talk in turn and if the first might explore
at any given time would yield a range from the vacant head- the strategic difference between the Grays and Reptilians,
scratching of “John Q.” pondering on behalf of the Public verbally triangulate the bivouac of the Orange humanoids
whether there might indeed be something to this UFO busi- on the western slope of Mt. Archuleta or discuss the subtle
ness (speculating aloud why “they” didn’t just reveal them- changes between Model T-remote and Variation 6 of the
selves to the government or to Johnny Carson if indeed they Pleiadean beam-ships, the very next speaker would address
were “for real”, as folk are wont to challenge God to prove the possible subterfuge involved in the official disclaimers of
his authenticity with a personal appearance down the Project Bluebook! and suggest that a more open approach to
street)—to the learned recitation of the spacebeings’ varied the possibility of UFOs having some “basis in observational
planetary origins with full description of their modus op- fact” be implemented.
erandi, their respective physical appearances, spiritual and Every grade of orientation to the Topic was present and
sexual preferences and their “on the road” eating habits. accounted for, every band in the spectrum milling freely
about and mingling with every other—yet for all that, with
They Came from Outré Space the net effect of chemical radicles coming together for mo-
So there would be at the Conference the inevitable pres- ments of combination and then separating out again per-
ence of Dr. Frank Stranges, “full gospel minister” expound- fectly unchanged, as if no interaction had ever taken place.
ing Good Book wisdom on the subject of Space visitors, and The proponent of a more “open-minded” inquiry into the
the obligatory presence of New Age luminaries Brad and topic of UFOs could sit genially at the same table with an
Sherry (Steiger, spare the rod) on their Starseed children; abductee ready to discuss the width of a Markabian nostril
there would be former astronaut/astronomer Dr. Brian to the millimeter, and continue on afterwards sedulously
O’Leary as well as Pierre C. Tissot assessing the implications pursuing the detailed minutiae and technical discrepancies
of the “new physics” and Einsteinian anomalies, and John that suited his style of acceptance.
Rogers of Alpha Book Center in Phoenix discussing philo- The broad range of the public-at-large was faithfully
sophical points involved in the potential of interplanetary represented, and each upheld the implicit viewpoint for
visitors; and there would be as well the “remarkable psychic which he stood with staunch disregard of the surrounding
and past life reader” Patricia Rochelle Digel clueing people information-pool.
in on their reincarnational pasts circa Alpha Centauri or Sir- There were, when one analyzed the broad groupings
ius; there would arise again the persistent name of Major into which people factored out, apparently two major and
Wayne Aho who according to press release was prepared to antipodal “approaches” to the topic; when boiled down it
discuss the respective physical, psychic or interdimensional seemed to be a matter of those claiming a description from
origins of spacecraft, and veteran Ufologist James Moseley the inside, and those prosecuting an investigation from the
whose efforts to close in on the elusive truth of so frequently outside.
phantom a field would take the tack of comparing the recent The former might take the rap of “true believers”, con-
Gulf Breeze incident of Florida’s “Mr. Ed” and the Howard sidering the paucity of “objective evidence” they seemed able
Menger case of 25 years past. to educe on behalf of their first-person testimonies; but the
But there would also be Joann Parks with her mysterious latter might equally absorb the critique of the “Doubting
relic the crystal-skull “Max” purported to provoke changes Thomas” orientation, more charitably categorized as the
in the consciousness of those poor Yoricks who would but Missouri syndrome of “seeing is believing” (where the only
ponder it; and there would be much more of the truly New acceptable “seeing”, apparently, is literally that of the skeptic
Wave in the form of the enigmatic Christa Tilton reciting himself, the testimony of any others being doubted out of
her abduction and MIB (men-in-black) experiences, her in- hand as if every witness deposition were ipso facto the report
of a sneak-thief).
The second day of the convention, Saturday Septem- AAA and MT had noticed the evening before while
ber 8 at 5:30 the keynote address was to be given in the ban- watching Total Recall, that the only identifiable product of
quet hall of the Quality Inn West by Mr. and Mrs. Luca, the present commercial culture preserved under the Martian
latter most well known by her previous married name of dome of 2085 was the tenacious franchise of the frenchfry,
Betty Andreasson, abductee extraordinaire of the The Andre- Jack-in-the-Box; so it was only appropriate that the Lucas ar-
asson Affair. ranged to meet the T-Bird press at 9 that Saturday morning
As was stated in the last T-Bird issue, MT as well as AAA over iced tea at the Box adjacent to the Quality Inn.
and the attendant T-Bird staff were at the Beckley conven-
tion in the first place in large part to see the Lucas, no less An Intimate Moment with Betty, Bob
so—certainly—since this was to be their first formal public And the Secret Sauce
presentation in a projected itinerary of tours expressly ful-
MT got to the plasticine rendezvous first, basically to
filling the (part prophetic, part hortatory) word of Mrs.
Luca’s little beings re her pending “mission” to explain their check the place out for possible “bugs”, wired booths or tran-
sistorized trays and to see what their fries were like. From
peculiar presence to the public.
the table at which he positioned himself to survey the inte-
In view of this providential circumstance, one of the
rior—its utter emptiness furnishing a monopoly on strategic
Birds renowned for his tracking abilities (“I see in your past
setups—he could watch the Lucas approach across the lot
life you were named, uh, something like Magua or Tecum-
from the Inn. Just as he spotted them, Betty was poking the
seh…”) was assigned the task of locating the Lucas’ room
air with her finger in the process of directing Bob’s attention
number at the Inn that Friday evening before the keynote
skyward.
address, indeed while AAA and MT watched Total Recall
“There was a UFO right over us for a few seconds, just
(see December/January issue). Having made the proper con-
as if it were following us”, Betty said when they’d seated
nections, crossed the appropriate palms or whatever it took
themselves; they’d identified MT by the easiest of deduc-
to obtain that intelligence, our tracker was to slip a note
tions—he being the sole customer in the place, and waving
from MT under their door requesting an interview at their
vigorously at them as they came through the door.
convenience for the Chronicle, giving them our room phone
“Then it just disappeared. They do that, you know.
number. And indeed, early the next morning we received a
return call from Mr. Luca granting the interview a couple We’ve seen it before.”
Immediately a skeptic was coaxed by the typical charac-
hours before they were to deliver the opening address (inci-
ter of such parlance to muse “sure, sure”—one could catch a
dentally—and quite interestingly—making MT as it turned
poignant flinch of some such anticipation in Betty’s face,
out the first person to interview the Lucas on the inaugura-
conditioned to a decade of commonplace dubiety over the
tion of their public phase). Mr. Luca added amiably that the
inconvenient habits of saucer-related phenomena. After all
T-Bird owed the timeliness of this interview to the person
even Ray Fowler, investigator/author of the the Andreasson
under whose door Tecumseh had slipped the note by misad-
books (as well as similar researchers of honorable credential
venture, and who happened to actually know the Lucas—as
and fair intent) had found it difficult on more than one oc-
well as where they were staying—by sheer fortune so as to
casion to accommodate some—hypnotically-dredged—bit
have been able to transmit the message to them.
of data to Standards of acceptance that had just been
Part Three
by Marshall Telemachus
In Part Two of Chapter V, last issue, we came to under- We’ve come to find out that (not only the “Andreasson
stand something more of what the Andreasson spacebeings dorks” but) virtually all interacting civilizations of “spacebe-
are “up to” (as opposed to what they claim) through (1) a ing” present an interpretive bias, especially with respect to the
deeper examination of the processes by which their psychic- sensitive—and thus vulnerable—issue of our actual bioge-
and-technological orientation functions; (2) describing what netic and spiritual origins. Each such “space civilization”
relation that level bears to “our” 3rd density level, including seems quite ready to claim a kind of prehistoric, bioengineer-
the spacetime transitional means—i.e. antigravity—whereby ing paternity; despite the mutually exclusive and even self-
those levels are bridged and interpreted to a common term; contradictory claims of those “visitors” (whether technically
and (3) therefore perceiving more clearly the dynamic posi- interpretable as “positive” or “negative”), the fact of our gen-
tion they occupy, so as to recognize its particular require- eral ignorance and “veiling amnesia” with respect to that
ments as well as to identify the points at which those require- background seeding puts the human race in an ingenuously
ments translate into needs turned toward the potential fulfill- receptive position relative to such blandishments.
ments afforded by—largely unwitting—Earth-consciousness. It’s for this reason that, in this our Part Three section of
In the course of this examination, then, we come to see Chapter V “T-Bird Meets The Phoenix”, Initiated Understand-
how certain of the “presentations” made by spacebeings of ing will put forward a description of collective-human bioge-
whatever character, are necessarily colored by their particu- netic and psychic ancestral origins which may be employed as
lar requirements. We see the background of those require- blunt counterpoint to the chorus of extrasystemic, paternal
ments showing through certain interpretive models of claims, as well as furnish a potential supplement or even al-
“spacetime reality”, “biological evolution and development” ternative to what otherwise are the only “counters” Earth-
etc. they’d have us accept on the face-value evidence of their consciousness has in parrying the persuasive onslaught of
“superior” vantage. Thus we’ve been provided in these previ- “multidimensional bloodtype” comparisons (i.e., those of the
ous Chapters and Parts with a mode of Initiated Understand- conventional religious-creationism or evolutionary scientific
ing that helps under-cut that “advantage”, and helps as well kind). The descriptions of the original seeding, the atomic,
to place the subliminal interaction on a more equal, face-to- molecular and biogenetic development of Earth and the indig-
face footing.
112 T-Bird vs. The Flying Saucers – Michael Topper
enous strains of consciousness furnished herein, are expres- ing types of response that may be valuable to a more practi-
sions first of all of direct Intuitive-perception rather than of cal project of the spacebeings not strictly reflective of phil-
collated readings, piecemeal evidential reconstructions etc. If anthropic purpose?
this is a “revealed Word”, it is by direct Revelation that it pro- Recalling the characterization of the beings, by Betty
ceeds (as indeed was the classic spiritual or “Biblical” case, af- and others, as “non-emotional” and of a “scientifically neu-
ter all, so that no reactive fundamentalism of the psyche need tral” disposition, we may assess their activity with the form-
be disturbed in the presence of this explanatory text, beings of 3rd-stage human consciousness strictly as an ex-
hmmm?). aminative process. If the spacebeings are procedurally “sep-
The description/narrative of the “incarnating” and “evo- arating-out” the various bio-magnetic bodies of the “bor-
lutionary” processes published here, was first given by MT rowed” personalities with their repertoire of exotic turbo-
several years ago in response to the request of a student to generators and psychic centrifuges etc. we may regard them
explain the “origin of species” and “races” by Initiated Insight. in the most ordinary sense as studying something.
Prior to that question, MT had not gone so deeply into the ac- When we go to inquire what they may be studying, sev-
tual, primordial origins of the planetary “populace”. What he eral things should occur to us right away.
directly saw/experienced and disclosed by Initiated Wisdom Quickly reviewing some things we know about the
was recorded at that time in a series of tapes. Neither he or spacedorks from previous T-Bird issues, we may remember
the Southern Crown students then knew, nor could they find, not only their characteristic lack of emotionality, but their
any description of racial, planetary and species origins com- curious predilection for “standing objectively over to the
parable to what “came out” in that series of taped lectures. At side” while exposing Betty to unnerving and even energeti-
the time, they seemed to stand quite alone as to their descrip- cally-hyperintense situations specifically eliciting high emo-
tion of Process and classification of species, racial types, order tional reaction from their (reluctantly participating) subject.
of emergence and development etc. Certainly the Theosophi- We may recall not only their elastic range of supernormal
cal exegesis of Madam Blavatsky for example, seemed nearly powers, readily making them appear unapproachably-rare-
the diametric opposite of what MT had educed on behalf of fied in the austere mental mastery they must necessarily en-
the student-question. joy; we recall as well the remarkably feeble reason they ad-
Subsequently, however, several sources that tend to be vanced for borrowing the genetic materials as well as the
confirmatory of this Southern Crown description were discov- very wombs of Earth beings. We recall that, though they
ered, or published. The Theosophical writings and classifica- might be manifest masters at traversing the whole horizon-
tory systems of Alice Bailey’s “Tibetan” for example, most es- tal axis of spacetime omnidirectionally (thus occasioning
pecially as is found in Esoteric Psychology Volume I, almost Betty’s belief that they must enjoy the static creationist
exactly parallel what MT determined by direct Insight-percep- character of “angels”, without evolutionary development
tion. (Many, even many Theosophists, don’t seem to know it, whatever), there is always the hidden vertical or conscious,
but the Theosophical writings of Blavatsky and Bailey on this cerebrospinal axis of spiritual time to which they’re still de-
identical topic are virtually polar opposites.) The “Right Use velopmentally subject, like all other beings of the creation.
of Will” books published by Four Winds, were brought to Putting such considerations together, it’s not unprofit-
MT’s attention several years later. Their “genesis” description able to surmise that all their activity in this context has
strongly paralleled that of MT. And finally, Ken Carey’s Re- something to do with requirements of their own, require-
turn of the Bird Tribes was found to give a remarkably similar ments necessarily corresponding to values for which they do
overall description of the original, incarnative-generative pro- not have all the automatic answers. If they’re still subject to
cess through which Earth was awakened, although its “racial” the vertical advance proffered by the range of densities along
ascriptions associated with the process aren’t in complete the mind/body axis, we may find a common denominator in-
agreement with those to be encountered here. volved in their apparent deep concern with our own devel-
opmental destiny. We must assume they possess similar re-
quirements for individual and/or collective transition be-
Some Lessons In Spiritual Exchange- tween lower and higher densities; and if their “density-level”
Value is beyond the common 3rd-stage range of comprehension,
nonetheless their power to confound that level doesn’t im-
If, then, the spacebeings are employing a type of spir-
munize them from the Cosmic lure which still addresses
itual-technology with which they’re able to procedurally
them where they stand.
“shell” the nested mind/body vehicles of man, thereby ex-
posing the 3rd stage psyche to subtle systems of the being “I Know I Said ‘No Matter What I Tell
otherwise unknown—or dependent on an organic develop-
ment after another manner—for what purpose are they do- You’, But I Want It Back Now.”
ing this? Is the possible “happiness” or momentary joy expe- When we consider that, as we’ve learned in the Mother
rienced by such psyches in the quickened presence of their Terasu essays “What Is ‘Christ Consciousness’?” etc. there
own deeper natures “reason enough”? Is this stimulating are three inseparable qualities of Absolute Spirit-being
taste of inherent “spiritual freedom” drawn artificially out of which alone make the characterization of Consciousness
its own resource, the sufficient cue for 3rd stage conscious- complete—i.e., Self, Love and Void—it shouldn’t be too dif-
ness to move more directly in evolutionary growth toward ficult to locate from there the specific value with which
fuller values of itself? and is this the central purpose of they’d most probably be concerned in terms of their own
spacebeing-activity? or is it a merely incidental byproduct pending phase-transition to a higher density alignment. If
which, if not totally fortuitous nonetheless ends up generat- they’re singularly lacking in emotion, the expression of the
love-nature must be stunted.
Michael Topper – T-Bird vs. The Flying Saucers 113
This is peculiarly problematic for any density-transition perceive moreover that the human Earth-stage of conscious-
the dorks must make; for, being in large part 4th density ness, for all that it hasn’t transcended the banal self-contra-
denizens they presently exist the specific level in the octaval dictions and parochial frames-of-reference keeping it affixed
range through which the Love value—informing the psychic to the one masked destiny, nonetheless by the same token
and emotional nature—is most prominently focused. Their hasn’t “succeeded” in masking or repressing the psy-
“emotional capital”, having been parlayed into the wholesale chic/emotional nature to the degree of freezing it out, shut-
developmental gamble of rolling with “efficient scientific ting down and shriveling to functional ineffectuality its op-
neutrality and unmoved objectivity”, has therefore been in- erative center.
vested in a foolproof trust where—according to the terms of It’s for this reason, and one more, that they look with
its arrangement—it can’t appeal to the aloofness of the trus- great “scientific” curiosity toward the field of 3rd-stage Earth
tees to release the original wealth of its spiritual coinage! So consciousness, for the elusive and incomprehensible factor
“locked away in safekeeping” is the emotional dimension of that might help them get beyond the fateful “lock” of that
their natures that, with time, the vaults of storage have studious scientific detachment. They look most especially—
rusted over and it’s been structurally eroded. The dorks can’t though not exclusively—upon this place and time, owing to
technically get at the richer dimensions of the emotional na- the fact that in our somewhat unique and special terms of
ture now that, by strictly rational consideration of the re- “linear historical development” this is the precise juncture at
quirements at hand, they determine they need it—for the which, collectively, mankind is scheduled to make its own
heart center itself through which that value takes ordinary density-transition to 4th. Seeing quite obviously that man-
expression and grows, has in their case been literally shrunk! kind is in similar straits of inertia and internal frustration
Remember we’ve characterized the Andreasson dorks with respect to its pending transitional challenge, the space-
in past T-Bird issues as having polarized technically in align- dorks have simply concluded that they might extract maxi-
ment with the positive (positive or negative polarization is mum exchange-benefits from a tribe that most needed to be
required, in order to advance past the admixed 3rd density benefited—much like they themselves, all dimensional pro-
zone). Yet that polarization was accomplished as a result of portions kept of course—so it was not inapt for them to gaze
the strictly objective consideration of relative efficiency (“co- upon the dilemma of Earth consciousness and perceive a
operation” is more efficient than “antagonism” etc.) That kind of lower case mirror of themselves. (It’s for this reason,
same consideration caused them, somewhere along the line, and not the shallow rationalizations they’d given to mini-
to embrace “emotionless objectivity” to begin with. How- mize alarm or doubt as to their perfect adjustment and con-
ever, being in the very midst of that destiny the graduational trol, that the dorks deigned to borrow late-20th century
requirement for which is learning the lessons of the Love-na- Earth-wombs to serve as preliminary gestation media for
ture, the dorks discovered themselves in a problematic situ- their hybrid splicings of terrestrial and celestial gene-pools.)
ation having “painted themselves into a corner” much as the Betty has occasion to notice that the efforts of artificial
playing cards did in Wonderland. incubation cross-fertilizing human and “Watcher” genes
Their correlation with the 4th density has made them produces embryonic beings having manlike features or, con-
adepts of the psychic, insofar as their mastery and manipu- versely, features more reflective of the goggle-eyed lipless
lation of the symbology of existence is concerned. By that variety of classic spacedork. Through such shuffling and re-
measure they’ve acquitted themselves admirably in the ele- combining the spacebeings silently intend, among other
ments minimally necessary for matriculation to the 5th den- things, to encourage regeneration or replacement-engineer-
sity—except insofar as they’ve failed to conserve the very ing of the very nerve-complexes and subtle meridians mini-
juice, the spiritual nectar of symbology which is its basically mally necessary to supply a physical basis sufficient to ac-
emotional charge, its primary power to move the being be- commodate incarnation of an enlarged potential for emo-
yond the given terms of its provisional Resolution. tional response, while coupling that faculty to a retained cer-
Having drained the psyche (and its symbolizing coun- ebral capacity of their own super-accelerated type.
ters of self-representation) of the sweet inspirational chem- Knowing, then, how to read the evidences, we find lurk-
istry comprising its greatest value, they have inadvertently ing beneath their bluff invulnerability and perfectionism
deprived themselves of the very hormonal codes by which (“we don’t just come out and manifest ourselves to human-
the love-value of being might progress the energetic align- ity”, the dorks channel—through Betty—to the assembled
ment and integral harmonics of their systems to the re- researchers at one point, “for we’d then be taken as gods”) a
quired threshold, the Eagle’s Aerie. very quiet effort to backtrack developmentally, and reintro-
duce their sum genetic complement to a more structurally-
A Real Change Of Heart viable heart center; for them, lacking the emotional develop-
Thus they can “do anything”, in terms of technical ma- mental base as they do, this is viewed from the standpoint
nipulation of the symbol-keys of energy systems and current of a strictly technical requirement necessary in order to re-
patterns, the geometries and types that inform the variable cover and assimilate an indispensable Divine quality specific
grid-lines of cosmic life; yet they can’t elicit the one thing out to their stage, so as to be able to move further through the
of those psychic formats and rich symbolic essences that destinies in return to their remote Home.
alone would serve to move them in conformance with the Paradoxically, it’s just such a “technical” requirement
stream of positive polarization, to the next-greater density- that’s coveted for its innate power to disabuse so emotion-
of-being. They have no operative emotional relation to the ally-estranged a consciousness from the cul de sac fixation
very symbols and codes with which they’re so technically of “technical” criteria!
dexterous; they gaze out at those psychic topologies, for all Indeed, the spacedorks at the specific level of their ex-
their power to employ them, with cold bafflement. And they pression, and functioning—like the tin-man—“without a
A Cosmic Caravanserai
Those higher-dimensional Source aspects are them-
selves planetary prototypes. They correspond, at their 5th
stage level through the Creative field, to a “starry” home-
base—and it has always been the “project” of their Lifewave
to realize original Place in the Ideoform fields of Divine
Spirit-consciousness, with respect to that starry issue.
They are in themselves then, “cosmic giants”, multidi-
mensional beings of a creative Source-planet who, recover-
ing collective Identity through their higher-density haven
seek to amplify that Home, raise it to the very “rate” of its
ultimate Archetype wherein its Reason, its original spiritual
purpose and “place” may be known. And toward that end,
these Man-like radiant beings necessarily work through and
upon all their “subsidiary” dimensional selves, all the ancil-
lary and derivative personalities of their own general being
that exist through probable pasts and parallel planes, in
myriad relative “places” and “times”; they work then with the
Andreasson beings, and with Andreasson herself, they
work with the “past histories” of their neutralist models and
…And the
were “shown” by an overarching Guidance, ushered by an
invisible hand into doorways damped to ordinary sight yet
situated right in the midst of the “ordinary”, taken-for-
Positive/Negative
granted world; strange landscapes of heretofore-unknown
worlds were shown them in aerial oversweep, or inescapable
impressions of such presences and such worlds were alter-
natively drawn into congruence with the normally-opaque
physical field (thereby magically violating the local rule of Realms Beyond This
World
thumb regarding the mutual exclusivity of separate objects
with respect to the “same” space). They were temporarily
heliponed at times through the linga-sarira (for the Theo-
sophically-hip) or astral body, set down into unmistakable if For some, of course, hearing of this higher-dimensional
brief co-presence with beings, creatures, intelligences and either/or outcome there may be lingering doubts as to
situations sharing very little reference with what they whether the participants were truly able to dissociate their
“knew” or understood in terms of their conventional learn- third-density, lower terrestrial faculties of discriminative
ing. dualism from the integral domains of astral, mental and soul
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aligned with, other inhabitable worlds, indeed conjunct with the presentation of taped lessons, direct Initiations into the
experiences belonging to whole other densities and dimen- Mother-current etc.); yet some provisional assurance can be
sions of being (which however yielded to corresponding advanced in the explanation that whole philosophical uni-
mind/body adjustments and intensified alignments under- verses of insight and understanding were also to accompany
gone, first-of-all, as prerequisite qualification). these experiential passes or intuitive glimpses, which in the
It was as if, since the higher-dimensional potential of unexpected richness of their development furnished clear
these mind/body magazines had been developed they were reasoning as to why the progression toward higher and more
going to be used. unitive densities of consciousness beyond the third neces-
Part of the functional benefit of such renovated align- sarily involved a more unified/undiluted commitment to ei-
ments and bioelectric balances was immediately under- ther an orientation identifiable as clear positivity, or clear
stood, by both AAA and MT, as the intuitive ability to rec- negativity.
ognize the origin and nature of the “guidance system” peri-
odically interposing its special circumstances: they became
immediately aware at the very onset of such phenomena
that the Guide of these spirit-domains was neither “inner
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