One of the great "I AM" statements from the Gospel of John.
Jan 26, 2013
Montreal Fireball
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Many early risers looking skyward this morning, spotted a ball of fire streaking across the sky over the Montreal region.
The CJAD and Astral newsroom received calls from places as widely seperated as St-Constant on the south shore, Two Mountains, and Laval. There were also calls from Boucherville, Saint-Laurent, and Ile-Perrot.
Claude Comeau called from Ile-Perrot to describe what he saw.
"I took it as when you see fireworks, and the spark lands towards the ground, but I didn't think anything of it."
Another caller described it as a white comet with a blue tail.
So what was it?
Andrew Fazekas, spokesman for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, also known as the "night sky guy" tells CJAD news it had to be a meteor.
"While most meteors tend to be the size of a grain of sand, what we know as shooting stars, this one was probably anywhere from the size of a basketball or a living room sofa."
And while shooting stars can be spotted every 15 minutes or so on a clear night, what we saw this morning is rare.
photo courtesy of wikipedia
The CJAD and Astral newsroom received calls from places as widely seperated as St-Constant on the south shore, Two Mountains, and Laval. There were also calls from Boucherville, Saint-Laurent, and Ile-Perrot.
Claude Comeau called from Ile-Perrot to describe what he saw.
"I took it as when you see fireworks, and the spark lands towards the ground, but I didn't think anything of it."
Another caller described it as a white comet with a blue tail.
So what was it?
Andrew Fazekas, spokesman for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, also known as the "night sky guy" tells CJAD news it had to be a meteor.
"While most meteors tend to be the size of a grain of sand, what we know as shooting stars, this one was probably anywhere from the size of a basketball or a living room sofa."
And while shooting stars can be spotted every 15 minutes or so on a clear night, what we saw this morning is rare.
photo courtesy of wikipedia
Large sinkhole swallows tree near DeLand, Florida
This is quite close to home for me, and the increase in sinkholes is a concern for everyone in Central Florida.
Officials are investigating a "good-sized" sinkhole in DeLand that has swallowed a large tree and a portion of a fence.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said the sinkhole opened near Mill Road and State Road 17. Officials estimated the hole to be 32 feet and 30 feet deep.
Local 6 News helicopter Sky 6 flew over the hole, which is located in a rural area of DeLand. A home is located about 50 yards from the sinkhole.
Read more at - http://www.sott.net/article/257115-Large-sinkhole-swallows-tree-near-DeLand-Florida
© 6 News
Hole is 32 feet wide, 30 feet deep, police say
Hole is 32 feet wide, 30 feet deep, police say
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said the sinkhole opened near Mill Road and State Road 17. Officials estimated the hole to be 32 feet and 30 feet deep.
Local 6 News helicopter Sky 6 flew over the hole, which is located in a rural area of DeLand. A home is located about 50 yards from the sinkhole.
Read more at - http://www.sott.net/article/257115-Large-sinkhole-swallows-tree-near-DeLand-Florida
Strange Energy Source is Pounding the Earth's Magnetosphere at the Same Time Each Year
This is a re-cap and expansion of the video below, which has excellent research showing that something was affecting the Earth's magnetosphere on the same dates in consecutive years. This would mean that something was either exciting the Sun at the same point in our orbital path, or something was directly affecting the Earth at the same point in our orbital path. Either way, this info is not getting out into the mainstream news. And bad things happen when this much energy hits the planet.
So, if the info is reliable, we should see energy spikes in our atmosphere again starting on February 24th this year. I will re-visit this again as the day draws nearer, but I highly encourage you to check out the info in the two videos below. I don't subscribe to the anger toward the church in the first video, but the info is valuable all the same. Great research, fascinating stuff.
So, if the info is reliable, we should see energy spikes in our atmosphere again starting on February 24th this year. I will re-visit this again as the day draws nearer, but I highly encourage you to check out the info in the two videos below. I don't subscribe to the anger toward the church in the first video, but the info is valuable all the same. Great research, fascinating stuff.
The original video of United Knowledge that showed NASA's own charts and tables confirming the same events were occurring on the same days each year. So get ready for February 24th through early April.
Sandy Hook Shooting: Man in Camo Exposed
Once again, waiting for someone to tell us what went on with multiple suspects at a mass shooting. Once again, independent media has to do the digging and find the answers.
By Jason Bermas
theintelhub.com
January 26, 2013
Who was the man in camouflage running from officers in this video?
Many people have identified him as Chris Manfredonia, a father of one of the students there to bake gingerbread cookies that day. But is that the case? It does seem Mr. Manfredonia was detained but is he the man in the camo pants? First let’s look at the official timeline as reported by ABC News;“9:40 a.m.: Shooting reported to state police. State troopers descend on the scene, as well as federal agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.So the first police response to the media is around 11 in the morning as more and more emergency workers, police, and tactical squads arrive. This is around 1 hour and 20 minutes after the event is reported. According to Media reports it is not until 12:24 p.m. the man in the woods is spotted and chased as reported by ABC News;
11 a.m.: Police give the first indications that there are multiple fatalities inside. Fifty minutes later, they announce that most of the dead are children.”
“12:24 p.m.: Law enforcement agents with weapons drawn seen running into wooded area behind the school.”This indicates that whoever was in the woods was there for 2 hours and 44 minutes after the attack! This makes the case that the person was hiding, as he clearly runs away in the video. If you were a father after the police arrived wouldn’t you want to ensure your child was safe? It appears that another man was also detained other than Mr. Manfredonia as we have witness accounts of two seperate people in cuffs.
Notice that the second man mentions he is in the front seat of the car. Why would a suspect be put in the front seat? What if it were an off duty police officer from another town?
The Newtown Bee reported, “A man with a gun who was spotted in the woods near the school on the day of the incident was an off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town, according to the source.”
So now we have a report of an armed tactical squad officer in the woods almost 3 hours after the attack? Why is this man’s name never revealed to the media, and with the media everywhere why has there been no video of this man released. In fact we have confirmation that such footage exists.
At 2:20 reporter Erin Logan confirms they have footage of this man.
Staff of theintelhub.com have attempted to obtain this footage by contacting both Logan and WTNH itself, however we were met with resistance and have been unable to get this footage to put to rest once and for all who the man in camo really was.
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Jason Bermas is a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist working with theintelhub.com a popular alternative news website.
Read more at - http://theintelhub.com/2013/01/26/sandy-hook-shooting-man-in-camo-exposed/
Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory Show on the Coming of Martial Law
The laws are in place, and being exercised against individuals on a daily basis. It's only a matter of the right trigger event, and we will see all of the laws enforced. Get ready, it's coming.
Jan 25, 2013
Energy From Space
The Sun is without question the dominant factor in our climate and weather. Exacerbated by ionospheric heaters which are government controlled and used primarily for military purposes amplify the Sun's influence. Man-made emissions would rank far behind as perhaps a subtle influence at best.
Before Abraham Was, I AM
This is an excerpt from The Gospel of John movie, a great exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees which you can follow in John chapter 8. The Pharisees accuse Jesus of being a Samaritan (half Jew, half Gentile), going back to the fact that was well known concerning Mary's pregnancy before her actual marriage to Joseph. Jesus responds by pointing out that they are following their father, Satan.
A great point to take from this passage is that most in the world will not gladly accept the truth of Jesus as the Son of God. They will instead fight violently against the truth. And as Christians, we must be prepared to fight for that truth above all others.
A great point to take from this passage is that most in the world will not gladly accept the truth of Jesus as the Son of God. They will instead fight violently against the truth. And as Christians, we must be prepared to fight for that truth above all others.
Jan 23, 2013
Close Encounters of the Skinwalking, Shapeshifting, Demonic Werewolk Kind
This is a continuation of the excellent series by Horn and Putnam on Petrus Romanus, PROJECT LUCIFER, and the Vatican's astonishing exo-theological plan for the arrival of an alien savior.
The history of elemental beings including incubi and succubi or
“alien-demons” by any other name is often closely associated with a variety of
shapeshifting monsters and “cryptids” (from the Greek “κρύπτω” [krypto] meaning “hide”), whose existence
is difficult to prove by means of their ability to apparently move in and out of
Earth’s dimension or man’s visible spectrum—the human range of
sight.
One of the more
disturbing and better documented cases concerning large nonhuman primates
occurred on October 25, 1973, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, when a young farmer
named Stephen Pulaski and more than a dozen others observed a bright red ball of
light accompanied by large humanoids. The twenty-two-year-old farmer with two
younger boys watched from a hilltop as a bright, “dome shaped” object, making a
“sound like a lawn mower,” settled over a field. He guessed it measured about
one hundred fifty feet in diameter. Suddenly, Pulaski caught sight of two large
creatures, which at first he thought were bears—one about seven feet tall and
the other taller than eight feet—walking by a fence line. He was able to
approximate their size fairly accurately, because they were silhouetted against
the railing boards. They were covered with long, dark hair and had arms that
hung down like a gorilla’s. The beings were making a sound like babies
whimpering, and a terrible odor like burning rubber was wafting up the hill from
them. The entities saw Pulaski and the two young men and started toward them. As
the younger boys ran toward the farmhouse, the twenty-two-year-old fired a
warning shot over the creatures’ heads with his hunting rifle. When they
continued forward, he shot three more times, this time directly at the larger of
the two. The big, hairy biped acted like it was hit, raised its right hand, and
the dome-shaped object went silent, disappearing
instantaneously,
but being replaced by a glowing area on the ground. At that, the beings turned
and headed into the woods. A few minutes later, a state trooper arrived to
investigate the shooting. He went with the farmer down onto the field to within
two hundred yards of the incident area. The officer later reported that the
ground was still glowing when they got there. Trees began breaking in the
forest, and the men thought something large was moving towards them from the
woods. It abruptly stopped, then, thirty minutes later, it started moving again.
A large, brown figure could be seen coming their direction, so they jumped into
the patrol car and sped to safety.
Read more at - http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/vaticana7.htm
By Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
The history of elemental beings including incubi and succubi or
“alien-demons” by any other name is often closely associated with a variety of
shapeshifting monsters and “cryptids” (from the Greek “κρύπτω” [krypto] meaning “hide”), whose existence
is difficult to prove by means of their ability to apparently move in and out of
Earth’s dimension or man’s visible spectrum—the human range of
sight.
Examples of these would include the Yeti in the Himalayas, the
famous Bigfoot or Sasquatch of mainly the Pacific Northwest region of North
America and Canada, and the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland. Hoaxes aside,
literally tens of thousands of people throughout history and around the world
(including reputable individuals such as clergy, professionals, military, law
enforcement personnel, and even anthropologists) have seen, found biological
samples of such in hair and footprint evidence, and even filmed and recorded the
creatures’ unidentifiable language vocalizations, but have up until now failed
to capture a single physical specimen...that the public knows of. Witness
testimonies often include reports of fantastic sizes—from enormous dragons in
the sea to giant bipeds ranging in height from eight to twelve feet, with
footprints up to twenty-four inches. And then there are the phenomena frequently
connected with the appearance of cryptids that are typical of occult activity—a
retching or sulfuric odor, mysterious rapping on walls and windows, shadows and
ghostly lights inside or outside homes, disembodied voices, the levitation or
disappearance of furniture and other household items, etc.
Possibly the earliest account of a Bigfoot sighting in the US
was published over 125 years ago in a historical pamphlet that told of
frontiersmen coming across a “wild man” in the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern
California. “The thing was of gigantic size—about seven feet tall—with a bulldog
head, short ears, and long hair; it was also furnished with a beard, and was
free from hair on such parts of its body as is common among men.”[i] Another barely known confrontation with a large, hairy biped was
actually reported by President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman. Noah
Hutchings writes of this event: “The story appeared in The Wilderness Hunter published in 1893.
The account given by Roosevelt related that some kind of a wild beast had killed
a man and had eaten half his body in a mountain range between the Salmon and
Windom rivers. The following year, two hunters were camping in the same area
when they became aware that they were being watched by a strange creature
walking on two legs. The next day, the hunters separated. One of the hunters
arrived at camp to find the other hunter dead with his neck broken and severe
wounds to the throat area. In the article, Mr. Roosevelt reported his belief
that the hunter was killed by ‘something either half-human or half-devil, some
great goblin-beast.’”[ii]
There are even reports of apelike creatures shot
and killed followed by similar creatures coming to retrieve the corpse. One such
story tells of a Bigfoot being put down and afterwards, similar large, hairy
beings coming out of the woods to recover the body. The same creatures returned
again later to attack the cabin of those miners who had killed the beast. An
account of this event states:
At night the apes counterattacked, opening the assault by knocking a
heavy strip of wood out from between two logs of the miners’ cabin. After that
there were assorted poundings on the walls, door, and roof, but the building was
built to withstand heavy mountain snows and the apes failed to break in.… There
was…the sound of rocks hitting the roof and rolling off, and [the miners] did
brace the heavy door from the inside.
They heard creatures thumping around on top of the cabin as
well as battering the walls, and they fired shots through the walls and roof
without driving them away. The noise went on from shortly after dark till near
dawn.… The cabin had no windows and of course no one opened the door, so in fact
the men inside did not see what was causing the commotion outside.
Nor could Mr. Beck say for sure…that there were more than two
creatures outside. There were [at least] that many because there had been one on
the roof and one pounding the wall simultaneously. However many there were, it
was enough for the miners, who packed up and abandoned their mine the next
day.[iii]
One of the more
disturbing and better documented cases concerning large nonhuman primates
occurred on October 25, 1973, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, when a young farmer
named Stephen Pulaski and more than a dozen others observed a bright red ball of
light accompanied by large humanoids. The twenty-two-year-old farmer with two
younger boys watched from a hilltop as a bright, “dome shaped” object, making a
“sound like a lawn mower,” settled over a field. He guessed it measured about
one hundred fifty feet in diameter. Suddenly, Pulaski caught sight of two large
creatures, which at first he thought were bears—one about seven feet tall and
the other taller than eight feet—walking by a fence line. He was able to
approximate their size fairly accurately, because they were silhouetted against
the railing boards. They were covered with long, dark hair and had arms that
hung down like a gorilla’s. The beings were making a sound like babies
whimpering, and a terrible odor like burning rubber was wafting up the hill from
them. The entities saw Pulaski and the two young men and started toward them. As
the younger boys ran toward the farmhouse, the twenty-two-year-old fired a
warning shot over the creatures’ heads with his hunting rifle. When they
continued forward, he shot three more times, this time directly at the larger of
the two. The big, hairy biped acted like it was hit, raised its right hand, and
the dome-shaped object went silent, disappearing
instantaneously,
but being replaced by a glowing area on the ground. At that, the beings turned
and headed into the woods. A few minutes later, a state trooper arrived to
investigate the shooting. He went with the farmer down onto the field to within
two hundred yards of the incident area. The officer later reported that the
ground was still glowing when they got there. Trees began breaking in the
forest, and the men thought something large was moving towards them from the
woods. It abruptly stopped, then, thirty minutes later, it started moving again.
A large, brown figure could be seen coming their direction, so they jumped into
the patrol car and sped to safety.
Early
the next morning, members of the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group arrived at
the farm to begin an investigation. They noted that Pulaski’s dog seemed to be
tracking something they couldn’t make out in the woods. As they were talking
with the young farmer and his father,
Pulaski
inexplicably began behaving as if he were demon possessed—convulsing, growling,
and flailing about. His own dog ran at him, and he attacked it. At the same
moment, two of the investigators started feeling lightheaded and were having
difficulty breathing. Pulaski suddenly knocked his father down as he fainted
onto the ground, face first into manure. When he snapped out of it a few moments
later, he started growling like an animal and warned, “Get away from me. It’s
here. Get back.” A sulfuric aroma filled the air as Pulaski reported seeing
a figure cloaked in all black garbs saying something to him about a man “who
is coming to save the world.” Pulaski was subsequently evaluated physically
and psychologically and found to be of sound mind and truthful. Numerous
witnesses at various phases of the incident also testified that the event
actually happened as reported.
The Pulaski farm is one example of thousands of comparable
events wherein cryptids have appeared accompanied by spiritualistic and
demonological characteristics. In another account, both a giant and small
creature teamed up to torture a young woman. This was not only captured by
multiple eyewitnesses, but also was played out repeatedly in a prison cell
before dumbfounded police officers, prison guards, medical staff, and dozens of
reporters in the heart of Manila, capital city of the Philippines. In this case,
physical evidence was even captured in the form of long, black hair from a beast
that was never identified. At the center of the episode was one of America’s
most well-known ordained ministers, Dr. Lester Sumrall, who formed the LeSEA
broadcast network.
In
the early 1950s, Dr. Sumrall was in Manila building a church, which today is
known as the Cathedral of Praise. On May 12, 1953, the Daily Mirror in Manila published a
startling story under the headline, “Police Medic Explodes Biting Demons Yarn,”
in which a most unusual story unfolded of law enforcers 
and medical examiners being
mystified by an inmate whose body continuously bore deep teeth marks. The
frightened girl claimed that two beings were appearing and biting her. One of
the devils was big and dark with long hair all over his head, chest, and arms.
He had fangs like a dog and large, sharp eyes, and his feet were at least three
times larger than normal. He was dressed in a black robe with what appeared to
be a hood on the back. His voice was deep, with a tunnel-like echo. The second
being was squatty, maybe thirty inches tall, and it was also dark, hairy, and
deformed. As the witnesses watched, the girl’s facial expressions would suddenly
change, and she would begin glancing about, as if she was seeing something the
others could not. (What she was seeing was dubbed “The Thing” by the press.)
Then the girl would start screaming and struggling against an invisible force,
before collapsing, half-conscious, into the arms of the prison staff member
holding her. At that moment, there would be teeth marks wet with saliva marking
her body. Dr. Mariano
B. Lara, then chief medical examiner of the Manila Police Department and a
university professor of pathology and legal medicine, was convinced of the
genuineness of the possession and exorcism and provided his own description,
recounted in this excerpt from the official medical report filed at the
prison:
and medical examiners being
mystified by an inmate whose body continuously bore deep teeth marks. The
frightened girl claimed that two beings were appearing and biting her. One of
the devils was big and dark with long hair all over his head, chest, and arms.
He had fangs like a dog and large, sharp eyes, and his feet were at least three
times larger than normal. He was dressed in a black robe with what appeared to
be a hood on the back. His voice was deep, with a tunnel-like echo. The second
being was squatty, maybe thirty inches tall, and it was also dark, hairy, and
deformed. As the witnesses watched, the girl’s facial expressions would suddenly
change, and she would begin glancing about, as if she was seeing something the
others could not. (What she was seeing was dubbed “The Thing” by the press.)
Then the girl would start screaming and struggling against an invisible force,
before collapsing, half-conscious, into the arms of the prison staff member
holding her. At that moment, there would be teeth marks wet with saliva marking
her body. Dr. Mariano
B. Lara, then chief medical examiner of the Manila Police Department and a
university professor of pathology and legal medicine, was convinced of the
genuineness of the possession and exorcism and provided his own description,
recounted in this excerpt from the official medical report filed at the
prison:
I find it difficult and near impossible to accept anything of a
supernatural character.… Equipped with a magnifying lens and an unbelieving mind
about this biting phenomena, I scrutinized carefully the exposed parts of her
[Clarita Villanueva’s] body, the arms, hands, and neck, to find out whether they
had the biting impressions. I saw the reddish human-like bite marks on the
arms.… At that very instant, this girl in a semi-trance loudly screamed
repeatedly.… I saw, with my unbelieving eyes, the clear marks or impressions of
human-like teeth from both the upper and lower jaws. It was a little moist in
the area bitten on the dorsal aspect of the left hand, and the teeth impressions
were mostly from the form of the front or incisor teeth. Seeing these with my
unbelieving eyes, yet I could not understand nor explain how they were produced
as her hand had all the time been held away from the reach of her mouth.…
In full possession of her normal mind, I asked her (Clarita
Villanueva) who was causing her to suffer from the bites. She answered that
there are two who are alternately biting her; one big, black, hairy human-like
fellow, very tall, with two sharp eyes, two sharp canine teeth, long beard like
a Hindu, hairy extremities and chest, wearing a black garment, with a little
whitish piece on the back resembling a hood. His feet are about three times the
size of normal feet. The other fellow is a very small one about two or three
feet tall allegedly also black, hairy and ugly.[iv]
After
first hearing the report on the radio then reading the newspaper story the next
day, Dr. Sumrall, who believed the girl was demon possessed, grew convicted that
the Lord wanted him to procure permission from prison authorities to pray for
the prostitute’s deliverance. Through his church architect, who was a friend of
the mayor of
Manila,
he received the okay to visit with the chief medical advisor of the police
department, Dr. Mariano Lara. While talking with the doctor inside the prison
morgue, Lara acknowledged to Sumrall that something beyond his professional
knowledge was happening and that he was actually afraid of “The Thing” after
witnessing the bite marks appear before his own eyes. With Lara’s approval,
Sumrall was allowed to pray for the girl while observers watched. She was very
resistant, cursing him in English (which she could not speak), screaming, and
fighting every moment to get away. The first day of prayer failed to provide
healing, and Sumrall believed he needed to fast and pray for another day. That
evening, the newspaper published his picture on the front page, three columns
wide, with the headline, “The Thing Defies Pastor.”[v] The next day would be different. Following a spiritual battle
reminiscent of an Old Testament prophet challenging the followers of Baal, and
with repentance of her sins and acceptance of Jesus as Savior, the girl was
delivered, yet, that was not the end of the story. Sumrall explains what
happened next:
As I was leaving I told Clarita that I was sure these devils would
return. “After I am gone,” I said, “they will come. Then you must demand them to
leave without my being present. You must say, ‘Go, in Jesus’ name,’ and they
will obey.” With this I left the compound.
We asked the newsmen not to write about the morning’s events,
but they said they were obliged to. The story had run for two weeks and it must
be concluded. Since the Methodist Church is the oldest Protestant denomination
in the islands, they presumed I was a Methodist, and it was in the papers that
way. They did not know how to write of such an experience; therefore, some of
what they said was not correct. But I feel mostly responsible for this, as I
gave them no interview and left the city to get away from publicity.
The devils did return to attack Clarita, and a strange thing
happened when she called on them to leave. She was engaged in a mortal struggle and
went into a coma, her fists clenched. The doctor pried her hands open and to his
astonishment, there lay some long, black, coarse hair. Dr. Lara placed this hair
in an envelope and put it in a guarded place. Under the microscope he found that
the hair was not from any part of the human body. The doctor has no answer to
this mystery—how an invisible being, presumably a devil, could have lost hair by
a visible being pulling it out.[vi] (emphasis added)
The notion of physical material like hair having been pulled
from a wraithlike demon opens the fascinating proposal that ultraterrestrial
beings (call them angels, demons, or aliens) can migrate back and forth between
different realities and take forms that are both material and immaterial. This
sounds crazy to the natural mind, yet the concept is biblical. The writer of
Hebrews reminds us to “be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares” (Heb. 13:2), and when the disciples of Jesus
saw His return from the grave, they “were terrified and affrighted, and supposed
that they had seen a spirit.” Jesus told them to touch Him and see that “a
spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:37–39). Similarly,
Abraham was visited by three angels in the plains of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8).
They appeared as men and walked, talked, sat, and ate. But the truth was they
were not human at all, but spirit-beings from heaven, illustrating one of the
most dynamic facts of Scripture: that otherdimensional life forms have power to
assume tangible matter whenever it fits their cause. Does this explain how
cryptids can be there one moment and gone the next, leaving man perplexed by
their appearance and disappearance? Does this not remind of the Rephaim, which
exist in the spirit world but could also have the ability to manifest on Earth
as giant, hairy bipeds known in the Bible as Nephilim and perhaps today as
Bigfoot?
Incidentally, hair from the Manila “Thing” is not the only
example found.
In October 2012, a headline in the UK’s Mail Online read: “Sasquatch in
Siberia? Hair Found in Russian Cave ‘Belonged to Unknown Mammal Closely Related
to Man.’” The story claimed that DNA tests on suspected “Yeti hair” found in a
Siberian cave during an international expedition in 2011 was of an unknown
mammal closely related to man, but not a human. Nor did the hair belong to any
known animal from the region such as a bear, wolf, or goat, the article said.
Analysis was conducted in Russia and the US, which “agreed the hair came from a
human-like creature which is not a Homo sapien yet is more closely related to
man than a monkey.”[vii]
Then, on November 24, 2012, another press release was issued
involving a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging, and pathology led
by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, Texas, and their five-year long DNA
study (submitted for peer review), which claimed “the existence of a novel
hominin hybrid species, commonly called ‘Bigfoot’ or ‘Sasquatch,’ living in
North America.” The DNA sequencing suggested that the legendary Sasquatch is
actually “a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate
species.” Dr. Ketchum reported that her team sequenced three complete Sasquatch
nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid. “Our
study…utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from
purported Sasquatch samples,” Ketchum said. “The genome sequencing shows that
Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a
novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species. Our
data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result
of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo
sapiens.”[viii]
Ketchum,
a veterinarian whose professional experience includes twenty-seven years of
research in genetics, including forensics, continued:
The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this
hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other
recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual. Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly
novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within
its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and
non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human
sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and
understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA.[ix]
That Ketchum and her team’s findings were reported before
being peer reviewed is suspect and may turn out to be erroneous. On the other
hand, if validated, it could be another baffling evidence fragment connected to
that mysterious creature we call “Bigfoot” and “Sasquatch.”
We
ramp up this investigation into 'Skinwalking, Shapeshifting, Demonic Werewolves'
in the next entry...
Transhumanist Advocates Using Bible to Convince Christians of the Benefits of Nephilim Technology
This author is not advocating Christianity but simply using scripture to try and influence Christians to support the transhumanist agenda. The lust for power and god-like abilities by those in the scientific community who lack true Godly wisdom never ceases to amaze me.
Rick Searle
Ethical Technology
 Rick Searle |
Ethical Technology
When I saw that the scientist and science-fiction novelist, David Brin, had given a talk at a recent Singularity Summit with the intriguing title “So you want to make gods? Now why would that bother anybody?” my hopes for the current intellectual debate between science and religion and between rival versions of our human future were instantly raised.
Here was a noted singularitarian, I thought, who might raise questions about how the framing of the philosophy surrounding the Singularity was not only alienating to persons of more traditional religious sentiments, but threatened to give rise to a 21st century version of the culture wars that would make current debates over teaching evolution in schools or the much more charged disputes over abortion look quaint, and that could ultimately derail us from many of the technological achievements that lie seemingly just over the horizon which promise to vastly improve and even transform the human condition.
Upon listening to Brin’s lecture those hopes were dashed.
Brin’s lecture is a seemingly lite talk to a friendly audience punctuated by jokes some of them lame, and therefore charming, but his topic is serious indeed. He defines the real purpose of his audience to be “would be god-makers” “indeed some of you want to become gods” and admonishes them to avoid the fate of their predecessors such as Giordano Bruno of being burned at the stake.
The suggestion Brin makes for how singularitarians are to avoid the fate of Bruno, a way to prevent the conflict between religion and science seem, at first, like humanistic and common sense advice: Rather than outright rejection and even ridicule of the religious, singularitarians are admonished to actually understand the religious views of their would be opponents and especially the cultural keystone of their religious texts.
Yet the purpose of such understanding soon becomes clear. Knowledge of the Bible, in the eyes of Brin, should give singularitarians the ability to reframe their objectives in Christian terms. Brin lays out some examples to explain his meaning. His suggestion that the mythological Adam’s first act of naming things defines the purpose of humankind as a co-creator with God is an interesting and probably largely non-controversial one. It’s when he steps into the larger Biblical narrative that things get tricky.
Brin finds the seeming justification for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to be particularly potent for singularitarians:
Brin thinks this passage can be used as a Biblical justification for the singularitarian aim of personal immortality and god-like powers. The debate he thinks is not over “can we?”, but merely a matter of “when should we?” attain these ultimate ends.
The other Biblical passage Brin thinks singularitarians can use to their advantage in their debate with Christians is found in the story of the Tower of Babel.
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Here was a noted singularitarian, I thought, who might raise questions about how the framing of the philosophy surrounding the Singularity was not only alienating to persons of more traditional religious sentiments, but threatened to give rise to a 21st century version of the culture wars that would make current debates over teaching evolution in schools or the much more charged disputes over abortion look quaint, and that could ultimately derail us from many of the technological achievements that lie seemingly just over the horizon which promise to vastly improve and even transform the human condition.
Upon listening to Brin’s lecture those hopes were dashed.
Brin’s lecture is a seemingly lite talk to a friendly audience punctuated by jokes some of them lame, and therefore charming, but his topic is serious indeed. He defines the real purpose of his audience to be “would be god-makers” “indeed some of you want to become gods” and admonishes them to avoid the fate of their predecessors such as Giordano Bruno of being burned at the stake.
The suggestion Brin makes for how singularitarians are to avoid the fate of Bruno, a way to prevent the conflict between religion and science seem, at first, like humanistic and common sense advice: Rather than outright rejection and even ridicule of the religious, singularitarians are admonished to actually understand the religious views of their would be opponents and especially the cultural keystone of their religious texts.
Yet the purpose of such understanding soon becomes clear. Knowledge of the Bible, in the eyes of Brin, should give singularitarians the ability to reframe their objectives in Christian terms. Brin lays out some examples to explain his meaning. His suggestion that the mythological Adam’s first act of naming things defines the purpose of humankind as a co-creator with God is an interesting and probably largely non-controversial one. It’s when he steps into the larger Biblical narrative that things get tricky.
Brin finds the seeming justification for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to be particularly potent for singularitarians:
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Genesis 3:22 King James Bible
Brin thinks this passage can be used as a Biblical justification for the singularitarian aim of personal immortality and god-like powers. The debate he thinks is not over “can we?”, but merely a matter of “when should we?” attain these ultimate ends.
The other Biblical passage Brin thinks singularitarians can use to their advantage in their debate with Christians is found in the story of the Tower of Babel.
As in the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Brin thinks the story of the Tower of Babel can be used to illustrate that human beings, according to Christianity’s own scriptures, have innately god-like powers. What the debate between singularitarians and Christians is, therefore, largely a matter of when and how human beings reach their full God-given potential.And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Genesis 11:6 King James Bible
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Researcher suggests that predawn spectacle over California and Nevada last week was a 'small flaming comet'
The fireball that lit up the predawn Northern California sky last week was a small comet that flamed out when it hit the Earth's atmosphere, a researcher said Tuesday.
The comet "instantly turned into dust and gas," resulting in the flash of light seen by many at 5:21 a.m. Thursday, said meteor hunter Peter Jenniskens, a scientist at the Seti Institute in Mountain View.
Because the comet vaporized, no pieces fell to Earth, Jenniskens said.
The comet came into contact with the Earth's atmosphere just north of Yosemite National Park at a speed of 160,000 mph, Jenniskens said.
"Moving toward Lake Tahoe, the small comet then penetrated to lower elevations where it fully disrupted in the atmosphere," Jenniskens wrote on his group's website.
The sight was a treat for those up and about before dawn. One witness said it resembled "a giant orange crayon."
Reports of the sighting came in from around California and from outside Reno.
It was the second cosmic sighting in the Bay Area in three months. On Oct. 17, a monster fireball lit up the skies, and several chunks of it - meteorites - were later found in the Novato area
The comet "instantly turned into dust and gas," resulting in the flash of light seen by many at 5:21 a.m. Thursday, said meteor hunter Peter Jenniskens, a scientist at the Seti Institute in Mountain View.
Because the comet vaporized, no pieces fell to Earth, Jenniskens said.
The comet came into contact with the Earth's atmosphere just north of Yosemite National Park at a speed of 160,000 mph, Jenniskens said.
"Moving toward Lake Tahoe, the small comet then penetrated to lower elevations where it fully disrupted in the atmosphere," Jenniskens wrote on his group's website.
The sight was a treat for those up and about before dawn. One witness said it resembled "a giant orange crayon."
Reports of the sighting came in from around California and from outside Reno.
It was the second cosmic sighting in the Bay Area in three months. On Oct. 17, a monster fireball lit up the skies, and several chunks of it - meteorites - were later found in the Novato area
CIA media infiltration is real: From Operation Mockingbird to Pentagon social media trolls
Abby Martin takes a look at America's history of government infiltration in news media, from the CIA's 1950s secret cold-war program, dubbed 'Operation Mockingbird', through to paid Pentagon online trolls today.
The Military Patents the Lightning Bolts of Zeus
This type of weapon defines angeltech, men creating and controlling weapons that give them the power of angels, or in the case of Zeus, fallen angels. It's believed this has been tested already, with one event specifically showing up last year in Oklahoma. I wonder if this weapon will also be classified as "non-lethal"...
The Big Chill: unusual stratospheric phenomenon is bringing frigid cold to U.S
January 23, 2013 – CLIMATE – An unusual event playing out high in the atmosphere above the Arctic Circle is setting the stage for what could be weeks upon weeks of frigid cold across wide swaths of the U.S., having already helped to bring cold and snowy weather to parts of Europe. Forecast high temperatures on Monday, Jan. 21, from the GFS computer model.
This phenomenon, known as a “sudden stratospheric warming event,” started on Jan. 6, but is something that is just beginning to have an effect on weather patterns across North America and Europe. While the physics behind sudden stratospheric warming events are complicated, their implications are not: such events are often harbingers of colder weather in North America and Eurasia. The ongoing event favors colder and possibly stormier weather for as long as four to eight weeks after the event, meaning that after a mild start to the winter, the rest of this month and February could bring the coldest weather of the winter season to parts of the U.S., along with a heightened chance of snow.
Sudden stratospheric warming events take place in about half of all Northern Hemisphere winters, and they have been occurring with increasing frequency during the past decade, possibly related to the loss of Arctic sea ice due to global warming.
Arctic sea ice declined to its smallest extent on record in September 2012. Sudden stratospheric warming events occur when large atmospheric waves, known as Rossby waves, extend beyond the troposphere where most weather occurs, and into the stratosphere. This vertical transport of energy can set a complex process into motion that leads to the breakdown of the high altitude cold low pressure area that typically spins above the North Pole during the winter, which is known as the polar vortex. The polar vortex plays a major role in determining how much Arctic air spills southward toward the mid-latitudes. When there is a strong polar vortex, cold air tends to stay bottled up in the Arctic. However, when the vortex weakens or is disrupted, like a spinning top that suddenly starts wobbling, it can cause polar air masses to surge south, while the Arctic experiences milder-than-average temperatures.
During the ongoing stratospheric warming event, the polar vortex split in two, allowing polar air to spill out from the Arctic, as if a refrigerator door were suddenly opened. For reasons I don’t think we fully understand, the changes in the circulation that happen in the stratosphere [can] descend down all the way to the Earth’s surface,” said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in Massachusetts. As the polar stratosphere warms, high pressure builds over the Arctic, causing the polar jet stream to weaken. At the same time, the mid-latitude jet stream strengthens, while also becoming wavier, with deeper troughs and ridges corresponding to more intense storms and high pressure areas. In fact, sudden stratospheric warming events even make so-called “blocked” weather patterns more likely to occur, which tilts the odds in favor of the development of winter storms in the U.S. and Europe. –Climate Central
Salon Article Says Unborn Baby is “A Life Worth Sacrificing”
by Steven Ertelt
A new article from a writer at the liberal online publication Salon is one of the most extreme pro-abortion diatribes ever written. It is so in-your-face that it is already sending shockwaves through the Internet just hours after its publication.
The content of the article, some of which is excerpted below, needs no words to show how shocking the content is from Mary Elizabeth Williams, who starts her piece saying, “So what if abortion ends a life?”
“I believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice,” she writes.
A new article from a writer at the liberal online publication Salon is one of the most extreme pro-abortion diatribes ever written. It is so in-your-face that it is already sending shockwaves through the Internet just hours after its publication.
The content of the article, some of which is excerpted below, needs no words to show how shocking the content is from Mary Elizabeth Williams, who starts her piece saying, “So what if abortion ends a life?”
“I believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice,” she writes.
Read more at - http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/23/shock-salon-article-says-baby-is-a-life-worth-sacrificing/Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word “life.” Life! Who wants to argue with that? Who wants be on the side of … not-life? That’s why the language of those who support abortion has for so long been carefully couched in other terms. While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as “pro-life,” the rest of have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like “choice” and “reproductive freedom.” The “life” conversation is often too a thorny one to even broach. Yet I know that throughout my own pregnancies, I never wavered for a moment in the belief that I was carrying a human life inside of me. I believe that’s what a fetus is: a human life. And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice.
Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.
CIA Operative Takes Responsibility for Algerian Gas Plant Attack
If you ever wondered why other nations are increasingly turning on the U.S., stories like this should make it quite clear.
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
In the video below, Mokhtar Belmokhtar — said to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attack by the Islamist al-Mulathameen (Masked) Brigade on the In Amenas Gas complex in Algeria — takes credit for the operation.
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
In the video below, Mokhtar Belmokhtar — said to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attack by the Islamist al-Mulathameen (Masked) Brigade on the In Amenas Gas complex in Algeria — takes credit for the operation.
Belmokhtar was recruited and trained by the CIA in Afghanistan. He was an “Afghan Arab” recruit from North Africa and fought with the CIA and Pakistan ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) Mujahideen that would later splinter into al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Following the deadly Afghan civil war that claimed nearly a half million lives, Belmokhtar returned to Algeria in 1993 and joined the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
The GSPC was purportedly founded by Hassan Hattab, a former Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA) commander. Mohammed Samraoui, the Algerian army’s deputy chief counterintelligence specialist, claims GSPC was established by the Algerian army in an attempt to weaken and destroy the moderate Islamic Salvation Front, an Islamist political party poised to take power in Algeria’s elections. GSPC members were recruited by Algerian intelligence upon returning from the jihad in Afghanistan.
In 2007, the GSPC changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and aligned itself with the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). In November 2007, al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri released an audio announcing that the LIFG had joined al-Qaeda.
“Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb from the outset in 2007 had established a close relationship to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whose leaders had also been trained and recruited in Afghanistan by the CIA,” writes Michel Chossudovsky. “The LIFG is supported covertly by the CIA and Britain’s MI6.”
According to an MI6 document, British intelligence knew of a LIFG plot to assassinate Gaddafi in 1995 involving “Libya veterans who served in Afghanistan.” The report was given credibility by the fact British authorities allowed LIFG members living in the U.K. to engage in activities supporting the organization despite its official declaration as a terrorist group.
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Pardon Me, I've Been AT&T'd
And that's not a good thing. Thanks to AT&T dropping service to much of the southeast U.S., I've been offline for a while. In a display of the new and improved corporate arrogance, the company insists very few of it's customers are affected and refuses to give a clear answer on what has happened. The customer service center in India told me that the problem was "technical glitches". No kidding.
Jan 21, 2013
Incubi, Succubi, Daemons, and Elementals
By Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
Based on facts detailed in the previous entries, we started this part
of the investigation saying the question is not whether humans were, can be, or
are being hybridized, but whether alien/demon agencies are involved in the
process.
Today,
what some call “alien abduction,” in which a breeding program allegedly exists
resulting in alien/human hybrids, seems but a contemporary retelling of similar
DNA harvesting and genetic manipulation by those mysterious beings called
“Watchers” whose genetic modification activities we have discussed.
In his book, Confrontations—A Scientist’s Search for
Alien Contact, highly regarded UFO researcher, Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, once
argued: “Contact with [aliens is] only a modern extension of the age-old
tradition of contact with nonhuman consciousness in the form of angels, demons,
elves, and sylphs.”[i] Later, Vallée more closely identified the operative power behind
these “aliens” as equivalent to the fallen Watcher angels of the Days of Noah:
Are these races only semi-human, so that in order to maintain contact
with us, they need crossbreeding with men and women of our planet? Is this the
origin of the many tales and legends where genetics plays a great role: the
symbolism of the Virgin in occultism and religion, the fairy tales involving
human midwives and changelings, the sexual overtones of the flying saucer
reports, the biblical stories of intermarriage between the Lord’s angels, and
terrestrial women, whose offspring were giants?[ii]
Another
highly respected and often-quoted UFO researcher, John Keel, echoed the same
when he stated in Operation Trojan
Horse:
Demonology is not just another crackpot-ology. It is the ancient and
scholarly study of the monsters and demons who have seemingly coexisted with man
throughout history.… The manifestations and occurrences described in this
imposing literature are similar, if not entirely identical, to the UFO
phenomenon itself. Victims of demonomania [possession] suffer the very same
medical and emotional symptoms as the UFO contactees.… The Devil and his demons
can, according to the literature, manifest themselves in almost any form and can
physically imitate anything from angels to horrifying monsters with glowing
eyes. Strange objects and entities materialize and dematerialize in these
stories, just as the UFOs and their splendid occupants appear and disappear,
walk through walls, and perform other supernatural feats.[iii]
Associate professor of psychology Elizabeth L. Hillstrom was
even more inflexible on comparisons between “alien” experiences and historical
demonic activity, quoting in her book Testing the Spirits an impressive list
of scholars from various disciplines who concluded that similarities between ETs
and demons is unlikely coincidental. Hillstrom cites authorities of the first
rank including Pierre Guerin, a scientist associated with the French National
Council for Scientific Research, who believes, “The modern UFOnauts and the
demons of past days are probably identical,”[iv] and veteran researcher John Keel, who reckons, “The UFO
manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old
demonological phenomenon.”[v] Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Mack risked his
career when he announced that the abduction phenomenon is very much real albeit
an assault of a quasi-spiritual nature. The following is a chilling excerpt from
Mack’s Passport to the Cosmos:
Some abductees feel that certain beings seem to want to take their
souls from them. Greg told me that the terror of his encounters with certain
reptilian beings was so intense that he feared being separated from his soul.
“If I were to be separated from my soul,” he said, “I would not have any sense
of being. I think all my consciousness would go. I would cease to exist. That
would be the worst thing anyone could do to me.”[vi]
Mack recorded page after page of such transparently demonic
phenomenon. Another victim described her horror saying, “I knew instinctively
that whatever that thing was next to me wanted to enter me. It was just waiting
to enter me.”[vii]
Of course, this screams demon possession, but,
against the evidence, Mack’s naturalistic worldview steered him toward the
extraterrestrial hypothesis. In contrast, Vallée connects the dots: “The
‘medical examination’ to which abductees are said to be subjected, often
accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval
tales of encounters with demons.”[viii]
With these sorts of characterizations coming from
the secular scholars, it should be no surprise that we also connect UFO/ET
phenomenon with demonic activity.
Incubi, Succubi, Daemons,
and Elementals
In contrast to
the “demons” of later Judeo-Christian belief, French UFO researcher, Aimé Michel
(1919–1992), preferred the daemons of
earlier Greek antiquity as the culprits of UFO and ET activity. The difference
between what most people today think of as a demon (an incorporeal, malicious
spirit that can seduce, vex, or possess a human) and the daemons of ancient
Greek Hellenistic religion and philosophy is that daemons were corporeal (though
often invisible and constituted of material unlike human or animal genetics) and
could be good (eudoaemons) or evil
(cacodaemons). Eudoaemons (also called agathodaemons) were sometimes associated
with benevolent angels, the ghosts of dead heroes, or supernatural beings who
existed between mortals and gods (as in the teachings of the priestess Diotima
to Socrates in Plato’s Symposium), while cacodaemons were spirits
of
evil or malevolence who could afflict humans with mental, physical, and
spiritual ailments. (In psychology, cacodemonia or cacodemomania is the pathological belief
in which the patient is convinced he/she is inhabited, or possessed, by a wicked
entity or evil spirit.) This delineation, and its potential spiritual and
physical ramifications on humans, was reflected in the works of Italian
Franciscan theologian, exorcist and advisor to the Supreme Sacred Congregation
of the Roman and Universal Inquisition in Rome, Ludovico Maria Sinistrari
(1622–1701). Sinistrari, who was regarded as an expert on sexual sins, wrote
extensively of individuals accused of amorous relations with demons. His work,
De daemonialitate, et incubis et
succubis, may be considered today among the earliest accounts of what could
otherwise be called “alien abduction” resulting in hybrid offspring because the
incubi and succubi of Sinistrari’s opinion were
neither evil spirits nor fallen angels, but corporeal beings “created midway
between humans and angels.”[ix]
Sinistrari found that monks and nuns were of
particular interest to the incubi/succubi, presumably due to pent-up sexual
frustrations resulting from celibacy oaths that made them easier targets (which
makes one wonder what the venerated St. Cecilia really meant when she said to
Valerian, “There is a secret, Valerian, I wish to tell you. I have as a lover an
angel of God who jealously guards my body”[x]). Physical evidence, including semen, left on site following
intercourse with the phantoms was often copious, negating the possibility in at
least some cases that the event was psychological. One such incident between a
sleeping nun and an incubus in the form of a spectral “young man” had multiple
eyewitnesses and was recorded by Sinistrari in his work, Demoniality. The Catholic Father
writes:
In a
Monastery (I mention neither its name nor that of the town where it lies, so as
not to recall to memory a past scandal), there was a Nun, who, about trifles
usual with women and especially with nuns, had quarrelled with one of her mates
who occupied a cell adjoining to hers. Quick at observing all the doings of her
enemy, this neighbour noticed, several days in succession, that instead of
walking with her companions in the garden after dinner she retired to her cell,
where she locked herself in. Anxious to know what she could be doing there all
that time, the inquisitive Nun betook herself also to her cell. Soon she heard a
sound, as of two voices conversing in subdued tones, which she could easily do,
since the two cells were divided but by a slight partition. [There she heard] a
peculiar friction, the cracking of a bed, groans and sighs, her curiosity was
raised to the highest pitch, and she redoubled her attention in order to
ascertain who was in the cell. But having, three times running, seen no other
nun come out but her rival, she suspected that a man had been secretly
introduced and was kept hidden there. She went and reported the thing to the
Abbess, who, after holding counsel with discreet persons, resolved upon hearing
the sounds and observing the indications that had been denounced her, so as to
avoid any precipitate or inconsiderate act. In consequence, the Abbess and her
confidents repaired to the cell of the spy, and heard the voices and other
noises that had been described. An inquiry was set on foot to make sure whether
any of the Nuns could be shut in with the other one; and the result being in the
negative, the Abbess and her attendants went to the door of the closed cell, and
knocked repeatedly, but to no purpose: the Nun neither answered, nor opened. The
Abbess threatened to have the door broken in, and even ordered a convert to
force it with a crow-bar. The Nun then opened her door: a search was made and no
one found. Being asked with whom she had been talking, and the why and wherefore
of the bed cracking, of the sighs, etc., she denied everything.
But, matters going on just the same as before, the rival Nun,
become more attentive and more inquisitive than ever, contrived to bore a hole
through the partition, so as to be able to see what was going on inside the
cell; and what should she see but an elegant youth lying with the Nun, and the
sight of whom she took care to let the others enjoy by the same means. The
charge was soon brought before the bishop: the guilty Nun endeavoured still to
deny all; but, threatened with torture, she confessed having had an intimacy
with an Incubus.[xi]
These
entities were associated with the forest sylvans and fauns by Augustine in his
classic, De Civiatate Dei (“City of
God”):
There is, too, a very general rumor, which many have verified by
their own experience, or which trustworthy persons who have heard the experience
of others corroborate, that sylvans and fauns, who are commonly called “incubi,”
had often made wicked assaults upon women, and satisfied their lust upon them;
and that certain devils, called Duses by the Gauls, are constantly attempting
and effecting this impurity is so generally affirmed, that it were impudent to
deny it.[xii]
The
incubus in Henry Fuseli’s famous 1781 oil painting The
Nightmare
These devils usually appeared at night as either a seductive
demon in a male human form (incubi,
from the Latin incubo, “to lie upon”)
having phantasmagoric intercourse with women, or elsewhere as a sensual female
presence (succubi) who collected
semen from men through dream-state copulation. Some believe these entities are
one and the same. That is, the same spirit may appear as a female in one
instance to collect male seed, then reappear elsewhere as a male to transfer the
semen into a womb. The etymology (the study of the history of words, their
origin, form, and meaning) of the word “nightmare” actually derives from the Old
English maere for a “goblin” or
“incubus” and variously referred to an evil female spirit that afflicted
sleepers with a feeling of suffocation and bad dreams and/or elsewhere as a
seductress. While religious credo involving incubi and succubi was widespread in
mythological and legendary traditions, Sinistrari defied established church
theology on the topic when he wrote: “Subject to correction by our Holy Mother
Church, and as a mere expression of private opinion, I say that the Incubus,
when having intercourse with women, begets the human foetus from his own seed” (emphasis
added).[xiii] Ironically, Sinistrari considered the worst part of this sinful
intercourse to be that the incubus—a morally superior being in his mind (as
currently suggested by modern Catholic theologians regarding ET and documented
in the upcoming book Exo-Vaticana)—had lowered itself
by taking up with a human! “The incubus, (or succuba) however, does, he holds,
commit a very great sin considering that we belong to an inferior species,”
notes twentieth-century writer William Butler Yeats from Sinistrari’s own
writings.[xiv]
In this sense, Sinistrari’s interpretation of the
incubi and succubi is similar to the alien abductors of modern tradition and the
daemons of Hellenistic Greek religion. They also reflect the beliefs of the
alchemists who preceded Sinistrari, especially German-Swiss occultist
Paracelsus, who believed in the Aristotelian concept of four elements (earth,
fire, water, and air),[xv] as well as the three metaphysical substances—mercury, sulfur,
and salt—the finest of which were used by the entities to constitute the more
majestic “bodies” of those elemental beings. Elementals are referred to by
various names. In the English-speaking tradition, these include fairies, elves,
devas, brownies, leprechauns, gnomes, sprites, pixies, banshees, goblins,
dryads, mermaids, trolls, dragons, griffins, and numerous others. An early
modern reference of elementals appears in the sixteenth-century alchemical works
of Paracelsus. His works grouped the elementals into four Aristotelian elements:
1) gnome, earth elemental; 2) undines (also known as nymph), water elemental; 3)
sylph, air elemental (also known as wind elemental); and 4) salamander, fire
elemental. The earliest known reference of the term “sylph” is from the works of
Paracelsus. He cautioned that it is harmful to attempt to contact these beings,
but offered a rationale in his work, Why
These Beings Appear to Us:
Everything God creates manifests itself to Man sooner or later.
Sometimes God confronts him with the devil and the spirits in order to convince
him of their existence. From the top of Heaven, He also sends the angels, His
servants. Thus these beings appear to us, not in order to stay among us or
become allied to us, but in order for us to become able to understand them.
These apparitions are scarce, to tell the truth. But why should it be otherwise?
Is it not enough for one of us to see an Angel, in order for all of us to
believe in the other Angels? [xvi]
A
book that popularized this concept in the late sixteenth century was the work Le Comte de Gabalis, ou entretiens sur les
sciences secrete (“Count Gabalis, or Secret Talks on Science”), which helped
the revival of the third-century mystical philosophy based on the teachings of
Plato and earlier Platonists known as Neoplatonism. It explained:
The immense space which lies between Earth and Heaven has inhabitants
far nobler than the birds and insects. These vast seas have far other hosts than
those of the dolphins and whales; the depths of the earth are not for moles
alone; and the Element of Fire, nobler than the other three, was not created to
remain useless and empty. The air is full of an innumerable multitude of
Peoples, whose faces are human, seemingly rather haughty, yet in reality
tractable, great lovers of the sciences, cunning, obliging to the Sages, and
enemies of fools and the ignorant. [xvii]
“According to Count Gabalis,” Robert Pearson Flaherty
explains, “these elementals were—like Sinistrari’s incubi and the ETs of current
lore—corporeal and capable of begetting children with humans.”[xviii]
This occult concept holds potential for deep
deception and near future malevolence, as, according to the doctrine, it was
“the original intent of the Supreme God that humans should join in marriage with
the elemental races rather than with each other, and the ‘fall of man’ occurred
when Adam and Eve conceived children with each other rather than with elemental
beings. Unlike humans, elemental beings had mortal souls; hence, they had but
one hope of immortality—intermarriage with humans.”[xix]
Flaherty compares this to modern ET abduction
stories and the messages received by those who are part of the “alien” breeding
program:
Through hybridization with humans, ETs of current lore do not seek
immortality but rather to avoid extinction. Historian of religions Christopher
Partridge describes how the concept of malevolent ETs is rooted in Christian
demonology (belief in evil spirits). Here, “ET religion” is used to refer to the
positive valorization of ETs, who are
portrayed not as fallen angels and scheming demons, but
as [like
Vatican theologians
argue in the upcoming book Exo-Vaticana]
our saviors, creators, and (in
the hybridization myth) partners in continued evolution and
survival.[xx] (emphasis
added)
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