Friday, March 15, 2024

The Fortean Mysteries in LA



It is my great pleasure to announce my upcoming appearance at Los Angeles' Philosophical Research Society --yes, the same outfit founded by Manly P. Hall. And I've got the perfect subject for this engagement: the original Fortean Society

While often overlooked, the Forteans had a considerable presence in Los Angeles. They rubbed elbows with early Hollywood and surrealist circles, providing an intriguing lineage to later movements such as the Discordians. But more importantly, they laid the foundation for the most esoteric interpretation of the UFO phenomena. 


And they did it nearly a year before the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting. It took almost a quarter century before folks like Jacques Vallee and John Keel embraced the metaphysical implications of the phenomena as the Forteans had. 

If you're in the LA area, please consider dropping by. I've got a great presentation planned and the venue is first rate. PRS is worth the price of admission alone, but you also get all kinds of Fortean LA madness. I call that a bargain. 

I'll be making the scene on April 24, 2024 --which is a Wednesday. The presentation starts at 7 pm pst. Tickets are available here.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The Falcon Has Landed....

 


Over three years and three thousand miles in the making. From the archives of Hoover to Carlisle Barracks, I looked high and low for everything I could find on the subjects explored here. Behavior modification, data mining, psychological warfare, psychotronics, predictive modeling, life science.... the more I researched, the more evident it became that the whole of modern science had been harnessed to craft a globe-spanning counterinsurgency campaign. Phoenix and Condor, much like MK-ULTRA and ARTICHOKE, are simply nodes in a far more ambitious program.  

Did the war come home? Do we really need to ask that in 2023? 

More pertinent is how does it manifest. Left or right, traps were left everywhere across a variety of "alternative" cultures and movements. Birchers, hippies, Ufologists, New Agers, sovereign citizens and whistleblowers were a part of the illusion, as was Hollywood and the "underground" press. Was there ever a true counterculture? 

And more importantly, what dark agenda lies behind this counterinsurgency? The hall of mirrors shall finally shatter like reality itself. Start the journey now...

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