Cliff Smith wrote:

[...] 
See what I mean about people embarassing 
themselves by their ignorance? -- Cliff Smith

Don't be embarassed, Cliff, life's way too short
for such bare-assed, online, alien shenanigans!
Relax... it's only a dreeeeeeam... only a dream.


Meanwhile... ReBUILDING IRAQ Conference
http://www.new-fields.com/Iraq


THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Part Five: ISOLATION
by Inanna Arthen

Excerpt: 
http://www.earthspirit.org/fireheart/fhefiso.html

"... At the farthest extreme, sensory deprivation 
and perceptual deprivation experiments in 
laboratories have explored the influence of 
isolation, not just from other people, but from 
the physical world itself. Sensory deprivation, 
as achieved in flotation tanks like those popular-
ized by John Lilly [<http://www.johnclilly.com/>]
[<http://www.levity.com/mavericks/lily-int.htm>
& <http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id68/pg1/>]
and the film, Altered States, attempts as far as 
possible to isolate the very mind, throwing it 
completely upon its own resources - or upon input 
from other than the five senses being restricted. 
Subjects in sensory deprivation experiments 
report a wide variety of consistent effects, 
including vivid and complex hallucinations, 
memory recall, changes in body image, and
persistent, vivid dreams. Flotation tank subjects 
who worked with John Lilly found that when the
mind is isolated from the body itself, it begins 
to freely recreate reality. In very short periods 
of time, Lilly's subjects experienced vivid 
dreamlike encounters. memory playbacks, mythic
visualizations and other effects.

"Although sensory deprivation experiments are 
intriguing, they obviously represent an 
unnecessary extreme. Social isolation for 
extended periods accomplishes equally dramatic 
results. But why should simple isolation - 
voluntary separation from human company - have 
such a profound effect?

"Our definition of what we call 'reality' is created 
by our minds based on several factors that all 
affect one another. We tend to imagine that what 
we experience through our senses is 'reality.' 
In fact, what we think about our sensory input 
controls not only our interpretation of our senses, 
but what perceptions are allowed to make an 
impression at all. Our minds are excellent editors, 
and they have been trained in this way by the 
constant cues we receive from other people in our 
environment. The urge to conform to social patterns 
is an overwhelming one. Human beings have proven 
themselves capable of adapting not only to the 
social structure of thousands of incredibly varied 
cultures. but also to the structures of non-human 
societies. From the moment we are born, we respond 
to countless visual, verbal, emotional and even 
psychic cues, which teach us how to build our inner 
models of the world. This web of social reinforcement
is so addictive that most people experience great 
anxiety when they are separated from it - isolation, 
with no other uncomfortable conditions, is recognized 
as a source of extreme stress. In the absence of 
actual people, individuals in our society often rely 
on the constant reinforcement of television or radio. 
The instant that societal cues are removed, our grasp 
of consensual reality begins to decay.

"Witches, shamans and other kinds of magick workers 
often lived on the fringes of their society, and 
therefore always occupied a frame of reference that 
was more or less different from that of their 
community. At the extreme, such a person may have 
acted in bizarre ways, responding to perceptions 
that were invisible to other people. In other cases, 
the magick worker was able to effectively live in 
both worlds, acting as a translator or conduit. 
But in order to maintain this position she had to 
stay semi-isolated. This is often true for Witches 
and Pagans today. Many of us grew up more or less 
isolated from our social peer group, and our personal 
reality includes many concepts that we easily forget 
are not shared by those around us. The training of a 
magick worker, now as in the past, involves the 
restructuring of his or her experience of reality 
more than it does the imparting of specific skills. 
We cannot learn to travel on the astral plane until 
the astral plane is included in our definition of 
reality. In order to accomplish this restructuring, 
a certain degree of detachment from society is 
needed. Serious students of magick may withdraw 
from old friends and begin spending far more time 
alone than they once did.

"But living apart from society, and, hence, in a 
slightly different reality, is not the same as 
applying isolation as a specific magickal tool. 
When we choose to isolate ourselves from other 
people and turn away from the cushion of human 
society in a concentrated, controlled way, we are 
thrown into confrontation with ourselves. 
By deliberately separating from the consensual web 
for an extended period (closing our door, turning 
off the television, walking into the woods), we 
open ourselves to a profound - and possibly 
permanent - change. Cutoff from the unending stream 
of external cues, the mind begins to rely upon its 
own perceptions to fill in the growing cracks. We
find ourselves seeking more and more perceptual 
material, and doorways that we were taught to close 
long ago slowly creak open." [...] -- INANNA ARTHEN

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun was born 
to Baron Magnus von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp 
on March 23, 1912 in Wirsitz, a town in the 
eastern German province of Posen.
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/vonbraun.html

Let's now discuss various reasons for utilizing S/M
or related techniques within a magical context.
http://www.deathandhell.com/corpus/sex_magick/sadomak.html

Disney Online - The Official Home Page of The Walt Disney Company!
<<<<http://disney.go.com/park/homepage/today/flash/index.html>>>>

[...]
  "But was it new? As far back as 1919, 
writer Charles Fort had been collecting 
accounts of inexplicable anomalies, including
strange objects seen in the sky. Fort was a 
philosopher and a humorist, and he proposed 
many tongue in cheek theories to explain the 
events he described. One of his favorites 
was that the Earth did not belong to mankind, 
but in fact was a sort of cosmic game 
reserve, owned by a race of superbeings. 
He summed up this idea in the pithy aphorism: 
'I think we are property.'

"Fifty years later, John Keel came to the 
same conclusion..." <snip>
[From: "The Paraphysical Theory of UFO Origins" 
<http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.parascope.com/>]

[*] Black Moth PSYOPS, John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, 
    WoMen in GREEN & Major J. Downing
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=John+Keel+Mothman>

"Major Jack Downing"  once wrote:

Somehow it's being circulated that I was a MIB.  
<snip>
[...]
On the matter of these fey MIBs, I've heard a few 
interesting tales. One of the old guys, who had 
been in the fraternity since before WWII, had 
collected some stories from the usually-evasive 
elementals. One tale, which they apparently enjoyed
bragging about was the role they played in the evolution 
of American music. It seems this handsome young black 
fellow was doing a little voodoo ceremony at a rural 
crossroads. This attracted the interest of a couple of 
elementals, who find such things compelling. After 
doing his ritual, this young man sat down by the roadside 
and began picking at a guitar. It occured to one of
these elementals that he could help the boy out, 
so he shape-shifted a bit (to look the part) and walked 
right up to the musician. He took the guitar from the 
player's hand and re-tuned it. Played an unusual melody 
on it, then handed it back. The contact with his returned 
guitar had a "shaktipat" effect on him. Suddenly he was 
a brilliant and charismatic musician. But, when gifted
by a muse, there is that unfortunate fact that you burn 
twice as bright but for half as long. These elementals 
claim that they've intervened in human history since 
time immemorial, because they need us for their own 
evolution. They allege to have introduced drums and 
double-reed flutes to our remotest stone age ancestors, 
gave us witchcraft, and even got us interested in
psychoactive substances, which they claim were 
instrumental in the evolution of the human brain.  

****************************************
"As immense as that game is, there is a bigger one: 
 Control through fear. As Wernher von Braun
 related to Dr. Carol Rosin, his spokesperson for 
 the last 4 years of his life, a maniacal machine - the
 military, industrial, intelligence, laboratory 
 complex - would go from Cold War, to Rogue 
 Nations, to Global Terrorism (the stage we find 
 ourselves at today), to the ultimate trump card: 
 A hoaxed threat  from space.

"To justify eventually spending trillions of dollars 
 on space weapons, the world would be deceived
 about a threat from outer space, thus uniting the 
 world in fear, in militarism, and in war."
http://www.disclosureproject.org/cosmicdeception.htm 
****************************************

 "A Beautiful Mind"
 John F. Nash, Jr.
  Born: June 13, 1928

John Nash himself associated his madness with his 
living on an "ultralogical" plane, "breathing air too 
rare" for most mortals, and if being "cured" meant
he could no longer do any original work at that 
level, then, Nash argued, a remission might not be 
worthwhile in the end. 

John F. Nash, Jr. -- Autobiography
Quote:
[...]
During academic 1956 - 1957 I had an Alfred P. Sloan 
grant and chose to spend the year as a (temporary) 
member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. 

During this period of time I managed to solve a classical
unsolved problem relating to differential geometry which
was also of some interest in relation to the geometric
questions arising in general relativity. This was the
problem to prove the isometric embeddability of abstract
Riemannian manifolds in flat (or "Euclidean") spaces. But
this problem, although classical, was not much talked
about as an outstanding problem. It was not like, for
example, the 4-color conjecture. 

So as it happened, as soon as I heard in conversation at
M.I.T. about the question of the embeddability being
open I began to study it. The first break led to a curious
result about the embeddability being realizable in
surprisingly low-dimensional ambient spaces provided
that one would accept that the embedding would have
only limited smoothness. And later, with "heavy
analysis", the problem was solved in terms of
embeddings with a more proper degree of smoothness. 
[...]
Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to
intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced
lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my
orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the
rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a
hopeless waste of intellectual effort. 

So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally
again in the style that is characteristic of scientists.
However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if
someone returned from physical disability to good
physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of
thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his
relation to the cosmos. For example, a non-Zoroastrian
could think of Zarathustra as simply a madman who led
millions of naive followers to adopt a cult of ritual fire
worship. But without his "madness" Zarathustra would
necessarily have been only another of the millions or
billions of human individuals who have lived and then
been forgotten.  [...]
1994
http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

****************************************

"extraterrestrial and religious delusions
[..] primarily troubled the real Nash."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Aliens+%2BJohn+F+Nash

"On the afternoon of January 20th, 1959,
Nash, brandishing that day's copy of the 
New York Times, walked into the mathematics 
lounge at MIT. In a strong voice he announced 
that he'd discovered that the little box in 
the upper left-hand corner (the off-lede) 
carried a message from outer space aliens to 
the governments of earth, which he alone was 
able to decipher."
-- Cyberculture Counterconspiracy
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ny59.GIF

Instead of writing this off to Nash's 
schizophrenia, the Cyberculture volume 
notes that there really was something 
weird about the NY Times off-lede, in 
the line box surrounding the motto 
"All the news that's fit to print", 
and reproduces several examples.
The Cyberculture book comments that 
"Nash, indeed was alone among earth 
mathematicians to notice the subtle
alien code."
http://www.lorencoleman.com/steamshovel.html

George Mackey from Harvard Math asks Nash 
how he can believe in ET's

Mackey: "How could you believe that 
   extraterrestrials are sending 
   you messages? How could you    
   believe that you are being 
   recruited by the aliens from 
   outer space to save the world?"

Nash: "Because the ideas I had about 
 supernatural beings came to me 
 the same way that my mathematical 
 ideas did. So I took them seriously."
*****************************

One of the first manifestations of Nash's 
schizophrenia was his belief that aliens were
sending him secret coded messages through the 
New York Times and over radio stations. 
(He also, at other times, attempted to 
renounce his U.S. citizenship, and traveled 
to Europe believing he was a secret religious
figure chosen to be the Prince of Peace.)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=John+Nash+%2BAliens

****************************************

"... aliens (or whatever they are) may be
manifested thoughtforms, human agents, 
products of possible neo-MKULTRA 
exercises, psychotechnolgy, mind-control 
drugs and/or suggestion, time-slippage 
perception, a revival of fairy and 
elf lore, or any number of other
causes or combination of causes. 
If it's not stamped with the imprimatur 
of 20th century aristotelian science, or
culturally and media-approved categories, 
it seems that the reviewer doesn't 
consider it worth mention." -- Greg Bishop
http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/crewes.htm

http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v49/whatharm.gif

*****************************************
Applied Digital Solutions: "...people to be implanted with...
[<http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=1274>] 
... the new Verichip I.D. chip." | "Become a Human Bar Code."
http://www.adsx.com/prodservpart/verichip.html
*****************************************

Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal and Young Galaxies
http://physics.arizona.edu/~melia/dark.html

Variable Stars in the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v26n4/aas185/abs/S5108.html

Observations of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v31n5/aas195/190.htm

James Oberg [Excerpt from: 'Everything is Under Control' by
             Robert Anton Wilson - 1998 ISBN 0-06-273417-2]

James Oberg, a longtime skeptic of the extraterrestrial 
interpretation of the UFO  phenomenon, has more than once 
suggested a rather conspiritorial countertheory.

   In June 1980, Moscow had a major UFO flap. People saw a
giant light and some claimed that aliens were chasing cars 
and drilling holes through house windows. Tens of thousands 
of citizens allegedly saw some or all of this weirdity. 
In _Omni_ magazine, Oberg proposed that the KGB was behind 
it: "The KGB, eager to muddy the waters and cover up public
recognition of the military space center at Pietsk, is only 
too happy to promote scintillating stories about aliens
chasing cars and boring nasty holes in windows."
   More recently, Oberg has pointed an accusing finger at
agencies of the U.S. government:

   ... Government representatives--officials, military
   officers, etc.--used "UFO" as a convenient camouflage
   for other official classified activities (such as
   retrieval of crashed aircraft or nuclear weapons or 
   other objects); or used artificial "UFO stories" 
   (in oral, written, photographic, film, etc. form) as
   "tracers" in studying the function of security 
   safeguards and personnel psychological responses; or 
   used "UFO" as an excuse (either intended or accidental)
   to cover up improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
   delicate activities... or any other activity that the
   government--or any part of it--wanted to keep hidden.

   Oberg made these charges in an open letter to Dr.
Steven Greer of the _CSETI_ organization, who is trying
to force the government to release UFO secrets. Oberg 
supports Greer in wanting the secrets given to the public, 
even though Greer expects the hidden data will support the
extraterrestrial hypothesis and Oberg believes it will just
show that the government lies to us a lot of the time.
   Most conspiritologists would certainly like to see the
release of any alleged "UFO secrets" dealing with lost
nuclear weapons and "improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
delicate" activities.

See also:
William Cooper, Crop Circles, NASA, Nazis and JFK, UMMO Letters

References:
KGB lies--
  _Omni_, September 1982

U.S. government lies--
  _Saucer Smear_, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 1997 
  (P.O. Box 1709, Key West, FL 33041)

*****************************************************************

And: _______________________________________

Robert Anton Wilson may be found at http://www.rawilson.com
     _______________________________________

 "As Thomas Huxley said, the universe acts a lot like a chess game
 in which the player on the other side remains invisible to us.
 By analyzing the moves, we try to form an image of the intellect
 behind them. Images that have seemed almost believable to me at
 various times have included the gods and goddesses of ancient
 Greece (if you develop a Classic Poetry habit, that kind of
 neurolinguistic programming can happen...) and also, of course,
 those extra-terrestrials who have so much popularity these days.
 I have also considered the player on the other side as more
 impersonal, like the Tao, or more bizarre, like Shiva Dancing,
 or more abstract, like Philip K. Dick's Vast Active Living
 Information System (VALIS.) Mostly, though I think of the player
 on the other side as a pookah -- a resident of Ireland, in rabbit
 form, who may at any time dump a truckload of the Unknown and
 Inexplicable right on your doorstep." --Robert Anton Wilson
   http://www.rawilson.com

  "What is necessary for man is to free himself from
  the entire past of mankind, not only his individual
  past. That is to say, you have to free yourself
  from what every man before you has thought, felt
  and experienced -- then only is it possible for you
  to be yourself. The whole purpose of my talking to
  people is to point out the uniqueness of every
  individual. Culture or civilization or whatever you
  might call it has always tried to fit us into a
  framework. Man is not man at all; I call him a
  'unique animal' -- and man will remain a unique
  animal as long as he's burdened by the culture."

  The "Anti-Krishnamurti":
  -- Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (Born 9 July 1918)
  http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm


Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun was born 
to Baron Magnus von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp 
on March 23, 1912 in Wirsitz, a town in the 
eastern German province of Posen.
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/vonbraun.html