Monday, November 3, 2008

Secret Histories: A Tale of Two Books

It's been a while since my last post. Not coincidentally, it's been a little over a week since my copy of Laura Knight-Jadzyck's imposing tome The Secret History of the World (and how to get out alive) arrived in the mail. I spent my last forty bucks ordering it, so you'll understand my excitement, and perhaps forgive me that my internetting (particularly the blogging) declined precipitously while I read my way through it. And a fascinating read it was, too.

Now, here's a strange thing: I'd already read The Secret History of the World, several months ago. The volume remains on my bookshelf. So why would I be so excited to reading it again? Well, to start with, they weren't the same book. Before I'd even heard of Laura Knight-Jadzyck, Mark Booth's (much slimmer, much less scholarly) volume - The Secret History of the World As Laid Down by the Secret Societies - caught my eye at a bookstore in Japan, and for some reason I just had to read it. At the time I found it extremely interesting, although not entirely credible ... for reasons I couldn't quite put my finger on. I knew (and know) very little about secret societies and other esoteric matters (a statement I make, not in comparison to the great mass of Other People, but to the Great Sea of knowledge); and yet, something about Booth's book struck me as, well ... not quite right. He makes an incredible list of claims, including: Adam and Eve were vegetables; the Sphinx was built in 10,000 BC; Jesus came to Earth in order to spread a new kind of consciousness, and had a twin brother who lived in Mesoamerica.

And yet, for all that, in a stunning lack of discernment on my part ... I actually kind of liked the book. Many of its ideas spoke to me.

Then I found out about the real (and original) Secret History, and, well ... there's just no comparison. Knight-Jadzyck's book is based on a lifetime of research into, well, everything; the things she uncovers are incredible, every bit as incredible as Booth's, with the crucial difference that she provides footnotes whenever she can. Her method is that of a proper historian: to drill down to primary sources, and then consider whether or not those sources can be trusted. She takes the rigorous methods of academic historians, and applies them to topics that are far outside the purview of respectable academics: Atlantis, hyperdimensional beings, cyclical catastrophes, ancient technologies ... all within the context of trying to understand how, and why, we have gotten where we are (and where we are likely to go next.)

The picture she paints is far from a reassuring one. Our distant ancestors made an unholy pact with hyperdimensional reptoid beings that feed on our negative emotions, and manipulate our reality in order to maximize their food source. Since then, at least one major global civilization (Atlantis) and possibly others, have come and gone, reaching as high or higher than our own civilization only to be dashed to pieces by the arrival of periodic cometary swarms. Most of our mythology is the fragmentary memory of lost technologies, warped beyond recognition after endless millenia of history's longest game of Telephone. And the same fate is in store for us ... unless we Ascend spiritually, and get out of the Matrix in which we live. It's paranoia of a spiritual depth, and written here - in such brevity - it looks like a psychotic's dream castle.

Well, except ... she isn't just pulling all this out of her ass. It's based on decades of careful research, pulling together threads from comparative mythology, archaeological anomalies, and virtually every science you can name. Her 'wild claims' are arrived at after looking at a great deal of evidence, and are stated with much qualification for - as she would be the first to say - if our history has been intentionally falsified, getting to the Truth is, as a physicist would say, a nontrivial problem.

Now, it's curious, don't you think, that a few years after one Secret History is published, another appears. The first is dense, scholarly, well-researched ... and presents in the end a way of looking at the world that would rock the powers that be to their very core, should its message be widely received. The second is superficially interesting, but on closer examination falls apart into a big pile of intellectual junk food. They both have the same name, and similar-looking covers; but while you'll never see the former at Indigo or Barnes & Nobles, the latter was widely released (and critically panned.) It's almost as though someone wanted the second book to be associated with the first; the Control System going into damage control mode, patching up the little hole in the carefully constructed Matrix that had been opened by Red Pill Press.

I consider myself fortunate to have come across the real thing.

11 comments:

Andrew said...

I've come across this alternate history stuff before. Annunaki, Nibiru, crop circles, interdimensional reptilians, etc. It's very interesting. So you think this is THE book for that information? Do you know anything about David Icke?

psychegram said...

It certainly is. If you don't want to buy it, a lot of the author's stuff (1000s of pages) is available for free on-line. The Wave is highly recommended.

As for David Icke, yes, of course I'm aware of his material. I'm also somewhat skeptical of it. My feeling is that, while he's not wrong per se, he's far too lurid in the sense of concentrating quite a bit on things like ritual abuse of children, baby-eating, that sort of thing. It seems as though he was given the information in order to make it look as ridiculous as possible, and thus inhibit the awakening process as widely as possible.

Andrew said...

I have a few questions when it comes to this kind of stuff. You lived in Japan so you'll understand where I'm coming from on this first one.

1. A lot of this stuff only deals with Western religions (with some South American and shit thrown in) and things...Jesus, Socrates, etc., etc. If this stuff is supposed to be a universal truth then why does it seem to have absolutely no connection to the East?

2. I've seen some videos on youtube regarding this book. Fan vids. There's a part in this book that apparently talks about how there's an interdimensional war being fought and it's being expressed in our realm through this crazy weather. Do you believe that? I mean, even if there was this shit going on in another dimension, why and how would it be expressed in Earth's weather. It just seems hokey to me.

psychegram said...

1. The same question has occurred to me. The short answer is that, since most of this material comes from Westerners acculturated in a Western context, well, they write what they know. No doubt there's ample data to be found in Eastern sources, but much of the Western stuff is already pretty obscure as it is ... if it were expressed using Eastern history and such, it would be even more difficult for Western audiences to wrap their heads around.

The longer answer is that, in fact, there are connections. Much of Eastern esoteric religion and philosophy explicates very similar concepts (in fact, the concepts are usually borrowed from the east). Ideas such as non-attachment, the oneness of reality, reincarnation and the karmic cycle, etc. Have you come across Les Visible's stuff? I link to it in my sidebar. He's a conspiracy theorist with a very solid grounding in Eastern mysticism.

All that said, perhaps the biggest reason you don't see more is that the esoteric community is relatively small and insular, with limited contact between East and West. If Benjamin Fulford is to be believed, there is for instance a very old Chinese secret society, which is simply unknown in the West. Keeping in mind of course that until very recently, historically, there was very little contact, the material available in English or other European languages mostly relates to European contexts, and vice versa, so ... you wouldn't expect to see a lot of mutual awareness.

Bringing the matter to the specific work in question:

In the section dealing with archaeological anomalies, the author devotes a few pages to discussions regarding the prehistoric Jomon ('cord pattern') culture (who had pottery but not agriculture, suspiciously reversing the usual order), as well as the underwater pyramid discovered at Yonaguni back in the 80s.

Indian sources - particularly the Mahbaratta - are widely quoted in the community as literary evidence of an antediluvian nuclear war. Also, the author quotes quite a bit from the Rig Veda, and often refers back to Sanskrit roots when attempting to decipher the true meanings of words or names.

So, while the focus is admittedly primarily European, Middle-Eastern, and Mesoamerican, she does go outside the box quite a bit.

2. Well, if there were battles being fought at higher densities, how would you expect them to express here in third density? (density isn't dimension, exactly, though there is a connection.) I can't say one way or another how true this is, but it's certainly not something I rule out. That the weather has been going mad is obvious, and the conventional explanation - 'global warming' - fails the truth test (in the sense that global warming is itself a myth.) So while the idea that hyperdimensional entities are fighting through our weather might seem crazy, well ... yeah, it kinda is. Then again, it's a crazed universe.

Could you throw me some links to those youtube videos?

Andrew said...

It's just that...if it was being fought in another realm, why would it have to express itself here on this planet? Why through the weather? How? It's not the fact that it's crazy that's bothering me so much, I'm up for basically any explanation...I just need my questions answered. The youtube guy can be found at http://jp.youtube.com/user/kagian14 and you pretty much answered my first question, I guess. It just always feels like this alternative history stuff talks like it's the ancient and universal truth but it doesn't seem so universal when you think about most Eastern shit. I'll look into that stuff more but yeah, sounds good.

psychegram said...

It does seem crazy, I admit. The information itself derives from the author's channeling contact with 6th density beings that call themselves the Cassiopaeans, so it's not something amenable to checking more deeply on, at least not by looking for other sources. So far as a physical mechanism goes, again, I can't really help you there. So far as I know the author herself doesn't spend a lot of time dwelling on it: she basically presents it as, well, this is what the entities said. Take it as you will. What she's more concerned with is the idea that they (6th density entities) also fight their battles through us; every human being literally a battleground for hyperdimensional combat (though only one side sees it as a war, per se.)

As to why would it express itself here, on this planet: 'it' expresses itself everywhere throughout the cosmos. The Earth is no different.

Andrew said...

OK. I am OK with people doing a different kind of research and having a different opinion than the traditional academic opinion on certain ancient things, places, or ideas. The thing that really sticks out for me is this Cassiopea thing. Forgive the spelling. How can you add credit to that? What evidence or way of thinking supports this? How much of her research is based on her communicating with these beings? How do we know she's just not crazy? Is it done by Ouija board because that just automatically seems fake to me. My problem is that I actually like a lot of these ideas and I almost wish they true...some of them. However, I just cannot bring myself to believe in any of it without some sort of backing or at least some of my questions answered. Even if a puzzle is complete and answers its own questions does not necessarily mean that it relates to the real world. Know what I mean? Thanks a lot. She has a podcast too. I checked it out. Search Sign(s) of the Times on iTunes.

psychegram said...

The interesting thing is that Laura K-J doesn't give the Cassiopaeans undue credit. That is, in stark contrast to most mediums or channelers who simply take the ascended light beings' (or whatever's) word for it, when they tell her something, she goes out and researches it, to see how much truth their is in what they say. Of course, not everything they say is amenable to research, but quite a bit of it is, and Cassiopaeans will often refuse to tell her something outright but insist she look for herself.

She herself is unsure what they are, whether aspects of her own subconscious or true higher beings, or both, or neither. Of course, they display knowledge she herself (claims) not to have, but then you never know what's squirreled away in the nether regions of your brain.

Now, the ouija board thing. At first sight, a bit hokey I admit. Most channelers will just go into a trance and let their pet entities speak through them. There is, however, method to Laura's madness here: she uses the ouija board as a sort of filter/error-checker, for the purpose of heightening the signal-noise ratio (it's imperfect: the entities themselves claim the truth ratio is less than 100%, though still high. Keep in mind though that most entities contacted by other means claim to be speaking nothing at all but truth!)

So, to answer your ultimate question (source of information): a lot of the original impetus for something comes from the C's, but she absolutely doesn't rely on them exclusively or even primarily. You really have to check a lot of your assumptions at the door with this stuff ... and that includes asking yourself where those assumptions came from? Remembering that those who have been programming our reality do not have our best interests at heart.

Andrew said...

In what way makes our reality unreal or ...let me put it this way...how is it that this kind of alternative history stuff make it seem like the common perception of reality is not correct? The only reason it stops being correct is the stuff in these books? If our whole reality is "not real" then how do you test the realness of something else?

psychegram said...

Objective reality exists, though the only way to approach it is subjectively. Only you can do that, for yourself; I can't tell you how. All paths are unique, but all true paths converge. Dig?

Books don't make things real. Neither do beliefs. Being real makes something real. And if what you thought was real turns out not to be, well ... it wasn't the universe that was in error, nor was it the messenger that changed things.

Andrew said...

Quite interesting indeed, good sir. Quite interesting indeed. 面白い。I'll ponder about these things some more.