Introducing The Celestial Bible Tour, Part Two!

Introducing The Celestial Bible Tour, Part Two!

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I'm excited to announce the launch of a brand-new course, The Celestial Bible Tour, Part Two!

This course contains over ten hours of teaching that you can watch at your own pace.

The world's ancient myths reveal our disconnection from Self and point us towards recovery. The stories in the Bible are built upon the very same foundation as the world's other ancient myths: a foundation of celestial metaphor, pointing us towards reconnection with Self.

See the overwhelming evidence in this new course!

Explore the stories of Joseph in Egypt, Moses and the Crossing of the Red Sea, the Exodus, the Judges period, and the adventures of David and of King Solomon. See how these stories can be shown to be celestial, and how their profound lessons apply to your life!

Thank you so much for your interest in and support of my work.

Find your Self in the Myths!

Join Us at Contact at the Cataracts with Randall Carlson!

Join Us at Contact at the Cataracts with Randall Carlson!

Join me for another epic adventure with Randall Carlson in the catastrophic geology of the Channeled Scablands of Washington State as we explore the evidence that our ancient history is far different than we have been told!

In addition to Randall's talks and guided expeditions to spectacular sites such as Grand Coulee, Dry Falls, Drumheller Channels, Potholes Cataract, and the Rolling Palouse, I will be giving some talks on the world's ancient Star Myths and leading Star Myth Tours of the night sky.

Spaces are still available for this unforgettable experience! You can sign up at the Contact at the Cabin website. There are two halves of the tour to choose from: the Scablands Adventure with Randall which runs from 19 - 24 September 2022 and features special guest Brandon Powell (a Master Trainer in the Wim Hof Method), and the Scablands Adventure with Randall which runs from 26 September - 01 October 2022 and features special guest David Mathisen. 

Both weekends feature Randall Carlson, fellow researcher Bradley Young, and the podcasting teams of Grimerica (Darren and Graham) and the Brothers of the Serpent (Russ and Kyle).

If you are looking for an event which has both myself and Brandon Powell at the same time, check out the Contact at the Canyons event which takes place at Bryce Canyon and Zion Canyon National Parks in Utah in the spring of each year -- the next event in that annual series takes place in April of 2023 and you can sign up at the same website linked above.

I hope to see you at a future event, perhaps at the upcoming Scablands experience with Randall Carlson in September!

Serious questions about the July 4th Highland Park Shooting

Serious questions about the July 4th Highland Park Shooting

This new video entitled "Serious questions about the July 4th Highland Park Shooting" presents just a few of the very questionable aspects of the footage we are being shown about his incident.

There are many other aspects of this shooting which should raise questions -- what I am showing here is limited to questions raised by video footage shown on CNN and on CBS Chicago 2 News shortly after the incident itself. Note that the footage shown here is only footage which has already been shown on CNN and CBS news -- but it is footage containing frankly bizarre behavior, behavior which raises serious doubts about whether this incident was really committed by a "lone nut" or whether it was in fact pre-planned and pre-organized.

In both clips from the news, the video footage is shown and commented upon by men in suits who proceed to describe it in terms which completely ignore the evidence which we can see and here with our own eyes.

Just as with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 -- and in so many other extremely suspicious incidents since then, such as the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Robert F. Kennedy, and in many "lone nut" shootings in recent years -- the public is immediately told that the shooter has been identified and that he acted alone, without proper investigation and in complete contradiction of all the available evidence.

This new video concludes with commentary from the late great Vincent J. Salandria (1928 - 2020), from an interview he did in his home in Philadelphia in 1994. His observations were incisive in 1994 -- and they have only been borne out more and more in the almost three decades since. Indeed, they are more relevant today than ever.

Welcome to new visitors from the Debra Gets Red-Pilled podcast! And to returning friends

Welcome to new visitors from the Debra Gets Red-Pilled podcast! And to returning friends

Big thank-you to Adam and Chud of the Debra Gets Red-Pilled podcast for inviting me over to discuss Star Myths and related subjects!

The show is built on a unique premise: can the guest convince Adam's mother-in-law, Debra, of an eye-opening truth about our current paradigm, one which is denied by the conventional narrative (and which thus equates to the famous "red pill" offered to Neo by the figure of Morpheus in the 1999 movie The Matrix).

Adam and Debra had encountered arguments related to "astrotheology" in the past and had remained skeptical -- and in fact, had been left with some negative impressions of the entire concept. However, Adam's co-host Chud remained intrigued by the idea that the world's ancient myths are based on the stars and, being familiar with my work, invited me on to discuss the evidence, and Adam and Debra gamely decided to give it another try.

The video above contains our conversation, which includes some visual presentations I prepared showing some stars relating to ancient stories (mostly from the Bible this time).

Welcome to any new visitors finding this site for the first time as a result of this interview (and welcome back to returning friends)! Please give Debra, Adam and Chud some positive feedback if you enjoyed it, and feel free to share with others who might benefit from this information.

June Solstice 2022

June Solstice 2022

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The earth stands poised at one of its two solstice stations now -- reaching the exact moment of northern solstice (when the sun's direct rays reach their northernmost point for the year) at 0513 Eastern time 21 June for North America, which is 0213 Pacific time 21 June, in just over three hours from now as this post is published.

From this point, the sun's arcing path will turn once more back towards the south, and hours of daylight for the Northern Hemisphere will begin to grow shorter and shorter again as the sun's path gets lower and lower towards the southern horizon (although for the Southern Hemisphere the sun's path southwards will cause it to get higher and higher above the northern horizon, as days grow longer and longer).

While the myth of the goddess Persephone, who descended into the Underworld, does not specifically mention the solstices, because the solstices divide the year in two -- and because the ancient myths tell us that the goddess spends part of the year in the land of the dead with the god of death, and the other part of the year with her mother the goddess of crops and harvests -- it is perhaps appropriate to recall it here.

The amount of time that Persephone spends in each of the two realms differs according to various ancient sources, but the Roman poet Ovid declares in his Metamorphoses that she evenly divides the year between them:

But poised between his sorrowing sister and brother,

great Jove divided the year into two equal portions,

so now in two realms the shared goddess holds sway,

and as many months spent with her mother are spent with her husband.

Metamorphoses, Book V 

Charles Martin, trans.

The abduction of Persephone, whom the Romans call Proserpine or Proserpina, is described by Ovid as taking place beside a beautiful pool:

Near Henna's walls stands a deep pool of water, called Pergus:

not even the river Cayster, flowing serenely, 

hears more songs from its swans; this pool is completely surrounded 

by a ring of tall trees, whose foliage, just like an awning,

keeps out the sun and preserves the water's refreshing coolness;

the moist ground is covered with flowers of Tyrian purple;

here it is springtime forever. And here Proserpina

was playfully picking its white lilies and violets . . .

It was as she gathered flowers that the god of the Underworld saw the goddess and swooped in with his terrible chariot to take her down with him. Ovid describes the god plunging downward through the earth, into the acid caverns of the world below:

Her abductor rushed off in his chariot, urging his horses,

calling each one by its name and flicking the somber,

rust-colored reins over their backs as they galloped

through the deep lakes and the sulpherous pools of Palike

that boil up through the ruptured earth

And it is there that, according to the ancient sources, the goddess tasted of the fruit of the Underworld, thus condemning her to have to spend part of each year in the realm of the dead. In every case, Persephone is described as having eaten some of the seeds of a pomegranate fruit, although how many seeds varies widely among the different ancient poets. Ovid has her tasting seven seeds:

. . . Ceres was sure she would get back her daughter,

though the Fates were not, for the girl had already placated 

her hunger while guilelessly roaming death's formal gardens,

where, from a low-hanging branch, she had plucked without thinking

a pomegranate, and peeling its pale bark off, devoured

seven of its seeds . . .

This pattern is one of the saddest in all of ancient myth, and one with parallels in cultures around the world, including in the Americas -- where the food of the Underworld which is tasted is in some versions a strawberry. Other parallel myths in which a goddess descends to the realm of death are found in cultures as widely separated as ancient Japan and ancient Mesopotamia.

Conventional interpretations always confidently inform us that these myths originated as an explanation for the changing seasons of the year, but there is more going on here as evidenced by the overwhelming abundance of sheer anguish of the story, and by the fact that the loss of Persephone  and the need to search diligently for her was central to the sacred Eleusinian Mysteries which took place each year in the hills outside of Athens until those rites were finally shut down by order of the literalist Christian emperor Theodosius.

This sad story of the abduction of Persephone and her imprisonment in the Underworld is one of absolutely vital importance, going far beyond any supposed need to explain the interplay of summer and winter each year -- as are its numerous parallel myths from other cultures around the earth.

As we reach this point of turning and change, it is worthy of our contemplation, and our tears.

Didgeridoo duet with a Mockingbird

Didgeridoo duet with a Mockingbird

I was out playing at my favorite didgeridoo-playing tree, and was joined by a mockingbird (link to video).

That was special!

Didgeridoo rhythms inspired by the masterful playing of Stephen Kent -- big respect.

Thank you for listening.

Memorial Day, 2022

Memorial Day, 2022

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"That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings."

-- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Gettysburg Address, 1863:

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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