Tear Down the Wall!
On the heels of watching the excellent film Stardust, which features a town called “Wall” due to its proximity to a stone border between our reality and an Alternative Kingdom, I stumbled across this fascinating article about an actual such wall in the Orkney Islands (totkb2 anomalist).
One of the most important finds is the remnants of a large stone wall, five or six metres wide, which is thought to have been about 100 metres long.
Mr Card said: “The site is at the tip of the Brodgar peninsula and separating it from what was happening to the north in the Ring of Brodgar is this monumental wall, beautifully faced on both sides and made of massive stone boulders.
“You wonder that with foundations of that dimension how high it was when it was built. It appears to go right across the peninsula, so the team here now calls it the Great Wall of Brodgar. It’s probably a symbolic barrier. It’s been suggested the Ring of Brodgar is the realm of the spirits, the world of the dead, and maybe this wall emphasised the difference between that and the land of the living. We had an inkling about it [the wall] last year but only this year its true extent became apparent.”
It’s interesting, this idea, that some kind of border exists between this “reality” in which we live and some other realm– the spirit world, the Kingdom of Heaven, Faery, Tir na nog, Avalon, the Realm of the Djinn, etc. One of my questions, which has driven my interest in both Gnosticism and forteana through the world, is Just How Tenuous Is This Border? Pretty danged tenuous, indeed.
UFO hoaxes have been incredibly successful and well-executed this year. For those who don’t follow the sites in question, check out the amazing Issac/Caret phenomenon, as well as this amazingly good analysis of the “hoax”, which connects it to everything from Marylin Monroe to the short fiction of Borges.
This has been followed by a very well-done UFO hoax posted on Youtube, which has ben thoroughly debunked:
Although the analysis proves that these videos were fake beyond reasonable doubt, the most fascinating thing about this hoax, to me, is that most detractors rightfully point out that the objects in question are quite simply *too clear* to be real. In other words, the videos themselves don’t behave as standard UFO artifacts behave.
I wrote that last sentence on purpose. The objects in the video behave as though we might expect “extraterrestrial aircraft” to behave. The video itself, however, does not behave (appear) the way typical UFO videos, which are typically blurry at best, behave. We can tell that the objects are fake because they don’t look unreal enough. But, if they are fake, who made them, and why?
Another very real possibility which would explain both the CARET hoax and the Haiti UFO videos is viral marketing. Many suspect that these two (possibly related) phenomena are actually part of an elaborate advertising campaign similar to Microsoft’s “I Love Bees” campiagn, an “alternative reality game” designed to hype the video game Halo 2.
Then again, perhaps these hoaxes are something more sinister. Those familiar with the literature may detect shades of Ummo, an infamous “experiment” in reality creation which is apparently still being carried out in some corners. At what point does a hoax cease being a trick and become a reality? Is it possible to hoax something into existence?
Maybe someone is trying to create tulpas…. In his most recent post, Jeff Wells suggests (via an anecdote from Jacques Vallee) that perhaps the universe as we know it isn’t organized based on measurable space/time as understood in physics. Perhaps “reality” is organized like a database best accessed via keywords, a concept long understood in the circles of religious mystics. What, after all, is the point of praying, or chanting divine names or meditating on aspects of the divine, if not ’searching’ for some kind of living information by inserting key concepts or phrases into a reality structure? So, suppose an organization exists somewhere (either here or “there”) that wants to tear down the Wall, and is doing so by feeding us keywords, or feeding them into a self-perpetuating community of individuals who want “proof” to such an extent that they’re willing to use the search terms “recommended” by said organization?
We already live in a “reality construct,” and though Law-of-Attraction-type “reality creation” stuff is categorical bullshit, we do have some limited control over how we perceive the universe around us. This is a blessing and a curse, as we are also subject to those who would alter our perception for us. The paradigm shift inherent in the nuclear age may mean that the Blessed Virgin Mary sightings which are so obviously related to the UFO phenomena, and which are so obviously aspects of a control system of some kind, have simply taken another form.
A modern extrapolation of Gnostic cosmology (vide Saying 18 in The Face of the Sky and Earth) may lead one (as it did for me) to consider the ‘universe’ as a single objective entity with a single subjective consciousness which builds upon itself in order to experience itself. This consciousness would, of necessity, exist outside of the strictions of space/time, and would be organized in fractal form. The Wall, in this case, is the inability of a fragment of the consciousness to experience itself in its entirety within space/time. The database, however, organized as a fractal, is being built cooperatively between humanity and God– the conciousness– who extends into our reality as the Logos in order to help us program the database.
(This post was designed to tear down some Walls for you! Did it work?)
