The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend, taking place the weekend of August 27-29 in the idyllic and picturesque setting of Port Townsend, Washington, is bringing together an extraordinary group of visiting faculty to explore two main themes: “The UFO: Anomaly, Reality, Implications” and “Evoking the Numinous: A Path of Revelation, Evolution, Awakening.” One of the mind opening conference presenters is the ‘erudite, witty, and genuinely scary,’ Robert Anton Wilson, who will be joining Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Joe Firmage, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, Joan Ocean, and Dr. Steven Greer on the UFO panel. Wilson will also be presenting an individual teaching during this historic event entitled, “There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute,” where he will wax sarcastic (or witty) about both dogmatic Believers and dogmatic Deniers. He will be joined during his presentation by one of America’s truly great and prophetic novelists, Tom Robbins, a non-dogmatic person reportedly raised by wild dingoes in the Australian outback. Other presenters at the conference include Gregg Braden, Ilona Selke, and James Twyman. You will find full information on The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend linked at http://www.greatmystery.org/prophets.html. Looking forward to seeing you in August. Cody ---------- About Robert Anton Wilson “Dazzling…the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness.” -Tom Robbins “We’ve needed this for a long time…” -Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer “What great physicist hides behind the mask of Wilson?” -New Scientist “One Of The Leading Thinkers Of The Modern Age…” -Barbara Marx Hubbard ---------- (Excerpt from “COSMIC TRIGGER III: My Life After Death” by Robert Anton Wilson”) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE In Which a Paper Rattlesnake Turns Around and Bites Us in the Ass Professor, you've got a bad case of Gogo on the Magogo. -Spellbound No ordinary tomato could do this, but- -Attack of the Killer Tomatoes On April 24, 1989, when glasnost had already come to bloom but before the final break-up of the Soviet Union, a man named Ivan Vesalova in Cherepovetsk saw or imagined a craft of enormous size, bigger than any airplane, hovering about a thousand feet above the ground. Just another UFO sighting. Nothing special. We all know that Vesalova might have actually seen an airplane distorted by lighting and weather, or a balloon, or a heat inversion. Those of us open-minded enough-or mad enough, as you will-to think he might have seen an alien spaceship do not need to rush in haste to the True Believer position of changing "might have seen" to a dogmatic and fervent "did see." We just don't know, and most of us prefer to remain dubious about such a case, where multiple earthly explanations seem quite likely. On June 6, in Konantsevo, several children reported the landing of a luminous sphere in a meadow. They saw, or hallucinated--, as you will, a headless person climb out. Then, like a special effect in a sci-fi movie, both the craft and the headless ginkus disappeared. Just faded away... Well, maybe the kids had smoked some decadent Capitalist weed. Maybe they just wanted to hoax the grown-ups and invented it all. Maybe...maybe...We do not get beyond "maybe" in cases like this, unless we have a Dogma in mind and want to force the data to fit it. On June 11 in Volagda a woman reported a fiery sphere crossing the sky, visibly for about seventeen minutes. Maybe she saw a meteor. Maybe she saw a space ship. You decide such maybes definitely only if you made up your mind long, long ago that you would always decide them that way. For several days in October that year, in the town of Voronezhan industrial center of about one million inhabitants--scores of witnesses reported landings of spherical craft. They also reported gigantic extraterrestrials (twelve to fourteen feet high) who got out of the craft and went walking around the city park. They even saw or hallucinated several cases of seeming "teleportations"--people who vanished from one place and then re-appeared elsewhere. The witnesses to all this weirdness did not number two or three, who might have hatched a good hoax between them. In most cases, witnesses consisted of huge crowds. Kind of makes me wonder. George Lucas, as noted earlier, could fake this on film, but I don't know of any existing technology that would fake it in several parts of a "real," "solid" town. The alleged extraterrestrial allegedly had three eyes, according to some witnesses. Others denied that and said the Visitors (let's not assume we know what kind of space they came from) had a strange bump in their foreheads that looked only a little bit like a third eye. Many of the sightings had very large crowds of witnesses. For instance, a woman who saw a red-yellow-green glove maneuvering over her house called all her neighbors. Over 500 people later agreed they had seen it--or 500+ people all starting hallucinating at the same time, if you must dump the data instead of thinking about it. Several Soviet scientists investigated and failed to convince themselves that all the reports derived from hallucination. They frankly felt stumped, as they told American researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee. Just before Vallee finished interviewing the Russian investigators--as he prepared to fly back to the United States--one final report came from Voronezh. Another strange craft had flown over a nuclear power plant, and sent a beam toward the ground, which left a burn mark in the asphalt. Witnesses described the craft, and garb of the giants who walked around the park, as decorated with a curious symbol. Perhaps the reader will recognize that symbol at this stage of our story. )+( The sign of UMMO... By now, this group art work, or hoax, or whatever, must have cost its perpetrators about as much as a Spielberg film. What can inspire such spendthrift humor? ---------- The 21st Century Mind: Opening to the Possible is the vision for The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend. This special gathering continues the compelling adventure into sacred vision and the realization of meaning. The Prophets Conferences are unparalleled events constantly manifesting the edge of ideas which call for nothing less than the Re-envisioning and Reconfiguration of Reality. Port Townsend, Washington is a beautiful place on Puget Sound, between Seattle and Vancouver, and is the perfect location for the conference, for a powerful pilgrimage, and for an especially enjoyable vacation. Lodging and camping at the Fort Worden State Park Conference Site are inexpensive, comfortable, and quite nice, and the surrounding scenery is breathtaking. Full information is available at: http://www.greatmystery.org/prophets.html. You may request a brochure by calling toll-free 1-888-777-5981. Thank you for forwarding this information to your various lists. Questions, unsubscribe, subscribe, inquiries, comments, issues? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] explore... http://www.greatmystery.org -------------------- The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend, taking place the weekend of August 27-29 in the idyllic and picturesque setting of Port Townsend, Washington, is bringing together an extraordinary group of visiting faculty to explore two main themes: “The UFO: Anomaly, Reality, Implications” and “Evoking the Numinous: A Path of Revelation, Evolution, Awakening.”
One of the mind opening conference presenters is the ‘erudite, witty, and genuinely scary,’ Robert Anton Wilson, who will be joining Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Joe Firmage, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, Joan Ocean, and Dr. Steven Greer on the UFO panel. Wilson will also be presenting an individual teaching during this historic event entitled, “There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute,” where he will wax sarcastic (or witty) about both dogmatic Believers and dogmatic Deniers. He will be joined during his presentation by one of America’s truly great and prophetic novelists, Tom Robbins, a non-dogmatic person reportedly raised by wild dingoes in the Australian outback.
Other presenters at the conference include Gregg Braden, Ilona Selke, and James Twyman.
You will find full information on The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend linked at http://www.greatmystery.org/prophets.html.
Looking forward to seeing you in August.
Cody
About Robert Anton Wilson
“Dazzling…the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness.”
-Tom Robbins
“We’ve needed this for a long time…”
-Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer
“What great physicist hides behind the mask of Wilson?”
-New Scientist
“One Of The Leading Thinkers Of The Modern Age…”
-Barbara Marx Hubbard
(Excerpt from “COSMIC TRIGGER III: My Life After Death”
by Robert Anton Wilson”)
FROM RUSSIA
WITH LOVE
In Which a Paper Rattlesnake Turns
Around and Bites Us in the Ass
Professor, you've got a bad case of Gogo on the Magogo.
-Spellbound
No ordinary tomato could do this, but-
-Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
On April 24, 1989, when glasnost had already come to bloom but before the final break-up of the Soviet Union, a man named Ivan Vesalova in Cherepovetsk saw or imagined a craft of enormous size, bigger than any airplane, hovering about a thousand feet above the ground. Just another UFO sighting. Nothing special. We all know that Vesalova might have actually seen an airplane distorted by lighting and weather, or a balloon, or a heat inversion. Those of us open-minded enough-or mad enough, as you will-to think he might have seen an alien spaceship do not need to rush in haste to the True Believer position of changing "might have seen" to a dogmatic and fervent "did see." We just don't know, and most of us prefer to remain dubious about such a case, where multiple earthly explanations seem quite likely.
On June 6, in Konantsevo, several children reported the landing of a luminous sphere in a meadow. They saw, or hallucinated--, as you will, a headless person climb out. Then, like a special effect in a sci-fi movie, both the craft and the headless ginkus disappeared. Just faded away...
Well, maybe the kids had smoked some decadent Capitalist weed. Maybe they just wanted to hoax the grown-ups and invented it all. Maybe...maybe...We do not get beyond "maybe" in cases like this, unless we have a Dogma in mind and want to force the data to fit it.
On June 11 in Volagda a woman reported a fiery sphere crossing the sky, visibly for about seventeen minutes.
Maybe she saw a meteor. Maybe she saw a space ship. You decide such maybes definitely only if you made up your mind long, long ago that you would always decide them that way.
For several days in October that year, in the town of Voronezhan industrial center of about one million inhabitants--scores of witnesses reported landings of spherical craft. They also reported gigantic extraterrestrials (twelve to fourteen feet high) who got out of the craft and went walking around the city park.
They even saw or hallucinated several cases of seeming "teleportations"--people who vanished from one place and then re-appeared elsewhere.
The witnesses to all this weirdness did not number two or three, who might have hatched a good hoax between them. In most cases, witnesses consisted of huge crowds.
Kind of makes me wonder. George Lucas, as noted earlier, could fake this on film, but I don't know of any existing technology that would fake it in several parts of a "real," "solid" town.
The alleged extraterrestrial allegedly had three eyes, according to some witnesses. Others denied that and said the Visitors (let's not assume we know what kind of space they came from) had a strange bump in their
foreheads that looked only a little bit like a third eye.
Many of the sightings had very large crowds of witnesses. For instance, a woman who saw a red-yellow-green glove maneuvering over her house called all her neighbors. Over 500 people later agreed they had seen it--or 500+ people all starting hallucinating at the same time, if you must dump the data instead of thinking about it.
Several Soviet scientists investigated and failed to convince themselves that all the reports derived from hallucination. They frankly felt stumped, as they told American researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee.
Just before Vallee finished interviewing the Russian investigators--as he prepared to fly back to the United States--one final report came from Voronezh. Another strange craft had flown over a nuclear power plant, and sent a beam toward the ground, which left a burn mark in the asphalt.
Witnesses described the craft, and garb of the giants who walked around the park, as decorated with a curious symbol. Perhaps the reader will recognize that symbol at this stage of our story.
)+(
The sign of UMMO... By now, this group art work, or hoax, or whatever, must have cost its perpetrators about as much as a Spielberg film. What can inspire such spendthrift humor?
The 21st Century Mind: Opening to the Possible is the vision for The Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend. This special gathering continues the compelling adventure into sacred vision and the realization of meaning. The Prophets Conferences are unparalleled events constantly manifesting the edge of ideas which call for nothing less than the Re-envisioning and Reconfiguration of Reality.
Port Townsend, Washington is a beautiful place on Puget Sound, between Seattle and Vancouver, and is the perfect location for the conference, for a powerful pilgrimage, and for an especially enjoyable vacation. Lodging and camping at the Fort Worden State Park Conference Site are inexpensive, comfortable, and quite nice, and the surrounding scenery is breathtaking.
Full information is available at: http://www.greatmystery.org/prophets.html.
You may request a brochure by calling toll-free 1-888-777-5981.
Thank you for forwarding this information to your various lists.
Questions, unsubscribe, subscribe, inquiries, comments, issues? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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