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
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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
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(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]
explore...
http://www.greatmystery.org