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Paraphrasing Daniel Boorstin: “For seekers of Ascension, here at last is a supermarket of surrogate experience. Successful [ascension of experience. a supermarket of surrogate experience. Successful [ascension philosophies] offer entertainment - under the guise of instruction; instruction - under the guise of entertainment; [metaphysical] persuasion - with the appeal of advertising; and advertising - with the appeal of [Cosmic Drama].” under the of When we consider the information about mind programming and its potentials compiled in Dolan’s book, UFOs and the National Security State, and how it has probably been used on the masses of humanity, we must also consider, as a logical step, that the major and most popular components of the New Age alternative approach to interpreting reality and seeking spiritual advancement, have also been produced by this same process in the context of electronic COINTELPRO. alternative — in the of electronic context same process Potential movement consists of a new sub-set of programmers that work to “prepare the ground”, so to speak, so that the audience will be warmed up and ready for the final drama. They are the “sales team” that sells the ideas upon which the “closer” depends for success. They are here, now, in our world running New Age Circuses, seminars, workshops and “methods” or techniques for “ascension”, or workshops and “methods” or techniques for “ascension”, or accomplishing any of a dozen occult or purported spiritual aims. They are the New Age COINTELPRO in its function of creating “bogus organizations” and bogus abductions. “methods” or or This brings us back to our subject: Aliens and Ascension. If we cannot rely on what is passing as “New Age Theology” or philosophy to guide us, what is the key to real ascension? What the modern day seekers of ascension are looking for—whether they realize it or not— is the age-old quest of the Knight - the quest for the Holy Grail. When we begin to research the matter, we also discover that the Great Work of Alchemy is described in terms of a “great battle” with forces - dragons, deception, difficult and prolonged work on the self - which make us realize that the stories of the Grail Quest must have originally been stories of “alchemical transformation”. They never were stories about a “real” object - cup or otherwise - that must be found. Or were they both? What is most fascinating is the way the Grail Stories and the writings of the Alchemists about their “sacred science”, also relate quite closely to the most ancient of heroic myths. What this means is that the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Work of the Alchemists hold many clues for us as to the real work of ascension and its pitfalls, including so-called aliens and abductions - and its pitfalls, so-called aliens and abductions 380 Chapter Thirteen What seems to be so is that most of the New Age and Human