Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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Psychic abilities appear to be hereditary, and this includes illumination. Many people attracted to metaphysics spend years of their lives following the secret teachings, meditating, and disciplining their minds in an effort to gain godhead (another term for mystical illumination). More often than not they only succeed in opening themselves up to possession and hallucinations similar to those incurred by the use of psychedelic drugs or the practice of Black Magic and witchcraft. Today's young people are rapidly gaining firsthand knowledge of the phantom world of demons and ultraterrestrials as a result of such efforts. The Hippie underground newspapers and comic books are now filled with a new lore of demons and demigods as well as much inside information on the cosmology of the super-mind. Dr Timothy Leary started the stampede to illumination and the Cosmic Consciousness in the late 1950s with his LSD experiments. Today the drug scene is a very important part of the youth subculture, much to the alarm and confusion of the over-forty crowd. the last decade was actually a mass illumination experience. The seemingly schizophrenic and destructive philosophy being touted by today's young people is in fact identical to the programme of the Illuminati three centuries ago. A revolution of the mind is taking place almost unnoticed and certainly undeciphered by the older population and their Establishment. There is a worldwide movement against violence and war (the cornerstone of civilization over these past several thousand years). Another offshoot of the process is the rapid decline of organized religion. People who have attained direct personal contact with the Cosmic Consciousness (or who at least believe they have attained such contact) have no need for the rites and trappings of the oldtime religions. There is no need to go to church when your own head is your church. The fear of death and the promise of immortality have always been one of the main appeals of all religions. But as Dr Bucke noted in his study, one of the effects of illumination is the complete elimination of the death fear. The percipient suddenly understands with convincing clarity that he is merely part of the larger whole and that he is assured of immortality because his consciousness, the actuating mechanism of his physical body, survives as a part of the supermind. The Bible thumper's concept of heaven and hell is quite different from the illuminated's insight into the cosmic structure. This is not a movement towards atheism, as many horrified adults believe. According to the young people, it is instead a movement away from elementalism and the many misinterpretations the ultra -terrestrial manifestations have inspired. Within a few years many of our present orthodox beliefs may seem as archaic and ridiculous as the belief in Zeus. This movement towards a higher truth has been predicted for a thousand ween Tee ea tt te ae a te 2 a Wet 2 eae AL lt fa years. In Catholic lore the last pope will be an apostate who will supervise the decline of the church. He will be named Peter, as was the first pope. The prophecy states that the final pope before Peter will be assassinated. In 1967 the Vatican removed the Throne of St Peter from the The birth, life, and effect of Moses, Christ, and others were predicted well in advance. In these times we have been subjected to a new series of prophecies which extends beyond the earlier prophecies describing the days before Armageddon and the ultimate Harvest. Jeanne Dixon and The notorious musk festival at Woodstock in the closing days of basement, dusted it off, and put it on display for the first time in centuries.