Ten Thirteen: The Secret Identity of Isis

Paying tribute to pop culture influences - especially old TV shows -was common practice for The X Files. The Night Stalker himself, Darren McGavin, appeared on an episode as the agent who first discovered the X Files.

Ten Thirteen: "The Search for God"

This past weekend, Chris Carter reiterated that The X-Files was "about the search for God." Interesting statement for a show about the search for extraterrestrial life. What did Chris Carter happen to discover about God in this search? 

"The Green Oscars"

I was wondering why I put in my observation about the hidden 33 in the Bank of America logo in my Oscar sync post, but it turned out to be quite prescient; the entire stage set was filled with pairs and sets of threes. 

Synch Log: Oscar/Osiris

I'm sure many of you will be tuning into the Oscars (aka the Ausurs) tonight, but perhaps after my recent post you can use your secret ritual decoder ring during the proceedings. My prediction for Best Actor is none other than Chris Kelvin himself.

 

X Files 2 Teaser

God damn, that's Chris Carter. Each shot looks like it was taken from his nightmares. This thing is going to kill.

Did I say something about the Beatles? This is more like Jesus getting the apostles back together...  

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Fine Art Friday: Cassandra

Well, I spend most of the week running around getting ready for Wonder Con and then working on my presentation. Then my son comes down with a terrible case of the flu that requires antiviral meds. 

Wibblin' Off to Wonder-Con!

The Secret Sun is going to set over the weekend as the team heads to Wonder Con in San Francisco. I'll be giving a talk on Sunday morning, where I will preach the Gospel of Geek to bleary-eyed conventioneers. I thought I'd leave you with Vicky's cover version of The Elephant Celebes, her tribute to our mutual hero Max Ernst. Any Bay Area readers going to the con, please come by and say hello.

Newer readers, please take some time to poke around. There are lots of synchromystic and semiotic treats in the archives for your edutainment!

UPDATE: Ooops, flight canceled. Maybe I will be blogging tomorrow.

The Solar Cult Through the Ages

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Osiris, the Oscars and the Babylon Gate

The Academy Awards certainly don't seem to have the same cultural cache they once did, but we can say the same about Hollywood itself. But it wasn't always this way.

Emergence of the New Solar Church: King of Kings

Solar symbolism has become so ubiquitous in Christian circles, people are almost oblivious to it. This caught my eye today when I saw a sign for this local mega-ministry. Don't believe for a second this is accidental or unintended. 

My research has convinced me that we are being steered back to the "one true faith," and in the future the transitions between Christianity and outright Sun worship will be so seamless they will be taken for granted. That image above tells me that future may be already with us.

Ritual Drama: The 40 Year-Old Virgin

 

I'll be doing some more work on The 40 Year-Old Virgin when I delve into the Solar love stories, but I wanted to point out some timely symbols that I noticed tonight. This movie may seem like a trifle to many people, but I found it to be absolutely jam-packed with esoteric references.

Week in Review: Subtlety

Gee, I wonder who our next president will be? Ask the Huffington Post.

The Orion Mystery

Orion of the New Gods stares into the face of a "Boom Tube," the interdimensional portal that the denizens of "New Genesis" and "Apokolips" used to travel between their realms and their realms and Earth. 

Fine Art Friday: Boreas and Oreithyia

For those still celebrating St. Valentine's Day, Boreas and Oreithyia by Evelyn De Morgan.

And So the Tide Turns...

The tide is turning against Contessa Bathory, with Barack Obama winning several primaries over the weekend quite handily. I'm not going to go on too much about this, since being a cheerleader for any politician is a sucker's game. 

It's also obvious that some pretty big power players are behind Obamamania, and that's never good news for us. But if my study of conspiracy theory has taught me anything, it's that presidents are never anything but anchormen for the real powers. So why should we settle for the doddering apparatchik, who has carried the water of a man who repeatedly humiliated him in the 2000 primaries, or the Ice Queen, who totally botched a national health care program when she was put in charge of it? Worse, the signals in my tinfoil hat tell me she botched it intentionally.

This country has had its head held under some pretty fetid waters for the past several years and I feel having a fresh face in the Oval Orifice might help to brighten our mood and improve our wretched image in the eyes of the rest of the world. And since the alternatives are Billary Clinton or John McCain, I'm kind of seeing this one as a no-brainer. People are starting to believe we could have at least a cosmetic change in this country, and that possibility is creating genuine excitement. Putting a velvet glove over the iron fist is some kind of progress, right?

And so the knives are out for Barack, as all the bought-and-paid-for shills in the media start to finally take his candidacy seriously. The entire media apparatus- including the Right Wing Noise Machine- desperately want the Clinton Syndicate back in the White House, particularly since the Democrats are in danger of gaining a foothold in Washington.

Mark my words - If Hillary is elected the Republicans will gain back all of their seats in Congress in 2010, and a lion's share of the Governorships and State Legislatures. That will suit the Media Elite just fine, who want both the tax cuts for their bracket and the meaningless posturing on marginal issues that the Clintons specialize in. Meanwhile, tens of millions of working Americans will continue to see their standards of living erode and their jobs moved overseas.

 And let's face it- Hillary is as much a warmonger as McCain and a crypto-Dominionist cultist to boot, something the mainstream media won't inform you of. And the fact that that Hillary is the choice of the "party insiders" is enough to make me root against her.

But nothing I could say could ever make the case for Obama as much as this horror show...

Druid Provocation Has Intended Effect

Despite -- no, wait--- thanks to his carefully-crafted weasel words, Archdruid Williams brings further shame and ignominy on his church and his position. You can be sure that Tony Baloney is beaming with pride. 

Five years from today, the Anglican Communion- or what's left of it- will be back in the embrace of the Mother Church. It's a fait accompli.

But one should never underestimate the power of bureaucratic cowardice in the face of organized and well-funded pressure groups. So if Britons want to keep their system of civil law, perhaps they'd best get out into the streets now.

Dream Log: Wasps and Water

2/10/08

It was somewhere in the back country - some old witch woman had created horrifying chimeras using wasps and attack dogs. The dogs had wasp heads and giant stingers for tails and then the dog heads were shrunk to fit on the wasp bodies. My wife and I were parked on a hill, surrounded by identical cars. We were being chased by the chimeras, large and small, and couldn't figure out which car was ours. 

The streets of Braintree were underwater and we were traveling them on a motorboat. I had told my wife I wanted to go swimming, I didn't care if school had already started. I didn't know whether to go to the ocean or to a lake, but seeing the streets were flooded, it didn't seem to matter. A murder mystery imposed itself on the story, as the man who owned the boat took to the water in his scuba gear, never to return.

Back at St. Thomas More, two dirty young orphans were atop the roof and were about to hurl themselves to the street at the psychic direction of the unseen murderer, who turned out to be a famous African priest (shades of Thulsa Doom). I couldn't tell if they were boys or girls. 

Other bizarre types of incidents had taken place but I couldn't quite remember -- young wards of the church dying by their own hand. I'm seeing the train tracks near St. Thomas very clearly in my mind, but I can't tell if that was in the dream or not.

1013: Millennium and the Song of Salome

Still from "Skull and Bones"

Now that Ten Thirteen Productions is back up and running, making its grand re-entrance on the day before one of the more overtly Masonic Academy Awards ceremonies in recent history, I wanted to finish some long-brewing posts on the ostensible use of Masonic and Templar themes in Ten Thirteen programs. 

Heath Ledger: True Religion

On Saturday, Heath Ledger's friends and family bid the actor a final farewell in his native Australia. Following the private funeral and wake, mourners -- including Heath's ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams -- jumped into the waters at Cottesloe Beach and watched the sun set as one final send-off. - AP

In the late 70s, my church began to celebrate the more elemental aspects of Christianity- services at midnight for Christmas, sunrise service for Easter, lakefront sunset services for our Fellowship retreats.

Blockbusted

More troubling news, this time a video rental franchise teetering on the brink of insolvency. Video stores were great places to go and immerse yourself in our once-vibrant movie culture. With that culture on the ropes, it's no surprise to see those stores begin to evaporate, joining independent bookstores and record stores.

Latest Provocation from Druid Mole

Archdruid Williams recommends the establishment of Sharia law for the UK. 

People, this puppethead is a provocateur put in place to destroy the Anglican Church and revert its assets back to the Vatican. And he's doing a wonderful job of it. 

Not being an Anglican I don't care, but all these fools do is get the Fundamentalists all riled up - and now the Muslims - which makes life more unpleasant for everyone.

The Convulsive Power of the Dreaming Mind

Not only is it no accident that a Jung stand-in pushed Captain America into the ether just before Kirby's return, it may have even been intentional on the part of the writer, Marv Wolfman. 

The 70s were a pretty dreary decade, but it didn't lack for pop intellectualism. Marvel was full of writers who came in from the counter-culture, and a smart cookie like Marv Wolfman may well have realized that Kirby's obsession with the gods resonated with Jung's work. 

Ritual Drama: The Beatles Love the Sun

You may have tuned into the Grammy Awards the other night and witnessed this tribute to the Beatles by none other than the Cirque Du Soleil (which can be roughly translated into "Sun Disk"). 

Jack Kirby, Psychedelic Shaman

Jack Kirby may not be a household name, but we all are immersed in his visions. So many of the Hollywood wizards people celebrate today - not to mention video game makers - were raised on his comics. 

The Ka of Hathor: Hollywood's Royal Kates

Synchromystics will surely know of the Pleaides, the constellation known as the Seven Sisters. Billy Meier's alleged alien friends Semjase and Asket hailed from this constellation, and there's been a lot of speculation concerning the link between the Pleaides and the Stargate. 

New York 17- New England 14

After beating the New York Giants in Week 17, the New England Patriots are undone by a touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress (# 17) for a final score of 17-14. New England finish with an 18-1 record.

18-1=17.

Sabbath Sunday: Children of the Grave

No Metal band has ever - or will ever - come close to Black Sabbath in their prime. And this is as good as it gets. Ozzy may be a shadow of himself now, but in his heyday he was an amazing frontman.

This is from the 1974 California Jam. God, I wish I could build a time machine and go back there. When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was move to Southern California, live on the beach and make out with Tatum O'Neal. 

I was a total beach bum as it was, but Nantasket Beach could never be as glamorous as Santa Monica.

Narnia Business

Wow, look at the new Narnia poster. It's a good thing this is a Christian film, otherwise I'd think that sword shooting out of the Sun was supposed to be a solar phallus.

Killing Joker: Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight Working

Well, the story is out: Leave it to Page Six, the gossip page of Murdoch's New York Post to go there first. But given the eerie parallels between Heath Ledger's death and that of former Killing Joke bassist Paul Raven, the fact that Page Six ran a shot of Ledger wearing a knit cap made me sit up and take notice, since that was Raven's trademark look.