The Secret Sun: Postcards from Vega

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Postcards from Vega

I think I've seen this episode already...

Captive animals tend to go a little crazy. Anyone who's been to a zoo has seen animals march around in small circles, cry out at odd moments or display a depressive--if not drugged-out--lethargy. Captive humans can be even worse. But jailkeepers tend to be more effective than most zookeepers at breaking their mavericks.

Welcome to the Black Iron Prison.

Miguel Connor invited me on to his legendary Aeon Byte podcast to explain why I believe Gnosticism is more relevant-- and more widely-held-- than it's ever been. The difference is that it's escaped the shackles of Scripture and dogma--Logos, if you like-- and used the sewer pipes of the Internet to travel into all kinds of undiscovered countries such as the Truther movement.

In fact, some of the most fervent Gnostics actually see themselves as anti-Gnostic, but only because no one has ever explained what the term actually means.

NOTE: There's a bit of Skype gremlinizing in the middle bit but it clears up. But I did adjust my headset so you don't hear that weird clipping that was making me sound like Dustin from Stranger Things, as one loyal reader put it.

Rune Gordon raves: "It’s like the cheat notes to Chris Knowles. It’s honestly excellent."

Miguel asked where I believed where the Archons were taking us and I explained we are being pulled towards Starfleet Reality, in which a new totalitarian order will rise from the ashes of a manufactured apocalypse.

Mind you, Starfleet Reality is going to be a lot different from Starfleet Fantasy, like we see on TV. It's going to feel a lot more like the Borg Reality. Or the "Return of the Archons" Reality.

And yes, this is happening. Our Visitor from Vega is being taken seriously as an alien probe of some kind, something well-familiar to Star Trek fans.

Will this be the Grand Finale to this most Gnostic of years?

This leads me to lean towards a Yes vote on that question. Keep an eye out for a planet in Lyra or another constellation connected to the Heaven or the Vegas mega-rant.

This doesn't change my mind much, either.

Of course, we can't discount the possibility that all of this is entirely ritualistic, however. It would certainly jibe with the historical record we're all so familiar with.

In that light, I should mention that the shape of this object is not unlike an arrow. And note that Sagitta- the Arrow-- borders Lyra. As well as Cygnus the Swan and Vulpecula the Little Fox.

And also note that the planned sale of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets to Disney would leave NewsCorp as a much smaller company. A little Fox, if you will.

And all of a sudden, Starfleet is everywhere. The (Ruby Star D-) Orville, (Eastern) Star Trek: Discovery, and now no less a luminary than Quentin Tarantino is getting fitted for the Starfleet Blue and Gold.

And you can't talk Star Trek without talking about Esalen. Note that after a series of disasters befalling Big Sur, Esalen has reopened and is now "transformed." It's now moving from "I" to "We."

And it's now become Risa for the Silicylon Valley elite. Or does that better describe Burning Man?

Or maybe this is where they'll be getting their new marching orders.

And maybe they feel guilty for a reason. Maybe this whole mantra of "disrupting the status quo" (read: "destroying people's livelihoods") and siccing killbots on the Disrupted is a bad thing that they should indeed feel guilty about.

Maybe the guilty should actually feel, y'know, guilty.

Or are they just following the Starfleet Agenda? This episode of Deep Space Nine- in which the disrupted (read: "former middle class") of San Francisco are rounded up and dumped in concentration camps while the Technocratic Elite hover above it all like postmodern Marie Antoinettes-- seems more and more trenchant with every passing day.