The Lucid View: Investigations into Occultism, Ufology, and Paranoid Awareness: 2013 Edition

I really enjoyed reading The Lucid View. Very informative. Clear and lucid for sure.What it comes down to is what one values in life, and where ones attention is.Is it on the mundane day today trivial stuff or is it on spiritual values.Basically, take charge of ones life...nobody else will for you.We live in a world alive with illusions. We pick our illusions and we build a life here for ourselves out of the temporary fabric of said illusions, but then there's life beyond this training ground for soul.Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground and your heart in heavenJE Oglesby

which deals with popular memes of the alternative history/conspiracy prone kind like the Anunnaki-Elohim-Nephilim-Custodians thread; myth-making; mystery schools; mind control; social engineering; suppressed archetypal forces of the collective un-/subconscious influencing the fate of humanity, and how they are related to the Faerie lore and the UFO/abduction phenomenon (cf. Jacques Vallee, John Keel); gematric and synchromystic musings (especially in the footnotes). Throughout the book, the author seems to be governed by the principle 'the more extreme/bizarre a given event/explanation appears to be, the better.' Therefore don't be surprised to see the following persons cited as if they were some sort of ultimate authority: Whitley Strieber, Carlos Castaneda, whose 'fieldwork' was largely pursued in the library of UCLA (see psychologist Richard de Mille's 2 books entitled  Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory  1976 and  The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies  1980), and the dubious Valdamar Valerian, aka Capt. John Grace, formerly at the USAF counterintelligence desk, who authored the obvious cointelpro stunt referred to as "The Krill Report" together w/ John "9-11 No Planer/CIA" Lear. In fact, the impression is that Mr. Kephas is not so much an ace of the conspiracy factfinder mould (vs. coincidence theorists) than a confounder rather, in that he doesn't name names and quite often has not dug deep enough; hence there are bound to be several erroneous data. Such as:+ Nazi moon bases; that JFK willingly sacrificed himself (for some greater cause?) which is somewhat connected to the cowardly murdered Bill Cooper's long-debunked theory that bodyguard/chauffeur William Greer shot JFK (pp. 59-61; Michael Collins Piper's  Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy  and Salvador Astucia's (pseudonym) "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination" should be high on the reading list of anyone seriously interested in the subject); apostle Paul/Saul, if he is rooted in historical reality at all, was a Gentile not a Hebrew (p. 98); the so-called Illuminati, albeit in complementary distribution with the fossilized, "religious school of 'passive' worship" typical of the judeo-masonic hierarchy, have mankind's best interest at their hearts (not unlike Le Prieuré de Sion of Pierre Plantard, Jean Cocteau, et al.) via the "creative evolution of the individual" through artistic means/movements. Hmm...+ "The global conspiracy...is finally seen as...centering not around society, or even the human race, but around a single, microcosmic organism called DNA. The final stage...is the synthesis of the earthly with the cosmic code, the splicing of Matter with Spirit." So far so good, but..."Paranoid awareness [read A. Kephas] makes an unprecedented leap here, by positing that th[e] mutation process is underway, and has (in part) been falsely called A.I.D.S" (p. 150). What?! Don't exclude the possibility of the pathogen for the said disease having been bioengineered.+ Quoting oddball William Lyne (pp. 174-5), "The SS Bönpas [sic; correctly Bönpos] worshipped 'Kali Ma'...This cult founded the ancient Thugee cult of India, and was the basis for the Society of Assassins; the concept of this weird religion related to the mass extermination of people...and is the basis for all the 20th century totalitarian movements." Utter bunkum.Bön religion in its present form (for the last 8-9 hundred years) is not much different from various Vajraya(a)na Buddhist schools (especially that of the Nyingma creed) in Tibet; with a terminology covering similar psycho-mystical yogic experiences on the path to liberation/enlightenment. Many of their teachings are said to have originated from the enigmatic Zhang-zhung kingdom (with its centre being located in Ti-se/Kailash region of the Western Himalayas) that was incorporated into the fledgling Tibetan empire by 653/662 CE. (If interested, for more info check out native researchers/practitioners and Western Tibetologists like Samten G. Karmay, Namkhai Norbu, Tendzin Namdak, Per Kvaerne and John Vincent Bellezza.)The hereditary profession of stealthy murderers known as the Thuggees, whose Hindu members were indeed worshippers of Bhowani/Kali, is traced back to Persian territories. They had been active in India from the Mughal era (15-16th century) well into the 1840s, when they were finally suppressed by the local British administration. The word 'thug' is thus derived from the Sanskrit 'sthag' (meaning 'to conceal'), which refers perhaps to their favourite method of befriending and winning confidence of prospective victims, such as merchants and other itinerant folks, before strangling them to death with a special strip of cloth called 'ruhmal' (Source: Col. James L. Sleeman's  Thug or a Million Murders , first published around 1933, or John Masters' historical novel  The Deceivers, The: Unabridged , which was made into a movie under the same title  The Deceivers - The Merchant Ivory Collection .Lots of illustrations enrich the well-written text, with those of William Blake, Gustave Doré, and a contemporary artist named John Coulthart among them. Yet, there are a few whose provenance is more than suspect. To wit: the one on page 25, representing a child's sketch of an astronaut in spacesuit and a flying saucer in ascent, plus a composite figure of the SF kind holding a disc, is definitely not a 4,000-year-old cave painting from an unspecified location on the Russian [SU]-Chinese border but is the work of a graphic designer for a 1967 issue of the Soviet "Sputnik" magazine. Or, the picture at the bottom of pg. 145, showing a flying saucer in the company of a grey alien, is known as the 'Lolladoff Plate' that first appeared in Karyl Robin-Evans' (pen name) 1978 book titled  Sun Gods in Exile: Secrets of the Dzopa of Tibet . The author's real name is David Gamon, who later admitted both the story and the picture in the book had been hoaxed. The first photo from the right in the upper row on pg. 146 is from the puppet show taken from the so-called "Alien Interrogation" footage, probably courtesy of AFOSI.The writer's advice as to the way out from humanity's predicament: "The Devil is the door that bars the way, and if heaven is the goal, the going is hell (p. 21). By the same token, quoting C. Jung, 'The gods have become diseases.' In which case...our diseases are our way back to the gods" (p. 176). With all that being said, it's still worthwhile to take a stroll in the strange place that Aeolus's mind is.

'The Lucid View: Investigations In Occultism, Ufology, And Paranoid Awareness' (2004) by Aeolus Kephas is a highly interesting and readable exploration at the forces Kephas feels may be controlling, and thus manipulating, almost every aspect of human life and civilization.Kephas, whose name is most likely a pseudonym reflecting his broadly implied magikal practices, makes the repeated error of failing to clearly distinguish between the terms "paranoid view," "lucid view," and "free-thinking view," which are often, but not always, used interchangeably. Thus, it is difficult for the reader to tell where Kephas draws certain lines within his thesis.In the hands of another writer, the text of 'The Lucid View' would most likely read like the anchorless ravings of a madman, but Kephas is an eloquent, highly intelligent, perceptive, discerning, and organized writer.A brief accurate summary of the book's argument, which combines magik with history, physics, psychology, and technology, is nigh impossible, but goes something like this: a shadowy group of "Custodians," who may or may not be human (or may be an alliance of both humans and non-humans), have attempted (and largely failed) to control the human race literally since the time of Adam. Their ultimate, millennia-long goal is "the synthesis of the earthly with the cosmic code, the splicing of Matter with Spirit," and thus the birth of a 'New Man.'However, in the process, mankind as we presently know it will be completely obliterated. We, as individuals, will be obliterated, and the day of our obliteration may come as soon as tomorrow. In the service of their goal, the uber-elite Custodians, who are incapable of any quality resembling human remorse (even if human themselves), are relentless, and will use every tool and trick imaginable to obtain their end.Sometimes representing "the lucid view" and sometimes "the paranoid view" once-removed, Kephas knits together an enormous number of complex subjects.A partial list includes a hollow moon and Richard Shaver's Hollow Earth, secret lunar military bases, Nazi 'flying discs,' Scientology, Charles Manson and his 'Family,' CIA mind control, The Knights Templar, Ira Levin's 1967 novel 'Rosemary's Baby,' the Old Testament and the Book of Revelations, the social phenomenon of "alien abduction," the life and death of John Lennon, the 'Sirius Mystery,' the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, the work of Aleister Crowley and Carlos Castaneda, traditional faerylore, government-created implants, the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, Jungian psychology, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, harmful additives in mass-produced foods, subliminal messages embedded in form of media, gross political subterfuge, and the internet as "the web of the Great Voodoo Spider Queen."Largely due to its magikal, and presumably spiritual and survivalist, underpinnings, 'The Lucid View' takes the position that all of this, if accurate, vitally matters in the name of truth, knowledge, and what little genuine liberty and free will are left to us as individuals."Awareness (free from paranoia) creates a natural hierarchical structure in the Universe, according to which every apprentice must some day become a master, every paranoid lucid. Awareness is the currency, then, and unto those that have it, shall be given, and from those that have it not, shall be taken even the little they have...freedom is the freedom of the aware, finally, and awareness of freedom leads ever on to more of the same."However, if Biblical fallen angels are in league with cosmic forces so vast as to be completely beyond our ability to presently conceptualize them, and the CIA and the Scientologists additionally, clearly no human being or group of human beings has a chance of combating, much less overthrowing, this intergalactic, trans-dimensional cabal.While 'the average man' does need to awaken to the vast, deceptive smokescreen of engineered disasters, fostered events, and empty social causes perpetrated by the "military-industrial complex" and the media (the never-ending Middle East War; 'Global Warming' and 'Climate Change'; the Cult of the Victim; mass illegal immigration into the United States; the gross over-prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; 'gay marriage'; 'Oprah Fever'; even the recent Clinton-Obama contretemps and "the emerging economic recession," etc.) to keep him distracted, submissive, and fearful, 'The Lucid View,' with its alien kidnappers, mind-controlled assassins, and harrowing secret societies, is unlikely to have any practical value for him.However Forteans, many of whom are capable of accepting that our entire universe may be no more than a drifting grain of pollen in a far vaster reality existing around us, will have a field day with it.But if the entire universe we know is in fact, however improbably, only a random grain of flotsam, such a fact would ultimately flummox even the lofty Custodians and their most nefarious schemes.Readers may also want to consider another lucid, and more probable book, Albert Budden's 'UFOs: Psychic Close Encounters (1995),' which posits that most 'paranormal' experiences are the spontaneous result of natural and artificial electromagnetic waves interacting with man's psyche, especially his unconscious.Interestingly, Kephas recommends Budden's work in the 'Further Reading' list which closes the book.

I'm not even going to try and be eloquent. I'm just a simple woman in a mad, mad world. I see insanity just about everywhere I look (that includes the mirror sometimes). I can't thank you enough for this book. It's friggen brilliant.

The Book Came Quickly, In The Condition Advertised, And Is A Most Informative And Powerful Read. All Of You With Interesting Belief Sysyems Concerning Religion, Politics, & What Have You: BEWARE---Only For The Seriously Open Minded Truth Seeker.....

GOOD BOOK

freak book with the wizard of id. wow. open your eyes.

Some interesting and insightful bits but largely a self-indulgent ill organised chaotic mess of a book, making the occult no less obscure.