Posted on 06/06/2020 4:33:10 PM PDT by Norski
This unusual year shows signs of becoming weirder yet. Reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Sea of Glory” about the little-known U.S. Exploring Expedition (or “Ex-Ex”) of 1836 reminded me how 1965 was a particularly strange year for me. That October my family moved from Texas to Vermont, where we were “the Kennedy killers” in the eyes of New Englanders still resentful of the President’s assassination; we arrived the week after a couple named Hill were abducted in neighboring New Hampshire by a UFO; the massive Northeastern power blackout occurred the following week; and I was expelled from school ten minutes into my first day for replying “yes ma’am” to a teacher who considered me sassy rather than Southern. Odder still, when I went home to tell my parents about the expulsion, they presented a book that arrived for me COD that day: a completely unsolicited copy of “The Hollow Earth” by Raymond Bernard, who claimed that, not only was the Earth hollow, it was where UFOs come from.
This book, which I still own, was cheesy even by mid-60s standards of high-acid paper and stapled bindings, with blurred, grainy illustrations and a publisher’s note saying, “We will not enter into any correspondence regarding this book. Whether you accept or reject the contents of this book is your privilege. No one cares.” The author, “Bernard,” was actually Walter Seigmeister, “an early 20th-century alternative health and esoteric writer and mystic who formed part of the alternative reality subculture,” according to Wikipedia. He lived briefly in Ecuador with Johnny Lovewisdom (AKA “the Hermit Saint of the Andes”) where they dabbled in unusual dietary practices, like “breatharianism” According to HowStuffWorks.com, the Breatharians answer for health problems was “stop eating. Or rather, live off prana, which is a Sanskrit word that translates to “life air” or “life force.” Born John Weirlo in 1919, Lovewisdom lived beside an Ecuadoran crater lake he deemed safe from nuclear fallout. He was also pretty sure he was the reincarnation of Ananda, Buddha’s main disciple. Lovewisdom invited him to visit upon learning about Seigmeister’s “Dream to make a super-race who worship the sun.”
“A friend of mine had the book when I was a kid. He swore it was all gospel. He grew up and became a polygamist.”
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I have heard that there is a link between Mormons and those pesky Reptilians.
“Blackbird” military spyplanes?
Wonder how he would explain Superman’s digs at the North Pole.
Many of them in political office.
Could tell that LANL in New Mexico back in the sixties worked on the idea of tunneling by the melting rock and forming it into an integral glass liner in one fell swoop. That likely is one of the origin sources for the rumors of networked underground military bases.
Some enterprising souls worked up the requirements for a fission power source to deliver the required heat at a temperature suitable for a vehicle called a Sub-Selene for the Lunar Colonization guys. They already had the ideas in play for using ceramics for nuclear rockets.
Why not throw in underground aliens?
This was back in my 20s. I went thru cars like crazy. Drove it a while and sold it.
Wish I still had it or any of the MGAs I owned.
It is hollow.
Filled with shopping malls and restaurants
That’s where they went?
Lol
That looks like a repurposed mitosis graphic from high school biology
I’m listless.
Most clearly, as you suggest, there may be UFO bases underground or underwater. More speculatively, at least some UFOs may be from alternate dimensions that are coextensive with Earth and the solar system. And some UFOs may even be from a future human-derived civilization that sends researchers back in time to investigate and improve their origins. Notably, these possibilities are not mutually exclusive, nor do they negate the ET hypothesis. Such a multiplicity of theories makes the simplicity of the Hollow Earth almost attractive in comparison.
As esteemed French UFO researcher Jacques Vallée has noted, the entire subject of UFOs is obscured by misdirection and deception from both UFOs and human authorities. We may be approaching an era of clarification though. Supposedly, humanity (meaning the US) is now possessed of a rudimentary but effective self-defense capability, which is leading to a gradual process of disclosure so that we may better protect our interests. Who knows, but we may soon regard "ET go home" as a command to meddlesome vistors instead of as just a movie line.
“Crash go the the chariots!”
I was happy to have read it! I gave it away to someone who took V.Daniken seriously.
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