An Aberrant Gnostic

  If you follow UFOlogy at all, you might be familiar with the Betty and Barney Hill incident from 1961. There is a lot of “stuff” attached to this incident: Aleister Crowley, the television show “The Outer Limits,” possible psychological operations, or maybe, just maybe, a good old-fashioned encounter with extraterrestrials. If you aren’t familiar with the alleged incident, I asked my newfound friend, Gemini, to summarize it for those who might need a refresher course: In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, were driving home to New Hampshire from vacation when they observed a strange, bright light following their car. They experienced a period of missing time and unsettling physical and emotional symptoms afterward. Troubled by the experience, they eventually sought help through hypnosis therapy. Under hypnosis, they recalled detailed memories of being abducted and taken onboard a disc-shaped craft. Within the craft, the Hills described encou...

    Do you ever have those crazy, vivid dreams that seem to reveal a hidden truth, only to fade away upon waking? I do, and they're always a little frustrating. I might hear incredible, never-before-released music, watch mind-bending movies, or even dream of reading a revelatory passage hidden in a familiar book. Last night's dream was one of those. The Dream Bookstore The dream was as such : I was in bed, browsing my nightstand for something to read, when I stumbled upon a battered old paperback by Jacques Vallee. Musty and yellowed, covered in scribbles, it was titled something like "An Analysis of the Color of UFOs and Parameters Pertaining to Deity." Intriguing, but the real mystery lay in the book's first four pages. Printed on the glossy paper common in vintage UFO books, they were covered in cryptic symbols and English letters. Vallee's hypothesis, as I recall, was: "Transitioning from Man to God through Color." Accompanying this was a childli...