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ALIEN INITIATIONS Harald Kleemann
ALIEN INITIATIONS
THE PLANETARY TALE
IN MYTH AND PROPHECY
HARALD KLEEMANN
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CONTENTS
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF TIME
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THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD
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3
THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT
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4
ALIEN INITIATIONS
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UNDERWORLD JOURNEYS
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THE VORTEX OF HYPERSPACE
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TELOS AGHARTA
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8
BLACK HOLE SORCERIES
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9
INFINITE REGRESS AND THE LAKE OF FIRE
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GUIDE TO SOURCES
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When the ingress of purported alien intelligence first registered on the
cultural radar of modern times, it was naively conjectured that humanity was
entering an era of extraterrestrial liaison in the mundane or conventional sense.
A century of anomalous exposure and the exfoliation of attendant mythologies,
however, have radically redrawn the contours of a mystery, which, owing to its
elusive and paradoxical nature, is quintessential of all mysteries. Whatever the
ilk of the ghostly, the numinous or alien
Other
, it calls into question the very
foundations of the rational edifice, of the evolutionary and historic paradigm,
underpinning the secular notion of human identity. The questions it raises are
perennial and primal. It is central to an understanding of the universal given,
and so to the question we shall ask in these pages:
What, in a nutshell, is the human story?
In a world of conflicting ideologies, of cultural ferment and a rampant
globalism, this question becomes one of singular urgency. The world is
straining for a resultant, for a new order to coalesce around some post-historic
utopian attractor. Yet before a species on the threshold of cosmic individuation
irrevocably commits itself, it might advantageously review its options. Science
tells us what is probable. History seeks to reconstruct what actually occurred.
We need a prophetic science to enquire concerning the desirable.
Earth, alone in the known universe, has been the focus of a singular
experiment. On one small planet life arose to consciously engage the question
of meaning. And though but at speck in immensity
the pale blue dot of the
astronomers
it is the cauldron and spiritual cradle, the focus of engagement
with the moral, aesthetic and intellectual universe entire. The bewildering
variety of biological and cultural forms testifies of the intensity of engagement.
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Amidst this variety, is there a common or underlying theme? Is the
human odyssey informed in some sense of an overarching cosmic or cultural
script
an archetypal or universal given, grounded in ultimate verity? To
address this question we shall have recourse to the only possible source, the
universal body of myths from the ancient to the contemporary to search the
human nature, its origins and destiny.
Myth
is here defined as the concentrated utterance of the human genius
not in the deprecatory sense as a tale untrue. The mythology of an age is simply
the story
, the account which a people provides of itself. It is the paradigm or
worldview in current vogue. In mythology, thus and on the contrary, all things
are true: unicorns and dragons, angels and devils, vampires and witches, aliens
and avatars have, in sundry times and diverse places, disported their corporeal
presence across the landscape of human imagination. From an arbitrarily
abstracted point of view, therefore, it is not inconceivable that this present age
appears equally wondrous in its conceptions and preoccupations.
What then are the basic options? At the generic or paradigm level they
are surprisingly few:
There is the dharma myth, according to which not a dust particle exists
but what is fated for eventual Buddhahood
There is the myth of the serpent gods and their minions, who came from
the stars and to the stars they return.
There is the myth of the crucified saviour, of a fallen and redeemed
humanity.
And there is the scientific myth of evolution as cosmic accident.
Modern science, to be fair, is the youngest of the disciplines, having
begun only in recent decades to address questions of teleology or universal
purpose
of intelligent design and the role of consciousness. The scientific
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worldview is thus undergoing modification
some would say, revolution in
the elaboration of a new, arguably more value oriented, paradigm.
Yet science as an institution has tended to be isolationist, viewing itself
as sole arbiter of the real, and distancing itself from the more intuitive take of
the ancients. Why, in a scientific age, refer back to the archaic and protean?
Chiefly, one might venture, because the ancient mystery traditions have a
surprising way of vindicating themselves, and
because science has so far
failed to engage the question of meaning. Existentially confronting the abyss
of mind
the modern psyche is as bereft of gnosis or certainty as that of its
most primitive proto-human ancestors perhaps even more so.
My aim is to establish a context wherein the ancient mysteries
the
archaic worldview of magic and mysticism, the prophetic traditions of revealed
religion
can be approached on the plane of meaning. To this end, it is
generally conceded, the scholarly approach is insufficient. It is necessary to
enter the interior world of the relevant myths, bringing to bear the visionary
gifts of poet and bard. In the venerable tradition of the storyteller, therefore,
what follows is an
interpretive
reading of the relevant myths. And while the
narrator may be faithful to his sources, he may betray bias, even if only
inadvertently, through subtle nuance or inflection of speech. This is inevitable,
and so the story
the human story
is of necessity slightly recast in each
successive telling.
While that story is in part a tragic and terrible one, I emphasise what I
take as axiomatic
that it is inherently a meaningful story. I accept, on the
testimony of the greater mythological canon, that humanity is constituted to
enter the inner sanctums of the citadel of truth to engage the cosmic mystery,
to validate in itself the very concept of meaning. One might summarise this by
saying that the human odyssey has a spiritual charter or foundation.
Cognate is my further premise that universal myth, as utterance of the
inherent genius, really does reflect something of the veritable canon
of the
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