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- In the 1970s I read Robert Monroe's book, "Journeys
Out of the Body". I found his stories about consciously traveling
out of his physical body to be bizarre. But I understood intuitively that
what he reported was true. I tried his out-of-body technique at home and
succeeded after a period of diligent effort in consciously leaving my body.
On one of my first attempts, I was meditating late one night, at the end
of a five day, water-only fast, when I suddenly entered an altered state
of consciousness. In this altered state I heard the sound of a man's voice.
I could not make out what he was saying, but the tone of his voice was
very comforting; it reminded me of the voice of Walter Cronkite, or of
Fred McMurray, the star of the old television situation comedy, "My
Three Sons". It was at this point that I very naturally and virtually
effortlessly used Robert Monroe's roll-out method to consciously roll out
of my body. I found myself in a small, claustrophobic room with lavender
colored wall paper dotted with small flowers. The room felt too cramped,
so I melted through the wall and found myself on a macadam road in a residential
area lined with shade trees. I went running down the road looking for a
road sign or any other identifying clue that I could use to verify the
objective reality of what I was experiencing. I felt a sense of overwhelming
excitement, strangeness and curiosity. And as nearly as I can remember
now that is how the experience ended. The next thing I remembered I was
back in bed, the birds were chirping and the sun was coming up. This proved
to be just the first of many out-of-body experiences over the next few
years.
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- Not long after the first experience I contacted the Monroe
Institute and participated in one of their weekend training sessions in
Richmond, Virginia. I did not go out-of-the-body during the weekend, but
back in Louisiana, the following week, I had the first and most powerful
kundalini awakening of my life. Early one morning, while doing the set
of exercises I had learned the previous weekend, I moved precipitously
into a staggeringly powerful state of consciousness. Because it was so
much at variance with my normal frame of mind I am scarcely able to describe,
even now, what it was like. My spinal column was turbo-charged with what
felt like 50,000 volts of rippling, crackling electricity that came surging
up my spine with an ear-splitting roar and arced out of the top of my skull
and away into a vast, indescribable something that, for want of better
words, resembled an enormously huge balloon hanging over my head. It may
be that the balloon-like impression represented my limited perception of
an expanded state of super-consciousness that lay just above me. Meanwhile,
my heart chakra was powerfully opened and I could see all around me without
any physical impediment, right through the walls, in a 360 degree circle.
I want to emphasize that I was seeing with startling clarity-- not with
my physical eyes, which were closed, or with the so-called third eye in
the forehead-- but with my heart. The heart itself sees, with great acuity
and without physical restriction, when in a state such as this. At the
same time I was enjoying sublime feelings of bliss. The calming influence
of these feelings persisted throughout the day after the experience was
over.
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- While everything else was going on I heard in my ears
the most perfectly enchanting and seductive music I have ever encountered
anywhere, whether in the body or out. It was eminently haunting and coyly
mysterious. I could not wait to hear what it would do next. It was all
of the best music that I have ever heard, and much more, somehow rolled
together and mixed up in one never-ending perfect song that is eternally
and completely satisfying. It has no equal anywhere. The melody, the rhythm,
and the instrumentation were incomparable. The closest match that I can
think of are the great symphonies of Beethoven and Mozart and the finest
performances of the most gifted jazz musicians of the day. But even if
you could somehow combine those into the one-best-song that humanity has
to offer the result would still be no more than an imperfect, pale imitation
of the magical, intensely nostalgic kundalini music that I once heard playing
on a muggy Louisiana morning many years ago.
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- The experience persisted for a few moments and then it
was gone. But it made a palpably vivid impression on me. I have never forgotten
it; indeed, I do not see how I can. Over the course of the intervening
years I have often thought back with great longing to that time and wished
that it could happen again.
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- Though I had no interaction with Robert Monroe on that
occasion, a number of other times I did hear his voice while in an altered
state of consciousness, or while out of the body. He invariably began by
saying, "Hello, this is Robert Monroe..." And he would go on
to talk about subjects that were quite remarkable and magical. I can remember
well the warm, golden glow that accompanied his avuncular, relaxing voice.
It was really very hypnotic to just lay there and bask in the sound of
his voice and the vibrant, rich colors of whatever surroundings were a
part of the experience. The ambiance was one of plush velvet, and subtle,
understated hues of mahogany furniture and burgundy velours.
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- I remember well one occasion on which he spoke to me.
I was in jail at the time in Arkansas. During the early 1980s I was an
anti-nuclear activist. On three different occasions I scaled the security
fence at nuclear missile silos to demonstrate my opposition to preparations
for nuclear war. As it happened, I was jailed by the United States government
for these activities. The first time I did this I was jailed for seven
days and released on probation (which I subsequently violated to do the
same thing again, and for which I was again jailed).
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- While in jail on the first charge I conducted a one week
water-only fast. After about four or five days of this I was lying awake
in my cell one night when I suddenly moved into an altered state. Once
in the altered state of consciousness I heard the voice of Robert Monroe.
He said, as usual, "Hello, this is Robert Monroe..." And then
he went on to tell me something about the manned space program. He began,
"Thirty years ago, when men first started to go into space..."
He continued on to tell me something I had not known before. What he said
was highly interesting. In fact, it was downright fascinating. He told
me that in the early years of the manned space program sending someone
into space was not as simple as merely positioning an astronaut on top
of a rocket and blasting up into space. Instead, there were certain magicaló
yes, magical and mystical protocols that had to be observed. He told me
that astronauts could only be inserted into orbit at the proper place and
time, and in just the right way. As he described it he conveyed the very
real element of magic and mystery that was involved in putting human beings
into space. I was surprised to learn that more was involved in the manned
space program than, well, the proverbial rocket science. Robert Monroeís
words (delivered telepathically, or paranormally, while I was in an altered
state of consciousness) resonated silently within me after my release from
jail. Time went by and I kept what he had told me to myself. The import
of what he said was seriously at variance with the coldly analytical, scientific
image that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projects.
I found it difficult to justify Robert Monroeís assertions with
the public pronouncements and hard engineering appearances of the American
space program.
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- It was not until many years later, when I toured the
33rd degree Scottish Rite Masonic Temple at 1733 16th Street, N.W., in
Washington, D.C., that I began to realize the full significance of Robert
Monroeís message. To my surprise, there, in the templeís
museum, was a Scottish Rite Masonic flag which Edwin Aldrin, Jr., the second
Apollo program astronaut to walk on the Moon, carried with him to the lunar
surface. When I visited, the flag was prominently displayed in a glass
case in the museum. The same museum also displays a small Masonic flag
that Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Schirra carried into space and subsequently
presented to Scottish Rite Supreme Council, 33rd degree Grand Commander
Henry Clausen, on 23 October 1969. Gordon Cooper also took the Supreme
Council, 33rd degree flag into space on the Gemini 5 orbital mission. The
museum also contains pieces of the heat shields from NASAís Mercury
7 and Apollo 11 manned missions. My interest was immediately sparked. I
saw that there was some sort of connection between NASAís manned
space program and the Supreme Council, 33rd degree, Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A.
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- So after my tour I inquired about the possibility of
doing research in the templeís library. The collection of Masonic
literature in that temple is virtually without peer in the world. My request
was granted, and I soon had a much better idea of what Robert Monroe had
been alluding to: I discovered that some of the most prominent astronauts
in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs are (or were) Masons.
Indeed, one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts, John Glenn,
is now an influential United States Senator from Ohio who will be returning
to space again, in October 1998, aboard the space shuttle (this mission
has subsequently taken place). I also learned that two former, highly placed
administrators at NASA, Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, and James E. Webb are
both Masons. These facts, coupled with the Masonic flags various astronauts
carried into space and delivered to the Scottish Riteís Supreme
Council, 33rd degree, reveal some sort of relationship between Masonry
and the space program.
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- One of the interesting items I found in the course of
my research was a letter from Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, bearing the date
of 19 September 1969. Aldrin was the second Apollo astronaut to walk on
the Moon, after Neil Armstrong. Aldrinís letter explicitly mentions
the Masonic flag that he carried with him to the Moon on the Apollo 11
mission of 20 July 1969, and which he delivered to the Supreme Council,
33rd degree, on 16 September 1969. The letter is addressed to Sovereign
Grand Commander Luther A. Smith and says, in part:
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- "It was a great moment in my life to be so cordially
welcomed to the House of the Temple on September 16, 1969 by you and Grand
Secretary General Kleinknecht, 33rd degree, and also the members of your
staffs. My greatest pleasure, however, was to be able to present to you
on this occasion the Scottish Rite Flag which I carried on the Apollo 11
Flight to the Moon -- emblazoned in color with the Scottish Rite Double-headed
Eagle, the Blue Lodge Emblem and the Sovereign Grand Commanderís
Insignia."
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- As it happens, the Grand Secretary General Kleinknecht
(and later Grand Commander) who Aldrin mentions in his letter is the brother
of Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, the powerful, former NASA official in charge
of most of the early manned space programs. Both Kleinknechts are 33rd
degree Masons.
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- This is an interesting relationship. The temple on which
the NASA-Masonic connection centers is located just several blocks due
north of the White House, at 1733 16th Street, N.W. Many United States
Presidents are known to have been Masons, beginning with George Washington
and including some 20th Century presidents. So it only stands to reason
that there should be a 33rd degree Masonic temple in close proximity to
the White House. But this is not just any temple. Underscoring its status
as a prominent Scottish Rite temple, its holdings include the second largest
body of Robert Burns literature anywhere outside of Scotland itself.
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- Moreover, it also has a room devoted to J. Edgar Hoover,
founder and long-time Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI). The Hoover shrine includes his official desk and many mementos and
memorabilia from his long career. It seems that this temple has a special
relationship with the FBI, as well as with NASA and the manned space program.
Thatís not all. This same temple also holds the personal library
of Confederate Army General, Albert Pike. It even holds his corpse, buried
in the walls at the rear of the building.
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- Just who was Albert Pike? Well, he was a prominent Mason
in the post-Civil War era in the Southern states --and if some sources
can be believed he was also one of the Founding Fathers of the Ku Klux
Klan (KKK), the White-racist, terrorist organization that formed in the
South after the Civil War. Little did I know that I would stumble on all
of this when I set out to learn more about Freemasonry.
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- As regards NASA and secret societies, it is well to remember
as well that solidly entrenched in the core group of NASAís vaunted
rocket scientists were men such as Wernher von Braun, and over one hundred
other assorted ìexî-Nazi rocket experts who were brought out
of Germany after WW-II by Operation Paperclip. Their rocketry expertise
was put to work on designing and flying the rockets that launched the astronauts
into space. The first director of the Kennedy Space Center was Kurt Debus,
the V-2 rocket flight test director at the infamous Nazi missile base at
Peenemuende, Germany. Wernher von Braun himself was an officer in Hitlerís
dreaded SS and later director of NASAís Marshall Space Flight Center.
And Arthur Rudolph, the head of production at the Naziís murderous
Mittelwerk underground missile factory in Germanyís Harz Mountains,
was later to become Director of NASAís Saturn V moon rocket program.
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- In recent years, a number of exposes have described the
magico-occult underpinnings of the Third Reich and the Nazi Partyís
ideology. Peter Levendaís excellent "Unholy Alliance"
is among the best of these books. Levendaís thesis is that: '(T)he
Third Reich was a state governed on magical principles...' To be sure,
the magic was, and Levenda shows, still is, a magic of the darkest, most
grotesquely violent sort. Given the close involvement of 'ex'-Nazis at
the highest levels of NASAís manned space program, and the magico-occult
beliefs that motivated the leadership of the Nazi party, Robert Monroeís
words to me vis-a-vis the manned space program and magical rites attendant
to the launching of space capsules may be fraught with more significance
than I know.
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- At any rate, the close ties between prominent NASA astronauts,
NASA officials and Freemasonry (including the Southern Jurisdiction of
the Scottish Rite) leave no serious doubt about some sort of Masonic involvement
in the United States manned space program at the highest levels. Likewise,
the crucial work of powerful ìexî-Nazis, such as Werner von
Braun, Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Debus, and many others, at the heart of the
United Statesí manned space program raises further questions about
the role that these Project Paperclip ìexî-Nazis and their
sympathizers played (and may still play) for NASA.
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- But what could be the reason for this strenuous effort
to go to the Moon, in which both Freemasons and ìexî-Nazis
played prominent roles? Is there something special about the Moon that
powerful organizations such as the Nazi Party and Freemasonry know? Something
special that the rest of us donít know? To be sure, many Masonic
lodges traditionally schedule their meetings according to the time when
the Moon is full. But that scarcely justifies the sort of effort that
the early manned space program put forth to reach the Moon.
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- The nagging question remains: is there something more?
I do not have the answer to this question. However, while combing through
the NASA archives in Washington, D.C. I did find a statement from Werner
von Braun that gave me pause to reflect. While discussing the reaction
of the scientific community to the Apollo 11 and 12 lunar missions he said:
ìThey came to the conclusion that the moon really turns out to be
sort of a Rosetta stone for the understanding of monumental cosmological
phenomena.î Might he be referring here to cryptic monuments that
NASA may have discovered on the Moon? (Certainly, there is a small, sensationalistic
body of literature in the bookstores and on the World Wide Web that alleges
NASA has discovered ancient, monumental structures on the Moon and that
it is hiding their existence from the public.) Or is von Braun simply
saying that lunar geology is interesting and a big help in understanding
geology on other bodies in the solar system? From the context of his remarks,
it appears that he means the latter, but who knows?-- maybe he is talking
in code and is actually communicating a carefully guarded message between
the lines.
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- Similarly, Kenneth S. Kleinknecht wrote the following
in 1975: ìOn the surface of the moon, where there is no atmosphere
to erode, secrets were uncovered that have long since been worn away here
on earth.î Here again-- what secrets is Kleinknecht referring to?
Are there ancient ruins on the moon? Ruins perhaps made by a long vanished
civilization that might have existed in remote antiquity on the earth itself?
Or is he simply referring to the interesting lunar geology that does not
erode due to the scouring action of water and wind, and the incessant activities
of biological organisms? The context of his remarks suggests that he is
making an innocent remark about perfectly ordinary geological processes.
But who knows?-- might he, as well as von Braun, be referring to something
that NASA has hidden from the public? Something unimaginably ancient and
important-- like artificially constructed, ruined structures on the moon?
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- Let me be clear: I do not claim to know definitively
one way or the other.
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- But isnít it strange that this entire line of
inquiry is due to a telepathic message I received from Robert Monroe while
locked in a jail cell in Arkansas, as punishment for demonstrating against
nuclear missiles atop a Titan missile silo in central Arkansas, Albert
Pikeís home state?
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- I suppose I would still be in contact with Robert Monroe
today if it were not for the fact that over a period of years I became
aware that he and his research institute in rural Nelson County, Virginia,
south of Charlottesville, had a close working relationship with United
States Army Intelligence. I perceive the agendas of the military intelligence
agencies to be very dark and repressive, so I have broken off contact with
Robert Monroe (who is now physically dead), with the circle of people around
him and with the Monroe Institute. ___
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