Kathleen McGowan's Legal Headaches; Plus: Aliens and Anti-Semitism at "Veterans Today" Magazine

2/22/2015

Regular readers will remember Kathleen McGowan-Coppens, the widow of ancient astronaut theorist Philip Coppens and regular History Channel commentator who believes that she is a lineal descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. McGowan-Coppens (who also goes by the un-hyphenated name Kathleen McGowan for some purposes) made an official statement on her Facebook page yesterday afternoon claiming that a “delusional” author named Suzanne Olsson has been stalking her since 2006. Olsson accused McGowan-Coppens of plagiarism of her own work, which advocates the nineteenth century hoax that Jesus survived the crucifixion and traveled to India. (Given that Olsson’s work is inspired by Nicolas Notovich’s 1894 hoax, I’m not sure what was “plagiarized”!) Olsson has filed lawsuits against McGowan-Coppens, who claims Olsson files suits in faraway jurisdictions or when she is out of the country in the hope of winning a default judgment. Olsson claims that she won a default judgment against McGowan-Coppens in Los Angeles and is actively asking for help to find the author in order to serve her with papers so she can place a lien on McGowan-Coppens’s property.

McGowan-Coppens denies that a judgment has occurred and claimed there is an organized group of haters who are conspiring to attack her:

The final thing you should know is that there is a small, venomous, and prolific group of anti-McGowan zombies out there who stick together, And Ms Olsson is their leader in the war against me and my work. They are a sad little group, and the saddest part is that they are mostly women who are angry because I did not in some way approve, validate or acknowledge their research, their claim to be the true reincarnation of Mary Magdalene, the lost Queen of the Bloodline, the official Grail Child, the rebirth of Salome or would not endorse or promote their self published book or terrible tarot deck (which plagiarizes my work and not in a good way).

McGowan-Coppens, of course, believes she receives special communiques from Mary Magdalene, her ancestress, so naturally I can only conclude that she must be the true Queen of the Bloodline! I have it on good authority from the One True Napoleon at the local loony bin, though the One True Cleopatra is not so sure.

On her Facebook page, Olsson disputes McGowan-Coppens’s version of events, writing that she is not a stalker and has not engaged in the harassment McGowan-Coppens alleges:

I never stalked KMG [Kathleen McGowan], nor harassed her in any way. I never contacted her publisher with death threats, although I did contact them about plagiarisms and KMG's allegations of threats made to them. In our court documents back and forth for the past 8-9 months, they have no records of me making threats, harassing anyone, or threatening anyone in any way.

But this is not the only legal tangle involving McGowan-Coppens. Peter van Deursen and Anneke Koremans, a married couple from the Netherlands who were friends of the late Philip Coppens, accuse McGowan-Coppens of failing to pay money she owed them for running her Magdalene-Cathar-Holy Bloodline tours of southern France, where they now live and run a tour business. According Van Deursen and Koremans, Philip Coppens was paying his wife’s expenses from his own accounts before his death but did not finish paying for the last five tours before he died in December 2012. They say that they approached McGowan-Coppens, who refused payment.

The pair have a GoFundMe page in which they are asking for €5,500 to help defray the costs of suing McGowan-Coppens for the €22,000 they say she failed to pay back after they covered the cost from their own funds. The two allege that McGowan-Coppens claimed she did not have the money to make good the debt, and they outline what they see as her extremely lucrative lifestyle, paid for by the fringe history industry, including the rich payout she received from her husband’s estate and the home she and Coppens shared, which they claim is worth $1.6 million.

Van Deursen and Koremans say they will have to sell their house if they do not win the lawsuit and recover the money.

But enough about McGowan-Coppens.

I also want to share a wretched article I read in Veterans Today magazine. This publication presents itself as an independent journal focused on military affairs from a veterans’ perspective, but according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it is actually a hate publication with anti-Israel claims about Israel masterminding 9/11 and anti-Semitic Holocaust denial claims. The SPLC describes the publication as “Israel-bashing mixed in with some bona fide anti-Semitism.” The journal is particularly deceptive because it cloaks its hate in the American flag and features genuine information of concern to veterans and links to veterans services, all the better to lure in the unsuspecting alongside the sympathetic.

Does it surprise anyone that the magazine also ran an article tying Israel and international Jewry to ancient astronauts and the Reptilians?

Preston James, who claims to hold a Ph.D. in psychology, used a recent article to discuss Stephen Greer’s Disclosure Project and the earlier claims about the so-called Majestic Twelve, and he moves from contemporary Reptilian (or “Draco”) claims to the ancient astronaut theory, positing that space aliens were in control of Babylon, infiltrated world Judaism, and through the Jews gained control of the global finance system.

Just look at the number of paranoid conspiratorial bugaboos packed into just one paragraph of James’s article:

The incredibly Evil Alien ET group with which these Rothschild Banksters have aligned themselves is alleged to be the much feared Dracos who have been reported to be Cosmic Negative Energy Parasites who feed off of painful human death and acute human illness with great suffering. These Dracos especially relish child sacrifice and any mass human sacrifice caused by plagues and or staged, engineered wars and love to make humans sick by poisoning them with toxic additives and strange stealth viruses added to vaccines.

James claims that the aliens worship Satan and that Aleister Crowley was the first to learn that the Reptilians (Dracos) were in control of the Greys when he met a Grey inside a pyramid and named him Seth.

Oh, and as for these aliens in league with the Jews: They are analogous to the Watchers from the Book of Enoch, as evidenced from their propensity to mate with human women and produce offspring: “Some say even that top Dracos males have even bred with humans females to create incredibly evil, two-faced individuals who are then placed in high government positions with great authority, a good outward persona but filled with instinctive Draco evil.” James explicitly follows the so-called “Serpent Seed” theology and argues that the “Babylonian Talmudic Jews” (as opposed to the “good” Jews) are the descendants of Cain, whose father was Lucifer, not Adam, and therefore are soulless and inhuman.

The remainder of his article descends into rank anti-Semitism drawn from centuries of European and American conspiracy theories. His views are strange hybrid of The Two Babylons, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Twelfth Planet, wrapped up in the clothes of David Icke’s Biggest Secret. It’s pretty much the id of fringe history stripped of the pretense that the movement’s darker impulses aren’t drawn explicitly from anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories.

54 Comments

Only Me

2/22/2015 01:26:24 am

Not surprisingly, Preston James seems to have deep-seated issues. I guess it's a requirement in the woo counter-culture.

Maybe we can get Death Battle to do an episode with KMG and Suzanne Olsson!

be nice...

2/22/2015 03:54:15 am

Streetfighter II is 2-D in its format and rather violent.

2/22/2015 04:02:01 am

Let me help you out. Death Battle is a hypothetical match-up between different characters in popular culture, to see who would win. It's done by ScrewAttack! and can be found on YouTube. If you don't understand the joke, ask.

ascii is cool

2/22/2015 10:37:05 am

cooooool. it sounded
...so ...literal... i
had this mental image

spookyparadigm

2/22/2015 02:21:50 am

Between the David Dees artwork and the content, it's like a condensed fortified version of five years of the Jeff Rense site.

I have read, seen, and heard many different components of that essay in various forms. It is clear that rather than just being a single author's weirdness, it represents a significant form of American folk belief that plugs strongly into certain aspects of the American political and religious culture (mostly paleocon antigovernment conspiracy culture, the "tactical" advocacy culture that sometimes gets labeled militia, evangelical culture). The comments on the bottom are typical, and you'll see comments like that on the hundreds of similar youtube videos that rack up tens of thousands of views, with some hitting in the hundreds of thousands and occasionally in the millions (throw giants in and you can get those numbers).

Yet if I forwarded that to my colleagues who study American culture and religion, they'd say "that's crazy" and ignore it. I always broken record Barkun here. I've seen just a handful of other attempts at understanding this stuff and they usually either take the "ha ha and then compassionate look at the weirdos from my upper middle class perch" take for popular consumption (Louis Theroux and Jon Ronson come to mind, though I sometimes like Ronson), or they actually do touch on it but don't go anywhere deep enough. Another article, from around the time Barkun's book came out, that is one of the few that actually discusses this stuff is

Partridge, Christopher
2004 Alien demonology: the Christian roots of the malevolent extraterrestrial in UFO religions and abduction spiritualities. Religion 34:163-189.

David Icke forms a nice "out" for this material because he's ostensibly "liberalish" (he talks about peace and love and shamans and isn't a raving bible thumper, and he's British which automatically gives him a certain gravitas for Americans who aspire to the creative class). But he's just a part of the deeper stream that pre-dates Icke, predates what Jerome Clark wants to wall off into the 1980s as the "dark side of ufology", and plugs into an older and uglier conspiracy culture that got a huge boost with the mainstreaming of the "religious right" in the 1970s. It was sometimes considered "new" in its Satanic Panic form, which was just a modestly repackaged version.

Just as Ancient Aliens is a warmed over version of Theosophy, there is a reason that some of the most influential UFO conspiracy theorists would reprint the Protocols. And even if they themselves get "discredited" (Shaver/Palmer who started the whole thing, the Aztec hoaxers who invented crashed saucers, Barker/Bender and the MIB, Bill Moore and Bill Cooper and the 80s dark side including MJ12, David Jacobs and Budd Hopkins and their sexually scary conspiratorial hybridizing abductors who power much of the Demonic UFO ideology now) by the more intellectual thought leaders of ufology who don't have a lot of influence on actual practices by purveyors or believers in that subculture, their ideas spread beyond them and form the basis of the community.

PS: Looks like Nick Redfern is still working this angle after his Final Events attempt to cross this over into the more secular parts of the UFO community didn't quite deliver as much as I suspect had been hoped

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/01/demons-and-ufos-final-events-update/

Matt Mc

2/22/2015 03:41:51 am

I never read that Final Events stuff before, wow makes Ickes look kind of sane, hell it makes Alex Jones look sane.

true...dat.

2/22/2015 03:52:34 am

its a total sub-culture with a fringe that once was more
mainstream in the America of one hundred years ago...

2/22/2015 04:01:02 am

In my opinion, the book isn't worth getting (I have purchased and read it). Go listen to Redfern's interviews on Binnall of America or the Paracast if you want to get the gist. He doesn't really provide much beyond the broader tradition I describe above (found in that VT article), certainly not anything particularly credible in terms of evidence (and he'll straight up say he can't, that he's telling what he says he's been told). Or you could just listen to archives of C2C and before that Long John Nebel (who himself ended up getting roped into this stuff with the whole Candy Jones business), where it shows up all the time.

I am particularly disappointed in the Parsons-Crowley-LAM material. It's fascinating stuff, but the more I learn about it, the less credibly I find the idea that CIA-types would have made the leaps of logic to connect Crowley to UFOs in the 1950s. Yes, in retrospect we can establish the ties between the occult tradition, UFOs, reptilians, pulp fiction, ancient aliens in the like. But that was not what the culture was doing at the time, it was too obsessed with shiny space travel. The scenario that the Collins Elite, as a predominantly Ivy educated group (again, think early CIA and the like) would have followed the thread from Parsons back to Crowley, to LAM, to focusing on Christian demonology to understand UFOs makes narrative "sense" in a post Vallee, post Keel UFO lore. But not before them. I'm not saying Redfern is making it up wholecloth. Taking his book at face value, he's being told stories created after all of these transformations of UFO lore had occurred. This is particularly the case with "Lam". Much of Redfern's book centers around the idea of Lam being something like a UFO Gray. But as more people have gone back to explore this idea, which is now commonplace, it just doesn't seem to work. The infamous LAM portrait, pushed by Lovecratian occultist Kenneth Grant, makes more sense as this

http://ac2012.com/2012/10/20/lam-i-am/

Re-examine the ideas of Final Events without everything that follows Morning of the Magicians, and it just doesn't make sense.

2/22/2015 04:07:00 am

Alex Jones more or less believes something in this vein. He stresses that he doesn't necessarily believe the demonic angle, just that the globalists that will kill most of us and enslave the survivors believe in the demons as aliens (and the most common take I see these days, one reflected in Final Events and its discussion of the mythic PROJECT BLUE BEAM that is taken as gospel in conspiracy circles, is that indeed the entire UFO thing is being promoted as a face for such a take over in service to demons).

see

http://spookyparadigm.blogspot.com/2011/06/demons-great-old-ones-and-unified-field.html

The video is very much worth watching if you are interested in this business, as it is one of those times that the connective tissue is directly visible.

2/22/2015 04:03:35 am

Does anything about this stuff explain the raging anti-Semitism?

2/22/2015 04:12:01 am

As Jason has extensively reported on here, pseudoarchaeology reaches back to the Victorian era for inspiration, and in doing so it preserves many of the flaws of protoscience from that period including a fixation on race (this has since become a major appeal of pseudoarchaeology, hence the revival of different versions of the Moundbuilder Myth)

As conspiracy theory of the sort we're discussing is largely a rejection of the twentieth century (ranging from its elevation of science and reason, to the reforms in mainstream Christian practice for much of the century, to the dismantling of colonialist caste systems including Jim Crow) and likewise dips back to the virulently anti-Semitic attitudes of the time, which were already in conspiracy theory mode (the core anti-Semitic belief is a conspiracy theory), I'd suggest the same effect.

2/22/2015 04:24:24 am

So, another example of the endless recycling of bunk to empower the disenfranchised. Got it.

Byron DeLear

2/22/2015 07:07:49 am

Also, in the same way that fears of UFOs and alien invasion depicted in movies, etc. during the Cold War mirrored various red scares, the xenophobic perceptions of Jews and Jewish culture as somehow being alien and befuddlingly foreign plays into fringe theories which conflate different cultures with wild tales of reptilians, aliens, etc. It seems this kind of conflation easily occurs when stoking fears in the minds of the gullible. It confirms the fears and is reassuring as far as brain chemical rewards go. This morning Haley Barbour on Meet the Press said people questioning President Obama being Christian has nothing to do with racism. But questioning his citizenship or religion is exactly this sort of conflation driven by fear of the other which is illogical but rewards the conspiracist with emotionally satifying conclusions.

2/22/2015 05:51:10 am

Grail Child? More like Fail Child, am I right?

2/22/2015 06:01:10 am

*In Paul Bearer voice* Ooooooohhhh, yeeeeeeessss!

KMG claims to be the 58th descendant and Olsson claims to be the 59th. Can you still be *the* Grail Child that many generations removed?

2/22/2015 06:10:05 am

Maybe it's like The Chosen One or The Perfect Being. There is one for each age/generation :)

Titus pullo

2/22/2015 05:58:59 am

May e it's just about economics. This stuff tends to sell pretty well. Maybe some of the advocates really believe their theories but they all seem to have an I ate sense of cashing in. I get it. Most of us have jobs that sooner or later become dull, moronic, boring. Having a passion and being able to make a living off it, especially one where you are challenging all the do called experts in ares you were not gifted enough to become a professional in must be very attractive.

a little of the scott wolter chip on the shoulder thing.

Oh and if the women in question is part Devine, should she look more like kate upton and less like well you get the point.

2/22/2015 06:22:17 am

Maybe KMG *is* part Divine...

No, wait, that would be an insult to the late female impersonator that was popular long before RuPaul. :)

Shane Sullivan

2/22/2015 07:28:55 am

You have to appreciate that the James article makes perfectly clear which things we're supposed to be afraid of, by capitalizing them: "Evil Alien ET", "Rothschild Banksters", "Dracos", "Preston James"...

2/22/2015 07:32:50 am

LOL

2/22/2015 08:11:44 am

You forgot the "Organized Crime Cabal (OCC) run by the City of London World Zionists (WZs) who use the International Zionist Crime Syndicate (IZCS), Israeli Likudist Cutouts, stateside “Israeli-first” Dual and Triple Citizen Traitors, and the Bush Crime Cabal (BCC)"!

Thank God for "American Secret Space War Fleet"!

Wait, are they the good guys or the bad guys?! I'm so confused! Must... fight... nano... implants...

2/22/2015 10:29:47 am

Change Rothschild banisters to central bankers and you might be on to something ha ha

I must say I'm not sure how the anti semitism becomes part of some of these guys theories. I'm not a big fan if central banks and ou monetary policy in general, George shaw that great socialist said it best with regards to trusting an elected offical or gold to base your monetary system, he chose gold. That said many jews are libertarians who don't advocate strong central govts and fiat currency, von mises was jewish and he essentially created the modern libertsrian views on banking..I guess these folks view any organization with a lot of power like the fed or even the govt not only as suspicious but part of the consparicy.

2/22/2015 10:55:47 am

To quote a late friend of mine (who was Jewish), "If we have all the money, someone forgot to tell me!"

2/22/2015 11:07:59 am

"I must say I'm not sure how the anti semitism becomes part of some of these guys theories."

This is how:

"many jews are libertarians who don't advocate strong central govts and fiat currency, von mises was jewish and he essentially created the modern libertsrian views on banking"

Not saying you're an anti-Semite, but it's generalizations and irrelevant appeals to ethnic/religious background that get anti-Semitism into places where it doesn't seem to belong intrinsically.

2/22/2015 08:00:59 am

There is a lot more serious scholarly work on these topics than spookyparadigm's comments may suggest (as I'm sure he is aware).

Nevertheless, both Barkun's book and Partridge's article are quite good and worth a look.

Incidentally, there is nothing strange about a "liberalish" European fringe figure like Icke embracing anti-Semitism. The European Left has always been much more Stalinist and much more anti-American than the American Left. These are the two main sources of anti-Zionism, which invariably collapses into anti-Semitism in the hands of extremists. A good article on this issue is Michael Billig's "Anti-Semitic Themes and the British Far Left" (originally published in the mid-1980s).

2/22/2015 08:06:35 am

Clarification: Stalinism and anti-Americanism are the two main sources of *contemporary* anti-Zionism. The debate over Zionism before the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel was quite different in nature, though frequently just as nutty.

2/22/2015 08:30:19 am

Most of the antisemitism we're talking about here has little to do with anti-Zionism. Yes, the two get conflated, and if you go to places like Rense, you absolutely will see that. I would say that this is indeed one major element to broader conspiracy theory today, especially after 2001.

But the core of antisemitism one finds in Icke or Bill Cooper or various conspiracy theories about "international bankers" are the old classic European mode of witchcraft accusations pointing to an ethnic class rather than to specific magical actors. And of course the Protocols predated Stalinism. Israel gets mixed into it, but the elite conspiracy is above all that in these schemes.

Did I post the Long John Nebel interview with Shaver here? It is ... uncomfortable to listen to. Palmer sounds like your usual promoter, like on AA. Shaver, well, yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTGYlTXpcpc

2/22/2015 08:40:44 am

You're right about "international bankers" and the Protocols predating Stalin, of course! However, I was speaking of their specifically anti-Zionist versions, which received strong impetus Stalinist (and generally early Cold War) propaganda after the founding of Israel.

You're also right that most of the anti-Semitism we're talking about doesn't stem from anti-Zionism. But, again, I was specifically talking about Leftist European anti-Semitism, which came up in connection with your comment about Icke.

2/22/2015 10:43:05 am

The 1920s and 30s were a very strange time. Many american academic jews were stron supporters of the USSR and with many in the american left apologists for the soviets. Walter durant was one such person with his coverage. Once Stalin purged the jews from the politburo and tossed Trotsky out the jewish left started to abandon the knee jerk communist support. The American left went to ridiculous degrees when Hitler and Stalin signed their nonaggression pact to make excuses for hitler and scream for nonintervention until operation Barbarossa launched and the blitzkrieg rolled over the purged red army. for worse, jews got attached to communism by elements of the right and left which did play into hisorical european anti semitism. Now about secretary forrestal....and those crazy theories...

2/22/2015 11:09:52 am

"american academic jews"

"the jewish left"

LOL

Dave Lewis

2/22/2015 03:39:55 pm

thanks for posting the link to the interview.

666

2/22/2015 11:17:53 am

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2/22/2015 11:19:16 am

"Olsson... advocates the nineteenth century hoax that Jesus survived the crucifixion and traveled to India... Olsson’s work is inspired by Nicolas Notovich’s 1894 hoax..."

Jason, Notivich's claim was that Jesus went to India during his
missing years", not that he traveled there after surviving the crucifixion. The latter is a tweak on the orthodox Muslim view that Allah saved Jesus from execution by hiding him.

2/22/2015 11:20:59 am

That's true - Olsson's take is not based on Notovich. As she keeps repeating.

2/22/2015 11:22:56 am

Olsson was inspired by the works of Gene D. Matlock - as Matlock has pointed out in one of his books.

2/22/2015 12:07:35 pm

Really? Which book is that? Also, Gene Matlock is a widely read and reliable author, whose words are to be taken seriously.

LOL

2/23/2015 02:18:38 am

One of my readers, a researcher named Suzanne Olsson, decided to go to Kashmir to find out whether I had written the truth. She intended to stay for just a few weeks but ended up staying years. Not only did she find Jesus' and Moses' graves, but she even found Mary's tomb in Muree, Pakistan, and the ruins of the home of Aaron, brother of Moses. She recounted her experiences in her fascinating book, Jesus in Kashmir, the Lost Tomb. (Gene D. Matlock, The Open Secret of India, Israel and Mexico-From Genesis to Revelations! pages 52-53, iUniverse, 2005)

2/23/2015 03:59:02 am

Yup. I believe every word this man says.

LOL

Jason Colavito link

2/22/2015 02:06:53 pm

I know Notovich claimed Jesus was in India before the crucifixion, but if I recall he was the first to say Jesus went to India. All the later versions (combining elements of the Basilides heresy and/or Islamic view of the crucifixion) must therefore connect back. I guess though that her more direct inspiration would be Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who proposed that Jesus died in India after the Crucifixion back in 1899, just after the Notovich hoax.

2/22/2015 02:30:13 pm

Ahmad's version is explicitly and of necessity in disagreement with Notovich's. The former needed it to be compatible with the Islamic teachings concering Jesus (and establish relics and mythos for his cult), while the latter needed it to be compatible with Christianity (and promote the fusion of Eastern mysticism and Chirstianity).

Whether Ahmad came up with his version independently is actually an interesting question to which I do not know the answer. But his is certainly the version Olsson seems to be following.

Also (and it can't be repeated enough), in addition to the Issa affair, Nicholas Notovich was a Russian secret agent and a forger of anti-Semitic documents.

2/23/2015 02:09:35 am

Olsson does not subscribes to Notovich, She repeats and believes in the claim that the remains of Yuz Asaf in the shrine of Roza Bal in Srinagar are those of Jesus of Nazareth. Because of these beliefs, held by Olsson and others, the shrine became closed to the public - an unpopular fact for the believers.

Also, Olsson does not mention the fact that this belief originated with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad around 1900, who started a sect that is not deemed popular in India.

2/22/2015 01:05:07 pm

By the way, while Nicholas Notovich may or may not have influenced Olsson, he is certainly relevant to the topic of anti-Semitism. Aside from his Issa forgery, he produced another forgery: a lengthy Russian anti-Semitic treatise "The Truth about the Jews", which he claimed to have been based on a German original from the first half of the 19th century, which had allegedly become impossible to find because the Jews bought up and destroyed most copies.

It opens with claim that the Talmud is an "absolutely immoral" book and that all the Jewish schools, being "cesspools of evil and propagators of its immoral teachings", outght to be closed immediately. The text contains standard misinterpretations of the anti-Taludist version of anti-Semitism. (It is worth noting that Notovich was a Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity.)

He also wrote (right around the same time as the above) a pamphlet agitating for the inevitability of Russia extending its influence into India and England's need to establish closer ties with Russia.

Oh, and he was a secret agent of the Russian okhrana, who served as a spy in France.

Oh, and he may or may not have been involved in an even more famous forgery. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You may have heard of it :)

2/26/2015 08:02:38 pm

As a research psychologist (Ph.D. in psychology, Indiana University) I have become more interested in the process of how these Ancient Alien nuts come to their extraordinary conclusions than debunking their conclusions. I mean, some of them are pretty smart and yet they spew out such unfounded, unsupported, intellectual garbage.
There seems to be a genre of this stuff and I am looking for the common underlying principles tying it all together.

Here are some of the requirements I have observed: 1. The object of the alien explanation has to be ancient. No one hypothesizes that aliens helped construct the Wells Tower in Chicago using ancient blueprints from the Dogon tribe. 2. The construction must appear to be difficult even with modern technology and require tools that ancients supposedly did not have; 3. The motive of the extraterrestrials in helping is obscured. (Why would they want to assist in these hellacious construction projects that derive from beliefs with no basis in fact?) 4. The object of ancient alien assistance has to be huge and heavy making it difficult to transport without extraterrestrial levitation devices or modern heavy tractors etc. No ancient alien theorist ever suggests that we were helped in creating transistors or GPS's or in making vaccines for polio and smallpox or the atomic bomb. It has to be BIG! (Maybe Einstein was an extraterrestrial?)
I suspect that the same processes that created ancient aliens theories are involved in conspiracy theories.
One more thing: The claim that extraterrestrials have even visited earth is harder to explain than anything they did while here. First there is no solar system with life-friendly planets closer than 4 light-years (Proxima Centauri) to earth and only a few are within 125 light-years. It takes us months to send a ship to Mars which is (I think) only 20 light-minutes away. It's a pretty daunting task to travel through interstellar space with enough provisions, fuel (even with Star Trek Warp Drive) and protection against cell-damaging radiation or damaging particles at that speed.
Could this be the solution to Fermi's Paradox? ("Where is everybody?") It's just too damn hard to get here! We keep seeing unexplained lights in the sky and there is the case of Betty and Barney Hill's abduction and the Incident at Exeter (now explained as lights reflecting off the midair refueling boom of a super tanker) but so far nothing that has really stood up. Unfortunately the search for extraterrestrials has been made more difficult by hoaxsters that seem to get a kick out of creating false sighting and making stuff up.

Tony Marino

2/27/2015 12:53:57 pm

I just read the "Veteran's Today" article and it has more bull in it than a cattle ranch. Much of this stuff is hardly believable. It's an idiotic mixture of anti-semitic garbage and stuff that looks like it was pulled from just about every sci-fi tv show,movie,novel,and comic on the planet.
WHAT does ANY of this have to do with American war veterans? This article wouldn't have been published in the "National Enquirer" without a lot of editing. Mr. Colavito is right here about the "Veteran's Today" article. And where did the writer get his Ph.D from? A Cracker Jack box? I'd hate to have THAT guy as my psychiatrist. He sounds nuttier than many of his patients.

All in all,it's a terrible article written by a guy who,judging by what he wrote,needs to talk to a psychiatrist HIMSELF. It's idiotic and Mr. Colavito was right to call these people out. It's ridiculous and stupid and needs to be condemned.

Suzanne Olsson link

3/2/2015 07:02:45 pm

I am Suzanne Olsson and I am responding to the article above that mentions me directly. I was Googling for something else when this came up in the search engine..Should I reply to you? Yes. I May as well. I was in constant touch via emails and forums with Laurence Gardner when he began assembling his research for his first book, "Bloodline of the Holy Grail." His web master lived in New Zealand, where I also lived at the time- and so we all became friends. It was Laurence Gardner who first told me that my family, the Des Marets (Merovingians according to him) were part of his bloodline theory- and his history. One of my ancestors was Godfrey, First King of Jerusalem, so that got his attention. And mine. history. He told Michael la Fosse the same thing..but Michael gave himself a bad name and brought shame to the entire desposyni-bloodline hypothesis. It soon became a laughing stock. In about 1995 through 1998 I also heard about an alleged grave for Jesus in India. I was retired, assisting the Red Cross, and free to go and so with encouragement from Laurence and others, I went to India with this long piece of paper with the entire genealogy written out. We all thought it was a good idea leading to a request to open the tomb and get DNA. No one had done anything quite like this before! Laurence Gardner was helping me in approaching National Geographic on my behalf asking for financing for me (in the form of Grant money). I never did get grant money. I could not afford all the travel and research plus the DNA tests so things floundered. But I had started out stating I was the 59th descendant in order to have a legitimate reason to open the grave for DNA. When I got to Kashmir and found other families made the same claims, I immediately dropped my claim and began promoting them for DNA studies. It just seemed safer for me under the circumstances there.. I did not want to draw attention to myself. Terrorism was just getting in to full swing in that region. Kathleen McGowan was on several Yahoo forums back then, including LG's Entropic forum. My work was discussed there and on my own forum. KMG knew that we were planning to release a book about the young beautiful Kashmir girl being a probable descendant of Jesus, real live Grail child. It would have opened the way to re-apply for the Nat Geo Grant money for DNA testing at the tomb. That's where and how the idea started and where Kathleen McGowan came up with the idea to announce herself the Grail child. I had published these ideas earlier in Thailand...I was warned to get the copyright date on my book as soon as possible. The first copyright was in 2002. But it was mostly a rough draft- not yet finished. A lot of angry letters got exchanged between me and Kathleen. She knew exactly what she had done. Before her sudden switch to Grail child, she was a hereditary Wiccan priestess and went to Egypt for translations of the Emerald Tablets (? or so she says ) she was involved with Linda Goodman and astrology- and that ended badly too.She claims her ideas were stolen and Linda decreed her the hereditary heiress to her astrology ideas..all arrived at through dreams about Linda...not based on facts. I only mention this to indicate how uncommitted KMG was to anything Magdalene until much later..until after she knew of me and Laurence. Now on to the tomb of Jesus issue. I did not know about Ahmaddis when I began. But I did know they were regarded as a cult in Sunni Islam. I could not make any progress if I was associated with them in any way. And so all the research had to stand on its own and be independent of anyone else's claims, including Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Notovich. I basically started with nothing from scratch to see if any historical evidence held up in support of the theory. I came away a believer, and that's what I wrote about in my book- the relics and scrolls that remain relatively unknown in Kashmir, plus a few family members there who believe Yuz Asaf is their ancestor.. This is why myself and those left in Kashmir felt deeply betrayed by Kathleen McGowan. They blamed me. I will now address something else written here- about the lawsuit I have against Kathleen McGowan. Yes, there is a very major serious lawsuit against her. I have already been awarded 2 million dollars from Kathleen McGowan and Simon & Schuster. The final judgement is still in the Courts- I am waiting for the final review from the Judge. Any one of you who can access Federal Court records through PACER can find the case. Kathleen McGowan made public statements that I made death threats and stalked her. She says Simon & Schuster had to cancel her book tours because of me. These are blatant lies. In the lawsuit I demanded proof from her or from Simon & Schuster. They had nothing to support her claims. She has also publicly accused Tim Wallace Murphy and William Henry (among others) of making death threats against her. It is the way her mind manufactures stor

Suzanne Olsson, Part 2 link

3/2/2015 07:16:26 pm

Due to word limitations, I did not finish my post. but I covered most everything brought up by the others here..I apologize to Jason if I spoke too much. I just wanted to set the records straight on a few things directly related to me. If anyone has questions about anything I've written here, you are free to contact me by email or on Facebook..Gene Matlock has been very old, frail, ill, and blind. We never agreed on much, but we have remained dear friends all these years and I will miss him when he passes. Thanks Jason for your most interesting and stimulating blog...keep up the good work

Jean link

3/31/2016 02:58:38 pm

Anneke Koremans on author Kathleen McGowan [Magdalene Series, The Book of Love, The Expected One...Unpaid Financial Judgment.

I need to share with everyone what I have been holding in for 3 years. And why? To protect someone who has done wrong? Therefore I am now posting this, so that everyone knows what has been going on in our lives that has brought us so much financial and emotional stress. In this post I will be stating FACTS and therefore this is not slander. It is an alert to all those who wish to do business with this person or get financially involved with her in any way.
Fact 1: Kathleen McGowan (DEMORI LLC, an empty American Limited Liability company which has been suspended by the Secretary of State of California)) owes us over 30.000 Euros, but refuses to pay. This was proven in COURT on December 14th, 2015. The PDF with the ruling of the Court will be made available to anyone who asks for it.
Fact 2: Kathleen McGowan has repeatedly and horribly slandered not only my name, but that of my husband, our company, our supporters and many other friends, not only by word of mouth, but also online and in public. There are many witnesses to this fact and several screen prints have been made, which are now in the possession of our lawyer. Her lies and false accusations have damaged us badly.
Fact 3: Even though the judge has ruled for an immediate payment, she has not done so. Therefore, her company DEMORI LLC, and Kathleen McGowan (also known as Kathleen Harkey, Kathleen Harkey-Smith, Kathleen Coppens, Kathleen McGowan Coppens or any mix of the above she wishes to hide behind) has now officially stolen over 30.000 Euros from us. This is NOT slander. This is a FACT and now finally - after 3 years of protecting her reputation as an author - I am now finally getting this off my chest (quite literally, actually). I also give permission to everyone who wishes to share this post and I will no longer protect her from the consequences of her own actions. I do not take posting this post lightly, for it is in my nature to lift people up. Some people, however, are beyond help and need to be exposed. This time I need to help myself and get this burden out of my system to be able to move on. Thank you for your understanding. Peace and Love. heart emoticon

Jean

4/2/2016 10:04:26 pm

Anneke Koremens and her husband Peter Von Deursen won their lawsuit and Anneke posted the French judgement document to her Facebook. http://www.barinca-travel-and-tourism.info/DEMORIb.pdf ...sorry you'll have to get a translation--but suffice to say they were awarded a monetary judgement which McGowan refuses to pay and still denies to all her goddess minions & fellow Mag-heads that she owes or even lost. In one blog article: {http://www.legendsofthedivinefeminine.com/ } Kathleen says, quote: I "owe money to a business or businesses in France" - FALSE FALSE FALSE. My deceased husband's Dutch former business partners have attempted to exploit me and my grieving in-laws by demanding money in a way that, in my constitutionally protected opinion, can only be viewed as extortion. On the day of my husband's private memorial in France, two weeks following his death, they presented me with an invoice asking for money. They later submitted another invoice with his death date on it. Truly sick and sadistic stuff. Not only is none of this money owed, they have actually been overpaid by many thousands of dollars. They thought that by preying upon us when we were grieving we would simply pay them and not ask questions. Truly, these are the most despicable creatures imaginable, and now they spread the lie that I "am not honoring my husband's debts." This is a LIE. He owed them nothing, and there is plenty of proof of that, which will be played out appropriately in a court of law, and not on Facebook. If I had written them as fictional characters, no one would believe that anyone was this horrid. But... they are." end quote. Now..this is a comical Hillary Clinton-esque sidestep by saying her late husband didn't owe them any money...that is correct ..he didn't, he was paying her bills--which after his death when unpaid. The judge didn't buy it either--but good luck and best wishes to Anneke and Peter to recover their money...

Juan Valdez

4/2/2016 10:36:27 pm

Oh shut up Kathleen...The Courts ruled and you lost- , proving that you are a liar and a troublemaker..and this hasn't changed for 30 years. No one believes you anymore, not after years and years and years of these dramas with you....get therapy - get a real job selling designer handbags and shoes..That suits you better than pretending to be a real writer- script writer- historian, biblical expert- astrologer- "ordained" minister (an online certificate bought for ten dollars- we know who created it for you) Irish "terror survivor "and "editor" of the Irish Times ( which is nothing more than a one night bar schedule written in Los Angeles and printed on your computer at home) ..You need therapy and you need to leave nice people like Anneke and Peter alone- they are out of your class.

Casay DuHamel

4/10/2016 01:24:13 pm

I know Ms. Olsson. Her work is solid, she is published, and her theories regarding the Grail traditions are as valid an anyone else's. I know personally well known personalities within this genre, many appearing on the History Channel and Nat Geo. One thing these folks all agree on- Kathleen McGowan is a venomous liar, a victim of grandiose illusions, and a bit pathological. Thanks for the space. ;-)

Trixi

12/30/2017 02:14:11 pm

This woman Kathleen Coppens is a total bitch. She thinks she is the only one who has ever written a book on controversial subjects. SHE IS NOT IN FACT A DESCENDANT OF JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD TREAT PEOPLE LIKE CRAP IF THEY WERE RELATED TO JESUS. SHE IS AS DELUSIONAL AS HER DEAD HUSBAND.

HollyDolly

2/22/2018 11:17:02 am

I don't know anything about Ms.Coppens. Seen her on the show, Curse of Oak Island and maybe Acient Aliens. There is no way to prove that anyone is a descendant of Jesus Our Lord and St.Mary Magdelene.As far as we know Jesus was not married, and neither was his cousin St.John the Baptist. In fact the issue never even comes up in regards to the Baptist.Jesus was said to have brothers and sisters, and such are mentioned in the New Testament.St.James, His brother who was head of the Church in Jerusalem might have been married and also any other brothers and sisters Jesus had. In fact, somewhere, maybe in the Epsitles or Letters there was ir is mention of some roman ruler questioning these same relatives or their children. Or maybe it was in the writings of Josephus. 20/20 the tv show or Nightline did a show on the subject years ago., They spoke to the french gyspies which go to the Magdalen's shrine and who also worship there her handmaid, St.Sarah. Think it was Diane Sawyer who spoke to an elderly gypsy woman about the subject . This woman told Sawyer the whole thing was a pack of lies. Do I believe that gyspy woman ,yes. They have gone to the shrine for centuries and certainly would have their own story about this. Anyone can claim to be descended from anyone. I could claim to be the great granddaughter of Atilla the Hun. Now since my mother was a magyer as the hungarians call themselves, there might be some bit of truth to it.
I could also say I was related to Fredrick Barbarossa too. My father was german, his father was bavarian and his mother's family from around Pomeriana or so. Again there might be some truth to that statement since the relatives in Nuremberg keep the family history book, and another copy is in the State Archives in Hamburg. It doesn't matter this whole nonsense of a Grail Child or HolyBlood line. What matters is the message of Our Saviour and why He came to give us new life and save us from sins.To help the poor and downtrodden and to be peace makers.

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King of the USA

A True Historical and once highly classified and secretive event of the times

I was born legal King of the USA from a government sponsored program initiated within the early beginnings of the United States to establish the U.S.A. as one people and one nation legally upon royal ground. This all became effective and internationally government legal upon the date of my birth, October 6, 1942.

The following is in explanation of the Royal Program concerning that appointment.

In the early beginnings of the United States, a monitoring council was appointed to record the selected legal joining of native and visitor until a first legal royal birth could be established.

The “Royal Program” was initiated in our early beginnings for acceptance in world trade and commerce. Primarily because within the early beginnings of the US, all major powers of the world were those of royalty and we could not afford to become a rogue nation.

Soon after the Royal Program began, it was used as a ploy for acceptance in world trade and commerce. This was accomplished by leaking information of the program’s existence at the right time and place.

After leaking knowledge of the program within certain royal circles, the U.S. Government was soon to be visited by a small group of royalty from a few of the lesser powers of the time.

The first U.S. based meeting with these visiting royal world powers was a bit unusual. The beginning high formal ambient of the meeting soon developed into a casual but informal party with “business of the day” being the lesser of priorities. In other words the meeting developed into an event of gay celebration. Because of the nature of this first meeting, these casual events of celebration soon became popular but secretive within the royal powers of that era.

Word traveled fast because of the event of this first meeting and "with open arms" our new nation quickly gained popularity throughout the world's trade and commerce lanes.

The following is a documented account of the "Royal Program" after US acceptance in world trade and commerce.

After US acceptance within the world's trade and commerce lanes, the Royal Program was forgotten by most and seemingly abandoned.

However the program continued as usual until the late 1800s, at which time the US Federal Government ceased funding of the program because of political differences of the time. However with government consent, the monitoring council of that program (known as The Council of Indians) continued funding and maintenance until the program was completed "October 6, 1942".

Until shortly before this date of “October 6, 1942, the program had disappeared from view for a number of decades with the exception of those that continued to maintain it. Much later when my birth as legal US government king was to be a sure thing, a final meeting of the monitoring council and the federal government convened to determine the fate of that program.

During the final minutes of the meeting it was stated that although the birth marked the completion of the Royal Program, it could not be given full honors as planned or that it deserved “said the federal government”.

Further relating that earlier plans and promises concerning the Royal Program were not expedient at the time of it's completion in the early 1940s. This caused amending of official parameters of the program. However the establishing of royal ground by the legal birth of a king could not be amended.

These things were directly related by the federal government in a final meeting with the monitoring council shortly before my birth was to be a sure thing.

The Monitoring Council then said if the birth cannot be honored as planned, might we honor the birth child with the title of "Blackfoot Chief" which to us means the same as king. To this the federal government agreed and the meeting was adjourned.

In the early 1950s, original entitlements of my royal birthright were being contested. This caused the monitoring council of the already completed "Royal Program" to call a recount. When this was completed, I was informed that I was still legal King and Blackfoot Chief of the United States and the Americas.

The monitoring council of the "Royal Program" was created from the wealthier families of the first citizenship indigenous (The educated and elite of The Blackfoot Indians). Their original name was not allo

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