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Review of "Sekret Machines: Gods" by Tom DeLonge with Peter Levenda (Part 3)

3/10/2017

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​Today I will conclude my review of Tom DeLonge’s and Peter Levenda’s new ancient astronaut book Sekret Machines: Gods, which has proven to be a rehash of standard ancient astronaut material with a good deal of Graham Hancock’s fantastical universe of altered consciousness and lost civilizations thrown into the mix thanks to Levenda’s admitted fascination with Hancock’s ideas. This all culminates in the book’s full-throated descent into a paean for religious belief and spirituality to counter the supposed horrors of science, secularism, and materialism. It’s depressing how frequently ancient astronaut claims turn into religion by proxy.
​Chapter 6
To that end, the sixth chapter opens with speculation about why immortality is linked to the stars, but Levenda has eyes only for space travelers (who are somehow also divine spiritual essences), unwilling to consider that the fact that the circumpolar stars were considered “immortal” because they never set may be reason enough, with no need to imagine that humans have a genetic memory of panspermia. He then goes on to resurrect the favorite chestnut of all fringe writers, the idea that pyramids around the world must be connected just because a tapering shape is the most stable architectural form for a tall building prior to the age of steel. To support this, he turns to various hyperdiffusionist arguments about cross-cultural contact in the distant past. Some are plausible, particularly when nearby Old World cultures are concerned, but others are speculative at best, particularly the claim that Tibetan culture derives from ancient Egypt. He approvingly cites Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, and Robert Schoch as evidence for the diffusion of an ur-culture from a sunken lost continent to the Old World and the New, and that a cosmic event caused the flooding at the end of the Ice Age remembered as the Flood of Noah. None of this has anything to do with aliens but it does speak to the love Levenda has for the Hancock school of fringe ideas.
 
To make it connect with aliens, Levenda, having spent chapters trashing Zecharia Sitchin, decides that he is right after all and that aliens came to Earth to make humans as a slave race: “thus our thesis leans more towards Sitchin than it does a purely accidental, if not transcendental, explanation without embracing Sitchin’s theories completely or abandoning the ideas of directed panspermia, for instance.” The bottom line, he says, is that the answers to humanity’s origins are to be found in studying religion, not science. Like every astronaut theorist before him, Levenda finds a way to restore the importance of religion and undo the existential terror unleashed by the Enlightenment. He even claims that religious ideas of heaven came from a cargo cultist stowing away on a spaceship and returning to tell the tale!
 
Following this, Levenda describes various rituals around the world that pay homage to or connect people to the stars, and he claims these as evidence of a space alien connection. He neglects to mention similar rituals that connect people to water, the sun, the Earth, the ancestors, and all manner of other natural phenomena that have nothing to do with aliens. In context, they are nothing special, but he tries to make them so by comparing out of context bits and pieces to modern discoveries. For example, he speaks of Daoism’s seven “dark stars” of the Big Dipper, invisible to the naked eye (and different from the two invisible stars of the Dipper in standard Chinese cosmology) and claims them to be an anticipation of the modern conclusion that the first of the stars were made of “dark matter.” “It is almost too easy to draw comparisons between the dark stars of Chinese astronomy and the dark matter of the physicists,” Levenda writes. He offers no source for his discussion of the seven dark stars, and I have been unable to identify a source for it. According to scholarly accounts I read, the T’ang dynasty developed the concept of the two dark stars of the Dipper from the Indians, who had tried to account for lunar eclipses by claiming dark planets passed in front of the moon. Clearly, this is not the same as secret knowledge of dark matter.
 
“All religion is UFO religion,” Levenda says, appropriating for himself every expression of spirituality on Earth, from chthonic gods to Earth mothers, and especially Abrahamic faiths. Whether they worship the divine in the water, on land, or inherent in all creation, it doesn’t matter. As long as they mention the stars or the sky, they must be based on space aliens. Levenda seems to think this is stunningly new, but he apparently hasn’t met Ancient Aliens producer Kevin Burns, who said nearly the same thing last year: “[Hindu] religion is totally based on extraterrestrials as, by the way, all religions are.”
 
The remainder of the chapter is an extended discussion of religion, shamanism, and the nature of consciousness, and Levenda implies that the dramatic conclusion of the book series, in volume 3, is that the UFO phenomenon traces back to interdimensional powers that interact with our consciousness. He thinks this is a revelation, which means he hasn’t been watching Ancient Aliens speculate on this exact same line for the past eight years.
 
Chapter 7
This chapter rehearses standard ancient astronaut claims about ancient Persia and India, from gods that ride in winged discs to flying vimanas. Levenda wrongly attributes the English words “divine” and “devil” to the Vedic devas, but they are not directly related. Instead, scholars believe all of these words share an ancestral origin in the Proto-Indo-European word *deiwos (as reconstructed from its descendant words), which first meant “celestial” and later “god.” Levenda purposely downplays the Indo-European heritage shared from Britain to India in order to make it seem as though shared elements derive from an outside source rather than from a shared origin in Indo-European myth and cult. Somehow this leads us back to Zecharia Sitchin and the Nephilim because Levenda identifies them as another expression of mythic wars between angels and demons, wars he believes different cultures participated in on different sides, thus accounting for why some cultures seem to worship other cultures’ devils and vice versa. Diabolizing other people’s gods is a longstanding tradition, as St. Augustine amply demonstrated, and there is no reason to imagine gods and demons are real to explain why.
 
Nor, therefore, must we attribute Nephilim-giants and their extinction to a “war” among the “races” of humanity to purge genetic “misfires.” For a man so concerned about purging the ancient astronaut theory of Nazi and white supremacist doctrines, he seems unconcerned that he envisions the past as a race war to ensure the purity of the bloodlines. By his own logic about genetic memory and cargo cults, this makes the Nazis “right” because they have a distorted genetic memory of the ancient race wars.
 
Levenda rhapsodizes for a while about Vedic religion and then laments that “technology has replaced religion as the opiate of the people.”
 
He goes on to discuss Asian philosophy and religions in mind-numbing detail that I will spare you, and he enters into evidence a divine wheel that the Buddhist Pāli Canon says rises up from the eastern ocean and enters the mansion of a king destined to win in battle. This wheel was like a second full moon. Levenda tells us that this is proof that peoples of the subcontinent saw flying saucers, for otherwise they would never have accepted the idea of a flying heavenly wheel. The flying wheel image, originally associated with the sun, was a longstanding Indo-European tradition, and it would not surprise me at all if this Buddhist wheel is an indirect derivative via the Vedic or Hindu traditions from which Buddhism borrowed. Levenda quotes information about the Buddhist ideal wheel from secondary sources and omits that it is only one of eight ideal possessions of a king, among the others being an ideal gem, elephant, and wife. In context, the similarity to a UFO fades away, particularly when we compare the symbolism of wheels and mills across both Eastern and Indo-European cultures. To make a very long chapter shorter, Levenda describes many different types of mythical wheels, including swastikas, and calls them all flying saucers, just like the ancient astronaut theorists he ridicules for doing pretty much the same thing. He wrongly says that his insight—that mandalas and wheels reflect spacecraft—was “not imagined by many ‘ancient alien theorists.’” At least three episodes of Ancient Aliens specifically connect mandalas to space aliens, like this one.
 
Levenda adds that he believes, based on Jacques Vallée’s research (whatever that is worth), that UFO sightings peak in years when Tibetan Buddhists hold mass initiations. Fortunately, Vallée provides “peak” years for 7 out of 15 years in the middle twentieth century, so some year is bound to align with some event or another. It’s almost 50-50 odds!
 
Chapter 8
This chapter deals with Greek mythology, opening with the perspectives of Max Müller, who, while brilliant, was a Victorian solar myth proponent and more than 130 years out of date. Levenda discusses Hesiod’s Theogony but omits its clear debt to Hittite myth, and through it Mesopotamian mythology. As a result he presents as “confirmation” of the Nephilim the Greek story of the Giants, a story that he doesn’t know (or doesn’t care) that scholars like Jan Bremmer had long ago argued were in conversation with the Semitic account. Bremmer argued, persuasively, that the stories of the Titans and the Watchers share a close connection. “Such a clear parallel to the Biblical account in Genesis,” Levenda gushes, as though no one had noticed before. The Church Fathers were aware of it, as were the Greeks themselves. Levenda follows the account of the Gigantomachy given by Ovid, but he fails to note that Ovid’s version is erroneous, a conflated account that mixes elements of the Titanomachy, the Gigantomachy, and the assault on Olympus by the Aloadae. His argument, consequently, is without merit since he knows not of which he speaks. He refuses to trace Greek myths to their earliest forms, and he declines to explore the debt that our versions of Greek myths owe to Near East influences—subjects that Bremmer, Walter Burkert, M. L. West, and many other scholars have covered in detail. It is just silly to declare Greek myths to be an independent confirmation of Nephilim contact.
 
Following this, Levenda recycles his earlier discussion of Gnosticism, making the same points again, and again refusing to explore the actual cultural diffusion that occurred between Mesopotamian cultures and the Jews and Greeks. The result is the absurdity of accepting Noah’s Flood as a real event, despite the fact that geology does not support a global flood. He tries to psychoanalyze the Nephilim and suggests that their issues were psychological and not physical, that they had bad brains and bad genes. Some were physical giants, he speculates, because of a “chromosomal abnormality” due to inbreeding. So where are the bones of these giants? Ah, evidence is for losers! We have faith.
 
To that end, Levenda notes the tension between the genetic imperative to procreate with people outside of one’s family and the social imperative to stick to one’s own tribe against foreigners, and he decides—and I wish that I were making this up—that the aliens encoded an incest gene into humans to keep us mating within our “ethnicity” or “race” so we’ll remain genetically weak and ripe for exploiting on our prison/asylum planet. He’s not too clear on degrees of consanguinity, the intricate exogamous systems of hunter-gatherer societies, or how genetic diversity works, so it makes sense in his mind.
 
As we move toward the conclusion, Levenda says that alien abduction stories are preoccupied with sex, genitals, and semen and therefore must be modern Nephilim tales. He claims that humans are “obsessed” with disaster stories and that some outside force must be compelling us to move toward our own destruction, for otherwise we would never have invented the atom bomb unbidden. It quickly becomes clear that Levenda has confused a particular milieu in America for the world as he talks of how “we” as humans are afraid to acknowledge God in public and treat Him as a sop to rubes in exchange for votes. He blames the scientific revolution for disenchanting the world, and he declares that all of the ufologists and ancient astronaut theorists are wrong, that ancient people did not see UFOs and mistake them for the chariots of the gods; instead, we see the chariots of the gods and misinterpret them as flying spacecraft. Levenda declares the mystery of the UFOs to be the mystery of God himself, and the quest for aliens to be the search for the divine. Abductees, he said, have touched the face of an unknowable and vaguely malevolent God:
​… the abduction is carried out by acolytes of the Unknown God, the Alien God, and the experience is seen through a scrim of sexual manipulation and psychic dislocation. The abductees become an altar in a new Black Mass as the alien forces push their way into their consciousness, impatient and insistent, using whatever sublimated or repressed material they can find buried in their memories or fantasies.
​The bottom line is that Levenda sees aliens as akin to a Gnostic demiurge, an evil(ish) god that tries to manipulate and control us, blocking us from achieving a true transcendence by pushing past them to the real spiritual powers further up the great chain of being. The remaining volumes of the series, he says, will help us search for a new spirituality to embrace the divine. 
 
In what seems to be a plausible reading, Peter Levenda and Tom DeLonge seem to be laying the groundwork to start a cult and want to use ufology to attract acolytes to their mix of warmed over New Age claptrap, Gnostic obfuscation, and Theosophy-inspired pseudo-Buddhist mysticism. It’s sort of an inverted Raëlism, with the gods masquerading as aliens rather than the other way around, but the difference is one of perception more than fact.
 
So there you have it. The secret of Sekret Machines is that it is not a book about UFOs at all but rather a book about the Nephilim, for the same tired reasons: To prove the Nephilim real is to make the Bible true and justify faith of some kind or another. Other cultures, for what they are worth, exist only to provide support for the story of the Nephilim, and all of human history can be reduced to an effort to approach God through an understanding of the monsters that defied His will. We are all Nephilim hybrids, and all part evil and part divine. We have heard this all before.
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Scott David Hamilton
3/10/2017 10:43:23 am

"Levenda... laments that 'technology has replaced religion as the opiate of the people.'"

So Levenda interprets the term "opium of the people" to be a good thing? That's a little weird.

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Jason Colavito link
3/10/2017 11:42:03 am

It's ambiguous in the text. He recognizes that the opiate of the people is a bad thing because it keeps them docile, but he doesn't like that technology has replaced religion because it pushes people farther away from truth. I guess it's a matter of which is worse, not that one is good.

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Americanegro
3/10/2017 04:13:58 pm

"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

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Shane Sullivan
3/10/2017 11:54:33 am

"Levenda wrongly attributes the English words 'divine' and 'devil' to the Vedic devas..."

Anton LaVey made the same claim in the Satanic Bible. I always wondered if LaVey was intentionally spreading misinformation, or if he was just stupid. Ah, but we all know the answer is both.

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Naughtius
3/10/2017 01:20:33 pm

Does the word divine have the same root as Deus, Dia, Zeus, Jupiter, Dis Pater etc

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Shane Sullivan
3/10/2017 01:47:40 pm

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, yes.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=divine

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E.P. Grondine
3/10/2017 01:35:44 pm

Hi Jason -

But you have not mentioned the most important point:
Did they mention anything about ancient alien cats?

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/03/trove-of-statues-of-lion-headed-goddess.html#bTwbhEq6JZvfbhpH.97

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAbjAXL-NI&index=4&list=PLQFjoWZeHDMQln37vSd1heFOfte_O_Rhp

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Bob Jase
3/10/2017 02:20:20 pm

Just offhand, since DeLonge and Peter Levenda believe in extreme hyperdiffusionism - can they explain who taught the alien-gods their civilization?

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David Bradbury
3/10/2017 06:28:34 pm

- an earlier bunch of alien-gods?

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Americanegro
3/10/2017 09:49:54 pm

Time traveling cargo cultists from the future. Seems pretty obvious to me. Et voila le cercle est complet!

A Buddhist
3/10/2017 07:06:28 pm

Jason,

Why are you using the Wade-Giles system of transliterating Chinese (T'ang) rather than pinyin (Tang)?

Also, a question about the Book's teachings. Why do you call its teachings Pseudo-Buddhism rather than gnosticism?

Pseudo-Buddhism would, I would sincerely hope, follow Buddhism by being about escaping suffering through spiritual discipline (while probably ignoring the element of escaping the cycle of rebirth). Gnosticism, on the other hand, is about overcoming malignant and/or misguided gods to achieve higher spiritual awakening, often through mystical revelations from better gods and/or a Supreme Creator God. This gnostic conception of the spiritual path and goals seems to be more in common with what this book teaches than Buddhism.

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Jason Colavito link
3/10/2017 08:19:19 pm

I copied it out of the book on Chinese astronomy. I have no idea what preferred transliteration is used for any given word.

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A Buddhist
3/10/2017 08:45:41 pm

Pinyin is becoming the standard transliteration system with Chinese.

Would you be kind enough to answer my questions about why you call the book an advocate of pseudo-Buddhism?

Jason Colavito link
3/10/2017 09:05:56 pm

Levenda talks a lot about Buddhism and endorses elements of Buddhist mythology, but without the underlying spiritual philosophy of Buddhism. His discussion is superficial, and the elements he takes from it are in service of a New Age belief system made from a mish-mash of philosophies.

Amerineg'ro
3/10/2017 09:33:02 pm

You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with. This is something that people do not do.

Buddhist
3/10/2017 10:37:50 pm

Jason: Thank you, I guess, for the clarification. What aspects of Buddhism does he endorse?

It is such a pity that so few Euro-American people who are interested in spirituality try to study or follow legitimately old traditions. Either they try to join or create new systems or they try to change Christianity in some way to make it more spiritual.

Amerineg'ro: I make no claim to know two systems for transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is) based upon Modern Standard Manadarin. Nor do I expect Jason to know two such systems. However, I and many other people who use Latin Alphabet of Britain to transliterate Chinese characters or transcribe the sounds of Chinese are more familiar with the Pinyin system, and I was surprised at his use of the Wade-Giles system, since it seems to be falling out of use increasingly.

Weatherwax
3/11/2017 01:37:11 am

Since in all probability neither system gets to the correct Chinese pronunciation, there is no advantage to one over the other. Just do the best you can.

Americanegro
3/10/2017 09:14:49 pm

I knew it. Jason, you set off the Pali Canon alarm. Good thing you didn't mention sto- uh, nevermind.

"And from them the narratives entered popculture where susceptible people could then regurgitate the narrative with little prompting just like in the period of the Witchcraze."

- PACAL

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A Buddhist
3/10/2017 10:41:02 pm

"Good thing you didn't mention sto- uh, nevermind."

What is sto- in this context? A, is it a reference to stone holes? of the sort that Gunn/At Risk likes to write about?

BigNick
3/10/2017 10:55:51 pm

We've gone 96 hours now without anyone throwing a his system fit. I'm really proud of everyone. Thank you for all your hard work. Now can we just let it die?

Americanegro
3/10/2017 11:43:52 pm

What part of

"You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with"

gets you to:

"I make no claim to know two systems for transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)"?

Please for the love of Cthulhu stop trying to show how much you know, because that's invariably when you get stuff wrong. Pinyin has nothing to do with "the Latin Alphabet of Britain" whatever that is. Accept the correction and move on. For the love of God, Montresor!

A Buddhist
3/11/2017 09:02:08 am

Americanegro: I interpreted your statement "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with" as suggesting that you thought that I was claiming to be familiar with both Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems.

You reveal your own ignorance about the Latin alphabet and transliteration. I am baffled by your insistence that Romanization is not transliteration. Romanization is a sub-field of transliteration in which text is converted into the Latin (i.e., Roman) Alphabet. Do you think that all Latin alphabets have 26 letters? If you think this, then you are wrong. The Italian Latin alphabet, for example, has 21 letters, with other letters being used only for foreign words. The 26 letter Latin alphabet that is most commonly used originated in the British Isles to write English. And what is this absurd claim that Pinyin has nothing to do with the English Latin alphabet? Does it not use the 26 Latin alphabet characters of English? Certainly, the letters may have different sound values, but they are the same in form.

At Risk
3/11/2017 11:27:04 am

A BUDDHIST, a long-shot here, but do you have any idea how an Anglo-Saxon hooked-x rune found its way etched onto a 6th century Anglo-Saxon brooch found in England (as shown in a past Wolter Blog posting)? Is it merely a letter character or a symbol, or both, do you think, and what might it symbolize in this case?

I realize Germanic peoples "invaded" England a century earlier, and I'm wondering if you know anything about Latinized or Romanized x's (or hooked-x's) from around this period. You seem to be credible on the subject.

(For the sake of a peaceful blog, these questions are directed to A BUDDHIST and/or the blog Host, only.) Thank you.

A Buddhist
3/11/2017 12:55:16 pm

At Risk:

I sincerely am glad to be regarded as useful by some persons. Unfortunately, I know very little about runes. But I can tell you the following off hand.

Regarding runes: They originated as a script among Germanic pagans during the 3rd century CE (I think), and were increasingly displaced by Latin scripts with Christianization. The Anglo-Saxons originally used runes to write English, and I believe that this continued until the 7th century (when they were Christianized). Therefore, it is not anachronistic to have a 6th century Runic inscription from England. But this is no guarantee that it is authentic; another person, aware of when and where runes were used, could have fabricated the artefact in order to take advantage of such provenance.

As far as the hooked X being a rune, I have no idea. Rune shapes are almost entirely outside my knowledge base.

Mystical meaning being attributed to given letters or runes: This would not surprise me, although I have no knowledge of its being applied to runes. Runes were often connected to other concepts (wynn [ƿ] with joy, thorn [þ] with thorns, etc.) but whether these mnemonic devices were seen as revealing mystical truths, I know not. In other cultural milieus, there has been much mysticism associated with letters. For example, the Siddham script from India was named this because of the custom of writing siddham (be perfected) at the end of each document. A portion of Hindu and Buddhist tantra is about contemplating the physical forms and associated sounds of various letters, which are said to have mystical meaning. For example, there is a version of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, which only survives in Tibet, in which the entire Perfection of Wisdom is reduced to the syllable and associated letter A.

I hope that this helps you in your efforts to find some truth in the world.

At Risk
3/12/2017 11:56:59 am

Thanks, A Buddhist. I'm trying to come to a better understanding of the transition of the Hooked X, apparently westward across Europe, finally ending up as two different rune-types...first Anglo-Saxon and then Scandinavian.

I'm trying to better understand how Hooked-X's ended up on America's several "Hooked X" runestones (1362 - 1402), including the infamous Kensington Runestone. I'm talking about tracing language use, only, right now.

But, the various symbolic uses of the Hooked X are of course more difficult to understand...especially if in a given situation where secrecy might be at a premium.

For now, because of the equally infamous Larsson Papers, dated to the mid-1880's, we may assume that the Hooked X's used in America are associated in some way to the background legacy leading up to the Larsson Papers...and when the age of the tree (and deformed roots) once covering the KRS is considered, age-wise, in consideration of the date of the Larsson Papers, it becomes inconceivable that the American Hooked X's would not be connected to the post-Templars, and then likely to the Freemasons, also, considering the further reality of Rosslyn Chapel.

Here it is, more clearly: Start with the mid-1880's for the Larsson Papers, showing the "secretive" Hooked X style...Add 13 years up to 1898, the date the KRS was found. Directly over the buried runestone had been a stunted-growth tree that was proven by H. Holand and others to be MUCH OLDER than this gap, when supposedly the Hooked X was copied from the Larsson Papers onto the KRS. It's not factually possible.

Rather instead, the Larsson Papers tend to prove that the Hooked X's found on America's several Hooked X runestones are tied-in over time to a likely "continuing" secretive use, probably begun by or at least used by Templar and/or post-Templars, since we also have this apparent continuing Freemasonic use, with the connection to Rosslyn Chapel, which seems to be a successful bridge between Templarism and Freemasonry.

I wouldn't mind finding some other trail leading to bits of history truth, but for now this is what we have. Please keep in mind that someone can believe all the above, and without believing in other side-ventures such as the so-called Jesus Bloodline, or the Henry Sinclair attachments.

As an aside, A Buddhist, I'm curious to know whether Buddhism involves a requirement of envangelism, as you may understand that my Christian views entail this personal outlook...even in this unevenly plowed crop field...which also contains stones that haven't been properly cleared, if I may pretend to be speaking metaphorically, for the sake of peace....

Thanks again for your stand-out civility here.

A Buddhist
3/12/2017 01:10:26 pm

At Risk

The problems that I have with assuming that the hooked X has only one secretive meaning are as follows:

1. The hooked x shape is so easy to make. If you draw a simple X, there are many ways, relating to accidents of the writing implement, damage to the writing surface, etc., that could change a simple X to a hooked X.

2. Even if it be assumed that the hooked X shape was made deliberately in one or a few circumstances, what is the guarantee that it was made that way as part of a secret code, rather than as a scribal flourish?

3. Even if it be assumed that the Hooked X always had a definite meaning assigned to it, why is there the assumption that the meaning was always the same? 2 clear counterexamples are instructive here. Firstly, there is the swastika, which has at least 5 different meanings: In Buddhism, it is a symbol of good luck and spiritual power, seen, for example, upon the chests of Buddha images to indicate their beneficial presence in the world. In Japan, it used to be used as a symbol for 10,000, and now is used as a map symbol for temples. The Nazis used swastikas as a symbol of the glory of the Aryan race, and in modern Euro-America, swastikas are often used as a short hand for racist hate-groups. Secondly, there is the character ϸ. The Norse and Anglo-Saxons used that character as the rune thorn, and assigned it the phonetic value TH-as-in-THin, or sometimes TH-as-in-THis. But hundreds of years earlier and thousands of miles away, the Greco-Bactrians and Kushans used that same character to represent the SH-as-in-kuSHan. If you could find a link between Greco-Bactrian and Germanic scripts and symbols, that would exalt you among scholars.

Finally, there is a missionary imperative within Buddhism. The Buddha Shakyamuni is said within the Tripitaka and the Tipitaka to have converted entire villages to Buddhism, most famously the Kalamas and his own ethnicity, the Shakyas. There has long been within Buddhism a tradition of trying to convert others to Buddhism. Aryadeva, for example, is said to have converted the Hindu Asvaghosa to Buddhism in a debate. Finally, there is a tradition of Buddhist missionaries in China and Tibet: Lokaksema the Kushan Buddhist was one of several Buddhist missionaries in China, and Śāntarakṣita was one of several Buddhist missionaries in Tibet. The Buddhist missionary urge was largely destroyed by Islamic and Hindu oppression.

I thank you for your politeness.

At Risk
3/13/2017 11:33:39 am

Thanks again, A BUDDHIST. I didn't mean to assume or imply that the hooked X has or has had only one secretive meaning. Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon hooked-X on the brooch was being used as a secretive symbol, too. It could be, as we seem to be finding out, that the hooked-X was used as both a symbol and a language rune...for these purposes, but at different times, sometimes independently and possibly sometimes together.

In the case of the secretive Templar/Freemason use, the hooked-X appears to have been used both as a symbol (of secretive use, if nothing else) and as a language character.

In these cases, in stone, we're not talking about accidental hooked-X's, as may be the case occasionally on paper. In this vein, there is recent information to show that plenty of hooked-X's were made on Icelandic documents, though apparently not directly connected to Scandinavian Templars.

So, we have apparent muliple uses for hooked-X's through the ages, sometimes used as a symbol, sometimes used in language, sometimes used together...as apparently in the case of the post-Templars, who may be responsible for some of America's hooked-X runestones...or just the singular KRS, without having any influence on the others...in case someone else, another Christian group, perhaps, had used the hooked-X on the Spirit Pond Runestones and/or on the Narragansett runestone.

So, A BUDDHIST, I agree with you about the likely varied uses of the hooked-X through the ages, and that we shouldn't be concentrating on it being used for only one main specific purpose--as a secretive symbol/language rune used only by the Templars, for instance.

However, in my mind, this doesn't negate the likelihood that the hooked-X was used by the Knights Templar and later Freemasons as a secretive symbol for their communications. Who else may have been using the hooked-X during the KRS timeframe on America's east coast, we don't know. The hooked X's used on American runestones during medieval times are still mostly a mystery, it seems....

Thanks for your time-consuming input. Goodbye.

Only Me
3/10/2017 07:14:00 pm

And this is just the first book of Ancient Aliens: Abridged Edition? There's two more? To quote a popular Internet meme:

"FFFFFFUUUUUUUU..."

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Pacal
3/10/2017 08:28:27 pm

The remarks by Levenda about the sexual aspects of Alien Abductions and his use of the term Black Mass reminds me of the following.

The similarities between the Alien Abduction phenomena and the great Satanic Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th century are rather clear.

First like in the Witchcraze people had sex in one case with the Devil in the other sexual abuse and manipulation by Aliens. Also in both cases children were born from this abuse some of the time and either killed or taken away by Demons / Aliens.

Also like in the Witchcraze people were wisked away by mysterious unknown means to participate in a ritual of some kind, very much like a Black Mass. Further people who talked about the abductions / going to the Black Mass frequently told of it without coercion or manipulation getting their knowledge about what happens during the whole abduction or Black Mass scenario from the omnipresent pop culture of the time.

In th Black Mass scenario people were wisked away by flying, magic etc. Similar means are used to abduct people when abducted by Aliens. What is also interesting is how frequently from surviving Witchcraze accounts are stories that describe the events happening just after people have gone to bed, just like the stories of many abductees.

Finally the source of the pop culture of the Black Mass during the Witchcraze, the forces that generated the tales and spread them around and constructed the details of the pop culture idea of the Black Mass was the doings of the Witch Hunters who used frequently coercive techniques including brutal torture to generate the narratives desired that fit the narrative of the Black Mass and the Great Satanic conspiracy.

With Alien Abductions the pop culture sources of the narrative, aside from building from the Witchcraze mythos was based in part of Sci-fi stories and movies but it was standardized by so-called researchers who used hypnosis, largely ignoring the fact people readily confabulate under it, leading questions etc., to get the narratives they wanted. And from them the narratives entered popculture where susceptible people could then regurgitate the narrative with little prompting just like in the period of the Witchcraze.

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Michael
3/10/2017 10:47:57 pm

Hi Jason,

Your book reviews are fantastic at dissecting the content and really pointing out the flaws (and sometimes good sections, although in your line of work you may seldomly come across those).

I am attempting to become more analytic when reading books, so I was wondering what your process for analyzing any non-fiction work or pseudo-history book? Do you highlight sections? Make annotations? do you look up the facts on the spot? Or compile all the glaring problems on a list and then go back later to relay the real information?

Thanks and keep up the great work!

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Jason Colavito link
3/11/2017 04:43:42 pm

It tends to vary by book. I usually have a Word document open and type my thoughts as I move through the chapters. Yes, I look up facts as I have questions while reading, since the answer will shape my attitude about the author's research skills. At the end of each chapter, I revise my rough reactions into a more coherent reflection. After a while, though, the sameness of so many pseudo-history books makes it rather easy!

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A C
3/11/2017 08:23:49 am

The origin of the divine offspring myth which the Nephilim are just one culture's demonisation of is pretty clear if you look at the propaganda of Kingship in the ancient world.

Divine descent worked in three basic ways.
1. Deification of real ancestors (early Roman Emperors, some Canaanite inscriptions). There's a variant of this where dead King is syncretised with a deity (Egypt did this with Ra and others) or where the deity is a personification of the royal dynasty (the cult of Melqart of Tyre has been theorised as having elements of this.
2. Divine Adoption (eg the Son of God title used by the Biblical David and inherited by Christology). There's a variant of this where the King's mother sleeps with the god on the same night as the human conception (Theseus in Greek Mythology) making them 1 to 2 thirds divine.
3. Descent from mythical demigods (such as the Heraclid dynasties of Greece). The way most students of mythology see such claims as quaint and irrelevant seems to me to be a massive blindspot in their appreciation for the role of the ancestor cult in ancient politics. Comparative mythology's desire to divorce stories from the people that told them renders much of the work done in the field nearly useless in my opinion.

Some cultures only used one of those, many combined all three.

From a materialist perspective god is just a cultural label, so divine descent could be seen as quite literal if

The concept of Levirate marriage has been abused countless times to support various theories, I hope it is not too presumptuous to say that the implications that one's ancestor can be legally changed in a way that interacts with spiritual conceptions of the ancestor cult demonstrates a certain cultural context that must have had wider implications.

Once you actually read the Biblical narrative rather than just thumbing through Genesis until you get bored, it becomes quite clear that the Nephilim of Genesis 6 is there to introduce the concept of the Anakim and Rephaim who are explicitly stated as Nephilim descendants. The Rephaim were the focus of the Canaanite royal ancestor cult, the Anakim are some form of royal dynasty (literally a 'clan' in the translation but dynasty is probably accurate on some level). There's nothing 'ambiguous' about Genesis 6 in the cultural context, it just got reinterpreted due to that context changing when the rise of great empires made the local dynasties irrelevant as a target for polemic.

I doubt anyone who thinks that interpreting a magic chariot as a space craft is reading the Bible literally but ignore it when the Bible plainly tells the reader that its mocking a royal dynasty will be convinced by my argument.

Ancestor worship isn't the source of all religion and mythology, but its a darn sight better basis of a theory of one than than UFOs.

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BigNick
3/11/2017 02:23:00 pm

ATRISK: I read that post on Wolters blog. He agrees that a combined ae symbol is a hooked x and then dismisses an actual artifact in the comments because it is too early to be a templar rune. Do you take him seriously?
Also, I would like to point out that if you do a Google Image search for mooring stones you will clearly see images of blasted rock. Also I have never attempted to tie a boat to rocks, but I imagine it wounder require the hole to be frilled all the way through the rock. These do not appear to be. I have not made the effort to do any real research, as I do not have that much time or money, but a quick Google search gave me that much

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Americanegro
3/11/2017 03:06:25 pm

"Americanegro: I interpreted your statement "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with" as suggesting that you thought that I was claiming to be familiar with both Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems."

It's safe to say that I NEVER thought that.

"You reveal your own ignorance about the Latin alphabet and transliteration. [Do I?] I am baffled by your insistence that Romanization is not transliteration. Romanization is a sub-field of transliteration in which text is converted into the Latin (i.e., Roman) Alphabet. Do you think that all Latin alphabets have 26 letters? If you think this, then you are wrong. [Did I say that? No. Again, you are trying to teach. Vide infra.]... The 26 letter Latin alphabet that is most commonly used originated in the British Isles [!!!] to write English. And what is this absurd claim that Pinyin has nothing to do with the English Latin alphabet? ...."

"transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)" <-- For really, you could not be more wrong.

Chinese has no letters, so no transliteration. Transcription.

Pinyin only uses 25 letters so that blows away your "Latin Alphabet of Britain".

Please do not try to teach. Certainly not your grandmother to suck eggs.

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A Buddhist
3/11/2017 03:47:29 pm

Americanegro: So where did the English develop their Latin Alphabet? Rome? No, the English, in England, modified the Latin alphabet to write in English. They added in J, for example, and created various digraphs. J developed in other regions, but these other regions developed other letters that are not used in English, such as Ø.

As far as the claim that pinyin has only 25 letters: WHAT! Which letter in the English Latin alphabet is not used in Pinyin? Tell me and mock me for it, if you dare.

I realize, thanks to your reminder, that I should have been talking about transcription rather than transliteration. The fact remains that Romanization is an overly narrow description of the process, since this process, using other scripts and writing systems, can be applied to transcribe Chinese into non-Latin scripts.

I have difficulty in interpreting beyond the surface meanings of what people write. But the fact remains that you thought that I was wanting Jason to be familiar with Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems of transcribing Chinese in the English Latin alphabet. Where are the words in which I said this? I asked him why he was using Pinyin; it seems strange to me that any person of sound mind would interpret this as meaning that I had any expectation or desire for him to be familiar with both systems of writing.

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Americanegro
3/11/2017 04:26:33 pm

"you thought that I was wanting Jason to be familiar with Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems of transcribing Chinese in the English Latin alphabet. Where are the words in which I said this? I asked him why he was using Pinyin"

NOT what I said. Imagine my surprise. In this instance being able to read the surface meaning will suffice although my confidence level is low.

You: "Why are you using the Wade-Giles system of transliterating Chinese (T'ang) rather than pinyin (Tang)?"

Me: "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with. This is something that people do not do." <-- that is a hint to you

You either thought he chose Wade-Giles and should have chosen Pinyin, or that he used Wade-Giles without choice and should have used Pinyin. If he uses one, to use the other, he has to know both well enough to convert. QED.

"As far as the claim that pinyin has only 25 letters: WHAT! Which letter in the English Latin alphabet is not used in Pinyin? Tell me and mock me for it, if you dare."

"V". Consider yourself mocked, repeatedly until the end of time. Who dares, wins. Amazing that you would try to pull that after admitting you didn't know Pinyin. You could have just looked it up.

"They added in J, for example, and created various digraphs. J developed in other regions, but these other regions developed other letters that are not used in English, such as Ø."

So because other people invented other letters, the English get to take credit for J which they did not invent? Nonsense!

"transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)"

I never get tired of citing this pompous error. ^^

Let this be your mantra: "Please do not try to teach. Certainly not your grandmother to suck eggs."

A Buddhist
3/11/2017 05:06:55 pm

Americanegro:

Firstly, thank you for telling me the letter in Pinyin that was not used. I seek truth above all other things, and am glad that you have shared truth with me rather than continuing to insult me with baseless accusations.

I made no claim that the English invented J alone. But the way in which the English use J in writing English words, as well as other letters, such as X and TH and SH and CH, is their invention.

You attribute to me motives that I never had or expressed. When I asked Jason about his using the Wade-Giles system, I was not suggesting that he should convert it to Pinyin. Rather, I was simply wondering why he used the Wade-Giles system. It seems that I am not the only person who has difficulty in distinguishing implication from explicit statement.

I am glad that my failure provides you with amusement. I for my part am continuously baffled by your statements about Pali. Language, or accented Sanskrit? You have given me differing answers depending upon when we talked about the topic.

And why do you think that I can teach nothing? Do you believe me to lack all competence? What about my ability to correct other people in their errors about the figures named Cain in the Bible? And could you find anything wrong with my account of the post-Celtic migration history of the British Isles?

Look, I think that we are similar in our pedantism and love for knowledge. We could help each other. I could learn from you. But I really do not like to be insulted by you in various ways. If you were to refrain from insulting language and simply correct matters, I could better enjoy your remarks.

Americanegro
3/11/2017 07:24:48 pm

"transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)"

I never get tired of citing this pompous error. ^^

"But the way in which the English use J in writing English words, as well as other letters, such as X and TH and SH and CH, is their invention."

SO EFFING WHAT??! WHAT IS YOUR G.D. POINT HERE?
"The way in which the English use [blank] is the invention of the English." SO EFFING WHAT??! WHAT IS YOUR G.D. POINT HERE?

"As far as the claim that pinyin has only 25 letters: WHAT! Which letter in the English Latin alphabet is not used in Pinyin? Tell me and mock me for it, if you dare."

See, this ^^ is an example where you were (aggressively) wrong on something easy.

"V". Consider yourself mocked, repeatedly until the end of time. Who dares, wins. Amazing that you would try to pull that after admitting you didn't know Pinyin. You could have just looked it up. Your reasoning: "V" is in "the Latin Alphabet of Britain" therefore it must be in Pinyin" because " [it's] transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)" <-- For really, you could not be more wrong.

Buddhism is your stonehole. When you set out to "teach" you are almost always wrong. Remember when I had to correct you on types of consciousnesses? The difference between us is that you are often uninformed and wrong but present yourself as someone who knows what he's talking about.

Let this be your mantra: "Please do not try to teach. Certainly not your grandmother to suck eggs."

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A Buddhist
3/11/2017 09:01:18 pm

Americanegro:

I had forgotten that pinyin did not use V. I thank you for reminding me of this fact. Had I remembered this from the beginning, I would not have made the claim about Pinyin being an adaptation of the English Latin alphabet.

I remember our contact about consciousness. We agreed that there were 6 consciousnesses, but I cannot remember where you had to correct me; rather, you described the 6 consciousnesses in a better way than I could. I remember that conversation as being more distinguished by your bizarre claims about Pali and your unjustified mockery of my use of the word Tipitaka. But since I try to operate in good faith, feel free to remind me of my errors.

Do you think that I can teach about nothing? That is a very extreme claim to make.

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A Buddhist
3/12/2017 09:20:44 am

Americanegro:
Having thought over our extremely negative relationship, I have come to the following realizations:

1. We were not agreeing that there were 6 consciousnesses; rather, we were discussing sense bases, and we agreed that there were, as per the Tripitaka/Tipitaka, 6 sense bases: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, and thought. You were able to explain how these 6 sense bases accounted for all that we perceive in a better way than I could. However, my recollection of that conversation is overshadowed by your bizarre claims about Pali and your unjustified mockery of my use of the word Tipitaka.

2. I admit that I make errors in these comments. But if I were to let every set back in my life discourage me from trying again in an improved manner, I would be as stupid and as poorly achieving as you think me to be. So I will continue to try to make contributions to these blogposts, taking more care to research what I say and use clearer wording.

Eric
7/5/2017 06:43:17 pm

I sort of skimmed through a majority of the review once I noticed that it appears that Tom Delonge had little to do with the actual penning of this book. I'm sure it was a collaborative effort intellectually, however based on your review it seems we get Levenda's cynical tone, as opposed to Tom Delonge's genuine excitement over the material (based on his promotional interviews.) Even if it were still a rehash of ideas from earlier materials on the subject I get the feeling it would have been better to read in a Delonge tone instead. I almost feel his name is on the book just for brand recognition, regardless of level of input.

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