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Weird Roundup: Angels Drive UFOs, Ufologist Runs for School Board, and Graham Hancock Redates the Neolithic

10/21/2013

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The world is cracking up, and I am left speechless by some of what I’ve learned today.

This morning’s email brought another bizarre email that makes me despair for the future. Written by a Christian pastor who is also a civil rights activist with a regional media profile in the south, the email told me that the pastor is a “practicing ufologist” as well as a “historian” and “scholar.” He wanted me to call him to discuss ancient astronauts and his recent UFO sighting because he wants to join “my colleagues” on Ancient Aliens. His name is Franklyn V. Beckles, Jr. of Augusta, Georgia, and to avoid any potential libel issues, let me note that he publicizes his ufology interests himself in interviews with the press. Yes, I have checked him out, and yes he is a real person who runs a church and a private school, and he is running for the school board in Richmond County, Georgia as part of a campaign to become school superintendent in 2014, according to local reports. And yes, he also has mistaken me for an ancient astronaut theorist.

What’s worse: creationist school board members or ufologist ones? It must make for an interesting time trying to decide who the “designer” is in the intelligent design curriculum.

Beckles is a very direct and disturbing effect of the alternative history movement, which is why I’ve found it important to discuss all of the wacky claims alternative historians come up with. During the Paradigm Symposium on Saturday, speakers apparently made some outrageous claims, according to tweets from PZ Myers, who spoke at the event.

One alternative lecture Myers attended shows the pernicious influence of Scott Wolter and the uncritical acceptance of everything cable TV spews out.

L. A. Marzulli, a “Nephilim” researcher, novelist, and Biblical prophecy explicator, claims that deformed Peruvian skulls—specifically those produced by the widespread practice of head-binding—are proof that the Nephilim-aliens manipulated Peruvian DNA. He also argued that the Roswell event is connected to Mt. Hermon, the Levantine cult site where Enoch claimed that the Watchers (whom he takes for Nephilim) met, because he says Roswell and Mt. Hermon are exactly 180 degrees of longitude apart—exactly opposite on the terrestrial sphere. Roswell is at 104.5 degrees west, while Hebron is located at about 36 degrees east. Clearly, these do not make for 180 degrees of longitude. (Myers wrote that Marzulli identified the site as Mt. Hebron, but I have taken the liberty of assuming that is a transcription error.) Marzulli told the audience that angels drive UFOs and enter earth from a parallel dimension.

Marzulli argued that centaurs, the Minotaur, and fauns were all real, and that David slew Goliath by hitting his pituitary gland. Marzulli further claimed that non-Jews of the Bronze Age were soulless products of the evil Nephilim and deserved to be killed, but that the soulless Nephilim escaped the heroic Jewish genocide by fleeing to South America, where they became the white gods of the Inca. Worse, Marzulli adopted Scott Wolter’s claim that Mystery Hill, New Hampshire (a.k.a. “America’s Stonehenge”) can be connected to Stonehenge in Britain by a straight line—as any two points on the globe can be via the Great Circle—but he also takes over Wolter’s extended claim that the circle leads directly to Mt. Hermon in Israel (Wolter actually gave only a generic “Phoenicia”) in order to make the whole thing a Nephilim-demon-alien conspiracy. Note: This claim about the New Hampshire to Phoenicia highway originates on America Unearthed and therefore proves that the show is cross-pollinating with other alternative types because of its perceived credibility.

Marzulli then rejected evolution, claimed that South American stone structures had piezoelectric properties and teleported people to other dimensions—claims drawn directly from Ancient Aliens, where David Childress and William Henry argued that the Inca had star gates in the form of false doors. Marzulli then connected the entire conspiracy to Nephilim living among us today. He said that the man who gnawed another’s face off last year, allegedly while high on bath salts, was in fact a soulless Nephilim, and that Satan was behind alien implants in UFO abductees.

On his website, Marzulli describes himself as providing “Biblical” answers to modern questions, including “tornadoes, earthquakes, … flooding, riots, and the rise of lawlessness.” These Biblical answers happen to take the form of extra-biblical, non-canonical claims from the Book of Enoch that repurpose New Age ancient astronaut nonsense and reassign it back to the demons that ancient astronaut theorists first appropriated to serve as their aliens. He also asserts that “the current political landscape” (Are we to read that as Barack Obama?) is causing Biblical prophecies to come to fruition, culminating in the “supernatural events” of Revelation.

Have you ever noticed that alternative “researchers” never seem to look at the nuts and bolts of history—say, Varro’s On Agriculture, or Egyptian cosmetics, or Incan animal husbandry? It’s always religion. Gods, demons, monsters. But surely the aliens should have left traces in farming techniques, cosmetics (Enoch says the Watchers taught people how to use makeup), and the everyday necessities of life. These “researchers” don’t care because they aren’t making historical claims but religious ones—trying to create a space for God or gods in a world they fear might otherwise be secular or materialist—hence the attacks on evolution even by ancient astronaut theorists who might conceivably have use for it to explain when came the aliens. That question, though, is irrelevant, since the aliens are merely angels in service of the ineffable Almighty, quite literally collapsing all the various proposed meanings of Elohim into one. Obama is the Antichrist, America is God’s chosen battleground, and the righteous will be raptured up to the great UFO in the sky. Hallelujah!

By contrast, Graham Hancock came off as positively sedate this morning in his new YouTube video with Andrew Collins and others, produced as part of the Origins of Civilization Tour 2013, where he merely decided to radially re-date the entire Neolithic based on the 10,000-year-old Turkish megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe. Here’s what Hancock said:

It’s going to require us to reconsider our whole dating sequence on megalithic sites around the world, and we may find that megalithic sites that have been comfortably for decades—even for a hundred years—attributed to the period of five to six thousand years ago or less may actually be as old as Göbekli Tepe. It’s possible. I’m certainly open to that possibility, and I’m going to be looking into that.

Gone is the vanished super-civilization with its advanced nuclear-laser beam technology from Sign and the Seal (1992). Gone is the vanished world-mapping super-civilization from Fingerprints of the Gods (1995). Gone is even the much-reduced sunken coastal Neolthic-plus-a-little-more civilization from Underworld (2005). Instead, his argument for us being “a species with amnesia” is that the Neolthic might have started a bit earlier, and this flash of insight came not from alternative history studies but from actual scholars working at an actual site, which Hancock then proceeds to misunderstand because he cannot divorce the idea that people would band together to build something from the trappings of what we call civilization (agriculture, cities, occupational specialization, etc.).

I’m sure that by the time his “sequel” to Fingerprints of the Gods (actually the fourth or fifth, depending on how you count Mars Mystery) hit stores, he’ll have found a way to resurrect the lost civilization in newer trappings, but as of today Göbekli Tepe has left him scrambling for answers, all the stranger since the site was discovered ages ago, excavated decades ago, written about a decade ago, and should have been well-known. It’s been all the rage for the past five years because Smithsonian magazine had an article about it in November 2008, which is where all the alternative researchers first learned about something scholars had been working on for a very long time before.

17 Comments
spookyparadigm
10/21/2013 07:33:04 am

I've never entirely pinned down how I feel about Hancock's slow but steady move towards mainstream prehistory. Part of me is still annoyed by what feels like cynical business sense (he moves closer to mainstream, but still far out enough to be different). Part of me wants to lightly applaud (well, he's getting better). And part feels sorry for him (that he staked out weird territory, and can't entirely give it up).

But I think it is important to note that it isn't the personalities, nor the evidence, but the opposition to the mainstream that is important. As Hancock has become somewhat more respectable, his currency in the alternative archaeology community has gone down, while those willing to cater to panic fantasies of race and religion, have gone up.

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Robin Swope
10/21/2013 10:31:08 am

As a pastor and a writer/researcher of unexplained stuff (ufos being one of them) I am so saddened how many Christian leaders (who were supposed to be trained in sociology, history and ancient languages) fall for the Ancient Astronaut Theory despite the chicanery and the misleading assertions of evidence.

Christianity is at its core a supernatural religion. An there are a lot of people of the Christian faith that are open for belief supernatural. But as Pope John Paul II said, faith without reason leads to superstition. And superstition according to webster is "a belief or practice resulting from ignorance".

And from personal experience I can attest that there are few things more destructive than an ignorant Christian.

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Robin Swope
10/21/2013 10:32:43 am

Sorry for the spelling mistakes...this got my water boiling! :)

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Mike Heiser link
10/21/2013 12:34:03 pm

Thanks for this note, Robin. It is indeed sad that Christians on the lecture circuit are basically baptizing ancient astronaut quackery. But take heart - you referred to them as "leaders"; they aren't. This fringe is a minute percentage of Christian "leadership" and aren't in the academic orbit at all. Granted, they would wear the fact that real Christian scholars dismiss them outright as a badge of honor, but we should still be clear that this is light years away from serious academic work within the wider world of Christianity, even of the evangelical variety.

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notmy realname
6/2/2014 08:19:17 am

Yes, all the miraculous healings, exorcisms, transfigurations, raising people from the dead, dealings with satan in the wilderness, as well as Jesus's death, resurrection and ascension were purely academic. hey, I thought it was all just a story/mystical allegory too until I not only saw the the power of Christ heal a person, but I became the vehicle by which that very power was used to heal the person.. that and a whole lot more. I feel sorry for people whom think that knowing the Lord is an academic pursuit that stems out of some iffy supernatural things that happened thousands of years ago. Good News! HE'S ALIVE! And everything he said and did is true.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Heidi
10/21/2013 03:21:31 pm

Sorry to hear you have been insulted my dear. I recently saw on Facebook that a supposed 'wellness' company, Gaiam TV, was promoting a lecture by David Icke. I've been in alternative health and wellness for 16 years and I did have to post to their page, that Icke advocates a new form of racism, based on blood and the RH negative factor. I pointed out that he is also a historical revisionist and that they had lost my respect as a member of the wellness community by promoting him. I normally let things like this blow over. To an extent, it's just theorizing and to me, it's just a matter of reading any kind of fiction. I don't take it literally but I realize that is not always the case. I just am apprehensive about the wellness community embracing the far reaches of the lunatic fringe and will be watching to see if it becomes a bell weather.

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The Other J.
10/21/2013 08:51:55 pm

That's really disappointing. I remember when they were just a yoga company, and were leveraging that into a buck. I just took a look at their site (based on your comment), and it seems to have become a clearing house for any and all sorts of alternative and paranormal material.

The wellness and the paranormal communities crashing into each other doesn't bode well. But maybe it's more symptomatic of Gaiam's business model than anything else.

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PZ Myers link
10/21/2013 04:51:08 pm

You are quite right, and it was my error: he said Mt Hermon.

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Scotty Roberts link
10/22/2013 03:44:33 am

I fully understand Hancock's shift in thinking, mild though it may be, as I have undergone the same sort of shift in my own thinking.

I cannot dismiss that there are "possibilities" that we may not be able to reconcile, but the more I learn and research, the farther I grow away from my original thinking when i wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim."

The Paradigm Symposium this year, was my attempt to bridge some gaps, albeit I find myself trending further and further away from the ancient astronaut notion. As a former seminarian and minister in evangelical Christianity, who had drifted from the core of the faith long ago, I found the AA theory appealing. Yet with further study and research, have found the current crop of AA theorists to be focused on perpetuating the mythology as opposed to finding ways to bridge the gaps with science and critical thinking.

As for PZ Myers, L.A. Marzulli, Scott Wolter, Dr. Robert Schoch, Robert Bauval and many others, I invited them to the Symposium as speakers for the purpose of presenting ideas - and in some cases, vastly oppositional ideas. While Marzulli represented one end of the spectrum, PZ represented the other. And while I like Marzulli personally, I am no longer part of tat extremist thinking, finding myself much closer to Myers.

For me, I want to Know. Not Truth, but facts on which to build "truth." I had "truth" foisted on me for many years from one perspective, which led me to seek answers in other areas.

It has been a path of learning for me, and I seek common sense as opposed to a faith in something that doesn't match the facts.

Morning coffee still has not fully permeated my brain, and it was a long, exhausting weekend at the Paradigm Symposium (running a show looks cool form the outside, but is ultimately exhausting in the long run). So, perhaps, after I have caffeinated my brain cells (how's that for science?), I will return to this thread with less fuzzier eyes.

Thanks, Jason, for your efforts.

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10/22/2013 06:50:22 am

While I certainly agree with Mr. Colavito's take on the "ancient alien" cult and other assorted oddballs, I have to disagree with the caricature of Christians presented here. Citing L.A. Marzulli as if he were somehow mainstream, orthodox and representative of the Christian faith is a stretch, to put it mildly. He is more accurately a representative of the far reaches of fringe evangelicalism in it's craving for the next sensationalistic story or "prophetic" theory.

I also think it is perhaps a bit intellectually dishonest to place all those who believe in Creation in the same category as those certain speakers at the Paradigm Symposium who are most certainly delusional (if they really believe what they sell), or simply modern versions of "snake oil" salesmen. I chose not to speak at the symposium for these and personal reasons.

I do very much enjoy your blog and website, Mr. Colavito. I think however that you sometimes lapse into a caricaturization of Christianity, then assaulting that strawman- rather than dealing with more substantive men of faith such as Michael Heiser.

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Jason Colavito link
10/22/2013 07:01:21 am

I don't recall implying that Marzulli was anything other than a fringe-of-the-fringe oddball. I would think that noting Marzulli uses non-canonical texts to argue for "biblical" truth should be enough to place him outside the mainstream. I know there is a "Christian persecution" meme directed at "secularists" and "skeptics," but I have never suggested that anyone other than the wacky fringe is involved in promulgating this extremist nonsense.

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10/22/2013 01:33:26 pm

Mr. Colavito,
It appears that your critique of Christianity tends to focus on such fringe elements, thus generating my earlier comments. I'm happy to hear that you make a distinction between Marzulli and similar oddballs and Orthodox Christians.

One note; if he appeals to the Book of Enoch as many of the fringies do I would make one distinction. While much of the Church (both East and West) rejects it, at least one body has it in their canon, and to reference it isn't necessarily a sign of fringe behavior. Additionally it is directly quoted in the New Testament, so turning to it as an historical source that could shed light on Biblical theology and history is legitimate. Having said that, building entire conspiracy theories and the like on it, as Marzulli does, is legitimate grounds for criticism. I'm sure you recognize these differences as well.

Again, I very much enjoy your blog, find it informative and educational, and respect the work you do here.

Fr. Ashcraft

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Jason Colavito link
10/22/2013 01:38:06 pm

Thank you for your comments. I don't think that Marzulli is an Ethiopian Coptic Christian, but I guess that's a possibility.

You seem to imagine that I have a critique of Christianity, which I do not; I critique specific odd claims made by people who happen to appeal to Christianity to justify them.

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Carolyn Parkhurst
11/25/2013 11:58:29 am

Just for your information regarding Beckles. He is a fraud. He has been caught out in numerous lies. He claims to be an ex Navy -SEAL (although he mis-spells it) He is not a civil rights leader. No one in Augusta actually knows who he is. There is more information found on him through this research :

http://misfit-studios.com/blog/commentary/unmasking-frank-beckles/

He is a well known liar and con man. He claims to be an olympic athlete, pro football player, movie star, reality tv star, and many more. None of these things are true. I would not believe anything this man says.

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Jason Colavito link
11/25/2013 12:02:42 pm

I guess that about says it all. Wow. Every time you poke one of these UFO-ancient astronaut people their claims collapse like a house of cards.

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Steven Trustrum link
1/16/2014 06:11:15 am

Thanks for posting the link. Glad to see the information about this guy is getting around. The videos I link to in my blog entry are entertaining because they portray someone who is transformed themself into a parody of a person, but are also disturbing once one realizes this is someone who wants a position on a school board, and seems to have previously been involved with educating children.

I recently got word he may actually be running unopposed, which is a frightening prospect.

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Greg Little
4/7/2014 07:15:56 am

The sentence relating that all of the alternative history theorists learned about Gobekli Tepe in 2008 isn't entirely true. Andrew Collins visited the site in early 2004 and it was the starting point of his 2006 book, The Cygnus Mystery. Most of the alternative theorists were aware of Collins' 2006 book, but they may not have understood the deeper significance of the site until the Nat Geo article.

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