Here is a link to an Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio program I will be appearing on this Thursday. I'll be among the guests who will be speaking at the upcoming Astro Gnosis Conference to be held on March 20th. We will be discussing our upcoming presentations and other interesting topics.
My Simple Explanation followers may like to find out how the Gnostic Gospel has updated and informed the Simple Explanation cosmology.
I ran across an article in Science News this week about the curious discovery that a tiny nematode called vinegar eels (because they swim around in raw vinegar) are able to engage in synchronized swimming when confined to a single water droplet. This synchronization of movement is quite unusual and unexpected. Here's what they look like when this happens:
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| Turbatrix aceti, a species of nematode commonly known as vinegar eels, engage in synchronized swimming when confined to a water droplet. photo: ANTON PESHKOV |
The toroidal distribution exerts a measurable outward pressure toward the outside of the droplet to keep it from collapsing inward.
Scientists are puzzled as to how these mindless, primitive organisms can coordinate this complex behavior. Such behavior has been predicted by computer modeling of fluid dynamics, but this is the first example discovered in living organisms.
The original report appears in the journal Soft Matter.
The Infancy Gospel of James is one of the books that didn't make it into the Bible as we know it today. The nativity story presented in this banned gospel is one you may not have heard before. It tells the backstory of Mary and her unique upbringing as a vestal virgin in Herod's Temple in Jerusalem, and her betrothal to a much older widower when she was twelve. And then the load of trouble she found herself in after she became miraculously pregnant at 16 with Jesus. While not a "gnostic" gospel per se, this book does present very interesting Christian material you probably have never heard before.
I read The Infancy Gospel of James yesterday on my Gnostic Insights podcast. Pop over for a listen! It's my Christmas present to you! Here's the link to the podcast webpage, or you can have a listen using your favorite podcast app.
The Infancy Gospel of James: Mary and the Birth of Jesus – Gnostic Insights
Cheers!
cyd
The following article reprint holds out the hope that in the very near future the toroidal nature of our cosmos will be demonstrated beyond doubt. This will prove yet another scientific aspect of the Simple Explanation cosmology. Read on!
Are Black Holes
Actually Dark Energy Stars?
Why one physicist believes our whole
understanding of black holes is wrong.
Nautilus Jesse Stone
George
Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that
black holes are really dark energy stars. Photo by NASA.
What does the supermassive black
hole at the center of the Milky Way look like? We might find out. The Event
Horizon Telescope—really a virtual telescope with an effective diameter of the
Earth—has been pointing at Sagittarius A* for the last several years. Most
researchers in the astrophysics community expect that its images, taken from
telescopes all over the Earth, will show the telltale signs of a black hole: a
bright swirl of light, produced by a disc of gases trapped in the black hole’s
orbit, surrounding a black shadow at the center—the event horizon. This
encloses the region of space where the black-hole singularity’s gravitational
pull is too strong for light to escape.
But George Chapline, a physicist at
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, doesn’t expect to see a black hole.
He doesn’t believe they’re real. In 2005, he told Nature that
“it’s a near certainty that black holes don’t exist” and—building on previous
work he’d done with physics Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin—introduced an
alternative model that he dubbed “dark energy stars.” Dark energy is a term
physicists use to describe a peculiar kind of energy that appears to permeate
the entire universe. It expands the fabric of spacetime itself, even as gravity
attempts to bring objects closer together. Chapline believes that the immense
energies in a collapsing star cause its protons and neutrons to decay into a
gas of photons and other elementary particles, along with what he refers to as
“droplets of vacuum energy.” These form a “condensed” phase of spacetime—much
like a gas under enough pressure transitions to liquid—that has a much higher
density of dark energy than the spacetime surrounding the star. This provides
the pressure necessary to hold gravity at bay and prevent a singularity from
forming. Without a singularity in spacetime, there is no black hole.
The idea has found no support in the
astrophysical community—over the last decade, Chapline’s papers on this topic
have garnered only single-digit citations. His most popular paper in particle
physics, by contrast, has been cited over 600 times. But Chapline suspects his
days of wandering in the scientific wilderness may soon be over. He believes that
the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that dark energy stars are
real.
This
strange toroidal geometry isn’t a bug of dark energy stars, but a feature.
The idea goes back to a 2000 paper, with Evan Hohlfeld and David Santiago, in
which Chapline and Laughlin modeled spacetime as a Bose-Einstein condensate—a
state of matter that arises when taking an extremely low-density gas to
extremely low temperatures, near absolute zero. Chapline and Laughlin’s model
is quantum mechanical in nature: General relativity emerges as a consequence of
the way that the spacetime condensate behaves on large scales. Spacetime in
this model also undergoes phase transformations when it gains or loses energy.
Other scientists find this to be a promising path, too. A 2009 paper by a group of Japanese physicists
stated that “[Bose-Einstein Condensates] are one of the most promising quantum
fluids for” analogizing curved spacetime.
Chapline and Laughlin argue that
they can describe the collapsed stars that most scientists take to be black
holes as regions where spacetime has undergone a phase transition. They find
that the laws of general relativity are valid everywhere in the vicinity of the
collapsed star, except at the event horizon, which marks the boundary between
two different phases of spacetime.
In the condensate model the event
horizon surrounding a collapsed star is no longer a point of no return but
instead a traversable, physical surface. This feature, along with the lack of a
singularity that is the signature feature of black holes, means that paradoxes
associated with black holes, like the destruction of information,
don’t arise. Laughlin has been reticent to conjecture too far beyond his and
Chapline’s initial ideas. He believes Chapline is onto something with dark
energy stars, “but where we part company is in the amount of speculating
we are willing to do about what ‘phase’ of the vacuum might be inside”
what most scientists call black holes, Laughlin said. He’s holding off until
experimental data reveals more about the interior phase. “I will then write my
second paper on the subject,” he said.
In recent years Chapline has
continued to refine his dark energy star model in collaboration with several
other authors, including Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina and
Piotr Marecki of Leipzig University. He’s concluded that dark energy stars
aren’t spherical or oblate, like black holes. Instead, they have the shape of a
torus, or donut. In a rotating compact object, like a dark energy star,
Chapline believes quantum effects in the spacetime condensate generate a large
vortex along the object’s axis of rotation. Because the region inside the
vortex is empty—think of the depression that forms at the center of
whirlpool—the center of the dark energy star is hollow, like an apple without
its core. A similar effect is observed when quantum mechanics is used to model
rotating drops of superfluid. There too, a central vortex can form at the
center of a rotating drop and, surprisingly, change its shape from a sphere to
a torus.
In
the condensate model the event horizon surrounding a collapsed star is no
longer a point of no return but instead a traversable, physical surface.
For Chapline, this strange toroidal
geometry isn’t a bug of dark energy stars, but a feature, as it helps explain
the origin and shape of astrophysical jets—the highly energetic beams of
ionized matter that are generated along the axis of rotation of a compact
object like a black hole. Chapline believes he’s identified a mechanism in dark
energy stars that explains observations of astrophysical jets better than
mainstream ones, which posit that energy is extracted from the accretion disk
outside of a black hole and focused into a narrow beam along the black hole’s
axis of rotation. To Chapline, matter and energy falling toward a dark energy star
would make its way to the inner throat (the “donut hole”), where electrons
orbiting the throat would, as in a Biermann Battery, generate magnetic fields
powerful enough to drive the jets.
Chapline points to experimental work where scientists, at the
OMEGA Laser Facility at the University of Rochester, created magnetized jets
using lasers to form a ring-like excitation on a flat surface. Though the
experiments were not conducted with dark energy stars in mind, Chapline
believes it provides support for his theory since the ring-like
excitation—Chapline calls it a “ring of fire”—is exactly what he would expect
to happen along the throat of a dark energy star. He believes the ring could be
the key to supporting the existence of dark energy stars. “This ought to
eventually show up clearly” in the Event Horizon Telescope images, Chapline
said, referring to the ring.
Chapline also points out that dark
energy stars will not be completely opaque to light, as matter and light can
pass into, but also out of, a dark energy star. A dark energy star won’t have a
completely black interior—instead it will show a distorted image of any stars
behind it. Other physicists, though, are skeptical that these kinds of
deviations from conventional black hole models would show up in the Event
Horizon Telescope data. Raul Carballo-Rubio, a physicist at the International
School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy, has developed his own
alternative model to black holes known as semi-classical relativistic stars.
Speaking more generally about alternative black hole models Caraballo-Rubio said,
“The differences [with black holes] that would arise in these models are too
minute to be detected” by the Event Horizon Telescope.
Chapline plans to discuss his dark
energy star predictions in December 2018, at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. But even if his predictions are
confirmed, he said he doesn’t expect the scientific community to become
convinced overnight. “I expect that for the next few years the [Event Horizon
Telescope] people will be confused by what they see.”
Jesse Stone is a freelance writer
based in Iowa City, Iowa. Reach him at jessebstone@gmail.com.
This
is what a solid made of electrons looks like
Physicists have imaged elusive ‘Wigner
crystals’ for the first time.
This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a ‘Wigner crystal’ — a honeycomb arrangement of electrons — has formed inside a layered structure underneath. Credit: H. Li et al./Nature
If the conditions are
just right, some of the electrons inside a material will arrange themselves
into a tidy honeycomb pattern — like a solid within a solid. Physicists have
now directly imaged these ‘Wigner crystals’, named after the Hungarian-born
theorist Eugene Wigner, who first imagined them almost 90 years ago.
Researchers had
convincingly created Wigner crystals and measured their properties before, but
this is the first time that anyone has actually taken a snapshot of the
patterns, says study co-author Feng Wang, a physicist at the University of
California, Berkeley. “If you say you have an electron crystal, show me the
crystal,” he says. The results were published on 29 September in Nature1.
To create the Wigner crystals, Wang’s team built a device containing atom-thin layers of two similar semiconductors: tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide. The team then used an electric field to tune the density of the electrons that moved freely along the interface between the two layers.
In ordinary materials, electrons zoom around too quickly to be significantly affected by the repulsion between their negative charges. But Wigner predicted that if electrons travelled slowly enough, that repulsion would begin to dominate their behaviour. The electrons would then find arrangements that minimize their total energy, such as a honeycomb pattern. So Wang and his colleagues slowed the electrons in their device by cooling it to just a few degrees above absolute zero.
A mismatch between the
two layers in the device also helped the electrons to form Wigner crystals. The
atoms in each of the two semiconductor layers are slightly different distances
apart, so pairing them together creates a honeycomb ‘moiré pattern’, similar to
that seen when overlaying two grids. That repeating pattern created regions of
slightly lower energy, which helped the electrons settle down.
Graphene trick
The team used a
scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to see this Wigner crystal. In an STM, a
metal tip hovers above the surface of a sample, and a voltage causes electrons
to jump down from the tip, creating an electric current. As the tip moves across
the surface, the changing intensity of the current reveals the location of
electrons in the sample.
Initial attempts to image the Wigner crystal by applying the STM directly on the double-layer device were unsuccessful, Wang says, because the current destroyed the fragile Wigner arrangements. So the team added a layer of graphene, a single-atom sheet of carbon, on top. The presence of the Wigner crystal slightly changed the electron structure of the graphene directly above, which was then picked up by the STM. The images clearly show the neat arrangement of the underlying Wigner electrons. As expected, consecutive electrons in the Wigner crystal are nearly 100 times farther apart than are the atoms in the semiconductor device’s actual crystals.
“I think that’s a
great advancement, being able to perform STM on this system,” says Carmen Rubio
Verdú, a physicist at Columbia University in New York City. She adds that the
same graphene-based method will enable STM studies of a number of other
interesting physical phenomena beyond Wigner crystals. Kin Fai Mak, a physicist
at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, agrees. “The technique is
non-invasive to the state you want to probe. To me, it is a very clever idea.”
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02657-6
My two cents: Those frozen electrons reminds me of orange sections and autumnal toroidal fruit. Somewhat like the flower of life, but looks more like orange slices arranged in an impossible way, to me.
cyd
After this many years of writing the Simple Explanation blog, what can I say here other than, "Hey! Look at that torus they're calling Jupiter!"
Scientists have known for a few decades that the upper atmosphere of Jupiter is hundreds of degrees warmer than expected. Now they are offering an explanation that looks suspiciously like another planetary torus has been discovered.
Using Hawaii's Keck 2 telescope, scientists looked for positively charged hydrogen particles in Jupiter's atmosphere. They found a ring around the north and south poles and particles coming in (they assume) [or going out, I would conjecture], as well as waves of heat cascading down the outside of the planet. Yes, it can be explained by the way they conjecture the mechanism, or could be explained by the Simple Explanation's toroidal core theory of planetary development. The official imagery certainly implies that as a possible mechanism. We'll await further proof at some later date.
Meanwhile, here's the link to the original article.
Jupiter’s magnetic field lines (blue) steer charged particles in the solar wind toward
the planet’s poles, generating auroras (white) similar to Earth’s. High-altitude winds
then carry heat (red) from the auroras toward Jupiter’s equator, warming the planet’s
upper atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s illustration, which overlays a visible
light image of the planet.
J. O'DONOGHUE/JAXA, HUBBLE/NASA, ESA, A. SIMON, J. SCHMIDT
J. O’Donoghue et al. Global upper-atmospheric heating on Jupiter by the polar aurorae. Nature. Vol. 596, August 5, 2021, p. 54. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03706-w.
Once again, A Simple Explanation has proven one of its claims. Turns out there is now scientific proof that DNA responds to electromagnetic forces at fractal levels of size. Here's the abstract of the study, published at PubMed.gov--
Purpose: To review the responses of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in different frequency ranges, and characterize the properties of DNA as an antenna.
Materials and methods: We examined published reports of increased stress protein levels and DNA strand breaks due to EMF interactions, both of which are indicative of DNA damage. We also considered antenna properties such as electronic conduction within DNA and its compact structure in the nucleus.
Results: EMF interactions with DNA are similar over a range of non-ionising frequencies, i.e., extremely low frequency (ELF) and radio frequency (RF) ranges. There are similar effects in the ionising range, but the reactions are more complex.
Conclusions: The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment, and the DNA damage could account for increases in cancer epidemiology, as well as variations in the rate of chemical evolution in early geologic history.
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The conclusion of the article is the important part to the Simple Explanation. It is saying that DNA reacts to electromagnetic frequencies at varying scales of transmission, as the EMFs cause the DNA to respond to them as if they were antennas set up to receive these transmissions. Because the DNA vibrates to these external frequencies, the huge proliferation of EMF devices in our environment constantly bombard our DNA with vibrations at a fractal scale small enough to cause changes to the DNA. Although I haven't talked about the 5G networks here before, be assured that 5G exposure is extremely dangerous to our DNA. I will be avoiding it like the plague. A real plague, that is, not this excuse-of-a-plague everyone is freaking out over. Masks won't help stop EMF bombardment!
Back to the Simple Explanation, our bodies are made up of fractals of consciousness. The Simple Explanation calls these consciousness fractals UCs, which stands for Units of Consciousness.
A longtime follower of A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything sent me this photo of a kid's torus skateboard design sitting beside his water bottle with a Simple Explanation sticker afixed. My London follower has even made a shortcut of Simple Explanation's name, he writes so often. Between us, we call it aseoae. Took me a minute to realize he was referring to A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything with his aseoae!
During the lost months of the 2020 shutdown, I spent much of my
time watching the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens." I began with a
skeptical mind, but was soon persuaded by the variety of evidence presented.
Many years earlier I had read Erich von Danikens’ Chariots of the Gods,
so I had the basic outline of ancient alien theory already in my head. I had
also read Whitley Streiber’s Communion when it came out, so I felt I had
a passing familiarity with the concept of alien abductions. But the evidence
presented on "Ancient Aliens" goes far beyond those early revelations. By this
point in time, only a dedicated naysayer could remain completely skeptical.
Here’s the ancient aliens theory: that a variety of aliens
from off-planet have been visiting our earth for thousands, if not millions, of
years. That the stories told around the world by ancient human cultures of gods
descending from the sky and living among them are true histories and not mere
fables. That ancient aliens have given knowledge to humanity, particularly technological
knowledge, to assist in the progress of human culture. That ancient aliens may
have edited our DNA to make us into the modern human form we see today, and
that they are possibly continuing to edit our DNA by means of alien abductions. Moreover, it is even suggested that our
entire ecosystem may have been seeded by aliens from the get-go, including the
placement of our moon to stabilize earth’s axis and to create tidal motion.
I persuaded my brother, Bill, to watch the program with me,
and so it is that we have watched and discussed every episode of their
15-season run that has been rebroadcast over the past couple of years, some
more than once. Yes, many of the stories presented in the series overlap, and
most of the evidence shows up time and again with the same commentary attached,
yet my brother and I have found the repetition helpful in our effort to discern
the truth of various aspects of the ancient aliens claim.
Bill and I are nothing if not open-minded, yet we anchor our
gullibility with an unusually well-developed sense of logic and critical
thinking. As you know, both of us are PhDs with specialties in Philosophy and Rhetoric, and we have both taught critical thinking and logic at universities. So
do not come away with the idea that we uncritically bought every claim hook,
line, and sinker.
We have paid special attention to the question continually
raised by the ancient aliens theorists—were these “gods” of the pre-flood era
merely misinterpreted alien visitors with alien tech? Are the “fallen angels”
of the Book Enoch angels from God, or were they actually ancient astronauts who
moved to earth and occasionally married human women? It is said that the
worldwide flood was sent by God to wipe out the angel-human offspring known as Nephilim.
What were the Nephilim and what God would have wiped out the entire earth and
everyone on it to kill them off, and how is it that some humans were spared by
warnings from “angels”?
As observed by the program’s resident theorists, these types
of stories can be taken as fables or as true histories and, if histories, are
these actually the Biblical God, angels, and the gods of ancient cultures, or
are they actually advanced, off-planet aliens who are apparently engaged in
disagreements over human destiny, with sometimes catastrophic consequences? These are the questions that have occupied
much discussion between Bill and me over the past couple of years, and they
have run on a parallel track to our Gnostic Theology pursuits as we untangle the
differences and origins of archons, aeons, angels, and fallen angels, and the
difference between the God Above All Gods and the God of this world. I am happy
to announce that we have turned a rhetorical corner and landed upon some sound
hypotheses at last. Perhaps you can use our analysis the next time you consider
the role of extra-terrestrials in our world.
I realize that the following memes I’m going to share with
you may sound new and strange unless you have previously studied gnostic
cosmology. If you are new to Gnostic Insights, I encourage you to go to the
GnosticInsights.com website and open the menu tab called “The Gnostic Gospel
Primer.” There you will find a Valentinian Gnostic cosmology based upon the
Tripartite Tractate book of the Nag Hammadi library. These initial eight
episodes lay out in a clear and understandable way the basic cosmology of our
universe and the origins of all things. The story is not difficult to
understand, but it helps to listen to it from the beginning and go in order.
There you will find episodes describing the God Above All Gods, as well as
entities known as Aeons which dwell in a space called the Fullness of God, also
known as the Pleroma. Aeons, by virtue of the fact that they dwell in the
Pleroma, are by definition a type of ET.
This ancient well in Sardinia, Italy, the Santa Christina
well, is said to represent the “keyhole shape” found throughout the ancient
world. To me, it looks like the Pleroma.
Ancient alien theorists speak of ETs directing evolution to create our intelligent hominid species. Ancient alien theorists call into question the mainstream theory of evolution. They rightly point out that this planet of ours has not been around long enough for evolution to have spontaneously bumbled upon our exquisite design. They even call into question the premise that life on earth evolved randomly from a primordial soup into ever-increasing complexity and function. “Pan-spermia” has been proposed as a method by which primitive alien life forms hitchhiked their way across the heavens on asteroids to seed our oceans. According to ancient alien theorists, ETs probably interfered throughout ancient history to promote life on earth, including many interventions in protohumans to direct our upward evolution.
I tend to agree with much of what they say about the
impossibility of Darwinian evolution to achieve our current biosphere. I invite
you to listen to the Gnostic Insights podcast called “Evolution and Conscious
Aeonic Design,” which you can find at the Gnostic Insights.com website menu
under the tab “Complete Episodes Library.” In that episode I call into question Darwinian
evolution in favor of the same sort of planned evolution promoted by the
ancient alien theorists. But where they identify “ETs” as the source, I
identify those ETs as Aeons of the Fullness directing evolution.
Episode Four of the Gnostic Insights Primer describes these
Aeons that came before this universe. The Aeons populate the Fullness of God in
the Pleroma, and they consist of names, places, personalities, powers, and
forces, all arranged in a hierarchy, each of them representing a quality of God
that would come to realization in this cosmos in which we dwell. It is through
their intervention in our universe that evolution occurs to bring about their
vision of our material cosmos. Simply
ascribing evolution to the intervention of flesh and blood ETs merely pushes
back the same ontological problems of random evolution—order cannot arise
spontaneously out of disorder. 52 card pickup never finds the cards stacked in
suits, and endless games of 52 card pickup over billions of years simply cannot
achieve endless results of order from chaos. The physics of entropy always wins
out. No matter how many times you toss the components of life up into the air,
they never assemble themselves into complex working structures on the way down.
What is true for physical evolution is also true of
technological innovation. Ancient alien theorists point out that our most
important technological innovations are often discovered simultaneously by
multiple inventors worldwide. Whether it’s old tech such as language, medicine,
metallurgy, and architecture, or new tech such as radio, relativity theory, and
the telephone, these inventions appear without evolutionary precedent, arriving
fully formed to multiple people, often through dreams and visions. The ancient
alien theorists ascribe these technological innovations to ETs guiding our
development, either through physical manifestation as the benevolent gods of
ancient earth cultures, or nowadays through the transpersonal field or Askashic
record. They suggest the Akashic record is a pre-scripted, computer-type code,
existing in a transdimensional space, that humans are programmed to access as
needed.
Ancient alien theorist include our DNA as a form of proof of
non-evolutionary technological leaps, as our modern human form does not appear
to have evolved from more primitive versions. Yes, there were numerous
protohumans, but they all mysteriously disappeared by the end of the last ice
age, or the time of the great flood.
I agree that there is a transpersonal field, which is the
repository of our collective memes—all that were, are, and will be. But I
ascribe this transpersonal field to the divine dimension of the mind of the
Universal Unit of Consciousness as described in my Simple Explanation blog and
book. And I would agree that we are triggered to access this field as needed.
It happens all the time in our daily lives for all sorts of information. Same
thing holds true for inventors who see a need and whose contemplation leads
them into the field for solutions.
The ancient alien theorists suggest that it is our
familiarity with the field that is leading us in the trans-human direction of
hooking our human brains up to a computer-mediated “cloud” so we can access
information on demand and even download our complete consciousness, thereby
achieving non-material immortality. Here I strongly disagree. I would say that
the force behind such a drive for incorporeal immortality has two motivations. One
motivation is our innate spiritual connectivity to the Fullness of God, the
Son, and the Father, which promises the continuation of our immortal souls
after death. The other motivation is from the other side of the coin—that of
the archonic desire to achieve god-like status, including omniscience and
immortality, without the benefit of God’s will and blessing. In other words,
it’s replay of the presumptuous thought that brought about the Fall of Logos.
It seems clear to me that our tech billionaires who are leading the way with
transhumanism and space exploration are themselves personally playing out the
Fall of Logos in their attempt to play God.
Again, if you have not listened to the Gnostic Insights
Primer episodes, you will find a full episode devoted to the Fall of Logos and
its cosmic consequences. You will find these episodes at the Gnostic
Insights.com website under the menu tab labeled “The Gnostic Gospel Primer.”
Ancient alien theorists suggest that ancient astronauts
developed our planet in order to create a sentient species fit to house the Ba,
or soul, as described by ancient Egyptians. They theorize that ETs created
humans to be vessels for souls, which implies that without their intervention,
creatures do not have souls. Of all the theories proposed, this one strikes me
as completely off-base. I would say that all creatures have souls. According to
Gnostic cosmology, all creatures are the fruit of the Aeons. The Aeons sent
their fruit into creation in order to populate creation with the Fullness of
God. This fruit is called the Second Order of Powers, and we are all Second
Order Powers, from bacteria on up to humans and beyond. If the universe is
indeed populated by extra terrestrial life forms, then these, too, would be
Second Order Powers because all life forms are. And all of us Second Order
Powers possess souls.
There is, however, one type of entity in the universe that
does not possess a soul, because these entities are not creatures from the
Fullness of God. These entities are called archons. Archons are the inverted
shadows of Aeons. Archons are incorporeal waves of entropy that emanate from
the Demiurge. Archons are not "fallen angels" because they never were
angels. We know these archons as demonic forces that frustrate and bedevil us in
order to feed off of our negative energy. The world's bad habits and cruelty
are shepherded by archons. They are the forces the Second Order Powers were
sent to do battle with in a never-ending war for dominion of the cosmos. For
more on this topic, listen to Episode Five of The Gnostic Gospel Primer called
"The Deficiency and Boundary."
Knowing what we know about archons, we can identify the
non-physical entity known as Satan as an archon. Satan is also called The
Accuser, and he is the source of temptation and illness, and the head of an
army of demons or archons. Traditional theology identifies Satan as a fallen
angel who rebelled against God because God elevated humans above angels. I
would reinterpret this myth in a Gnostic way by saying that the God against
whom Satan rebelled was not the Father God Above All Gods, but rather the God
of this world, who is called the Demiurge in Gnostic texts. It is the Demiurge
that Satan sprang from and it is the Demiurge with whom Satan struck the wager
concerning the fate of Job. Satan is also credited with advancing human
technology.
The archons appear to be very interested in advancing human
technology. I suspect this is because it is easier to distract, delude, and even
destroy humanity via technology than with any other means. Not only war
technology and weaponry, but more benign appearing helpful technologies. I'm
sure I don't need to tell you how destructive and divisive the internet has
become through the innovation of social media. And how appealing and
irresistible television has become! Then there is the realm of virtual reality—a
realm controlled by archons who want nothing more than to delude and ensnare
human souls. This type of delusion and division is the bread and butter of
archons. So, when ancient aliens theorists point out the leaps made in
technological innovation by the influence of incorporeal beings, I suspect
archons at play.
Which brings us to angels. Angels are described as beings
who appear to be trans-dimensional. By that I mean that sometimes they appear
as physical humans and sometimes they appear as incorporeal light beings. They
can physically touch humans, as when Peter was awakened in his prison cell by
an angel's touch, yet the same angel can pass through solid walls, as recounted
in Acts 12:7. It is said that angels were sent to earth to protect and assist
humans, and 70% of Americans believe they have a guardian angel. In Gnostic
cosmology, it appears that angels are a type of being created by the Fullness
of God, specifically for the benefit of humans, to assist them in the
never-ending war against the archons. Angels are possibly aeonic personalities
that have come from the Pleroma to assist. Therefore, when ancient alien
theorists tell of incidents where non-corporeal beings appear as light forms to
interfere in a positive manner with human technology, these are angels. Examples
of angelic interference include the occasions where mysterious forces have
appeared above U.S. ICBM sites and disabled nuclear-armed missles in their
silos. These beings have also appeared outside the windows of the International
Space Station and U.S. space missions to the moon.
So far we have identified Aeons, archons, and angels as
entities who insert themselves into human affairs. But what of actual
off-world, flesh and blood ETs from other planets and galaxies? Do they really
exist? Yes, the remainder of encounters appear to be ETs. Ancient alien
theorists propose that in the days before the flood, "gods" lived
side by side with humans and occasionally took human women as sexual partners.
These ETs claimed to have come from the star systems of Sirius and Orion in
particular. These ETs had advanced technologies that they shared with the
humans around them. They designed the ancient monolithic structures, including
the pyramids found around the earth on every continent. They were the ones who
used their tech to levitate gigantic boulders into place in stone structures
all over the earth. Many of them appeared to have elongated skulls and green or
blue skin. Some of them had reptilian, birdlike, or insectoid features, and
some appeared to have non-human heads of canines, lions, and other animals. The
Book of Enoch reports that some ETs mated with human women and produced
monstrous offspring known as the Nephilim.
Enoch says that the great flood unleashed to cleanse the earth of these
hybrid abominations, as they were not part of God's plan for humanity. After
the flood, the ETs on earth seem to have retreated or gone into hiding.
Occasional modern sightings of strange humanoid creatures living deep
underground, under the ocean, or under the ice of Antarctica, hint at their
possible continued presence.
Just as we are planning to do, it is likely that ETs sent
out their own exploration and colonization missions, and that some of them came
to planet earth. They probably had the same motivations that our own tech
billionaires have—preservation of their genetic line against future
catastrophes married to the archonic drive to be as gods and terraform worlds
to their own ends. There is also pictorial evidence that some of these ETs may
have been robots given the task of seeking out and terraforming worlds. It is
also quite possible that the civilizations that sent out the ET missions have
already destroyed themselves through plague or warfare.
Finally, let us turn to the question of the ultimate ET:
God. Who and What Is He?
Episode Two of the Gnostic Insights podcasts describes the
attributes of the Father, also known as the God Above All Gods. Briefly, the
Father is the Illimitable, Eternal, Omniscient Consciousness that underlies our
reality. The Father does not look or sound like anything. He doesn’t hold conversations the way we do. The
Father is undifferentiated consciousness itself. This Consciousness is the
ground state from which all subsequent events emerge.
Possibly the most egregious heresy in Gnosticism is the
proposition that the God of the Old Testament, Creator of Heaven and Earth, the
Jealous God of the Hebrews, Yahweh, or Jehovah, is not the Father on High that
Jesus called Father. The God of this earth is known to Gnostics as the
Demiurge, and He arose as a result of the Fall of Logos the Aeon due to Logos’s
presumptuous thought. To learn more about this topic in depth, please listen to
Episode Four of the Gnostic Insights podcast.
The God of the Old Testament, Yahweh, is more tangible than
the Father Above. Yahweh has discussions with humans as well as with entities
such as Satan. He uses language and engages in prolonged conversations, as when
He gave precise building instructions for the ark to Noah. He even makes wagers
over Job and appears to change his mind regarding the sacrifice of Isaac. When people refer to God as an old white man
with a beard, it is the image of the Demiurge to which they refer, not the
undifferentiated consciousness of the Father. This Demiurge character is the
God Yahweh, the God of this world and the God of the Hebrews especially. It is
the Demiurge that has a special relationship with the children of Abraham.
Yahweh takes care of the Hebrews when they pray to Him and follow His rules,
and He has arranged a variety of cataclysms, plagues, and floods, to preserve
their particular line of DNA. Yahweh favors the Hebrews in battles.
Therefore, it seems to me that when ancient alien theorists refer to God as having sent the world wide cataclysm and flood that wiped out the Nephilim and all but about 3,000 surviving humans, it is the work of the Demiurge calling himself God. This is the jealous God who wants sole control of the earth and the God who is angered by uppity archons like Satan and other "fallen angels." This is the God who wants Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on the mountain as a show of faith. But it was a true angel of the true Father Above who stayed Abraham's hand and saved Isaac's life. It is the Demiurge who tired of his people's captivity in Egypt and sent the plagues so the Pharoah would release the Hebrew slaves and who parted the seas to make good their escape. But it was true angels from the true God who protected the Hebrews during their 40 year trek through the desert, guiding them with their light bodies and feeding them with mana.
Well, there you have it. Aeons, archons, angels, or aliens? I hope these distinctions help you sort out the ancient aliens theory.These NASA/Hubble images are thought to be planetary proplyds, or the beginnings of planets surrounding stars in the Orion nebula. Their press release says,
"The brighter discs are indicated by a glowing cusp in the excited material and facing the bright star, but which we see at a random orientation within the nebula, so some appear edge on, and others face on, for instance. Other interesting features enhance the look of these captivating objects, such as emerging jets of matter and shock waves."
