Category Archives: Cydonia

Brookings Report, Carl Sagan, Cydonia, Face On Mars, Lunar Ruins, Richard Hoagland

Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 2—“A Personal Voyage”

A SEED FOR THE FUTURE
A seed for the future. The “Ship of the Imagination” begins it’s cosmic journey in “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” from 1980 on PBS

 

The lost Library of Alexandria, pyramids on Mars1)For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: “Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980 , alien life in the universe, astroengineering projects of immense scale, the sheer immensity of the “Cosmos” and the concept of multi-verses, were just some of the ideas from Cosmos that inspired and expanded my mind in the year 1980. Continue reading Tricks of Light and Shadow; The Secrets of Carl Sagan Part 2—“A Personal Voyage” →

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↑1 For Sagan’s video discussion from 1980 on enigmatic landforms see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 5: “Blues for a Red Planet” at the 25-30 min mark, and pages 129-130 from the companion book Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1980 
Archetypal Anamnesis, Cydonia, Exploded Planet, Lucifer, Thomas Lake Harris, War in Heaven

THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview

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Anyone recognize the man in the above photo?

Meet Thomas Lake Harris who died on this day 110 years ago. Although not the first individual to mythologize an exploded planet, he certainly is probably the most astonishing example of one. Continue reading THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview →

Archetypal Anamnesis, Archetype, Cydonia, Dwellers on the Threshold, Face On Mars, Initiation, Jacob Boehme, Lucifer, Night Land, Time, Underworld, Von Welling, War in Heaven

Dwellers on the Threshold: The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 2–Janus and Time.

 

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Alciati Emblematum, Emblema XVIII

“Two-faced Janus, you who know the things that have already passed and the things to come, and who can see the grimaces behind you just as well as those before, why do they fashion you with so many eyes and why so many faces? Is it because your image teaches men to have kept an eye open all around them?”–Alciati Emblematum, Emblema XVIII

“But the Great Spy-Glass…had eyes of it upon every side of The Mighty Pyramid, and did be truly an Huge Machine”–From The Night Land

“Time-released aspirin…”–Richard C. Hoagland

 

Fear of the deep future (or the deep past) suggests a morally ambiguous universe that goes on without us. All activity within it continues without a care for human dreams or aspirations to heaven or a damning to hell. Grinding all into entropic detritus time with it’s continual unending and unforgiving forward motion invokes a sense of despair. It’s one thing that we die but, if meaning itself dies, this conjures up more complex ontological problems drowned by a simple one: that there is no meaning, the unknown rules supreme and that we exist in the deep past of some unholy future. Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold: The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 2–Janus and Time. →

Archetypal Anamnesis, Cydonia, Dimensions, Dwellers on the Threshold, Night Land, Underworld

DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD: THE “NIGHT LAND” AND THE “ANAMNESIC IMAGINATION” Part 1

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“The Lesser Redoubt”. Artwork by Steven E. Fabian. Published in “The Dream of X”

 

138 years ago today, a person was born who would make a significant, if not seminal, contribution to the so-called “weird” tale. That person was William Hope Hodgson. In this series of articles we will examine some of the inspirations and influences in his works, specifically, the one work which is considered his flawed but darkly brilliant “masterpiece”, “The Night Land” which I was fortunate to have first read in 1990 and realized, even then, the sub-conscious connections with the planet Mars and the mysterious landscapes of Cydonia. Continue reading DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD: THE “NIGHT LAND” AND THE “ANAMNESIC IMAGINATION” Part 1 →