Bumblebee wrote:What was investigated by whom and what didn't hold up according to whom? Are you sure this is the case? It seems to me to be the case that the Ra material is not explicitly or implicitly critical toward the Puharich/Probert's Council of the Nine.
In "The Stargate Conspiracy", Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince investigated whether the Ra Material was a product of CIA mind-control experiments. Or more accurately, they came to that conclusion after coming across several reasons why this may be so in the course of their research into Puharich. I said in my last post that this conclusion was invalid but didn't go into detail as to why. I am sure of this because their logic is faulty on several grounds and their conclusion is based on incomplete information.
First, they discuss at length the shady history of Puharich, namely his involvement in CIA experiments regarding altered states of consciousness, his military research into psychic phenomena, and his interest in developing remote voice-to-skull beaming technologies. Then we have the Ra group using trance to tap into channelled messages. With Puharich having met the Ra group, it would therefore appear that the Ra Material was the product of the military beaming messages into Carla Rueckert's head during trance states. That the Ra Material began shortly after Puharich visited makes this seem so. In truth, the Ra Material began in January of 1981 and they met with Puharich in 1977/78 so it wasn't exactly "shortly" thereafter. There's lots that can happen in between.
Secondly, the Council of Nine which Puharich helped tap into via his hypnotized subjects called themselves the nine enneads of heliopolis, the nine gods of Egyptian mythology. "The Stargate Conspiracy" then says, "Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert of L/L Research had (through Carla) made contact with Ra, one of the Nine, though significantly only after meeting Puharich." There are a couple twists in that statement. One is that by definition, the god "Ra" was indeed one of the nine major Egyptian gods, but that the Council of Nine included the god "Ra" as one of their members does not necessarily mean that the "Ra" channelled by Carla was the same source Puharich tapped into. To say "Ra, one of the Nine" is kind of misleading as it was in direct context of Puharich's Nine.
Who is to say that Puharich didn't arrive or associate with the Ra group due to his interest in such phenomena at large, which Ruckert/McCarty/Elkins had already been doing long prior to Puharich's arrival? Or perhaps he was sent in at a critical time when real contact was about to be made with an actual higher density source? Judging by the way Puharich and the govt worked, there would be just as much interest in investigating genuine phenomena as there would be in faking it for COINTELPRO purposes.
Third, it was mentioned in the book that Puharich's subject committed suicide. That Don Elkins committed suicide in 1984 was supposed to show he was likewise a puppet of Puharich, even though it was Carla who did the channeling and then in a manner unlike the Council of Nine channelers who merely repeated the voices they heard in their heads. The actual story behind Don Elkins's suicide is a sad tale that shows dynamics at play different from those surmised by Picknett and Prince. It can be found here: http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/i … book_5.htm
One problem I had with Picknett and Prince is that by wanting to keep it 'journalistic' and 'academic' and 'credible' they refuse to acknowledge the hyperdimensional aspect , thereby becoming vulnerable to the deceptive aspect of same. Also, what I see in Picknett and Prince is an arrogant agnostic intellect unable to distinguish the finer subtleties of hyperdimensional phenomena, thereby throwing out the baby with the bathwater. They see red and green as two shades of gray and throw out the apples with the leaves. Maybe they thought they had it all figured out, especially since they came to the conclusion at the end that all ancient interactions with gods and nonhuman intelligences were the product of drug trips. I sensed they were biased in their handling of the Ra case due to a lack of understanding. They referred to the Ra complexity of language as "very proper godlike disdain for mere earthly grammar and syntax" not understanding the necessity of it.
They put down the idea of extraterrestrial communications and use Ockam's Razor to make the simple untruth more probable than the more complicated/fantastic truth.
Stargate Conspiracy wrote:Don Elkins himself had earlier experimented with methods of 'fabricating' contactees. He took over a hundred subjects, who had no prior knowledge of UFOs, and under hypnosis made them channell extraterrestrials, then compared the reesults with the words of those who claimed to be genuinely in touch with such entities. He found that the 'fabricated' messages were very similar to the 'real' ones. Elkins then leaped to the rather unscientific conclusion that this proved the reality of the extraterrestrial contact, and that contactees were not 'chosen', but that anybody could do it if in the right altered and receptive state of consciousness. (Of course it could be argued that his data proved the opposite, demonstrating that the extraterrestrial channeling is a pathological phenomenon, and that it is never 'real'). Interestingly, several of Elkins's 'fabricated' contactees subsequently claimed UFO experiences. This seems very similar to Puharich's own research.
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bumblebee wrote:SEMI-undistorted does not exactly equal partially-corrupted.
Glass half empty, glass half full. Part undistorted = part distorted. Since distortion = corruption and semi = part, part undistorted = semi-corrupted. If it's not fully pure, then it's partially not pure, right? At least enough to mention.
bumblebee wrote: this doesn't suggest anything about whether the Ra material is less or more (un)distorted then Puharich/Probert's Nine.
Right, except that the Council of Nine as channelled by Puharich/Probert were distorted enough to mention as being only "semi" undistorted. For a full tally of which is less distorted, you have to assess the material itself. My vote goes to the Ra Material.
bumblebee wrote:Ra doesn't comment specifically critical on The Nine.
No different from their comments on anything else, which tend to be very neutral or matter of fact. In this case, the most they said about Puharich/Probert's Council of Nine is that they were retained in a semi-undistorted manner. The Ra Material as a whole is lacking in the critical component. You won't find the word "corrupt" anywhere in it. Just more neutral euphemisms like "distorted"...
bumblebee wrote:only the Cass group after reading the stargate conspiracy and the VB encounter becomes highly critical about The Nine and everything from Egypt.
That's good, although in a way it shows the ease at which people can be turned away from sorting wheat from chaff toward the easier solution of blanket dismissal of anything labelled intellectually contraband. It was Picknett and Prince who later lumped the Cass stuff into the same category as Puharich/Ra/Nine.
I've read the Nine material and despite some good stuff there is much of it neither consistent nor practical nor supported by my personal experience or intuition, in contrast to the C and Ra material.
As for the egyptian stuff, yes it forms an essential core to the cosmic COINTELPRO agenda and I see it popping up repeatedly in disinformation sources. Picknett and Prince said that other sources mentioning Atlantis are in the same boat...as if Atlantis were a government-invented term. Sometimes names are names, and it's the way in which they are used, or the material the factual content of their reference that matters.
It's just as faulty to go nuts about egypt as it is to throw it all out. The agenda is known to use two false dichotomies to pass through a lie. For example, generate lots of channelled crappola, associate it with legitimate stuff, then knock it all down as being bunk. Those who see the crappola for what it is but are unable or unwilling to to discern the legitimate stuff seemingly tied to it, are just as gullible as the flakes.
bumblebee wrote:Puharich worked with a lot of mediums concerning the Council of Nine, it could be that some Council of Nine incarnations are not the same as other Council of Nine incarnations. Note that the Phyllis Schlemmer the C's commented on in 970412 was a different medium then the Mark Probert Ra commented on.
Considering what it takes to get a pure channel and how easily it is corrupted, considering the direct ties the Council of Nine material has to Puharich, and considering the dubious ways in which the Council was later channelled, there's no doubt in my mind that if there ever was genuine contact, it disappeared in short time. In the end it got pretty crazy with people channelling the discarnate remnants of people who first channelled the Nine.
bumblebee wrote:Who's who? Difficult to say with discarnate entities, which are also difficult to seperate from the human medium/mind.
The best one can do is stick with a working hypothesis until it no longer works, then get one that works until next time.
Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.