Through the Looking Glass by Skylaire Alfvegren (1,000 words)

The legendary Art Bell stoked a particular millennial zeitgeist with his fireside chats on
UFOs, the paranormal, and all manner of conspiracy theories with his syndicated radio
program Coast to Coast, before passing the mic to George Noory in 2002. It remains a
cultural touchstone, and Noory—personable and mustachioed—continues to bring
‘fringe’ ideas front and center.

“There’s definitely a sense of an impending… something.”

Noory’s broadcast quality lilt wafted over the packed conference room of the Beverly
Garland Hotel last Saturday night, as he left the sound booth to moderate a panel of ‘out
there’ researchers engaged in a radical examination of Hollywood’s covert use of occult
symbolism and alien agendas--all in the same week as the Vatican stated that belief in
alien life does not contradict faith in God.

We’re at “an extraordinary crossroads, with the way life is unfolding,” commented
panelist Whitely Strieber (author of Communion and most recently, a novel based on the
2012 mythos). Strieber, who believes he was ‘implanted’ with a device by his “visitors,”
recalled a bit of their verbiage: ‘We will come from within you.’

According to panelist/abduction therapist Yvonne Smith, 17 functional growth

characteristics in humans born between 1947-87 have been accelerated by 60-80%. “It’s
not environment, it’s not evolution,” she asserted. A “mutation of society” is underway,
and “the skeptic community is getting quieter and quieter,” remarked Dr. Roger Leir, a
Valley-based podiatrist who removes alleged alien implants.

Jordan Maxwell, a leading expert in occult symbolism and secret societies, likened the
American people to Alec Guinness’ blindly megalomaniacal colonel in The Bridge on the
River Kwai, once he realizes he’s been working for the enemy. “What have I done? There
is no way out.”

“Jordan’s been looking down the barrel of the New World Order for nearly 50 years,”
Noory enthused. Maxwell, expounding upon the secret fraternal orders to which our
government and religious leaders are bound, remarked, “The Da Vinci Code and National
Treasure are teasers. The powers behind Hollywood are Knights Templars, showing you
what they can do.”

“What does Hollywood know that we don’t?” Asked panelist Jay Weidner, producer of
the doc 2012: The Odyssey. Subversive Stanley Kubrick loomed large: was Eyes Wide
Shut a representation of a sex cult for rich perverts, or a portrait of the Illuminati? The
director died two hours after bringing a rough cut of the film to Warner Brothers. “Like
the Zapruder film, you can see what he was trying to say by what’s missing.” Weidner
believes Kubrick fled for England in the ‘60s after experiencing events depicted in the
film. (Scientologists Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were simply cast as part of “an
inside joke.”)
Maxwell’s caveats (“People will support a dictator until the cost of supporting the
dictator is no longer feasible”), Strieber’s fiction (which he turned to only when his extra-
terrestrial experiences “didn’t compute,”) and Leir’s research into an “intelligence from
elsewhere” (which has taken him to 42 countries in the past seven years) are inextricably
linked: Dr. Leir made a statement which could apply to aliens as easily as the societies
and institutions Maxwell has hounded over the years. “It’s not a benevolent thing; if it
were, we’d have no famine. But if they were malevolent, we’d not be here.”

“Climate change, economics, the population explosion… prices are skyrocketing, our
ability to produce is plummeting,” added Strieber. “But it’s not all our fault.”

Invasions--both extra-terrestrial and occult--stretching back many millennia linked the

panelists’ commentary on the corrupt institutions of government, religion and the media,
as well as the significance of Saturn, the “Fourth Reich,” Prescott Bush’s Nazi ties and
hybrid human/alien children. “We’re all being effected and all we get is news about Paris
Hilton.”

In Rosemary’s Baby, John Cassavetes’ character eagerly permits the devil to impregnate
his wife to ensure his Broadway stardom. “He’s the spitting image of Jack Parsons [black
magician and founder of Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Lab]… it’s the magical ritual known
as the Babylon Working; Rosemary becomes the mother of the anti-Christ,” claimed
Mike Bara, co-author of Richard “face on Mars” Hoagland’s recent best seller, NASA:
Dark Mission.

A question came from the audience. “There’s so much to dissect from entertainment
now--Iron Man, Battlestar Galactica, The Mist, Marvel’s Sons of the Serpent. There’s
even a conspiracy theorist in Justice League of America.” The bearded young man
echoed the sentiments of many assembled: “Why now?”

“They release little bits of truth, so that in the future they can say, ‘we said that years
ago.’ You’ve got to read between the lines,” Maxwell answered. Entertainment is used to
indoctrinate or spread disinformation: case in point: Universal’s recent optioning of the
‘period’ action script The Knights Templars. “Each time you get a bigger sense of how
the game is being played, you are less manipulated by it.” He asked the audience to verify
his contentions—Rome is still in control, a powerful occult system has dominated
consensus reality for thousands of years—by forcing us to pay attention to ‘their’
symbols: words, flags, coats of arms. “Once you see [it] organized, it’s frightening.”

‘They’ may have been in control thus far, but just look to the massive popularity of films,
books and groups challenging establishment beliefs, from The Da Vinci Code and What
the Bleep Do We Know? to Zeitgeist the Movie and the 9/11 Truth movement. (With over
350 people in attendance, some from as far afield as Florida, organizer Christian has
decided to produce similar quarterly events dedicated to alternative and suppressed
information: SacredMysteriesLive.com)
“The Gnostic belief is that we must have an apocalypse to bring about the Golden Age,”
Weidner commented. “But is that apocalypse the death of all of us, or the death of
consciousness as we know it?” The Mayan calendar, which runs out at midnight on
December 12, 2012, is expected to take us out, whether by mass extinction, interplanetary
invasion, or a total paradigm shift – a metaphysical bang or a cosmic whimper. With four
years and counting Jordan Maxwell advised, “Always trust those who are looking for the
truth.” But what the bleep is it?