Closer Encounters
Se presenta declarando su disciplina y su límite: «It is only fair to make it clear from the outset that I am a philosopher, not a Ufologist.» «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 6», y encuadra el asunto en el cruce de la ufología con la parapsicología «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 7».
Su armazón es un inventario del campo —seis alternativas a la Hipótesis Extraterrestre, enumeradas y numeradas «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 8»— y su resolución no elige una: «certain aspects of all seven of the hypotheses above — including the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis — are in some way true» «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 8». La llave que las une es la tercera: «That UFOs are time machines is the key to the entire enigma of Close Encounters.» «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 9».
De ahí sale la inversión que lo separa de Däniken y de la Hipótesis Extraterrestre corriente: los pilotos «are not ‘aliens.' They are our human Ancestors.» «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 11». Por encima de esa capa física sitúa otra que no lo es: una inteligencia cósmica finita, femenina, de carácter *Trickster*, exterior al programa «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · pp. 13-14».
Es el primer autor de este eje que discute por su nombre a la corriente rival: objeta a Jung por abandonar la línea psicoide «Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · p. 271» y lleva a Jung, a Keel, a Harpur y a Vallée en su bibliografía. Su fila en la tabla del fenómeno no se escribe como si fuera un Däniken más.
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se consigna, jamás se afirma«Jorjani — Closer Encounters (2021) · pp. 6, 3»
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1743 entradas — la voz de la obra, con su pasaje«It is only fair to make it clear from the outset that I am a philosopher, not a Ufologist.» — apertura de la Introducción.
«Frankly, I did not want to find this because I know that the consequence of presenting what I have found out will further damage my reputation, and probably play into the hands of those who orchestrated my defamation.» — declara el costo personal que se atribuye al libro.
«This book promises to be the most profound and the most unsettling — not to say, horrifying — philosophical study of the Close Encounter phenomenon.» — así presenta su propio estatuto.
«the enigmas of Ufology deeply intersect and overlap with phenomena studied in Parapsychology.» — el encuadre disciplinar.
«The rebranding of UFOs as ‘UAP' is a part of this cover-up.» — sobre la Divulgación estadounidense de 2021.
«The conclusion is that certain aspects of all seven of the hypotheses above — including the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis — are in some way true, and that the complexity of the phenomenon defies explanation by only one or two of these alternatives.» — la posición metodológica, tras el inventario de seis alternativas.
«UFOs are produced by a hidden terrestrial society, a ‘breakaway civilization' that has diverged from others.» — alternativa (1) del inventario.
«They are inter-dimensional, originating from parallel versions of Earth.» — alternativa (2).
«the hypothesis that UFOs are time machines and their occupants are time travelers — potentially from the human future.» — alternativa (3), la única que la obra adopta como llave.
«The Close Encounter phenomenon represents engagement with survivors of some vastly ancient human civilization, which for whatever reason has become subterranean or submarine and decided to operate in stealth (this is known as the ‘Crypto-terrestrial' hypothesis).» — alternativa (4).
«they are psychic projections from the collective unconscious and the beings encountered in association with them are akin to phantoms or egregores (this is sometimes designated as the ‘Ultra-terrestrial' hypothesis).» — alternativa (5).
«We are in a computer simulation and what we are having ‘close encounters' with are Avatars of the programmers» — alternativa (6).
«That UFOs are time machines is the key to the entire enigma of Close Encounters.»
«This book argues that the time line bent into the figurative event horizon of the Technological Singularity, is a line that begins around 1850 and that the loop is going to close around 2050.» — la horquilla temporal del bucle.
«Contrary to what is widely believed by both skeptics and people who advocate for full Disclosure, those piloting most UFOs are not ‘aliens.' They are our human Ancestors.» — la inversión de identidad que lo separa de la Hipótesis Extraterrestre.
«This Master Race even became the ‘Martian' creators of terrestrial humanity — a rabble to whom they could do as they please, since this slave race would worship them as ‘gods' or ‘angels.'» — voz de la obra; entra literal y sin condensar, por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«This civilization, which collapsed circa 12,000 years BP, is what Plato referred to as ‘Atlantis.' It was centered on the island continent of Antarctica.»
«The Moon is an artificial satellite, which is mostly hollow, and inhabited by our Ancestors.»
«The UFO occupants, the time-traveling Nordics, are the Devas and Ashuras or ‘gods' and ‘titans' that were worshipped by the classical Greeks and that are still at the core of the Vedic religion.» — grafía «Ashuras» tal cual.
«they decided to rebrand themselves as ‘angels' serving a Lord who grandiosely claims to be omnipotent and omniscient (he is far from it).» — sobre el origen de las revelaciones abrahámicas.
«The ‘gods' became ‘angels,' and their adversaries, the ‘titans,' became ‘demons' led by Lucifer.»
«These ‘gods' are engaged in repeatedly changing recorded history and altering our memories by using time travel.»
«the very nature of our Cosmos is that it is a programmable (and re-programmable) information processing system.» — Precisa antes que con ello «I do not mean a ‘simulation.'»
«there is a finite — albeit vast — cosmic intelligence outside of the program that we are in, and that being is containing our Ancestors inside of this system because the totalitarian form of life of these archons is considered unworthy of further expansion.» — la instancia superior.
«It has been judged sterile, like an Ouroboros choking on the tail of a perennial Tradition whose cyclical conception of time and fate precludes novel social and aesthetic transformations driven by innovative genius.» — la Tradición perenne, citada para acusarla de esterilidad.
«She aims, with Her negentropic forethought, to maximize creativity and thereby expand the existential horizon of possibilities for life at any cost.» — el *modus operandi* de ese Trickster, en femenino.
«Philip K. Dick conceived of VALIS in terms that were too anthropomorphic, although he may have had the right idea when he referred to this being as ‘zebra.'» — precedente corregido.
«The praying mantis-type ‘alien' is one of Her preferred forms.»
«If this intelligence is approached from out of the trickster aspect of Prometheus, will S/he be unmasked as Promethea?» — cierre del último capítulo, en forma de pregunta.
«If there are aliens involved in Close Encounters, it is because the meta-narrative function of the phenomenon produces aliens. We are the aliens.» — última página del cuerpo.
«the Anunaki or Elohim (‘the gods') of Eden are the Devas of Indo-European (Aryan) Tradition.» — grafía «Anunaki» con una sola «n», sistemática en la obra.
«This figure, known to the ancient Mesopotamians as ‘Enki' and to the Greeks as ‘Prometheus,' is the ‘Dragon' who tempts Eve with knowledge and immortality in Eden. He becomes the ‘Satan' (i.e. Adversary) of Abrahamic Revelation.»
«The civilization of hybrids that ensued from this, namely Atlantis, is punished by the gods (the Elohim) who use a great flood.»
«a battle in the display of psychic abilities ensues between them and Pharaoh's practitioners of alchemy (al-khemi, ‘the art/craft [i.e. techne] from Khemit'; Khemit being the indigenous name of Ancient Egypt).» — su etimología de *alquimia*, aplicada al Éxodo; es propuesta del autor, no OCR.
«He often did not know what he himself was saying, which makes this similar to the case of the prophet Ezekiel.» — sobre Mahoma.
«According to the Gnostics, the radical pacifism and voluntary poverty preached by Jesus in the Gospels follows from a recognition that Nature is a prison.»
«These Gnostics were for a time dominant in the cosmopolitan capital of the Greco-Roman world, the city of Alexandria.» — Añade que sus escrituras fueron al fuego tras el Concilio de «Nice»; grafía tal cual.
«The first person to philosophically deploy the term Aeon or Aion was Heraclitus of Ephesus.» — Heráclito como fuente declarada del concepto rector.
«Aion is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Sovereignty belongs to the child.» — el fragmento 52 de Heráclito, tal como lo cita.
«this ‘Christ' was originally Mithras in the astrological religion of Mithraism.»
«Aleister Crowley was not so naive. Crowley adopted the term Aeon when he developed Thelema, using it to refer to a coming ‘Aeon of Horus.'»
«In Iranian Gnosticism there is an allegory known as ‘the seduction of the archons' where Mithra seduces female archons in his male form»
«the Lord of Time in classical Greek mythology, who is known as Saturn by the Romans and as Zurvan by the Persians.» — sobre Crono; «Zurvan» aparece una sola vez en toda la obra.
«Then, empirical evidence for the genetic engineering of humanity will be assessed, along with controversial data regarding race differences in intelligence and emotional qualities in populations that are more vs. less hybridized with the Nordic ‘Master Race' that created most humans to be part of slave races.» — es el anuncio del programa del capítulo 6, en voz de la obra.
«it appears that the ‘gods' of Eden set up a racially stratified caste system as part of their genetic engineering — not of a slave race, but of slave races in the plural.» — voz de la obra, conclusión de la sección sobre hibridaciones.
«It should be noted, if only in passing, that this is the view explicitly adopted by Savitri Devi and her followers, thereby establishing a direct connection between the Hindu caste system and its underlying cosmology of yugas on the one hand, and modern eugenics and racial theories on the other.» — voz de la obra, presentando a Savitri Devi.
«converted to Hinduism, moved to India, and created a Traditionalist cult around the idea that Adolf Hitler was an incarnation of Vishnu.» — voz de la obra, exposición biográfica de Savitri Devi (nacida Maximiani Portas, 1905, Lyon); añade que sus libros, con los de Miguel Serrano, fueron base de un «Esoteric Hitlerism».
«What Savitri Devi is valorizing, and associating with Hitler as a ‘Man against Time,' is a system wherein the Devas were at the top of a socio-political pyramid» — voz de la obra, glosando la tipología de Savitri Devi tras la cita en bloque de la p. 168.
«The thinkers of the Breakaway Civilization have an ideology that is in some ways similar to the later thought of Julius Evola.» — voz de la obra; es una adscripción ideológica que hace de terceros, no un elogio de Evola.
«Keel came to believe that Ufology is basically demonology.» — la obra atribuye la tesis a John Keel, *Operation Trojan Horse*, y añade que Keel «Neither did he mean this disparagingly». No es posición del autor.
«The Wizard is a Trickster, as shamanic tribal cultures understood the Trickster.» — cierre de la exposición de Keel; en la misma página, «Really, it is all just the Devil — including ‘God.'».
«Keel's theory was that UFOs are a form of electromagnetic energy at the upper end of a ‘super-spectrum'» — Distingue ovnis «hard» de «soft».
«What they have concluded, after more than 70 years of studying the Close Encounter phenomenon, is that we are not dealing with ‘aliens' from outer space but with demons from Hell who are trying to gain access to the inner space of the human psyche.» — expone la posición de la Collins Elite, que consigna sin suscribir.
«The putative ‘science' and ‘technology' behind the phenomenon was more akin to ancient alchemy and ritualistic black magic.» — sigue exponiendo a la Collins Elite.
«In the view of the Collins Elite, this scenario represents nothing less than the advent of the reign of the Antichrist.»
«The first thesis of Fort was that humans are the property of the beings that are piloting these craft through the air and under the oceans. We were bred by them and are herded, and sometimes culled, like cattle or sheep.» — atribuye la tesis a Charles Fort, la fuente más invocada del libro, y la adopta como punto de partida del capítulo.
«Keel was not the first person to think along these ‘paraphysical' lines about UFOs or to consider Close Encounters in the context of the Trickster. That would be Carl Jung.» — sitúa a Jung como precedente de la lectura daimónica.
«Jung admits that there is overwhelming evidence for the empirical reality of UFOs.» — sobre *Flying Saucers*, con referencia a Keyhoe, Ruppelt y Menzel.
«Really?! It is ‘pointless' to pursue this line of thought? No. The problem is that Jung does not consider the possibility that the medium producing these materializations may be non-human» — la objeción, tras citar a Jung en bloque.
«his characterization here does not even apply to what Helena Blavatsky or Rudolf Steiner wrote about Atlantis, but only to certain naively Traditionalist Theosophists» — deslinda a Blavatsky y a Steiner de la crítica de Jung al «Traditionalist mindset».
«one of the most respected scientists to have spent decades studying Close Encounters» — así presenta a Jacques Vallée, en quien se apoya.
«The elite Northern European — or “Nordic” — group responsible for this secret technological development were also occultists. The aetheric energy that their inventions were built to channel was dubbed “Vril” and they conceived of harnessing its power as the advent of a “coming race” into which they would transform as they became superhuman masters of the Earth» — el ocultismo está en la introducción del libro: los responsables del desarrollo técnico secreto son ocultistas, y el Vril es su energía etérica.
«These cryptic lines in Adamski’s book are typical of esoteric writing. They suggestively volunteer information that conflicts with the exoteric content of the books, namely Adamski’s claims about “Space Brothers» — y declara un método de lectura esotérico-exotérico, que aplica a un contactado.
«They said that the purpose of life was servitude in the divine order through perpetual reincarnation» — la cosmología de los Space Brothers de Adamski, expuesta, no suscrita.
«the NSDAP was set up by the Thule Society around 1920, but without the backing of these American magnates, it would have remained an irrelevant fringe party rather than the framework for a new Germanic Empire» — la primera adjudicación de un origen ocultista al partido.
«Because those who founded NYMZa were occultists and in nineteenth-century Anglo-Germanic occult circles, the word Nym-za evoked “the Nameless Ones» — la etimología ocultista que adjudica a la sigla de la sociedad aeronáutica de Dellschau.
«According to Dellschau a kind of alchemist by the name of Peter Mennis held the secret to this fuel» — el único alquimista nombrado como tal en toda la obra, y con el matiz «a kind of» que la fuente pone.
«This power source acted as an anti-gravity propulsion engine that interacted with telluric current lines in the Earth, propelling a number of different types of sleek craft designs» — y las corrientes telúricas como interfaz de esa propulsión.
«was actually a front for an occult group of aristocrats called the Thule-Gesellschaft, the “Thule Society” — or, more idiomatically translated, the “Atlantis Society,” since these individuals thought that “Thule” in Germanic mythology was one and the same as the fabled» — la Thule-Gesellschaft, y la identificación Thule = Atlántida que le adjudica.
«The Thule Society was organized around the idea of “Vril,” so much so that it has sometimes been mistakenly referred to as the “Vril Society» — y consigna «Vril Society» como error corriente, no como dato.
«The concept of “Vril” was introduced into elite occult circles of the Anglo-Saxon world by Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, a putative work of “fiction” penned by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published anonymously in 1871» — de dónde viene el Vril: una obra de ficción cuyo estatuto la propia frase pone en duda con sus comillas.
«Their power source, “Vril,” is basically the energy of the aether, which they have found ways to access and channel with a science that is not distinct from spirituality» — la frase clave del libro sobre la no separación entre ciencia y espiritualidad.
«The first section of this chapter examines evidence for the existence of Atlantis, with an emphasis on the writings of three philosophers: Plato, Rudolf Steiner, and Colin Wilson» — llama filósofos a los tres, Steiner incluido: es una adscripción disciplinar deliberada.
«Contrary to what Edgar Cayce supposed, Atlantis was Antarctica — not the Bahamas Basin» — y objeta a Edgar Cayce por su nombre.
«According to Steiner, Atlantean technology would be considered “magical” by modern materialistic scientists. Their “machines” interfaced with the psyche, requiring the cultivation of abilities such as Telepathy and Telekinesis in order to make them function properly» — la tecnología atlante como magia, expuesta desde Steiner.
«they invade one another’s minds with terrifying visions and even psychokinetically engender chimerical egregores and golems to use as weapons against each other» — con egregores y gólems como armas.
«Heinrich Himmler set up a think tank within the SS known as the Ahnenerbe» — la Ahnenerbe, que aparece una sola vez en toda la obra.
«The Ahnenerbe had two clearly defined, and related, missions: 1) to find traces of Atlantis (i.e. Thule) and thereby rediscover the Atlantean origin of the Aryan race; 2) to study suppressed paranormal abilities and the means of their cultivation with a view to their military applications, i.e. psychic warfare» — y el programa doble que le adjudica: arqueología del origen y cultivo militar de facultades.
«As we saw in Rudolf Steiner’s account of the fate of Atlantis, the Atlanteans have long been believed to be adepts of Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis» — Steiner invocado como fuente, no como objeto.
«They decided that “Atlantis” (or the Germanic “Ultima Thule”) and the classical “Hyperborea” were one and the same place» — y la ecuación Atlántida = Ultima Thule = Hiperbórea.
«The word Nephilim derives from the Hebrew root nph-l meaning “fall,” so that it has been interpreted as “the fallen” ones, i.e. the Elohim or gods who descended from the heavens or the stars to spawn the gigantic hybrids» — la etimología que propone para los Nephilim.
«a woman with spiritual power, sorcery the like of which Moses practices, is to be killed: “You shall not tolerate a sorceress» — adjudica a Moisés la misma práctica que el Éxodo condena en una mujer.
«we see the Lord instructing Ezekiel in the use of sympathetic» — la magia simpática atribuida al Dios bíblico; el troceo repite el marcador de página a mitad de oración y la frase se cita en dos tramos.
«magic to help actualize these prophecies. These are essentially the same methods that, when used without the Lord’s authorization, are condemned as sorcery or black magic» — y su tesis: el mismo método, distinguido solo por la autorización.
«The Lord carries Ezekiel to a valley filled with dry bones and he is told to utter incantations over them that cause them to reassemble, be covered with flesh, and filled with the breath of life» — con «incantations», que es palabra del autor y no de la Biblia.
«there was one type of Christianity that categorically rejected “blind faith” in favor of a very bold attempt at the elimination of dissonance by means of rationalization. This was the approach of the Gnostics» — por qué el gnosticismo, según la obra.
«a metaphysical dualism according to which the material world is a fallen realm distinct from a spiritual plane, or pleroma, where perfection and eternal life are possible» — el primero de los tres puntos que da por doctrina gnóstica.
«that all political power is archontic in nature and that socio-political struggle to bring about revolutionary change in this world will inevitably turn one into a tool of the archons» — el segundo.
«Even the most monistic of the diverse Gnostic sects, the Valentinians, tended to hold these three positions, although they attempted to resolve these metaphysical and ethical dualisms with a view to an eventual reintegration of fallen or alienated aspects of existence back into the Godhead, in line with the apocalyptic eschatology that they, together with Christianity in general, adopted from Zoroastrianism» — y el matiz valentiniano, con la deuda escatológica que les adjudica.
«The Gnostic form of Christianity was declared heresy at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, where what became the (common antecedent of both the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic) Church selected what scriptures would be considered canonical and branded the rejected texts and their doctrines as anathema» — Nicea como corte canónico; la fuente escribe «Nicea», no «Nice».
«One piece of evidence for massive Psychotronic manipulation of the process of death and rebirth has to do with the apparent efficacy of zodiacal astrology» — la astrología como prueba, dentro de su propio marco.
«There is no legitimate naturalistic explanation for how the positions of the planets, let alone zodiacal star constellations, at the time of a person’s birth could influence their personality profile and the broad contours of an individual» — concede la eficacia y niega la explicación naturalista: no es escepticismo.
«Nevertheless, scientific studies, such as the one conducted by Michel Gauquelin, have established that there is a very statistically significant correlation between the position of certain planets in the natal chart of an individual and the career path that this person will wind up taking» — y Gauquelin como aval, con el verbo «established» que es del autor.
«An egregore is a psychically generated thought-form that is as tangible to the senses as a “really” existing thing or person in three-dimensional space» — la definición que da del egregore.
«The Tibetan occultists call such beings tulpas» — y su equivalencia tibetana.
«Adept practitioners of psychokinesis, such as the medium Daniel Dunglas Home, demonstrated to the satisfaction of scientists of the standing of Sir William Crookes, that humans are capable of levitating many feet above the ground, and of lifting heavy objects with mental intention alone» — Home y Crookes por su nombre; «demonstrated» es verbo del autor.
«more than a century of parapsychological research — since the days of Frederic Myers and William James at the Society for Psychical Research — has demonstrated that various forms of ESP and PK are inextricably intertwined as part of some more general psi ability, something which, as we have seen, Charles Fort already suspected» — la Society for Psychical Research, Myers y James como linaje declarado.
«Caillois quotes a passage from The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus, wherein a young philosopher is seduced by a praying mantis who is disguised as “an amazingly beautiful woman.” The philosopher is about to marry the mantis when the sagacious magician, Apollonius, breaks her spell on him by unmasking her» — y llama mago a Apolonio de Tiana, en su única aparición.
«as part of a magical ritual to hasten the arrival of the Aeon of Horus, Crowley drew a being that he called “Lam” that is both the first image of a “Gray Alien” in popular culture and also, when reversed, reveals the stylized face of a horned owl» — la Babalon Working, que es lo que da sentido a la dedicatoria a Jack Parsons.
«The Age of Horus was basically Crowley’s version of what is more commonly known as the “Age of Aquarius,” and let us note here the watery chaos signified by that zodiacal sign with its suggestion of the destruction of Piscean order» — el Eón de Horus leído como Era de Acuario.
«This identification was made and elaborated on at length, and in depth, by the magician Kenneth Grant, who referred to this “Dark Lord” by the ancient Greek name of Typhon — the deity of Chaos and Destruction, which the Greeks identified with the ancient Egyptian god Set in the syncretic Hellenistic religion of the Alexandrian epoch» — y Kenneth Grant, «the magician», que la ficha no tenía.
«So these titans summoned something Typhonian — uncontrollable and incomprehensible — to rise up from the depths and break the walls of their prison» — la evocación mágica como acto histórico: la tesis magística del libro.
«it may be because we are intuitively sensing a change in the timeline and tapping into an “Akashic” archive function within the cosmic quantum computer» — el registro akáshico reinterpretado como función de archivo, con el término entrecomillado por el propio autor.
«Using a new terminology that replaces “Unidentified Flying Object” with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or UAP, the United States government has admitted that UFOs are real.» — abre el libro fechando el reconocimiento oficial estadounidense y leyendo el cambio de sigla como parte del mismo acto.
«The US Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense have officially reported that structured craft that appear to defy the laws of Physics, and that outperform anything known to be manufactured by any terrestrial nation, including the USA, have repeatedly engaged American military pilots and sailors.» — sostiene que el dato ya es oficial: naves estructuradas que superan a cualquier fabricación terrestre y que han interceptado repetidamente a militares.
«Tens of very high-caliber UFO researchers, emerging from a variety of scientific disciplines, from Physics and Astronomy to Anthropology, have studied the Close Encounter phenomenon for seventy years.» — contra la idea de que el asunto es nuevo, alega setenta años de investigación de gente formada en ciencias duras.
«However, like Parapsychology, Ufology presents us with the most fascinating and revolutionary philosophical questions of all time — so radically revolutionary that they have been brutally suppressed in academia and polite society.» — atribuye la marginación del campo a lo que sus preguntas implican, no a su falta de mérito.
«The term “Close Encounter” was coined by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist who was the chief scientist assigned by the US Air Force to run Project Blue Book (although he eventually disagreed with the Air Force’s conclusions and went on the record that he believed a cover-up was taking place).» — así presenta a Hynek, de quien toma el término que da título al libro, y consigna su ruptura con la Fuerza Aérea.
«Despite overwhelming evidence for Close Encounters of the Second, Third, and Fourth Kinds, an attempt is being made to segregate these aspects of the UFO phenomenon and continue to cover them up (including with ridicule) just as the reality of the first kinds of Close Encounters was denied or dismissed by government officials for decades.» — sostiene que la Divulgación admite el primer tipo de encuentro justamente para seguir tapando los otros tres, y que el ridículo es un instrumento de ese encubrimiento.
«Now there is a very good argument for why it might make more sense to use the terminology of “UAP,” but those are not the reasons why it is being adopted.» — concede que la sigla nueva tiene defensa razonable y niega que sea ésa la razón por la que se adoptó.
«Unfortunately, the duplicitous proponents of UAP Disclosure are using their rebranding of UFOs to narrow the range of possible interpretations by disregarding masses of relevant data.» — imputa a los promotores de la Divulgación el propósito de estrechar el abanico de interpretaciones descartando datos.
«By contrast, the thesis that I will present here has emerged from an open-minded and courageous study that examined all of the various types of data related to Close Encounters.» — opone a esa estrechez su propio método, que declara examinar todos los tipos de dato.
«The truth of the matter is also far more terrifying than conclusions that could be framed within the limits of any one or another of these alternatives.» — cierra el inventario de hipótesis diciendo que la respuesta es peor que cualquiera de ellas por separado.
«Instead, the idea has been treated as a fascinating novelty, or as a means to dismiss the ETH and deny that we could be contacted by alien intelligence.» — se queja de que la hipótesis del viaje en el tiempo se haya usado como recurso para descartar la Hipótesis Extraterrestre en vez de tomarse en serio.
«This theory, which I have explored both in World State of Emergency (2017) and in Prometheism (2020), postulates that technological development over the course of human history cannot be accurately represented as an upward trending line on a graph.» — remite la teoría de la Singularidad a sus dos libros anteriores y niega que el desarrollo técnico sea una recta ascendente.
«Instead, it is a curve that eventually bends very sharply and turns into a spike.» — la forma que le atribuye a esa curva.
«The spike on the graph represents a “singularity,” a point past which the future can no longer be extrapolated from the past in the way that it could be at various points on the curved line before the spike.» — define la singularidad por la imposibilidad de extrapolar, no por la velocidad del cambio.
«The ability to manipulate space time would, by controlling an artificial singularity akin to a black hole, be the single most defining technology of the singularity because those who invent it could access the future and all subsequent technological developments.» — sostiene que quien logre manipular el espacio-tiempo se lleva todo lo que venga después, porque puede ir a buscarlo.
«This would not happen overnight. Like any technology, it would take time to develop, and then more time to test and refine, to the point where it could be used masterfully.» — el matiz gradualista con que introduce el siglo y medio de bucle que propone.
«Not incidentally, secreting away the Physics model that had provided them with the proper framework for this fantastic technological breakthrough required destroying the career of Nikola Tesla, who wanted to use it to provide the world with free energy.» — adjudica la ruina de Tesla a la necesidad de ocultar el modelo físico del que salió la tecnología.
«Tesla was directly involved with the principal financier of this intercontinental group of mystery men, none other than J. P. Morgan.» — nombra a J. P. Morgan como financiador del grupo.
«Morgan financed both the development of the earliest ZPE “airships” in the Americas and the rise of Fascist political regimes in Europe.» — le atribuye a Morgan las dos operaciones a la vez: las aeronaves de energía de punto cero y el ascenso del fascismo europeo.
«He was not alone. Allen Dulles, who would later go on to forge the CIA by incorporating a Nazi spy network in Eastern Europe into the OSS, was Morgan’s business partner in this venture.» — suma a Allen Dulles y hace de la CIA una prolongación de una red de espionaje nazi.
«These elitists, such as the Rockefellers, were also spearheading Eugenics research programs in America with the aim of engineering a Nordic “Master Race.”» — nombra a los Rockefeller y da a la eugenesia estadounidense el propósito de fabricar una raza nórdica; se cita literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Adolf Hitler was an admirer of these American Eugenics programs, and he was encouraged by his handlers and financiers to replicate them in “the New Germany.”» — invierte la genealogía corriente: la eugenesia alemana como copia encargada de la estadounidense.
«Working in Nazi-occupied Prague in 1944, under the codename “Project Chronos,” SS physicists and engineers used a bell-shaped ZPE device to rupture the space-time continuum.» — fecha y nombra el episodio que hace bisagra de todo su relato.
«At this point, their occulted society, which was already so divergent from the public sphere (even of Europe and America), became a full-fledged Breakaway Civilization capable of pursuing the Technological Singularity to its culmination, while positioning themselves to control that singularity and limit anyone else’s access to it.» — define ahí el nacimiento de la Breakaway Civilization y su objetivo: monopolizar la singularidad.
«History began to bend around the Technological Singularity, the way that light bends around the event horizon of a black sun.» — la imagen con que describe la deformación del tiempo histórico.
«They are our human Ancestors, namely Nordic time travelers from the event horizon of the technological singularity, who genetically engineered the majority of terrestrial humanity as a slave race and who were seen as “gods” and “titans” by the denizens of the ancient civilizations that these Ancestors founded and shaped.» — identifica a los pilotos y, en la misma frase, les adjudica la ingeniería genética de la humanidad; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«The “Reptilians” and most of the so-called “Grays” are genetic chimera and biological robots designed by this statuesque Master Race.» — reduce reptilianos y grises a criaturas fabricadas por los nórdicos, no a especies aparte.
«Moreover, the UFOs are not coming from a faraway place — as has been supposed by those who are subconsciously comforted by the idea that they are interstellar or perhaps even intergalactic visitors whose home world is at a safe distance from ‘ours.’» — sostiene que la distancia interestelar es un consuelo psicológico, no un dato: el origen es cercano.
«It was constructed by them as an ark, and placed into orbit in order to terraform the Earth, after a nuclear holocaust destroyed human civilization on Mars — where both massive ruins, and still inhabited underground cities, remain today.» — da a la Luna función de arca y terraformadora, y a Marte un holocausto nuclear con ruinas y ciudades subterráneas habitadas.
«Some of the best accounts of ancient nuclear wars can be found in the Sanskrit scriptures of India.» — toma las escrituras sánscritas como registro de guerras nucleares antiguas.
«With Abrahamic “revelations” we see a significant change of strategy on the part of the UFO “gods,” probably in response to the various Promethean rebellions that they faced, from the revolt of the “fallen” angels to the Tower of Babel and other smaller-scale attempts of resistance.» — lee las revelaciones abrahámicas como un cambio de táctica de los mismos actores, y marca su propia reserva con *probably*.
«Instead of presenting themselves as a pantheon of relatively equal beings ruled by a chairman, which rendered them too vulnerable in the eyes of men, they decided to rebrand themselves as “angels” serving a Lord who grandiosely claims to be omnipotent and omniscient (he is far from it).» — el porqué del cambio de panteón a monoteísmo, con el paréntesis en que niega los atributos del Señor.
«Rather than ruling through a hierarchical system that is justified as a microcosmic reflection of some cosmic order that sanctifies it as beautiful and just, a system whose Perennial Truth is transcendentally argued for, the new order would demand blind obedience based on irrational faith.» — contrapone el orden pagano argumentado al abrahámico de fe ciega.
«It would secure this through the sadistic brutality of sheer terror combined with an equally capricious divine mercy and so-called “love.”» — el mecanismo que atribuye a ese orden: terror y misericordia caprichosa alternados.
«Open contact with them, and the integration of our societies (whether on their terms or on ours), would mean living with mass telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.» — el contacto abierto se cobra, según él, la generalización de las facultades psíquicas.
«Various convergent pieces of evidence ranging from the effects of DMT to certain peculiar features of quantum mechanics all suggest that we may be inside of a computational “Cosmos.”» — junta la DMT y la mecánica cuántica como pruebas convergentes de un cosmos computacional.
«Rather, the idea is that the very nature of our Cosmos is that it is a programmable (and re-programmable) information processing system.» — precisa la tesis después de rechazar la palabra simulación.
«My conclusion is that there is a finite — albeit vast — cosmic intelligence outside of the program that we are in, and that being is containing our Ancestors inside of this system because the totalitarian form of life of these archons is considered unworthy of further expansion.» — la formula como conclusión propia, y llama arcontes a los Ancestros que en otras páginas son los pilotos.
«The modus operandi of this Trickster is defined by a single categorical imperative, very different from the childish one so naively framed by Kant.» — le adjudica un imperativo categórico propio y despacha de paso el de Kant.
«The genome of the octopus is, apparently, consistent with what would be expected of the biological matrix of a planet where life has been undergoing evolution for far longer than it has on Earth, or with Earth in the far future. It is not consistent with the genome of the mollusks from which it has been supposed that cephalopods evolved, at least not within the time frame in which the octopus is supposed to have evolved from these primitive ancestors» — el argumento genómico con que saca al pulpo de la línea evolutiva terrestre; el *apparently* es reserva suya.
«There is no reason to think that a post-singularity intelligence would be any more like a human being than like an octopus, especially considering the fact that octopuses are crafty tricksters who can masterfully disguise themselves» — por qué el pulpo le sirve de modelo de inteligencia postsingular: es tramposo y se disfraza.
«She is the ultimate chameleon and shape-shifter who manipulates many aspects of Close Encounters.» — el rasgo que da por definitorio de esa inteligencia, siempre en femenino.
«So, in summary, the following study will show how aspects of the ETH and all of the alternatives to that hypothesis are simultaneously true. Those piloting UFOs are time travelers, and their invention of time travel was the inception of a Breakaway Civilization.» — el resumen del programa, donde hace simultáneas todas las hipótesis en vez de escoger.
«They are also interplanetary space travelers, traveling to Earth from Mars both in the present and in past epochs of history that they have penetrated and reshaped.» — los mismos pilotos, viajeros de planeta y de época a la vez.
«This technically makes them “extraterrestrials,” but not in the sense of being non-human “aliens.”» — salva el término extraterrestre y le quita lo que suele significar.
«They had a planetary-scale civilization on Earth in distant antiquity, and their endurance of its collapse also makes them survivors of “Atlantis.”» — con lo que cumple también la hipótesis criptoterrestre.
«Since these Nordics and also the Trickster that is containing them are both so powerful on a psychic level that they can manipulate our perceptions and sensations using ESP and PK, elements of the psychic projection hypothesis regarding Close Encounters must also be admitted as true» — así incorpora la hipótesis de la proyección psíquica sin volverla explicación única.
«Insofar as these time travelers are involved in changing history, so that there is more than one version of Earth’s history, they are technically “inter-dimensional” beings — although the term hyperdimensional would be more accurate.» — corrige el término de uso corriente: hiperdimensional, no interdimensional.
«There is something to this hypothesis as well, although it is not that we are living in a “simulation” of a universe that is more real than this world.» — concede parte de la hipótesis de la simulación y niega la jerarquía de realidades que suele acompañarla.
«These are stored in a kind of “Akashic record” as history is re-written by time travelers.» — donde quedarían las versiones sustituidas de la historia; el término entrecomillado es de la fuente.
«Whatever one thinks of the Pentagon report on UFOs that was released in June of 2021, it marks a turning point in the history of the relationship between state power and Close Encounters.» — fija el informe de junio de 2021 como bisagra, no por lo que dice sino por lo que hace al poder del Estado.
«If the government of the United States is changing its tune from “we cannot confirm that there are any real UFOs and, even if there were, they pose no threat to National Security” to the line “there are genuine UFOs, namely objects that are apparently maneuvering under intelligent control with performance capabilities far in advance of ours, objects which we cannot identify or explain, and they potentially pose a threat to both flight safety and our National Security,” then something terribly significant has taken place.» — mide el giro citando las dos posiciones oficiales, la vieja y la nueva.
«This is preposterous. As section three demonstrates, serious scientific study of UFOs has been ongoing for decades at a highly classified level and has most likely come to some very detailed and definite conclusions. The fourth and final section considers why this has been covered up, with an emphasis on the implications of the UFO phenomenon for the fundamental structure of state sovereignty» — rechaza que el estudio científico apenas empiece y anuncia el eje del capítulo: por qué se ocultó, y qué le hace eso a la soberanía.
«Supposedly, after resigning from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017, Elizondo teamed up with Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under both the Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, as well as Staff Director of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in order to leak a number of videos from the AATIP archives to major media outlets, such as The New York Times.» — narra la filtración de los videos del AATIP y marca su reserva con el *Supposedly* que abre la frase.
«What followed was an extended Close Encounter of the first kind with a white “tic-tac”-shaped UFO that hovered over the ocean, then mirrored the flight pattern of Fravor’s jet, before outmaneuvering him and the other pilots involved in the incident by repeatedly changing directions and locations in a manner that defies conventional Physics conceptions of inertial laws as they would apply to an aircraft.» — resume el incidente del USS Nimitz y del comandante Fravor.
«Of course this “aircraft” had no wings or any other protuberances, and yet it was able to instantaneously change directions, making sharp angular turns without banking and shooting straight up or down, while soaring at tremendous speeds.» — el detalle aerodinámico con que sostiene que el objeto no es aeronave.
«At one point, the “tic-tac” changed altitude from 80,000 to 20,000 feet in one second.» — la cifra que da del descenso.
«Media coverage of the incident included admissions that US Navy nuclear submarines have, on numerous occasions, sonar-tracked such Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) or UFOs that enter and exit the oceans, traveling at a speed of hundreds of knots underneath the water» — introduce los objetos sumergibles no identificados; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente, donde compara ese desempeño con el de los submarinos propios.
«By the summer of 2020, these leaks served to resurrect AATIP in the form of an “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force” under the auspices of the Office of Naval Intelligence.» — da a las filtraciones el efecto de haber resucitado el programa bajo otro nombre.
«This marked the first time that the United States government set up a publicly acknowledged UFO research and analysis group since the US Air Force shut down Project Blue Book in 1969.» — sitúa el UAP Task Force como el primer grupo reconocido desde el cierre del Blue Book.
«Finally, on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed a $2.3 trillion Coronavirus Relief and Government Funding Bill that strangely had tucked into it an order to Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliff to submit to Congress, within 180 days, an unclassified report (which could include a classified annex) that gathered together everything that the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) knows about UFOs or UAP.» — el origen legal del informe, metido en una ley de auxilio por la pandemia; la grafía Ratcliff es la de la fuente.
«the authors of the report have the audacity to assert that: “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP.”» — cita la frase del informe preliminar y la califica de audacia.
«The authors admit that the US Senate specifically demanded that the report include a “detailed analysis of UAP data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including [emphasis added] data and intelligence reporting held by the UAPTF.”» — contrapone lo que el Senado pidió con lo que el informe entregó; el *[emphasis added]* es marca suya dentro de la cita.
«Despite a mandate to release what it knows about UAP, the Intelligence Community (IC) limited its report to analysis of UAP incidents from November 2004 to March of 2021.» — señala el recorte temporal como incumplimiento del mandato.
«Furthermore, the claim that “USAF data collection has been limited historically” is a blatant lie.» — llama mentira flagrante a esa afirmación del informe.
«The USAF has amassed a monumental archive of data on Close Encounters, going all the way back to the “flying saucer” scare of the early 1950s.» — el archivo que, según él, desmiente al informe.
«The term “spoofing” in a military-intelligence context refers to deliberate manipulation of sensor readings or interference with them that causes false readings.» — desarma la categoría técnica con que el informe explica parte de los casos.
«So “sensor errors” (that just happen to be of the same type every time) or deliberate hacking and manipulation of sensor data could be responsible for extraordinary UAP performance characteristics that multiple pilots and sailors are also seeing at the same time with their own eyes.» — reduce al absurdo la explicación por fallo de sensor, porque hay testigos oculares simultáneos.
«The report admits that, in addition to UAP that could be explained as “airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or US industry development programs,” some of them are either “foreign adversary systems” or they fall into “a catchall ‘other’ bin.”» — el cajón de sastre del informe, que es lo que él lee como la admisión real.
«It is even more duplicitous to say that only “a Handful of UAP Appear to Demonstrate Advanced Technology” and then go on to detail “18 incidents, described in 21 reports” where this kind of technology has been demonstrated.» — pone la contradicción interna del informe entre el titular y el detalle.
«Furthermore, the report actually admits that 143 of the 144 UAP incidents that it covers cannot be explained (one turned out to be a balloon).» — la cifra que da por decisiva.
«The entire report’s failure to clearly differentiate between this “other” category and “foreign adversary systems” leaves the reader — including all those Senators in Congress reading this report — with the impression that countries such as China and Russia may have developed technology that is far in advance of ours» — atribuye a la ambigüedad del informe el efecto de alimentar el miedo a China y a Rusia.
«Now, not only does the US government reverse its position in the Condon Report by admitting that UFOs do in fact pose a potential threat to national security, the Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence claim that they have no idea what these things are» — el informe como reversión declarada del Condon Report.
«Most significantly, the authors call for the stigma of reporting UAP to be eliminated and insist that it is the duty of pilots and sailors to report anything of this kind» — lo que le parece más significativo del informe: el levantamiento del estigma como política.
«Senator Marco Rubio, who is concerned that UAP may represent a threat to US national security by a potentially technically superior adversary, seems to have been instrumental to the mandate for this UAP Preliminary Assessment» — adjudica a Rubio el impulso del mandato, con el *seems to have been* que acota.
«In other words, the bottom line of this assessment is that it normalizes UFO sightings reports and even encourages them, to build a database for scientific analysis by the Pentagon.» — su lectura del propósito real del informe.
«On October 24, 1966, two UFOs that were tracked on radar hovered over Minot US Air Force Base in North Dakota for more than three hours.» — abre la serie de encuentros sobre instalaciones nucleares estadounidenses con el caso de Minot.
«Most alarmingly, these two UFOs were not simply on some kind of reconnaissance mission. They activated the launch countdown of the nuclear missiles without proper authorization codes being entered.» — sostiene que los objetos no observaban sino que intervinieron los códigos de lanzamiento.
«An inhibit switch had to immediately be flipped to override the imminent launch.» — el desenlace que refiere del episodio de Minot.
«It is worthy of note that the director of operations at the base submitted a full report about this incident to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book» — subraya que el caso sí llegó por vía oficial al Blue Book, contra la versión de que no hubo datos.
«The CIA agents told Lieutenant Jacobs that he was “never to speak of this again” and that the incident “never happened.”» — refiere lo que el teniente Robert Jacobs dice haber oído de agentes de la CIA tras filmar la intercepción de 1964.
«They concluded that an electromagnetic pulse would had to have been directly injected into each of the silos, penetrating sixty feet underground to disable the missiles.» — resume la conclusión de los técnicos sobre Malmstrom; el *would had to have been* es de la fuente.
«When the US Air Force shut down Project Blue Book in 1969, it cited as one of the reasons for the program’s closure that: “No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.”» — cita la razón oficial del cierre del Blue Book para contrastarla con los casos que acaba de narrar.
«Lieutenant Salas, who was in charge at the time of the March 1967 incident there, had this to say in response to the official position: “If you consider the fact that this UFO incident resulted in the loss of twenty missiles during the Cold War and the Vietnam War, this was a national security threat. The Air Force is not telling us the truth.”» — trae al teniente Robert Salas desmintiendo a la Fuerza Aérea con su propia experiencia de mando.
«These are, moreover, only two of many such Close Encounters with UFOs that have grave implications for US National Security, which have taken place for decades before AATIP and the UAP Task Force were recently set up.» — acota que los dos casos son muestra y no excepción.
«The incident is detailed in a report submitted to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of the United Kingdom by Colonel Halt» — remite el caso de Rendlesham Forest al informe que el coronel Charles Halt entregó al Ministerio de Defensa británico.
«Halt spent no less than forty-five minutes in this kind of proximity to the UFO.» — insiste en la duración del contacto, que es lo que le da peso al testimonio.
«Air traffic control operators at the Bentwaters base tracked the object on radar achieving 4,000 mph, instantaneously, from having been basically stationary.» — suma el registro de radar de Bentwaters al testimonio ocular.
«What puts this event into the same class as the incidents at Minot and Malmstrom bases is that the UFO sent beams down into a nuclear weapons storage area.» — el criterio con que agrupa los tres casos: el interés por el armamento nuclear.
«This is, undoubtedly, not only because of the vast geographical expanse of Russia, but also on account of the fact that during the height of the modern UFO phenomenon from 1947 to 1991, Russia’s Soviet Empire was one of the two superpowers vying for world domination — including, and especially, in the frontier of space, where for a period in the 1950s and early 1960s, Soviet cosmonauts outpaced American astronauts.» — explica por qué el expediente soviético le importa tanto como el estadounidense.
«Too few in the West are aware of the extent to which Russia’s homegrown Futurist Cosmism — especially the more Promethean variety of it — was embraced by the Soviet Union and became part of the backbone of its ideological mission to forge a New Man.» — introduce el cosmismo futurista ruso como trasfondo doctrinal del programa espacial soviético.
«Consider the close call of October 5, 1960, when a whole formation of UFOs heading across the North Atlantic from the direction of the Soviet Union toward the United States was mistaken for an incoming Russian nuclear strike by the computerized early-warning system of the American base at Thule, Greenland.» — el episodio de Thule, que usa para mostrar que el fenómeno puede disparar una guerra por error.
«Since they could not reach Thule, SAC assumed that the base had already been hit as part of a Soviet first strike.» — el eslabón que, según él, estuvo a punto de desencadenar la respuesta nuclear.
«The Air Force claimed that the misleading radar signatures, which almost caused World War III, “had actually bounced off the moon” leading to the misinterpretation of them.» — recoge la explicación oficial del rebote lunar y la deja entrecomillada, sin suscribirla.
«In 1960, no less a personage than the first director of the CIA, Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter broke with the CIA’s 1953 Robertson Panel decision to cover up UFO incidents while promoting public ridicule of those who report them.» — presenta a Hillenkoetter como el primer alto funcionario en romper con la política de encubrimiento y ridículo del Robertson Panel.
«“It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings,” said Admiral Hillenkoetter.» — la frase con que, según refiere, el almirante pidió audiencias en el Congreso.
«The former CIA director informed the public that: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.» — reproduce la denuncia de Hillenkoetter sobre el secreto y el ridículo como método.
«Hillenkoetter entered an “urgent warning” into the US Congressional Record through Congressman Leonard G. Wolf, to the effect that one of the gravest “dangers… linked with unidentified flying objects” is that they could cause World War III by being mistaken for incoming Soviet missiles: “If we persist in refusing to recognize the existence of the UFOs, we will end up, one fine day, by mistaking them for the guided missiles of an enemy — and the worst will be upon us.”» — la advertencia que Hillenkoetter hizo constar en el registro del Congreso, vía el congresista Leonard G. Wolf.
«Not only did Hillenkoetter’s call for Congressional hearings go unheeded, the Air Force hid the most serious Close Encounters from those managing its own Project Blue Book, which was nothing more than a public relations charade.» — sostiene que el Blue Book era una fachada a la que la propia Fuerza Aérea le escondía los casos graves.
«Thanks to testimony from John J. Callahan, Division Chief of the Accidents, Evaluations, and Investigations Division of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), we know that the serious scientific study of UFOs by the US government was being handled by none other than Hillenkoetter’s own agency, the CIA (big surprise!), and it was ongoing as late as 1987.» — apoya en el testimonio de Callahan, de la FAA, su tesis de que el estudio serio corría por la CIA.
«In January of 1987, Callahan attended a meeting with three CIA agents and a few other men who were identified as scientific advisors to President Reagan.» — la escena del caso del vuelo JAL 1628, que narra desde Callahan.
«In response to Callahan’s insistence that the matter be made public, the CIA analyst retorted: “No way. If we were to tell the American public there are UFOs, they would panic.” He added: “This event never happened; we were never here. We’re confiscating all this data, and you are all sworn to secrecy» — el intercambio que atribuye al analista de la CIA, y que le sirve de prueba del encubrimiento deliberado.
«Hill had been among the many people to witness a UFO during the infamous flap of the summer of 1952, when Washington DC was repeatedly subjected to waves of aerial invasion by UFOs — including in restricted airspace above the White House.» — así presenta a Paul Hill, el ingeniero de la NASA cuyo estudio expondrá enseguida.
«Since he worked at NASA, and the official position of NASA (even during the course of Project Blue Book) was that there are no real UFOs (i.e. craft not made by any terrestrial nation), Hill had to remain silent about his research.» — explica el silencio de Paul Hill por su posición institucional, no por dudas sobre el material.
«Unconventional Flying Objects is a scientific book, full of equations and graphs that organize data about UFO performance with a view to identifying patterns that would allow one to deduce what kind of propulsions system, navigational principles, and metallurgical engineering could account for what has been observed.» — así describe el libro póstumo de Hill, que le sirve de prueba de que el análisis técnico es posible.
«Lenticular or “saucer”-shaped UFOs (which enter and exit much larger cigar-shaped craft) always tilt with their leading edge down so that, from the bottom of the saucer, they can direct an anti-gravitational force field at what they want to move away from and in such a manner as it orients their trajectory to the place that they want to move toward.» — el mecanismo de propulsión que resume de Hill: inclinación del disco y campo antigravitatorio dirigido.
«This force field is what is responsible for knocking witnesses backwards if they are facing the bottom of a tilting UFO, or for parting and breaking tree branches without direct contact, or knocking a truck over, breaking a car windshield in, dislodging roof tiles, or repelling rocks thrown at a saucer with the same kinetic energy that the rock has when it impacts the force field (i.e. rocks do not simply fall when they hit this field, they spring back» — con ese mismo campo explica los efectos físicos documentados en los encuentros.
«orange luminosity (at low-power operation) to a blue-white color (at high power) in the plasma cloud of ionization that ensconces UFOs and makes it so difficult to take clear and crisp photographs of a craft’s contours» — la nube de ionización como causa del color y de la mala calidad de las fotografías; el tramo empieza dentro de *red-orange*, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«Hill also undertakes a careful study of the nests and rings left by UFOs in reeds or other soft terrain, especially with a view to organic transformation and radiological signatures, as well as traces from landing gear that would allow for estimates of weight.» — el rastro material que, según refiere, Hill trabaja con criterio forense.
«It is between 25 electron volts at the bottom of the X-ray band up to 3 million electron volts at the lower end of the gamma-ray spectrum, which at close exposure for as little as ten minutes could be a lethal dose — if a landed UFO is “turned on” and still radiating energy.» — el rango de radiación que da, con su condición: solo si el objeto está encendido.
«It would appear that such craft may be internally shielded against the radiation that one can be exposed to at their periphery.» — la inferencia, marcada como tal con el *It would appear*.
«Interestingly, however, Hill also concluded that it is the ultrasonic frequencies emitted by UFOs that sometimes result in burns on those in close proximity to the craft.» — atribuye las quemaduras a los ultrasonidos y no a la radiación.
«These are not “radiation burns” (although a person might also be irradiated).» — el deslinde que hace enseguida.
«The aim here has not been to present anything like an adequate summary of Hill’s findings, but only to convey a sense of the level of detail and the degree of precision involved in his scientific study of UFOs.» — declara el alcance limitado de su propio resumen.
«By no means is he alone in such painstaking research of a mass of reliable, first-rate reports of Close Encounters available in open source databases such as those maintained by APRO and NICAP.» — nombra APRO y NICAP como bases de datos abiertas del campo.
«The director of the study was Peter A. Sturrock, Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics and Emeritus Director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University — the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and the author of more than two hundred scientific papers.» — presenta a Sturrock con sus credenciales, que es como arma el argumento de autoridad del capítulo.
«In consultation with Rockefeller, Sturrock put together a Scientific Steering Committee that included: Dr. Thomas E. Holzer of the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado; Dr. Robert Jahn, Professor of Aerospace and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton University; Dr. David E. Pritchard, Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Harold E. Puthoff, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Austin, Texas; Dr. Charles R. Tolbert, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia; and Dr. Yervant Terzian, Professor of Astronomy and Chairman of the Astronomy Department at Cornell University.» — el comité completo del estudio financiado por Laurance Rockefeller, con nombres y adscripciones tal como la obra los imprime.
«This Rockefeller-funded study group in New York took as its point of departure a negative evaluation of the Condon Report.» — el punto de partida del panel: desautorizar el Condon Report.
«The aforementioned scientists concluded that Professor Edward U. Condon of the University of Colorado wrote a project summary for the nearly 1,000-page Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, published in 1969, which conflicted with the actual detailed reports and analyses featured in it.» — el cargo concreto: el resumen contradice el propio estudio que resume.
«At the time, this contradiction had prompted strong protests from both James McDonald and J. Allen Hynek.» — nombra a los dos que protestaron entonces.
«Professor Hynek’s protest was considered especially noteworthy, since he was the scientific director of the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book that produced the mass of data analyzed by the Colorado Project and misleadingly summarized by Condon.» — por qué la protesta de Hynek pesa más: los datos eran los suyos.
«Shortly thereafter, Hynek went on the record that the Condon Report summary findings (which do not reflect the actual study) was part of a cover-up.» — Hynek llamando encubrimiento al resumen de Condon, según refiere.
«In any case, Sturrock’s group agreed that, contrary to Condon’s conclusions, which formed the basis for the official US government position on UFOs by 1970, UFOs are a genuinely enigmatic phenomenon that merits serious scientific study, which could lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.» — la conclusión del panel Sturrock, opuesta a la posición oficial vigente desde 1970.
«The panel recommended the establishment, in the United States and other countries, of an organization modeled on the French government’s GEPAN/SERPA UFO study project, which was managed through a coordination between CNES (France’s NASA) and the French gendarmerie.» — el modelo institucional que propone: el proyecto francés GEPAN/SERPA.
«This program was recommended more than twenty years ago by an illustrious group of twenty scientists, who gave as much care to studying various aspects of the Close Encounter phenomenon as Paul Hill did in his scientific study of UFOs two decades before them!» — recalca que la recomendación tiene más de veinte años y sigue sin cumplirse.
«In view of this level of open source research and public analysis of empirical data, it is preposterous to claim that the CIA and other agencies of the United States government have not undertaken a similar — if not much deeper and more extensive — scientific study of the UFO phenomenon.» — el argumento a fortiori con que sostiene que el estudio clasificado existe.
«We have already heard Callahan’s testimony to this effect, which establishes that the CIA was scientifically studying UFOs in the 1980s, but such a study extends decades further into the past than that.» — encadena el testimonio de Callahan con lo que sigue sobre Wilbert Smith.
«As early as 1958, Smith went on record saying that knowledge about UFOs was classified “higher than the Manhattan Project” by the US government and he added that: Various items of ‘hardware’ are known to exist, but they are usually promptly clapped into security and therefore are not available to the general public. Substances such as ‘angel hair’ and molten tin, etc. have been observed to drop from these craft, and have been gathered and analyzed. Strong magnetic disturbances have been observed in the vicinity of these craft. In fact, I would say that many more people have more evidence supporting the reality of the flying saucers than for the reality of atom bombs» — trae al científico canadiense Wilbert Smith, cuya declaración de 1958 reproduce a continuación de su marco.
«Smith admitted that he himself had held a piece of this hardware at one point, and when a reporter asked whether he was forced to return it to the Air Force, he said, “Not the Air Force. Much higher than that.”» — el detalle que le sirve para postular una instancia por encima de la Fuerza Aérea.
«Wilbert Smith was able to have a fragment weighing 83 grams cut off of it with a diamond saw.» — el fragmento que, según narra, llegó a análisis de laboratorio.
«This he sent to a laboratory whose chemical analysis concluded that it was iron oxide combined with magnesium silicate “in a matrix composed of particles measuring 15 microns.”» — el resultado del análisis químico que refiere.
«What he found was that while none of these materials are extra-terrestrial in elemental composition, in some of these samples, the isotopic ratios of magnesium have been artificially altered.» — resume el hallazgo de Vallée sobre las razones isotópicas del magnesio, y con él descarta el origen extraterrestre de la materia prima.
«That kind of technical accomplishment was not supposed to have been feasible, even for the world’s leading nuclear scientists in America and Russia, until decades after the 1950s.» — la consecuencia que extrae: tecnología terrestre adelantada a su época.
«Bear in mind, while reading this, that Vallée (who is both a computer scientist and an astronomer) has himself worked on a number of highly classified US government projects, including the development of the core architecture of the Defense Advanced Research Projects (APRA) Network for the Pentagon, which became the internet, as well as the first digital mapping of Mars for NASA» — así presenta las credenciales de Vallée antes de citarlo; la sigla *APRA* es la que imprime la fuente.
«What the UAP Disclosure Lobby, consisting of military intelligence officials such as Luis Elizondo and affiliated journalists like Leslie Kean would have us believe is something like the following.» — nombra al lobby de la Divulgación antes de exponer su relato para refutarlo.
«In the aftermath of the trauma of World War II and throughout the very tense and paranoid Cold War, the US military and intelligence community panicked and handled the UFO phenomenon irresponsibly.» — primer punto del relato que atribuye al lobby, no de su propia posición.
«America, which found itself in the position of now being the sole superpower of the world, was reluctant to admit the existence of a technologically superior other against which even it had no effective defense.» — segundo punto del mismo relato ajeno.
«the “UFO” subject had become synonymous with lurid sci-fi images of “space aliens” and “little green men” so that any public official that engaged with the subject would lose credibility and be unable to govern effectively.» — tercer punto: el estigma como razón declarada del silencio oficial.
«the public openness to the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence had increased significantly over the decades, together with the percentage of Americans convinced that their government was not disclosing all that it knew about UFOs.» — cuarto punto del relato que expone.
«a rebranding of the now prurient “UFO” as UAP, when coupled with a “militantly agnostic” attitude toward what these unknown “aerial phenomena” might be (not necessarily “alien spacecraft”) could serve to clean the slate of US government engagement with this enigma.» — el remate del relato ajeno: el cambio de sigla como borrón y cuenta nueva.
«Leslie Kean essentially proposed in her landmark UFOs book of 2010, could mark the beginning of public collection and analysis of UAP data by the American government, and, most importantly, serious scientific study of the phenomenon in collaboration with other governments and international organizations.» — cierra el relato que atribuye al lobby con la propuesta de Leslie Kean.
«Anyone who has seriously studied the UFO phenomenon knows that it is patently absurd.» — su juicio sobre ese relato entero, dicho en una línea.
«Leslie Kean admits that the 1999 COMETA Report of the French Institute of Higher Studies for National Defense is what got her interested in the UFO subject to begin with, and she writes of French General Bernard Norlain with great respect.» — arma la contradicción que va a imputarle: Kean parte del COMETA y luego desactiva lo que el COMETA sostiene.
«(former commander of the French Tactical Air Force) and his collaborators, which included André Lebeau, who as President of the CNES was the head of the French equivalent of NASA, concluded that the American military had recovered crashed saucer material and was engaged in reverse engineering UFOs while zealously concealing its advanced scientific knowledge of the subject even from its closest allies» — resume la conclusión del informe COMETA sobre recuperación e ingeniería inversa de material estrellado.
«industrial civilizations of Earth” were shaped by it on a level that includes fundamental religious beliefs, so that a full disclosure and comprehensive public understanding of the phenomenon might lead to the collapse of religious belief systems and to consequently catastrophic socio-political upheaval» — el riesgo religioso que el COMETA reconoce, según su lectura; el tramo empieza dentro de *pre-industrial*, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«To her credit, Kean does provide a platform for Dr. Alexander Wendt and Dr. Raymond Duvall, co-authors of a paper titled “Sovereignty and the UFO” published in the prominent scholarly journal Political Theory. However, their contributions to her volume of expert testimony winds up being the most duplicitous part of her book» — reconoce el mérito y acto seguido señala esa parte como la más engañosa del libro de Kean.
«Kean uses them, more than any other of her contributors, to make the case for “militant agnosticism” with respect to what UFOs — excuse me, UAP — might actually be. This is essentially a psychological manipulation tactic intended to short-circuit the thought process that denies the reality of UFOs on account of the fear of the existence of technologically superior alien intelligence» — llama táctica de manipulación al agnosticismo militante, con la interpolación sarcástica sobre la sigla incluida en la frase.
«Yet, Wendt and Duvall know better than anyone that the fear response is absolutely justified when one considers UFOs from the standpoint of political theory» — su reproche: los mismos autores saben que el miedo está justificado.
«In the context of Schmitt’s thought, sovereign authority is fundamentally grounded on the distinction between friend and enemy.» — introduce a Carl Schmitt, de quien toma el criterio de soberanía que usará todo el capítulo.
«There can be no legitimate world government because no matter how repugnant an enemy may be in the eyes of any particular nation, the enemy does not cease to be human, and there is no inhuman enemy that could justify the formation of a sovereign authority universal to humanity.» — el corolario schmittiano que le sirve de gozne: sin enemigo inhumano no hay gobierno mundial legítimo.
«In Schmitt’s view, attempts to constitute such authorities, such as the United Nations and the League of Nations that preceded it, or, for that matter, the Communist International, all involve an attempted dehumanization of the enemy.» — la objeción de Schmitt a la ONU y a la Internacional Comunista, expuesta por él.
«He is horrified by the idea that instead of distinct national militaries we would have» — la frase sigue en la plana siguiente, donde describe la policía global que cazaría enemigos como alimañas.
«The legitimacy of state power, as defined by its Nomos or legal order, can only be justified if there is an outside with respect to the interiority of that political space.» — el argumento del *Nomos* de la Tierra que toma de Schmitt: sin exterior no hay legitimidad.
«Unless there is a free space wherein a dynamic interplay of forces is possible, beyond the boundaries of any one or another state, the legal order of that state would have to be seen as tyrannically totalitarian in form — however ‘liberal’ it may seem in content» — el mismo argumento llevado a su conclusión: un orden sin afuera es totalitario aunque se diga liberal.
«A state that encompasses the entire world cannot be a homeland to anyone.» — el remate sobre la *Heimat*, que es lo que le permite rechazar el gobierno mundial.
«If, under such circumstances, it is some other individual or organization besides the President, King, or Parliament, that is actually able to maintain order in practice, then the state of emergency will have served to reveal the true sovereign of the state in question.» — define al soberano por quien de hecho manda en la emergencia, no por el cargo.
«Any state that attempts to reduce the political to the economic, and to substitute sovereign authority with indefinite “democratic” debate, will wind up being a failed state when it faces a crisis that is grave enough to expose its fundamental misunderstanding of political order.» — la crítica al liberalismo que hereda de Schmitt y hace suya.
«Ultimate authority lies with the person or tightly knit group of persons who, when the system of law fails to be adequate to the demands of a catastrophic crisis, can effectively dictate what must be done to save lives and protect property.» — su formulación de la autoridad última.
«The legitimacy of the sovereign’s dictates in such a situation, or the lack thereof, will hinge on whether the sovereign is seen to embody the ethos of the people and to govern on the basis of it.» — el límite que pone: la legitimidad depende de encarnar el *ethos* del pueblo.
«As Schmitt points out in Political Theology, this means that there can be no truly secular regime.» — de ahí deriva, con Schmitt, que ningún régimen es de veras secular.
«It is also one of the reasons why the Communists lost the great ideological struggle of the twentieth century.» — la aplicación histórica que hace de esa tesis.
«Schmitt confesses that this potential for “cosmopartisans” and “cosmopirates” to threaten the whole planet from space may require a rethinking of the Nomos of the Earth.» — trae a Schmitt admitiendo que el espacio obliga a repensar el *Nomos*; los dos términos son de Schmitt.
«One possibility would simply be to surrender to the technologically superior extraterrestrials and hope for the best in terms of what they have in store for us.» — la primera de las salidas que enumera ante un contacto abierto.
«This is extremely unlikely, because there is as yet no global ethos that this sovereign could legitimately govern on the basis of, in a situation wherein procedural law is inadequate.» — por qué descarta un soberano planetario legítimo: falta el *ethos* común.
«It is far more likely that a temporary alliance would be formed between them, like the alliance of America and Britain with the Soviet Union for the sake of defeating Nazi Germany.» — la salida que considera más probable, con su precedente histórico.
«However, in such a scenario, it is always possible that one of the world powers — or even a superpower — will break with other world powers and negotiate a separate peace with the extraterrestrials, perhaps in exchange for preferred status as a managerial class in the context of colonization.» — el riesgo de la paz por separado, que es donde su lectura política se vuelve escenario.
«This danger highlights the need for centralized authority, even if not under an ineffective bureaucracy such as the UN, then at least under an effective global hegemony forged by a single superpower.» — su conclusión: hegemonía de una potencia antes que burocracia internacional.
«What Leslie Kean does not seem to understand, or pretends not to understand, when she asks why the United States cannot be as open as other governments are about the UFO subject, is that — especially with regard to our NATO allies and the South American countries that she focuses on — these countries are used to thinking of themselves as already having lost their sovereignty.» — su respuesta a Kean: los países que sí hablan son los que ya no son soberanos.
«They do not admit this publicly, because it would be humiliating, and perhaps they even try not to think about it too much, but citizens of countries like Belgium already see themselves as living under the sovereign authority of the United States.» — el caso belga como prueba de esa pérdida de soberanía.
«Belgians have not panicked about the intense UFO flap and mass Close Encounters that took place in their country in November of 1989,70 because the Americans haven’t yet confirmed the authenticity of them.» — la oleada belga de 1989 leída como síntoma de subordinación; el 70 es la llamada de nota, que el troceo deja pegada.
«It does not matter to them that Major General Wilfred De Brouwer claims that he checked with his American counterparts and they assured him that these UFOs were not experimental US aircraft.» — el testimonio del general De Brouwer, que su argumento deja sin efecto.
«The USA/NATO and the USSR/WP represented rival bids for sovereignty over Earth. The UFO poses a fundamental challenge to sovereignty, in ways that even Wendt and Duvall have not come close to comprehending» — cierra el capítulo poniendo la Guerra Fría como pugna por la soberanía planetaria y el fenómeno como su impugnación.
«By focusing solely on UFO sightings and sensor data, the Pentagon UAP Report of June of 2021 made it seem as if the United States government knew nothing about Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kind.» — abre el capítulo señalando lo que el informe deja fuera: abducciones y contactos con ocupantes.
«It demonstrates that this putative “disclosure” is actually a colossal cover-up, a confession to the lesser crime that conceals those dimensions of the UFO phenomenon that are most threatening to state sovereignty.» — su tesis sobre la Divulgación: confesar el delito menor para tapar el mayor.
«Thousands of people are being abducted by UFO occupants, usually in the middle of the night, and almost always against their will.» — afirma el hecho de las abducciones en presente y sin reservas.
«It seems that we are being tagged in the way that we tag animals in the wild, almost as if we are considered cattle.» — la analogía ganadera con que lee los implantes, marcada como conjetura con el *It seems*.
«It is likely that information about Abductions, Implants, and Mutilations will eventually be released — but it will not be “the truth about” these Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kind. Rather, in the decades following the initiation of “Disclosure” in June of 2021, the United States and other governments are likely to release such information in a partial and distorted manner that serves to construct a meta-narrative that ground» — pronostica una divulgación parcial y dirigida a construir un relato; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«In the face of that ominous eventuality, it is all the more important to begin to develop some familiarity with the horrifying history of Close Encounters and try to fit them into a bigger picture — the contours of which the highest authorities on this planet will endeavor to indefinitely obscure in a bid to found their “New World Order” (which is just a reaffirmation of a very Old Order) on the biggest lie ever told.» — declara el propósito del libro contra ese relato, y hace del Nuevo Orden Mundial la reafirmación de uno viejo.
«Be that as it may, there has been extensive study of the abduction phenomenon by serious researchers with scientific credentials.» — su respuesta a quien descarte el asunto por falta de seriedad académica.
«The largest of these was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992 under the direction of physicist David E. Pritchard of MIT and Dr. John E. Mack from the Psychiatry Department of Harvard University, wherein eighty researchers presented scientific papers on the subject.» — la conferencia del MIT de 1992, con Pritchard y John E. Mack al frente.
«A year earlier, in 1991, billionaire aerospace developer Robert Bigelow (who was the Elon Musk of the 1990s) funded a study based at Temple University that conducted a nationwide poll in the United States with a view to determining what percentage of Americans might be having abduction experiences in association with UFOs.» — el estudio financiado por Robert Bigelow en Temple University.
«The conclusion was staggering: two percent; i.e. one in fifty citizens of the United States could be abductees who are taken aboard UFOs regularly.» — la cifra que toma de ese estudio y que sostiene la escala del fenómeno.
«This makes more sense when one is disabused of the false but widespread notion that abductions only take place in isolated areas (and are only reported by hillbillies).» — desarma el estereotipo rural del abducido.
«Actually, as will be discussed momentarily, mass abductions take place with equal frequency in huge metropolises such as New York City.» — anuncia el caso de Nueva York, que es su prueba mayor de abducción urbana y masiva.
«The Hill case was also the first in which clinical hypnosis was used to retrieve more information about what elapsed during the abduction than what the abductees could consciously remember.» — sitúa en el caso Hill el origen del uso de la hipnosis clínica en este campo.
«What is particularly noteworthy about the case is that the local sheriff’s office left the two men alone in a room with a concealed camera and microphone, and instead of giving any indication that they were lying or spinning a yarn to the police, the two men appeared badly shaken as they discussed what had happened to them and then they both got on their knees to pray.» — el detalle de la grabación oculta, que usa como prueba de sinceridad en el caso de Pascagoula.
«But the five other men — Michael Rogers, Steve Pierce, Kenneth Peterson, Dwayne Smith, and John Goulette — all passed the lie detector tests, verifying their sighting of the UFO and the beam from it that lifted and dropped Walton.» — los cinco testigos del caso Travis Walton, con nombre y con el resultado del polígrafo.
«The Walton case was the first in which a polygraph test was administered to those involved in a Close Encounter, but it would not be the last.» — el lugar que le da al caso Walton en la historia del campo.
«In 1976 three women in Kentucky experienced missing time after witnessing a UFO while driving and, under hypnosis performed by University of Wyoming Professor Leo Sprinkle, they recalled having been abducted into the craft, placed onto a table there, and subjected to gynecological procedures.» — el caso de Kentucky y la hipnosis de Leo Sprinkle, que introduce el patrón ginecológico.
«Most abductees report psychic effects in association with the sighting of a UFO.» — el cruce con la parapsicología, que es el eje de todo el libro.
«The most extreme type of paranormal phenomenon commonly reported in connection with abductions, such as in the case of Betty Andreasson, is that, apparently, the abductors can walk straight through walls.» — el rasgo que le parece más extremo, con el *apparently* que lo acota.
«There have also been cases of abductees, such as Linda Cortile, who are levitated straight through a metal window guard before being taken up into a craft.» — el caso de Linda Cortile, que desarrollará después.
«Stop and consider that for a moment. This means that we are dealing with a technology capable of overcoming the law-like behavior of the physical world entirely.» — la consecuencia que extrae de atravesar materia: una técnica que suspende la legalidad física.
«Nor is the supposition correct that only the “astral bodies” of individuals are being abducted.» — rechaza la salida astral, que sería la lectura esotérica habitual del fenómeno.
«Travis Walton certainly had more than his “astral body” taken (and then dropped back onto a highway) for the five days that massive search and rescue teams could not find him.» — el argumento con que sostiene esa negativa: la desaparición física del cuerpo.
«Another common feature of abduction experiences, which may also be related to parapsychological phenomena or be psychical in some sense, is that abductees often have screen memories of animals that occlude their recollection of the abductors — until these screen memories are identified as such and peeled away under hypnosis.» — las memorias pantalla con figuras animales, que reaparecerán en su capítulo sobre los búhos.
«It is not the case, as it might be supposed by a layman or a skeptic, that abductees only claim to have been taken when they are all alone in the middle of the night (so that sleep paralysis can be considered as a possible explanation of the supposed “hallucinations”).» — descarta la parálisis del sueño como explicación general.
«Rather, simultaneous abductions of multiple individuals during the day are not uncommon.» — el contraejemplo con que la descarta.
«In such cases of multiple simultaneous abduction, regression hypnosis conducted on each abductee separately yields reports that are consistent with one another.» — la consistencia entre hipnosis separadas como su criterio de validación.
«The most disturbing element of the abduction phenomenon is the consistent narrative that the abductees are being forced to take part in some kind of hybrid breeding program.» — el programa de hibridación como núcleo del fenómeno.
«Men are made to ejaculate into receptacles, and eggs are either harvested from women or, in some cases, women are artificially inseminated and become pregnant for up to four months, before the premature fetus is extracted in a subsequent abduction.» — el procedimiento que describe, sin eufemismo.
«Most of these women, who have (repeatedly) had their medically confirmed pregnancies just disappear overnight, report that at some later time the abductors present them with a baby that they claim belongs to the abductee.» — la presentación del híbrido a la madre, que es el paso siguiente del patrón.
«The UFO occupants demand that the abductees nourish and nurture these babies.» — la exigencia que atribuye a los ocupantes.
«Harvard Psychiatrist John E. Mack has worked with a number of these small children, and their parents, helping them to process such traumatic experiences.» — remite a John E. Mack, de Harvard, como clínico del fenómeno.
«The UFO breeding program appears to be intergenerational, with the abductors even guiding the children of geographically remote abductees (who become the next generation of abductees) to meet and become mates for life, having offspring who will presumably perpetuate this same pattern.» — el carácter intergeneracional del programa, con dos marcas de conjetura suyas.
«two men had their lives totally destroyed by the traumatic shock of this incident.» — sobre los dos guardias de seguridad que, según narra, presenciaron la abducción de Linda Cortile.
«Pérez de Cuéllar presided over the ending of the Cold War, and for a brief time during the early 1990s there was serious discussion about actually turning the United Nations into an incipient world government with the United States and Russia, as co-members of the Security Council, working together to build this New World Order.» — enlaza el caso con su tesis política: el testigo era el hombre al frente del proyecto de gobierno mundial.
«Mainstream media reports had begun to portray Pérez de Cuéllar as a potential President of Earth.» — el dato con que refuerza esa lectura.
«The Secretary General not only witnessed the entire event, he apparently became hysterical and almost jumped into the East River.» — la reacción que atribuye al secretario general de la ONU, con el *apparently* que la acota.
«So Pérez de Cuéllar, apparently out of his wits, wanted the men to jump into the river with him to try to rescue the woman that they had all seen carried through the air in her nightgown.» — la escena que refiere desde el testimonio de los guardias.
«According to Pérez de Cuéllar’s driver and bodyguard, a number of other unnamed world leaders witnessed the event.» — atribuye a esos testigos la afirmación de que hubo otros líderes presentes, sin nombrarlos.
«One element of the account of the Secretary General’s security men that was confirmed by Linda is particularly shocking.» — introduce el detalle que da por corroboración cruzada.
«Her recollection of being on board the UFO on the night of November 30th includes a moment when she looks out of a porthole window in the craft and sees the heavily littered bottom of the East River illuminated in the object’s light.» — el recuerdo de Cortile bajo el agua, que es la pieza que cierra el caso a su juicio.
«In other words, her abduction experience aboard the UFO took place under water near the Brooklyn Bridge in what was then the world’s most densely populated metropolis.» — su conclusión sobre el caso: abducción submarina en plena ciudad.
«Her car died like all of the others that she witnessed along the bridge, presumably including the one carrying the UN Secretary General and his two security personnel.» — el efecto electromagnético sobre los vehículos del puente.
«Now Hopkins had confirmatory testimony for one of the most bizarre narratives ever to emerge from hypnotic regression of an abductee.» — el papel que da a Budd Hopkins en la construcción del caso.
«According to Erica, she was part of a group of as many as twenty people who were slightly levitating as they glided along the streets adjacent to the East River in New York City in the middle of the night until they all reached a location that felt like a parking lot, where they boarded a waiting UFO.» — el testimonio de Erica, otra abducida, que suma a la misma noche.
«Erica had added that, “There’s other things flying in the air. They’re moving very quickly. They’re coming from Long Island and they’re heading to the east coast of Manhattan, but south of me.”» — reproduce la descripción de Erica bajo hipnosis, con la fuente declarada en la propia frase.
«So it would seem that there were other UFOs in the sky over Manhattan that night besides the one that Linda wound up in at the bottom of the East River.» — la inferencia que saca, marcada como tal.
«Cortile discovered, to her horror, that these abductions also involved both her son and her daughter.» — el rasgo familiar del caso, que enlaza con el patrón intergeneracional.
«During hypnotic regression, Linda recalled that her abductors had specifically told her that the implant was a “regulator” meant to “control her chemicals.”» — el término *regulator* sale del testimonio de Cortile, no de la interpretación del autor.
«The doctor insisted that, although Linda and no one in her family could remember such a thing ever taking place, she must have had nose surgery.» — el detalle médico que usa como corroboración externa del implante.
«As the case of Linda Cortile suggests, implants are an important part of the abduction experience.» — abre la sección sobre implantes enlazándola con el caso anterior.
«Most abductees recall being surgically implanted with some kind of very small device, and some of them are under the impression that this implant serves the purpose of tagging or monitoring them.» — el patrón general del implante y la finalidad que los propios abducidos le suponen.
«The scoop mark is just there one morning, in a place where it clearly was not before the abductee went to bed on the previous night.» — describe la marca cutánea que llama *scoop mark*.
«At least seventeen of these implants have been removed from various abductees, and scientific research on them suggests that the scoop marks are made for the purpose of taking flesh that will be used to form a coating for the metallic devices.» — la hipótesis de que la carne extraída sirve para recubrir el dispositivo.
«We owe this insight to Dr. Roger K. Leir, a doctor of Podiatric Medicine who was the Chief of the Diabetic Foot Clinic at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood.» — presenta al podólogo Roger K. Leir como autor de las extracciones.
«One of Leir’s criteria for accepting a patient was that their memories of abduction could not be based purely on regression hypnosis.» — el criterio de admisión que destaca, y que es su defensa metodológica del caso.
«They thought that they had been gone for only a few minutes, but it turned out that hours had passed.» — el tiempo perdido como marca del episodio.
«One of Leir’s cases involved a certain Patricia, a 23-year-old mother in Texas, who was abducted and implanted when she went on a camping trip with her husband John and her two young boys» — el caso de Patricia; el tramo se corta antes de la edad del segundo hijo, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«Leir hypothesized that the “scoop marks” on the bodies of abductees were made to extract the keratin used to fabricate this dark gray shiny membrane, which was engineered on a molecular level in such a way that rendered it impenetrable to a scalpel.» — la hipótesis de Leir sobre la queratina y la membrana impenetrable al bisturí.
«The objects were encased in a membrane consisting of keratin and hemosiderin, a protein coagulum.» — la composición de esa membrana según los análisis que refiere.
«Robert Bigelow, the aerospace billionaire mentioned earlier, secretly funded the analysis of these implants at the National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS).» — quién pagó los análisis y dónde se hicieron.
«NIDS contracted Los Alamos National Laboratories to perform some of the tests.» — el laboratorio que subcontrató, que es lo que le da peso al resultado.
«They appear to be carbon nanotube structures designed to interface with the nervous system through tendrils.» — la estructura que atribuye a los implantes y su función de interfaz nerviosa.
«As per a discussion that I once had with Jacques Vallée, in my view Leir and his associates were too hasty to conclude that this means that they are extraterrestrial in origin. All of the 36 or so elements that constitute these objects are found on Earth and the difference in their isotopic ratios could be accounted for by a technology that can artificially modify elemental isotopes (as in the case of trace material left behind by certain UFOs, samples of which Vallée has had analyzed and which feature the same kind of isotopic divergence from normal terrestrial ratios). This would simply require a very advanced nuclear science industry on the part of those who manufactured the implants» — se aparta de Leir apoyándose en una conversación con Jacques Vallée: sostiene que las razones isotópicas alteradas apuntan a técnica avanzada, no a origen extraterrestre.
«Whoever they are, they forcibly tag us like we tag animals in the wild or brand cattle on a ranch.» — el remate de la sección, que deja la identidad de los actores en suspenso.
«Unfortunately, there have been decades of enigmatically high-precision mutilations of cattle and other animals in association with UFO sightings. No one has done more to investigate these disturbing incidents than Linda Moulton Howe (MA Communications, Stanford University» — pasa a las mutilaciones y presenta a Linda Moulton Howe como la investigadora principal; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«By the time she produced A Strange Harvest, her documentary on the subject, which aired on May 25, 1980, the connection to UFOs was undeniable to her.» — el documental de Linda Moulton Howe como punto de llegada de su investigación.
«At its outer edges the cut skin was cauterized to the point that it was very firm, which could only be produced by a laser; however, this was 1967 and the first lasers were not used in medical surgery until the late 1970s.» — el argumento cronológico del caso de la yegua Lady: una técnica quirúrgica anterior a su disponibilidad.
«What was most disturbing was that there was no blood at the scene.» — la ausencia de sangre como firma constante de las mutilaciones.
«By 1975, the mutilations had spread to so many other Western states, including Iowa and Colorado, resulting in so much property damage to ranchers, that local law enforcement and civil authorities were demanding that the FBI investigate the matter.» — la escala del fenómeno y la presión sobre el FBI.
«Even Senator Floyd Haskell of Colorado made this request, pointing to 130 inexplicable cattle mutilations that had taken place in his state alone between 1974 and 1975.» — la petición del senador Floyd Haskell, con su cifra.
«However, the FBI, who only has jurisdiction in the case of interstate crimes, declined involvement because no one was even able to identify potential suspects that might have crossed state lines in order to carry out these mutilations.» — la razón jurisdiccional por la que, según refiere, el FBI se abstuvo.
«Colorado Governor Richard Lamm did meet with the Cattlemen’s Association, and he expressed outrage at the government’s impotence to protect ranchers of his state against such massive property damage — not to mention a violation of their land by unidentified intruders.» — la reacción del gobernador Richard Lamm, que consigna con su indignación.
«In addition to consistent sightings of UFOs on the nights that mutilations would take place in the vicinity of where carcasses would be discovered the next day, there were also reports of nearly silent and unmarked black helicopters with searchlights chasing the UFOs» — los helicópteros negros sin matrícula, que es la pieza con que introduce la sospecha de una agencia.
«This suggests that some other agency of the US government besides the FBI was already taking the situation very seriously.» — la inferencia, marcada con *This suggests*.
«operations and that the map they used to mark mutilations that they discovered had a legend that, in addition to different colors for various types of animals, had a pink-colored category for “humans” on it.156 Did the United States government already know, at that early date, that the mutilations were not limited to cattle but included human beings as well» — la categoría rosa para humanos en el mapa militar, y la pregunta que deja abierta; el 156 es la llamada de nota, que el troceo deja pegada.
«When the senior officer reported this incident once he made it back to the base, he was arrested for suspicion of murder.» — el desenlace del caso del sargento Jonathan Louette.
«The base commanders released him three days later, when Sergeant Louette’s body was found twenty miles away from the base mutilated in a manner that would be beyond the competence of top-notch surgeons let alone his senior officer.» — el hallazgo del cuerpo, con el argumento de imposibilidad técnica.
«Louette’s eyes, genitals, and rectum had been removed with laser precision, and without spilling any blood, even though the cardiovascular organs that pump blood remained intact.» — el estado del cuerpo, que él hace coincidir punto por punto con el patrón bovino.
«Consider also this similar case from Brazil, investigated by Ufologist Encarnación Zapata Garcia and Dr. Rubens Goes.» — remite el caso brasileño a sus dos investigadores, nombrados.
«All of the wounds appeared to have been cauterized using a laser, which is also the only instrument that could have produced such high-precision cuts.» — la misma firma técnica en el caso brasileño.
«style cuts, but rather with the adrenaline-fueled reaction of a living person to experienced trauma» — el detalle más grave del caso: los cortes se habrían hecho en vivo; el tramo empieza dentro de *autopsy-style*, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«This makes sense, since the Amazon Jungle Basin is the most impenetrable place on Earth.» — por qué concentra el capítulo en la Amazonía.
«What is most remarkable about the cases that emerge from this part of the world is the unmitigated brutality of the UFO pilots, as they abduct, attempt to abduct, harm, maim, and even sometimes kill natives in the area.» — la brutalidad diferencial que atribuye a los pilotos en esa región.
«It is almost as if abductees from the First World, despite being severely traumatized themselves, receive preferential treatment as compared to these folks from backwaters of the “developing” world.» — la desigualdad de trato que infiere entre abducidos del primer mundo y del resto.
«cracking the UFO enigma: many, if not most, of the beings that native Brazilians have observed inside the UFOs are fair-skinned European-looking people» — anuncia aquí la clave nórdica del libro; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga y el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«He grabbed onto a tree trunk with an iron grip to brace himself and resist the attempted abduction.» — el intento de abducción de Januncio De Souza, en Rio Grande do Norte.
«Januncio says that after giving up on the attempt to abduct him, the UFO shot straight up into the sky and vanished from view almost immediately.» — el desenlace, referido desde el propio testigo.
«His wife Nina confirms that Januncio looked frightened out of his wits when she opened the door to let him in that night.» — la corroboración doméstica que suma.
«He experienced a loss of appetite and had terrible headaches.» — las secuelas físicas, que le importan como marca del contacto.
«Later the same year, and only a mile away from where Januncio lives, Benedito Henrique De Souza, known to most people as Beato, had a similar encounter.» — el segundo caso, a un kilómetro y medio del primero.
«When he wouldn’t let go of the bush, the people piloting the UFO poured drops of scalding liquid on his shoulders.» — el líquido hirviente como método de los pilotos ante la resistencia.
«What is of greatest interest here is Beato’s description of the people who were piloting the UFO and attempting to abduct him with such brutality:» — declara qué le interesa del testimonio antes de citarlo: la descripción de los pilotos.
«Red hair is a uniquely Nordic phenotype. Those in the Middle East and Central Asia who have it are people of Indo-European descent that migrated there long ago» — la lectura fenotípica con que convierte el testimonio de Beato en prueba de su tesis nórdica; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«The disdainful pilots eventually gave up on their attempt to abduct Beato.» — el desenlace, con el adjetivo que él elige para los pilotos.
«It extended a beam of orange light toward him and knocked him out with what felt like an electrical shock.» — el mecanismo de captura en el caso de José Benedito Bogea.
«The next thing he remembers is waking up in a strange city with no sky, just empty and undefined space above his head. He could not see the Sun or identify the source of the ambient luminosity that was akin to daylight. Bogea says that this city was full of “wide avenues and beautiful gardens» — la ciudad sin cielo del relato de Bogea, que él enlazará con las bases subterráneas.
«The most intense UFO assaults against the Brazilian population took place on the island of Colares, at the mouth of the Amazon River, from July of 1977 through November of 1978.» — sitúa y fecha el brote de Colares.
«Craft were sweeping down out of the night sky to burn people who resisted abduction with beams of red laser light that could penetrate rooftops.» — el modo de operar que describe en Colares.
«The Air Force officers were able to take numerous photographs of UFOs, which continued their assault during the investigation, and these images were sent to Brasilia, where they apparently continue to be closely guarded by the Brazilian government.» — la intervención de la Fuerza Aérea brasileña y el destino de sus fotografías.
«It is these puncture wounds, together with the “sucking” action of the tractor beams of these UFOs during attempted abductions, that has led to the backwater natives referring to the craft as chupa chupa or “suck suck” and to speculations that their occupants are some kind of “vampires.”» — de dónde sale el nombre *chupa chupa* y la lectura vampírica que consigna como popular, no como suya.
«Contrary to the public image of “aliens” in contemporary American popular culture, people all over the world have encountered these tall white UFO pilots.» — abre el capítulo nórdico oponiendo el gris de la cultura popular al piloto alto y blanco de los testimonios.
«She described them as two men with white skin and shoulder-length blond hair, with very high foreheads.» — el retrato físico que recoge de una testigo.
«The witness recalls that they looked at her and her children “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.”» — el gesto que la testigo atribuye a los pilotos, en sus propias palabras.
«The so-called “Nordics” or “Tall Whites” are beautiful Northern European-looking people, often the height of basketball players, who many witnesses and “Contactees” claim are the pilots of UFOs.» — la definición que da de los nórdicos, y de quién viene la atribución: testigos y contactados.
«These cases ought not to be dismissed, especially when classified reports indicate that the highest command level of the Atlantic Alliance is concerned that NATO’s SHAPE facility in Belgium has been thoroughly infiltrated by these people who look like Nordic Europeans.» — el argumento con que pide no descartar los casos: la infiltración del SHAPE de la OTAN.
«All of the Contactees of the 1950s and 60s, from George Adamski, to George Hunt Williamson, George Van Tassel (what is it with the name “George”?!), and Billy Meier all claimed that these “Space Brothers” were a benevolent elder race, here to guide us into an era of world peace in harmony with cosmic order.» — reúne a los contactados y su relato común, con la burla intercalada sobre el nombre.
«The June 2021 UAP report released by the US government is the beginning of a process of preparing the public for a fake and putatively “Full Disclosure,” sometime within the next several decades, wherein these Nordics will be presented as protectors of humanity from the malevolent entities responsible for Abductions, Implants, and Mutilations.» — su pronóstico: los nórdicos vendidos como protectores frente a los grises.
«The third section of this chapter investigates the origin of the Nordic Master Race that deceptively claims to be originally from Venus or the Pleiades or wherever else.» — anuncia que va a desmentir el origen estelar que esos seres declaran.
«By the 1890s this elite, which included the likes of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Edward H. Harriman, and J. P. Morgan, was aggressively pursuing Nordic supremacy through Eugenics on the one hand, and the development of aircraft based on suppressed Tesla-style technology on the other hand.» — la elite y sus dos programas paralelos, eugenesia y aeronaves; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«There, particularly at Prague in 1944, key breakthroughs in research and development were made, which became the basis for what is commonly referred to as the “UFO.”» — Praga 1944 como el origen técnico del ovni, no un planeta lejano.
«The end product of the synergy of these projects was essentially a flying time machine.» — el resultado que atribuye a la convergencia de esos programas.
«By that time, a Fourth Reich had already been set up in places such as Spain, Argentina, and Antarctica, and this intercontinental Spider managed to set up and control the US National Security State and the American Military Industrial Complex.» — la red que llama *Spider* y su control del aparato de seguridad estadounidense.
«Their modus operandi is identified as the ultimate form of psychological warfare, which does not recognize any distinction between the psychical and physical — between the “imaginary” and the “objectively” real.» — el rasgo que da por definitorio de su método: borrar la línea entre lo psíquico y lo físico.
«US Army Sergeant Robert Dean claims that he saw a classified NATO document that expressed alarm that the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) near Mons, Belgium may have been infiltrated by these people, who could walk its halls with impunity while passing for Europeans.» — la fuente del dato del SHAPE es el sargento Robert Dean, y el verbo *claims* es del autor.
«It is worthy of note that Travis says: “The man did not offer any acknowledgement to my questions. He only smiled kindly in a sort of tolerant manner.”» — cita a Travis Walton describiendo al piloto humano que dice haber visto.
«What is most significant is that Walton had the very clear impression that the Grays he encountered first, in the examination room, were biological “robots” who worked for these people.» — la jerarquía que extrae del caso Walton: grises al servicio de los nórdicos.
«He is more responsible than anyone for having established the face of the Gray, which was featured on the cover of his bestselling Communion (1987), as the iconic “alien” image in contemporary American popular culture.» — el papel que atribuye a Whitley Strieber y a la portada de *Communion* en la fijación de la imagen del gris.
«Strieber even spent weeks in the summer of 1968 traveling Florence and Rome with a very strange European-looking woman, who was assisted by Grays in taking his sperm during one of their sexual encounters in a very odd and vacant Italian “hotel.”» — el episodio italiano que refiere del propio Strieber.
«When Strieber got up to check out the house, he realized that the garage door was wide open even though the alarm system had not been tripped.» — el detalle doméstico con que arranca el caso del implante de Strieber.
«He had a technician come to investigate this, and the man found that there was a powerful magnetic field around the garage door switch.» — el campo magnético como rastro físico.
«An X-ray eventually confirmed the presence of the implant that had been put into Strieber’s ear during this incident.» — el resultado de la radiografía, en su relato del caso.
«When he engaged a doctor, John Lerma, to surgically remove the object (which Lerma thought might be cyst), the small, white, disc-shaped implant moved under Lerma’s scalpel as if to deliberately relocate itself at another place in Strieber’s ear.» — el implante que se mueve bajo el bisturí, referido desde el médico.
«Consequently, Lerma had to abandon the surgery for fear of slicing up Strieber’s ear, should the object (which now deeply disturbed the doctor) move again.» — el desenlace de la cirugía.
«Analysis revealed that it was not a cyst or anything else natural; it had a metallic base with organic cilia growing out of it.» — la composición del objeto: base metálica con cilios orgánicos.
«Leaving one Gray behind at the house to look after the frozen family, they took Andreasson aboard a craft wherein she was immersed in a certain liquid until arrival at an otherworldly location where she witnessed “angelic”- looking tall Nordics with platinum blond (or white) hair.» — el caso de Betty Andreasson, donde grises y nórdicos aparecen juntos.
«These “Elders” appeared to be in control of the Grays, who they explained were not “aliens” but genetically modified human fetuses.» — la explicación que los propios Ancianos dan de los grises, según el testimonio.
«The Elders took Betty to a mirror or doorway-like structure where she supposedly was able to speak with God and was told that this “One” had sent Jesus into the world and that Christ would be returning soon to complete the divine plan.» — el contenido cristiano del relato de Andreasson, con el *supposedly* que él le pone.
«Eduard Meier, who was born in 1937 in Bulach, Switzerland, is often described as a “Swiss farmer,” but this is quite inaccurate.» — desmonta el retrato corriente de Billy Meier antes de dar el suyo.
«As we will see, Ian Fleming’s SPECTRE was modeled on this organization.» — enlaza la organización que describe con la SPECTRE de Ian Fleming.
«Second, he claims that when he was doing his work in the Middle East, these Nordics would meet with the same Arab leaders that he worked with, and the implication is that perhaps it is these enigmatically “otherworldly” white people who set up his relationship with such high-level political leaders to begin with (and let him take it from there).» — lo que Meier afirma sobre los nórdicos y los líderes árabes, con la inferencia marcada como propia.
«It is only at this point that Meier “settles down” as a “Swiss farmer” on a piece of property that becomes a Mecca for flying saucer landings and Close Encounters with Nordics.» — el momento en que Meier adopta el papel de granjero suizo.
«Most researchers within the UFO study community, let alone skeptics outside of it, have assumed that Meier’s photographs are fakes and that he is a charlatan.» — consigna el veredicto mayoritario del campo antes de discutirlo.
«The problem is that the very few serious researchers who have taken the time and care to study the photographs for themselves, including Jacques Vallée, have come to the conclusion that if they are fraudulent, then Meier — living like a bumpkin on his isolated Swiss farm — would have needed access to Hollywood-level special effects production work to manufacture images so stunning in the 1970s» — su objeción a ese veredicto, apoyada en Jacques Vallée entre otros.
«Either that, or he was a far more adept “thoughtographer” than Ted Serios.» — la alternativa que deja abierta, que es parapsicológica y no fotográfica.
«The latter was a psychic who could print images from his mind onto photographic film, and who was carefully studied by a number of parapsychologists, from Jules Eisenbud to Stephen Braude» — presenta a Ted Serios y a los parapsicólogos que lo estudiaron.
«Van Tassel built an airstrip next to Giant Rock, and among the guests that he and his wife entertained at their macabre stone age hideout was Howard Hughes, the eccentric billionaire, who Van Tassel had apparently befriended in his Lockheed days.» — enlaza a George Van Tassel con Howard Hughes y con Lockheed, que es como mete a los contactados en la industria aeroespacial.
«Van Tassel’s description of their craft is noteworthy with a view to exotic 1940s German engineering projects that will be discussed later in this chapter.» — declara de antemano hacia dónde va a llevar el testimonio: la ingeniería alemana de los cuarenta.
«The craft that landed on his airstrip at Giant Rock “was bell shaped” although it tapered into a “saucer… approximately 35 feet in diameter.”» — el detalle de la forma de campana, que hará coincidir con la *Bell* de Praga.
«According to Van Tassel, the Nordics told him that earthlings use too much metal in their constructions and that this interferes with telepathy and other types of psychic functioning.» — la doctrina del Integratrón, atribuida a Van Tassel con verbo de decir.
«Van Tassel claimed that these tall whites came to Earth long ago with plans to colonize it.» — el relato de Van Tassel sobre el origen de los nórdicos, consignado como afirmación suya.
«The hybrids produced by this mating spawned the various non-white races.» — expone la doctrina racial de Van Tassel; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga, y es voz del contactado, no del autor.
«According to Van Tassel, this was the “original sin” referred to in the Bible, which preserves elements of this incident in a distorted mythological form in both the accounts of Eve’s temptation of Adam in the Garden of Eden and the mating of the “fallen angels” with the “daughters of men.”» — cómo Van Tassel empalma su doctrina con el Génesis, según refiere.
«The FBI was especially interested in Van Tassel because he was claiming that this pole shift would be caused by the continued detonation of nuclear weapons (in tests, and eventually in war), which according to the Venusians had already badly contaminated the Earth’s ecosystem with radioactive fallout.» — por qué el FBI lo vigilaba: la profecía del cambio de polos ligada a las pruebas nucleares.
«Adamski claimed to have studied occult abilities and esoteric teachings with Lamas in Tibet and he promised to bring the “scientific” parts of their religion to America.» — la credencial ocultista que Adamski se atribuye, consignada con verbo de decir.
«His second book, Inside the Spaceships, published in 1955, continues this line of thinking with the more specific claim that the Germans had made certain breakthroughs in the area of advanced propulsion and aerospace design, and that America may be confronted by an unidentified (although not necessarily extraterrestrial) enemy» — lee a Adamski contra sí mismo: el contactado insinuando origen alemán y no extraterrestre.
«Adamski’s technical descriptions of the electromagnetic energy, propulsion, and navigation system inside of the flying saucers that he supposedly boarded also match very closely with advanced wartime German engineering projects that will become the focus of following sections of this chapter.» — la coincidencia técnica que usa para reconducir el relato de Adamski a la ingeniería de guerra alemana.
«The “Professor” was claiming, to his close confidants (who included at least one Fed), that the United States was in a late stage of decay comparable to the collapsing Roman Empire.» — lo que Adamski decía en privado, según los informes que refiere.
«If Earth were attacked by the Venusians, it would actually be a liberation and Americans should lay down their arms and side with the attackers.» — la posición política que atribuye a Adamski.
«He admitted that his sympathies had been with Nazi Germany during the war.» — el dato con que cierra el retrato político de Adamski.
«The collapse of the United States, which he welcomed, would open the way for the system of government that the “Space Brothers” had in their own world» — el desenlace que Adamski deseaba, según refiere; la frase sigue en el párrafo que describe ese gobierno.
«Unlike in America, and for that matter the rest of the liberal-democratic Western world, their “superior” society did not separate government from educational, religious, scientific, industrial and economic institutions» — el modelo de gobierno integrado que Adamski atribuía a los Hermanos del Espacio.
«All of these were totally integrated on a deep level to produce a kind of person capable of handling technologies that make an ecologically sound and socially harmonious civilization possible.» — la justificación de esa integración, expuesta y no suscrita.
«Adamski went so far as to claim that the Nordic-looking “Space Brothers” basically told him that the surface of the Earth is a prison for rebels who cannot mesh properly into their civilization:» — la Tierra como penal para rebeldes, en el relato de Adamski.
«He stressed that, in this process of evolution, the Space Brothers can only observe and assist.» — el límite de intervención que ese relato se pone a sí mismo.
«Millions of them were already living on Earth, in some cases hidden underground or undersea, and in other cases blended into our society and passing for people of Northern European descent.» — la presencia infiltrada que el relato de los contactados afirma, y que él retomará como tesis.
«The Space Brothers supposedly wanted to share their antigravity technology with us, but they claimed to understand us better than we understand ourselves, and they were afraid that we would use it to create a gravitational bomb — an implosion device many orders of magnitude more destructive than nuclear weapons.» — la bomba gravitacional como razón declarada para no compartir la técnica; el *supposedly* es marca suya.
«As for the latter, they kept insisting on total disarmament of the United States and the banning of all atomic power.» — la exigencia política que, según refiere, acompañaba al mensaje.
«Horsley agreed to meet Mrs. Markham, who paid him a visit at his apartment one night shortly thereafter.» — el caso británico de Sir Peter Horsley, que introduce el mismo mensaje de desarme en otro país.
«What most disturbed Horsley was that Mr. Janus seemed to know “all Britain’s top-secret nuclear secrets.”» — el detalle que hace del episodio un asunto de inteligencia y no de ufología.
«All of this assumes an even more ominously sinister aspect when one considers the fact that, by 1973, Sir Peter Horsley had risen up the ranks to become Deputy-Commander-in-Chief of the British Strike Command.» — el peso institucional del testigo, que es lo que le da valor al caso a su juicio.
«D’Obrenovic, operating under the name “George Hunt Williamson,” seems to have been sent to George Adamski in order to become his handler.» — la tesis de que Williamson fue puesto junto a Adamski, marcada con *seems*.
«What is, however, of most interest here is what “George Hunt Williamson” was doing just before he came to Adamski.» — anuncia el hallazgo que le importa: de dónde venía ese hombre.
«Informally known as the “Silver Shirts,” these were American White Supremacists whose bizarre sci-fi Fascist ideology and religious belief system was established by William Dudley Pelley (1890–1965).» — identifica la Silver Legion of America y a su fundador, William Dudley Pelley.
«in bestiality when they interbred with upright apes on Earth to engender subhuman terrestrial races who are subject to all kinds of imbalanced impulses» — expone la doctrina racial de Pelley; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga, y el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«Pelley’s most comprehensive presentation of this theology of “soulcraft” is his book Star Guests, which he wrote while in prison.» — nombra *Star Guests* como la exposición completa de esa teología.
«He became such a threat to the Roosevelt Administration, and its will to enter World War II as an enemy of Germany, that he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1940.» — el episodio político de Pelley ante el Comité de Actividades Antiamericanas.
«When he disobeyed their order to cease and desist from his “unpatriotic” activities, Pelley was finally thrown in prison, where he remained throughout World War II.» — el encarcelamiento de Pelley.
«Pelley was paroled in 1952, the year that his journal editor, d’Obrenovic, who had been handling things for him meanwhile, left the Silver Shirts (probably on a mission) to join Adamski and oversee the publication of the first of Adamski’s books on the “Space Brothers.”» — la coincidencia de fechas que usa para trazar la línea entre el fascismo esotérico y la ufología de los contactados.
«which leaves no doubt about there being some connection between the “Nordic” appearance of the tall white UFO pilots on the one hand, and the Fascist ideology of the “Master Race” on the other hand.» — la conclusión que extrae de esa genealogía; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«What exactly that connection could be is the subject of the following sections of this chapter.» — deja el vínculo planteado y no resuelto en ese punto.
«We know, especially from the cases in Brazil, that they are as sadistic as any of the so-called “Grays.” Furthermore, there is ample evidence to conclude that the Grays are biological robots in the employ of these Nordics.» — su respuesta a la imagen benévola de los nórdicos que difundieron los contactados.
«the bidding of their “Nordic” masters. This is something to keep firmly in mind in the event that the narrative of “Disclosure” is ever spun in the direction of blaming all of the negative aspects of Close Encounters on gray “aliens” while looking to protection and guidance from» — la advertencia con que cierra la sección; el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«Italian gentlemen by the name of Bruno Sammaciccia became the focal point for a series of Close Encounters with so-called “Ummites” (people of Ummo).» — abre el caso italiano de los ummitas, con la grafía y el nombre tal como los imprime.
«Although they copulate normally, children are conceived through artificial insemination so that their genes can be improved.» — la eugenesia que el relato ummita atribuye a esa sociedad, expuesta y no suscrita.
«They are much longer living than us, with lifespans measured in centuries rather than years.» — la longevidad que ese mismo relato les adjudica.
«They are able to suppress all signs of aging, remaining youthful in appearance, until suddenly this ability fails them and they die very shortly thereafter.» — el modo de envejecer que describe, tomado del testimonio.
«The Ummites have tremendous telepathic and telekinetic abilities, which they displayed regularly for Sammaciccia and his associates — making objects disappear in flashes of light or materialize from out of thin air.» — las facultades psíquicas, que es lo que a él le importa del caso.
«Although, considering what the Ummites asked them to do, it ought never to have left the mind of Sammaciccia and his colleagues.» — su reproche a los testigos por no haber sospechado del encargo.
«What is most important is that these Nordic-looking “extraterrestrials” claimed that they were totally benevolent and peaceful: “To them, doing evil is a plain absurdity, they are actually unable to behave in an evil way; they cannot lie, they cannot hurt anybody, nor anything.”» — la autodescripción benévola de los ummitas, citada de la fuente del caso y presentada como declaración de ellos.
«These “enemies of humanity” are “very powerful beings, technologically advanced, but their civilization is devoid of any soul whatever.”» — cómo el relato ummita describe a sus adversarios, los CTR.
«If this longstanding conflict were to come to a head in the future, the benevolent Nordics would try to protect and save humanity from the malevolent biological robots.» — el guion que ese relato prepara, y que él ve como ensayo de la Divulgación futura.
«Will the militarized world government that they put into place in order to “protect” Earth be something along the lines of what Bruno Sammaciccia and George Adamski described: a centralized and highly integrated totalitarian state with no place for the individual or for independent domains of human inquiry, exploration, and creativity?» — la pregunta con que cierra: el rescate nórdico como coartada de un Estado total.
«The Nordic-looking men and women aboard the UFO spoke English with a German accent when they addressed Schmidt, but they spoke High German together.» — el detalle lingüístico del caso de Reinhold Schmidt, que es su indicio favorito.
«Contrary to what they assumed about the German-American, Schmidt had studied enough German at university to recognize their aristocratic dialect.» — por qué el testigo pudo identificar el dialecto, según refiere.
«They asked Schmidt if he knew anything about the US satellite program, and then went on to accurately predict failures that the program would experience with its first few launches.» — el interés por el programa satelital estadounidense y la predicción de sus fallas.
«After he was asked to disembark, Schmidt watched the craft lift off vertically, start glowing bluish, and head southwest before it just disappeared.» — el cierre del episodio, con el detalle luminoso.
«Despite common misconceptions that the idea of a Nordic Master Race was the product of Nazi German ideologues, the fact is that it was actually conceived by a late nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxon elite based in the United States of America, who closely collaborated with their Germanic kindred in Great Britain.» — su tesis sobre el origen anglosajón y estadounidense de la doctrina de la raza superior; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«The brainchild of Francis Galton (1822–1911), this was the idea that technological conveniences had increasingly sheltered human beings from the natural selection pressures of evolutionary biology, resulting in a “dysgenic” decline of the species, and that this could be reversed through a program of artificial selection for “eugenic” traits.» — expone la doctrina de Galton en sus propios términos, con las comillas de la fuente.
«Despite the claim of critics that this “Social Darwinism” is a perversion of evolutionary theory, Galton was actually able to convince his half-cousin, Charles Darwin, of the soundness of his proposals.» — el dato con que responde a quienes llaman perversión al darwinismo social.
«American scientists, moguls, and politicians of Anglo-Saxon ethnic extraction defined these eugenic traits in terms of the quintessential qualities of the putatively superior “Nordic” race, which the Germans later rebranded as the “Aryan” race.» — la genealogía del término: nórdico primero, ario después; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«The goal of this Eugenics program was the artificially assisted evolution of eugenically bred Nordic people into a so-called “Master Race” (Herrenvolk) of Supermen (Übermenschen).» — el fin declarado de ese programa, con los dos términos alemanes que la fuente conserva.
«All of these individuals and institutions in the Anglo-American elite were spearheading Eugenics for the purpose of the creation of a Nordic Master Race» — su cargo contra la elite angloamericana; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente, con las instituciones alemanas que llegaron después.
«Heidelberg University, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany joined the game after Adolf Hitler, who envied Anglo-American Eugenics, came to power in 1933.» — el orden cronológico que sostiene: Alemania entró tarde y por envidia.
«It took until 1934, a year after the Nazi seizure of power, for an American eugenicist to be quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch saying, “The Germans are beating us at our own game.”» — la cita de prensa con que documenta esa precedencia.
«Of course, this eugenicist was unaware of just how friendly the competition was, and how many of the very same elite individuals and corporate institutions of America had actually built the Third Reich from the ground up.» — su lectura del episodio: no era competencia sino la misma red.
«Nazi Germany was manufactured and financed by J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, General Motors, and IBM, almost exclusively operating from out of offices in Manhattan and vast estates on Long Island, New York City’s wealthy suburb (the setting of The Great Gatsby, where Nikola Tesla, a Manhattan resident, also had his laboratory).» — la lista completa de financiadores que atribuye a la Alemania nazi, con el detalle geográfico neoyorquino.
«Owing to the constitutional structure of the United States, the program was not conducted on a federal level, but on a state by state basis.» — cómo se aplicó la eugenesia estadounidense, según su exposición.
«It was not only blacks, Mexicans, Native Americans, and Jews who were discriminated against, but also “white trash,” as well as epileptics, alcoholics, petty criminals, and the mentally ill from amongst the white population.» — el alcance del programa según su exposición; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«The administration of IQ tests was a key component in eugenic criteria for which whites were selected for and which were selected against; meanwhile certain non-white populations were automatically selected against on account of population-wide low intelligence.» — el papel del test de inteligencia en ese programa, expuesto sin distancia; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Phase One was to sterilize what was considered the “lower tenth” of the population of the United States, and to simultaneously form the nucleus of a Nordic Master Race through selective breeding.» — la primera fase del plan que describe.
«The final phase was the elimination of all undesirables and the creation of a Utopia of brilliant and beautiful Nordics.» — la fase final del mismo plan; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«According to Dellschau, this Sonora Aero Club had been set up in California by a private corporate entity named NJMZa (pronounced “Nymza”).» — el Sonora Aero Club y la sigla NJMZa según Charles Dellschau; la grafía es la de la fuente.
«One has to look beyond this now conventional meaning, however, and recall that fighter jets were not invented until the 1940s.» — el argumento cronológico de su etimología de la sigla.
«Recall that at the time there was no unified “Germany.”» — el dato histórico con que sostiene la lectura prusiana del proyecto.
«By the time that the United States declared war on Germany in 1941, no less than one-fourth of the US population were people of German extraction.» — la cifra demográfica que usa para su tesis de colonización.
«In the late nineteenth century, financiers associated with NJMZa purchased 15,000 of acres of land in Patagonia, near Bariloche, Argentina, where fugitive Nazis would take refuge after 1945.» — la compra patagónica que enlaza el siglo XIX con la fuga nazi; el *15,000 of acres* es de la fuente.
«Prescott Bush was one of the Nazi Party’s principal financiers in America.» — la imputación a Prescott Bush, dicha sin matiz.
«Dellschau’s technical drawings for NJMZa are not of hot air balloons, blimps, or any other dirigible that could be considered a prototype of the Zeppelin.» — el deslinde técnico con que saca a los dibujos de Dellschau de la historia conocida de la aeronáutica.
«Not incidentally, there are some suggestions that these Prussian colonialists may have had a hand in intensifying the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy with a view to disintegrating the United States and opening an opportunity for their own colonization of North America, especially in the Western territories that had at that time not yet been fully integrated as states of the Union (and were not claimed by the Confederacy either).» — la hipótesis colonial prusiana sobre la Guerra Civil, marcada con *there are some suggestions*.
«There were a couple of sightings of these craft in South America in the 1860s and 1870s, in the sky over Chile and Venezuela.» — los primeros avistamientos que atribuye a esas naves, en Sudamérica y antes que en Estados Unidos.
«McCramer stated that he got close enough to see a man come out of the craft and carry out what appeared to be mechanical repairs.» — el tipo de testimonio en que se apoya: reparaciones mecánicas a la vista, no prodigios.
«Adolph Winkle and John Hulle said that the occupants were two men and a woman who told them that they had come from Quincy and had flown from there to Springfield in only 30 minutes.» — el detalle de tiempos y trayecto, que le sirve para medir la velocidad de las naves de 1897.
«Williams was told that the ship sometimes travels to New York, and he was asked to mail some letters addressed to people there with the insistence that he not reveal the names on the envelopes.» — el episodio de las cartas, que enlaza la nave con destinatarios neoyorquinos anónimos.
«What is most intriguing about their offer, though, is the connection to South America.» — declara qué le interesa del testimonio: el hilo sudamericano.
«Wilson explained that he and his associates had flown down from Illinois, where electrically powered craft of their kind were being constructed, so that they could visit the Gulf of Galveston.» — la declaración del piloto Wilson sobre dónde se construían las naves.
«What is most interesting here is that Sheriff Baylor did reach out to Akers, whose letter back to Baylor was printed on April 27 in the Galveston Daily News.» — la corroboración documental que exhibe: una carta publicada en la prensa de 1897.
«According to the former Sheriff Akers, when he was a young man he had known a Hiram Wilson of Goshen, New York, who “was of a mechanical turn of mind and was then working on aerial navigation and something that would astonish the world.”» — el contenido de esa carta, citado con la fuente declarada.
«Those who interacted with the mystery airship pilots and their crews were told that — at that time, in 1896–97 — five craft of that kind had been manufactured.» — la cifra de naves que los propios pilotos declaraban.
«The men on the airships told the various upstanding citizens that they interacted with that this company had plans to soon be publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and that the airship development venture was being financed by “New York investors.”» — la pista financiera que los pilotos dejaban, y que él persigue el resto del capítulo.
«John Pierpont Morgan, who founded the Chase Manhattan Bank, was business partners with John D. Rockefeller and Allen Dulles.» — la sociedad Morgan-Rockefeller-Dulles como respuesta a quiénes eran esos inversionistas.
«Allen Dulles would later play a key role in the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency.» — el eslabón que lleva de la banca a la CIA.
«But in the 1920s, they worked with J. P. Morgan at a private financial firm in New York City called Schroder, Rockefeller & Co. to fund the rise of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany.» — la firma concreta que nombra como vehículo del financiamiento al fascismo.
«Furthermore, in the 1890s through the 1900s, J. P. Morgan had been the principal investor in Nikola Tesla.» — el dato que cierra el círculo entre las aeronaves, la banca y Tesla.
«It turns out that Nikola Tesla had happened upon the same “aetheric” power technology that the NJMZa airship engineers were working with.» — la coincidencia técnica en que se apoya toda su reconstrucción.
«Not only was this integral to his plan for “World Wireless” distribution of electrical power, which would have killed Rockefeller’s oil industry while it was still in its cradle, Tesla’s drawings for the free energy towers also feature sleek “airships” sailing through the sky without propellers, wings, or other protuberances.» — los dibujos de Tesla como prueba de la continuidad entre energía libre y aeronave sin alas.
«Morgan defunded Tesla, and left him to rot, but only after having gained proprietary control over the power technology that he had initially funded Tesla to develop — probably with no other motivation than to buy and bury it, so that NJMZa would be the only group with these capabilities.» — el motivo que atribuye a Morgan, marcado con *probably*.
«Of course, the airship company was never listed on the New York Stock Exchange as the pilots said that it soon would be.» — el desenlace que prueba, a su juicio, que la empresa nunca fue comercial.
«Instead, Rockefeller and his ilk privately had access to technology that, were it to be publicly disclosed and developed, as Tesla wanted it to be, would have prevented Rockefeller and Company from making a fortune in the oil industry and also, eventually, through profiteering from the numerous wars that this energy resource would spark.» — el móvil económico completo de la supresión, incluidas las guerras del petróleo.
«It seems that Wilson — an opportunistic dark Tesla — was willing to go along with this.» — la figura que le adjudica al piloto Wilson frente a Tesla.
«It should be no surprise that they were already backing the Pan-Germanic imperial project of Prussian Nationalism in the 1890s.» — el eslabón que lleva de los mismos financistas al nacionalismo prusiano.
«The National Socialist German Workers Party (later shortened to “Nazi” Party by detractors), funded by Morgan, Rockefeller and Dulles from out of New York, was actually a front for an occult group of aristocrats called the Thule-Gesellschaft, the “Thule Society” — or, more idiomatically translated, the “Atlantis Society,” since these individuals thought that “Thule” in Germanic mythology was one and the same as the fabled “Atlantis” of Plato.» — la versión completa de su tesis sobre el partido como fachada de una sociedad ocultista, con la traducción de Thule por Atlántida.
«These aristocrats founded the nationalistically “socialist” Nazi Party, and appointed Adolf Hitler as its charismatic spokesman, in order to check the spread of International Communism in a country that had been its cradle (after all, Karl Marx was a German).» — el propósito que atribuye a esos aristócratas y el papel que reserva a Hitler: vocero designado.
«He also served as Secretary of State for the British Colonies.» — sobre Bulwer-Lytton: el autor del Vril era también ministro de las colonias británicas.
«In fact, Tesla, who was friends with Swami Vivekananda, and who had thereby become familiar with Sanskrit texts, describes “Vril” in very much the same terms as Bulwer-Lytton, with reference to the ancient Hindu concept of akâshâ.» — el enlace entre Tesla, Vivekananda y el *akâshâ*, que es donde su física se vuelve doctrina.
«On this view, which Tesla tried to rephrase in scientifically modern language, there are no particles of matter (electrons, protons, neutrons, etc.) against the background of empty space.» — la ontología del éter que atribuye a Tesla.
«Rather, what is misperceived by materialists as empty space is actually a seething plenum of invisible energy, the aether, and what materialist theories frame as particles are actually not material entities at all.» — el pleno de energía invisible como sustrato, contra el vacío materialista.
«They are compound vortices inside of the aether, comparable to complexly structured eddies or whirlpools inside of water.» — la partícula como vórtice del éter, en la imagen que da.
«Certain electro-magnetic devices can be engineered to tap this background energy, such that the electrical power emanating from these devices exceeds the energy that they require to run — thereby providing for potentially limitless power.» — la energía de punto cero explicada como extracción del éter.
«In addition to power, such a device could be used for propulsion on the basis of the connection between electro-magnetism and gravity.» — el paso de la energía a la propulsión, que es el nervio de su reconstrucción técnica.
«Tesla had discovered that high-voltage electro-magnets can produce gravitational waves.» — el hallazgo que le atribuye a Tesla.
«It bears repeating that Tesla had sketched designs for what look like cigar-shaped UFOs, and he planned to explore the propulsion applications of this aetheric power with funding from John Jacob Astor IV, but then Astor was killed when the Titanic sank.» — la muerte de Astor en el Titanic como corte del financiamiento a Tesla.
«Morgan and his associates had already developed this technology, or rather, they had funded a Prussian airship company to develop it, on American territory from the 1860s–90s.» — su reconstrucción de quién tenía ya la tecnología y desde cuándo.
«A pocket of air forms around the wings of an aircraft flying at high speed.» — la capa límite, que es de donde deriva el diseño discoidal alemán.
«So German engineers started building slots into airframes in order to suction this air off of the wings so as to increase maneuverability, especially for military aircraft engaged in aerial dogfights.» — la succión de la capa límite como respuesta técnica.
«Eventually a number of German engineers, including Viktor Schauberger, the Horten Brothers, Richard Miethe, Rudolf Schriever, Klaus Habermohl and an Italian by the name of Guiseppe Belluzzo (probably acting as a technical liaison with Futurists in Mussolini’s regime) came up with various iterations of an innovative airframe design with suction slots all around it.» — la nómina de ingenieros del *saucer airframe*, con las grafías tal cual las imprime la fuente.
«constantly suck in the boundary layer in all directions through these vents, thereby providing ultimate maneuverability» — la razón funcional de la forma de disco; el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«This “flying saucer” was initially rocket-powered. It had a set of jets positioned at the center of its underbelly in a circular fashion, any one or more of which could be moved in order to change the flight trajectory of the craft» — la primera propulsión del platillo, antes de la campana de Praga.
«Even with rocket power, as a saucer-shaped jet aircraft, the solution to the boundary layer problem allowed these earliest “flying saucers” to achieve astonishing maneuverability at speeds far in excess of conventional jet aircraft that were still being designed decades later by the world’s leading military powers.» — el rendimiento que atribuye a esos primeros platillos, todavía sin la campana.
«This jet power was ultimately replaced by something else, a bell-shaped power and propulsion source that, according to what we can deduce based on Dellschau’s descriptions, was the Model-T for something perfected by the SS.» — el relevo de propulsión, con la línea que traza de Dellschau a las SS.
«Nick Cook, a prominent British aerospace journalist, has presented his research into this project in his book The Hunt for Zero Point — with the idea being that this was an early Zero Point Energy (ZPE) device.» — remite a Nick Cook y a *The Hunt for Zero Point* como fuente de la hipótesis de la energía de punto cero.
«Cook was told by Hal Puthoff, a physicist who worked for Naval Intelligence, the NSA, and the CIA, and who runs the Institute of Advanced Study, that if ZPE were achieved, an amount of energy equivalent to the volume of a coffee cup could be detonated with a force that would evaporate all of Earth’s oceans.» — la magnitud energética que atribuye a Hal Puthoff, con su trayectoria en inteligencia declarada.
«It was suggested that this was due to some kind of spatio-temporal disruption on a cellular level.» — la explicación que refiere de los daños biológicos en los técnicos del proyecto.
«It seemed as if time was flowing at a different rate for them inside the laboratory than for people outside.» — el efecto temporal que refiere del laboratorio de la campana.
«The “flying saucer” flap of 1947 was the catalyst for the passing of the National Security Act of 1947.» — enlaza la oleada de 1947 con la ley que funda el aparato de seguridad estadounidense.
«The first sightings of flying saucers in 1947 were not immediately interpreted as “alien” craft, at least not by American military intelligence analysts.» — el dato con que desmonta la lectura extraterrestre como originaria.
«Rather, the original and unaltered versions of the Twining and Schulgen Memoranda very clearly demonstrate that the initial suspect was a group of fugitive Nazi German scientists operating from somewhere.» — los memorandos Twining y Schulgen como prueba documental de la hipótesis alemana.
«Once the original was finally obtained, and the two documents compared, key lines were found to have been replaced so as to suggest that the “discs” or flying saucers were of extraterrestrial origin rather than of German origin.» — la falsificación documental que denuncia: líneas sustituidas para cambiar el origen.
«The German Hypothesis entertained by Schulgen and Twining was based on their knowledge of advanced engineering projects in the Reich, as well as numerous encounters that US Army Air Force pilots had with “foo fighters” or “fireballs” that dramatically outperformed them and disoriented them in the sky over Nazi-occupied territory from 1943–1945.» — en qué se apoyaba la hipótesis alemana: los *foo fighters* de la guerra.
«Even certain media outlets in 1947 forwarded a terrestrial hypothesis for the origin of the saucers.» — la prensa de 1947 como testigo de que la lectura terrestre era corriente.
«Further development of this technology took place in Argentina from 1946 through 1951, under the guise of a Fusion Energy project run by Dr. Ronald Richter, until the international scientific community checked Richter’s claims regarding “fusion” and Juan Perón realized that he had been conned into supporting Nazi work on some other high-energy project that the German immigrants had no intention of sharing with Argentina.» — el episodio argentino de Ronald Richter, leído como tapadera del mismo programa.
«At that point, the project was probably relocated to Antarctica (for reasons that will be discussed below).» — el traslado a la Antártida, marcado con *probably*.
«Skorzeny had witnessed the flight of a Bell-powered flying saucer in the facility outside Prague in late 1944.» — Otto Skorzeny como testigo del vuelo de Praga.
«The hysteria over flying saucers at high levels in the United States government, particularly within the military, which then led to an undemocratic ceding of power to the Military-Industrial Complex, was a way to ensnare America after having already inserted all of these high-ranking Nazis into the foundational level of the National Security State (the DIA, CIA, NSA, etc.) that the saucer craze would help to institutionalize.» — su tesis sobre para qué sirvió el pánico de los platillos: institucionalizar el Estado de seguridad ya infiltrado.
«The terms “National Security Agency” and “Central Intelligence Agency” are both based on the Nazi German Reichssicherheitshauptamt.» — la genealogía terminológica que propone para las dos agencias.
«The end result of which was the creation of a super-classified deeply underground military-industrial-intelligence apparatus, which eventually yields a Breakaway Civilization motivated by a Fascist ethos and one that is in no way under the democratic control of the elected representatives of the United States government.» — el resultado que le atribuye: una civilización desgajada fuera de todo control democrático.
«Skorzeny’s PsyOps saucers contained children from concentration camps who were afflicted with Progeria and other syndromes and who, in addition to the deformities attendant to these diseases, were surgically altered to look like “aliens.”» — la explicación que da de los cuerpos hallados en los platillos estrellados.
«In The Day After Roswell, Colonel Philip J. Corso, who was the head of the Foreign Technology Division of the Pentagon, responsible for reverse-engineering captured “foreign” tech, describes the wreckage recovered from the saucer crash at Roswell.» — presenta a Corso y su libro, que va a usar contra la lectura extraterrestre.
«Corso describes Kevlar, Velcro, night vision, lasers, micro-perforated metal (so that you can blow through it and feel the air on your hand on the other side of it).» — el inventario de lo hallado en Roswell según Corso.
«These are not technologies that one would expect from an alien civilization thousands of years in advance of ours.» — el argumento con que convierte ese inventario en prueba de origen terrestre.
«Poor Corso, impressed by the corpses of the deformed and surgically altered children on board the Roswell craft, was duped like so many others into thinking that it was “alien” technology he was farming out to Pentagon “reverse-engineering” projects that were run by Paperclip Nazis.» — su veredicto sobre Corso: engañado, no mentiroso.
«There are multiple layers to the cover story of Roswell. There is the weather balloon story, which is believed to be the first cover story, then the Project Mogul story, which replaced it after the end of the Cold War.» — las coberturas sucesivas de Roswell, en el orden que les da.
«Airbase was at that time the highest security facility in the entire United States, because it was the only place where nuclear weapons were stored.» — el peso de la base de Roswell, que hace inverosímil el error oficial.
«The narrative that officials at the airbase did not yet have an official line from Washington and naively told the truth to the press, before covering it up within 24 hours with the weather balloon story, simply does not make sense.» — su objeción al relato corriente sobre el comunicado de Roswell.
«One possible explanation for this is that in 1947, only several years after the war’s end, it would have been devastating to admit to the American people — or even to their elected representatives in government — that some incredibly competent group of scientists and engineers had escaped the collapse of Nazi Germany and were operating from out of Spain, Argentina, and potentially Antarctica, with a capability of launching these advanced aircraft into the sovereign airspace of the United States — over the most sensitive military base in the country» — su explicación alternativa del encubrimiento, marcada como una posibilidad.
«Thousands of Nazi German scientists were transplanted from the ruins of Europe into the heart of what became the American Military-Industrial and Intelligence Complex.» — la escala que da a la operación Paperclip.
«We are talking not only about Operation Paperclip — the transplantation of German rocket scientists, biologists, and psychologists to the United States — but also the constitution of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from out of the Gehlen Organization.» — el alcance que le da: no solo científicos, también la fundación de la CIA.
«So the CIA was — from its bedrock upwards — co-constituted by un» — la formulación más tajante de esa tesis; la palabra que sigue, *reconstructed*, la parte el guion de fin de renglón.
«George H. W. Bush presided over the destruction of the Soviet Union.» — el eslabón contemporáneo de su genealogía.
«9/11 was only an “inside job” in the sense that, by September 11, 2001, the deepest interiority of the American Intelligence Community (IC) and Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) were part of the Fourth Reich and owed no inherent allegiance to the country that they were parasitically using as a host in order to martial resources and manpower for the destruction of Soviet Communism.» — precisa en qué sentido acepta la fórmula del trabajo interno, y en cuál no.
«Throughout the Cold War, the CIA was full of Nazi German intelligence agents, including experts in psychological warfare, many of whom were not necessarily German but of Eastern European extraction — especially Ukrainian — and rabidly anti-Communist.» — la composición que atribuye a la CIA de la Guerra Fría.
«It is not just American intelligence that is infiltrated, but also British Intelligence.» — extiende la tesis a la inteligencia británica.
«Apparently, Bormann had been doing business through Deutsche Bank in Buenos Aires since 1941, and this continued after his three deaths in 1945, so that by the 1950s, he even held a joint Deutsche Bank account with President Juan Perón of Argentina» — el detalle bancario de Martin Bormann, con la ironía de *his three deaths* dentro de la frase.
«Bormann appears to have replaced Hitler as the de-facto Führer, as the fugitive elite of the Third Reich formed an extra-territorial and transnational Fourth Reich by 1947» — la sucesión que propone al frente del Cuarto Reich, marcada con *appears to have*.
«Ian Fleming was a British Intelligence agent.» — el dato con que autoriza a leer las novelas de Fleming como fuente.
«In his James Bond novels, Ian Fleming describes a shadowy cabal called SPECTRE, which is a hidden third power in the Cold War world, besides the United States and Soviet Union» — la SPECTRE de Fleming como retrato del tercer poder que postula.
«He portrays the USA and USSR as fighting fish, with SPECTRE as a cat waiting for them to tire themselves out, and for one to eat the other, before the remaining exhausted fish is devoured by the cat» — la imagen de los peces y el gato, que él adopta como metáfora de su propia tesis.
«President Eisenhower’s farewell speech warning the American people of the unaccountable power of the Military-Industrial Complex as a grave internal threat really was an epitaph for an independent America.» — su lectura del discurso de despedida de Eisenhower.
«It is worth noting in this connection that, in the period between his retirement in 1990 and his death in 1995, a later CEO of Lockheed-Martin, Ben Rich, made many statements about Lockheed having “ET”-type technology, including the claim that: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do» — la declaración de Ben Rich, de Lockheed, con la fuente declarada dentro de la propia frase.
«Clearly, what happened was, after putting up with these American aerospace corporations for a few years, as they did preliminary research and made some bold statements to the press, some very highly placed individuals from the Spider’s Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex came to the CEO of Martin Aircraft and to Lear» — su reconstrucción de cómo se silenció a las aeroespaciales, con la red que llama *Spider*.
«What this also means is that the Apollo Program was a smokescreen.» — la consecuencia que extrae para el programa Apolo.
«he took a secret military space program that the United States Military-Industrial Complex already had and turned it into a publicly accountable program run by a civilian agency, namely NASA, which was set up for this purpose.» — el primero de los dos motivos que atribuye al asesinato de Kennedy; el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«Second, JFK wanted to dismantle the CIA, which he considered a threat to US National Security, probably because he figured out that it was being run by Nazis, whose highest allegiance was not to America.» — el segundo motivo, con el *probably* que marca la conjetura.
«The two reasons are related insofar as the Military-Industrial complex that already had a secret space program in the 1950s was run by the same people as the CIA.» — cómo une los dos motivos en uno solo.
«As in the case of 9/11, what most conspiracy theorists fail to grasp is that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a patsy for “Americans” who had JFK assassinated.» — su deslinde frente a las teorías corrientes sobre el magnicidio.
«Rather, it was Nazis and other aligned Fascists who were acting as tentacles of the Fourth Reich from within the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Corporate elite that executed this operation.» — a quién adjudica la operación.
«In order to take control of the potentially destabilizing situation set in motion by President Kennedy, Wernher von Braun was put in charge of the Marshall Space Flight Center managing the Apollo Program, for which he also designed the Saturn V rocket.» — el papel de Wernher von Braun tras el magnicidio, según su reconstrucción.
«Von Braun was not just a rank and file Nazi, but an SS Major who used slave labor inside hollowed-out mountains in order to produce V2 rockets to rain down on civilians in London.» — el pasado de von Braun, que consigna sin atenuar.
«They were so hardcore that they would plan key Moon missions for dates that marked holidays celebrated only by the Third Reich, including two missions that commemorated Adolf Hitler’s birthday: Surveyor 3 on April 20, 1967 and Apollo 16 on April 20, 1972.» — las dos fechas que da como prueba de la firma nazi en el programa lunar.
«There was an arrangement of convenience between the Fourth Reich and the American politicians and financiers that they incorporated into the Deep State, which they set up in the United States between 1945 and 1947.» — el pacto que postula entre el Cuarto Reich y el Estado profundo estadounidense.
«This arrangement was maintained for as long as it took to defeat the more serious ideological rival of Anglo-Saxon/Germanic aristocrats, namely Soviet Communism, using the United States as a resource base for that fight.» — la duración y el fin de ese pacto, con Estados Unidos como base de recursos.
«The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, i.e. one fighting fish ate the other, and it took only a decade before the military-industrial-intelligence complex entangled America into a manufactured Global War on Terror catalyzed by the false flag operation of September 11, 2001.» — su lectura de la secuencia 1991-2001, con la metáfora de los peces retomada.
«The Clash of Civilizations that began on 9/11 was in large part engineered by those Nazis who went, not to South America, but to the Middle East in 1945.» — la rama de la fuga que sitúa en Medio Oriente.
«They were building rockets for Abdel Gamal Nasser in Egypt.» — el dato concreto de esa rama.
«Contrary to the claims that it was a mere reconnaissance mission, Operation Highjump seemed to be equipped for a military confrontation.» — su lectura de la Operación Highjump del almirante Byrd en la Antártida.
«Byrd claimed that we had to prepare for a Third World War, wherein we would be faced by enemy fighters capable of traveling from pole to pole at tremendous speed.» — la declaración que atribuye a Byrd al volver de la Antártida.
«The Instruments of Surrender signed by Germany in May of 1945 include the surrender of all branches of the German armed forces but not the surrender of the Reich’s government (now led by Naval Admiral Dönitz), or of the Nazi Party, or the SS.» — el argumento jurídico con que sostiene que el Reich no se rindió del todo.
«After penning Men Among the Ruins and going into his last work Ride the Tiger, Evola takes the view that it is not possible to engage in a head-on resistance of the forces that Traditionalists consider responsible for “degeneracy” and “dissolution.”» — expone el giro tardío de Julius Evola con sus dos títulos, como adscripción ideológica de terceros y no como elogio.
«What needs to be done is to pour accelerant on them, and to engage in a kind of deliberate deconstruction of Western society for the sake of imploding the modern industrial world and having a traditionalist society rise up from out of the ruins.» — la estrategia aceleracionista que resume de ese giro.
«They want to maintain a monopoly on these technologies, while engineering the collapse of advanced industrial civilization on this planet.» — el objetivo doble que atribuye a la Breakaway Civilization.
«The Vatican played a key role in transplanting Nazis to Latin America.» — la imputación al Vaticano, dicha sin matiz.
«The “rat lines” running fugitive Nazis from the Vatican into Latin America were a key part of building this Breakaway Civilization, because there were certain elements of this organization that could not be based in the United States.» — la función que da a las rutas de fuga dentro de su tesis.
«You could relocate Wernher von Braun and put the Apollo program in his hands, but you could not grant Josef Mengele American citizenship.» — el criterio de reparto que propone entre los dos destinos.
«But Mengele was allowed to go to Latin America with full knowledge of the CIA, and communication was maintained with some of these assets in Latin America who were too hot to handle within the United States.» — la continuidad del vínculo con la CIA que afirma.
«When American soldiers marched into the ruins of the Third Reich in 1945, they found that the Germans were, in some areas, a decade more advanced than the United States in technology.» — la ventaja técnica alemana como premisa de toda su reconstrucción.
«For example, we found transistors for computers being manufactured by Dehomag, the German subsidiary of IBM, which were orders of magnitude smaller than the ones that America was capable of constructing at the time.» — el ejemplo del transistor y de Dehomag.
«One example is the Nazi flying wing that became the B-2 Stealth Bomber.» — la línea que traza del ala volante al B-2.
«As we have seen, Kevlar, night vision, Velcro, all of these technologies that America was credited with inventing in the 1950s and 60s were actually retrieved from Nazi Germany in the 1940s.» — el inventario de tecnologías que reasigna a la Alemania nazi.
«Those Americans who harvested this technology, and the minds that produced it, naively believed that they could control the Paperclip scientists and Gehlen Org intelligence assets.» — el error de cálculo que atribuye a los estadounidenses.
«In fact, the Americans became tools for their agenda of using the United States to defeat their greater enemy, which was the Soviet Union, before turning around and waging a PsyOps war aimed at the controlled demolition of American society.» — la inversión de papeles que sostiene: los captores como instrumento.
«It is no coincidence that we are watching the disintegration of the social fabric of America in the decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.» — cómo lee el presente estadounidense dentro de esa secuencia.
«They now intend to use the Clash of Civilizations abroad, and Identity Politics from within, in order to bring about the collapse of the USA — after having brought about the collapse of the USSR using American resources.» — los dos instrumentos que atribuye a esa operación en curso.
«When the Americans went into Germany and occupied it in 1945, they happened upon the notion of “psychological warfare,” which was an inadequate American English translation of the German term Weltanschauungskrieg or “worldview warfare.”» — su corrección terminológica: guerra de cosmovisiones, no guerra psicológica.
«Evolution is driven, rather, by a will toward the increase in power and dominance.» — el motor nietzscheano que pone bajo su concepto de guerra de cosmovisiones.
«There is no objective truth because things are only the way that they are from the perspective of a certain form of life with its own psycho-biological interests.» — el perspectivismo que hace suyo, dicho sin atenuantes.
«Science is political through and through. It is not only used for political purposes or distorted by them.» — su tesis sobre la ciencia, con el deslinde de lo que no está diciendo.
«Worldview warfare is the war between various forms of life, which could be whole societies, over the constitution of reality.» — la definición que da del término.
«Worldview warfare has been unconsciously carried out by every society against every other society throughout the course of history.» — su alcance histórico, y por qué el paso a la conciencia es la novedad.
«However, at a certain point, when a Nietzsche can become conscious of the fact that we have always been engaging in a war of worldviews, there is a possibility that opens up that was hitherto foreclosed to us.» — el papel que da a Nietzsche como bisagra.
«That is not to say that we can assume an absolute perspective, which would be a contradiction in terms.» — el límite que se pone a sí mismo.
«It does not mean that we can gain a proverbial “God’s eye view” over the world, but it means that we can force ourselves to adopt many different perspectives and be dynamic enough to play with various ways of looking at the world — various paradigms — for the purposes of increasing our scope of control.» — lo que sí concede: movilidad entre paradigmas, con fines de control.
«That breakthrough, such as the breakthrough that we achieved when we developed nuclear fission, also gives us the possibility for a break away.» — el ejemplo con que empalma el concepto filosófico con la historia técnica.
«It is a revolutionary breakthrough that leads to a breakout from customary human forms of life and the parameters within which worldview warfare has been conducted amongst human societies throughout the course of recorded history.» — la definición del *Aufbruch* que da.
«What it ultimately produces is a Breakaway Civilization.» — el término al que llega toda esa cadena conceptual.
«Abbau is the German term conceptually coined by Martin Heidegger, and then translated as “deconstruction” by his French disciples such as Jacques Derrida» — la genealogía que da del término *Abbau*, de Heidegger a Derrida.
«Heidegger is the first thinker of Deconstruction as an explicit concept.» — la primacía que le adjudica a Heidegger sobre la deconstrucción.
«It is derived from the verb bauen, or “to build,” so that Abbau is an un-building or de-construction in the literal sense of» — la etimología con que fija el sentido de desmontaje; la palabra que cierra la frase, *dismantling*, va entrecomillada en la fuente.
«Therefore an Abbauender Aufbruch is a “dismantling breakthrough” or a deconstruction that leads to a radical departure.» — la fórmula compuesta que acuña.
«The kind of deconstruction that takes place in Nietzsche and Heidegger marks a unique historical moment wherein, for the first time, we become conscious of this, which in turn gives us the power to deliberately adopt various worldviews and flip back and forth between them in order to increase our latitude of control and enhance our power or vital force.» — el poder que atribuye a esa toma de conciencia.
«Abbauender Aufbruch im Weltanschauungskrieg is a deconstructive departure from the unconscious ideological war that has taken place between cultures and nations throughout the course of history, for the sake of a hyper-dimensional conquest on the basis of this superhuman consciousness.» — la fórmula completa, que es el nombre que da a la estrategia de la civilización desgajada.
«It is a question of becoming master over occultation and revelation.» — la formulación más breve de esa maestría, en términos de ocultar y revelar.
«Once one realizes that the Greek alethea or “unconcealment” is the proper conception of Truth, not the Latin veritas, one can make things disappear by becoming a master of what remains occulted and what is revealed or reified from out of that occulted “background” (what Heidegger called Abgrund» — el paso de la verdad como desocultamiento a una técnica de hacer desaparecer cosas; la grafía *alethea* es la de la fuente.
«Destructive Departure is not just an abstract concept.» — declara que el concepto describe una práctica en curso.
«In fact, I have reconstructed the concept based on how it is being practically implemented by the Nordic Breakaway Civilization.» — declara el origen del concepto: reconstruido de la práctica que atribuye a esa civilización.
«The social conditions that have broadly been described as “degenerate” by folks on the Right, those which are prevalent in the Western world today, and the kind of policies pursued, for example, by Merkel’s Germany with respect to the migrant crisis, the rootless identity politics of cultural relativism that» — su ejemplo político contemporáneo del Abbau en marcha; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«When these policies are traced to the highest levels, for example Deutsche Bank in Germany, one sees that this is all being done very deliberately in order to create a social vacuum that is going to be filled.» — a quién atribuye la deliberación detrás de esas políticas.
«An Abbau, a de-construction or dismantling, of Western societies is being undertaken for the purpose of psycho-socially cultivating mass hopelessness and disorientation, which will be monopolized by people who will provide a new point of orientation and direction — not only to the West, but to the world at large.» — el fin que atribuye al desmontaje: fabricar el vacío que otros llenarán.
«They are using their awareness of how worldview warfare works in order to manipulate it by means of a trans-perspectival dynamism that will allow them to dominate the entire planet.» — el instrumento que les atribuye: dinamismo transperspectival.
«Ultimately, their objective is dominion not only over space but also over time. Those who once aspired to a “thousand-year Reich” have set their sights on eternity — or as close to it as they can get.» — cierra el capítulo con el salto del dominio espacial al temporal, que es el eje del libro.
«The fact that Project Chronos was named after the Lord of Time is terribly significant.» — abre el capítulo haciendo del nombre del proyecto una prueba de su objeto.
«It will be argued that the only way to defend the idea that we have at least some degree of free will, intentionality, or personal responsibility is to admit that the timeline is in fact revisable because we are living in a quantum computational cosmos.» — el argumento moral con que sostiene el cosmos computacional: sin línea temporal revisable no hay libertad.
«Philip K. Dick suspected this when he suggested that we are living in a simulation and he claimed that what we now call “the Mandela Effect” is a glitch in the Matrix.» — atribuye la intuición a Philip K. Dick y le da el nombre corriente del fenómeno.
«The language of “simulation” is imprecise, since it falsely presupposes that there is some objective reality beyond the hyperdimensional game.» — su objeción al término simulación, que ya había hecho en la introducción.
«Instead, considering the entire cosmos from the perspective of a quantum computational system, which is interacting in a feedback loop with consciousness, affords us a deeper understanding of how Close Encounters are experiences unbounded by the limitations of four-dimensional space-time.» — el modelo que propone en su lugar, con la conciencia dentro del bucle.
«If UFOs are time machines, then they need bases that are deeply hidden in a geographical sense, but these bases would also have a signature that is detectable insofar as the time machines stationed there would warp the fabric of space-time around the bases.» — la predicción que deriva de su tesis: las bases dejan firma.
«Subterranean and submarine UFO bases create local spatio-temporal anomalies that inadvertently disorient people who are wandering (unbeknown to them) in the environs of these hidden bases before they go missing.» — con eso explica las desapariciones que va a narrar.
«Others never make it back, and we have evidence for their having gotten lost in another time.» — la variante peor de esas desapariciones, según él documentada.
«They leave behind objects that they had with them together with their own footprints, and these become shockingly anomalous parts of the geological record that mainstream archeology tries to disregard.» — cómo enlaza las desapariciones con los hallazgos arqueológicos fuera de época.
«“Bigfoot” or Sasquatch, which are sighted in connection with UFOs, especially in these same locales where people slip through cracks caused by the construction of these hyperdimensional bases» — su explicación de los críptidos: homininos prehumanos deslizados hacia adelante en el tiempo; la frase sigue con una palabra que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«“Projekt Tor” or the Portal Project (“Tor” means Gate, Doorway, or Portal in German» — el nombre anterior del proyecto de la campana, que usa como confirmación de su lectura.
«Given that this incident occurred two decades after the Nazi Bell program in Prague, it is highly unlikely that the device would still have the same characteristics as the 10- or 11-foot-tall, acorn-shaped prototype that was being tested in 1945.» — la objeción cronológica que él mismo se plantea sobre Kecksburg.
«The Kecksburg UFO may have been a late 1940s Bell that teleported to 1965 rural Pennsylvania.» — la salida que da a esa objeción: el objeto viajó en el tiempo.
«When they tested the ZPE device, it would produce a local gravitational field that caused it to levitate so rapidly that it had to be chained down in a specially designed rig, which remains in place today.» — el detalle del anclaje de la campana, que da por rastro material subsistente.
«If time travel is possible — and even mainstream physicists agree that it is — then, it has to be invented by somebody at some point in human history.» — el argumento con que hace del viaje en el tiempo un asunto histórico y no especulativo.
«That would not be a technology that could be released to the public, because Joe, Charlie, and Mary-Sue cannot be trusted with power over the time-continuum and the capability to revise human history simply because they want to use foreknowledge of the stock market to get rich, or bring back a dead relative who met a premature demise in some tragedy, or go back and avoid making the most costly mistake of their lives.» — por qué el secreto sería inevitable, en sus propios términos.
«The main reason that the Spider’s web inside of the United States was able to capture Martin Aircraft, Lear, Bell, Convair, and so forth, and convince their CEOs to either stand down or be dealt into their Breakaway Civilization, is because they were able to demonstrate that while these corporations were only thinking of ZPE technology in terms of an aviation revolution, what they were actually developing were time machines.» — la razón que da del silencio de las aeroespaciales: no era un avión, era una máquina del tiempo.
«Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology, has probably made the most sophisticated case to date for the time travel hypothesis for Close Encounters.» — presenta a Michael P. Masters como el mejor caso publicado de su propia hipótesis.
«Masters concludes that there is no reason to believe that we are looking at “aliens.”» — la conclusión de Masters, que coincide con la suya.
«Furthermore, Masters argues that from the standpoint of evolutionary biology, it is extremely unlikely that intelligent life elsewhere in the universe (or even in our solar system) would take a form that in any way resembles ourselves.» — el argumento evolutivo de Masters contra la forma humanoide del extraterrestre.
«Dr. Bill Sellers at the University of Manchester in England has concluded that on planets with a significantly higher gravity than Earth, any creature likely to evolve for long enough to develop intelligence would be eight-legged.» — el ejemplo de Bill Sellers, que suma a ese argumento.
«Masters points out what any competent evolutionary biologist would: a species other than humans and our hominin ancestors could not interbreed successfully with humans, and especially not in a way that would produce viable (non-sterile) offspring of the kind reported by abductees.» — el argumento genético contra la hibridación con una especie ajena.
«However, humans from the future who had undergone further evolution would have no problem mating with humans from the present, just as it is scientifically acknowledged that contemporary Homo sapiens could mate with earlier and presently extinct hominins.» — la salida que ofrece esa hipótesis al problema de la hibridación.
«In fact, we have plenty of genetic evidence that Cro-Magnon man did just that with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other types of humans that have since gone extinct (except for the trace they have left in our DNA).» — el precedente genético con que apoya el argumento.
«Masters ventures the speculation that time travelers from the future may be coming here in their UFOs in order to re-diversify the gene pool, because Nazi-style eugenic policies using advanced biotechnology, and aiming at a certain narrow ideal of “perfection,” have led to a dangerous level of population-wide genetic uniformity amongst them.» — la especulación de Masters sobre el motivo del programa de hibridación, expuesta como suya.
«According to Masters, “rapid rotation of a dense, massive, or highly energetic cylindrical, spherical, disc, or ring-shaped” body (the shapes most commonly reported in UFO sightings) can reorient future light cones toward the past.» — el mecanismo físico que toma de Masters, con la coincidencia entre formas de nave y geometría del efecto.
«It is the kind of thing that occurs at the event horizon of a black hole, except that the singularity inside of a flying saucer or cylindrical UFO is a controlled spatio-temporal vortex.» — la analogía con el agujero negro, y la diferencia que le importa: aquí es controlado.
«An increase in gravity, as in a supermassive black hole, should result in time dilation and ultimately in time reversal around the object producing this local gravitational field by means of subjecting appropriate isotopes of certain elements to high-speed and high-energy electro-magnetic torsion.» — cómo empalma esa física con la campana de Praga y sus isótopos.
«Unfortunately, Masters is in lockstep with the mainstream Physics community when he claims that the only way that time travel is possible is if it leads to Closed Time-like Curves (CTCs).» — aquí se separa de Masters, y el *Unfortunately* marca el desacuerdo.
«According to them, we live in a universe wherein there is “block time.” On this view, everything that we think is going to happen in the future has already happened.» — expone el tiempo-bloque que va a rechazar.
«Nothing that the time travelers do when they travel into the past can wind up being inconsistent with the past as it is recorded in history books.» — la consecuencia de ese modelo.
«This is called the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, named after Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov.» — nombra el principio y a su autor.
«Again, it logically follows from this view that everything that we believe that we have a choice about in the future is equally pre-determined and already part of the completed four-dimensional fabric of space-time.» — la objeción que le hace: el tiempo-bloque suprime la elección.
«Time travel incidents are loops in this fabric, which ensure a self» — el bucle autoconsistente que impide matar al propio abuelo; la palabra siguiente, *consistency*, la parte el guion de fin de renglón.
«Mainstream physicists ask you to just not think about that.» — su reproche a la física ortodoxa sobre el objeto hiperdimensional sin origen.
«This absurdity is supposed to somehow be more rational than worrying about the Grandfather Paradox and other potentially catastrophic revisions of the timeline.» — invierte la carga: lo absurdo es el modelo consistente, no la paradoja.
«Another way to deal with logical problems attendant to the idea that time travel could change the past is with recourse to the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics.» — presenta la segunda salida ortodoxa que va a rechazar.
«On this view, time travel is simply travel across the dimensions of the Many Worlds, so that the past that one appears to change is not the past of the universe that one came from, but only a very similar state of affairs in a parallel universe.» — expone la interpretación de los muchos mundos aplicada al viaje temporal.
«This also negates agency and personal responsibility in any meaningful sense, for the following reasons.» — su objeción central, que es moral antes que física.
«Given an immeasurable number of parallel universes, where we have doppelgangers whose lives unfold in ways that are each slightly different from our own, at every significant juncture of our lives, and many other far less significant ones, we will have taken every other possible course of action that we could have taken but did not take in our own lives.» — desarrolla la consecuencia: toda opción rechazada la toma otro yo.
«The variation is not on account of our own will or intention, but is a causal consequence of the necessary instantiation of every logically possible way that the super-positions of quantum probability functions (or waves) could collapse into a defined structure of particles.» — el punto exacto de la objeción: la variación no viene de la voluntad.
«Again, this reduces human action and choice to absurdity.» — el veredicto que repite.
«Many leading mainstream physicists, such as Max Tegmark and David Deutsch, have fallen prey to thinking in terms of such absurdly meaningless abstractions.» — nombra a Tegmark y a Deutsch como responsables de esa deriva.
«Physicist David Deutsch writes, with the arrogance typical of Oxford men like himself, “The quantum theory of parallel universes is not some troublesome, optional interpretation, emerging from arcane theoretical considerations, it is the explanation — the only one that is tenable — of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.”» — cita a Deutsch con el comentario despectivo incluido en la misma frase.
«Actually, it is not the only explanation, and until Deutsch can explain how his interpretation of quantum theory can accommodate ESP and macro-PK, we are entirely justified in dismissing a theory that totally negates our individual intentionality and personal responsibility as nothing more than an “arcane” theoretical abstraction.» — su réplica, y el criterio que exige: que la teoría dé cuenta de la ESP y la psicoquinesis.
«There are universes where time runs backwards.» — la consecuencia que extrae del modelo para reducirlo al absurdo.
«In such a world, clocks not only run backward, but water glasses that are accidentally dropped and shattered on a kitchen floor miraculously reassemble in the hands of the person who dropped them.» — la imagen con que la ilustra.
«The denial of free will makes nonsense of art and of every act of creation.» — el argumento estético, que es el que da por decisivo.
«To better understand why this is the case, remember that free will is not just randomness.» — el deslinde que hace del libre albedrío frente al azar.
«It is acting in a way that is an expression of my developing personality in response to experiences that I have gone through.» — su definición positiva del libre albedrío.
«My life is an act of creation — a work of art, or at least it has the potential to be.» — la vida como obra, con el matiz de potencia que él añade.
«If we had “an infinite number of doppelgangers,” then works of creative genius, whether in literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, theater, music, or cinema, would have to be seen as farcical materializations of predetermined configurations of elementary particles.» — la consecuencia para el arte de los mundos múltiples.
«Any artist understands that a creative act is exclusive.» — el criterio de exclusividad del acto creador.
«It cannot be that you have made every choice that you precluded during the course of that act of creation.» — la formulación exacta de esa exclusividad.
«For every other path to have been taken, simultaneously, by indefinitely many versions of ‘oneself’ would destroy the meaningfulness of any work of art, or for that matter of any creative act.» — el remate del argumento estético contra los muchos mundos.
«He claims that we can conceive of all kinds of possible worlds other than this actual world, but all of them ought to be logically consistent and not like the worlds in some imaginary stories.» — expone la exigencia de consistencia lógica que va a rechazar.
«He denies that the world could be inconsistent and revisable in the way that a story is or have the texture of a dream.» — el punto que él discute: el mundo puede tener textura de sueño.
«A world with free will is a universe that is more like a great story or grand narrative than it is like a machine.» — su alternativa: cosmos como relato, no como máquina.
«Our task is, moreover, to revise the story of the world in a way that is creatively constructive.» — la tarea que deriva de esa imagen del cosmos.
«A Logic that insists on a hard separation between imagination and reality must be rejected or at least treated as a tool for practical purposes, not as the kind of mirror that its proponents claim can reflect a putatively objective reality.» — el estatuto que le concede a la lógica: herramienta, no espejo.
«The Greek conception of Logos was originally, in archaic times, that of a “story” or account — but a story of universal scope and significance.» — la etimología con que autoriza el Logos narrativo.
«When he started to develop it into a properly philosophical concept, Heraclitus still understood Logos as the narrative structure of the Cosmos.» — Heráclito como aval de esa lectura del Logos.
«At a conference in Metz, France, in 1977, Philip K. Dick confessed that he did not make up all of his novels.» — el episodio de Metz, que trae como testimonio.
«He claimed that some of his novels were based on memories of an alternate timeline.» — lo que Dick afirmó allí, consignado con verbo de decir.
«Dick believed that such edits were indicative of our living in a “simulation.”» — la conclusión de Dick, que él va a corregir.
«Instead, we could simply be living in a computational cosmos.» — su corrección al término de Dick.
«The power to change the past in this way makes a time machine the ultimate weapon.» — la máquina del tiempo como arma suprema, que es el giro del capítulo.
«If you are engaged in a battle with an enemy that is intractable, the best way to defeat them is to go back into the past and prevent them from ever existing.» — cómo funcionaría esa arma.
«This kind of science-fictional scenario is what you see in Fritz Leiber’s novel The Big Time.» — remite la idea a *The Big Time*, de Fritz Leiber.
«He calls it “the Change War.”» — el nombre que Leiber le da al conflicto.
«There are two factions, the Spiders and the Serpents, who both have time travel technology.» — las dos facciones de la novela.
«Leiber basically suggests that the Spiders are time-traveling Nazis.» — la lectura que hace de la novela.
«It cannot be a coincidence that, as already explained, the postwar international cabal of SS officers that evacuated a lot of personnel and material to Argentina and were involved in negotiating the Paperclip extraction of Nazi scientists to the United States were referred to as die Spinne, or “the Spider.”» — la coincidencia de nombres que da por prueba, no por casualidad.
«Leiber may even have been aware of the Nazi Bell project.» — la conjetura sobre lo que Leiber sabía, marcada con *may*.
«In Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time, there is a locale that acts as a kind of fifth-dimensional headquarters for the time travelers engaged in the Change War.» — el lugar fuera del tiempo que la novela imagina.
«“The Place” is a base of operations that remains relatively stable as compared to the 4-D space-time continua that are subject to revision in the course of the conflict between the Spiders and the Serpents.» — cómo funciona ese lugar en la novela.
«There would in fact have to be something like “the Place” or places where time travelers could be based and from out of which they could operate with relative security and in stealth.» — el salto de la novela a su propia tesis: esas bases tendrían que existir.
«In order to wrap our minds around what kind of secret bases could be constructed by a time-traveling civilization, which by inserting itself deep into the past, has potentially had millions of years of lead time, we would do well to consider the kinds of underground and underwater bases that the United States is capable of building.» — el método con que va a argumentar por analogía desde las bases estadounidenses.
«The main motivation for American underground and underwater base development was obviously the prospect of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.» — el móvil histórico de esos programas.
«First of all, very deep underground bases were intended not only to be invulnerable to nuclear strikes but also were designed to act as staging grounds for a subterranean second strike capability.» — la doble función de esas bases.
«Closely connected to this capability were nuclear tunnel-boring devices that were developed in the 1970s, and that, in addition to playing a significant role in the construction of the bases themselves, would also be capable of boring tubular tunnels from out of the bases and up to the surface after all silos and other ground-based nuclear assets had been destroyed by the enemy.» — las perforadoras nucleares y su papel doble.
«It is also worthy of note that the underground bases would communicate with planes in the air, not by means of any radio, satellite, or other technology that might be taken out in a nuclear war, but by means of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves that would be propagated through the Earth itself, from a buried dipole antenna near the base to a trailing wire antenna on designated aircraft.» — el sistema de comunicación por ondas ELF a través de la corteza terrestre.
«Construction of this gargantuan project was estimated to take only five years, and was slated for 1988 through 1993.» — el calendario del proyecto de bases subterráneas que documenta.
«The total budget was in the tens (not hundreds) of billions of dollars.» — la cifra, con el paréntesis que él intercala para acotar la magnitud.
«While that is not inexpensive, compare it to the $3 trillion that was burned to occupy Iraq from 2003–2011 (based on the false claim that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and was involved with Al-Qaeda).» — la comparación con la guerra de Irak, con su juicio sobre el pretexto incluido.
«We can only speculate as to whether, and to what extent, the collapse of the Soviet Union from 1989– 1991 impacted the execution of these plans.» — declara aquí su ignorancia sobre si el plan se ejecutó.
«But that is beside the point, which is simply that these were executable designs in mid-1980s America.» — precisa qué quiere probar: capacidad, no ejecución.
«The tunnel-boring technology for this project merits consideration in its own right, especially with a view to the construction of UFO bases, because the same machinery could be used to tunnel on the Moon.» — el puente que tiende entre la perforadora nuclear y las bases lunares.
«In fact, it was conceived of by Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA for that purpose, back when the United States was still planning to colonize the Moon.» — el origen declarado de esa máquina: Los Álamos y la NASA.
«The advantage of these machines is that there is no hollowed-out rock to dispose of, which means that the tunneling activity can proceed in a much more stealthy manner than conventional boring projects.» — la ventaja de sigilo que le atribuye a la perforación por fusión.
«What melted rock is not used to coat the tunnels is pushed into cracks in the rock produced by the shock of the boring, thereby substantially fortifying the rocky underground area surrounding the tunnel.» — el detalle técnico del vitrificado del túnel.
«The first design for a nuclear subterrene is US Patent Number 3,696,731, registered by the US Atomic Energy Commission and approved by the United States Patent Office on September 26, 1972.» — la patente concreta que cita como prueba documental.
«Another one is US Patent Number 3,881,777, registered by Los Alamos scientists working for the US Energy Research and Development Administration and approved by the United States Patent Office on May 6, 1975.» — la segunda patente, con su fecha.
«The Pentagon’s designs for underwater bases are no less impressive than the plans for America’s underground bases and tunnels.» — el paso de las bases subterráneas a las submarinas.
«In other words, as early as 1966, the United States was considering the engineering dimensions of constructing underwater at a depth of 10,000 feet.» — la fecha y la profundidad que documenta con la carta de Van Dolah a McLean.
«The report’s Abstract alone is interesting enough, insofar as it admits that in 1966 there were already extensive underwater bases built into the continental shelf of the United States that had been operating “for many decades.”» — el dato que le parece decisivo del informe *Rock-Site*, con la frase citada del propio documento.
«The underwater bases outlined in the Rock-Site project report are up to 12,000 feet beneath the ocean and as far as hundreds of miles offshore, inside of a sea mount.» — la escala de esas instalaciones según el informe.
«But what really matters for our purposes here is the demonstration of capability.» — repite el criterio con que usa toda esta documentación.
«If these were the underground and underwater engineering capabilities of the United States from the 1960s through the 1980s, then what could the Breakaway Civilization accomplish in terms of the construction of clandestine UFO bases on this planet» — el argumento a fortiori con que salta de lo documentado a lo que postula.
«There could be a whole world hidden from us underground and undersea. But if hyperdimensional technology is being used at these bases, then there» — plantea el mundo oculto y anuncia la prueba que exigirá; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«should be evidence for that in terms of space-time warping in the vicinity of such structures. Indeed, there is a lot of evidence for exactly that. Within the scope of this study there is room only for a few representative examples» — la prueba que se exige a sí mismo y la limitación que declara.
«There are places on this Earth where spatio-temporal vortices seem to periodically open and close, depositing Cryptids from millions of years in the past into our present, and swallowing people from the present» — el mecanismo con que explica a la vez los críptidos y las desapariciones.
«As anyone in the field of Ufology knows, Bigelow had a longstanding interest in UFOs and thought that he could bring a team of scientists onto the property to study the many types of Close Encounters that were taking place there, from the First through the Third Kind.» — el papel de Robert Bigelow en la Skinwalker Ranch.
«What is most significant about the Skinwalker Ranch is neither the mere fact that it is a UFO hotspot, nor the associated cattle mutilations.» — declara qué le interesa del rancho y qué no.
«It is the clear evidence, evaluated by Dr. Colm A. Kelleher and other NIDS scientists, such as physicist Dr. Eric Davis, that a hyperdimensional portal periodically opens and closes on this property.» — el portal hiperdimensional, atribuido a la evaluación de Kelleher y Eric Davis.
«From a distance it looks like an orange blur when it appears, but if one is standing at a certain location on the ranch facing its opening, the portal looks like a circular “window” and it reveals a different sky on the other side of it.» — la descripción del portal, que es lo que da por evidencia.
«It could be night on the ranch, but a daytime blue sky might be seen on the other side of the vortex.» — el desfase de luz entre los dos lados, que es su indicio de otra época.
«The local Ute Indians claim that the UFOs are the spirits of the Ancestors coming from underground, where they dwell.» — la lectura ute del fenómeno, consignada como afirmación de ellos, y que él hará resonar con su propia tesis de los Ancestros.
«Dr. R. Lynn Kirlin, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, who analyzed the recording, came to the conclusion that there was no indication of speed alteration» — el peritaje de la grabación de Ron Morehead; la frase sigue con una palabra que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«The reason why this case in particular is relevant is because Ron Morehead and his hunting buddies could not actually see the two Sasquatches who were making these call sounds.» — por qué el caso le sirve: se oía pero no se veía.
«It was as if they were on the other side of some vortex or portal, through which sound was traveling.» — la explicación que propone para esa invisibilidad.
«The hunters once also heard what sounded like the entire camp being torn apart and things being tossed around, but nothing was actually moving — at least not on their side of this invisible portal.» — el episodio que da por indicio más fuerte del portal.
«One driver on State Route 66 in West Virginia on the evening of October 7, 1966, saw a light coming out of a hillside in the Appalachian mountains; when the perfectly silent object caught up with him and hovered about 400 feet above the highway, he said he could see that it had windows below a circular glowing light.» — el caso de Point Pleasant con que abre esa zona.
«We know that UFOs have often been seen entering and exiting rivers, and Point Pleasant is located at the point of convergence of two rivers.» — el rasgo geográfico con que sostiene la hipótesis de una base en Point Pleasant.
«These UFOs have often been seen simply dematerializing, as if they are suddenly phasing out of our time continuum.» — la desmaterialización leída como salida del continuo temporal, no como invisibilidad.
«In principle it would be an excellent place to settle, given the natural resources and terrain.» — el argumento por contraste que va a usar con los indios de la zona.
«But for some reason they spread out in every direction around this part of West Virginia, but left the region of Point Pleasant unoccupied — claiming that it was “cursed.”» — el dato etnográfico que suma a su tesis del lugar.
«In all of these cases canines belonging to Search and Rescue (SAR) teams either cannot track a scent at all or they lose it quickly.» — el primer rasgo común de las desapariciones que estudia David Paulides.
«Once any articles or remains are discovered, it becomes clear that the person removed some or all of his clothes or shoes even if the weather was freezing and with no sign that the removal was the work of a wild animal or that an animal had attacked the person.» — el segundo rasgo: la ropa retirada sin causa animal.
«Related to this is that in most cases of this kind, when a corpse is found, the coroner cannot determine a cause of death.» — el tercer rasgo: sin causa de muerte determinable.
«Often it is simply listed as “exposure,” without any actual evidence of exposure and even in cases that take place in hot summer months.» — su reproche a la categoría forense de hipotermia.
«These people go missing most often in an area where there are granite boulder fields and where there is water nearby, such as a river, lake, or creek.» — el patrón geológico e hidrológico que da por firma de los casos.
«While considering the devil that is in the detail of some of these cases, bear in mind that even if a base were built at any one of these locations in 1975, the space-time distortion that would be caused by the concentrated presence of UFOs there, or by some other associated hyperdimensional travel or communication technology, would reach all the way back through geological time — affecting people and animals millions of years into the past and into the future.» — la clave con que quiere que se lean los casos: la distorsión no respeta la fecha de construcción de la base.
«Finally, the trail was next to a creek that only runs in one direction, providing another point of reference that should have prevented Aaron from getting lost.» — el detalle con que descarta el extravío ordinario en el caso de Aaron Hedges.
«The two-way GPS data transfer showed that Aaron had missed the turn on the way up to the cache and was following the main trail much further away from their camp.» — el registro de GPS del caso.
«The weather was, at this time, still warm and dry and he could not have missed the fork in the road — again, on a trail with which he was familiar.» — los factores que, según él, hacen inexplicable el desvío.
«This suggested that Aaron — without boots — was still wandering around in the area without being noticed by the many searchers.» — la inferencia sobre el intervalo entre las botas halladas y el cuerpo.
«Note that none of the aforementioned items discovered in June of 2015 had been in the locations they were found when the whole area was repeatedly searched by SAR teams from September 7–22 of 2014.» — el dato que da por decisivo: los objetos no estaban ahí cuando se buscó.
«The reason that the SAR teams and their canines could not find a trace of him is because he was not there — or rather, not then.» — su explicación en una línea, con la corrección temporal incluida.
«That means that, from the perspective of our perception of time, Aaron was probably still alive and wandering around the same area in June, nine months after the SAR teams had given up after discovering hardly anything but his boots.» — la consecuencia que extrae, marcada con *probably*.
«The reason that there are granite boulders and water at all of the locations of paranormal missing persons cases of this kind is probably because UFO bases are carved out of granite mountains or are situated under lakes, or use rivers to navigate, and could otherwise use a nearby water source.» — su explicación del patrón geológico: bases talladas en granito y bajo agua.
«She is certain that he would not have tracked or pursued game to a place far from where he had parked, especially not with his injured ankle.» — el testimonio familiar que descarta el extravío en el caso de Melvin Nadel.
«These kinds of cases are most disturbing when they involve young children.» — el paso a los casos infantiles, con el juicio que él pone.
«It is worthy of note that Camp St. Malo in Estes Valley, Colorado was founded by a Catholic priest who saw a “meteor” in the area one night in 1916, but could not find the object when he traced its trajectory of descent to somewhere near a creek on the slopes of Mt. Meeker.» — el antecedente de 1916 con que carga de sentido el lugar del caso Bizup.
«Bobby Bizup wore a hearing aid, because he was partially deaf.» — el detalle del niño desaparecido que él considera relevante.
«Within four days of his disappearance, 400 searchers from the National Park Service, Sheriff’s volunteers, and SAR experts, together with their bloodhounds, were searching the area around the camp and the slopes of the Rocky Mountain National Park for some trace of Bobby.» — la escala del operativo, que usa para medir lo inexplicable del resultado.
«The dogs were only able to trace Mel’s scent to the tree where he had made his makeshift blind — not far from the Jeep.» — el rastro que se corta en seco.
«If Mel had been attacked by some animal, there would be a trace of tattered clothing or some blood somewhere.» — el argumento negativo con que descarta la explicación animal.
«It bears repeating that the trail from the creek where Bobby was fishing, and where the counselor retrieved him, down to Camp St. Malo was a clearly marked and easy to tread downhill path to a place with food and rest.» — el detalle topográfico con que descarta el extravío del niño.
«Bobby could not have lost his way and just wandered up to where his remains were found.» — su conclusión sobre el caso.
«The FBI appears to know about these paranormal disappearance cases, but the Bureau is unwilling to share its information.» — la reticencia institucional que denuncia.
«US Secretary of the Interior, whose department manages these parks, also denies that such a list exists at the federal level.» — la negativa del Departamento del Interior sobre la lista de desaparecidos.
«more likely is that, if such a list were released, National Park attendance would plummet because people would be horrified at how many men, women, and children mysteriously vanish in these parks every year — under circumstances as strange as those of the cases reviewed thus far.» — el motivo que atribuye a esa negativa; el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«The FBI appears to have an archive of them, because two agents from the Bureau showed up on the fourth day of the search for Thomas Messick.» — el indicio del archivo federal en el caso de Thomas Messick.
«It immediately precedes the appearance of a UFO, especially in the countryside, and the area does not come back to life with its characteristic sounds until the Close Encounter with a craft or associated beings has come to an end.» — el silencio total como signo previo del encuentro, que enlaza con los casos de desaparición.
«It figures that if people are slipping through spatio-temporal vortices into other times, including the prehistoric past, they would leave objects behind them that would become anomalous artifacts in the fossil record.» — la predicción arqueológica que deriva de su hipótesis.
«That is exactly what we find.» — el remate con que la da por cumplida.
«According to the Illinois State Geological Survey, the coal in which this gold chain was found is anywhere between 260 and 320 million years old.» — la datación de la cadena de oro, atribuida al servicio geológico de Illinois.
«The Times (London) ran a story on June 22, 1844, about a gold thread that is clearly the product of workmanship, which was discovered at a quarry a quarter of a mile from Rutherford mill, embedded in stone that is between 320 and 360 million years old.» — el segundo hallazgo anómalo, con su fuente periodística y su fecha.
«If people slipped so far back in time that they left these objects in such geological strata predating human evolution, then there should also be skeletal remains of these individuals.» — la predicción que se impone a sí mismo antes de buscar los restos.
«Although, as one would expect, they are not common finds, there are indeed remains of this kind.» — el resultado que declara, con la reserva sobre la frecuencia.
«According to Professor W. G. Burroughs, head of the Geology Department at Berea College, human-like footprints have been found in fossilized sand on a beach in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.» — el hallazgo de huellas, atribuido a Burroughs con su cargo.
«If people are slipping far enough back in time to make footprints next to those of dinosaurs, then dinosaurs should occasionally come through the same vortices into our time.» — la simetría del argumento: si vamos, vienen.
«It does stand to reason, however, that the majority of dinosaur sightings would be those of flying dinosaurs or those who lived in bodies of water, like the plesiosaurs seen at Loch Ness or in Lake Champlain, because the land surface that ground-based dinosaurs tread on has been pulled under layers of geological strata.» — por qué los críptidos serían voladores o acuáticos, con Loch Ness y el lago Champlain como casos.
«Consequently, dinosaurs that pass through vortices in the air or spatio-temporal tears inside of bodies of water, such as in the Bermuda Triangle, are the ones most likely to transit in and out of our epoch.» — el corolario que enlaza los críptidos con el Triángulo de las Bermudas.
«There is a series of extremely strange correlations between the aforementioned types of mysterious disappearances at various areas in the United States and the dates of disappearances in the infamous Bermuda Triangle.» — la correlación de fechas que da por dato.
«It has long been suspected by Ufologists and other paranormal researchers that the Bermuda Triangle features some kind of portal, vortex, or tear in space-time.» — atribuye la hipótesis al campo, no a sí mismo.
«There are cases in the Bermuda Triangle where people go missing without their ships and with no sign that a violent struggle (with pirates or some other abductors) has taken place.» — el rasgo con que descarta las explicaciones criminales.
«The ship is undamaged, without any evidence that it encountered something like a horrendous storm, but the lifeboats are all gone, and sometimes dinner is still on the mess hall tables uneaten.» — el cuadro típico del barco abandonado, que hace coincidir con las desapariciones terrestres.
«It was a perfectly sunny day with clear blue skies when they started their scheduled flight, at 2 pm, which was supposed to take them 160 miles into the sky over the Bermuda Triangle before they were supposed to turn north for another 40 miles and then return to their base.» — las condiciones del vuelo perdido, que él subraya para descartar el mal tiempo.
«The captain wanted to reassure the frightened passengers, but he had to admit that based on all of their onboard flight charts and consultation of their navigational equipment the island of Bermuda and the coastline of the United States did not exist.» — el episodio en que la geografía misma desaparece de los instrumentos.
«So much earlier, that tailwinds cannot be the cause — especially when no such high-velocity winds are recorded by the onboard equipment of a plane, and when the plane’s speedometer does not register the aircraft ever having achieved the speed that would have been required to so drastically cut short the flight time.» — el argumento instrumental con que descarta el viento de cola en los vuelos que llegan antes de tiempo.
«In his extensive study of the Bermuda Triangle, Gian Quasar speculates that we may be dealing with a Zero Point Energy technology that is operating somewhere beneath the Great Bahama Bank from out of which the islands of Bimini, Andros, Nassau, and Grand Bahama emerge.» — la hipótesis de Gian Quasar, atribuida con verbo de decir.
«Quasar thinks that a significant alteration of, or deviation from, the Earth’s gravitational field produced by an electro-magnetic device, may be causing a curvature of space-time in the triangle.» — el mecanismo que Quasar propone.
«However, from inside the vortex such a device would produce the metallic-looking “electronic fog” that many who have survived an uncanny journey through the triangle have reported accompanying their plane.» — la niebla electrónica de los testimonios, leída como signo del vórtice.
«Quasar notes the similarities between the experimental protocol used by the scientists in Project Chronos and the descriptions that Edgar Cayce offered of the power and propulsion technology of the denizens of Atlantis.» — el puente que Quasar tiende entre la campana de Praga y la Atlántida de Cayce.
«Cayce claimed that Atlantis was where the Bermuda Triangle is now, and that part of it would eventually be excavated at Bimini.» — la afirmación de Edgar Cayce, consignada como suya.
«According to Cayce, the misuse of this dangerously powerful technology significantly contributed to the catastrophic destruction and sinking of Atlantis.» — la causa que Cayce atribuye a la destrucción de la Atlántida.
«Quasar wonders whether still-active Atlantean technology at the bottom of Sargasso Sea could be responsible for wreaking havoc with ships and aircraft.» — la conjetura con que se cierra ese tramo, atribuida a Quasar.
«They were all seeded by survivors of a single prehistoric, antediluvian (pre-flood) civilization more advanced than any culture known to what remains of recorded history.» — la tesis difusionista que toma de Donnelly y hace suya.
«It is the Atlanteans who, in Donnelly’s view, could be credited with the commonalities between pyramidal and megalithic architecture in Egypt and the Americas, the transplantation of the flora and fauna and certain crops of the Old World to the New World, as well as the nearly universal diffusion of certain symbols, above all the Swastika, which appears to have been the predominant emblem of the Atlantean civilization.» — resume a Ignatius Donnelly, con la esvástica como emblema atlante.
«Professor Charles Hapgood’s Earth Crustal Displacement theory is presented as an explanation for how Atlantis, i.e. Antarctica, was drawn down into the south polar region where it froze over.» — el mecanismo geológico con que sostiene la identificación Atlántida-Antártida.
«Finally, there are claims from US military/ intelligence whistleblowers that Atlantean structures beneath the Antarctic ice are identical in style to megalithic monuments on the Moon and Mars.» — la afirmación de los filtradores, consignada como suya con el verbo *claims*.
«There are signatures in the atmospheric composition and geological record of Mars that match those of thermonuclear test sites on Earth, and these are centered at just the places where we also find ruins of megalithic cities built on a titanic scale.» — la coincidencia entre firmas isotópicas y ruinas que da por prueba de la guerra marciana.
«It seems that shortly after spawning a civilization on Mars (in what would be remote human prehistory from our perspective), something went terribly wrong — destroying not only this civilization, but also the biosphere of Mars.» — el relato marciano, con el *It seems* que marca su reserva.
«Evidence from CIA remote viewing suggests that the “Martians” then found themselves with no other option than to take refuge on the primordial Earth.» — la visión remota de la CIA como fuente del episodio del exilio.
«However, this was at a time prior to the existence of the Moon, when the original biosphere of our planet, and its rotational properties, would not have been able to support human life.» — la Tierra sin Luna como problema que su relato tiene que resolver.
«As a mostly hollow sphere, it may have served as an ark for the fugitive Martians, but its main purpose was as a terraforming device that dramatically altered the matrix of life on Earth after wiping the slate clean in the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event.» — la Luna como arca y terraformadora, y la extinción pérmica como su obra.
«Close Encounters on the Moon suggest that it has, to this day, remained a base of operations for the Nordic time travelers.» — la Luna como base actual, inferida de los encuentros.
«One reason why the high-precision megalithic ruins in places that have been considered colonies of “Atlantis” are so featureless and anonymously austere in their titanic geometric perfection is that they reflect a caste of mind that is trying to build outside of linear time.» — su lectura estética del megalitismo: construir fuera del tiempo.
«The governing class of the Breakaway Civilization, who consider themselves to be our “gods,” have convinced themselves that they have achieved perfection.» — el autorretrato que atribuye a esa clase gobernante.
«They see their world as the necessary culmination of human psycho-biological and social evolution.» — cómo se conciben a sí mismos dentro de la evolución.
«This is reflected in their aesthetics, which is absolutely totalitarian in the way that it precludes any further development by branding deviations from its architectonic as nothing more than “degeneracy” or “decadence.”» — el vínculo que hace entre esa estética y el veto a toda novedad.
«Plato lays emphasis on the fact that this is not a tall tale.» — subraya que el propio Platón presenta la Atlántida como historia y no como fábula.
«Plato claims that this was actually the domain of Poseidon, but that it came to be known by the name of its king, Atlas, rather than as Poseidea, because the “Atlanteans” ultimately revolted against the Olympian gods.» — la etimología que atribuye a Platón, ligada a la rebelión.
«Over time, the percentage of “divine” blood in the Atlantean population decreased as compared to the blood of the mortals with which the “pureblood” Olympians had interbred to produce this hybrid race of “giants” or “heroes.”» — la dilución de la sangre divina en el relato platónico, con las comillas de la fuente.
«The Atlanteans became self-confident and defiant with regard to the Olympians, refusing to obediently worship them any longer.» — la rebelión atlante, que es el precedente de su propio Prometeísmo.
«The rebel Atlanteans were aspiring to unify all of humanity into a world order that no longer revered the gods.» — el proyecto que atribuye a los rebeldes.
«Steiner describes the Atlanteans as having descended to Earth from the celestial plane.» — la versión de Rudolf Steiner, que expone junto a la de Platón.
«worshipping caste society of India and the totalitarian Pharaoh-worshipping cult of ancient Egypt to this Atlantean model» — la genealogía atlante que Steiner traza para la casta india y el culto faraónico; el tramo arranca dentro de *guru-worshipping*, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«Some of them endeavored to become teachers to this new race, but others set themselves up as gurus over humans, who were prevented from developing their own potential.» — el reparto entre maestros y gurús que toma de Steiner, y que le sirve para su propia crítica del tradicionalismo.
«The Atlanteans turn their minds on one another, engaging in a psychic war with catastrophic kinetic effects that mimic natural catastrophes such as massive earthquakes and attendant tsunamis.» — la guerra psíquica atlante como causa del cataclismo.
«It could be that what Steiner is describing are two factions of Atlanteans, one group that are rebels against Olympus and another group of Traditionalists who are still loyal to the gods.» — su intento de conciliar a Steiner con Platón, marcado como conjetura.
«Or, he could simply be referring to the “Olympians” in Plato’s version as just another group of “Atlanteans” — because both ultimately had a common “celestial” origin and, at least at the leadership level, the Atlanteans were in effect fallen gods in the first place.» — la segunda lectura posible, que deja abierta sin decidir.
«A third philosopher, Colin Wilson, has synthesized all of the empirical research on “Atlantis” or some such technologically advanced civilization of global scope in remote antiquity.» — llama filósofo a Colin Wilson, como antes a Steiner.
«For example, Wilson drew from the work of Dr. Robert M. Schoch, a geologist at Boston University who has spent considerable time studying the Sphinx, the Sphinx Temples, and the pyramids at Giza, as well as other putatively “Egyptian” structures such as the Osireon at Abydos.» — presenta a Robert M. Schoch con su adscripción, y llama *putativamente egipcias* a esas estructuras.
«Schoch demonstrated that the scallops and fissures of the weathering on the body of the Sphinx is a water erosion consistent with thousands of years of heavy rainfall.» — la tesis de Schoch sobre la erosión hídrica de la Esfinge; el verbo *demonstrated* es del autor.
«The wind erosion is a more superficial layer of weathering, which only took place after the Sphinx was already heavily eroded by torrential rains.» — el orden de las dos erosiones, que es lo que sostiene la datación.
«It has not rained like that in Egypt since around 7,000 BCE, and one would have to postulate thousands of years of such rainfall.» — el argumento climático con que fecha la Esfinge.
«So the Sphinx appears to far predate ancient Egyptian civilization.» — la conclusión, marcada con *appears to*.
«The reason that the head of the sculpture, which does not show any signs of water erosion, is so much smaller than it should be if it were to have been sculpted in proportion to its body, is that some Pharaoh — possibly Khufu — had it re» — la explicación de la desproporción de la cabeza; la palabra que sigue, *carved*, la parte el guion de fin de renglón.
«Unfortunately for these cynical “restorationists,” however, it is clear that the material for the Sphinx Temples of Giza came from rock that was excavated when the Sphinx was carved out of its trench (it is a mostly underground sculpture, with only its back and head rising above the horizon).» — su respuesta a la restauración que, según él, tapó las marcas de erosión.
«Not only are the stones larger (some weigh 200 tons), they are also locked together with greater precision — sometimes in a jigsaw puzzle-style pattern that would have required multiple precut blocks and an overall plan for how each stone would be interlocked with others.» — el argumento constructivo sobre los templos de la Esfinge.
«The three pyramids of Giza are perfectly aligned to the cardinal directions, and two of the pyramids are also precisely aligned with each other.» — el dato astronómico de partida para la correlación de Orión.
«This was discovered by the Belgian engineer Robert Bauval.» — atribuye la correlación a Robert Bauval.
«It turns out that the three stars of Orion’s Belt stand in exactly the same geometric relationship to the Milky Way that the three Giza pyramids stand in relation to the Nile River (a representation of the Milky Way).» — la correspondencia macrocosmos-microcosmos que sostiene con la correlación de Orión.
«At that time, the pattern in the night sky appears to fall down onto the Earth where it is mirrored by the pyramids and the Nile.» — la fecha en que la correspondencia se cierra, según su exposición.
«Moreover, this was the age of Leo, and it just so happens that if one traces the line of sight from the eyes of the Sphinx to the horizon, and turns back the zodiacal calendar of the precession of the equinoxes to circa 10,500 BCE, the Sphinx watches the Sun rise into its counterpart, the constellation of the Lion, every year at dawn on the Spring Equinox.» — el argumento astronómico completo sobre la Esfinge y la era de Leo.
«Circa 10,500 BCE or 12,500 years ago is, of course, the date that Plato gives us for the destruction of Atlantis.» — la coincidencia de fechas que hace de nudo del capítulo.
«The chronicles of Manetho, a native ancient Egyptian history, very clearly states that “the gods” established civilized society in Egypt and that they governed a Pre-Pharaohonic civilization during the course of which they hybridized themselves with the native population in order to produce the future ruling class of Pharaohonic Egypt.» — lee a Manetón como registro histórico de la hibridación; la grafía *Pharaohonic* es la de la fuente.
«These hybrids are referred to as the shemasu hor, or “Followers of Horus (the Sun),” and were believed to have been masterful astronomers and astrologers.» — los *shemasu hor* y su oficio astrológico, en la grafía de la fuente.
«To them change could only mean degeneration and deviance, of the kind that they punished Akhenaton for attempting.» — el conservadurismo que atribuye a esa casta, con Akenatón como su víctima.
«As they saw it, everything was decline from Zep Tepi or “the first time” to which the Pharaohs were trained to return, effectively as psychical time travelers, when they died and entered the astral state.» — el *Zep Tepi* leído como viaje temporal psíquico del faraón muerto.
«First of all, from an engineering standpoint, this makes no sense.» — su objeción a la explicación convencional de los trilitos de Baalbek.
«The larger stones should have been dragged into position and then surmounted by the ‘smaller’ ones (which are colossal in their own right).» — el argumento constructivo con que la sostiene.
«Instead, the trilithons, as they are called, were lifted more than 40 feet into the air and placed on top of the 400-ton blocks.» — el dato que le parece imposible con técnica antigua.
«As if this is not disturbing enough, the trilithons were brought from a quarry 50 miles away!» — el traslado desde la cantera, con el signo de admiración de la fuente.
«The stones of the Baalbek platform are fit so tightly together that, again, a knife’s blade cannot be slipped between their joints.» — la precisión del ajuste como criterio recurrente en todo el capítulo.
«The local Arabs say that it was built by Nimrod, before the flood.» — la tradición local sobre Baalbek, consignada como dicho de ellos.
«The Mayans and other Pre-Columbian American civilizations all described their civilizer-gods as white people of gigantic stature.» — el rasgo que hace coincidir con su tesis nórdica; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«They also believed that the builder gods, who laid the groundwork for their civilization, would someday return to them.» — la promesa de retorno, que es la bisagra hacia la Conquista.
«Quetzalcoatl, the “Feather Serpent,” also known as Kukulkan or as Votan (Wotan, Odin?) and Viracocha to others in Mesoamerica, was a bearded white man with red hair.» — la identificación de Quetzalcóatl, con la equivalencia germánica que él mismo marca con un signo de interrogación.
«One of the reasons why the Spaniards were so successful in plundering and conquering these civilizations is that, based on the appearance of the Spaniards and their “magical” technology, the native priesthoods mistook men like Cortés and his comrades for the civilizer gods who had promised to return after they fled on “boats without paddles.”» — su lectura de la Conquista a partir de esa espera.
«The former was a benevolent civilizer-god who was trying to elevate the standard of living of the natives by teaching them various crafts, whereas the latter was a sadistic overlord who demanded human sacrifices.» — el contraste entre dos dioses, que es el mismo reparto de facciones que aplica a todo el libro.
«Plato describes Atlantis as an island in the world ocean, “larger than Asia and Libya combined.”» — la descripción platónica que va a hacer coincidir con la Antártida.
«As Rand Flem-Ath realized, and as Colin Wilson also argued, only one landmass fits all of these descriptors: Antarctica.» — la identificación, con sus dos autores declarados.
«Hapgood had become aware of certain maps from the Renaissance period, such as that of Piri Reis and Oronteus Finaeus, which depict the ice-free contours of Antarctica.» — los mapas renacentistas como prueba documental de Hapgood.
«Ground-penetrating radar maps of Antarctica carried out by the US Navy and by the scientific and military organizations of other nations engaged in South Polar exploration have mapped the contours of the frozen continent.» — el cotejo moderno con radar de penetración.
«All of this taken together compelled Professor Hapgood to propose a revolutionary geological theory called “Earth crustal displacement.”» — el origen de la teoría del desplazamiento cortical.
«Albert Einstein ultimately endorsed Hapgood’s theory, and wrote a preface to his second book.» — el aval de Einstein, que consigna como dato.
«According to this theory, over vast periods of time the Earth becomes top heavy due to the concentration of ice on top of the northern landmasses surrounding the North Pole.» — el mecanismo de la teoría en sus propios términos.
«There are, in fact, accounts of such an event having absolutely terrified various tribes in different parts of the world.» — la memoria mítica del cataclismo como corroboración.
«Hapgood’s research led him to conclude that the former pole was in Hudson Bay, and that the reason for the “Ice Age” in North America was simply that the area was, at that time, the land around the old North Pole.» — la reubicación del polo anterior y su consecuencia sobre la edad de hielo.
«One of the strongest supporting pieces of evidence for Hapgood’s theory are the flash-frozen mammoths of Siberia.» — los mamuts congelados como prueba de un desplazamiento súbito.
«It could only have grown in a much more temperate climate.» — sobre el contenido estomacal de esos mamuts.
«It bears repeating that the entire Nazi Party was simply a political front set up by the Thule Society, and in Germanic mythology “Thule” is equivalent to “Atlantis” — at least that was the view of the esoteric elite in this society, and also of the SS.» — repite la tesis del partido como fachada ocultista, y acota a quién le adjudica la equivalencia Thule-Atlántida.
«Certain Pre-Columbian myths suggest that the “magicians of the gods” were able to levitate the titanic megaliths into place at the construction sites of some of the aforementioned enigmatic monuments.» — la levitación como técnica constructiva, atribuida a los mitos precolombinos.
«Although ancient Greek myths describe Hyperborea — the dwelling place of Apollo and the locale of the Elysian Fields — as a continent-sized island “beyond the ice” at the north pole of the Earth, we know that the magnetic poles of the Earth reverse over long periods of time.» — la objeción geográfica a la Hiperbórea nórdica y cómo la resuelve.
«There is no continental island at the north pole, but the continent-sized island of Antarctica was once at the North Pole, with a large part of it extending out beyond the polar region at a climactically habitable latitude comparable to that of Patagonia today (again, the part of Argentina settled by the Nazis in 1945).» — la solución que da, con el guiño a la Patagonia de la fuga nazi.
«Finally, the SS even came to believe that, whereas the rest of the world suffered a global deluge, the world of Atlantis had been lost to encroaching ice.» — la variante del diluvio que atribuye a la doctrina de las SS.
«Was this actually a kind of homecoming? The closing of a temporal Ouroboros by Nordic time travelers who built Atlantis because they were obsessed with it, and who came from Atlantis because they returned to it — so that they could build Atlantis and come from it» — el bucle causal cerrado que propone, planteado como pregunta.
«“The Atlantis Society” (Thule-Gesellschaft), indeed — the society which recruited Adolf Hitler to head its political front, the Nazi Party» — insiste en la traducción de Thule-Gesellschaft por Sociedad Atlántida, y en el papel de reclutado que asigna a Hitler.
«In a conversation with Rauschning, the Governor of Danzig, Hitler himself had something to say about the Atlantean “supermen.”» — introduce el testimonio de Hermann Rauschning sobre el *hombre nuevo*.
«Howe also spoke to a Navy Seal Commander who in 2003 entered a black octagonal structure protruding 18 feet from out of the ice and snow, not far from McMurdo, near the Beardmore Glacier» — la fuente del episodio antártico: un informante anónimo de Linda Moulton Howe.
«Inscribed with laser precision on this door was what appeared to be a star map together with a very precisely incised 12-spoked Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne)» — el Sol Negro de doce radios inciso en la puerta, según ese testimonio.
«This was the most sacred symbol of the SS, which had been inscribed into the floor of the meeting chamber of Heinrich Himmler’s round table knights at Wewelsburg Castle» — el valor que le da al símbolo dentro del ocultismo de las SS, con el castillo de Wewelsburg nombrado.
«Even though it was about 40 degrees below zero outside, the inside temperature of the room had been regulated to be around 70 degrees Fahrenheit.» — el detalle térmico del testimonio, que sostiene la idea de una instalación activa.
«He said they were neither Egyptian nor Mayan, but bore some resemblance to both.» — los jeroglíficos del recinto, según el mismo testigo.
«Another source, a Marine who claimed to be involved in the Pentagon’s Secret Space program, told Linda Moulton Howe that the exact same type of hieroglyphics have been found inscribed on megalithic structures that are located on the dark side of the Moon as well as on structures at Cydonia on Mars.» — el informante que enlaza la Antártida con la Luna y Marte por la misma escritura.
«One of the problems that any serious thinkers who invented time travel would be faced with is the danger of haphazardly interfering with human history.» — el problema práctico del que deduce la colonización de Marte.
«In particular, there would be a serious concern about threatening the conditions of possibility for one’s own existence.» — el riesgo que hace ineludible la precaución.
«This is the kind of problem that has commonly been framed in terms of the so-called “Grandfather Paradox.”» — el nombre corriente del problema, que él usa como bisagra.
«The leading lights of the Breakaway Civilization would not want to destabilize the matrix of possibilities that actualized into the events that brought it into being.» — el motivo que atribuye a esa civilización para irse lejos en el tiempo.
«Consequently, the first thing that a time-traveling civilization would need is a safe place and time to go to.» — la deducción que hace de todo lo anterior.
«The first place that it would have occurred to such people to go is somewhere that the Nazis had already designated as a target of their space program as soon as they began to build rockets, namely Mars — but at a time when Mars was still a living planet and had a biosphere comparable to that of the Earth.» — por qué Marte, y por qué en un Marte remoto y vivo.
«If one could set up a human civilization on Mars in this past epoch, then one would have so much lead time before Homo sapiens evolved on Earth that damaging the time continuum of human history on Earth is no longer a tangible concern.» — la ventaja temporal que resuelve la paradoja.
«At this point it is noteworthy to remark with respect to the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) that as soon as these humans became a multi-generational society of city-dwellers on Mars, technically these Martians would have to be considered “Extra-Terrestrials” if they were to return to Earth in spaceships at some later date (albeit contrary to their original intention in going to Mars to isolate themselves from the human timeline on Earth).» — así reconcilia su tesis con la Hipótesis Extraterrestre que había puesto en duda.
«There is empirical evidence for such a scenario actually having taken place.» — anuncia que va a pasar de la deducción a la prueba.
«While working with NASA, he was also the first scientist to have suggested that Mars once had oceans.» — presenta las credenciales de John Brandenburg.
«All other planets, except for the gas giants, have the same isotopic ratio of Xenon 129 in their atmosphere that Earth does — except for Mars.» — la anomalía isotópica marciana, que es el núcleo de la prueba.
«When the colleague looked at the data that Brandenburg was poring over, he noticed that the specific isotopic ratio of Xenon 129 in the Martian atmosphere matched, point for point, the kind of signature that one finds only at thermonuclear weapons test sites on Earth.» — la coincidencia con los polígonos de prueba terrestres.
«He found that both the isotopic ratios of thorium and potassium were also skewed from normal on Mars, and this further analysis indicated a ground zero for thermonuclear events.» — las dos firmas adicionales y la localización de la zona cero.
«Finally, since there is no impact crater at either site, a meteorite can be ruled out, since a meteorite large enough to produce the kind of radiological signature at these two sites would have produced huge craters even if it had broken into two or more pieces.» — el argumento negativo con que descarta la explicación meteorítica.
«Instead, the data was consistent with an airburst — a tactic of nuclear warfare intended to maximize casualties by detonating a weapon at some altitude above a city so that the ground will not absorb any of the blast wave.» — la explosión en altura, con su función militar explicada.
«Not incidentally, this aligns with the date of the Great Permian extinction event on Earth.» — la coincidencia de fechas que enlaza Marte con la extinción pérmica terrestre.
«Brandenburg calculated that, based on our own nuclear science and engineering as a standard, if only two thermonuclear bombs had been used, the casing of the two weapons that would have produced such isotopic signatures at these locations would each have been comparable in scale to the size and height of the Empire State Building in Manhattan.» — la magnitud calculada de las cargas, atribuida a Brandenburg.
«These are the two places on Mars where there appear to be blasted ruins of vastly ancient megalithic structures.» — la coincidencia entre zona cero y ruinas.
«Photographs of Cydonia brought back by the NASA JPL Viking Orbiter in July of 1976 showed what appeared to be a colossal face near a pentagonal pyramid that has suffered partial structural collapse, as well as a number of other nearby structures that look like buildings rather than geological formations.» — las fotografías del Viking sobre Cydonia.
«Interestingly, when two of the edges of the pentagonal “D&M Pyramid” are extended out into lines of sight across the surface of Cydonia they point directly at the Sphinx-like face and into the heart of a cluster of buildings that some have dubbed the “city complex.”» — la alineación geométrica que da por prueba de artificialidad.
«NASA JPL felt the need to blatantly lie to the press.» — su acusación al JPL, dicha sin matiz.
«When the image of the “Head” (as it was labeled) was released at a NASA JPL Press Conference, the JPL scientists claimed that another image taken by the Viking Orbiter an hour later showed that the face was “a trick of light and shadow.”» — la explicación oficial que él rechaza, citada de la propia rueda de prensa.
«NASA was taken to task by Richard C. Hoagland, who was a Science Advisor to CBS News during the Apollo program (1968–1971) and who has been the recipient of the International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science (1993) and the Ig Nobel Prize for Astronomy (1997).» — presenta a Hoagland con sus credenciales, el Ig Nobel incluido.
«It is worthy of note that Hoagland had to threaten JPL with a Congressional inquiry before they would release these frames to DiPietro and Molenaar.» — el forcejeo institucional por las imágenes.
«Brandenburg discovered that the structures in Cydonia and Utopia were built near the coastline of the Paleo-Ocean of Mars (just as Earth’s great cities are coastal).» — la coincidencia costera como argumento de urbanismo.
«It was discovered in 1928 by one Atlas Almon Mathis in room 24 of coal mine No. 5 in Heavener, Oklahoma.» — el muro de concreto hallado en una mina de carbón de Oklahoma.
«So somebody with the technology to build concrete walls that are finer than those built in the modern age was engaged in engineering on Earth around the time that Mars was nuked.» — la conclusión que extrae de ese hallazgo.
«The first was done by Ingo Swann, together with one colleague, during his work for SRI in 1975.» — la primera visión remota de Marte, atribuida a Ingo Swann y al SRI.
«Swann’s second remote viewing of Mars extended from June into July of 1984.» — la segunda sesión, con su fecha.
«But most strikingly, on the lip of the crater, high above the “city,” was a monumental pyramid-like structure whose specific purpose was difficult to ascertain save that it was hollow inside.» — el detalle que más le importa de la sesión de Swann.
«All we know is that McMoneagle followed the instruction to report on those people while they were still living on Mars.» — el encargo de la sesión de Joe McMoneagle.
«McMoneagle saw a massive, high-precision megalithic city.573 There were towering pyramids and other polygonal buildings, long paved avenues, and obelisks.» — lo que McMoneagle describe; el 573 es la llamada de nota, que el troceo deja pegada.
«Most intriguing is his description of a network of intersecting channels cut deeply into the surface of Mars, with paved roads at the bottom of them.» — los canales con caminos al fondo, que él subraya.
«He noticed that the Sun was “weird”-looking (which, to a Terran eye, it would be, since Mars is further from the Sun than Earth).» — el detalle que él lee como control interno del testimonio.
«Interestingly, not knowing that he was tasked to view “Mars, One Million Years Before Present,” McMoneagle kept getting the impression that he might be in ancient Egypt, except for the fact that the scale of the structures was too large and the people there did not look like Egyptians.» — el protocolo a ciegas y la impresión egipcia del visor.
«these people represented some further evolutionary stage of humanity as if “we mutated six times over the next 10,000 years”:» — la descripción de los marcianos como estadio evolutivo humano posterior.
«McMoneagle got the impression that these people were “one reality removed” from our world:» — la fórmula del visor que él va a interpretar.
«The impression that put McMoneagle, who is not a scientist or a philosopher, at a loss for words, namely that these people “from the future” are “one step removed from our reality” is him picking up on the fact that, if from his perspective in 1984, these would-be Martians had not yet time traveled back to Mars millions of years in the past, they may not exist in our version of reality.» — su interpretación de esa fórmula en clave de línea temporal aún no cerrada.
«They have become ghostly, and their civilization might disappear altogether — like the history of South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s first death in prison.» — la analogía con el efecto Mandela, que enlaza con su capítulo anterior.
«Now this third impression cannot be referring to finding a way to get off of the planet, because McMoneagle clearly described how the Martians had indeed constructed spacecraft and had sent one of these to go scout out another world as a possible place of refuge for their civilization.» — su lectura de la impresión de encierro del visor.
«He described the scout craft in terms that perfectly match a metallic, cigar-shaped UFO.» — la coincidencia entre la nave descrita y el ovni cigarro.
«The people back on Mars were holed up in large storm shelters just waiting for this scout ship to come back with word on whether the other place was suitable for mass relocation and colonization.» — la escena marciana del refugio, tomada del testimonio.
«The terrible storms were a consequence of some catastrophe that had taken place, which was responsible for the destruction of the Martian ecosystem.» — enlaza las tormentas con la catástrofe que ya había datado.
«In short, I think it is because the time travelers who had just nuked an entire planet to death were being quarantined.» — su hipótesis propia sobre el encierro: cuarentena impuesta desde fuera.
«The cylindrical spaceship arrived at a planet that, unlike the dying Mars, was full of vegetation — actually overgrown with monstrously huge trees and plants.» — el planeta de destino de la nave, en el relato del visor.
«We only have seasons on Earth because of the 23° divergence of the celestial equator (the equator extended into space) and the ecliptic (the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun).» — el dato astronómico con que abre su argumento sobre la Luna.
«According to Jacques Laskar, an astronomer who is Director of Research at the National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) of France, the Moon is also a stabilizer that prevents the Earth from toppling over the way that Venus and other planets» — la función estabilizadora de la Luna, atribuida a Jacques Laskar; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«Laskar showed how, without the Moon, Earth’s obliquity would be even more extreme, with a shifting of our planetary axis between 0 and 85 degrees from its current position.» — la magnitud del efecto según los modelos de Laskar.
«Furthermore, the Moon has slowed the Earth’s rate of spin, without which humans could never have inhabited its surface (even if we evolved elsewhere).» — el segundo efecto lunar, con el paréntesis que reserva su propia tesis.
«Neil F. Comins, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine, explains that without the Moon, “the Earth would be turning so fast that a day would take just eight hours and complex life would not exist yet.» — el cálculo de Comins sobre el día de ocho horas.
«This means that the artificial spherical structure was ‘astroturfed’ after it was positioned in orbit around the Earth, and that both material from the Earth and from some older planetary body was employed in surfacing it.» — su explicación de la composición mixta de la superficie lunar.
«The standard theory of the formation of the Moon is that it was created in the collision of a large planetoid (or small wandering planet) with the Earth.» — expone la teoría del gran impacto que va a refutar.
«If such a “Big Whack” had formed the Moon, the surface of the Moon would contain significant amounts of iron, but analysis has demonstrated that it does not.» — el argumento por el hierro con que la refuta.
«The primordial Earth was covered in iron that took billions of years to sink down from the mantle to the core.» — la premisa geoquímica de ese argumento.
«A review of a few sets of astonishing numbers suffices to demonstrate how preposterous such a theory actually is.» — anuncia el argumento numérico contra el origen natural de la Luna.
«But hardly anyone stops to think about how unlikely a phenomenon such as a total solar eclipse would be if the Moon had formed naturally or been captured randomly by the Earth.» — el eclipse total como coincidencia demasiado exacta, según su lectura.
«Although one side of it always faces away from us, as the Moon rotates around the Earth in its interlocked orbit, it covers 400 km per Earth day — precisely 100 times less than the Earth’s 40,000 kilometers per day.» — la proporción numérica que da por indicio de artificio.
«The Moon’s movements over the course of the year have a precisely inverse correlation with those of the Sun, so that when the Sun is at its weakest and lowest point at the Winter Solstice, the Moon is brightest and at its highest point in the sky, whereas when the Moon is at its weakest point, the Sun reaches its highest and brightest point at the Summer Solstice.» — la correlación inversa Sol-Luna, que suma a la misma serie de coincidencias.
«In November of 1969, the crew of Apollo 12 sent their lander crashing into the lunar surface before starting on their return to Earth aboard the command module.» — el experimento sísmico del Apolo 12, que es su prueba principal.
«Ken Johnston of Northrop who was at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory said that, in addition to ringing like a bell, this impact made the entire structure of the Moon “wobble… almost as though it had gigantic hydraulic damper struts inside it.”» — el testimonio de Ken Johnston sobre el bamboleo, con la cita entrecomillada de él.
«According to Dr. Sean C. Solomon, Professor of Geophysics at MIT and Director of the Terrestrial Magnetism Department at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, as well as the Principal Investigator for Carnegie’s joint research with the NASA Astrobiology Institute: “The lunar orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the moon’s gravitational field… indicating the frightening possibility that the Moon may be hollow.”» — la declaración de Sean C. Solomon, con sus credenciales completas y la cita textual.
«Because, as Carl Sagan once explained, back when he was Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, “It is well understood that a natural satellite cannot be a hollow object.”» — la frase de Sagan, que él convierte en premisa a favor de la artificialidad.
«Already in 1962, Dr. Gordon McDonald of NASA had published a paper in the Astronautics magazine wherein he argued that characteristics of the Moon’s motion gave him reason to believe that it was hollow.» — el antecedente de 1962 en la propia NASA.
«Two senior members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences were the first scientists to seriously propose that the Moon is a hollow, artificially constructed satellite that was steered into orbit.» — la prioridad soviética de la hipótesis, que él consigna.
«The Lunar Prospector magnetometer determined that the Moon has a tiny metal core, measuring roughly 420 miles (680 km) in diameter.» — el dato del Lunar Prospector, que usa para su modelo de cáscara.
«One thing that has led researchers toward the conclusion that the Moon is hollow is the fact that despite how wide some lunar craters are, in some instances spanning even 100 miles in diameter, none of the lunar craters are ever more than a few miles deep — maybe 5 or 6 miles deep at most.» — el argumento por la poca profundidad de los cráteres.
«According to scientists at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, what we ought to have expected to find, taking into account the specific gravity of the Moon, were craters that are tens of miles deep, depending on the size of the meteorite or asteroid that impacted to create them.» — el cálculo esperado según la fuente soviética.
«Most disturbing of all is the fact that the basins of the largest lunar craters are not concave, as would be expected — they are convex!» — el rasgo que da por más difícil de explicar, con el signo de admiración de la fuente.
«The lunar craters are so shallow despite how wide they are, because any object impacting the Moon strikes the impenetrable, spherical metal casing of the space station after passing through the shock-absorbing coating that is only a few miles deep.» — su explicación: la carcasa metálica bajo una capa amortiguadora.
«There are huge variations in the gravity of the Moon from place to place; these are called “mascons” because it supposed that discrete concentrations of mass beneath the surface of the Moon are causing these regional intensifications of gravity.» — los *mascons*, que él leerá como estructuras y no como concentraciones de masa.
«We have records of UFOs observed on or around the Moon through telescopes, which go back two or three centuries, and were kept by some of the world’s greatest astronomers, such as Sir John Hershel and J. H. Schroeter.» — la antigüedad del registro telescópico, con los nombres tal como la fuente los imprime.
«One group of UFOs was sighted simultaneously in both Illinois and Paris on August 7th, 1869.» — el avistamiento simultáneo, que usa como control de fiabilidad.
«Professor Swift of Mattoon, Illinois reported this in the Journal of The Franklin Institute, and it was also reported in the journal Les Mondes by Professors Hines and Zentmayer, who had witnessed it in Paris.» — las dos publicaciones científicas que registran el caso.
«On account of their pattern of movement, he assumed with late nineteenth century naiveté that they were migrating swarms of giant insects or some other life form.» — la explicación de época, que él descarta por ingenua.
«These sightings are not randomly or evenly distributed over the whole side of the Moon that faces Earth.» — el patrón de distribución que da por significativo.
«Rather certain areas seem to be hotspots of activity, such as the craters Plato, Aristarchus, and Timocharis.» — los tres cráteres que nombra como focos.
«We can only imagine how many unobserved “luminous phenomena” there were on the dark side of the Moon during this same period.» — la inferencia sobre la cara oculta, marcada como imaginación.
«If this were somehow a freak of geology, or some extremely long and narrow meteorite that just so happened to lodge itself into the surface of the Moon in a perfectly vertical fashion, other meteors that are part of the Moon’s constant meteoric rain ought to have pulverized it by now.» — el argumento con que sostiene la artificialidad del obelisco llamado *the Shard*.
«Sergeant Karl Wolfe of the US Air Force was a specialist in photographic reconnaissance technology who had a Top Secret Crypto clearance while working with the tactical air command at Langley AFB in Virginia.» — presenta al sargento Karl Wolfe con su acreditación.
«These Lunar Orbital photographs depicted, in great detail, a colossal city-sized “base” on the dark side of the Moon.» — lo que Wolfe dice haber visto en los mosaicos fotográficos.
«Sergeant Wolfe, whose expertise was photographic reconnaissance, says that even back in those days he had seen satellite photographs that were so high resolution that you could read the license plate of a car in them.» — el punto de comparación técnica del testigo.
«The resolution of these Lunar Orbiter photographs of the city on the dark side of the Moon reminded him of those types of photographs in their level of detail, and he had repeatedly wondered throughout the years why NASA photographs of the Moon — or at least those released to the public — are so low-resolution by comparison.» — el argumento sobre la baja resolución de lo publicado por la NASA.
«In February of 1975, Ingo Swann was contacted by a certain “Mr. Axelrod” who brought him into a remote viewing program that was even more highly classified than the one that he had been working with at SRI with funding from the CIA.» — el reclutamiento de Ingo Swann para el programa lunar de visión remota.
«Swann saw geometrically shaped buildings of various sizes, many of them domed.» — lo que Swann describe en la cara oculta.
«There were also obelisks, like the Washington Monument, which he said appeared to have no function (in other words, he got the impression that they were decorative or purely monumental).» — los obeliscos sin función, con la glosa que el propio autor intercala.
«Swann described many items relevant to mining operations. These included huge stadium-sized floodlights set up on metal rigs inside craters, which would produce a hazy greenish glow.» — la instalación minera del relato.
«Swann even witnessed the actual mining of a mountainside by a group of men who appeared to be stark naked slave laborers.» — el trabajo esclavo, que es el punto más grave del testimonio.
«He saw “net”-like structures over certain craters that turned them into “houses” where these unfortunates lived.» — el alojamiento de esos trabajadores según el mismo relato.
«The most impressive of the structures described by Swann was a tower that he compared to the height of the Secretariat Building at the United Nations in New York (which is 39 stories high).» — la escala de la torre, con la comparación del testigo.
«The lunar landscape was crisscrossed by straight roads that extended for miles.» — la red de caminos rectos del relato.
«There were also numerous bridges, one of which was very large but reached out without landing anywhere.» — el puente que no llega a ninguna parte, detalle que él conserva sin explicar.
«After all, Swann saw numerous saucer-shaped vehicles — featuring porthole windows — parked on the sides of craters or stored inside caves or “in what looked like airfield hangers.”» — los vehículos discoidales estacionados, con la grafía *hangers* de la fuente.
«Axelrod also took Swann to a lake in Alaska where, during a nighttime stakeout, the two of them were able to observe a large diamond-shaped UFO draw up a very large amount of water from the lake.» — el episodio de Alaska, que enlaza el programa con la observación directa.
«On their flight to the Moon, Buzz Aldrin and others in the crew of Apollo 11 report that they were trailed by a UFO that, depending on the angle it was viewed from, appeared to morph from a cylinder to an open book-type “L” shape.» — el avistamiento del Apolo 11, atribuido a la propia tripulación.
«Chatelain claimed that certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a portion of Earth-Moon dialogue that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff.» — la interrupción de la transmisión, atribuida a Maurice Chatelain con verbo de decir.
«The man has eleven patents to his name, including for an automatic radar landing system used in the Ranger and Surveyor Moon flights.» — las credenciales de Chatelain, que él expone para sostener el testimonio.
«The Apollo astronauts were subjected to extensive hypnosis sessions wherein they were made to forget their actual experiences on the Moon.» — la afirmación más fuerte de esa sección, dicha sin atenuante.
«Most of the Apollo astronauts become very disturbed when asked probing questions that require detailed recollection of what they experienced, beyond what they are supposed to remember of their designated tasks.» — la conducta que da por indicio de esa amnesia inducida.
«This was true even of Edgar Mitchell, who had a block so strong that it could not be removed by hypnotic regression.» — el caso de Edgar Mitchell dentro de ese argumento.
«On Friday, November 14th, 1969, observatories in Europe began reporting that their telescopes sighted two bright flashing “unknown objects” apparently “following” the NASA spacecraft.» — la observación europea independiente, que él usa como corroboración externa.
«According to Ken Johnston, of Northrop and NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory, who was the first person to receive images back from the Moon before they underwent any processing, Apollo 14 photographed a cluster of UFOs in a crater on the dark side of the Moon.» — el testimonio de Johnston sobre las imágenes sin procesar.
«He was then ordered to destroy all of the negatives of photographs taken on this mission and all other missions during his tenure at the LRL.» — la orden de destrucción de negativos según ese testimonio.
«Yes, NASA actually destroyed the original negatives of their Apollo mission photographs.» — la afirmación repetida por cuenta propia, con el énfasis de la fuente.
«Obviously so that altered copies of the photographs could not be compared against ones re-developed from the original negatives.» — el motivo que atribuye a esa destrucción.
«Moreover, they were explicitly instructed to photograph this UFO and did so at close range, but NASA has never released these images to the public.» — la instrucción y la retención de las imágenes.
«China is about to embark on manned exploration of the Moon and Mars. The Chinese are not about to allow themselves to be humiliated on the Moon. Nothing is worse than humiliation from the perspective of Chinese culture» — abre su argumento sobre China con una lectura cultural de la humillación.
«Furthermore, on March 10, 2021, Russia announced that it will be collaborating with China to build a joint Russo-Chinese space station around the Moon. (Ironically, this would, in effect, be a space station orbiting a space station» — el anuncio ruso-chino, con la ironía que él añade por su tesis de la Luna artificial.
«This level of Russian cooperation with China, not just in space but specifically regarding manned exploration of the Moon, means that Russia has handed over its dossier on the Apollo encounters and its own lunar orbital photography of the “Ancestor” city on the dark side of the Moon to China» — la inferencia sobre el traspaso del expediente ruso.
«It is no coincidence that China sent its first unmanned lunar rover to land on the dark side of the Moon, and plant the Chinese flag there» — el alunizaje chino en la cara oculta leído como señal.
«Given its Confucian worldview, China would never have the audacity to attempt manned lunar exploration, beginning in 2025, unless the Chinese authorities had already reached an agreement with the “Ancestors” — i.e. the time travelers of the Nordic Breakaway Civilization» — su tesis del pacto chino con los Ancestros.
«Why would the Nordics make a deal with China? Because China is the Ancestor-worshipping culture par excellence. Filial piety is the fundamental value of Chinese civilization» — la razón del pacto según él: el culto a los antepasados.
«The deeply entrenched collectivism of traditional Chinese civilization, reinforced by the modern legacy of Maoism, will ensure that, as other advanced societies unravel and collapse into violent chaos, China will endure as a beacon of stability, discipline, efficiency, and order» — el pronóstico geopolítico que deriva de ahí.
«Unlike the Western and Islamic worlds, or for that matter even Russia, which will be devastated by the collapse of the Abrahamic “revealed” religions after the UFOs come out into the open, the Confucian belief system that holds together Chinese society will remain intact» — el desenlace religioso que anuncia, y que abre el capítulo siguiente.
«Such a scenario would suggest that the time travelers eventually failed to isolate themselves from the historical continuum of human life on Earth that led to the development of the Breakaway Civilization.» — el fracaso del aislamiento como bisagra del capítulo religioso.
«Nor was the nuclear war on Mars the last use of such apocalyptic weapons by these gods and titans.» — anuncia que el arma nuclear reaparecerá en el relato bíblico.
«While it appears that Antarctica may have initially been chosen as the base of operations for the time travelers because of its relative isolation from other landmasses where the Nordics supposed that their human ancestors would eventually evolve, something seems to have gone wrong along the way and this relative isolation and non-interference was abandoned in favor of a direct management of human life across the entire planet.» — el paso del aislamiento a la administración directa de la humanidad, con dos marcas de conjetura suyas.
«Fort was the first great researcher of the paranormal in general.» — el lugar que le da a Charles Fort, la fuente más invocada del libro.
«His contributions to the fringe field of paranormal studies was so fundamental and foundational that the term “Fortean phenomena” has come to be synonymous with “paranormal phenomena.”» — la medida de esa influencia.
«It will be argued that this is what yielded the so-called “Reptilians” of the Close Encounter phenomenon, who are more escapees of a primordial Frankenstein’s laboratory than they are “aliens.”» — los reptilianos como producto de laboratorio, no como especie.
«The plural is employed here because it appears that these engineers also organized various degrees of subhuman hominids and more human-like races that they designed into a hierarchically stratified caste system, a system which was preserved most faithfully by Hindus in India.» — el sistema de castas como herencia de esa ingeniería; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Even from the start, there was a conflict within this group, between the Devas proper, or “the gods,” and a group of rebels.» — la escisión entre devas y ashuras como conflicto originario.
«It was actually one amongst this group of Ashuras, or “titans,” who genetically engineered humanity, albeit, initially, in cooperation with the gods.» — la autoría de la ingeniería humana, con el matiz de la cooperación inicial.
«He becomes the “Satan” (i.e. Adversary) of Abrahamic Revelation when he leads a full-scale “titanic” (i.e. demonic) revolt against the other gods (angels), mainly in protest over their tyrannical enslavement of human beings and their treatment of people, who were really his own children, as if they were herd animals or beasts of burden.» — la versión completa de su Satán prometeico, rebelde por causa humana.
«More importantly, Fort ventures a handful of revolutionary theses about this phenomenon that predate the speculations of modern UFO researchers by half a century or more.» — la prioridad cronológica que reivindica para Fort.
«The first two of them will be the points of departure for the sections of this chapter, and the next three will be elaborated upon in the following (and final) chapter.» — el reparto de las cinco tesis de Fort entre sus dos últimos capítulos.
«Bible and its Apocrypha this takes the form of the story of the “fallen angels” who, among other means of resistance, interbreed with certain mortal women to raise the stock of humans by further hybridizing them with their “godly” progenitors.» — los ángeles caídos leídos como acto de resistencia; el tramo arranca donde la frase reanuda tras el corte de plana.
«In the Sanskrit scriptures of India we see that the Devas and the Ashuras are described in terms that unmistakably identify them as the pilots of UFOs in the context of modern» — la identificación de devas y ashuras con los pilotos; la frase sigue en el mismo párrafo.
«Sometimes they even deploy nuclear weapons from their Vimanas, destroying cities populated by humans in much the same way as Sodom and Gomorrah are nuked by the Chief of the Elohim in the Bible.» — los *vimanas* y Sodoma leídos como el mismo tipo de arma.
«The second thesis of Fort was that the UFO pilots are the angels and demons referred to in the Bible and other ancient religious scriptures of mankind.» — la segunda tesis de Fort, que estructura el capítulo.
«In other words, they have been worshipped as our gods and that these gods are tyrannical “celestial Tamerlanes” who have been responsible for the most brutal wars on this planet.» — la fórmula de Fort sobre los *Tamerlanes celestes*.
«From the Tower of Babel, through the founding of Israel by Moses and Joshua, up to the Close Encounters and abduction of Ezekiel, the “revelations” foundational to the Abrahamic religions all come from out of UFOs.» — su tesis sobre el origen de las revelaciones abrahámicas.
«That is what a close analysis of scripture demonstrates, when it is read in light of even basic knowledge about the phenomenology of Close Encounters.» — el método que declara para leer la Escritura.
«The problem with both books is that their authors do not examine the Close Encounters that produced the “revelations” of the biblical prophets in a way that considers the content of their messages from an ethical standpoint.» — su reproche a Jessup y a Downing: leen el fenómeno y no juzgan el mensaje.
«This results in a bizarre, almost pathological acceptance of the fact that the Bible was “revealed” by UFO pilots who have massively intervened in human history, together with an acceptance of these interventions as “divine” and “godly.”» — el defecto que les imputa: aceptar la intervención y llamarla divina.
«That is also true of the prophet Muhammad, whose wars of conquest and forcible conversion were mandated by the same class of beings manipulating contemporary Contactees and abductees.» — extiende la tesis al islam, sin atenuante.
«This manipulation not only caused the medieval dark age, it continued through it, with the Black Plague having been a biowarfare attempt to delay the revitalization of culture that eventually did manifest as the Renaissance.» — la peste negra como arma biológica dentro de su relato.
«The Renaissance was only possible because a battle was hard fought behind the scenes of our history, but also dramatically in the skies over European cities, between factions that are either for or against human progress and self-determination.» — el Renacimiento como resultado de una guerra entre facciones no humanas.
«Striking Renaissance-era newspaper accounts and woodcut images preserve the memory of these incidents of UFOs battling openly in skies over Germany and Switzerland.» — las gacetas y xilografías renacentistas como su documentación de esa guerra.
«Finally, what is most appalling is that a comparative study of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind strongly suggests that the control system set up by these beings extends into the “afterlife” and employs a Psychotronic technology that can manipulate human souls as energetic and informational structures.» — el sistema de control extendido al más allá, que es su tesis más extrema del capítulo.
«We are manipulated after death and made to forget our past lives, just as abductees are made to forget their abductions (until they undergo regression hypnosis).» — el paralelo entre el olvido de la abducción y el de las vidas pasadas.
«Fort continues: “And one or more of them wheel-shaped things a goodly number of square miles in area.”» — cita a Fort sobre las *superconstrucciones* celestes.
«Fort answers his own question in terrifying terms, explaining that they should no less be expected to make “contact” with us any more than we would be expected to engage in “diplomacy” with the chattel animals that we breed on farms and butcher in slaughterhouses.» — la respuesta de Fort a por qué no hay contacto, en la exposición del autor.
«Fort goes on to suggest that a select few from amongst our population, who we mistake as an occulted “elite” operating through secret societies, have always acted as managerial overseers of the “untouchable” rabble that we are, on behalf of the true administrators of the colonial Empire that claims sovereign jurisdiction over this planet.» — la elite humana como capataz y no como dueña, según Fort.
«The overseers in a concentration camp or the wardens in a prison would only seem like an “elite” to inmates who had never known, or even heard about, life outside its walls.» — la imagen con que ilustra esa jerarquía.
«Fort draws an analogy to the British Raj system in India: “We think of India — the millions of natives who are ruled by a small band of esoterics — only because they receive support and direction from — somewhere else — or from England.”» — la analogía colonial de Fort, citada textualmente con sus guiones.
«According to these creation “myths” of Sumer, the Anunaki, or “those who from heaven to earth came,” were the creators and gods of mankind.» — la etimología sumeria que da del nombre; la grafía *Anunaki* con una sola *n* es sistemática en la obra.
«If, as Chapters 4 and 5 argued, the time-traveling Master Race built the Moon around 250 million years before the present, and were responsible for the Permian Extinction Event, then they would also have been responsible for the evolution of the dinosaurs.» — el encadenamiento que hace de su propio argumento previo.
«The Canadian paleontologist and geologist Dale Russell named it Stenonychosaurus when he discovered it in the 1970s, but the species has since been renamed the Troodon.» — el Troodón, que va a usar como modelo de los reptilianos.
«The Troodon’s Encephalisation Quotient (EQ), or the ratio of the weight of its brain to that of related species with the same body weight, is six times that of any other dinosaur.» — el dato con que sostiene su singularidad.
«Unlike other dinosaurs, the man-sized raptor also had binocular vision and an opposable thumb.» — los dos rasgos que le importan para la analogía con lo humano.
«Russell theorized that, had the KT extinction event not taken place, these features would have allowed the Troodon to develop technology and evolve into a “dinosauroid” who might have even supplanted Man by hunting our mammal predecessors.» — la hipótesis del dinosauroide, atribuida a Dale Russell.
«In 1982, Russell worked with Ron Seguin to develop an anatomically compelling model of this hypothetical intelligent, upright “dinosauroid.”» — el modelo anatómico de 1982, que es su puente hacia los reptilianos de la ufología.
«There are some traces in the Sumerian texts to suggest that before deciding that a being as close as possible to the Anunaki would make for the most viable slave, the gods ran a veritable Frankenstein’s laboratory, experimenting with various types of hybrid beings that they could subordinate as forced laborers.» — el laboratorio de híbridos que lee en los textos sumerios.
«The Sumerians tell us that Ea was the older of the two rival brothers, but somehow he lost his original dominion over the Earth (which is still reflected in his title “Enki”) to his young half-brother Enlil.» — la rivalidad Enki-Enlil, que es el eje de su lectura del Génesis.
«So Enlil decided to send various pestilences, droughts, and famines to cut men down.» — el papel que da a Enlil como exterminador.
«Enki breaks ranks with the Anunaki to warn mankind of this coming flood through Utnapishtim, who is tasked with preparing an ark to preserve various animals, craft, and types of knowledge that will allow human civilization to continue after the floodwaters subside.» — la deserción de Enki, que es su figura del benefactor rebelde.
«In the biblical version of this story, which is written from the perspective of Enlil, namely Yahweh, the tyrant self-servingly twists the story to make it as if he was the one who chose a human, namely Noah, to preserve civilization after the Flood.» — la identificación Enlil-Yahvé y la Biblia como versión interesada.
«The first thing that we will notice by carefully attending to the text of the Tanakh or Old Testament, rather than the history of subsequent interpretations that have overlaid and occluded it, is that the so-called ‘God’ of this scripture is not a single omnipotent and omniscient deity.» — su método de lectura del Tanaj y la conclusión que anuncia.
«There are numerous passages throughout the Old Testament where it becomes clear that the ‘Lord’ or Adonai of the Israelites is simply the chieftain of a band of gods, comparable to Zeus as the leader of the Olympian pantheon of the Greeks or Indra in the Vedic religion.» — el Señor bíblico reducido a jefe de banda, con sus dos paralelos.
«Most translations obscure the distinction between the creator, who is the Lord of the Elohim or “the gods,” and the gods and goddesses in whose image men and women were created by translating Elohim as ‘God’ (singular), whereas it is really plural in the text, and by conflating this ‘God’ with “He,” which refers to the Lord (Adonai) or chieftain of the Elohim.» — el argumento filológico sobre el plural de *Elohim*.
«The implication of the statement that mankind was wrought in the image of the Elohim is that we have the potential to be gods.» — la consecuencia que extrae de la imagen y semejanza.
«In fact, the second passage in Genesis, where it is very clear that we are dealing not with an all-knowing or all-powerful ‘God’ but with gods who are ruled by a single sovereign, has to do with the first step taken by Man — or rather, by woman — to realize this godlike potential.» — su lectura del Edén como primer paso hacia esa potencia divina, con la corrección sobre Eva.
«Rather, “You are not going to die,” the serpent explains, “but God knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like divine beings [Elohim] who know good and evil.”» — cita el pasaje de la serpiente con el corchete que restituye *Elohim*.
«The Lord’s reaction to this supposed transgression of seeking knowledge and defying enforced ignorance is also very revealing of the all-too-human character and motivations of the Elohim.» — su lectura de la reacción divina como demasiado humana.
«Most revealing, however, are these lines from Genesis 3:22–24: “And the chief Elohim (or: the leader of the gods) said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!’ So the leader of the gods banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.» — el pasaje que da por decisivo, con su propia traducción entre paréntesis.
«This god is jealous and fearful that the men, who have been created in the image of the gods that he rules, might actually live up to their godlike potential — in other words, that they might become his equal.» — el motivo que atribuye a la expulsión: el miedo a la igualdad.
«Is there any empirical evidence that we were genetically engineered by these “gods” of Eden? Yes, there is actually quite a bit of evidence for that.» — el giro del argumento teológico al genético.
«The more advanced that our own genetic science and technology have become, with recent inventions such as CRISPR/Cas9, the more easily scientists are able to detect indications of the use of comparable technology to produce the evolutionary leap that differentiated humans from ape-like early hominins.» — el criterio con que lee el genoma: reconocer la propia técnica en él.
«How then was it possible for eighteen letters to change in about 6 million years? Geneticists do not know.» — la pregunta genética que deja sin respuesta ortodoxa.
«Dr. Katherine Pollard of the Gladstone Institute, whose expertise is in statistical and computational analysis of genomics, says, “Statistically speaking, the probability that a highly conserved DNA sequence will change multiple times over 6 million years of evolution is close to zero.”» — la declaración de Katherine Pollard, citada con su adscripción.
«According to Marta Florio, a molecular and cellular biologist at the Max Planck Institute, this gene, as it appears in humans, has been spliced from out of a longer genetic sequence, duplicated, and then re-inserted into our genome.» — el mecanismo descrito por Marta Florio, que él lee como corte y pegado deliberado.
«Another example is miR-941, a gene that emerged from out of “non-coding sequences” (aka “junk DNA”) about 780,000 years ago to give us (and Neanderthals and Denisovans) much of our distinctly human decision-making and language-enabling abilities.» — el segundo caso genético, con su fecha.
«Martin Taylor of the University of Edinburgh, who was on the team that discovered this gene and its function, confesses that this gene “sprang from nowhere at a time when our species was undergoing dramatic changes.”» — la frase de Martin Taylor que él subraya.
«Unfortunately, we have no samples of human DNA that are older than 430,000 years before the present. If we did, geneticists could probably identify exactly when and in what order these changes were made.» — el límite del material disponible, declarado como tal.
«Perhaps samples cryogenically preserved in the ice sheet of Antarctica will someday afford us an opportunity to do so.» — la salida que imagina, enlazada con su Antártida atlante.
«The single most compelling piece of evidence for this is the fusion of chromosome 2 in the human genome.» — la prueba que da por más fuerte de todo el capítulo.
«But in the case of humans, this chromosomal fusion seems to have played a key role in differentiating us from apes, with the specific genes affected being those associated with cerebral development, the gonads, and other tissues and organs that set us apart from primates.» — por qué esa fusión, que en otros casos es defecto, aquí es diferencia de especie.
«Even more interestingly, evolutionary biologists who have studied this problem theorize that the population in which this change took place was initially highly isolated from the rest of hominins on the planet.» — el aislamiento de la población afectada, que él leerá como laboratorio.
«One of the most disturbing aspects of this genetic engineering is that it does not appear to have been aimed at the production of a single “human” type.» — abre el estrato racial del argumento; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«In fact, although the political motivation remains in place to deny this conclusion, evolutionary biology and genetics has now effectively validated the concept of significant “racial” differences among humans.» — voz de la obra; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnons had significantly different morphological and cognitive or psychological characteristics, including in their capacities and capabilities, as determined by genetic variance on a sub-species level.» — voz de la obra, premisa del argumento anterior; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«We know that there are huge differences in intelligence and other abilities at the sub-species level when comparing wolves, greyhounds, poodles, and pugs.» — la analogía canina con que sostiene esa premisa; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«By no means is the recognition of this grim historical fact an endorsement of it.» — el deslinde que él mismo pone en medio de esa exposición.
«Nevertheless, we know that our Cro-Magnon ancestors, who account for the majority of the genome of Homo sapiens sapiens, interbred both with Neanderthals and with Denisovans.» — el dato genético en que apoya su concepto de raza.
«“Race” is a concept that accurately describes the differentiation in human population based on whether there is a significant contribution to the genetic code of that ethnic group from one or another non-Cro-Magnon subspecies of Homo.» — la definición de raza que propone; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«These differences are not limited to IQ, where for example Nordic whites and East Asians are separated from native black Africans by at least 30 IQ points;» — voz de la obra; entra literal, sin condensar, por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Again, this is likely due to slight genetic variance in divergent degrees of inheritance from extinct sub-species of Homo, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans.» — la causa que atribuye a esas diferencias; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«According to Savitri Devi, in this final and darkest age of the Hindu cycle of time, the Kali Yuga, there are three types of men.» — abre la exposición de la tipología de Savitri Devi, atribuida a ella.
«She considers Genghis Khan, who to her mind had no real ideology or higher aspiration, as a perfect example of such a man.» — el ejemplo que ella da del primer tipo, según su exposición.
«Interestingly, she claims that Akhenaton was also such a “Man above Time,” without the capacity to understand that his solar theology belonged to the bygone Golden Age and that an attempt to reinstitute it peacefully in our epoch would end in disaster and martyrdom.» — el segundo tipo con Akenatón como ejemplo, siempre atribuido a ella.
«Whether or not Adolf Hitler himself actually “intended the revival of the Aryan caste system on a global basis” or whether that was more the aim of Himmler and other adepts steeped in the Sanskrit tradition, who were in the Reich’s leadership with him, is beside the point.» — su reserva sobre la atribución a Hitler, y el desplazamiento hacia Himmler y los adeptos del sánscrito.
«Orthodox Hindus think that the undermining of this system over time led to decreased contact between humans of the upper two castes and “higher beings” such as the Devas — who want to make sure that there is a social pyramid for their vimanas to land on, as it were, so that they are at more than an arm’s length from the dregs of humanity.» — la casta como plataforma de aterrizaje de los devas; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«These Devas awed mere humans by regularly demonstrating their siddhis, or occult superpowers, such as telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychokinesis, levitation, teleportation, both of themselves and of objects, travel through solid objects while embodied, astral projection, invisibility, shape-shifting, long-distance telepathic control of others, and possession of the bodies of others.» — el catálogo de *siddhis* que atribuye a los devas, que es el repertorio entero de la parapsicología del libro.
«Their lifespans are vastly greater than that of humans, although Sanskrit texts also claim that in remote antiquity humans had significantly longer lifespans as well.» — la longevidad y el matiz sobre los humanos antiguos.
«Empirical study of hundreds of cases of people with past life recollection, by researchers such as the late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, suggests that when it comes to reincarnation, out of sight is out of mind.» — trae a Ian Stevenson y su casuística de vidas pasadas.
«People tend not to reincarnate in geographical places that are unfamiliar to them, or amongst people with whom they have had no connection during their lives.» — la regularidad que deduce de esa casuística.
«Sanskrit texts clearly describe the Devas as “organized in a military hierarchy” and they “engage in politics and warfare” with “their battles with lower forces” often having “an impact on life on earth.”» — los devas como jerarquía militar, con las frases entrecomilladas de su fuente.
«We know this because there are entire Shastras in Sanskrit devoted to the description of vimanas and their operation, as best as ancient Hindus could reconstruct that from their direct observations.» — los *shastras* sobre vimanas como manuales técnicos, en su lectura.
«(Since contemporary scientists claim not to understand the physics and engineering of UFOs, it is only fair that ancient Hindus be cut some slack in their speculations.)» — el paréntesis con que defiende esas descripciones antiguas.
«There are even accounts of nuclear weapons having been used by the Devas, as in this passage from Mahabharata:» — introduce la cita del *Mahabharata* como registro de arma nuclear.
«Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the American atomic bomb, thought that, when taken together with ancient vitrified desert ‘glass’ and tektites,746 passages such as these from the Sanskrit scriptures were evidence for nuclear wars in antiquity» — el aval de Oppenheimer, con la llamada de nota que el troceo deja pegada.
«The vastly ancient ruins of the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in the Indian subcontinent are actually more vitrified than any other sites that have hitherto been» — Mohenjo-Daro y Harappa como sitios vitrificados; la frase sigue en el mismo párrafo.
«The majority of the battles of the Devas are with a group from among their own ranks who rebelled against the hierarchical “divine” order of the Cosmos.» — la guerra civil divina como estructura de su cosmología.
«Not incidentally, Zarathustra valorizes one of these Ashuras as the “Lord of Wisdom” and pits him against the whole host of the Devas, who he demonizes.» — la inversión zoroastriana del panteón, que es su eje iranio.
«In other words, he inverts the Aryan pantheon, and the terms in which he describes Mazdai Ahura, or “the Wise Titan,” are almost identical to the defining qualities of the titan Prometheus, especially his forethought (Greek promethea, Avestan Spenta Mainyu) and his association with fire, his encouragement of civilization and cultivation, and his call for humans to rise up in rebellion against the tyrannical, manipulative, and deceptive “gods.”» — la identificación Ahura Mazda-Prometeo, con las grafías *Mazdai Ahura* y *promethea* tal como la fuente las imprime.
«from the Orthodox Hindu or Vedic perspective, the Ashuras are the “demonic” beings who “oppose the divine order” and are “atheistic” in the sense of rejecting the idea of Brahman or the existence of a Supreme Being, who sanctifies this putatively “divine order” — including the evaluation of karma and its institutionalization in the caste system.» — la posición védica sobre los asuras, expuesta como ajena.
«The plot of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata is woven around an account of an “invasion” of the Earth by Ashuras, who attack Deva cities from huge vimanas, although from the perspective of the titans this was probably considered an attempt to liberate humans from their Deva overlords.» — su relectura del *Mahabharata* desde el bando de los titanes.
«Interestingly, the Bhagavata Purana describes how the Buddha of an earlier age, preceding Gautama Buddha, was sent in order to mollify the Ashuras with his mesmerizing teaching so that they would abandon their war on the Devas and their rebellion against the whole “divine” order:» — el pasaje purático que usa contra el budismo.
«This is a fascinating Vedic critique of Buddhism.» — así califica el pasaje que acaba de citar.
«The best that can be said about the Buddha Dharma (which I have written about extensively elsewhere750 ) is that it rejects putative religious “revelations” from the Devas as deceptive manipulations.» — lo que concede al budismo, con la remisión a sus otros libros.
«By opting out, it leaves our world in the hands of the Devas and does not dare to challenge the system of oppression that they tyrannically claim is a “divine” order.» — su objeción al nirvana como abandono del mundo.
«In this sense, Buddhism is also a religion fundamentally shaped by the Close Encounter phenomenon, albeit as a nihilistic reaction to the suffering that the UFO pilots, pretending to be “gods,” create for human beings and also for titans» — el budismo dentro de su misma tesis, como reacción y no como excepción.
«This is something that utterly escapes William Bramley in his otherwise brilliant book The Gods of Eden, when he mistakenly classifies Buddhism as a “Maverick Religion” as compared to “Custodial” revealed religions, among which he atrociously lumps the teaching of Zarathustra (much more of a “maverick” than Gautama Buddha) together with the Abrahamic faiths — simply because it is militant in its rebellion against Devas.» — su objeción nombrada a William Bramley y a la clasificación de *The Gods of Eden*.
«The “Maya” referred to in the passage above is Maya Dânava, an Ashura known for his engineering prowess and ingenuity.» — identifica al ingeniero de los asuras, con la grafía de la fuente.
«There are even cases where Ashuras make alliances with certain human kings, as their designated viceroys, and build a vimana for their use in warfare against the Devas and the cities that they use as strongholds to maintain their control over the Earth.» — la alianza titán-rey humano, que es su modelo de la transferencia de técnica.
«Listen to this account of the vimana that Maya Dânava, in a very Promethean fashion, built and gifted to King Shâlva for an aerial assault on Lord Krishna’s city of Dvârkâ.» — el episodio del vimana regalado, leído en clave prometeica.
«Newspapers of record such as The Globe (London) and The New York Times reported on these finds.» — la prensa de referencia como aval de los hallazgos de gigantes.
«These have been extensively studied, but the paleontological and anthropological reconstruction of “Boskop Man” has been largely suppressed by the scientific establishment by being given the silent treatment» — el silenciamiento que denuncia sobre el hombre de Boskop.
«The larger, more evolved, braincase of these people also gave them very strange faces.» — el rasgo craneal que va a desarrollar.
«The Boskop remains found thus far date from 30,000 to 10,000 years before the present.» — la datación que da de esos restos.
«The problem — from the perspective of Darwinian orthodoxy — is that Boskop Man’s skeletal remains are indistinguishable from that of a modern human, except for his skull, which exemplifies a stage of evolution as far into the future beyond Homo sapiens as Homo sapiens is beyond Homo erectus» — el hombre de Boskop como estadio futuro, que es su tesis en el capítulo.
«adult morphological neoteny increases over the course of evolutionary history.» — la neotenia como criterio evolutivo que aplica al cráneo de Boskop.
«The Boskop’s nose, cheek, and jawbones are all childlike as compared to ours,» — el detalle morfológico de esa neotenia.
«I predict that if, or when, genetic material is recovered from “Boskops” and a comparative genomic analysis is carried out, it will be found that “Boskops” are further evolved Nordics, who engendered the Nordic/Aryan race in the first place, by breeding with Cro-Magnons.» — su predicción explícita sobre el genoma de Boskop; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«Based on a correlation between cranial size and IQ, the IQ of the average Boskop would be 149 — which is genius level, as compared to modern man.» — la cifra que deriva del tamaño craneal; entra literal por lo dicho en Notas de carga.
«These calculations are based on the overall brain size differential, but it may be the case that it is the difference in size between their prefrontal cortex and ours that really ought to be the basis for such a projection — since this cortex is responsible for higher cognitive functioning.» — la salvedad metodológica que él mismo pone a esa cifra.
«It has been speculated that their greater cognitive function would also have included highly branching brain paths that afforded them a continuous living memory of their past, as compared to our fragmentary and dim recollections.» — la memoria continua que se les atribuye, marcada como especulación.
«More importantly, but relatedly, Boskop brains could have thought much further ahead with much greater clarity than we can.» — la previsión ampliada, que enlaza con su Prometeo de la *promethea*.
«In any case, let us return to the giants of the Bible.» — el giro con que vuelve del paréntesis paleontológico al texto bíblico.
«What is clear is that some among the Elohim rebelled against the Lord by spawning an earthly civilization that was superhuman and, from the Lord’s perspective, preoccupied with wicked and evil deeds.» — la rebelión de los Elohim y el punto de vista desde el que se la juzga malvada.
«In fact, the Lord finds the godlike empowerment of mankind on the Earth so offensive that he “regrets” the entire Creation and decides to wipe it clean with the deluge that Noah is chosen to survive.» — el diluvio como respuesta al empoderamiento humano.
«What this mysterious passage means is made clear in the Book of Enoch, where this prophet is taken up and away into the heavens in one of the chariots of the Elohim and is shown apocalyptic scenes of the future judgment of the world.» — el *Libro de Enoc* como clave del pasaje del Génesis.
«It is made clear that the gods who breed with mortal women are an army of angels who revolt against the Lord and attempt to enlighten humans by teaching them all kinds of arts and sciences.» — los ángeles rebeldes como maestros de artes y ciencias, según el mismo libro.
«It is probably with a view to this antediluvian liberation of women that the Bible specifically targets female practice of the occult arts in that famous injunction in Exodus 22:17 that was used by those in Europe and America who burned witches at the stake for centuries: ‘’Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.”» — enlaza la prohibición de la hechicería femenina con la caza de brujas europea.
«There is a war between the hybrid human civilization that the rebel angels spawn and the army of the Lord, and these giants lose.» — el desenlace de esa guerra según su lectura.
«Later in European history, John Milton develops this theme of war between God and the rebel leader Lucifer in Paradise Lost.» — la línea que traza hasta *El paraíso perdido* de Milton.
«the conclusion that Charles Fort drew from his research was that all of our dominant religious belief systems — and the political power structures that they undergird — were also shaped by these manipulative and warlike beings.» — la conclusión de Fort que él adopta como suya en todo el capítulo.
«The Bible is not “myth” in the sense of fiction.» — el estatuto que le da al texto bíblico.
«What the reductively ‘scientific’ minds of the rationalistic modern age have dismissed as biblical “superstition” is going to be “rehabilitated” in the near future, Fort says, when a new science validates the kinds of phenomena that were used by the “gods” or “angels” to awe people into submission in ancient or medieval times.» — la rehabilitación de la superstición por una ciencia futura, atribuida a Fort.
«Fort says, “I think that we’re fished for” in the sense of being “hooked” by someone operating from beyond the surface of the medium that we take to be the upper boundary of our reality.» — la imagen de la pesca, citada de Fort y glosada por el autor.
«Fort dares to claim that when one puts the type of “damned” contemporary data, which he spent decades sifting through, next to the angelic and demonic encounters of antiquity, and compares them, it becomes clear that the Bible is full of accounts of “space armies.”» — las *armadas espaciales* de la Biblia, según Fort.
«That is not to say that there is no psychic dimension to Close Encounters.» — la salvedad con que evita reducir el fenómeno a lo físico.
«These “Super Tamerlanes” have more often used their minds to set hapless humans on fire than they have deployed nuclear weapons to incinerate entire cities of “sinners.”» — la psicoquinesis como arma más frecuente que la bomba, en su lectura.
«Nuclear disarmament is a key message brought to us from Contactees and abductees because our nuclear weapons are our only defense against these tyrannical bastards — and they know it.» — su explicación del mensaje pacifista de los contactados.
«If they want to protect the biosphere, it is because this planet is their property and they eventually plan to resettle its surface with us under the heel of their boots again as we once were for so many millennia.» — el motivo que atribuye al ecologismo de esos mensajes.
«Fort knows exactly what he is saying.» — el crédito que le da a Fort sobre su propia radicalidad.
«If people could actually spend some serious time in the “Heaven” of the Bible, rather than just be offered tantalizing and bewitching glimpses of it (as those subject to Close Encounters have been), it would make atheists out of them and they would burn their Bibles.» — la conclusión religiosa que extrae de su propio argumento.
«Nothing in the data of Close Encounters suggests anything like that is true.» — su respuesta a la lectura benévola del fenómeno.
«The glitter and fairy dust of these “revelations” only reflects the light of the “shining Stupidity.”» — la fórmula que da título al capítulo, tomada de Fort.
«What Fort found is what we should expect to find.» — el criterio con que cierra esa sección.
«The Lord is once again afraid and jealous of their progress and decides to destroy this unified human civilization, scatter its survivors, and set them against each other.» — su lectura de Babel: el miedo divino al progreso humano unificado.
«At one point, later on, the Hittites even refer to Abraham as the elect of the Lord among them.» — el detalle del texto que usa para su lectura de la elección.
«This is significant because the Lord not only promises to make the descendants of Abraham, whose wife is thought to be sterile, into a nation as multitudinous as the stars, but the angel who meets Hagar in the desert promises to do the same for Ishmael, who marries an Egyptian woman, “a wild ass of a man; His hand against everyone, And everyone’s hand against him; He shall dwell alongside of all his kinsmen.» — la doble promesa a Isaac y a Ismael, con el pasaje bíblico citado.
«At no point in the course of human history have the Jews constituted a significant percentage of the Earth’s population, but if we take the Muslims to be the great nation that the Lord promises to make of the descendants of Ishmael (Genesis 21:13, 18), then the prophecy concerning the descendants of Abraham appears to be one that was fulfilled.» — el cómputo demográfico con que da por cumplida la promesa.
«Three major “pagan” civilizations in this part of the world would have to be destroyed by those in the line of Abraham for this to come to pass: Babylonia, Egypt, and Persia.» — el precio civilizatorio que atribuye a esa promesa.
«Note that Egypt also features in the origin story of Abraham, who takes refuge there from a famine in Canaan for a while, during the course of which he gets wealthy — apparently with the Lord’s blessing — by whoring his wife to the Pharaoh.» — el episodio egipcio de Abraham, leído sin eufemismo.
«One evening the Lord visits Abraham to promise him the land of Canaan and a multitude of descendants, who would eventually prosper despite a prophesied period of four centuries of slavery in Egypt.» — la escena de la alianza, que va a leer como aparición física.
«The acceptance of this sacrifice, which Abraham does not allow birds of prey to devour, is the first of many instances in the Bible where we are given a strange account of a machine that the chroniclers of the tradition seem somewhat at a loss to accurately describe within their cultural context:» — su clave de lectura: los cronistas describen máquinas sin tener palabras para ellas.
«Also take note of the fact that the Lord demands that Abraham, his kinfolk, and all of his slaves be marked in their flesh — like cattle — as a sign that they now belong to Him.» — la circuncisión leída como marca de ganado, que enlaza con los implantes del capítulo 2.
«This is tantamount to evidence of the Lord’s approval of the institution of slavery.» — la consecuencia moral que extrae.
«The next visitation of the Lord is even stranger, if we have been falsely conditioned into abstractly thinking of the Abrahamic ‘God’ as an all-knowing and all-powerful Creator of the cosmos.» — el efecto de extrañeza que busca al leer literalmente.
«Three men appear outside Abraham’s tent and the Lord is clearly one of them:» — el pasaje de Mamré, que da por prueba de corporeidad.
«The three men then take Abraham up to a hill from which they can overlook the plain of Sodom and Gomorrah, where Abraham’s nephew Lot has settled.» — la escena del reconocimiento previo a la destrucción.
«Since he has now been chosen as an insider, the Lord decides to reveal to him the divine plan for the imminent destruction of these cities, whose inhabitants are supposed to have become so sinful that the outcry against them has reached the Lord.» — la revelación del plan a Abraham, con el *supposed to have become* que marca su distancia.
«In other words, the Lord is definitely one of the three men who visit Abraham and Sarah at their encampment.» — la conclusión que subraya: el Señor es uno de los tres hombres.
«While he remains behind with Abraham, he sends his two lieutenants into Sodom to evacuate Abraham’s nephew and his family before he subjects Sodom and Gomorrah to an aerial attack.» — la operación de Sodoma descrita en términos militares.
«The details in the description of this fiery assault from the sky witnessed by Abraham as Lot and his family head for the hills are noteworthy:» — anuncia la lectura tecnológica del pasaje.
«Although one of the gods promises Lot that the little town nearby Sodom and Gomorrah will be spared, he is still afraid to dwell there on account of its proximity to the recently destroyed cities.» — el miedo de Lot a la cercanía, que él leerá como miedo a la radiación.
«They are carnal enough to be lusted after by the men of Sodom, although they have the seemingly magical power to blind this mob with a flash of light once the mob attempts to storm Lot’s house.» — los dos agentes: corpóreos y con un arma de luz.
«The Elohim. who act as “angels” or messengers of the Lord in the Old Testament, for the most part do not have wings.» — el deslinde iconográfico: los Elohim no tienen alas; el punto tras *Elohim* es de la fuente.
«This cannot but evoke, in the mind of a modern reader, the image of a mushroom cloud and the poisonous radioactive fallout following a nuclear strike.» — la lectura nuclear de la destrucción de Sodoma.
«However, in the end we know that only Lot and his family are forcibly evacuated by the Lord’s two agents, and at that not his whole family but only his daughters.» — el alcance real de la evacuación, según el texto.
«But how virtuous is a man who offers up his two virgin daughters to be raped by a mob of lecherous men gathered around his house?» — la objeción moral que hace a Lot.
«This, however, only begs the question of Abraham’s own virtue or lack thereof.» — extiende la misma objeción a Abraham.
«All of this is as much as to say that the conquest of the world by the Abrahamic peoples, the Judeo-Christians and the Muslims, with the support of a Lord who appears now for the first of many times to come as a heavenly or celestial warlord, is founded on the willingness of Abraham to unquestioningly slaughter his own son as if he were a sacrificial animal in obedience to a voice from the sky.» — la conclusión que saca del sacrificio de Isaac.
«In Moses’ first encounter with the Elohim, he is spoken to from amidst a luminous object that settled within a thicket, an object whose white light is so striking that Moses is astonished that it does not burn the thicket as would a fire (which is the only thing within his sphere of knowledge that is capable of producing such a light).» — la zarza ardiente leída como objeto luminoso posado.
«It is with a contest in the use of such unusual abilities that the foundational narrative of the religion of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad begins.» — el duelo de facultades como origen de las tres religiones abrahámicas.
«It becomes clear that both sides are adept in wielding the ‘serpent power’ and so the Lord eventually resorts to plagues and the overnight slaughter of innocent Egyptian newborns in order to intimidate Pharaoh to free the Jews.» — la paridad de facultades entre Moisés y los egipcios, y la escalada que atribuye al Señor.
«When the Lord hears the cry of his people, the Israelites, and decides the time has come to free them from slavery in Egypt, He himself ‘hardens Pharaoh’s heart’ and that of his courtiers into the unbelievably obstinate stubbornness we see as Pharaoh fails to take a lesson from the plagues administered and cleansed through Moses.» — el endurecimiento del corazón del faraón, leído como acto del propio Señor.
«The Hebrew Lord claims to have done this in order that it might provide an excuse to show ‘His signs’ to mock and strike fear into the hearts of the Egyptians.» — el motivo declarado en el texto, que él subraya.
«that even though most of the common Egyptian people take kindly to Moses and the Israelites, the Lord punishes them terribly for the (divinely predetermined) recalcitrance of Pharaoh and his royal court.» — la objeción moral al castigo colectivo.
«Their innocent firstborn children are mercilessly slaughtered as Egyptian mothers and fathers are left crying out in terror like never before into the darkness of the desert night.» — el episodio de los primogénitos, narrado desde las víctimas.
«Apparently familiar with the malevolent use of psychic ability, and regretful of having been intimidated by such parlor tricks, Pharaoh repents of this decision to free the Jewish servants and sends his army into the Sinai desert in pursuit of them on their way to the “Promised Land.”» — la persecución egipcia leída como reacción ante trucos psíquicos.
«Throughout their years-long exodus in the Sinai, the Israelites are led by a purposively guided aerial object that appears as “a pillar [‘ammud, column] of cloud” by day and as “a pillar [or column] of fire” by night.» — la columna de nube y de fuego leída como objeto aéreo pilotado, con la restitución hebrea que él intercala.
«The column is low-flying enough for them to observe its cylindrical structure, which has a steel-grey “cloud”-like hue during the day and glows with a fiery light after sunset.» — el detalle cilíndrico con que la asimila al ovni cigarro.
«The Israelites are warned in advance not to come too close to the mountain when ‘the cloud’ lands on it (Exodus 19:12, 21, 24), and Moses — although apparently shielded in some way from said danger — would return to the people with a peculiar glow about him after prolonged proximal exposure.» — la zona de exclusión y el resplandor de Moisés, leídos como radiación.
«Finally, Moses actually enters ‘the cloud’ (Exodus 24:15– 18), and comes out having received stone tablets that the Lord has engraved with commandments (Exodus 24:12) that are to ground, not only the political state of the Jews, but the entire Abrahamic tradition of revealed religion — Jesus included.» — la entrada de Moisés en la nube como abordaje, y su alcance para toda la tradición.
«This cannot be a description of volcanic activity because the pillar comes down and sits at the top of the mountain (which would have been blown open by a volcanic eruption).» — el argumento con que descarta la explicación volcánica del Sinaí.
«While it is commonly thought that the tablet featured ten commandments, the text of Exodus, especially taken together with Leviticus and Deuteronomy, clearly states that the ten widely known commandments — set apart by subsequent tradition as “the Decalogue” — were only the first ten of a much more extensive set of commandments constituting an entire system of ‘divinely revealed’ law and order.» — el Decálogo como recorte tardío de un código mucho mayor.
«Thus in the Torah’s conception of Justice, one is not judged on the basis of one’s own conscience, but on the basis of the community’s obedience to the Lord.» — su lectura de la justicia toráica como colectiva y no de conciencia.
«Only the latter can explain the sanction of killing a thief caught in the act by the owner of the property he was attempting to steal (Exodus 22:1–4), for the only other sanctioning of killing is as a recompense for having murdered a person.» — el argumento con que equipara propiedad y persona en el código.
«Thus, for a Hebrew to violate a man’s property was to profoundly violate his sense of self.» — la conclusión antropológica que extrae del código.
«If a thief is not caught in the act, he is to pay back double what he stole, or if he cannot afford to do so, he will be sold into slavery.» — la pena por robo y su desenlace en esclavitud.
«It would appear that we are presented with a cold but rigorously logical system whereby each person is held accountable for the precise measure of his or her own transgression against others.» — la lógica retributiva que reconoce en el código, con su marca de reserva.
«While it is disturbingly odd today to think of women’s rights as part of the question of private property, it is so defined within the Torah.» — el marco desde el que lee la condición de la mujer en el código.
«We see that a man ‘wears’ his women like adorning garments when the Lord commands that: “No man shall marry his father’s former wife, so as to remove his father’s garment.”» — la metáfora del vestido, sostenida con el pasaje citado.
«In this form of economic exchange, women who have lost their virginity are not only considered damaged goods, they are publicly shamed, and then stoned to death for having spoiled their father’s property and challenged his authority over use of their sexuality.» — el castigo por la pérdida de la virginidad dentro de esa lógica patrimonial.
«If the man who seduced the woman is known, this fate can be avoided if he pays her ‘bride-price’ to her father, whether or not the father actually gives her to him to take home.» — la conmutación por pago al padre.
«Women who are engaged and then raped and are too afraid to cry out for help are condemned to death.» — la disposición sobre la violación de la mujer prometida.
«In this case the rapist is also condemned to death but only because he stole another man’s property.» — el motivo que el código da para condenar al violador, según su lectura.
«if a woman is raped in a deserted place and tries to cry out but there is no one to hear her, she is not killed, but the rapist must “pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver” and is forced to marry her and forbidden from ever divorcing her.» — la variante del despoblado, con la cifra citada del texto.
«Of course, while women’s sexuality is the property of one man, men are entitled to take many wives to entertain themselves so long as they are wealthy enough not to diminish the food, clothing or conjugal rights of those that they already possess» — la asimetría del régimen conyugal según su lectura.
«However, it is only because a woman is forbidden from participating in the public sector that a man must provide for her, not necessarily because she does not want to work to meet her own needs.» — su réplica al argumento de la manutención como contrapartida.
«This ban of women from public and religious offices (often indistinguishable in the Temple-state) is on account of the severe impurity the Lord thought her to incur during her monthly period.» — la impureza menstrual como fundamento de la exclusión pública.
«Not only is it forbidden to touch a menstruating woman, but anything that she touches, sits on, or otherwise comes into contact with is contaminated by her.» — la propagación de esa impureza según el código.
«Perhaps it is in part due to this kind of impurity that women are outsiders in the relationship between Man and his Lord.» — la conjetura con que enlaza pureza y pacto, marcada con *Perhaps*.
«When Moses first hears the Lord, he is told: “Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you...” (Exodus 3:15) Covenant makers are always only men.» — el pasaje del Éxodo y la conclusión que saca: el pacto es de varones.
«These regulations regarding the ordination of the priesthood are to be eternally inviolable.» — la inviolabilidad del rito sacerdotal del Tabernáculo.
«Moses was not the only one of the Israelites who was permitted to be inside the Tabernacle while the Elohim were visiting it.» — quiénes podían estar dentro durante la visita de los Elohim.
«Success in this conquest is contingent on strict obedience to the law that was revealed to Moses.» — la condición que el texto pone a la conquista de Canaán.
«When Joshua conveys this directive to his men, they swear to obey his commands just as they obeyed those of Moses, so long as he is “strong and resolute,” and they also threaten to put to death anyone who disobeys the orders of Joshua — that would include anyone who might conscientiously dissent with respect to the plan to invade and conquer Canaan.» — el juramento militar y la pena para el disidente, con la glosa que él añade.
«The seizure of the fortified city of Jericho is to be the beachhead of the Israelite invasion of Canaan and it begins when two spies enter the city on a reconnaissance mission.» — la toma de Jericó descrita en términos de operación militar.
«In exchange for her collaboration, including her misdirection of a search party trying to capture the spies, the spies promise Rahab that her family will be spared by the invading Israelites as long as they do not step outside of her house, “which is to be marked with a crimson cord.”» — el pacto con Rahab y la marca en la casa.
«Later we learn that only Rahab and her household are spared in the destruction of Jericho.» — el alcance de esa excepción.
«As they are encamped along the Jordan River, Joshua tells his people to purify themselves since the Lord is about to, once again, “perform wonders” in their midst.» — la consagración previa al prodigio del Jordán.
«The Lord tells Joshua to demand that the Israelites commemorate this wonder by setting up a monument of twelve stones in the drained-out riverbed of the Jordan, one for each of Israel’s twelve tribes.» — el monumento de las doce piedras.
«All of this amounts to a deputizing of Joshua and a divine mandate for his mission.» — la delegación militar que lee en el episodio.
«The very human-like appearance of this god is clear from the fact that at first Joshua thinks that he might be an enemy soldier.» — el argumento de corporeidad: Josué lo confunde con un soldado.
«The Lord’s intervention here, however, continues in an even more direct fashion.» — el paso de la señal a la intervención directa.
«He gives specific instructions to Joshua, again involving use of the Ark, to bring down the legendary fortifications of Jericho so that the Israelites can storm the city.» — el Arca como instrumento del derribo de las murallas.
«The Israelites follow these instructions and after marching around the city the designated number of times with the Ark of the Covenant carried at their head, the army of Israel — who have been ordered to remain silent until the last circuit on the last day — shout out at once on the order of Joshua, when the ram’s horns are sounded, and the walls of Jericho suddenly come crumbling down.» — el procedimiento completo, descrito como protocolo operativo.
«This allows for the army of Israel to rush in and capture the city.» — el desenlace militar del procedimiento.
«Neither before nor since has there ever been such a day, when the Lord acted on words spoken by a man.» — el pasaje que subraya sobre el sol detenido en Gabaón.
«Obviously, the Sun did not stand still in the sky.» — su descarte de la lectura literal del prodigio.
«A light this bright would have made the actual Sun impossible to see, thereby leaving Joshua and his men with the impression that the Sun had been made to stand still.» — la explicación que ofrece: una fuente luminosa que eclipsa al sol.
«In neither case does this end well for those who second guess God.» — el remate sobre quienes cuestionan al Señor en esos relatos.
«Ezekiel is chosen by the Lord as a prophet of the tribulations that Israel will suffer on account of its defiance of the law and order that the Elohim revealed through Abraham and Moses.» — el encargo de Ezequiel dentro de su esquema.
«Throughout Ezekiel 16, the Lord uses some very sexually charged language to compare Jerusalem to a whore on account of these syncretizing practices.» — el lenguaje del capítulo 16, que él consigna sin suavizar.
«He claims that this girl, whom He took it upon Himself to be the guardian of until she became a beautiful and self-confident woman, repaid him by playing the whore» — el argumento de esa alegoría, expuesto en tercera persona.
«The Lord repeatedly describes these allegedly perverse “abominations” as acts of “rebellion” and he goes so far as to call the Israelites a uniquely “rebellious” people.» — la rebeldía como categoría central del reproche divino, que enlaza con su Prometeo.
«He demands that Ezekiel prophecy to Israel the vengeance that he is going to exact on it and he reveals some of these acts of vengeance to the prophet in visions of the future.» — la profecía como anuncio de venganza.
«The episode of sorcery in Ezekiel 37 is especially noteworthy since it prefigures the resurrection of the dead in Christianity.» — enlaza el valle de los huesos secos con la resurrección cristiana, y llama hechicería al episodio.
«These prophecies are supposed to concern “the distant future” (Ezekiel 38:8) when the Israelites, after having been scattered all over the world, are reunited in the land of Israel — at the center of the world — where they live with great wealth amassed in towns without walls or gates.» — la profecía de Ezequiel leída como historia precognitiva.
«On this “distant day,” when the people of Israel are living in apparent security (Ezekiel 14– 16), there will be an invasion of Israel by a leader named Gog from an empire called Magog to the east and north of Israel — which apparently includes Persia, among other unidentifiable kingdoms.» — Gog y Magog, con la identificación persa que él marca como aparente.
«This massive ground invasion of Israel will result in raging fires and earthquakes as part of a battle that litters Israelite territory with corpses and incinerates the cities of Magog.» — el desenlace de esa profecía según su exposición.
«It is in this context, from Ezekiel 40–45 that we meet with some of the best examples of the biblical idea of the “sacred and the profane” — a phrase explicitly introduced in Ezekiel 44:23.» — sitúa en Ezequiel el origen textual de la pareja sagrado-profano.
«The plan of the Temple and of the society that it is intended to sanctify exemplifies a notion of spaces and objects in them that are clearly demarcated as sacred and separated off, sometimes by numerous buffers, from profane areas.» — el Templo como dispositivo de separación espacial.
«We even have the introduction of a sacred system of weights and measures for commerce.» — el alcance comercial de esa sacralización.
«Ezekiel reveals the template for the future Kingdom of God on the Earth.» — el estatuto que da a esa visión.
«Or, rather, the robot from inside the UFO reveals it to us through him.» — la corrección inmediata que hace de su propia frase, y que es la tesis del capítulo.
«Firstly, in Ezekiel 17 the Lord asks Ezekiel to “propound a riddle and relate an allegory to the House of Israel.”» — el pasaje con que sostiene que el texto distingue lo alegórico de lo histórico.
«The authors of these books of the Bible were in many cases aware of what is allegorical or symbolic imagery, and so we are distorting the text if we read narratives that are intended to be historical, including those setting forth a precognitive history of a future yet to come, as purely allegorical or symbolic rather than factual.» — su regla hermenéutica: no alegorizar lo que el texto da por hecho.
«Secondly, when Ezekiel prophesies, he appears to be very directly under the control of the Lord.» — el segundo rasgo que destaca del profeta: la falta de agencia.
«This foreshadows the Muslim claim that Muhammad was chosen by the Lord in part because he was illiterate and untrained in the poetic arts, so he supposedly could not have composed the Quran on his own.» — el paralelo con Mahoma, que él ya había planteado.
«He is fed a scroll featuring the “lamentations, dirges, and woes” that he is going to speak like an old computer being fed a punch card.» — la imagen informática con que describe la inspiración profética.
«Overall, the impression we are given of Ezekiel is that of a ventriloquist’s dummy.» — el juicio que remata esa lectura.
«Thirdly, and most importantly, Ezekiel is ethically appalled by some of the things that the Lord reveals that He intends to do to the Israelites.» — el tercer rasgo, y el que a él le importa: la objeción moral del propio profeta.
«The specific act of vengeance that catalyzes Ezekiel’s protest is the Lord’s command to five armed men, accompanied by a sixth who is a scribe dressed in the manner of a Levite priest, to go through the city and murder everyone, including old men, women, and little children, who do not object to the various practices of pagan idolatry that the Israelites are engaging in:» — el episodio que dispara la protesta del profeta.
«One way that the Lord intends to spread disease seems to be by making the Israelites eat unclean bread that they have to bake on their own excrement, so that he is in effect telling them to “eat shit and die.”» — su lectura del castigo de Ezequiel 4, en sus propios términos.
«Ezekiel has numerous distinct encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects and the beings associated with them and he describes these on at least ten occasions in his book, often referring back to the first encounter at the Chebar Canal in Babylonia to assert that the phenomena witnessed are the very same as those experienced there.» — el recuento de encuentros de Ezequiel y su referencia interna al canal Quebar.
«There seem to be three or four types of objects described, although a couple of these might be the same object or objects viewed from different vantage points or under varied conditions.» — la tipología de objetos que propone, con su propia reserva.
«Although there does not appear to be any material connection between the four wheels they seem organizationally associated into a “wheelwork” consisting of all of them, and it is possible for a man to step within this wheelwork.» — su descripción técnica de las ruedas de Ezequiel.
«This means that they can alter direction instantaneously — without veering or swerving, like contemporary UFOs.» — la coincidencia de maniobra entre las ruedas y los ovnis modernos.
«Note that these winged beings, which are identified as cherubim, are the same beings that the Lord appoints to guard the garden of the Elohim at Eden, with similar rotating, fiery swords or thunderbolts.» — la identidad entre los querubines de Ezequiel y los guardianes del Edén.
«The phrase “the Presence of the Lord” is used with reference to one or more of these objects, and in one instance we have a description of the roaring sound and rumble as this “Presence of the Lord” lifts off from where it is standing and takes to the sky.» — la Presencia del Señor leída como objeto que despega.
«It is clear from numerous passages that this Presence, within which the Lord is located, moves from one distinct place to another:» — la localización del Señor dentro de la Presencia.
«Passages such as these explicitly state that the Lord of Israel is a finite being» — la conclusión del capítulo sobre el Dios bíblico; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente, donde precisa que ocupa un espacio definido.
«Moreover, setting them in the context of the other passages cited above, we see that He does so by means of a conveyance that gives off light when it flies and produces loud sound and vibrations when it is lifting off or landing.» — el vehículo con que ese ser finito se desplaza.
«From start to finish, the formative phase of the Christian religion is just as thoroughly conditioned by manifestations of the UFO-type as the careers of the Jewish prophets who paved the way for the coming of this alleged Messiah.» — extiende la misma lectura al cristianismo.
«Mary conceives after a visitation, and perhaps an insemination, by Gabriel that she finds terrifying; he appears plainly in the form of a man just as the Elohim of old.» — la Anunciación leída como visita corpórea, con el *perhaps* que acota la inseminación.
«The relevant passages of scripture are clear that the so-called “star” that the three Magi from the Persian Empire followed to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem is a moving luminous object under apparently intelligent control and not an actual star or planet that crosses the heavens in a fixed manner together with other stars; it finally stops flying and comes to stand over where the newborn child is so that the shepherds there are also filled by fear at its radiant glory.» — la estrella de Belén leída como objeto pilotado; los magos son persas en su lectura.
«When Jesus is baptized by John in the Jordan, “the heavens were opened” and the spirit of God descends in physical form, flying down like a dove — in other words, relatively motionless despite its wings being spread — before assuming a stationary position and hovering directly over him.» — el bautismo leído como aparición de un objeto estacionario.
«A voice emanates from the object to declare, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased”, whereupon Jesus is lifted straight up out of the water and carried into the sky — as if by a tractor beam — to be deposited some distance away, in the desert wilderness, where he is to be tempted by the Devil.» — el traslado al desierto leído como haz tractor.
«This kind of abduction and dislocation by the “whirlwind” that God rides in would often happen to Elijah.» — el mismo mecanismo aplicado a Elías.
«The men from the sky who retrieved Jesus may have used some kind of energy technology to revive him, because if the Shroud of Turin is authentic, it appears to have registered something like an X-ray of Jesus while his body was still wrapped in it.» — la Sábana Santa leída como registro de una técnica energética, con el condicional que él pone.
«The “angels” are also present at the so-called Ascension wherein the resurrected Jesus is carried up and away by a UFO for the last time before the promised Second Coming and in full view of his astonished disciples, and of Galileans who are gazing skywards with their mouths agape.» — la Ascensión leída como abducción a la vista de testigos.
«Jesus was known for being able to hail these UFOs as if he were hailing a taxi, and he offered those close to him rides aboard them.» — la fórmula con que resume ese poder de Jesús.
«The text of Acts 9, 22, and 26, when taken together, make it quite clear that the other men who were traveling with Paul on the road to Damascus, while he was still a chief Jewish adversary of the nascent Christian movement, experienced the same stunning light descending from the sky, brighter than the Sun.» — el argumento de los testigos múltiples en el camino de Damasco.
«Moreover, the voice that Paul hears is not one readily identifiable by him, so that the interpretation that he was simply experiencing a pang of conscience translated into an auditory hallucination is unwarranted.» — su descarte de la lectura psicológica de la conversión de Pablo.
«It is only once Paul asks the voice emanating from the luminous aerial object what lordly person it is that says, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” that he receives the answer that it is Christ.» — el detalle del diálogo que sostiene su lectura.
«Apparently Jesus was still traveling around in his heavenly Father’s aerial object that he boarded at the Ascension.» — la consecuencia que extrae, con la ironía incluida.
«Jesus says that he has come to confirm that preached by the Jewish prophets before him and to fulfill the law of the Torah, a law which he claims will be valid in its every injunction until the end of the world.» — la continuidad legal que atribuye a Jesús, contra la lectura de la ruptura.
«He describes following the law as the ‘straight path’ and suggests that all others stray towards destruction.» — la senda recta como imagen de la ley, en su exposición de Jesús.
«However, he demands that the spirit of the law be obeyed and not merely the letter of the law.» — el matiz que introduce sobre espíritu y letra.
«Jesus tells people not to praise him, but to know that there is one God, and He alone is ‘good’ and worthy of worship.» — el pasaje con que niega la divinidad reclamada por Jesús.
«He damns town after town that rejects his message and that of his apostles to a terrible judgment from God, a destruction worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah.» — la maldición de las ciudades, que enlaza con su lectura nuclear de Sodoma.
«Jesus endorses the destruction of these cities by his father, Yahweh, the Lord of the Elohim — i.e. the UFO pilot who incinerated the “sinful” twin cities with a nuclear weapon.» — la identificación del Padre de Jesús con el piloto que arrasó Sodoma.
«We hear Jesus tell people not to fear their adversaries, who can only kill their bodies, but to fear God who can send both their bodies and souls to burn» — el pasaje del temor a Dios, que él lee como amenaza.
«People are also warned to perpetually be on guard, in fear and hope, for the coming Day of Judgment, which will arrive when they are least expecting it.» — la vigilancia escatológica como forma de control.
«On that day, when the angels descend from Heaven to reap the harvest of men and their deeds (Matthew 13:34–43), everyone will be held accountable for every word they have ever spoken (Matthew 12:36), and every person will be rewarded with Heaven or punished with misery in hellfire according to their own actions (Matthew 16:27;» — el juicio final con sus referencias, expuesto como sistema de contabilidad moral.
«Indeed, Jesus acknowledges himself to be a messenger sent to a specific community, the Israelites.» — el carácter local de la misión, contra la lectura universalista.
«Jesus is intended to redeem the Jews but in the end he accuses them, and especially their religious leaders, of having forsaken their covenant with the Lord.» — el giro del mensaje según su exposición.
«As a consequence, says Jesus, His kingdom will be taken away from them, ‘the chosen people,’ and instead whoever from whatever nation who is faithful shall join the prophets in dwelling there.» — el traspaso del reino, con verbo de decir.
«There are, however, numerous passages in the Gospels that blatantly contradict the Torah.» — la contradicción interna que va a explotar todo el capítulo.
«Not only are the statements unambiguous, they are also unequivocal in their demand for “perfect” adherence.» — el carácter tajante de esas dos series de pasajes.
«The famous passages on non-violence from the Sermon on the Mount begin, in Matthew’s version, with the words: “Ye have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you...”» — la fórmula de ruptura del Sermón del Monte, citada del texto.
«Finally, in the injunction to “...resist not evil...” (Matthew 5:39) we see that it is not only one’s own ‘enemies,’ or individual transgressors against society, whose violence one must absorb into one’s all-embracing love, but ‘evil’ itself as a principle and force in the world.» — el alcance que da al no resistir al mal: no solo a los enemigos, al mal mismo.
«He declares the pursuit of wealth to be diametrically at odds with obedience to God (Luke 16:3), and says that it is virtually impossible for the rich man to enter the ‘Kingdom of God’» — la pobreza voluntaria en su exposición de los evangelios.
«While this injunction is directed at those who would be his ‘disciples,’ in the Sermon on the Mount he preaches to masses of ordinary people: “...and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.”» — el argumento de que la exigencia no es solo para discípulos.
«Taken together, these two statements essentially destroy the notion of ‘private property’ altogether.» — la consecuencia económica que extrae de esos pasajes.
«Jesus preached that for the Kingdom of God to come, the family must be abolished.» — su lectura de los pasajes sobre la familia.
«He says that his message is not one that seeks to artificially “impose” peace, but a sword that tears families apart by dividing blood relatives from each other» — la espada que divide, citada contra la imagen pacífica.
«In the same breath it is also compared to a fire, which blazes in the heart of the seeker and consumes his household in strife (Luke 12:49–53).» — la imagen del fuego doméstico en el mismo pasaje.
«In fact, Jesus assumes that a profound person who understands his call will necessarily have contempt for the superficial kin» — la actitud hacia los parientes que atribuye al mensaje.
«By now it should be clear that we are dealing with a cult leader, specifically, the leader of a UFO cult.» — el veredicto sobre Jesús que remata su exposición.
«Anyone who insists that there must be some way to reconcile these statements of Jesus with his own endorsement of “the Law” of the Torah and the messages of the Jewish Prophets, or to square them with decent conduct in a civilized society in general, is suffering from cognitive dissonance.» — el diagnóstico con que cierra el argumento y abre la sección de la disonancia.
«One response is an attempt at rationalization that adds new elements of belief that one pretends were part of the original, contradictory information» — la primera de las tres salidas de la disonancia que enumera.
«The second response is when, without necessarily adding any new elements, a cognitively dissonant person tries to blind himself or herself to the most glaring contradictions» — la segunda salida.
«Third, and finally, a person suffering from cognitive dissonance will abandon attempts at rationalization, or at selective blindness, and instead irrationally commit to blindly believing in patently contradictory statements, ideas, or values “on faith.”» — la tercera salida: la fe ciega.
«In fact, deliberately induced cognitive dissonance is a technique used to destroy a person’s rational faculties by forcing that person into just such a position where the stress of psychological dissonance and failed rationalizations can only be resolved by commitment to “blind faith.”» — la disonancia como técnica deliberada, que es su tesis sobre la revelación.
«This tactic is often employed by cult leaders and PsyOps agents.» — quiénes usan esa técnica, según él.
«but a reaction that lacks the courage to recognize that these same beings, namely the Elohim, created Jesus and that he is, therefore, the Son of the Demiurge — not some Savior of Light from the Pleroma.» — su objeción a los gnósticos: no llegaron a ver que Jesús es hijo del Demiurgo.
«This Jesus is that embraced by the Gnostics who believed that the Jewish creator god is the Devil and arch-deceiver.» — la posición gnóstica sobre el Dios creador, expuesta como suya.
«There is one fundamental insight of Gnosticism that is tremendously useful. In order to definitively resolve the cognitive dissonance caused by attempting to parse the blatantly contradictory statements attributed to Jesus Christ, the Gnostics simply identified the God of the Old Testament, namely Yahweh or Jehovah, as the Demiurge and chief of a group of evil archons who help this deluded and sadistic Lord manipulatively tyrannize humanity.» — lo que sí concede al gnosticismo: la identificación de Yahvé con el Demiurgo.
«In other words, they flat-out rejected the many things that Jesus said, and that the editors of the canonical Gospels wrote, that unequivocally identify him as an Abrahamic Messiah who is here to fulfill the Torah.» — el precio textual de esa operación gnóstica.
«Since there would be hardly anything left in the Gospels once one edits all of this out of one’s conception of Jesus, the Gnostics had to write alternate Gospels — and they wrote tens of them, all of which were rejected by the Council of Nicea.» — por qué hubo evangelios gnósticos, y su rechazo en Nicea.
«One of the four accepted Gospels, John, does overlap considerably with some of these Gnostic Gospels, especially Thomas, and there is one passage of John in particular that the Gnostics seized upon to make their case that the God of the Jews is the Devil.» — el solapamiento entre Juan y Tomás, y el pasaje clave para los gnósticos.
«The Catholic Church first invented the institution of the Holy Inquisition in order to exterminate them and only later applied it to Jews, Muslims, and Protestants.» — el origen antignóstico que atribuye a la Inquisición.
«Constantine basically turned to his men and asked them, “Are you seeing what I’m seeing?!”» — la visión de Constantino contada en registro coloquial, como avistamiento colectivo.
«These experiences compelled Constantine to legalize Christianity, which had been banned by the Roman state, and to even put the weight of the government behind it.» — el efecto político que atribuye a esa visión.
«It is under his reign that, based on the Nicene Creed established by the Church with the backing of Constantine, all heretics began to be persecuted.» — el credo niceno como origen de la persecución de herejes.
«Alexandria was a Greek colony established in Egypt and named after Alexander of Macedon.» — el origen de Alejandría, que le sirve de contraejemplo civilizatorio.
«Aristotle personally tutored Alexander, who went on to reverse the power dynamic between the Greeks and Persians and to colonize not only the core of the Persian Empire, but Egypt and northern India as well.» — la línea Aristóteles-Alejandro y su alcance imperial.
«Nevertheless, his dream of establishing a cosmopolitan world civilization was realized in some measure insofar as the cultural milieu that he created with his conquests allowed for a hybridization of the Greek way of life and thought with cultures of the colonized peoples to produce what is known as “Hellenistic” (vs. Hellenic) civilization.» — el helenismo como hibridación deliberada, y el modelo que él contrapone al abrahámico.
«The Ptolemies were great patrons of the arts and sciences, in many ways establishing the model of aristocratic patronage of the quest for knowledge and technical innovation that was resurrected by the Medici family and others during the Italian Renaissance.» — el mecenazgo ptolemaico como precedente del renacentista.
«Among the hundreds of thousands of scrolls in the Library of Alexandria was the work of Aristarchus of Samos (310–230 BCE), who, working in the Pythagorean tradition, had rejected the Platonic and Aristotelian model of the cosmos and devised a heliocentric model of the solar system that correctly placed the Earth in orbit around the Sun.» — el heliocentrismo de Aristarco, dentro de la tradición pitagórica.
«Eratosthenes arrived at a figure of 252,000 stades or 24,000 miles, strikingly close to the true number of 24,901.» — la medida de Eratóstenes y su exactitud.
«Consistent with the Alexandrian spirit, on the basis of his discoveries concerning the dimensions of the spherical Earth, Eratosthenes not only argued that it could be circumnavigated by sailors but also that such voyages could act to demolish racial prejudices and promote universal human brotherhood.» — la consecuencia ética que atribuye a Eratóstenes.
«Although Aristarchus had grasped that the Earth actually revolves around the Sun, his heliocentric model had less predictive power than the most sophisticated refinement of the Earth-centered one.» — la reserva que pone: el modelo correcto predecía peor.
«Ptolemy [not to be confused with the General and founder of the dynasty] was answering a challenge that is supposed to have been first posed by Plato, namely whether the occasionally retrograde motion of the planets and the variations in speed that they undergo in their apparent orbits around the Earth could somehow be translated into a composite of uniform and perfectly circular motions.» — el problema platónico que Ptolomeo resuelve, con el corchete aclaratorio del autor.
«Yet, while Plato may have set this task on account of aesthetic assumptions about the perfection of the celestial realm, of the same kind that seduced Parmenides into thinking that the One must be spherical in shape, Ptolemy would have to carry out this task in a way that retained the new standard of quantitative precision in predictive power that was set by the Hellenistic assimilation of Babylonian astronomical techniques.» — el paso de la estética a la precisión cuantitativa, por la vía babilónica.
«Advances in astronomy are obviously also going to call for breakthroughs in optics.» — el encadenamiento entre astronomía y óptica que estructura la sección.
«In a propositional form similar to that of this earlier and more widely known work, Euclid’s Optica analyzed an object’s appearance based on its spatial relationship to the observer, with special emphasis on a geometrical cone of vision with its base on the visible object and its vertex in the eye of the perceiver.» — la *Óptica* de Euclides y su cono de visión.
«Although he adopts Euclid’s cone of vision, he extends it to account for both monocular and binocular vision and interprets its rays as physically real.» — lo que Ptolomeo añade a Euclides.
«Archimedes is said to have designed machines capable of lifting naval vessels out of water and burning these ships using focused beams of light produced by an array of mirrors.» — las máquinas de Arquímedes, con verbo de decir.
«One of these was Hero of Alexandria, who designed the first steam engine and gear train; he also wrote a treatise on robotics.» — Herón de Alejandría y su tratado de autómatas.
«In fact, Claudius Ptolemy was actually working at the Museum in Alexandria when he used Euclid’s groundwork to elaborate a more sophisticated optical science.» — sitúa a Claudio Ptolomeo en el Museo.
«It is to Hippocrates that we owe the “Hippocratic oath” of modern medical practice.» — el origen del juramento hipocrático.
«Beginning with Hippocrates, “seizure”-producing diseases, such as epilepsy and cerebral palsy, which had been seen as the product of being seized by a god, were given naturalistic explanations; a very conscious attempt was made to put “witch-doctors, faith-healers, quacks and charlatans” out of business by establishing standards for formal medical study and private practice.» — el desplazamiento de lo divino a lo natural en la medicina griega.
«As in Pre-Socratic Physics, the key turn here was toward naturalistic accounts that assume that nature acts uniformly and according to universal principles that are not subject to the caprice of supernatural entities.» — el principio de uniformidad que hace posible esa medicina.
«Within this framework, disease is often diagnosed as some imbalance in the body due to an interference with its natural state, such as blockages of veins or the overabundance or dearth of some bodily fluid or humor.» — la teoría humoral en su exposición.
«Standard examination procedures were established, including the examination of the patient’s face, eyes, hands, posture, breathing, sleep, and emissions and excretions from all bodily orifices.» — el protocolo de exploración clínica que refiere.
«This served not only to diagnose the disease responsible for symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, fever, convulsions, tumors, and lesions, but also to discern the pathology of the disease in question so as to offer a prognosis of its probable future course.» — el paso del diagnóstico al pronóstico.
«Despite the emphasis on naturalistic diagnosis, we must remember that Greeks as brilliant as Plato and Aristotle understood Nature very differently from modern materialists and so practices such as dream healing remained an important part of Hellenistic medicine.» — el matiz que salva la incubación onírica dentro de esa medicina.
«Unfortunately, Greek medical writings of the Alexandrian period seem to have been among the greatest casualties of the holocaust of the writings of classical antiquity epitomized by the burning of the Library of Alexandria, the city whose relatively liberal atmosphere allowed medical practice to advance most rapidly.» — la pérdida de la medicina alejandrina en el incendio.
«We have considerable writings from early Greek medical practice, centered on places such as Athens, and then there is a black hole in our knowledge until the early Christian period.» — el hueco documental que describe.
«The aforementioned legality of human autopsy in colonial Alexandria under the Ptolemies, which broke with traditional Greek and Roman religious customs, allowed these men to make tremendous advances in anatomy.» — la autopsia legal como condición del avance anatómico.
«That such a status was attainable by a woman at that time in human history — and, thanks to Christianity, not again for more than 1,500 years — attests to the extraordinarily progressive and humanistic cultural milieu of Alexandrian civilization.» — el caso de Hipatia como medida de esa civilización, con la imputación al cristianismo.
«Although she was very attractive and garnered many suitors, Hypatia was more interested in pursuing scientific exploration than in the household duties of a married woman.» — el retrato de Hipatia que da.
«Cyril saw her as an epitome of pagan impiety, not only because she was an independent woman with a prominent position in the public sphere but also because she was so accomplished in the sciences, which the rising Judeo-Christian Church viewed as worldly vanity by comparison to the content of its revealed scriptures.» — los motivos que atribuye al obispo Cirilo.
«Cyril accused Hypatia of witchcraft on account of her work with celestial instruments, such as the astrolabe.» — la acusación de brujería por el uso del astrolabio.
«Under Cyril’s orders, Hypatia was seized by a Christian mob on her way home, stripped naked and flayed to death.» — el linchamiento, narrado sin atenuante.
«Then they took her corpse and torched it on a pyre in a herald of the future witch burnings.» — el enlace que traza con la hoguera de las brujas.
«The Christian mob went on to burn the Library of Alexandria to the ground and to smash the idols of the Serapium, the temple to Serapis — the patron deity of the Museum and Library, whose cult the Ptolemies had set up as a synthesis of Greek and Egyptian beliefs.» — la destrucción del Serapeo y el culto sincrético de Serapis.
«Half a million scrolls went up in flames.» — la cifra que da del incendio.
«What we know of the accomplishment of classical antiquity in the arts and sciences, such as the voluminous writings of all the Greek dramatists, the Pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle, is about 1% of what was contained in that library and at other sites that suffered similar, albeit less dramatic fates, during the rise of the Church of Rome.» — la proporción de lo perdido, que es su medida del daño.
«That percentage has been calculated based on a detailed study of every textual reference, on the part of classical authors and writers of the early Christian period, to books that did not survive into the Middle Ages or to authors whose entire corpus of writings perished in the Christian cultural genocide of European civilization.» — cómo se calcula esa cifra, según él.
«Bishop Cyril was canonized as a saint.» — el dato con que cierra el episodio de Hipatia.
«It began, specifically, under the reign of Emperor Justinian, who, from 540 to 592, carried out a series of reforms that even more deeply institutionalized Christianity.» — fecha en Justiniano el arranque de la fase que le interesa.
«During this period, there were many UFO sightings across Europe, and an outbreak of the plague, which, taken together, convinced people to accept the totalitarian theocratic policies of Justinian as a bulwark against the evident wrath of God.» — el nudo de su tesis: avistamientos y peste como palanca política.
«One sighting, which took place in Rome itself during these years, was of an immense “dragon” that floated slowly through the sky above the city before plunging down into the sea, at which point an outbreak of the plague began.» — el caso romano del *dragón* y el brote posterior.
«When Justinian closed all of the last remaining academies in the Empire, their philosophers and scientists took refuge in the neighboring Persian Empire.» — el exilio persa de los filósofos, que es su eje iranio otra vez.
«Of course, the UFO Overlords could not have this.» — la frase con que atribuye al fenómeno la reacción contra ese refugio.
«I have written about the relationship of Muhammad to UFOs and about Islam as a product of Close Encounters elsewhere.» — remite a sus otros libros para el caso del islam.
«First of all, on the night that Muhammad received the first “revelation” of the Quran, he saw a UFO outside of the cave where he was confronted by the angel Gabriel.» — la noche de la primera revelación coránica, leída como encuentro.
«It is believed by establishment scholars that this worst of all plagues, which was a combination of bubonic and pneumonic plague, was carried by rodents and that its spread was facilitated by wintry weather.» — expone la explicación aceptada de la peste negra.
«The problem is that there are many accounts of the plague breaking out during these years in places where there was no rodent infestation, and also during the summer months.» — la objeción con que la descarta.
«The majority of eyewitness reports of plague outbreaks feature two closely related phenomena.» — anuncia el patrón que va a describir.
«First, before the plague would break out somewhere, strange and intensely bright lights were seen moving around in the night sky in that area.» — el primer elemento del patrón.
«Second, a thick mist would appear in connection with these luminous aerial phenomena, and it was the inhalation of these “foul-smelling” mists by certain people that would often initiate an outbreak of the plague.» — el segundo elemento: la niebla fétida.
«Third, and most disturbingly, strange men garbed in black were seen in connection with these lights and these mists.» — el tercer elemento, que enlaza con los Men in Black de su último capítulo.
«The plague would promptly break out in an area after these terrifying men were sighted “reaping” the local wheat fields — again, without actually cutting any oats.» — la escena de la siega sin corte, que da por firma del fenómeno.
«It has to be borne in mind that UFOs have been associated with the spreading of plagues ever since the time of Moses and the plagues that the Elohim directed against the Egyptians.» — la continuidad que traza desde las plagas de Egipto.
«The answer may go back to the fact that there are two factions of the civilization with UFO technology, the so-called Devas and Ashuras, or angels and demons.» — la explicación que da a la contradicción entre supresión y avance del saber.
«It appears that the “demons” or titanic Prometheans defended the Renaissance in Europe.» — el bando que atribuye al Renacimiento, marcado con *It appears*.
«It would be one thing if our entire religious history were shaped, quite deliberately, and at a fundamental level, by the Close Encounter phenomenon.» — la gradación con que introduce lo que le parece peor todavía.
«Those who acknowledge the antiquity of the phenomenon (some are so obtusely fearful that they do not) still would like to believe that if it has shaped human religious belief, it has been because we have projected the subconscious symbolism of our own fears and hopes onto the phenomenon.» — la posición proyeccionista que va a rechazar.
«Others recognize some level of interaction between the UFO intelligences and the prophets or sages of various religions, but they would like to attribute all of the violent and inhumane elements of various belief systems to misinterpretations on our side of these Close Encounters or to human manipulations of UFO messages that were intrinsically benevolent or consciousness-raising.» — la segunda posición corriente, que carga la violencia en la interpretación humana.
«Very few people are capable of accepting the conclusion that the reader ought to have been forced to seriously consider by now: that we have been deliberately and repeatedly manipulated by putatively “divine” beings who consider us their slaves, and this has basically shaped almost all of mankind’s religious experience.» — la conclusión que exige del lector.
«This has proven to be true even of Buddhism and Gnosticism, the two types of religion that one would imagine would be least shaped by Close Encounters.» — el alcance de esa tesis, con los dos casos que él considera límite.
«All of that would be bad enough, but it gets worse — much worse.» — el giro hacia el estrato post mortem del control.
«Those who have studied Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind in a comparative manner have come to the conclusion that there is a deep and extensive connection between the two types of phenomena.» — el cruce ECM-abducción, que es el nudo de esta sección.
«In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that the “angelic” and “demonic” beings witnessed during NDEs, as well as the “life review” and the councils of “spirit guides” and so forth, are all of a piece with the kind of manipulation at work in many UFO abductions.» — la identificación entre guías espirituales y abductores.
«At the very least, it appears that there is a Psychotronic technology that allows the beings behind Close Encounters to cut into the process of death, the afterlife, and reincarnation, so as to manipulate human souls with a view to maintaining certain repressive and disempowering social structures.» — la tecnología psicotrónica sobre las almas, con su límite *At the very least*.
«The basic idea behind this can be seen, in a carnivalesque form, in the American pop-cultural franchise of the Ghostbusters.» — la referencia popular con que ilustra la idea.
«This Psychotronic machination has been going on for our entire recorded history, from the Deva management of reincarnation to encounters with Jesus Christ during NDEs.» — el alcance histórico de esa maquinación.
«As we shall see, a group within the US government who became aware of this dimension of Close Encounters came to the conclusion that the entire phenomenon is a demonic deception.» — anuncia la Collins Elite y su conclusión.
«Namely, to deny the evidence that they uncovered themselves, which suggests that their religious faith was manufactured for them by beings who try to manipulate us after death.» — la contradicción que imputa a ese grupo.
«Dr. Kenneth Ring is a psychologist and academic who spent many years studying and writing about the phenomenon of Near Death Experiences (NDEs).» — presenta a Kenneth Ring, la fuente académica del cruce.
«Initially, Ring wanted nothing to do with Abductions or the UFO phenomenon.» — la resistencia inicial de Ring, que él usa como aval.
«Not only do the NDE experiencers and abductees report some of the same types of beings and a similar structure to their altered states, some of the same physical effects ensue from having had both types of experiences — such as, for example, an experiencers’ interference with electronic devices like digital wristwatches, radios, or TVs in their environs.» — las coincidencias que Ring encuentra entre ambos grupos, incluidas las eléctricas.
«The most important outcome of Ring’s study was his conclusion that both NDE experiencers and abductees had suffered from more trauma during childhood than the average person, and that this had led them to develop what he calls an “encounter prone personality.”» — la personalidad propensa al encuentro, en el término de Ring.
«By no means are these individuals merely imagining, confabulating, or making up their experiences because they were traumatized as children.» — el deslinde que hace enseguida contra la lectura psicopatológica.
«Rather, their childhood trauma gives them a twin capability of dissociation from the deep structure of consensus reality (which compels most people to deny that such experiences are even possible) and absorption of a kind that blocks out environmental stimuli other than whatever is the psychical point of focus.» — la explicación positiva del trauma como capacidad.
«What really changed Ring’s mind about UFO abductions was his having read Whitley Strieber’s Communion.» — el papel de *Communion* en el viraje de Ring.
«Strieber and his wife Anne had suspected that there was some connection between the abduction phenomenon and death or the afterlife.» — la intuición de Whitley y Anne Strieber, que él va a documentar.
«The most intriguing, and disturbing, one was this: the putative “aliens” seemed to have access to recently deceased friends or relatives of the abductees, and they appeared to be able to bring the abductees into the same realm or dimension that the “afterlife” experience takes place in during NDEs.» — el hallazgo de los Strieber sobre el acceso a los muertos recientes.
«It is also the case that about 30 percent of people who have an NDE start to see UFOs after their NDE.» — la cifra que da del cruce en un sentido.
«Robert Harland, who had an NDE as a result of a bad reaction to anesthetic gas during a dental procedure, wound up being given a tour of a UFO while outside of his body and in the “astral” state.» — el caso de Robert Harland, con su circunstancia clínica.
«He reported that “small, ugly creatures” tried to prevent his return from this afterlife realm, and he also accurately described what the dentist had done while he was unconscious and the dentist was frantically trying to prevent him from dying in the chair.» — el testimonio, con el control de verificación que él subraya.
«Betty was told to stand in line with the Grays, whereupon she was slightly levitating and they all went out through the closed door the same way that the Grays had come into her house.» — el episodio de Betty Andreasson en clave de ECM.
«She was told that they are “Watchers” who monitor our actions and thoughts, making a divine record of them.» — los *Vigilantes* del testimonio, que él enlaza con el registro divino bíblico.
«Betty Andreasson was primarily studied by UFO abduction researcher Raymond E. Fowler.» — el investigador del caso, nombrado.
«Fowler identified at least a dozen features of many NDEs and UFO abductions that are identical.» — el número de rasgos comunes que atribuye a Fowler.
«The Andreasson case strongly suggests that the “angelic” beings who are witnessed as members of a “life review” panel of “spirit guides” during a Near Death Experience are actually Nordics.» — la identificación de los guías espirituales con los nórdicos.
«Sometimes there is “administrative bungling” and a person who was not supposed to be brought over to “the other side” is sent back with haste after a squabble between managers and underlings in the afterlife realm.» — el error burocrático en el más allá, que es su prueba de que hay administración.
«The cases of this that involve mistaken transportation of a person’s soul to “Hell” are particularly striking.» — el subtipo de casos que destaca.
«Contrary to the portrayal of NDEs in mainstream media, there are as many hellish accounts of the afterlife reported by those who experience a period of clinical death as there are heavenly ones.» — la corrección estadística que hace al relato corriente de las ECM.
«When the administrators of “Hell” looked up his papers, his captors were scolded for having brought the wrong man.» — el caso de Durga Jatav, con el papeleo del infierno.
«They then showed Jatav a number of pairs of recently severed legs (apparently, there is a collection of these in “Hell”).» — el detalle que él consigna con su paréntesis irónico.
«He chose the ones that were his, and these were reattached before he was sent back.» — el desenlace del caso.
«This story could, of course, be dismissed as utterly ridiculous were it not for the fact that when Jatav was finally revived, a couple of hours after his body had gone cold and his family had assumed he was dead, very noticeable fissures appeared on his knees as if they were scars from the amputation and reattachment of his legs.» — la marca corporal que él da por evidencia física del episodio.
«There are other cases of this kind, and they align very closely with “mistaken abductions” from the UFO literature.» — el paralelo con las abducciones por error.
«Sometimes abductions are even interrupted during the initial phase, say, when the beam of light from a UFO is shining on a car, and the beings who are about to take the paralyzed potential abductee are stopped by their superiors, who telepathically tell the underlings tasked with the abduction that they have the wrong person.» — la abducción abortada por orden superior.
«Some UFO abductees have been told that their abductors “recycle souls,” in other words, that they are in charge of the process of reincarnation.» — el reciclaje de almas, en palabras de los propios abductores según los testimonios.
«In many of these cases, upon death a person will wander around, as they would in an OBE, experiencing the world around them until they become fixated on a recently pregnant woman who will be their mother in a subsequent incarnation.» — el mecanismo de reencarnación que describe.
«It is noteworthy that the majority of Stevenson’s reincarnation cases involve spontaneous past life recall by young children, who, should they have been encouraged rather than discouraged or dismissed by their parents, might have succeeded in recalling their past lives.» — el dato de Stevenson y lo que él infiere del desaliento parental.
«Could it be that such individuals do not remember Close Encounters in the transition between death and rebirth for the same reason that it is relatively natural for them to start remembering their past lives?» — la pregunta que enlaza amnesia de abducción y amnesia de vidas pasadas.
«It may be that the UFO intelligences are wiping the memories of souls who “enter the light” just as they induce amnesia in abductees who experience “missing time.”» — la hipótesis del borrado de memoria post mortem.
«As if this were not perplexing enough, there have even been studies that closely correlate the zodiac signs of a person with that individual’s personality type and typical behavioral profile — including the tendency to commit certain crimes.» — la correlación zodiacal con el perfil de conducta, incluida la criminal.
«Could it then be the case that the prehistoric civilization governed by the gods, which endured from their genetic engineering of mankind about 750,000 years ago until the collapse of Atlantis 12,000 years ago, set up some kind of system to time the births of various types of people as part of classifying them into the caste hierarchy that was a feature of this society?» — su primera explicación de la astrología: un sistema de clasificación por castas mediante el momento del nacimiento.
«Then again, as I have suggested before, the efficacy of astrology could just be evidence for our living inside of some simulacrum that, because it is Earth-centered, renders the planets and the star constellations of the zodiac much more meaningful parts of the game’s logic than they would be if we were living in a holographic universe as vast as the Cosmos that we believe we perceive through the Hubble telescope.» — su segunda explicación: la astrología como lógica interna de un cosmos geocéntrico programado.
«It is believed that DMT is naturally produced near death, and some have speculated that its flooding of the brain at this time is responsible for the visions seen in NDEs.» — la explicación química de las ECM, expuesta antes de acotarla.
«According to the Alien Information Theory of Andrew Gallimore, unlike other psychedelics, DMT blocks out normal sensory input altogether rather than merely modifying it, but it also affords access to a higher level of the computational cosmos than the cosmic game that we are living inside of now.» — la teoría de Andrew Gallimore, atribuida con su nombre.
«The problem with both Gallimore and Virk is their unjustified assumption that the programmers of the cosmic game are benevolent, and their attribution of more agency to us within the context of this “game” than the Close Encounter phenomenon suggests that we have.» — su objeción a Gallimore y a Virk.
«Virk even considers NDEs and UFO encounters, together with older accounts of “revelations” bestowed by angels, as evidence for our existing inside of some information processing system similar to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.» — la posición de Rizwan Virk, expuesta y no suscrita.
«Voices counting off meaningless numbers also cut in on TV reception in UFO flap areas.» — las voces numéricas en zonas de oleada, que enlaza con las estaciones de números.
«The Collins Elite still exists today, albeit with a new generation of members.» — sitúa a la Collins Elite en presente.
«They came to believe that the seemingly advanced craft, the apparent medical examinations, hybridization program, and so forth, were all ruses and disguises of the Devil.» — la lectura demonológica del grupo, expuesta sin suscribirla.
«Understand that these high-level military and intelligence officers were not particularly pious to begin with, but what they found over decades of studying the phenomenon — with card blanche access to all that the US government knew about Close Encounters — turned them into deeply religious and profoundly terrified men.» — el itinerario de esos oficiales, con la grafía *card blanche* de la fuente.
«Any “Disclosure” of what they really knew about Close Encounters would be spun, by the phenomenon itself, as “alien contact” if not an “alien invasion.”» — el temor que atribuye a la Collins Elite sobre la Divulgación.
«Second, if this chaos could be contained and shaped into a new order at all, it would most certainly have to be under the reign of a single World Government, founded on a new religion “beyond good and evil” and a “paradigm shift” to a worldview beyond both Abrahamic revelations and materialist modern science.» — el segundo desenlace que ese grupo teme, y que coincide con su propia tesis política.
«They considered it, and they still consider it, their sacred duty to hold back this Beast.» — el deber que ese grupo se atribuye, expuesto como suyo.
«Fort speculated that these beings have access to our spatio-temporal dimension through a “Super-Sargasso Sea.”» — el Mar de los Sargazos Superior de Fort, que él convierte en vórtice espaciotemporal.
«Fort was already onto the idea that the Close Encounter phenomenon involves some complex manipulation of space-time on Earth by beings who can travel in space but are not extraterrestrials.» — la anticipación que atribuye a Fort de su propia tesis.
«Fort referred to the Bermuda Triangle by its old name, the Sargasso Sea.» — la identificación geográfica de ese término.
«He thinks that the phenomenon is associated with some kind of Trickster whose behavior can range from the display of wonder-evoking marvels to mischievous pranks to downright horrific malevolence.» — el Trickster de Fort, con su rango de conducta.
«It is true that C. G. Jung beat Keel and Vallée to this thesis by almost a decade, but no one in UFO research took him seriously at the time.» — la prioridad de Jung sobre Keel y Vallée, y su falta de recepción.
«The second section of this chapter will identify various aspects of the Close Encounter phenomenon that are not produced by the Nordic Breakaway Civilization, but are instead manifestations of the Trickster.» — el deslinde que estructura el capítulo: qué es de los nórdicos y qué del Trickster.
«It is in his fifth and final thesis that we see Charles Fort as nothing less than a revolutionary philosopher of science who is thinking along similar lines as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend would think — but even more boldly and more than half a century in advance of them.» — Fort como filósofo de la ciencia anterior a Kuhn y a Feyerabend.
«This fifth thesis is that there are no “Laws of Nature” but only habitual patterns of organization that form Chaos into a Cosmos based on the subconscious structure of the collective psyche of beings such as ourselves (including the all-too-human “gods,” “angels,” and “demons” that have been piloting UFOs and treating us like cattle).» — la quinta tesis de Fort: las leyes naturales como hábitos de la psique colectiva.
«There could, for example, be a world where it is possible for us to routinely pass through what we now take to be “solid” objects — although such an experience of “reality” might become quite disorienting.» — la consecuencia que extrae de esa tesis.
«The “atoms” that constitute these seemingly “solid” objects do not really exist.» — la negación del átomo como ente, dentro de ese marco.
«At its most fundamental, or rather at its most abyssal, level the quantum potential of the Cosmos is an energetic Chaos — a seething, dynamic medium — that inextricably interacts with the psyche, albeit on a subconscious and collective (or inter-subjective) level, in order to shape what we take to be “reality.”» — la formulación completa de su ontología del caos y la psique.
«Fort develops the idea that beings and things from another dimension might cross over into ours in a way that presents us with as much of a mystery as deep-sea creatures are confronted with by beings from the Earth’s surface coming down into their medium.» — la analogía abisal de Fort para el cruce dimensional.
«Fort suggests, before any other well-known writer, that rather than coming from other planets, some of the aerial phenomena may be “coming to this earth… like things rising to an attenuated medium — and exploding — sometimes incandescently” as they cross over into our spatio-temporal dimension in certain regions.» — la prioridad de Fort sobre el origen no planetario del fenómeno, con su cita textual.
«As we have seen, sometimes such disappearing people reappear in another place and time.» — el enlace con las desapariciones de su capítulo cuarto.
«He envisions this thing as a trans-medium super-organism, one with a “shape-shifting power” from which all of the distinct paranormal abilities that we encounter are derived — as aspects or subsets of it.» — el superorganismo transmedio de Fort como raíz única de lo paranormal.
«The games that this kind of hyperdimensional shape-shifter plays, with its capacities for transubstantiation, are often quite diabolical.» — el carácter que atribuye a esos juegos.
«Fort is talking about cases of supposedly “spontaneous combustion,” which he does not think are so “spontaneous.”» — la combustión humana en la lectura de Fort.
«Fort documents a number of such cases that took place in Northumberland, England, in the winter of 1904–1905. To his mind, they represent the use of pyro-kinesis on hapless humans — or rather, the transubstantiation of human cells into fire — by some Thing that finds this all terribly funny, maybe because it occasionally becomes bored to death by the spectacle of human life on this planet or in this time.» — el caso de Northumberland y el aburrimiento como móvil, en la lectura de Fort.
«Fort makes an analogy to the camouflage capacity of certain insects, which is also relevant to the evolutionary dimension of these remarks on psycho-physical “trans-medium” capacities, insofar as the word “imagination” comes from the word imago for the perfect form of an insect as compared to its larval stage:» — la etimología de *imaginación* a partir de *imago*, que él usa como puente.
«Fort lamented that in the Biology of his time, when Darwinism was just becoming the established theory, “there is no place for the influence of the future upon the present.”887» — la crítica de Fort al darwinismo; el 887 es la llamada de nota, que el troceo deja pegada.
«We accept the process of Selection, not to anything loosely known as Environment,” Fort writes in a critique of Darwin, “but relative to underlying Schedule and Design, predetermined and supervised, as it were, but by nothing that we conceive in anthropomorphic terms.”889» — la selección referida a un designio no antropomorfo, en palabras de Fort.
«embryonic Development” to which the human beings are being subjected as “cellular units” by “one integrating organism,” whose pulse can be felt in various paranormal phenomena» — el desarrollo superembrionario de Fort; el tramo arranca dentro de *Super-embryonic*, que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«This super-organism from the future is pulling us towards it like a magnetic attractor.» — la causa final que reemplaza a la selección natural en ese esquema.
«we can safely assume that there are at least as many hyperdimensional bases under the oceans as there are on land.» — la inferencia sobre las bases submarinas.
«A group of 33 scientists from prestigious research institutions in 12 different countries collaborated on a paper that argues that the genetic structure of the Octopus (and perhaps other cephalopods, such as the giant squid) is more complex than anything that could have evolved on Earth up until the present.» — el artículo colectivo sobre el genoma del pulpo, con su respaldo institucional.
«The octopus has 33,000 protein-coding sequences in its genome, which is more than Homo sapiens.» — la cifra que compara con el genoma humano.
«Unlike humans, an octopus does not have a centralized brain and nervous system.» — el rasgo neurológico que le interesa: la inteligencia distribuida.
«The octopus represents the most radically divergent evolutionary path to intelligence that we see in any non-human organism, with a mind that can be at all favorably compared to that of Homo sapiens — and they are very intelligent and playful.» — el pulpo como la otra vía posible a la inteligencia.
«As early as the third century CE, the Roman author Claudius Aelianus noted that: “Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature.”895» — Claudio Eliano sobre el pulpo, citado para ligarlo al Trickster.
«The reason that octopuses do not do as well as some other animals with laboratory experiments, such as intelligence tests, is that unlike other relatively stupid lab animals, including so-called “higher” primates like chimpanzees, octopuses get bored with repetitive tasks very quickly.» — el aburrimiento del pulpo como explicación de sus malos resultados de laboratorio.
«They are curious, flexible, adventurous and opportunistic.» — los rasgos de carácter que le adjudica.
«Their tentacles afford them the ability to manipulate objects, and it has been noted that octopuses can create and disassemble compound objects.» — la manipulación de objetos compuestos como capacidad técnica.
«In effect, they are technologically capable in ways that exceed the capacities of birds and other non-primates.» — la comparación técnica con otros animales.
«When they do get bored, octopuses also tend to become hostile in a mischievous way. They learn how to turn the lights out in the laboratory by squirting water at electrical sockets, and they will also squirt individual lab workers that they particularly dislike.» — las travesuras de laboratorio, que él lee como rasgo de Trickster.
«They can easily recognize individual humans, and are capable of holding grudges.» — el reconocimiento individual y el rencor.
«They will sometimes show contempt by dumping down the drain any food that is given to them that they consider beneath their standard.» — la escena del desprecio deliberado.
«Not only can they walk across floors, they can even open door handles.» — las capacidades motrices fuera del agua.
«Those who are just fed up with captivity will find ingenious ways to escape — in some cases even reaching the ocean.» — las fugas de cautividad.
«This is easy for them to do, because an octopus does not have any bones in its body and can consequently morph into any shape and get through any hole that is not smaller than the size of its eyeball.» — la plasticidad corporal, que él hará resonar con el cambiaformas.
«The octopus is like a CRISPR genetic engineer who can recode not just the colors but also the textures of its skin (not to mention totally change the shape of its body), virtually instantaneously, by making split-second decisions with respect to the environment and engagement with predators or prey.» — el pulpo como ingeniero genético en tiempo real.
«Octopuses get into fights with one another, and they enjoy wrestling matches that reinforce their dominance hierarchy.» — la conducta social agonística.
«Contrary to earlier assumptions about them being solitary animals, it was recently discovered that octopuses can come together in social groupings; these groups are capable of coordinating to take down sharks together and feast on them.» — la corrección del supuesto de la soledad del pulpo.
«For all of these reasons, and more, evolutionary biologists think that the octopus could not simply have evolved in a linear fashion from the nautilus that lived in Earth’s primordial oceans.» — la conclusión de los biólogos que él recoge.
«The 33 authors of the scientific paper, published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, propose that “it is plausible then to suggest [these inexplicably transformative genes] seem to be borrowed from a far distant ‘future’ in terms of terrestrial evolution, or more realistically from the cosmos at large.”» — la frase del artículo, con el corchete que él intercala.
«They add that such “an extraterrestrial origin as an explanation of emergence of course runs counter to the prevailing dominant paradigm.”» — la reserva paradigmática que los propios autores declaran.
«It should be added to the above that because, like all cephalopods (including giant squids), the octopus is an invertebrate, it barely leaves any identifiable traces in the fossil record.» — el argumento sobre la ausencia de registro fósil.
«Let us, however, focus on that other possibility that was so briefly raised by these scientists, only to be as quickly dismissed, as an alternative to their panspermia-type theory that the octopus is an extraterrestrial alien.» — el giro con que prefiere la hipótesis temporal a la panspermia.
«Why would the latter be “more realistic” than that the extraordinary characteristics of the octopus were “borrowed from a far distant ‘future’ in terms of terrestrial evolution” if, as we have seen, time travel is regularly taking place in the oceans?» — la pregunta con que invierte la jerarquía de verosimilitud.
«Sanderson is not correct in thinking that the UFO (or USO) phenomenon in general can be explained by some undiscovered submarine culture of Other Intelligences (OINTS).» — el deslinde que hace de Ivan Sanderson.
«However, his remarks on the possibility of the development of technology underwater, including the use of fire and metallurgy, are profoundly illuminating and unexpected.» — lo que sí le concede a Sanderson.
«It is possible both to weld metal and to pour concrete, or its equivalent, underwater.» — el dato técnico que sostiene esa posibilidad.
«“If a superior technological type of intelligent civilization developed on this planet under water, they would likely have gotten much farther ahead than we have,” says Sanderson.» — la frase de Sanderson, citada con verbo de decir.
«When he adds, “…having several millions, and possibly up to a billion years’ headstart on us…,” he is not even considering the possibility that is being considered here, namely that this species, like the octopus, is from far in the evolutionary future of Earth and traveled through spatio-temporal vortices back to a time 270 million years before our present.» — dónde se aparta de Sanderson: el origen es futuro, no antiguo.
«Before pursuing that line of speculation, there is one last extraordinary — one might say, preternatural — ability of the octopus that mainstream scientists have not studied out of fear for the consequences to their careers, but said ability has, nonetheless, been repeatedly demonstrated.» — anuncia la facultad psíquica del pulpo y el silencio académico que le atribuye.
«Well, it turns out that the octopus is the most psychic animal on Earth that we know of.» — la afirmación en una línea.
«“Paul” was an octopus at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who was born in 2008 and, sadly, only lived to be two years old.» — presenta al pulpo Paul con su lugar y sus fechas.
«But in those two years, from 2008 to 2010, Paul used precognitive ESP to correctly predict 12 out of 14 outcomes of soccer matches.» — la cifra de aciertos, atribuida a percepción extrasensorial precognitiva.
«What is most interesting is that he seemed to hesitate a bit, as if he was tuning in on the signal of the future outcome, trying to process it clearly, before making a definitive choice.» — el detalle de la duda del pulpo, leído como sintonía con el futuro.
«It is, in itself, a demonstration of his psychic ability that no one ever had to explain to him what they wanted of him in these guessing games.» — el argumento telepático que suma al precognitivo.
«Such “physical mediums” (as they are called in Parapsychology) have also formed objects out of ectoplasm, including hands unconnected to any body that are capable of shaking hands with people sitting at a séance table» — los médiums físicos y el ectoplasma; la frase sigue con una palabra que la fuente parte con guion al fin de renglón.
«The Thing would certainly be able to fly through the air by means of levitation, albeit camouflaged, or teleport from place to place, or materialize objects and even simulacra of people — or of “aliens” — out of ectoplasm (whatever that is), and to psychically project any thought or emotion into a person’s mind.» — el repertorio de la Cosa, deducido del de los médiums; el paréntesis escéptico sobre el ectoplasma es suyo.
«Conversely, it could read the thoughts and intentions of humans even before they formed, in other words, pre-cognitively.» — la lectura precognitiva de la intención, que es la clave del Trickster.
«The UFO hotspot of the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah is one place where evidence of such a pre-cognitively sentient Trickster has been studied by a team of scientists.» — el rancho como laboratorio de esa hipótesis.
«Dr. John B. Alexander (Colonel, Retired), one of the members of the NIDS scientific team put together by billionaire Robert Bigelow, developed a concept for the anticipatory character of this Trickster.» — presenta a John B. Alexander y su concepto del carácter anticipatorio.
«The NIDS scientists realized that the phenomena on the ranch seemed to adjust the area in which they manifested based on where a new camera was set up.» — el fenómeno que se desplaza según dónde se ponga la cámara.
«Consequently, everything paranormal would always occur just outside the surveillance field of any of the cameras.» — la regularidad que da por firma del Trickster.
«In less than two seconds, the wiring that ran up the pole of one of the cameras was cut to pieces, thereby disabling that camera, and all of the duct tape affixing these wires to the camera’s pole was removed, in full view of another camera pointed in the direction of this pole, and yet the time-stamped surveillance footage does not show anyone or anything having done this at the time that the camera that had been targeted went offline.» — el episodio de la cámara saboteada, con el detalle temporal completo.
«The Devil really is in the details here, so it is worth noting the specific features of this incident as recounted by Colonel Alexander:» — declara que va a citar a Alexander en detalle.
«Coincidentally, the cattle just happened to have been grazing right around the camera one pole at that same moment.» — el detalle del ganado, que da por parte de la burla.
«Considering the amount of physical damage that occurred, for the entire event to have happened in a little over a second (or between video frames) is simply out of the question.» — el argumento de imposibilidad física del episodio.
«That 5-D Thing would still have to be invisible while it cut into our 4-D time continuum to do the damage to camera one.» — la explicación pentadimensional que propone.
«The Thing appeared to run through the herd, because the panicked cattle stampeded in two different directions, parting “like the Red Sea,” to let it pass in between them.» — la escena de la estampida, con la comparación bíblica de la fuente.
«Close Encounters with this kind of Predator are not exclusive to Skinwalker Ranch.» — la generalización del caso.
«It is worthy of note that skilled hunters are among the most perceptive people, and that the senses of hearing and eyesight are keenest when engaged in hunting.» — el argumento sobre la fiabilidad del testigo cazador.
«The encounter lasted 9 to 12 seconds.» — la duración precisa del caso que narra.
«She is puzzled by her lack of reaction.» — el detalle de la ausencia de reacción, que él lee como manipulación emocional.
«According to Matthew, just as it was getting dark (between 6 and 7 pm), the entire band practice team (30 to 40 high school kids) was out on the field — the band that Jan had heard playing from her deer stand.» — el testimonio colectivo que corrobora el caso.
«The band and their coach looked up and saw a huge “candle orange” ball of light hovering close to the ground, just above the tree line and the big stadium lights of the football field.» — la esfera anaranjada vista por decenas de testigos.
«After Bruce Maccabee told his wife what was described in this email, she suddenly remembered to tell him about what had happened to her in the woods.» — la amnesia diferida de la testigo, que es lo que a él le importa del caso.
«The Maccabees examined the photo that Jan had attempted take.» — la fotografía como objeto de peritaje; la fuente omite el *to*.
«Bruce Maccabee called Blackberry technicians to confirm that the only possible camera resolution settings on this phone are 1200X1600, 768X1024, 480X640.» — la comprobación técnica sobre la resolución del teléfono.
«So the Predator is not limited to the UFO hotspot of Skinwalker Ranch, nor are the predatory phenomena in the Uinta Basin limited to this particular manifestation of the Trickster that the Ute Indians call the “Skinwalker.”» — el deslinde entre el Predator y el Skinwalker de los ute.
«These orbs, which evade flashlight beams by expertly moving in between tree branches at high speed, are clearly under intelligent control, and are not anything like the “ball lightning” that debunkers so often appeal to whenever “swamp gas” does not suffice to explain away a sighting.» — los orbes como agentes inteligentes, contra la explicación del rayo globular.
«The orb teased the three dogs in a way that lured them toward a cluster of trees, a couple of hundred yards away from where Gorman was sitting.» — el episodio de los perros de la familia Gorman.
«A few moments later, Gorman heard the most bone-chilling yelps that he had ever heard from any animal.» — el sonido, en el relato del testigo.
«Then, dead silence. Not just from the dogs, but from everything on the ranch, like the eerie quiet often associated with Close Encounters.» — el silencio total, que él ya había fijado como signo del fenómeno.
«When they did not return to the homestead by the next morning, Gorman went into that cluster of trees, where, about ten yards in, he found a clearing where the vegetation had shriveled and where there were three circles, each full of an amorphous greasy black mass that stank like incinerated dog.» — el hallazgo de los restos, descrito sin atenuar.
«Within a few seconds, the orb had reduced several of man’s best friends to stinking grease spots.» — el resumen del episodio en una línea.
«To be fair, before the dogs were turned into gelatinous blobs, the Gormans had repeatedly been warned by the phenomenon that they were not welcome and should leave the property.» — el aviso previo, que él consigna como atenuante del fenómeno.
«What is even more disturbing, and surely too disturbing for most Ufologists to accept, is that these are the very same orbs apparently responsible for producing the magnificently beautiful crop formations that appear overnight in wheat fields.» — la identificación entre los orbes homicidas y los que trazan los círculos de las cosechas.
«Some witnesses have even watched the crop circles and other geometric formations take shape underneath these orbs as they hover over the fields at night.» — los testigos que dicen haber visto formarse el dibujo bajo los orbes.
«Sometimes a single orb will split into several before the three of them begin producing the design, indenting the crops in a way that is visible to observers in real time by the light of the Moon.» — el detalle de la división del orbe durante la operación.
«Electrostatic sounds are also heard in connection with the sightings of these orbs over fields just before the crop formations appear.» — el sonido electrostático como signo previo.
«People who have been conned by debunkers into believing that hoaxers with boards on their feet are responsible for all crop formations, or even for most of them, are not at all familiar with the strong scientific evidence against this lame explanation.» — su respuesta a la explicación por falsificadores.
«Dr. W. C. Levengood, a Michigan biophysicist, has studied crops where formations have appeared.» — presenta a Levengood como la fuente científica del argumento.
«Levengood found at least a handful of indications that no human methodology or known natural phenomenon could have produced the vast majority of these formations.» — la conclusión que le atribuye.
«First, biochemical alterations occur in the plants two to three weeks before a formation appears in the field where those plants are growing, as if the fields are pre-marked for a formation.» — el primero de esos indicios: el campo marcado con semanas de antelación.
«Second, the growth nodes of the plants that are part of a formation have been ruptured or reoriented in a way that could only be produced by their being subjected to “a spinning plasma vortex with a microwave component and complex lower-energy ion-electron pulses” within only “a few seconds” so that there is no charring from prolonged microwave heating.» — el segundo indicio, con las frases técnicas citadas del estudio.
«What all of this amounts to is the likelihood that something is able to reach into the upper atmosphere of our planet, and draw down plasmas from there.» — la conclusión que extrae de ese conjunto.
«These plasmas are used like paint to print the beautifully complex geometric designs onto these fields.» — la imagen de la pintura con plasma.
«Abductees will sometimes collect images and statues of owls before they undergo hypnotic regression and realize that they have been having Close Encounters.» — la fijación con los búhos previa al recuerdo de la abducción.
«Sometimes, in the middle of the night, a person will see an owl intently staring at him through his window all night long, but then check the snow on his rooftop the next morning, only to find that there are no owl tracks.» — el búho sin huellas, que da por prueba de que no es un ave.
«It was an injured great horned owl that had fallen from its nest and that Arnold’s daughter had convinced him to nurse back to health.» — el detalle del búho en la casa de Kenneth Arnold, con que abre la sección.
«Mack referred to the appearance and behavior of these owls as a “reified metaphor” or a quasi-metaphoric meaning-structure manifesting tangibly as a phenomenon of the natural world.» — la fórmula de John E. Mack sobre la metáfora reificada, que él adopta.
Sobre la obra
150 entradas — lo que el aparato y la investigación dicen de ella«Copyright © 2021 by Arktos Media Ltd.» — pie editorial, Londres 2021, ISBN 978-1-914208-38-6 (Softcover).
«Editing Constantin von Hoffmeister Cover and Layout Tor Westman» — aparato de la edición.
«This book is dedicated to the memory of Marvel ‘Jack' Whiteside Parsons, a true American pioneer of the final frontier. Per Aspera Ad Astra, Frater.» — dedicatoria con carga doctrinal: la fórmula «Frater» inscribe al dedicatario en el círculo thelémico.
«The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.» — epígrafe: apertura de *The Call of Cthulhu*, de H. P. Lovecraft, firmada al pie.
«The alternative hypothesis that Ufos are something psychic that is endowed with certain physical properties seems even less probable, for where should such a thing come from?» — voz de C. G. Jung, citado en bloque desde *Flying Saucers*; la grafía «Ufos» es la del bloque citado.
«Here our knowledge leaves us completely in the lurch, and it is therefore pointless to speculate any further in this direction.» — cierre de la misma cita de Jung; es la frase que la obra objeta en la línea siguiente.
«His adoption of racist ideas, his anti-Semitism, and the Nuremberg race laws forbidding intermarriage and sexual relations between Aryans and Jews convinced Savitri Devi that he intended the revival of the Aryan caste system on a global basis» — cita en bloque de una fuente que el cuerpo no nombra, remitida solo por la nota 733. No es prosa del autor y no se ficha como tal.
«Däniken, Erich von. Chariots of the Gods (Berkley Books, 1999).» — la bibliografía cita la misma edición que este repo tiene digerida.
«both Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin would write books focusing on this connection» — la única mención de Däniken en el cuerpo, a propósito del vínculo entre los pilotos y el oro.
«Harpur, Patrick. Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (Pine Winds Press, 2003).» — otra obra de nuestro eje INH dentro de esta.
«Jung, C. G. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Princeton University Press, 1991).» — la bibliografía recoge además el *Aion*, la *Synchronicity* y «On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure»; en la p. 298 recoge a Jacques Vallée (*Messengers of Deception*, *Passport to Magonia* y, con Chris Aubeck, *Wonders in the Sky*), y *Trinity* aparece en nota (p. 1325). Cuatro obras del eje INH aparecen citadas aquí.
«Other Books Published by Arktos» — encabezado del catálogo del editor (EPUB pp. 300-306), donde figuran Evola, Alain de Benoist, Savitri Devi, Abir Taha, Koenraad Elst y decenas más. No son citas del autor.
«This charming bride was one of those vampires popularly called lamias or she-demons. They are very fond of love, and even fonder of human flesh. They use seduction to lure those whom they plan to devour» — Filóstrato sobre las lamias, citado por Roger Caillois y reproducido por Jorjani: tres voces encajadas.
«He thought that phenomena such as superposition and entanglement could “make reasonable almost any miracle” and that the “quantum theory is a doctrine of magic” or “an attempted systematization of the principles of magic,” such that Physics was becoming “occultism» — Charles Fort leyendo la física cuántica como ocultismo; el marco es del autor y las frases entrecomilladas son de Fort.
«The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin… it will be utterly conscienceless, cruel, helpless, affectionate and ambitious… intuitively aware of truth» — Aleister Crowley sobre el Nuevo Eón, en cita de bloque.
«The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age» — continuación del epígrafe de Lovecraft, que es donde está la advertencia que el libro adopta como programa: reunir los saberes dispersos abre vistas insoportables.
«That having been said, I was not a parapsychologist either when I wrote Prometheus and Atlas (Arktos, 2016) which went on to win the book award of the Parapsychological Association (a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science) and to be hailed by some within the field as the most important contribution to Parapsychology in many years.» — Jorjani hablando de sí y de su obra anterior: así funda su autoridad sobre el asunto pese a declararse ajeno al gremio.
«On March 22, 2021, now former DNI Ratcliff had this to say on FOX News sometime after the 180-day countdown to disclosure had begun, “Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public… all over the world… There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen.» — declaración televisiva de John Ratcliff, reproducida por Jorjani; la grafía del apellido y los puntos suspensivos son de la fuente.
«Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion.» — texto del informe preliminar del Pentágono citado en bloque; la grafía *discernable* es la del documento.
«UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may post a challenge to U.S. national security.» — otra frase del mismo informe, con la errata *may post* tal como la reproduce la fuente.
«We currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary.» — cierre del pasaje citado del informe, que es el que Jorjani lee como coartada.
«The bottom line is if there are things flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they aren’t yours and they are exhibiting — potentially — technologies that you don’t have at your own disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one that we should be looking into.» — declaración del senador Marco Rubio a la prensa, citada en bloque por Jorjani.
«When we came up on the triangular-shaped craft, there were blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior as though part of the surface and the air around us were [sic] electrically charged. We could feel it on our clothes, skin, and hair. It felt like static electricity, which made your hair stand up and dance on your skin. But there was no sound at all coming from the craft. Nothing in my training prepared me for what we were witnessing. This was no type of aircraft that I’d ever seen before» — testimonio del coronel Charles Halt sobre Rendlesham Forest, citado en bloque; el *[sic]* es marca de Jorjani dentro de la cita.
«On one side of the craft were symbols that measured about three inches high and two and a half feet across. These symbols were pictorial in design; the largest symbol was a triangle, which was centered in the middle of the others. They were etched into the surface of the craft. I put my hand on the craft, and it was warm to the touch. The surface was smooth, like glass, but it had the quality of metal» — continuación del mismo bloque de Halt, con los signos que él comparó con jeroglíficos y dibujó para el Ministerio de Defensa.
«The people who hope for an imminent “Disclosure” about UFOs, and who are making valiant efforts to document the phenomenon, should take one important fact into account: Disclosure could only come from the same organizations that are in charge of the security brief itself. And those organizations have their own agenda and constraints, which may be regrettable but possibly legitimate» — apertura de la cita en bloque de Jacques Vallée sobre la Divulgación, en vísperas del informe de junio de 2021.
«A government entity or its classified contractors can claim to know the answers and confuse the issues with impunity. It can even come up with fake disclosures to feed the public’s thirst for what passes for “truth” and the media’s excitement to promote it, in the interest of what may be perceived as a higher good» — sigue el mismo bloque de Vallée, con la posibilidad de divulgaciones falsas.
«Any Disclosure will be managed by the same groups that have safely managed the dossier for the last 75 years, and they can spin it to their liking, claiming that the military must retain control. They can also re-position it in any shape and context they want through the multiple “cut-outs” they can create out of thin air to send us into blind alleys. That’s what they do» — cierre del bloque de Vallée; es la posición que Jorjani hace suya en el resto del capítulo.
«Our thesis is that the origins of this taboo are political.» — apertura de la cita en bloque de Alexander Wendt y Raymond Duvall, *Sovereignty and the UFO*.
«On the most obvious level, acceptance of the possibility that the UFO is truly unidentified, and that therefore an unknown, very powerful “other” might actually exist, represents a potential physical threat.» — primera de las tres amenazas que enumeran Wendt y Duvall en el mismo bloque.
«has the ability to visit Earth, then it has vastly superior technology to human beings, which raises the possibility of colonization or even extermination.» — continuación del bloque de Wendt y Duvall; el tramo arranca a mitad de oración, después del corte de plana.
«governments may also be reacting to the possibility that a confirmation of extraterrestrial presence would create tremendous pressure for a world government, which today’s territorial states would be loath to form.» — segunda amenaza del mismo bloque: la presión hacia un gobierno mundial.
«Third, however, and in our view most important, the extraterrestrial possibility calls into question what we call the anthropocentric nature of modern sovereignty.» — tercera amenaza, la que Wendt y Duvall dan por más grave.
«Significantly, it is on this anthropocentric basis that modern states are able to command exceptional loyalty and resources from their subjects.» — sigue el bloque de Wendt y Duvall.
«Because a possible explanation for the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial, taking UFOs seriously calls this deeply held assumption into question.» — sigue el mismo bloque.
«Our contention is that the political survival of the modern state depends on that question not being politically salient.» — cierre del bloque de Wendt y Duvall, que es la frase de la que Jorjani parte para su propio capítulo.
«I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that thousands did see what happened from other areas of the city.» — palabras de una testigo del caso de Nueva York, citadas por Jorjani.
«I may not have seen anything if it weren’t for the bright lights.» — continuación del mismo testimonio, sobre por qué reparó en la escena.
«It burned my arms and hurt very much, but I was too afraid to let go.» — palabras de Januncio De Souza sobre el haz de luz, citadas por Jorjani.
«If it had lasted any longer, I believe I would’ve died because it was so very hot.» — cierre del mismo testimonio de Januncio.
«I thought it was going to take me away. It was an incredible light and was like a vacuum cleaner that was trying to suck me up. I felt they were trying to suck me up into that hole. I couldn’t stand the light. It hurt my eyes very much. I looked up and saw the people but had to turn away because I couldn’t stand the light. I think there was one woman and two men. There was one with long shoulder-length red hair [emphasis added], anyway. One of the men looked at me like this. [Beato gave a disdainful shrug.] He was looking at me as if I wasn’t very interesting. I had the impression the other two were looking beyond me, elsewhere» — testimonio de Beato citado en bloque; el *[emphasis added]* y la acotación entre corchetes sobre el gesto son marcas de Jorjani dentro de la cita.
«National security has many facets and the powers that be are themselves pushing out in the direction of space and of anti-gravity. Also, they know they have an enemy. And they do not know how far the enemy may have gone in this general field of a new form of power and propulsion. They do know that at the close of the war all the German scientists with knowledge did not come to this country» — cita en bloque de George Adamski, *Inside the Spaceships* (1955), que Jorjani lee como escritura esotérica.
«On other worlds, Firkon [one of the Space Brothers] concluded, evolution proceeds smoothly.» — cita del libro de Adamski; el corchete que identifica a Firkon es interpolación de Jorjani.
«Is there a copy of you reading this article, a person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields, and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets.» — cita del físico Max Tegmark sobre los universos paralelos, reproducida por Jorjani para rebatirla.
«We’re not sure of our position. We can’t be sure just where we are.» — palabras de la tripulación del vuelo perdido sobre el Triángulo de las Bermudas, citadas por Jorjani.
«If you are going to launch an artificial sputnik [satellite], then it is advisable to make it hollow. …Probably the shell is a double-layered affair — the basis a dense armoring of about 20 miles in thickness, and outside it some kind of more loosely packed covering (a thinner layer — averaging about three miles).» — cita en bloque de Mikhail Vasin y Alexander Shcherbakov, de la Academia Soviética de Ciencias; el corchete que aclara *satellite* es interpolación de Jorjani.
«It’s interesting because I tried to relate them in my own mind to structures here on Earth, and they don’t compare to anything that you see here in scale and structure.» — testimonio del sargento Karl Wolfe sobre las estructuras del mosaico lunar, citado en bloque.
«Some of the buildings seemed to have very reflective surfaces on them.» — continuación del mismo testimonio de Wolfe.
«Someone else at Ground Control remarked that the “astronauts must be talking to somebody strange now.”» — comentario de control de tierra durante una misión Apolo, citado por Jorjani.
«We have had an object which is in the same place all the time and appears to be tumbling.» — transmisión de una misión Apolo sobre el objeto que la seguía, reproducida por Jorjani.
«His demand for German national unity in a strong new Reich in defiance of the humiliating Versailles Treaty clearly identified him as a champion of the old tribal principle against the degenerate capitalist and cosmopolitan world of the Allies.» — apertura de la cita en bloque de la p. 168, remitida solo por nota; no es prosa del autor y no se ficha como tal.
«His ruthless use of military violence against his enemies in a resistant fallen world… identified him as the essential Man against Time.» — cierre de la misma cita en bloque, con los puntos suspensivos de la fuente.
«It was as if the elements had been unleashed.» — verso del *Mahabharata* citado por Jorjani como descripción de un arma nuclear antigua.
«Never before have we seen such a ghastly weapon and never before have we heard of such a weapon.» — continuación de la misma cita del *Mahabharata*.
«When the atheists, after being well versed in the Vedic scientific knowledge, annihilate the inhabitants of different planets, flying unseen in the sky on well-built vimanas prepared by the great scientist Maya, the Lord will bewilder their minds by dressing himself attractively as Buddha and will preach on subreligious principles.» — cita en bloque del *Bhagavata Purana*, reproducida por Jorjani; la grafía *subreligious* es la de la traducción que usa.
«The vimana occupied by Shâlva was very mysterious.» — cita de la fuente sánscrita sobre el vimana del rey Shâlva.
«It was so extraordinary that sometimes many aircraft would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes there were apparently none.» — continuación de la misma cita sánscrita.
«Here is what mainstream naturalist Loren Eiseley had to say about this: There’s just one thing we haven’t quite dared to mention.» — apertura de la cita en bloque del naturalista Loren Eiseley sobre el cráneo de Boskop.
«His brain was bigger than your brain.» — sigue la cita de Eiseley.
«When the skull is studied in projection and ratios computed, we find that these… folk… have the amazing cranium-to-face ratio of almost five to one.» — sigue la cita de Eiseley, con los puntos suspensivos de la fuente.
«It is a face that would lend reality to the fantastic tales of our childhood.» — sigue la cita de Eiseley.
«It is a caricature of modern man, not by reason of its primitiveness, but, startlingly, because of a modernity outstretching his own.» — sigue la cita de Eiseley.
«It constitutes, in fact, a mysterious prophecy and warning.» — cierre de la cita de Eiseley.
«They might have been “excessively internal and self-reflective,” as Gary Lynch and Richard Granger speculate, “with their perhaps-astonishing insights, they have become a species of dreamers…» — cita de Gary Lynch y Richard Granger sobre los Boskop, con la fuente declarada en la frase.
«I think he’s a vast, black, brooding vampire.» — frase de Charles Fort sobre el Dios bíblico, citada por Jorjani.
«Thus the Lord scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.» — pasaje del Génesis sobre Babel, citado por Jorjani.
«He replied, “Very well, I will grant you this favor too, and I will not annihilate the town of which you have spoken. Hurry, flee to there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”» — pasaje del Génesis sobre la huida de Lot a Zoar, citado por Jorjani.
«He annihilated those cities and the entire Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.» — pasaje del Génesis sobre la destrucción de Sodoma y Gomorra.
«Lot’s wife looked back, and she thereupon turned into a pillar of salt.» — pasaje del Génesis sobre la mujer de Lot.
«However, in the opening lines of the Lord’s greatest decree to Israel, in fire and smoke upon Mount Sinai, we learn that those who violate the laws of the Lord thereby place a curse upon their blood descendants, which endures for centuries, while the grandchildren of the righteous are graciously rewarded for no good deeds of their own: “I the Lord your God am an impassioned [or jealous] God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and fourth generations of those who reject Me, but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.”» — pasaje del Éxodo citado por Jorjani, con el corchete que él intercala para la traducción de *impassioned*.
«When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod, and he dies there and then, he must be avenged. But if he survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, since he is the other’s property.» — pasaje del Éxodo sobre el esclavo golpeado, citado por Jorjani.
«women, one half of the human race, were in the last analysis the most prized property of their fathers, husbands and masters.» — cita de una fuente sobre la condición de la mujer en el código bíblico, reproducida por Jorjani.
«that it is a commandment whose violation is punishable by death: “He who insults his father or his mother shall be put to death.”» — pasaje del Éxodo citado por Jorjani sobre la honra a los padres.
«It is to be a day “...of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.”» — pasaje del Éxodo sobre el sábado, citado por Jorjani.
«Now the Jordan keeps flowing over its entire bed throughout the harvest season.» — pasaje del libro de Josué sobre el Jordán, citado por Jorjani.
«But as soon as the bearers of the Ark reached the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the Ark dipped into the water at its edge, the waters coming down from upstream piled up in a single heap a great way off, at Adam, the town next to Zarethan; and those flowing away downstream to the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) ran out completely.» — continuación del mismo pasaje de Josué sobre el corte de las aguas.
«On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, so that they revered him all his days as they had revered Moses.» — pasaje de Josué citado por Jorjani.
«They exterminated everything in the city with the sword: man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and ass.» — pasaje de Josué sobre la destrucción de Jericó, citado por Jorjani.
«Only Rahab the harlot and her father’s family were spared by Joshua...» — continuación del mismo pasaje, con los puntos suspensivos de la fuente.
«The Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.» — cierre del mismo pasaje de Josué.
«Joshua addressed the Lord; he said in the presence of the Israelites: “Stand still, O sun, at Gibeon, / O moon, in the Valley of Aijalon!”» — pasaje de Josué sobre el sol detenido, citado por Jorjani con la barra de verso de la fuente.
«Now the Presence of the God of Israel had moved from the cherub on which it had rested to the platform of the House.» — pasaje de Ezequiel citado por Jorjani.
«He called to the man clothed in linen with the writing case at his waist; and the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who moan and groan because of all the abominations that are committed in it.”» — continuación del mismo pasaje de Ezequiel sobre la marca en las frentes.
«To the others He said in my hearing, “Follow him through the city and strike; show no pity or compassion.» — sigue el mismo pasaje de Ezequiel.
«I remained alone, I flung myself on my face and cried out, “Ah, Lord God! Are you going to annihilate all that is left of Israel, pouring out Your fury upon Jerusalem?”» — la protesta de Ezequiel en el mismo bloque citado.
«Thus said the Lord God: “I set this Jerusalem in the midst of nations, with countries round about her.» — pasaje de Ezequiel citado por Jorjani.
«Assuredly, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents.» — continuación del mismo pasaje de Ezequiel.
«I will execute judgments against you, and I will scatter all your survivors in every direction.» — cierre del mismo pasaje de Ezequiel.
«I will vent all My anger and satisfy My fury upon them; and when I vent all My fury upon them, they shall know that I the Lord have spoken in my passion.» — otro pasaje de Ezequiel citado por Jorjani.
«But when the Presence of the Lord moved from the cherubs to the platform of the House, the House was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the radiance of the Presence of the Lord.» — pasaje de Ezequiel sobre el desplazamiento de la Presencia, citado por Jorjani.
«Then the Presence of the Lord left the platform of the House and stopped above the cherubs.» — continuación del mismo pasaje de Ezequiel.
«The sound of the cherub’s wings could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty when he speaks...» — cierre del mismo pasaje, con los puntos suspensivos de la fuente.
«During the night before the Lord’s day dawned, while the soldiers were on guard [at Jesus’ tomb], two by two during each watch, a loud noise came from the sky, and they saw the skies open up and two men come down from there in a burst of light and approach the tomb.» — pasaje del Evangelio de Pedro citado por Jorjani; el corchete es interpolación suya.
«The stone that had been pushed against the entrance began to roll by itself and moved away to one side; then the tomb opened up and both young men went inside.» — continuación del mismo pasaje apócrifo.
«As he [Jesus] said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight.» — pasaje de los Hechos sobre la Ascensión; el corchete es interpolación de Jorjani.
«They were still staring into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white were standing beside them, and they said, “Why are you Galileans standing here looking into the sky?» — continuación del mismo pasaje de los Hechos.
«This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him to go to heaven.» — cierre del mismo pasaje de los Hechos.
«And while he [Jesus] was still speaking with his mother, behold a luminous cloud came down and placed itself between them.» — pasaje apócrifo citado por Jorjani; el corchete es interpolación suya.
«Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.» — pasaje del Evangelio de Mateo citado por Jorjani.
«For whosoever shall do the will of God; the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother.» — pasaje evangélico sobre la familia, citado por Jorjani.
«And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other...» — pasaje del Sermón del Monte citado por Jorjani, con los puntos suspensivos de la fuente.
«If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”» — pasaje de Lucas citado por Jorjani sobre el odio a la propia familia.
«Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.» — pasaje del Evangelio de Juan que, según Jorjani, los gnósticos tomaron como prueba.
«Thus the possibility that cryopreserved Squid and/or Octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides [asteroids or comets] several hundred million years ago should not be discounted as that would be a parsimonious cosmic explanation for the Octopus’ sudden emergence on Earth ca. 270 million years ago.» — cita en bloque del artículo colectivo sobre el genoma del pulpo; el corchete que aclara *bolides* es interpolación de Jorjani.
«The issue of the Trickster is well established in paranormal research. That means that whatever is generating the incidents does so in a manner that does not remain consistent over time.» — apertura de la cita en bloque del coronel John B. Alexander sobre el Trickster.
«It appears as though that agent not only determines all factors of the event, but is already (i.e., precognitively) aware of how the observers or researchers will respond to any given stimuli.» — sigue la cita de Alexander: el agente conoce de antemano la respuesta del investigador.
«The agent can be considered like the Trickster that is always in control of the observations.» — sigue la cita de Alexander.
«Every time researchers get close to an understanding of the situation, the parameters are altered or new variables are entered into the equation.» — cierre de la cita de Alexander.
«Tests on the remaining segments of wire suggested that a rusty instrument had made the cuts.» — cita de Alexander sobre el peritaje del cableado cortado.
«Anyone who has worked with such tape can attest to how hard it is to remove that material.» — sigue la cita de Alexander sobre la cinta retirada.
«The videotaped observation from camera two was revealing in what was not seen.» — cierre de la cita de Alexander.
«It kept waxing and waning “until it just zapped out.”» — testimonio sobre la esfera luminosa vista por la banda escolar, citado por Jorjani.
«The findings reported here lend further support to a decade of research with empirical data which suggests that over 95% of worldwide crop formations involve organized ion» — cita del estudio de W. C. Levengood sobre las formaciones en los cultivos; el tramo se corta donde la fuente parte la palabra siguiente.
«Georg Hegel used the owl as a metaphor for hindsight with regard to the spirit of an age when, in his Philosophy of Right, he wrote that: “The owl of Minerva only takes flight as the dusk begins to» — la frase de Hegel sobre el búho de Minerva, citada por Jorjani; la cita se corta en el salto de plana.
«I’m seeing them and I’m feeling this crazy stuff, like I really feel sorry for them… like they’re kids, too…» — palabras del testigo Reme Baca sobre el caso de San Antonio, citadas por Jorjani.
«Indeed, it strikes me that likening the mantis to an automaton (to a female android, given the latter’s anthropomorphism) reflects the same emotional theme, if (as I have every reason to believe) the notion of an artificial, mechanical, inanimate, and unconscious machine-woman — incommensurate with man and all other living creatures — does stem in some way from a specific view of the relations between love and death and, in particular, from an ambivalent premonition of encountering one within the other.» — cita en bloque de Roger Caillois sobre la mantis y la mujer-máquina.
«Above and beyond its jointed rigidity, which recalls a coat of armor or an automaton, it is a fact that there are very few reactions the mantis cannot perform in a decapitated state — that is, without any center of representation or of voluntary activity.» — sigue la cita de Caillois sobre la mantis decapitada.
«In this condition, it can walk; regain its balance; sever a threatened limb; assume the spectral stance; engage in mating; lay eggs; build an ootheca; and (this is truly frightening) lapse into a feigned rigor mortis in the face of danger or when the peripheral nervous system is stimulated… the mantis, when dead, [is] capable of simulating death.» — cierre de la cita de Caillois; el corchete es interpolación dentro de la fuente.
«Lucifer is entirely focused on what is possible and undertakes it without delay.» — apertura de la cita en bloque de Caillois sobre Lucifer.
«He is Satan in action; an intelligent Satan; and, in a certain sense, a courageous Satan.» — sigue la cita de Caillois sobre Lucifer.
«The principle of his authority is a severity applied only to himself.» — sigue la cita de Caillois.
«The ambition not to remain a slave makes him desire to be the master.» — sigue la cita de Caillois.
«Having enough faith in his rebellion to view it as a future order, he does not tolerate any indiscipline, from any source, that might undermine it.» — sigue la cita de Caillois.
«It is in this complex that the Luciferian spirit properly resides, as a force of darkness raging in the light.» — sigue la cita de Caillois.
«Perhaps one would not have thought that passion was more fearsome when methodical than when inflamed.» — cierre de la cita de Caillois sobre Lucifer.
«We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious.”» — cierre del aviso publicado por Albert Bender en *Space Review*.
«Ms. Hyre replied, “I’d tell them to go to hell,” at which point the two men glanced meaningfully at one another.» — la respuesta de la periodista Mary Hyre a los Men in Black, referida por Jorjani.
«In any case, “Jack Brown” asked journalist Mary Hyre, in a very awkward stammering manner, “What — would — what would you do — if someone ordered–ordered you to stop?» — el diálogo con el visitante, con el tartamudeo tal como lo transcribe la fuente.
«Brown smiled weakly at the success of his simple gambit.» — sigue el mismo relato del encuentro.
«“I’m not going to do anything except go home to bed,” Mary declared flatly.» — sigue el mismo diálogo.
«“Is K — K — Keel in P — P — Point Pleasant?”» — la pregunta del visitante sobre John Keel, transcrita con su tartamudeo.
«“No. He lives in New York.”» — la respuesta que cierra ese diálogo.
«Look, don’t use my name. I don’t want to get involved in this thing.» — palabras del obrero testigo a la periodista Mary Hyre, citadas por Jorjani.
«Damned if I know… I can’t remember his name.» — respuesta del mismo testigo sobre el supuesto científico que lo buscó.
«Do not be afraid… We mean you no harm.» — palabras que Woodrow Derenberger atribuye a Indrid Cold, citadas por Jorjani.
«Good morning, friend. You have been selected for many reasons. One is that you are advanced in auto-suggestion. Through this science we will make contact. I have messages concerning Earth and its people. The time is set. Fear not. I am a friend. For reasons best known to ourselves you must make your contacts known to one reliable» — el mensaje que Jane dice haber hallado en un libro de biblioteca, citado en bloque; el tramo se corta en el salto de plana.
«That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth.» — pasaje de *The Call of Cthulhu*, de H. P. Lovecraft, citado en bloque por Jorjani.
«The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy.» — sigue la cita de Lovecraft.
«Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.» — cierre de la cita de Lovecraft.
«They do not comprehend how a thing agrees at variance with itself; it is an attunement turning back on itself, like that of the bow and the lyre.”» — fragmento de Heráclito sobre el arco y la lira, citado por Jorjani.
«The hidden attunement is better than the obvious one.» — otro fragmento de Heráclito en la misma serie.
«The counter-thrust brings together, and from tones at variance comes perfect attunement, and all things come to pass through conflict.» — fragmento de Heráclito sobre la armonía por el conflicto.
«The Cosmos, the same for all, no god nor man has made, but it ever was and is and will be: fire everliving, kindled in measures and in measures going out.» — fragmento de Heráclito sobre el fuego siempre vivo.
«All things are requital for fire, and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.» — fragmento de Heráclito sobre el cambio y el fuego.
«Human opinions are toys for children.» — fragmento de Heráclito citado por Jorjani.
«What the Ephesians deserve is to be hanged to the last man, every one of them, and leave the city to the children.» — fragmento de Heráclito sobre los efesios, citado por Jorjani.
«Vallée, Jacques. Trinity: The Best Kept Secret (StarworksUSA, LLC and Documatica Research, LLC, 2021)» — la bibliografía recoge también el libro de Vallée y Paola Harris sobre el caso de San Antonio, que el cuerpo expone en la p. 256.
«Vallée, Jacques and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times (Tarcher Penguin, 2010)» — otra de las cuatro obras de Vallée que la bibliografía recoge.
«Pritchard, David E. and John E. Mack. Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference held at MIT (North Cambridge Press, 1994)» — la única entrada bibliográfica de John E. Mack: las actas del MIT, no su libro sobre abducciones.
«Steiner, Rudolf. Atlantis: The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge (Sophia Books, 2010)» — la edición de Steiner que usa para su capítulo atlante.
«Twyman, Tracy R. Dead But Dreaming: The Great Old Ones of Lovecraftean Legend Reinterpreted as Atlantean Kings (2011)» — el estudio de Twyman sobre Lovecraft que discute en el capítulo final.
Conceptos tratados
Trickster — Inteligencia cósmica finita, femenina y exterior al programa, cuyo imperativo es maximizar la creatividad a cualquier costo; se manifiesta como mantis, búho, orbe y Hombre de Negro.
Aion — De Heráclito a Crowley: el tiempo con fuerza vital, opuesto al Chronos que es eternidad y muerte, y el niño que juega como soberano.
Daimon (entidad intermedia, ni ángel ni demonio) — El fenómeno leído en clave daimónica: Keel lo llama demonología sin desprecio, Jung lo hace arquetipo del Trickster y el autor lo pone por encima de los pilotos humanos.
Ocultismo (occultisme) — Los responsables del desarrollo técnico secreto son ocultistas: la Thule-Gesellschaft tras el NSDAP, el Vril de Bulwer-Lytton y la etimología ocultista de la sigla de Dellschau.
Vril — La energía del éter que la Thule pone en el centro de su doctrina, introducida en los círculos anglosajones por una obra de «ficción» de 1871.
Gnosis (conocimiento salvífico) — Los gnósticos identifican a Yahvé con el Demiurgo y a los arcontes con sus servidores; tres puntos de doctrina y el corte canónico de Nicea.
Philosophia perennis (filosofía perenne) — La Tradición perenne aparece dos veces y las dos como objeto de acusación: Ouroboros estéril que precluye la novedad, y marco al que Grof intenta subsumir el juego cósmico.
Necromancia (nigromancia) — El valle de los huesos secos: el Señor lleva a Ezequiel y le manda decir conjuros sobre los muertos para que se recompongan y reciban aliento.
Transvection (el traslado corporal por seres demoníacos) — La levitación como hecho documentado en dos registros: abducidos elevados a través de rejas metálicas y médiums físicos como Home ante Crookes.
Egregore — Forma-pensamiento generada psíquicamente, tan tangible como una cosa real en tres dimensiones; los atlantes de Steiner las usan como armas y los tibetanos las llaman tulpas.
Psicoquinesis — La PK como arma y no como curiosidad: la guerra mental atlante, la combustión humana de Fort y los rayos de Ted Owens.
Akasha — El registro akáshico como función de archivo del cosmos computacional donde quedan las versiones sustituidas de la historia; Tesla toma el término del sánscrito por Vivekananda.
Anima mundi (alma del mundo) — En su nivel más abisal el potencial cuántico del Cosmos es un Caos energético que interactúa con la psique colectiva y da forma a lo que se toma por realidad.
Prodigio (prodigium, portentum, ostentum) — Los «datos malditos» de Fort: fenómenos que cada época margina para sostener su propia definición de lo posible, y que la siguiente rehabilita.
Imaginación (phantasia) — La palabra viene de *imago*, la forma perfecta del insecto frente a su fase larvaria, que Caillois usa para pensar la capacidad transmedio.
Microcosmos (el hombre-mundo) — La correlación de Orión: las tres pirámides de Giza guardan con el Nilo la misma relación que las tres estrellas del cinturón con la Vía Láctea.
Cadena de transmisión (quién tomó de quién) — Manetón como registro histórico y no mítico: los dioses fundan un Egipto prefaraónico y engendran a los *shemasu hor*, casta de astrónomos y astrólogos.
Secreto (lo que se jura no fijar por escrito) — El secreto como necesidad estructural: una máquina del tiempo no puede hacerse pública, y ningún gobierno hará jamás una Divulgación real.
Breakaway Civilization — Civilización desgajada por un salto técnico y sostenida por el *Abbauender Aufbruch im Weltanschauungskrieg*, fuera de todo control democrático.
Profecia — La profecía como transmisión sin agencia: a Ezequiel se le da a comer un rollo con lo que va a decir, como a una computadora una tarjeta perforada.
Sacrificio — El sacrificio de Isaac como fundamento del mandato abrahámico: obediencia a una voz del cielo hasta degollar al propio hijo.