Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 3/15/2016
The Anomaly Archives Weekly Email Newsletter
March 15th, 2016 – Welcome to another great weekly edition of the newsletter…
Our Book-Of-The-Week is back and this issue’s selection is a personal favorite of mine. In the 1990s, when I was knee-deep in anomalous fringe-culture, I had come across the works of the nasally-voiced Terence McKenna through the psychedelic rave video Alien Dreamtime (by Ken Adams). I’d read an article or two by or about Terence but it was always something else to actually hear him speak. Years later I’d read this week’s Book-Of-The-Week selection, but I still remember coming across the trippy audio version of the book about he and his brothers adventures in the Amazon; where they were looking for the Spirit-Vine, Ayahuasca, but instead found the alien mushroom. It’s a fantastic tale and the audio version is filled with rain-forest noises and zany sound effects. Be sure to check out the links to digital scans of that book as well as streamable “Talking Book” versions.
As usual, we have a treasure trove of anomalousHEADLINES linked to articles of note from the past few weeks. Here in Austin, Texas we are in the midst of the annual Traffic-Jam known as SXSW. One of the few blessings during these Ides of March is the fact that it coincides with Spring Break, and so the incoming hordes are slightly off-set by the absent school aged kids and their parents clogging the roads. But there are always interesting things afoot during this “South By So What” season, and this year is no different. As a survivor of a mass shooting (The day madness went on parade – San Antonio Express / DANGER: Parade of Mother’s Intuition by SMiles Lewis) I’m very interested in seeing the latest documentary about Austin’s infamous 1966 UT Tower Shooting. It’s getting good reviews and the clips I’ve seen look very well-done and respectful. I’ve met at least one of the survivors featured in the film and he, like me and others, have grave concerns about the upcoming synchronicity of the… Texas campus carry law will take effect on 50th anniversary of Charles Whitman shooting at UT(MySanAntonio.com). You can hear me talk about the 1979 San Antonio shooting in this archive of the March 11th, 2008 episode of my PsiOp-Radio show… starts at about the 48-50 minute mark within the MP3 archive.
Also in our HEADLINES section … Satanic Panics and rumors of ritual child abuse. At last month’s public meeting there was a lot of talk about tales of elite parapolitical pedophile trafficking and abuse networks. Human trafficking and child abuse are things we KNOW occur. Allegations of SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse) have rightly been characterized as failures of law enforcement through bad interviewing techniques used with the alleged child-victims and witch-hunt-like round-ups of the accused. Hundreds of convictions from the 1980s have been overturned and it does appear that many of these cases were not actual examples of abuse. Yet we know of far too many other cases where the abuse was real, was ritualized, was part of a network trafficking in children and young adults. Among the threads discussed during last month’s meeting was the infamous case of “The Finders” (What is the Finders Cult? – Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know – HowStuffWorks YouTube Video). In 2008 I interviewed Len Bracken, one of the few people to ever actually meet with and interview the head of “The Finders.” We spoke briefly about what he found; you can hear that interview at this link: Blue Rose Report interviews Len Bracken (mp3). Well Austin has its own historic case of an overturned SRA scenario and we’ve got links to theAustin Chronicle‘s multiple issues, articles and video covering the shattered lives of the falsely accused / wrongly convicted.
See also:
- Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children by Lloyd Demause, The Journal of Psychohistory, 21 (4) 1994
- 2016 Trauma and Dissociation Conference This Year’s Theme: “Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Care” – Ivory Garden / IGDID.org
- Survivorship’s Annual Conference – May 7 – 8, 2016, Oakland, CA – Survivorship.org
- S.M.A.R.T. ritual abuse newsletter was founded in 1995 by Neil Brick. RitualAbuse.us
- ChildAbuseWiki.org
- Naming the Unspeakable: Non-State Torture – BornePress.com
- “Finders Keepers” by Dave McGowan, 2000
- “The Finders’ Keeper” by Kenn Thomas and Len Bracken, Steamshovel Press, Issue #16, 1998
- “Through a Glass, Very Darkly” by Gordon Witkin, Peter Cary and Ancel Martinez, U.S. News and World Report, December 27, 1993 – January 3, 1994
- Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control by Alison Miller, 2011
- The Boy in the Box by Whitley Strieber Friday, March 14, 2003
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Book of the Week…
True Hallucinations:
Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise
By Terence McKenna
This Publishers Weekly review pretty much sums it up:
In 1971 ethnobotanist McKenna (The Archaic Revival), his brother Dennis and three friends boated to a town in Amazonian Colombia, seeking a hallucinogenic plant that enables the Witoto tribe to talk to elf-like “little men.” In psychedelicized ravings interspersed with diary excerpts, McKenna records their experiences after ingesting mind-altering mushrooms and other psychoactive plants.
A flying saucer slowly flew over McKenna’s head; he calls it a “holographic mirage” of a future technology. Dennis had a revelation about a “psychofluid” that pervades the universe. McKenna flashes forward to Hawaii in 1975 where mantis-like creatures from hyperspace attack his lover, and flashes back to his tantric lovemaking in Tibet and to Indonesia where unrepentant Nazi scientists tried to recruit him in 1970. He posits the existence of a particle of time, the chronon, which conditions matter. A bizarre book.
– Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc
True Hallucinations PDF / Archive.org Text
The missing chapters from print edition (present in the talking book version) of True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna; transcribed…
Chapter 20: The Oversoul as Saucer
Chapter 21: Open Ending
- Bob Lazar 25 Years Later – “Wish I Hadn’t Told The Truth” – (Video/YouTube)
- Fortean Times Magazine Cover Gallery – Unofficial
- Spoon-shaped UFO reported over Texas lake – Openminds.tv
- What’s That?! UFOs Spotted Over Dallas-Fort Worth – CW33
- Andrew Greenwood and Westall – a 1966 audio recording – Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – scientific research
- Paranormal researcher speaks about UFOs in Austin (Minnesota) – KIMT.com
- Argentina: UFO Photographed in Catamarca – Inexplicata
- Message from aliens or colliding objects? The hunt for engimatic radio bursts is about to get real – Phys.org
- Helena Library Connects Montana to Roswell Mystery – Montana Pioneer
- Remembering Ufologist Dee Andrew – RIP – TheUfoChronicles.com
- Discordianism Meets Ufology (Part 00001) – Historia Discordia
- Creatures in the Crop Circles – Nick Redfern, Mysterious Universe
- Dreams vs. Near-Death-Experiences: What’s the Difference – Mysterious Universe
- Andrew May: Words from the Wild Frontier – Still on the Track / Fortean Zoology
- This penguin swims 5,000 miles each year to visit the man who saved his life– Minds
- Lost civilization in Mizoram? – Times of India
- Museum of Lost Objects: Looted Sumerian Seal – BBC
- Why does walking through doorways make us forget? – BBC.com
- Who ordered that? An unexpected data signal that could change everything has particle physicists salivating. Nature.com News & Comment
- Wriggling Down the Rabbit Hole Again With ‘The Esquire’, the Follow-up to ‘The Institute’ – PopMatters.com
- “Bionic Woman” actress to discuss Oneness at Edgar Cayce ARE Center – PilotOnline.com
- WOL: The Walk Of Life Project – WolProject.com
- Louis Meyers, co-founder of SXSW, dies – Austin Music Source
- The State of Music in Austin – Austin Monthly
- What’s the Story Behind the ‘Fair Sailing Tall Boy’ Memorial? – KUT.org
- SXSW Film – Mass Shootings and Musical History: Tower and A Song For You explore different sides of Austin – Austin Chronicle
- New film revisits 1966 UT Austin massacre as school braces for ‘campus carry’ law – MSNBC
- SXSW Film Review: Tower Keith Maitland’s film focuses on the survivors of the UT massacre – Austin Chronicle
- Filmmakers discuss “Tower” documentary – KXAN.com
- Shout Into the Wind: The Citizen Review Panel takes public testimony on David Joseph – Austin Chronicle
- High Rise Building Can’t Use Balconies During Obama Visit – InfoWars
- Texas’ first public-private toll road goes bankrupt – Examiner
- Learning From Our Mistakes – Free, but not exonerated, Fran and Dan Keller are the victims of a continuing injustice BY MICHAEL KING
- Notes on Kamp: Unfinished Business – Departing D.A. should exonerate the Kellers BY AMY KAMP
- Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s – Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe’s superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe’s superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria BY MARC SAVLOV
- Freedom for the Kellers – Fran and Dan released after 21 years for ‘satanic abuse’ BY JORDAN SMITH
- ‘Sleeping on Air’ – Fran Keller rejoices at the small blessings of freedom … while wondering about her future BY JORDAN SMITH
- ‘Ritual Abuse,’ the San Antonio Four, and Public Hysteria – San Antonio case shows innocent are still behind bars BY DEBBIE NATHAN
- See Also: How Junk Science and Anti-Lesbian Prejudice Got Four Women Sent to Prison for More Than a Decade – Slate.com
- Believing the Children – In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It’s likely they were innocent. Indeed, it’s very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution BY JORDAN SMITH
- The Satanic Abuse Scare – By the early Nineties, satanic abuse allegations at day care centers had become a national trend BY JORDAN SMITH
- Children and Testimony – Inexperienced interviewers can lead children to make up stories BY JORDAN SMITH
- The Power of Suggestion – Video interviews of Frances Keller and psychology professor James Wood BY JANA BIRCHUM (YouTube)
- Point Austin: Legitimate Public Concern – The Keller prosecution is an enduring stain on Austin‘s honor and sense of justice BY MICHAEL KING
- Police Report – The 1992 Austin Police Department investigative report on the Keller case
- My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite – Gawker.com
- Eagles of Death Metal singer apologises for alleging inside job at Bataclan show – Guardian
- Legal marijuana causes Mexican drug cartel revenues to plummet – San Francisco Chronicle via MySanAntonio.com
- Fukushima: They Knew – Greg Palast
- Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning ‘Avatar’ fighters and drone swarms – Washington Post
- What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Wors Anymore – BillMoyers.com
- An Interview With CIA Spies: The Susskind Open End File – Top Secret Writers
See also… other spotlighted news & event links below!
FRINGE
Paranormal
Conference
Saturday, April 9thHilton Garden Inn
800 Route 130
Hamilton, NJ 08690
Featuring:
- Larry E. Arnold
- Joanna Ebenstein
- William V. Rauscher
- Peter Robbins
- Linda Zimmermann
- ‘The Art of Vision’ -Roundtable on Creativity and the Visual Arts

April 9th & 10thGlickmann Conference
Center – CLA 1.302E
Sponsored by
Religious Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
- Defining, “Magic,” “Miracles,” and the “Supernatural”
- The Devils and the Details
- The Supernatural in a Rational World: Ritual and Regulation
- Keynote Speaker: Kelly Hayes – “Intergralactic Space-Time Travelers: Imagining the Otherworld in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn”
- The G. Howard Miller Undergraduate Panel
- Enchanting Media
- Encountering the Supernatural
- Keynote Speaker: Paul Mirecki – “Dream a Little Dream of Me: Dream Divination in Papyrus Kellis Coptic 7 [c.a. 350 CE]”
Magic, Miracles, and the Paranormal in Religious Imaginaries
APES:
Arkansas Primate Evidence Society
Saturday April 23rd
Vilonia Arkansas Municipal Building at 18 Bise Road. The cost is $10 for the day (9am to 6 pm) and you get your tickets at the door that day.
Charles Hall
Hilton Garden Inn
Thursday April 28th
Charles Hall claims many up close & personal contacts with extraterrestrial beings he calls “The Tall Whites” when he was stationed at an AFB in Nevada between 1965 and 1967.
Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 3/15/2016