Gorightly, Adam –
“A true renaissance man of the lunatic fringe, Adam Gorightly is an author, actor, musician, Discordian, and erstwhile podcaster. He’s probably best known for his book The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos.
Adam has written three books concerning the “spoof” religion Discordianism: The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture; Historia Discordia: The Origins of the Discordian Society and Caught in the Crossfire; Kerry Thornley, Lee Oswald, and the Garrison Investigation.
Adam’s other titles include Happy Trails to High Weirdness: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Tour Guide; The Beast of Adam Gorightly: Collected Rantings (1992-2004); “A” is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees (co-written with Greg Bishop); and most recently, Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius.”
In Adam Gorightly’s classic, Ritual Magic, Mind Control and the UFO Phenomenon, he says:
“In Sex and Rockets, Carter quotes Crowley successor Kenneth Grant, who wrote, “The [Babalon] Working began…just prior to the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the ‘Great Flying Saucer Flap’. Parsons opened a door and something flew in.” Carter also suggests it might have been the atomic bomb that opened this door between dimensions. He then further illustrates the importance of the year 1947, which ended the first stage of the Babalon Working, as Parsons and Hubbard parted ways amid a cloud of turmoil. 1947 was the year that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. In that very same year, Israel became a nation state, the transistor was invented and the sound barrier broken. Last, but certainly not least, the Modern Age of UFO’s flew into view with the Kenneth Arnold sightings, followed not long after by the alleged saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico. 1947 was also the year the Great Beast, Aleister Crowley died.”
“(Gorightly’s) musical entrees are a delicious blend of paranoia peppered with cosmic angst and humor.” of the very hippest sort.” – Victoria Grimalkin
Articles, Interviews, and MORE:
- Adam Gorightly: The history of UFO disinformation and how it applies to Pentagon whistleblowers
- UFO whistleblowers and disinformation agents: an interview with Adam Gorightly – The Daily Grail
- Liars & Leeriness: Controversial UFO Figure John Lear Dies (Included Excerpt of Saucers, Spooks & Kooks by Gorightly) – The Daily Grail
- Adam Gorightly Discusses ‘Saucers, Spooks and Kooks’
- Radio Misterioso radio show – A is for Adamski – 2018
- When Downard Met Discordia – Adam Gorightly, HistoriaDiscordia.com
- Tim Leary, Sex, Drugs, Crime, Death, UFOs, Alternative Publishing (YouTube) – Exploring the Bizarre with Tim Beckley & Tim Schwartz and guests Adam Parfrey of Feral House publishing, and Adam Gorightly explore the occult world of Jack Parsons, the Process Church, LSD Lord Tim Leary, Satanist Anton Le Vay, Philip K. Dick, female executions, MK Ultra and designer drugs.
- Discordianism Meets Ufology (Part 00002) – Adam Gorightly, Historia Discordia
- John Fenderson and Adam Gorightly – Perception, Magick, and the “Missing Fundamental” (MP3) – RadioMisterioso.com
- “Free the Roswell Slide Documents Now!” by Adam Gorightly, May 31, 2015
- “What Can We Learn From The Roswell Slides?” by Adam Gorightly, May 24, 2015
- Dr. Edgar Mitchell interviewed by Adam Gorightly – 3/4/2008 (Audio)
- Adam Gorightly interviews DreamsEnd about ARGs and “Theremy”
Inuagural lecture at the First Anomaly Archives location:
- The Prankster and the Conspiracy – Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 – Free public lecture by Adam Gorightly about the strange world of Kerry Thornley.
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