54
On mind-control experiments by US agencies, see Marks; Bowart.
56
Temple,
Open to Suggestion,
p357.
58
Puharich,
The Sacred Mushroom,
pp8-13.
64
Puharich,
The Sacred Mushroom,
p58.
65
Marks, p210; Rudgley, p74.
67
Puharich,
The Sacred Mushroom,
pp83-4; Marks, p111.
69
See Marks, Chapter 5. At Edgewood, Gottlieb oversaw the notorious LSD research programme that resulted in the suicide of one of the experimental subjects, Frank Olson.
71
See Puharich,
The Sacred Mushroom,
pp10 — 11; Fuller, bibliography.
72
Holroyd
(Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth,
p46) was told by Puharich that he heard of Arigó ‘quite by chance’ while in Brazil ‘on a mission connected with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’. However, according to John G. Fuller’s book on Arigó - to which Puharich contributed an afterword - Puharich and Henry Belk made the trip to Brazil specifically to seek out the healer, who was being studied by NASA engineer John Laurance. It is therefore a reasonable conclusion that, bizarre though it may seem, the ‘NASA mission’ actually concerned Arigó’s alleged abilities.
74
Puharich,
The Iceland Papers.
75
Ira Einhorn, telephone interview, 27 August 1998.
81
Garrett,
Many Voices,
p202.
85
Holroyd,
Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth,
p16.
86
Geller and Playfair, p91.
88
Ira Einhorn, telephone interview, 27 August 1998.
89
Garrett, Adventures in the
Supernormal,
Chapter XII.
90
Elkins and Rueckert, Chapter 2.
91
Holroyd,
Briefingfor the Landing on Planet Earth,
pp74-5.
93
Williamson and Bailey, pp17 — 19.
96
Vallée,
Messengers of Deception,
p193.
97
Festiger, Riecken and Schachter, p232.
99
Jerome Clark, ‘When Prophecy Failed’.
102
Ira Einhorn, telephone interview, 27 August 1998.
112
Quoted in Constantine, ‘Rep. Charlie Rose, BNL and the “Occult”’.
113
Sarfatti, ‘In the Thick of It!’.
114
Email from Jack Sarfatti to the authors, 31 August 1998.
119
Ibid., and confirmed in telephone conversation with Thomas Bearden, 26 August 1998.
121
Ira Einhorn, telephone interview with the authors, 27 August 1998.
122
Gardner,
Science: Good, Bad and Bogus,
pp287-8.
123
Sarfatti, ‘In the Thick of It!’.
124
Targ and Puthoff, p.vii..
125
From biographical information in Mitchell’s
Psychic Exploration.
126
In 1984, Willis Harman, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (and a social scientist at SRI), stated in his introduction to Targ and Harary’s
The Mind Race
that the Institute had been the major funder of SRI’s preliminary remote viewing experiments. However, since the declassification of documents relating to the project in July 1995 it has been known that it was, in fact, the CIA that sponsored these experiments. This suggests, at the very least, that the Institute of Noetic Sciences allowed itself to be used as a cover for the CIA’s sponsorship.
127
Hoagland,
The Monuments of Mars,
p.xiii.
128
Terry Milner, email to authors, 13 August 1998.
130
Sarfatti, ‘In the Thick of It!’.
132
Sarfatti, ‘Quantum Quackery’.
133
See Picknett, pp210-11.
134
Ira Einhorn, telephone interview, 27 August 1998.
137
Constantine, ‘Ed Dames and His Cover Stories for Mind Control Experimentation’.
139
Sarfatti, ‘The Destiny Matrix’.
140
Jack Sarfatti, email to authors, 13 July 1998.
141
Sarfatti, ‘The Destiny Matrix’.
143
Robert Anton Wilson, p256.
146
Lilly,
Centre of the Cyclone,
p97.
147
Lilly,
The Human Biocomputer,
p.viii.
148
Robert Anton Wilson, p71.
150
Vallée,Revelations,
p81.
151
Sarfatti, ‘In the Thick of It!’.
153
For studies of the question of the objective reality of discarnate - particularly extraterrestrial — intelligences, and other aspects of the ‘entity enigma’, see: Colin Wilson,
Alien Dawn;
Stuart Holroyd,
Alien Intelligence ;
Hilary Evans; John A. Keel; and the works of Jacques Vallée.
154
Ramadan, ‘Effects on Society of Public Disclosure of Extraterrestrial Presence’.
155
Farley, ‘The Council of Nine’.
158
Posting by ‘Brother Blue’ on
sci.archaeology
newsgroup, 19 June 1998, which refers to a discussion with Jones on this subject.
159
Farley, ‘The Council of Nine’.
160
Dick Farley, email to the authors, 21 August 1998.
161
Parley, ‘The Council of Nine’.
162
Interview at Uri Geller’s home in Sonning, 10 February 1998. The story is told in Strausbaugh’s article.
164
Macbeth,
Act I, Scene III.
6 The Secret Masters
1
R.A. Schwaller de
Lubicz, The Egyptian Miracle,
p87.
3
Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, p111 (our translation).
4
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, A
Study of Numbers,
p51.
5
West, Serpent in the Sky, p66.
6
Schlemmer and Bennett, p6.
7
Bauval and Hancock,
Keeper
of Genesis, p15.
8
Saul Bellow, in his introduction to VandenBroeck.
15
The subject of Fulcanelli’s work and identity came up many times during VandenBroeck’s time with Schwaller de Lubicz, who said that he had worked closely with Fulcanelli and had sworn an oath not to reveal his true name. However, from Schwaller de Lubicz’s allusions to details of ‘Fulcanelli’s’ life - and in particular the description of his death in a Montmartre garret in 1932 — it is clear that he is referring to Champagne, who is, in any case, widely regarded as the best candidate for the role (see Courjeaud, pp85 — 103, and Johnson). VandenBroeck’s description of a sketch of Fulcanelli hanging in Schwaller de Lubicz’s house (p139) reveals that he bears a very close resemblance to Champagne.
16
Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, p16 (our translation).
19
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz,
Sacred Science,
p110.
20
Shaw and Nicholson, p239.
23
Geoffrey de Charnay, p46. (De Charnay was the pseudonym of Raoul Hassan. The choice of name reflects the perceived relationship between Synarchy and the medieval Knights Templar, as this was the name of one of the leading Templar officials executed in Paris in 1314 when the Order was suppressed.)
24
On twentieth-century Synarchy and its political activities, see de Charnay; Ulmann and Azeau; Bauchard.
26
Postel du Mas’s Revolutionary Synarchist Pact is reproduced in the appendix to de Charnay.
27
Pauwels and Bergier, pp34-8.
Another possible significant connection between the legend of the Nine Unknown Men and the later Council of Nine, researched by Philip Coppens, comes through the thriller writer Talbot Mundy (1879-1940). A former British colonial civil servant, Mundy (real name William Lancaster Gribbon) settled in New York in 1909 and became an American citizen. In 1923 he wrote a novel, The
Nine Unknown,
inspired by Louis Jacolliot’s works, about a secret group in the East - referred to throughout as ‘the Nine’ - who exert a powerful influence on world affairs. Mundy was a Theosophist and a friend of the mystic Nicholas Roerich; from 1929 Mundy lived in an apartment above the Roerich Museum in New York. As discussed in Chapter 5, Roerich was the ‘guru’ of Henry Wallace, who funded Andrija Puharich’s early work at the Round Table Foundation.
29
On the Strict Templar Obervance and other neo-Templar societies, see our The
Templar Revelation,
pp130-32 and Appendix I.
31
Galtier, p310 (our translation).
36
See, for example,
Saint-Yves
d’Alveydre, La théogonie des patriarches,
p55.
37
For a summary of Saint-Yves’s account of Ram, see Weiss, Chapter 6.
38
Edgar Evans Cayce, p55. Cayce’s followers are perplexed by this single reference to Ram in his psychic ‘readings’, since he gives no explanation of who Ram was.
39
Crowley, The Confessions ofAleister Crowley,
pp413-15.
42
Grant,
Aleister Crowley and
the Hidden God, p8.
43
Crowley,
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley,
p482.
46
Grant, The
Magical Revival,
p210.
47
Grant,
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God,
p17.
49
Grant,
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God,
p72.
51
Robert Anton Wilson, p172.
52
Corydon and Hubbard, Jr, p48.
53
Collins,
Gods of Eden, Chapter
7.
56
Grant,
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God,
p115.
59
Temple,
The Sirius Mystery,
pp40-44.
65
Temple,
The Sirius Mystery,
pp33-4.