by SMiles Lewis

“My Dream is a Code Waiting to Be Broken. Break the Code, Solve the Crime.” - FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper

In the small idyllic border town of Twin Peaks, Washington, tucked away in the forested mountains, a murder mystery unfolds involving the killing of the local high school prom queen, Laura Palmer. When a second high schooler, and potential victim of the same killer, crosses the State’s border, the FBI sends Special Agent Dale Cooper to investigate what we later find out, in the prequel, is one of FBI Bureau Chief Gordon Cole’s (played by David Lynch) “Blue Rose Cases.” And so begins the strange tale of mysterious communications and fantastic encounters that engulfs the town of Twin Peaks and the lives of all its quirky inhabitants, including its newest arrival, Special Agent Cooper.

The initial storyline would seem to be far removed from the world of UFOlogical secrets, but for the occasional paranormal manifestations, mysterious visions, and precognitive dreams of Cooper and certain townsfolk. In fact the acronym U.F.O. is only uttered once in the series and not at all in its subsequent prequel, Fire Walk With Me. It’s only in the second season, upon the return of Major Garland Briggs (after his abduction by a mysterious anomalous light accompanied by owls and a cloaked figure) and his mentioning of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, that Dale Cooper says the words, “Unidentified Flying Objects.” (And also when Sheriff Truman asks in a subsequent episode, “What was Wyndham Earle doing investigating UFOs?”) But besides these two overt references to UFOs there are many subtle, covert themes threaded into the fabric of the Twin Peaks story that can be used to inform the more casual viewer about the truly strange nature of UFOs and related paranormal (and even parapolitical) phenomena. It is these covert references and allusions upon which we will focus our explication of the series and its prequel in upcoming installments of this column. While an average TV watcher viewing Twin Peaks might be aware of the classic modern UFO myths of military retrieval of crashed flying saucers, governmental cover-up of recovered aliens and supposed underground bases, bedroom visitation abductions, and the human / alien hybridization stories, they are not likely to be aware of the deeper connections in the Twin Peaks milieu which speak to the nature of the UFO’s darker CryptoUfological reality; the secret coded side of UFOs and the paranormal.

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STOP THE TTC & TOLLS ACROSS TEXAS RALLY

March on Austin is Saturday, April 5 at 12:15 p.m. with line up by 11:45 a.m. The rally is from 1-4 p.m. Staging area for the march are parking lots at the corner of Hwy. 343/Ceasar Chavez/Red River streets, one block west of I-35. Speakers include Rep. Ron Paul, Va. Rep. Virgil Goode, Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Okla. Sen. Randy Brodon and many Texas state legislators who are fighting against the Trans-Texas Corridor and tollways.

Last year I marched in the Don’t Tag Texas / Anti Toll Road Rally rally here in Austin, Texas. I posted a Gallery of my protest pics from the event that happened Independence Day of last year. Click the Pic below for a link to my gallery. For more information about tomorrow’s march follow this link to Sal Costello’s Anti-Toll Road blog.

Topic for Discussion: Given the proliferation in recent years of ufo / paranormal / dreamtime imagery in the media (VW’s “Reverse Engineered From UFO’s” ad comes glaringly to mind), do you feel that this is actually changing or affecting the phenomenon itself? Is the mass-media consciousness causing the UFO phenomenon to change the way it interfaces with us?

Researcher Roundtable: The UFO is a Psychic Bomb

by SMiles Lewis

So, “are we being prepared?” Hell yes! The entirety of the human collective is preparing itself for the inevitable: overt contact with the probable multitudes of non-human intelligences / consciousnesses extant within the Universe. It is the urge-to-destiny of every lifeform to go beyond the confines of its original evolutionary environs and become a part of the galactic evolutionary process. It is this inevitability for which the human collective unconscious (and its governing hierarchies of morphic consciousnesses: local, national, global) is preparing itself. It does this through our imaginal experiencing of the alien other, and all aspects of our confrontations with the unknown.

The ufo phenomenon exists in a synergistic cybernetic interface with humanity. Whatever the true nature of UFOs, they interact with us within several different milieus, all of which are influenced by the media and culture. This media and culture in turn feeds back into the phenomena in a continuous cycle.

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by SMiles Lewis

ANOMALY magazine is proud to present the resurrection of The Elfis Network’s Researcher Dialogue project. Years ago the ELFIS Portal to Possible Paradigms launched a short lived section to its online E.L.F. Infested Spaces journal called Researcher Dialogue. Within that section of the online zine was to be a regular Question and Answer session for every issue, wherein a question on anomalous phenomena would be posed to the panelists composed of invited Kooks, each a noted Author and Researcher in some field of Anomaly Studies.

Among the first round of Invited Panelists was ParaPolitical Researcher Jim Keith, Paranormal Publisher and Author Greg Bishop, then Elfis Editor Mr. Baggins, Elfis Founder SMiles Lewis, Crackpot Historian Adam Gorightly, Hauntings Investigator Dennis Hauck, Local Investigator I.M. Aliensun, Devil’s Advocate Tim Brigham, Mysterious Investigator Eugenia Macer-Story, CyberFortean NeuroAnthropologist Steve Mizrach, Excluded Middlers Robert Larson and Peter Stenshoel, and Veteran Pagan Peacenik Thom Laaki.

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MUFON Journals - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project

Now, this is a great resource tool: namely, all of the back-issues (from the late 1960s to the present day) of the Mutual UFO Network’s monthly magazine posted online at John Greenewald’s Black Vault in handy, PDF format for download.

Hat tip to Nick Redfern at UFOmystic.com

Now here’s something that sounds like a truly unique local event…

For anyone interested in all things parapsychological, check out former military psychic remote viewer Paul Smith’s upcoming “Dowsing For Your Dead” presentation for the Austin Genealogical Society.

Paul says, “It is an introduction and overview of how dowsing could be used to help search for ancestors’ final resting places.”

Paul is the author of Reading the Enemies Mind and wrote the Army’s manual for training people in the art of Remote Viewing.

Here are the details:

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Program: Dowsing For Your Dead

Presented by: Paul H. Smith

Where: Highland Park Baptist Church

5208 Balcones Drive, Austin, Texas

When: 6:30 P.M. Doors Open; 7:00 P.M. Meeting & Program Begin

Paul H. Smith - www.rviewer.com

by SMiles Lewis

Some time back I saw this allegedly official patch for stealth bomber pilots and crew. The 509th Bomber Wing were the first atomic bomb flyers and were based out of Roswell, New Mexico. I never thought it was likely to be real.

Then last year friend and fellow researcher Greg Bishop wrote about his encounter with the patch while working on a new British documentary called Mirage Men. Apparently, UFO researcher Curtis Peebles had acquired one of the patches. And another UFO researcher, Dennis Balthaser actually called the Air Force and interrogated someone over the phone trying to ascertain the validity and meaning behind the patch.

Now, it appears that an artist and activist named Trevor Paglen is having a bit of fun doing what he likes to do most, “deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us.” You see, Trevor just posted an article with slideshow and accompanying audio to the Newsweek website detailing this and many other exotic patches: Badges of Secrecy.

So while I doubt the validity of his analysis of these likely hoaxed patches and badges, I still have to stop and ponder their reality, and consider it alongside Trevor’s work in exposing “secret military bases, the California prison system, and the CIA’s practice of ‘extraordinary rendition.’ ”

By the way, you can get replicas of this and other patches through this LINK.

THE INTERNATIONAL FORTEAN ORGANIZATION (INFO) presents
FortFest ‘08  “Beyond Belief”!

www.Forteans.com

47th Conference on Anomalous Phenomena, March 29-30

*American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM), Baltimore,MD

SATURDAY, March 29, at AVAM, 9:30 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

• Budd Hopkins with a startling all-new talk on ”The UFO Abduction Phenomenon and the new Paradigm”. Budd is an award-winning (Guggenheim fellowship) painter with pieces in major museums including the Guggenheim and the Whitney and the author of Missing Time, Intruders and Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility & Transgenic Beings.
• Linda Godfrey, a teacher and journalist, author of Weird Wisconsin, on her compelling books An American Werewolf and The Beast of Bray Road, chilling true life stories from the dark corner of cryptozoology!
• Orion Foxwood,  Elder in Romano-Celtic Traditional Craft, primary founder of the Alliance of the Old Religion, is an Elder teacher of the Faery Seership Tradition. Orion is the author of The Faery Teachings and will talk  on his upcoming book (Samuel Weiser) The Tree of Enchantment, Ancient Lore and Practices of the Faery Tradition.
• Phyllis Benjamin, journalist, producer/artist/poet, President of the International Fortean Organization (INFO) and Chair of over twenty years of FortFest, FortNite, FortScape Conferences and FortFest Seminars at Sea on “ Synchronicity or Supernatural, Another Miracle on 34th Street?”
• George Haas with an all-new exo-archaeology  talk on the fascinating link between the sculptures of pre-Columbian Meso-America and Mesopotamia with a set of corresponding structures found in the Cydonia region of Mars.  George is a sculptor and the author of the Cydonia Codex, Reflections from Mars. Was  there  life on Mars?
• Dr. Bob Hieronimus, charismatic talk radio host of 21st Century Radio, author of Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians and the Decoding of the Great Seal  on “In Goddesses We Trust” from his latest book on religion and hidden symbology in America.  He will be signing his latest book United Symbolism of America: Meanings in America’s Most Familiar Art, Architecture and Logos  (New Page Books, March 2008).
• Dr. Peter Westbrook, historian of sacred science, author Divine Harmony: Life and Teachings of  Pythagoras  with a talk and a segment of his documentary Perennial Philosophy  for Spaceship Earth  featuring an interview with Huston Smith, renown author of Religions of the World, and his experience with Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism plus Smith’s work with Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and entheogenic plants within a
  shamanic tradition.

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The Second Issue of ANOMALY is Now Available at these Fine Locations.

Copies are being distributed at select locations across Austin including:

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• Austin Motel on South Congress
• Guero’s Taco Bar on South Congress
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• Southside Flying Pizza on South Congress
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• Austin Books on North Lamar
• Casa de Luz Center for Integral Studies
• Green Muse Cafe on West Oltorf
• Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse on South First
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• Sonny’s Vintage on Guadalupe
• Backspin Records on Airport Blvd
• Half Price Books on South Lamar
• Dog Almighty on South Lamar
• Tireman on South Lamar
• Ruta Maya on South Congress
• Whole Foods on Central Lamar
• Planet K on South Lamar
• Brave New Books on Guadalupe
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• Oat Willie’s on West 29th Street
• Vulcan Video on West 29th Street
• Ruby’s BBQ on Guadalupe
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• Pangaea on Guadalupe
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• Hole in the Wall on Guadalupe
• Texadelphia on Guadalupe
• Pipes Plus Hookah Bar on Guadalupe
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Recall that back in late 2001 the RIAA wanted Congress to pass laws allowing them to hack into your computer (aka “Break the Law”) so that they could snoop around your hard drive for pirated materials (and who knows what else they might find and turn you in for). Well now a training video has surfaced that supports the RIAA’s privacy invasion campaigns because … they can lead to discovery of evidence of other non-piracy related crimes.

Hat tip to Disinfo.com & Slashdot.org

Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates and Also Find… Crack Dealers and Terrorists? There’s a leaked RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) training video produced with the NDAA (National District Attorneys Association) floating around the web that argues U.S. prosecutors should pursue piracy cases because it leads to bigger and badder wares, like handguns, drugs, terrorist organizations, and hardcore repeat offender criminals. In other words, in their minds, music and video piracy is the new gateway to the criminal underworld…

www.disinfo.com

Leaked RIAA Training Video - “Gizmodo has a clip of that RIAA training video produced with the NDAA for US prosecutors that was leaked to torrent sites a few days ago. It argues they should pursue piracy cases because it leads to bigger and badder wares, like handguns, drugs, terrorist orgs, and hardcore repeat offender criminals. It’s kind of sad how far they’re stretching to bring law enforcement into the matter.”

yro.slashdot.org