Beyond Knowledge Conference 2008

(Photos: Top- Icke forum members; I'm on the far left. Second and third- the venue. Bottom- Icke forum members with Michael Tsarion.)

I only decided to go to the Beyond Knowledge Conference on impulse. Like most of my impulsive decisions, it turned out to be a good one. It was held in the city of Liverpool, a place I’ve never been to before so it was quite exciting. It turned out to be a very picturesque and vibrant place and I’d have liked to have had a bit more time for sightseeing. It’s full of very grand architecture just like London, but the architecture of Liverpool has a different kind of grandeur to London, more feminine, more gentle, less intimidating and imposing, on a more human level. Liverpool is full of derelict buildings, not just single houses, but whole city blocks in the centre of town. At the same time though there are building sites everywhere and I got the feeling that the place was going through a recovery and renewal process. The ruins were more like clean scabs, signs of healing; and one of the locals confirmed this: he told me that they’re all going to be redeveloped. The people of Liverpool seem generally more cheerful than those in Oxford. They’re very chatty and discuss things at bus stops with anyone who happens to be beside them in “Scouse”, their very distinctive and unique dialect, spoken nowhere else in the world outside the Merseyside area. They seem very proud of their hometown and as soon as we stepped out of the station, a man came up to us to give us directions. One thing that bothered me was that in the shopping precincts at every cross roads were huge TV screens displaying Sky News or another popular channel. It brought back memories of when I read 1984. In fact, partly as joke, on the Church Street crossroads, I stood in front of the TV screen lifted my arms in the cross symbol, seen in the movie, and shouted “I love Big Brother!” For a change I was not traveling to this conference alone; I was accompanied by two friends, someone I know from work called Vicky (not the same Vicky I mentioned in my Valentines Day article) and her mum Sue. They are probably the only two people in my daily life I can discuss HPANWO-related subjects with. I spend a lot of time at Vicky’s house watching David Icke and Chris Everard’s films. This was their first conference and they were very excited. I had had a great deal of trouble booking a place to stay. It was a bank holiday weekend after all, but if I’d wanted just a place for myself it would have been no trouble. The thing is I wanted three single rooms so that the three of us could stay in the same place and in the end had to resort to a B and B in Crosby, a district in the far north of the city. It was nice through, in a big Victorian detached house that must have once belonged to an opium merchant or something; it still had the old call-bell on the wall of the dining room for the servants! I also detected something of a spooky atmosphere to the place, similar to what I felt when I visited a haunted house last year (see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-trip-to-haunted-house.html ) And on my last night I did catch a glimpse of something strange that might have been paranormal. It was an oval-shaped orange light, just a few inches across that I glimpsed in a mirror. (The commitment of some of the delegates was very deep. Someone told me that when they couldn’t find a hotel to stay in they’d slept rough! It was such a good conference that in retrospect I’d probably have done the same!) The rest of the hotel was filled by a group of women on a 50th birthday weekend. The birthday girl was called Alice so the entire troupe wore T-shits saying: “Who the F*** is Alice?” On the second night they all dressed up as nurses and at 3AM on Friday night I was treated to the sound of screaming, drunken laughter and went out of my room to see an inebriated Alice trying to climb the stairs to her room. She looked like Hillary on Everest! One of the ladies, the prettiest as luck would have it, ran up and embraced me! (and it’s been far too long since that’s happened!) Unfortunately Vicky and Sue are light sleepers and ended up very tired the next day, not to mention annoyed at Alice and her friends; I can sympathize with Vicky and Sue, but I can’t bring myself to share their disdain! The lady who runs the hotel is called Bernie and was very accommodating, but she refused to acknowledge my suggestions of improving her business. I thought that a profitable source of work might be, seeing as Liverpool still has, unlike so many former British harbours, a working dockland, to open her boarding house to sailors. She said: “No way! I do have standards! They’ll expect me to provide them with call-girls!” which is probably true!

The Beyond Knowledge Conference was held in a very modest venue indeed: the Old Police Station in Lark Lane near Sefton Park. It was not what I expected. I had this image in my mind of one of the fancy Liverpool conference centres that are scattered everywhere throughout the city. The toilets were smelly and there was no bog roll in them, the roof leaked when it rained, but you know what? As the weekend progressed, I grew strangely fond of the lovely old place and I wouldn’t have swapped it for any squeaky carpet, parquet ceiling, air conditioned, velvet-chair Conformatistory with sweet-smelling shithouses that the better-heeled “sophisticated host” might provide. Fuck that! Give us our down-to-Earth human cultural rendezvous any day! It would probably have doubled the price of the tickets anyway; and we’d have lost all the charm and “delightful squalor” of a truly humanly historical, down-to-Earth meetinghouse, of what Philip Pullman would call “a Gyptian Roping”. When the BK team hosts their next conference, I hope it will once again be within this humanistic, community-supporting, adorable old venue! The conference was very much an international event. Among the delegates were people from all the nations of Scandinavia, one of the Palmgren brothers of Red Ice Radio, other Swedes, people from Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, France, the French Pyrenees, places in Scotland from the Isle of Lewis to Edinburgh, the USA and of course everywhere in England, including Oxford, like myself. There were eight speakers in all; and they were all very interesting. I’ve reproduced my interpretation of what they said to the best of my understanding. If any of them are reading this, or anybody else better-informed, and I’ve made some mistakes then I apologize.

Marcus Allen
http://www.aulis.com/index.html
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/
Marcus Allen is a former corporate CEO who trained as a photographer. In 1994, he took over as editor of the UK edition of the Australian conspiratorial magazine, Nexus (Of which I am a subscriber), which investigates conspiracies and the paranormal. At the beginning he asked us to raise our hands if we thought people had been to the moon. I put my hand up because I do believe that people have gone to the moon, but I later caught up with Marcus and explained to him that I still agreed with him. People have been to the moon, but not in the way and at the time history tells us they did (I can’t elaborate right now). Marcus informed us that fakery is rife in space exploration, both with the Americans and Russians, but the moon landing programme was the biggest fake of all. He says that the photographs taken supposedly on the lunar surface show no signs of radiation damage, which is odd because in space there’s a lot of radiation and the cameras and cartridges had no protection. The film used to take IMAX pictures on the Space Shuttle has to be stored in lead-lined boxes, and the Shuttle doesn’t go right out into deep space; it just stays in Earth orbit. The pictures all show signs of having being taken in a studio, some using special effects. There’s a photo taken of the “Earthrise” from the Apollo orbiter, 70 miles above the lunar surface. The problem is that the horizon is wrong; it contains too much detail and the surface features are too large. The pictures of the astronauts walking on the moon show signs of being lit by floodlights and are sometimes taken from impossible camera angles. There is even an example of a photo taken showing both astronauts in the same frame! How can this be as no more than two men were on the moon at any time? There’s a photo in which you can see the other astronaut reflected in the visor of the subject astronaut, therefore the reflected astronaut has to be the photographer; except the man does not have his hand on the shutter and the moon cameras had no timed shutter function There is a picture of the lunar rover, the little electric car they used to move around in, with no tyre tracks coming from the wheels, as if it’s a prop on a studio set that’s just been put there; Marcus’ theory is that this is exactly what it is! There is also the issue of temperature variation. In open space, the sun warms things almost to boiling point, including the spacecraft and astronauts. Out of the sun everything freezes to below minus 200 degrees. Once again this is a problem on the Space Shuttle, but not on the moon missions. Marcus also tells us that the moon rock, some of which is on display in museums all over the world, is not really moon rock at all, but just ordinary rock from Earth. It also seems odd that since Apollo nobody has been back to the moon. In fact George W Bush is the first US president to announce any future plans to go to the moon. China has also announced that they plan to send a manned mission to the moon. But both these expeditions are going to take 20 years or so to develop, almost three times as long as Apollo. In the immediate aftermath of Apollo, people were filled with optimism; Apollo was going to be just the start of a new frontier. A commentator at the time stated that by 1985 man would have walked on Mars and there would be permanent moon base. Arthur C Clarke’s book 2001, spoke of a moon base called Clavius that had a resident population of hundreds by the year of the book’s title. It’s now 2008, and since Apollo no humans have left Earth orbit. If anyone in the late 60’s could have known the future they’d have gasped in dismay! Why is this? Marcus said that it is because deep space travel is simply not possible with current or foreseeable technology and our single mission to another world, the moon landings, were faked. The pictures and TV footage was all done in a studio here on Earth. Marcus also says there are things about the moon itself that we haven’t been told. Not all the craters are impact craters; some are caused by volcanism and electrical discharge, although he doesn’t explain what that means. Marcus Allen’s speech was a subject I’ve looked into a lot and I’ve heard him do it before at Probe, but it’s always worth while hearing it again, together with new information.

Kenn Thomas
http://www.steamshovelpress.com/
Kenn Thomas did two addresses at the conference, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. He is the founder of the Steamshovel Press and “parapolitics”. On Saturday he explored the link between Wilhelm Reich and the American administration, especially Reich’s relationship with President Eisenhower. (Here’s some background on Wilhelm Reich: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/10/legacy-of-wilhelm-reich.html) After the Roswell Incident in 1947, Eisenhower became fascinated UFO’s and it is said that he saw alien bodies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during a mysterious time when he disappeared for an entire afternoon. The official story was that he went to the dentist, but researchers have proved that this was a lie. He was somewhere else. Amazingly there is a record in the library at Orgonon of a secret visit to the facility by Eisenhower, maybe on that same afternoon. The President was interested in the Cloudbuster and its relationship to UFO’s, as I describe in the linked article. Reich discovered that there were two types of orgone, normal orgone and DOR, Deadly Orgone Radiation. A Cloudbuster can be set to generate DOR as well as normal orgone. Under the influence of DOR pollution accumulates in the area and bad weather can erupt, high winds and rainstorms; experimental subjects quickly became ill. Not only that, but Reich observed that it has a negative effect on UFO’s. The many UFO’s that flocked to Orgonon vaporized when the Cloudbuster shot DOR at them. Reich had inadvertently invented a weapon that could destroy UFO’s. You can bet that this would interest the government enormously. Kenn speculates that they have been developing an ET weapons programme since before World War II and UFO’s have been shot down both before and after Eisenhower’s visit to Reich’s laboratory. After the speech we had a brief Q and A session. I asked Kenn about Wilhelm Reich’s archive, and unfortunately there’s still no news. But Kenn mentions that just before he died, Reich finished the manuscript of his last book, entitled Creation. This book vanished from his cell in Lewisburg Prison on the day he died. Kenn hopes, as do I, that a copy of it somehow made its way into the Reich archive. It seems unlikely that Reich would not write a back-up copy just in case the original went missing. With all the attacks and witch-hunts against him by the authorities, he knew very well that this was a possibility. The Reich archive is now open and so hopefully we’ll find out soon.

Sunday: On Sunday Kenn Thomas did another speech also about the link between UFO’s and government. In this case, the Maury Island UFO and the Kennedy assassination. The Maury Island Incident took place a few days before the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Roswell crash. A man called Harold Dahl was out on a boat near the island, salvaging drifting logs to sell the wood. He had two friends, his son and his dog on board with him. He sighted 6 ring shaped objects in the sky which descended to hover above the boat, dropping what appeared to be red hot molten metal onto the boat. Everyone on board rushed to get into the boat’s cabin. Dahl’s son was injured and the dog killed. The boat was badly damaged and some of the “slag” fell into the water around the boat, hissing loudly and producing steam. The following day Dahl was visited by Men-in-Black, one of the first reported encounters with these strange individuals. (Dahl later confessed that the incident was a hoax, but soon afterwards retracted his confession, perhaps because he was warned by the Men-in-Black.) Another investigator, John Keel, said that Maury Island was actually a Fugo balloon, an unmanned balloon fitted with a bomb invented by the Japanese to attack mainland America during World War II. Not all of them are accounted for and there are rumours that some continued to drift around after the war was over. Dahl approached Fred Crisman, a mysterious man alleged by many to be a secret FBI agent; his name pops up everywhere something strange happens. He was also one of the producers of the TV series The Invaders. The odd thing is that Crisman is connected with the Kennedy assassination. Jim Garrison, the district attorney who carried out the only prosecution for Kennedy’s murder received an anonymous letter naming Crisman as being on the Grassy Knoll. He was already known to be one of the tramps arrested after the shooting. Kenn showed us the famous and very gruesome Zapruder film showing the last few moments of John F Kennedy’s life. He points out Crisman’s location on the film. All in all it’s an amazing series of connections, but with no cogent narrative and manifest plot. No doubt Kenn will continue to research the subject and maybe give us more information if he comes back to the conference circuit.

Jerry E Smith
http://www.jerryesmith.com/
Jerry E Smith’s address was all about technology to control the weather. I’ve already written about Kenn Thomas and his lecture on Wilhelm Reich and that covers the subject a bit, but there’s a lot more to expand upon. Many political thinkers and writers have explored the possibility of manipulating the weather and contrary to popular belief, the technology to do it does exist; it has been developed, patents have been awarded and it has been used on several occasions. It has a long history too. In the American Civil War, General Dan Ruddles made the observation that great storms always seem to follow great battles. He launched a study which concluded that this was because of the smoke from exploded munitions filling the air, along with the changes in air pressure that the explosions create. In World War II Bernard Vonnegut invented the “cloud seeder” a device that discharges a silver iodide solution into the air from an aircraft or missile that causes rain clouds to form. In the Vietnam War, the first weather battle began with Project Popeye. This was a massive cloud-seeding operation over the border of Vietnam and Laos, a then-neutral country. It had the effect of extending the Southeast Asian monsoon by over a month and disrupting the Ho Chi Min trail with heavy rain. (It also probably killed many innocent people too, but why let the trifling matter of indiscriminate mass murder get in the way of a good idea!?) In 1978 there was a UN ban on EnMod, Environmental modification weapons, but all that happened was that the project went underground. Eventually they came public and nothing was done to stop them. It seems that the UN law is one nobody is willing to enforce. Two organizations have been exposed as secretly developing ways of creating bad weather as a weapon of war. Spacecast220 and USAF 2005.It includes not only attacking the enemy with weather modification, but melting the polar ice, thinning the ozone layer (Did they test it in Antarctica, creating the Ozone hole?) Nowadays the American and Colombians governments are spraying the Amazon jungle with herbicides to kill the trees where the drug barons have hideouts, just like the Agent Orange fiasco of Vietnam. In Kosovo NATO forces blew up a toxic waste dump upwind of a Bosnian Serb lair, and let the smoke poison them. This effected many innocent people, animals and vegetation too no doubt. The burning oil wells in Saddam’s “Scorched Earth” policy in Kuwait may well have caused the terrible floods in Bangladesh which killed over 100,000 people. (Ian Crane had something to add to that the following day!) There is even a government contractor called Weather Modification Inc! It’s not just being done in the US either. Oddly enough just before the weekend of the conference, China announced that it could “guarantee” good weather for the Olympics! How can anyone guarantee the weather!? Only one way: EnMod technology! There are even rumours that China used EnMod technology to attack North Korea. Bad weather is potentially apocalyptically destructive and allows the attacker complete deniability. Jerry then went on to discuss HAARP, the High Altitude Aural Research Project. This is a massively powerful radio transmitter that can shoot transmissions hundreds of miles up into the ionosphere and fill the entire Earth with electrical charge. What’s it for? Well, the official reports are a bit vague. It’s used to transmit extremely low frequency ELF radio messages to submarines. But it could be used as a weapon. The Earth is like the brain, in that it operates by very subtle electric charges; and we all know what happens when a human is given an electric shock to the brain: madness! Jerry reckons that HAARP might be used to bore holes in the Van Allen belts, which is not only relevant to Marcus Allen’s moonhoax theory, but the fact that a lack of radio-shielding for the Earth would leave vast areas, and maybe even the whole planet, vulnerable to solar storms. In fact HAARP may well have been behind the Columbia disaster, a “field test” so to speak. And in case you think that they wouldn’t destroy a spacecraft and kill the people aboard, remember the innocent people killed by Project Popeye? Do you think they’d care? Jerry has a very controversial view of chemtrails that most people disagreed with. He says that they’re simply plane exhaust condensing in specific atmospheric circumstances, but he does mention talk of government projects to stop the supposed danger from global warming by sprinkling shiny dust in the upper atmosphere and blocking the sun with giant space mirrors. The long term objective, says Jerry, could be the creation of a perfect mind-control system where the Earth’s manipulated electric field is used to dull down the undesired elements of human thought. Scary! But it’s better that people know. If you think information is disturbing, try ignorance!

David Hatcher Childress
http://www.psitalk.com/childress.html
This “real life Indiana Jones” is one of the most maverick archaeologists since Colonel James Churchward and Erich von Daniken. He spoke of the fact that our view of ancient civilizations is not what we think it is. There are structures built many thousands of years ago which have properties which do not fit in with the official view of the civilizations said to have built them. There are strange stone walls in Inca monuments that couldn’t have been built by the Incas, the Sphinx may be many millennia older than we thought because it shows signs of having been weathered by rainfall. Similar walls to the Inca ones appear in Japan and other places, made of perfectly-shaped irregular polygonal blocks. I wanted to ask if there was a reason for their irregular shapes. Couldn’t the culture that constructed them have built with square or oblong stones as we do today? They must have wanted to make them like that for some reason. There are many pyramids all over South America which have doorways in them just leading to nowhere; there are just blank stone walls behind them. This makes me think of stargates, or the holes in spacetime that feature in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books. This same phenomenon is found on other continents, even though South America is supposed to have been completely isolated until the 15th Century. This comes to another problem. The ancient classical native civilizations of the Americas have sculptures that depict people of many different races, bearded white men like Viracocha and the huge stone heads of the Olmec culture that are very obviously Negroid. Sadly the Olmec city of La Venta was demolished by the oil industry, maybe to keep some of its secrets safe. There is also the phenomenon of the crystal skulls. These incredible artifacts are total enigmas. Nobody knows how they were made and why. They also have strange psychic and physical properties: like electronic effects and sonic resonances. One of them is going to be on display at the next Nexus conference. In Mohenjodaro, the oldest ruined city in India, there is a carving showing a cow-like animal that is known to have become extinct thousands of years before the city was built. As with Ralph Ellis, David Hatcher Childress wipes out all the assumptions we make about the history of humanity and forces us to look at it again, differently.

David Griffin
http://www.exopolitics.org.uk/
David Griffin is the leader of the UK branch of the exopolitics movement. Expolitics is the study of potential political and social interaction with cultures from another world beyond Earth, in space or another dimension. It differs from UFOlogy; UFOlogy is the study of UFO’s themselves, whereas exopolitics assumes they exist and deals with the human consequences of the phenomenon. Unfortunately the subject is still considered fringe and crazy. In fact Michael Salla lost his job as a professor for writing an article on the subject in the New York Times. The governments already know that these things exist, and as I’ve already discussed, they’ve been covering up their knowledge of it. Why? Partly because of the impact it would have on society if the presence of ET civilizations became accepted truth, but also because of the impact of any technology the aliens might have. These are big subjects that I can’t go into detail about here, but it’s worth looking at the website and following the links to the Disclosure Project and other resources. The UFO subject is “black budget”, in other words it’s completely secret. Perhaps it is also funded by the 2.3 trillion dollars that went missing from the US defence exchequer! Some people have claimed that illegal drug profits also go into funding secret UFO research. David showed footage of aliens interacting with Earth spacecraft, and spoke of reports of UFO’s interfering with nuclear missile bases. A UFO almost launched a missile from a Russian base and shut down some missiles in a US base during the Cold War. You can imagine how that panicked people! The UFO’s seem to have a fascination with nuclear power and weapons. I myself took a photo of a UFO above the Faslane Trident submarine base in Scotland (I’m trying to find the print as I write these words!) There is also evidence that aliens might have had a hand in genetically engineering some of the life on Earth, including humanity! David showed examples of alien-like skulls that could not have belonged to humans. All in all this is a fascinating subject that I spend a lot of time investigating. It reminded me of the brilliant address by Paola Harris at Probe last year. The subject is well worth a look. And remember, the truth about aliens could come out at any time!

Ralph Ellis
http://freespace.virgin.net/kena.edfu/
I met Ralph Ellis at the conference and got to speak to him, without knowing who he was, in the most unusual of circumstances. We were both in the toilet and went hunting for toilet paper! Ralph is an imposing and charismatic-looking historian. He is very tall and wears a waistcoat and leather sunhat. He’s just published as book called King Jesus which tells a never-before aspect of the Christian story. He builds it on the back of his other works that show how the stories of the Old Testament are not original; they are actually plagiaries of ancient Egyptian myths. They are supposedly the history of the Jewish people, from their beginnings at the dawn of time, through disaster and rebirth through Noah’s Ark, from slavery and escape to freedom, to the founding of Israel, the “promised land”. But every one of these tales is also found in Egyptian myth that is much older, in some cases more than a millennium older! They are copies, and Abraham, Moses, David and all the other heroes of the bible are just Egyptian heroes with new names. The same goes for Jesus. Jesus, as we know him through the Christian churches, is a character based on older mythology. His whole life is a walkthrough of astrological symbolism; the recurring theme of fish connects to Pisces and the twelve Apostles represent the twelve signs of the Zodiac. The whole story was concocted by one man who is thought of as two people St Paul and the historian Josephus Flavius. The similarities in their lives are too strong to have been separate; they were the same person. But the source for Jesus himself was a real man, Jesus of Gramala, a very powerful prince who lived in the First Century and fought in the Roman-Jewish war. He was not a carpenter and definitely not poor! This is a mistranslation; “carpenter” should really be “architect”. The source of his power was his incredible pedigree. He is better connected then probably anybody ever born before or since. He comes out of the house of Orania, a city-state based in Palmyra, in the east of modern Syria. His grandparents were all rulers. One was the daughter of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, another was Phrates, Emperor of Persia (This is why three Magi, the “wise men” visit him when he’s a baby. This is a Persian tradition for a new prince), another was Jubba II, King of all Libya (North Africa). So all Jesus’ ancestors were rulers of the world’s four superpowers, Egypt, Rome, North Africa and Persia. This effectively made him heir to all those thrones. So we’re talking about the only person in history who had the right to call himself King of the World. I wonder, was it an early attempt by the Illuminati to establish the New World Order? If so it failed, but will they try to do the same thing today in a similar fashion? There’s more to the story, and this connects with the legend of King Arthur! This is why the subtitle of Ralph’s new book is From Kam to Camelot (Kam is a very ancient name for Egypt). Jesus of Gramala was crucified after the Roman victory in the war. He was put on the cross with two other leaders of the Jewish rebels. Those two other men died, but St Paul/Josephus Flavius, rescued Jesus in time to save his life. This is clearly where the Crucifixion and Resurrection story comes from. He was however not pardoned. The Roman authorities decided to exile him as far a way as possible to prevent him from doing any more harm. This is similar to what was done 1800 years later to Napoleon. He was at first exiled to his home of Corsica, but escaped to reap more havoc so they sent him to the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena. In Jesus’ case, he was sent to Britain, the remotest backwater of the Roman Empire. He was held secretly in comfortable quarters in Fort Dewa in Chester. The site of this fort was excavated by archaeologists a few years ago and it was a big mystery because it is the biggest Roman fort ever constructed. It was also made of stone, not wood, so much have cost a packet! Why was such a huge castle built in a very quiet and unimportant place? It was like building the Pentagon on an island in Alaska! Well maybe it was built specially to house the exiled Jesus. The archeologists discovered that there was a sealed section of the fort. This must have been a restricted area and nobody outside it could have found out what was really going on inside. But obviously there must have been speculation, in the same way that Area 51 causes speculation today, and legends emerged of somebody called “Arturi”; which is another name for Egypt. The dimensions of the secret annexe were the same as the Jerusalem temple and one of the rooms was built in the shape of a Vesica Piscis. This once again connects to Jesus’ story through fish symbolism. Unfortunately the archeologists could not complete their work because the site was destroyed to make that recurring bane of archaeology: the shopping centre! But could the legend of the mysterious exile: Arturi have inspired the legends of King Arthur? The story of the Fisher King; fish once again. The Fisher King was also the “maimed king” who is healed by the Holy Grail. This could refer to circumcision or castration. Many dangerous exiles were castrated to prevent them fathering any children to cause more trouble in the future. The way Arthur marries Morgeana, but has Gwynyfyr on the side is also Egyptian in origin and maybe Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Mary symbolizes Gwynyfyr. Ralph amazed the whole audience; few of them, including myself, had ever heard of any of this before. We all knew the Holy Blood-Holy Grail story, but Ralph’s discoveries deepen and complicate the story enormously. It just goes to show that we’re looking at the past through a distorted Kaleidoscope lens and it takes a lot of work to make sense of the confusing images. The past is lost, sometimes through deliberate suppression, but also through accidental distortion. But knowing our own past gives us a grip on who we are today. I was very impressed by Ralph’s address. Ralph’s book will not be on sale in the UK for a few weeks, but he had four copies with him that he auctioned off to raise money for Gary McKinnon (Here’s some background on Gary McKinnon: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/gary-mckinnon.html .) The first book went for over £100!

Ian Crane
http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk/
http://www.foolmeonce.co.uk/
Ian Crane was easily the best speaker of the conference. I’ve seen him live before at Probe, and as with Probe, his address was explosive; he totally raised the roof! He used to be an oil company executive and went on to be chairman of the UK 9/11 Truth Movement. They must have regarded him as something of a pariah! I’ve worked with the 9/11 Truthers myself and they hate to be linked with “conspiracy nuts” and do everything they can to avoid the label. Ian criticized Jerry E Smith’s view of the oil fires in Iraq because he was actually there and said he saw the bodies of Iraqi soldiers around the fires. They’d been defending the well-heads and it was US Special Forces who lit those fires! He also disagreed with Jerry’s view on chemtrails saying that there’s no way they could possibly be natural phenomena. He said that he complained to Sir Anthony Stein, his MP in Devon and Stein was very keen to investigate, but then suddenly lost interest. Was he warned off? Other issues that Ian tackled were the new Codex Alimentarius laws which will destroy the alternative health industry if allowed to go unchallenged. They also severely increase the control authorities have over food production, effectively forcing us to eat GM crops, eliminating organic faming and reducing the amount of vitamins and essential nutrients we get. It also means an end to food labeling so we will be ingesting GMO’s and chemicals like Aspartame without knowing it. So we get ill quicker and more often and the official healthcare system has a total monopoly over our treatment! How convenient! He also says that Peak Oil is a myth. The Americans are actually paying Middle Eastern countries leave the oil in the ground. One of the reasons Iraq was invaded was they began trading oil in Euros instead of US dollars. The Elite he talks about believe they are the lost biblical tribe of Ephraim and that it is their destiny to create the New World Order, turning London into the New Jerusalem mentioned at the end of the Book of Revelations. They’ve used US forces in Iraq to destroy the antiquities that reveal their true origins. The London Olympics in 2012 is going to be a massive ritual for them and the Olympic logo, designed by the former British athlete and Zionist, Sebastian Coe, can be redrawn to spell the word “ZION”. The year 2012 is mentioned in many prophesies and predictions as a year of change and revolution. Could the Illuminati try to pull off something major in that year? The Report from Iron Mountain revealed that they are planning to fake an alien invasion, Independence Day-style. This was confirmed by Dr Carol Rosin of the Disclosure Project when she interviewed Werner von Braun in 1977. Will 2012 be the year they decide to do it? Ian ended his speech by playing The Power of Love by Frankie goes to Hollywood, with his own illustrations; I found it very moving. Ian is a magnificent speaker. His optimism is infectious and uplifting. He really makes me feel joyful and hopeful, even more so than David Icke, and listening to him really makes me believe we can get out of this mess.

Michael Tsarion
http://michaeltsarion.com/
Michael Tsarion topped the bill at the Beyond Knowledge and was the last speaker to address the conference. He is the most famous person there, on his first ever UK event. He is a major global speaker, in the same league as David Icke, who lectures in big-name locations all over the world. He’s an odd combination because although his family comes from India and he is Asian in appearance, he speaks with a strong Ulster accent and grew up in Belfast. He lives today in Seattle USA and has made dozens of full-length movies, making him probably the most prolific researcher in the world today. Before his address he did a photo call outside the venue where lots of people had their picture taken with him, including Dondaz from the David Icke forum whom you can see in the photo above. Dondaz is the film producer who did The Glastenbury Affair and he set up his camera and did a quick interview with Michael. Michael then lectured non-stop for 3 and a half hours! The longest I’d ever heard anyone talk. After that was a 45-minute Q and A session. The basis of his lecture was similar to Ralph Ellis’: history as we know it is a distortion up hold by dogma and habit rather than factual knowledge. We have an “East to West” view of history, in which civilization began in the East: Egypt, Sumer etc, then spread slowly west with the Greeks and Romans and finally the European colonial powers and North America. Michael has the opposite view: “West to East.” He says civilization began in Atlantis, of which Britain and Ireland were a part, and spread East to the places official history views as the cradle of civilization. His evidence comes from many areas: religion, mythology, linguistics, geography. He’s a learned man and some of the details escaped me, but I gathered the basic plot. It all centres on the mystery of why the Druids were exterminated. Michael says that this is because they held knowledge from the secret past of humanity. Druidism actually is the source of the culture and religion of ancient Egypt, whereas official history says that they are totally unrelated. Michael says that the Irish are not Celtic, but were “Celicized” by the Gaelic invaders who were in fact the Atenists of Egypt. The background to this is a civil war over the religious reformation of Egypt between the existing Amenists and the new Atenists. This war eventually spread back to the roots of their civilization: Ireland. The triumph of the Atenists marked the start of modern monotheistic religion and tyranny. He mentions that in those days people traveled the world over, explaining the enigmas presented by David Hatcher Childress. This is why cocaine has been found in Egyptian tombs and mummies found in the USA. He says that prehistoric man was not savage as we’ve been taught in school but that in the past there was an antediluvian civilization that was a very high vulture and that we descended into savagery. Real history has been suppressed, like when the Alexandria Library was burned (Carl Sagan compared the lost information there to as if all Shakespeare’s plays were lost except one!) It was destroyed to that future generations could not know the truth! The name for Ireland really means “Aryan land”. In this case “Aryan” doesn’t refer to a race, but to a noble ideal form of human existence. The name for Britain comes from the Egyptian for “seat of the Gods”. One of the mythological island roots of Ireland is called Murias; doesn’t that sound a lot like “Lemuria”? Michael brings the whole subject up to the present day by describing the way modern society is controlled and directed by the Elite, descendants of the Egyptian Atonists, sun-worshippers. All the empires and wars since have been a continuation of the millennia of war by the Atonists against the Amenists. He mentions the missing trillions from the Pentagon budget, like Ian Crane did, and speculates that maybe the ancient Egyptian treasuries still have some money in them today that is used to fund the Pentagon in America. The bottom line is that the whole thing is a psychic war. They “shut down thought and make us jump through hoops!” But Michael is optimistic and believes that freedom is within our grasp and that 2012 will be the “age of the revealing”.

It’s been a wonderful conference, and it’s been great to share the experience with Vicky, Sue and all my friends from the David Icke forum who turned up. Many thanks to all the organizers and speakers. As with Probe, the real pleasure of these events is not inside the auditorium, but in the lobby during the breaks and in the pubs afterwards. Talking and spending time with people who you can speak to about things that most of my everyday acquaintances think is crazy. I spoke to some of the organizers, Dom, Andy, Nikki and Ayem, a lady I met a few years ago at a Neil Hague exhibition. The Beyond Knowledge Conference was a resounding success and all being well, they plan to put it on again next year. I’ll be sure to get a ticket!