John Lennon, The Alien "Beetles," And The Golden Eggman

I vaguely remember hearing this before...Basically, John Lennon had claimed to be "stalked" by UFOs, visited by four alien "bugmen"(!), and being the recipient of a mysterious golden egg. All this apparently was told to "psychic" Uri Geller -- who (claims Geller at any rate), became the owner of said egg.

The blog Tanata recounts the story as well as reprinting Geller's account for the London Telegraph. Wrote Geller:

John started talking about UFOs. He said he believed life existed on other planets, that it had visited us, that maybe it was observing us right now. He took me to a quieter, darker table, lit a cigarette and pointed its glowing tip at my face. “You believe in this stuff, right?” he asked me. “Well, you ain’t f—-in’ gonna believe this. “About six months ago, I was asleep in my bed, with Yoko, at home, in the Dakota Building. And suddenly, I wasn’t asleep. Because there was this blazing light round the door. It was shining through the cracks and the keyhole, like someone was out there with searchlights, or the apartment was on fire. “That was what I thought — intruders, or fire. I leapt out of bed, and Yoko wasn’t awake at all, she was lying there like a stone, and I pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.” “Fans?” I asked him. “Well they didn’t want my f—-in’ autograph. They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches.” He broke off and stared at me.

I find it significant that there were FOUR "bug-like" creatures..."Beetles," perhaps?

It's the four bug-men in Lennon's story that make me wonder if these sorts of "visitations" are influenced, in some way, by the experiencer's own subconscious. Why four of the buggies? Was this a projection by Lennon, in reference to the Beatles? If these alien visitors really exist, do they reach into minds and "pull out" this data and use it to "mask" their activities or "communicate" with their target in a more meaningful way?

Or: was Lennon manifesting this all himself, whether on the psychic or material plane?

Then there is the issue of the golden egg allegedly given to Geller by Lennon -- who allegedly received it from the aliens!

I had a hard time believing Geller's story, but there's several pictures of the "egg." If this indeed is an "alien artifact' of some kind, has NASA or the govt gotten in touch with Geller about it? Has Geller run scientific tests on the egg to find out what it is made of?

And then there is the "coincidence" of the Eggman himself John Lennon receiving a cosmic egg.

Lennon's first reported encounter with a UFO happened in 1974 -- a craft he described as having "a flattened cone, with a red light on top and white lights rotating around the base." This was the same year Philip K. Dick had his otherworldly, possibly extraterrestrial "VALIS" experiences. So maybe the "aliens" were just damned busy. Maybe Lennon and Dick, being artists (and quite influential ones at that), were more sensitive/able to pick up what was "going on in the air" in the mid-Seventies.

Or maybe these people, along with other famous "contactees," are chosen because of their importance to the human race as a whole. Lennon wrote music that deeply influenced generations; Dick's stories and the adaptations of his stories have similarly influenced  countless persons. Maybe these entities have wisdom or messages to impart, and use these people to do so -- messages that we, in turn, receive from our pop-culture.

As for theories regarding "why" Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman -- was it Bush Senior/CIA trying to shut him up about the sightings? -- I would offer the following to think about. I read Chapman's biography a long time ago, and it was obvious to me that he was a "sensitive" -- empathic, very psychically open, etc. It was also obvious, based on the description of Chapman's mental state in the years and months leading up to the killing, that he was inadvertently "channeling" some serious shit.

Perhaps Chapman, like Lennon, was "contacted" by some sort of entity -- only Chapman's entity was a very dark one, and he was more "possessed" than merely contacted. Lennon's UFO sightings sharply increased in the days leading up to his death, and he felt "stalked" by them; maybe he was? Maybe there is some sort of "war" going on in a world beyond ours, between good and evil, and maybe peacenik Lennon was "targeted" to die. Or maybe it was more of a "City On The Edge Of Forever" thing, with Lennon in the Edith Keeler "role"?

Imagine a world where Lennon had lived...