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...

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Philip K. Dick And The Book That Wrote Itself, Part Deux

This is just a trifle, but I want to note it.

Last month, I reposted something I wrote in 2010 about Philip K. Dick's more esoteric experiences, and his beliefs concerning the interrelation between his fiction and his reality. I then went on to talk about an unpublished novel I had written which uncannily predicted many events in my life:

"...the book has accurately predicted many events in my life. That's not bullshit: it really has predicted this stuff. I mean like: the name of the man I am going to marry, specific people I ended up meeting, particular situations in detail, stuff like that. As such, I began to wonder if the book was meant to be published at all, or was it just some sort of weird prefiguring of the years to come? Was it just a personal guide for myself?"

Well, recently my husband purchased the services of a professional artist to illustrate the cover of Part One of the book; and encouraged me to finish editing it and get it turned into an e-book. So I spent the early part of this week digging deep within the material and editing it; and the book is now back in "play."

At the same time this has been going on,  I've been experiencing the most uncanny synchronicities related to the book. In short; I'm having events happen in my life that mirror (in lesser form, but with specific connecting details) those of the novel; in sequence, yet!

While I was noting these syncs in my journal, I was also watching "The Muppet Movie," and I finally realized how "meta" it is -- there is a copy of the movie script floating around in the story, and characters read what is happening and consciously note what they "need" to say or do.

It is all quite odd; but yet I feel the syncs are, at the very least, a sign that I'm on the right track as to finally getting this book off the ground.

In a further PKD sync as I write this, I've just watched a scene in the "Tim & Eric Chrimbus special" in which an apparently psychic character communicates with a girl through a pink telepathic lightbeam directly into her forehead:

Compare to PKD's VALIS (emphasis mine):

"VALIS has been described as one node of an artificial satellite network originating from the star Sirius in the Canis Major constellation. According to Dick, the Earth satellite used "pink laser beams" to transfer information and project holograms on Earth and to facilitate communication between an extraterrestrial species and humanity. Dick claimed that VALIS used "disinhibiting stimuli" to communicate, using symbols to trigger recollection of intrinsic knowledge through the loss of amnesia, achieving gnosis."

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Philip K. Dick And The Book That Wrote Itself

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October 2010

In 1974, Philip K. Dick wrote a novel called "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said." He later claimed that following the writing of this book he experienced a series of coincidences that linked the text from the book with real-life. For the sake of expediency, the following is quoted from Wikipedia:

"In his article 'How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later'[1] Dick recounts how in describing an incident at the end of the book (end of chapter 27) to an Episcopalian priest, the priest noted its striking similarity to a scene in the Books of Acts in the Bible. In Dick's book, the police chief, Felix Buckman, meets a black stranger at an all-night gas station, with whom he uncharacteristically makes an emotional connection. First of all he hands the stranger a drawing of a heart pierced by an arrow. He then flies away, but quickly returns and hugs the stranger, after which they strike up a friendly conversation. In the Book of Acts (chapter 8), the disciple Philip meets an Ethiopian eunuch (i.e. a black man) sitting in a chariot to whom he explains a passage from the Book of Isaiah, and then converts him to Christianity.

Dick further notes that a few months after writing the book, he himself uncharacteristically came to the aid of a black stranger who had run out of gas. After giving the man some money and then driving away, he returned to help the man reach a gas station. Dick was then struck by the similarity between this incident and that described in his book (approaching a black stranger, and returning again)."

Dick goes into more detail and speculation regarding this phenomenon in the novel "VALIS."  I first came across the topic in the Richard Linklater film "Waking Life," and it has stuck with me ever since.

The "Flow My Tears The Policeman Said" phenomena takes on a particular meaning for me, as I believe I am in a similar situation. Not saying I am as good a writer as Dick, because I'm not, but let me explain:

I wrote a 600-page novel in 2004-2005 when I was bedridden and very ill. I literally had nothing else to do but write this book. The artistic merits of the book itself are questionable. But here's the thing: the book has accurately predicted many events in my life.

That's not bullshit: it really has predicted this stuff. I mean like: the name of the man I am going to marry, specific people I ended up meeting, particular situations in detail, stuff like that.

As such, I began to wonder if the book was meant to be published at all, or was it just some sort of weird prefiguring of the years to come? Was it just a personal guide for myself?

I write this now because I've been continually experiencing a lot of hip pain, to the point where I need to use a cane.* At the end of my novel, the main character, who has retired from writing, uses a cane. There are other details surrounding this part of the book and its collarary in real-life that are very striking, but are personal and I won't get into here. Suffice to say: it's really creeping me out, because I feel I am in the exact same position as the main character at the end of my book.

At the very end of the book, the protagonist from her beach house spies a space capsule falling into the sea. She hobbles with her cane out to the beach to inspect it. A figure with a purple "spacesuit" with glyphs written all over it comes out of the capsule, and removes its helmet. The protagonist laughs. The End.**

WTF?! Who or what is in the purple spacesuit? Does the protagonist ever write again?

So anyway, as I truly have reached a crossroads in my own life -- including, I guess, "retiring" from writing -- and am not sure what direction to take, the end of my own book greatly interests (and frustrates) me.***

I guess I'm going to have to start writing another book.

*This situation rectified itself, thank God

**Several revelations have occurred regarding this astronaut image since I wrote this post, which I will detail later. One happened literally less than a month after writing the original post.

***I'm basically traveling "through" a backwards narrative of everything that I have just told you; strangely similar events seemingly "happening all over again," but in a more informed, positive way. Republishing this post is just part of that process.

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