Thursday, December 19, 2019

Mail 4 , 5 &6



Dear Historians on Indology:
I would appreciate your assistance as I edit a novel, What the Body
Remembers, scheduled for publication in Sept 1999, re the following
question:

Is there a consensus among historians about the Aryan invasion of India
that was taught when I was in high school in India in the seventies?
Lately I've been hearing more discussion about
the "Myth of the Aryan Invasion" (there is a book by that name,
published by Voice
of India in 1995), saying that Max Mueller in particular dated the Aryan
invasion at
3500 BC because of the prevailing Christian myth that the world was
created in
4004 BC at 4 pm (!), that the Aryan *language and colorism/ideas of
varna* may have
mixed with Indian language and culture via the passes, but that the
Aryan *people*
were not a tribe from the Caucasus, but were *indigenous* to India.
Bhagwan Gidwani's 1997 novel, "Return of the Aryans," is premised on
this theory. Another book,   "In Search of the Cradle of Civilization,"
also a 1995 Voice of India publication, says, I believe (I haven't yet
read this book myself, however) that the Aryans did invade, only they
came not from the Caucasus but from Persia. How rigorous is the
scholarship and does it stand behind the hypotheses?

Do you think, as the reviewers of these writers seem to, that the story
was a myth concocted by the English to create a tie between the Brahmins
and themselves? The "white Brahmin" idea?

Or do you feel these people who say the Aryan invasion was a myth are
indulging in wishful thinking?

Where does the historical evidence point? Has there been carbon dating
of archeological remains at Taxila, Harappa, Moenjodaro, for instance?
What does it reveal?

Perhaps you have already discussed these new theories on Indology. If
so, please point me to the website where I may find the archives with
discussion on this topic. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Shauna Singh Baldwin
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Dear Freinds,
A few days ago Mr Krishnan wrote an article on Thirukarthikai which falls
on Wednesday, 2 Dec98. Here is an artcile in English on the same topic.

Thirukarthikai

All Singapore Hindus celebrate the annual festival of lights or Deepavali
as it is called. The South Indian Hindus also celebrate another festival of
lights. Many Singaporeans will see little lamps made of clay being placed
at the doorways and windows of their Indian neighbours' flats. After
prayers at family altars or at the temples, the lamps will be lit and left
to burn throughout the night. The festival, called Karthikai Thiruvilakkedu
or Periyakarthikai, is usually celebrated on the full moon day in the Tamil
month of Karthikai.

The month of Karthikai has special significance to the Hindus especially
the Tamils. The importance can be seen through the mythologies surrounding
Lord Siva and His son Lord Muruga. Although most Hindus observe the
"Somavaram" fast on each Monday in honour of Lord Siva, the "Somavaram" in
the month of Karthikai is more religiously observed by all. This is because
it is believed that Siva gave refuge to the moon on His lock of hair on a
Monday in the month of Karthikai when the moon was cursed by Dakshan.
Mythologies have it that the moon married Dakshan's daughters, twenty-one
in all, but was particularly amorous to one daughter called Rohini.
Ofcourse the other wives were furious on being spurned by their husband and
complained to their angry father who it seems cursed the moon to wane. The
moon surrendeed at the feet of Lord Siva and begged Siva to save him. Siva
assured the moon that the curse of Daksha will only have effect for 15 days
and that the moon can continue to grow to its resplendent state for the
first 15 days of the month. Thus saying so Siva placed the moon on his lock
of hair so that he could be safe. The story, it is said, emphasises two
things. One is that curses uttered by sages cannot be completely removed
and secondly the devotee who surrenders himself at the feet of Siva will be
saved and protected. 

Siva's son Muruga is also known as Karthikeyan. He is given the name in
honour of the six presiding deities of the constellation Pleidas. Called
the six Karthikai Devis they nursed and brought up Muruga. And when the
moon is in conjunction with the constellation Pleidas each month, devotees
of Muruga observe a fast. They also observe the same fast on an elaborate
scale in this month (Karthikai-Nov-Dec).

There is yet another mythology relating to the festival of lights
celebrated in the month of Karthikai. According to a story, once there was
a dispute between Brahma and Vishnu as to who was better and greater god.
they went before Siva to have their dispute settled. Siva appeared in the
form of a huge ball of fire and told them that whosoever was able to see
his head and feet shall be declared as better god. Lord Vishnu took the
form of a boar and tried to see the feet of Siva by boring his way
underground. However, he admittedly failed in his mission. Brahma on the
other hand, took the form of a swan and flew up to see Siva's head. While
up in the air, Brahma caught a falling flower of the screw pine
(thaalamppoo) from Siva's head. He conspired with the flower and lied that
he had seen Siva's head. For lying it is said, that Brahma has far less
temples any other Hindu gods. Similarly the flower of the screw pine are
forbidden from being offered to gods.

This particular story tells us that God is light or energy and that he is
formless. Arrogance and egoism as exemplified by Brahma and Vishnu prevent
us from realising the Godhead. This is further evidenced by the messages of
the great saints including Thirugnana Sambandar who in his works refers to
the incident involving Brahma and Vishnu. 

The place where Siva took the form of a fire is called Thiruvannamalai,
which is in south India where the festival is celebrated with much pomp and
grandeur. The temple is situated on a mountain and when the great lamp is
lit it is seen by thousands of devotees in far away villages. In the
smaller temples the leaves of pine trees are burnt to create much light
symbolising that form that Siva took. This is called the burning of
Chockapanai. Chock refers to Siva and Panai refers to the pine tree. Here
in Singapore most temples also burn Chockapanai to celebrate the effulgent
state of Siva.

(This article appeared in the Oct-Dec 1992 issue of the Singapore Hindu and
is being reproduced with the permission of the writer, A Palaniappan)
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        Dear Mr.Barry,

                My friends have also attempted a search on
        your behalf, but there is no material available
        on Naadi.
                So there is only one way.
                And that will be for me to translate my
        articles on Naadi and subsequently answer your queries 
        as well. I am starting the project today itsel -
        Inshallah.
                Since its the Agasthiyar Naadi which guided 
        you to this quest, let the discourse take place in the
        Agathiyar list itself.
                I suppose, Agasthiyar would also want it that
        way.
                So whatever help I can give, I'll try to
        give you.
                See! The mysterious ways in which events are 
        guided!!!

        Regards

        Jayabarathi

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At 09:20 AM 11/27/98 +1000, you wrote:
Yes, I do understand completely.

Perhaps you could be kind enough to pass on my query to those who you think
are interested.

For some reason the Agasthiyar Naadi reading says that I will bring the
Naadis to global.  It is an immensely humbling thought.  I trust that I
shall have the support of those relatively few persons who have important
knowledge of them already.

I regret that I cannot read either Old or Modern Tamil, so I trust that,
along the way, I shall be able to find highly competent and also genuinely
interested and trustworthy persons to translate for me the answers and other
points to be found in your Tamil writings on the subject.  Could you be so
kind as to suggest some persons who I can approach, or else, at least,
enquire of them on my tentative behalf.

I my notes which I enclosed begin to unfold the topic in a way which, I pray
God, will bring these great writings to a wider sections of the
intelligentsia, in such a way as to relect something of India's fathomless
cultural and spiritual treasury.

Respectfully yours,


Barry Pittard
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       Dear Mr.Barry,

               Thank you for your queries.
               I have actually answered many of them in Tamil,
       1 and 1/2 years ago in the Tamil.net.
               Since there are a few others who are interested in
       this subject, I hope you don't mind if I answer them in The
       Agathiyam List.
               Thus it will serve a greater number of intelligentia.
               Thank you.

       Regards

       Jayabarathi
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Mail 1 2 & 3



jayabarathi wrote:
>
>         அன்புள்ள நண்பர்களே!
>
>                 "அகஸ்த்யா" என்னும் இந்தத் தகவல் பரிமாற்றக்குழு ஒரு
>         விசேடத்தன்மை வாய்ந்தது. இதனை elitistically intellectual
>         என்று சொல்லலாம்.
>                 இதில் சமயம், வரலாறு, கலைகள், கலாசாரம், இலக்கியம்,
>         தமிழியம் ஆகியவை அங்கம் பெற்றிருக்கும்.
>
>         1. சமயம்: இந்தத் தலைப்பில் "இந்து" என்ற பெயரில் தற்சமயம்
>                 விளங்கும் அறுசமயக்கூட்டு, அதன் கோட்பாடுகள், இலக்கியங்கள்,
>                 ஆகியவை இடம் பெறும்.
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>         2. கலாச்சாரம்: பாரதக்கலாச்சாரம் - பெருமளவில் தமிழ்க்கலாச்சாரம்
>                 விளங்கும்.
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>         3. கலைகள்: அறிவியல் கலைகள், நுண்கலைகள், நுகர்ச்சிக்கலைகள்,
>                 ஆகியவை மையம் பெறும்.
>
>         4. இலக்கியம்: நல்ல பழந்தமிழ் இலக்கியங்கள், பெருமளவில் மிகவிரைவாக
>                 மறைந்துபோய்க்கொண்டிருக்கின்றன. அவற்றைப்பற்றிய தகவல்கள்
>                 பரிமாறப்படும். தரமான பிறமொழி இலக்கியங்களும் இங்கு பேசப்
>                 படும்.
>
>         5. வரலாறு: பாரத வரலாறு - குறிப்பாகத் தமிழர் வரலாறு.
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>         6. தமிழியம்: "நாம் தமிழர்" என்ற உணர்வு முன்வைக்கப்பட்ட, தமிழர் சம்பந்தப்
>                 பட்ட தகவல் மையம்.
>
>                 தமிழிலும் ஆங்கிலத்திலும் கருத்துப்பரிமாற்றங்கள் நிகழ்த்தப்படும்.
>         நியாயமான ஐயப்பாடுகள், கேள்விகள் இருப்பின் அவற்றிற்கு விளக்கம் காண
>         முயலப்படும்.
>                ஐந்தக்குழு குறிப்பிட்ட நோக்கங்களுக்காக ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்டது. ஆகவே
>         இதற்கென சில கட்டொழுங்குகள், வரம்புகள் முதலியன கடைபிடிக்கப்பட
>         வேண்டியுள்ளன.
>
>                 இந்தக்குழுவின் Web-masterஆக தற்சமயத்துக்கு நானே இயங்கி
>         வருவேண். அங்கத்துவம் பெறவிழைவோர் நேரடியாக என்னிடம் விண்ணப்பிக்க
>         வேண்டும்.
> ,               H-ASIA, RISA List, Astronomy, History of Medicine and
>         Technology, HISTARCH, போன்ற விசேடக்குழுக்களின் முறையை இங்கும்
>         கடைபிடிக்கிறோம். அதன்படி, விண்ணப்பிப்போர், தங்களைப்பற்றிய சில
>         தகவல்களை அனுப்பவேண்டும். இந்தத் தகவல்கள் பாதுகாக்கப்பட்டவையாக
>         விளங்கும்.
>
>                 தற்சமயம் coollist.com.இல் விளங்கும் இந்தக்குழு, தகுந்த
>         சர்வர் வாய்த்ததும் அங்கு மாற்றப்பட்டுவிடும்.
>
>                 இதுவும் ஒரு Global Networkதான்.
>                 ஆனால், மிகச்சிறியது; கட்டைவிரல் பரிமாணமே உடையது.
>
>         அன்புடன்
>
>         ஜெயபாரதி
>
>         பி.கு. தற்சமயம் உலகில் உள்ள மற்ற இணையக்குழுக்களில் மேற்கூறிய
>                 விஷயங்கள் போதுமான அளவில் இடம்பெறுவதில்லை. அப்படியே
>                 எழுதினாலும் ஆதரவு போதுமானதாக இல்லை. ஆகவேதான் இந்த
>                 அரிய விஷயங்களுக்கென தனிப்பட சிறப்பு தகவற்குழுமம் அமைக்கும்
>                 நிர்ப்பந்தம் ஏற்பட்டுவிட்டது.
>                 அவற்றிற்குரிய மரியாதையுடன் அவையும் சிறப்பாக பூஜ்யவெளியில்
>                 இடம்பெற்று, உலகில் பரவவேண்டும் அல்லவா?
>
>                 தமிழ்மொழியின் முதல்வர், சித்தர்களின் தலைவர், ரிஷ’களில்
>                 சிறப்புவாய்ந்தவர், சக்திவழிபாட்டின் ஒரு மரபின் முதல்வராக
>                 விளங்கும் குறுமுனியின் பெயரில் "அகஸ்த்யா" என்று பெயரிட்டுள்ளேன்.
>                 ஆகஸ்ட் மாதத்தில் இந்தக்குழுமம் தோன்றியுள்ளது. இந்த மாதத்தில்தான்
>                 "அகஸ்தியர்" என்னும் நட்சத்திரம் (Canopus) சூரியன் மறையும்போது
>                 அடிவானத்தில் தோன்றும். அப்போதுதான் புதுவெள்ளம் ஓடும்.
>                 காவிரியிலும்தான், வைகையிலும்தான், தாமிரவருணியிலும்தான்.
>                 மேற்குமலையில் அகஸ்தியரின் கமண்டலத்தை விநாயகப்பெருமான்
>                 கவிழ்த்துவிடவில்லையா?
>                 அதுமட்டுமல்ல!
>                 நைல்நதியிலும்தான். ஆம். அவர்களும் அதனை - பதினெட்டாம்பெருக்கைக்-
> கொண்டாடியிருக்கின்றனர்.
>
>                 ஜேய்பி
>
>         பி.கு.#2 மேற்கூறிய விஷயங்களில் உங்களின் கருத்துக்களைக் கூறுங்கள்.
>                 பிறகு லிஸ்ட்டை இயங்கச்செய்துவிடலாம். அத்துடன் யாரையும்
>                 சேர்க்கவேண்டுமென்றாலும் தனிப்பட எனக்குச்செய்தி அனுப்புங்கள்.

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                        அன்பர் உள்ளம்.
                       ***************
        " இறைவன் எங்கும்  உள்ளவன். எல்லாவற்றையும் அறிந்தவன்.இருந்தாலும்
          உண்மையான அன்பர் இருக்கும் இடங்களுக்கு சென்று அவர்களுக்கு வேண்டியதை
          அருளிக்கொண்டு இருக்கிறான்.உயிர்களிடம் அன்பர்கள் காட்டி வருகின்ற அன்பே
          இறைவனை இழுக்கின்ற காந்த ஆற்றலாக விளங்கிறது..."



      "... எங்கே மெய் அன்பர் உளர் அங்கே நலம் தர எழுந்து அருளும் வண்மைப்பதம்!
          எவ்வண்ணம் வேண்டுகினும் அவ்வண்ணம் அன்றே இரங்கி அருளும் பதம்!
         என் போன்றவர்க்கு மிகு பொன்போன்ற கருணை தந்து இதயத்து இருக்கும் பதம்!          என்
உயிரை அன்னபதம்! என் உயிர்க்கு உயிராய் இலங்கு செம்பதம்...!"
                     
                                                        -வள்ளலார்.

                "அன்பெனும் பிடிக்குள் அகப்படும் மலையே.."



அன்புடன்,
கிருஷ்ணன். 



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CONJURELLA FEVER: TRANSCENDING TIME & MK-ULTRA

Science Fiction Truth by award-winning CREEPY writer T. Casey Brennan

     This is the story of the Abominations.  This is the story of Those 
Who Wait.  Like L. Ron Hubbard and H.P. Lovecraft, my late father, St. 
Clair County (Michigan) Board of Education member William J. Brennan 
worked for that Citadel of the Old Ones, the pulp magazines of the 
1940s.  Two issues of the 1940s Street & Smith companion to WEIRD TALES 
and THE SHADOW, LOVE STORY magazine, carry my dad's stories, under the 
authorship, Bill Brennan.
     To serve the pulps was to serve the Old Ones; to serve them, was to 
behold the NECRONOMICON, if only in dreams.  Herman Slater, owner of the 
old Warlock Shoppe in Brooklyn, after he published ME, the blood-stained 
legend, in the square-backed summer 1975 edition of EARTH RELIGION NEWS 
(not to be confused with EAST WEST JOURNAL November 1984, page 13, which 
also carries a write-up on me - but that happened in Berkeley, when they 
tried to kill Manson, so I must talk about that later, much later), 
published his own fictitious NECRONOMICON, what the Necronomicon "might 
be like".  No...
     No, this is the story of Lynette Fromme, one of my friends, a girl 
from Ann Arbor, met her while she was being transferred from one prison 
to another.  It was a girl I lived with for a long time, she was never 
my lover, she was just my landlady, but we got introduced by the late 
Ernie Brown, of Ann Arbor's cable channel 9, host of numerous Ann Arbor 
cablevision shows, the last being entitled SIMPLY YOU.  Ernie died of 
pneumonia in December of 1996, at the age of 39, after introducing me to 
the girl who had met Lynette Fromme.
     But now the Conjurella Fever begins, now the story comes forth, now 
the bleak memories of things that cannot be...
     No, this is the story of Eponymous Hawking, and the Chandrashakar 
Limit, of dinosaurs that take back the earth, of black holes and time 
warpsof the boy who shot John Kennedy, who, still a boy in Berkeley, 
witnesses the aftermath of an attempt on Manson's life...
     Eponymous Hawking fears the night.  Eponymous Hawking fears the 
long, dark night.  His tongue has been cut out, his mentor has proven 
himself an MK-ULTRA agent, he has only one ally: his mentor's wife.  He 
will survive.  Like the other MK-ULTRA experiments, like any life Dr. E 
ever touched, he is made of steel.  He will survive.  Like Howard 
Brennan, he lied.  He knows.
     In the known universe, there are about a hundred million galaxies, 
each with about a hundred million stars.
     (CRIMESTOPPERS TEXTBOOK: To find NASA/CIA postings about T. Casey  
Brennan, by ace NASA poster, "Special K", go into the Old Usenet, and 
search the OLD database for the Boolean <"Poor Animals" AND Brennan>.)
     To my knowledge, there is no proof that ANY of these stars has a 
planetary system, like our own sun, Sol.  This observation is extremely 
significant,,, vis-avis, the Chandrashakar Limit.  The Chandrashakar 
Limit determines which stars have sufficient mass to collapse into that 
paradox of physics, the black hole.  Beneath the Chandrashakar Limit, a 
star, upon expiring, collapses into something at least comparable to 
ordinary matter, a White Dwarf, at the extreme.  A White Dwarf is still 
matter which obeys the ordinary laws of physics, unly under extreme 
density.
     Above the Chandrashakar Limit, the star collapses into a black 
hole.  A black hole is a virtually infinitely compact mass of 
time-space, drawing adjacent time-space into its core.  The event 
horizon of a black hole prevents the entire universe from falling into 
such a collapsed star.  The event horizon is a kind of shell surrounding 
a black hole.  Yet, worm holes escape from a black hole, sending a 
warping effect to all time-space within their reach.  A planet falling 
into a black hole can reverse in time, can enter parallell worlds, and 
it's own distant past.
     The Abominations.  Where man rules now, they ruled before, where 
man rules now, they shall rule again.  Man's rule upon the earth has 
been but a whisper, a heartbeat, that "fleeting moment" of Goethe's 
Faust, one brief moment compared to endless ages when the dinosaurs 
ruled, when no mammal walked, when serpents ruled, masked and mystical, 
cowled and crimson, cold and dark, of the night, of the night...
     The Conjurella dream is so difficult to tell.
     In 1975, my career as an award-winning comic book writer for the 
Warren magazines, CREEPY, EERIE, and VAMPIRELLA (Marilyn Manson has a 
tatoo of Uncle Creepy on his arm), was virtually totalled.  I was 
reduced to writing essays claiming to be the reincarnation of Roaring 
Twenties satanist, Aleister Crowley, as published in such magazines as 
Llewellyn's GNOSTICA (#30, 31? Ciurca 1977), EARTH RELIGION NEWS, and a 
mid-1970s issue of the British zine INSIGHT, from Crowleyan Deric R. 
James.  
     Anyway, it all led to two links to Manson.
     This is the first link to Manson.
     In 1975, I was head over heels in love with my plan to have all 
Crowleyans everywhere declare me the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley.  
Support for this camp[aign, which preceded my work against smoking in 
comic books, as noted in CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE, Voil. 128, No. 
131, September 28, 1982, page S12435, was scarce, so I conceived that I 
would approach a well known cult figure, Charles Manson, for an 
endorsement.  I told Daddy about my belief in witchcraft and Crowleyan 
Magick.  I sure as hell didn't know he was going to pull what he did, or 
I would have changed the subject, talked about school taxes, or horse 
racing, or football, or that kind of crap that he liked.
      Daddy says: "Would you believe you could kill a squirrel in 
Michigan, and that would kill John Kennedy in Dallas?"
     I pause nervoiusly.  I don't like to talk about the Kennedy 
assassination.  
     "Yeah, sure," I say, hoping to avoid JFK by going into a long, 
involved explanation of the principles of witchcraft, "It's called 
'sympathetic magic'.  The macrocosm and the microcosm.  Well, the spell 
involves a miniature, a rteplica, which REPRESENTS..."
     Daddy says:  "I'll make it easyv for ya. Voodoo."
     "Okay," I say.
     Then he tells met it's not voodoo.  Then he tels me about the 
Conjurella memory, and again the boy is lifted up.  Again the voices, 
again the operating command, again the murdered President...
     I remember flying into Chicago's O'Hare Airport in 1975.  We hasd 
always respected Moslems.  Sometime in the mid-1950s, my Uncle, Charles 
Goodrich (not Uncle Johnny of CONJURELLA, the onee  that got us involved 
with David Ferrie), was involved with the Aladdin Temple Shrine, on 
Stelzer Road, in Columbus, Ohio.  David Ferrie lived in Cleveland.  
We're not supposed to say, but he had to do with my Aunt Patty, who 
wasn't really my aunt at all, and wasn't really Patty at all.  Like 
David Ferrie, she was an Ohio cancer researcher, author of LIVING WITH 
CANCER by Edna Kaehele, 1952, Doubeday & Company.  Her name was Edna 
Kaehele, but her friends called her Pat.  She founded the 
internationally acclaimed anti-cancer group, Fear Fighters, much touted 
in the 1950s Columbus press, and wrote about me in her book, TRAINING 
THE FAMILY DOG, 1953, Lantern Press, page 180: "The hardiest 
individualist I know..Casey Brennan, a three-year-old friend from Avoca, 
Michigan."
     Anyway, that was us in Ohio in the 1950s, and one day Uncle Charley 
took us to the Shrine Circus.  He wore his fez, and I even got my 
picture taken with a little fez that said "Moslem" on it.  I think that 
must have gotten us all respecting Moslems, andvthinking of them as more 
durable allies than they eventually turned out to be.
     So I flew into O'Hare airport in 1975.  The next part of the 
memory, I was sitying beside Louis Lomax, on a bench, outside, in as 
remote part of the airport.  I had read Louis Lomax's biography of 
Malcolm X, WHEN THE WORD IS GIVEN.  In the preface, he takes note of the 
almost religious aspect of the Universal Pictures horror films ofv the 
Golden Age: THE WOLFMAN, et al.  I had copied that style of melodrama in 
my own stories for the Warren magazines of the early 1970s, and my later 
comics, as noted in my 1997 and 1998 WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA istings.
    I don't remember what Lomax asked me.  I don't remember whast I told 
him.  I only remember this.  I was sitting beside Lomax on that bench.  
There was no one else in sight.  Suddenly a car pulls up full of black 
guys.  It all happen so quickly; they all jump out.  The leader says, 
just like this:
     "put on your LIPS!"
     They instantly pull thin gas masks over their faces.
     It's a low instant whisper, but the word "LIPS" is a shout.
Silent machine-gun fire riddles Louis Lomax.  I have only a nanosecond 
to look and see the wounds erupting from his body, as the rapid-fire 
shells hit.  Then another nanosecond to look around and see pink gas 
being sprayed on us from tubes.
     No, after they try to kill Daddy and me, Daddy says: "Do you still 
want Charles Manson as an endorser?"
     I say: "No."
     This is the second link to Manson.
     In February of 1977, I went to Toronto, to secure an introduction 
to HOLLYWOOD BABYLON author and film-maker, Kenneth Anger, from my then 
friend, Captain George, of the shop, Captain George's Memory Lane.  I 
had some Canadian ties; I'd attended comic book conventions as a panel 
guest at Winter's College at York University.  I'd signed autographs 
(following publication of my award-winning "On the Wings of a Bird" in 
CREEPY #36), done radio interviews, and hobnobbed with other 
celebrities.  I had some action in Toronto.
     I stayed at the Carleton Inn; they had a pool and a sauna on like, 
the eighth floor or something.  It was nice, but it was 40 below 
outside.  Forty below, is, by coincidence, the same temperature on both 
the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales.  Also, the fire alarm went off, and I 
ran down twenty-three floors.  Then they said there was just something 
smoldering in the basement, and I threatened to sue them.
     But I got the introduction to Kenneth Anger, who, at that time, was 
preparing a sequel to his highly acclaimed film, SCORPIO RISING.  The 
new folm was to be called LUCIFER RISING, and, in no time, I had 
arranged a part in it, written by anger himself.  I had been slated to 
play the ghost of Aleister Cowley, who appears behind Anger, as Anger 
performs a Magickal Spell.
     Name stars associated with the movie includfed Marianne Faithfull, 
and Jimmy Page of the Led Zeppelin, who had written the
musical score.  But Page's music was scrapped in favor of that of Bobby 
Beausolil, which Anger seemed to pronounce "Bobby Beloy", and the T. 
Casey Brennan scene was eliminated altogether.  I asked Anger if 
Beausolil, in prison for murder, was one of the Manson Family.
     Anger says: "He killed one of the Manson Family."
     This is the third link to Manson.
     This is Berkeley in the early 1980s.
     On October 17, 1983, Linda and Susan bought me a plane ticket to 
San Diego.  They distributed Jack T. Chick comics; they disappeared on a 
road trip shortly thereafter.  Jack T. Chick didn't give a damn; none of 
their family has seen them since.  I soon migrated to the San Francisco 
Bay area, and in March of 1984, I moved into the Berkeley Krishna 
Temple.  Well, it was sort of a Krishna Temple, but for them too, things 
had gone from bad to worse.  An early leader of the Berkeley Temple, a 
priest named Jiva, had gone bad, engaging himself in a variety of 
criminal activities, prior to his murder.  This was all before my time, 
but around the time of Jiva's fall, and his death,
Srila Hansadutta arrived.
     Hansadutta was born in Germany during the war, the son of Hitler's 
personal baker.  He had been thrown out of Germany, and I had seen a 
copy of DER SPIEGEL, the German version of TIME and NEWSWEEK, calling 
Hansadutta and his followers "more dangerous than the Bader-Meinhoff 
gang".  I have trouble believing that; he wasn't BAD, he was just 
hot-headed.  According to the Berkeley police, the Berkeley press, and 
others, he liked to crusise around Berkeley with the passenger window 
open, firing on buildings.  I don't think he ever shot anybody, even by 
accident.  He was just letting off steam, but it was crazy as hell; me, 
I'll just fire off a few rounds in the air when I'm like that.  Not 
Hansadutta.
     Anyway,m I'd promised Linda and Susan I was going to make some 
smart career moves in California.  Joining the Krishna Temple wasn't one 
of theem; the Hansaduttas treated me like dirt - I wasn't even a eal 
devotee, I was just their dishwasher.  A typical memory of Berkeley was 
washing pots on July 4, 1984, while the Hansadutta almost blew up their 
parking lots with repeated blasts from "firecrackers", manufactured from 
sticks of dynamite at their secondary temple, "The Farm", which I'd 
never seen.  I was told later that someone had talked "the Farm" right 
out from under Hansdadutta.  He'd signed over the deed in a supposed 
business ploy, then, it was lost, and he'd never get it back.  I was 
interviewed on the UC Berkeley radio station, KALX, by Donna Fox, and on 
KBLX by Keith Jenkins.  I went on KTEH in San Jose as a member of a San 
Francisco Regional Mensa team soliciting funds for the station, during a 
Dr. WHO marathon.  I even took a call from a San Jose police officer on 
camera, calling in a donation.  I was mentioned in some issue or other 
of the CATHOLIC VOICE in Oakland, I created a short-lived comic 
character called "Capt. KALX" for the KALX PROGRAM GUIDE, I appeared on 
CALIFORNIA TONIGHT on KFCB in Concord (at that time, one of the Jim and 
Tammy Bakker stations), I was written up in EAST WEST JOURNAL, November 
1984, page 13, and I was an also-ran guest, with a free table, at a 
comic convention in one of those buildings by Sproul Plaza.
     That was Berkeley, 1983 to 1985, a hodge-podge of memories; a hell 
of free meals, long penniless walks to the AA meeting at 2910 Telegraph 
for free coffee, a career being shattered, and a servant's life in a 
commune of inexplicable cultists, who, like myself, were being pursuerd 
by their own deadly enemies.
     This was the hit on Manson.
     That afternoon, I came back to 2334 Stuart, the Berkeley Krishna 
Temple, to find the community abuzz with some astounding news.  The LOS 
ANGELES TIMES had called...a former Berkeley devotee had attempted to 
kill Charles Manson.  The TIMES was adamant: Manson was DEAD, or should 
be considered so; he'd beenm burned over 90% of his body, they said.  
Some time after that, we were given a more detailed account of the 
attack, so detailed that I suyspect it may have come from law 
enforcemernt officials, or even a call from the attacker himself, though 
I suppose the LA TIMES could have given it.
     It went like this.
     The ex-Berkeley devotee, first a priest, then a cop killer, then a 
convict, is trying to chant aloud on his Krishna rosary.  This gets on 
Manson's nerves.  Plus, probably Manson still thinks the Krishna people 
are a bunch of sissies, the way they were when he went up...whatever 
happened, now they're often mean as hell, especially ones from Berkeley.
     Anyway, after much wrangling with Manson, the priest conceives an 
assassination attempt.  He has clearly studied Manson's habits, in that 
he knows that Manson frequents the prison hobby shop.  His thinking is 
the elementary thinking of a warrior (of those objects around me, which 
can be used as a weapon?), not the subsidized kind of thinking, where 
they GIVE you axweapon that DOES the job.  He chooses his make-shift 
weapon, a can of paint thinner used in decorating model cars sold there.  
He awaits Manson, throws the fluid in his face and lights it.  Some 
combination of prison guards and other inmates put out the fire, which 
leaves Manson with only a few scars...but instantly the story is brought 
to the Berkeley Temple, where the priest oncew lived, that Manson is 
burned over ninety percent of his body, and is not expected to live.
     This is the fourth link, the link that cannot be.
     Scientists have determined that our sun, Sol, is well within the 
Chandrashakar Limit; that there is no possibility that it will 
eventually implode into a black hole.  But the Chandrashakar Limit was 
based on the atomic weight of suns with no known planetary systems.  
Sol, combined with its solar systrem, particularly if one adds the outer 
planets that are speculated to revolve beyond Pluto, is doubtless well 
above the Chandrashakar Limit.
     You could just LOOK, and the sun could turn into a black hole!
     Long before our planet pierces, or is shattered against the black 
hole's event horizon, worm holes of distorted time-space will escape 
from the black hole, encompassing whole worlds, even travelling back in 
time to before the black hole took place.
     Time will turn backward.  The earth will become as it was.  The 
abominations shall rise up, their wait has been endless, the serpents of 
the old times shall rise up and take back the earth.
     This is fiction:
     Squeakanella sees the matrix, falls, has an epileptic seizure, then 
pockets the gun.  Two operating commands repeatr themselves in her 
frenzied head:
     1.  Fire on command.
     2.  It isn't real.
     Someone hass erred.  The commands will conflict.  Squeakanella has 
fired guns in dreams before, she knows how a dream gun works, you just 
draw and fire.  You don't have to DO anything, it ruins the dream.
     You don't have to take off the safety.
     Squeakanella raises the impotent automatic, and pulls back a 
rubbery trigger, just like a dream gun should be.  She has shaken off 
the blood, she did what I could not.  Then she looks to the sky and she 
beholds them, the serpents of the old places, for endless ages they 
ruled before man, their yearning is endless, they yearn for the earth, 
they yearn to come forth, and even to be used by them once is to know 
that yearning eternal.


The End


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