Memetic Dispatch -- Special Corso Edition

"Language is a virus from outer space"
--William S. Burroughs

"I do not wish...to create the impression that I am asserting that the others are aliens from another planet. What I am saying, very specifically, is that they are an apparently intelligent unknown. That is all I am saying, and all that presently can be said.

"The truth, if known, is held secret. I would be very suprised indeed if the government had the least understanding of the others. If what I am beginning to discover about them is correct, real understanding will change our most basic ideas about the nature of reality.

"What secrets the government does possess must be opened to the light of common life. Only then will we be on our way at last to understanding the mystery that has appeared among us...

"When this is done we will finally begin to gain insight into what is happening to us.

"It is time for the truth to be told."

--Whitley Strieber, from _Majestic_

"Do you think something happened at Roswell, Professor?" I asked.

"Most definitely," he replied.

"Extraterrestrial?" I asked.

He smiled. "Maybe...Ultraterrestrial, perhaps, or simply terrestrial. Perhaps it was a play."

"A play?"

"Yes. Carefully staged. Brilliantly acted. With the best special effects available at the time. A Mystery Play, you could say."

"Staged by ... the government? Extraterrestrials? Ultraterrestrials?"

"Yes," he said, an inscrutable smile on his face. "And the audience loves it. It's been running for 50 years, and it still packs 'em in."

"I don't understand," I said.

"Neither do I," he shot back. He turned and entered his study.

And Now For Our Feature...

"Sometimes things just work the way they're supposed to. Sometimes, once in a very long while, you get the chance to save your country, your planet, and even your species at the same time."
--Our Crusading Galactic Hero and Space Cowboy Colonel Philip J. Corso, USA, (Ret.) in his book _The Day After Roswell_

Greetings, dear friends.

Oh, how gloriously happy I am to learn that Our Crusading Galactic Hero Colonel Philip J. Corso, USA, (Ret.) has saved my sorry human ass (and yours, too, dear readers) from the Evil Empire of the Grays! The bug-eyed former Army Intel officer has spilled the beans about the Cosmic Watergate and his heroic efforts to turn the recovered "alien" technology from Roswell against the nefarious bastards from beyond. Thank you, Colonel Corso! Thank you, Ronald Reagan and your Star Wars toys! Thank you, Pentagon! Thank you, military industrial complex!

Hmmm ... why, then, do I smell rotten reptile?

Maybe because "The Day After Roswell" is one of the most ludicrous books on the subject I've read -- and that's really saying something. Take a closer look at the man's "spotless" background:

Corso, a rabid right winger who liked to hang with Nazis, openly boasts about his role in Operation Paperclip. You remember that bag of tricks, the one where anti-commie crusaders like Corso invited Nazi rocket scientists to come to the land of the free on Uncle Sam's payroll after WWII? Yep, that Project Paperclip. Nice guy, eh? He is also as paranoid as the rest of his warpig ilk, seeing pinko commie spooks in every shadowy corner. To any serious student of history, his assertions of Communist Party infiltration into the highest levels of government will be seen for what they are: utter bullshit. His paranoia would be quite funny if it weren't so pathetic, and if it hadn't been so costly for those who didn't ascribe to his us vs. them mentality.

And his story! Whoah, Nelly! Does he really expect us to believe that he serendipitously found himself in a warehouse containing a Gray floating in preservative goo? And that this monumental artifact was just sitting unguarded in an easily-opened crate with a detailed packing slip attached? And that he later serendipitously found himself in charge of a filing cabinet (yes, filing cabinet) stuffed with recovered alien technology? And that he singlehandedly introduced this way-out technology (including the groovy headbands the aliens use to steer their far-out spaceships) into the labs of corporate America without anyone batting an eye or wondering where the fuck the crazy shit came from? ["Life is like a box of chocolate Flying Saucers from Mars," remarks Phil "Forrest Gump" Corso, without a trace of irony in his voice -B:.B:.]

But what's even more fascinating is how the UFOlogy community is eagerly lapping up this pabulum. My "straight" (i.e. ETH espousing "True Believer") contacts in the field were angered by my immediate cynicism and harsh laughter at their expense. "Why would such a distinguished old man lie? What does he have to gain at this point in his life by telling lies?" they asked, offended by my belittling of their hero. "Because he's a trained liar and disseminator!" I said incredulously. "You know the saying: once a Black Lodger, always a Black Lodger! When he says, 'Someone like me has always lived in the shadows' why do you think he's suddenly seen the light? Is it because he pushes all your ETH buttons? Do you believe him because his story is an expertly crafted piece of propaganda, woven from various scraps of UFOlogical fictions, designed to titillate the predictable psychological profile of the True Believers and make them wet their pants with joy?"

But the True Believers could not see that the Emperor Corso is utterly naked, so they laughed at the Professor and danced off to Roswell in their simulated alien headbands and Schwa t-shirts, happy that the great mystery had been solved once and for all.

"Good job, Colonel," someone is saying under cover of darkness. He laughs sardonically, rubbing his scaly, long-nailed hands together with glee. "Mission accomplished."

Watch the shadows, dear friends.

Yours in Truth,

Professor Pan

P.S. For unretouched photos of the Colonel, please see:
http://charm.net/~profpan/corso1.jpg
http://charm.net/~profpan/corso3.jpg

The Professor also instructed me to post these quotes:

"By the end of the 1970s the UFO phenomenon had changed dramatically and yet remained as enigmatic as ever ... more heterogeneous, more mysterious, more occult, and less amenable to traditional scientific inquiry. They [UFOlogists] had spent years building a paradigm that had quickly become obsolete, and they had no acceptable replacement ... Placing UFOs in the realm of the occult, where rational explanations and methodology were less necessary, seemed to some proponents the only reasonable way out of what had become a maze of frustration."

--David Jacobs, "UFOs and the Search for Scientific Legitimacy" appearing in _The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives_, Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, editors

Legendary explorer and Buddhist scholar Alexandra David-Neel wrote about "thought forms" in her book, _Magic and Mystery in Tibet_. David-Neel had heard much about "tulpas" or illusionary beings created by Tibetan Lamas, and tried to create one of her own during her meditation studies. Without the approval of her teacher, she decided to focus on the image of a monk.

After months of concentration in solitude, she was able to see the being, who appeared to take on a life of its own.

"The phantom performed various actions of the kind that are natural to travelers and that I had not commanded. For instance, he walked, stopped, looked around him ... He became more troublesome and bold. In brief, he escaped my control. Once, a herdsman who brought me a present of butter saw the tulpa in my tent and took it for a live lama."

She was eventually able to dissolve the being, but not without a six-month struggle...

Psychotronic researcher Colonel Thomas Bearden also believes that...[they] are electromagnetic creations similar to tulpas.

"These entities are materializations from the collective human unconscious shaped and formed by the layers (race, culture, nation, territory, state, region, family, etc.) between the collective and individual conscious minds of the observers. The exact format depends on the higher 'tuning' that is being forced into materialization."

--Excerpted from _Alien Impact: A Comprehensive Look at the Evidence of Human/Alien Contact_ by Michael Craft

And, finally, from Dion Fortune's _Psychic Self-Defence: A Study in Occult Pathology and Criminality_ (Sixth Edition 1957):

"There is a deep occult doctrine here which we cannot enter upon now; it must suffice to state it dogmatically in explanation of the Qabalistic conception of the Qlippoth. When we consider all that must have been poured into these ten sinks of iniquity since the days of Atlantean Magic, through the decadence of Babylon and Rome, down to the Great War, we can guess what rises up from them when their seals are broken.

"Not only do influences emanate from them which tempt and corrupt souls, each according to its susceptibility, but time has served for the formulation of evil intelligences. These probably originated through the workings of Black Magic, which took the essential evil essence and organized it for purposes of its own. The beings thus formulated assumed an independent existence, developed, and multiplied their kind. They appear as dreams and hallucinations, and may produce a considerable degree of objective phenomena, such as noise, deposit of slime or blood, balls of light, and, above all, stenches of an amazing pungency."

Sound familiar, dear subscribers?

Professor Pan
http://www.charm.net/~profpan/

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