The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man
BOOKS | Paul D. Collins and Phillip D Collins | 2020
Invoking the Beyond: The Kantian Rift, Mythologised Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man
A comprehensive text exploring the intricate connections between ufology, new religion, advanced weaponry, extraterrestrial narratives, deep politics, and the concept of a counterfeit divinity.
The Unidentified Flying Object (UFOs) phenomenon is largely a terrestrial-based manipulation, while acknowledging a preternatural or psychic element that extends beyond purely human agency.
The central thesis posits that ruling elites invoke deific forces, termed "the Beyond," to epistemologically and ontologically overwhelm national governments, thereby providing a rationale for the establishment of a technocratic world state and the emergence of a "new man."
#### Philosophical Foundations: The Kantian Rift and Gnostic Origins
A cornerstone of the book's argument is the concept of the Kantian Rift, an epistemological disjunction between phenomena (appearances, the world as perceived) and noumena (the thing-in-itself, reality as it truly is).
This bifurcation, introduced by Enlightenment theoretician Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), posits that human sense perception structures the external world in a manner potentially disproportionate with actual reality.
Phenomena are mere appearances, vague representations of actual objects, akin to shadows dancing upon a cave wall. The noumenal world, conversely, remains perennially imperceptible and chaotic.
This philosophical barrier severs the adequacy between the human mind and reality,
resulting in an epistemological prison wherein man is consigned to perennial agnosticism concerning the true nature of objects.
The Kantian Rift effectively neuters metaphysics, the philosophical discipline concerned with discerning reality's ultimate nature and structure.
If epistemic faculties are untrustworthy, then reality remains eternally unintelligible, and cherished metaphysical certainties of the classical era – the soul, the transcendent order, and God – are relegated to the fog of agnosticism.
This renders the world a _terra incognita_, inaccessible to any saviour or the slightest intimations of the transcendent.
This dysteleological world, stripped of inherent purpose or meaning, echoes the cosmological sentiments of ancient Gnosticism, a heresy that greatly influenced Enlightenment theoreticians. Gnosticism challenged early Christianity by positing that the biblical God, the creator of the visible, physical cosmos, was an ignorant or mistaken being, a mistake himself.
This originates from the Gnostic assignment of a positive ontological status to Evil, viewing evil not as a tendency of the will but as an animated essence interwoven into creation, making the curse and creation ontologically inseparable.
This contrasts sharply with the patristic view, which held that evil constituted a negation of being, existing only as a privation of good, akin to how cold is the absence of heat. The Gnostic view, however, conflates creation with the curse, concluding that the world is a Hell, a place inferior to heaven.
This cosmological pessimism logically segues into an anthropological pessimism. Gnosticism divested man of his unique position as Imago Dei (a Divine image-bearer) for whom the Earth was created. Instead, man is declared an apostate angel imprisoned in the corporeal penitentiary of the physical body. To escape this penal colony, man must undergo vaguely defined Earth-bound tests, akin to Purgatory, after which spiritual ascension to other planets – described as "impure habitations" – is possible.
This interpretation redefines biblical passages, such as Jesus's statement in John 14: 2, "in my father's house are many mansions," as off-world habitations possibly populated by intelligent life. This contention was also expressed by figures such as William Durham, a Royal Society member.
This Neo-Gnostic cosmology, in which Heaven and Hell are transposed into the vacuum separating celestial bodies, effectively redefines God, angels, and demons as extraterrestrial occupants of the physical universe. This pervasive perspective within the ufological community makes it highly susceptible to manipulation by Deep State operatives.
#### The Invocation of The Beyond
"The Beyond" is a deific force invoked by the oligarchical establishment to overwhelm national governments epistemologically and ontologically, thereby precipitating the introduction of a deus ex machina in the form of a technocratic world state.
Such a global model of Managerialism is advantageous for this elite because they claim to possess a vaguely defined socio-political gnosis, secret knowledge that qualifies them to lead humanity towards a "glorious transfiguration."
(see ELITE THEORY)
The book identifies four primary manifestations or "invocations" of the Beyond:
1. The Wrathful Earth Goddess:
This invocation is linked to radical Environmentalism and demands recompense from humanity in the form of technological apartheid and population control. Its legitimacy is upheld through the promulgation of Darwinism and Malthusianism.
2. AI and Technological Singularity:
Here, "the Beyond" is reinterpreted as the Promethean flame, an attainable deific power through which man abolishes himself, divests his biological form, and becomes a transhuman übermensch. This Transhumanism ultimately aims for a radical homogeneity where individual consciousness merges into a collective, achieved through an online world with Artificial Intelligence.
3. The Super Weapon:
Conceptually appearing in science fiction (e.g., H G Wells' The World Set Free, which coined the term atom bomb), this invocation culminated tangibly with the atomic bomb.
It is often likened to Promethean fire, a desirable and readily attainable deific force for mankind, with the nuclear bomb serving as a Gnostic messiah that reduces everything back to light by divesting corruptible matter.
This cult of the super weapon, a faddish obsession with destructive power, played a crucial role in midwifing the UFO deception.
RAND Corporation, a non-profit global policy think tank, was a key epicentre for radical ideas concerning nuclear exchange, including the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
While MAD discouraged nuclear conflict, it simultaneously allowed the global oligarchical establishment to universally impose nuclear anxiety, a pervasive fear of nuclear extinction.
This fear was then exploited to condition the world's population to embrace alternatives to nuclear annihilation devised by the elite, typically models of world management with little democratic spirit.
4. Extraterrestrial Gods:
This is the most fantastical iteration, wherein extraterrestrials are reinterpreted taxonomies of angels, Demons, and other heavenly beings, with the most significant being God.
This perspective assumes that if the evolutionary process, or Tree of Life (a term borrowed from Christianity by Darwin), is ubiquitous across the physical cosmos, then similar processes on other worlds must have given rise to alien beings who can be interpreted as gods. This tacit autotheism suggests that humanity, through the same biological processes, may also attain deific status.
#### The UFO/Alien Deception Campaign
The UFO phenomenon serves multiple purposes for the ruling elite:
- Concealing the test of experimental aircraft and other covert technologies:
This is a widely acknowledged function, where UFO sightings act as a cover for advanced research and development (R&D).
- Concealing criminal intelligence operations:
This includes activities such as drug trafficking, gun running, and sexual entrapment or blackmail rings, leading researchers down evidentiary cul-de-sacs.
- Advancing social engineering and radical reconfiguration of civilisation:
Most, if not all, UFO deceptions ultimately aim to condition humanity to make a radical break from the past, thereby serving the elite's broader agenda.
The social engineering aspect involving UFOs gained prominence in the late 1940s, often synchronising with the atomic era.
Dr James E. Lipp, an aeronautical engineer at the RAND Corporation, posited a causal relationship between atomic bomb tests and UFO appearances, suggesting that otherworldly creatures detected nuclear explosions and were drawn to Earth out of concern for humanity's mastery of nuclear power.
Although Lipp himself was sceptical of this hypothesis, covert political circles, including the United States Air Force and the Rand Corporation, seized upon it to create a narrative that extraterrestrial visitors were concerned about humanity's nuclear capabilities. This narrative was woven into a wider deception.
#### This deception typically employs two narrative paradigms for aliens:
- Benign, Angelic Aliens:
Portrayed as ethereal and spiritually advanced beings, akin to angels, with a mission to warn humanity about nuclear self-destruction.
Films like Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, exemplify this, depicting aliens angelically and transposing the Eschaton into space, making it the realm where questions of life and death are resolved. This creates a crisis of diplomacy, where no single nation can adequately represent mankind, necessitating a supranational body or one world government to speak / act on Earth's behalf.
- Hostile, Demonic Aliens:
Portrayed as a destructive threat, intent on human extermination. H G Wells' War of the Worlds is a classic example. This creates a crisis of security, as no single nation can provide adequate defence against such an external threat, thereby legitimising a unified, global military response.
#### Key Historical Cases and Deep State Involvement
The intelligence community's involvement in shaping UFO narratives:
- George Adamski Contactee Myth:
George Adamski, a Polish-American author, claimed to have met a "United Nations of alien races" who warned humanity against nuclear extinction. Alan Dulles, then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), controversially threatened an injunction to prevent courtroom testimony against Adamski's claims, citing "maximum security" concerning UFOs.
Leon Davidson, a chemical engineer involved in the Manhattan Project, believed Dulles and the CIA orchestrated Adamski's experiences to popularise the contactee phenomenon for social engineering purposes. Davidson's accusations led to him being regarded with disdain by CIA officials, who even implied he was a threat to national security, indicating he was hitting very close to the mark regarding the agency's role.
- Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case:
This case exhibited "trappings of MK Ultra," including mind control and hypnotic implantation. Under hypnosis, Barney Hill reportedly saw a Nazi.
An investigator named C.D. Jackson, believed to be the same C.D. Jackson who was a primary aide to Henry Luce (owner of Time Life magazine) and a senior executive at Time, was involved. Time Life magazine, a mouthpiece for the establishment and linked to individuals like Henry Luce (Skull and Bones, Council on Foreign Relations) and C.D. Jackson (involved in intelligence operations), reportedly airbrushed out certain elements of the case, such as the Nazi sighting. The individual overseeing the hypnotic sessions for the Hills was an Air Force intelligence officer, suggesting deliberate guidance and coaching during memory recall.
- Paul Benowitz Affair:
Paul Benowitz, a UFO researcher and electrical engineer, suffered a nervous breakdown after being fed paranoid UFO disinformation by Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Richard Doty.
Doty, representing a deep state entity known as "The Aviary," intentionally engendered extreme suspicion and irrational fear in Benowitz. This disinformation included an alleged briefing paper suggesting that Jesus Christ was a herald of extraterrestrial civilisations rather than God's redeemer.
This illustrates the co-opting of the messiah motif by deep state forces to promote oligarchical concepts and ideas, resulting in a new Jesus preaching a new gospel.
- Lou Elizondo:
His family history, with his father being part of Brigade 2506 (a Cuban exile community used in the Bay of Pigs, started by CIA figure E. Howard Hunt), suggests Lou Elizondo is part of a multi-generational UFO deception campaign.
His rise to prominence was significantly aided by articles in The New York Times, a media organ linked to the oligarchical Salzburer family and the Council on Foreign Relations.
One of the co-authors of the article that catapulted Elizondo to fame, Leslie Kean, has family ties to the King Commission, which whitewashed 9/11, indicating a background in false narratives and whitewashing. The appearance of "Tic Tac" UAPs and their focus on Catalina Island, where L Ron Hubbard (linked to Naval Intelligence by Admiral Nimitz) wrote Dianetics, points to the use of "Twilight language" in the new narrative.
#### Ideological Underpinnings of the Deception
The Deep State's manipulation of the UFO phenomenon is not solely about militarisation; it encompasses significant social engineering. This involves worldview warfare (German: Weltanschauungskrieg), which aims to reshape and resculpt worldviews and the prism through which reality is understood, making it more advantageous to social engineers.
A key method is doctrinal warfare, an attack through ideas aimed at reorienting a target's will in a selected direction. This was a concept used by the CIA (e.g., the Psychological Strategy Board, PSB), with plans to infiltrate and make all religions—Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam—surrogates of the American empire, itself a stepping stone to world government. This echoes mystical imperialism, which sought to create a syncretistic religion to unite the British Empire's disparate factions.
The philosophical rejection of objective truth, initiated by Kant, allows modern myth-makers to populate the terra incognita with surrogates for the Divine. The prevailing Materialistic and Atheistic sensibilities in the West make extraterrestrial myths appealing.
Magic is regarded as a species of materialism, as its forces are seen not as transcendent but as inhabitants of subtler tiers of the material order.
This view emerged from Sir Francis Bacon's divestment of the cosmos of a Telos (purposive end), reducing nature to a "standing reserve" of malleable matter to be re-sculpted. This cynical pragmatism allows Deep State actors to employ occult practices if they work, regardless of theological implications.
This rejection of purpose and meaning leads to the reduction of human beings to "collections of behavioural repertoires" that can be altered by applying proper social and economic stimuli. This aligns with the concept of technocracy, a system where technical and scientific experts rule by virtue of their alleged specialised knowledge and socio-political gnosis. The COVID-19 Pandemic was a beta test for this, where contradictory directives and enforced measures conditioned populations to accept themselves as reactive animals, responding to stimuli.
This demonstrates Scientism – science fetishised and regarded as universally competent – becoming an ersatz religion, intruding into domains beyond its descriptive scope and issuing prescriptive, ethical pronouncements.
A recurring theme is the weaponisation of fear.
The COVID Pandemic Response used fear to nudge populations into a "sociocracy," a theocratic order advanced by Auguste Comte, founder of social sciences, who envisioned a "religion of humanity" with secularised sacraments (like masks and vaccines).
Similarly, the UFO deception uses fear to revive Cold War doctrines. Christopher Mellon, a figure with Deep State connections through the Mellon dynasty and Freemasonry, presented UFOs (rebranded as UAPs) as a threat on par with Pearl Harbor or September 11th Attacks, akin to a "cosmic Pearl Harbor."
This revives the principles of NSC 68 (National Security Council Paper 68), a foundational Cold War doctrine that presented the Soviet Union as absolute evil and the United States as absolute good, an "ideologised form of Manichaeism." This Manichaean binary (good vs. evil) can be readily applied to aliens, serving as a rationale for a massive military build-up and the instantiation of a technocratic state.
#### Secret Societies and the Pursuit of a New Man
Secret societies and esoteric traditions have played a significant role in shaping these narratives and their implementation:
Freemasonry:
The British Royal Society, instrumental in promulgating Darwinism and Malthusianism, was founded by Freemasons. The "X Club," described as an "invisible Masonic Darwinian lodge" within the Royal Society, actively suppressed information that might undermine the self-creation narrative.
The Mellon family, a prominent oligarchical dynasty with significant ties to the intelligence community, has a strong Freemasonic pedigree, with patriarch Thomas Mellon collaborating with Freemasons and his son, Andrew William Mellon, attaining the 33rd degree. Christopher Mellon's involvement in organisations like SOCOM and JSOC, characterised by "stovepipe" (strict top-down, secretive) command structures, is believed to derive inspiration from this Masonic background.
Theosophical Society:
This organisation had a significant impact on figures like Cecil Rhodes, who contributed to the historical foundations of the Deep State through the Round Tables and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Theosophy is viewed as influencing these deep state structures, much like Freemasonry.
- Scientology:
L Ron HubbardScientology's founder, was linked to Naval Intelligence.Scientology, along with Moral Re-Armament, was reportedly among the first groups approached by theCIA's "Occultism in High Places" project, which aimed to control world leaders through influential charismatic occult figures. - Bavarian [[Illuminati]]: This 18th-century secret society, founded by
Adam Weishaupt(a professor of canon law), abandoned the orthodox understanding of salvation (restoration of communion with God through Christ). Weishaupt presented a different Jesus who taught man to liberate himself from ignorance through "Reason" (capitalised to indicate its divinity).
Reason, for Weishaupt, was a surrogate for divinity, enabling man to solve all problems without transcendent assistance. Weishaupt saw Freemasonry as a "hidden Christianity," a secret doctrine taught by Christ. This historical precedent connects Freemasonry to UFO deception through figures like Christopher Mellon.