Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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The Baptism of Christ, (1710), in England by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder, reveals a light descending again, from what could be a cloud or a UFO (92b). (92b) The Baptism of Christ England Flemish artist Aert De Gelder. 1710 A painting from 1350, in the Visoki Decani Monastary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, is popular with UFO enthusiasts and “ancient aliens” fans, as it shows two objects in the sky, being piloted by people (92e).  (92e) Visoki Decani Monastary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. 1350 |
Vallee’s Magonia Jacques Vallee is a French scientist and master mathematician who gained an avid interest in UFOs upon first witnessing the destruction of tracking tapes of UFOs while working on the staff of the French Space Committee. Vallee holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Serbonne and a Master of Science degree in Astrophysics from the University of Lille. He also holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University where he became close with J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book. Vallee wrote the book Passport to Magonia in 1969, The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race, in 1975 and Messengers of Deception in 1979, along with a number of other works. Passport and Messenger are the next two books we will explore. Along with Constable, I think Vallee has contributed the most to the UFO phenomenon understanding. The essence of Jacques Vallee’s work is that he found, while studying the UFO phenomena that UFOs are intelligently guided, they provide many types of manifestations which all seem to be related or connected in various ways and that these manifestations have several things in common with medieval stories about fairies. Now, some people may be asking themselves, what does all this have to do with mushrooms, right about now, since it may appear we have ventured away from the subject matter of the book, however, I am about to take you, the reader, in a full circle, back to where we started, connecting all of the dots together. First, we will briefly revisit sky phenomena from the middle ages. A few miles from Tubingen, Germany, on December 5, 1577, at 7:00 A.M., the following event occurred, as reported in Prodigious Stories, from 1575: “About the sun many dark clouds appeared, such as we are wont to see during great storms: and soon afterward have come from the sun other clouds, all fiery and bloody, and others, yellow as saffron. Out of these clouds have come forth reverberations resembling large, tall and wide hats, and the earth showed itself yellow and bloody, and seemed to be covered with hats, tall and wide, which appeared in various colors such as red, blue, green, and most of them black… It is easy for everyone to think of the meaning of this miracle, which is that God wants to induce men to amend their lives and make penance. May Almighty God inspire all men to recognize Him, Amen.” (43) A depiction of this occurrence (not this exact one though) appears in “The Miracle of the Snow” by Masolino Da Panicale (1383-1440) from Florence, Italy (92f). (43) Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, Jaques Vallee, Daily Grail Publishing, 2014 (Originally published 1969), p. 20; (Pierre Boaistuau, Histoires Prodigieuses (Prodigious Stories ) (C. Mace, Paris, 1575) |
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