Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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| 1963: November, 1963, Marvel Comics presents Spiderman comics issued their First Appearance of Lizardman. “Half-Man, Half-reptile, The Lizard, will take over all of earth unless Spiderman alone can stop him.” The Lizard has continued to be a major feature of Spiderman comics and movies ever since.  1st Appearance of Lizardman 1967: The next important episode in our cultural development of outer space ideas and reptile people comes from the series Star Trek originally aired in 1966 through 1969. One particular episode which aired in 1967, titled The Arena, featured a species of reptilian extraterrestrial called the Gorn. The Gorn were depicted as lizard-men from a distant planet who were very unfriendly to humans. There is not much to say about this, other than the fact that it is probably the most widely remembered and revered episode and scenes, as recalled by the many legions of Star Trek fans. The most important element worth mentioning as far as Star Trek “programming” is the idea that man can explore space. The series presupposes that life forms and space travel are all done in the physical realm. This is a materialistic concept and keeps the mind locked into this type of belief system. Physical ships must be responsible for taking us there and back, is the presupposition, which serves to reinforce a materialistic paradigm. |
 Star Trek, featuring Gorn 1968: In 1968, Swiss author Erich von Daniken wrote his first book Chariots of the Gods. Von Daniken professed that ancient astronauts had visited the earth at one time and that the stories of celestial vehicles called “Chariots” in the ancient Indian texts referred to their ships. Erich von Daniken was probably the most influential person in the ancient astronauts’ field and really got the ball rolling. To my knowledge though, he never professed that the astronauts were reptiles or “reptilian.” His works were trashed by scholarly archaeologists and scientists who accused him of shoddy research and even included among his detraction, his convictions for fraud and embezzlement. I don’t know that these are reputable character claims though, or merely character assassination. Regardless, he introduced the world to the concept of ancient astronauts, which would later evolve into ancient aliens, a hugely popular subject today and the name of a wildly successful History Channel series. 1972: Marvel Comics’ Monsters on the Prowl, featured on its cover, “The Serpent God of Lost Swamp.”  |
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