THE MAD, MAD WORLD OF THE CONTROLLERS – THE GREAT COSMIC CONSPIRACY

By Sean Casteel

The stock wisdom is that for any government to succeed, it needs to win the “hearts and minds” of its people. Leaving aside the sentimental overtones of “hearts,” perhaps the biggest struggle is to win the MINDS of the people – not by persuasion but by force. That leads us to the ugly term “mind control,” which is the primary focus of the new, expanded, and revised “The Controllers,” recently published by Timothy Green Beckley and his Global Communications publishing house.

The Controllers

There are many elements to this book. Almost every conspiracy you could think of is tackled. The basic concept is that there is an outside intelligence operating behind almost everything we do, plotting against us even before we awake in the morning. Beckley draws on his pool of writers and researchers – namely the mysterious Commander X, Tim R. Swartz, William Kern, and Beckley himself – to produce an engrossing study of the subject of mind control as perpetrated by both human and alien oppressors of mankind.

A NAVY INSIDER PREDICTS A COSMIC PICTURE SHOW

There are many “false flags” and disinformation programs being thrown at
us. William Kern accuses various government agencies of collusion in a program called “Project Blue Beam,” a deception intended to take captive the minds of people throughout the world by methods that may surprise you. Kern spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy and takes belief and non-belief in the UFO phenomenon very seriously, though he is not at liberty to divulge most of what he knows. Kern nevertheless describes what he thinks Project Blue Beam is all about.

“The basic purpose of Project Blue Beam,” Kern writes, “is to establish a New Age religion in the world. According to conspiracy theorists, without the universal belief in a New Age religion, the success of the New World Order will be impossible.”

The United Nations and NASA are two of the entities named by Kern as conspiring to bring this massive deception to life. According to Kern, there is a four-step plan laid out and waiting to be implemented “In the first step,” Kern explains, “the government will fake earthquakes at precise locations all around the planet. The widespread occurrence of natural disasters will sow fears in the minds of the general public and pave the way for step two of the project.”

Step two marks the real beginning of Project Blue Beam.

Project Blue Beam.

“This step involves a gigantic space show,” Kern continues, “where three dimensional projections will be used to project holograms in the skies all around the globe. As per theorists, the projections will be made in the shape of particular deities which are dominant in particular regions. At the end of this gigantic cosmic show, all the projected gods will merge into one sole entity, ‘The Antichrist.’” Even comparatively mundane UFO sightings are said to be figments created by Project Blue Beam, intended as a method of checking the efficiency of their projecting hardware.

Step three is the most complicated phase of Project Blue Beam.

“In this phase,” Kern writes, “using Telepathic Electronic Two-Way Communication, authorities will make people think that God is talking to them directly. Extremely Low Frequency waves will be used to manipulate the thoughts of the general public. However, the feasibility of the successful completion of this phase still remains a dilemma.”

In step four, people will be led to believe that a global alien invasion is imminent and that accepting the New World Order is the only way to be saved. A falsified Second Coming and a technologically faked Rapture are also part of the overall blueprint for enslaving the minds of all humankind.

THE SUPERMODEL’S SECRET LIFE

Candy Jones

Another kind of mind control is discussed by Tim R. Swartz in a chapter called “Mental Armageddon: The Quest For Mind Control.” Swartz begins by
giving us the history of an unfortunate victim named Candy Jones – whom publisher Tim Beckley knew very well, being a frequent guest on her all-night talk show when she took over for her late husband, Long John Nebel, who died of cancer.

“Candy Jones was a woman who seemed to have it all,” Swartz writes. “She was a successful model who owned her own modeling agency. She was a popular author who wrote such books as ‘Make Your Name in Modeling and Television” and ‘Candy Jones’ Complete Book of Beauty and Fashion.’ She was married to Long John Nebel, the country’s most listened to late-night talk show host, who broadcast on New York radio station WOR. However, it soon became apparent to her new husband that Candy’s world was far more complex than even she could ever imagine.”

Nebel became aware that Candy suffered from insomnia and that there were abrupt changes in her usual congenial disposition. Candy told Nebel that years before their marriage she had been approached by the FBI and asked if she would allow them to use her office as a mail drop. She had said yes, and also agreed to deliver mail for the FBI when traveling on business because she thought it was her patriotic duty. She had no idea what she was getting into.

While under hypnosis, which Nebel had suggested would help her insomnia, Candy began speaking in another voice that identified herself as
“Arlene Grant.” This second personality revealed that Jones had once delivered a package for the FBI to a doctor in Oakland, California. The doctor, known by the pseudonym of “Gilbert Jensen,” offered her money to allow him to hypnotize her, and she accepted because she was recently divorced and nearly broke at the time. Afterwards, Jensen told Jones that the hypnosis had not worked, but the Arlene personality told Nebel that it had.

“Under hypnosis,” Swartz goes on, “Jensen told Candy that she was to be a messenger for the CIA in a secret unit whose employees were not listed in headquarters records. Jensen said she needed a passport under an assumed
name, as she would sometimes travel abroad. The name she chose was Arlene Grant. In order to serve, she needed to be in top health and was given injections of vitamins. But rather than vitamins, Jones was given drugs designed to bring out and reinforce the Arlene personality.”

When she assumed the Arlene personality, Jones wore a dark wig and changed her style of dress and her speaking tone. Arlene was supposedly sent to training camps where she learned to kill with her bare hands, a hatpin or anything else that was handy. The Arlene personality could be triggered by a telephone call with particular sounds, and, after the mission was completed, the normal personality remembered nothing. These missions frequently involved world travel to deliver messages. Jones was once even subjected to torture at a seminar at CIA headquarters as a means of demonstrating the psychiatrist’s control over his subjects.

Photo from a passport issued under the name of “Arlene Grant” – but was actually Candy Jones in disguise.

As crazy as all this sounds, Swartz contends that there is some evidence to support the story. Candy told Joe Vergara, her editor at Harper and Row, that she sometimes worked for a government agency as a courier and might disappear occasionally. There was also a letter she wrote to her attorney, William Williams, to cover herself in case she died or disappeared suddenly or under unusual circumstances; she told him she was not free to reveal exactly what she was involved in. Also, a passport was discovered among Jones’ possessions that had been issued under the name Arlene Grant. The photo showed Jones wearing a dark wig. Freedom of Information Act requests have revealed that the CIA does have a substantial file on Jones but refuses to release any part of it. Jones died of cancer in 1990 at the age of sixty-four. Meanwhile, there are other cases with similarities to Jones’ story. The disturbing question is, how many other innocent victims of hypnotic manipulation are unknowingly being used to further someone else’s secret agenda?

The recordings of Jones’ hypnosis sessions were published in a 1974 book
called “The Control of Candy Jones” by Donald Bain. At the time, tales of CIA mind control and brainwashing were considered the stuff of espionage fiction. “However, since then,” Swartz writes, “new revelations on mind control experiments have been uncovered showing that not only the CIA but intelligence agencies all over the world have been pursuing mind control programs and the ultimate control of the human mind.”

THE MILITARY AND MIND CONTROL

Swartz also provides a history of the military’s interest in mind control in a section of his chapter called “Cleansing of the Mind.” “Most of human history,” Swartz writes, “has been a series of efforts by some people to control what other people think. The notion that the human mind could be influenced by an outside source was popularized by Edward Hunter in his 1951 book ‘Brainwashing in Red China.’ During the Korean War, American prisoners renounced their citizenship in radio broadcasts and many signed confessions against American interests, including charges, still debated today, that the United States was engaged in germ warfare with anthrax. For Americans to abandon their ideals, the Communists must have devised some nefarious new means of thought control – or so it was thought.”

Hunter suggested that a new process of indoctrination had been developed
by the Chinese Communists and that they had discovered an intense manipulation process that had the insidious power to actually alter the mental outlook of those who fell victim to it. “Brainwashing” was Hunter’s version of the Chinese term “hsi-nao,” loosely translated as “cleansing of the mind.” Hunter wrote that the word “brainwashing” had a more “flesh-and-blood” quality than a more clinical alternative, “menticide,” which means “murder of the mind.” “At the end of the war,” Swartz recounts, “it was determined that some of the primary methods used on American prisoners included sleep deprivation and other intense psychological manipulations designed to break down the autonomy of individuals.”

Programming certain American servicemen to renounce their country provided some propaganda benefits. It also helped to keep prisoners docile and easier to guard.

ALONG CAME JONES

Swartz offers up the possibility that modern research and experiments in the field of mind control go back as far (and probably farther) as World War II. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department in Washington summoned George Estabrooks, chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University, to consult with him about the possible use of hypnosis as a weapon of war.

Estabrooks reportedly told the War Department that he believed that one in five adult humans is capable of being placed in a trance so deep that they will have no memory of it. They could be hypnotized secretly by using a “disguised” technique and given a post-hypnotic suggestion. Using this method, a dual personality could be created, a perfect double agent with an unshakable cover.

George Estabrooks

In a 1971 article in “Science Digest,” Estabrooks detailed how he “programmed” American spies with hypnosis. During World War II, he hypnotized a Marine lieutenant named Jones and split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. Jones A, once a “normal” working Marine, became entirely different. He began to spout communist doctrine quite sincerely and was welcomed by communist cells. He was deliberately given a dishonorable discharge by the Corps (who was aware of the plot) and became a card-carrying Communist Party member. However, Jones B, while under hypnosis, had been carefully coached by suggestion.

“Jones B was the deeper personality,” Swartz continues, “and knew all the thoughts of Jones A. Jones B was a loyal American and was imprinted to say
nothing during conscious phases. All Estabrooks had to do was hypnotize the whole man, get in touch with Jones B, the loyal American, and there was a pipeline straight into the communist camp. The technique worked beautifully, according to Estabrooks. This amazing admission by Estabrooks on the use of hypnosis to create the perfect spy or soldier shows that the human mind can be easily harnessed for the purposes of others. It is hard to believe that even more sophisticated techniques for hypnotic mind control have not been perfected in the years since those early experiments.”

MIND CONTROL OF THE NONHUMAN KIND

Richard S. Shaver

Not all mind control is the result of human cloak-and-dagger machinations. “The Controllers” also presents information on mind control as perpetrated by creatures we might call “paranormal.”

One example would be the work of Richard Shaver, a Pennsylvania autoworker who heard “voices” through his welding gun and would come to write at great length about underground beings, their control of surface society, and the constant war against humanity being waged by a sinister group of subterranean dwellers he identified as “the Dero,” which stood for “degenerate robot.”

Richard Shaver’s “Dero” were first introduced to the world in the March, 1945 issue of “Amazing Stories” magazine.

In spite of laughter and scorn, Shaver stuck to his guns throughout his life, telling those who would listen about the reality of these savage inner “eartherians” whom, Shaver insisted, actually kidnapped thousands of humans each year, kept them in small cages, controlled their minds through ancient ray machines, had all manner of perverted, and unthinkable, sex with their captives, and even ate the flesh right off the bones of their kidnapped victims. Shaver believed that the Dero hope to gain mastery of the surface and are able to control the minds of many world leaders to force them to commit inhuman acts against their own citizens, including starting large-scale wars. No one is safe from the Dero, Shaver said. He also believed that much of what we call the UFO phenomenon is actually a matter of ships coming from the interior of the Earth (as opposed to outer space) or illusionary projections created by the Dero ray machines in the caverns down below.

Interwoven throughout “The Controllers” are stories of the alien abductors popularized by writers like Whitley Strieber and the late Budd Hopkins. It was Hopkins who coined the term “screen memories” to describe how an abductee’s mind has the true conscious recollection of whatever the encounter consisted of, which is often repellent and horrifying, replaced by a more “acceptable” memory that makes the abductee feel safe and non-violated.

This ability to control the thoughts and memories of their chosen human subjects is attributed to the ubiquitous gray aliens and the less frequently seen reptilian/serpentine aliens. This complete level of control may be achieved through the use of so-called “alien implants,” particularly implants inserted through the nasal passages on up into the brain. Such devices have been seen in MRI scans of the brain, as in the case of Whitley Strieber, but are located in places that make surgical removal impossible.

When faced with all the evidence for both human and alien mind control, there are those who dream of somehow resisting “The Controllers” by any means necessary. Then there are others who believe that struggling against the superior powers and technologies of the mind-controlling entities is a futile effort, as well as being a lonely kind of combat that the majority of our fellows will not even acknowledge is real. And if we cannot trust our thoughts to be our own, we can only hope that some vestige of the truth is still contained within them. For those open to a “paranoid” history of our Earth and its many counterfeit races, this is a must-read for you. The Illuminati is fair game as is the New World Order and any other secret society – planetary or interplanetary – that wants to enslave humankind – thus the title, “The Controllers.”

Sean Casteel.

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The Controllers-Who Really Controls Planet Earth?: Exposing The Existence of the Soulless Ones, the Elders, the Dero, the Illuminati, the Counterfeit Race, and the Greatest Conspiracy on Earth

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Matrix Of The Mind: UFO Abductions – MK Ultra – And Electronic
Harassment Technology Designed To Warp Your Brain

The Matrix Control System of Philip K. Dick And The Paranormal
Synchronicities of Timothy Beckley

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OUR HOLLOW EARTH — A PLACE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL?

By Sean Casteel

Timothy Green Beckley’s “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or a Gateway to Hell?”

Do heaven and hell actually exist as physical locations? Can one step outside of the boundaries of religious and cultural conditioning that for millennia have told us that the two places exist outside the physical realm as places to be found only in spiritual dimensions that are unreachable by the living?

Timothy Green Beckley and his stable of venerable writers and researchers invite you to consider the possibility that the territories we think of as the afterlife – the dichotomies of heaven and hell – are in fact physical places concealed throughout eternity in the bowels of the Earth. 

This is the theme of Beckley’s latest group project, the book called “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or A Gateway To Hell?” Since the book provides excellent arguments to support either case, it is up to the reader to determine which authors’ testimonies are more credible.

Beckley’s introduction pulls no punches when he writes: “Frankly, the text books – the truth according to our ‘experts’ – are all wrong! If you think life exists only on the surface of the planet, you have been listening to the ‘party line’ way too long, for there are those who see the Earth as being multilayered, and that what goes on ‘above’ definitely goes on ‘below’ – and maybe more so to the extreme.”

THE NOTION OF HELL BENEATH US

Richard Shaver wrote about an ancient race of beings that he called the Dero who moved underground eons ago when the surface world became inhospitable for them.

“One case for an Inner Earth hell,” Beckley continues, “is found in the wickedly profound tales of one Richard S. Shaver, who claimed he knew about a race of underground beings he called the Dero. For eons, the Dero had been polluting humankind’s minds with murderous thoughts and were responsible for plagues, ‘natural’ disasters, wars and all manner of evil deeds. They inflicted these woes upon humankind through the use of ancient laser-like ‘stem rays’ shot forth from their cavernous dwellings, hidden out of sight below the very bottoms of our feet.”

According to Beckley, Shaver said there was a real hell and it was located not in some mythical place but down below, right beneath us, toward the center of the earth. Like it or not, fundamentalist “scholars” tell us quite clearly that hell is for real and located inside the earth, making reference to Ephesians 4:9, which says of Jesus: “Now in saying that He ascended, what does it mean but that He also descended into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH?” The reports of some who have experienced a Near Death Experience say they were thrown into the fiery lakes of hell and that “this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way.”

Shaver’s belief in a literal, physical hell was the result of demonic voices in his head.

“From as far back as I can remember,” Shaver writes, “there were the voices. They weren’t there all the time, but they were there enough that they played an important role in my early childhood development. At first I thought that everyone heard the voices. I thought there was nothing strange about being awakened at night with the hideous screams of someone being torn limb from limb ringing in your ears. I thought it was normal to hear the maniacal laughing of an invisible someone who thought it was a fine joke to see an innocent soul run down by a speeding train. I thought everyone knew that the voices were with us all of the time, watching, waiting, and scheming for our bloody deaths. But I was wrong. It seemed that I was the only one who heard the voices. I learned quickly not to talk about them, lest I be thought a maniac.”

Shaver’s voices gradually faded from his life and became only a distant childhood memory. They returned, however, when he was an adult working at an auto plant in Detroit. He began to hear them through the noise of the machinery, conversing among themselves about gleefully tearing the skin off a woman as she screamed for mercy or causing cars and planes to crash. 

“From as far back as I can remember,” Shaver writes, “there were the voices. I thought there was nothing strange about being awakened at night with the hideous screams of someone being torn limb from limb ringing in your ears.”

He concluded he must be quite insane, quit his job, began to live a hobo life and took to alcohol to try to block the voices out. He found himself confined to a prison or mental hospital – he seems unclear on which – and came to believe the voices came from people living in caves beneath the institution where he was incarcerated, tormenting him and the other prisoners with strange technologies he compared to some kind of x-rays.

Shaver writes: “My problems, I realized, did not stem from some kind of mental impairment. I wasn’t crazy in the traditional sense, even though at times I felt like I was being driven mad by the hateful rays that were being beamed at me by the people below. No, I was sane in an insane world.

“I have often wondered,” he continues, “how many people who have been institutionalized because they were diagnosed as crazy were in fact victims, such as myself, of the damnable rays. Did they themselves think that they were insane because of the voices they heard in their heads and voluntarily committed themselves? Even today I still wonder if most forms of mental illness are not actually insidious attacks from the world below.”

Over time, perhaps as a method of coping with the voices, Shaver began to develop a myth or a narrative to explain them. He writes about the coming of the “Titans,” a humanoid race that migrated from their home planet and settled on Earth long before mankind was created. The Titans created the first civilization on the Earth, a social and scientific utopia that has never been equaled since.

But there came a time when the sun began to flare in dangerous ways and Earth was flooded with world-destroying radiation. The Titans had no choice but to flee, but some of them stubbornly refused to abandon their homes and instead moved underground or beneath the seas. They took their great machines and scientific knowledge with them, in hopes of someday finding a solution to the solar radiation and returning to live on the Earth’s surface.

But even deep within the Earth, the solar radiation continued to affect them. They tried moving deeper into the planet, but to no avail.

“Those who did not die immediately,” Shaver writes, “suffered genetic damage that was passed down from generation to generation. Eventually, this once mighty race was reduced to mutated horrors, retarded in intelligence and social structure. Worse still, these monstrosities still had access to the self-repairing machines of their ancestors. But instead of using them for their intended purposes, they used them to satisfy their sick, twisted desires. These are the demons of ancient myth and folklore.”

They are the masters of a very REAL Hell! 

IS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH TEEMING WITH LIFE?

Of course, stories about various locales inside the Earth are nothing new. Unlike Shaver’s tales of the demonic Dero who inhabit a cavern world, the inhabitants of the actual Hollow Earth, located at the planet’s core, are also said to be peaceful in countenance, but wish to keep their existence a secret for fear that the surface “warmongers” will want to invade.

A few years ago, when Beckley reprinted the long out-of-print edition and expanded upon the original version of “The Smoky God And Other Inner Earth Mysteries,” he knew going in that there isn’t anything new under the sun – even the central sun said to light the interior of our planet!

The story of the Smoky God is dramatic and tells of a fantastic journey by father and son to a place inhabited by gentle giants. In contrast to the rather admittedly demented Richard Shaver, who made no effort to conceal his hearing voices inside his head, voices that drove him nearly insane (he is said to have been locked in an insane asylum for several years), most of the tales of a Hollow Earth are rather benign. As a further example, one need only examine the works of Tibetan mystic T. Lobsang Rampa, who called the paradise located in the Inner Earth “Agharta.” Beckley’s Global Communications publishing house has republished many of Rampa’s books in excellent new editions.

THE DARKNESS OF THE HUMAN ELEMENT

Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

But the story of the Inner Earth does not always involve supernatural entities like demons or highly-evolved, benevolent, heavenly personages. There is also plenty of everyday human evil thrown into the mix. Take the story of Admiral Byrd, for instance, about whom many questions remain.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd is thought of as an iconic American hero. But what was he concealing from the public, and why did he swear to secrecy a handpicked group from among the crews that accompanied him on his polar expeditions?

In 1938, the Nazis asked Byrd to join their expedition to the North Pole, which the admiral quite naturally declined. The Nazis went there without him, seeking to make contact with a hidden race of supermen by finding a doorway into the Hollow Earth that was believed to exist in the icy northern wastelands. Did the Nazis succeed in making that contact? Did they get alien assistance in building their own disc-shaped aircraft?

Investigator Tim Cridland has delved deeply into the death of President Kennedy and the existence of a Hollow Earth.

Ace Fortean advocate Tim Cridland presents not only photographic proof of the existence of massive holes at the North and South Poles, which are usually covered with a thick cloud layer, thus disguising the entrances there, but also explores the close connection between a member of the Byrd family and the assassination of a beloved president. 

The admiral’s cousin, David Harold Byrd, was an oil-rich financier from Texas who funded some of Admiral Byrd’s earlier polar expeditions. By virtue of his wealth, Harold Byrd was part of the inner circle of the rich and powerful in Texas, which included Lyndon Johnson and John Connelly. Did the secret cabal somehow have a hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Was the conspiracy of murder birthed in a Houston hotel room?

In any case, to many in the UFO and conspiracy theory communities, Admiral Richard E. Byrd is not merely some benign fatherly figure smiling at us from the pages of 20^th century history. While Byrd is commonly thought of as a national hero and a courageous explorer of the forbidding wastelands of the Polar Regions, those who look a little deeper soon discover a disturbing darkness and subterfuge that entangles the American icon in many a wicked web.

MICAH HANKS ON THE NAZI CONNECTION

From the darkness surrounding Byrd, his cousin and the JFK assassination, we move along to what may be even darker terrain, as described by author and podcaster Micah Hanks.

Ohio State University scientists claim to have located some kind of “gravitational anomaly” located below Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

“It’s one of the most famous conspiracies,” Hanks writes, “associated with the end of the Second World War: that a group of Nazis escaped to Antarctica, where they had a secret base established to aid in the furtherance of their top secret flying saucer development program. Such tales have been the stuff of legends for decades now, and the persistence of rumors like these offer an alternative to popular theories about alien visitors that remain a hallmark of modern UFO lore.”

Hanks refers to a 2006 discovery by Ohio State University scientists who claim to have located some kind of “gravitational anomaly” located below Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It was later speculated in the tabloid press that the anomaly could be the long-sought “secret Nazi UFO base” in question.

There is some legitimacy to this idea, according to Hanks, stemming from the fact that the Nazis did mount an expedition to the South Pole in 1938-39, though there is no proof they attempted to establish a more permanent stronghold there. Ironically, according to Hanks, the idea of Nazi UFOs in Antarctica has less to do with anything the Nazis actually did than with what Admiral Byrd himself said about it.

Hanks quotes from a 1947 interview with Byrd, published in a Chilean newspaper, thusly: “The admiral stated that he didn’t want to frighten anyone unduly but that it was a bitter reality that, in case of a new war, the continental United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

“As one can see,” Hanks continues, “such wording easily lends itself to the idea of a connection between the Nazi UFO mythos and something going on at the South Pole.”

THE HOLLOW EARTH AS CLASSIC LITERATURE

Photo purports to show opening at the North Pole.

Jules Verne’s 1864 novel, “Journey To The Center Of The Earth,” is often credited with being the first book to deal with the concept that the Earth could possibly be hollow. But, in actuality, Verne’s classic tome was written about a hundred years after the release of a book that purports to be a real account of the author’s exploits in the underworld.

As far as is known, Niels Klim’s “Underground Travels,” originally published in Danish as “Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum” (1741), is a purportedly real journey as described by the author, Ludvig Holberg. It is being published here in English by Global Communications without tampering or unneeded editing. The complete title in English is: “NIELS KLIM’S JOURNEY UNDER THE GROUND, BEING A NARRATIVE OF HIS WONDERFUL DESCENT TO THE SUBTERRANEAN LANDS, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SENSIBLE ANIMALS AND TREES.“

Ludvig Holberg is the most eminent writer among the Danes in the 18^th century. University-educated and well-traveled, he wrote treatises on law as well as histories, satires and comedies.

“There are many persons of both sexes in my country who believe in fairies and supernatural beings and who are ready to swear that that they have been conveyed by spirits to hills and mountain caves,” writes Holberg.

The work starts with a foreword that assures the reader that everything in the story is a real account of the title character’s exploits in the Underworld. The story begins in the Norwegian harbor town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space.

Klim, the hero of the tale, is said to be transported to the world underground, where he meets with some “surprising” adventures. Many strange creatures inhabit this new world. Trees are introduced that have the power of speech and musical instruments discuss questions of philosophy and finance.

It is thought that the hollow Earth is a lush tropical paradise that very likely houses an assortment of animal life and possibly an advanced race of humans.

This introduction is followed by a short section called “Apologetic Preface,” in which descendants of Klim the Great add a prefix to the new edition where they swear to the authenticity of the story and seek to amend the bad reputation with which the publisher has unfairly been burdened by readers who believe the book is all fantasy.

Whether or not one lends total belief to the story told by Holberg and Klim, it is in any case a fascinating tale of adventure, redemption and coming to know one’s true self in a world previously unknown to mortal man.

“Our Hollow Earth” also includes a chapter by Hercules Invictus, a frequent contributor among Beckley’s writers. Hercules writes about the physical heaven and hell as described in Greek mythology. The Rivers of the Underworld, also an element of Greek mythology, are neatly summarized by Deanna Jaxine Stinson. Deanna’s husband, Paul Dale Roberts, recounts the story of a cave in Guatemala reputed to be an entrance to a Hollow World where the UFO occupants are said to reside. Scott Corrales covers similar territory in the wider exploration of Latin American entrances to the Underworld.

Beliefs in and about the Hollow Earth span the centuries and cut across all cultural and metaphysical lines. If you’re new to the subject, “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or A Gateway to Hell?” will provide the introductory overview that will start your education along the right path. If you’re a longtime student of the strange, you owe it to yourself to read the contributions from writers of the present time along with the resurrection of Ludvig Holberg’s breezily fascinating 18^th century adventure story, which you likely are unaware of.

Just what IS down there? Is there an unseen enemy beneath our feet, threatening to conquer us with mind-blowing wicked technology when they feel the time is right? Or is there some gentle race of Inner Earth inhabitants who guard their secret paradise from us savages here on the surface?  

The complete duality of the Hollow Earth mystery inevitably gives one pause, does it not?

Sean Casteel

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OUR HOLLOW EARTH: AN INNER WORLD PARADISE, OR A GATEWAY TO HELL?

SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS INSIDE EARTH by Tim Beckley

BEST OF THE HOLLOW HASSLE by Mary Jane Martin and Tim R. Swartz

RICHARD SHAVER: REALITY OF THE INNER EARTH by Tim R. Swartz

ADMIRAL BYRD’S SECRET JOURNEY BEYOND THE POLES by Tim R. Swartz

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