A Fairy Tale For Adults: Mr Beezlebub's Extraterrestrials

Long Ago and Far Away...

It was dry, hot and dusty and I was very tired and distracted in my thinking, whilst sitting on the edge of an erstwhile community fountain\watering trough, looking around at all the surrounding buildings in the square of this mountain village. Suddenly, as if he had snuck up behind me (perhaps more accurately, I was not paying attention to my surroundings), Mr Gurdjieff's face, and in particular his penetrating eyes were afew inches from my own. Abruptly, insistently he asked, "Where is Doctor S_____?!" I immediately woke up.....

Long before the advent and interest in the alternative study of that mysterious alpha civilisation we call Atlantis, long before the revisionists of accepted dogma of Egyptology, before the appearance and curiosity about alleged ruins on the surface of Mars, long before the arrival of the commonly accepted phenomenon of unidentified flying aircraft, and so forth and so on there was that proverbial rascal and agent provocateur,par excellence Mr Gurdjieff...who wrote a book in which invaluable bones were dug deep, ...Beezlebub's Tales to His Grandson....which oddly enough seems to anticipate and tie together alot of the current brew of innovative revisionist theories into a cohesive whole....It is both a metaphor and as he said himself, a history....


A Variety of Burning Bushes

As I write this, as you know, some twenty five percent of California's coastline is blazing uncontrollably, causing some one million individuals to be relocated out of harm's way. On the other coast, Georgia is down to a ninety day water supply, while the central plains and Midwest recovers from the recent record rainfalls and floods of this past summer.
New Orleans, as we all know, is but a sodden shadow of it's former self. In the midst of this unbalanced climate's entanglement, with the indelible human signature of cross purposes, we launched yet another rocket into the vacuum of space to add another thermos container onto the orbiting "station"....across the dunes of the desert wastelands,the weaknesses of human psychology play out in an ancient tribal waving of sticks and making threatening noises, whilst destroying one another over a resource, that in reality, no one owns.
Above and beyond current events, the icecaps melt...as they did some three million years ago adding some 80 feet in ocean levels,according to geological evidence, not the currently predicted 23 inches...According to James Havelock, by the end of this century only the northern latitudes will be habitable and that our species population will decrease from 6.6 billion in number to about 500 million principally relocated by the chaos of mass migration to Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia and the Ar tic Basin. According to Havelock, we need a "sustainable retreat", not a sustainable ecological economy....we have past the point where computer models work.

In the desert long ago,in the midst of a burning bush, Moses met face to face with his God who identified himself as I AM THAT I AM, ot latinised to JHVH, which is pronounced as Jehovah...the essence of self awakened consciousness...the double H being the dual aspect of doubling back onto itself, in other words, the observer viewing the observed, as well as in reverse. A four fold dynamic.

Also out in the desert wasteland, is the once and future geodetic model of the northern hemisphere, which also has a base of four corners leading to an apex of focal physicality...a pyramid... next to it is the former tetramorph, whose wings have long since worn and carved away, the lions mane reshaped to a head dress and inscribed with the name of a Pharaoh...a marker of once again, ownership of something that is not owned...The original tetramorphic and four fold aspect and meaning of the pictographic symbol and marker has long since vanished...as an ancient omen perhaps of history's cycle which began with that defacement arising from what Pharaoh laid claim upon as a earthly god ... now once again, the cycle he began is reaching the birthing flames of a proverbial Phoenix, in human and planetary affairs.

Mr Beezlebub's Extraterrestrials

Long ago, another, quite literally established Alpha civilization was in the same situation we find ourselves in. According to Mr Gurdjieff, they also enjoyed a good relationship with extraterrestrials, who had set up an observational post on Mars to monitor human evolution after it was decided to seed the planet with consciousness in order to correct certain unforeseen circumstances. The extraterrestrials by means of deduction within the text, were not commonly known to the common people but were very clearly known to the leadership of that long vanished kingdom. In face, at one point, some of you may recall, there was an enormous near quasi revolution over the introduction of taxes and our king was in such dire straights and danger, that one of the extraterrestrials voluntarily took his place, whilst he was safely stowed elsewhere.....if our king were visually identical to, shared a common appearance...oh, let's continue with the story.....
A group of scientists in their day studied all the seemingly odd, shall we say fortean like behavior of creatures...out of place,extinctions etc as well as certain psychological effects of a civilisation once founded on the most sacred principles , now descending into an empire building, technological organised formulation of accumulating greed and power over natural resources in an increasingly materialistic paradigm of reality....Somehow these scientists knew something we still do not recognise, which is the reciprocal relationship between all things...leading to one. They recognised that something as equally wicked as their contemporaries behavior was about to bounce back on the senders by the natural world. Sound familiar?

Planetary Orbital Shifts

To make a long story short, what was a high elevation in the ocean became low and the low became high, in short the planet found it's final axis of rotation,or, if you will, center of gravity, that is what caused a horrible "tide" as well...and this demise of atlantis followed an earlier catastrophic event....the horrific dust storms that proceeded the founding of the Alpha civilisation, as the earth adjusted its distance from the moon, causing enormous migrations and the creation of large deserts. famine and drought.
We all know that the surviving, comparatively tiny group of farsighted individuals from this alpha civilisation eventually ended up on the shores of Central America, India and most interestingly, in Eygpt....where, they were guided to the fertile Nile crescent, by once again, extraterrestrials. Eventually the base on Mars was closed and they departed with the exception of four individuals who chose to remain....whose long lifespans and chosen professions are another set of tales, of metabolic rates, planetary rotational rates...another post in of itself....

The Scary Things Under The Bed

While in Mr Gurdjieff's story, visitations to Earth were conducted in remote locations, finding a practical one today close to human populations, would certainly be a challenge, the only viable location on the surface of this planet is perhaps beneath the sea....One has to ask oneself, if this were a true fairy tale...one wonders what modern naval technology armed with nuclear submarines that are outfitted with contemporary technology, could perhaps detect...perhaps we should ask them....Will the latest, developing planetary catastrophe bring our shy friends forward once again?.... no, it's late and it's well past time to go to sleep...as all the other children already are....enough fairy tales for tonight. Sleep well....and remember..there is nothing under the bed...it's only your imagination....but before you do.....You have to ask yourself a question, Is this just random chance, is it all accidental, or is there such a thing as a meaningful coincidence? Beyond these two choices, perhaps our friend Mr Beezlebub was telling the truth....