Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00763)

Helsing quotes the free-energy books of Nikola Tesla and David 
Hatcher Childress. Helsing is also especially interested in the 
Montauk Project, a literary invention of Preston B. Nichols, Peter 
Moon and Alfred Bielek. These American authors have developed a 
series of time-travel books on the basis of the "Philadelphia 
Experiment . ' The latter concerns a destroyer, USS Eldridge, said to 
have disappeared in August 1943 from its dock in the Philadelphia 
Naval Yard for several minutes, materialized at Norfolk 250 miles 
away, and then reappeared in Philadelphia through the practical 
application of Einstein's unified field theory. 12 In 1989, Alfred 
Bielek introduced himself at Timothy Beckley Green's UFO-New Age 
conference in Phoenix, Arizona, as a surviving crewman of the 
experimental ship. His account involved two parallel biographies in 
time. His story was quickly taken up by Beckley Green's Inner Light 
Publications, which publishes books by himself, Brad Steiger and 
Commander X on UFOs, alien earth bases and secret government cover-
ups."

>From 1992 onward, Nichols and Moon authored a series of books about 
an imaginary research program at Montauk Point, Long Island, between 
1969 and 1983 for investigating mind control techniques. Subsequent 
discoveries in telepathy and interdimensional transfer led to the 
manipulation of time and matter. Eventually, a time travel vortex was 
opened back to 1943 and to the original Philadelphia Experiment.14 
This sensational interface between secret research, official 
suppression and alternative realities fit perfectly with Helsing's 
wonderland of cosmic conspiracy. Following his first meeting with 
Bill Cooper in Hawaii, Helsing attended Timothy Beckley Green~s 1991 
conference in Phoenix, where he met Alfred Bielek and was deeply 
moved by his account of time travel. Following the publication of The 
Montauk Project (1992), Helsing acquired the German publication 
rights and met Peter Moon and Duncan Cameron, another alleged 
survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment. Helsing became close friends 
with this circle, who claim United Nations Organization (UNO) and 
Rockefeller agents have threatened them with death unless they keep 
silent. Undeterred, Peter Moon has now extended the Montauk mythology 
with Nazi and Tibetan connections based on Helsing's information 
about the Thule Society and the Black Sun."

By presenting secret societies and Jewish world conspiracy as an 
extraterrestrial struggle over the destiny of our planet, Helsing 
succeeds in reaching a New Age readership with his Manichaean anti-
Semitism. For example, more than sixty new esoteric-conspiracy titles 
appeared in Austrian bookshops during the first quarter of 1995 
alone. The success of his conspiracy books also coincides with a 
widespread reaction among many Austrians against the European Union 
since the country joined the EU in 1992. As in the case of the U.S. 
patriot movement, bigger government and foreign interference greatly 
increase the demand for conspiracy theory. This reaction has been 
exacerbated by the EU boycott of Austria in 2000 over the electoral 
success of J6rg Haider's populist Austrian Freedom Party. As already 
noted, Helsing's books remain best-sellers in Germany through the 
Andromeda mail-order bookshop and similar New Age outlets. The Swiss 
authorities have since banned Helsing's books for infringing the new 
anti-racism law of 1995. Following complaints from German Jews, the 
Mannheim public prosecutor arraigned author and publisher for 
spreading anti-Semitic propaganda in September 1996 but dropped the 
action in January 1997 as neither reside within its jurisdiction. 
Meanwhile, the Ewertverlag set up shop on Grand Canary Island as a 
precaution and published a new book dismissing the charges. Helsing 
has since published further best-selling books on the Third World War 
and German contacts with Aldebaran.

The endemic spread of conspiracy theories in the New Age milieu is a 
disturbing phenomenon. An anarcho-libertarian interest in tracing CIA 
mindcontrol experiments, federal government covert operations and 
links with UFOs and aliens can suddenly switch into a pessimistic 
discourse of hidden elites, the Council on Foreign Relations, 
Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergs and Rothschilds, leading to 
reprints of the Protocols of the Elders ofZion. How can one explain 
the drift from an open, anti-authoritarian, egalitarian outlook to an 
anxious myth of hostile elites and hidden threats? Some New Agers may 
well feel contempt for a society that has failed to transform itself 
spiritually in line with their aspirations in the 1970s. At that 
time, the secular social critique was Marxist, with rational 
explantions of capital concentration and corporate power. New Agers 
eschewed this in favor of inner transformation, but now, after 
Thatcher, Reagan and Bush, many may wonder what is holding up the 
arrival of the New Age. The pressures of globalization and 
automation, the escalating export of jobs, the backlash against 
affirmative action and political correctness all evidence a growing 
strain on the middle classes. Spiritual fixes via candle burning, 
tarot, runes and Druid workshops to calm the inner world can easily 
mix with "anti" fantasies about what (or more often "you know who") 
is spoiling things out there.
Bri.