June 19, 2005
originally from http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/126/nine.html – 1999
from IlluminatiNews Website
| The Council of Nine – One New Age channeling cult, above all the rest, has had a huge – very disturbing influence on hundreds of thousands of devotees worldwide. Known as ‘The Nine’, its disciples include cutting edge scientists, multi-millionaire industrialists and leading politicians. This exclusive extract based on The Startgate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince looks at the sinister origins of The Nine. Forteantimes.com 1999 |
One New Age channeling cult, above all the rest, has had a huge – very disturbing influence on hundreds of thousands of devotees worldwide. Known as ’The Nine’, its disciples include cutting edge scientists, multi-millionaire industrialists and leading politicians.
This exclusive extract based on The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince looks at the sinister origins of The Nine.
I am the beginning. I am the end. I am the emissary. But the original time I was on the Planet Earth was 34,000 of your years ago. I am the balance. And when I say “I” – I mean because I am an emissary for The Nine. It is not I , but it is the group. We are nine principles of the Universe, yet together we are one.
The declaration above is typical of the channeled pronouncements of the Council of Nine – or just ’The Nine’.
They contain all the usual New Age ingredients of grandiose statements, shaky grammar and unprovable predictions. But unlike all the other channeling cults, that of The Nine has serious clout. Perhaps the reason for this is that they claim to be the Ennead, or the nine major gods of ancient Egypt. Or could there be another reason, one that owes more to The X-Files than the Pyramid Texts?
Although The Nine may appear to be quintessentially a modern phenomenon, our research uncovered its 
truly astonishing pedigree. In fact, the story begins nearly 50 years ago, in a private research laboratory in Glen Cove, Maine, called the Round Table Foundation, run by a medical doctor named Andrija Puharich (also known as Henry K Puharich – image left).
Set up in 1948 to research the paranormal, among the noted psychics studied at the Foundation were the famous Irish medium Eileen Garrett and the Dutch clairvoyant Peter Hurkos (Pieter van de Hirk). Prominent members included the influential philosopher and inventor Arthur M Young and the socialite Alice Bouverie (née Astor).
In December 1952, Puharich brought into his laboratory an Indian mystic named Dr D G Vinod, who began to channel The Nine or ’the Nine Principles’.
In the months before Vinod returned to India, a group met regularly to hear The Nine’s channeled wisdom. Never known for their modesty, The Nine proclaimed themselves to be God, stating “God is nobody else than we together, the Nine Principles of God.”
Three years later, there appeared to be independent confirmation of their existence. In Mexico, Puharich and Young met Charles and Lillian Laughead, former Christian missionaries who were by then prominent in the burgeoning UFO contactee movement.
(For a description of their involvement in the Dorothy Martin circle, see Jerome Clark’s ’When Prophecy Failed’).
Back in the States a few weeks later, Puharich received a letter from the Laugheads containing messages received by their group’s channeller. This message also claimed to come from the Nine Principles, even – amazingly – including references to the earlier communications transmitted through Dr Vinod. Could The Nine possibly be for real?
Perhaps the answer is embedded in the career of Puharich himself. After disbanding the Round Table Foundation in 1958, he worked for 10 years as an inventor of medical devices and achieved international recognition as a parapsychologist, most famously studying the Brazilian psychic surgeon, Arigo (José Pedro de Freitas).
But all that was to pale into insignificance because, in 1971, Puharich discovered Uri Geller.
At their first meetings in Tel Aviv in 1971, Puharich hypnotized Geller in an attempt to find out where his abilities came from. As a result, the young Israeli started to channel ’Spectra’ – an entity which claimed to be a conscious super-computer aboard a spaceship.
However, Puharich suggested to him that there might be a connection with the Nine Principles, and Spectra readily agreed that there was. The Nine claimed that they had programmed Geller with his powers as a young child.
Through Geller, The Nine alerted Puharich to his life’s mission, which was to use Geller’s talents to alert the world to an imminent mass landing of spaceships that would bring representatives of The Nine.
However, Geller – by now an international psychic superstar – bowed out in 1973 and has resolutely turned his back on The Nine ever since.
Puharich had to find other channels. He joined up with aristocratic former racing driver Sir John Whitmore and Florida-based psychic and healer Phyllis Schlemmer.
They found a new channeller – a Daytona cook known to history only by the pseudonym ’Bobby Horne’ – who lived to regret his dealings with The Nine. Driven to the brink of suicide by their constant demands, he too dropped out of the scene – his despair being dismissed by Whitmore as “signs of instability”.
After this, Phyllis Schlemmer was appointed the authorized spokesperson for the entity – known simply as ’Tom’ – who represented The Nine.
Puharich, Whitmore and Schlemmer then set up Lab Nine at Puharich’s estate in Ossining, New York.
The Nine’s disciples included,
- multi-millionaire businessmen (many hiding behind pseudonyms and including members of Canada’s richest family, the Bronfmans)
- European nobility
- scientists from the Stanford Research Institute
- at least one prominent political figure who was a personal friend of President Gerald Ford
We also know that Lyall Watson (then the darling of the alternative scene because of his seminal 1973 book Supernature) was involved, as was the influential counter-culture guru Ira Einhorn – and Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek.
The key to predicting eclipses is noticing that they occur in cycles, or at more or less regular intervals. The Sun goes round the sky once a year; the Moon once a month. This means that, every month, the Moon ’overtakes’ the sun. This happens at the New Moon, and this is when solar eclipses occur.
But, of course, we don’t get an eclipse every New Moon.
This is because the Moon has an elliptical orbit: sometimes it passes above the Sun when it overtakes it, sometimes below. But the Moon’s elliptical orbit has its own cycle: it returns to the same place it started from every 18 years or so. Thus – if seen from the same place on Earth – an eclipse will be followed by another one just over 18 years later.
Roddenberry (image left) was part of that circle in 1974 and 1975, and even produced the screenplay for a movie about The Nine.
How much he was influenced by them is unknown, although it is said that some of their concepts found their way into the early Star Trek movies, and The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine (what a giveaway!) series.
(There is a character named ’Vinod’ in one Deep Space Nine episode.)
Another key player in Lab Nine was Dr James J Hurtak, who was appointed Puharich’s second-in-command by The Nine. In fact, Hurtak had been independently channeling The Nine since 1973.
Puharich and Whitmore commissioned British writer Stuart Holroyd to write an account of their adventures, which appeared in 1977 as Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth (re-titled Briefings for the Landing on Planet Earth in paperback.)
In this extraordinary book the true identity of the Nine – and of Tom – was finally revealed.
Far from being the chummy character that his rather avuncular name suggests, Tom is actually Atum, the creator-god of the ancient Egyptian religion of Heliopolis, and Uncle Tom with his eight mates are none other than the Great Ennead of Heliopolis.
But even with such impressive contacts, all was not well with Puharich.
Lab Nine broke up in 1978 after a series of mysterious events that culminated in an arson attack on the Ossining estate, and he fled to Mexico, claiming that he was being persecuted by the CIA. He returned to the USA two years later, and appears to have played no further part in The Nine story. He died in 1995 after falling down the stairs in his South Carolina home.
However, The Nine continued…
Not only did Schlemmer and Whitmore continue their mission, but Dr Hurtak has also moved on. He has become a major player in the unfolding millennial drama currently being played out at Giza, but perhaps more importantly he has established himself as a New Age guru par excellence, travelling the world giving workshops on his book of channeled revelations from The Nine, The Keys of Enoch.
Written and laid out in classic Biblical style, its darkly apocalyptic vision has huge numbers of influential devotees. This we find very worrying.
Another Nine channel – an Englishwoman named Jenny O’Connor – was introduced to the avant garde Esalen Institute in San Francisco by Sir John Whitmore.
She and The Nine became so influential there that they held seminars and – unbelievably – were actually listed on the Institute’s staff, even successfully ordering the sacking of its chief finance officer and the reorganization of its entire management structure..
This should concern us, because many influential people attended The Nine’s Esalen seminars, including Russians who were part of the Institute’s Soviet Exchange program. Some of these later rose to prominence in the Gorbachev regime and were instrumental in the downfall of Communism. (The Esalen Institute now runs the US branch of the Gorbachev Foundation.)
The Nine are very much still with us.
One of their recent channels, who is also in contact with Tom, is the American writer David M Myers. He is co-author with Britain’s David S Percy of that extraordinary tome Two-Thirds, a history of the galaxy and the human race according to Myer’s other-worldly contacts (who clearly have no sense of the absurd).
Percy – best known as a champion of the ’Face on Mars’ and the ’hoaxing’ of the Apollo moon landings – was at one time part of the Schlemmer circle. Among the other major proponents of the ’monuments’ of Mars and their alleged connection with ancient Egypt is none other than Dr James Hurtak – The Nine’s great prophet – who has promoted this idea since as long ago as 1973.
Richard C. Hoagland – familiar to FT readers as another unrepentant ’Mars Face’ enthusiast – is also clearly under The Nine’s spell.
David Myers and David Percy were, respectively, American and European Director of Operations for Hoagland’s Mars Mission. In fact, his interpretation of the ’monuments’ of Mars comes directly from The Nine. Flake though he may appear (increasingly in these hallowed pages), but his influence over huge swathes of the hungrier mystery seekers is undeniable.
This is the man who addresses rapt audiences at the United Nations.
But it is in the New Age channeling circuit that The Nine have truly come into their own. In any other circles their true agenda would no doubt have been rumbled long ago, but this is the New Age.
Anything The Nine say must be sweetness and light, right? But an objective reading of their divine pronouncements reveal the first stirrings of something very nasty in Paradise.
Their words appeared in 1992 as the book The Only Planet of Choice, credited to ’transceiver’ Schlemmer and edited by Mary Bennett (a one-time member of the Schlemmer circle who also edited Myers and Percy’s Two-Thirds). This has had an unprecedented influence over the New Age.
According to Palden Jenkins (editor of an earlier edition of Only Planet) more and more New Age channeling groups are ’realizing’ that the real source of their wisdom is The Nine. In fact, we have discerned what amounts to a campaign by The Nine – or their adherents – to ’take over’ the New Age.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the economic or even political potential of this vast subculture – rich pickings indeed. But The Nine’s influence does not extend merely to New Age channeling circles.
Andrija Puharich, James Hurtak and Richard Hoagland have all lectured at the United Nations in New York. And individuals connected with The Nine are also known to have influence with Vice-President Al Gore.
Of course, if The Nine really are the ancient gods of Egypt, then surely there could be fewer more significant events than their return.
One may be justified in thinking that the more leading politicians who fall under their influence the better.
- But are they really the ancient Ennead of Egypt?
- Can it be that they have actually returned to sort us all out, scattering love and enlightenment from their high moral ground?
Tom, in The Only Planet of Choice, chooses his words carefully as he explains that all the races of the Earth were seeded from space-gods – except one, the “indigenous race”, the blacks.
He is very careful to urge us not to make an issue out of this. After all, it’s not the black race’s fault that they have no divine spark like the rest of us.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the history of The Nine is its relationship to the career of Andrija Puharich. Recent research has revealed Puharich to have a distinctly sinister side.
As an Army doctor in the 1950s, he was deeply involved with the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA mind control project.
He – together with the infamous Dr Sidney Gottlieb – experimented with a variety of techniques to change or induce actual thought processes. even to creating the impression of voices in the head.
These techniques included the use of drugs, hypnosis and beaming radio signals directly into the subject’s brain.
And, significantly, he was engaged in this work at exactly the same time that The Nine made their first appearance at the Round Table Foundation. The Foundation itself is now known to have been largely funded by the Pentagon as a front for its medical and parapsychological research.
Puharich was still working for the CIA in the early 1970s, when he brought Uri Geller out of Israel.
Puharich’s use of hypnosis is particularly interesting in The Nine circle. In the case of Uri Geller and Bobby Horne, he first hypnotized them and then suggested that they were in touch with The Nine – and so, they were! Ira Einhorn – a close associate of Puharich’s during the 1970s – confirmed to us that he believed that Puharich was “humanly directing” The Nine communications.
The evidence we have gathered strongly suggests that Tom and his fellow gods originated, not in the stars, but behind closed doors as part of a CIA mind control experiment.
- And what happened to that experiment?
- Now with hundreds of thousands of devotees, some in very high places, can The Nine be deemed a success?
Of course, that depends very much on what the CIA had in mind.
With their subtle racist propaganda, perhaps the flaky New Age Nine should worry the hell out of us.
 by Dick Farley 1998 from t’CotO/Scripture Website The Council of Nine describes themselves, through their two-decades channeller Phyllis Schlemmer, as “a circle of universal beings living outside time and space.” In the 1993 compendium of their dialogues with various of their human questioners, among them Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and many, many others including heads of state and international business and philosophical personalities… this group of “off-planet intelligence complexes” tells their story, which if one is to give credence to this process and its information, may be to some degree, “our” story also. If so… It doesn’t matter what we folks at our “retail” level believe about this group and their information. What matters is what people with access to power, political machinery and science may believe about what is being said… and what they may seek to do about it in terms of “planetary deliverance from human ignorance,” and what voice we may have if we have one at all. Evidence is strong that this group underpins very much in the realms where “mind-influencing” or “subliminal negotiations” are studied and practiced (in areas of foreign relations and for arms control & disarmament, and in the fields of intelligence gathering & analysis); and for understanding deeper aspects of “UFO” and “E.T.” experiencing and assessment. We are certain it plays a major role in economics, as planet-level cartels and industrialists chart Earth’s future, at least as they discern it. Sound a bit arrogant? That’s what Time Magazine‘s former science editor Leon Jaroff feared when, in the mid 1970s, he squashed his magazine’s coverage of the Stanford Research Institute‘s (SRI‘s) work with various psychics, one of whom was Uri Geller. Jaroff could not “allow” for any of it to be real. Jim Schnabel mentions this briefly in his 1997 book, “Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies” in a footnote (p. 197), and more about the episode with Time (a lot like what happened with the magazine and Dr. John Mack in its April 25, 1994 issue, in “The Man From Outer Space“). While Schnabel’s book has essentially “disappeared,” to be replaced by CIA disinformation product like David Morehouse’s “Psychic Warriors” and the ongoing prattlings of former “Grillflame” and “PSI-Tech” participant, Maj. Ed Dames, (USA-Ret.), Jim wrote a reasonable and generally accurate “alternate history” of what non-governmental allies of CIA, DIA and others who played around with “these intelligences” (and perhaps got “taken for a ride” in more ways than we might think) rather we didn’t know. Although publicly targeted by “professional skeptics” and a cadre of debunkers, the core of whom know very well that “it” is real (in some quantum, human-influencing sense), Geller has had a long engagement with “The Nine.” They have helped him to become wealthy from his “intuitive” assistance to major oil drillers and mineral explorers, and he has helped guide their decisions. He reportedly continues selective involvements in intelligence and “foreign policy” initiatives for his government or elements of that government which agree with “The Nine‘s” viewpoint and, some would argue, accept its “Biblical” guidance. When Geller, then a stage magician and “mentalist” playing the clubs of Israel and Europe… but occasionally exhibiting the truly bizarre psychokinetic traits he is known (and debunked) for having… came to the attention of Dr. Andrijah Puharich, the “Nine” had found a new voice. This was in the early 1970s. The story suggests that “The Nine” decide who will be the channels. According to Puharich’s book, “URI,” (which is a necessity as a piece of data for analysts of the “mind-influencing”, UFO/ETI and “psi” scenarios) he (Puharich) had first come across “The Nine” when was at Northwestern University medical school and met an Indian (East Indian) physician and mystic, who had been in contact with these purported “human-guiding entities” for years, perhaps in the traditions recent discussed in this venue, (i.e., as in Hindu tradition), or perhaps more generically. It was “The Nine” to whom Geller referred when he said that his powers of PK and clairvoyance came from “a ship out there” and that “they” controlled his demonstrations. SRI found this out, and some who were “in the know” then have gone forward to have lives at the frontiers of science and technology, just as have well-known former CIA personalities known to most of us. Much of the work after SRI, later Institute of Noetic Sciences sponsored, with tendrils of derivative research and “psi-study” now distributed more widely, from Edinborough to Stanford, to Princeton, Harvard and Massachussetts Institute of Technology, evolved from this earliest work. And a considerable thrust of national and international policy formulations also emerged, particularly international environmental governance regimes. Before getting too much into the “arcana” of it all, additional references might be useful to those who wish to explore this: “THE ONLY PLANET OF CHOICE,” compiled by psychic Phyllis Schlemmer and editor Palden Jenkins. For a different, very cautious but accepting discussion of the Nine and what “their” having the ears of powerful political and industrial Earthlings might mean to our future as a society, we recommend two books by Dave Hunt, a lay Christian scholar and excellent writer who has authored a panoply of frontier books. Dave Hunt‘s “The Archon Conspiracy,” is available usually through some Christian book stores. And Hunt did an expansion of the concept, which is set at a thinly disguised “SRI” (where psychic research is going on and world leaders all line up to “hear the messages” via “chosen channellers”), in his later “Sanctuary of the Chosen.” In recent years, Dave has had some difficulties with the Christian book trade because of his “A Woman Rides The Beast,” which takes a look at the Catholic “Marian worship,” suggestive (but not in Dave’s books) of what occurred at Medjugorge and other ” apparition” sites and, to the serious “UFO scholar,” also of Billy Meier‘s contact, “Semjase.” Back to “The Nine” Phyllis Schlemmer, according to stories both about and from her, was recognized as a “sensitive” as a child and in her young days, was sometimes used by local monks to help them learn if people coming to them for help were carrying “other entities.” Schlemmer has most recently resided in Pardes Hanna, Israel and Flagler Beach, Florida. And besides her channelling of “The Nine” for wealthy believers, she reportedly has (at times) done work for Israeli intelligence, as reportedly has Uri Geller. Al Bielek has been mentioned, too, as loosely being in the same circle. Schlemmer’s compadre and consort is a man named Israel Carmel who, according to friends of Schlemmer and Carmel in Atlanta, when they met was working as a lifeguard at an Israeli resort Schlemmer was visiting. “The Nine” told Phyllis that he was to be her companion, and so “he is.” He has since been “trained” by Phyllis and “The Nine,” both as a healer and psychic. He also is a channeller and “transmuter of energy,” and he has a following in Atlanta and other places where folks who push Al Bielek and others in the “MC” genre also know Carmel. Is this “connected?” Al Bielek’s tales about exotic physics and inter-dimensional time-travel notwithstanding, it is significant that Andrijah Puharich also worked in precisely this field, both as a medical doctor and as neurophysicist. Later on, at The Nine’s direction, Puharich experimented with raising kids in “exceptional” ways, (the “Super Kids” experiments at his home in Ossinning, New York.. ..a place that later mysteriously burned to the ground, and where Ira Einhorn had visited often), with CIA “associations” which led outside government into the philanthropic lairs of a few major international players who also fund “UFOlogy”, et al. As William Cooper (he of “Pale Horse” notoriety) is writing of The Nine, he is well on target if he’s discussing that powerful and wealthy “movers and shakers” most certainly ARE in their loop and taking dictation from, as Time’s Leon Jaroff is said to have feared, these “entities.” Are these the same who (it has been reported) perhaps very widely influenced early proto-Nazi AustroGermans, in their search for renewed “sacredness” and a recaptured grandeur, but who botched it and gave us a Hitler? I want to be clear here, that our reading of “The Nine’s” data is not suggestive that THEY (if there is a “they”) are “Nazis.” It is the pattern of OUR human societies and evolution that when a group of our self-anointed “elite” citizens believe they have come into some proprietorship of “revealed truth,” which could enhance or maintain their perceptions of being “in charge” of all the rest of us, they WILL be tempted to “own” these data, as well as to interpret it for us. Our “beliefs” are irrelevant to them. Whether to some “divine right of kings,” or “ordained lineages” deriving from one prophetic personage or another… be he Dalai Lama or “Ascended Master“… our human adventures have always progressed either by “overthrowing” these fellows when their lust for power and control overwhelms any concerns they may have had for their fellow humans and our planet, or knuckling under to them and their acolytes, courtiers and benefactors, at least until sufficient of “just folks” escape, grow and resurge. And “The Nine’s” way of doing things may simply not be “ours.” Consider then, that The Council of Nine has been funded (via the work of Phyllis Schlemmer, and the resulting book) by Sir John Whitmore Bt., of the U.K. and others accessing power. In years previous, various occult traditions in various cultures in varied stages of societal evolution have manifested similarly, usually at the behest of “royal” scholars, magicians, sorcerers. In this country, “avatars” like J.J. Hurtak, (who’s been funded by American believers like Henry Belk, who also had something to do with Andrijah Puharich while he lived out his last years in North Carolina at the farm of the powerful Reynolds family), are carriers of this same kind of “energy” with “revelations” of planetary destinies of the sort which propelled former Senator Claiborne Pell, (long an advocate and friend of Belk’s), and UFO funding source Hans Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein and a CIA friend of long standing since his father’s help fighting Soviets, at the historical expense of his being perceived a sympathizer and hider of Nazi gold, according to recent Swiss documents. It matters, because what “elites” do in the dark often devours us. Remember, as John Lilly coined…”In the province of the mind what one believes to be true… becomes true,” (with apologies to Dr. Lilly for a butchered paraphrase). But you get the point? Essentially, MOST of the so-called “UFOlogical” run-ups and flappings by both “believers” and “skeptics” have devolved into a dispute among those who give credence to “The Nine” and are well on their way…and have been for YEARS… to implementation of their “advice and guidances,” (for planetary reorganization); and those who are actively and aggressively trying to mount a “resistance” to what they (the opposition forces) fear has been a misguided, misinterpreted “caving in” to some kind of “viral conquest” of our consciousness and culture, outcome unknown. It is NOT important what you or I or some “demographic” part of our population believes that is of concern or ought to be our focus. It is what powerful, operational “oligarchies” believe is our planet’s destiny and what they suppose to be their roles in shaping it. Ask them who shape our future what gods they hear! Ask what kind of access to governance and planning processes, whether through nations, transnational industries or agencies such as the United Nations and trade regimes they’re working, … and who can be held accountable… no matter from “whichever planet” or dimensions “they” are getting their guidances… and let us determine whether and to what degree humanity will be exercising free will (as is a right of all sentient beings), or be “happy slaves,” surrendering Earth to “Conquest By Consensus,” (the title of my book about these issues, in progress). Before he died, Andrijah Puharich was desperately seeking a channel who would help him try to “reach The Nine” again. In a speech at the United Nations in 1980, (to the same group where the “Mars Civilization” advocate Richard Hoagland spoke and has pumped that fact in his tapes incessantly since then), Dr. Puharich had warned of “weather modification” weapons and other planetary influencers, which he had suggested were part of collaborative efforts by powerful elites on our own “plane” and planet, but aided in no small part by insights and technologies received from what he had suggested were “exceptional sources.” And Puharich was scared. Was he simply paranoid? Who’ll say? Another devotee of “The Council of Nine” was the self-styled “planetary enzyme” and change-agent, Ira Einhorn, that Unicorn of recent news reports about his re-arresting and being freed in France. Einhorn was very much in touch with Puharich and in no small way, The Nine, which maintains a working network of physicists and psychics, intelligence operatives and powerful billionaires, who are less concerned about their “source” and its weirdness than they are about having EVERY advantage and new data edge in what THEY believe is a battle for Earth itself. As Dave Hunt and others discuss, and as in “The Only Planet Of Choice” is well defined by The Nine themselves through words of The Nine’s spokesman, a discarnate entity named “Tom” who in turn is communicating through Phyllis Schlemmer, it may indeed have been the same “Nine” we are discussing here who also were elements of an “interdimensional governance structure” of ancient Athens, in which a council of nine divinely inspired “Archons” ruled. Each Athenian “Nine” supposedly had his own aetherial counterpart drawing from the “universal knowledge.” And in the popular science fiction television program, Babylon 5, the council on which DeLenn served (they are Nine) operates precisely as “The Council of Nine” are described as operating, both in their own “writings” and in what is written about them. What is fascinating is that many folks currently at the front of the United Nations as well as behind the scenes, like “Man of Mystery” Canadian tycoon and “operative” Maurice Strong, are so deeply involved in the machinations of planetary changing, precisely as has been “suggested” by The Council of Nine, that public and journalistic incredulity effectively camouflages it. The fears of William Cooper and various “militia paranoiacs” of “UFO landings” and collaborative hijackings of national rights, whom evidence suggests have been “marginalized” and seeded by operatives with allegiances if not to “The Council of Nine” consciously then to those among powerful cartels and “elites” who DO take direction and advice from the interpreters of this “ancient Delphic council,” are perhaps insufficient to reflect what actually is going on. It is beyond fear. “They” are doing it! Cooper’s information, although certainly distorted by his fear and what has happened to him, both by his own hand and choice or as his “fault lines” have sometimes been fractured (perhaps in cases, intentionally), holds more “truth” than we can accept. But our inability to accept or adapt does not make it less true. Return to The Council of Nine |
