New Age Channelings - page 8 Who or What is being Channeled? Picture on the left: "Spirits of the Sky, Earth & Underworld" - 1996, oil

Notes to the Introduction:

1. I worked on my book from when my oldest son died of cancer in the summer of 1987 until 1992 when it was published by the Women's Press in London. As I am now editing this essay I am having radiotherapy and was operated on for breast cancer m April 1998. (Back)

2. I have done such workshops and talks at Oak Dragon and Rainbow camps, at the Big Green Gatherings, and at international Goddess gatherings in the USA. (Back)

3. I have a pamphlet put together from Alice Bailey's writings called "The total challenge of humanity on earth: the Jewish problem. A study for World Sewers" and produced in 1946 by the Institute for Planetary Synthesis. Her 'solution' to "The Jewish problem" is for Jewish people to assimilate into the dominant culture wherever they live. In other words, when there is no longer a Jewish culture there is no "Jewish problem"! (Back)

4. Diana Luppi, in "ET101, The Cosmic Instruction Journal for Planetary Evolution", calling herself (or named by the Intergalactic Council as) Zoev Jho. (Harper S.F., USA, 1995). (Back)

5. Sandy Stevenson's talk was called "Time to go Home". She is the author of "The Awakener" (Gateway Books, Bath, 1997) which she claims was channeled to her. She was the organiser of the Peace OM at Wembley Arena in August 1994. (Back)

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Main Notes:

1. The Women's Press. London 1992. (Back)

2. There is an actual book by that name by Rebirther Phil Laut (Trinity Publications, USA 1978). "Rebirthing in the New Age" by Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray (Celestial Arts, Ca. 1977) tells the story of that fraudulent movement by two of its founders. (Back)

3. Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake partly because her Voices were those of female saints. There is a book of women mediums channeling female entities called "Dreaming the Past, Dreaming the Future: a Herstory of the Earth", edited by feminist witch Diane Stein (the Crossing Press, Ca. 1991). Even in this book there is an over­emphasis on light and on leaving Earth to travel into space and other planets. The Goddess is all light and Her dark self still excluded or feared. (Back)

4. "The Vision of Ramala: a School of Earth Teaching the Truth of the Heavens" (C.W. Daniel. UK. 1991). (Back)

5. Malidoma Patrice Some, "Water and the Spirit" (Arkana, 1995). (Back)

6. From the Guardian newspaper at the time of the Nuclear tests under the Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Winter 1995/6. John Keel wrote in 1971 that scientists were planting atomic bombs in known earthquake faults on the floor of the Pacific just to see what happens! (Back)

7. "Cults of Unreason" by Dr. Christopher Evans (Panther Books Ltd., UK. 1974). (Back)

8. John Keel "Our Haunted Planet" (Neville Spearman, 1971), "Operation Trojan Horse" (1975) and "Strange Creatures from Time and Space". John Michell has also written widely about "Incredible Phenomena". Also read Paul Deveraux's "Earth Lights Revelation" (Blandford Press, Dorset 1989). (Back)

9. Serena Roney-Dougal, author of "Where Science and Magic Meet" (Element Books, 1992), has said that the West has acted as a psy-inhibitor for the rest of the world and has made it that much more difficult for shamans to communicate with the spirits, also amongst indigenous peoples. She thinks that our use of iron, which the Faeries abhor and which interferes with Earth's Mystic Powers, has cut us off for a very long time from the spirit realms. We discuss women's ancient shamanism and menstrual lunar mysteries in "The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscov­ering the Religion of the Earth" (Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, Harper S.F., 1987/91). It is interesting that in the UN's prayer-room in the USA the "altar" is a block of iron ore and the spirit is symbolised by a (phallic) shaft of light striking it. I cannot think of more patriarchal imagery than this. Iron democratised warfare and weapons production with which the Iron Age patriarchal men took over power. (Back)

10. "Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent: Celtic women's Spirituality" by Noragh Jones (Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1994). (Back)

11. "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"' by Julian Jaynes (Houghton Mifflin, 1976). (Back)

12. "The Electric Shock Book" by Michael Shallis (Souvenir Press, London 1988). (Back)

13. "HAARP: High Frequency Vandalism in the Sky" (Nexus: New Times, Vol.3, no. 1, Dec. 1995-Jan. 1996). (Back)

14. "Our Haunted Planet" (see note 8). (Back)

15. Published by Zed Books. Vandana Shiva also wrote "Ecofeminism" together with German thinker Maria Mies (Zed Books 1993) as well as "Monocultures of the Mind' (Zed Books, 1993).  (Back)

16. Apparently Sir Mortimer Wheeler wrote once that Archeology is a vendetta and looking at the way feminist archaeologist Marija Gimbutas' work (see note 27) on the Goddess Neolithic cultures is being slandered and abused this seems to be true. Male historians and archaeologists, who are mainly white and privileged want history to prove that patriarchy has always existed. Until recently most of them also advocated Aryan supremacy theories. (Back)

17. Janet McCloud was an initiator of Women of All Red Nations, or WARN, within the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1979 and the Northwest Indian Women's Circle. In 1987, after a successful women's gathering, she helped form The Indigenous Women's Network which also publishes a journal by the name of "Indigenous Woman". (Back)

18. "Ramtha Intensive: Change, the Days to Come" (Sovereignty Inc., USA, WA. 1987). (Back)

19. J.Z. Knight: "A State of Mind: My Story. Ramtha, The Adventure Begins" (Warner Books, USA, 1987). (Back)

20. Jane Roberts: "Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul" (Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1972). (Back)

21. Ken Carey: "Starseed Transmissions: An Extraterrestrial Report" (Harper, SF. 1982). (Back)

22. Ken Carey - Also by Harper SF. in 1991. (Back)

23. Alice Bailey: "Education in the New Age" (Lucis Trust, 1954) in which she discusses the New Group of World Servers and The Plan. She writes on page 118 that the coming or new race is forming primarily in those lands where the Fifth or Caucasian/Aryan race is to be found. See also "Discipleship For a New Age" (Lucis Press, 1944) and "The Externalisation of the Hierarchy" (Lucis Press, 1957). Her life and work is discussed by Sir John R. Sinclair in "The Alice Bailey Inheritance" (Turnstone Press, UK). (Back)

24. Helena Blavatsky: "The Secret Doctrine - the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy" (republished by the Theosophical Society, Theosophy Go., Los Angeles, 1947). (Back)

25. Martin Bernal: "Black Athena: the Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation", (Free Association Books, in London, 1987). Also "African Presence in Early Europe" edited by Ivan Van Sertima (Transaction Publ. 1993) for African scholars' view of history. (Back)

26. Included in an anthology of anti Imperialist women's writings: "Women Against Racism". (Back)

27. Marija Gimbutas: "Language of the Goddess" (Harper, SF. 1989) and "The Civilisation of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe" (1991, Harper SF. USA). (Back)

28. Sir Mortimer Wheeler: "Civilisations of the Indus Valley and Beyond" (Thames and Hudson, London, 1940s). (Back)

29. David Spangler: "Explorations: Emerging Aspects of a New Culture", pages 88-104. I discuss both Spangler and Alice Bailey in "New Age and Armageddon: the Goddess or the Gurus" (The Women's Press, 1992). (Back)

30. See the chapter on Findhorn in my book. Also read Eileen Caddy's autobiography "Flight Into Freedom" (Element Books, UK, 1988). Another woman medium hiding behind a male voice. (Back)

31. Sir George Trevelyan: "Summons to a High Crusade" (The Findhorn Press) and "Operation Redemption" (Stillpoint publ., UK, 1985). (Back)

32. William W Malandra: "An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion" (University of Minnesota Press, USA 1983), and Esme Wynne-Tyson: "Mithras: the Fellow in the Cap" (Centaur Press, 1958/72, UK). (Back)

33 & 33a. "The Extemalisation of the Hierarchy" pages 491-97. On page 496-497 she discusses the Japanese and the nuclear bomb as well as the forces of Light working through the UN. (Back)

34. "Money - the Medium of Loving Distribution", a compilation from Alice Bailey's books (produced by World Goodwill Foundation). (Back)

35. Marilyn Ferguson "The Aquarian Conspiracy - Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s" (Paladin Books, London 1982). W.I. Thompson: "Passages about the Earth - An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture" (Rider, London 1973). W.I. Thompson and David Spangler are published in dialogue in "Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture" (Bear and Co., USA, 1991). (Back)

36. Peter Russell: "The Earth Awakening - the Global Brain" (Arkana and Penguin Books, UK 1988). (Back)

37. Susan George: "How the Other Half Dies: the Real Reasons for World Hunger" (Penguin Books, 1976) and "A Fate Worse then Debt" (Penguin Books 1988). Donald Keys, a New Ager and friend of Spangler worked a number of years at the UN and explains its workings in "Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization" (Brandey Press, USA, 1982) and in the introduction he thanks the Masters DK (Alice Bailey) and Morya (Mme Blavatsky)! He is honest enough to point out that the Third World countries that joined the UN were originally met with hostility there. (Back)

38. Peter Washington: "Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru" (Seeker, UK, 1993). (Back)

39.  David Icke: "The Robots' Rebellion: the Story of the Spiritual Renaissance" (Gateway Books, 1994). It is strange that New Age journals such as "Kindred Spirit" who normally will not publish anything that they deem "negative" (political) will publish Icke's material on conspiracies. The book is also considered anti-Semitic. In his next book "...And the Truth Shall Set You Free" (Bridge of Love, 1995) Icke does mention Alice Bailey and the Theosophists, but only in passing. (Back)

40. Gerry Mander: "In the Absence of die Sacred: the Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations" (Sierra Club Books, SF. 1991). He also wrote "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television". (Back)

41. See note 24 (above on this page). (Back)

42. Vol. 2 - Share International Foundation 1993. (Back)

43. Stuart Holroyd: "Prelude to Landing on Planet Earth" (1977). (Back)

44. Joel Engel: "Gene Roddenberry: the Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek" (an unauthorised biography -Virgin Books, 1994). The information about Rodenberry and the Council of Nine is on pages 165-75. (Back)

45. See note 12 (above on this page). (Back)

46. Albert Budden: "Allergies and Miens: the Visitation Experience, an Environmental Health Issue" (Discovery Times Press, 1994). (Back)

47. See note 25 (above on this page). (Back)

48. The book was written between 1967 - 74. (Back)

49. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. (Back)

50. Whitley Streiber: "Transformation: the Breakthrough" (Avon Books, USA 1989). (Back)

51.  Barbara Hand Clow "The Pleiadian Agenda", Bear & Co., New Mexico, USA. (Back)

51a. Barbara Hand Clow "The Pleiadian Agenda", Bear & Co., New Mexico, USA. (Back)

52. 1995, Bear & Co.   Goddess feminist Diane Stein wrote "Dreaming the Past, Dreaming the Future: A Herstory of the Earth" (The Crossing Press, USA, 1991) in which she speaks of and with more woman identified channelers in the USA. (Back)

53. See note 46 (above on this page). (Back)

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