UFO/UAPs and the Anti-Rhizome

Why revelations concerning the existence of UFO/UAPs changes everything and nothing.

05.07.2023

I am going to use my own research to elaborate on the claims of the current US military whistleblower David Grusch (links below), with regards to the purported presence of Non Human Intelligence (NHI), their technology and what on earth their purpose may be.

Needless to say a lot of this is highly speculative. I will make a point of noting what I think is known and what remains to be known or is even possible to know at this time. And although the habits of a lifetime can be difficult to overcome I will try to avoid jargon or inaccessible language.

As you can see from this website my background is as an artist and researcher. As such this is less of a disclosure per se than a story. An argument rather than a gotcha, it’s the CIA or anything like that. As such I’m never entirely sure who my audience is. I am nestled, I believe, between truthers and academics, between migrants and gallerists. Anyone for whom story telling is a way of life, a means of survival.

I begin then with an image. My recent book Ricochet, Cultural Epigenetics and the Philosophy of Change explores 12,000 years of archaeological history to resurrect, so to speak, the Sacred Date Palm Tree.

It might be worth noting that investigating this architectural detail came to me through sensory experience rather than academic curiosity. I have zero interest in classical or neo-classical architecture though I am interested in the architecture of power in terms of patriarchy and secret histories.

As you may be prone to agree, it’s all connected.

I had been looking at the floral organic elements in the capitals of the Corinthian order for twenty years when I received a research grant to write my next book.

To hell I thought, let’s finally work out why the mono-theistic church, stock exchange, town hall, court room, every public building of power in the Global North displays these pagan symbols of life, death and rebirth. So I included it in my research and discovered, via the help of a Jesuit priest in Rome, that these columns are in fact mutated deviations of Sacred Date Palm Trees. I found out that the earliest known example is 10,000 bce.

The cultural evolution of the Sacred Date Palm Tree (c12,000), into the Corinthian Capital (c500 bce) as referenced in Ricochet (2021)

In the two years since the publication of Ricochet I have been busy with other projects. But I have never quite taken my eye from those palm trees. And now, in 2023 I have realised that there was something glaringly obvious that I could not work out as the project went to print.

One can clearly see the lineage of the Sacred Date Palm above. The symmetrical swirling parts are called the volutes. The leaves of the palm become abstracted over time but then the palm tree itself - as itself - re-emerges in 2016 on the occluded but publicly visible backside of the German Secret Service building (BND) in Berlin. (One thing I have learnt since Ricochet went to print is that in their own literature the architects working for the BND describe these palm trees as direct architectural references to Corinthian capitals.)

The Sacred Date Palm (pictured below), gives us the spiral volutes but what are they?

They make no sense botanically. All the other parts of the plant are accounted for. In 2021 I described them as abstractions of the dates. But the dates are accounted for in the engravings dated to 12,000. Why swirls? And if they are not the dates, what are these spirals growing from the shaft of the tree?

In data theory people often use the metaphor of the rhizome. A horizontal network of roots connected by nodes that pop up in unexpected places. Like a mycorrhizal mushroom network. For this argument or story to work, I need you to focus on these swirls. Picture them in your head.

One might say that in the case of the Sacred Date Palm the data is being held above our heads so to speak. Certainly in comparison to a more networked, hive mind the Sacred date Palm seem to be something like a rigidly hierarchical, anti-rhizome. The botanical discrepancy of the volutes suggest something connected to secrecy or perhaps to a thought growing, unfurling and expanding over time.

Do all the discreet cultural uses of the Sacred Date Palm Tree that I and others have (re)discovered over a 12,000 year history, point to one of the great mysteries of the universe?

Their meaning has been shrouded in cult protectionism. The reason that the use of two Sacred Date Palms at the German Secret Service building is exciting is tied to cultural memory. And where I find a threshold across which the cultural memory of the palm is being transmitted, I always find secrets. For example, at the site of the cultural and historical cross-over from the ancient to the classical world. For the sacred palm specifically this would have to be the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. This is the site of the first known Corinthian column c 500 bce. Corinthian columns, as you can see are direct continuation of the spiral and palm motifs. Only now we have the acanthas leaves and other, more busy design features that will define the Corinthian order.

The ancient Greeks, like those before them, certainly knew a thing or two about riddles. For the architecture of colonial and neo-colonial powers their cultural impact has, of course, been foundational. I view their entire cosmology of myths and characters as the last great encoding of the previous millennia of humanity’s meta-narratives. At least in that region of the world. Because their ancient culture was passed on orally much has been also been lost and may never be fully understood. (Though we do know their word apocalypse meant the great revelation, the uncovering.) As so often one only knows what the secret history wants us to know. Everywhere in my research into Sacred Date Palms I have found posturing, bravado and disinformation going as far back as history itself.

In any case here we are in the Temple of Apollo. Maybe Plutarch is in today conducting the sacred ceremonies. At this juncture of history the volutes atop these columns 🏛 could be explained away as scrolls. Yet the earliest scrolls date to some five thousand years after the first Sacred Date Palms, found at 12,000.

c 12,000 is of new significance to me since the broadcasting of the Ancient Apocalypse work of Graham Hancock which, unusually for my age, I had never read. 12,000 would have been exactly when the last ice caps had melted and flooded large parts of a world thrown into cataclysm known as the Younger Dryas - fact. Hancock’s argument suggested then that these carvings of palm trees represent some of the most important knowledge to be passed on. Religious relics are a culture’s most important knowledge, stored at burial grounds and sites of worship.

Now, we pretty much know from archeological and cultural comparison that the palm tree represents a kind of portal. They are found depicting gods passing through them, throughout history. Is this the message that had to be preserved? Portals to where?

Other dimensions perhaps: in Islam Mohammed is said to have sat beneath a date palm for 40 days, meditating and fasting on dates. Enough to elicit a strong out of body experience.

And gateway symbolism surely exists in ancient cultures around the world. Just as Hancock makes the culturally comparative point that star gazing humans mirrored the movement of the heavens in land art and architecture in a manner that suggested synchronistic enlightenment.

Despite the homogeneity of the Sacred Palm across space and time (again my field is the Global North, this work lacks a truly global perspective), one would however also assume that human thought has also evolved and grown over time. Spiraling out.

One would have to speculate that not only has human thought changed over time but our very relationship and conception of human consciousness also. Another bedrock of The Secret History and religious mysticism.

The mind has clearly changed over the past two million years of human evolution. Many forms of praxis are known create pathways to new discoveries and knowledge. For example LSD consumption leading to the understanding of DNA and eventual mapping of the genome.

One can only speculate that, based on the history of cultural artifacts and modelling, that the alternative dimension that scientists accessed on LSD, in order to break through, could have been dialed-in at any time in human history. 

Anyone could have accessed that cosmic knowledge, the realm of the ayahuasca drinker, should they have known where to look once they had gained entry.

Following the revelations of David Grusch we must now speculate that another form of consciousness is capable of travel between planes of reality that are apparently unavailable from our perspective and experience of linear time.

The implication being, not that these speculative, multi-dimensional beings are ‘superior’ but rather on another plane of existence, another dimension not experienced by experienced by us, yet.

The esoteric Secret History of the World claims that consciousness came from the organic, plant kingdom. Let’s call these secretive cults the initiated. I would argue that the founders and builders of the Corinthian order are precisely the same initiated keepers of the great secrets of progress, as they would have me believe. But it now looks as though NHI’s are a crucial aspect to the internal logic of the initiated. Or at least, NHI’s are just another way of discussing inter-dimensionality and therefore off limits to the uninitiated.

Contemplating this turns our entire, linear world view upside down. But what if we could know it? (Hancock also identified synchronistic engravings of other worldly beings, bearing what he sometimes describes as a stash box of mind altering drugs. We simply do not know why these images occur across geographic locations that had no means of contact at that time.)

At this heady juncture, I have to think about power again, as I am now deep in the realm of secrets and disinformation. If the experience of mind has changed in a linear arrow for me, as for other humans, it is both logical and practical for power to maintain a linear, deterministic concept of the progression of time.

Equally, just as the notion of ‘progress’, of the ‘progression of time’ suits white patriarchal neoliberal encarceral capitalism, so too does the pseudo science of eugenics. I mention this because in my view, communicating to a new generation of thinkers and researchers also demands taking a position on such matters. Dedicate your precious time to those who want to elevate their minds and are willing to do the work is all I would say. 
To put it bluntly genes are irrelevant to thought. But thought can be manipulated to control bodies.

On the other hand I would propose that a state of mind can indeed be passed along the generations. And that spiritual insight will re-surface or be remembered over space and time within culture, in a process that I am calling cultural epigenetics.

But back to basics. The data I mentioned at the top of the palm tree is not - to me - about whether one is initiated or not. It is about the ontological experience of reality itself. So now the Sacred Date Palm Tree is both a red herring and an anti-rhizome!

We know from David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything (2021), that culture is transmitted both horizontally and vertically concurrently. They show that the Global North did not invent the concepts of liberty or democracy that had been in use interchangeably for millennia prior.

Let’s say I expand that work here to another cutting edge discovery in a totally different field. Let’s add a third and then a fourth and then potentially infinite additional dimensions. Then circle back to what the NHI disclosure could mean and tie a bow on this. Particle physicists have verified, though not fully, what they call quantum non-locality.

Here particles exhibit connections that would theoretically expand to any place in the universe at any given ‘time’. A mystic is going to call that the interconnected consciousness of the universe. I’m fine with either and I certainly see the expansion of human thought occurring all around me. Yes, I assert, I see it and I feel it. Things tend toward complexity. Consciousness expands, like those sweet volutes, within an expanding universe. The NHI’s are said to leave technology (capable of inter-dimensional travel according to Grusch), as though they want us to make the grade, to work something out. Perhaps they suggested agricultural production to us when we were high?

But, if they themselves are simply more connected to the oneness of the universe’s meta-mind, are they not simply watering the flowers in the same way that one can become inspired and make a scientific or philosophical breakthrough?

 Cultivation, cults and culture. Enlightened extraterrestrials.

Therefore the ‘us’ and ‘them’ of the ‘initiated’ and the ‘herd’ is meaningless. The mystery of consciousness itself and its expansion is, to me, not a content problem but one of emphasis. What the revelation of the existence of NHI’s may finally prove (though it is not actually necessary for this argument), is the existence of all temporalities simultaneously and concurrently. If the NHI’s turn out to be real, which it looks as though they are, that might turn out to be the least interesting part of the whistleblower David Grusch’s disclosures.

Watch the Cults and Culture Talk at Motto Berlin below (13.07.2023)

Cued to the last 20 mins: A CONSIDERATION OF CRYPTO-LIBERTARIAN, TESCREAL AGENDAS & CURRENT US MILITARY
UFO “REVELATIONS”

Ricochet on Ljå Forlag, is a work of history, art and biology that is explained in detail through over 100 graphic elements developed with the artist Jørn Aargaard. It is 304 pages, full colour and offset printed including sources from contemporary and ancient historical records. Among other culturally silenced artefacts, it connects the history of the sacred date palm tree from the tenth millennium to the German Secret Service building of 2016.

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