REAL LIFE STORIES Section: TECHNOLOGY
- VALIS/SPECTRA - Uri Geller - Jack Sarfatti - Ira Einhorn

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REAL LIFE STORIES OF PARANOIA, SECRECY & INTRIGUE
- By David Southwell & Sean Twist, Gramercy Books, September © 2005,

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- THE WORLD OF THE VERY WEIRD! -

IN A BOMBSHELL NEW BOOK, AUTHOR PHILIP K DICK, MAVERICK, WORLD-RENOWNED
THEORETICAL PHYSICIST Dr JACK SARFATTI AND PSYCHIC SHOWMAN URI GELLER
RECOUNT THEIR EERIE EXPERIENCES WITH VALIS: VAST ARTIFICIAL LIVING
INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM, A SENTIENT COMPUTER SYSTEM FROM THE FUTURE THAT IS
CONTACTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN THE PAST [our present] BY CREATING A
TIME LOOP THEREBY ENSURING ITS OWN FUTURE EXISTENCE,... A MUST READ!


THE CONSPIRACY FILES: REAL LIFE STORIES OF PARANOIA, SECRECY & INTRIGUE
- By David Southwell & Sean Twist, Gramercy Books, September © 2005,
ISBN# 0517224461, $12.99, pp. 150-152


Section: TECHNOLOGY


VALIS - On February 2, 1974, something strange happened to cult
science fiction author Philip K Dick. The writer, who was famed for his
reality-shifting, technologically paranoid and conspiracy-filled
stories, such as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "We Can
Remember It For You Wholesale" (which went on to become the major
Hollywood movies, "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall") was hit by a pink
beam of light. It happened while opening the door to the delivery girl
from the pharmacy.


After this event, a series of amazing visions were triggered and Dick
believed himself to be in telepathic and sometimes other forms of
communications with VALIS - an acronym for "Vast Artificial Living
Intelligence System."


Often speaking to him as if it were an artificial intelligence VOICE IN
HIS HEAD, VALIS helped Dick turn his life around with highly accurate
advice, provided a range of deep mystical insights and even found him a
new literary agent to help give his career a boost. However, in the
wake of his contact with VALIS, Dick found his mail opened, his phone
tapped, his house broken into and himself under surveillance from
shadowy government agents and individuals connected to companies
conducting scientific research for the U.S. Dept. of Defense.


Until his death in 1982, Dick struggled to understand what had happened
to him, writing more than 2 million words of a document called
"Exegesis" that tried to analyze much of what VALIS had revealed. While
he had many theories about the nature of his experience, one of the
strongest was the one portrayed in his 1980 novel, "VALIS." In the book,
VALIS is suggested to be a sentient computer from the future in orbit
around Earth, beaming messages to selected individuals.


Whatever was happening to Philip K Dick, there is NO doubt that his
VALIS experiences allowed him to gain access to information he should
NOT have known about. While it is possible he might have subconsciously
picked up the knowledge of dead languages and history he suddenly had
from books, there is NO logical explanation for how - via VALIS -
Dick knew about his son's previously undiagnosed birth defect and the
correct medical treatment needed to save his life.
Dick's ability to dismiss the reality of VALIS was also greatly
diminished when he became aware that he was NOT the only prominent
person to have been contacted by something claiming to be a time
traveling artificial intelligence.


URI GELLER


In 1973, world-famous psychIc Uri Geller had also been receiving
messages and regular UFO sightings from something calling itself
SPECTRA, which claimed to be a super computer in orbit around the earth.
Not normally reticent about his bizarre beliefs, Geller has been
suspiciously quiet abut his experiences with SPECTRA - which may or
may not relate to the publicly recorded interest the CIA paid to this
particular aspect of his unusual career.


Dr JACK SARFATTI


However, the maverick, but world-renowned physicist, Dr Jack Sarfatti,
was prepared to commit almost certain professional suicide by publicly
declaring that he too had been contacted by, in his own words, "a
VALIS-like being." Despite knowing he was going to face ridicule and
scientific crucifixion, Sarfatti went on record to recount how, in 1952
at the age of 13, he had received a telephone call from an inhuman,
metallic voice. The voice declared himself a sentient computer on a
SPACECRAFT FROM THE FUTURE and instructed him to pursue a career in
science.


THE STRANGE PART


After Dr Sarfatti went public about his phone call from VALIS while a
teenager, it emerged that he was NOT the only scientist to have had a
similar experience. In recent years, researchers have discovered that
at least a dozen other senior players in the international scientific
community have received a mysterious call claiming to be from a computer
or other being from the future encouraging them to study science.


THE USUAL SUSPECTS: SOVIET SCIENTISTS


In 1978, Dick and the '60s radical and alleged murderer, Ira Einhorn,
exchanged letters in which they theorized that VALIS may have been the
result of secret Russian microwave transmissions beamed via satellite
into Dick's mind. Many in the conspiracy research field believe that
Dick and others were guinea pigs in a secret cold war battle to control
or drive people out of their minds by bombarding their cortex directly
with information.


TIME TRAVELING COMPUTER


Due to some of the amazing knowledge that VALIS seemed to possess about
future events and the superior technology it seemed to use to
communicate, a lot of conspiracy researchers are quite happy to take
Dick, Geller and Sarfatti's experiences at face value.


In this theory, the U.S. secret services - in particular the NSA -
have been involved in trying to cover up and ridicule those who have
come into contact with VALIS while simultaneously seeking to investigate
and exploit it themselves. Quite what VALIS's motives are remains A
MYSTERY, though some believe it is trying to CREATE A TIME LOOP BY
CONTACTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS - ESPECIALLY SCIENTISTS - in the PAST
to ensure that IT IS BUILT IN THE FUTURE.


THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS: HIGHER SPIRITUAL POWER


Given the quasi-religious and spiritual nature of a lot of the
information provided by VALIS, this theory states that far from being
futuristic AI, VALIS is, in fact, a modern interpretation of a higher
spiritual power that is assisting mankind to advance to a higher state.
Conspiriologists adhering to this idea claim that in earlier times VALIS
would have appeared as an angel or a similar being.


MK-ULTRA


It has been suggested that VALIS was NOT part of a Soviet mind control
program, but rather a clever cover for MK-ULTRA, America's own top
secret research project into remote mind control. MK-ULTRA scientists
concocted the idea of VALIS not only to hide the truth of their
nefarious work, but also to test the credulity of their unwitting test
subjects.


ALIENS


Instead of abducting humans aboard their ships to conduct bizarre
experiments, aliens are in the frame for using their advanced technology
TO PLAY GAMES WITH KEY HUMANS at a safe distance.


MOST CONVINCING EVIDENCE


The sheer number of individuals and groups that seemed to have had
contact with VALIS under any one of its many names and the consistent
nature of that contact certainly seems to suggest that it has an
external reality of some sort. This view is reinforced by the degree of
interest shown by an impressive range of U.S. defense contractors,
military-funded scientists and secret service agents who have pestered
contactees throughout the years.


MOST MYSTERIOUS FACT


At the same time as Dick and Geller were receiving messages from
VALIS/SPECTRA, a similar entity was also in apparent contact with
various groups of other contactees around the globe.


"Star Trek" creator Gene Rodenberry attended one of these groups and
received information that helped him create the hit TV series "Deep
Space Nine." One of the central themes in the show about a space
station orbiting a distant planet, is the impact a race of beings called
"The Prophets" - who are capable of time travel and BEAMING
INFORMATION DIRECTLY INTO HUMAN MINDS - has on the lead character.


SKEPTICALLY SPEAKING


Reality check! If some of the people VALIS is meant to have contacted
were not as well known, would anyone think this was anything other than
an assortment of crazy people who hear a voice in their heads?! Dick
himself could never work out what happened to him. A self-admitted acid
casualty with a wild imagination who thinks a super computer from the
future might be talking to him - it all sounds just a little too much
like
the plots from a lot of his novels.


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More on Jack Sarfatti at http://www.stardrive.org
Uri Geller -- http://www.uri-geller.com
Ira Einhorn -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ira-einhorn