Saturday, November 3, 2012

Money for nothin' and syncs for free!

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: November 3, 2012

Whenever a sync appears and its related to music, I take notice. It's always fun for me and within the past hour or so, it happened.

Driving back from the country, down I-44, my wife and I tuned in "80's on 8" on Sirius XM. The 1985 Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" came on. It's a great pop ditty and guilty pleasure. A very 1980's pop-rock nugget.

As we sang along, the singer Sting came to mind. I was thinking about how "Money for Nothing" and Sting's wonderful Dream of the Blue Turtles album would have been on the charts at roughly the same time. As the song ended, the famous "I want my MTV" chorus came up - sung by Sting! I had completely forgotten this. But there it was. My mind was syncing "Money for Nothing" and Sting at the same time. I should also note that with my recent Bob Dylan syncs, Dire Straits singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler is opening up for Dylan in Tulsa this month.

As soon as I heard the last Sting-sung "I want my MTV," the next song - "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles came on. Of course! The first video to ever appear on MTV. What a treat!

As that MTV-related song ended, I looked up and saw the website www.m-v-t.com on the back of a semi truck. MVT? An  inverse of MTV? What is that? It stood for Mesilla Valley Transportation and m-v-t.com is their website. A sync wink? Yes, I do believe it was.

Of course this led to wondering if I would see the universal number "42." Indeed I would. Soon after, mile marker 142 appeared. It was a turning out to be a great day!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Dams burst forth, in dreams

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: November 1, 2012

As we have said before, in the art of synchromysticism, the meeting of popular culture and conspiracy analysis are often observed.

A blogger in Arizona who writes the Dismantle the Beam Project blog, often comes up with some incredibly insightful observations. I don't claim to understand it all, but it makes for very interesting reading if you have the time.

Additionally, there is a Christian activist named Jonathan Kleck who has been releasing videos for some time talking about Barack Obama being the "Antichrist" and sees the president as having a role in a coming dictatorship and events that will forever alter humanity.

While listening to The Alex Jones Show today, a caller asked the host if he was familiar with a viral video about a possible "false flag" event involving Hoover Dam, the Nov. 6, 2012 release of Halo 4, and images of a "dam" seen on the back of the new $50 bill.

Curiously, what actually caught my attention synchromystically speaking, was how after the caller's question was dodged by Jones, he then goes on a riff about people who thought the 1960's sitcom Gilligan's Island was real. This clicked because the Dismantle the Beam Project recently posted a piece about Gilligan's Island being a blueprint for the New World Order. An hour before I heard that, amazingly enough, I was writing a review of a new album of the band Nada Surf and one of the songs makes references to Gilligan's Island. Time to pay attention.

Dismantle the Beam Project has been all over this "conspiracy analysis" about Hoover Dam for months. Back in April, when DTBP released the post "4-23-12 Hoover Dam expected to be the next 9/11," it really caught my attention. Indeed there is a lot to consider.

Where the pop culture side of things comes into this involves a musician I greatly admire - Bob Mould. The leader of both Husker Du and Sugar, Mould is out on tour in support of his new album Silver Age, an album full of interesting, esoteric symbols, and one I just reviewed at Red Dirt Report.

In addition, Mould and his two bandmates - bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster (Superchunk) are also performing songs from Sugar's groundbreaking 1992 album Copper Blue.

This album, featuring terrific muscular power-pop songs like "Changes," "Helpless," "If I Can't Change Your Mind," and "Fortune Teller" was re-released this year for its 20th anniversary.

But one of the most interesting songs on Copper Blue is "Hoover Dam." (The name Copper Blue is interesting to this writer for the fact that it is a beautiful name and that Arizona, not only known as the "Grand Canyon State," it is also known as the "Copper State." Hoover Dam is on the border of Arizona and Nevada. Also curious is that Mould's new album incorporates another element - silver - in the album title Silver Age.)

This song is full of imagery that indicates Mould was going through a rough time. He chose the iconic Hoover Dam as a place where he is "standing on the edge" of the dam, "right between two states of mind," of "spinning down a hole" and "losing all control" all the way "down to the center of the earth."

Sings Mould: "Covered up with lava and I feel fine / It washes over me / Keeps me feeling warm at night / And if you've made a deal with / The guy with the horns and the cape / I'll see you later."

Mould is also performing Copper Blue on this current tour, which is exciting a lot of fans of his old band Sugar.

That said, we should go back to kooky Jonathan Kleck and the video he calls "An Ancient Evil Awakens - Hoover Dam False Flag Soon?" He and a colleague note that the new Halo 4 video game, out on Nov. 6, features the "didact" symbol overlaid on the Hoover Dam, with a reddening sky - for no apparent reason.

"What does the Hoover Dam have to do with Halo?" asked Kleck.

Good question, since Halo 4 takes place "lost in space" and not on Earth.

As we noted in early October, President Obama made a special trip to visit Hoover Dam, a bit of "public infrastructure" that Obama called "spectacular" and a wonder to behold.

And then, showing images compiled by the blogger at the DTBP blog, showing pop singer Madonna taking a "birthing pose" in front of a shape that looks an awful lot like the Hoover Dam, they show a $50 bill, manipulated to look like Hoover Dam bursting open -and a reddening sky. Much like the $20 bill and the 9/11 Twin Towers burning. The Hoover Dam site, finished in the late 1930's, is full of esoteric artwork and imagery.

Does that mean Hoover Dam will be destroyed on Nov. 6th? Who knows. There were a lot of signals leading up to 9/11 and there were a lot of clues leading up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in 1995, here in Oklahoma City.

But is the Hoover Dam and Halo 4 being combined to send the message that our DNA is being manipulated and that a new "race" of superhumans is being created? If you read this review of Halo 4, it makes you wonder, particularly with the Halo series now being created under the auspices of NWO insider Bill Gates and Microsoft (via 343 Industries). The fact that "Prometheans" are involved in a war with "lesser beings" and that the "Didact" is a Promethean, is interesting in light of Ridley Scott's recent hit film Prometheus. Is this part of an elaborate Hollywood "tell," as DTBP might suggest?

Meanwhile, DTBP blog, on June 10, 2012, released the post "Search for Project Bluebeam converges at Hoover Dam." A lot of people scoff at "Project Blue Beam." Whether or not it is real, or simply a diversion or psy-op, it could be a cover for something else, as this blogger suspects. He looks at three films - Mars Needs Moms, John Carter, and Cowboys and Aliens (and others) and says the messages therein are regarding efforts to create a "massive human hybrid program."

We are seeing more of this. For instance, note the "Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot" who is a superhuman, football-playing robot and mascot for the Fox channel. As Claire Zulkey asked (jokingly) "When the robot uprising inevitably occurs, will Cleatus be a benevolent or a tyrannical overlord? And how can he be destroyed?"

This, of course, brings to mind the recent Jay Weidner documentary Kubrick's Odyssey II: Beyond the Infinite. Weidner asks if Kubrick, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, was showing how man was losing his soul and the machines (like HAL 9000) was gaining one.

I think the overall theme we are seeing develop here is one of transformation. Into what, I shudder to think.


Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A syncing ship, a lost colony

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: October 31, 2012

The synchromystic nature of the loss of the tall ship replica of the HMS Bounty in the Atlantic Ocean, during Hurricane Sandy, is undeniable.

For a descendant of key mutineer Fletcher Christian to have died in the shipwreck of the Bounty replica is too strange. Fourteen Bounty crew members would survive. Claudene Christian and the Bounty captain would not survive the tempest.

Claudene Christian, most recently of Vian, Oklahoma, touted the fact that she was a descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the original mutiny aboard the Bounty in 1789. She was so fascinated by her lineage and her desire to follow in Fletcher Christian's footsteps (minus the mutineering, of course) took on a job as a crew member aboard the replica tall ship.

But Hurricane Sandy would change all that. This crazy, late-season superstorm would result in the Bounty captain taking the ship out into the ocean, rather than keeping it in port where it could have been damaged or sunk. But the captain, Robin Walbridge, made a terrible miscalculation and took the 50-year-old Bounty out to sea, having recently been in New London, Connecticut. It was scheduled to "winter" in Galveston, Texas and spend next summer on a tour of the Great Lakes. That was not to be.

And yet pop culture, history and tragedy all came together and seemed to lead to the dramatic death of Fletcher Christian's fifth great-granddaughter.

As The Christian Science Monitor noted, "Maritime historians say the Bounty story as told by Hollywood – the heroic (Fletcher) Christian versus the evil Captain Bligh – created a false reality, as actors such as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson all portrayed Christian. To some, (Claudene) Christian’s death at sea seems almost as surreal, a bizarre series of events that reads like a Hollywood script.”

Claudene Christian, 42, had joined the Bounty crew in May. 

Staying on this theme of "tempest," which Hurricane Sandy certainly was, we noted in a synchromystic post on RedDirtReport.com that dwelled on the idea of 2012 being a year of tempest - from the London Summer Olympics to the release of Bob Dylan's new album Tempest. And it is one of shipwrecks. Just as 2012 began with the synchromystic shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, off the Italian coast (a wreck that echoed the Titanic in a number of ways), a replica of the infamous HMS Bounty goes down in a tempest off of the Atlantic coast - the historic area of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, home of Roanoke Island and the "Lost Colony."

This settlement, led by English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, was established in 1587 - 200 years before Fletcher Christian's famous mutiny in the South Pacific, which ended with him at the English-owned Pitcairn Islands - discovered by Spanish explorers in 1606 and originally called The Incarnation and St. John the Baptist islands. (Mormons, which we talk about later, do not believe in the Christian idea of the Trinity and the Incarnation - God the Son). 

Three years earlier, in 1584, Queen Elizabeth I had granted Raleigh a charter to establish a colony called "Virginia." This would eventually be led by a man named John White. (Your humble writer was born in Roanoke, Virginia, curiously enough).

And just as magician and alchemist John Dee (whom we wrote about this summer, in connection to the London Summer Olympics) was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I's court, so was Sir Walter Raleigh. In fact, Raleigh was part of the mysterious "School of Night." The line comes from William Shakespeare's 1598 comedy Love's Labour's Lost, written more than a decade before The Tempest, which was inspired, in part, by John Dee who is linked with the Prospero character.

In the book Following the Ark of the Covenant: The Treasure of God, it notes that Dee, Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon had been pressuring Queen Elizabeth I - an arcane organization loosely known as the "Dragons" - to establish a "New Atlantis" in the New World. These men, notes the book, belonged to Bacon's Rosicrucian group of "Dragons" who sought a Druidic "harmonious" way of life in the New World. 

Curiously, there was a connection with the Dragons to ancestors of Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) founders Joseph Smith and Isaac Morley. As Following the Ark of the Covenant notes: "(A)ncestors of both Joseph Smith and Isaac Morley were personal acquaintances of John Dee and were members of the so-called Dragon society of the Rosicrucian order!"

We should note that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has an ancestral link to both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, the Mormon religion's most revered figures and founders. It is clear now that Romney will likely sweep next week's presidential election. Will Romney bring arcane ideas into his presidency?

But back to Roanoke Island. The only thing remaining of the "Lost Colony" was a carving in a tree - CROATOAN. A name of a nearby tribe. It is also suggested that the colonists left at Roanoke Island, were perhaps swept away by a major storm in 1588 - just as Hatteras experienced the great tempest of 2012, 424 years later.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A prairie dog soldiers on ...

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: October 30, 2012

It's just a day before Halloween, and yet for some reason it doesn't feel like the day before Halloween. When I was growing up, the anticipation I had leading up to Halloween was palpable. It was an exciting time, with the falling autumn leaves. The decorations. The jack o' lanterns. But something is missing in this high-tech world of ours. The joy and innocence of yesteryear.

These are changing times, no doubt about it. In the past few years I have learned more and more about synchronicity and sychromysticism specifically. I have come to realize that it is quite real and very much a part of my life and always has been. From a very young age I felt as though there were things going on, just outside the reach of our five senses. That is very much true, after research and experience. And thanks to synchromystic pioneers like Jake Kotze, I have come to see the spiritual in the mundane. Pop culture, as banal as it is these days, is chock full of synchromystic messages and connections. I have explored them on RedDirtReport.com but I feel that I was needing a separate blog to really delve deeper. That is why I created the Synchromystic Prairie Dog blog. The "prairie dog" part is just a reference to the fat little burrowing rodents that populate the Great Plains. In fact, in my first gig here in Oklahoma, I was a reporter at The Lawton Constitution and Elmer Thomas Park was full of prairie dog holes. It was a problem and they even sought to poison the critters to get them out of the park. But that effort was halted and the prairie dogs of Elmer Thomas Park soldiered on. The rodent too cute to die!

And that's what we intend to do here at the Synchromystic Prairie Dog - soldier on. Report on what we observe and sense. And share those findings with you. We're just getting started.

And for those of you planning to enjoy the Halloween holiday - a happiest of trick-or-treats to you. And for those coming out from under the clouds and waves of Superstorm Sandy - all the best and be safe.