Heaven Upside Down or Las Vegas: It Takes Two

Since the Route 91 Harvest shootings on 10/01 we've been bombarded with a flood of stories calling the official account into question at the same time we're seeing a whole spate of seemingly-unrelated news items that seem to have a recurring theme.

We're seeing all kinds of major announcements coming from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory and so on that keep hitting this "twin" thing. Some do it obviously, others less so. But I think we may want to get a handle on what this is all about.

Heaven Upside Down or Las Vegas: The Sickle (UPDATED)

 "You noticed them, and they noticed that you noticed them." 
Alexander Leek, Mothman Prophecies

OK, we have a lot to go through here but I've finally cracked the code. This post will surely be updated but I want to just lay this all out for you because literally everything I've been trying to untangle since May all comes down to one thing.

One word actually. And I'm not entirely sure it's a very reassuring word at that.

"...But High Ritual Magic is Interested in You."

Eye of Jupiter Amonn, Twin Skulls, drops of blood....

Playtime is over. Things are getting real.

You know all that crazy crap you've been hearing weirdos on the Internet ranting on about for the past 25 years? Well, it's no longer confined to a shadow-banned reddit thread, it's going live. You see it everywhere you look.

Case in point: Burning Man made "Radical Ritual" their theme this year and talked a lot about how it was time to take the burning ritual to the next level, telling Burners to "get out of your head and into your ritual."

Heaven Upside Down or Las Vegas: "The Religious Capital"

Our new religious capital

Let me tell you about 2017. 

2017 is kind of like someone with amphetamine psychosis trying to explain the past ten years of Secret Sun articles to you. And there's still three months to go.

And now this.

So Now You Know (Part One)

Moody Gardens, Galveston

OK, so here we are. 

This all started back in May, when Chris Cornell died in the MGM Grand after performing with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre on the Detroit River. The next day Twin Peaks: The Return premiered at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. At first I didn't make anything of that little conjunction there. But then I felt that familiar buzz in my sinuses and went hunting for connections.

Sync Log: Houston, Harvey, Twin Peaks and the Siren

Twin Peaks: The Return- Episode One

Over the past several weeks I've been looking at the events that followed in the wake of Chris Cornell's death and the revival of Twin Peaks, which occurred within days of each other. This threw me down the old rabbit hole of the Siren archetype, which I believe is rising out there in all the different streams and spheres of consciousness. 

Why, I haven't a clue.

Chester Bennington and the Siren's Call

Come Feel the Deep

Well, it happened again. Another prominent figure in music gone too soon. More pain and heartache. Like we needed more.

Sync Log: Heath Ledger, the Joker and the Siren

Her honey mouth has got me all fool gold. 

The Two Towers, or the Siren's Ultimate Prophecy (UPDATE)

So for the past few weeks we've been looking at how a constellation of connections, syncs and symbols surrounding the doomed romance of Elizabeth Fraser and Jeff Buckley all ultimately point back to the great myth of the love goddess and her shepherd boy consort. 

This is the Water: Twin Peaks, Roswell and the Siren's Song (UPDATE)

Please tell me you're watching the new season of Twin Peaks. 

Like nearly everyone else my jaw is still on the floor after last night's episode. All the more so since it seems to very closely align with a topic I explored in great detail last year and that's the explosion of the atom bomb seeming to open some kind of doorway that allowed something dangerous to enter into our reality.

Interlude: The Spirits Don't Speak Proper English

"The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither speaks nor conceals, but gives signs."
Heraclitus, on Apollo  

From the very beginning I saw this story as one somehow centered on some kind of possession or channeling. And now that seems to be the only explanation for this endless parade of omen and ancient symbolism of the love goddess and her shepherd-boy consort.

And it only gets stranger and more impossible. 

Interlude: Sirius Rising

Click here if you're at all lost.

The first thing I'd like to do here is reframe this narrative. The prism we should see this through is that of the story of the theme song to what was at one time the most watched television show in the world, namely House MD.

And subsequently we're also looking at the backstory of a music video that's gotten over 48 million views on YouTube. Those are Beyonce numbers. 

Interlude: Swan Song, or In My Time of Dying

A weird little coincidence struck me yesterday...

Deeper Than You Could Ever Know, or The Eternal Psychodrama

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | 

PART FOUR | PART FIVE

The rabbit keeps digging. And digging. How far are you ready to go down?

"I Always Felt There was a Prophecy of Death in That Song."

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR

Led Zeppelin. John Lennon. Prince. George Michael. The Monkees. Lord Byron. Sinead O'Connor. Chris Cornell. What do all these people have in common? 

Let Me Drown: Chris Cornell and the Siren (UPDATE)

As I write this it's twenty years ago to the day that Jeff Buckley's body was fished out of the Mississippi River, where he drowned after being caught in the wake of a passing tug while swimming off Mud Island on May 29th. I had a feeling that something might happen in conjunction with this anniversary.

I just had no idea how momentous it would be.

Chris Cornell: The Muses Choose Broken Vessels

Jesus Christ Pose

The Alternative Rock explosion of the early 90s was fueled by a wave of great singers. After a lost decade of metallic shriekers and New Wave gurglers-- which some call the 80s-- there was suddenly an embarrassment of strong voices revitalizing rock music, especially hard rock music. 

The Siren: Secret Commonwealths

Kelpies, Blue Bells, Sirens, Sylphs of the Air, 
and ancient ritual magick... 
Oh, you thought this was about an old New Wave band?

The Siren: Shallow then Halo

In the previous installment of a story that continues to grow and grow quite unbidden (and apropos of nothing else I've been researching lately), I detailed a number of bizarre omens/synchronicities in Cocteau Twins records that seemed to foreshadow the mythic tragedy of Elizabeth Fraser and Jeff Buckley, a story that seems to have been written long before it transpired. 

Songs of the Siren on the River Styx

Jeff Buckley's family is producing a bio-pic on the late singer's life, provisionally entitled Mystery White Boy. Penny Dreadful star Reeve Carney has been cast as Buckley and Medium/ Gospel of Thomas channel Patricia Arquette has been cast as his mother. 

For those of you who may not know, Buckley died by drowning in a river in Memphis, TN in 1997, just as he was celebrating the completion of a new group of songs for the follow-up to his 1994 breakthrough album, Grace.

I don't know if they'll include former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser in the story; if they've read my posts on Buckley's relationship with the Siren, they may very well not. It's not a story a family would want to tell. 

But it's the only story that's true.