For the Moon is hollow, and I have touched the sky...

This will put the 'wild' into 'wild speculation' for this blog. Please suspend your disbelief for a few moments.

   What if JFK was ultimately assassinated because of the Apollo program? If anyone read the King Kill post, you are vaguely familiar with the work of James Shelby Downard and his theory of the Grand Masonic Conspiracy.
   Just to recap some salient points for this blog:

   The actual assassination was carried out by a cabal, including but not limited to:

• Rogue elements of the CIA and Military Industrial Complex
• Elements of international organized crime
• Anti-Castro Cubans

   These groups worked for their mutual benefit but there was a higher organizing principle which I doubt they even perceived. At the heart of the operation was a ritual oriented group who planned the assassination at a strategic level. This included having the regicide take place close to the 33rd Parallel and other assorted details to meet their needs.
   To what end? To ultimately control the 'dreaming mind' or what Jung would term the collective unconscious of man. Wild stuff indeed. What I'm adding to the mix is, that the final trigger, so to speak (RAW, you are missed) was the fact that the cabal wanted to profit from a space race and go so far as faking a Moon landing but knew JFK wouldn't go for it.
   So the plan to rake in billions for NASA, which the intelligence community, military industrial complex and others would get the lions share of, was in place. There was just one fly in the ointment.

   Whereas if Tricky Dick had won the election, he would have not only committed U.S. forces to the Bay of Pigs, he would be much more amiable to a fake Moon landing (which, if you believe it was faked, took place on his watch in '69).
   So the Intelligence community and Mafia were in it for self preservation, the military industrial complex to start the Viet Nam war and clean up on government NASA contracts, the Anti-Castro... well you get the picture. But the Organizing Principle (OP) was in it to preserve the lie of the Moon race.
   Let's be clear, the Organizing Principle is not American, or limited to any nationality. To wit, Kennedy called for space cooperation with Khrushchev and the Soviet Union, not a race and there exists a memo to the effect that NASA was to start working toward that. Within less than a year both leaders were gone.
   I now raise the stakes. What if the cabal never intended to go to the Moon? I give you the works of Christopher Knight and Alan Butler as well as Louis Proud. 
   Both books deal with lunar anomalies with Proud's book dipping into some of the more esoteric theories including Gurdjieff's statement that humanity is food for the Moon.
   What if the goal of NASA was just to build rockets, wow the public and collect money? Then the political rhetoric of the cold war  turned it into the Moon race which the OP knows can't happen. Why? Because there's stuff going on there that we can't know about. Whether it's the Moon is artificial and houses our alien overlords or is a life form which harvests our souls, they never intended to really go there. Along comes Kennedy with his guarantee and now they must act. So now they pay attention to their complaining constituents in the cabal and say 'Boys, have we got a ritual for you... I mean, yeah, let's get rid of the bum."
   Just really, REALLY wild speculation. Let's get even wilder. What if Bobby and JFK Jr heard rumors of the real motivations for the hit?

 What does all this have to do with Kubrick? Well, if you follow the 'Kubrick faked the Moon landings" meme, that part is obvious.
   Is it possible Kubrick was aware of Kennedy's fate? Recall there was a deleted scene from Dr. Strangelove where there's a pie fight in the bunker. At one point Peter Sellers as President Muffley gets a pie to the face.

 The line that follows, "“Gentlemen...our beloved president has been infamously struck down by a pie in the prime of his life! ”

   Also, if you subscribe to my theory that he got a peek at the OP and wanted to tell someone,then you have this final tidbit. Memorializing previous events is one thing. Prediction is another.
   Kubrick died on March 7, 1999. He specified that EWS had to be released on July 16, 1999. As many have pointed out, it was the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. That's probably the reason. However, maybe he wanted to draw attention to an event that had not occurred yet.

July 16, 1999 was the date that John Jr's plane disappeared.

Till we meet again.

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro...

   I love wild speculation. I also love speculation that has the slightest glimmer of the possibility of being true.
  One example is the many occult students and writers who follow the path blazed by Kenneth Grant regarding my favorite writer H.P. Lovecraft. Namely that Lovecraft was not just a fiction writer but an occultist who was either consciously or unconsciously revealing occult truths in his work.
Grant speculates where Crowley was trained and immersed in Ritual Magick and secret societies, Lovecraft was a 'natural' or unconscious occultist. Or he may have even been in contact with a group but kept that hidden.
   All of Lovecraft's known voluminous correspondences and journal entries bespeak of his strictly materialist views and his disdain for spiritualism (ala Houdini) and Theosophy. However this hasn't  prevented any number of authors and bloggers from speculating that Grant was right. This mostly consists of examining the lives of Aleister Crowley and Lovecraft to see if their paths crossed. (They had the potential when both were in New York City for a brief time in the 20s). Or if they were just aware of the others work. (Lovecraft may have been aware of Crowley, as he was aware of Theosophy, no evidence Crowley knew about Lovecraft's work.)
  Many others have written their own grimoires based on Chaos Magick workings with the Great Old Ones (Lovecraft's creations). To be fair, some of those are written from the point of view that Lovecraft was a materialist but that the fervent following of his creations has established them as egregores, capable of action in the material world.
   The ones who feel there's more to Lovecraft and his creations than meets the eye includes the aforementioned Grant, Empire of the Wheel author Walter Bosely and the prolific Peter Levenda, who may or not be the author behind the nom de plume 'Simon' author of the 'real' Necronomicon.
By way of explanation, the Necronomicon is fictional grimoire created by Lovecraft.
   Anyway, I'd like to quote from Levenda's excellent work, 'The Dark Lord':
"In 'The Call of Cthulhu' Lovecraft reveals that the rituals required to summon the Great Old Ones involve orgies by people who are of mixed races ... This conflation of unbridled sexuality and exotic races and ethnicities is a common theme in colonialist literature and was a feature in the castigation of the practice of Tantra in India by the British colonizers."
  Why mention this? Well does anyone recall this scene in EWS?

Ok, now the initial scene involved synthesized music being played over an Orthodox Romanian rite played backwards. Once the orgy starts, Harford walks through the mansion to Indian music. The original scene called for a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita read in Hindi, that was later removed due to complaints from the Indian community.
   Also, we all know that the Somerton Mansion where the orgy takes place was shot in the old Rothschild Mansion, Mentmore Towers, right? Well, half right. The exterior was Mentmore Towers, the interior was Elveden Hall. To quote the Wikipedia entry for Elveden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveden_Hall): 



"In 1849, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, ruler of the Sikh Empire and owner of the famous Koh-i-noor diamond was exiled to England, having been removed from his kingdom by the British East India Company.
The Maharajah purchased the 17,000-acre (69 km2) Elveden Estate in 1863 and set about rebuilding the country house and dressing it in an Italian style. However, he redesigned the interior to resemble the Mughal palaces that he had been accustomed to in his childhood. (emphasis mine)
Elveden Hall played host to a wide range of sporting activities but none rivalled the Maharajah's passion for shooting. His shooting parties were popular amongst aristocracy including Prince George, Duke of Cambridge."

Bizarre Tantric orgiastic rites filmed in a mansion that was used to housing parties of the elite? So was Kubrick a Lovecraft fan and believer? No. I'm not suggesting that, only that they arrived at a similar place by different routes. I believe, whether it is Satanic or Saturnian (as Weidner suggests, my suspicion is it's closer to Tantric) that Kubrick's Somerton group was in it for more than kinky kicks. I  believe they were 'feeding' something, invoking something... that would break through when the stars are right, as Lovecraft would say. That is one of my beliefs about the hidden meaning in Kubrick's films.  To summarize:

A. There is a hidden elite that the general public was not aware of in Kubrick's day. (They've at least heard about it now in the digital age)

B. That one of their goals is the emergence Artificial Intelligance

C. That this elite is in league with or serves another, non-human intelligence.

More on this later. Especially in regards to the Bear symbolism. Hint, like all of Kubrick's symbols is multi-layered. There's more to it than just Cold War symbolism.