Table Of ContentPRISONER OF INFINITY
UFOs, Social Engineering, and the
Psychology of Fragmentation
Jasun Horsley
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“What we see enacted on the stage of world history happens also
to the individual. The child is guided by the power of the parents as
by a higher destiny. But as he grows up, the struggle between his
infantile attitude and his increasing consciousness begins. The
parental influence, dating from the early infantile period, is
repressed and sinks into the unconscious, but is not eliminated; by
invisible threads it directs the apparently individual workings of the
maturing mind. Like everything that has fallen into the
unconscious, the infantile situation still sends up dim, premonitory
feelings, feelings of being secretly guided by otherworldly
influences.”
—Carl Jung, Aspects of the Masculine
“I can see the claustrophobia that would attend to the realization
that one was trapped in an infinity that could never be escaped. In
fact, I can feel it. It's a little like being in a room you can never
leave, or a prison.”
—Whitley Strieber, Solving the Communion Enigma
“So long as the overwhelming event is at least slightly larger than
the soul's capacity to absorb it, it will be construed as infinite.”
—Greg Mogenson, A Most Accursed Religion: When a
Trauma Becomes God
For W., the canary in the coal mine.
With thanks to M*, the Eurydice of my Underworld.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Conditioned to believe
PART I: PASSPORT TO MANCHURIA
CHAPTER I
Heaven Stormers
De-eroticized spirituality, trauma and psychism, religious taboo, Changing
Images of Man, sublimation and space travel
CHAPTER II
An archetypal traumatogenic agency
Norman O. Brown on Freud and the lost object, child abuse &
fragmentation, the author's quasi-memories of alien abduction, author's
background
CHAPTER III
A life full of holes: daimonic defense and national security
Donald Kalsched's Jungian model of dissociation and the self-care system
applied to Strieber's “shattered mirror of expectation” and alien intervention
CHAPTER IV
The infinite infant: the singularity & the resurrection of the body
Ray Kurzweil's dream of technological immortality, John von Neumann and
aliens, psychotic symbiosis between infant and mother, Strieber's implant,
astral projection, the sorcerer's double, body-dissociation
CHAPTER V
The secret guardian
Strieber's childhood memories from Communion, missing father,
confinement in box, infinity-as-prison, the Oedipus complex, traumatic re-
enactments
CHAPTER VI
Martian dreams
Writing psycho-history, Strieber's “Secret School” and trip to Mars, out of
body experiences and disowned sexuality, inconsistencies in Strieber's
official story, the mind-as-weapon, psychosomatic stigmata
CHAPTER VII
All work and no play: “Pain” & Strieber's missing summer of ’68
Author's memories of father, Strieber's alleged intelligence connections, the
Charles Whitman incident, his ties to The Process Church, hypnosis session
with Budd Hopkins, the parallels between 1968 and “Pain”
CHAPTER VIII
A wound in the soul: the Master of the Key & the Oedipal Project
The writing of The Key, Strieber's two masters, mother bondage, the
creation of cosmic narratives as response to infant trauma
CHAPTER IX
Padre nostro castrato: the name of Whitley's game
Strieber's justification of the visitors’ “tough love,” trauma as a means to
force evolution, Strieber's PTSD and true hallucinations
CHAPTER X
Whitley's baby: the unholy junction of 1968
Strieber's unexpected connections in London, sinister coincidences, The
Process Church again, mind control and murder, Strieber and Carlos
Castaneda's murky ties to intelligence
PART II: CRUCIAL FICTIONS
CHAPTER XI
The ones who must lie: alien abduction & MKULTRA
Julian Jaynes and unconscious conditioning, the UFO and trauma
reenactment, alien abduction as a military “psyop,” Whitley's “honey pot”
CHAPTER XII
Finding the ground/leaving the ground: “Mind at Large” & the Overview
Effect
Gold-panning as metaphor, the Huxleys and the rejection of the erotic
dimensions of spirit and spirituality, SRI, Changing Images of Man, The
Aquarian Conspiracy, Edgar Mitchell and the Institute of Noetic Sciences
CHAPTER XIII
Old seers, death defiers, open doors, & machine intervention
Carlos Castaneda's inorganic model, The Key, Ray Kurtzweil, John von
Neumann and the Singularity, “The Open Doors”
CHAPTER XIV
Transhumanism, space travel, galactic religion & The Key
The Council of Nicea, William Sims Bainbridge's eternal life, Willis
Harman's New Freemasonry, earth as a death trap, the Rapture, Castaneda's
art of dreaming, escaping the Eagle
CHAPTER XV
The Lost Boys
The transhumanists’ Neverland of puer aeternus, becoming the father, the
industry of trauma, the Heaven carrot and the Hellfire whip, the lure of
space travel, the trap of transcendental knowledge, a dream of Whitley
CHAPTER XVI
New skin for old ceremony: community building & space industrialization
Getting up to date, house renovations and embodiment, a family Fabian
conspiracy, NASA and Scenario Planning, Edgar Mitchell's psi-research,
not just any conspiracy, author recruitment programs
CHAPTER XVII
Skywalkers and Starkillers: the open conspiracy
Birth trauma and alien abduction, sleep paralysis and anima visitations, the
promise of space travel, Star Wars, Ronald Reagan, and the Empire's
agenda
CHAPTER XVIII
Close encounters of the carnal kind
The inner and outer dimensions of the UFO-psyche encounter, black-ops
and mind control, the overview effect and ritual sexual abuse, sexualizing
the divine encounter, the ultimate motivation of the illumineers
AFTERWORD
Update: one fiction to rule them (UFO Disclosure Plan 2017)
APPENDIX
Delivering the Poison Secret: A Review of Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey
Kripal's The Super Natural
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
Trigger Warning: This book includes an ongoing investigation into my own
past, specifically the “lost years” between birth and (roughly) the age of
seven. It's possible this entails suppressed memories of sexual abuse, as
well as what has been termed “alien abduction.” If so, some of this material
might prove disturbing for readers who have had, or may have had, similar
experiences.
