Who Are We Looking For?

A Case for the Others Amongst Us

Why, oh, why did they go to so much trouble to look into this story? And the US military was involved in this process: 

The team of forensic scientists from Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company based in Virginia, worked with the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL), a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Examiner System based in Delaware. 

Officially known as JB55, archaeologists originally unearthed the 200-year-old remains in 1990. In 2019, a team of forensic scientists extracted his DNA and compared it to a genealogical database. They discovered that the man was named John Barber, and the title JB55 was derived from the epitaph marked out on his coffin in brass tacks, denoting his initials and the age he died.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/american-vampire-0017475

It kind of reminds me, well about many stories, but the idea of a DIFFERENT variant of humanity living amongst us is the point. What were/are they looking for …?

On a WAY-OUT-THERE limb, we can recall the John Carpenter movie, Ghosts of Mars, wherein humans from Earth battle possessed and altered humans. John Carpenter came up (and continues to I might add) with novel and fascinating ideas which he mostly embeds into the horror genre. This vein of entertainment always captures an apt audience which can ultimately become an ideal avenue for human consciousness preparation, or the director is just a weird, far-out kind of thinker who can make popular films that rack up lots of money. Take your pick.

Brief description: 

Set in the second half of the 22nd century, Mars has been 84% terraformed, giving the planet an Earth-like atmosphere. Martian society has become matriarchal, centring on the city of Chryse, with smaller, far-reaching outposts connected by an expansive network of trains. In the wake of a series of mysterious 'incidents', Mars Police Force officer Lt. Melanie Ballard is called before a tribunal to give testimony following a disastrous mission to the remote mining outpost Shining Canyon to retrieve convicted felon James 'Desolation' Williams of which she is apparently the sole survivor.

It is discovered that a group of Martian miners have become murderous killers committing horrific acts of self-mutilation and ritualistic execution. 

Their initial effort to escape is halted when the army of feral miners converge on their position, killing, injuring and infecting several of their number. Confronted by Ballard, Whitlock eventually explains that she fled from her post after discovering an ancient underground vault created by an extinct Martian civilisation. When the door to the vault was opened, it released hostile spirits or "ghosts", which took possession of the workers, causing their violent behaviour. Killing a possessed human merely releases the Martian spirit to possess another host. Ballard surmises that these Martian spirits believe humans to be an invading race. Ballard is briefly possessed until Desolation feeds her a hallucinogenic drug, which forces the Martian spirit to leave her body.

The brutal and ritualistic behaviour of Carpenter's possessed Martian miners seems eerily similar to another period of time in earth’s history and Ridley Scott inserted this rather nasty practice in his film 1492: Conquest of Paradise.

It does seem we’ve been doing similar things on Earth for a long time and in multiple times and places. It’s interesting that Scott chose Sigourney Weaver to play Queen Isabella of Spain. She has throughout her career become quite the female archetype with many variations on that theme.

Strangely, a lot of the art on Mars takes on dark and rather deathcult-like forms. Keith Laney has noted this in his investigations. He referenced the term phantasmagoria which was a form of horror theatre that used magic lanterns to project frightening images such as skeletons, demons and ghosts onto walls, smoke or semi-transparent screens. Rear-view projection was the favoured method to keep the screens out of sight. Phantasmargia has also been used to indicate changing combinations of fantastic, bizarre or imagined imagery. Here are some examples of this kind of art:

The Padmanabhaswamy Temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, a province in the south-western coast of India, is a Hindu temple with some strange artwork:

The main deity that this temple is dedicated to is Vishnu, specifically in his ‘Anantha Shayanam’ posture. In this position, the deity is depicted as being in the state of conscious cosmic slumber and is reclining on the body of the five-hooded serpent, Adisheshan. 

Architecturally speaking, the temple is a fusion of the local Kerala style and the Darvidian style commonly found in the neighboring province of Tamil Nadu . The most notable feature of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, however, is its mysterious sealed door, which leads to Vault B, the contents of which have been speculated by many.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/risky-wealth-would-you-dare-open-mysterious-sealed-door-padmanabhaswamy-temple-021616

We do see this kind of iconography on Mars. One example is a collaboration I did with Keith on the Candor Tetrahedron, a pyramid on the Red Planet.

At that time, Keith asked me to zoom in on the apex and have a look. This is what he found and what he wanted me to hopefully see: devils & horned beings.

I saw them immediately and I got to work on fleshing them out. Here is my digital illustration of the apex of this pyramid.

Another filmmaker who has picked up on this odd iconography is Ridley Scott. One thing Scott never does is situate his phantasmagoria imagery on local celestial bodies, rather he always moves outside of our solar system on planets and planetoids to imagine his fabulous ancient civilizations, this time in his 2012 film Prometheus.

Note how we don’t get to see the Skull atop the temple-pyramid until the tremendous sandstorm (doom, destruction & death) is upon the astronauts:  

Which brings me finally to this. Back in 2012 (the same year that Prometheus debuted with all of the Mayan calendar anxiety of that time), NASA commissioned an artistic duo known as kahnselesnick to coincide with the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission landing: 

… to create a series of work, entitled ‘mars: adrift on the hourglass sea’, representing their vision of existence on mars. the artists adorned photo-mosaic panoramas provided to them by NASA of earlier expeditions by rovers ‘spirit’ and ‘opportunity’ with fantasy and imagination, infusing phantasmagorical elements of science fiction and the surreal.

https://www.designboom.com/art/nasa-commissions-surreal-mars-photographs-by-kahnselesnick/

Look at a couple of these works.

Talk about being consumed, or birthed, by a tentacled, alien form! Remember, this was commissioned by NASA and they knew exactly what these visual artists were all about.

Who are we looking for here on Earth, on Mars and in general - out there? Are we going to like them when we do finally reacquaint ourselves with them? 

I’m not too sure about that.