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Joseph P. Farrell and the Giza Death Star
Laura:
I am having a look at a book sent to me recently, "The Giza Death Star Deployed," which is, apparently, one of several volumes written by a fellow named Joseph P. Farrell. I did a brief search on the net and found a Wikipedia entry on him which says:
--- Quote --- Joseph P. Farrell, born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a physicist[citation needed], scholar on the East West Schism, and a prolific author on alternative history and Historical revisionism.
Biography
Farrell is Adjunct Professor of Patristic Theology and Apologetics at California Graduate School of Theology[1], an unaccredited Christian institution of higher learning in La Habra, CA.
Additionally, he is an organist, plays the harpsicord and a composer of classical music.[2]
[edit] Education
A student of Timothy Ware, Farrell became a professor of Patristics at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary.[citation needed] He also holds a M.A. from Oral Roberts University, a B.A. from John Brown University and is a doctoral graduate (D.Phil.) of Pembroke College, Oxford University with specialty in Patristics awarded in 1987.[3]
[edit] Work
[edit] Theology
Farrell has produced two major sets of works. One set concerns theology, the Church Fathers, and the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes.
Farrell translated the "Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit"[4] (preface by Archimandrite (now Archbishop) Chrysostomos of Etna), and the translation is still the only one in English.[citation needed]
He concentrated on St. Maximus the Confessor, publishing "Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor" (forward by Timothy Ware - now Bishop Kallistos Ware), and "The Disputation with Pyrrhus".
The culmination of his work is his four volume magnum opus on the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes, entitled God, History, and Dialectic. It has yet to be peer reviewed by any major scholarly journal.[citation needed]
[edit] Other work
Farrell's other work deals with alternative archaeology, physics, technology, history and alternative history. In his own words, he pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and “strange stuff”.[5] He is the creator of the weapons hypothesis concerning the pyramids at Giza, based on Christoher Dunn's work. Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off." He has also authored several books on the reputed survival of extraordinarily advanced Nazi secret weapons technology and its relationship to the U.S. Department of Defense's "black" technology programs.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Theology
* God, History, & Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two Europes and Their Cultural Consequences. Bound edition 1997. Electronic edition 2008.
* The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit - St. Photius (Holy Cross Orthodox Press 31 Dec 1982)
* Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor (Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press, June 1989)
* The Disputation with Pyrrhus (St Tikhons Seminary Press, February 1990)
[edit] Alternative history
His book "The Giza Death Star" was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science". In order of subject readability and topicality[6]:
On The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid and the Military Complex at Giza:
* Giza Death Star: The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid and the Military Complex at Giza (Adventures Unlimited Press, Dec 2001)
* Giza Death Star Deployed: The Physics and Engineering of the Great Pyramid (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Oct 2003)
* Giza Death Star Destroyed (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Jan 2006)
* Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 Oct 2007)
On the subject of secret Nazi technology and its applications and impact today:
* Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005)
* SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006)
* Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008)
* The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter (Feral House April 2009)
* Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space (Adventures Unlimited Press March 15, 2009)
[edit] See also
* Christopher Dunn (author)
* David Hatcher Childress
[edit] Notes
1. ^ "Faculty". California Graduate School of Theology.
2. ^ Dirty Secrets ~ Nazi International, Part One, The Byte Show with GeorgeAnn Hughes - December 29, 2008
3. ^ Farrell, Joseph P. (Winter 2006), "Scripture, Tradition;Gnosticism, Criticism", Pro Excelsis 2 (1): 2, http://www.cgsot.edu/pdf/PROEXCELIS1.pdf
4. ^ Photius; Joseph P. Farrell (1987). The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit. Holy Cross Orthodox Press. ISBN 091658688X.
5. ^ Personal website
6. ^ The Proper Order To Read The Books by Dr. Farrell - July 18, 2008
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Regarding this book, I notice that he cites a whole lot of "alternative researchers" like Sitchin, Childress, Hancock, Picknett and Prince, Tom Bearden, Richard Hoagland, and so on. He contradicts himself regularly, and also regularly tells his reader that what he is saying is just a "wild hypothesis." In one instance, he declares that one hypothesis is evidence that another hypothesis is true.
Right at the beginning, he discards cometary cataclysms as possible causes of many of the anomalies noted in Earth's history and repeats this dismissal in several other places which indicates that he has apparently NOT researched the topic. On the other hand, maybe he has and that is his "assignment," to give support to wild and crazy ideas and dismiss what might be factual. He writes:
--- Quote --- So, lacking an adequate physical model of the spontaneous explosion of planets by natural causes, the evidence of such a planetary catastrophe having occurred at some time in the distant past of our solar system constitutes corroborative evidence of the weapon hypothesis of the Great Pyramid advanced here and in my previous book, the Giza Death Star." [...]
I should stress that the deliberately exploded planet hypothesis is only corroborating evidence to the hypothesis that the Great Pyramid was a weapon of mass destruction employing scalar physics on a planetary scale. The Weapon Hypothesis does not stand or fall on the truthfulness or falsehood of the exploding planet scenario. However, the scenario would constitute corroboration of the type of physics posited for the Giza Death Star, and hence thoroughness requires that it be investigated.
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I guess he figures that his readers are too dumb to realize that he is right here pulling the wool over their eyes. He talks about a LOT of things that interest us here, but his knowledge base seems to be rather naroow - or, conversely, it is wider than he lets on and he is deliberately misleading.
I don't know how much one can trust a person educated at non-accredited Christian schools... or "Oral Roberts University." He claims to have his doctorate from Oxford. Can anybody check that out? Vinnie Bridges claimed to have attended Oxford and it turned out to be a complete fabrication.
Has anybody else read any of his stuff, or is anybody interested in taking a look and discussing it?
jusdenny:
I had a room mate a long time ago who was studying to be a minester He spent 4 years of his life learning how to do those mega dollar, send me some money and I'll step into my prayer closet for you, televangelist sermons. He taught me on of my top ten Life lessons:
The most frightening people in the academic world are those who learn just enough that they are able to con themselves, and others into believing they know all they need to know.
Shijing:
Hi Laura -- I don't have Joseph Farrell's books on the Giza Death Star, but I do own a copy of his 'The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts'. I haven't cracked it yet, but if you don't mind me discussing a Farrell book other than the one you just finished, I would be happy to put my other reading aside temporarily, read this book, and get back to you. I don't read as quickly as I understand you to, but I could probably finish it in a bit more than a week. Let me know if that sounds good, and if not, no harm done.
Oxajil:
--- Quote from: Laura on January 15, 2009, 08:43:23 AM ---I don't know how much one can trust a person educated at non-accredited Christian schools... or "Oral Roberts University." He claims to have his doctorate from Oxford. Can anybody check that out? Vinnie Bridges claimed to have attended Oxford and it turned out to be a complete fabrication.
Has anybody else read any of his stuff, or is anybody interested in taking a look and discussing it?
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For what it's worth:
Interesting, but perhaps not important, is that I found another guy who's name is also Joseph Farrell and has (apparently) a PhD @ Oxford as well (1981). But I think they aren't the same person since this guy is Professor of Economics.
_http://emlab.berkeley.edu/facdir/farrell.html
I couldn't find much about Joseph's doctorate from Oxford other than many sites just claiming he has one. I did found this interview:
--- Quote ---Interview w. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
Concerning his 4-Volume
“God, History, & Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two Europes and Their Cultural Consequences”
Conducted by Asher Black, March 4, 2008
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_http://energeticprocession.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/interview-with-dr-farrell-on-ghd/
Where you can read:
--- Quote ---It is rumoured that you once debated for several days straight, when you were at Oxford - in other words, you never left the debate hall over the course of several days. What can you tell us about this rumour - can you fill in the blanks?
Yes that’s true. The debate took place in, and was sponsored by, the Oxford Union Society, the famous debating society there. It was cosponsored by the Heineken and Guinness Corporations for Ethiopian famine relief. By the fifth day the chamber had thinned out considerably, but there were still a few diehards bulling their way through, and slogging it out with each other at the dispatch boxes. The debate was not “about” anything mind you, but more of an ongoing “roast” of each other’s positions using parliamentary rules…all very “British” and “civilized”. After eight days of this, we had achieved our objective, made it into the Guinness book of World Records, and were utterly exhausted. The Union Society gave little certificates to the more vocal participants, part of which thanked the participants for their efforts and thanking them for exhibiting “occasional sobriety”. It was like a very raucous House of Commons at times, when the chamber was more full. It’s untrue, however, that we never left the hall. We had to, in order to eat or take care of “other matters”. The point of the debate was to keep it going no matter what, because Heineken and Guinness sent corporate representatives to sit in the chamber at all times to ensure that the debate kept going. If one went into the library or even went home to sleep occasionally, one would most likely get a call from someone requesting you return in order to keep the debate going. That happened to me. After two days I went home to sleep, and after only about 4 hours of sleep, was called to return to the chamber to keep it going. So for the next five days I more or less lived, ate, and slept at the Union Society.
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I couldn't find anything about this debate.
Nonetheless, I think there are some interesting comments beneath the interview.
Another interview here: _http://www.mytholog.com/interviews/farrell.html
--- Quote ---Joseph P. Farrell is a conference speaker, frequent radio talk show guest, and author of the Giza Death Star Trilogy and the Reich of the Black Sun series (both from Adventures Unlimited Press) -- works of speculative history dealing with the "weapons hypothesis" of the Great Pyramid at Giza, and Nazi weapons research, respectively. His works include:
* The Giza Death Star
* The Giza Death Star Deployed: The Physics and Engineering of the Great Pyramid
* The Giza Death Star Destroyed: The Ancient War For Future Science
* Reich Of The Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & The Cold War Allied Legend
* The SS Brotherhood of the Bell (forthcoming)
We interviewed Joseph P. Farrell, because his Giza works offer creative interpretations of ancient texts of mythology, finding in them little-appreciated descriptions of ancient cultures. Likewise, his works on Nazi research offer a unique analysis of the current mythos surrounding Nazi science in the Third Reich. The author graciously answered the following questions:
What connections, if any, exist between the two series of books -- the Reich series and the Giza series?
Well, as I point out in both books, I hypothesize that both the Great Pyramid and a super-secret Nazi weapons project called "The Bell" were both based on a kind of vorticular, or scalar, physics. Moreover, as I detail in the third Giza book, The Giza Death Star Deployed, the famous revisionist Egyptologist R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz did research for the Nazis during the war, and made no secret of his support of the Nazi regime. This is interesting in and of itself, since Schwaller was probably the last century's most learned esotericist and hermeticist.
The bios on the Net indicate that you have a background in theology. What connections, if any, exist between that research and this research?
One would think that there is none, but in some respects, my "paleophysics" interpretations of some ancient Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Hermetic texts -- particularly in the first and third Giza books -- are really telling "the other side of the story" to some of my published commentaries on theological texts. The search for this "paleophysics" was planted in my mind years ago when I read in some Greek Church Fathers (who were responding to a particular Neoplatonicially influenced doctrine that had arisen in the Mediaeval Latin Church) that such formulations and texts as the Latin Church was appealing to or developing were more appropriate to "sensory things" (i.e., were more appropriate as physics than as metaphysics). Since one of my hobbies is reading physics papers, that really stuck in my mind, and I began keeping private notebooks of observations, many of which are included in the Giza Death Star series -- as many, that is, as I dare include in them.
Why, given the rebirth of interest in and study of myth, do you think the mythological material mentioned in your Giza series (e.g., the Hindu sources) has been underanalyzed, or would you say that's true?
Oh, I don't think it has been underanalyzed. The more one looks, the more one comes away convinced that at least some serious scientific study is being made of such texts with a view to ascertaining their scientific contents. One only need think of the magisterial work of Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill, or plasma physicist Anthony Peratt's study of ancient petroglyphs as depictions of large scale celestial plasma discharges. And, of course, during World War II there is every indication that, at some level, the Nazis were engaged in organized research into this material. Perhaps the most famous example is Robert Oppenheimer, father of America's atom bomb, who quoted a passage of the ancient Hindu epic, The Mahabharata -- a passage eerily descriptive of a nuclear blast, though written hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago -- during the Trinity test of the plutonium bomb in New Mexico.
What is there to be learned from the ancient myths that would interest those not particularly fascinated by myth studies?
There is certainly a wealth of encoded scientific information, and, I believe, history -- albeit garbled and perhaps disguised -- as well. There's something for everyone, really: for the philosopher and moralist, for the sociologist, for the anthropologist, the physicist ... I could go on and on. The trick is learning to swallow one's pride in thinking we are at the pinnacle of civilization, and learning to see the modern parallels in the ancient myths.
As a writer, what has been your most discouraging moment?
I suppose every writer goes through this, but writing is hard work, and one always wonders if anyone out there is actually reading one's books.
As an author, what has been your most satisfying experience?
I write fairly technical books, as I've never thought writing "for a popular audience" about technical things -- especially when one is elaborating a radical alternative hypothesis to the standard view (whatever that may be) -- is the way to go. I sometimes get criticism for this, as my books tend to be footnoted rather heavily. But this is offset by the more predominant response from people who tell me that they are grateful I don't talk down to them. And some have even told me they appreciate the footnotes!
What advice would you have for those writers struggling to finish a book?
Ha! That is a difficult one to answer, as I've never had any difficulty in finishing a book. My hang-up comes in starting them, in hitting just the right tone and articlation of the themes that will be with the reader throughout the book. It's that initial string of information, that initial setting of the mood and tone, that is so difficult, and I often stew over how to get started on a book for weeks or months. Once inspiration hits, though, one just knows it. It feels right, it fits. Once that happens to me, I usually am able to organize the book fairly quickly in my head, and then writing it usually goes rather quickly after that. I'm "working" on a book right now that I hope will tie up loose ends from the Giza Death Star series, but I haven't set a word to paper yet, as I'm still trying to figure out how to articulate that initial statement and mood. And I've been stuck in this stage for some five months now. I know what I want to write about and where it has to go, but as yet haven't figured where and how to start it.
What would you do differently in terms of authorship and publishing, knowing now what you did not know at the outset?
If anything, I think I would have had more confidence and tried to seek out a larger publisher with wider distribution. But given the highly "alternative" nature of the history and science I deal with, I am grateful that there are publishers and readers willing to tackle such material.
Do you think all literature of "alternative science," "alternative archeology," and "alternative history" gets relegated to obscurity, or is there a mainstream audience and a wider market?
I don't think one can honestly say that it's mainstream yet, but the audience is growing and is now quite large. Certainly authors like Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval have penetrated major publishers and a very wide market with their works, and they are wholly of the "alternative" ken. I can say that one reason so many "alternative" works get relegated to obscurity is that the referencing is threadbare, if it exists at all. That's one reason I try to footnote so heavily, since my works are highly speculative. I try to show I'm not just pulling things out of my head, but to show the basis for my speculations.
What do you think about the words "conspiracy theory" being applied nearly without qualification to all such literature?
In my opinion, it's the response of a lazy and narrow mind.
We're all aware of some alternative science, archeology, and history that became accepted fact, and is no longer "alternative." Whether it's a species once thought extinct, a civilization once thought non-existent, or a long-held historical explanation that turned out to be fiction. What does it take for an alternative explanation to become the accepted one?
Well, that depends on the alternative explanation. But in the case of my work or Chris Dunn's or others of a similar vein, I think it really boils down to what the German scientist Max Planck said, that a new idea or theory is really accepted when the older generation quite literally dies off and the new comes to occupy the academic chairs and editorial positions in newspapers and publishing houses.
How has story, in the case of your non-fiction writing, been helpful in pursuing that writing?
Well, very simply, the Giza Death Star series would not have come about at all if I had not read some ancient texts that were told as stories and that were conventionally understood to be "myths." In reading them, however, I encountered detailed descriptions of things and events that sounded far too detailed and too similar to some modern ideas, so I literally decided to investigate further by comparing the "stories" to these ideas.
In the case of Reich of the Black Sun and its sequel, The SS Brotherhood of the Bell, there is a certain "mythology" that most of us are familiar with, of Nazi survival after the war, of incredible secret weapons projects. The stories are all out there and have been since the end of the war, and with the arrival of the Internet, many of them can be easily accessed, so one doesn't have to chase down the obscure and rare book or veteran. Yet, in many of these cases, the stories were without adequate substantiation. All of that changed with the reunification of Germany in the last two decades of the 20th century, and it became possible to investigate the stories for their factual content and basis. So again, the stories served as the point of departure for my investigations.
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Iconoclast:
i've read 'Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend' several years ago.
but this was before i was even aware of COINTELPRO, so i didn't really look out for telltale signs.
i remember it being a breezy read and i found it interesting at the time. IIRC it even had a photo of a 'nazi-UFO' in it.
sorry i don't remember more ;)
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