The Stargate Conspiracy and Ancient Aliens

[joluoto]

The 1990s was a Golden Age of Ancient Alien pseudoscience. Alot of funny stuff was published. Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods had been out for decades and been the inspiration for many crackpots and crooks. The millennium was approaching and many thought it would mean, well something, no one knew for usre what that something was. Turned out the Year 2000 was just another number, nothing terribly special about it, but there were sure many ideas, everything from the return of Jesus, Mayan or Aztec prohecies to ALIENS!! The inspirations came from Star Trek, Scientology, The X- Files, H.P. Lovecraft and Helena Blavatsky. Good fiction, but only fiction. In 1999 Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince published the "Stargate Conspiracy", which reads like they put the 1994 Stargate movie and some of the better X-Files episodes in a blender and pretended it was definitely very real. The premise is that the ancient Gods were actually ALIENS (nothing new here, had been the topic of many pseudoscientific works since Chariots) and that they possibly came through a STARGATE (or maybe not) and that politicians, scientsists, military dudes and best- selling authors definitely all knew about this and was keeping it SECRET. And that the US government was secretly communicating with these ALIENS through secret Stargates on the Goza plateau. So yes, they had definitely watched the 1994 Stargate movie with Kurt Russel and James Spader. A very good movie, still holds up.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince has published other work such as: The Templar Revelation, The Sion Revelation (sounds very yikes, but it's actually about the Priory of Sion, because they had just read the da Vinci Code, which is funny because Dan Brown was inspired to write that book from their book about Templars), and The Secret History of Lucifer (only Picknett). They usually choose something in the zeitgeist do to popular culture and write about it and claims it's real. Not all they write is necessarily conspiracy theories, bit often pseudoscience, things that researchers don't think is true, or only think might possibly be true, and write about it as if it were some big revelation. Ufos, ancient Gods, secret Jesus, Divine Bloodlines, Satan, Nazis, they have written about it all.

These kind of books still sells, but not as much as they used to, with all of these crackpots now being on the Internet, already in the 00s they started to lose traction when television started to make shows like Ancient Aliens, that moved conspiracy theories and crackpot pseudoscience to the television space.

 

[Mr Person]

Billions of people believe various fairytale books simply because their parents and people throughout history believed them. It's hard to be surprised.

 

[KevinKohler]

Billions of people believe various fairytale books simply because their parents and people throughout history believed them. It's hard to be surprised.

I went to Blarney castle in ireland yesterday, and had to tour the entire castle in a slow moving line because folks were waiting to lay backwards to kiss the blarney stone, in order to be granted magically increased charm and speech prowess.

Before that, I visited a stone ring, and all the trees around it were littered with these little prayer cards of people researching old gods (?) to answer said wishes.