A Stitch in Time

In the video for Norah Jones' song Chasing Pirates (which was linked to a foiled terrorist attack on the LHC, this day last year) we see Norah at the helm of a building decked out with sails. The final shot of the video reveals a faded advertisement for sewing machines on the back of the building. To understand this reference it is necessary to recap on what we know about the video so far;

• At the beginning of the video, Norah Jones' is given a map of Manhattan Island.
• The map is a treasure map and an 'X' is marked over Seward Park.
• When Norah is looking at the map the finger of her other hand is pointing towards Ground Zero; location of the WTC disaster.
• Seward is a pun on Norah's ocean going adventure; Seaward.
• William H. Seward was a US senator and a member of the Anti-Masonic League.
• He was attacked by an associate of John Wilkes Booth, on the same night President Lincoln was assassinated.
• Chasing Pirates therefore links the assassination of Lincoln (and the attempted assassination of Seward) to the events of 9/11 and the Freemasons.

I had assumed that the giant advert for sewing machines was merely another pun on Seward's name. But after I saw a book called Sewing 911 (for all your sewing emergencies) I began to doubt that assumption. When I looked on the inside cover and realised that it was published and copyrighted in 2001, I became convinced. Unlikely as it seemed, there was a definite connection between the pastoral exercise of sewing and the urban scenes of 9/11. Despite the flowery image that sewing enjoys in the public mind it should be remembered that it is a complex activity that utilizes sharp metal objects and has links to battlefields and emergency wards; via its surgical equivalence.

Sewing needles are of course used in many magical-type practices such as; Cabbalistic and Wiccan traditions, divination, tattooing, voodoo and acupuncture. Tattooing is to date still used as a method to overcome the grief of the loss of a loved one, this practice is legitimized in the saying; the blood has flowed the danger has passed. Interestingly, Norah Jones got a tattoo just for this video, to proclaim her love for Johnny Depp.

Upon pondering this connection I was reminded of the phrase: A stitch in time saves nine. The origin of this phrase predates Newtonian Physics where space and time were considered to be separate metaphysical concepts. Einstein's Theory of Special and General Relativity united them into one material; the fabric of spacetime. Ever since then, there has arisen some confusion as to the actual meaning of this antiquated phrase; with people erroneously assuming that a 'stitch' has been sown into the fabric of spacetime itself, creating a time portal or wormhole, which saves you nine hours, days, years etc.

Erroneous or not, the relationship between this phrase and 9/11 should be given due consideration. 9/11 was a stitch in the deteriorating fabric of the control system, to allow the elite to bridge the divide between the end of the present era and the beginning of the next; as outlined in the Mayan Calendar Stone. The public was 'stitched up' to facilitate the interwoven Military Industry and Media Complex to begin their, at present, 9 year long campaign of destruction and reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Arguably, the most famous make of sewing machine is the Singer sewing machine, and this relates to Norah who is, of course, a singer songwriter by profession. The action of a sewing machine is analogous to a ships bow, as it ploughs through the water, and the associations of treading (or threading) water, which every sailor must know. The sails of a ship are made from a type of canvas or fabric, and the ropes attached to these sails are known as 'sheets' and could be interpreted as large-scale threads woven amongst the different layers.

The Alchemy of 9/11

In the last post (called Factoring Norah) I encountered a code linking Norah Jones' video Chasing Pirates to alchemical practices and 9/11. This presented the interesting idea that events on 9/11 may have been alchemically motivated. Writer's Note; the 19th Century Dutch author Joris K. Huysmans, who penned La Bas, reveals that, due to the fringe nature of their science, alchemists were often excluded by the Roman Catholic Church, drawing them deeper into a mire of Satanic and occult rituals viz-a-viz; Gilles de Rais.

Alchemy has three main processes, each defined by a different colour phase;

• Black; Gestation, or Sol Niger, where the material is consumed.
• White; where the material is transformed.
• Red; the finished product.

The black and the white phases of the alchemical reaction are traditionally associated with the symbol of the serpent. The black phase, of the black serpent/toad, is replaced by the white phase of the Winged Serpent. As we can see, this process occurred on 9/11/2001.

1.) The black billowing smoke from the towers, contorts like a giant snaking leviathan over the City.

2.) The white clouds of dust that accompanied the collapse of the WTC towers.

But where is the flying serpent?

Good question. A number of years ago, a photograph surfaced on the Internet that showed what looked like a dragon flying over the streets of Manhattan.

It is said to have been taken by a NYC cop on the morning of Sept. 11th 2001. The police officer said he was photographing random streets, and did not notice anything 'unusual' until he reviewed the pictures at home. Unfortunately, the picture can no longer be found on the internet. All that remains is this abandoned thread on ATS.

Unlike our friends on Above Top Secret, it does not matter to me whether the image is real or not. What matters is that it exists (or existed); and in so doing connects the white smoke of the WTC to the Winged Serpent of alchemical animal symbolism.

Finally, we have the spiritualization of an earthly material; the very goal of the alchemist. The alchemist seeks to change his material body into a body of light, this is the exactly what we see here. The massive steel frames of the WTC are transformed into twin Pillars of Light.

The Alchemical processes on 9/11 seem to have skipped the red phase and focused primarily on the black and white phases. This reduction is emblematic of the black and white squares on the Masonic Tracing board, which is strongly connected to the idea of time travel, denoting, as it is does, the interrelationship between space, time, light and dark.

The 3 Pillars of Masonry are related to Alchemy and Kabbalah, and are thought to represent WTC 1, 2 and 7. Note that the two pillars to the left and right of the picture are accompanied by drawings of the Sun and the Moon.

The Abyssal Planes

To understand alchemy, it is said you must have a knowledge of the Kabbalah.

The Tree of Life is an important symbol in the Kabbalah, as it links many internal concepts together. Futhermore, the Tree of Life can be broken down into three lateral parts, or Pillars of Truth. These are the Active Pillar, the Passive Pillar and the Pillar of Light.

Whatever happens to the Active Pillar must occur to the Passive one, in order for God to be 'satisfied.' As we know, both towers suffered the same fate on 9/11. But WTC 7 suffered a somewhat different fate -  it collapsed without being struck by a plane.

While the Tree of Life can be broken down laterally, it can also be subdivided longitudinally. Then this is done a clear relationship between its form and WTC 1 & 2 can be found; see diagram below.

The 10 sephiroth (or Spheres) are linked in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life; and are part of a modular inter-dimensional hierarchy; they are also thought to be representative of the Chakras and Root-Races.

We can see from this image that the area where the planes went into was called the Abyss; or the Mystery (a very appropriate name under the circumstances). The Abyss is a dimension that lies at the very edge of creation. It is populated by the imbalanced, and those who are not fit to exist. As such, it is a demonic realm, not too dissimilar to the Christian concept of Hell. Famed occultist and magician Aleister Crowley claimed to have traversed this realm, in one of his astral/out-of-body adventures.

Paul Laffoley, a New York based multi-media artist, worked on the plans

for WTC South Tower, for a period of 18 months. Laffoley's artwork is concerned with dimensionality, time-travel and utopia. He routinely refers to modular (or nested) dimensional hierarchies in his paintings, as they are advanced within the Kabbalah.
 

But how do we know, for sure, that Kabbalism is connected to the World Trade Centre?

Well, according to Paul Laffoley, it isn't.

When Freeman asks if the architect of the WTC, Minoru Yamasaki, was influenced by Kabbalism, Laffoley flatly denies it. It is Laffoley's opinion that Yamasaki is a linear capitalist, and therefore incapable of esoteric thought or action. We will see why this cannot be so later on.

According to Laffoley, his work is an attempt at opening up 'dimensional portals' or doorways. These doorways are described as 'singularities' and represent the crossover from one dimensional plane to the next. It is interesting that a man, so involved with traveling to other dimensions, should wind up working on the World Trade Centre; seeing as it acts as a set to ground doorway.* Crackling noise, like the kind that inexplicably accompanied the collapse of the WTC towers, is proven to be an inter-dimensional wave pattern capable of permeating lower dimensions. Lafolley's painting ominously entitled Dimensionality; The Manifestation of Fate, and which contains numerous references to the Cabbala, was officially dated as having been painted in 1995. However, I have seen a version of the same painting from a retrospective he did of his work from way back in the 1960's. This was around the same period that he did the work for Yamasaki's architectural firm, and interestingly it contains the exact dimensions of WTC2 encoded into it;s geometry. See diagrams. I can't help get the feeling that Laffoley was employed on the project because of his interest in dimensionality, time-travel and philosophical utopias.

Dimensionality: The Manifestation of Fate by Paul Laffoley, mixed media, 1995. Left; Laffoley's painting over-layed with elevator system of WTC 2 , and right, the original image.

 In the picture above, I have superimposed the elevator scheme of the WTC 2 with Lafolley's diagram of the 0 - 8 dimensional hierarchy. The fact that Laffoley only lists 8 real dimensions is intriguing, as it invokes the E8 Lie Group with its 8 real space vector dimensions. When the real space vectors are summed with the other vertices, in the E8 polyhedron, we get a value of 248. Remarkably this is the number of the apartment that Norah Jones' is meant to be living in, when she receives the message in the bottle, in the video for Chasing Pirates.

• Norah finds a map in a bottle outside her apartment door; Apartment 248. Note; this information is not included in the official video, but is only revealed in the Making of Chasing Pirates.
• The map leads to the Holy Grail, as per the map in Pirates of the Caribbean 4; (See previous post; Factoring Norah).
• The E8 Lie Group is considered to be the Holy Grail of physics; the Theory of Everything.
• If you were to write out all of the statistical data on E8, in standard type face on A4 paper, it would cover an area of Manhattan Island. This data is a map of all 248 subatomic particles.
• The map Norah finds outside her apartment is a map of Manhattan Island.

These subtle and almost poetic connections extend from the minute to the immense without distortion, this is the true archetype of dimensionality; a world hidden in our own; permeating it unseen, and yet felt - the free-scale dimension of the Tree of Life. The E8 Lie Group is indistinguishable from ideas about dimensionality, time-travel and utopia. It is therefore no surprise that Lafolley deals with similar forms and concepts, as E8, in his work.

Black Sun Microsystems

At the beginning of the interview clip, Laffoley explains how he wanted to build 17 bridges between the two towers, to facilitate evacuations during times of emergency. Lafolley explains that 17 is the Magic Number. When Yamasaki hears about this, he dismisses him prematurely. Yamasaki wanted two freestanding towers that would visually vibrate.

It is clear from this conversation that Laffoley was keen to append sacred systems and numerology to the structure, even if Yamasaki was not. If you have read either 9/11 Videodrome or The Power of the Gods, you will know that the number 17 has a very important significance to the events of 9/11. Did the satanic alchemists involved in the destruction of the twin towers decide to incorporate Lafolley's numerology after all, or was it merely coincidental?

There was a 17 minute delay between the first plane striking the North Tower and the second plane striking the South one. As we know, the WTC towers are mirror images of each other; i.e. whatever happens to one must happen to the other, in real time. The delay in reflection is engineered to suit the time it takes light to travel from the Sun to the Earth, and back again, around the time of the Autumnal Equinox, on September 11th.

Time it takes Sunlight to reach Earth Throughout the year

• Winter Solstice: Dec 21-22; 9 minutes
• Vernal Equinox: March 20-21; 8.5 minutes
• Summer Solstice: June 21st; 8 minutes
• Autumnal Equinox: Sept. 22-23; 8.5 minutes

When the first Tower exploded in a ball of flames, a timer started running. This timer was comprised of a single ray of light, of constant speed. This light beam bounced off the South Tower and headed back out into space again, in the direction of the Sun. By the time it reached its destination, the second plane struck the towers in a ball of flames. Two towers, two explosions, two Suns.

The alchemists believed that there were two suns in the heavens: a hidden one of pure "philosophical gold," and an apparent one of profane "material gold." The "dark, consuming fire" of the material sun leads to its being called the "Dark" or "Black Sun." The Sol Niger is also the name of the first process, or blackening of material, in alchemy.

1.2.

1; The original Sun Microsystems logo. 2; I have altered elements of logo

to highlight the distinct swastika element of the design.

This becomes even more interesting when we consider that Sun Microsystems had offices on the 25 and 26 floors of WTC 2 - an area associated with Identity on our Kabbalistic model. The logo for Sun Microsystems is a carefully disguised swastika, very similar to the one used in Nazi symboplism.

The Black Sun. or Schwarze Sonne of Nazi mysticism.

 Could Andy Bechtolsheim, founder of Sun Microsystems, be a Nazi sleeper agent? He certainly has the right genetic background, being blond and a German national. His sandal clad feet give the impression that he is perhaps, somewhat pagan in his religious leanings. But, to my mind, he appears genuinely benign; and for this reason alone, I don't see him being a party to mass murder.

Having said that none of the Sun Microsystems employees that worked inside the WTC died on the morning of September 11th. In fact, according to this e-mail, only one member of staff showed up for work that day. This is unusual for such a busy retail company; certainly. But it cannot be considered evidence for any prior knowledge on the part of the workers, merely a collective and unusually heightened sense of precognition; or fortune telling. 

On January 27 2010, Sun Microsystems was acquired by the Oracle Corporation for US$ 7.4 billion. The company is now called Sun Oracle; As in the oracle of the Sun God Apollo, at Delphi. This merger marks the transition of the Sol Niger into the Golden Sun of the alchemists.

2010, by all accounts should be an interesting year in terms of Alchemical Solar Rituals (ASR), like the one we have been discussing. Evidence for this might come from the works of famed SF writer Arthur C. Clarke, who is well known for his predictions. Could his past writings contain information about future events? His book 2001; A Space Odyssey certainly appears to predict something major, of social import, occurring in the eponymous year. In an excerpt from his novel Rendezvous with Rama, Clarke hits upon the exact date;

At 9:46 GMT on the morning of September 11 in the exceptionally beautiful summer of 2077, most of the inhabitants of Europe saw a dazzling fireball appear in the eastern sky. Within seconds it was brighter than the Sun, and as it moved across the heavens––at first in utter silence––it left behind it a churning column of dust and smoke.

Astonishingly, Clarke was not merely correct about the date of cataclysm, but the atmospheric conditions and time (to one hour exactly) as well. In his book 2010; Odyssey Two, First Contact, Clarke details mankind's first interaction with an extra-terrestrial civilization. This interaction manifests itself in the creation of a second sun in our solar system; the pure sun of philosophical gold. I believe the second stage of the ASR will continue this year, and I will even go so far as to predict another false-flag operation occurring on September 22nd 2010. Why? Because it is 9 years and 11 days after the first stage of the alchemical process began.

In light of my own researches, I believe Lafolley is incorrect to assert that Yamasaki was a narrow-minded capitalist with no occult references to his work.

1.) Architecturally speaking; Yamasaki wanted to recreate Mecca, the Islamic holy land, in downtown New York City. An unusual preoccupation for someone merely pedaling capitalist interests. And let us not forget that Alchemy was an Arabic preoccupation, going back many centuries, evident in its arabicized prefix; Al.

2.) Jake Kotze made the interesting connection between the World Trade Centre complex and the Giza Pyramid Complex, based on the positions of stars in Orion's Belt. In response to this I did my own research pertaining to the height of the WTC and its relationship to the Great Pyramid at Giza. (See Image below). 

The Great Pyramid at Giza - without its capstone - is equal in height to the first section of the WTC (represented by the red line). The height differential expressed by the Sky Lobby and Technical Services floors is equal to the differential in the pyramid with its capstone in place (the blue line). This is more than just coincidence, and shows a clear intent to connect the WTC to a powerful occult symbol.

The Giza pyramid was, at one point, encased in limestone; this made it glow white in the sunlight. Symbolically speaking, the White Pyramid of the Sun is the antithesis of the Black Cube, or Kaaba, at Meccah. This is because the pyramid is a hybrid of the square and the triangle, signifying the relationship between the material and spiritual worlds; where as the cube is deficient because it only relates back to its own materialism; at least that is what symbology implies.  

• The Kaaba at Meccah represents the Black Sun of the material world. It should be noted that it contains a sacred black stone of extra-terrestrial origin; this will be referred to again in following posts.
• "Pyramid" means fire in the middle, and, therefore, evokes the Central Fire, or the Sun that exists at the Centre of the Universe. This is related the pure White Sun of "philosopher gold," the spiritual fire of the alchemists.

The sun has always been depicted, as being in the midst of the planets; even before the Heliocentric solar model was introduced by Copernicus. See diagram.

Considering all of this attention to the holy sites of the Middle East; both ancient and present, I believe that there is a frank possibility Yamasaki included aspects of Kabbalism in his final plans for the WTC. Although this opinion is contrary to the testimony of Paul Laffoley, his very presence on the project, along with his willingness to put forward ideas of a mystical and numerological nature, suggests to me that not all Yamasaki's 'arrows' were as straight as Laffoley would like us to believe.

 

The Solitron, a painting by Laffoley, slightly altered by myself, to include the floor plan of the WTC 2. This painting includes imagery relating to the the Black Sun,and the True Sun. The hexagram is a symbol of the unification of opposites and is therefore related to the events of 9/11.

Left; The Sephiroth of the Kabbalasitic Tree of Life, relating to the elevator schema of the WTC 2. The seven-fold modular dimensionality. pertaining to this diagram is correct to the 55th floor. The Twin Towers had 110 floors each.

Above; An old alchemical print depicting the Caduceus and two mounds, partially connected by an underground tunnel.

*PKD maintained, in his 1980 book Valis, that Set to Ground Doorways could only accessed through the Kabbalah, and its related symbolism.

If American Airlines Flight 11 was able to withstand the dimensional cross-over into the Abyss (Daath) it would likely have landed on a Black Glass Runway, patrolled by the armed guards of the deranged Mother Goddess Pistis-Sophia. If the runway, or slipway, is damaged, or has come away, then it can be related to the split in the World Soul. Other symbols that connected to this Abyss are; the lightning bolt, as seen in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, canals and waterways, separation or divorce, and the Broken Column of Freemasonry. Unfortunately, many of these unpleasant archetypal elements made an appearance in the events of 9/11.

Factoring Norah

A few months ago, I wrote a piece on Norah Jones' video Chasing Pirates, in relation to the foiled terrorist attack on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern; Geneva. In this article, I would like to focus on the themes within the video and how they relate to the events of 9/11. Pirate paraphernalia plays an important role within the video, and stems, in part, from the creative input of director Rich Lee; who had previously worked as a 3D animator on all three Pirates of the Carribean movies. Originally, the video was to feature Norah Jones; dressed as a pirate, stalking Johnny Depp through the streets of New York City. But, due to the exclusive nature of this movie star, the idea was scrapped in favour of one in which Norah Jones has a map of Manhattan Island placed anonymously on her doorstep. The map leads to Seward Park; in Chinatown. The park derives its name from Secretary of State William Seward, who was at one time a prominent member of the Anti-masonic League. Seward fell victim to an attempted assassination, by an associate of John Wilkes Booth, on the same night Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre.

Norah Jones is seen pointing to Seward Park on the map with her right hand. Meanwhile, her left hand points to the vacant lot where once stood the Twin Towers. I wondered if she was subconsciously associating the assassination plot against Seward and Lincoln, with the events that transpired on 9/11. At the end of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Captain Jack Sparrow is seen consulting yet another map, this time decorated with Chinese pictographs; and outlining the coast of Florida. The map purportedly leads the way to the Holy Grail, or the water of life, that is the subject of the next installment of the franchise; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Fountain of Youth; due to be released this summer. By displacing the treasure hunting Jack Sparrow to the modern streets of New York, the video insinuates that the fabled Fountain of Youth can be obtained here. In order to see with Jack Sparrow's eyes, and to find out where might be going, we must use his map of Florida to navigate the streets of New York. Practitioners of, French art movement, Psychogeography famously used a map of London to navigate Paris; but in this instance I am not only displacing location, but time, reality and fiction, at one and the same time. The similarity of shape between Florida and Manhattan Island audibly cries out for superimposition; and I can see no better opportunity for this, than in the maps of Johnny Depp's and Norah Jones' sad and unrequited love.

Although the two land masses are not completely congruous; in shape or size, they do express a certain symmetry at the eastern tip. By aligning the two maps here, the equivalent location for the Fountain of Youth, on Manhattan Island, is revealed to be the former site of the World Trade Centre.

The Fountain of Youth is related to the Legend of the Holy Grail, seen straddled here by the Angel and Death archetypes. The Holy Grail is, of course, connected to the mythos of the Knights Templar, who were said to have either been in possession of this ancient relic or to have gone to America in search of it; following their dissolution. Norah Jones' first single Chasing Pirates was released exclusively on iTunes, on October 13th 2009, exactly 702 years after the Fall of the Knights Templar. The song appears on her most recent album entitled The Fall. The album title appears to have at least three distinct meanings. These are;

• an American acronym used for the season of Autumn.
• the biblical event said to have taken place in the Garden of Eden.
• the arrest of the Knights Templar by King Phillip of France and Pope Clement V.

Chasing Pirates was released in the fall, so the first one is self-explanatory. The next one is a little more esoteric, and is covered more extensively in this article. The third one is what we will focus for now. In the video Norah is seen flying the Jolly Roger, a symbol of Templar dominance over the high seas, and a warning to any would be pirates that the men aboard this vessel were not afraid of Death. After the dissolution of the Order, this flag was adopted by the pirates in pursuit of plunder; and was more commonly referred to as the Skull and Crossbones. In the video called the Making of Chasing Pirates, a film crew member is seen wearing an U.S. army infantry crest depicting two crossed muskets. This emblem may well be developed from the Skull and Crossbones symbol, and is certainly related to it. If any Masonic affiliated order were involved in taking down of the World Trade Centre, it would likely be the Yale fraternity Skull and Bones, based upon this line of reasoning.

The very beautiful Norah Jones is seen here in the Making of Chasing Pirates, 
framed by the masts of a pirate ship. The voice over speaks about dreams and
 fantasies, perhaps this type of thinking induced the film crew member to wear
 the pirate-theme infantry logo.  

In the Hermetic Romance of the Philosopher's Stone, I outlined some of the comparisons between Norah Jones' video, and the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone. I will quickly summarized these here;

• Norah Jones' video begins with her receiving a message in a bottle, that turns out to be a map.
• Joan Rivers (Kathleen Turner) kicks off Romancing the Stone when she receives a letter, and a map to secret location.
• At the end of the video, Norah is seen sailing down the streets of Manhattan, and into the sunset.
• Romancing the Stone ends when Jack and Jone embrace on a sail boat that is seen to be cruising down a New York City street.
• The names Jack and Joan recall the names of Norah Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow.

The scene with Jack and Joan on a boat, in New York City, contains a number of alchemical archetypes. Psychologist Carl Jung would have, no doubt, pointed out these were, in all likelyhood, derived from the collective subconscious.

1. The Process of Putrefaction (the Wet Way) is the initial phase in alchemy, similar in its way to digestion, or decomposition. The crocodile (symbolic of the alchemical serpent) devours the gemstone and disappears into the dark water.
2. Jack hunts down the creature and kills it. He extracts the priceless gemstone from its body, related to the extraction of the Pilosopher's Stone from the alchemist's crucible. He then proceeds to purchase a sail boat with the proceeds of the emerald; thus spiritualizing a material source, towards the ultimate goal of freedom, in this case, freedom from the rat race.
3. The white sail boat is called Angelina, and is emblematic of the White Eagle animal symbol that accompanies the end of the alchemical process.
4. The serpent is said to make a final appearance before the process is complete; and does so here; in the form of Jack's crocodile boots.
5. Jack says that the crocodile died of a case of indigestion, referring to the earlier process of Gestation described in The Process of Putrefaction; above.

The lapis of alchemy bestows immortality, and is therefore synonymous with the Holy Grail and the Fountain of Youth; once coveted by the Knights Templar. Norah Jones' video links all four of these elements with the 5th element of the events of 9/11. Therefore, it would be only fitting to investigate the Alchemical Symbolism of 9/11 itself; at a later date.

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The Hermetic Romance of the Philosopher's Stone

In Prediction 10/13 I wrote about a dream that held a prophetic message. In the dream I was told that a '9/11 style' event would take place on October 13th 2009, and I deduced from the imagery in the dream that Large Hadron Collider at Cern would be the most likely target of the attack. As we know this attack failed; but not for want of trying. A renowned French physicists, and employee of Cern, was arrested just days in advance of the predicted attack, and charged with conspiracy to blow up a number of nuclear facilities in either France or Britain. The scientist was in contact with a Morrocan militant group, alinged to Al Qaeda, in the Islamic Maghreb. The conspirators intentions remain unclear and it is not known whether they planned to blow up the facility or merely raid it for materials that could be weaponized at a later date.

The subconscious (right brain) transmits verbal information to the dreamer through a vocabulary of imagery. This vocabulary is informed by the type of visual stimulus the conscious mind is subjected to throughout his/her waking life. Cinema is by far the most potent and prolific teacher of the right brained methodology. Therefore it is not surprising that the unconscious mind makes use of the language of cinema in order to communicate its knowledge. In this dream the LHC was encoded visually in a variety of cinematic quotations. Some of these were; the Incredible Hulk (HLK/HLC = LHC) / Gammasphere connection and the Nothing from The Neverending Story. The Nothing, a low entropy vortex that sucks everything in, is a good description of a blackhole. Opponents of the LHC fear that the unprecedented energy output of the project could lead to the creation of a blackhole, destroying the Universe.

Throughout the course of previous posts, on this subject, I omitted certain dream elements for reasons I will try to address here. In the dream, myself and my brother were chased into a smugglers' cave filled with pirate treasure. I could not reconcile the message about the LHC with this one about the pirates and decided to forgo the inclusion of this particular dream sequence. Next I saw a scene from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (AWE). The scene was of a swirling Maelstrom  navigated by two  great galleons pitted against one another in an all out dogfight. A maelstrom is yet another low entropic vortex and as such is equivalent to the blackhole and Nothing meme. I concluded that this visual repetition served only to reinforce the central message of the dream; and was therefore expendable. On October 13th 2009, however, I re-searched the pirate message on Google and discovered that Norah Jones had released a song entitled Chasing Pirates that very day. Not only that, the song was from her forthcoming album called The Fall. The Fall of Man was a descriptive mechanism of great importance to the Prediction 10/13 post. Here is what I wrote;

In the dream, this graph was presented to me by two men. One of the men described 9/11 as The First Fall of Man, then he indicated to the part of the graph labeled 10/13 and called this The Second Fall of Man.

It was only when I watched the video for Norah Jones' Chasing Pirates that I noticed the trail of connections now leading to unintended regions. What had begun with an investigation into future events had twisted back on itself and would reveal things about my own past, long forgotten, as well as dredge upon sour memories from America's bloodied history. All of a sudden I was heading in a new direction, just as Norah was doing musically with her song. At first look the video appears to be entirely influenced by Monty Python "The Crimson Permanent Assurance". It was while reading the comments for the video that I came across this alternative viewpoint from a You Tube commenter;

I keep connecting her new song and the video to "Romancing The Stone" primarily because the song's composition is similar to Alan Silvestri's work as well as the ending, which if you haven't seen, involves a large ship on a New York City street.

Romancing the Stone was one of the first big Hollywood movies that I watched growing up. The early scenes in the jungles of South America, and in particular the scene where they slide down a mountain sluice and land in a mud pool, had a great effect on my imagination. Apart from making me want to trek  the jungles of the Amazon, the film also made me want to understand the deeper meaning behind the scenes I was watching. Anyone could tell you it doesn't have a deeper meaning and its just a movie. But  I could not believe that they created these scenes for no reason other than just pure distraction. For many years I pondered upon the possible meanings behind the scenes I had watched and the title of the movie. But, in the end, these thoughts faded from my mind. So it is surprising to ponder once again the mysteries of Romancing the Stone, after all these years. I never expected it.

orah Jones' video and Romancing the Stone (RtS) share a number of plot elements. At the beginning of Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder, a famous writer living in New York City, is seen having just finished her latest novel. The next day she receives a package from her dead brother-in-law Eduardo, who has just recently been murdered. She then gets a phone call from her sister saying she has been kidnapped and that Joan must deliver the package to a man named Zolo in Cartagena.

In the video for Chasing Pirates, Norah Jones is seen answering the door to her apartment. No one is there, but there is a bottle on the floor with a rolled up piece of parchment in it. The parchment is a map with X marking a location. She soon learns that the location is in Chinatown, at a place called Seward Park. Seward Park was named for William H. Seward, a United States Senator, who was Govenor of New York and served as Lincoln's Secretary of State. Shortly after Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, an associate of Wilkes' forced his way into Seward's home in New York and attacked him with a knife. These targeted displays of aggression were in response to Lincoln's slave reform policies.

Prior to all of this, in 1830, Seward was elected to the state senate as an Anti-Masonic Candidate. The Anti-Masonic Party was set up to counteract Masonic influence within state-run institutions. It was sparked off by the disappearance of Captain William Morgan, a freemason who broke ranks by coming clean about the inner workings of Masonry. On September 11th 1826 Morgan was arrested for an outstanding debt of $2.68 and driven by cart to Fort Niagra, where it is assumed he was drowned by his abductors. Norah Jones is 'chasing pirates' and therefore must likely head in the direction of the sea: Seward Park is a pun on the word seaward. In her haste to locate the park on the map, the finger of her left hand points to a different location; that of Ground Zero. Could it be she is trying to tell us that the Morgan affair and 9/11 were perpetrated by the same Hermetic organization, and that the fabled date of Sept. 11th is the clue to their involvement?

Norah Jones' song Chasing Pirates is supposedly based on her infatuation with Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp. The original video was meant to show Norah following Captain Jack Sparrow through the streets of New York. Jack and (Norah) Jones echoes the names of Jack and Joan from RtS. But asides from this what connection does this movie have with pirates? Although there is no overt reference to pirates in RtS, the history of the city of Cartagena is bound up with them. In 1572 Sir Francis Drake ransacked the city and set fire to much of it. Nearly a hundred years later, in 1668, the infamous pirate Henry Morgan made to follow in Drake's footsteps, but was forced to abort after his flagship exploded under mysterious circumstances. Incidentally, some people, who suspected Captain William Morgan's disappearance was a publicity stunt orchestrated to increase book sales, speculated that he had moved to the Caymen Islands, where he was subsequently hung as a pirate.

Cartagena derives its name from the Roman City of Carthage. 'Carta' is the Spanish for letter. But as we find out the package Joan carries is not a letter, but a map; evoking the English word 'cartography' - meaning mapmaking. Jack and Joan discover that the map leads to a priceless emerald gemstone called el Corazon (the heart). Emeralds are attributed to the ancient alchemical discipline via the fabled Emerald Tablet text. The goal of alchemists has long been to produce the Elixir of Life, also known as the Philosophers Stone, believed to bestow everlasting life on its beneficiary. The Chymical Wedding or The Hermetic Romance is a story, published in 1616, that was popular among alchemists. The story is allegorical and was divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis. Romancing the Stone, then, could be thought of as The Hermitic Romance of the Philosopher's Stone. Which begs the question, just who alike is the first book of the Bible and RtS?

 It could be argued that the task of the alchemist exists only in relation to the events that took place in the Garden of Eden. The Bible tells us that before the Fall of Man there was no sickness and no death in the world. The search for the Elixir of Life is, therefore, a consequence of the Fall. Romancing the Stone is a modern day retelling of Adam and Eve's trial in the Garden and their search for eternal happiness. The jungle serves its purpose, both as a backdrop for the story, and as a replacement for the Garden of Eden. Jack, played by Michael Douglas, slaughters a snake in a downed aeroplane, a symbol of the Fall. Now, instead of eating the apple, they feast on the serpent. A true alchemical reversal. But their quest is not without  temptation either. Joan Wilder is forced to choose between the safe return of her sister and the acquisition of the gemstone. The stone is the emblematic of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Even after they acquire the stone, as you might expect, all does not run smoothly.

Just like in Genesis, Jack and Joan grow tired of each other and part ways. But this separation is not set to last long, as singularly they are incomplete, and both morally culpable in the fate of Joan's sister. The names Jack and Joan strike a resonant chord with the child protagonists Jack and Jill. Jack and Jill's task is to fetch a pale of water from the well or spring that is the  Fountain of Youth/Knowledge. In their haste to acquire it they falter, and Jack is dispossessed of his pride of place in God's favour. This is the true meaning of the line; Jack fell down and broke his crown. Therefore, Jack and Jill is a retelling of Genesis. Notice that in the nursery rhyme Jill follows Jack, who is the first to Fall. This sequence, I believe, is more correct with regard to the true nature of the sexes; where Adam would be seen to rebel against their father figure, Yahweh, and Eve conforms to events happening around her. As if to add further confirmation to these connections, the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is due out next year and will be entitled The Fountain of Youth.

If everything goes according to schedule, the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be on general release as of July 7th 2010. This marks the anniversary of Michael Jackson's memorial ceremony in the Los angeles Staples Centre. Michael Jackson's protracted childhood earned him the nickname of Peter Pan, the eternally youthful boy from Neverland. Peter Pan's nemesis Captain Hook is conditioned to fear the ticking sound that accompanies the appearance of the Crocodile. The sound comes from a clock the beast swallowed and reminds Hook that time is his only real enemy. The climax to Romancing the Stone takes place on the ramparts of the fortified city of Cartagena. In the ensuing battle the villainous Zolo loses his hand to a vicious crocodile that lives in the walled fortified structure. The crocodile swallows the priceless gemstone, along with Zolo's hand, and attempts to make a quick getaway. This makes the gemstone equitable to the ticking clock. How is this possible? Remember that el Corazon means the heart: Doctors often use watches when checking a patients pulse, indicating that the rhythmic beating of the heart is  entwined with the ticking clock of time. Jack leaves Joan, and her sister, to go in search of the crocodile and, ultimately, the stone.

The distinct stages of alchemical processes are referred to by a variety of animal symbols. The initial process of Gestation, which can either be 'wet' or 'dry', is symbolized by the toad or the dragon. Our dragon is represented by the Crocodile - a water dwelling creature - therefore the process is 'the wet way' of Putrefaction. Putrefaction is described as a slow rotting or digestion of material in a liquid solution. By swallowing el Corazon the crocodile becomes the alchemist's crucible. Other animal symbols are the White Eagle and the winged dragon, associated with the end product of alchemy. At the end of the RtS film Jack is seen waiting for Joan on a white sail boat on the streets of Manhattan. Jack calls the boat Angelina, after a character in one of Joan's books. The white sails of the boat, and the reference to angels, represent the White Eagle of alchemical symbolism. Jack purchased the boat from the proceeds of El Corazon, and so succeeds in spiritualising an earthly substance. The symbol of the dragon, that invariably reappears at the end of the alchemical process, does so here in the form of Jack's crocodile boots. Jack remarks that the crocodile suffered 'a fatal case of indigestion', another reference to the alchemical process of Gestation.

The screenplay for RtS was written by a waitress named Diane Thomas. Hardly the type you would expect to include alchemical symbolism in their work. But then again, it was CG Jung's research of animal symbols in alchemy that lead to his theory of the collective unconscious in the first place. So maybe Diane did not have to be consciously aware of these connections in order for them to emerge in her writing.