Ectoplasm [very LONG]

[Jason Witherspoon]

At 7:20 AM 2/18/97, Ted Samsel wrote:
>
>Wasn't the hollow earth (Lawsonianism) also espoused by the
>Thule group?

There's a couple of excellent books on the mythology of the "Hollow Earth",
which inevitable go into the mythology of the "hidden rulers" supposed to
live within.  _Arktos_ by Joscelyn Godwin & _Subterranean Worlds_ by Walter
Kafton-Minkel.

While this sounds like way leftfield stuff, I, after much deliberation,
have concluded that I like Hollow Earth wackos much more than UFO wackos.
There's a Hollow Earth mailing list which would doubtless appeal to many
Pyn-heads; if pressed, I'll post subscription info.

Pynchon himself touches on this in _V_ with the lost land of Vheissu (sp?).
There have been numerous expeditions to find the hole in the polar ice.
Perhaps some of them have been... TOO successful.... [BWAHH-HA-HAAA!!!].

Some good references on Naziism & the occult:

_Morning of the Magicians_ by Pauwels & Bergier (extensively quoted by
Cortazar in _Hopscotch_)

_The Occult Roots of the Third Reich_ by Goodrich-Clarke (kinda dry &
academic; tends towards over-skepticism, given the nature of the material)

_Unholy Alliance_ (can't remember author's name; Peter someone, it's very
recent).

Also, here's a nice little on-line document over in the A-albionic archives:

http://www.msen.com/~jhdaugh/a-albionic/gopher/conspiracy/newage/nazi.occult

IllumiNet press is another endless font of info about this type of stuff.
And yes, it's been an obsession of mine ever since I did my undergrad
thesis on _GR_ & started realizing that, hey, this shit ain't made up.



                                                  Jason Witherspoon

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