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Greg Bishop currently writes on the UFOMystic blog with Nick Redfern. In a previous incarnation he wrote decided to create a temporary autonomous zone called The Excluded Middle and explore those twighlight issues that others often don't.
This particular piece gives an excellent grounding to the research we're currently doing on linking the kind of hyper-dimensional language sets given to contactees like Jim Sparks which in turn relate to the visual language generated by tryptamine consciousness and the psychedelic carrier tone. Thrown into the mix are the Enochian angelic languages of John Dee and the ground-breaking work of Mario Pazzaglini.
Link to UFOMystic: http://www.ufomystic.com/wake-up-down-there/alien-writing
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In 1994, in the course of publishing my old zine, “The Excluded
Middle,” I read an interview in the first “Anomalist” magazine with a
clinical psychologist who specialized in the study of purported “alien
writing,” that is symbols that human precipients claim are products of
a non-human source. This study was carried on without the general
knowledge of his colleagues, which he surmised might have affected his
private practice and his work with severe psychotics and drug abuse
cases. Before I could find out how to get in touch with him, he sent me
a copy of his self-published book Symbolic Messages with a letter stating “I knew you needed to see it.”
Dr. Mario Pazzaglini was a remarkable man, as I was to find out over
the next few years until his untimely death in 1999. I only met him
once, at the 1997 Roswell bash. We eschewed the parades and some of the
more boring lectures one day and went thrift-store shopping. Most of
our talks were over the phone, and he actually provided some
much-needed free therapy when I mentioned some things that were going
on in my life at the time.
In 1970, he was at the Woodstock music festival, helping to run the
“bad trip” tent along with a few Tibetan Buddhist friends when the
hippies couldn’t handle their acid. He had been a regular in the
Washington D.C. insider circuit for a few years in the mid-1960s, when
he was still in college majoring in physics and mathematics. “He
would have made a great physicist¯ says his brother Peter. In the
late 1960s, he had changed his mind and entered the graduate program in
psychology. He earned his doctorate from the University of Delaware in
1969, and lived in the small town of Newark, just a couple of miles
from U.D. for the rest of his life.
He later became an expert on the problems and cures of drug abuse,
serving on several committees and panels for the state of Delaware, and
in his psychiatric practice, specialized in treating the severest of
the mentally ill. Like everything else in the late ‘60s, he field of
psychology was undergoing an upheaval as newly-minted doctors began to
explore anything that would make the job of healing faster and more
rewarding for the patient. Western culture tries to keep everything
fragmented and separate, and one of the things all of us were trying to
do was introduce connectedness back into the process¯ recalled
Pazzaglini's longtime friend and psychiatric practice partner Dr.
Paul Poplosky. “I think that's where some of his other interests
came into play.¯
Those other interests¯ included a cornucopia of esoterra;
alchemy, cabbala, tarot, and a heaping dose of numerology. He also made
enough of a splash through well-concealed back channels that our
buddies in the ubiquitous black helicopters occasionally shadowed him.
He compiled a magickal and symbol system of his own devising which may
never be cracked. In short, he may very well have been a modern-day
Magus in the guise of a mild-mannered psychologist from Delaware. This
was his perspective when examining the subject of UFOs.
Self-portrait of Pazzaglini with “friends.”
He attended a conference on UFO abduction at M.I.T. in 1992 and
presented his research to the leaders in the field, but few of his
friends ever knew about it. Most of the leaders in the abduction field
basically ignored the subject. Almost no one knew he had notebooks
filled with examples of strange symbols. Hundreds of his paintings and
drawings filled his home. “I believe in his next life, he'll be an
artist¯ says his brother.
“What is this alien writing stuff?”
Someone out there has been writing us letters for a long time.
Strange symbols and printed languages turn up regularly in UFO
encounter experiences. Police officer Lonnie Zamora glimpsed a strange
crescent-and-arrow type design on the side of an egg-shaped craft at
Soccorro, New Mexico in 1964.The account of Jesse Marcel, Jr. includes
pieces of wreckage that his father, Major Jesse Marcel, brought home to
Roswell in the early morning hours of July 8, 1947 inscribed with
symbolic writing that, if genuine, bears little comparison to earthly
communication.
Jesse Marcel, Jr.’s drawing of Roswell wreckage symbols.
“Alien writing¯ can literally change history. The Mormon faith
is based on translations of strangely engraved golden plates that
founder Joseph Smith claimed to have dug up after a divine visitation
in 1823. As for the authenticity of “mentally received¯ messages,
there is reason to believe that at least some of the symbols and symbol
systems described do not originate from the psyche of the participants.
One of the difficulties in verifying the authenticity of an alien
script is that if it resembles an earthly language or known terrestrial
symbols, is it necessarily a “true  one? Perhaps the reason for
this is that all input into a human consciousness is filtered through
an individual’s learning, experience, culture, and prejudice, and the
messages must necessarily be rendered in a form that is understandable
to the receiver as well as others. The flipside of this reasoning is
the obvious possibility that the receiver might be delusional,
hallucinating, or simply hoaxing the account. While it takes little
skill to devise an alphabet with a one-to-one relationship to the
experiencer's native language, a representational pictorial symbol
system or one with no discernible grammar or syntax (at least one which
seems to possess an internal logic) is more difficult to fake.
Humans receive alien writing in many ways. Some say that the symbols
come from angels¯ or teachers.¯ By far the most common method
of reception is by channeling,¯ but the messages can also be the
result of a close encounter wherein the participant sees and remembers
symbols or languages shown to him while wandering about inside (or
inside what is perceived to be) an extraterrestrial craft. An early
example is the case of Herbert Schirmer, who in 1967 claimed to have
been taken aboard a ship near Ashland, Nebraska. On the uniforms of the
beings he encountered was a symbol that resembled a winged serpent.
This theme is obviously not exclusively extraterrestrial, as it was
known to the Greeks and Romans, as “dragons  in Chinese and
European lore, as well as to the new world cultures of Central and
South America. There is the possibility that Schirmer may have
incorporated it (consciously or not) into his account. An interesting
sidelight is the fact that the Mayan culture held the belief that
Quetzelcoatl, the feathered serpent, had taught and bequeathed to man a
system of pictorial writing.
Dr. Mario Pazzaglini made a 16 year study of examples and possible sources of alien writing, and chronicled them in his book, Symbolic Messages.
He collected hundreds of samples and classified them into distinct
categories: 1) Alphabetic consisting of 20-30 symbols, where each
symbol is a consonant or vowel; 2) Syllabicusually 50-60 symbols,
where each symbol represents a consonant/vowel combination; 3)
IdeographicUsually 500-600 symbols, where each symbol represents an
idea or word; and 4) SymbolsConsisting of single and complex
insignia types. These categories must necessarily derive from a human
understanding of representational visual systems, and in fact most
claimed alien writing examples fall into these categories.
aUI language taught to John Weilgart (he claimed) by spacemen.
Pazzaglini conducted a limited experiment wherein participants were
asked to conceive their own “alien language.  The results without
exception showed that, left to their own devices, people tend to
concoct alien alphabets that bear a one-to-one relationship to their
native language.
In the realm of the written word, one of the earliest concrete
examples of what was purported to be an extra-human communication was
channeled by medium Edward Kelley and his boss, Elizabethan Court
Astrologer and all-around magician John Dee, from 1582 to 1589. Dee
said that an angel¯ had dictated to him (through Kelley) a system
of symbols to be used in a ceremonial context, and would provide the
user with a higher understanding of magical and alchemical concepts
than human-based writing. The system was called Enochian¯ and is
still in use by occult practitioners today.
Enochian symbols.
It communicates concepts through the juxtaposition of symbols and
their relationships to each other, and does not appear to be derived
from any written language. Enochian is claimed among its adherents to
affect the reader/ user on important subconscious levels as well. This
aspect of alien writing has also been mentioned by UFO contactees and
abductees.
Alien writing channeled by Pazzaglini.
Pazzaglini’s own alien writing doesn't resemble anything else that
UFO witnesses have reported, with one exception. There seems to be a
spiritual, if not graphic kinship with the scribblings of Betty
Anderasson and her family, and this may explain the fascination he had
with this case. Andreasson, whose abduction experiences were chronicled
in the Andreasson Affair books by Raymond Fowler, has
produced hundreds of pages of a cursive script that almost defies
analysis. After comparing Andreasson's drawings to various medieval
alchemical symbols, Pazzaglini was able to translate one possible
sentence out of hundreds. It read: “If you want to make light solid,
show it to the moon.¯ While this probably makes little practical
sense, it does make for a beautiful sort of poetry.
Pazzaglini once told me that he was in contact with leading
abduction researchers who promised to send him examples of alien
symbols, but he never got them. Perhaps it was because they wanted to
keep the symbols secret to verify the authenticity of future claims, or
maybe it was simply their egos getting in the way. Another study of
alien writing has yet to be published, which is unfortunate. Pazzaglini
had to self-publish his own monograph. Admittedly, the study of alien
writing would make little sense to a publisher with an eye on the
bottom line, but as a contribution to an understanding of extra-human
experience, it should be welcomed.
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