the timboucher experience

I just finished listening to the John Lash interview from Coast to Coast. In it, he talks at great length about the supposed connection between the archons mentioned in certain gnostic texts, and the greys and reptilian aliens encountered in modern UFO phenomenon. It was certainly an interesting interview, and well worth listening to, but I just wanted to highlight certain aspects of it which veered off very much from my own particular interpretation of that and other fundamental gnostic points.

In the meantime, if you haven’t already, I recommend checking out Lash’s work at Metahistory.org. There’s tons of reading material there and excellent food for thought. Or start out with this article by him elsewhere, The Gnostic Theory of Alien Intrusion. You can also brush up on thoughts of mine on archons and aliens and some other possible connections I uncovered at an older post.

Fantastic Planet actually put together an excellent article on the topic several weeks ago, which covered one of my major talking points already. In the interview, and on the site, Lash seems to more or less exclusively get on board with the idea that archons and aliens are definitely (or at least probably) literally the same thing. In this article, FP espouses the idea that rather than being the “same thing,” modern day aliens seem to operate more as part of what Jacques Vallee believed was sort of a bizarre esoteric control system for humanity. And that the archons were somehow above and beyond that as sort of shadowy controllers.

I’m also especially interested in looking at the more symbolic view of archons. To me, that is the most valuable use of the concept. Archons aren’t merely occult entities or transdimensional aliens - as intriguing as either of those sound. They are in fact much more. They represent the inhuman, the inauthentic, and the dark obsession with control and power. They represent a mindset and a hardening of the heart. Their way of relating to people as objects to be controlled and taken advantage of can be taken up by anyone who loses sight of themselves and what’s really important.

For me, the closest I can get to a literal interpretation of who or what the archons really are is when conspiracy theorists use the word “they” or “them.” It becomes sort of a catch-all, a container which encompasses those in the real government who would rule rather than serve, to those in shadowy cabals pulling strings, to interdimensional tricksters. It even covers your nosy neighbor who rats on you to the cops for sparking up a joint in your backyard on a warm summer night. And it covers the cop who hassles you because he got pushed around as a kid, and decided one day he’d be the one to be doing the pushing around.

Beyond issues of control, I’d also pull in attitudes and actions which are just totally artificial. Or any time we’re offered a chance to really and truly connect to another human being in a meaningful way, and we totally shut down or shut off.

I wouldn’t quite equate archons with “sin,” because I don’t specifically agree with the Christian concept of it. Actually, the word “sin” as it appears in the Bible is said to be a translation from a Greek word which means “to miss the mark.” A lot of people seem to construe sinning as being a total piece of shit moral fuckup. But if you look at it in this sense of “missing the mark,” it actually means you’re trying to hit the target. Of course, as you go along and get better, you’re naturally going to miss the mark. It’s part of how you become a skilled marksman. With this in mind, I’d sooner equate archon-type activity as just not even aiming for the target. It’s not that you’re trying and missing, it’s that you totally gave up trying.

While this is perhaps a lot less flashy or succint of an explanation than “archons = aliens” I find it personally to be of much greater use in my own life. Cause while I’ve never encountered an alien/archon in the flesh, there are definitely times where I’ve become one temporarily or had to deal with people who had been taken over by this mindset - and to me, that’s actually a lot scarier.

• Bush’s Dark Overlord
• The Tao of Gnosticism
• Archon Financial
• Of ARCO & Archons
• Non-Human Entities?