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Out There

from Out There by Chris Harris

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When the literary work of the Tibetan Lama Tuesday Lobsang Ranpa was revealed to have been written by a plumber from Plimpton in Devon called Cyril Henry Hoskins, it didn't dent sales that much. Neither did Hoskins's admission that he'd never been to Tibet in his life. In fact, Hoskins doubled down, saying that one of his books had actually been dictated to him by his cat, who went by the glorious name of Mrs Fifi Greywhiskers.

The granddaddy of saucer contactees, George Adamski started his esoteric career recycling the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (a.k.a. HPB), who did very nicely purveying the teachings of so called "Masters of Ancient Wisdom" through the Theosophical Society, of which she was co-founder. "Professor" Adamski gave out business cards that implied he worked at the Mount Palomar Observatory, although the truth was that he ran a cafe in Palomar Gardens, ten miles down the road. But when the flying saucer craze started and people began to claim that they'd had conversations with the saucers' occupants, George saw a larger opportunity; he crossed out all mentions of "ascended masters" in his teachings and substituted "space brothers" instead. Then he bought a gasoline lantern from Sears, took the top off it, shot some blurry photographs of it, and the rest is history...

In each case (and this also applies to the writings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky) the promise of profound mystical revelation is always made—but never delivered. It always seems to end up being somehow left out, meaning that you'll have to buy the author's next book in the series in order to find out anything concrete. This is the now widely-used "the dog ate my homework" model for separating true believers from their money on a recurring basis...

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Always observing
from his lair in Tibet
We don't deserve him
but he's all we can get

This brand of transcendence requires an open mind
Once you achieve ascendence, what are you going to find?

The Invisible College
from a reliable source
who teaches ancient knowledge
by correspondence course

A small donation
grants you the briefest look
but the real information
is in his forthcoming book

For him it's like an addiction
he loves to play the field
That he's a work of fiction
one thing he won't reveal

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from Out There, released August 4, 2022

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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