Dedicated to Carl Sagen, Gene Roddenberry, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Zecharia Sitchin, Stephen Hawking, and of course Erich von Däniken.
I drew the original artwork in 1978, long before I discovered the Sumerian counterpart...
lyrics
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
- William Butler Yeats - 1919
"Hello from the children of planet Earth."
-voice of Rod Roddenberry (son of Gene) immortalized on the Voyager spacecraft - 1977
Are we a Devine inspiration or but a mere fascination?
There are dark forms squinting through the void
Vile things this frail world must utterly avoid
The continuance of peace is a mandated separation
Extending an open hand we risk our planets amputation
How do we define our synthetic presence here?
Born of the Earth, the enhancements are clear
For thousands of years we have been refined
The Anunnaki improving our genetic line
We are the product of accelerated evolution
We are ordained to take to the stars
Destiny calls us to leave this world behind
And seek the Obligate Host
Heaven screams to us below
Eyes to the sky; Learn and go!
By our very design we need to know
That we are not alone
Mankind In Extremis
Progenitors in absentia
“Is this all we know?”
“That is all we were told.”
We have all but forgotten our history
Columbus sailed and a continent fell into misery
If they come, there will be gods among us (again)
Strict benevolence is nothing less than quarantine
As Lords of temerity, we are sanctioned
To stave off another Maunder Minimum
Shorn by severity, we are anxious
To breed through the far millenniums
We launch into vastness
The virus spreads or dies
Seeds upon the celestial wind
A tempest plague in disguise
In these haunted hours left unto us
We still covet hatred, fear, and lust
We seek to breech biology
Horrified, we return to dust
We blast off
Shems to the cosmic sea
Primate fear cast off
Behold Humanity unleashed!
The Purveyors of Provenance we are seeking
To answer for our being
No longer confined to a single star
The Universe is singing:
A chorus of consumption
Of predators and prey
We live by the grace of a naïve assumption
That the gods still want to play
The bitter maledictions of a tethered goat
We have announced ourselves
We are no longer hidden in vacuum
The children of Earth proclaim,
“We are on our way to greet our makers!”
So let us pray…
And a very special thanks to my dear friend Tammy Lier (www.TammyLier.com) for her passionate encouragement, companionship, and for the eloquent recitation from “The Second Coming” by Yeats.
1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of
Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam...more
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