07/12/2020
Book review of Alien Child by Amara D. Angelica
“Alien Child” is a fascinating exploration of Willard Van De Bogart’s own “inner alien,” based on a dramatic alien visit at age 12. But for me, reading this exciting book was more of a mind-expanding exploration of new ways to understand human consciousness.
“Extending beyond the human brain is a chain-like resonant field that is connected to everything in the universe,” he writes. “Markus Buehler, of MIT, presented me with a protein synthesizer [software] so I could represent the sounds [in music] within the xenosphere, a sphere in which the [brain’s map of connections] is allowing our own state of consciousness to be an integral part of the universe … Every time one of the protein molecules vibrates, a new thought is generated and a language is created to communicate on why that molecule moved. This is the alien that lives within us.”
To explore that alien, in 1972, polymath Willard invented a radical electronic musical instrument resembling a spaceship, called the Ether Ship, and he famously performed with it at avant garde events in the 70s.
“At the American Cultural Center in Paris, France in 1975, I was finally introduced to the language of the aliens,” he noted. “I had built a very large laser pyramid. The aliens spoke at the speed of light. A rate at which I could comprehend how things all around me were changing. I could see things unfold in the future and felt time flow though like a strange river of ideas.”
More recently, Willard’s fascinating explorations, described in the book, have included visits to Varanasi, India, where more than one million Hindus were chanting OM; to the star people of Chaco Canyon” in New Mexico, where “the entire Chaco building complex was inextricably woven into all aspects of lunar and solar movements”; to the Adnyamathanha aboriginal tribe in Australia, “where everything is composed of a life force,” and to the mysterious Angkor Wat spiritual temple of Cambodia.
This book is rich in mind-expanding stories like this. For me, it opened up a lot of new ideas to explore. I highly recommend it.