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The Endless American Midnight: Dispatches from the Secret Sun
Expanded 2022 edition of Dispatches from the Secret Sun collection. Essays on the ongoing spiritual crisis plaguing America and the rest of the industrial world.
Collection includes explorations of the effects and limits of technology, the collapse of organized religion and a shared identity and values, socioeconomic stratification and the Kleptocracy, the corrosive effect of Scientism and the hidden hands behind it, the reality of the supernatural and the paranormal and their effect on popular culture, the travails of the forgotten GenXers and the deaths of their idols, and strategies and suggestions to enlighten the encroaching darkness of the Endless American Midnight.
Collection includes explorations of the effects and limits of technology, the collapse of organized religion and a shared identity and values, socioeconomic stratification and the Kleptocracy, the corrosive effect of Scientism and the hidden hands behind it, the reality of the supernatural and the paranormal and their effect on popular culture, the travails of the forgotten GenXers and the deaths of their idols, and strategies and suggestions to enlighten the encroaching darkness of the Endless American Midnight.
400 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 2020
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May 16, 2021
I discovered the Secret Sun blog and was really impressed by it and decided to get this book.
Even though it contains articles from the blog they're organized by topic and include additional material. I thought the book was amazing and much easier to read than the blog as far as organization and flow of the articles. This book discusses many things including history and popular culture, Hollywood and music history, and also how that intersects with aspects of the occult and paranormal. Some of the subjects and shows discussed in detail are Twin Peaks, The OA, Jacob's Ladder, Stranger Things, famous musicians and occultists. The author also talks about his own paranormal experiences and experience growing up in Braintree, Massachusetts, which he calls part of Lovecraft country.
Throughout the book are stern warnings not to play with the occult or underestimate its power along with thought-provoking reflections on how steeped in the occult a lot of popular media is and the impact it has on us as consumers. I thought it's very well written and researched and highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
"I've come to realize more and more that the world is nothing like we've been told it is. Like, not even close. I begin to wonder if, as the old song goes, there's only a hair's breadth between us and the powers and principalities we've lost the ability we once had to recognize."
Even though it contains articles from the blog they're organized by topic and include additional material. I thought the book was amazing and much easier to read than the blog as far as organization and flow of the articles. This book discusses many things including history and popular culture, Hollywood and music history, and also how that intersects with aspects of the occult and paranormal. Some of the subjects and shows discussed in detail are Twin Peaks, The OA, Jacob's Ladder, Stranger Things, famous musicians and occultists. The author also talks about his own paranormal experiences and experience growing up in Braintree, Massachusetts, which he calls part of Lovecraft country.
Throughout the book are stern warnings not to play with the occult or underestimate its power along with thought-provoking reflections on how steeped in the occult a lot of popular media is and the impact it has on us as consumers. I thought it's very well written and researched and highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
"I've come to realize more and more that the world is nothing like we've been told it is. Like, not even close. I begin to wonder if, as the old song goes, there's only a hair's breadth between us and the powers and principalities we've lost the ability we once had to recognize."
January 29, 2021
Christopher Lorien Knowles prowls the overgrown, snake infested fringes of Postmodern culture, scanning through practiced gimlet eye for tangible remnants of a vanishing creative, healthy democratic nation. He then excavates and forensically examines the decadent forces and processes that have reduced these artefacts to their present state of nihilistic impoverishment. In the punchy, no nonsense American Irish vernacular, he walks the reader through the dead heart of a once great nation turned contrived Oligarchic Imperium.
This is no paranoid or schizoid exposition seeking out straw man imaginary blue pill persecutors. A thoughtful reader can read between the crisp lines of prose to discern some profound metaphysical and philisophical truths being offered by one who does not position himself at a superior, cynical, ironic or nihilistic distance. Knowles instead oozes empathy and a willingness to share this Lost Highway with other bewildered denizens of a hot mess of spiritual, cultural, political, economic, psychological, & social decay. The solution, dear reader, is in you, via your awakened (not awokened) awareness, of course it is, no, really !
Long time readers of the parapolitically famous “Secret Sun” blog will be familiar with the memes and themes fleshed out here from their original online essay form. The stream of subject material encompasses parapolitics, technology, cultural mind viruses, Hollywood/Intelligence dark sorcery, intergenerational politics, the fall of pop culture, psycho-spiritual poverty, significant fringe pop culture, memories dreams & hallucinations, elite occultism, the cultural fallout of elite occultism, fake spiritual and religious ‘cures’, real spirituality, the dark side of high-tech gnostic transhumanism, UFO’s and everything in between.
Not for the faint hearted and definitely not intended to simply suckle rubes on the shuck, rather, a bellicose call to arms amidst the infinite self-made conflagration that is rapidly engulfing the West, as experienced from within the crumbling Imperial Center. If you need some tools of liberation from the tendrils of Panopticon you have come to the right place. If you are gazing out and noticing many strange demons populating the fruited plain of your increasingly troubled existence, read on. Skip the detritus of Lame & Same and embrace the High & Strange! Prepare to be liberated from the humdrum borg-song of Archontic reality. Free yourself, borderland folk, from the inferior simulacrum of our non local interiority and take a journey through these sunlit uplands of clarity, and revel in some sorely needed reality.
This is no paranoid or schizoid exposition seeking out straw man imaginary blue pill persecutors. A thoughtful reader can read between the crisp lines of prose to discern some profound metaphysical and philisophical truths being offered by one who does not position himself at a superior, cynical, ironic or nihilistic distance. Knowles instead oozes empathy and a willingness to share this Lost Highway with other bewildered denizens of a hot mess of spiritual, cultural, political, economic, psychological, & social decay. The solution, dear reader, is in you, via your awakened (not awokened) awareness, of course it is, no, really !
Long time readers of the parapolitically famous “Secret Sun” blog will be familiar with the memes and themes fleshed out here from their original online essay form. The stream of subject material encompasses parapolitics, technology, cultural mind viruses, Hollywood/Intelligence dark sorcery, intergenerational politics, the fall of pop culture, psycho-spiritual poverty, significant fringe pop culture, memories dreams & hallucinations, elite occultism, the cultural fallout of elite occultism, fake spiritual and religious ‘cures’, real spirituality, the dark side of high-tech gnostic transhumanism, UFO’s and everything in between.
Not for the faint hearted and definitely not intended to simply suckle rubes on the shuck, rather, a bellicose call to arms amidst the infinite self-made conflagration that is rapidly engulfing the West, as experienced from within the crumbling Imperial Center. If you need some tools of liberation from the tendrils of Panopticon you have come to the right place. If you are gazing out and noticing many strange demons populating the fruited plain of your increasingly troubled existence, read on. Skip the detritus of Lame & Same and embrace the High & Strange! Prepare to be liberated from the humdrum borg-song of Archontic reality. Free yourself, borderland folk, from the inferior simulacrum of our non local interiority and take a journey through these sunlit uplands of clarity, and revel in some sorely needed reality.
August 1, 2021
A true synchro-mystic.
Knowles is a modern deep diver into politics, mysticism, synchronicity, the occult, the paranormal and culture yet remains a high level observer who draws on personal experience without forcing his opinions on you. Truly insightful and truly refreshing.
If you want a taste, check out The Secret Sun blog where many of these essays are collected from. The closing call to action to bravery, strength and rigor in our beliefs, and the development of a deep understanding of the true impacts of our dabbling in magic rather than cultivating something authentic is spot on.
This is not for everyone, but recommended for anyone that doesn't just want to dabble in life but who truly wants to authentically see the good, the bad, and the ugly without fear or judgement.
Knowles is a modern deep diver into politics, mysticism, synchronicity, the occult, the paranormal and culture yet remains a high level observer who draws on personal experience without forcing his opinions on you. Truly insightful and truly refreshing.
If you want a taste, check out The Secret Sun blog where many of these essays are collected from. The closing call to action to bravery, strength and rigor in our beliefs, and the development of a deep understanding of the true impacts of our dabbling in magic rather than cultivating something authentic is spot on.
This is not for everyone, but recommended for anyone that doesn't just want to dabble in life but who truly wants to authentically see the good, the bad, and the ugly without fear or judgement.
April 20, 2022
Chris Knowles is an interesting guy with interesting thoughts he puts down on paper in an interesting way. I've heard him on several podcasts (such as Greg's Higher Side Chats) and his lines of inquiry are always fascinating, backed by evidence, and tied to history and symbolism that harks back to ancient mythology. I tend to agree with him that we are effectively witnessing the end of an age and before us is The Decline. This collection of blog posts is a pleasure to read. It covers some of my favorite topics, from Heaven's Gate to MKOFTEN to the X-Files. His interview with Bobby Beausoleil, his understanding of the imposition of The Process on The Family, and the ultimate interpretation of how the counterculture was poisoned highlights the purposeful injection of depravity into the mainstream; a depravity that weaponizes culture and exploits the esoteric means of mass population control. This book also opened my eyes to the fact that atheism, scientism, and nihilism encapsulate a literal dead-end and only reign supreme near The Decline. If you read this, your eyes will open up too and you'll start to see the weird synchs and patterns. And you'll wish you grew up somewhere as strange as Braintree.
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