The Occult Control System: UFOs, Aliens, Other Dimensions, and Future Timelines

by Daniel Pinchbeck

Are we being observed and visited by alien beings from another world or perhaps another space-time dimension? Thousands upon thousands of accounts of UFOs and alien abductions suggest that something is happening that we do not yet understand. Recently, even mainstream media organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post have started to report on the bizarre sightings made by military pilots around the world. Are we moving toward a deeper level of Disclosure? And if so, what will be disclosed? How can we best understand this phenomenon? Considered one of the foremost authors on esoteric, occult, and shamanic topics, Daniel Pinchbeck ( Breaking Open the Head , 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl , How Soon Is Now ) turns his attention to the question of aliens in The Occult Control System . Following thinkers like Patrick Harpur, Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, John Lamb Lash, and Laura Knight-Jadczyk, he proposes that the unfolding alien narrative is part of an occult or hyper-dimensional control system designed to keep humanity locked into a certain frequency of consciousness and being. As we awaken to our situation, we can find the tools to break out of this intricately designed prison and access our true potential.

Genres: Nonfiction, Paranormal, Occult, History

1 pages, Audio CD

Published August 30, 2022

About the author

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, and Notes from the Edge Times. He is a co-founder of the web magazine Reality Sandwich and of the website Evolver.net, and edited the North Atlantic Books publishing imprint Evolver Editions. He was featured in the 2010 documentary 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. He is the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki.

Reviews

[Ernie Howard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting

Open your mind to the possibility that we are not alone, and never have been. This essay is a fast interesting read.

[Jules · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable book (more like an essay) that some may say borderlines on bonkers and folklore.

Far from Aleister Crowley's "Book of Lies," "The Occult Control System: UFOs, aliens, other dimensions, and future timelines" is more than that. It's a speculative treatise that harps on known unknowns, epistemological tradition, and self awareness.

"The Occult Control System" reminds me of Don Miguel Ruiz's "The Four Agreements" and Jason Jorjani's "Prometheus and Atlas." Pinchbeck lucidly talks about portals of awareness that may constitute the need for a new perennial understanding.

While I'm a skeptic (of the Michael Shermer variety) regarding extraterrestrials, I do think there is suppressed (or unrealized) knowledge that could reshape our conception of modern physics and zeitgeist.

Following recent headlines about dubious UFOs, this book gets four stars; considering its length, it's more than worth reading for elevating the dialogue in a way friendly to open minded new-comers.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!

Reading this began satiating a part of me that was hungry for some really good deep speculative pondering. The flavor of Pinchbeck's though is just what some part of my mind was missing. He bridges the grounded and the esoteric in a way that doesn't make me want to just label UFOs and conspiracists with a shrug or a sense of subtle or overt aversion and instead turn towards the meta ideas in a way that makes me go "huh." He takes stubs of ideas I've thought about a little bit, and expresses them more fully in a more universally focused and intriguing way. I appreciate the lucidity and succinctness of his writing.

[Mitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mind blowing

Pinchbeck delves deeply into the rabbit hole of the true meaning of UFOS in our culture, history, and future. He paints a grand, exquisite picture of alien influences on our species, extending back into our past and out into our future. A tremendously important treatise on what we are facing as a species.

[Rhyk · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not up to his usual engaging clarity. He’s all over the place (in a rambling, loose-ends way not like the encyclopedic journalist he can be). So, meh.

[Rinstinkt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very concise. Thought-provoking.

This quote summarises it well:

The thesis that we need to address the dangerous implications of the UFO and alien abduction phenomenon as a “psychic and symbolic reality,” as well as a “control system which acts on humans and uses humans,” contradicts certain trends in contemporary spiritual and New Age thought. These days, we find a strong tendency in many spiritual communities to focus single-mindedly on the power of positivity and affirmations of the light, based on ideas such as “The Law of Manifestation” or “The Secret.” The underlying belief is that each of us creates our own reality through our thoughts and intentions. Therefore, if we simply avoid anything dark or malevolent, nothing negative will be able to enter our field. But unfortunately, reality is not that simple, and this approach is a blatant form of spiritual bypassing.

Paul Levy explores the idea that modern Anglo-European culture is infected by what the Algonquins call “wetiko,” a cannibalistic spirit driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption. “Spiritual/New Age practitioners who endlessly affirm the light while ignoring the shadow” fall “under the spell of wetiko,” he writes. By seeking to turn away from and hide their darkness, these practitioners unwittingly reinforce “the very evil from which they are fleeing. Looking away from darkness, thus keeping it unconscious, is what evil depends upon for its existence. If we unconsciously react … to evil by turning a blind eye toward it – “seeing no evil” – we are investing the darkness with power over us.” The alternative is to permeate evil with awareness, “stalking” the shadow so we can catch and assimilate it. Carl Jung wrote, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

If the thesis developed in this essay has validity, then New Age spiritual practitioners will have to overcome their bypassing and confront the dark side of the psyche, reckoning with the occult control system. At the same time, political and ecological activists will need to interrogate their inveterate bias toward a purely materialist analysis, to acknowledge the existence of occult, hyper-dimensional, forces at work behind the scenes, influencing the course of events. And conspiracy theorists who believe in an incredibly evil, highly organized and intelligent cabal of human controllers working to bring about a New World Order surveillance society of enslavement will have to recognize that the controllers operating behind the scenes are not humans at all. Here and there, the Bible gets this right - as in Ephesians: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” If we aren’t aiming at the proper targets, we will never hit the mark.

[Anthony Thompson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm open to a rationalistic approach to these subjects of cray, but this wasn't it. It's a dizzying thesis that Pinchbeck brings to you the reader, and while I think I actually agree with Pinchbeck's assessment of the world as he presents it here, I'm not sure the book does a strong job of clarifying what he's saying.

Which basically seems to be, read everything and sort of stare at it all like it's one big thing out of the corner of your eye.

He believes the world is ruled by an Archon (love me Gnostic folk). I do too, I'm just not settled on whether the Archon exists for real, or is just some HEAVY mental programming that needs to be superseded by better memetic ideas for our species.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting theory for our times

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Pinchbeck lays out an informed though less widely considered way of making sense out of some of the stranger things which seem to be happening in our world these days. Things aren't always what they seem... Hopefully many readers will come way from this book with a more open-minded way of considering current and future events which may baffle the rational materialist mind. Recommended for seekers of truth.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book get's the brain box in gear. Like all these books you have to take what resonates with you and put the rest away, someday it might maybe never.

[Dustin Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking for an answer maybe you'll find it here or maybe not but regardless old acid head Daniel is fun to read.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a quick summary of events than ideas for anything new.

[Dylan · Rating 2 out of 5]

More an extended essay than a book. His stated goal was to go deeply into the subject from new angles but I don't think this was achieved.