Press release from the Sulfur Society for the Sunday event in which we will speak.
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of far higher intelligence and power than anything we can conceive of as human beings; that they are not necessarily based on the brain and nerve structures we know of, and that the one and only possibility for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.
A. Crowley, 1944
Dear friends and free researchers, we are proud to present "Beyond: Ufology & Esotericism", a first national edition in which UFO subject will be dealt with from a mainly esoteric point of view.
How does ufology stand today in the world of esotericism? When and why are research on UFO phenomena found within some initiatory societies? Is it possible to contextualize the phenomenon of contactism in the magical-spiritual context? Ufology is certainly one of the most controversial and difficult topics to frame socially and historically, as well as the "modern myth" par excellence. enigmatic cave paintings that seem to portray flying saucers and alien beings, the UFO argument has never been exhausted, indeed, the hypotheses advanced about it include various and different branches of study.In the magical and esoteric field the presence of alien entities seems to reveal itself via Let's start with Aleister Crowley's Amalantrah operation, which in 1918 in New York would have opened a dimensional portal, entering into communication with an alien intelligence called LAM, which was followed by the first representation of a so-called "gray", in a drawing.We move on to Operation Babalon in Pasadena, where in 1946 Jack Parsons and Ron Hubbard attempted to open another door based on the writings of Crowley. The writings of Jacques Vallรฉe, in which the existence of a parallel dimension is hypothesized as the place of origin of alien beings. Finally, Kenneth Grant, who in addition to studying in depth the LAM entity, through the publication " External Portals "in particular, he elaborated a body of knowledge in order to be able to operate on an esoteric level outside the known universe. During the conference we will therefore investigate this topic from an esoteric, historical, anthropological and fantastic point of view, thanks to four speakers who will expose their different points of view, to try to clarify the topic Ufology.
SPEAKERS
ROBERTO PINOTTI
Born in Venice in 1944 but Florentine by adoption, he is a sociologist, a political scientist and a scientific journalist with 46 years of registration in the Register. Graduated from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences "Cesare Alfieri" of the University of Florence and former complement officer at a large NATO unit with tactical nuclear weapons, the III Missile Brigade, he was a researcher in a company of the Florentine aerospace pole presenting various reports academics at the annual Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and collaborating with ASI, ESA, the International Space University of Strasbourg and the University of Florence. He founded in 1967 the Italian National UFO Center (CUN) he directs and is recognized as a world-renowned scholar of the subject of UFOs. Polyglot, he is president of ICER (International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research) and on the book front he has over 50 titles in six languages โโto his credit. Former consultant of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), member of the Academy of Sciences of San Marino and in Italy of the Constantinian Academy of Medical, Legal and Social Sciences, since 1967 he has been frequently interviewed by national and foreign television broadcasters. acquiring great popularity in television and on the web. He has also actively dealt with esotericism, parapsychology, Marian apparitions and historical-archaeological enigmas, linking everything with UFO phenomenology. He has held about a hundred world congresses and of those he annually coordinated under the aegis of the Government of San Marino 30 were dedicated to UFOs and 20 to extraterrestrial life. He directs the scientific journals UFO (organ of the CUN) and ARCHEOMISTERI. The profile of him on Wikipedia, as well as in Italian, was made in English, French, Romanian, Bulgarian and Chinese. He has visited thirty countries on five continents. Amateur astronomer, the asteroid PINOTTI 12470-1997BC9, discovered on 13 January 1997 by the amateur astronomer Maura Tombelli of the Astrofili Group of Montelupo Fiorentino (FI), was dedicated to him in the official MINOR PLANETS CATALOG.
MAXIMUM CENTINI
Graduated in Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Turin. He has worked on contracts with Italian and foreign universities and museums. Among the most recent activities: under contract in the โEthnographic Artโ section of the Natural Science Museum of Bergamo; he taught Cultural Anthropology at the Design Institute of Bolzano. Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Popular University Foundation of Turin; teaches "History of Anthropology" at the courses organized by MUA - South Tyrolean University Movement - of Bolzano. He has published numerous essays with Mondadori, Piemme, Rusconi, Newton & Compton, Yume, Xenia, San Paolo and others. Some of his volumes have been translated into various languages.
INTERVENTION - "FROM CINOCEFALS TO MARTIANS: An anthropological reading of the alien". The observation of the UFO phenomenon, if carried out through the models and tools of cultural anthropology, essentially analyzes the effects determined by the encounter with otherness. The focus therefore focuses not so much on the alien itself which, already in relation to the semantic values โโof the term, arises problematically in the encounter between observer and observed, but on what we believe the alien is.
MARCO MACULOTTI
Publisher and writer, he was born in Cremona in 1988 and graduated in Milan. He is the founder and director of "AXIS mundi", an online magazine of culture, anthropology of the sacred, history of religions, esotericism, folklore, literature of the fantastic. He has published in various journals of traditional and literary studies, both paper ("Atrium", "Arthos", "Lovecraftian Studies", "Zothique", "Cosmic Dimension", "Il Corriere Metapolitico"), and digital. Lately he has focused on the work of the Welsh writer Arthur Machen, publishing three essays: The Fair Ones, Atavism and "Protoplasmic Regression": Arthur Machen's Panic Mythopoiesis (In Beyond the real, GOG Editions, 2020), The fairies, the witches and the door to the Other World: folkloric and ethnographic reliefs on the work of Arthur Machen (in "Zothique. Magazine of fiction and fantastic culture", n. 4/2020) e Arthur Machen, Advent Prophet of the Great God Pan (In Arthur Machen. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bietti Editions, 2020). In February 2021 the first long essay of him comes out for Mimesis, Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective, dedicated to the mysterious and mysterious aspects of the first season of Nic Pizzolatto's successful TV series. Among his most recent publications we point out, as significant here, the full-bodied essay The cult of the fairies in Celtic countries: an eschatology of death and rebirth (on โArthosโ n.29).
INTERVENTION - "ALIEN FOLKLORE": When the term "alien" is used today, it is always used in the sense of "extraterrestrial". But the Latin "alio", from which the Italian "alien" derives, more generally indicates a situation of otherness with respect to the human being, or rather to living human beings. "Alii" were therefore, for the ancient Romans, the spirits of the dead, as well as all those entities of the Other World that were outside the human "norm", and therefore, simplifying, both the gods and the demons. Here, starting from the paraphysical hypothesis of John Keel and Jacques Vallรฉe, we want to analyze the numerous aspects of the modern UFO phenomenon (and above all of the "abductions") that appear to be correlated with ancient traditions and with folklore concerning fairy entities and " thin ones โof the Other World, from the kidnapping of human beings by the latter to theโ Changeling โ, from the mysterious phenomenon of theโ Missing Time โto the equally enigmatic one of theโ crop circles โ.
STEFANO MASELLA
He was born in Arona in 1966. In the course of his life he studied various questions concerning European and Mediterranean esotericism as a self-taught, with particular attention to life; the works and cultural legacy of Aleister Crowley. At the age of 21 he therefore decides to start a personal journey that transits from the direct legacy of the Thelemic tradition and, in the meantime, continues to deepen the many myths that make up the narrative fabric from which the European initiatory traditions are enlivened, in particular the myth. del Vril and related correlations also linked to Esoteric Nazism. He is part of the CTA 102 study and research center with which he has been collaborating for several years.
INTERVENTION - โESOTERIC UPHOLOGY: An introduction to the analysis of the UFO phenomenon from a magical and esoteric point of viewโ. The experience of the manifestations of contact with preterhuman and extraterrestrial entities leads to the consideration of the phenomenon as an expression of human consciousness and mind, placing in the field of those forces linked to our being and our universal cosmic identity.
OPENING HOURS
17.00 - Stefano Masella
18.00 - Marco Maculotti
19.00 - Massimo Centini
BREAK
21.00 - Roberto Pinotti
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