Our Occulted History:
Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?
by Jim Marrs
Wm. Morrow, 2013, hardcover
382pp, notes, index
A Review by Gene Stewart
Jim Marrs? Aliens? Must be some kind of joke.
He wrote Crossfire, which, blended with Jim Garrison’s On the Trail of the Assassins, became Oliver Stone’s JFK. That was no joke, and Crossfire remains the definitive book covering the JFK assassination.
He wrote Rule By Secrecy, Alien Agenda, Rise of the Fourth Reich, and Trillion Dollar Conspiracy, for others. Each nailing down the details for topics as diverse as the shadow government, Nazi influence in today’s world, and the systematic looting by the 1% of America’s wealth.
Trained as a journalist, he uses a reporter’s approach to gather and sift information from a wide variety of sources. He investigates and correlates a vast array of material for each book with impeccable research and solid citations. Investigative reporter by training and instinct, he delves into our conventional, approved history and finds a gold-mine of suppressed information, which he presents clearly and entertainingly.
Jim Marrs is like your wise old uncle who’s seen most of it and can guess the rest if you get him in a good mood.
Our Occulted History focuses on how ruling elites warp the story of how things got the way they are now. Occulted means hidden. Blocked. We are not allowed to see many things dealing with our own history.
One of them is the Ancient Alien question. He explores the evidence for the possibility that Ancient Alien influence may well have shaped our so-called civilization. Further, he reveals evidence that it’s still with us, guiding us if not calling the shots.
Marrs does not shy away from the outré. He surveys Von Däniken and Sitchin, giving their questions and interpretations fair due, then takes us into our own DNA, where there is strong evidence of binary coding and inserted sets of genes received all at one time. It happened, somehow, precisely when homo hominid became homo sapient, the brain explosion that took us from small animals to technological masters of much of the planet.
That humanity underwent a sudden, mysterious increase in brain power, and consequent abilities to control our environment, is undisputed. What caused it, or did it? The more science looks at the evidence, the more it seems to have been done deliberately by a higher intelligence.
Were the so-called gods of our superstitious past actually star people? Sky people? People with advanced technology who came from other planets or even other dimensions would prove good suspects in the brain expansion mystery, when we not only had our brain capacity boosted but received, too, a set of genes not acquired over time and natural selection. A packet, inserted, is what it looks like, and the information in those genes remains unknown, although the early research is provocative.
Suppose, then, a small cabal of elite humans and perhaps hybrids continue contact with the ETs who did this for us so long ago. Talk about a shadow government; high tech may well mean something to them that we would look upon as impossible magic.
Many scientists in the early days of UFOs, from the 1940s on, quickly concluded something unsettling: If these craft represented a group advanced enough to make and use them, then such a group would be extraterrestrial OR would exist parallel to us, or among us, unseen somehow.
Leaving aside interdimensionality, we might postulate the various groups of so-called supernatural beings observed through history, the faerie folk and spites and pixies and leprechauns, the demons and djinn, the spirit people of many cultures, might actually be due to glimpses of this parallel or ET group. Some ETH theorists say they live among us, or that they’re taking us for genetic hybrid experiments to let them do so. Others talk of spacetime portals and multiple worlds, permeable by technology we do not yet have.
Or do some of us have access to things like time travel? Is the Montauk Experiment rumor or fact?
Secret societies and privage groups of influential, wealthy people may know. In fact, they may benefit from their position as unofficial emissaries of the 99% of us on Earth who have no idea, no E-ticket letting us in on the hair-raising truth.
Our Occulted History is at core a presentation of evidence that leads to terrifying, at least unsettling conclusions. Certainly, as Henry Ford and others have said, history is a lie, agreed upon.
By whom is the lie agreed upon? What does the lie allow them to do with the rest of us not privy to the secrets? Or is the secret that there is no secret?
For those who think history is a series of random events, this book will either amuse or enrage you. For those who wonder, or who suspect that our history is shaped by unseen forces, influenced if not controlled by small cabals of wealthy elite who just might have access to information sources the consensus media sneers at and calls fringe and worse, for those people this book will prove compelling.
Either way, Marrs is always readable and interesting, and the evidence he discusses can be confirmed on your own, if you wish to dig a little. His excellent notes and index make researching accessible, if you wish to pursue the leads that brought him to these conclusions.
For the open-minded, Our Occulted History offers the chance to change the way you see the world and our history in it.
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