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June
27, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 556 |
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Our
own Miss Sally has gone in quest
of today's American woman, has
taken her pulse, and has returned
with this remarkable report that
is, perhaps, one of the most
quietly disturbing pieces we've
ever presented. This is girl talk
in the 21st century, and it's a
far cry from Grandma gossiping
with the ladies at church about
the butcher putting his thumb on
the scale. Today, "church"
is out at Mt. Shasta at night,
seeking that elusive spiritual
link with Big Foot, and that close
encounter of the fifth kind that
gets one a book deal and a choice
speaking spot at the next UFO
MegaCon. In the late 20th century,
everyone was accorded a mythical
15 minutes of fame, and with the
vastly expanded media
opportunities of our day, that
means everybody now has their own
TV show, radio program, or
podcast. What the hell, ourselves
included. These gals are Jessica
Jones, the "Cryptid Huntress," and
Tonia Braddock, the "Existential
Empath." Tonia is the guest on
Jessica's show tonight, and that's
where this bizarre conversation
begins. From there, it is truly
"Off the Trails" and off the
rails, as these girls chat about
all of the paranormal dark stuff
they do as if it was perfectly
normal to be out in the middle of
the night, encountering aliens,
and being chased by Sasquatch
disguised as deer. You probably
think I made that last part up.
Well, you'll just have to listen
and hear it for yourself. Like
Sally says, "We're not in Kansas,
anymore! Not even in Kansas!"
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July
25, 2022
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The
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Program
No. 576 |
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This
is Sally Belle-Époque. A few weeks
ago, on a program we called,
"Spiritual Sasquatch and the
Evolution of Consciousness," I
introduced you to two women,
Jessica and Tonia, who call
themselves the "Cryptid Huntress"
and the "Existential Empath." The
point we sought to make with this
program was that, as crazy as this
stuff all sounds, there are
millions of gullible souls out
there who believe in it, and the
transformation that this has
brought to American culture over
the course of merely a couple of
generations has been stunning,
unstoppable and, perhaps most
disturbing of all, silent. When
Christianity has been discarded
and discounted as the cultural
norm, and as a way of life, and at
the highest levels of society,
this is what filters down and
fills the void. Beginning tonight,
and continuing all week, you're
going to hear how this all
happened, and you'll be told what
it all means, by the best
commentators we could find on this
subject. We begin tonight with,
"New Age Spirituality, USA: Gurus,
Healers and Shamans." Jessica and
Tonia, and all the others swept up
in this cult, weren't born that
way, they were made this way, and
tonight you'll hear how. Then
tomorrow night, and the next night
thereafter, it will be Brian's
turn, as he'll be your host for,
"Spirituality Vs. Religion: The
Rise of the New Age." Then on
Thursday, Chaplain Phil will
present a classic Hour of the
Time with Bill Cooper
titled, "Return of 'The Christ:'
Freemasonry and the New Age." And,
wrapping up the week, our guest
will be Dr. Lyell Asher, who will
speak on "Why Colleges Are
Becoming Cults." Call your friends
and give a shout out to the
neighbors to be sure and tune in
to RNJ all this week, as we break
down the rise of the "New Age" on
"old school" Catholic Pirate
Radio! It begins now with, "New
Age Spirituality, USA: Gurus,
Healers and Shamans."
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July
26, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 577 |
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From
the Garden of Eden to the rise of
the New World Order, the struggle
of good against evil that has
gripped humanity over these past
millennia has been many things,
but no one can say that it has
been boring. And you certainly
won't say that after you hear this
presentation that we have for you
over the next two nights. As we
progress through this new century,
we are beginning to realize that
the retreat of Christianity as a
positive force in the world in the
past two left a much larger
cultural void than had been
anticipated. And filling this
breech has been the rise of a
so-called "New Spiritual
Awakening" that is just as
ridiculous as the likes of a
Madame Balavatsky or an Aleister
Crowley and yet, at the same time,
just as strangely compelling as
the demons that possessed them. No
sensible person would fall for
such rubbish as this, yet, as
Barnum showed so often and so
well, the sensible person is often
a commodity in short supply. And
they are no bargain when they are
around, as it was sensible people
who cried out for Barabbas, and it
was sensible people who brought
Hitler to power. And it's not like
sensible people can be relied upon
in a spiritual crisis, as they
have no sense of the otherworldly,
which is exactly why they are
perceived to be so sensible to
begin with. That's why, when you
take such sensible people and put
them in charge of the Church and
the governments of the world, the
devil has a field day. Oh LORD,
save us from such sensible people!
As for the rest of you, hear now,
"Spirituality Versus Religion: The
Rise of the New Age." Here is Part
One.
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July
27, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 578 |
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Spirituality
Vs Religion: The Rise of the
New Age - Part Two
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Perhaps
the greatest takeaway from last
night's program was the
frightening truth of how good the
devil is at what he does, and this
as evidenced by the fact that he
can make seemingly sensible people
fall for the most outrageous
things. Like Eve in the garden,
it's always this obvious, and yet
humanity falls for it every time.
Even the basic events that
transpired concerning Jesus at the
cross are denied by the sensible
"experts" the Church produces, and
the entire idea behind the deposit
of faith being rooted in an
historical event, witnessed and
agreed upon collectively by
apostles who subsequently gave
their lives for it, has been
discarded by the very sensible
learned ones who took vows always
to protect it. It's little wonder
faith has withered and died out in
our society, for it withered and
died out within the Church a long
time ago, and the former is, after
all, merely a reflection of the
latter. And one should not be
surprised at the vile behavior we
witness in public in the society
around us, for it is no different
than what has been done behind
closed doors within the churches.
Priests sworn to Jesus have
anointed his youth with the
anointing of Satan, and have done
so upon the very altar of Christ
itself. That is the depth of our
sin, and that is why these
perverted, pagan, demon cults have
arisen in our midst, for in the
end we are no different. Yet in
the midst of this, Jesus remains
with us. And what the devil has
wrought, and man is incapable of
fixing, Jesus can and He will.
Ponder the rise of the New Age,
but do so knowing that it also
falls. And sooner is a more likely
bet than later. We commence now
with Part Two of Spirituality
Versus Religion: The Rise of the
New Age.
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July
28, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 579 |
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While
it is all the political controversy
that always swirled around Bill
Cooper that garnered the lion's
share of the attention he received,
it is actually the spiritual and
religious controversy that is the
root cause of it all, and no one
knew that better than he did. The
dark tone that characterizes these
old Hour of the Time broadcasts
comes from your host's in
depth knowledge of just how all
pervasive and persistent the devil
is in his many guises and dealings
with hapless humanity, and by this
point late in his career, his world
weariness and frustration at the
futility of it all are unmistakable
and undeniable. From his mountain
top home in Eagar, Arizona, Bill
Cooper peered across the gulf of
time, looked down upon the crumbling
United States of America, and saw no
Promised Land flowing with milk and
honey, but only an arid and barren
wasteland, devoid of God, and with
the few remaining humans enslaved
and the rest exterminated. Tonight,
we learn that New Age spirituality
is merely Freemasonry for the great
unwashed horde. It is the
captivating lie that seizes the
children of God and leads them, Pied
Piper like, to the same doom and
destruction that has always befallen
the human rats who turn from Him and
chase after the filth of the pagan
gods, gurus, and shamans. That this
is the path America has chosen is
undeniable, and the consequences for
doing so are unavoidable. Bill
Cooper was thought to be a political
commentator who said prophetic
things. More accurately, he was a
prophet who commented on politics.
And he was right. Look around you:
"Behold a Pale Horse."
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July
29, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 580 |
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This
is Sally Belle-Époque. First of
all, let me begin by expressing my
deep thanks to Brian Helix and
Chaplain Phil for their
contributions to this week long
look we've been able to take into
the New Age Movement and all of
its dark implications. It seems
like we're always going our own
separate ways, and doing our own
separate things, which, I have to
admit, has resulted in some
awesome projects and programs.
However, this week has proven that
when we combine our efforts, the
whole ends up exceeding the sum of
its parts, and we all benefit from
that, including and especially you
the listeners. And so we conclude
this week with this lecture from
college professor Dr. Lyell Asher
in which he is going to explain to
you just how it is that the "Woke"
movement took over the college and
university campuses, how this is
transforming society, and why you
should be alarmed about it. There
are many faces to the New Age
revolution, and "Woke" is merely
one of them, just as politics is
only one part of the greater
agenda of world domination. Those
to whom we have entrusted the
arbitration of truth, the
definition of justice, and the
passing on of knowledge itself,
have betrayed us to the most
sinister and vile of political
conspiracies; an international,
globalist communism that is about
to engulf the world in a darkness
previously unknown. It is
disturbing that Dr. Asher
addresses the issues so eloquently
in worldly terms, while his own
blindness to the spiritual
dimension speaks more than he does
as to how the academic world fell
into such circumstances as these.
Perhaps more disturbing still is
the greater truth that as the
colleges and universities became
this godless, no one seemed to
notice. Or care.
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August
01, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 581 |
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Caryl
Matrisciana was one of the first,
and remains one of the best, at
describing what the New Age
movement is all about and where it
came from. Caryl passed away back
in 2016, and this work that we are
going to be exploring over the
next two nights, Gods of the
New Age, goes all the way
back to 1985. Being born in India
and educated in Britain, Caryl
Matrisciana had the unique
perspective of being able to see
clearly into these two different
worlds, and her time in history
coincided with the rise of this
phenomenon of Eastern mysticism
being infused into the old, tired
and more openly Satanic New Age
movement of Madame Balavatsky and
Aleister Crowley. Add in UFO's,
cryptids, and psychic phenomena,
and you've got the whole
syncretistic package as it exists
today. Not only does this classic
documentary provide the perfect
addendum to last week's journey
through the New Age movement, it
is also the perfect segue into the
programs that lie ahead, in which
we will continue to examine the
ongoing quest to establish and
promote the existence of non-human
life forms as humanity's guides
into a utopic near future: the New
Age. That Christians don't find
this more alarming than they do
alarmed Caryl Matrisciana back in
1985, it alarms us today, and
we're intent on making it alarm
you. We begin that process now
with this first alarming
installment of Gods of the New
Age.
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| August
02, 2022 |
The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 582 |
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Gods
of the New Age continues and
concludes tonight, as we realize
that the influence of Hinduism and
the gurus has become all pervasive
in Western societies, and that the
efforts of Ghandi and others to
forge an amalgamation of this
demon worship with the worship of
Jesus Christ is one of the prime
reasons for all the tension in our
world today. Christians in the
21st century have been brainwashed
for so long, and by so many, into
thinking that the faith of Jesus
is just some worn out relic from
an inglorious past, that they've
lost sight of the fact that this
is one of the central lies that
all of this stuff is founded upon.
Trading eternal salvation through
the shed Most Precious Blood of
Christ for the endless cycles of
reincarnation upon this vale of
tears is certainly no bargain, and
no one would make such a bargain
if the Church proclaimed the
Gospel of Christ instead of
watering it down with its own
version of this same silly, and
worldly, devil driven slop. If you
want to know what's wrong in the
Church and the world you need look
no further than this. And while it
is bad enough that those entrusted
with proclaiming said Gospel have
traded the family cow of faith for
the magic beans of this kind of
superstition, it is still
unconscionable that the faithful,
so-called, let them get away with
it. And all in the name of
appeasing and not offending the
world: the same world that
crucified Jesus, martyrs His
saints to this very day, and now
comes for us: docile New Age
Christians being led quietly to
their spiritual slaughter. For
that is what the "New Age" is
really all about.
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| August
03, 2022 |
The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 583 |
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Seems
like it was just yesterday when
one would tune in to Art Bell and
so often find NASA whistleblower
Richard Hoagland to be the guest du
jour. From the secret bases
on the moon to the monuments of
Mars, there wasn't anything too
strange for Richard to delve into.
Throw Linda Moulton Howe into the
mix, and Art go outside for a
coffee and a smoke and no one
would know the difference. Ah,
nighttime radio back in the '90's.
A lot has changed, but,
fortunately for us, this Richard
Hoagland lecture we're about to
present has survived, and in it
Richard describes the occult
origins of NASA. Now this is a
topic we've covered on this
program in the past, and tonight
we return to it because of what we
gain from Richard's insider's
perspective on the good old
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. Before there was
the Alan Parsons Project, there
was the Jack Parsons Project, and,
though unrelated, both were into
the occult. Factor in L. Ron
Hubbard and the Church of
Scientology, and you suddenly
realize just how fascinating a
tale this really is. From the
origins of Parson's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, to self proclaimed
anti-christ Aleister Crowley (who
surely seems to be cropping up a
lot lately), to Werner von Braun,
who connects to both, the origins
of NASA are a far cry from what
most people suppose. Think they're
really above faking all the moon
landings? Listen to this and see
what you think. As for the moon
bases and Martian monuments, it's
not like NASA couldn't have faked
those, too. After all, if they're
not the "Eye in the Sky" then who
is?
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04, 2022 |
The
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Program
No. 584 |
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After
all of the programs we've produced
on this subject, it makes one wonder
just why they still call it the
"Cosmic Secret." It's got to be the
worst kept secret in the cosmos if
it is. This idea that there are
other entities here from other
places who are the quiet, behind the
scenes, forgotten impetus behind
human civilization has become the
accepted religion of the avant-garde
among the younger generations. Such
a one as this is David Wilcock,
whose experiences provide the
jumping off point for this
presentation. Also along is Corey
Goode, in his unique combination
role of experiencer and government
insider, demonstrating, as always,
that whenever the subject turns to
extraterrestrial encounters, the
U.S. government is also going to be
close at hand. It wasn't that long
ago it was the Church that was the
go to source for answers to these
questions of who we are, why we are
here, and what is our destiny. But
belief in revealed knowledge from
God to man, gained through the ages,
and preserved in Scripture and
Tradition, is something the Catholic
Church quietly discarded over a
century ago. What has come to fill
the void is what you are going to
hear about over these next two
nights, and it is fascinating
subject matter, especially when
viewed from this perspective. It has
always been naive and incorrect to
assume that humanity was the only
intelligent life in creation, and
it's not surprising more are
figuring out as much. These entities
have been around forever, trying to
get humans to ponder just who it is
we are. And without the Church
involved we lose sight of the bigger
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05, 2022 |
The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 585 |
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Tonight
we continue and conclude The
Cosmic Secret, and what we
quickly realize is that the "Gods
of the New Age" are alive and
well, and that this is exactly
what Caryl Matrisciana was trying
to warn us about 40 years ago. Add
in enough science to make it all
sound plausible, then the next
thing you know, the seven lamp
stands in the book of Revelation
are actually the points of light
in your own Chakra. It all has a
ring of truth and authenticity to
it unless you think about it more
carefully. I suppose the argument
that must be made is that Hinduism
is merely the more ancient form of
this New Age religion of the Space
Brothers, since it has been so
shamelessly appropriated to push
this whole agenda of deception.
Nothing like listening to a couple
of nights of this sort of thing to
make one realize just how far
astray we have wandered from the
narrow path of Jesus, and how the
Church's influence has waned to be
at the point where nowadays
everyone
has a better explanation than the
orthodox one for what the
Scriptures "really" mean. And no
one bothers to correct them. As
for David Wilcock, Corey Good and
their cohorts and followers, they
have become a very popular part of
what has become this New Age
entertainment industry, and mining
gold in the pockets of the
gullible has been part of the mix
all along for the New Age gurus.
In the end, that's all you're
really seeing here. And New Age
gurus that look and talk like
everyone else are even better able
to downplay the deeper truth,
which is the Cosmic Secret isn't
so much about the "secret" as it
is about the money.
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August
08, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 586 |
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Ufologist
Bob Dean was such a down to earth,
no nonsense kind of guy, that it
made it really difficult to
dismiss what he had to say about
the "Phenomenon." Perhaps that's
the best way to refer to it. The
evidence is both compelling and
multi-sourced that we are not
alone, and, at times, it seems as
if what disclosure is really all
about is definition and not the
"either/or" of mere existence.
Somehow, we seem to have slipped
past all of that into a deeper
discussion of what it all means,
and each of these investigators
and experiencers has a different
take on it that is infused into
the work that they do. That in and
of itself is curious enough to
warrant mentioning, so there you
have it. Bob Dean's tale of "The
Assessment" is a rare look into
the way the military apparatus of
another time dealt with all of
this. Or, as is more likely, it is
a carefully tailored version of
what they want us to believe about
it. Convince Sergeant Dean then
turn him loose into the world to
convince others. You see that
little scenario repeated endlessly
if you look closely enough at all
of this. And if you can find that
point in time and space in which
the United States military and the
intelligence establishment doesn't
connect to all of this, let us
know, for they always seem to be
lurking around somewhere in the
darkness, don't they? And that
seems to fit the paradigm of Bob
Dean, which is a good place to
begin tonight.
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09, 2022 |
The
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Program
No. 587 |
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Last
night we listened to the UFO
paradigm of Bob Dean, tonight we
enter the paradigm shift of Dr.
Steven Greer. Why, you'd almost
think we planned it this way,
wouldn't you? This documentary is
Dr. Greer’s answer to what he
calls the "current government and
media disinformation campaign,"
which he sees as promoting 3 big
lies: Firstly, that we do not know
what these UAPs/ UFOs are.
Secondly, that humans cannot make
craft that can maneuver like UFOs.
And, finally, that the UFOs are a
threat. So, if we know what they
are, and if we can, and do, build
craft like them, and if we know
they are not a threat, then what
the hell is going on? The answer
to that question is what you are
going to hear tonight from Dr.
Steven Greer, and it is a paradigm
shift in the understanding of the
"Phenomenon" for sure. Dr. Greer
teaches a path to spiritual
enlightenment that is available
through direct contact with these
alien entities, and what he denies
vehemently is the viability of
government intervention at any
level in this spiritual growth
spurt for humanity. In this
paradigm, the government is
understood to be a complicating
factor that has entered itself
between the people and the
Phenomenon in such a way that the
Phenomenon itself is using Dr.
Steven Greer to initiate a more
profound, personal and widespread
contact experience. If that just
made you grab for your crucifix
and some Holy Water, then your
paradigm has just shifted as we
intended.
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August
10, 2022
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The
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Program
No. 588 |
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So
where does all this paradigm
shifting lead us? Where are we
going with it? And how far out
there does it go? Garnet
Schulhauser is a quiet and
peaceful little man, who actually
had a very successful career in
corporate law before retiring and
subsequently pitching off into the
deep end of all of this New Age
nonsense. This presentation is
from the Laughlin UFO Mega Con,
and it demonstrates just how
integrated all of this New Age
religion has become within the UFO
Movement. It's like a seamless
garment spanning from the Far East
and transcending into the farthest
reaches of the cosmos. Everybody
has a twist that is a little
different, and yet all of it seems
to convey this same message of
cosmic well being within our realm
of chaos. Garnet Schulhauser's
guide into all of these parallel
universes and higher realms of
consciousness is a being
named Albert, who first
appears to him as a homeless man.
Next thing you know, they are
traveling the astral plane
together, and the adventures and
experiences that ensue form the
basis of this presentation you are
going to hear tonight. Sure it is
easy to dismiss all of this as the
insanity it sounds like, yet guys
like Garnet fill auditoriums with
countless souls who say they
experience the same sorts of
things. And this while the
churches can't close fast enough.
Perhaps the time has come to stop
denying that this sort of thing
happens and instead concentrate
more on what it means that it
does.
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August
11, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 589 |
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Whitley
Strieber has been around so long
now, in this incarnation as UFO
contactee and experiencer
extraordinaire, that it becomes easy
to forget his previous career as the
creator of extremely creepy horror
fiction. It was Art Bell who really
put Whitley over the top in his new
career, as the author of Communion,
and the host of sequels and
follow-ups that were to come after
it, became one of Art's inner circle
of favorite guests on this subject
of extraterrestrial encounters.
Others included Richard Hoagland,
who we have already heard from, and
another was Linda Moulton Howe, who
will finish our week tomorrow night.
Art and Whitley collaborated on the
doomsday thriller The Day After
Tomorrow, which also ended up
being a hit movie. Art eventually
set his pal Whitley up in the Dreamland
radio franchise, and Whitley would
make this into his own unique forum
for spinning his version of the
tales of ongoing contact. If
you haven't heard Whitley Strieber
before, here is your
chance and you really
shouldn't miss it. If you are
familiar with him, then here is the
chance to hear one of the "old
guard" of the UFO contactee movement
before he passes on into eternity,
or wherever it is he thinks he's
going based upon what these little
fellows have been telling him all
this time. By the way, if you are
ever so confronted, stick a crucifix
into the face of one of these
little grey bastards and they won't
pester you. Whitley must know
that, too. I wonder why he
never mentions it?
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August
12, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 590 |
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Chaplain
Phil is so old he can remember
Linda Moulton Howe back before she
had any cosmetic surgery. Those
were the days. By the time Art
Bell discovered this intrepid girl
reporter, who was being ridiculed
for her meticulous research into
the cattle mutilation phenomenon
at the time, Linda Moulton Howe
was already a household name in
her native Colorado. When
translated to late night radio Art
Bell style, Linda's tales of the
unknown, reaching violently and
silently into our world in the
dark of night, were responsible
for bedroom lights left on all
night all over America, and her
increased notoriety soon
demonstrated that it wasn't called
"Coast to Coast" AM
without good reason. Perhaps the
most fascinating thing about her
is the way Linda Moulton Howe
always stays on the cutting edge
of this phenomenon. From cattle
mutilations to this presentation
tonight, which seeks a "state of
the art" understanding of
consciousness and reality at the
merging point of science and
mysticism, she has always managed
to stay on top by staying on top,
if you know what I mean. It's hard
to believe that she's just turned
80, just as it's hard to believe
that time at once can pass so
quickly and go so slowly. Brains
to Galaxies: The Key Is
Frequencies is a small
glimpse into the workings of the
mind of God. Where science and
mysticism meet is a special place
we are going to be exploring in a
different way from here. It is
that place we call the Cross of
Christ.
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Chaplain
Phil
Chaplain Phil grew up
listening to alternative points of
view, and the underground
perspective, that characterized
late night AM and shortwave radio
in the 1960's. In the cold
winter months following the events
that transpired in Dallas on
November 22, 1963, he came to
realize that the death of
President Kennedy represented an
even deeper and more profound
tragedy - the death of the nation.
In the summer of 1964, he read None
Dare Call It Treason by
John Stormer and understood how
this had come to pass. He
was 10 years old.
Through
the ensuing years, he has followed
the flow of free information, as
what we now call the "mainstream
media" banished independent
Christian broadcasting, and honest
political thought, from the AM band to shortwave, then
to the internet, and now, in the
face of internet censorship, back
to shortwave. After a
lifetime of listening, he now
feels the time has come to
speak. His message is
simple. We are living in a
godless false reality created for
the purpose of destroying most of
us and enslaving the rest.
The
time of Revelation is here. Take
heart. For what is being
revealed is the eternal truth of
Jesus Christ.
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Brian Helix -
News Director
As
one of the BBC's "Young
Lions," Brian Helix was
known for his honest
reporting and take no
prisoners attitude towards
the truth. He is an
expert on conspiracies and
the theories thereof, both
modern and classic, and a
top flight investigative
journalist. He
brings these talents along
with his many others to
the post of News Director
here at RNJ.
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Sally
Belle-Époque - Production
Manager
Sally
Belle-Époque made her mark in both
video production and A.I. research
with the famed Hanson Robotics in
Hong Kong, and now brings her
varied talents and unique skills
to bear as Production Manager at
RNJ. Sally is a no nonsense
professional with all the Left
Coast flair and style her
background as a "Valley Girl"
would suggest - a Silicone Valley
Girl.
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Catholic
Pirate Radio
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What
is Catholic Pirate
Radio?
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Pirate
radio or a pirate
radio station is a
radio station that
broadcasts without a
valid license.
Catholic Pirate
Radio is broadcast
without the official
sanction or approval
of the Catholic
Church, any of its
connected agencies
or organizations, or
any member of its
hierarchical
structure (bishops,
cardinals, pope,
etc.).
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Queen of Catholic Pirate Radio
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"You
see, God expects His people
to do the ridiculous so
He can do the
miraculous." - Mother
Angelica
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Father
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Father
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Mother Angelica: Queen
of Catholic Pirate Radio
Mother Mary Angelica
founded the EWTN television
network, and, more
significantly for my purposes
here, WEWN, a global shortwave
broadcast service with
transmitters located in
Irondale, Alabama. In
the 1990's, Mother Angelica
became one of the most
dominant Christian voices on
the shortwave bands, and WEWN
a torch that beamed her
message of the truth of
believing and faithful
Catholicism across the nation
and the world. She was a
major influence concerning my
conversion to the Catholic
Faith in 2002, and it is
truthful to say that my
formation as a Catholic took
place with her over many
nights of listening to the
most powerful voice on 41
meters. She gets much
credit for her pioneering work
in Catholic television, while
her savvy for international
shortwave broadcasting goes
largely unheralded and is just
as significant. It made
her a worldwide voice for the
faith rather than just an
American phenomenon, and paved
the way for the globalization
of EWTN.
Mother Angelica
earned the title of Queen of
Catholic Pirate Radio when she
publicly took on and disputed
the apostate Archbishop of Los
Angeles, Roger
Cardinal Mahony,
concerning the Real Presence
of Jesus in the Holy
Eucharist. While Mahony
was unleashing his wrath upon
Mother all the way to Rome,
it should also be noted that
he retreated quickly and
issued a statement taking
offense at her for daring to
question his belief in the
Real Presence. Thanks to
Mother's widespread and
profound media influence, I'm
sure a lot of bishops, cut
from the same cloth as
Mahoney, also thought twice
about peddling the "Spirit of
Vatican II" nonsense in an
overt way that might end up on
TV.
Here's some vintage
Mother for you:
I’m so tired of you
liberal Church in America!
And everything you’ve ever
done has gone in silence.
Nothing, nothing you’ve done
– from your witchcraft to
your enneagrams to your
centering prayer to all
this ‘earth
spirituality’ to replacing
holy water with sand to
destroying our churches and
closing churches that are
viable and ready to go…no,
this is not an accident.
We’ve swallowed this now for
thirty years. I’m tired of
it. We have swallowed enough
of your idea of God! You
have, really, no God,
no dogma, no doctrine,
and no authority, because
the only authority in the
Catholic Church is
our Holy Father and the
Magisterium, and you have
disclaimed that. You don’t
believe in the Eucharist,
you don’t believe in the
Immaculate Conception, you
don’t believe in the Virgin
Birth, you don’t believe in
Mary’s power of
intercession, you don’t
believe in religious life,
you don’t believe in being a
spouse of Christ! You do believe in teaching
to little children in the
third grade sex education,
you do believe in forcing
centering prayer and forcing
inclusive language upon us,
and now you depict Jesus as
a woman?! You’re sick!
Nothing to add to
that. As a layman, my
duty as a Catholic is to point
out these things just as it
was Mother's duty as a
religious - a Carmelite
nun. She taught me
well. It's time for
Catholic Pirate Radio, the
next generation.
Father Charles
Coughlin: Father
of Pirate Radio
In
1926,
Father Charles Coughlin
first took to the airwaves
on WJR radio in Detroit to
denounce the Ku Klux Klan,
which had recently burned
crosses on the grounds of
his parish. Turning to
politics in 1929, Father
Coughlin quickly became a
dominant and highly
influential radio voice on
the CBS network, with a
weekly listening audience
estimated at 30,000,000
during the peak of his
popularity in the early
1930's. While at first
a fervent supporter of the
policies and person of
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, his views became
more controversial and his
rhetoric more strident as
the Great Depression
lingered on. By 1936,
he was expressing a
viewpoint that was
anti-capitalist and
anti-socialist, and invoked
no little controversy by
expressing a certain
sympathy concerning the
fascism of Benito Mussolini
and Adolph Hitler. He
was accused of anti-Semitism
based upon this and his
searing critique of the
European Jewish banking
establishment, which he
sought to qualify as
follows:
My purpose is to
help eradicate from the
world its mania for
persecution, to help align
all good men, Catholic and
Protestant, Jew and Gentile,
Christian and non-Christian,
in a battle to stamp out the
ferocity, the barbarism and
the hate of this bloody era.
I want the good Jews with
me, and I'm called a Jew
baiter, an anti-Semite.
My point here is not
to speak out for or against
Father Coughlin and his
political opinions, but merely
to point to him as an early
example of the efforts to
censor and silence unpopular
viewpoints. He remains
the textbook example of church
and state teaming up to remove
from public influence someone
deemed too controversial to
have his views heard by the
great unwashed masses of the
general public. The
Roosevelt Administration
determined a priori
that the First Amendment did
not apply to radio
broadcasting, and new
regulations and restrictions
were created specifically to
remove Father Coughlin from
the airwaves. For the
first time, public
broadcasters had to obtain a
permit and seek approval to
speak on the air, and this was
the impetus for those who
refused to do so taking to the
airwaves in protest: the birth
of pirate radio. While
Father Coughlin was able to
circumvent his banishment from
network broadcasting by buying
airtime on local stations, his
reach and influence were
drastically reduced. In
1942 he was ordered to remove
himself from public life by
Bishop Edward Aloysius
Mooney. He complied
without complaint and spent
the remainder of his career as
parish priest at the Shrine of
the Little Flower in Royal
Oak, Michigan. He
retired from active ministry
in 1966.
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| Facilities |
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| Welcome
to our broadcast facilities here at
RNJ. This is where Chaplain Phil and
our crew make the magic happen.
Stars of the Show are a Sweetwater Studio
Computer powering Jean and Ginger, two
1950 Canadian Philips Table Radios that
serve as broadcast monitors. That's Ginger
on the right channel, and Jean on the
left. Auxilliary Computer is "Old
Faithful," a 2009 Hewlett Packard (that's
like about a 1930 model in American Tube
Radio Years (ATRY). You'll also notice
three communication receivers, two 1959
Hallicrafters S-108's and a 1947 National
NC 57. Standby monitors include a 1937
Coronado 725 and 1953 Philco 53-960. It's
all sorted out through a Behringer Xenyx
802 Mixer. Our antenna array (not
shown) is an 80 foot sloping copper long
wire antenna, fastened to a Royal Palm and
running from there to the studio.
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