Sub Rosa America and the Fall of the New Atlantis

by Freeland, Elana

• ISBN13: 9781468081220
• ISBN10: 1468081225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-02
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

Told from a 2019 perspective when all the Earth is convulsing and the United States of America is collapsing due either to Nature taking back her own, or to a HAARP-driven error, or to a purposeful Tesla sabotage to force a new beginning, the five books of Sub Rosa America and the Fall of the New Atlantis comprise an occult history of the United States since November 22, 1963 that we all should have read years ago before we fell asleep in front of the TV, and not just in the Fifties . . . Book I, "Gone to Croatan," revisits Sixties counterculture at the University of California at Santa Barbara just after the Bank of America has been burned to the ground. A tangled web of political intrigue generated by intelligence factions back East draws six protagonists together and forces a decision to flee into the Southwest desert where they will encounter a Mayan Timekeeper writing a chronicle of the fall of the New Atlantis. Book II, "The Future Arrives By Stealth," begins with a last glance at the old California of Father Junípero Serra, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and Hollywood/Pasadena. Once the young seekers exchange the coast for the desert, the mysteries of Time Present and Time Past begin pointing to Time Future, and when the Mayan Timekeeper joins them, Enterprise players back East-already on the trail of Thomas and Baby Rose-shift into high gear. Synchronously, military Strangeloves loose a satellite-engendered quantum Time experiment in the Southwest desert. Like Hamlet's ghost, dreamers and dead alike are quickened to warn the Sixties pilgrims of the brave new America being brewed in the cauldron of the Enterprise. In Book III, "Indian Country," the Sixties pilgrims enter the desert of Arizona spacetime guided by KRMA radio broadcasts and a stream of quantum encounters. Back East, Thomas' father Laurence sets out on a European quest for the soul he's lost, his brother Hiram continues to sell his soul to AT&T and LUCIFER, and Dr. Greenbaum and his Magician contemplate what the simultaneous incarnations of Saint-Germain and Vitzliputzli might signify for Enterprise plans. Cosmic Coincidence Control, dream states, and lost Time lead the seekers to insight into America's plight even as CIA Agent Simon Iff and Thomas' twin Didymus track them into the cyborg future speeding toward them all. Book IV, "Jundi-Shapur," explores the military oil and uranium shadow hanging over Indian Country. At Four Corners in Gallup, Didymus reminds the Sixties pilgrims that they are not sightseers but players in a high-stakes Manichaean drama and ancient initiatic center of Chaco Canyon reveals the military significance of the Jornada del Muerto, even as Thomas' father makes his way from Chartres and Montségur to Kaspar Hauser's grave and returns to the US determined to do battle with his brother and the Enterprise. Choosing to bypass the Jundi-Shapur of the modern era, the pilgrims leave the Mother Road and head south into the geography altered forever by the 1945 Alchemical Rite of the Destruction of Primordial Matter. Book V, "From Trinity to Trinity"-the final leg of the great flight through Time-begins with "Conspiracy Theory Opera #3" playing to an audience of dead scientists in Oscuro and continues to Trinity Site and ground zero where something unknown hovers, observing the pilgrims. Organized factions back East set out for Dallas and Dealey Plaza near the Trinity River. From a warning in Hope to Ray's decision in Artesia to what happens when they cross into Texas that so alters Baby Rose, the magical mystery tour is tractor-beamed toward the Lone Star altar on Bloody Elm Street where the Alchemical Rite of the Killing of the King still tape-loops. Rite for rite: only the Mayan Timekeeper will hold the balance by which another future might be levered.