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Supernatural Entities, Psychedelics, and Nuclear Pioneers
Oppenheimer, T.S. Eliot, and synchronicities between nuclear science, strange phenomena, and mind-altering substances
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
When humanity entered the Nuclear Age, did we potentially attract intelligent entities from the universe beyond? An article via the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer developed the first nuclear weapon, once noted:
“T.S. Eliot, a poet Oppenheimer admired… famously wrote:
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?Oppenheimer surely did.”
Another T.S. Eliot poem titled Journey of the Magi — a reference to the Zoroastrian priests who revered the immortal and psychoactive brew called haoma — further explained:
“Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different…
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.”