Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
HOAX #1: Playing the Alien Card
This one apparently got the Pentagon so “insulted” that they decided to refute it. And their refutation ended up as the top right front page story in my local paper!

What I found especially interesting, was the Pentagon’s absolute refusal to concede that there has been any reverse-engineering of UFO craft. Poppycock! “Nor has the Pentagon discovered ‘any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.'”
They’ve been reverse-engineering for decades, and always, to create new and better weapons systems to counter any “threat” from above or below.
If ETs are so threatening, why haven’t they already blown us up to smithereens? An argument can be made, and has been, many times, that ETs are here because of the fact that we’ve developed nuclear weapons, which is not just a threat to humanity, but to planet Earth and her environs. See Robert Hastings, UFOs and Nukes.

I found this, as I find all of Paul Cudenec’s essays, densely thoughtful and informative.
Hey, all you over-80-year-olds! Remember that radio show, The Shadow? I loved it, would listen to it as a kid while down with a fever. A rare and delicious time. House quiet with all siblings at school and Mom as my nurse.
And oh my! Just listened to Orson Wells . . .
And wow, had forgotten the question that precedes it . . . Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Well, we sure know now, don’t we? See Sound of Freedom, if you have not already.
More and more, the outrageous evil of both child and adult human trafficking is disgorging from the depths of the collective unconscious, where it has lurked, doing horrific untold damage, for millennia.
Here’s one of the new videos, about young female trafficking in Ukraine, that reminds me of Sound of Freedom in the way it was put together.
I had wanted this post to be light-hearted! Geez!
Okay. Try again.
While beginning to create what I want to see on the front page of tendrepress.com, which is now under total reconstruction, to eventually serve as an archive for my over-500 essays, I decided to use one of my paintings, toned down to a faint backdrop, underneath the text. But I needed to get a photo of it that didn’t have shadows lurking everywhere. Finally succeeded. But not until puppy Shadow had agreed not to sit right on top of it.

”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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