A Culture of Conspiracy by Michael Barkun

Author:Michael Barkun
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520276826
Publisher: University of California Press

HATONN AND THE PHOENIX PUBLICATIONS

Another of Hatonn’s contactees, George Green, was central to the development of the Phoenix publications. Green claimed to have seen an alien craft at Edwards Air Force Base in 1958. According to him, he was contacted by “space beings” in October 1989, entering into an agreement with them to “publish the material transmitted from the spacecraft called ‘THE PHOENIX.’” Sometime thereafter he was also approached by a husband and wife, E. J. and Doris Ekker, who claimed to be in touch with the same group of extraterrestrials. Doris Ekker, under the name Dharma, was the principal receiver, though not apparently in a mediumistic capacity.28

At this point, an already complex series of linkages became even murkier. On the one hand, Green claimed that he financed the publication of the Ekkers’ messages through the Phoenix journals. At an early point, however, a separate set of Phoenix materials was produced by Miller, so that two different publishers were simultaneously issuing material under the rubric of the Phoenix Project.

In 1979, Miller began issuing a series of Phoenix Project Reports through his Advent Publishing Company. He continues to issue this material, along with a newsletter, Insights. Insights contains a substantial amount of material alleging various conspiracies in which both humans and malevolent extraterrestrials are participants; but his material does not contain any of the anti-Semitic themes that figure so prominently in the Phoenix journals.29

Green is another matter. His publishing company, America West, specializes in conspiracy works, the best known of which is John Coleman’s Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. According to Coleman, the megaconspiracy that rules the world includes “Universal Zionism” and something called the “Order of the Elders of Zion.” Green’s own writings and activities make no secret of his anti-Semitism. A 1999 Internet posting of Green’s refers to “the so called [sic] Jews,” and invokes Arthur Koestler’s book about the Khazars, The Thirteenth Tribe. When an appearance by Green and his wife, Desiree, in Victoria, British Columbia, led to charges of anti-Semitism, he explained that it was only the “Zionist Jews” who were in league with Satan. “The Zionist philosophy is to take over the world. That’s where the anti-Christ comes in.”30

By 1992 or 1993, the relationship between the Greens and the Phoenix journals was fraying. Initially, ties were amicably loosened to relieve the Greens of some of the publication responsibilities, but by mid-1993, the relationship had broken down in mutual recriminations. Such bitter struggles seem endemic to these publications: six years later, in March 1999, the Ekkers locked out the editorial staff, who then started a separate publication, The Spectrum. Again, there were charges of fraudulent extraterrestrial communications. Internet supporters of The Spectrum observe darkly that “Doris Ekker is not receiving from Lighted Source at this time!”31

These conflicts only slightly muted the intensity of the Phoenix publications’ anti-Semitism. A 1992 message from Hatonn concluded that “most ones who call themselves ‘Jewish’ actually are from the Russian Khazarian line.” At the end of 1998, Phoenix was

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