I’m going to go fully off the rails into the land of Woo and we’re going to we’re going to discuss the book Notes from the Cosmos by Gordon Michael Scallion.
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He also had a magazine called the Earth Changes Report that he would write with his wife sometime in the 90s. If you Google Gordon Michael Scallion, btw, you get significantly different results than if you use Duck Duck Go. One of the things that Scallion is probably most well known for is this future map of the world. I have it linked in the shownotes.
So Gordon Michael Scallion was basically a normal guy it sounds like. He grew up he was really interested in electronics he was actually kind of naturally good at it and he even kind of wonders if this was maybe sort of the beginnings of his connection to the netherrealm maybe the alternate dimensions but he was really good with electronics he did a lot of electronics consulting and he was pretty Successful.
Suffered from pretty bad asthma – missed lots of school. This will be relevant later.
In the mid-70s when he was in his early 30s he and a couple buddies decided to go down to Mexico and this is where he really started having strange inexplicable experiences.
Starting with a bloody bull fight, and sensation that he’s seen it all before.
Then, he goes to Pyramids of Teotihuacan – transported to the same place but a different time -he could see buildings which were no longer there and a bunch of other details which just didn’t make sense to him because, frankly, it didn’t make sense, period.
But he was so steeped in his normal, every day run of the mill life and thinking, that he literally just wrote this vision off to the altitude he was at and the thin-ness of the air. And I’m sure there was a part of him which was afraid that he might just be flat out losing it.
The very next day the same thing happened to him again he and his friends went to an old dormant volcano and as they were ascending to see the top of the volcano he was transported again to a Time who knows when when the volcano is literally erupting so he could see rocks and lava all around him just exploding.
So this was his trip to Mexico and this is his introduction to What was in store for him.
But he and his friends returned from Mexico and for the next few years absolutely nothing happened so this was just a glitch in The Matrix. He moved to Florida, his asthma lessened quite a bit. He was living on a houseboat, making good money, and had a dog. He was basically as happy as a clam.
Then, when he was in his late thirties in 1979, shit started gettin real. And by real, I mean the opposite of.
One day he was talking to a client and all of a sudden all of a sudden he just lost his voice he couldn’t speak and the client was kind of uncomfortable and basically walked away so he went to the doctor and course he couldn’t explain what’s going on but the doctor really couldn’t figure out anything obvious and admitted to the hospital for overnight testing and so he lay there still unable to speak and he was watching late-night TV when he started to notice this glow coming from the door and he just thought they had testing equipment out there and that’s where the glow is coming from but then the glow started coming towards him towards his bed and then pretty soon the whole time he’s a sort of explaining it away, but at some point the glow is literally the figure of an elderly woman hovering two feet above his knees and here’s the part where he starts to get him comfortable so he’s thinking to himself I need help and he’s wanted to call the nurse and trying to rationalize what in the world is going on without sort of admitting to himself maybe I’m crazy come to the conclusion because he has these IVs sticking out his arms and comes to the conclusion that they’ve given him some sort of drug that is causing hallucinations and now us a sufficient explanation in his head to get him to relax so he just he’s like oh wow this is just by the way they admit you overnight I just don’t see them giving you drugs that would cause that there aren’t really that many drugs outside of flat-out hallucinogens sort of reaction I don’t think at least I’ve never had that
So after he relaxes into what he thinks is just a drug-induced hallucination he’s able to start to actually hear what this elderly ghost is saying to him as she hovers about him while he’s in his bed and she basically says hey get out pencil and paper and start writing this s*** down cuz I I’m going to drop some knowledge and she starts telling him things about as of one of these starting in the late 80s she says this is by the way again or reminder 1979 starting in the late 80s they’re going to start being an increasing amount of sort of events like hurricanes or earthquakes volcanoes Etc. I don’t know if there’s that many other events outside of that yeah so she tells him some predictions stuff that’s going to happen in the next as she says lunar cycle and as well as stuff that’s going to happen years from now so he’s writing all this down thinking hahaha this is an interesting hallucination but you know since he’s writing it down probably there’s a part of him that is starting to kind of get that this is not a hallucination but anyway any racing all down and then when she’s done.
Another sort of pyrotechnic and her turn Prismatic and seep into every part of the of the rooms is just amazing and then and then it’s over and he starts hearing Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show again introducing Johnny Carson so he just goes to sleep
The next morning the nurse comes in like a how are you doing I’m doing good and of course this means his voice is comeback and the. So he gets released from the hospital they have no diagnosis of what caused his vocal constriction by the doctor kind of suggest or hints that maybe he’s having like a bit of a mental problem; and, based on the previous night’s events, he sort of thinks that might be true; but he asked the doctor who were those crazy drugs that you gave me and the doctor said it was just a glucose solution so basically just some sugar water to make sure you don’t dehydrate or starve so hardly anything that would cause an elderly female ghost to hover over your bed and recite predictions of catastrophic world events.
He talks to one of his friends who was actually a psychiatrist about everything that had happened to him and he even shared some of the predictions you got with him. A couple days later, the friend says have you seen the news. Scallion’s like “no, why?” and you guessed it, the predictions she had him write down had come true. at the time he didn’t give a s***. He just wanted this all to go away, so he completely ignored it. He doesn’t give any details about what the predictions were.
He thought that if he moved from Florida back to Connecticut that maybe the visions would just go away so he moved to Connecticut; but that didn’t work. In fact, he was starting to undergo these weird body changes. So he used to have Big Macs everyday for lunch and it was relatively young so just didn’t actually cause too much of a problem for him but when you return from Florida and he tried to eat a Big Mac he literally had a 24-hour bug.
Scallion, despite trying to run from these experiences, continues to have them. There’s an incident where he’s in a crowded grocery store, and he is just suddenly enveloped by a vision of some far off distant place. When he comes to, all these people are pushing past him irritatedly.
He also notices that when he meets up with people, he can see visions to their left or right. He starts to realize that these visions are possible future scenarios of these folks.
He’s still uncertain about what it all means, or what to do with this weird information, but meanwhile, he’s not doing so well professionally, and his finances are dwindling.
He decides to take a meditation class to learn more about what’s happening with him.
He’s the only one who shows up to the class – everyone’s worst fear. The instructor tells him that he has the look of one with prophecy. So they start the meditation, and he blacks out. After an hour, he comes to having no idea what just happened. He’s heading out the door when the instructor gives him a tape. So she had recorded the entire thing. He doesn’t want the tape, but she insists.
After a while, he finally decides to listen to the tape – it’s him, but not him speaking, and he’s basically describing what happened to him while he was in the hospital, as well as what is going to happen to him during his lifetime.
He opens a learning center for spiritual stuff. A lot of interesting things happen at that learning center. At one point, two men show up asking for him specifically to help them with healing. He has no idea what to do, but they insist he is the right man for the job. One of the men is suffering from some liver toxicity, and he’s dying. The other man is actually a physician, but he cannot help him. When the 3 men sit down, Scallion is just kind of sitting there like, I don’t know what you want from me. Then, the doctor puts Scallion’s hand on the patient’s arm or something. Almost immediately, Scallion starts relaying what to do. He gives them instructions about how to create a poultice out of various herbs and where to put it how many times a day. They go on their merry way, and years later they write him a thank you letter from Europe where they are living happily ever after.
He goes into a trance state and channels a class on reincarnation.
He receives a message that he should fly to LA, and after driving around aimlessly, he pulls into a place (just randomly) called the Aquarian center, where he meets this man named Torkum Saraydarian — an author on Amazon.
Torkum tells him he’ll see him in Sedona in a year. That’s it. That’s the purpose of his flight to LA.
A Year later, Torkum happens to be the dude who ends up marrying him and his now wife, Cynthia. Now was that worth a trip to LA? Of course, this reminds me of Eckhart Tolle who also had to travel to California in order to write his first book. Maybe Scallion needed to be in CA for energy stabilizing reasons.
So remember at the beginning of the podcast when I mentioned that Scallion had really bad asthma? Well, this will be relevant for this next story. Scallion talks about counseling people, and looking into their past lives, but he’d never actually looked into his own history.
One afternoon, he’s dozing off for a cat nap, and he’s whisked away to a completely different land. He’s at something which looks like a man-made harbor. There’s a long channel which is bordered by these large, megalithic stones, which the ships, of which there are many, dock against. Scallion mentions in passing that the ships do not seem to have motors or sails…this is an interesting theme which comes up frequently in research about ancient societies on Earth where the ships and flying vessels don’t have motors or any seeming strategy for moving or staying in air…
Back to the story. Scallion, in the dream, floats over to one particular boat, it’s about 100 ft long, and as he looks closer, he can see that a chamber on the ship has been opened, and people are coming out. When he looks closer, he can see that these people are half human, but also half animal. Several of them have tails and some are covered with fur or scales–it’s like a door has been opened up to the land of Narnia, and all of these creatures are coming out. They look terrified. The men on the ship are escorting them out of the ship to apparently be chained to metal poles which are set up on the harbor.
The people are packed in like sardines, and Scallion says that the odor is atrocious. But it gets worse. When all of the people have been escorted out, he looks into the back of the room, and he can see several creatures which are lying on the ground, their eyes and mouths wide open in an expression of panic. They are all dead from suffocation.
Then, Scallion wakes up. So this is really horrible, but what does it have to do with Scallion? This is when his guide speaks up and says:
Your inner World Journey has taken you back to a Time Some 18,000 years ago to a place where you once dwelled. In this land, you were captain of The Vessel star Maiden out of the port city of Alta Nuune in the greater land known then as Atlantis. You were a highly successful Trader in what was then known as servant class mixtures. These were beings containing both human and animal qualities … Some creatures contained vestiges of the plant kingdoms as well. For at that time creatures such as these were still on the Earth a result of genetic experimentation with nature.
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These beings … were looked upon as beasts of burden. … Your name then was Bu-Te-Nam. You were the captain of the ship you saw.
In your dream you were witnessing an actual past life event …
From this life as Bu-Te-Nam, you lost in Soul growth … which lasts to this day. To you and to most people at that time, these beings of God we’re less than cattle. To increase your profits you packed as many of them into the hold of your ship as you could fit. Through your actions over the years many hundreds lost their lives through Suffocation. This brought to you the karma that directly impedes you in this life now and has affected your health adversely since birth.
I’m going to stop there, but there is so much more in this book to explore. I would say I only covered about a quarter of it. But I do want to point one major flaw out…if you can even call it a flaw. The Book came out in 1997, and Scallion decided to include a series of predictions for 1998 through 2012, and, spoiler alert, I’m not sure if any of these came true.
One of the topics which Scallion brings up is the importance of dreaming, and how we receive important messages in our sleep. Something which hit me particularly hard was when he said, “Or perhaps the message requires strong emotional impact–nightmare scenes that act as wake-up calls when we have been sleepwalking through our days, ignoring the signals and warning signs all around us.”
This statement made me think about how recently, when I’ve decided to drink some beer the previous day, I’ll often have really chaotic and doom-like dreams. I’ve thought that those dreams were a direct result of my drinking (which could be viewed as a way of sleep-walking through life), and this was further confirmation of that theory.
