Top Synchromystics of 2017
by Loren Coleman
"Synchromysticism: The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance." ~ Jake Kotze, The Brave New World Order, August 18, 2006.
Synchromystic of the Year 2017: David Charles Plate
David Charles Plate is a synchronicity filmmaker, artist, and an authority in Hebrew Kabbalah. He is a student of the Zohar and the Occult. He notes, in his Facebook profile, that he has worked, in the past, at Ultramat and Metavinyl, and now at Picture Appeal, The Sync Book and Gonzo Journalism.
A major work that has inspired others is Sorry Cassandra I Misunderstood: EVERYTHING PREDICTS 9-11.
David Charles Plate wrote somewhere once: "My close friend [Joe Alexander] produced a film called Back to the Future Predicts 9-11, this is both a response to this video of his, as well as its sequel."
He lives in Santa Cruz, and is from Santa Cruz, California. For more, see here.
The Living
Who are the other top theorists doing "twilight language"/"sychromystical" research, contributions, or writings? Who has done this work? Here is my list. They are given alphabetically by their last names, so as not to show any preference or ranking.
Matthew Bell, blogger at The Bell Curve.
Tim Binnall, founder of the Fortean think tank Binnall of America, an online coterie that features both an audio program and a talented staff of writers. Host and producer of the podcast BoA:Audio. Contributor to Coast to Coast AM's After Dark magazine.
Greg Bishop, author of 2000's Wake Up Down There! Excluded Middle Anthology, 2005's Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, and other works.
Jim Brandon, author of 1978's Weird America and 1983's The Rebirth of Pan: Hidden Faces of the American Earth Spirit.
[Loren Coleman, author of 1987's Suicide Clusters, 2004's The Copycat Effect, 2017's Mothman: Evil Incarnate, and this Twilight Language blog. Some favorites - the Name Game, Fayette Factor, Mothman Death Curse, Cryptokubrology, and intense interests in onomatology/toponymy go back to the 1970s. (To exclude myself seemed beyond modesty.)]
Tim Binnall, founder of the Fortean think tank Binnall of America, an online coterie that features both an audio program and a talented staff of writers. Host and producer of the podcast BoA:Audio. Contributor to Coast to Coast AM's After Dark magazine.
Red Pill Junkie, blogger at The Daily Grail.
Paul Kimball, author of 2012's The Other Side of Truth. Filmmaker, Stanton T. Friedman Is Real; Best Evidence; Denise Djokic: Seven Days Seven Nights, Synchronicity, and Fields of Fear; Eternal Kiss, and Damnation.
Christopher Loring Knowles, author of Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes, co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, and other books. He blogs regularly at The Secret Sun.
Johanna Lenski, synchromy stic & scientific occultist, contributor to The Sync Book's Always Record 112, and possible Chief Photo Editor of Culture Crux.
Guillaume Samard, an experiencer of sync life in France, involved deeply with Sync Book Press and Olympia Sync Summit.
Chris Savia, correspondent for The Anomalist, Week In Weird, The Grail and other sites.
Robert Damon Schneck, author of 2005's The President's Vampire, 2014's Mrs. Wakeman vs the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History, and 2016's The Bye Bye Man.
Jacques Vallee, author of Passport to Magonia, Invisible College, Messengers of Deception, as well as his trilogy, Dimensions, Confrontations, and Revelations - and other books.
Some significant theorists have passed away, so with a historical ranking by death date, here they are:
James Shelby Downard (March 13, 1913 – March 16, 1998), author of 2006's The Carnivals of Life and Death, and essays, including “King-Kill/33: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy” and “Sorcery, Sex, Assassination."
The Departed
Some significant theorists have passed away, so with a historical ranking by death date, here they are:
Jim Keith (September 21, 1949 – September 7, 1999), author of 1992's Gemstone File, 1993's Secret and Suppressed, 1994's Black Helicopters over America, 1995's Saucers of the Illuminati, 1996's The Octopus, 1996's Okbomb! Conspiracy and Coverup, and other works.
Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007), coauthor of 1975's The Illuminatus! Trilogy; author of 1973's The Sex Magicians, 1979-1981's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1977-1995's Cosmic Trigger Trilogy, and other works.
John A. Keel (March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009), author of 1957's Jadoo, 1970's UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, 1971's Our Haunted Planet, 1975's The Mothman Prophecies, 1975's The Eighth Tower, and other works. Anomalist Books republished John Keel's books in recent years, and more information and links can be found here, here, and here.
Mac Tonnies (August 20, 1975-October 22, 2009), author of 2004's After the Martian Apocalypse, and 2010's The Cryptoterrestrials, published after his sudden death at 34. Writer of the Posthuman Blues blog. Co-author with Paul Kimball of 2007's Doing Time. Kimball and Greg Bishop have been involved with the publishing of the collected writings of Tonnies.
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My sincere thanks to the anonymous and all those above who
have freely exchanged intellectual ideas and data in this growing field. Also the same goes to all my old friends that blog no more, such as Enki King and Through The Looking Glass's Filmnoir23.
