John A. Keel Quotes.

11. "What is an obsession? It is a form of programming that has gotten completely out of hand. Religious fanatics are a prime example, as are those people who become enveloped in a political concept. Most of man’s progress has come about as a result of obsessions. The Wright brothers were not just tinkerers with an idea; their idea swallowed them up. Most leaders are obsessed with power or possessed by egos so large their only concern is their place in history. I have known writers obsessed with a single subject. Like Bobby Fischer and chess, anything and everything outside their subject seems meaningless. Any art form—music, painting, dance—is done best by those who are completely possessed by it. Such possession often borders on madness. This world would be a sorry place without such madmen."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

12. "Ancient priests and builders must have known about the earth’s magnetism and its strange fluctuations. They located their temples, mounds, and pyramids in the dead center of magnetic anomalies. And they laid out long, arrow-straight tracks or leys between these magnetic points."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

13. "The standard definition of God, God is light, is just a simple way of saying that God is energy. Electromagnetic energy. He is not a He but an It; a field of energy that permeates the entire universe and, perhaps, feeds off the energy generated by its component parts."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

14. "The concept of a supermind running the universe objectively, without compassion, is not new. Several religions are built around it. Thinking of God in these terms is not heresy but is advanced theology. The old-time God—the big bearded man sitting on a throne in the sky—is dead."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

15. "The widespread use of gold in religious artifacts may be of special significance. Gold is a useless metal. It is too soft to be used in tools or cookware. It is also rare and difficult to mine and extract, especially for primitive peoples. But from the earliest times gold was regarded as a sacred metal, and men who encountered gods were ordered to supply it. Over and over again the Bible tells us how men were instructed to create solid gold objects and leave them on mountaintops where the gods could get them. The gods were gold hungry. But why? Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and is a heavy metal, ranking close to mercury and lead on the atomic scale. We could simplify things by saying that the atoms of gold, element 79, are packed closely together. If the ancient gods were real in some sense, they may have come from a space-time continuum so different from ours that their atomic structure was different. They could walk through walls because their atoms were able to pass through the atoms of stone. Gold was one of the few earthly substances dense enough for them to handle. If they sat in a wooden chair, they would sink through it. They needed gold furniture during their visits."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

16. "If you could look far enough into the empty sky, you would be able to see the back of your own head."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

17. "Knowledge of the earth’s magnetic fields of force may have been universal in ancient times and considered so important to the human condition that men spent years of their lives in hard labor charting those fields and erecting huge monuments along them."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

18. "The human race is being reprogrammed. Young people everywhere suddenly became pacifists in the 1960s after a millennium of violence. Our world was invaded, but not by the hordes of Martians and Venusians envisioned by the flying-saucer believers. We were invaded by new ideas and a new inner structure that would help guide us to the anticipated crises of the 1990s."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

19. "Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant invisible world or the land of the dead."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

20. "If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot."
- John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum