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Alchemical Marriage

"We all shine on, like the Moon and the Stars and the Sun."

-John Lennon

More syncs surrounding current events connecting back to the Sync Summit.

For those that have not yet read my original synopsis on the Olympia Sync Summit here, I'll give a brief rundown:

The Olympia Sync Summit took place August 8-10, 2014. The 45th anniversary of the Tate/LaBianca killings committed by The Manson Family.

On August 9th, 2014, Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, inciting violent racial tension akin to that of Manson's Helter Skelter.

The day after the Summit, Robin Williams was found dead from suicide. Sync Summit organizer Alan Green had debuted his video series Suicide Kings at the Summit, which included a scene of Williams from The Fisher King.

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What has happened since then?

The jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson. Protests and rioting ensued.

Notably, two Black Panther members were arrested on charges of planning to bomb the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

Remember, Charles Manson staged the Hinman/Tate/LaBianca murders so as to frame the Black Panters in the crimes.

Loren Coleman and Alan Green pointed out that two different comics were recently created depicting the Gateway Arch with it's peak, or summit, missing, which is where the Black Panthers were planning on placing the explosives.

The Matson comic on the left was created in August. The New Yorker with the missing summit depiction was published today, December 8th, the anniversary of Lennon's shooting.

Remind you of anything?

As pointed out by Alan Green at Sync Quick News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrGHuNbuBfA

Also today, December 8th, a fire broke out at the DaVinci apartments in LA.

Rosemary gazes upon this painting moments before she sees her baby for the first time.

Remember, Lennon was killed outside The Dakota where he lived and where Rosemary's Baby was filmed.

Mia Farrow's film Full Circle (aka The Haunting of Julia) was released in the US on 9/11/81. Nine months after Lennon's shooting. In it her child dies, and she's married to a man played by Kier Dullea, who played David Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey. See post on Full Circle here.

What else is in the news lately? Actor Andrew Keegan starts a new religion based on Synchronicity, called Full Circle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/16/andrew-keegan-religion-full-circle_n_5684130.html

Just days before the announcement of the Michael Brown jury decision, SOLange Knowles married her fiancé Alan Ferguson.

See Sibyl's post Ferguson Garner: A Sync Photo Essay here.

The image accompanying most articles on their marriage feature this shot. Notice Solange's zebra-esque top.

Thus tying back in to all of the ubiquitous zebra themes that followed us at the Sync Summit.

What else happened that week?

Charles Manson was given a license to marry his fiancé Star.

Solange is the sister of Beyoncé Knowles, starr of the "dat ass tho" meme.

What other famous ass took over the internet recently?

Though Kim Kardashian's moon didn't break the internet, it did remind me of the breaking of the 10 Commandments in Oklahoma, recently.
This issue of Paper Magazine featuring KK was published on 11/11.
(K=11)


But that wasn't the only KK to unveil herself recently. Just days before 11/11, Kiera Knightly released an interview regarding her topless images published in Glamour Magazine... from August.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/28/keira-knightley-topless_n_5731126.html
All this amidst the hoopla of Jennifer Lawrence's nude pics hacking.
All this amidst the ISIS terrorist news.

Fire & ISIS
The ISIS members responsible for the beheadings are nicknamed "The Beatles".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_(terrorist_cell)
The famous beheading of James Foley was done by "John".

Ringo Starr was asked how he felt about the nickname, and he said it was "Bullshit", and that ISIS goes against everything the Beatles stood for -
(except for putting motifs in their work that Paul was beheaded, of course).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2743813/Ringo-Starr-disgusted-ISIS-Brits-nicknamed-The-Beatles-It-s-b-t-They-against-stood-for.html

On December 6th, in a very Twin Peaks-esque story, a young woman was found burnt to death. Laura Palmer's identical cousin in Twin Peaks is named Maddy Ferguson.

http://www.people.com/article/mississippi-teen-burned-to-death-jessica-chambers-told-police-who-did-it
The girl bears a striking resemblance to Dakota Fanning.
and her time of death...


And notice the similar hair stylings of Alan Ferguson, Trayvon Martin's father and Michael Brown's father. (According to some researchers, Martin's father is a Masonic Grand Master).


The mayor of Ferguson, Missouri happens to be named James Knowles.
The Governor of Missouri happens to be named Jeremiah Nixon.
On November 17th he declared a State of Emergency for MO.

Remember, Richard Nixon was president from 1969-1974.
In fact, one of the most famous moments during the Manson trial in 1970 was when President Nixon declared in an interview that "Manson is guilty".
The news was supposed to have been kept secret from Manson, but a newspaper was slipped onto his courtroom table and he held it up to the jury, almost inciting a mistrial.

The tragic shootings at Kent State also took place during Nixon's presidency.
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state/videos/nixon-on-kent-state-tragedy

Also, in late October 2014, a decision was made to preserve Manson's jail cell.
http://www.dailynews.com/oddities/20141026/charles-manson-jail-cell-preserved-in-la-hall-of-justice

 In my first Sync Summit post, I mentioned that Williams lays on a pillow prominently displaying a zebra when he receives his Grail in The Fisher King.

A few days before leaving for the Summit, I reserved Hook at the library. I was finally able to watch it in October, and what do we have?
When Peter Pan sees Wendy's granddaughter sleeping in her bedroom, which is adorned with Beatles posters, he instantly falls in love with her and decides at that moment to leave Neverland and become a normal person.
Quite interesting that as he leans in to kiss her, which enacts his decision, he pushes the thimble, a token for a kiss in Neverland, directly into Paul's mouth on her pillow case.

As pointed out in the first Summit post, The Beatles took their iconic photo for their Abbey Road album cover on August 8th, right around that same time in America, Manson told his followers "Now is the time for Helter Skelter". It was actually later that day that Sharon Tate was killed, though it is attributed to August 9th, since it was shortly after midnight.

Synchead Johann Lenski suggested a Sync Movie Night just a few days ago. The movie decided upon was La Jetée by Chris Marker.
I noticed two things right away.
First, the shot of the people from the future looks strikingly similar to the cover of the Beatles 2nd album With The Beatles.

Which was released in the UK on the day JFK was shot, 11/22/63.
77 days later they invaded America via JFK Int'l Airport.
The date was February 7th - 2/7 - two sevens - 77.
(see Alan Green's work concerning all of the 77s surrounding the JFK kill, as well as my Manchurian Candidate post).
Just days before watching La Jetée, Sync Summit presenter Joe Alexander released his video on Back To The Future's JFK motifs.


Second, in David Bowie's 1993 video for Jump They Say, he dons the time traveling equipment from La Jetée.

1993 was the year of the WTC bombing. Jump They Say also features these 2001:ASO-esque stewardesses.
And of course, several shots of this zebra-stripe crosswalk. The black spaces inbetween the white stripes make an 11:11.

[Spoiler] La Jetée ends with the main character getting shot by a prison guard/police officer, a la Mike Brown.

Also see Joe's Back To The Future video on 9/11, which he debuted at the Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJQ-1Y8jfY

SOLange and Ferguson are also famous for their all-white clothing, much like Lennon on the Abbey Road cover.
Abbey Road features the Lennon song Sun King. (Isis being the Moon Queen).
As well as Harrison's Here Comes The Sun, which he later answered with Here Comes The Moon.


I discussed the Jump They Say video in my Vanilla Sky post, a very Lennon-heavy film.


And in the midst of all this, Sync Summit attendee Misty Greer posted M.C. Escher's Sun and Moon piece, plate 42.
Which seemed to sum the events of November up quite neatly.


Oh, and the Sync baby! It was born a girl, on October 29th, not a boy as the Radio8Ball crowd had guessed.
Then again, the song was titled I Need A Manager. Not I Am A Manager.

Only A Southern Song

Terry Southern. One of the great 20th Century comedy writers.

As a beat poet and part of the '60s Swinging London, he rubbed elbows with all the greatest writers, artists and thinkers of his time.

Some of which share space with him on the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's album cover,

such as Lenny Bruce and William S. Burroughs, whom he helped to get Naked Lunch published.

Southern's first book to gain attention was his second effort; Candy. Co-written with Mason Hoffenberg. The book was later adapted into a movie which featured an all-starr cast, including Ringo Starr, and Sgt. Pepper alum Marlon Brando.

Interestingly, the prostitute in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is named Candy Starr.

John Astin plays his own twin brother in Candy. Which, like 2001:ASO, seems to have a "transcending the film" motif, the difference here is that Candy seems to loop back into the beginning.

Ringo plays Emmanuel, who in the book, is the one who injures Candy's father, putting him into a coma and leaving Candy in the care of his twin brother. In the film it is Emmanuel's sisters who injure him.

Southern's third book The Magic Christian was also well received, especially by young film director Stanley Kubrick, who was given a copy by Peter Sellers.

Fans of the "Paul McCartney is dead" myth will enjoy the fact that there is a recurring conversation in the book between Guy Grand and his sisters about a man from Liverpool named Bill, who was a dentist and put an egg in his sister's mouth, then ran out of the building yelling, "Yaahh! Yaahh! Yaahh!"

Kubrick later met Southern in 1962 when he was interviewed by Southern for Esquire Magazine about his controversial new screen adaptation of Lolita.

A few months later, Kubrick asked Southern to co-write the script for his new film Dr. Strangelove.

Fast forward to 1969. Terry Southern goes to work writing the screenplay for a film adaptation to The Magic Christian, with director Joseph McGrath, along with Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Peter Sellers. The film is produced by Denis O'Dell who previously produced A Hard Day's Night.

Peter Sellers had a hit in 1964 with his parody cover of the film's title track.

The biggest difference between the book and the film was the adopting of a son by Guy Grand.

Sellers played Grand, and the adopted son was played by none other than Ringo Starr.

The movie also features music by the Apple Records group Badfinger, particularly their song "Come And Get It", which was written and produced by Paul McCartney.

The Beatles wyncs do not end there. This film is a Rosetta Stone for Beatles researchers.

After Guy Grand adopts Ringo, the very first thing they do is go to see Hamlet. When they arrive, Guy's sister mentions that is is at the part with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

When they sit down to watch the play, Ringo says, "I've seen this. Shakespeare, right?"

To which Guy replies, "Right and double right!"

There was a play which premiered in August 1966 titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Sean Lennon wrote & recorded the soundtrack to a film titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead.

The play goes into a scene where Hamlet performs a strip-tease.

Hamlet is played by the Manchurian Candidate in The Manchurian Candidate, Laurence Harvey.

Harvey also co-starred with McCartney's girlfriend Jane Asher in The Winter's Tale.

See my post on The Manchurian Candidate here.

At the end of the scene, a sign comes down which reads "ZAP".

In AHDN, when Paul quotes from Hamlet, "Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt", he turns to the camera and exclaims, "ZAP!"

In 1964, The Beatles performed a skit from Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream on British tv. In the skit, both Paul & John's characters kill themselves.

They were playing the role of traveling actors playing the roles of Pyramus & Thisbe. In the play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, there are also traveling actors that play skits.

The 1990 film adaptation of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead features a story within a story motif.

Grand & his new son then attend a business meeting. One of Grand's employees is played by the young blond man who had a cameo in both AHDN and Help!

They then board a train almost exactly the same in appearance to that of the train in AHDN.

In their train car sits a stuffy old man, just like in AHDN. Sitting next to him is an Asian man, who gets switched out for a different Asian man.

The old gentleman does a double take, but soon returns to reading his paper. The second Asian man then gets swapped out for a third. Again the man senses something amiss, but pays it little mind.

The third Asian man is switched out as the first Asian man returns. Looking over and seeing the more familiar face of the first Asian man, the gentleman relaxes back into his newspaper reading.

In Sharon Tate's first film, Eye of the Devil, the landowner of a family owned vineyard is sacrificed by a local cult to ensure the abundant growth of the crops. There is a recurring harp motif in the film, and the son watches his father's sacrifice through the strings.

The Magic Christian features a very similar shot, seemingly unnecessarily so.

But if that wasn't enough, it then cuts to a shot where we can view the tv, as it shows a protester sign reading, "Vote Pig '68".

"Pigs", "Death to Pigs", and "Political Piggies" were the three messages written in blood by Manson's followers in the homes of their victims. Inspired by The Beatles song Piggies.

This was done with hopes of framing the Black Panthers in the murders and inciting a race war.

Then what do we see next on the news they're watching?

A black panther run amuck at a local dog show. It's owner, this African man.

And who has a cameo later on? Roman Polanski.

Earlier in the film, Grand had his men put an apology in his newspaper regarding an earlier story. The appy polly loggy was to be written in Polish.

The article in question was about a dead woman.

And of course, one of the famous scenes both in the book and the film, is where Grand wears a pig mask.

The launch date of the Magic Christian is Easter Sunday. Bringing to mind resurrection.

Two of the passengers for this prestigious voyage are (portrayals of) John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

While the Magic Christian is supposedly on it's voyage to New York, (it never really leaves London), there is a false flag hijacking of the ship by Cubans.

The updated book cover is rather interesting. We see a palm holding a lone heart. Twins. An Eyes Wide Shut mask. And a ticket to ride.

Palm raised over Paul on Lonely Hearts cover.

Interesting that on the Sgt. Pepper cover, we have Mae West, Terry Southern and H.C. Westerman.

Paul met Lina Eastman at the Sgt. Pepper release party.

See my post on North here.

Guy Grand being GG/77 brings up the ubiquitous OZ reference.

Grand even mentions the Yellow Brick Road to Ringo at one point in the film. Followed by him saying, "Done and double done".

Peter Sellers hired Terry Southern to write his dialogue for the 1967 film Casino Royale; a film that is so loaded it deserves a post of it's own.

^ Film's intro