Denny Sargent explores Hale-Bopp comet imagery from Stewart Observatory’s 90-inch telescope and EufoFax’s 300 global UFO photos, linking them to his universal ritualism theory. He dismisses Global Ritualism as academic, instead citing Jung, Campbell, and Newman while defining witchcraft as a syncretic revival of European paganism—blending Tibetan Buddhism, Hopi traditions, and Christianity. Sargent notes eclectic rituals, like yoga in Lutheran churches, reflect a growing global spiritual convergence, suggesting ancient patterns resurface in modern collective consciousness. [Automatically generated summary]
It absolutely is, and I want to repeat this announcement.
It's really a big one.
We have a new image of the Halebop comet.
And I want to thank Paul again in Houston for getting it to me.
Thank you, Paul.
The image was obtained, so that you know, from Kit Peake using a Stewart Observatory 90-inch telescope.
A L'Oral 2K times 2K CCD was exposed for 30 seconds while the telescope tracked Helbop.
It is a very serious image, and we want to give credit properly to Dave Harvey and Stewart Observatory.
This image is now on our bulletin board, and you can get to it by calling area code 702.
If you have a computer now, 702-727-1709.
702-727-1709.
If you have a computer, it's called comet1.gif.
Now, if you don't have a computer, it is, I can tell you, because I sent it personally by computer to the publisher who will have it in the next newsletter.
Along, I might add, with the image of the crystal skull, Max, and a photograph of my studio, the one from which I'm transmitting at this very moment.
You can get the newsletter.
It's $29.95 a year, and how you could possibly wait any longer, I don't know.
Every month it gets bigger and better, and we're going to keep putting this kind of information into it.
The number to order the newsletter right now, and you just please keep trying, 1-800-917-4278.
1-800-917-4278.
It's called the Art Bell After Dark newsletter.
And I think that would be certainly an appropriate title for it.
Well, all right.
Let me again mention to you EufoFax.
Now, if you listen to this kind of material, and I know you do.
And it took us forever to put this thing together.
Twelve countries and a lot of film, and I think that people might enjoy looking at it.
And if anybody has some strange ritual facts or ideas or anything that could help me in my quest for sort of a universal field theory of ritualism and mythology, they can send it care of Llewellyn.
I answer all my letters, and I'd love to hear from people who are also involved in these kinds of things.
Do you know, for some reason, Danny, I have a lot of witches that listen to me, and I don't mean just on this program, you would imagine that, but on my other as well.
And I'm constantly getting faxes from them.
Now, is not witchcraft full of every sort of ritualism?
It's rich in ritualism, is it not?
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I've met a number of witches.
I've been to a number of pagan and witchcraft circles in America and pagan circles in all different countries around the world.
And what witchcraft is, is, in spirit, it's a continuation of pre-Christian European paganism.
Historically, there's not a lot of actual stuff that has been continually practiced.
Most of it, what it is now, is a kind of revival of the faith of European paganism.
But what you're finding is that a lot of witches and quote-unquote New Age people and a lot of people who are listening to your show, what they're doing is what I call eclectic ritualism.
The whole second part of my book is called eclecticizing or eclectic ritual.
And this is a movement that I'm seeing, and I think the witches personify that.
Wicca or witchcraft personifies that really well.
But I'm seeing it all through the spectrums of New Age, of unionism, of every kind of group that is looking for a kind of global vision of what is going on out there.
I kind of coined the term eclectic ritualism, which is people, you know, people sampling Tibetan Buddhism, people going like yourself to Thai temples and getting some kind of feeling or experience, people going to Hopi ceremonies, people having some Hopi sage in their house and using that ritual, maybe having Tibetan prayer flags using those, maybe carrying a cross that their mother gave them.
This is eclectic ritualism, and this, I think, to be honest with you, is the great unspoken movement that's sweeping through America right now.
And I kind of put a label on it.
And in global ritualism, I kind of addressed it.
And I don't really claim to be unique, but I guess I have a lot of friends and a lot of context in many different levels.
I know witches.
I know many different kinds of Christians.
I know a lot of New Age people.
I know a lot of psychics.
I know a lot of academics.
I know a lot of psychologists.
And they're all really doing the same kinds of things.
As I said, that's what's bothering me more than anything else, Denny, is that so many of these people are seeing and saying so many similar things that individually you can dismiss them.
Collectively, you do so at your own peril.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Denny Sargent.