AstroTheology, the Celestial Codes, Mirrors of Mysticism | Chance Garton on Tin Foil Hat ep. 643
I joined host Sam Tripoli and the crew on Tin Foil Hat, episode 643, for a wide-ranging talk about astrotheology, philology, and Biofield Tuning. We also got into the green language, the demiurge, and what reincarnation might mean.
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In this episode
Core themes
Conspiracy, Duality, and the War for Attention
The conversation opened with a reaction to a clip of Joe Rogan warning that seeing conspiracy in everything was dangerous, and a host argued the remark made long-time students of hidden history look foolish. Chance said he believed the biggest conspiracy theory, at the bottom of the rabbit hole, was a relief, because nobody was in charge. Sam Tripoli said he did not think there was a center and that light and dark battled over attention. Chance replied that the center was everywhere, as the life force animating all matter, and that the real contest was over each person's own attention.
Astrotheology and the Technology of Language
Chance described his specialty as the technology of language, using etymology and philology to argue that spiritual traditions and mythologies trace back to the stars, a field the nineteenth century writer Robert Taylor called astrotheology. He recommended John McHugh's book The Celestial Code of Scripture, which he said traced Bible stories to wordplay in star names. Chance also offered his own reading of Christopher Columbus, suggesting the name meant carrier of the Christ and dove, and that the Santa Maria echoed ark mythology. He framed much of ancient history as astrotheology and described history as story.
The Green Language and Eve as Life
Chance described the green language, also called the language of the birds, as the practice of reading between the lines, noticing puns and wordplay, and holding left brain and right brain meanings together. He credited his friend Gabe of the Slick Dissident channel with the line that philology is lockpicking. As an example, Chance explained that he saw the four Hebrew letters of the divine name as having several possible English transliterations, one of which he read as Eve, a word he said meant life. He presented these as his interpretations of the symbolism rather than settled fact.
Biofield Tuning and the World as Mirror
Chance described Biofield Tuning as a way of using a tuning fork to find stuck energy in a person's energy field, which he said extended roughly six feet from the body and could be done remotely over video. He said distance from the body suggested when something happened in a person's life, and that stuck energy represented limiting beliefs and avoided feelings. Chance compared restoring that energy to soul retrieval. He also argued that events in a person's life mirrored their inner world, and that learning to read that symbolism worked as a kind of psychic self-defense.
Demons, the Demiurge, and Victim Consciousness
Asked about fallen angels and the demiurge, Chance said he did not believe in archons or a ruling demiurge and called that belief the ultimate form of victim consciousness. He described the demiurge as a misunderstanding of the old creator, preserver, and destroyer idea, and tied it to the Hercules constellation. Chance explained that he read demons philologically as divided parts of the self cut off from its source. On reincarnation, he said he did not know, called his ideas speculation, and said he preferred to focus on making this life as good as possible.
Quotes
“The biggest conspiracy theory though, if you go all the way to the end of the rabbit hole, in my opinion, is actually a big relief. You find out nobody's in charge. It's just gangs, you know, fighting each other.”
“I think sometimes in this world we think that we can get to the center of the rotten onion. And I just don't think you can. I don't think there is a center.”
“I do believe that there are the light and dark, the laws of duality, and they are constantly battling over your attention. And what do you want with your attention?”
“The real war, if you will, is on consciousness or for attention. And that means that the battleground that's being fought for, the center that's being contested is in you. It's your own attention.”
“The biggest help you can do for yourself is to stop looking at the world as random chaotic events that are external to you and to recognize that everything within your field of awareness is a direct reflection and identical in meaning to what's going on in your inner world.”
“The green language, or the cant language, or Argot, or the language of the birds as it was known, is the mystical practice of training your mind to understand the levels of meaning beyond what is overtly intended with a statement.”
“In my opinion, the good news is there's no evil alien extradimensional thing coming to destroy you or trying to destroy you, but there's also no savior coming to save you. It's just us here.”
“The imagination is the primary, the grounds of all reality. My favorite way to describe imagination is that imagining is not a form of thinking. All thinking is a form of imagination.”
