Books Your Parents Warned You About: Our Occulted History
Jim Marrs asks 'Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?' Answer: Everywhere except The History Channel
Jim Marrs (1943-2017) was a journalist turned ‘fringe author,’ who managed to crossover with his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (1989)—an investigation of the Kennedy assassination that became a feature film starring Kevin Costner. This success afforded him the opportunity to publish for years to come, and he produced a catalog of books documenting the world’s secret controllers and their nefarious plans for humanity.
In 2013, The New York Times sent a reporter out to Jim Marrs’s homestead in Texas—a surprise considering his “conspiracy researcher” milieu. When asked how someone in his category was able to secure the backing of a major publisher, Marrs suggested that they hadn’t figured out how to turn him down in light of all the money he was making them. That didn’t mean they endorsed the themes in his books: “If they had their druthers, they’d rather not publish me at all.”
One of the last works Marrs produced before he passed was Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (2013). His premise was that humanity’s true history is being suppressed by the globe’s ruling-elite. He presents evidence that these power-players are the descendants of mythical human-extraterrestrial hybrids—the same ancient aliens that genetically manufactured modern homo sapiens into existence millions of years ago.
How do they keep this a secret? According to Marrs, mainstream science is inhibited by “knowledge filtration”—an institutionalized process that suppresses the proof about our past by “screening out unwelcome evidence” at the highest levels.
From the Ark of the Covenant as ET-technology to the ecological impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Marrs covers so much ground at times that it’s hard to remember what direction he’s heading. While the book ultimately suffers from information overload; its rapid-fire, quantity-over-quality format does yield some interesting nuggets.
For example, Marrs makes the case that the hybrid bloodline “that began in Sumer and then passed through Egypt to Greece” is still in power around the world, operating through banks and multinational corporations. The author liberally references the work of Joseph P. Farrell to illustrate how bankers have monopolized the major levers of societal control for centuries. He quotes Ben Franklin’s ruminations on the events that triggered America’s separation from Great Britain, revealing it was more about taking back control of their monetary system than taxation without representation: “The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea…had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money.”
Marrs also offers this sobering connection: Lincoln and Kennedy were the only U.S. presidents to issue debt free money, “and both were shot in the head in public.”
While on the topic of currency, Marrs drops a tidbit about an interesting form of historical payment known as tally sticks. As far back as 1100 CE, this system consisted of notched sticks that acted as markers for the value they held in the king’s official coffers. People used tally sticks to pay debts and settle tabs, making them a fully-functioning form of money outside the purview of standard banking institutions. The practice ended when the large banks bought out the ‘tally stick banks’ and dismantled them from the inside.
Another morsel—this takeaway from the 1976 Church Committee, whose task was to investigate instances of the U.S. government spying on its citizens. They concluded that the CIA used “several hundred American academics, who...occasionally write books and other material to be used for propaganda purposes abroad.” How’s that for knowledge filtration? It isn’t hard to imagine these same scholarly-spooks publishing content for American audiences as well.
Is that a rhetorical question, Jim?Marrs does a solid job of assimilating a vast amount of material—the bibliography and index run over 40 pages—but sometimes his sources are suspect. He labels paranormal reporter Linda Moulton Howe as a “science journalist.” Alex Jones is referred to as an, “Internet commentator.” (At least his Alex Jones inclusion elicited this perfectly Jones-esque quote about the New World Order: Their goal is to “thin the population leaving only an enslaved underclass who are forced to live in control grid cities while the overlords enjoy the bountiful paradise of earth and evolve into super-beings with the aid of advanced life-extension technologies.”)
Marrs also chooses to include anemic quotes from an “unnamed genealogist in yahoo’s Answers section,” as well as portions of an online message board post from an “illuminati insider.” At one point, David Icke is cited as an authority on Reptilians and the Illuminati. (Actually… that last one makes sense).
Some of Marrs’s sentences sound like they were written for the narrator of the TV-show Ancient Aliens: “Could extraterrestrial intervention in human evolution account for such longevity? Could Saddam Hussein have been working on unlocking the secrets of the white-powder gold?” (It’s a long story.) He uses this literary device often, but rarely provides any answers.
Despite its disjointed feel and protracted analysis, Our Occulted History is a quick read that offers some value if only for the noteworthy nuggets it contains.
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