Allegories Gone Wild – The Veiled Prophet And The River Of Nothingness
23 September 2007 by KA
This is one of those Internet click-click-click-click-WTF? moments that provide us with a glimpse into the wild river raft ride of other people’s imaginations.
This one is a good one, albeit a tad…scattered.
(In the voice of Rod Serling): “Witness if you will, an old man, wracked and ruined by decades of alcoholic abuse, grasping at the strands of ambiguous hope by defining his own epistemology…”
So one David C. Owens, who styles himself the ‘Veiled Prophet‘ (and America’s premier visionary artists, although he has no Wiki or Answers.com page), is kind enough to share not only his art (which is middling fair, but he’s no Dali by any stretch), but the strange fevered visions he’s had (and none of them too original, I might add, let’s skip the fact that his English is not good, either):
Ladies and gentleman, meine Dame und Herren, I give you…the River of Nothingness!
2012 The River Nothingness: Is there the slightest things you can do to change the equations of what will determine how you end up? Yes, there is – but – ‘doubt’ is the word for all the too many who will not care enough until it is much to late!
River Nothingness 2012 Facts about 12 21 12: The SOULLESS abomination! – Contrary to those misleading and teaching otherwise – after one has knowingly chosen to lead a cruel and unkind life ~ Just as all to many of those who’ve gone before them that waited until the last few moments of their life ~ Thinking they’ve out smarted their soul ~ They will find out ~ There is no such thing as death bed forgiveness.
12 21 12 Facts: There is no true God that would and is going to force any innocent soul to return to a past [host] Bearer that has and does knowingly profane them self with the use of unkindness, anger, hate, rage and conniving disrespect for decent morals!
2012 End of the World: What and when an individual thinks they might have been able to hide from humanity they can not hide from the companionship of the innocent soul, within!
Odd, how this predilection for apocalypse in 2012 seems to have spread like wildfire, no?
More incoherent babble:
December 21, 2012 River Nothingness: Past and present intents and all the conniving of even future thoughts and ideas are known by your soul. And, no innocent soul, knowingly will chance that experiences twice!
And, thinking for even a second that one could fool a new soul when your past companion is not around – that by itself is condemnation!
Sadly, there’s no explanation for this ‘ past companion’ nonsense. In a world where context is everything, this is rendered into gibberish.
More drivel:
Yes, you’re having, not so strange, returning of Déjà vu and wonderful enlightenment is running close to wild as you comprehend again, and again things you already know – and your memories of remembrances are looking forward to circumstances you know to be the truth of how you have to protected you soul. Or, oh so real – And, oh so real! And, it is real! The River NOTHINGNESS of the SOULLESS!
Wait – so our ’souls’ will drown in the River of Nothingness of the Soulless? Say whaaattt? And how does this come about? By being mean to people.
I kid you not. He seems to repeat the phrase deja vu a lot. He claims also to have painted multiple pictures on New Year’s Eve, which is described like this:
The Lord’s Lamp the first of David Owens Art Paintings Millennium Pictures from the special “Millennium Art Event” where World Art History was made, seen and watched as America’s Greatest Visionary Artist was documented by independent witnesses as his Visionary Art concept turned from vision(s) and turned into reality taking place in Covina, California (USA) starting in the early a.m. hours of December 31, 2000.
Which I find fairly amusing, because it was this tiny event apparently hosted in in his own living room, with pictures of folks (first names only) that nobody knows.
There are implicit nods to Shamanism, a large degree of apocalyptic vagueness, and a whole pile of weird, underdeveloped theodicy
Here’s a pretty stupid video, since his link on ‘Three Kinds of Demons’ is broken.
Till the next post, then.
23 September 2007, on 10:38 am
Nothing like being up the River Nothingness of the Soulless without a paddle. And does the 2112 thing tie in with the celestine prophecy, the close of one segment of the Mayan Calendar, and/or Canadian Prog Rock?
To wit…”We are the priests of the temples of syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the priests of the temples of syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls“
23 September 2007, on 12:03 pm
Oh my reason… he thinks that alchoholics are suffering from epistemological difficulties… Does this mean that we need to step up decent philosophy popularization, or that we must accept that no matter what they do, the average person’s ideas about serious philosophy will always be really screwy?
23 September 2007, on 12:06 pm
Oooh! What a steal, at ONLY $42 million!!!
Ah, poor man, he’s only got
23 September 2007, on 12:08 pm
um…
dunno why my post got cut off.
Should read: he’s only got
23 September 2007, on 12:10 pm
less than 5 years to spend it.
The good news is, there won’t be any xmas in 2012.
Did it work this time?
23 September 2007, on 2:06 pm
One important thing about making up your own acrapolyptic prophecy is to pick a date that is catchy and easy to remember.
2012 Just doesn’t have that zing.
He should have picked 2112. It’s got the added ‘mystic’ aspect of being the same backwards and forwards, it’s already available as an album and song by Rush [existing media to be misinterpreted as your mythos demands.] plus it’s unlikely that the “prophet” or any current sponge minions will be alive to see the failure of the prediction.
There you go. All bases covered and all you have to do is change the zero to a one.
That and he needs a tighter tinfoil hat.
23 September 2007, on 2:26 pm
RDG:
It’s really hard to figure out just exactly WHAT this guy’s going on about. Some extremely loose interpretations – I think about Dawkins’ quote: “You should have an open mind – but not so open your brains fall out.”
This cat’s obviously slipping on his own gray matter.
Chris:
Some are. I’ve met a few folks who’ve gone thru rehab – some online, some realtime – & it seems there’s quite a few who end up investing heavily in the go(r)d mythos.
I think a little bit of both.
Karen:
Actually, he’s asking for 75 million for the ‘Messiah’s messenger’ painting.
It’s pretty enough, but it ain’t THAT damn pretty.
I’d give him 100 bucks for it.
23 September 2007, on 2:39 pm
Only 75 mil? Damn, if I didn’t have to buy milk today, I could afford it.
He’s got to have more than a few loose screws to be asking that much for his work. The prices must be divinely inspired. $100 seems fair, but I’d have to see the piece in person.
23 September 2007, on 5:52 pm
Honestly, I wonder what all of those guys who are predicting the end of the world in 2012 are going to say when they wake up on December 22nd 2012 and everything is still (relatively) the same.
Maybe I’ll sign back up to Coast to Coast AM to just hear what George Noory has to say about it.
It’ll be funny to hear them try to avoid the hard questions. I wonder if they’ll pull a 2000 and say that the real millennium doesn’t start until 2001, so the end of the world won’t be until then.
23 September 2007, on 6:59 pm
They’ll do what they always do. Stay quiet for a while then come out with a new book with new “calculations” for the next end of the world at some near future date.
I mean, look at Hal Lindsay and his farce “The Late Great Planet Earth”. None of it came true, yet he still sells books and still gets money from idiots. That was over 20 years ago that he predicted armageddon.
23 September 2007, on 8:03 pm
I have some kind of weird curiosity for this kind of crap. The river of nothingness? How can nothingness be a river? And ifn it’s a river then how can it be nothing? LOL I love it. Kind of like time cube but different. Thanks KA
23 September 2007, on 10:34 pm
I could not stop laughing at the drivel. The “River of Nothingness” reminded me of a)one of my stints in a new-age rehab center b)one of my trips for ’shrooms in Oaxaca, Mexico c) licking toads in Oaxaca, Mexico d)Carlos Castaneda novels e) TBN preaching (Trinity Broadcasting Network f)Pat Roberton’s “healing” sessions at the end of every CBN episode…Thanks for the laughs, KA!
23 September 2007, on 11:35 pm
I have been told by members of an extremely wise tribe that cannibalism- in particular, ingesting the brains of one’s own species, causes the laughing sickness, or mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalitis, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or whatever else those freaky little inanimate prions make swiss cheese out of. But what if a fellow was to hook up one of them beer dispensing hats with the straw introduced into his cranium and sip from his own brain? Should we be concerned for Mr. Owens?
24 September 2007, on 12:19 am
What I find most humorous is that these kooks always use the christian calendar. As if that would be their “gawds” time keeper. Would a being that is/was/always will be forever need a calendar? Plus, these dates are always of some numerical significance. The idea that a god would pick a neat date to destroy humanity is just stupid. Yet another example of the human mind anthropomorphizing their deity.
Speaking of which, I bounced around his rather odd site and the inconsistency rather disturbing. That is of course outside of the little dark blue lettering that camouflaged itself into the black background. Most of the paintings seemed to have biblical names while his rambling crap fest showed signs of animism, shamanism, reincarnation, fatalism, xianism, as well as others I’m missing. It seems his religion is sort of like filling a big gulp with every kind of fountain soda available then topping it off with a bit of ice for good measure.
In conclusion, this guy is simply a fucking nutter with delusions of grandeur.
24 September 2007, on 12:32 am
As to the past companion bit, I think he is rather inconsistent here. I think he is trying to say that your body can have a new soul but the new soul will know if you’ve been naughty or nice to the old soul or companion. It seems that he feels there is a symbiotic relationship between the soul and body. However, could a soul be innocent if it have already experienced this degradation? Let alone twice.
The body is immortal but the soul is transient. Yet, the transient soul is more important then the immortal body.
It also seems that there is quite a lot of scientology bullshit mixed into this hodgepodge of gibberish.
24 September 2007, on 3:06 am
This gibberish makes about as much sense as the Church of the Sub-genius, only I think this guy’s serious.
Yep–give it the passing of some time and it has all the makings of a successful religion!
24 September 2007, on 12:45 pm
That was the exact same thing I was thinking when I read this. Well tried to read it. I find it very hard to stay focused on inane babbling.
Basically people picked a point and started counting time from there, but it means absolutely nothing. Handy for planning social events but hardly something God would be bothered with. Unless God is like those people that really want to get married on “special” dates like that. Imagine God being peeved because some other deity already decided to do something big on his date.
Apparently David C. Owens isn’t the only one who has a propensity for inane babbling. Sorry about that guys.
24 September 2007, on 3:16 pm
Good one, KA! David C. Owens: this is your brain on woo.
He should at least hire a copywriter; something is causing his synapses to misfire so badly he can barely write in his own native language…
24 September 2007, on 5:45 pm
Eve, I have taught ESL before…I am not sure I would accept Mr. Owens as my student…LOL!!!!
26 September 2007, on 6:23 pm
Barbie, comparing his English to that of a foreigner just learning it would be an insult to the non-native speaker!
27 September 2007, on 9:32 am
Where do these morons spring from.
Still it was an amusing read nevertheless. Im glad someone has flights of fancy grander than mine.
with regards to this quote from KA
“Some are. I’ve met a few folks who’ve gone thru rehab – some online, some realtime – & it seems there’s quite a few who end up investing heavily in the go(r)d mythos.”
As someone thats had a debilitating addiction to alchohol, that was one mess I managed to get myself into, and out of without investing time in make believe sky wizards.
Just a little bit of faith in yourself is all that is required in addition to a strong desire to better your lot in life.
I’ll save the wizard shenannigans for when my gaming group plays AD&D at the weekend =-)
Toodle pip
1 October 2007, on 9:10 am
In Grove City PA there’s a church called “River of Gawd”. Not a river I would swim in. I prefer NOT to drown.