Blood Splatter of the Gods!

It turns out that Bloodline of the Gods has very little discussion of actual biology or science when it comes to Rh negative blood factor and how it relates to anything paranormal.  Apart from that, though it has everything - and I do mean everything:

Adam

Alien gene splitting

Andreasson, Betty

Annunaki

Basques

Black Helicopters

Black-eyed children

Changelings

CIA

Clovis society, extinction of

Collective unconscious

Corso, Phil

Crash retrievals

Cro-Magnons

Cryptids

Drones

Eve

Fairies

Hill, Betty and Barney

Hybrids

Immorality, secret of

Incubi

Jacobs, David

Lilith

Mack, John

Mammoths, extinction of

Men in Black

MILABS (military abductions)

Mind control

Missing Time

Neanderthals

Niburu

Night Hag

Nuclear attack

Organ transplants, unusual memories after

Owls

Pascagoula River (Hickson/Parker abduction)

Psychedelics

Pyramids

Quetzalcoatl

Reptilians

Rhymer, Thomas the

Simonton, Joe

Slave races

Sleep paralysis

Sodom and Gomorrah

Strieber, Whitley

Succubi

The Flood

Tonnies, Mac

Turner, Karla

UFOs

Vampires

Vilas-Boas, Antonio

Walton, Travis

(If you don’t know what any of this means, congratulations.  You have been spending your time better than I have been spending mine.)

The other thing I would like to note about this book is that it does have an index and a fairly extensive bibliography.  The index looked like a normal index, but the bibliography is almost entirely composed of references to web pages.  This made me feel simultaneously old and as if instead of standing on firm ground I suddenly found myself halfway up a teetering staircase.

The fact that the author’s treatment of the Rh factor didn’t match my own line of interest was a little disappointing, but not a big deal.  What really rocked me back on my heels was seeing credulity with a tinge of hysteria (e.g., chapter subheads like When a Mother Attempts to Kill Her Baby) where I had come to expect credibility and sagacity.  However, when something strange like that pops up, I have a rule of thumb I rely on: it can either be explained by ball lightning or by marketing.  This clearly wasn’t an instance of ball lightning, so obviously the marketing department was behind it.

At any rate, I’d often heard Paul Kimball remark (Kimball, 2015*) that aspects of paranormal experience can usefully be understood in terms of an art form or movement, so I decided to approach Bloodline of the Gods in that vein.  Viewed that way, what the author is doing in Bloodline is akin to what Nesta Webster did for conspiracy theory.  According to conspiracy theory historian Martha F. Lee (2011), prior to Webster conspiracy theories concerned specific events like Freemasons or the Illuminati:

“Like those who first adopted conspiratorial thinking, Webster was concerned about social change that threatened her political community and her place in society.  Webster, however, did not perceive conspiracies as a limited political strategy.  Instead, as global power shifted away from Britain and toward America, Webster saw conspiracy everywhere, working through every possible facet of human existence … In this way of thinking, Webster fundamentally changed the nature of conspiracy theory … her work – linking numerous groups and plots in an international plan for control of human existence – allowed a whole new world of conspiracy thinking to develop.”

Webster repainted the conspiracy theory picture she inherited into one that accounted for the failure of her own life expectations, and by doing so inadvertently created the now familiar narrative of all-encompassing superconspiracy.  

https://books.google.com/books?id=yPylkGSFrl4C&lpg=PA69&ots=Pv3Yn0Fdg_&dq=conspiracy%20rising&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q=conspiracy%20rising&f=false (I apologize, Dr. Lee, for citing a Google page scan when people should really be buying your book to add to their library.)

In Bloodline of the Gods, the author attempts to craft a cohesive and continuous narrative integrating Rh negative blood factor lore into diverse categories of other paranormal fare whilst retaining the imprimatur of science.  In this respect, he’s following in the footsteps of other totalizing fringe theoreticians like Alex Jones, David Icke or Bill Cooper – all of them Nesta Webster’s children.

In the next installment of my review, I’ll explore this idea in more depth.

Sources:

Kimball, Paul (my iPod, 2015).  A podcast. *Or it might have been Greg Bishop on the same or a different podcast.

Lee, Martha F. (2011) Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life (Santa Barbara: Praeger)