Fruits & Nuts: Vincent Bridges--High and Weird
Posted by The Fool at 1/28/2009 2:05 AM 
Categories: Alchemy,2012,Nostradamus,eschatology,Mayan Calendar,Miscellaneous Weirdness
Categories: Alchemy,2012,Nostradamus,eschatology,Mayan Calendar,Miscellaneous Weirdness
To anyone contemplating a foray into the unbridled strangeness that is the subject of this blog for the foreseeable future, I warn you—you are venturing into some very murky waters. But few are so murky or so incomprehensible as the fetid swamp that surrounds Vincent Bridges. I find it difficult to imagine that Bridges actually believes the things he says. I suspect he may simply be selling books. In any case, he's no scholar, and his expertise certainly does not merit serious attention. Once again, shame on the History Channel. (If Philo T. Farnsworth ever suspected the uses to which his invention would one day be put, he would have smashed the thing and started selling insurance.)
The subtitle to Bridges' own web site is "The Extraordinary Temple of High Weirdness," and this is perhaps the most lucid and accurate thing written there. The bio begins with a recitation of the books he has co-authored: A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross; the not-yet-released Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time; and in some ways the weirdest of all, Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing. (This latter work, by one Rebecca Joy Gabriel, with introduction by "the Reverend" Vincent Bridges, purports to be a non-fiction account of conversations between the author and the slave/mistress of Thomas Jefferson. I would say "you can't make this stuff up," but why would I?)
So we have alchemy, the end of the world, and channeling, and we're not even out of the first paragraph of his bio.
Paragraph two talks about 2012, UFOs (he's big into UFOs), King Arthur, JonBenet Ramsey (?) and of course, Nostradamus.
Paragraph three, which I have found quoted elsewhere on more sympathetic sites than mine, calls him "...a pagan political activist and a world traveler, having organized and led tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. He has produced his own translation of the I-Ching, and his Egyptology work is widely respected and quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, Moira Timms, and Daniel Colianus." One might be forgiven for inferring that these three characters are actually serious scholars of some sort, instead of the kooks that they appear to be. Google them yourself. You will find no credentials, no scholarship, no recognition beyond their own pathetic self-referential world of 2012 prognosticators and Egyptian UFO chasers. (The only time "Daniel Colianus" appeared in my Google search was on pages citing the original Bridges bio quote above. Not much of a scholar, if he doesn't even show up on academic web sites.)
The bio continues like this for a bit, and ends with the following whimper:
"Vincent Bridges currently lives in the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina, with his wife, the artist Darlene, and their two cats."Alas, no mention is made of the accomplishments of the cats.
You may explore Bridges' web site here if you can stand it. It makes my head hurt to read this much nonsense all at once, so be warned.
NEXT IN THE FRUITS AND NUTS SERIES: Victor Baines, Nostradamus "scholar" and pal o' Vincent Bridges
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