If Piranesi isn’t on your radar yet, I highly recommend it. Susanna Clarke’s novel—winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction—centers on her “most famous idea, the Theory of Other Worlds... ‘Somewhere... there must be a passage, a door between us and wherever magic had gone.’” Guided by this theory, the mysterious Arne-Sayles gathers a group of acolytes and devises a way to enter these Other Worlds. Piranesi, with its haunting labyrinth and themes of memory and revelation, is deeply inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—and the journey of escape into the light.
Diana..for a point of clarification..in your many interviews with Shawn Ryan and others, did you say the Vatican knows aliens exist? I realize your article doesn’t refer to this but there seems to be confusion around your statement on this too.
The Vatican is cautiously open about the possibility that UFOs and ET exist, yet there is no official dogma regarding the subject. Several people within the Vatican over the years have had the opinion that they exist and there is a history within the tradition called "The existence of other worlds." I posted about this early this month. It is important to remember that these individuals are expressing their opinions. My opinion at the moment is that what some people in the Vatican identify as anomalous aerial phenomenon, they interpret as sacred or supernatural and do not share the US military interpretation as these objects as advanced machines.
While there is no formal doctrine on UFOs, Vatican-affiliated scientists and theologians have offered serious and positive engagement with the topic, especially since the early 2000s.
I did research at the Vatican Observatory archive (where space related manuscripts and data are held) and I learned a lot. I was also at the Vatican Apostolic Archive. Indeed, there are interesting anomalous phenomena recorded there, among miles of manuscripts that will maybe never be digitized or see publication.
I follow all your work and I have your book American Cosmic. Daniel O’Connor, Catholic podcaster is discrediting your work and I’m defending it. May I use your comment here on my podcast, Eternal Life Plan. My audience would love to hear from you and I’d love to invite you on. I follow Chris Bledsoe too. I’m a NDE experiencer and had two visitations from the Blessed Mother. Priests tell me it’s all demonic. Diana..it’s frustrating because I know it’s not.
Hello Christine, sorry to interrupt but your comment about visits from Maria Santisima compel me to briefly ask about the phenomenon you experienced. This is because my wife has had similiar experiences and we try to understand it better.
First, of course, if you prefer not to discuss this with strangers, it is no problem whatsoever. I completely understand. Nevertheless, let me continue:
My wife, Maria is religious but only alone at home, etc. She had a difficult experience with a "Father" as a child and has never forgotten his disdain and aloofness. Her family lived in Mexico. I say "lived" because they have been gone for many years now. She used to visit them a couple times a year by flying down to spend a week or so with them.
One night back in 2003, she had an odd dream. As far as we had known, everything was ok with her family down there. The dream was very realistic. It was of a translucent face of Jesus Christ in the sky, looking very sadly down at her. His Mother, Maria Santisima was nearby on the ground, actually floating about a foot above the ground. She tried to approach Maria, gliding slowly toward her. Maria became frightened in the dream and tried to run away. She ran into a kind of grotto lit with a soft yellow light, she closed the grotto door and peeked out through cracks in the door to see Maria Santisima floating there for a period of time. After a while, Maria Santisima left.
The following day she tried to figure out a meaning, if any, of such a dream. It had scared her seeing the translucent face of Jesus so sad and looking down at her from the sky. We discussed it for a few hours then went on about our work and day. That late afternoon, Maria received a phone call from her brother's neighbor lady. That neighbor lady told Maria that her brother (53 y.o.) had unexpectedly passed away the previous night - the night of her dream of Jesus Christ and Maria Santisima.
I began following Diana because Chris Bledsoe mentioned Diana’s work. Chris Bledsoe is the first person I’ve come across that had a similar experience as me. The Blessed Mother visited me at 16 and then again in my early 40’s. Both times I was laying in bed about to fall asleep when a bright flash of light happened and a 4 ft translucent beautiful woman appeared wearing a veil, wearing a beautiful gown that came down to her bare feet. She hovered above my bed with her hands outstretched. I was frightened by it all both times, and confused..why would she visit me. The experience wasn’t very long..but I saw her and afterwards I wondered why this happened. I talked to priests but was always told that demons appear as the Blessed Mother and to forget about it. But I don’t believe it was demonic at all. I believe it was the Blessed Mother.
Diana is the real deal. I have much respect for her because she went to the Vatican’s secret archives. She’s talked to UFO experiencers and attended their conferences. She’s treated experiencers with respect not judgement.
Your's is also extraordinary and very thought provoking.
The similarities, qualities of the individual, are very intriguing.
Agreed regarding prof Diana. I especially was intrigued with her description in "Encounters" of the scientist and the racoon, etc., etc. Possibly, even if far, far remotely, the "mechanism" behind your's, maria's, and that scientist's is the same.
Familiar with the "Miracle of Fatima"? We "know' the sun, our star, cannot make circles in the sky, yet, that purportedly, that was the perception of many thousands. Possibly could it have been the same "mechanism" as your's, maria's, the scientist's?
Then, why you?, why Maria?, why that scientist, why the phenomenon at Fatima?
Maria had another (dream, of many) in 2001. On Halloween of 2000, we lived in Auburn, WA. Maria only communicated with her cousin once every year or so. They knew one another but were not close. Her cousin lived in Chula Vista, CA. Cousin's oldest boy, 12 y.o, was killed horribly that afternoon while walking with two other children on the sidewalk. The boy's name was Christian. A car drive onto the sidewalk, ran over him (the other two were able to get out of the way), and dragged him some distance under the car. Then they hung his body from a tree. The boy's mother was extremely upset and distraught. She just could not get by the extreme tragedy. We were told she cried all the time in misery. This went on for month after month. Soon it was a year. The mother was still crying most of the time. Maria heard about it from her other cousins who lived in the same general area. But she just set it aside we went on with our own lives. Then one night over a year later, she had a dream of that 12-year-old boy Christian. In her dream, she visited them in Chula Vista. She opened their apartment door to walk into the living room when she saw Christian lying on his back on the living room floor. She was surprised and asked him, "Christian, what are you doing there?!" With that, Christian rose up into a sitting position, looked at her and said, "Tia (auntie), please tell my mother to stop crying, suffering for me. Please tell her i am well and that she must get back to her life. Please tell her, Tia." Maria says the boy had a glow about him; he appeared super clean such that he seemed to glow all over his body.
The next day she wanted to tell the suffering cousin but she did not want to make her feel worse. So, she told the cousin's sisters so they could ease her into it. Those sisters and the cousin then visited a Catholic Church in Mexico to ask about the meaning. The fathers there mostly dismissed the whole scene.
It's an interesting point about how some *interpret* what they identify as sacred/supernatural, versus advanced machines/technology - same as the "vimana" (विमान).
Either it's easier to be biased towards an interpretation that accords with one's existing worldview (too much of an ontological shock otherwise?); or, a deliberate attempt at an *exoteric* interpretation out of concern for the ontological shock for the broader/lay community (or other reasons, e.g., geopolitical), while withholding a view and/or having an *esoteric* interpretation that is intended for only a few.
Otherwise, why not digitize and publish all these miles of manuscripts and artifacts? Allow others to arrive at their own interpretations based on a review of the data/primary source materials.
What is it like for you to go on big podcasts that reshape the public view without your control through edits or the very questions they ask you. Can questions about the subject mislead the public?
Excellent essay. This reminds me of Chomsky and Herman’s “Manufacturing Consent.” But I actually like your “montage” analogy better. This is a great term, and I will definitely return to it.
Reminders like this are important these days, in particular. Noteworthy, and interesting for me, the trend of the use of the word "montage" appears to begin to rise in (approximately) 1929. This is more or less around the same time The Edward Bernays book Propaganda is published. (Source books.google.com/ngrams.)
Daniel Kahneman, in his 2011 book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" describes these tools and more, and how powerfully they shape and influence our thinking and beliefs. After finishing this important book, one is left wondering how much of ones life is intentional, haha.
I fear what might become of me immersed in the internet, especially social media, for exactly these reasons, and have no social media accounts. The "metaverse" looked like a bad idea until AI, and now looks like the worst idea ever, to me. Intentional or not, social media and the internet seem to work against my faculties of critical thinking and discernment.
To live more independently, in search of elusive truth, and with greater agency, we might work on our critical thinking. We might also, to the point made here, become more aware of these categories of influence (how biases, heuristics come to be, change) if there is to be a grass roots effort for transparency and disclosure.
With only six years of prior research your book American Cosmic was outstanding and most impressive. The transition from space brothers to an alien agenda over the last 5 decades is interesting. I feel the truth is multi facited and complex similar to religions where parts of the truth exist across the entire spectrum creating a puzzle which at this point I feel is intentional obscuring the bigger picture.
Great post - loved it. Drudge been doing this for years and I never put a name on the technique. I've considered it the editor's propaganda for years. In truth, I doubt I see more sophisticated uses of it and you putting a name on it hopefully inoculates again subtle uses of the technique.
Excellent write up of the situation, these need to be included as footnotes to your eventual Magnum Opus on the subject, to detail the impact your work has/will have on society!
If Piranesi isn’t on your radar yet, I highly recommend it. Susanna Clarke’s novel—winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction—centers on her “most famous idea, the Theory of Other Worlds... ‘Somewhere... there must be a passage, a door between us and wherever magic had gone.’” Guided by this theory, the mysterious Arne-Sayles gathers a group of acolytes and devises a way to enter these Other Worlds. Piranesi, with its haunting labyrinth and themes of memory and revelation, is deeply inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—and the journey of escape into the light.
Well said, Diana.
Diana..for a point of clarification..in your many interviews with Shawn Ryan and others, did you say the Vatican knows aliens exist? I realize your article doesn’t refer to this but there seems to be confusion around your statement on this too.
The Vatican is cautiously open about the possibility that UFOs and ET exist, yet there is no official dogma regarding the subject. Several people within the Vatican over the years have had the opinion that they exist and there is a history within the tradition called "The existence of other worlds." I posted about this early this month. It is important to remember that these individuals are expressing their opinions. My opinion at the moment is that what some people in the Vatican identify as anomalous aerial phenomenon, they interpret as sacred or supernatural and do not share the US military interpretation as these objects as advanced machines.
While there is no formal doctrine on UFOs, Vatican-affiliated scientists and theologians have offered serious and positive engagement with the topic, especially since the early 2000s.
I did research at the Vatican Observatory archive (where space related manuscripts and data are held) and I learned a lot. I was also at the Vatican Apostolic Archive. Indeed, there are interesting anomalous phenomena recorded there, among miles of manuscripts that will maybe never be digitized or see publication.
I follow all your work and I have your book American Cosmic. Daniel O’Connor, Catholic podcaster is discrediting your work and I’m defending it. May I use your comment here on my podcast, Eternal Life Plan. My audience would love to hear from you and I’d love to invite you on. I follow Chris Bledsoe too. I’m a NDE experiencer and had two visitations from the Blessed Mother. Priests tell me it’s all demonic. Diana..it’s frustrating because I know it’s not.
Hello Christine, sorry to interrupt but your comment about visits from Maria Santisima compel me to briefly ask about the phenomenon you experienced. This is because my wife has had similiar experiences and we try to understand it better.
First, of course, if you prefer not to discuss this with strangers, it is no problem whatsoever. I completely understand. Nevertheless, let me continue:
My wife, Maria is religious but only alone at home, etc. She had a difficult experience with a "Father" as a child and has never forgotten his disdain and aloofness. Her family lived in Mexico. I say "lived" because they have been gone for many years now. She used to visit them a couple times a year by flying down to spend a week or so with them.
One night back in 2003, she had an odd dream. As far as we had known, everything was ok with her family down there. The dream was very realistic. It was of a translucent face of Jesus Christ in the sky, looking very sadly down at her. His Mother, Maria Santisima was nearby on the ground, actually floating about a foot above the ground. She tried to approach Maria, gliding slowly toward her. Maria became frightened in the dream and tried to run away. She ran into a kind of grotto lit with a soft yellow light, she closed the grotto door and peeked out through cracks in the door to see Maria Santisima floating there for a period of time. After a while, Maria Santisima left.
The following day she tried to figure out a meaning, if any, of such a dream. It had scared her seeing the translucent face of Jesus so sad and looking down at her from the sky. We discussed it for a few hours then went on about our work and day. That late afternoon, Maria received a phone call from her brother's neighbor lady. That neighbor lady told Maria that her brother (53 y.o.) had unexpectedly passed away the previous night - the night of her dream of Jesus Christ and Maria Santisima.
That’s an extraordinary dream.
I began following Diana because Chris Bledsoe mentioned Diana’s work. Chris Bledsoe is the first person I’ve come across that had a similar experience as me. The Blessed Mother visited me at 16 and then again in my early 40’s. Both times I was laying in bed about to fall asleep when a bright flash of light happened and a 4 ft translucent beautiful woman appeared wearing a veil, wearing a beautiful gown that came down to her bare feet. She hovered above my bed with her hands outstretched. I was frightened by it all both times, and confused..why would she visit me. The experience wasn’t very long..but I saw her and afterwards I wondered why this happened. I talked to priests but was always told that demons appear as the Blessed Mother and to forget about it. But I don’t believe it was demonic at all. I believe it was the Blessed Mother.
Diana is the real deal. I have much respect for her because she went to the Vatican’s secret archives. She’s talked to UFO experiencers and attended their conferences. She’s treated experiencers with respect not judgement.
Thank you for sharing.
Your's is also extraordinary and very thought provoking.
The similarities, qualities of the individual, are very intriguing.
Agreed regarding prof Diana. I especially was intrigued with her description in "Encounters" of the scientist and the racoon, etc., etc. Possibly, even if far, far remotely, the "mechanism" behind your's, maria's, and that scientist's is the same.
Familiar with the "Miracle of Fatima"? We "know' the sun, our star, cannot make circles in the sky, yet, that purportedly, that was the perception of many thousands. Possibly could it have been the same "mechanism" as your's, maria's, the scientist's?
Then, why you?, why Maria?, why that scientist, why the phenomenon at Fatima?
Maria had another (dream, of many) in 2001. On Halloween of 2000, we lived in Auburn, WA. Maria only communicated with her cousin once every year or so. They knew one another but were not close. Her cousin lived in Chula Vista, CA. Cousin's oldest boy, 12 y.o, was killed horribly that afternoon while walking with two other children on the sidewalk. The boy's name was Christian. A car drive onto the sidewalk, ran over him (the other two were able to get out of the way), and dragged him some distance under the car. Then they hung his body from a tree. The boy's mother was extremely upset and distraught. She just could not get by the extreme tragedy. We were told she cried all the time in misery. This went on for month after month. Soon it was a year. The mother was still crying most of the time. Maria heard about it from her other cousins who lived in the same general area. But she just set it aside we went on with our own lives. Then one night over a year later, she had a dream of that 12-year-old boy Christian. In her dream, she visited them in Chula Vista. She opened their apartment door to walk into the living room when she saw Christian lying on his back on the living room floor. She was surprised and asked him, "Christian, what are you doing there?!" With that, Christian rose up into a sitting position, looked at her and said, "Tia (auntie), please tell my mother to stop crying, suffering for me. Please tell her i am well and that she must get back to her life. Please tell her, Tia." Maria says the boy had a glow about him; he appeared super clean such that he seemed to glow all over his body.
The next day she wanted to tell the suffering cousin but she did not want to make her feel worse. So, she told the cousin's sisters so they could ease her into it. Those sisters and the cousin then visited a Catholic Church in Mexico to ask about the meaning. The fathers there mostly dismissed the whole scene.
It's an interesting point about how some *interpret* what they identify as sacred/supernatural, versus advanced machines/technology - same as the "vimana" (विमान).
Either it's easier to be biased towards an interpretation that accords with one's existing worldview (too much of an ontological shock otherwise?); or, a deliberate attempt at an *exoteric* interpretation out of concern for the ontological shock for the broader/lay community (or other reasons, e.g., geopolitical), while withholding a view and/or having an *esoteric* interpretation that is intended for only a few.
Otherwise, why not digitize and publish all these miles of manuscripts and artifacts? Allow others to arrive at their own interpretations based on a review of the data/primary source materials.
What is it like for you to go on big podcasts that reshape the public view without your control through edits or the very questions they ask you. Can questions about the subject mislead the public?
Excellent essay. This reminds me of Chomsky and Herman’s “Manufacturing Consent.” But I actually like your “montage” analogy better. This is a great term, and I will definitely return to it.
The internet, particularly social media, is perfect for the propagation of this technique. As usual, great post, Diana.
Reminders like this are important these days, in particular. Noteworthy, and interesting for me, the trend of the use of the word "montage" appears to begin to rise in (approximately) 1929. This is more or less around the same time The Edward Bernays book Propaganda is published. (Source books.google.com/ngrams.)
Meaning is derived via the Law Of Relational Dynamics (Lord).
A thing plus a thing is a different thing.
God exists.
Spot on .... 🎯
Daniel Kahneman, in his 2011 book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" describes these tools and more, and how powerfully they shape and influence our thinking and beliefs. After finishing this important book, one is left wondering how much of ones life is intentional, haha.
I fear what might become of me immersed in the internet, especially social media, for exactly these reasons, and have no social media accounts. The "metaverse" looked like a bad idea until AI, and now looks like the worst idea ever, to me. Intentional or not, social media and the internet seem to work against my faculties of critical thinking and discernment.
To live more independently, in search of elusive truth, and with greater agency, we might work on our critical thinking. We might also, to the point made here, become more aware of these categories of influence (how biases, heuristics come to be, change) if there is to be a grass roots effort for transparency and disclosure.
We are far from helpless, quite the opposite.
A much needed reminder
With only six years of prior research your book American Cosmic was outstanding and most impressive. The transition from space brothers to an alien agenda over the last 5 decades is interesting. I feel the truth is multi facited and complex similar to religions where parts of the truth exist across the entire spectrum creating a puzzle which at this point I feel is intentional obscuring the bigger picture.
Great post - loved it. Drudge been doing this for years and I never put a name on the technique. I've considered it the editor's propaganda for years. In truth, I doubt I see more sophisticated uses of it and you putting a name on it hopefully inoculates again subtle uses of the technique.
Excellent write up of the situation, these need to be included as footnotes to your eventual Magnum Opus on the subject, to detail the impact your work has/will have on society!
This is why Casablanca is so good. It calls out the montages: https://rquadrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/casaMontages.jpg