Thursday, January 04, 2007
WILLARD VAN DE BOGART - PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR IAEWP
The Executive Board Members list of IAEWP shows Willard Van De Bogart as the Public Relations Director.
It is unlikely that one would select as the crafter of an organization's public image someone whose philosophy differs radically from that of the founder and president of the organization. For that reason I am offering a close look at Van De Bogart.
He introduces himself on his webpage at Earth Portals, and describes his work for IAEWP this way:
To continue this legacy of peace education the IAEWP now has a presence on the internet. The url is: http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/mercieca.html
With this web site presence, the IAEWP can now offer an outlet for ideas that can foster global peace through the utilization of the internet. Perhaps we can now find new ways to link ideas and encourage those ideas to be implemented by grass root action groups as well as auspicious world leaders.
Never before has there been a time in human history where human actions and behaviors are threating (sic) the safety and livelihood of its global citizens. Likewise, there has never been a tool in human history like the intenet, that we know of, that has the potential to communicate to all Earth citizens so immediately and so effectively as the internet is capable of doing.
In the picture at the website he appears to be waving. That hand signal has turned up before. Does anyone remember its meaning? Is that Spock's signal from the Starship Enterprise?
Earth Portals, a massive database, is Bogart's creation. Portal Messenger, the realm of the database that carries Mercieca's webpages, offers a Pandora's box of spirituality, presenting "those individuals who are offering new visions to help us explore our imagination, and provide us with roadmaps and metaphors in a never ending expanding cosmos." Among them are Jose Arguelles, Zecharia Sitchin, and Dan Winter. Are "metaphors" what we need to help us to better understand each other as our globe shrinks, or should we be seeking truth?
At the Peace Portal, another subordinate database of Portal Messenger, IAEWP is linked along with the World Summit on Peace, Freedom and Time, the Internet Peace Initiative, the Association for a Global Peace Conference, the State of the World Forum, and more.
To get a better picture of the size of the database, take a look at the Earth Portals Index:
Here where all of the links are listed, and
Here where there is an overview of the five main portal sections which includes the Portal Messenger in the fourth slot. Notice the "Spirit Path" link below the five portals. Clicking that link takes you to the webpage "Follow the Spirit Path" where the first link will arrive at "Inter-dimensional Time Tunnel: A personal mythology of Willard Van De Bogart." According to his statement:
The idea of using metaphors became the foundation of Earth Portals...[which was launched] on July 21st, 1995...
Earth Portals thus became, in my mind, an interdimensional time tunnel incorporating the mysteries from many of the ancient cosmologies, and the current mythologies we entertain in the early 21st century. Earth Portals as a web site also became an outlet for the expression of other minds seeking answers--and solutions to make our condition on Earth more like a heaven under the starry vault of the night sky. Much of my own identity became intertwined in this web site...
Having accepted my own mythology, I was able to find other minds participating on the internet who were also sensitive to this mythology.
Let's follow the spirit path, shall we...?
"The Mind in the Universe" gives us...
* United Nations Genesis II - the universe as a giant video game
* Gnostic Judas - offers the Gnostic Gospels
* Scientific Pantheism - gets you in touch with Pantheist resources for the new religion
* Intelligent Infinity - seems to be a broken link but at one time featured the ideas of, among others, Djwhal Khul, Alice Bailey's spook
* Harmonic Continuum - is a blog
* The Virgin Mary - promotes Franciscan Roman Catholic writings about Our Lady as Mediatrix
* The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras - 7 pages of David Ulansey's alchemy links...the Church of the SubGenius is one of the links which means that the Discordians are part of this picture
* Zen Readings - Zen Buddhism links provided by Ben Walter
The spirit path is multi-religious. This, I presume, is a taste of the One World Religion. Just make sure you don't believe that any of them are absolute truth.
"The Heart in the Universe" provides links to various perspectives on the Rosicrucian heart doctrine
"Emerging in the Universe" and "Captain of the Ether Ship Speaks" - these two links are joined. Here one steps off the plane of sanity into the formless space of UFOs. Is it real, or is it sci-fi? Or is it both?
"Dakota Sioux Holy Man Speaks" is Native American spirituality.
"Alien Space Ships Peace Armada" - the kind of stuff usually labeled here in my blog as "News from Planet Zircon".
"Messages from Beyond" Coop Cosmo Yes, it really is the name of an Italian organization which disseminates "messages" from Ashtar channeled by Anna Federighi.
If you want more on the messages from beyond, go to Portal Ether Ship and take a journey with Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna.
More Coop Cosmos can be found here.
Willard Van De Bogart's Resume is online here. His specialization is teaching English as a second language and computer consulting, and he has worked with universities. He is also an expert in E-business. Another bio can be found in the Earth Portals Messenger database. His family history is located here.
Van De Bogart lists his current address as ELS Language Center, Dominican University of California, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael, California 94901. I searched the Dominican University of California website for his name among the faculty, but it is not there.
How has Charles Mercieca, a man with influence at the United Nations, kept his credibility and the credibility of IAEWP with such a bizarre Public Relations Director? Or is it that we are looking here at the spiritual direction of the United Nations?
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
