Human history may not merely be the history of humans interacting with one another. It may also be the history of humanity interacting with forms of intelligence that are perceived through altered states, religious experiences, visions, dreams, shamanic practices, meditation, ritual, and perhaps other mechanisms not yet fully understood.

I know, all this sounds pretty crazy, but that’s only because it was designed to be that way to conceal the truth. And that truth is coming fast. I didn’t want to be that guy.   I thought it was a wonderful picture, one my oldest daughter took of me as I sat in front of the Newark Holy Stones in the second story of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum.   She is a professional, highly sought-after photographer because she has learned to capture more in an image than many people might otherwise realize.   And she knows me.   She knew it when she snapped the picture. I didn’t want to be that guy to say all this.   As a high-level aerospace executive and political consultant, I could do much more with my life that would be much more profitable.   But as I sat in front of those stones found by the surveyor David Wyrick and considered all the evidence, I realized I had to put forth my efforts to explain everything to everyone in this book, The Politics of Heaven.   And not giving anything away here, because the journey is more exciting than the conclusion, which is pretty exciting, and that is to what degree and how has non human intelligence shaped the human race over a period of many thousands of years, as chronicled by official government UAP releases and evidence based understanding regarding the reports that at least four different alien species have been interacting with the American government, and likely more than that, and that we do not have sovereignty over our own lives, which has been the big secret.   And no government on earth has been able to protect us from them, which is at the heart of the conspiracy.    So which political party would Satan and his conspirators belong to, and what have been their political motivations been since the beginning of human history? And how many planets do they interact with? Those are the kind of questions I am interested in asking and finding answers to. And in that pursuit, no AI program in the world could have written this article or the book that this is the introduction to. It had to come from my very personal perspective and experience.

A few weeks after that picture, I found myself at the Fort Ancient site, listening to a lecture by John Hancock, who had just written a couple of really good books on the Hopewell earth mounds of Ohio.  After leaving the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, I went with my family down to the Newark earthworks and, in the gift shop at the visitor’s center, discovered the newly released book by John Hancock, Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which featured UNESCO’s classification designating 8 sites in Ohio as World Heritage Sites.  Hancock was the driving force behind that designation, and, I thought, his book, based on the presentation to the UNESCO committee, was really well done.  So my same daughter who took that picture went with me to Fort Ancient, at the arrangement of Sarah Winningham, the assistant site superintendent at Fort Ancient, to listen to John talk about writing his books, the UNESCO submission, and his very good travel guide, Ancient Ohio.  And that is the case with a lot of this book, I go to a lot of museums, everything from the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant West Virginia, famous for its paranormal reporting, to the British Museum where I famously had a nice argument with the staff there over the crystal skull, which falls into the same kind of category as the Newark Holystones.  Are they fake?  And if so, why would anybody go to all the trouble?  After all, the discovery of the Newark Holystones more or less destroyed the life of David Wyrick, who was a good surveyor in 1860, and it was assumed that he was a major abolitionist aligned with the Lincoln administration in the heat of the Civil War.  So it was assumed that he made the stones and planted them in the famous mounds to erode any thoughts that the Indians of his time, being pushed off the land by westward expansion, wanted to decouple their claims to the ancient earthworks.  Or so they say, and they are very explicit about that at the museum. 

I was surprised to notice, just to the south of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, a nice David Wyrick drawing of the Newark Great Circle proudly displayed on the wall of the visitors center.  Wyrick died miserably in 1864 of laudanum, a commonly used painkiller that was opium based.  I think it is a reach to attempt to paint David Wyrick politically, which was clearly the case at the museum’s, a very aggressive attempt to attach an indigenous people narrative to the mounds, and Wyrick was trying to spread the word of God and the immorality of slavery, which was the thrust of the Holy Stone exhibit at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum.  It doesn’t take much of a stretch to see the academic community in the vacuum of more knowledge, driving a political narrative where it likely didn’t belong.  And as I said, I noticed the fantastic book by John Hancock, newly released and displayed everywhere at Newark, The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which I grabbed quickly and read almost before leaving the mound’s site at Newark.  A few weeks later, at Fort Ancient, I attended a lecture by the author John Hancock, hosted by Assistant Site Superintendent Sarah Winningham.  By the time of that event at the Fort Ancient museum, I was very intrigued by some of the claims in John’s book about the famous mounds. 

First of all, if not for John, there is no way the Ohio mounds would have been designated UNESCO World Heritage sites, which is a very good thing because they are every bit as important as other World Heritage Sites, such as the Great Pyramids and Machu Picchu.  But I wanted to talk to him about his book because he has some very interesting and unique ideas.  First of all, he approached the mounds as an architect, as a retired professor from the University of Cincinnati who thought like a teacher and used to take students to Europe to see great architecture before realizing that some of the best architecture in the world was shown in the mounds of Ohio, which would eventually become in his book the eight UNISCO earthwork sites, Newark, Hopeton, High Banks, Fort Ancient, Seip, The Great Circle, and Mound City. 

To say I was a little excited is an understatement as I went through their shelves at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum.  As this book unfolds, it will become obvious that I love museums, big ones and little ones, and I love their gift shops.  I have found many wonderful treasures in museum gift shops.  The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is famous for its replica relics of the Holy Stones.  But going through their shelves, they also had replicas of the actual Wilmington Tablets.  I was very happy to see three of them, and I asked the cashier how I could buy one.  They thought they were coasters.  Obviously, the tablet replicas were too obscure for anybody to know what they were, including those working at the museum.  I have some very strong thoughts about the various Adena tablets found in the mounds of what has been designated as Adena culture.  There is a Cincinnati Tablet that has at times been displayed at the Cincinnati Museum Center.  And of course, the Wilmington Tablet was found in Wilmington, Ohio.  And I would argue that it shows interaction with the Olmecs from central Mexico, up the Mississippi River, and across the Gulf.  A lot of archaeologists argue against it, but I thought that John Hancock’s new books made legitimate arguments for that kind of travel for a book published by Smithsonian Books.  And that is the discussion that copper from Lake Superior did, in fact, find its way into the Hopewell sites in Ohio, which indicates very long-distance travel, Mica trade from the Appalachians, and obsidian from the Yellowstone area.  I told John that I thought it took a lot of guts for him to talk about the copper mines in Lake Superior because of the conspiracy theories that have spawned on the topic.  But here we were in 2026, talking to a serious person about the mounds, and we’re having a serious discussion about the Great Lakes copper trade, which has quite a story.  Something called the Newberry Tablet, occasionally on display in St. Ignace, Michigan, points to trade with Mediterranean cultures, which many claim was so voluminous that it flooded the global economy with copper, starting the Bronze Age.   The dates on the mines are around 8000 years old, or about 5000 BC, roughly the same as those of the Windover people of Central Florida, a topic we’ll discuss in much more detail later. 

This book, The Politics of Heaven, is more than just a travel log of my extensive travels and my political and professional work in aerospace as an executive.  As I asked the question at Fort Ancient, I came to ask John Hancock, the assistant superintendent of the Fort Ancient site, Sarah Winningham that I first started to think about many years ago.  I really didn’t want to be that guy.  At my age, I had been looking forward to a kind of retirement where I could attend events like the one where John Hancock would write great books and put a new spin on an old archaeological idea.  John, being a professor of architecture, did have a fresh perspective that I always enjoyed in my youth as the Vice President of the Dan Beard Council.

As a young man, I was very happily involved in a High Adventure Explorer Post, where I became Vice President of the Dan Beard Council after a special election at the GE Evendale plant, where I gave a speech that led to my election.  Later in this book, I tell the tragic story of a death that took place later in the night of that same election day, when I was scheduled to fight three guys from my school at that same time, and one of them turned up dead, and the rest of them were telling stories about me to the police that were not favorable.  The events of that night led to my separation from the Dan Beard Council, and at that time, I enjoyed my exposure to those kinds of people, including academics like John Hancock and museum personalities like Sarah Winningham from the Fort Ancient complex.  I have been hoping since that time that at some point I could get back into that kind of life, the High Adventure Explorer Post life I enjoyed so much in my youth.  This book tells that story as I continued to travel a lot and utilize the skills I started in those explorer post experiences.  Even though many of the people who volunteered for and supported Explorer Post activities were politically liberal, I hoped that someday I might be able to return to those innocent days. 

But as much as I wanted to, my life had taken me into the very political world of consulting, and with high-level personalities, which made it impossible for me to sit in that Fort Ancient lecture and put my brain away.   Because, like John Hancock, who approached the really good archaeology of Bradley Lepper, and others with an architectural background, I have years of experience as an aerospace executive dealing with very smart, PhD-level engineers and professionals who can be very manipulative and deceitful in root cause analysis.  My wife and I had plans, and what will become clear in this book is that I have a very high regard for the archaeological publication Biblical Archaeology Review, and I really want to spend these years of my life taking their cruises on luxury liners and having archaeological discussions.  And that my happiest place on earth at the moment is at the Museum of the Bible, for which my wife and I are members.  I love places very passionately where scholarship and discovery come together, so believe me, I didn’t want to be that guy.  I wanted to be the guy who read the books of people like John Hancock, Bradley Lepper, and Francis Pryror, and enjoyed the buffets on the cruise ships, and read lots of books.  Because more than anything, my number one hobby, which started for me during those Explore Post years, was reading books.  Lots and lots of books, some of my favorite which is reflected in this literary effort, are James Frazer’s The Golden Bough and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and for me, it is the joy of adventure in going down rabbit holes and bringing Alice back from its hidden depths that is the most fun.  And professionally, as I have thought for a long time because of my love of The Golden Bough, I think archaeology does not go far enough as a spinoff of the creation of anthropology, scientifically, and all the hard lessons I have learned through years of political work gave me extensive experience.  I really wanted to attend John Hancock’s lecture for the pure enjoyment of it, because I love people like him and Sarah Winningham.  Why, because I learned to really love academics in a non-political way during my very formative years of High Adventure Explorer Post membership.  I had made up my mind to get all over the world, which is what this book is about.  I didn’t learn what I did by just sitting at home, but by going to many places and applying the same skills that worked very well for me professionally, to some really obscure ideas.  So I came to the lecture with a question I had thought of while reading John Hancock’s marvelous books. 

I thought John’s lecture on the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks was fantastic, very well researched, and extremely well put together.  No wonder UNESCO moved to designate the 8 earthworks sites as World Heritage Sites officially.  And even if the UNESCO people are extremely liberal, politically, and were very much against the United States during the first Trump presidential term, which I know a lot about.  I finish this book with a visit to the White House.  I tend to really enjoy all efforts that seek to preserve the past, regardless of politics.  In the pages to come, I am glowingly supportive of organizations like English Heritage and the fantastic efforts of The Ohio History Connection, whose headquarters is at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, where I first visited on an Explorer Post field trip many years ago.  The main purpose of Explorer Post membership is to expose young people to high-adventure career opportunities.  Which was the subject of my speech at GE to the other explorer groups of Cincinnati and big personalities such as Lee Iacocca and Jack Welch, and how they elected me, even as a very young person, to Vice President of the Dan Beard Council.   So, since I had my question ready for John’s lecture, I decided to enjoy the event and the educational publications from The Ohio History Connection.  I remember that day with the Explorer Post visiting the museum that would become The Ohio History Connection. I got the feeling that everyone was encouraging me to grow up and become the troublemaker who would challenge their assumptions.  After all, why have a High Adventure Explorer Post in any way but to raise young people to go out into the world to challenge everything, if not for gaining wealth and notoriety, but for the spirit of adventure itself. 

I was always the rebel of the group, and even if I was naturally very talented, my spirit of adventure got me and everyone who followed me into a lot of trouble.  And sometimes people did lose their lives, which is why my time as Vice President of the Dan Beard Council was short-lived.    But I got that office at a very young age because a lot of people were hoping I would be the guy who would shake things up in ways they instinctively knew needed to happen.  And as I held up my hand at the end of John’s lecture, I asked my question about the relic on display at the Ohio History Center: the Shaman of Newark.  In his big book, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, John very cleverly found a way to show the relic as a digital replica illustrated by Talon Silverhorn of the Eastern Shawnee.  But in his travel guide, Ancient Ohio, he says that he could talk about the famous Hopewell relic but not show it so as not to disrespect Indian tribes, which set up another question I had about NAGPRA in general, which I directed at Sarah, who was in the back of the room, regarding compliance with that 1990 Democrat proposal to return to all the Indian tribes of North America the relics of their ancestors.  They are running a nice museum at Fort Ancient, and John had been very clever in getting Indian tribes to contribute artwork and replicas for his books in very respectful ways, which is unusual for these kinds of projects. Before going to the Fort Ancient lecture, my wife and I had just returned from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and I had a great time there.  A lot of the kind of people I like these days have very little trust in the Smithsonian and the much-talked-about cover-up of the ancient giants who were reported to have been found in these very Ohio Mounds.  John’s book does not address those, but he and I did talk about the controversies. I told him I thought it was remarkable that he even mentioned the copper mines of Lake Superior in his book, because, as the story goes, those copper mines dating to 5000 BC were so prolific that they caused a global economic boom and were shipped to Europe by the Minoans of Crete. That proof of that trading exchange is on what they call the Newberry tablet, which can be found sometimes in St. Ignace, in Upper Michigan.  As I said to John, this conspiracy stuff is a tough line to walk.  And as I said it, I looked back at the audience, and almost everyone had a grin on their face because I was saying the stuff that is supposed to be unsaid, but they all wanted to say it. 

The Relic of the Shaman of Newark, I think, is a remarkable admission, which I will expand on during the grand adventure for which this book is, a journey around the world and across vast spans of time with conclusive evidence at the level of speculation awaiting the hard evidence of good archaeology.  The relic itself depicts a shaman in the process of turning into a bear and is holding in his lap the severed head of a long-haired human.  I knew about the relic because it was on display at the Columbus Museum, as was the Wilmington Tablet.  So, as the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum operators have done a great job getting into the business of making relics of controversial artifacts, like the Newark Holystones, but seeing that copy of the Wilmington Tablet reminded me of the Shaman of Newark, as that topic had been on my mind regarding the Newark Earthworks.  And this was the cause of my anxiety, which my daughter captured so well as I was distraught over what it all led to. 

I asked the question: why were the Indian tribes reclaiming all the artifacts that archaeologists had found, and even destroying them by burying them again?  And as John explained, he had just spent a lot of time speaking with various Indian tribes to coordinate with them in writing his great book on how to show who the Hopewell people were by replicating them, without the magic of their actual image tainting them with haunted reverence.  So here is the problem. Two things can’t both be true, here we had a political movement pushed by NAGPRA, which said that we had to give back all the evidence of our discovery because the relics of the Indigenous people were magical and had power that had to be returned to the ground, but at the same time we were supposed to study these Indigenous people with evidence to understand them.  So I turned around from my seat and addressed the back of the room. I asked, “Was the NAGPRA pressure political or coming from the tribes themselves?”  Because I will talk about this extensively in this book, the 8,000-year-old, well-preserved people of Windover, buried in bogs in Florida, are genetically dated as older than any known North American Indian Tribe and were actually around during the period of the copper mines of Lake Superior.  So how can we study this history and properly respect it if NAGPRA said we had to empty all the museums of Indian relics and give them back to tribes we were calling Indigenous people by Democrat legislation that was making a claim that America should have never been settled or turned into a country because it happened at the expense of these miraculous Indigenous people? 

And here’s the problem: the Shaman of Newark shows clearly the extent of the belief of those people of their period, which, to my eyes, were mimicking the beliefs of the Canaanite gods that Yahweh was so enraged about.  And the political statement by Yahweh to destroy all the gods of Canaan and destroy the people of that land, emphatically.  The beliefs of the people of Newark and the other Hopewell sites needed to be studied much more so that evidence could drive our conclusions.  Like the situation in Cahokia, just outside St Louis, here we had an Indian relic in the Shaman of Newark that had a decapitated head in his lap, showing the typical ritual sacrifice of life for the benefit of communicating with spiritual entities.  And with that, under NAGPRA, which bless her heart, young Sarah Winningham was preparing the Fort Ancient museum to be fully compliant with.  The evidence was right there, begging us to ask the next layer of questions with really great minds and researchers, like John Hancock and great archaeologists like Bradley Lepper, who should be applying great science to these magnificent archaeological monuments.  Instead, we are getting rid of the evidence and then telling the world that everything is a conspiracy theory because there is no evidence to support it.  This book is about the evidence discovered through vast and sometimes dangerous expeditions observed over my lifetime. 

In these pages, there is extensive study of the impact of shamans on a culture over time and of their common role as vehicles of spirit-world interaction.  I was very impressed that John Hancock put an image of the Shaman of Newark in  Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks.  But he did not include the same image in his Ancient Ohio traveler’s guide, even though he did talk about it.  The reason is tribal acceptance and a NAGPRA compliance issue, and I think it’s the key to the whole enterprise.  My question is, what made Yahweh listen to Satan to punish Job, and why wouldn’t Satan work through many shamans over time and space to whisper bad things for their own political needs to gullible recipients, whether that be Job or God himself as head of the Divine Council? Just because the Bible recorded an occurrence, why wouldn’t there be many more undocumented occurrences just as bad or worse than what happened to Job?   The presence of shaman activity among the Hopewell people, complete with a severed head in its lap, does not point to peaceful indigenous people being used by a modern 1619 Project into claiming them as vehicles of destruction, invalidating the creation of the United States in the first place.  Yes, I think David Wyrick may have planted the stones for all the reasons he was accused of.  But it destroyed him socially, and it looks like the work of the opium present in his painkillers, giving his mind access to similar satans as those that tempted God in the Book of Job.  I think there is another layer to the story, and it centers on how we perceive consciousness.

In the chapters ahead, I explore the nature of remote viewing as we have come to know it and test some assumptions on the known psychics Dolores Cannon and Edgar Cayce, and even deeper into the MK Ultra Program, so well known around the Charlie Manson murders.  And why wouldn’t we pay attention to that kind of psychic reporting when so many biblical characters were telling of occurrences where they directly communicated with gods and would sacrifice to them?  And here in Newark, Ohio, we have an Indian relic of a Newark shaman that depicts a severed head and a shamanic transformation from human to bear, and we are supposed to, under the NAGPRA law, put that relic back in the ground and destroy its magical properties.  And why do the Indians believe these relics have magical properties? How are we scientifically talking about magic in objects and saying it with a straight face, then calling people like me pseudoscientists or, at best, contemplators of conspiracy?

Let’s take what we know, that Satan was reported to manipulate God in the Book of Job, and that God reacted to it in a way that was very hard on Job who was a good man doing all the good things a human being was supposed to be doing.  Why did Satan want to bring harm to such a good persont? Just because, Satan was evil? What does that mean and what’s the next layer of understanding?  That’s the kind of question I explore in the chapters to come.  What are the political motivations of spirit world malcontents, and how can we prepare ourselves as a human culture from their interdimensional tyranny?  And if we think that is wild, then how can we say that indigenous people have ancient relics that are magical and should be destroyed and put back in the ground and studied?  Yet we are supposed to take the word of the experts for it completely and “trust the science.”  As we were expected to do with Covid.  So here we had a problem, we are supposed to ignore all the evidence and give it back to people who had no genetic claim to the objects, in ways we still don’t understand, we don’t know who the Hopewell and Adena people were, we don’t know who mined the Lake Superior copper mines, we don’t know who the Windover people were, yet we are supposed to give all these treasures back to the newest people living on the block, without studying what they left behind.  The Shaman of Newark, I think, is one of the most important parts of John Hancock’s book, as he actually managed to put an image of it in the book before the purge of NAGPRA forced it into obscurity.  But how much else has been shoved away into a lack of study, and how can we claim to know anything about them? 

I didn’t mean to, but I had a UFO experience that I talk about in this book also.  I would attribute it to big government programs and to a psychic reaction to me personally, which is something that dominating personality types seem to have been able to do over many years.  But who did they speak with, or rather, who answered?   I have seen it for myself.   I think non-human intelligence is always working with us, around us, through us, and for its own political motivations.  But what are those politics?  We might understand the Ohio governor’s race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy through the political lens of Democrats versus Republicans.   And that was certainly the case between many researchers and me.  Overwhelmingly, college professors tend to be Democrats, as are Hollywood actors, for very good and definable reasons.  Productive capitalists might otherwise be said to be Republicans.  But what is the politics of Satan besides calling him evil?  Evil doesn’t tell the story nearly enough.   And what would be the politics of spiritual beings, as the Indians say, the Great Spirit? Perhaps they are talking about the same God we all are.  Or perhaps not, perhaps their god is just another version of Baal, Lucifer, Moloch, or Satan.  Yet, here we have in the Shaman of Newark a figure involved in human sacrifice, as many of the Mississippian Mound cultures did, Cahokia included, and nobody wants to talk about it?  NAGPRA says we are supposed to suspend belief and surrender our opinions to the experts who have no idea what they are talking about. 

I walked out of the Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day, telling my wife that everything had changed.  It’s not that the movie was jaw-droppingly good; it was just a movie.  But it gave permission, for a whole bunch of political reasons, to talk about this subject differently than at any time in the past.  The evidence, including the case of David Wyrick, and we will talk about evidence a lot in the murder cases I have been on, where I was the top cop of Butler County, Ohio, for a very treasured period.  Do demons and spiritual characters talk to people and soothsay them into self-destruction?  Yes, emphatically, over and over again, and I think when it came to David Wyrick, he needed public acceptance that some demonic force wanted him contained and destroyed.  He was an abolitionist who used his prominent social position as a mason to help spread the message of ending slavery.   And thought his opinion-based painkillers, a Satan-like character probably had his ear right up to the day of his death under the influence of that same painkiller.  But why, if you were an alien from a Type One civilization, would you try to derail an ant colony that was interrupting your version of a picnic?  If the creation of America was divinely inspired, as the Bible clearly indicates, wouldn’t that be good for the human race? Yet perhaps god was at war with all the other gods, and we are their chess pieces.  I’m inclined to that latter assumption, and the evidence certainly leans in that direction as I have experienced it. 

At the September 9th 2025, Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection hearing with the House Oversight Task Force, there were some very unusual things said on the very public record by George Knapp, Jeffry Nuccetlli, Dylan Borlan, and Alexandro Wiggins that have slowly taken the idea of UFO talk from conspiracy to actual scientific study.   We have open talk now that up to four species of non-human intelligence are interacting openly with the world’s governments.  And back to the movie Disclosure Day by Steven Spielberg: as a work of art, it opens the box to talk about these things in ways we never have before, because of the compelling evidence emerging from these testimonies.  The movie is clearly fictional and meant to be a popcorn popper.  But there is a level of seriousness to it that hints at something much larger: how do these non-human intelligence types communicate with humans now and in the past, perhaps even the deep past?  I would say to all the scientists of the Smithsonian that objects like the Shaman of Newark and understanding how the complex mathematics in the Newark Earthworks were given to those indigenous people in the first place is all that matters.  Based on observation, with the thin proof that we have, the Sumerian God Nisaba was whispering geometry to the people of the Hopewell period, and probably longer. Or the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Why not you say? Are we going to be fools and suggest that Sumerian Gods were regional, and could not speak to people on the other side of the world as easily as someone in a Sumerian temple under drug influence? Why would we assume that? The first question is understanding that. And how did a society that did not have any central government or modern technology such as TV or radio project those same mathematics, without flaw, from the Newark earthworks to Hopton, over 60 miles to the south, to Mound City, Seip, High Bank, and Fort Ancient, locations all over Ohio?  They had no paper that we know of, no Wal-Mart, no way to say that this, this, and this is important.  Let’s build massive earthworks that take millions of labor-hours each to complete, and do so to perfection, without any centralized corporation or government to keep everyone focused.  And modern science calls it a miracle of tribal knowledge.  I call it communication through shaman over vast distances, all over the earth, by non-human intelligence trying to manipulate the human race towards its own doom and destruction to fulfill the political needs of the rebels against God. 

And to further confirm that suspicion, many of these Hopewell sites are associated with the very ancient Teays River, which flowed up the Scioto over 2 million years ago, well before the last Ice Age.  The Teays and its tributaries touched many of the Hopewell sites, indicating a reverence for those spots on the land by an intelligence observing human beings over a vast span of time and connecting those locations to celestial alignments. And that relevance is important in knowing that the Great Serpent Mound was built on the crater of an impact crater from 300 million years ago.  How would indigenous people know that?  And even stranger, the Fort Hill complex is built within the impact crater zone as well.  Out of all the places in North America, why would anybody, and nobody really knows who they are, build these big, significant sites near geologic features that were millions of years old?  Why would they know anything about any of it with such precise mathematics?  How would that information ever be obtained in the first place, let alone passed along to these construction sites involving so many years and generations of labor and production?  It’s hard to build a McDonald’s consistently, even with all the modern tools we have now.  I would propose that it was the shaman with drug use who served as the primary communication device.  And with that, a relationship with Non-Human Intelligence that we are finally admitting to, that has always been a part of the human experience. 

Yes, the exhibit at the great Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum was very political, but not in the way that I think they intended.  I saw at the museum an attempt to understand these great mysteries with replicas of the relics themselves.  Again, that’s where I found a great copy of the Wilmington Tablet, along with the Holy Stones of Newark.   And we also know of the Shaman of Newark, so there were relics that depicted the same kind of human sacrifice that we know came from central Mexico, Mirador, Teotihuacan, and Cholula, in a time when many people didn’t think cultures were talking to each other.  They appear, as the evidence of the relics shows, to have been doing so.  Even in the Smithsonian views these days by John Hancock, we know that the Hopewell people were traveling many thousands of miles to obtain copper, obsidian, and mica, and likely traded with the Olmecs of Tabasco, Mexico, and affiliated cultures, which had their writing showing up in the Wilmington Tablet and the Cincinnati Tablet.  So the political motivations of David Wyrick are not as simple as has been attempted to be set out. 

As a surveyor of these great Indian mounds, and confronted with vast evil, as the Civil War over slavery unleashed itself, and studying the remains of these ancient cultures, likely the same voices that whispered in the ear of the Shaman of Newark were whispering in the ear of David Wyrick and his opium painkillers.  And was it Moses who wrote the Book of Job and discussed what Satan had said to whom and for what reason?  The same guy who talked to god on a mountaintop and came back 40 days later with the Ten Commandments, and spoke to a burning bush about freeing the Jewish people from the confines of Egyptian polytheism.  Should we ignore that the mound complex at Portsmith, Ohio has a very similar path-of-souls ritual to the one the Egyptians had for their preserved dead?  And that some of their paths actually go through the Ohio River, showing a reverence for what was there before even the Ohio River flowed through the area, when the Teays River instead flowed to the north.  And we could say with just as much authority that the mound sites were restored during the Hopewell period rather than constructed anew.  That they were marking spots on the ground, viewed from the air, to very ancient landmarks, for reasons for which we do not have enough evidence to speculate.   Yet they are there, and the evidence is begging to be found and analyzed.  And for the same political reasons that Satan tried to trick God into punishing Job, we have society punishing David Wyrick for daring to oppose slavery, or wanting to use the Ten Commandments as a hook into North American migration by Western civilization, bringing with it a religion of forgiveness instead of appeasement to some mysterious gods who demand decapitated human heads in the lap of their shaman before providing information. 

No, I didn’t want to be that guy, but sitting in front of the Newark Holystones at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum and seeing the exhibit they had there, and noticing the quick tone to dismiss everything as a hoax, my life flashed before me in a way I would have rather had it not.  A deception was at play; Satan himself was trying to throw everyone off the scent.  And when theologians contemplate a single satan in the Book of Job, they miss the obvious problem that there are likely thousands of them always whispering in someone’s ear, maybe God himself, or David Wyrick laced out on painkillers, or the Shaman of Newark.  And that it didn’t take much to communicate, a spiritual terrorist from the land of Cannon could have been speaking the same message of sacrifice to some headhunter of the Adena culture depicted as a severed head in Hopewell mounds at the same time that they were whispering to Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Solomon’s First Temple, and to the Romans during the Second Temple, to destroy the vessels of God himself to make the world ripe for an overthrow, to the political objectives of the conspirators against God’s creations.  And the Essenes were turned into the channel, and wrote about it in their Dead Sea Scrolls. I had wished that the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum exhibit, located well north of Newark, was less obvious and more scientifically grounded.  But the assumption was that Wyrick was an abolitionist living among evil people supporting the slavery of other people, more of that reference to the 1619 Project, the unjust settlement of indigenous land.  And as you read at the Holy Stone Exhibit, you can almost hear the whispers of Satan himself, showing Wyrick to be invalidated, corrupting future scientists in their assumptions, and making a case for not even founding America at all so the Christian premise of eliminating human sacrifice would be destroyed and current cultures continue the practice of honoring the spirit world with the blood of the living.  And I didn’t want to be the guy who reported what was hard to hear.  That Satan was a non-human intelligence that has been doing all this manipulating since before the Teays River flowed north along the Scioto River, then turned left near present-day Columbus and headed out to Indiana along the present-day I-70 corridor. 

If you really looked closely enough and blocked out the contemporary noise, you could hear the insecurities of Satan, hoping to get away with the deception of many lifetimes.  Humans need to appease what they thought of as their superiors, their gods, the malcontents that UAP whistleblowers are now revealing in the light of day in the Trump administration very hard truths.  It’s one thing to explain modern UFOs and their physics-defying characteristics, and another to explain the mysterious occurrences and hauntings at the Skinwalker ranch.  Yes, I talk a lot about hauntings, paranormal occurrences, Bigfoot, UFOs, and the kind of politics that will make your skin crawl in the pages ahead.   But it’s also a marvelous adventure that I share so that you don’t have to go through the pain firsthand.   And perhaps, after a lot of work, we’ll gather up enough evidence to change our perspective.  But in The Politics of Heaven, the ruse is in what isn’t said, not what is actually revealed.  Satan never tells God what he’s up to in trying to get him to turn against the very good Job.  But when we look at the human race, we see a lot of Jobs, David Wyrick being one of them.  Good people are crushed by their relationships with others who are otherwise motivated toward evil.  But what is evil anyway when you have the Shaman of Newark holding the severed head of an obvious victim, that shaman would use as currency to buy information from the spirit world.  The great spirit, or Satan himself.  We aren’t supposed to ask the question, only to accept that the experts told us what to think and when to think it.  But I didn’t want to be that guy.  Sometimes, I wish I could be a lot of other things.  But what is the adventure in that?   And in the adventure are the answers, the real answers if we dare to look.

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman is an author, political consultant, and strategic advisor based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the creator of The Politics of Heaven—a unique framework that connects biblical theology, ancient history, and modern power structures to explain how moral alignment and spiritual forces shape global events. Blending real-world political experience with deep research into archaeology, UFO phenomena, and suppressed historical narratives, Hoffman offers compelling commentary on topics ranging from ancient civilizations and the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern populist movements, paranormal continuity, and leadership strategy in chaotic environments. As the author of The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and the forthcoming Politics of Heaven, he brings a grounded yet provocative voice to media discussions, supported by firsthand experiences and a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges science, history, and theology. For interviews, speaking engagements, or expert analysis, visit richhoffmanbooks.com or contact directly via phone at 513-307-5815 or email at rhoffman@richhoffmanbooks.com.  If you’ve seen the movie, Disclosure Day and want to talk about it and the implications of Presidnet Trump’s UAP disclosures, let me know and we can bring some color to your coverage. https://richhoffmanbooks.com/media-inquiries-broadcast-topics-and-contact-info/?frame-nonce=ad51e7ecba I do have a firsthand UFO encounter to discuss.