Enoch's Thread Quotes

“You're claiming all religions once practiced magic?" "Of course, it's well documented.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“He said the Mormon Church would be upset with him if they knew he practiced magic." "The LDS Church doesn't care about magic," Vasios snapped back, voice wavering.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“the Mormons don't use public fatwas.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“If everyone practices magic, there is no Church. But the truth is, there were then, and are now, plenty more people than Joseph Smith with access to the divine. I know. I am one." "And that makes you a threat to the Church.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“So when Smith cavalierly claimed there's a stone for everyone, he inadvertently put the Church in jeopardy of revelatory anarchy.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Gardner was on to something—something that could have brought down the whole house of Mormon.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Mickelsson's Ghosts fostered my passion for Mormon history.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“there really is no such thing as disbelief, only belief in other things,”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Everyone here knows disbelief disables power and how the rise of disbelief accounts for the historical decline of the supernatural”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“if a person really did have access to the occult, who'd focus on climate change? No one. But if the magic could only work on global warming, then they'd run with it, right? That means these guys are almost certainly operating with constraints,”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Right, but as to which of those the foundation might actually be exploiting to affect climate change, who knows?”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“He slid farther into the booth and swung his feet up on the bench. With his back propped against the wall, left hand cradling his pint glass, he told me his story: the improbable successes with his climate models, The Foundation for Ecological Readiness, the upstate New York retreat, the ritual in the woods.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Erin Rayburn, coining the term econoecology, pointed out that there was already concern that overpopulation of seals might be adversely affecting the northern fisheries.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“all of them energized by the plethora of possible climate change related 'opportunities', and the many ways they might be exploited for financial gain.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“To each of you here today I say, as we create plans for the future of this organization, we need to think big. Significant opportunity awaits us, and we need to be ready. I want this organization to be able to handle anything the impending climate crisis might throw at us.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“John Gardner as a modern-day parallel to Joseph Smith, both men employing historical fiction to access the occult in order to change the world.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“I'm not sure if you've appreciated the synchronicity, or maybe it's just irony, of the geographical association of Gardner's birth—near Palmyra—and death in Susquehanna, with the origins of the Mormon religion. It all happened on hallowed Mormon ground my friend—hallowed ground.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Good question. Coincidence," he leaned forward, "or synchronicity?" "You think there's a difference?”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Was it the same for me? Was my strange destiny, maybe even Denny himself, being conjured from within my own mind? I thought about the synchronicities: the witches just when I needed to find them, and this name Enoch, permeating everything. It was there in the witchcraft, there with the Mormons and Masons, even there with John Gardner.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“It made me think of another thread; the braided tangle of synchronicity stringing out behind me ever since I had resolved to write.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“John Gardner was forty-nine on the day he died; September 14, 1982. Prince Grace of Monaco died that same day. Both were victims of vehicular crashes. I sometimes found her obituary side-by-side with his. Coincidence.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Had I become hypersensitive because of the events of the last few months, or was I developing an ability to discern connections more clearly—to recognize them when they happen? And was this synchronicity or magic?”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“One thing I know for sure, though, is that in the end, you have only yourself, the Grand Pooh-Bah of Synchronicity, to rely on to get this under control. Rather than staying spooked, I think you need to embrace it head on and experiment with it.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“I believe the man with the mustache is a manifestation of you unwittingly having tapped into the occult. I think you're using the occult, albeit subconsciously, to practice synchronicity on yourself. It's you, man! You created the mustached man.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“From the start, I wanted my book to have a ready-made audience of conspiracy theorists and seekers. Now, through the Enoch-synchronicity connection, I came face-to-face with my target audience and their religious manifestos, rambling manuscripts, and crackpot analyses—misspelled and riddled with bad grammar, posted on Facebook, countless websites, blogs, and bulletin boards. In aggregate, my future readers were a community of the lost, the lonely, and the crazy.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“The only concept in my research up to that point, lacking a direct link to Enoch, was synchronicity—an anomaly quickly righted by combining the terms "Enoch" and "synchronicity" in a web search. The results enumerated the long-standing efforts of others at making the connection, over and over and over again.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“I do confess I was drawn to him, and felt there was potential for a lasting friendship. I certainly didn't want to count that out at that time, so I kept my cynicism to myself. I know now that in so doing, I took the first step toward suspension of my own disbelief, completely oblivious to the slippery slope ahead.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“I don't want to say that I bought his ridiculous paranoid megalomaniacal fantasy. Rather, I prefer to admit only that I decided to play along.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“Synchronicity events had become so rampant as of late, I had been forced to redefine them. Now to count as synchronicity, at least three closely related events were required; pairs were too easy.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread

“The final synchronicity, Synchronicity of Want, never seems to happen when I want it to. Synchronicity of Want would be something that resulted in me getting one up on someone, or punishing someone, or me finding or receiving money, advancement or fame. That's why I'm not rich.”
― John Aubrey, Enoch's Thread