Monday, April 20, 2026

Bowie believers and the Marvel universe

This is the plot summary on the back cover of the novel I am reading now, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold.


The protagonist is characterized as a "Bowie believer." His friend, a former "DC Comics disciple," now inexplicably "rotates in the Marvel universe." Words like believer and disciple of course more usually refer to religious convictions than to pop-culture preferences.

Today on Synlogos I found a link to a First Things article called "The Church of David Bowie," a review of a recently published biography by Peter Ormerod.


The image shows the single word BOWIE in all caps, with Bowie himself beneath it. Here's a passage from Noah Hypnotik (pp. 36-37):

The whole class shifted until everyone was staring at my [T-shirt], the bold type BOWIE across the top, and under it, the man himself with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

"The music, the sexuality, the image," Parish said. "All of it comprised in a single, universally understood word -- Bowie."

Then I checked today's Barnhardt Meme Barrage, where the second meme in the barrage was this one:


It's a satirical definition, done in the style of a Wikipedia article, of Americhristianity, a "syncretic religion" incorporating among other things both "the Marvel Cinematic Universe" and the worship of the President of the United States. The "Marvel universe" reference is right off the back cover of Noah Hypnotik, of course -- but also: If these people adhere to a religion based in part on a comic-book company, and if their Vatican is Washington, D.C., couldn't we accurately describe them, despite their Marvel affiliation, as "DC Comics disciples"?

4 comments:

Ra1119bee said...

William,

It seems to me that Noah ( the  Oak-man, once strong )
becomes hypnotized by the Marvel of the illusion.

From a metaphysical perspective:
Interestingly Noah is a 7 ( his age 1+6 ).
He's a swimmer perhaps symbolically meaning
he knows how to navigate in the waters
of the metaphysical 'world'.

Noah is a son/sun. 
Perhaps meaning Noah radiates from his  Sun sign. 

Noah  is a 'brother'. Perhaps symbolically meaning
that as a strong man  Noah's collective consciousness
 is still intact.
Recall my many comments about why I believe our 
opponents strengthen our ego so as to minimize
our collective  consciousness i.e. our harmony with our
fellow man/woman.
 That is: we are our brother's keepers.
Brother can you spare a dime? .

Also, and I speak of this quite often, I believe
our opponents quest has always been to minimize our soul.
Which explains, at least to me,  why their
final frontier of transhumanism via gene editing.

Also Noah is a Friend.
Interestingly that the topic of the Society of Friends
was just in the sync stream of late. 
 To Quake, as in earthquake , shakes up
conventional norms, no?
Copy and paste from etymology:

"friend (n)
"Meaning "a Quaker" (a member of the Society of Friends)
is from 1670s.
Feond ("fiend," originally "enemy") and freond often were
 paired alliteratively in Old English; both are masculine agent nouns
 derived from present participle of verbs,
but they are not directly related to one another (see fiend)."
~~~~~~~~~
A friend can become a fiend 
because everything in this duality dimension
has a dual nature.

A Quaker may be considered a fiend/adversary)
to those who believe
only in the conventional norm i.e. the illusion.

As far as Noah being an old Bow-ie believer.
  Perhaps meaning symbolically that Bowie is an Archer. 
The archer Sagittarius 'hits'
what he aims for.
Copy and paste:
In mythology, archery often symbolizes precision, control
, and the*** ability to influence fate.***
~~~~~~
In the first link below titled backpackingman scroll down
to the illustration image of Robin Hood.  Robin Hood's bow looks
very much like a crescent moon, at least to me.

 I believe that the reason why most of us marvel at the illusion
 is because we succumb to our ego.
We become hypnotized by the illusion.

I browsed around and found this interesting
about the story of Noah Hypnotik: ( link below )
" To get some breathing space, he fakes
a back injury, and afterward,
begins to focus more on his strange fascinations:
***four*** ****seemingly unconnected**** people."
~~~~~
Four is the doorway to transformation.

'Seemingly unconnected' makes my point.
It may seem that we're not connected to everything
but I absolutely believe that we are,
which explains, at least to me, our
collective consciousness and our harmony with our
fellow man/woman.
"There by the grace of God go I."

 IMHO, our opponents strategically ensure that
we are divided and conquered
because they are the few and we are the many
and they know that there is strength in numbers.

 According to the description of the story of
the Fascination of Noah,
the common trait is loneliness ( which Noah
realizes he shares with the 4 others ).

Loneliness is the feeling of abandonment.

 Being abandoned, ghosted, ignored, ridiculed etc.
comes with the territory  when we no longer believe
in the illusion and see clearly with our Third Eye.

The esoteric is a very lonely path.



https://backpackingman.com/legendary-archers-in-history/
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/sagittarius-constellation/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow

https://spiritualmeaningacademy.com/bow-spiritual-meaning/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780425288863

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Debbie, that link back to the Quaker theme is a good one.

On p. 165 of Noah Hypnotik, we read of "a messenger bag with a patch on the side that reads MELVILLE ROCKS, MOBY DICK SUCKS." Captain Ahab, the Melville character famous for hating Moby Dick (with no hyphen, the name indicates the whale, not the novel), was a Quaker.

The name Ahab means "father's brother." The biblical Ahab's name was presumably given to honor his father's brother, thus highlighting Ahab's role as that person's brother's son. Like Noah, "son, brother, friend."

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Part 1 of 2 
You wrote : "On p. 165 of Noah Hypnotik, we read
of "a messenger bag with a patch on the side."

My response:
Recall my reference to my red Cresent Coach bag
and that all early made Coach bags ( before mid 1990's)
 having a patch inside with the Coach 'creed' describing
the authenticity and registration number of each bag.

My Cresent bag's number is L6B  99 88.  
Two master power numbers. 88 being the ' keys'.
Messenger bag indeed.

 Also recall  in my comment I shared my 2019 Don in Israel
 dream  and the Don trying to get my keys
out of my red Crescent Coach bag.
Yet another messenger puzzle piece..
 
Also as you know, a Hierophant is a messenger who passes
down the Sacred Knowledge.

Interestingly in about 1998 or so I was reading
 a lot of William Henry's work and on his website
he offered tarot card readings on the telephone.
I think you've mentioned William Henry before.

I called Henry and in the reading he said that
the first card he pulled was the Hierophant.
I wasn't suprised then and I'm not surprised
now.
As I've stated although my older sister used to read
tarot cards back in the early 1970's I was never
very interested in the tarot. She might have
read for me, but I really don't recall what she said.
I haven't had a tarot reading since William Henry.

 So continuing on, another odd sync experience happened to
me yet again, last night, 4/20, and yeah
I know what 4/20 means.

Anywho what happened is that I decided
to browse Amazon Prime video for a
movie to watch.
 
I strolled the menu and at first didn't really
 find a movie I wanted
to watch when lo and behold I saw 
a remake of the  1997 movie Running Man
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and yes,
I know Schwarzenegger is the 'running man' in the
Temple meme image that you've posted several times.

Although  I  really liked the original movie's plot
( about a  2017 dystopian future because of an economic
collapse and scarcity  ( sounds eerily  familiar?)
I don't think I would have purchased tickets  last
year in Nov.2025 to see the remake, but since it was 'free'
on Prime, I decided to watch it last night.

BTW, Running Man premiered on Nov 14 2025
in the US. ( didn't you have a Nov 14 sync recently?)

Also note that the original movie's timeline for 
the dystopian future was 2017. 
 IRL Dec 2017 was when DON Trump
announced Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

In the remake of Running Man the character,
who is the head of the Network,
is named DAN Killian.

 Replacing vowels, Dan is also Don.
Recall I recently shared my 2019 Don in Israel dream
with you.

 In the  movie there are 
several interesting signs including several
of my puzzle pieces which really got my attention.

One huge puzzle piece was that along his 'running path'
the character Ben Richards
(  the protagonist ) is instructed to find a safe house.

Those instructions were from an Anti-Network activist
Bradley Throckmorton who shelters Ben at his home in Boston
attempting to expose the Network's propaganda and deceit. 

The safe house is in Derry Maine, the fictional town
in Stephen King's book  ( which The Running Man
is loosely based on). 

Ra1119bee said...

William,
part 2
I found this interesting about Derry. I didn't know
this until today while researching the movie:
"Derry first appeared in King's 1981 short story
"The Bird and the Album" and most recently
in his 2011 novel 11/22/63.


Hmmm... once again reference to not only a bird
( the Language of the Birds)
but also to King's 2011 novel 11/22/63,
( which is of course JFK's assassination).

Recall I had my Oscar dream on 11/22 ( 2018)

The anti-network activist is a Nigredo and tells Ben that he
( Ben) is an instigator of an upcoming rising.
Which again, recall the  Nigredo is the ' instigator' of
of all alchemical transformations. In this case
the Nigredo Bradley is a messenger.

When Ben arrives at the safe house in Derry,
lo and behold I saw
the address of the house and thought:
OMG what are the ODDs????!!!

The address in the movie is the EXACT
number of the apartment
where my family moved  in 1969 after we moved
from our grandparents house.

The apartments where we lived as well
as my grandparents house were both in West Dayton.
The 'black side of town'.
Our apartment number as well as the safe house address
in the Running Man, was/is 1708.

I couldn't believe it!!!!
I thought what are the odds?!!! Of ALL the possible
numbers.

I personally believe that coincidences
are odd events that happen rarely.
Once or twice , in a 'blue moon' perhaps
but NOT a gazillion times !!!
And yeah, these paranormal experiences
happening in my lifetime, and especially
in the last 24 years seem like a gazillion to me.
Very VERY overwhelming .

So, I ask all the 'skeptics' out there
(whomever they may be ) if these
odd events that keeps happening over
and over and over again... aren't coincidences
..... then what are they?
I really would love to know.

Continually on...
In the movie the character who lived at the safe
house with his mother is named  EL-ton.
He's an EL who helps Ben find a way out.

Remember my many comments about the EL's battle
of good vs evil.

Both EL-even's (11's ) being masters of the same power
source which is the Scared Science Knowledge
aka The Universal Language aka The Language
of the Birds aka The Siddhis Powers.


And last but not least also in the movie and
a very significant part of the movie  is a RED HANDBAG.
I kid you not.

It's not a Coach bag or the vintage Crescent Coach.
I think it's a red Chanel mini clutch handbag,
called a Flap bag.

Check out the Chanel website ( link below )
Note the half 'red /blood? moon.
The 'occult' symbolism is not surprising,
at least to me, given that the founder Coco Chanel
and her 'twin letters CC ( 33 ) are the company's logo
on each bag.
Copy and paste etymology:
canal(n.)
early 15c., in anatomy, "tubular passage in the body
through which fluids or solids pass;" mid-15c.,
"a pipe for liquid;" from French canal, chanel "water channel,
tube, pipe, gutter" (12c.), from Latin canalis
"water pipe, groove, channel,"
noun use of adjective from canna "reed" (see cane (n.)).
~~~~~~~~
Note that all Chanel bags comes in different colors,
like Coach bags.
Wonder why red, the Rubedo, was used in the movie?

Also there is reference in the movie about ; going NORTH.

What are the odds?


** note in the trailer, the burning bridge.
The Running Man | Final Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM

https://www.chanel.com/us/fashion/handbags/c/1x1x1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(2025_film)