Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews

 (Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-998395-15-6 Over the past several years, Dimensionfold Publishing has built a solid reputation for scholarly works that analyze ancient texts, myths, cultures, and the Bible from an array of eye-opening, alternative-narrative lenses. With a stable of authors that includes Rev. Michael Carter, Wallace Wagner Jr., and Ken Goudsward, Dimensionfold gives readers plenty to think about, girded by painstaking textual and contextual analysis and well-developed theories founded on years of scholarship. If you’re daunted by the idea of considering Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian texts and the most challenging passages of the Bible through the lens of advanced civilizations and technology (gods and magic), but are interested in ancient history, religion, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, Tyrone Ellington’s Journey Through the Origins of History is an excellent place to start. The use of journey here is twofold—meaning both...

  (Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-998395-06-4 In the past 18 months, I have gotten to know W. Wallace Wagner, Jr., both as an author and as a two-time guest on my podcast. I have reviewed Crossing the Crevasse and Within Grasp , Wagner’s first two books, which I highly recommend to anyone seeking alternative interpretations of the Bible and other religious texts beyond organized religion, especially in the context of Off-World Intelligences and anomalous archaeological structures and other phenomena that defy an easy explanation when considered through the lens of traditional narratives. Of the three books, The Nucleus is the most intense, which makes sense given the author’s nearly decade-long journey through an evolving set of viewpoints concerning the accepted Word of God after his encounter with a Tic-Tac UAP in 2016—well before the government release of Navy footage of this type of craft. Since that time, Wagner has been a committed researcher, seeking out a...

   (2nd ed. Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-989940-90-7 Last October, I had the pleasure of reviewing the follow-up to this book, Within Grasp . Since that time, this new edition, published in a beautiful 10 × 8 format by Dimensionfold Publishing, became available. I seized the opportunity to read it. W. Wallace Wagner, Jr., or Wally to his friends and colleagues, is an articulate, religious man who had a life-changing experience in 2016, when he encountered a Tic-Tac UFO (similar to the ones in the footage “leaked” by the Pentagon in 2020) as he was on his mail delivery route. As they have for many others, myself included, this profound experience led Wagner to reexamine everything he was taught in the Christian church. The result was two books that are required reading for anyone interested in biblical interpretation, UFOs throughout history, and a wide range of paranormal phenomena. I was impressed at the onset—and continue to be—by Wagner’s grasp of b...

  (Creative Short Book Writers Project, 2022). ISBN: 979-8351885292 At 423 pages, Within Grasp is a considered, detailed exploration of the possibility (probability?) that what was termed God in the Old Testament (and various books that were deemed “apocryphal” or otherwise unworthy [undesirable?] of what became the Bible) was actually extraterrestrial beings advanced enough to appear to humans as god-like . This thesis calls to mind Arthur C. Clarke’s third law that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Using numerous approaches: his own close reads of biblical passages; interviews with reverends, ex-military, spiritual practitioners, and lay people; and the complete texts of the Gospel of Thomas, Book of Enoch, Gospel of Mary, and Apocalypse of Baruch (the latter of which comprise roughly half the book), Wagner presents a compelling case. He also graciously leaves a great deal for us to work through on our own. Although the matter at hand is c...