Network X interviews Jay Weidner

Santa Barbara, California January 2004

By June of 1997 I also had met Kevin Townley, another resident of Boulder who was, believe it or not, translating Fulcanelli's second book, The Dwellings of the Philosophers into English for the first time. Also surprised by this synchronicity, he agreed to let me read the translations as they were being done. So now I would be one of the first people in the world who had the opportunity to read Fulcanelli’s second book in it’s English translation. Kevin also gave me a very special gift that day which was a book called, The Cube of Space by Paul Foster Case.

Overjoyed at the prospect of soon being able to read Fulcanelli’s second book in English I went home and read Case’s book. It was then that I discovered that the pedestal of the Cross at Hendaye was really a representation of the Cube of Space. The vertical column was the symbolic representation of the space between our solar system and the center of the galaxy, which was represented by the cross on the top of the monument at Hendaye. The inscription on the Cross told the seeker where to go at the time of the ‘Great Cross’. This place would be a refuge against the onslaught of a celestial disaster perhaps the one that LaViolette had discovered in his research. When the Cube of Space lines up, the ‘disaster’ or the ‘great change’ occurs. The erection of the Great Cross was also the erection of the Cube of Space. Knowing my multidimensional physics I realized what this meant. The angles of the inner cube were lining up with the angles of the greater cube. This meant that a significant moment in the sacred geometry of our solar system and the relationship to the center of the galaxy was about to occur.

In August of 1997, Jirka flew me to Santa Fe to talk to William Sullivan, the author of the recently released book, Secret of the Incas. Jirka agreed with me that Sullivan might be able to assist the investigation as least as far as the Peru material was concerned. In another one of the weird synchronicities that runs through the course of this research, I also met Dr. Juan del Prado who was traveling with William Sullivan. Dr. Del Prado is an archeologist at the University of Cusco. Over a glass of wine, we talked about the long and sordid history of Peru. Finally near the end of the evening, I asked him about the town of Urcos and if there was possibly a cross located there. Del Prado looked at me with a puzzled expression. "Yes there is a cross in Urcos. No one knows who built it or why. But it has been there for centuries." One more time the Cross at Hendaye was proven correct.

I was getting ready to shoot Earth Under Fire with Dr. Paul LaViolette in October 1997 when Vincent Bridges and his wife Darlene showed up in Boulder for a visit. Vincent and Darlene were old friends of Dan Winter. Sharron and I had met Vincent originally in Boulder in September 1996 where we had a conversation in which he told us that, besides graduating from the University of North Carolina with a Graduate Degree in History, he had also been a journalist for years, having written for many nationally known magazines like Rolling Stone, Whole Earth Review, Newsweek, Crawdaddy and many others. He said that he had also written a novel Walspurgisnacht, published by DAW Books and that he now owned a publishing company called Aeytheria Books which was a LLC out of his native North Carolina.

Impressed by these credentials, we invited Vincent Bridges and his wife Darlene to stay at our house high up in the Rocky Mountains in late October 1997. He was extremely well versed on many arcane subjects. So the first few nights were spent in a rambling conversation on a plethora of subjects ranging from psychedelics, to politics, to his experiences with the occult.

Vincent had no idea what I was working on but I could see that he was extremely curious. His friend Dan Winter had been trying for months to discover what Jirka and I were doing so it was no surprise that Vincent was also curious. A couple of days after his arrival I began realizing that I needed to show my work on Fulcanelli and the Cross at Hendaye to someone who had a background, not only in orthodox history but also unorthodox history. And I felt that Vincent, with his impressive credentials, might just be the guy.

As a winter storm swept over us, we sat by the warm fire in my living room and I showed Vincent and Darlene all of my Hendaye and Fulcanelli material. Vincent was overwhelmed and excited.

Then using an obscure quote that he had discovered earlier from a Golden Dawn transcript and his Voyager Program, we settled on the date of September 22nd 2002 almost five years in the future as the ‘climax of history’ according to the Cross at Hendaye and Fulcanelli. This was, perhaps, Vincent’s most significant addition to the Hendaye research.

In February 1998, Sharron and I finally went to Peru in search of Inca Caves and the Cross at Urcos. We found both, as well as what later would turn out to be the ruins of Atlantis at Tiahuanaco. In the end, the Cross at Hendaye leads the seeker to the ruins of Atlantis which occurred at the end of the Second Age, 13,000 years ago.

The final parts of the puzzle fell into place in 1998. I received an advanced copy of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins in which he reveals that the great Mayan calendar would end with the helical rising of the center of the galaxy on the winter solstice in 2012. Furthermore, Terence McKenna, who had earlier told me to examine the center of the galaxy in my Hendaye research, wrote the Forward to his book! To pile synchronicity upon coincidence I then found out, through my good friend Laura Lee in Seattle, that John Major Jenkins was a neighbor of mine in Colorado. Getting his home number from her I called John thus beginning a long and fruitful friendship.

It seemed to me by the end of 1998 that the Cross at Hendaye was actually describing a ‘season of the apocalypse’ rather than a specific date. The two X’s on the cross, coupled with the number 20 card from the tarot appeared to indicate a twenty year, or so, final cycle of this season, with the September 22^nd 2002 date at the very center of this twenty year span, which would end ten years later with the helical rising of the center of the galaxy in 2012.

In the end, I must be judged by what I reported. While no apparent apocalypse occurred on September 22^nd 2002 the world has been altered almost beyond recognition since the first book came out in 1999. The 911 disaster happened one year and eleven days before the Hendaye target date and George Bush waited until the equinox just following the Hendaye date to start the war in Iraq, a war that could very well lead us all to Armageddon.

On top of that, Fulcanelli assures us that the northern hemisphere will soon be ‘tried by fire’ and sure enough, the summer just following the September 22^nd 2002 date was the hottest in 500 years in the northern hemisphere. Ultimately the hottest of eleven summers of record heat in a row going back to the beginning of the final 20 year cycle that started, according to the Cross, in 1992.

Network X: So is the world ending?

Jay Weidner: I don’t know. I made a film recently with Dr. Alberto Villoldo called Healing the Luminous Body: The Way of the Shaman. In this film Villoldo tells us that the Incan shaman believe that 2012 heralds what they call a pachacuti or period of upheaval and renewal that occurs at the end of time in which the world will be turned right side up again. He tells us, "There will be a tear in the fabric of time itself, a window into the future through which a new human species will emerge. They call this new species, Homo Luminous". I don’t know if this is what is really happening but if the pursuit of alchemy is to turn lead into gold, so perhaps, the real goal of time and history is to turn the lead of the human body into the gold of Homo Luminous. Perhaps, like the ancient Egyptians believed, we will become stars in the heavens being born in the Bardo dreams of Orion. To be honest though, I don’t really know.

Network X: What are you doing now?

Jay Weidner: I’m working on a motion picture project with my step-son Ari, I am writing a novel, and with my wife Sharron Rose, I am writing a book on the alchemical symbolism in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Our company Sacred Mysteries has several exciting new videos for release in 2004, and we are beginning a school devoted to the principles of Hermeticism and alchemy. My life is full right now. In fact, I could really use a vacation.

Network X: Thank you for your time.

Jay Weidner: Thanks for having me.