I got a bundle of PDFs sent to me by my editor at Near Death Magazine and he is not one to send me items of a frivolous nature. There was no doubt that it was pertinent in some way, but how? The material was by or directory dealt with the works of one Meade Layne. Here was a name that has long been associated with the field of ufology but not featured in a central role, nor spoken often in the same light as, shall we say, Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek and Stanton Friedman. Or for that matter, George Knapp, Nick Pope and Lou Elizondo.
Notwithstanding, the name Meade Layne should by all accounts be featured in the upper echelons of the Fortean field, and it is not too surprising why I received said bundle of manuscripts. With the discussion of the nature of the Phenomenon bearing sharply towards an interdimensional explanation, it seems like a discussion on Meade Layne is quite timely.
With the likes of Representative Anna Paulina Luna describing UAPs as being interdimensional angels/demons whilst name dropping the Book of Enoch in interviews, it seems the world is ready for this discussion. To say Layne was ahead of his time would be the proverbial understatement as he was describing UFOs as non-material ether ships before the flying saucer was even a glint in Kenneth Arnold’s eye.
Meade Layne (1882-1961) founded Borderland Sciences Research Foundation and edited its journal—Round Robbin. Layne worked closely with a trance channeler named Mark Probert from whom he received a lot of insight into the Phenomenon. Layne was a member of the Society of the Inner Light, a direct descendent of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The Society garnered much of its rituals from the Rosicrucian based Secret Chiefs ie. Ascended Masters who are synonymous with the Space People of contact lore. Layne introduced the concept of channeled masters to the UFO field, as he was in frequent contact with the Great White Brotherhood. Mark Probert became aware of his psychic gifts shortly after he got married.
Probert’s wife, Irene, noted that Mark had often talked in his sleep and what’s more, it was in a foreign language. Probert said about meeting Layne, “he had considerable interest and knowledge in the fields of metaphysical and occult laws.” Layne was convinced that Probert was channeling entities from another dimension and set forth to download a prodigious amount of information. He described the entities as coming from Etheria, claiming:
“Etheria is here—if we know what here means! Along-side, inside, outside our world. Because our world, that is, the so-called dense matter of the objects in our world, is a rarefaction. It is spaced out like a vast net—a net with enormous meshes. Imagine, if you will, a net of wire with meshes a mile wide. Would not wind and water flow through that net as if it did not exist? A little friction, very little! On the strands of those meshes we live. That is the so-called dense matter of our world. We look out across the mesh and do not see anything in it, or hear or feel anything in it, and so call it empty space. ‘Meaningless words in the abyss of folly!”
Andrew K. Arnett is a writer for New Dawn Magazine and author of the book The Crowley Conspiracy available on Amazon.
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