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Title: The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions by Michael Horevaj, Joseph Matheny, Tony Talbert, Jon Bright ISBN: 0-9674890-1-6 Publisher: Immersion New Media Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: CD-ROM List Price(USD): $9.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: This Book is an Excellent '101' for Parallel Universe Theory
Comment: The delightful legend of the Ong's Hat travel cult has been posted in the form of the Incunabula Papers since the earliest days of BBS and Internet communications. The mythos is an historical and cultural curiosity for that reason alone.

Has the great world-mind of the telecommunication infrastructure begun to breed its own myths? The elusiveness of the Incunabula's original proponents, Emory Cranston (a pseudonym) and Joseph Matheny (his real name), has spawned wild speculation that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a media hoax. However there is a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection.

What began as an heretical Islamic sect founded in the early 1900s by Black circus magician, Noble Drew Ali, evolved over the century into a techno-tantric commune whose members managed to escape this befouled world into a pristine, Edenic parallel universe, a New Jersey Pine Barrens devoid of inhabitants. This latter rag-tag group built the "Egg" - a glistening Faberge-like device that enabled trans-dimensional travel into unpopulated mirror worlds (per the Everett-Wheeler-Graham model). A special quantum-tantric feature allowed passage for two occupants while they made love, irrespective of their race, age or gender.

But wait, there's more! Add to this mix a benevolent race of humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, capable of dimensional shift without machinery, who have been world tripping for thousands of years. You've got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment hopes all wrapped up in one neat package. What the Hell more do you want?

Rating: 5
Summary: Ong's Hat, New Jersey: An enigma inside a mystery
Comment: There are few conspiracy theories quite as enchanting as the story of the abandoned village of Ong's Hat, New Jersey and the happenings there in the late 1960's-early 1970's. The account involves renegade Princeton researchers, lesbian anarchists, Paramus runaways and Chaos theoreticians who together achieved the most important scientific breakthrough of humankind's history: the ability to travel - instantaneously - to the remotest parts of the universe, perhaps even into other universes inhabiting other dimensions.

Narrated by Joseph Matheny, an investigative reporter who - following up cryptic leads on the internet - discovered the OH story decades later, this must surely rank among the most unusual Alternative History works ever published.

Various related accounts of the Ong's Hat commune-cum-research facility have been posted in the form of the "Incunabula Papers" since the earliest days of BBS's and the internet. Irrespective of the veracity of these accounts, the mythos is of great historical and sociological interest for that reason alone.

The elusiveness of the Incunabula's authors has given rise to a host of theories that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a "media hoax," or a vastly exaggerated account of actual events there. There is, however, a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection. That 'dark side' is amply hinted at, if not expressly revealed, in this fascinating volume.

Dive into the depths of "Alternative History" with this fascinating work that is a pure pleasure to read.

I strongly recommend it to all serious students of social ephemera. It probably wouldn't hurt physicists to give it a gander as well.

Rating: 5
Summary: Ong's Hat: A Moorish Orthodox View
Comment: Before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent protohominids walked erect and began using tools, aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled things, Ong's Hat - a now deserted village in southernmost New Jersey (USA) - was fated to become the most important point in all of space and time, the nexus of uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal rivers known as past, present and future.

Since the event known as "the Opening of the Gate" occurred at Ong's Hat these thirty-four years ago, much of the paltry amount of writing on that cosmic shifting of gears has been of an intendedly "disinformational" character, for reasons made apparent in this volume. Dr. Matheny and others have sifted through a mass of such spurious reportage to uncover neat and naked the truth of what occurred, why it was made to occur and the continuing consequences for all of humankind.

Dr. Joseph Matheny and his collaborators have produced a breathtakingly scholarly work in writing "The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions," which is a tour-de-force not only of the Ong's Hat incident, but of quantum mechanics, temporal theory and the systematic theology of Moorish Orthodoxy as well.

I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this masterwork to all serious students of the Ong's Hat phenomena.