Sekret Machines: Gods

2017 non-fiction ufology book by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda

Published on March 7, 2017 by To the Stars and Simon & Schuster, Sekret Machines: Gods (also marketed as Gods, Man & War: Volume 1) is a non-fiction ufology book by Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves co-founder Tom DeLonge and occult historian Peter Levenda that argues the architectural, textual, and ritual traditions of ancient Egypt, Sumer, India, and China record real contact between humanity and non-human intelligences and constitute the oldest stratum of what is today called the UAP phenomenon. It is the first volume of the Gods, Man & War non-fiction trilogy that accompanies the Sekret Machines fiction series, and the second book published in the franchise overall following 2016's Sekret Machines: Book 1 – Chasing Shadows. The first edition carries a foreword by Jacques Vallée, a veteran computer scientist who previously worked for NASA and on ARPANET and a long-standing figure in UFO research.

Background

DeLonge has publicly described the Sekret Machines project as a deliberate conduit for information supplied by U.S. government and military insiders who lacked a way to communicate with younger audiences through official channels, explaining on the Joe Rogan Experience that the books deal with "secret international finance, private industry, a secret space program and a bunch of other things." In October 2015, email exchanges between DeLonge and John Podesta — then chairman of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign — regarding research for Gods were leaked during the Podesta emails controversy prior to the book's publication, after which DeLonge reportedly stopped using Podesta as a source. Former CIA officer Jim Semivan has recounted that an intelligence-community colleague first drew his attention to DeLonge on the basis of the preceding volume, Chasing Shadows, and the two subsequently became collaborators on the wider disclosure effort surrounding the books.

Synopsis

Levenda described Gods as "a new approach to religion that takes a hard look at religious texts and ideas from around the world to discern the traces of an event that changed us forever." The book's official synopsis frames the volume as "foundational" to understanding the material developed in the subsequent Gods, Man & War trilogy, and, like Chasing Shadows, it draws on "interviews with scientists, engineers, intelligence officers and military officials." The authors argue that what ancient peoples described in theological language — stories of beings from the heavens, divine-human contact, altered states of consciousness, and the prospect of immortality — represents the earliest recorded encounters with the same phenomenon now studied through modern UAP research, and that the technologies observed were interpreted as magical or miraculous because they exceeded the scientific vocabulary of their era. A recurring thesis is that the experiences of religious figures — gods, angels, demons, and jinn — and those of modern abductees are cognate descriptions of a single underlying contact phenomenon rendered in different cultural registers. DeLonge has separately argued in interview that "there is a very advanced group that left after a catastrophe and hung around in a small outpost here and throughout time would push civilization forward," identifying this group with the gods of Greek and other ancient traditions.

Reviews

Greg M. Schwartz of PopMatters wrote that Gods is "not as good a read as Chasing Shadows" owing to the change of genres, and that it "functions like a more academic dive into Ancient Aliens territory, also based around intel from DeLonge's 'high-level sources.'" Schwartz concluded that the volume "delivers some compelling explorations of what the big cosmic picture looks like" and "lays out a detailed roadmap for exploring important historical aspects of the Phenomenon," while cautioning that "the motivations of DeLonge's advisors should be held up to the same scrutiny as the motivations of Earth's visitors," adding that the project "is at least helping to push the discussion forward, an action that is long overdue from the American powers that be."

See also

• Ancient astronaut hypothesis
• To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science

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