General idea for the Gaia Man thread:

I've been reading this material on and off from the beginning, and I'm most interested in the Portals that GM talks about.

As I understand it, the Portals will present themselves to certain people after a cataclysmic event in the next few years. They will be found in specific locations, again disclosed to these individuals.

I've looked into current concepts of multiple dimensions, parallel Universes and possible ways of travelling between them. John Keel and Ivan T Sanderson wrote on such issues, as did Jacques Vallee.

It seems to me that Gaia Man's scenario presents a way of crossing into other dimensions which will allow humans to escape a post-cataclysm world, if they so wish.

This made me remember something from the mid-1990s that was doing the rounds on the bulletin boards and early Net sites. I refer to the Ong's Hat material put out by Joseph Matheny and Emory Cranston, principally the Incunabula which told the Ong's Hat "story" in the form of a book catalogue.

General outline - [link to deoxy.org]

Incunabula - [link to www.dvara.net]

The basic premsie was that dissident physicists from Princeton University had set up an ashram near Ong's Hat in the New Jersey Pine Barrens to research techniques for travelling to parallel Earths. They came up with a device - the Egg - and attracted like-minded experimenters in the 1970s. Eventually a special forces unit paid them a visit and the ashram exists no more. However, certain members went into even greater levels of secrecy. Incredible, non?

I've always seen the Incunabula as a work of collaborative fiction linked into the Montauk mythos and the general groundswell around exotic physics, chaos magick and the like. But there's a direct tie-in to the concept of portals, which I'll quote from Incunabula 3.0 (see the Incunabula pdf above):

Emory Cranston: Some permanent doorways have been constructed which work even for non-initiates, sort of like "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". They're very nicely camouflaged. Fu Manchu couldn't do better. And of course they're guarded.

Joseph Matheny: Raiders of the Lost Ark...

Cranston: Eh? Oh yes... booby trapped. Definitely. It's a zero-sum game I'm afraid. Either you're on the bus or you're not on the bus. The Gateways... that's what we call them.