I quickly consumed a William Gibson narrative, The Peripheral, then moved on to watching X-Files from the beginning. Shit and shit. How should I get into this post documenting the name-association-synchs that help me direct my inquisitive attention to more substantial links and connections?

Sometimes I get self-conscious about describing how I conduct my research, and those times usually correlate with handing out my card to someone, like I did yesterday to a guy in legacy media using fancy equipment with a tech-team out taking scenic shots of the Missoula County Courthouse.

I’m cognizant that others might not understand the weight of meaning synchronicities press down upon me as they accumulate, since synchronicities are usually so personal in nature, but, regardless, I feel compelled to document how a character name like JASPER BAKER hits me, considering I’ve written critically at my other blog about a certain lawyer (Lance Jasper) and a certain semi-famous detective (Guy Baker), but that’s just the start, and it’s not just the names that resonate, as I’ll try to briefly detail with this post.

Entire scenes in shows or movies can take on heightened significance when they echo something that happens in real life. For example, True Detective’s latest season has a character commit suicide by walking out onto the ice and ultimately into the sea, but before she does she folds her clothes. Why does that resonate with me?

Well, because Rebekah Barsotti, who supposedly died in the river after going in to save her dog, apparently FOLDED HER CLOTHES before rushing into the water, a detail this quote from this post highlights (emphasis mine):

Rebekah’s parents tell Dateline they are grateful for the overwhelming help from law enforcement and the community, but add they fear all resources went into a search of the water early on when they actually believe their daughter is on land.

“We know she was at that location where her stuff was found, because there’s video on her phone of that area,” Angela said. “But we don’t believe that she’s in the water.”

Angela told Dateline that authorities believe Rebekah jumped in the river to save her dog, but some details don’t add up for her, like that her belongings were neatly piled on the beach. She said if it was an emergency situation, Rebekah wouldn’t have paused to take things out of her pockets.

The Barsotti case has another echo that worries me, and this one is the narrative element of a manipulated right-wing terrorist threat which The Peripheral brings into the end of season 1, and which echoes my REAL concern about a REAL “white supremacist” presence in Montana that is being watched and/or grown by the Feds.

I used this right-wing presence in a work of fiction I started writing in 2015, and started publishing on Substack in 2020. That link goes to the first chapter, which opens with a character getting shot in the head. I’ve had a sense that this lethal shot wasn’t lethal at all, and somehow catapulted the character into some other timeline, and, wouldn’t you know (SPOILER), that’s pretty much how the cliffhanger concludes season 1 of The Peripheral.

Another character name in The Peripheral the resonates is Burton Fisher, Burton being the first name Burton Wheeler, which came up in the previous post here. I even remember thinking, when making the Wheeler connection, that BURTON was a pretty odd name, and that it would be odd if THAT name echoed somewhere. Well, it did, and BURTON is played by Jack Reynor, who played Jack Parsons, who comes up over and over again for very occult reasons that, of course, tie in to local politics, which I cover in this post.

One of the characters doing weird shit in the desert with Jack Parsons before the UFO phenomenon kicked off was L. Ron Hubbard, who grew up in Helena, Montana. If you think that’s weird, you should read this post I wrote about the weird Northwest a few years ago because it helps paint a hazy picture of this occulted region and how its relevance is slowly coming into focus for me.

One tactic of some of the more nefarious and influential occult groups is to pollute symbols and words by inverting their meaning, which is what the Nazis did with the swastika. In The Peripheral, the “jackpot” is a reference to a series of cataclysms (gallows humor, the explanation goes) that combine to wipe out a majority of humans, and the characters know about this because the transfer of quantum data allows for a form of time-travel to take place, which creates alternate time-lines that split off, referred to in the show as “stubs”.

To bounce us from The Peripheral to X-Files, a piece of geography that keeps coming up for me is Texas, and the connections have mirrored my recent travels, like getting trolled by Miss Congeniality. Does that post have Lance Jasper and white supremacists in it? Of course it does.

In The Peripheral, the military experimentation takes place in Texas, a state currently experiencing a strange outburst of fires in the panhandle, which are getting pretty damn big.

A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches.

In the first two episodes of the X-Files, the Northwest is the region where the strangeness begins, including military experimentation on an Air Force Base in Boise, Idaho, where I recently spent some time on my latest road tripping adventure. There’s also the “Spooky” Fox Mulder backstory I wasn’t aware of, which includes earning a reputation by applying his interest in the occult to catching serial killers. Isn’t that curious?

Another curious little tidbit I caught in episode 1 is the clock flipping from 11:21 to 11:22 right when Mulder calls his new partner, Scully. Why did this get my attention? Perhaps because I posited a link between this infamous date in history (11-22-63) and the address of the house where the murders in Moscow, IDAHO, took place (1122 King Road).

Was there one more synch I was going to document? Yes, and as I was trying to remember what it was, Lauren Hill JUST REMINDED ME with a perfectly timed lyric from Forgive Them Father about wolves in sheep clothing.

A character in The Peripheral has the same name of a certain developer I’ve been writing about recently at the other blog, and that name, yes, is WOLF.

Is this a good place to stop? Since all this dot-connecting is making MY head spin, yes, I think this is a good place to stop.