Blue Cheer, by Arab, 24 by 48 inches, oil on canvas 1968
Owned by Eric Albronda / Vicki Brenner, Mount Shasta, California
Eric Albronda / Vicki Brenner Owners, Vicki Brenner Trust for the Arts
July 26, 2009
Remembrances
of Arab and Barkley
July
26, 2009
Two
very powerful creative individuals from the 60s were a father and son team, Barkley Finnoe and his son, Arab. Barkley
married the daughter of Khalil Gibran (1) who is best known for his
mystical/spiritual poetry book, The Prophet. To the question, do
certain groups of spiritual beings incarnate and intermingle with one
another in a particular earthly time period, I would have to say they
do having known Barkley and Arab first-hand, and knowing the power,
strength and spiritual insight of Arab's grandfather, Khalil Ghibran
from reading his poetry and other writings.
Arab
was one of the most gifted artists a person could ever hope to meet.
What was strange about him was that he couldn't read. During his
school years he'd pay others to read and do tests for him. However
growing up his father would have him work on duplicating Rembrandt's
style of painting until he mastered it. Then he would have him work
on coping Chagall until duplicated, then on to some other artist.
After this type of training Arab was allowed to do his own thing,
which was surrealism. He was very prolific painter mostly in oil as I
remember. Once Arab painted an album cover for the popular Blue
Cheer. Eric Albronda was co-founder and drummer for Blue Cheer, which
was the first truly heavy metal band. Arab also painted drag strip
racing cars in Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco.
How
Arab knew what he knew about the subject of metaphysics, I'll never
know. I suspect it was simply bleed-through from past incarnations
that got activated and bloomed fully within the flowering time of
drugs, sex, rock 'n roll and breaking the Earth's auric shell that
contained the stereotypical belief systems and behavioral patterns of
all prior generations, it was after all the magic 1960s. Destiny
unfolds.
If
you knew Arab, he seemed every bit the reincarnated high priest from
an earlier Egyptian lifetime come back to teach, paint, check in on
old friends; prior to that he would've played dynamic roles in the
Atlantean time period.
As
an astrologer Arab had no peer. He was the best. To say he was
intuitive would be putting it mildly. For example, I was with him on
three separate occasions when he met a new individual, upon first
meeting he would tell them what their sign was, they'd answer "why
yes, " then he'd tell them the day they were born, "why
yes " again would be the response, and then he'd tell them the
exact moment of birth! He was never wrong.
Arab
was always carrying his ephemeris with him wherever he went. After
leaving Fritz Armstrong's "Metaphysical Town Hall Book Store"
in San Francisco one time, we walked to the home of astrologer Gavin
Arthur (2) to get a copy of his latest book that had just been
published. It had a whole chapter contained within it dedicated to
the talents of Arab and Barkley. The walls of Gavin's Victorian home
were lined with volumes and volumes of sacred books.
Switching
gears sideways - Arab's father Barkley was the wisest person I and
many other people knew in that time period. Early in his life he
became a salesman traveling internationally. He spend many months in
Japan where he lived in the fabulous Frank Lloyd Wright designed
Imperial hotel(3). He was a top salesman in the beginning days of the
development and sales of neon lighting systems.
One
day when Barkley was about 44 years old (1956), he wasn't feeling
very well so he made an appointment and went to the UCLA medical
Center where he was diagnosed with terminal lymphatic cancer. He was
given six months to live by the doctors with no hope of recovery.
They gave him a prescription for morphine to ease the pain, said
there was nothing else that could be done, he was despondent and
wondering as he left the building. As Barkley walked across the grass
lawn heading back towards his vehicle, someone said to him "physician
heal thyself." He turned around to look and see who said that - there was no one
there! He was completely alone on the grass on the way to his car
with no one around.
This
experience got him thinking in an alternative nontraditional manner.
He remembered that he heard about vitamin B 17, Laetrile, which was
an anticancer vitamin developed by the biochemist Ernest T. Krebs of
San Francisco. He called Dr. Krebs on the phone that same day and was
told that he was on a speaking tour, "out of the country, in
Japan." Barkley wasted no time. He booked a flight for the land
he knew so well. He soon met and became close friends with Ernest
Krebs at the Imperial Hotel in Japan three days later.
I
first met Barkley when he was 56 years old, that was 11 years after
his initial terminal death sentence handed to him by one of the best
medical institutions in the United States. How was he still alive?
Barkley had completely changed his diet and lifestyle; he eliminated
all white wheat and related white wheat products, (we would use
Japanese buckwheat noodles called soba,) he eliminated meat also and
once in a while would eat a small amount of fish. He eliminated milk
and milk related products as well. He would say that the milk was
fine if you were a cow. Unless you wanted to be as smart as a cow,
then don't drink milk with their DNA.
One
thing I fondly remember is that he would buy a 50 pound bag of bird
seed(organic & cheap), take a small amount of the seeds out, wrap
them in a wet burlap sack, hang them up and water it each day. The
seeds would sprout later to be ground up, fired and turned into
delicious "veggie burgers." This was back before there were
such things like that in the health food stores. In fact it wasn't
until about the mid-60s that a real renaissance in the health food
industry took off with establishment of "Wholly Foods" in
Berkeley and other hippie micro business ventures funded in part by
money from the sale of pot and related pharmaceuticals. Last Gasp
Eco-Comic Book Company is another venture that comes to mind.
Barkley
developed something we called super cereal. It was a collection of
various nuts and seeds he had determined were appropriate and proper
for healthful consumption. We would grind up the nuts and seeds in a
coffee grinder and eat it with honey and soy milk. It was a great way
to start the day. High energy food. He also would buy vitamins and
individual minerals in large jars, then custom mix them to his own
specifications putting the special formulas into capsules. This of
course included taking Laetrile on a daily basis which we had a good
supply of thanks to Dr. Krebs and Canadian Andrew McNaughton. Vitamin
B-17 has many other uses besides simply being a excellent
preventative for the development of cancer within the human body.
Barkley
also was a master builder. This was evidenced by his unique in-depth
research into the great pyramid of the Giza Plateau in Egypt. On a
more practical level his mastery as an engineer-carpenter showed
itself when he purchased an old 18' UPS truck one day. He worked
seven days a week, from sunup to sun down, turning this old truck
into an expandable six bedroom home. It was a combination between a
mobile home and a research truck. It was stenciled on the two doors
of the cab. This was still when people didn't have long beards or
hair as we all did at that time. So it had to have something
scientific on the doors for legitimacy in the eyes of the police. I
remember in the galley he built the kitchen sink out of light and
dark pieces of hardwood all glued together. I'd never seen anything
like it before. There was a room that popped up and was assembled on
the top of the truck with plywood sides. It was capped with a big
plastic skylight. This is where Arab stayed. He used it as his art
studio getting all the natural light he needed. The blueprint Barkley
used to construct all this was in his mind.
It
was after the construction of this vehicle, on the Yurok Indian
reservation of Northern California (4), Arab, Gut, Nancy, Don &
Penny Short, Myrna and a few others caravanned up to meet Barkley and
bring him much needed supplies. He was living next to the Klamath
River on private Indian allotment land owned by Yurok leader Jessie
Short.
I
can't remember if it was Gut or Arab I let drive my purple XKE
Jaguar convertible on that 7 hour drive. They were interested in the
experience of driving the E-type, I was anticipating answers to deep
spiritual questions far removed from the physical plane. I remember
the Jaguar looked out of place parked in this very remote location of
God's country in the tall native grass of the reservation. This is
where Barkley gave me my first two "past life regression
sessions" while laying on the bed built over the cab of the
truck. Interesting memories.
He
had learned his basic technique in 1950 by reading the book
"Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health." Barkley
told me that for a period of eight months, he and another person that
was a spastic paralytic, worked with one another taking turns using
the regression techniques contained in this book to go back into the
past and release the repressed emotions and engrams (physical impact)
contained in the "reactive" mind . Barkley said while he
didn't cure his friends spastic paralytic problem completely, the
problem was reduced by about 90-95%, which was magic in actual fact.
Besides
being a modern-day healer-magician who knew the answer to just about
anything you could ask him, Barkley's knowledge of the Great Pyramid
was absolutely astounding. He had somehow gotten a three volume set
of Prof. Flinders Petrie measurements and comments on the pyramids of
the Giza Plateau, which was published in 1883 (5). Barkley was
filled with various astounding information. For example the height of
the pyramid in inches is 5813.0145, take this number and times it by
two, then times that answer by pi and you
end up with the length of our current year, 365.242. Then the base
diagonals added together equals the length of the precession of the
equinox of 25,750 years or something to that effect. It seems the
great pyramid embodies in its construction the geometry of the
heavens and Barkley could explain all of its wonders to any
interesting ear. He must have been digging the information up from
his subconscious mind from his earlier existences in that time
period.
There
is much more that could be said concerning Barkley, Arab or some of
their friends and other related activities but this is to be a short
remembrance by an old friend and fellow cosmic traveler. On an
energetic level the 1960s most definitely put a crack in the Auric
egg of the planet Earth. It was a time of tremendous negativity with
the protests and ongoing Vietnam War instigated by the illuminati
forces on the planet, and yet the higher dimensional spiritual
energies shone down upon a darkened planet and animated brilliance in
various forms, fashions and flavors in the lives of the beatnik
generation which in turn transitioned into the hippie era.
In
retrospect the 60s were an energetic prelude for the ending of the
major cosmic creation cycle which approaches as we near 2012 point,
the ending of the Mayan calendar. It's a time prophesied by almost
all indigenous people. The breakdown of the old is very much
evidenced by the global bankruptcies which are being orchestrated by
a handful of illuminati leadership facilitated by their personal
political leaders of the day. Much in the same manner as World War I,
World War II, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts and our Middle East
crisis have been orchestrated into existence and continue to be
points of planetary negative infestation.
The
saying that "it's darkest before the dawn" is very true.
While Newspeak, doubletalk, spin and lies of deception seem to be the
language of the 21st century, there is a surprise in store as the
heart, soul and power of the 60s will rebirth itself, manifesting to
provide a helping hand to those that need one as we approach ending
of the Mayan calendar. That's the great surprise that the Illuminati
have in store for themselves to experience in the near term future.
The old is getting ready to be replaced by the new.
Footnotes:
(1)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5484/Gibran.htm
(2)
http://www.solsticepoint.com/astrologersmemorial/arthur.html
(3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Hotel,_Tokyo
(4)
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/yurokindianhist.htm
http://www.yuroktribe.org/
(5)
http://www.ronaldbirdsall.com/gizeh/petrie/index.htm
Blue
Cheer History - http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/bluecheerhistory.htm
Arab's
Album Cover - Outsideinside -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsideinside
Allen
'Gut' Terk - http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/gut.htm
2nd
picture down -Gut & Eric Albronda -
http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/bluecheerphotos03.htm
Arab
- http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/arab.htm
