Wingmakers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Wingmakers website was the first public expression of the efforts of a group known as the Lyricus Teaching Order. The webmaster (Mark Hempel) of the Wingmakers website has described the Wingmakers website as an effort in modern myth making. The Wingmakers site and "franchise" has been alternately viewed as either an online religion or a form of immersive entertainment, with strong similarities to the alternate reality game genre.

Some of the "modern myth" material at the Wingmakers website can be read as derivative, yet engaging science fiction suggesting that some humans are incarnations of special "expanded souls" that are here to "guide" humans into the future. The novel's most obvious inspiration is The X-Files, (the Greys are mentioned) and to a lesser extent, Star Wars.

These Wingmakers are described as part of an intelligent design by which the creator of our universe is spreading its consciousness through the entire universe. Other content at the Wingmakers website deals with issues such as humanity working towards discovery of "The Grand Portal" near the year 2080. The term "The Grand Portal" is used to describe the irrefutable, conclusive scientific discovery of the existence of the human soul.

The person who has stepped forward as being the creator of the Wingmakers materials identifies himself only as "James". Mark Hempel maintains that James does not seek to have contacts with people in the manner typical of a cult leader. The website states that James does not even have an email address. In documents at the Wingmakers website directly attributed to "James", he states that the purpose of the Wingmakers website is to help people participate in the scientific discovery of the nature of the human soul.

Contents

[edit] Wingmakers

There have been spinoffs of the Wingmakers website, such as the officially Wingmakers-related Lyricus website and unofficial ones such as the Wingmakers.co.nz is the home site of the twenty first century wingmakers which deals with a belief in psionics.

[edit] Wingmakers art, music, poetry

The Wingmakers website provides a multimedia experience with art, music and Poetry. The site's artwork has remarkable resemblance to the style of a web-presenced turn-of-the-21st-century artist, and its musical tracks are decidedly contemporary new-age in instrumental composition and style, raising doubts about the idea that time-travelers from the future are the source for the material at the Wingmakers website. Material at the Wingmakers website tries to counter such doubt by claiming that the presented material is a translation of information from elsewhere in the galaxy to a form suitable for humans. There has been online speculation that Mark Hempel is the source of all of the material at the Wingmakers website.

[edit] History and Interpretation

When the Wingmakers website started in 1998 it was presented to the public as revealing a government conspiracy to hide evidence of the Wingmakers that had been found at an archeological site in New Mexico. There was much online debate about this conspiracy and many in the UFO-studies community decided it was a hoax. Eventually Mark Hempel suggested that the material be viewed as "modern myth". Some observers of the Wingmakers website feel that this is just another religion that will be forgotten in a small number of years. An alternate opinion is that the Wingmakers website represents a kind of New Age experiment in myth making and reality shifting. The Wingmakers website functions as a community site by providing an online discussion forum [1].

[edit] External links

This article previously appeared in one or more categories. Please categorise it so it may be associated with related articles. Thank you.
Please remove this template after categorising.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../w/i/n/Wingmakers.html"