The far side of the moon has long been the focus of all kinds of speculation. I cannot look at this celestial body without wondering who is really up there.
Less than a year ago I met a visual artist who had worked for NASA for many years. My somewhat provocative conversation began with "you know NASA airbrush their photos, don't you?" To this she replied, "I know. That was my job."
The very fascinating Richard C. Hoagland's work is a great place to start looking at the possibilities. It amuses me that he is criticized for having no University degree. I am of the opinion that higher institution learning can often slow one down, dulling the intuition and locking the mind into the prevailing paradigm. For musical bower-birds and fact collectors, I can offer the tidbit that I am totally untrained. That is, I trained myself in all facets of my musicianship.
I suspect there are a few different races operating bases on the far side of the moon. Celebrated astronauts, Aldrin and Armstrong made it clear that they saw enormous ships hovering at the edge of the Sea of Tranquility, the crater where Apollo 11 had landed.
Maurice Chatelain, former head of NASA Communications Systems insists in his book, "Our Cosmic Ancestors" that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. "The encounter was common knowledge in NASA," he revealed, "but nobody has talked about it until now."
An excerpt from his book: "Finally, when Apollo II made the first Moon landing on the Sea of Tranquility and, only moments before Armstrong stepped down the ladder to set foot on the Moon, two UFOs hovered overhead. Edwin Aldrin took several pictures of them. Some of these photographs have been published in the June 1975 issue of Modern People magazine. The magazine did not tell where it got them, vaguely hinting at some Japanese source."
For those interested to spend some time researching, there is a wealth of intelligent and, to my mind, thoroughly convincing information on the far side of the moon.
lyrics
Far Side of the Moon. Meryl Leppard c. July 2015
What if the moon
The silly old moon
One that we gaze upon
Was not what it seems
This light of our dreams
Silvery disc of song
What if the moon
Had secrets of her own forever?
What if she harboured
Some from afar
Some who aren't quite like us
Would we be mad
Would there be tears
Say, would we make a fuss
What if the moon
Had doings of her own altogether?
Imagine a place
Up there in space
On the far side of the moon
I've been told
There are things to behold
On the far side of the moon
What if the moon
The big Harvest moon
Shiny romantic queen
Knew all along
That we'd got it wrong
She was no libertine
What if the moon
Was busy with her own sweet endeavour?
Imagine a race
Building a base
On the far side of the moon
Flying past
Cities of glass
On the far side of the moon
Tell me I am walking a lonely road
Tell me I am talking a motherload
Who will ever listen
To crazy spaceship dreams?
The moon is not
As barren as she seems.
Imagine a race
Building a base
On the far side of the moon
I do declare
There is something up there
On the far side of the moon
Read my lips
There are big motherships
On the far side of the moon.
I wanna know
Why we don't go
To the far side of the moon
credits
from The Visitors,
released January 24, 2017
Vocals and piano Meryl Leppard
Bass Gus Fenwick
Drums Gerry Pantazis
Tenor Sax River Petein
Produced by Hamish Dyson and Meryl Leppard
Meryl Leppard is a singer/songwriter,
Pianist, Performance Poet and sometime
Actor. She joyfully works across
genres, producing recordings, doing regular live performance and writing for musicals. She has released 8 discs some of which can be found on www.merylleppard.com...more
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