Sorry, Tolkien, Narnia’s Centaurs were Medieval and British

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EVENTUALLY, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver and the Pevensie children arrive at the stone table to encounter Aslan, and when that happens, centaurs are standing right there beside him. Half-men half-horse hybrids derive from Greece, not Britain, as you know, which is part of the reason that fellow Inkling J.R.R. Tolkien did not feel like paying a visit to Narnia. Tolkien believed Narnia’s world was an inconsistent mishmash of mythological and literary traditions, without any consistent internal logic or history. He found the juxtaposition of figures like Father Christmas and classical deities, as well as the creatures associated with them, to be jarring and unconvincing.

Not that I care to get into a debate with Professor Tolkien, it’s just that he and I must be smoking very different pipe-weed. As much as I’d like to say I’ll have what he’s having, and I would, the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature at the University of Oxford apparently had a divergent take on the Middle-Ages from my own observations. Surely, Tolkien and I have been reading the same source texts and stepping into the same cathedrals. Surely, Tolkien was a tenured professor at Merton College in Oxford, the same city of Oxford that I have personally explored as part of my MK investigation. You will tell me you’ll take his observations over my own. Fair enough. I appreciate his pure aesthetic of world building, and he has his points. You should at least know then that my observations happen to line up with Lewis’ own. Centaurs had a place in the Middle-Ages of Britain.

The latest discussion is an UPDATE to ‘The Narnia Reset’. You can read my research on British Centaurs in the PDF below.

UPDATE 8/12/25: The Narnia Reset

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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