The Weary Wayfarer: A Pilgrim’s Progress Retold in Rhyme

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Late into the autumn of 2025, we initiated our very first Unexpected Poetry Night and were pleased to welcome Vicki Joy Anderson into the TUC family. Some of you may already know her as the author of They Only Come Out at Night, an incredibly researched expose on the reality of sleep paralysis as it relates to vampirism. It tuns out that she’s an amazing poet as well.

The Weary Wayfarer: A Pilgrim’s Progress Retold in Rhyme is as epic and as beautifully crafted as it sounds. John Bunyan’s classic work has been completely transformed and lifted lovingly from KJV-era prose to modern verse. What better way to launch RAQIA, the poetry wing of Firmament Avenue Press? The following book is perfect for study, pleasure reading, or homeschooling. Here is but a sample of what you can expect.

So, I saw in my dream, the man began
to run, and when not far from his own door,
but his wife and children, perceiving it,
began to cry out in grief and horror.

But the man put his fingers in his ears,
and ran on, crying, “Life! Eternal Life!”
So he looked not behind him, but he fled
towards the plain in the middle of the night.

The neighbors came out to see him run, and
as he ran, some threatened, some mocked his course;
while some others cried for him to return,
while two resolved to fetch him back by force.

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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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