Ong's Hat: The Beginning

The delightful legend of the Ong's Hat travel cult has been posted in the form of the Incunabula Papers since the earliest days of BBS and Internet communications. The mythos is an historical and cultural curiosity for that reason alone.

Has the great world-mind of the telecommunication infrastructure begun to breed its own myths? The elusiveness of the Incunabula's original proponents, Emory Cranston (a pseudonym) and Joseph Matheny (his real name), has spawned wild speculation that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a media hoax. However there is a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection.

What began as an heretical Islamic sect founded in the early 1900s by Black circus magician, Noble Drew Ali, evolved over the century into a techno-tantric commune whose members managed to escape this befouled world into a pristine, Edenic parallel universe, a New Jersey Pine Barrens devoid of inhabitants. This latter rag-tag group built the "Egg" - a glistening Faberge-like device that enabled trans-dimensional travel into unpopulated mirror worlds (per the Everett-Wheeler-Graham model). A special quantum-tantric feature allowed passage for two occupants while they made love, irrespective of their race, age or gender.

But wait, there's more! Add to this mix a benevolent race of humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, capable of dimensional shift without machinery, who have been world tripping for thousands of years. You've got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment hopes all wrapped up in one neat package. What the Hell more do you want? more

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-12-2008; Interesting tease; I generally enjoy what Peter Moon's into and his take on things, and the topic matter for this book is not only the most bizarre, but also potentially the most significant. Unfortunately, like the other reviewer said, not much original...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-06-2006; Good reading.....for sci fi; For the past few years, I've had a great interest in the Ong's Hat/Incunabula mystery. I was very excited when I saw the book was released. The book is ok written. Don't expect a pulitzer. Its an interesting story. It has a few...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-16-2004; It's nice to have a dead-tree edition, but it's nothing new.; Some of the editorial text of this book is new, but most of the content you'll be able to find all across the Net (in the form of the original Incunabula papers) for free. The text of those documents makes up most of this particular...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-20-2003; Ong's Hat, New Jersey: Revisiting the Mystery; Since before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent proto-hominids walked erect and began using sticks to scratch signs in the mud, immeasurable aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-20-2003; Ong's Hat, New Jersey: Revisiting the Mystery; Since before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent proto-hominids walked erect and began using sticks to scratch signs in the mud, immeasurable aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-12-2008; Interesting tease; I generally enjoy what Peter Moon's into and his take on things, and the topic matter for this book is not only the most bizarre, but also potentially the most significant. Unfortunately, like the other reviewer said, not much original...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-06-2006; Good reading.....for sci fi; For the past few years, I've had a great interest in the Ong's Hat/Incunabula mystery. I was very excited when I saw the book was released. The book is ok written. Don't expect a pulitzer. Its an interesting story. It has a few...; read full review | report as inappropriate