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?

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