Ancient Architects of Orion Documentary by Jonathan Womack
Film Review by Ben Emlyn-Jones
Jonathan Womack is a film maker who has produced a new movie called Ancient Architects of Orion. These days there are many documentaries that begin with the word "ancient..." in their title and are followed by something else. Most of them are pretty good so I was keen to watch this one. Jonathan's movie has a charming retro feel to it. It consists primarily of photographic analysis mixed with computer generated animation that is far less sophisticated than the rest of today's latest AI imagery. Some viewers might be put off and find this element a bit crude, but I rather liked it. It gives the documentary a nostalgic 90's atmosphere.
It hearkened back to the early days of my interest in UFO's the paranormal and other mysteries when I used to send off coupons in the mail and receive bulky VHS cassettes featuring such notable characters as Richard Hoagland, Linda Moulton Howe, David Percy and Colin Andrews. The fact that all the narration uses a computerized voice was a little jarring. I'd rather Jonathan had recorded it himself or brought in a human voiceover. The film makes a radical proposal, that there are created works of art encoded into the physical structures of the universe on all scales. I'm already familiar with the "face on Mars" and other strange artefacts on the moon and planets, but according to Jonathan the same organized patterns can be found literally everywhere. He reveals them in the layout of the earth's landmasses, the constellations and even galaxies across the universe. The artists are named as an enlightened intelligence that he called the "Orion Federation".
Jonathan came to learn this when he gained "infinity vision" in 2023. He calls his discovery "infinity art". He believes one day human might evolve into spiritual creatures that can do the same. Some French artists have already taken the first steps towards this awareness, including some very famous ones like as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Jonathan calls on future space explorers, like Elon Musk, to preserve the wonder of this art across the solar system and beyond so we humans can join the beings behind the Federation.
The infinity art can also be found in ancient monuments like the Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt. We know that the Sphinx has a face of course, but Jonathan Womack has discovered what he believes are more faces encoded into its form, all over its body; and not just human faces, but animals, alien beings and even dragons. Recent repairs to the Sphinx have covered up some of these and this dampens the energy of the structure, although Jonathan does not explain exactly what that means. There are even artworks from the Orion Federation in landscapes, such as deserts. Natural arches apparently caused by wind and sand erosion are actually lenses that direct our vision to perceive the faces the artists embedded in the rock formations behind them.
This theory reminds me of the subliminal messages sometimes inserted into advertisements and newspaper pictures. These are put there by governments and marketing agencies to manipulate the citizenry psychologically; but this infinity art has a benevolent purpose, to aid and advance the humans of earth. Jonathan has prepared his work for the inevitable rejection by skeptics that he is merely experiencing pareidolia. This is the tendency to pick out recognizable patterns in random images.
For instance, if you stare at passing clouds for long enough, you will see all kinds of shapes that you think are organized when they are not; and he even has a segment on clouds in the video. Jonathan dismisses this objection and he is right to, up to a point. The movie does not describe the issue in detail and I suspect it might just be one episode of a series. He might explain more in other productions. However, I myself have independently identified the core fallacy in the skeptics' argument: There is no cut-off point. There is no statistical ceiling above which the skeptic will agree that we do have a real phenomenon and they will stop calling it a coincidence. Their current stance an intellectual get-out-of-jail free card.
Technically you could take it to the curmudgeonly extreme of claiming that the Sistine Chapel murals are just random patterns. Michelangelo just got in a temper one day and kicked some cans of paint around the room; what resulted is a completely haphazard splash of flying paint drops and if you see any recognizable shapes there of cherubs, naked angels and hands of God, then you're suffering from pareidolia. How do we know somebody didn't just walk in and say "nice painting, Mike!" and the artist therefore decided to keep it?
So Jonathan is right to stand against such dismissals; at the same time, pareidolia is a real thing and sometimes a cloud is just a cloud. Rock faces are just rock faces and a galaxy might appear to match the islands in a sea, but they really don't. Unfortunately I have to state that Jonathan does err to the opposite extreme in this documentary. I believe that it is necessary for us to have some kind of summit with the skeptics and make a deal over where the line is drawn between coincidence and meaning, randomness and organization, white noise and EVP etc etc.
If I were to attend that summit though, I'm afraid I would call for the limit to be set high above the evidence provided by Jonathan Womack in this movie. That being said however, I did enjoy the experience of watching Ancient Architects of Orion.
It is visually enchanting and has a good soundtrack. The score shifts neatly from bellydance music to cinematic electronica that I really liked. Jonathan has clearly gone to a lot of effort in this production and it is a labour of love. In a world with so many liars and scam artists who just talk nonsense deliberately to make money (see my Wow! Signal review of Darcy Weir and Kari Lindsay's latest work) it would be churlish not to congratulate this creator for his obvious sincerity; so shine on, Jonathan! His movie is an exploration of the wonder of our universe that rises above the rational. Whether true or false, his assertions reveal something deep and authentic about the human experience. I would say this documentary is worth watching for that reason.
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About the Writer:
Ben Emlyn-Jones is an independent journalist from the United Kingdom who, over the course of his life, has come to realize that subjects most people laugh at like UFO's, high strangeness, government cover-ups and the ET presence are real. Not only are they real, they are the most important issues affecting the world today.
A founding member of The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, Ben is the author of the books Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure and its two sequels. He hosts the HPANWO podcast and writes the HPANWO blog and a column in UFO Truth Magazine. See: https://www.hollywooddisclosurealliance.org/ben-emlyn-jones
