Secret Caves of the Dero

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HE SECRET CAVES OF THE DERO

These days the Shaver Mystery seems to exist only as legend and
rumor - some people know a little about it, but not much. I provide
here as a public service an excerpt from Ray Palmer's "Mystic"
magazine, issue #15, May 1956. I very much doubt that it has been
reproduced anywhere else.

THE SHAVER MYSTERY N0. 4 - THE SECRET CAVES OF THE DERO
By Richard S. Shaver As told to Ray Palmer

What do the Dero do?

What would YOU do? if you were incredibly stupid, with your mind
deranged by powerful augmented radioactive rays constantly beamed
upon you by ray projectors originally intended to beam beneficial
rays, but now perverted in their activity by being sunpolared - the
rays they manufacture are detrimentally radioactive- infected, and the
rays they conduct from the surface, are multiplied in their poisons
by the machines so that they are far more damaging than they are to
us surface people.

You would find yourself in possession of many marvelous machines left
by the Elder races, and you would use them in idle, childish play.
You would use the telaug and vision rays to spy upon surface people,
and you would use the projection rays to fool them with fantastic
images, you would use the tractor rays to open railroad switches
before speeding trains, you would even be so childish to trip people
going down stairs, open manhole covers before them, and so on. You
would use the marvelous surgical rays for the diabolical slicing of
delicate nerves in the brain, or other parts of the body, to create
mental and physical cripples. You would burst their hearts so that
a "heart attack" would eliminate some important person and cause
chaos in surface governments. You would do an almost fantastic number
of things that could add up to the veritable "works of the devil"!

Except for one thing: you would risk retaliation from tero at equally
powerful ray mechanisms.. . But occasionally, as some guard suffers a
momentary lapse of vigilance, or has his attention diverted, you will
be able to get in some quick deviltry, and you will howl with
sadistic mirth at the result.

For you are mad! Madness in the caves is an almost universal
condition. It cannot be otherwise, for more than one reason. First is
the reason that you are exposed to ray damage much more extensive
than is caused normally by the sun (and the moon - you've herd of the
madness caused by Luna's rays, not a myth, and a superstition, but
based on fact, for Luna's rays are only sun rays, polarized by
reflection, and thus dangerous to a small extent). Moonlight and
sunlight, conducted upon the dero cavern dweller by his augmenting
apparatus, subject him to much more detrimental effect than on the
surface.

The second reason is that the human mind (and the dero are as human
as you and I) cannot stand too much torture without cracking; and
torture is a part of the daily life of a dero. Few indeed have not at
one time or another fallen into the power of a mad local despot and
been subjected to unimaginable tortures besides which the
Inquisition' s devices are child's play.

A third reason, perhaps more effective, though more insidious, is the
extensive and perverted use of the machine called "stim." The ancient
purpose of this machine was to accentuate the pleasure derived from
sex, largely by beneficial rays which restored energy as fast as it
was dispensed; and also was a health machine, dispensing various
nutrients and vitamins and minerals directly through the skin and
into the body. The dero spend days at a time in these machines,
indulging in an orgy of sex that, rather than being stimulating, is
exhausting and detrimental because the stim machines are contaminated
by radioactives and their good effects nullified and turned instead
to bad effects. Because of them, recessive elements of heredity are
accentuated, and a continual downward genetic scale is the result.

Yet, in madness there is craft! Incredible craft, and it is coupled
with great secrecy. These degenerates aren't going to risk the
pleasures that are theirs, by letting any surface people take them
from them by force. Interloper are slain (after torture), and secrecy
is maintained at all costs. because of the aid their machines give
their mental processes, this craftiness is vastly multiplied, and it
would take a clever surface man indeed to out-think them in the
direction of subterfuge, etc. A vast curtain of error is continually
hung before the eyes of surface man to conceal the truth of their
existence. And it is an incredibly effective curtain. It is the most
insidious propaganda imaginable, and involves hypnotic effects hard
to believe. WAS that thought you just thought, your own!

You would be absolutely certain it was yours, if you were certain there was no way
for anyone else to think it for you. And it takes a great deal of
experience to be able to see a thought for an alien thought, when it
occurs in your mind. But it can be done. Question your thoughts with
reason sometime, and see if many of them are not thoughts that would
not have occurred to you in the natural reasonable course of
thinking. Question your dreams, sometime. The effects of haphazard
stringing together by your subconscious of your own personal, and
sometimes long-forgotten memories? Ever have an incident in a dream
come from something beyond your memory - honestly? Something you KNOW
isn't anything you remember, because never before experienced?

Subtlety is here. And if entirely unsuspected, totally effective.

But to admit such things to a psychiatrist is to admit to mental
derangement. To admit them is to risk admission to an insane asylum.
So, here on the surface, the secrecy pattern is maintained, even by
surface people. You yourself, if you hear a voice, can be and usually
are, your own worst enemy!

How did I learn about caves? I've said it before. At first by an
inadvertent contact, because I seemed to be "in the know." Then by
contact with friendly tero, who, because I had accidentally gotten in
on the secret , and seemed friendly, and harmless, and did maintain
the secrecy, was allowed snatches of information and contacts that
led to more contacts. Then some real tero friends who began to pass
on to me knowledge that might make man a better man, and happier,
just as they have for countless ages, sneaking bits of knowledge to
men whom we revere today as the "discoverers" of great scientific
principles.

Nikola Tesla was such a man. Edison was such a man.
Investigate for yourself the "mystic" overtones of each man's life!
Read Edison's diary, and see how close he was to the borderline of
admitting he heard voices, and that there were strange "psychic"
sources for much of his knowledge. Read how Tesla invented things by
simply "copying them" from actual visible and functioning projections
hanging in the air before him! So it was with me, and they showed me
much.

But then I broke the secrecy rule, and thereafter fled across the
world, pursued by vengeful dero, sometimes protected, and sometimes
not - and the "sometimes nots" have mostly destroyed any chance I've
had to accomplish what I intended. Even my story was perverted into
fiction, until it was a subject to ridicule.

Proof? You want proof? Having read this far, is it reasonable for you
to DEMAND proof? Not very. Yet, there is proof. Everywhere you look!
And I'll try to point those proofs out to you. Let me just speak my
mind, with no regard to coherence or continuity, so that somewhere in
the hodgepodge, you may seize upon some ammunition for thought, so
that you may start thinking for yourself - the proof will appear, as
effective proof as is possible to give.

You will see that I CAN "hand you" a machine! Machines you use every
day. But you will ask that I hand you a "new" machine. Perhaps I CAN.
Perhaps I shall! It has been said: "ask and ye shall receive."
Exactly that has been known to occur before! Remember you any of
these incidents? RECOGNIZE you any! Or was it God who answered your
prayer! Or somebody else's prayer? But you HAVE observed it! Do you
REMEMBER it!

*****
Letters in large numbers have accused me of implying this and meaning
that - which I didn't. The confusion arises of course from the
fictional treatment my message has had to be given.

Some readers have drawn quite a variety of erroneous ideas. Some of
them are right. The truth is wild enough to suit anybody. But I wish
to get the picture clearer for them.

One of the commonest errors is in the use the word "dero" has been
receiving. Readers infer in their letters that all cavern people
are "deros," that "dero" and "cavern dwellers" are synonymous. That
is wrong! We wouldn't be alive if a large part of the people down
there weren't fighting like hell for us and for themselves against
the true "dero."

A dero is a cavern wight whose ancestors had the habit of bringing in
the sunlight over the penetrays. Their evil nature is due to a
constant "hearing" (telepathic) of sun vibrants because those same
penetrays they use to bring in the sunlight and warmth were designed
to handle thought-waves, to detect and augment waves of those
frequencies heard by the brain. Their brains got dis (infections) on
the lipoid films of the brain cells, where thought is generated. This
went on for centuries, for an age, and the hereditary result was a
dero, the ancient "Devil" of mythology, and his people - humans whose
minds handle only disintegrant pattern thought. ALL CAVERN PEOPLE ARE
NOT DEROS, thank God.

The good ones do a lot of work for use, in subtle unseen ways, avoid
tamper accidents by helping out a driver, get some doctor info on how
to stop a plague, and are the source of some of our modern inventions
by handing over suggestions to an inventor, unbeknownst, because they
saw a similar device in the wreckage of the caves.

Even all the bad ones are not deros. A dero is an automaton of evil,
and not an ordinary crook. He isn't that smart.

*****
I am trying to say that our civilization is a sham! That our
education is a very shoddy substitute for what it could be if the
truth of our past were known.

I am trying to say that if we knew who and what some of our present-
day bosses really were, we would be vastly worried at their apparent
careless and oppressive attitude toward ourselves, the people - which
attitude is shown in their deliberate deprivation of all science of
the advantages that would arise from a general knowledge of and study
of the rays and mech with which their rule is enforced.

They hold that they won't turn over the info, that it is like an atom
bomb in importance, and they are keeping it in their own hands.

I reply that I wish they would because so many deros use it, too -
and that they don't need to keep the WHOLE of that science a secret.
So much of it is purely benevolent and medicinal. Truth is they are
not educated, do not realize what they are doing in keeping the whole
a secret still today.

I am saying there are millions of people besides Shaver who know
there are vast caverns under earth, full of strange, miraculously
potent machinery - and that they do not speak because it is so
obvious that they would be misunderstood to the point of persecution.

*****
There are many things I have heard that I do not know are facts.To
mention these along with the things I know ARE facts causes an almost
unavoidable confusion.

I have heard that surface light and power and coal are possessions of
the ray-people. I don't KNOW it, I HEARD it. I have HEARD that some
of them have harems of thousands of young women. I don't KNOW it. I
DO KNOW they have harems, and an oriental contempt for all western
morality - but because of the nature of social life developed around
the sue of stim-rays, I can understand this different morality.

I KNOW many terrible things that I cannot find a way to tell except
as fiction. These are things so lurid and impossible they are hard to
make credible even in a lurid stf.* tale. They could not be
considered as facts by and ordinary man, because he has not seen and
could not accept. These are looked for by those who know something of
the great secret, and look for recognizable information in
the "forbidden" field.

I KNOW they have weapon rays that kill at fifty miles and more. That
they HIT what they shoot at with these. A man cannot even think of
such weapons without fear; still we must - and THEY HAVE BEEN WITH US
right along.

I KNOW they have telaug beams that hear thought from a man's mind up
to fifty miles and more. That is an extremely sensitive receiver, for
the sending of one brain is not exactly powerful in voltage.

I KNOW they visit space, and receive visiting ships from space, some
of which do not get away again. I don't know WHY they return to
earth, for NO ONE HERE is getting a square deal.! The ships that
return must belong to those who THINK they benefit from the
repressive, throttling monopoly of all the good things of earth.

I am saying that earth's peoples are supporting a destructive,
extravagantly luxurious and decadent "secret class" who rob us of our
birth right - the science that could be learned from the mechanisms
of the Elder race; which same mechanisms are the instruments that
have held this class in power for many, many centuries.

I am saying that, due to many conditions which we cannot understand
over a long period of time, many of these people are idiotic, and
unfit to be allowed to continue as out "secret" overlords.

I say that if people generally knew this condition, they would lose
the awe and fear that keeps from the race of man many great secrets
which would prove a new and greater path of life for all of us.

I am saying to these men who cry "we want an artifact, and
inscription, an ancient manuscript, we want proof!" - you HAVE proof
all about you! But your minds are so slanted by wrong teachings that
you misinterpret these artifacts and remnants on the surface which
tell the truth about the God cavern's existence.

*****
One either "knows" of the underworld or one does not. It is very much
like a seeing race with eyes living beside and among a race without
eyes who refuse their existence. BUT WE ARE PRESENT AND WE DO SEE!
WE meaning those on the surface "who know."

....
Maurice Doreal Brotherhood of the White Temple

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I used to have this on my blog. I have deleted my blog and most of my online presence at the request of my wife, who's a visionary. Until I get my act together again, I can't be attracting attention online for no reason. I haven't painted in a while and with the birth of my son last year I pretty much have my hands full.

I'm also working out health issues and will be getting an MRI on my knee soon so that I can see what's wrong and start walking normally again.

It seems, the more I age and mature, the less desire I have to be seen publicly, but I still think I would enjoy creating a YouTube channel for vlogging again.