Transcend The Control System: You Are Not A Number

If you are not shaping your own reality, then someone else is doing it for you.

The Control System serves up the default reality configuration for those who do not determine their own. There is no neutrality. Each individual has a prescribed belief system downloaded into their head via repeated containment encoding* that emanates from parenting, schooling, sociological trends, organized religion and the mainstream media. The ultra-saturation of this mass hypnosis is so pervasive and well established that most people no longer wish to think for themselves, preferring instead to slip into the anaesthetizing pre-packaged reality they have grown to venerate.

For those who have chosen a path of awakening, the study of esoteric knowledge and the transcendent journey itself automatically formulates a deprogramming procedure to remove Control System sludge from one’s personal world view. An enema for the mind. As the transparent absurdity of the old hierarchical systems is perceived, a dynamic gnosis of the sacred and sovereign nature of one’s own being starts to resonate new harmonic insights and deeper universal connections. All part of the natural progress of the soul. In stark contrast, for the other 6.7 billion sleepers on the planet, ever deeper and more elaborate unreality indoctrination is conjured upon them to constrain any sense of selfhood.

The manufactured scarcity of resources like clean drinking water, nutritious food and proper shelter makes survival a fulltime occupation for many. In these conditions, considerations of personal growth or self-actualization are remote, low-priority concepts at best. Even for those residing in rich nations, a coordinated barrage of industrialization, organized religion, dictatorial government and sensual distraction continues to successfully lay down the blue print of how one should live a synthetic life. Either way, with disempowered spirits and blunted minds, the psychic, emotional and kinetic energies of the masses are rerouted into the Control System machine, making the natural process of personal awakening not only highly improbable, but distinctly unappealing. The psychology of ‘previous investment’ firmly anchors people into the consumer plantation paradigm, having been addicted to it all their lives, pouring emotional and financial resources into its very heart. To pull the plug on such a profound relationship is unthinkable. Thus, many will fiercely defend their right to dwell within the Matrix.

Imitation Of Life

Over 40 years ago, Patrick McGoohan explored many of the Control System philosophies and techniques in his inspired TV production ‘The Prisoner’. I highly recommend getting hold of the box set and watching all 17 episodes. They are crammed with valuable information.

Ten years after The Prisoner first aired, McGoohan remarked, “We're run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche. As long as we go out and buy stuff, we’re at their mercy. We’re at the mercy of the advertiser and of course there are certain things that we need, but a lot of the stuff that is bought is not needed. We all live in a little Village… Your village may be different from other people’s villages but we are all prisoners.”

For those habituated to reflexive acceptance of Control System memes, it’s often simply a matter of marketing as to what gets believed and when. Professional presentation, heavy repetition and the gravity of popular acceptance is enough to transform any specious proposition into received reality. Watching half an hour of prime time news will sufficiently demonstrate this point beyond reasonable doubt.

As has been resonated throughout my work, the imagination plays a crucial role in this whole game. The imagination is a holographic generator. Focussed mainly in the pineal gland (aka the third eye, the acorn, the pinecone, the stargate) and with a permanent uplink to the akashic field (vacuum field, universal consciousness) – it is perhaps the most powerful and amazing piece of hardware we have. Do some research for yourself and discover its mystical significance to the human experience. When the pineal is out of service and dormant (which it usually is), imaginal input derives largely from the lower density perceptions of the audio visual senses. If these are drenched in digital media hogwash, there’s just no bandwidth left to create your own reality. So you create what you watch. Your life becomes an imitation of what your eyes and ears absorb through the TV. Your entire Earth experience injected into you like z-grade backstreet heroin, right into the mainline. No sacred self, no individuality, no power. Understanding this is the key to exposing the Control System agenda.

Deities And Motherships

Arthur C Clarke said that, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In this context, Project Blue Beam is going to test individual reality models to the limit. If you haven’t got your mojo working by then, you’ll will be swept up in a fabricated reality tunnel so compelling that all that will be left of you is your smoking shoes.

In short, Project Blue Beam is a highly classified black-budget project that takes the application of holographic technology to another level. An integrated array of satellite mounted lasers and ground installations will be used to simulate large-scale religious manifestations and a hostile alien presence. Gods, messiahs, extra terrestrials, motherships – the whole shooting match. Truly a show to capture the imagination. A double whammy for both religious fundamentalist and atheist alike. Following the ensuing disorientation and fear, a one-world government will be presented as the solution to the problem, which indeed it will appear to be. The ultimate and final problem-reaction-solution routine and the conclusion of the Control System’s lock down strategy. For readers who imagine that this is mere sci-fi psychosis, it is worth noting that advanced holograms have been covertly tested in military and civilian situations since the Gulf War (1990-1991). Even in commercial and business environments, holograms have become highly sophisticated and frequently astonish audiences who were previously unaware of the existence of this technology** (see footnotes and references below for video examples). Blue Beam is just a larger, more ambitious project.

What matters is that whatever actual or simulated events are thrown into the cauldron, we are ready to deal with them. In these times, being psychically and psychologically equipped is absolutely critical. It is going to be hard to distinguish between the real and the unreal. The very concept of what is actual and original and what is unreal and simulated will be challenged. Discernment is required. The escape route is transcendent in nature. It will not be served up as fast-food religious rescue. It doesn’t work like that. Think for yourself. Shape your own reality. As fellow blogger, researcher and all round superwoman Angie Riedel so brilliantly puts it: think or be eaten.

I am still optimistic that this unpleasant reality timeline can be averted, but it will require a high degree of awareness and psychic conductivity that as yet, is not quite there. However, I feel things are gaining momentum with a recent and definite acceleration in the surfacing of higher consciousness. A surge in the akashic field. I intuit this to be the ripples from more and more people thinking beyond the 3D and spontaneously encoding a higher dimensional model into their personal cosmology. Even without the appropriate language or symbolism to articulate this, it can be explored and experienced with a minor tuning adjustment, available to everyone each night in their dreams, or in waking life via deep meditation, sacred plants or psychic perception. Even so, the mind likes to have a few facts and figures at hand, something to chew on and assuage the ego from its persistent left-brain logical fixations. One has to track down the esoteric knowledge.

Gnosis For All

Is it not odd to conceive of a divine creative entity that would not wish humans to seek their own personal spiritual evolution? It is bizarre to think that such a supreme being may even prefer humans to remain ignorant of the fruits of knowledge and instead frolic blindly in a garden of sensuous ignorance. Only a fake God would want such a thing; the Demiurge or Archons that the Gnostics identified for example. I do not accept the false dichotomy that is presented, that of choosing between (a) ignorant and blessed, or (b) knowledgeable and damned. Neither condition is correct. Nevertheless, the don’t mess with weird stuff ethos still prevails among many minds. Under scrutiny, it turns out to be just an adult version of the ghost story told to kids to prevent them from venturing too far from home.

It is simultaneously amusing and disappointing to see otherwise diligent researchers become mired in the incorrect thinking that occultic, magickal and mystical type practices are all somehow wicked or immoral. The idea that mystery school knowledge is innately bad because the bad guys also use it for their sinister purposes is patently nonsensical. If my enemy plays terrible music on his violin, I do not pursue the destruction of all violins. I do not blame his fingers and I most certainly do not blame music itself. It is his mind that is at fault.

Illumination is not just for the Illuminati. Condemnation of the Illuminati’s inherent methodology of ‘Illuminism’ should not be misconstrued as a move against personal illumination and heightened awareness. Though this would be a crude and flagrant misapprehension, I nevertheless avoid using the term Illuminati due to such ambiguous connotations. Whatever fraternal, religious and military facades the Control System (my preferred terminology) employs is of diminishing interest to me. It is beyond doubt that ancient bloodlines and powerful esoteric knowledge have been robustly and meticulously preserved for millennia. These guys are into everything and have been from the beginning. I describe their MO as Illuminism, that is, the extreme stratification of knowledge and technology through hierarchical forms of distribution; a synthesis of solar symbolism, ancient mystery cults and numerology. Once this is understood, it’s easier to perceive and deconstruct how they deter people from self actualization and spiritual growth. I leave the historical analysis of Control System origins and affiliations to other more forbearing scholars.

Seek out your own gnosis. Discern, intuit and know what is yours to know. In these times of revealing, there’s no excuse for not having access to the data anymore. It’s all there to be discovered. Become your own alchemist, transform information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. And don’t attempt to do it all from the comfort of your armchair with a book or a laptop. You have to put your boots on and start walking. It is often the journey itself that teaches us. The mysteries within require gently and skilfully unfolding. Working on yourself in this way is a lifelong exercise. Like the hunter who continually hones his skills, cares for his weapons and respects his prey. Like the craftsman who strives to improve his dexterity, deepen his knowledge and understand the wood with which he works. This is the path of transcendence.



References & Footnotes

* Containment encoding is a compound of disempowering and erroneous beliefs, specially combined to undermine the potential of the individual and promote hive mentality. Wide distribution and heavy repetition of associated memes is required to reinforce effectiveness. The primary containment encoding proposes false notions such as (i) death of the body means death of the conscious self, (ii) matter precedes consciousness, (iii) the universe is random, (iv) the divine is inaccessible, (v) religion is good, (vi) atheism is good, (vii) humans are bad.

** To see how advanced holograms have become, check out the links below. Note that military tech is usually 10-20 years in advance of civilian tech.

Human projections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphytMJ_F_A

Japanese sea monster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZQHIhWlxjA

Business conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jhFXmNUt8

Hologram pyramid tech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIJwLgLkJ0

Illustrations. Image 1 is 'The Wanderer above the Mists' by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Image 2 is a photograph of Patrick McGoohan as Number Six in The Prisoner. Image 3 is a simulated Sirian Mothership from an unknown source. Image 4 is 'Woman before the Rising Sun' by Caspar David Friedrich.

Go Your Own Way: Gnosis And The Fractal Spiral

You have to work on yourself before you can really get anywhere. No one can do it for you. The magical codex and the dimensional escape hatch remain firmly out of reach for now. The flame will burn those who are unable to hold it safely in their hands. The universe insists, most adamantly, that we learn how to do it all by ourselves. Gnosis, spiritual attainment, esoteric wisdom. Whatever you want to call it. No cheating, no looking at your friend's paper, no plagiarising - you must do your own thing in your own way. Otherwise, we are compelled to repeat the same tests over and over again, through multiple lifetimes, until we finally figure it out. So you have to do the homework. Sharpen your blade. Keep moving. Fortunately, there is no time limit and everyone’s ascendant path is custom-built for their own unique growth pattern. In spiritual terms, it’s a win-win situation.

To help penetrate the all-pervading mists of the illusion, one must first acknowledge that consciousness is not the accidental and purposeless by-product of the human condition. The perceived world that we appear to be locked inside, like the silver ball in a pinball machine, is wholly a construct of consciousness. The pinball constructs the machine around itself. Whilst a testing notion for even the most elastic of modern philosophical minds, it has been known for aeons by the ancient mystical traditions and experienced directly by the indigenous shamanic cultures of every continent. Now, it is being evoked again as a progressive scientific theory in quantum physics. It is not new information we are bringing to mind, not by any means. It is better described as a remembrance.

Consciousness is a transcendental music with which we can attune, conduct and create. The spiritually synchronized mind instinctively discerns this. Consciousness flows through all things. It follows that consciousness itself does not originate in the brain of the individual. It is at root, a non-local force. The quantum and holographic traces of this have been unfolding for some time now, most intriguingly in the works of Gebser, Bohm, Pribram and Laszlo. The personal experience of consciousness is better conceived of as a tunnel, or an uplink, to the akashic field (aka the universal field, vacuum field, noosphere etc) which is dynamically connected to everything and everywhere. Perhaps the field is composed of the same subspace luminous filaments that Castaneda’s mythical figure of Don Juan spoke of so enigmatically; these being the fractal structures of consciousness itself, elaborately extending themselves across the multiverse, articulating every conceivable resolution. Our thoughts, feelings and articulations are unique expressions [configurations] of the field. Our imaginal thoughtforms sculpt its physical and psychic manifestations.

Subspace And Not-Thinking

Consciousness operates in a field which is not bound by the restrictions of third density conditions (time & space). Consequently, it may seamlessly reach into higher dimensions/fractal resolutions and potentially innumerable parallel universes, as indicated in superstring theory and m-theory. This is how telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance and similar extra sensory perception phenomena function, by jumping into the subspace field and observing any point along it, instantly and completely. Travel without movement. The coherence vector or signal quality is the difference between a faint intuition of something (I think my Aunty Barbara might call this evening) and a full-on vision (a 25ft meteorite will land in my back garden tomorrow at 9:45am and destroy the lawnmower). To maximize signal fidelity, to get the most accurate information, the mind must be trained to quieten the perpetual internal dialogue, the chatter of the brain.

Thinking is brain churn. Knowing is field connection. Whilst deductive reasoning is practical for information processing, it can stand in the way of the coherent field connection necessary to attain wisdom. Many deep mystical experiences encountered in different planes of consciousness are so state specific that they cannot easily be brought back into the third density for adequate expression using the modern linguistic symbol set. Articulation is not always necessary for total comprehension. Standard ‘remote viewing’ technique (the psychic ability to gather information about a distant or unseen target) teaches the student not to think. The collective consciousness within the field knows everything already. It can communicate any information about anything right into your head at supraluminal speeds. So why are some able to remote view and others not? Impulsive brain chatter obscures the incoming data, like static on a TV screen. We need to learn to step out of the way. Meditation brings insight into the thinking process, helping to smooth it out and sometimes stop it altogether, allowing deeper perceptions to be received. Toltec shamanism teaches the apprentice the procedure of ‘stopping the world’ as a means of placing false egoic thinking aside in order to perceive the world shamanically, or if you prefer, to establish a stable uplink to the field.

Interfacing with reality is more instructive than purely theorizing about it. We have long since reached the saturation point of the narrow scientific method with its reliance on separation, measurement and reductionism. Such materialist inferences, no matter how scrupulous, are at odds with the holistic multidisciplinary attitude required for actual conscious evolution. They only obstruct efforts to perceive beyond the particulate cloak of Maya. The primacy of felt experience is consistently more edifying and meaningful than the smug abstractions of ‘scientism’ (the belief that scientific principles are essential to all other disciplines, including philosophical, mystical, spiritual and humanist interpretations of life). The Control System sponsors scientism by overexposing various trenchant physicists, atheists and parapsychologists who all exhibit some form of spiritual devolution. As smart and kooky as some of them are, they lack the psychic integrity and spiritual humility that is so palpable in those who truly walk the path.

Small Is Beautiful

Far from being the exotic anthropological oddity it was once depicted as, shamanism is the original spiritual experience of all indigenous peoples. Present in the savannas of Africa, the jungles of the Amazon, the plains of America, the mountains of Asia and the forests of Europe, shamanism was an integral mystical practice of deep esoteric and spiritual importance to both individuals and communities. Thus it remained, organically ascendant, up until a few thousand years ago when the personal, sovereign right to a spiritual connection with the divine was removed from daily life. This was achieved by hijacking and co-opting all systems of transcendence into the dark canopy of organized religion. The fake priesthood. They took what they liked, pruned the liberating and inspiring bits and threw the rest away. Anyone who sought to practice their own mysticism or dared to resurrect the old ways was executed. Many such religious crusades were prosecuted against ancient spiritual and shamanic practices, campaigns that today would fall under the technical terminology of genocide.

If you trace the origins of the major monotheistic organized religions back far enough, it becomes clear that they were never designed to help the individual grow and develop. They were there to control land, dictate moral and social norms and separate the common man from his divine heritage. Higher consciousness, personal freedom and spiritual communion, far from being the core elements of their basic mystical teachings, were concepts firmly discouraged by the various priest castes. In their place, the disempowering qualities of submission, victimhood, repression and guilt became the preferred tenets of worshipful compliance.

Most who walk the path have long since discarded the unnecessary restraints of organized religion. There are many good people who still operate within the conventions and structures of Christianity in particular, and that is of course, their prerogative. However, it doesn’t take much research into alternative history and the ancient indigenous chronicles to discover that the sacred texts that form the backbone of today’s megareligions are merely distorted versions of much earlier and authentic methods of spiritual practice. Despite the artful stage-managed resurgence of religious fundamentalism in both the east and west, the crude pious repressions of the Control System are beginning to lose their grip. People are realizing that they can anoint themselves as their own special representative on earth (who else could they be?) and their own personal channel to the holy spirit.

Fractal Dreams

In ‘The Art Of Dreaming’, Carlos Castaneda wrote, "Don Juan contended that our world, which we believe to be unique and absolute, is only one in a cluster of consecutive worlds, arranged like the layers of an onion. He asserted that even though we have been energetically conditioned to perceive solely our world, we still have the capability of entering into those other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute and engulfing as our own world is. Believing that our energetic conditioning is correctable, don Juan stated that sorcerers of ancient times developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic capabilities to perceive. They called this set of practices the art of dreaming." When I first read that in 1994, two things sprang to mind. (i) How don Juan was absolutely spot on, and (ii) rather fittingly, how the process of unfolding the onion layers of reality can indeed bring tears to your eyes.

The ‘cluster of consecutive worlds’ is a fractal model. The essential pattern of creation is encoded into everything, all the way down the line, from galaxies to cauliflowers. It helps to examine fractal formations in nature to properly appreciate their properties. I have collated some useful illustrations of fractal geometry in the attached picture (click for larger version).

The geometry and mathematics of fractal forms has been studied since the 17th century (in modern history that is) but their complexity and infinite recursive depth made progress slow. The arrival of computers in the 1970’s made things much simpler. Rapid processing, sophisticated graphics and software modelling enabled researchers to explore the depth of fractals to a level never seen before. Researchers categorize fractal generation into three different classes: (1) Escape-time Fractals; Mandelbrot set, Julia set, Nova fractal, (2) Iterated Function Systems; Cantor set, Koch snowflake, Sierpinski carpet and (3) Random Fractals. In random fractals, we see dendritic fractals demonstrate the fundamental natural property of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA). DLA is best illustrated in the physical manifestations of fern growth, ice crystals, tree branch growth and electrical discharges. See the aforementioned montage image for examples.

Observing the nautilus shell, we encounter the living embodiment of the Fibonacci sequence of numbers 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765. So important to sacred geometry, Egyptology and the ancient mystery cults. For those who may have cast off their high school mathematics (understandably in most cases), the Fibonacci sequence establishes the first number as 0 and the second number as 1. Each subsequent number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers.

The sequence presents itself in nature in the branching of trees, the structure of pineapples, artichoke flowering, uncurling ferns, the arrangement of pine cones and the spiralling florets in the head of a sunflower (see image, click for larger version). Stunningly beautiful.

The recursive, self-iterative nature of fractals, clearly visible in the Mandelbrot and Koch snowflake, begin to speak to the higher consciousness and express some of the underlying structures of reality. The fractal holography of the universe imprints the design of itself into each individual component, each creative lego brick. All elements are coded with the entire universal design project. The ancient druidic respect for the oak tree and the acorn were symbols of this core understanding. As then, so now, such meditations lead to a fuller comprehension of the sacred mysteries of creation. Our art is to project into higher and deeper resolutions of the fractal spiral, gathering gnosis and wisdom as spiritual gravitation compels the ascendant homeward journey.

Our life is the journey. We illustrate it with our unique and miraculous stories. Our learning helps to improve the coherence and the elegance of the fractal. Our capacity for consciousness determines how deep we can go. I sense that each lifetime, each self, each frequency of being, emanates fractally from a larger, grander structure, from where our higher self guides us and loves us. Perhaps even these ultra conscious entities are expressions of an even more sublime intelligence. Gazing at the head of the sunflower, it certainly feels that way.



Footnotes

First illustration, “Oversoul” by Alex Grey

The Isle Of Flying Daggers

Two years ago I wrote an article entitled Disarming The People – UK Anti-Knife Propaganda Goes Into Overdrive. The absurd misinformation and propaganda campaign I had identified back then has now sadly progressed to the stage of actually becoming law. It is yet another desperate attempt by the Control System to restrict personal freedom and make the general population increasingly submissive to the state. If that were not enough, this new draconian legislation has the firm backing of a vigorously propagandized UK public, expertly manipulated pressure groups and the highly publicized grieving families of murder victims. Another PSYOPS job.

Back in June 2006, it was my exasperation with the obsequious UK mainstream media and its coordinated Orwellian propaganda that played a significant contributing factor in my beginning The Cleaver in the first place. A grand deception was being perpetrated against the UK populace and I wanted at least a few people to be aware of it. Since that time, The Cleaver has developed to focus increasingly on matters of human consciousness, esoteric knowledge and spiritual evolution. These are greater weapons than simply just dishing the dirt. Any dark unveilings that I do expose are usually balanced with what I consider to be progressive and empowering metaphysical information. This time, there is an unapologetically more straightforward exposure of the totalitarian mechanism of the UK Control System, so as to highlight the culmination of their two year project to take knives away from people. So, in honour of the genesis of The Cleaver, and to remind myself and others that the government is not your friend, I once more draw attention to a series of unfortunate events here in the ancient lands of Albion.

Gruesome commentaries about the horrors of knives used in a violent context make the evening news almost every day. Knives used in murders, in robberies, muggings, gang violence, school violence, domestic violence. They lump it all in together as 'knife crime'. Shocking images of brutality and death are beamed into millions of homes as viewers settle down for their evening diet of TV mindjunk. Most of the UK bears no resemblance to the disastrously pressurized demographic chaos of London, nor does it face the same particular issues, which appear to have distinct ethnic and socio-economic correlations. And yet that is where nationwide policy is driven from, despite its irrelevance elsewhere.

Scotland has 3.5 times more crimes relating to knives than England and yet its problems are not specifically addressed. Karyn McCluskey, head of Strathclyde's Violence Reduction Unit, said knife crime there was endemic and dated back to the "razor gangs" of the 1920s. Ms McCluskey said: "Much of it is to do with bravado. Machismo is a huge issue up here and the lack of role models too. We often get knives being used by grandfathers, fathers and sons."

The TV and newspaper reporting is rarely, if ever, unbiased and objective. Should anyone ever doubt the veracity of mass media manipulation, they need only track this crude government propaganda strain for a few months. It appears the media no longer even bother to maintain the pretence of impartial, accurate and dispassionate journalism. Even the quality and clarity of writing have evaporated. Government is not in the least interested in actually solving the problems of street violence, because at the highest levels they know that it is their own policies and doctrines that create them: fractured communities, hyper consumerism and chronic overpopulation. The only effective campaigns against the hard realities of street crime always originate from grass-roots organizations (families, friends, support groups), but they are often under resourced and only get state backing when it suits government 'gesture politics'.

The Oldest Trick In The Book

All that matters is that the Hegelian dialectic has been successfully implemented once again. Problem: the UK has a knife crime problem that is getting out of control. Reaction: horror, fear, uproar, something must be done! Solution: make carrying knives unlawful, effectively removing them from circulation. That's the con. The Control System artificially inflates or creates the problem, waits for the obvious and predictable reaction, and then delivers the ‘solution’ they wanted all along (less weapons in the hands of the public), which may have seemed unpalatable without a compelling pretext. So they engineer one.

The anti-knife propaganda is a pitch perfect re-run of the same tune they played in 2006. The cross platform media meme is repeated incessantly: Britain has a knife crime problem. Of course the term ‘knife crime’ is a ridiculous misnomer to begin with. An object is only a weapon when it is intentionally and violently used as such. Screwdrivers, hammers, axes, chisels, crowbars, razors, horseshoes, corkscrews, tent pegs and rolling pins can all be used to kill and maim if you plunge them into someone’s guts or smash them over someone’s head. It is of course, not the tool itself, but the wielder of the tool that commits the criminal act. Guns and knives don’t kill people. People kill people. Removing all items that may potentially be used to commit a violent crime is not only unfeasible, it is the height of stupidity.

In 2006, I noted the parallels between the stage-managed knife hysteria and the 100 year drive to outlaw private ownership of firearms in Britain. Follow the link at the top to check it out. They started with the guns and worked back. I guess they are thorough if nothing else.

On Thursday 5^th June 2008, the BBC (as close as you can get to The Ministry Of Truth) proudly announced ‘Knife Prosecution Age Limit Cut’ on the front page of their news website. The article explains that “anyone aged 16 or over in England and Wales who carries a knife could be taken to court, under new guidelines for police and prosecutors. The change follows a meeting between Gordon Brown, police and legal chiefs, to extend the "presumption of prosecution" in knife cases. Previous police guidance was to prosecute adults caught with a knife, but to caution those under 18 ... But now anyone over 16 can expect to be prosecuted on their first offence.”

Two months earlier in April 2008, a ban on ‘samurai swords’ came into law making it a crime for anyone to buy or sell swords such as Japanese Katanas (without special licence). Contravening this law is punishable with a $10,000 fine (£5,000) and six months in jail. Exemptions only cover items used for re-enactments or collectors' antique weapons. Anyone importing samurai swords could face up to seven years in prison and an ‘unlimited’ fine.

Bushcraft Outlaws

24 months ago, I wryly noted that: “The old bumper sticker that states 'if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns' contains a sentiment worth considering. There is another darkly humorous gun law sticker that’s popular in the USA: 'if guns are outlawed, can I still use my sword?' The answer could be a straight no.” .... [Sigh]. How regrettably prophetic that paragraph was.

These draconian restrictions are aligned with a current $6 million (£3m) government campaign to generate fear of knives, in which explicit images of actual knife wounds and disfigured limbs are shown in graphic adverts. Extreme and disturbing, the ads are light years away from actually addressing the root causes of community estrangement and youth alienation. They do nothing to resolve the problem and state only what everyone already knows: knives can be dangerous in the wrong hands. No kidding. The anti-knife adverts will not have any influence on 16 year old aspiring gangstas, but will no doubt scare the shit out of most grannies and grandads who will encounter these upsetting images in their newspapers, on their radios and on their TVs. The fear and violence is brought right into their home, quite irrelevant to them and most certainly very unwelcome. But that is the desired outcome. Fear is the frequency of control.

It is truly ludicrous to think that one could stroll through local woodland carrying a pocket knife, binoculars and a cheese sandwich and technically be committing a criminal act. Sheer madness. The brilliant and understated Zen master of bushcraft, Ray Mears, often describes the knife as the most important piece of kit you can carry. With it, the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the natural environment become possible: shelter building, carving & cutting wood, hunting, food preparation, cooking, rope and twine making, tool making, container & utensil construction etc. Nearly everything associated with bushcraft requires a knife somewhere along the line. Will Mears and millions of other students of bushcraft be compelled to leave their knives at home when exploring the beautiful forests and woods of England? I doubt it.

For those keen to stay close to nature, or even those who seek to establish a new connection with Mother Earth, bushcraft is not only an important practical life skill, it reflects a deep and timeless tradition of freedom, respect and communion with the natural forces of the planet. In the coming years, such resonances may be extremely handy to have 'under one's belt'.

Demystifying Illuminist Power Structures

The illusory world in which we find ourselves has both gross and subtle aspects. Gross in terms of the five sense perceived reality and subtle as in that which lies beyond the direct comprehension of the senses. The path of transcendent knowledge, unique to each individual, guides us through both levels to a higher frequency of consciousness and a fuller understanding of how the multiverse is composed. In this respect, awareness of Illuminist organizations and their methods can be considered a natural part of moving through the gross illusory stages. As energies retune from the physical to the metaphysical, perspective is positively transformed and many of the ominous manoeuvrings of the Illuminist agenda begin to dissipate.

Humans are not unconscious and dim-witted by nature. Our impressive contemporary ignorance is the result of prolonged and invasive conditioning. The Control System uses basic diversionary tactics to prevent most humans from ever engaging with anything meaningful. It deploys encumbering psychological hoaxes like keeping people stressed inside a protestant work ethic time-loop, over endorsing left brain activity, removing the divine from daily life, omnipresent junk entertainment etc. It augments these with physical disconnections through bad water, bad food and a haze of atmospheric and electromagnetic interference. Combined, they subvert the natural evolution of the human soul from its normal ascension trajectory down to the prosaic drudgery of the 21^st century consumer plantation.

Psychic equilibrium is important on the path. It is a mistake, for example, to concentrate all ones energies exclusively on the unveiling process. To specialize solely in matters of exposing conspiracies is tantamount to spiritual seppuku. Endless conspiratorial digging serves only to repeatedly confirm the existence of the Control System. No solutions, just problems. Many powerful minds have had their spiritual advancement hindered, and in some cases terminated, by succumbing to this negative vortex. I will resist the temptation to cite examples. Equally, ignoring the unveiling altogether can lead to the rather unfortunate space bunny syndrome; where previously evolving minds liquefy into self-contained escapist fantasy worlds where everything is always bouncy.

The Gross Illusion

The affairs of planet Earth are locally administered by unelected organizations operating from behind a screen of artificial capitalist and communist governments. The Wizard of Oz is pulling the levers and the munchkins are reverently oblivious. A bitter pill to swallow. The emergence of the Internet has made it possible to assemble and cross reference masses of previously disparate data into a more lucid and conceivable whole. A course of alternative esoteric education that would’ve formerly taken decades (with the cooperation of several major libraries) can now be achieved within a few months. There is much deep study, analysis and intuition required, but it can be done. Suffice to say the Control System is real. The plot has been thickening nicely from day one. As with any other illusion, the student must progress sequentially through each distinct layer to arrive at the truth, the key to the entire illusion.

See the Layers Of Control diagram (click for a larger version).

Government. The superficial administrators of the policies of others.

Realpolitik. From the German real [realistic/practical] and politik [politics]. Realpolitik emphasizes immediate practicalities over principled ideologies. It has become synonymous with unscrupulous and coercive political tactics, particularly since its popularization in modern times via the arch-necromancer Henry Kissinger.

Parapolitics. An entirely unaccountable system operating out of sight of the public and beyond the rule of law. Ramped up Realpolitik with greater reliance on deception, suppression and force.

Illuminism. Characterized by the extreme stratification of knowledge and technology through hierarchical forms of distribution. A synthesis of solar symbolism, ancient mystery cults and numerology.

Other. Purposefully obscure, as this most certainly constitutes an article/discussion/book in itself. Encompasses extra-dimensional, galactic and pre-historical elements; a considerable leap even from the previous level. For now, it is enough to raise the bar to Illuminism.

Within these structures, the military, mega-corps and mainstream media are used as enforcement, deployment and broadcasting domains. Each having been initially created by, and now entirely subsumed within, the higher levels of the power structures.

Depth of awareness and belief configuration determine what level of the Control System is comprehensible. It is not constructive to take a person who has remained firmly at Government level 1 all their lives straight up to Illuminism level 4. Their conditioning will not allow that jump. A burst of revelatory information may indeed shock, but it is unlikely to enlighten those who are wholly unprepared. A degree of personal study is usually required before new, wider possibilities come into range.

Into The Mists Of Time

The Control System offers nanohistory as our default reference point. An absurdly myopic perspective that suggests it is only worth looking back a few hundred years for any meaningful historical orientation. Everything before then was outlandish, superstitious and largely uncivilized - apart from the Greeks and Romans who had sanitation, hot running water and fresh grapes. This represents most people’s degree of historical awareness. Restricting access to the historical record is fundamental to the success of shaping people’s consciousness to see only that which is directly under their nose.

It is possible to trace Illuminist groups back to around 6000 BCE. Undoubtedly, they go back a lot earlier, but until we get independent access to authentic historical documents (many of which are secreted in the Vatican archives, I am reliably informed), we shall have to use thoughtful conjecture. Certainly we can track Illuminist origins to the Mithraic, Zoroastrian and Dionysian mystery schools; also directly to ancient Egypt from the predynastic period of around 5500 BCE to the early dynastic period of 3150 BCE. Inevitably, the picture gets clearer and there is more detailed information the more recent you get. For example, it can be persuasively argued that there is an unbroken thread through the Egyptian > Roman > Christian > English/US Empires. Bloodlines have been preserved throughout the timeline by way of meticulous interbreeding in order to isolate lineages with certain DNA characteristics. Funny how this stuff isn’t mentioned in high school history lessons. As Philip K Dick said, “The empire never ended.” (Valis, 1980).

Certain scholars and mystics proclaim the reality of far older civilizations such as Hyperborea, Lemuria and Atlantis which radically extend the time frames we think in. My own personal view is that civilizations appear and disappear recurrently every three to six thousand years, before being wiped out by colossal and very sudden earth changes. All records and data are thus destroyed (save certain stone structures) and everything starts over from scratch. This catastrophic theme is presented again and again in all major ancient mythologies. Popular candidates include global flood, extreme solar activity, incoming objects in our solar system and energetic dimensional shifts. In consciousness terms, all these things are intertwined and so may all happen simultaneously.

Masters Of Reality

It used to be just TV and cinema, but now ‘the screen’ implies a number of different media flavours and delivery portals: television, film, HD, DVD, Blue Ray, computer/console games and Internet & mobile media formats.

The Control System works by keeping everyone focussing on the lowest levels of the pyramid, the base levels of the illusion. Within this contrived paradigm, people are conditioned to give their energy only to the synthetic culture received through their screen. Cars and football, home makeovers and cooking, gossip and idolatry. It all amounts to the same thing: diversion. The magician’s misdirection distracts attention while the Illuminists siphon your consciousness out of your bottom. Just keep going round that hamster wheel. Round and round. Isn’t it pretty and fun and weird and you kind of can’t get off it.

The phenomenon of ‘predictive programming’ is heavily used on the screen. It presents and acclimatizes the public with new ideas and trends. Usually put forward in a fictional context (to circumvent issues of consent or morality), many of the events, technologies and social attitudes dipped into the collective consciousness are in fact already in the pipeline.

Taking this one step further, I propose that the screen actually seeds the imagination to manifest a pre-determined reality. Far from being the trivial plaything we are told it is, the imagination is a highly developed, super powerful holographic processor. It illustrates, energizes and manifests the world around us, whether we acknowledge it or not. It is the portal through which the universal field condenses thoughtforms into matter. The imagination directly formulates our experience of reality, as strongly now as it did when we were five years old. For this reason, it is imperative that we choose carefully what we put into our minds.

With mastery of our own imagination deactivated, the default setting is to mirror the incoming data stream. Output only what is input. With the modern adult mind discouraged from connecting with reality through actual felt experience, input is predictably derived from the mainstream media. The reality blueprint is transmitted, electronically and literally, from the screen. Trillions of screens.

Film, perhaps more than any other media, has the distinct capacity to convey the viewer into lush territories of hyper-articulated pre-imagined fantasy, far from the habitual consensus vision of boring normality. It differs from literature in the sense that its fantasy articulations (CGI, sets, costumes, prosthetics) are entirely prepackaged and do not require your imagination to create anything. The Control System knows that the subtle but serviceable psychoactive trigger of ‘watching a film’ reinforces the escapist impulse in the Western mind. And how pleasurable it can sometimes be (just think of your top five films). However, the screen voyager is rarely aware of the gravity of their undertaking. Every pixel, frame, syllable, sound and byte of information is permanently imprinted into the psyche of the individual. Watching a movie, no matter how passive or engaged we may feel, is an act of imaginal sorcery, and the reality modifications invoked are not aligned with the will of the viewer, but with a distant, unseen creator.

Here is one recent and transparent example of a dual predictive programming and imagination seeding job.

Primetime viewing during a recent public holiday here in the UK (May Day weekend) was in the shape of the Tony Mitchell disaster film Flood. The tagline is “It’s coming straight for us.” What actually arrived was an enormous slice of imagination seeding. Flood is a bit like an English version of The Day After Tomorrow. Dramatic CGI scenes show London being consumed by water with all the inevitable ensuing pandemonium, unprepared authorities and selected personal dramas. In actuality Flood is yet another example of vicarious reality-porn set against the backdrop of a grim social collapse. Nothing to learn and nothing to gain, other than the cheapest of voyeuristic thrills.

For those sucked in by the drama of Flood, it was followed the very next day with the BBC news headline “Flood risk fear over key UK sites”. Take a look at their published visual memes (click for larger version). Notice the similarities in the fictional and actual pictures, published within 24 hours of each other. The subconscious resonance is intentional. The BBC is telling you, once again, that “it’s coming straight for us”. Fear. Panic. Helplessness.

From The Gross To The Subtle

As consciousness is moved to focus on one’s own evolution, and therefore interfacing with the universal field (which touches everything and everyone), it has the agreeable side effect of automatically vaporizing the psychic restraints of the Control System. Their mindjobs and imaginal seeding no longer function. Their solemn news broadcasts morph into ludicrous parodies. It becomes hard to take their propaganda and disinformation seriously anymore. By concentrating on the path, we free ourselves, expand our consciousness, benefit others and disempower the Control System.

Herein lies the mental transfer from the gross to the subtle. Consciousness creates reality. We are not helpless objects inside it, we make it. The solution is deceptively simple: free yourself and thereby regain sovereign control. Knowing this makes your mind hard to hijack and returns the power of creation back to the real masters of reality - us.

“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”

From ‘Ode’ by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

When Worlds Collide: The CERN Stargate

If you really want to conceal something - hide it in plain sight. This technique is a hallmark of Illuminist groups who are compelled to constantly and robustly protect their hidden knowledge. For over a century, film has been a primary means of deploying the 'hide in plain sight' deception on a mass scale. From the early sci-fi and horror films of European silent cinema to the multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbusters, film has reliably served as a mainline into the belief systems of the populace. A complex alchemy of synchronicity, cultural programming and mind control is used to concurrently deliver both a wash of sensual distraction and a download of unreality tutoring. The data from the screen prescribes social tolerances, establishes acceptable behavioural parameters and encodes pre-determined archetypes into the consciousness of the viewer.

For most people, informed solely by the aforementioned fictional matrix curriculum, the word Stargate conjures images of the cliché ridden 1994 film of the same name, starring Kurt Russell. Or perhaps the Stargate SG-1 spinoff series, the longest-running US science fiction series of all time (of which I have seen none). The whole stargate imagery, language and feel is already there, pre-packaged and ready to go. We sort of know what a stargate is and what it looks like. They move people from one point in space and time to another. Wormholes. Star travel. Stuff like that. As to their actual existence however, as real world devices, their authenticity has remained entirely unbroadcast.

Not for much longer. A stargate based in the heart of Europe is coming online in May 2008.

Fellowship Of The Ring

CERN is the Earth’s largest particle physics lab, situated in northwest Geneva on the border of France and Switzerland. Essentially it is a huge particle accelerator complex, using electric fields to propel particles to super high speeds and contain them. CERN operates a cluster of 6 particle accelerators, 1 decelerator and multiple particle detectors.

CERN is a European super-project with 20 core European signatory countries (including UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands) and a group of international countries (America, Israel, Japan, Russia, India etc) participating with so called ‘observer’ status. Over 7900 scientists and engineers (about half the global particle physics community) work on experiments conducted at CERN.

Most recent activities have been directed towards the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is located in a circular tunnel 100 metres underground, between Geneva Airport and the nearby Jura mountains. A 17 mile circumference ring houses two pipes enclosed within superconducting magnets cooled by liquid helium. Each pipe contains a separate proton beam, each travelling in opposite directions around the ring. Additional magnets are used to direct the beams to four intersection points where interactions between them will take place. In total, over 1600 superconducting magnets are installed, with most weighing over 27 tonnes. It is a 21^st century ouroboros; the mystical symbol of infinity, the alchemical symbol of purification.

The officially stated function of CERN is to provide infrastructure for high-energy physics research. One goal of the LHC is to establish the existence of the "Higgs Boson" particle. It is thought that the Higgs Boson is what gives matter "mass". To observe it, the LHC will be colliding Hadrons (specifically Protons) together at unimaginably high speeds. Six principle experiments at the LHC (named ALICE, ATLAS, TOTEM, CMS, LHCb, and LHCf) aim to explore fundamental elements of existence areas such as gravity, mass, matter, antimatter, the origins of the universe and extra dimensions of spacetime. We don’t typically hear much about that in the news.

I am still waiting for the evening news to mention that “The CERN Stargate, designed to send matter from this universe into another dimension, comes online next week.” As sci-fi as that sounds, that is precisely what CERN will do and everyone should be aware of it.

To quote CERN’s own published documentation: "Some theories suggest that, beyond the three spatial dimensions we experience, our Universe has some extra dimensions. These have finite size, so they are curved onto themselves, for instance in the shape of a circle (although, for more than one extra dimension, more complicated geometries are possible)."

“To really detect the extra dimension one needs to probe it with particles with a very high energy. In quantum mechanics, the larger the energy of the particle, the smaller its effective size is. So to detect a small dimension, one needs particles of very high energy. The extra dimensions are actually so small that even our largest particle accelerators have not produced particles of enough energy to see them. However, in some theories, the sizes of the extra dimensions are ... just large enough for particles in the LHC at CERN to be able to detect them.”

“There are theories that suggest that the matter particles we are made of cannot propagate on the extra dimensions. In these theories, the only way to detect the extra dimensions is by using gravitational interactions. The strength of gravity in the 5-dimensional (or higher-dimensional) description is much more intense than in four dimensions, hence we predict the possibility of creating black holes in collisions in the LHC. These events would be spectacular, with the black hole decaying almost immediately into a shower of many particles, and would allow us to test the properties of quantum gravity in accelerators. In any of these two possible scenarios, the detection of the existence of extra dimensions would be an unprecedented discovery, and an astonishing insight into the nature of the Universe!”

In my cosmology, it would not be unprecedented. It would be a rediscovery of ancient knowledge that has been on Earth many times before.

Secrets In The Fields

At the 2007 Glastonbury Symposium, I attended lectures by leading lights in the crop circle phenomenon Dr. Horace Drew and Bert Janssen (amongst others) who explained in detail how the advanced physics and geometry embedded in many crop formations was known only to a handful of people at the time of their creation. In some cases, what the circles were depicting was astonishing cutting-edge quantum physics. Their apparent 2D format actually describing 3D and often 4D constructs in their advanced use of three, seven and nine-fold geometry.

I visited multiple crop circles, each of them representing complex mathematical constructs and geometries. The level of detail and precision I encountered was mind blowing. Fellow researchers, from first timers to old time ‘croppies’, were equally in awe of their enigmatic beauty. One quickly concludes that the genuine circles are not the work of human hands. It also becomes clear that the value of the circles is, for me at least, not in who makes them, or even how, but rather in what they are telling us.

The sophisticated geometry in the circles resonates with multi-dimensional physics, string theory and m-theory. Recall, the CERN spokesman suggested that “more complicated geometries” are required to describe multi-dimensional reality. It is feasible that this is exactly what the circles are doing. They are teachings in how the universe is constructed. As Janssen states, “Crop circles are far less straightforward than you would think at first sight. They cannot be done away with as just a simple joke. Their geometry shows that there is far more to it. The different aspects of geometry even suggest that it is impossible for humans to reproduce [the shown] crop circles in an actual field.” For examples, see his excellent site http://www.bertjanssen.nl/cropcircles.html

The Uncertainty Of A Dead Cat

Werner Heisenberg proposed that by measuring the position of a particle, we unavoidably alter its predictable momentum. Thus it is impossible to know both the exact position and the exact velocity of an object at the same time. Furthermore, the uncertainty of the particle’s movement is a manifestation of the observer observing it; the consciousness of the observer changes the observed object. Hot stuff, especially in the 1920’s.

According to American physicist and leading string field theorist, Professor Michio Kaku, the best Nobel Laureates cannot agree on the outcome of the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. They just don’t get it. Kaku suggests that it remains the single most important quandary in the history of modern man.

The Schrödinger’s cat paradox poses a philosophical question about the nature of reality, particularly pertinent to those interested in Quantum Physics. It goes like this. A cat is put inside a sealed box with a device that may or may not release a poison gas, dependent on a totally random 50/50 chance. After one hour, the device will have either released the deadly gas or not. According to quantum theory, after an hour, the cat is actually in a quantum superposition of being both alive and dead at the same time, until someone opens the box that is. When the observer opens the box, the cat then manifests as being either alive or dead.

There are two main possibilities to explain the quantum paradox.

The Copenhagen interpretation. A system stops being a superposition of states and becomes either one or the other when an observation takes place; i.e. when consciousness intervenes. When the observer looks, the superposition state collapses into a single state.

Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation (MWI). Both alive and dead states of the cat occur, but are separate (or decoherent) from each other. When the box is opened, that part of the universe containing the observer and cat is split into two separate universes, one containing an observer looking at a box with a dead cat, one containing an observer looking at a box with a live cat. This infers multiple, perhaps infinite, parallel universes.

CERN and the LHC will shed light on MWI. MWI denies the objective reality of wavefunction collapse. The subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is actually quantum decoherence. MWI resolves all the paradoxes of quantum theory since every possible outcome to every event defines or exists in its own "history" or "world". In layman's terms, this means that there are an infinite number of universes and that everything that could possibly happen in our universe (but doesn't) happens somewhere else, in another universe. Hence the growing recognition of the term multiverse.

A Super Massive Hot Lump Of Strange Matter

Some are more nervous than others about the experiments conducted at the Large Hadron Collider. The concerned voices focus on the possibility that the LHC could create mini black holes that may last long enough to get out of control and start eating things up. The formation of black hole analogs on Earth (in particle accelerators) has been reported. They act like black holes because of the correspondence between the theory of the strong nuclear force and the quantum theory of gravity. It is presently unknown whether the much more energetic LHC would be capable of producing the speculative large extra dimension micro black hole, as many theorists have suggested. In theory, Hawking Radiation means that any arising black holes will evaporate in Femtoseconds (not long at all), not enough to accrete mass or cause problems. Though this comforting thought has never been proven.

If that wasn’t enough, there’s also the theoretical possibility that quarks could recombine into “strangelets". According to the strange matter hypothesis, when a strangelet comes into contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted (assimilated by the Borg strangelets) - and Earth is reduced to a super massive hot lump of strange matter. That would be a hell of a day.

Former nuclear safety officer Walter L. Wagner has been raising safety questions for years. In March 2008, Wagner and another critic of the LHC's safety measures, Luis Sancho, filed a lawsuit in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. The suit calls on the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN to ease up on their LHC preparations for several months while the collider's safety is reassessed. However, similar law suits have failed in the past and are unlikely to prevent the LHC from proceeding. CERN project managers and leading physicists are dismissive of any significant risks. They claim particle collisions “cannot create dangerous things.”

I guess we’ll know soon enough.

Footnotes

(1) It was during a visit to CERN in 1985 that Stephen Hawking contracted pneumonia (life-threatening in his weakened condition) which resulted in acute breathing difficulties. It could only be overcome through a tracheotomy by which Stephen Hawking permanently lost his natural speech ability.

(2) CERN is a central plot element in Dan Brown’s book 'Angels And Demons'. A scientist is found dead at CERN. His murderers appear to have acquired a canister containing a quarter gram of antimatter — an extremely deadly substance with destructive potential comparable to the most powerful nuclear weapons in existence, a potential unleashed upon contact with any form of normal matter. And so a race against time ensues.

(3) The CERN logo is said by some alternative researchers to contain the Antichrist 666 emblem.

(4) The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989. Based on the concept of hypertext, the project was aimed at facilitating sharing information among researchers. The first website went on-line in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone. A copy of the original first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is kept here.

PSYOPS, Black Ops And Other Fairy Tales

Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) is the modern term for what used to be called propaganda. Its origins, certainly in modern English history, can be traced back to the 2^nd Boer War in 1899 and later to World War I when the British Government officially created the Ministry Of Information to control the spread of information during international conflicts. Of course, the use of propaganda per se stretches back to the most ancient records of human conflict and can be observed in the historical documents of early Persian and Roman military campaigns.

Rather fittingly, the word ‘propaganda’ originates from the Vatican. In 1422, Pope Gregory V founded a group called the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (Congregation for the Spreading of the Faith) tasked with the job of spreading Catholic doctrines as far and wide as possible. The group continues its work to this day, although it has undergone one or two marketing makeovers to make it appear more palatable to a modern international community.

It wasn’t until the end of World War I that the word ‘propaganda’ began to really take on negative connotations. People were beginning to understand that propaganda was not just a weapon that their government used against ‘the enemy’; it was something they frequently used against their own people. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Britain resurrected The Ministry Of Information (MOI) to once more regulate and manipulate news flow. It was while working for the MOI that a certain Mr. Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, was inspired to create the terrifying vision of the Ministry of Truth in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell had grown increasingly disillusioned with the MOI’s warped news coverage and eventually resigned in disgust. The fascist ideals and practices of a Britain that claimed to be open and democratic were to become a powerful theme in Orwell’s written works. In 1946, Orwell said, “Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Orwell had first-hand experience of how the news was routinely rewritten to align with official government fables. Ironically, we have since learned from official MI5 documents released in September 2007, that Orwell was himself the subject of regular surveillance by UK secret services for more than 13 years.

Through the bleak uncertainties of the early 1940’s, a small but increasingly literate portion of the population were beginning to question what was appearing in their newspapers and on their radios. Anyone who was fortunate enough to have had any formal education (not to be taken for granted at that time) was able to see, by way of basic reasoning and critical analysis, that the news was at best, prejudiced and inaccurate. Often, it was simply untrue. To combat this the government enforced news blackouts backed by ‘gag orders’ that legally restricted the publication of certain information. Violators of gag orders could be subject to imprisonment or even execution, should the infringement fall under the classification of a threat to national security. Rather a vague categorization in war time. Independent news blackouts are still commonly used today and were perhaps most plainly visible during The Gulf War in 1990. Often, major TV networks were only able to rebroadcast officially sanctioned US government footage of what was actually occurring in Iraq. According to a poll conducted by the University of Massachusetts/Amherst researchers, the responses of selected Denver residents suggested that “heavy TV watchers were more likely to support the war”. They were also less likely to be well informed about its causes and consequences. Put simply, researchers concluded that the more TV people watched, the less they knew. Consider that in the context of the official TV blanket coverage during and after the events of 11^th September 2001.

The WMD Fairy Tale

PSYOPS is designed to influence a target audience's emotional and behavioural impulses, so as to establish a desired response in line with the originator’s agenda. Depending on the scenario, it seeks to dehumanize, create bias or fantasy or propagate misinformation. It places fake images in the mind of the common man.

The best recent PSYOPS example is to be found in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Bush and Blair told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that could reach us. It was essential that our troops go in and stop the monstrous Saddam Hussein from using them. On further investigation, it turned out that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. Official UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix stated that the U.S. and British governments were dramatising the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in order to strengthen the case for the 2003 war against the regime of Saddam Hussein. Bush and Blair (and their cronies) knew there were no WMDs. They were lying to us. The government sought to persuade the people further by publishing a dossier (purportedly collated by the Joint Intelligence Committee) on WMDs. Renowned UK weapons expert Dr. David Kelly was asked to proofread the document. He found serious flaws in it and disputed several claims, particularly the infamous claim that Iraq was capable of deploying biological or chemical weapons within 45 minutes of an order to launch.

Following the ground invasion phase, Kelly was asked to join a UN inspection team tasked with finding evidence of WMDs or WMD programmes. Kelly was asked to view and photograph the two alleged “mobile weapons laboratories”. He was unhappy with the description of the trailers and later spoke off the record to The Observer newspaper, which quoted Kelly (anonymously at first) as having said, “They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were - facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons.”

Kelly had a secret meeting with BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan at a hotel in London. They agreed to talk on an unattributable basis, which allowed the BBC to report what was said, but not to identify the source. Kelly expressed his grave doubts over the dossier and the inclusion of the inflammatory “45 minute claim” which he attributed to Blair’s iniquitous Director Of Communications, Alastair Campbell. Gilligan later broadcast his report on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and it caused a deep political storm. Eventually, the Ministry Of Defence purposefully gave sufficient clues to journalists and media savvy pundits that Dr. Kelly was Gilligan’s source. Kelly was soon asked to appear before two investigative committees in the House Of Commons, one of them was publicly televised. He was aggressively and sometimes disrespectfully questioned by members of the committee.

On 17th July 2003, Kelly was working as usual from his home in Oxfordshire. Knowing that he’d been under tremendous pressure, Kelly had received many supportive e-mails from friends. One e-mail he sent that day was to New York Times journalist Judith Miller, who had used Kelly as a source in a book on bioterrorism, to whom Kelly mentioned “many dark actors playing games.” Later that day he told his wife that he was going for his daily walk. He did not come back. Dr. Kelly was found dead early the next morning in an area of woodland known as Harrowdown Hill, about a mile from his home. He had allegedly ingested a large amount of painkillers and cut his left wrist.

Perhaps because Kelly had previously worked closely with MI6 (SIS), the UK government thought he would follow the party line. He didn’t, so they killed him. The disgraceful sham investigation that later followed – The Hutton Inquiry – delivered a verdict of suicide. Case closed.

Evidence uncovered in late 2007 casts serious doubt on the verdict of suicide. Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is writing a book on Kelly, revealed (via the Freedom of Information Act) that the penknife Dr Kelly apparently used to slash his wrist did not carry his own fingerprints. Baker said: "The angle you pick up a knife to kill yourself means there would be fingerprints. Someone who wanted to kill themselves wouldn't go to the lengths of wiping the knife clean of fingerprints. It is just very suspicious. It is one of the things that makes me think Dr Kelly was murdered. The case should be re-opened."

Independent doctors have said neither the cut to Dr Kelly's wrist nor the drugs found in his body were enough to kill him. They claimed the official cause of death, a severed ulnar artery in the wrist, was extremely unlikely to be fatal. It just didn't add up. Dr. Kelly's family and friends insist he had shown no sign of feeling suicidal. Emails and the minutes of meetings he attended also showed him behaving perfectly normally - and he was looking forward to his daughter's wedding.

Some have a far broader perspective. Former IRA member Danny Morrison wrote in The Guardian, “Although in the Belfast high court (Lord) Hutton occasionally acquitted republicans and dismissed the appeals of soldiers, nationalists generally considered him a hanging judge and the guardian angel of soldiers and police officers. I was amused at the response of sections of the media and British public [to Hutton's exonerating the Blair government]. Do they know anything about how the establishment works?”

Winston Churchill And The Order Of Druids

No it’s not a new Harry Potter book. During World War II, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was setup to be an iconic patriot and a man of steel and honour. Despite diverse and consistent criticism, Churchill was stage managed into a father figure for the largely uneducated rabble. He was the face of victory and English pride on the 8^th May 1945 as we waved his cigar to massive crowds gathered at Whitehall to celebrate the end of the war. Even in 2002, the BBC polled over 1.6 million morons to find the Greatest Briton Of All Time – Winston Churchill was the man at the top of the list. A PSYOPS triumph that has stood the test of time.

Little was made of Churchill’s membership of the Freemasons and The Ancient Order Of Druids. Involvement in secret and occult groups was not part of the marketing plan. Even less was said of his well known disregard for the common man. Churchill rejected Hitler's proposal to spare civilian targets. Instead, he goaded Hitler into bombing London by hitting Berlin and other civilian targets first. Hitler was said to be anxious to reach an agreement with Britain that confined military bombardment from aircraft to battle zones only. What followed were equal horrors of British and German bombing campaigns in which tens of thousands of non-military personnel perished. In September 1940, after visiting the first ruined houses and the people standing on piles of bricks, Churchill commented, “They cheered me as if I'd given them victory, instead of getting their houses bombed to bits.” From the 13^th – 15^th February 1945, allied forces dropped 3900 tons of high explosives on Dresden, killing up to 40,000 civilians. Though the British claimed Dresden was a legitimate military target, critics have since argued that the city did not have a military garrison, most of the industry was in the outskirts (and not in the targeted city centre), and that the enormous cultural significance of the city should have precluded the Allies from bombing it. Ultimate responsibility for the British part of the attack lay with Churchill. German historian Jörg Friedrich claims that, “Winston Churchill's decision to [area] bomb a shattered Germany between January and May 1945 was a war crime.” British philosopher A. C. Grayling has described this kind of British area bombardment as an “immoral act” and “moral crime” because “destroying everything contravenes every moral and humanitarian principle debated in connection with the just conduct of war.” Günter Grass, a German novelist and 1999 Nobel prize winner, called the bombing of Dresden a war crime.

It is unthinkable that a man who could conceivably commit a war crime would later be dubbed the Greatest Briton Of All Time. The only answer is PSYOPS. Brainwashing. Churchill ain’t who we thought he was.

Black Ops & False Flags

Black Ops (Black Operations) are covert missions that usually fall into the ‘deniability’ category, where governments will not claim responsibility for the actions. Secret wars, drug running, assassinations, experimental weapons programmes etc. False Flag operations are used when governments fund, set-up, and execute their own covert terror operations and blame scapegoat nations or “alleged” terror groups like Al Qaeda. This also has the agreeable knock-on effect of mustering support for further military operations. Both these tactics are commonly used where international legality and ethical considerations are questionable. Consequently, funding for Black Ops and False Flag events is always “off the books”.

Black Ops and False Flag tactics go hand in hand with PSYOPS. Well documented modern examples include:-

• The burning down of the German Parliament (Reichstag) building
• Prior knowledge that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor
• The Gulf Of Tonkin incident
• Operation Northwoods - a US government plan to stage the assassination of civilians and blame it on Communist Cuba
• CIA drug running in Nicaragua
• Al Qaeda created by CIA
• Bombing of the Israeli embassy in London
• Phony Al Qaeda Cell (Mossad) in Palestine
• 911
  

Black Ops also encompass regular covert assassinations of troublemakers, quite regardless of nationality or political affiliation. Some are more obvious than others: Gandhi, JFK, Che Guevara, Princess Diana, Dr. David Kelly, Robin Cook MP, Benazir Bhutto. Remember, False Flag tactics are as viable with individual assassinations as they are with bombings or military campaigns. Often, a plausible scapegoat/patsy is essential for a successful high profile assassination. In recent times, apparent suicides, car accidents and heart attacks are more the MO of Black Ops teams rather than old fashioned shootings. And these things go on all the time. That’s what CIA, MI6 (SIS) and Mossad (Israeli intelligence) are for. What our politicians tell us about National Security is a smokescreen. Most wars are straight power grabs. Illegal invasions for mass resource domination and financial profit. Though PSYOPS will always tell the people the correct way to think about these things.

This is most absurdly palpable each time we see PSYOPS name an actual military operation. In modern US warfare for example, I cringe (as do a billion others) each time a new campaign name is unveiled: Operation Valiant Strike, Operation Provide Comfort, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Uphold Democracy and, most insultingly of all - Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sad but true. And should we wonder at the sheer transparency of these brainless lunges to divert our attention from the truth, let us remember the words of that master of mass hypnosis, and archetypal bad guy - Adolf Hitler, “All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”

You can detect PSYOPS methods after a little while. When Home Secretary Jacqui Smith starts spouting off about the increasing terror threats and plots against the country – I know she is being primed (knowingly or unknowingly), playing her part to pass on the be afraid meme so new anti-freedom laws can be rushed in. Fake reality. Fake news.

To end, let us absorb the words of one intelligent and authentic human being, Bill Hicks. “I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in.”

What Lies Beneath: Is Belief A Big Con?

Belief is a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Philosophers have wrangled with it for millennia, yet it remains a deeply enigmatic phenomenon. Belief is woven into our culture, religion, politics, education and language. We are taught to believe in things. Believe in God. Believe in a worthwhile cause. Believe in the American way of life. Believe in freedom. Believe in Santa Claus. Believe in life after death. Whatever we decide to turn our attention to, believing in something is better than believing in nothing. Or is it?

It is useful to consider belief as a psychological condition rather than a philosophical standpoint. Belief is often perceived as the forerunner to knowledge; knowledge being classified as proven, true belief. Though the concept of criteria for truth seems vaguely preposterous to me. Belief is a propositional idea, a suggestion, a work of conjecture. It is at best a working model. Though this does not dilute the potency of belief in any way. On the contrary, belief is a blade that sculpts wood as readily as it cuts throats. Is the wielder of a belief as responsible for its use as the originator of the belief?

Challenging Beli