Tulsi Gabbard, Hare Krisna, and UFO Cults, Part 1
Epstein and the MOBS Globalist Network State, Part 2
"Poets, priests and politicians have words to thank for their positions." -Sting, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
The length of this article broke Substack, so I’m having to break it into pieces. At the outset of this project, I did not imagine exceeding 38,000 words, but here we are.
Readers can check out past RTE articles and interviews here (under construction).
You are being sold two competing psyops around Tulsi Gabbard, not one. That’s how Mindwar works these days. Fixing that is going to take some work, but it’s worth it. Let’s begin with a timeline.
May 20, 2026 - Jon Swaine alerted Tulsi Gabbard and her staff of the WaPo investigation into the “cult” she has been involved in since birth. He gave her until 5 PM ET on May 22 to comment on the investigation.
May 22, 2026, at 1:15 PM ET, Tulsi Gabbard announced that she was resigning her post to support her husband as he battles a rare form of bone cancer.
June 12, 2026 at 4:53 PM ET, Tulsi Gabbard reveals “declassified” files, most of which had been in the public domain for several years, vaguely declaring that U.S. funded gain-of-function research “sparked COVID”, pointing to Dr. Anthony Fauci and others for covering it all up.
June 18-19, 2026, The “Fauci Files” regarding COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and allegations against Dr. Fauci are released to the public.
Understand that I do not mean to imply that Gabbard dropped a bomb (that wasn’t a reveal so much as a tribal discussion bomb) in order to shift attention away from her cult. I believe both sides of the controversy are scripted to shift attention away from something far larger. Gabbard could have mentioned the simple chain of connection from EcoHealth Alliance to Nathan Wolfe (Metabiota) to Jeffrey Epstein, but she did not. I have been nearly alone for the past several years trying to get people to recognize all the Epstein-Pandemic connections. Even worse, Gabbard did nothing to stop the shredding of USAID files last year. Wolfe was part of the USAID PREDICT project that suspiciously focused the world’s attention on bat-native coronaviruses. Wolfe was also central to Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar Project that elevated her to a leadership position at the United Nations.
I am sure that most RTE readers are aware of the recent WaPo article investigating the Hare Krishna cult from which the construct known as Tulsi Gabbard sprang. It’s a good investigation, but the author does nothing to connect it to the globalist machinery necessary to understand the bigger picture. It is necessary for me to write this article before finishing the one in which I explain the connection from here to Jeffrey Epstein and the Stargate Project.
This is all about the Stargate Project.
It might also be about organized crime, systemic child abuse, and political corruption at scale. Just a little bit. We’ll get to that.
Much of my motivation for this article was the combination of the WaPo article and Tulsi’s shock on-the-way-out announcement that the “Gain-of-Function” (GoF) narrative regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2 was true all along. There were many in my social media feeds who seem to take the approach, “See, their side’s politicians lied and pushed a false narrative, so this alt-narrative must be true,” with no further rigor. They further dismiss the WaPo article, saying that it must be “proof that she is over the target.” It is shocking that there are so many adults who do not recognize such “logic” as the very definition of sophistry. Not A does not imply B.
But before I can lay down the foundations of a larger article explaining the motivation and reasoning behind multiple competing false narratives, it is worthwhile to lay out the history of the quasi-religion and organizational structure surrounding Tulsi Gabbard. This will help many people tilt their heads, and maybe recognize what an actress/avatar looks like. Maybe some of the “woo life is the good life” folks will come to some understanding as to how studying history can help people avoid some extremely serious pitfalls.
Forgive the several thousand words of explanation of the evolution of religions in this article. They’re crucial. Nobody can understand the endgame without understanding the evolution of the system.
For those who are averse to “Freemasonic conspiracy theory”, hold that thought-terminating cliche. It’s all about the British Empire and it’s about globalization. The central fraternity is just a recruitment cult for talented people, some of whom can be recognized as psychopathic, others steered into sociopathy, and some naively strung along, elevated by the social circles and dazzled by the pageantry. Whether you think the enemy is capitalism, corporatism, occult organizations, socialism, communism, or something else, you’re probably mostly right, but you might want to consider that these are all just images pushed through the same prism, designed to create cults that can be steered by the Empire in separate wings of Plato’s cave. The Empire is a network state that will put on whatever policy mask suits its stakeholders at whatever time and place they deem useful.
Murder, Drugs, and Child Rape in Shangri-La
“Although rape is not legally allowed, it is a fact that a woman likes a man who is very expert at rape.” -A.C. Bhaktivedanata Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON (Hare Krishnas), Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Canto 4, Chapter 25, Verse 41)
On November 13, 1987, James Edward Immel aka Jayatirtha dasa, was murdered in London by John Tiernan, one of his former disciples. Tiernan had previously believed that Immel was Jesus, but had come to believe that Immel was a demon. On the day of Immel’s 39th birthday, Tiernan approached Immel inside a crowded commercial shop during daylight business hours and stabbed Immel numerous times until Immel was dead or incapacitated. Tiernan then proceeded to cut off Immel’s head, which he placed into a carrier bag. He then calmly carried the bag past stunned patrons and out of the shop with Immel’s decapitated body collapsed on the shop floor.
Immel had been a hand-picked disciple of Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), also popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. Immel turned ISKCON’s incense business into a highly profitable enterprise. Immel had been chosen by ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) to lead ISKCON’s European operations from London where for several years he lived in Bhaktivedanta Manor, gifted to ISKCON by Beatles legend George Harrison.
While ISKCON supposedly strictly forbade drug use, a great deal of money flowed into the organization from drug trafficking. Immel, who began living a life of luxury with fine clothes and Rolex watches, began both manufacturing and using LSD often. It is unclear how much he might have been selling. He led close followers to also use the drug, telling them that it would accelerate their spiritual journeys. While Immel was not the only Hare Krishna leader to veer into drugs, his highly visible departure from ISKCON community orthodoxy led to his excommunication in 1982. At that time, he simply moved out of Bhaktivedanta Manor, taking some of his devotees with him to form a breakaway “spiritual” group. Five years later, one of them left his headless body in a pool of his own blood.
Is this the tale of a religious organization gone wrong? Of a few bad apples running afoul from a system meant to bring joy and harmony, as so many tellings of the story would have it?
Across the Atlantic in the U.S. during the same year, Frederick DeFrancisco aka Sri Galima was being convicted of child sexual molestation. DeFrancisco managed an off-the-grid boarding school for children of ISKCON devotees whose time was spent seeking donations for ISKCON, and doing other work for the organization, like chanting and spreading the message of Krishna consciousness. He would sneak into the sleeping bags of boys at night and perform oral sex on them.
While barely reported in the U.S. press, DeFrancisco was one of many workers accused or convicted of raping children in the at least 13 boarding schools ISKCON ran in the U.S. and India. All manner of other abuses were reported as well. Children were forced to wake up at hours as early as 3 AM for cold showers. Many were severely beaten or forced to eat their own vomit. Some boys were anally raped, often in front of the other children and staff of the schools. This went on for years until, after so many instances of abuse were reported, the schools were all shut down in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Somehow, ISKCON is still allowed to run legally accredited day-only schools and kindergartens.
One of the child rapists involved at ISKCON at a high level—a hand-picked disciple of Prabhupada, was Keithe Ham aka Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada. Ham co-founded the New Vrindaban ISKCON community in West Virginia where many Hare Krishna devotees lived in poverty—often in run down trailers or out of abandoned cars, while their leadership lived in luxury. New Vrindabad was built into a superficial Shangri-La, complete with a circus elephant and plans for a theme park.
In 1990, the federal government indicted Ham on five counts of racketeering, six counts of mail fraud, and conspiracy to murder two Hare Krishna dissidents were blackmailed him over his active pedophilia. In March 1991, Ham was convicted on 9 of the 11 counts, but was deadlocked over the murder charges. Following the conviction, lawyer and Jeffrey Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz took over Ham’s appeal arguing that the trial had been fundamentally unfair on account of the prosecution’s heavy introduction of Ham’s homosexuality and child sexual molestation over which Ham was not being charged. Dershowitz argued that painting his client in this way unduly prejudiced the jury. In 1993, the Court of Appeals threw out Ham’s conviction, allowing for his release. Facing federal retrial in 1996, Ham entered into a plea bargain, pleading guilty to one count of racketeering.
After serving eight years in a federal correctional facility in North Carolina, Ham was released. Now excommunicated from the ISKCON community, he began a ministry, still calling himself “swami”, leading a small splinter group known as the Interfaith League of Devotees. In the disturbing words of one devotee of the child rapist,
‘’It’s like having your father back,’‘ said a woman who gave her name as Eternal Love during a recent prayer session in the building’s second-floor temple.
Eternal Love. Huh.
In 2008, Ham relocated to India where he died at the age of 74 in 2011.
In Sanskrit, gurukula means “family of the guru”, and in 1972, Prabhupada began organizing the so-called gurukula educational system for his followers who viewed him as something like an infallible friendly old man helping them achieve spiritual somethingorother. Hare Krishna devotees even trusted him to take their children from him and send them to where they could be homeschooled or “otherly schooled” and supposedly be brought up in the pureness of Krishna consciousness, away from the impurities of the material world, from the start. Those parents went into the system eyes wide shut.
Is this the case of a humble old ascetic whose good intentions were taken advantage of either independently or in concert by a large network of sexual predators? Or is there something else to the story?
What if I told you that Swami Prabhupada was not a poor man born into the study of Hinduism? What if I told you that Prabhupada was born into a wealthy family that was part of an elite and wealthy globalist network, the beginnings of which date back several centuries, and that he hobnobbed with the elites including the first Prime Minister of India right up until his arrival at Boston Harbor in 1966?
Your immediate reaction might be to doubt the claim. Were this the case, why has nobody ever talked about it? If this were the case, why didn’t even the 2025 documentary Monkey on a Stick, detailing many of the shocking crimes that took place among the Hare Krishnas, bother to explain it?
Proxy trust placed in mass media is a wicked thing. It’s a one-to-many system much like malignant guruism. It’s the basis of Plato’s allegory of the cave. We’re going to have to step through many rooms of and then out of the cave to begin assembling the pieces of this story.
What the WaPo Article Told Us
“It’s a trap!” -Admiral Achbar
The recent shock piece published by the Enquirer-plus political wing of the Washington Post is a master class in propaganda, just not the way the MAGA wing of the Republican Party wants to think of it. Or the anti-Tulsi left wing for that matter.
The imagery is clear: [Former] U.S. Director of National Intelligence is the puppet of her guru-dev Chris Butler, who leads the mysterious Science of Identity Foundation (SIF).
All quotes and pictures in this section are direct from the above article.
Understand that the author of such a piece, Jon Swaine in this case, does not even need to understand the larger game. We may never know what orders he and his team took, or what directions they were given along the way. We cannot even know whether his primary sources of leaks were themselves managed, though I have a pretty idea.
But we can make use of this propaganda like so many documentaries that share some facts, while leaving others occulted. The WaPo piece begins with the introduction of Rebecca Saltzburg, a devotee of the mysterious SIF group that professes to follow the path of “Krishna consciousness”, praising Tulsi Gabbard as a freethinker. Over the course of the story, and mirroring the public image of Tulsi over the past two decades, Saltzburg will embark on a journey out of blind devotion, and into the light.
The meta-story is already so English canon.
Some former members, however, have called the group a cult and said disciples were isolated from the outside world, characterizations the group has denied. Former devotees had been telling me for weeks that Butler controlled his followers’ major life decisions and demanded total obedience and secrecy. They said he spent years working to extend his reach into politics — and they suspected Gabbard’s rise in Washington was the culmination of that effort.
Ultimately, this begins with the “basic [media] bitch” story with little depth to it that makes the rounds every few years. Partisans bicker over it, then not a soul digs any deeper. This serves to help get used to ignoring any report that Tulsi might never have experienced life outside of a cult. Most of the time, partisan mind control really is that simple.
Saltzburg is portrayed as going from denying that SIF is particularly important with, “I don’t even really see it as a real group,” to having a change of heart, then going on a secret mission to reveal all to the media source she herself had reached out to in the first place. And you can trust her come to Jesus moment because the WaPo gave us a still photo of her in the sort of dimly lit minimalist room where a person might mourn in isolation over their part in a cult that puppeteered politicians, is connected to an organized business ring accused of forced abductions and Ponzi schemes in over a dozen nations, a host of other scandals, and maybe raped some kids.
Saltzburg tells her eager media contact that she is sharing information specifically from the NineIsles.com domain that SIF. While the article doesn’t break down what “Nine Isles” might mean, Chekhov’s gun demands that we pay it attention. Later in the article,
Digging around more, I learned that “Nine Islands” in Hindi is Navadvipa, a city in India’s West Bengal region that serves as a pilgrimage site for Hare Krishna devotees. It was intriguing, and it made me wonder whether SIF and perhaps Butler were more deeply involved in Gabbard’s political life than was publicly known.
But I had reached a dead end — until Saltzburg got back in touch in August 2025 to air her concerns about SIF.
Few readers will catch this bit of BS in the moment. The first paragraph is weirdly disjointed (”trivia fact…I wanted to know more about Butler”), and this whole part does nothing to move the story along. Interpreting this moment requires a combination of historical context and understanding how intelligence operations work through the newspapers (or whatever we now call them).
One thing to understand is that there have been extremely few Hindi speakers following Gaudiya Vaishnavism, ever. This particular sect was largely confined to Bengal, and a related version of Vaishnavism in Manipur. Relatively speaking, there are very few Hindi speakers in either of these places. Secondly, there is no city of Navadvipa. I’m sure that there are WaPo readers already humiliating themselves at cocktail parties discussing the sacred city of Navadvipa, but the joke is on them.
There is a city in West Bengal known as Nabadwip, which translates to “New island”, not “Nine islands”. You only get to Navadvipa after translating back and forth between languages, and Nabadwip is at most one island. And I say “at most” because Nabadwip is not an island. It sits next to a river bank where several centuries ago, enough silt was deposited on it to form a small island on which strategic buildings could be constructed. But the water shifted again and now it’s just land again.
There is a supposedly 17th century text known as Bhakti-ratnakara that imposed the idea that Nabadwip, where the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnava Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in 1486, was part of a spiritually connected group of nine such islands, not all of which are still islands. The text is among a highly suspicious set of texts, nearly all of which have been disputed, that are held by the Asiatic Society. The Asiatic Society was co-founded by Sir William Jones and several Freemasons at a lodge in Calcutta, and funded by agents of the British East India Company (EIC), a connection we will discuss more later in this article. While Jones was probably an honest academic, many of those involved in the Asiatic Society shared intentions with the British Empire over how to manipulate religion in India.
If the provenance of the history behind Nabadwip were not already bad enough, understand that it is only known as Mahaprabu’s birthplace because a highly suspicious aristocrat wrote that his own guru saw the truth of it in a spiritual vision. But there is no evidence outside the claim of an aristocrat and his son, who took over the sect, that this supposed mystical guru was anything other than a bum they photographed and talked to at a temple.
It was only after Freemasons began fiddling with Gaudiya Vaishnavism, which I will discuss later in detail, that “nine islands” began to be used as a reference that is primarily used today as an “outsider’s name” used almost nowhere in India outside of the Gaudiya Vaishnava temples that largely serves as tourist traps for ignorant Hare Krishnas from the West. It’s the Sanskrit equivalent of the girl who goes to the tattoo parlor where she gets a tattoo in Mandarin calligraphy that says, “Stupid white bitch”. The prank would be hilarious were it not connected to what turns out to be a large criminal enterprise. But is that prank the reason why “nine islands” would be meaningful enough for the SIF to use it as a domain name?
Historically, the “nine isles” most commonly refers to the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Azores were used by seafaring cultures such as the Phoenicians and even the Vikings. Portugal was itself founded by the occultic Knights Templar. It was the Portuguese who first established direct sea trade between modern Europe and India in 1505, then began acting as the dominant maritime mafia of South Asia for around a century.
During the 19th century, French naturalist Bory de Saint-Vincent proposed that Plato’s Atlantis was located where the Azores still peak above the seas. This notion was later spread during the 20th century by American politician Ignatius Donnelly (so named for Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola). Donnelly was a popular populist figure who railed against the corruption of his opponents, but was found to have been taking large amounts of money from the railroad barons. Called the “American Prince of Cranks”, Donnelly wrote a book ascribing Shakespeare to Sir Francis Bacon (for which there is a great deal of quality evidence) using an invented cryptological cipher that was easily debunked. And, of course, it was Bacon’s work, New Atlantis, that sparked the notion of the West establishing its MOBS empire as the Atlantic Empire.
The best way to bury a true story really is to invent a corny and easily debunked conspiracy theory around it. Too few people have understood that this was the whole point of QAnon.
Are we being told in cipher that there is a con to divert us from another con? And is that other con simply that the globalists who took over India shoved their hands up India’s Prabhupada as a method for helping take over the rest of the world? Is this a wink to a network to let them all know, “It’s all theater, move along.”
Back to the WaPo article.
Saltzburg suggested that most of the NineIsles emails, channeled through gmail, had probably been deleted years prior.
Hello? Google help desk, can you drum up some old emails as a matter of national security? Are we going to have to find another backup server in a bathroom?
The emails Saltzburg shared suggest a shadowy man making commentary on Tulsi’s entire political career as the sort of coaching one would expect from somebody who studied “negging“ from the Bible of the Cult of Pickup Artistry.
“In the first place, nobody gives a shit what you think about his State of the Union speech, unless you’re going to say something of interest,” the memo quoted someone as saying. “You’re not even trying. You’ve become really intellectually lazy.”
Mind Chekhov’s gun, lazy bitch. Now go chant “Hare Krishna” forty times, then make me a vegetarian sandwich.
Here is a bit of meat from the article,
An Oct. 12, 2015, memo labeled “CNN Wolf Blitzer Talking points (Final)” contained this language about reports that she had been asked by Democratic leadership not to attend a presidential debate: “It’s not a ‘boohoo, I don’t get to go to the party’ situation, Wolf.” I dug up the clip of her appearance that day and found that she had used the line almost verbatim: “The issue here is not about me saying boo-hoo, I’m going to miss the party.”
From this and a few other snippets, we can see that Tulsi is well-coached by somebody who has quality training in manipulating crowds. Butler might fit that bill. But where there is one SIF, there are usually two, so I’ve been told.
Gabbard’s career trajectory has taken her from socially conservative Democrat to progressive darling, Bernie Sanders ally and presidential hopeful, and then to Fox News contributor, MAGA Republican and, eventually, Trump’s top intelligence official, a role that granted her access to some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.
This is a point where we should stop and understand that Trump derangement syndrome cuts both ways. The MAGA crowd believes that Tulsi moved over to their side largely because the left went insane over identity politics, a fact that I have unfortunately felt in my personal life (again and again and again). The Never Trump crowd simply takes the WaPo’s pat on the head, self-reinforcing their own partisan lens, forgetting that she was supposed to be a Russian agent. Neither side digs deep, but simply goes back to the well to satiate themselves.
What will we find when we dig deep? A controlling cult with ISKCON echoes of child abuse hidden for political purposes? Or will we find something so horrible that people make it invisible to themselves, afraid of it and afraid of their part in creating it? Can this story, handled properly, give us some real glimpse into the deep state that the larger portions of the electorate of both the right and the left believe they’re trying to stop?
As the Religion of Cool dictates, a politician who plays the guitar, played a sport at a high level, or surfs couldn’t possibly lie to you like all the other politicians do. Right? Emphasis mine:
Butler, 78, once reportedly said he did not tell Gabbard how to vote in Congress. For politicians, he told the New Yorker in 2017, taking a position on an issue “is something that every individual has to deal with on their own.”
Gabbard, 45, was asked by one of my Washington Post colleagues in 2019 whether Butler had mentored her politically. Her answer was emphatic: “No, no, not at all.”
Either way, I thought, the documents suggested that someone had been telling Gabbard what to do. And at least in the few cases I had looked at, she appeared to have done it.
A great deal of the article is devoted to further stories that make it sound as if Butler has been driving many of his followers toward politics for many years. We should also understand that Tulsi has referred to Butler as her “guru dev”, and what this arrangement means. In the guru-shishya or guru-dev traditions, the relationship is one of complete surrender and strict obedience. And Butler is the sort of character who reputedly demands obedience. His followers have told stories about abuse being hurled at those who do not prostrate themselves before him. Some of his flock jockey for position to wear his castoff clothes, eat his leftovers, and even eat his toenail clippings. Complaints about Butler to the Cult Education Institute include that disciples wear respirator masks in his presence. One has stated that she had to think about how her every action benefitted Butler.
Without discussing whether the guru-dev relationship is a generally good or bad thing, structurally speaking, there is clearly a high potential for abuse in the relationship. Even worse, the tradition relies on something called Parampara, which is the spiritual succession from guru to disciple. The legitimacy this lends to a several-thousand-year tradition where each link in the chain must obediently follow the orders passed through the previous link. These orders may clash with, for instance, the U.S. Constitution, and the devotee who sides with the Constitution has acted against their religion. Relevant from the WaPo article,
The son of a radical left-wing physician, Butler began teaching Krishnaism and meditation after dropping out of the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s. Tall, lean and charismatic, he attracted devoted followers who believed that he was in direct communication with Krishna. In 1970, two devotees told a reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser that they would do anything Butler asked, including kill themselves.
I actually believe that this specific clash between Hinduism and the U.S. The Constitution is part of the point, but in a way that almost no Americans or even Hindus recognize. We will get to that later in this article.
We will also later discuss whether the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition follows a several century old lineage as claimed, or whether some wealthy elites drummed up a basically extinct sect to mold to its liking, creating a new chain of orders that could be weaponized. Again, from WaPo,
I found Butler had said in a 1975 pamphlet that “inept politicians should be removed from their seats.” He suggested they be replaced by what he called “saintly persons.”
The following year, a new political party, Independents for Godly Government, sprung up in Hawaii with 14 candidates for federal, state and local offices, records show. IGG claimed to be nonsectarian.
None of the IGG candidates won their elections. Afterward, an investigation by the Advertiser concluded that several were Butler followers, and all were Krishna devotees.
Later in the article, we get this:
I spoke with a family member of one of the candidates who had run for Independents for Godly Government in 1976. She said she feared retribution from SIF and agreed to talk with me as long as I didn’t publish her name. She told me that Butler had advised the IGG candidates while working to hide his connections to them, and that he avoided written communications, instead using intermediaries to deliver his campaign advice. She said Butler was obsessed with politics.
He wanted, she said, “to rule the world.”
The WaPo article then spends several paragraphs explaining how author Swaine flew to Hawaii to see if he could talk to several people in Butler’s SIF circle, but nobody would speak with him either on the phone or in person. But one of them did play the victim card on Twitter:
Here is another piece of the WaPo article I found interesting within the context of other research,
One frequent recipient was Allison Hoen. Saltzburg told me Hoen was the college friend with whom she had moved to Hawaii in the 1990s and was, in the years the emails were sent, Butler’s top aide. Hoen was also married during that period to Khemaney, court records show.
The inner circle of SIF contains a lot of marriages, with Tulsi’s parents seemingly the only one that existed prior SIF’s formation. This includes both of Tulsi’s marriages, her sister’s marriage, and Butler’s own marriage. This is a highly insular group.
Syria was the subject of many of the memos, including one from August 2016 that documented tactical advice on one of Gabbard’s signature policies: preventing the United States from ousting then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
The memo quoted an unnamed adviser saying she should reiterate her opposition to U.S. intervention in Syria’s civil war, even as a shocking image of a wounded 5-year-old made headlines. “The CIA is the one that started this thing,” the person said. Gabbard made that claim publicly three years later.
As I examined the document, eight months after Gabbard’s confirmation as director of national intelligence, I found it striking that such deep suspicion of U.S. intelligence appeared to have been fed to someone who would later coordinate the CIA, the National Security Agency and more than a dozen similar agencies.
Simple hypothesis: Tulsi’s opposition to Syria was simply political tactics. This is consistent with the fact that this national intelligence community did jack and squat to reveal a fraction of what I will reveal by the end of this article.
The WaPo article goes on for several more paragraphs about emails where Tulsi is fed clever one-liners for interviews, and otherwise given instruction. But this one struck me,
The memos reflected exacting judgment of Gabbard’s performances. The same unnamed speaker who vented about the “eye thing” also criticized her for seeming insincere, according to the transcript of those remarks. “It’s like she’s trying to express something, artificially. I don’t feel anything from her,” the speaker complained. “It’s more like kind of remembering talking points.”
This level of coaching is very Scientology, and I have always felt that the OT progression of Scientology was set up to train illusionists who weren’t born psychopaths. As I discuss later, ISKCON and Scientology were born from the same international fraternity.
After the Fox interview, Hoen emailed Gabbard a suggested apology to the host, Greta Van Susteren. “I’m sorry I didn’t fully explain why the situation on the ground right now in Iraq is not the best time and place to strike ISIS,” it said. The subject line read, “pls check and send if ok.” It’s not clear from the documents whether Gabbard sent the apology. Van Susteren told me she had no recollection of it.
That’s Scientologist Greta Van Susteren, whose Scientologist husband Trump selected as ambassador to Ukraine.
A little later, the WaPo article goes on to describe SIF-organized social media blitzing. Such coordinated social media activity is something that can serve to encourage a crowd, as a sort of Asch conformity primer, or gangstalk people, as in this video of a child sex abuse survivor of Osho’s (Rajneesh’s) cult.
The WaPo article goes on to further describe discussions within the NineIsles emails about using “idiot talk” to hide the fact that the accounts used for social media blitzing were controlled within a small cadre.
The WaPo article goes on to describe how Gabbard’s office or SIF use “Hinduphobia” as a defense, something I can’t imagine anyone taking particularly seriously outside of the local scope of Indo-Pak politics. In fact, I’m basically stunned that more isn’t done to educate the public about the differences between the Vedic religions and whatever one might defend as Hare Krishnaism.
The WaPo article also discusses a case of “physical and sexual abuse” of a teenage runaway that is painted as part of Saltzburg’s motivation for coming clean. Saltzburg apparently took the child in as a protector, and was accused of trying to extort SIF for $250,000. But the story sits in the article as a “he-said, she-said” scenario that could leave all readers hunkering down to protect their biases. Where is the investigation into who might have abused the child, and how it relates to SIF group dynamics? This is after all an organization that splintered from the larger ISKCON that involved industrial scale abuse of children.
As the article winds down, we get a few additional paragraphs that make it hard not to see Tulsi as a political puppet.
In 2014, Hoen emailed Gabbard a statement for posting online that said Gabbard made every decision through the prism of “the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.” She repeated that phrase in the first paragraph of her 2024 memoir, and after she was nominated by Trump, Gabbard made it her mantra, using it in her Senate confirmation hearing, her inaugural statement as DNI, her presentation of this year’s annual threat assessment and many other occasions.
Repetition. Mantras. In service to an image that many also outside of SIF seemed happy to play along with over the years.
But why?
The Corporate Origins of Freemasonry
Technically, we cannot know the true origin story of Freemasonry without somehow piercing the occult curtain. There is speculation that Freemasonry grew out of the underground remains of the Knights Templar, an organization that might be considered the original Military Occult Banking Syndicate (MOBS). What we can know is the recorded history which, even as my still-evolving mind map demonstrates, Freemasonry began to gain steam in 17th century England, then was quickly spread throughout the world by the British East India Company (EIC), primarily during the 18th century.
Religion and writing have gone hand-in-hand since the dawn of writing in Mesopotamia, if not sooner than we currently know for certain. It was the rapidly expanding literacy of Lutherans in Germany, for instance, that partially inspired Frederick the Great to push Lutherans into Prussian schools where he could control what Lutheran children were learning with their newly acquired reading skills. Ancient armies typically required swords at every back. European leaders figured out that a childhood dose of abuse and mind control at school, plus a dose of appearance of aligned incentives, works far better.
Going back a few centuries, further west in Scotland, one of the most underdiscussed revolutions of religion and writing took place. Known as the Davidian Revolution, this period produced a new class of aggressively literate Scotsmen. In turn these increasingly educated and technologically talented Scotsmen began organizing as the world’s first Freemasons. Kilwinning Abbey was established in 1140, and there we can find Lodge 0. The “guns, germs, and steel” of that era were “castles, cavalry, and writing,” and the new literacy flowed through not simply the Crown, the aristocratic class, and the churches, but in a way perhaps unique to human history, the new Masonic technological class as well. This is the root of the Scottish Enlightenment.
A short distance away in 1162, the Templars began the reshaping of the “square mile” known as the City of London. A near facsimile of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Temple of Solomon were erected. Today, the City of London is the global center for international currency transactions and money laundering for criminal networks. This is where the rails of a planned tokenized economy are being constructed. It is commonly whispered that this is also the world’s most dense gathering of captive child prostitutes.
The City of London operates independently of the Crown due to a centuries-long process of incorporation that began with the Norman Conquest of 1067, furthered by the Magna Carta of 1215, and cemented by the chartering of the EIC in 1600. It is the world’s oldest corporation, unless, by some chance, the Templars themselves might qualify. When history is occulted, such trivia becomes obscure.
The British Empire aimed to take over the world, and bootstrap it into what was eventually conceptualized as a cybernetic system. This is what is usually referred to as globalization. Their plan involved a combination of superior technology (particularly with respect to ocean travel), a strong and distributed banking network, spycraft, and social engineering. Social engineering takes many forms, but religious manipulation has always been the most potent at scale. And the more religions there are, the more levers the Empire has to turn them on one another in an endless series of culture wars.
The strongest empire uses its tools both on its own people, and the peoples it prepares to absorb. Remember that as we move forward.
The Freemasonic Globalist Alien Religions
As the EIC became the engine of globalization, it spread Masonic lodges quickly to India, China, Indonesia, as well as to the Americas. Hat tip to Robert Frederick for turning me on to this book by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, which tells the story quite well:
The case in India is most interesting. Though not without external conflicts, India managed to remain free of most of the more devastating wars of imperial rivalry that scarred Eurasia and North Africa for thousands of years. The era of Mughal Peace (1556-1707) initially boosted the wealth of India to a point that it was almost certainly the most wealthy region of the world (measured in gems and precious metals) by the late 1600s. At that time, the paranoid Mughal ruler Emperor Aurangzeb murdered his brothers (rivals to the throne). Upon taking control of the South Asian empire, he began a campaign to Islamify South Asia. Aurangzeb’s army destroyed Vedic and Buddhist temples, murdered many who refused conversion, and excessively taxed non-Muslims. The result was that the thriving ports of the Indian coast lost their trade dominance. Aurangzeb’s reign was a master class in how to destroy your own empire [for idiots].
When you’re done reading this article, you may have enough information to look back to this point in the story and wonder, “Who whispered what in Aurangzeb’s ear?” The mind control game is real, and it’s front and center throughout history, even when it isn’t written that way. Perhaps that is always empire’s recursive exclamation point.
During the time of Aurangzeb’s reign of terror, the EIC went from trading quite profitably with the locals in Bengal, and held good relations with leadership it came into contact with in South Asia. Losing 90% of its mercantile business to places like Zanzibar and Oman, non-Islamic Indian leadership practically invited the EIC in, along with the British Crown, to…do something. For several decades, the British Empire went about combat with the Mughals, ending with the total defeat and submission by the Mughal Empire in 1757. The spice must flow.
While you can read from many sources about the history of South Asia since that time, our purpose here is to examine the development of religion under the watchful eye of the Freemasons. Lodges were quickly established in Bengal (1728), as Dhaka was the epicenter of the global textile trade and British development in Calcutta was on the rise. These developments lead into the EIC’s opium trade that it would eventually use to conquer China. Lodges were later established in Madras (1752), Bombay (1758), Ceylon (Sri Lanka, 1771), Malaysia (1786?), and many other locations of economic importance. These seeded lodges multiplied into hundreds of additional lodges. These were initially “white only”, but the Freemasons began to filter in South Asians much the way Facebook famously expanded participation from Harvard University to other elite universities to the general Western population and then to over half the global population, with the largest number of users residing in India. The presence of elites baits everyone else in, which is essentially the very definition of the elites. Once the struggle began, the British Empire’s military victory over the subcontinent was a slam dunk built on modern technological superiority. But the fight for hearts and minds was to take place through religion and corporate-government institutions, beginning with the absorption of South Asian elites.
And it worked. It worked so well that Freemasons constructed what might be called “the Indian wing of Plato’s cave“. Many of the old elites of India became rich or powerful new elites in the globalist empire, often submitting through Freemasonry, a fraternal network where they could be influenced with various prods and pats on the back. The Tagore family would be given a frontman’s role in the Opium trade. The Mullick mercantile (gold) family acted as financiers and middlemen as the EIC built the rails on which India’s wealth would be smuggled out of the country. We will return to these two families in particular, though there were many others.
The problem with Freemasonry was that it left an obvious footprint. This inevitably led to conspiracy theories of the day. In the U.S., for instance, the Anti-Masonic Party was one of the most influential political movements of the first half of the 19th century, though it was likely chiefly controlled by its named opposition. After all, Freemasons made up a large portion of the Revolutionary elite, signers of the U.S. Constitution (which borrowed all manner of conceptual language from the Masonic Constitution), and Washington D.C. was designed, built, and finally dedicated by Freemasons in a ceremony presided over by George Washington in full Masonic garb. When one Freemason, William Morgan, threatened to expose the secrets of the fraternity in 1826, he was kidnapped by Freemasons and never seen again.
Freemasons would be associated with other revolutions around the world, including that led by the Young Turks (and other templated “Young X” movements), the Russian Revolution, the Nazis, and most or all of the major revolutions throughout Asia up to very recent times. But they couldn’t carry on that way forever without taking too much heat. They needed to establish new organizations through which to carry on their activities.
Such a MOBS force as the Freemasons would inevitably need to grow invisible tentacles, and while nobody can prove the following relationships were intentional, all one needs to do is understand the role the Freemasons played in building the globalist empire to recognize a natural continuity that points to planning as the default explanation.
The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon LDS) was directly founded by Master Freemason Joseph Smith. Smith was in turn anointed as a high ranking Mason by Grandmaster Abraham Jones. There are some who consider Jones a handler of Abraham Lincoln’s political career. Jones was part of Mary Todd Lincoln’s elite social circle in Kentucky, and later engineered the Lincoln-Douglas debates. There are many people who express amazement that Smith managed to convince so many people of his supposedly divine powers, dictating the Book of Mormon from ancient texts on golden discs out of a magic hat. But the story makes more sense if you understand that nearly all of his early male followers were the bulk of the Freemasons in the whole of Illinois. Once you understand that tidbit, and also Asch conformity, the illusion loses its magickal luster. A child who grows up in a community where all the adults agree to some absurd story tends to agree with the story, or at least pretend to. Then Voila! A religion is born.
The Theosophical Society (which has itself spawned dozens of spinoff cults) was chiefly founded by Freemasons in New York, though its immediate spread through London spiritualist circles over the course of a single year is strong evidence of the British Empire Freemasonic connection. So too is the fact that its headquarters was quickly moved halfway around the world to Adyar, in Madras, India just a few years later. After that, Freemason co-founder Colonel Henry Olcott, a man who wriggled out of treason charges in the U.S. by invoking Masonic signals to his captors, and who was then suspiciously selected to preside over the inept investigation into President Lincoln’s assassination, moved himself to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a leader of the Buddhist movement there. That Buddhist movement sowed the seeds of the eventual civil war with the Tamil Tigers, sparked by a Sri Lankan man trained by British intelligence who retired into a job promoting sustainable development goals at the United Nations. Oh, and that Sri Lankan terrorist’s daughter is the “Paper Planes” rapper M.I.A., who was elevated to Member status in the Order of the British Empire.
This is where I remind readers that the EIC took over Madras, India, and incorporated it. Despite [supposed] Indian Independence, that corporation, formerly run by Elihu Yale (yes, that Yale), still operates today as the world’s second oldest corporation (now known as the Greater Chennai Corporation). It was there in Madras, in the backwoods of Adyar, that the Theosophical Society planted roots, and began working as the left hand of the British social engineering of India and its religions. It was Theosophical Society leader (and Freemason and Fabian “wolf in sheep’s clothing”) Annie Besant who established, though an invisible funding network so vast that it could only be laundered through the British banking network, essentially all of the feminist organizations that still operate today in India. This was part of the reshaping of the Vedic religions into a modern Hinduism, a religion that, unlike what the history books have told you, simply did not exist prior to the British Empire’s foray into India (the Vedic religions trace back perhaps 3500 years or more).
As an aside, while feminism in India may sound perfectly nice, one needs to understand the unfolding of India that came along with it to fully understand it as controlled opposition. These problems could consume their own article, but highly relevant is the surge of child prostitution from nearly nonexistent in India to what became by far the world’s largest child trafficking enterprise. Mohandas Gandhi‘s close friend, Lord Mountbatten (the last Viceroy of India, of the Royal “Windsor” Family) bragged so openly about raping little brown kids in India that the BBC had to bury an interview with him. Witnesses of that interview said Lord Mountbatten described the parties he would throw for Indian children where he would quickly groom and seduce them one at a time as casually as if he were discussing cricket. His wife, Lady Mountbatten, co-founded the India League that spear-headed the theatrical production known in history as the Indian Independence movement.
In case you’re wondering, Lord Mountbatten’s great-nephew is Prince Andrew. Remember that the bad apple usually means the whole barrel is rotten.
The establishment of Hinduism was almost entirely organized by Freemasons, the EIC, and their allies. Much of this took place through an organization called Brahmo Samaj, founded by EIC employee Raja Ram Mohan Roy, and led by the EIC’s opium-running Tagore family (a necessity for the EIC after the resolution to First Opium War when China refused to allow its merchants to buy any longer from the English).
Skipping past the details, the result was a new religion that would be easy for the British Empire’s globalist MOBS to steer once the empire decided to go invisible.
The British Empire has long been fond of pious scapegoats. I’m sure some Jewish readers immediately understand the point, but consider also the case of the Quakers. The early Quakers were the Society of Friends who eschewed English churches and organizations quite simply because they were all so depressingly corrupt. However, some EIC merchants infiltrated the Quaker movement. When the Quakers were oppressed by the Crown, and had a hard time finding employment, the EIC merchants invited their pious brethren into the maritime trade where truly religious Quakers made for a highly ethical front for business. Meanwhile, the infiltrating psychopaths of the EIC used that reputational laundering to get a solid foot into the transatlantic slave trade. You read that right, the wealthy elite Quakers, who later planted themselves in Philadelphia and became abolitionists just in time to help build a lever for the British bankers that would eventually become the U.S. Civil War, were the British Empire’s wolves in sheep’s clothing. Today, everyone from the American South weirdly takes the blame for the small class of slave traders and owners who committed horrific crimes. It’s part of the game of privatizing the profits, and socializing responsibility for the liabilities.
Lesson: The primary value of identity politics is as humanitarian shielding for the Kunlangeta. It’s a game of divide and conquer that mimics what game theorists call the dollar auction. The only way to win is not to play. Even when you do win, you’re locked into the Game of Thrones, and the happy ending season struck exactly nobody as natural.
Much of the false narrative of Indian independence flowed through the story of another wealthy elite servant of the British Empire, Gandhi. As a young Anglophile, the atheist suit-wearing Gandhi traveled to the City of London where he was trained in law (as were some of the leaders of Brahmo Samaj) at the Inner Temple. He was concurrently trained in the ways of Hinduism by Besant, and in psychological operations by the Queen’s own intelligent unit, MI6, at Tavistock Square. This is not speculation or conspiracy theory. He documented it himself in his own memoirs. This is a lesson in going beyond biographical narratives written by social engineers (Gandhi’s biographer was also the biographer for the controlled Neru-Gandhi family that still looms large in Indian politics), certified for textbooks and Wikipedia. For Gandhi’s role in India, Ellen Wilkinson, a prominent member of the British Parliament, referred to Gandhi as “the best policeman the British [ever] had in India.”
This technically mediocre art piece, a shadow puppet Gandhi, of anonymous origin in Andhra Pradesh sits in the British Museum. The joke has always been right out in the open, but cognitive dissonance is enough to make the signs invisible to most people.
While I plan to write a more complete article, or perhaps a book on the subject, RTE readers can explore the [obvious, once you read the history] theory of India’s faked independence in an interview I gave with Courtenay Turner. Key point: All of India’s first six prime ministers were personally mentored by Besant or Besant-via-Gandhi. Even as India’s politics performatively shifted from control by the Congress Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), members of the Neru-Gandhi family followed the shift in power, and still play key roles.
As a last note before we head into the story of the “alien religions” and the Hare Krishna movement, of which Tulsi Gabbard is a uniquely sophisticated piece, I encourage readers to examine the participants of the 1893 gathering known as the World’s Parliament of Religions (mind map here). Hardly a single attendee present cannot be traced by to Freemasonry, the Theosophical Society, the EIC, or some other node of the globalist MOBS like the Rockefellers. The push for religious syncretism has always been related to Freemasonry, and a project of the British Empire.
Once Hinduism was established as a modern religion, and India’s independence properly faked, India entered the era of the Rolls Royce gurus. These were religious leaders of sects (cults) of Hinduism that were very often sold to [primarily young people in] the West, almost certainly as part of a process of syncretization [for power and profit]. It is important to look closely at each such cult to find its connection back to the British Empire, a subservience apparent in their uniform choice of luxury vehicles. For instance, in my research into Osho’s (Rajneesh’s) neo-sanyassins, I discovered the current King of England’s close cousin hidden among the group’s membership. This is important because it was Osho’s cult that transplanted itself in Oregon where it conducted the largest (or second-largest, ahem) bioterror attack ever conducted on U.S. soil, with suspiciously little consequence. This could not have been accomplished without help from media titans, such as the Beatles and neo-senyassan Arianna Huffington, or industrial families such as that of 33rd degree Master Mason Henry Ford’s. One of Ford’s descendants (who still manages the family trust) is currently constructing the world’s largest religious monument in India, dedicated to [Hare] Krishna consciousness. It’s a spectacularly beautiful building lamentably dedicated to spiritual degeneracy.
I have often opined that the whole “alien psyop” comes down to the notion that the nations of the world are ruled by resident aliens. Wink. My second hypothesis, which jives with the emergence of the alien/UFO religions and cults, is that aliéné is the French word for somebody who is mentally ill, alienated from themselves and from society. For those who are not aware, the history of Psychiatry is that of a quasi-science (and often just pseudoscience) developed and steered almost entirely within Freemasonic circles through its infancy. And while Freud was not himself a Freemason, he was steered by his ambition into B’nai B’rith, the syncretic Zionism-branded new world religious order organization that is so Freemasonic that I shouldn’t even have to make the argument for a connection.
Fans of Freud may want to snort a line before proceeding…
Freud was well-understood to be a lying fraud by those in the striving-to-be-scientific health community of his time. He never cured a single patient he worked with and diagnosed. But his artificially engineered public image was pushed into public consciousness and managed by [Yale Skull and Bonesman] Henry Luce’s Time Magazine—three times for good repetition. Despite a void of real accomplishments, the magazine compared him to Einstein.
Of Freud’s more interesting work, most was stolen from Philippe Pinel, or buried (as his work connecting mental illness to child sex abuse, a topic on which I plan to discuss in a future article). The International Psychoanalytical Association was run by Freud like a Masonic lodge, with secret meetings and initiations. Freud even gave his acolytes Roman Empire themed rings to bind them.
Get it? Freud of the Rings?
I suspect there is a Romanized Plato’s cave narrative at play. I have often suspected that Julius Caesar was bribed with Phoenician gold and silver from Cadiz while he governed over Gaul. Is that how all the Republics end? Not at the end of a spear, but with its energy harnessed by dictators who direct the “citizens” to build their own new wing of Plato’s cave?
Ultimately, it was Freud’s successor, Carl Jung (son of a Freemason and grandson of Grand Master Freemason) who injected the notions of alien mythology into discussions of dream interpretations, the collective unconscious, and his Jungian archetypes. This happened suspiciously just after World War II (starting in 1946), and right before the introduction of so many alien tropes like “men in black” (1947), “alien tech” (1947), “space brothers” (1952, by Theosophist George Adamski in an event orchestrated by the CIA), “little green men” (1955, repurposed from earlier English spiritualist hoaxes such as leprechauns and fairies), the “greys” (1961), and numerous others.
In a future article, I will go into how psychiatry has been used to disguise child sex abuse, framing much of it as “conspiracy theory”, the most effective of thought-terminating cliches.
It is a great irony that Freemasonry only accepts initiates who believe in one god, but spin out so many leaders who believe that they can create new worlds and be gods (or demiurges) of them.
Before we move on, let us briefly review a history of UFO religions and cults, and their Freemasonic lineages:
The LDS Church (Mormons): Established in 1830 by a Master Freemason, populated quickly by hundreds of Freemasons. This was the first religion to promote the “Many Worlds” notion of the universe. The Mormon focus on genealogy is good security. The LDS Church has also been repeatedly accused of harboring large child sex trafficking operations.
The Theosophical Society: Established in 1875 by Freemasons and others. The strongest promotion yet of notions of aliens, not to mention the concept of the master Aryan race (which conveniently targets India in tandem with the West). Schools and orphanages run by Theosophists have constantly dodged and weaved among the many accusations of child sex abuse.
The Vril Society: Established in 1919, the Masonic-style Vril Society evolved into the Nazi Party. The notion of the magical Vril ruling from beneath the surface of the Earth, was the notion of English diplomat Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Bulwer-Lytton was a Rosicrucian, another Masonic-style occult organization. His granddaughter, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton, joined the Theosophical Society, and was surrogate mother to Theosophy’s chosen child messiah Jiddu Krishnamurti who was systematically raped by at least one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society.
The Nation of Islam: Established on July 4, 1930 (Independence Day?) by a sketchy white guy with Japanese occult ties calling himself Wallace Fard Muhammad. They promote the idea that massive circular spacecraft (or interdimensional craft, like stargates) ferry aliens and humans between different worlds or planes, which is not dissimilar to what ISKCON preaches. Some of these flying crafts were built by ancient black men in Japan, which could probably make for some interesting anime. Today, the Nation of Islam follows Dianetics, one of the writings of UFO-cult Scientology. Just as the Freemasons set aside black people in separate-but-equal lodges, the Scientology-esque corner of the cultic world seems to do the same.
The “I AM” Activity: Established in 1930 building on Theosophical messaging. While there are not as many documented cases of child sex abuse in this cult, it has been noted that its leadership aggressively worked to separate families as a structural mission of the cult. This is a good sign that there is more to the story than we may know. They were also involved in financial fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion scandals. Their parent organization was the Ascended Master Saint Germain Foundation, another nod to Theosophy, and they claimed that Sir Francis Bacon, who likely engineered the connection between Freemasonry and the EIC, was a reincarnation of Saint Germain.
Scientology: Established in 1953 as a sci-fi era updated template of the Theosophical Society. Like the Theosophical Society, its founder hailed from the Office of Naval Intelligence, which has the greatest footprint among military institutions in the so-called alien disclosure movement. Gotta find a way to get some trusted non-Masons involved, right? Founder L Ron Hubbard engaged in sex magick rituals with Jack Parsons (close associate Ghislaine Maxwell relative-through-marriage Frank Malina), ran a child education ranch in New Mexico, and hand-picked teen and preteen girls to attend to his desires. As an aside, POTUS Trump picked a Scientologist to be ambassador to Ukraine, and HHS Secretary Kennedy’s chief co-attorney is a Scientologist co-conspirator to an operation that infiltrated the U.S. government with 5,000 Scientologists. Anybody who might be interested in Scientology’s alleged human trafficking activities might begin with the observation that 1 in 6 religious visas to the U.S. are given to Scientologists, most often from nations like Ukraine and Russia known for large numbers of young women being sex trafficked to the West. This is, by my admittedly rough estimation, around 200x the rate of larger, more established religions.
3HO Foundation/Kundalini Research Institute/Ra Ma Institute: This chain of organizations began in 1969, targeting the hippy counterculture movement. Both Yogi Bhajan and the even less convincing Guru Jagat openly taught not simply alien/UFO mythology, but Guru Jagat even claimed that the COVID-19 lockdowns were a cover for an active “alien war” happening in the skies.
Heaven’s Gate: Co-formed by Theosophist Bonnie Nettles in 1973, they’re all dead now.
Freemasons even invented Afro-futurism!
I could go on for pages and pages, including dozens of Neo-Theosophy groups like the one I grew up in. How suspicious is it that despite a court case filed in 2021 by dozens of child sex abuse victims, there is still not a whiff of coverage in either the mainstream media or the alt-Plato’s-cave media that so champions QAnon? Hello? Is this thing on?
All of these religions turn potential opponents of globalism into people-botnets who work to make their masters rich. In the process, they destroy families. The compartmentalization of the network means that each group, and often even subgroups (as in the case of ISKCON) are cut off from content localized to various wings of Plato’s cave. Each group, their activities, and sometimes the crimes they commit, also shifts attention from the globalist and fraternal networks.
Before we move on, we should understand how the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) promotes the notion of aliens and UFOs. This link is not as clear-cut as with many of the above examples.
ISKCON preaches that the universe is teaming with life. This is where the religion goes all Scientology with quite specific claims. The message is that we (humans) are all aliens that got trapped on Earth, unable to shift back to other “planes” because we got stuck in these mansuits. This is part of the reason we should chant, because physics (or “physics”) works in such a way that the proper vibration helps us escape these silly mansuits to reach other planes. This explains the names of the deities, apparently, whose names were chosen to make humans utter the correct vibrations. So, if you’re reading this article, and speaking the names of deities out loud as you come to them, you have fair warning. You might travel out of your body to demigod realms or the supreme Goloka plane.
The gurus of ISKCON somehow know that there are 8.4 million species of life distributed across millions of planetary systems. Interestingly, this is the low end of the estimated number of species on Earth, according to present day biologists, though some estimates range into the billions, just on Earth. The gurus also say that there are living beings of different forms such as some made out of fire who live on the surface of the sun. Honestly, I very much hope there is lots of other life, but I have not yet seen firm evidence of the claim. However, these ISKCON gurus just say that they know and apparently counted or found some intergalactic bean counter who did the job for them. They state it matter-of-factly, and the claim rests only on your trust that they can somehow leave their bodies to go observe whatever might be going on in other places.
In 1960, ISKCON’s founder Prabhupada published a book titled Easy Journey to Other Planets. The book claims that through the practice of yoga, practitioners can learn to leave their bodies and travel to other planets or realms of the universe. Given the money our government spends on dumb sh*t, I’m surprised that we do not yet have a program paying experts to yoga themselves around the universe to map out all the interesting life and their origins. Heck, they might learn a bit about alien tech to boost our economies.
One claim made by the ISKCON gurus is that the Vedic cosmos is divided into 14 planetary systems such as Bhumiloka (Earth), Svaraloka, and Brahmaloka. This is where Westerners must get confused. I mean…just writing this article I feel like I’m overloaded with new words for the same thing, new names for the same people, and at least twice the number of necessary syllables to remember.
The ISKCON gurus also claim that vimanas are ancient, interstellar flying craft described in the Vedas. This is based on verses from the Srimad Bhagavatam. However, it should be understood that this is not how most Hindus read the verses. The Sanskrit word vimāna (विमान) translates literally to “measuring out, traversing”, and prior to the era of Masonic UFO cults, there is no evidence that any Vedic gurus were walking around making the claim that ancient Indians or ancient aliens used vimanas to fly around Earth, or from Earth to other realms. And it isn’t clear why humans would need flying machines if we can simply chant our way to the other realms.
Somehow, whenever claims of advanced alien technology are made in the UFO community, an actually trained scientist with a PhD steps forward to lend the notion of modern scientific rigor. Such is the case of Dr. Richard L Thompson, a Cornell-trained and NASA-funded mathematician who joined ISKCON in 1974, the same year he completed his doctorate. Thompson, whose super-guru name is Sadaputa Dasa, founded the Bhaktivedanta Institute as the scientific wing of ISKCON. In 1993, Thompson authored the book Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena arguing that Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata were not merely myths, but stories about engineered flying machines. Incidentally, Thompson also co-authored Forbidden Archeology with Michael Cremo claiming that humans were present on Earth millions of years ago. Not only does this conspiracy theory require that almost all archeologists are in on it, but essentially that they’re more powerful in manipulating the evidence than the Freemasons who helped the British Empire take over the entire world while somehow making nearly everyone forget that they murdered a quart of a billion people to do it before they trained the CIA at Camp X to start taking all the blame for everything bad.
The peanut gallery goes wild: “See! This highly rigorous mathematician believes…”
One versus how many? If math is part of the story, why make a video instead of publishing a paper? Have you read his papers, and can you explain them? So, does it matter?
The use of “rigor man” to legitimize the theater is an example of what I call parasocial Dunbar hacking, the cherries on top of these Asch conformity experiments. Those watching the mass media projected onto the wall in Plato’s cave trust that they are watching something genuine. They become hypnotized to the point that they cannot imagine that it’s all either acting, or a misrepresentation of what most honest, rigorous experts actually think. People only watching the Hare Krishnas chant and emote good will have little to no understanding of Hinduism, and they might just come to believe that the ancient Vedic religions were mythological tales about aliens coming to Earth in spaceships.
On the mystical side, another Indian aristocrat and “Sanskrit scholar”, G. R. Josyer, “revealed” (like a magician) the text Vaimānika Shāstra in 1952, supposedly written down by Pandit Subbaray Shastry, explaining ancient aerospace technology known by ancient Indian sages. Shastry claimed the text was “psychically delivered to him” by a scholar from the Early Vedic period over 3,000 years ago. The timing is a little suspicious given both the timeline of alien tropes rolled out around that time, and the fact that the wealthy Mysore Kingdom to which Josyer’s family wealth was owed finally folded in 1950. The Josyers had been administrators and court astrologers there for generations. Josyer then built a career pushing Indian pseudohistory that conformed with the mental image the Freemason orientalists wanted to sell in the West.
What’s worse is that the increasing number of Hindus who move to the U.S. wind up visiting ISKCON temples, lending credibility to the multinationally incorporated cult as a genuinely accepted “Hindu religion”. Some of those immigrating Hindus are among the secular who are barely in touch with religion. They know not what they do. Others just want to find a temple that looks like a place they want to recite their verses. And really, some just want to network with other South Asians because of course they do. It’s all a totally understandable conundrum.
That’s how the agents of the deep state work. Your job is your job, and their job is practical human psychology. And sometimes brute force. They always have the funds to put one mathematician or physicist or “scholar” up for the task of backing the new prank with mathy terms and sorta sciencey language. Sometimes, due to book sales or other retail mechanisms, the psyop is self-funding. See Hollywood for details. All they need is to get one guy’s message blasted out through mass media in a way, backed by discussions of spooks on Coast to Coast AM or Joe Rogan, repeated by fraternal brothers and dupes at cocktail parties, so that it seems to an unwitting audience like there is a supported crowd of experts who believe what they want for you to believe. The reality is that battles took place at universities between professors and administrations around the country for decades. But the honest professors could not defeat the enemy they did not understand, and many were replaced over the years by prospects who were selected for their willingness to go along to get along—or for a real slice of tax-funded research dollars. Almost nobody really likes working hard, but living poor.
When and Why Did Chanting Begin in Vedic Religion?
The when may be hard to pinpoint, but whoever invented the practice shared the genius behind Shakespeare (whoever that might really have been). The Brahmin were responsible for not just remembering [at minimum] tens of thousands of verses by memory, but were responsible for the perfectly faithful transmission of those verses on a time scale that measures in centuries. One word lost or changed would be considered a tragedy. That’s a lot of pressure!
The strategy was to compose all that religious information into verses that could be chanted according to some meter—perhaps even one that was natural to music. Then, when a young Brahmin-in-training practiced recitation, there were failsafes and error-corrections built into the process.
While undeniably brilliant, this system could not be easily exported. It could not be easily tinkered with by social engineers of any empire. The whole of the religious practice could never truly be experienced without the practice of the Brahmins as both scholars and artists. It is understandable that those outside the Brahmin caste might look on with awe at their work—like watching something between a choir solo and musical theater, but with its own unique poetic elements. Observers might walk away chanting inspirational lines. Imprinting messages was always the point of the craft.
It is easy to imagine such mimicry becoming the basis for group festival chanting. And group utterances of all forms have their own spiritual magic, like “Olé, olé olé olé, ooooléééé, ooooléééé!” at the World Cup. The magic is not supernatural, but the energy is felt. The group, including both the players and the fans, feel the togetherness.
Now, imagine for a moment, football without the players. Just some conversation about people who kicked balls, and then some chanting. Imagine Vedic religion without the Brahmins. Just some conversation about the Bhagavad Gita, but nobody to explore and interpret the Vedas or the Upanishads, and then some chanting. This is the closest analog to what the Hare Krishnas became.
The Con That is ISKCON?
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rick ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” -John Lennon
The story of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, est. 1966) begins with a several-centuries-old Bengali Vedic sect called Gaudiya Vaishnava. Vaishnavism refers to the worship of Vishnu, also known as Hare or Narayana. If you want to get theologically serious Hindus wound up about it, some will get pretty offended that Vishnu is elevated to supremacy above the Creator (Brahma). And yet, as Hinduism broke into sects apart from core monotheistic Hinduism, none of those sects elevated Brahma to the position of Supreme Being—possibly because Brahma was already central.
Vishnu is the god of preservation, restorer of dharma, bestower of karma, and the protector of good. In traditional Vedic religion, Vishnu is one of three deities (or “aspects of the one god” for monotheistic Hindus) who make up the Trimurti (Trinity), along with Brahma and Shiva. Once you learn the stories of the Vedas and other Hindu texts, one can imagine this maps at least partially to Christian Trinitarianism, which is an interesting historical footnote.
ISKCON changes the perspective of the Vedic deities further. It demotes Brahma and Shiva to demigod status, something nearly any Hindu will tell you is heretical.
It is an interesting exercise, pertinent to this article, to imagine a culture that values preservation above creation, and contrast it with one that respects both equally, also with recognition of the fact of destruction that may precede more creation and preservation.
As the Vedic religion(s) evolved, various cults often broke off into focus on a single member of the Vedic pantheon of deities, much in the same way Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other religions saw breakaway cults focused on Apollo, Athena, Horus, or Mithra, without or with less respect to the summary cosmological order. These are usually considered pagan religions. However, somebody could overfocus on a single “aspect” of the one whole God, and still claim a monotheistic worship. To the extent that the rest of God gets too little attention, we might recognize the system as unbalanced, and perhaps even effectively pagan.
I intentionally faded aspects of Hinduism whose presence is less pronounced in Gaudiya Vaishnava to make the point. Assume this is the modern reformed Gaudiya Vaishnava. Otherwise I might have tossed some degenerate druggies having tantric sex onto the pictograph. Does such a sect even target rational minds? Might it be the point to target mostly young people, of little worldly experience, who could be bent to serve a manipulator?
(A not unimportant side-note for those who study the histories of these religions: The Vedic Mitra was the God of contracts, which was almost certainly the predecessor deity of the Zoroastrian Mithra, who was God of the covenant. This is almost certainly the source of Jewish and Christian Biblical passages, not to mention the cult of Mithra that made its way from Sardinia into the Roman Army and by various channels into wider Europe. While it would take substantial time to help most readers understand the connections to this story, I leave it here for the handful who recognize the historical importance of these connections.)
The Gaudiya Vaishnava sect focused on devotional chanting of the holy names of deities Radha and Krishna (variously “Hare”, “Krishna”, and others). This practice of chanting and dancing your way to divinity gradually fell out of vogue from the 16th century onward, and was denigrated and stigmatized by the time the EIC and the Crown took over India. When census taking took place in 19th century British India, it was noted that most of the population of India was too illiterate and under-educated to even understand something like a distinguishing factor between Gaudiya Vaishnava and more disciplined Vedic religious groups with dedicated temples and Brahmin who fully memorized the verses of the Vedas and Upanishads.
As oral tradition has it, the first leader of Gaudiya Vaishnavism was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu’s chanting practices were part of a process of escape from samsara (moksha), which is the cycle of life and death. Mahaprabhu’s devotees tell the story that he achieved a state of intense divine ecstasy (maha-bhava), but that his death resulted from intense spiritual longing that led him to walk into the ocean and disappear in some sort of hallucinatory state. And this is supposed to be a good thing.
While modern followers of the Hare Krishna movement in the West claim that the numbers of Gaudiya Vaishnava devotees were in the millions, these are numbers pulled out of thin air based on wild extrapolations of little evidence, and are often ahistorical in context, if not directly contradictory. They are probably also a humiliation ritual, sort of like morally retarded teenagers who drop out of college to smoke pot and follow Phish around the concert tour, citing the millions of people who have claimed to have seen or enjoyed Phish as if every one of them were similarly degenerate groupies who lent credibility to singing Phish lyrics as a fully coherent spiritual movement.
The best that we can say, historically speaking, is that there were isolated gurus of Gaudiya Vaishnava for several centuries after the sect’s origin story supposedly took place. Few if any of them were dedicated Brahmins. These gurus led chants and dancing on festival days when crowds were large enough and energetic enough that a group could form to do the same thing together. Otherwise, there was very little daily visiting of Gaudiya Vaishnava temples. These gurus largely attracted ignorant, apathetic Bengalis, many of whom were chronically drug-addled, whose understanding of Vedic religion went no further than shouting some noises and moving their feet like the South Asian equivalents of deadheads. Else they were given a meal here or there out of pity. Because of this, Gaudiya Vaishnava had to undergo a shave, a haircut, and some heavy plastic surgery before it could be sold to the West.
Some of the Gaudiya Vaishnava worshipers of the 19th century were the [Sufi-influenced] Bauls, who eschewed temple worship, acting as wandering mystics who were often known for telling tall tales that displayed their mystical prominence (”I chanted, then food appeared and all the starving could eat…”). Some were the Sahajiyas who turned chanting and dancing into tantric sex rituals. Others were gurus who had long since divorced themselves from the teachings of Chaitanya Mahapradhu, the originator of Gaudiya Vaishnava. The Bhadralok, affluent and educated intellectual Bengali middle class, wanted nothing to do with the intellectual desert that was Gaudiya Vaishnava—except maybe to sell them some drugs, then wash their hands thoroughly. The devoted practitioners of Gaudiya Vaishnava had the reputation of low class, indulgent squatters taking up space in a broken down house down a dark alley.
Understand that the Vedic religions, as practiced in disciplined communities, certainly involve some chanting and dancing, much as with many religious traditions. But these activities are practiced within the context of observing and learning from the more than half million verses of the Vedas and the Puranas. The verses are designed to help each member of the community best develop their life and role in society. It’s the discipline part that is the reason a religious tradition survives for multiple thousands of years! Remove the discipline, and you might as well be barking sweet syllables at cars on the freeway.
Dancing was often the province of temple women known as devadasi who were a bit like a cross between nuns, docents, and artists. They were appreciated, and often given vast amounts of ornamental gold and gems to wear by their local supporters.
The British India transformation of South Asia into several centralized states robbed the local kings of power and wealth. Those kings supported their local temples, which fell into disrepair without that base patronage. The devadasi girls went from being an appreciated feature of disciplined religious practice to poor and starving girls often forced into prostitution. The celebrated “feminist”, Muthulakshmi Reddy, trained by Besant and her Theosophical circle, started a campaign to end the devadasi, shaming them over their plight following the religious transformation brought by the English. Instead of helping temples reach the increasingly centralized money support system or helping the devedasi system incorporate a bit more modern education, Reddy shamed them as uneducated whores. Like trash.
The most likely reason the British made it hard for the temples to operate is that the temples served not simply as religious centers, but as community banks. The donations made by kings and wealthy patrons in the form of land, gold, and jewels, were partially lent back out to members of the community at lower interest than could be procured from professional lenders. Community banking networks know their customers implicitly, and can even help guide members of their community toward practical vocations. And dharma operates best within a group of people who live and work together. Each member of the community was responsible for the success of every other member. The buy in was natural, the skin in the game shared, and accountability implicit.
All that went out the window during the Great Migration that uprooted millions on the subcontinent to resort them into pens according to shared religious practice.
Those interested in further documentary of the descent of the devadasi might watch the following 28 minute documentary:
Prior to the EIC, devadasi training included intense scriptural and literary knowledge. They studied the 64 Arts, and while some did not read Sanskrit (the Vedas and Upanishads were strictly not ever written down), many devadasi were known to be multi-lingual and could serve as intermediaries both between South Asian traders and travelers, and others from the Near East. They were familiar not only with the Sadir and the Odissi, but also the mathematically complex Carnatic music. They were societal glue. While unique to the culture, it is the sort of thing that you expect of a religion that fully permeates society. The devadasi owned property and held land. While married to the temple instead of husbands, somewhat like Christian nuns, they were substantially wealthier and more literate than their European counterparts until right around the time some Mughal emperor went insane and began making way for the British by destroying “his” kingdom to Islamify it.
So, how is it that Gaudiya Vaishnavism was raised from the status of religious degeneracy to a product ready for export to the wealthy West?
A bunch of oligarchs with close connections to Freemasonry made it that way. Yes, really. You’re not going to find this story on Wikipedia, or in any historical textbook I’m aware of, but we can source the facts that point to the claim. It’s the sort of thing that you only figure out by reading thousands of pages of history from many sources, mapping it all out, and connecting the names and organizations. It’s all in the metadata. What’s worse is that if you rely on Wikipedia or history textbooks, you’re never even going to imagine that this story could even exist. That’s how the magick trick works.
The story begins with a humble Bengali grain merchant, Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji (later anointed “Mahatma Babaji” by his successors). Born in 1838, Babaji married and provided for his family until his wife died when he was 29. The apparently broken man left his work behind and traveled to the holy city of Vrindavan where he was initiated into the traditional Vaishnava Babaji order. The illiterate Babaji never memorized the vast scriptures expected of a Brahmin, but spent long days chanting and chanting and chanting. And through chanting he came to be able to answer complex theological questions for worshippers unsatisfied with their instruction from the Brahmin. So, his reputation led more people to seek out Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji for answers to the deepest questions about the supreme being and the universe.
At least, that’s what we are told. But…really? He hummed so well that he gave great answers to questions about scripture to a point that other people heard about this and sought him out? Or was he a pitiable bum who makes a great prop to build a new religious movement around?
Suspiciously, we only know “Mahatma” Babaji’s story through just four men who oversaw the rise of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, including a father-son duo whose future fame and a multi-billion dollar empire would be framed around the tale of the spiritual and intellectual superiority of the depressed, uneducated chanting man over the disciplined Brahmin who shepherded over entire healthy and wealthy communities. Apparently a “primary source” (a claim that was printed by the publishing arm of the British Empire) is not simply good enough for citation on Wikipedia, but good enough to immortalize the story in the great online encyclopedia as if there is no question at all about whether or not it’s true. Nobody even bothers to ask why if Mahatma Babaji’s reputation was so good, nobody else outside this small cadre ever told his tale.
The father-son duo who took over after the death of Mahatma Babaji, and documented his life as a supposed genius guru, were Kedernath Datta and his son Bimala Prasad Datt, otherwise known by their super-guru names, Bhaktivinoda Thakur and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. I will sometimes simply call them the Datta family.
The first thing that you should know about the Datta family, also known as the Hatkhola Datta family dynasty of Calcutta, is that they were another one of the wealthy, aristocratic families who worked closely with agents of the British Empire. Both of Kedernath’s parents came from families with estate palaces that each employed hundreds of servants. Moreover, one of Kedernath’s cousins, Prosonno Coomar Dutt, became the very first Hindu Freemason.
This is an interesting point because initiation into Freemasonry has only one strict requirement (aside from encouragement by a member Mason), which is belief in a single god. The perception of the Vedic religions, which the British knew nothing about when they arrived at the subcontinent, was one of a scattered pantheon of deities that some of the people worshipped some of the time. It did, frankly, come across as a confusing mess to the Brits, particularly with so many illiterate natives running around knowing only a tiny fraction of the stories. Prosonno Dutt spent a full nine years petitioning the District Grand Lodge of Bengal, giving testimony to a monotheistic version of Hinduism that would fit Masonic requirements, before he was accepted into the Lodge of Anchor and Hope (No. 234) in 1872.
Ultimately, the lengthy and engineered petitioning process was likely the point for the British social engineers. Ultimately, it was that energy and devotion to the process of framing Vedic religion as monotheistic that led to the Brahmoistic religious reforms. That process was itself the invention of modern Hinduism.
Prior to the arrival of Freemasons in South Asia, the word “Hindu” (evolved from the Sanskrit “Sindhu” to “Hindu” to “Indu/Indus/Indian”) was simply a geographical term associated with the Indus River. Only through the promise of fraternity with dominant European society did “Hindu” take on the meaning of a specifically monotheistic religious structure and culture that nobody would have claimed existed prior to the 19th century. As the chain of status determines the trend, pretty soon the larger portion of the practitioners of Vedic religion also began to call themselves Hindus. Note that this sets up a similar definition problem as with “Jewish” which can sometimes refer to either a people or a religion. A sort of culture war shield can take place when critique of a religious perspective can be reframed through a controlled identity lens as “bigotry”. We might look for people who play the victim game with Hinduism in that way…
Furthermore, we should note that ISKCON describes itself as a “panentheistic” religion. The term panentheism was coined in 1828 by German philosopher Karl Krause. Krause was adamant that Freemasonry be the vehicle that seeded global cosmopolitan civil society (ahem, globalism). That goal drove his work. While pantheism is the notion that the divine (God) and the universe are one in the same, panentheism asserts an ontological distinction between the divine and non-divine, admitting the presence of both in the universe. In panentheism, the divine universal spirit is still everywhere at once, but is not everything. It was the shift from pantheistic descriptions of Vedic religion to panentheistic notions that allowed for Hinduism to be laid out as a monotheistic religion.
Put simply: A Freemason organized the logic around which the Vedic religions could be (and would be) reinterpreted in such a way as to fit the definition of monotheism, which is the categorical hurdle for admission into the globalist Freemasonic network.
Then God said, “Proof!” And Hindus existed. To the delight of their British overlords.
Back to the Datta family. The father-son duo raised up the status of Gaudiya Vaishnava in part by writing about Mahatma Babaji. And, as the story goes, others came to them to examine what proof they had of the supposed theological genius of their Mahatma bum, so they presented log books of their meetings with him. Supposedly. And then people celebrated, because nobody could write stories down in a log book if they weren’t true.
Thought something similar by every person who ever fell for a con.
Understanding the past requires an understanding that there is,
What happened,
What people say happened, and
Interpretations about what people say happened.
When reading somebody’s claims, it is better to think, “As the story goes,” rather than accepting the story blindly. This is precisely the problem with so many Wikipedia articles that tell narratives as if they were evidenced by more than a single claim. The modern story of Gaudiya Vaishnava focuses on Mahatma Babaji, which is only told through aristocrats devoted to a globalizing empire, then projected onto the wall of Plato’s cave, manipulating interpretations by the masses.
Amusingly, Google AI props up “Mahatma” Babaji as “the master of razor-sharp logic”, citing SIF websites. No amount of citing will ever trace the story by any route aside from claims of the Datta family.
To be fair, these were the days before Hollywood/Bollywood/Kollywood/Tollywood had been introduced to the masses in India, so almost nobody yet had any practiced protection from the hypnotic effects of mass media, or followed the money to the source of such propaganda. Many of those people became de facto confidants in the Asch conformity experiment. These were mostly people who couldn’t even conceive that Gandhi could be a British agent, or that politicians lie. And a few were simply confidants—friends or servants of the Dattas.
Now in control of authorship of the sect, the Dattas went about cleaning up the sect’s image. A new orthodoxy was established based on four regulative principles:
Intoxication (drugs and alcohol),
Illicit sex (forbidden outside of marriage),
Eating meat,
Gambling.
It is easy to imagine such principles of self-control being fundamental to a religion whose adherents might prosper. Even if, like me, you believe eating meat is perfectly healthy, a whole society could certainly live as vegetarians and would prosper while degenerate groups shrank and disappeared.
Interestingly, while the Dattas were establishing behavioral norms that cleaned up the reputation of Gaudiya Vaishnava, Rabindranath Tagore (ironically of the opium-dealing family) is the one who helped popularize Baul music, which might be likened to hippy trance music. The British Empire awarded his grandfather with generational wealth, and him with the first Nobel Prize given to an Asian. How amazing is it that the moment everyone puts on robes, almost nobody can tell the difference between a Tagore who goes home to an extravagant mansion, and a homeless bum chanting at a temple?
You gotta love the “UNESCO” stamp of approval on that video. Certifiably genuine!
The Dattas would not steer the ship of Gaudiya Vaishnava forever. This is where the wealthy Mullik family re-enters the story. In 1922, Narendranath Mullik and his cousin Abhay Charan De were young, wealthy aristocrats with all of life in front of them. They were of the class that generally looked down on degenerate Vaishnava sects that devoted themselves to small, convenient fractions of the whole of Vedic religious studies, and otherwise did little work productive to society, despite the stories Abhay would later tell in his autobiography that tells his version of the story of how he ascended from humble Abhay Charan De to ISKCON guru A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Narendrenath, the up-and-coming patriarch of the wealthy Mullik clan, had become aware of the Datta duo’s entry into the Gaudiya Vaishnava sect, and introduced this knowledge to Abhay. What happened next, we can only speculate. Again, the Wikipedia version cannot be any more trustworthy than a just-so story. It takes for granted narratives from singular, uncorroborated, and biased sources while ignoring the contradiction with the pattern of Freemason social engineering of religions in the direction of UFO monotheism.
We are told in Prabhupada’s 1970 book KRSNA, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that his father Gour Mohan De was a devoted Gaudiya Vaishnava who instilled Krishna consciousness in young Abhay. According to the book, Gour refused to send his son to London to become a lawyer, and prayed that the young Abhay would devote himself as a preacher of Krishna consciousness.
Rubbish!
The term “Krishna consciousness” was invented by Abhay no earlier than 1965, just before he left for the U.S., supposedly based on a verse written by a 16th-century Gaudiya Vaishnava saint. We will come back to that. At least, that’s his story, which conveniently explains why nobody else in the whole history of India would have ever heard it. In fact, it does not even appear in Prabhupada’s own newsletter that he published for years in English prior to leaving for the U.S.
Another reason that we should call BS on this story, aside from the heaping pile of BS stories that piled up to this point, is that “Krishna consciousness” is just coincidentally templated from “Christ consciousness”, a phrase that emerged in the late 19th century in exactly those Western esoteric spiritual movements steered by the Freemasons: Theosophy, Christian Science, and the New Thought movement. The Theosophical Society was co-founded by a Freemason. Christian Science was founded by the wife of a Freemason, insisted on Masonic architecture on its buildings, and employed the Cross and Crown logo on its literature. The New Thought movement was basically degenerate Freemasonry in which popular philosophical teachings of Freemasons like Phineas Quimby, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franz Mesmer, and Norman Vincent Peale were reimagined as the jedi arts where thinking turned into physical changes in the world without needing the body to do the physical stuff.
The New Thought movement was itself the psychological and spiritual precursor to the New Age movement and also Oprah, the daytime talk magnate whose circle of friends and guests include a disturbingly long list of UFO cultists, gurus, rapists, presidents, and their Venn intersections.
What we are told to believe, if we can suspend all rational discussion of history, is that ISKCON founder Abhay Charan De, aka A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, was suggested by a friend, to name his organization the “International Society for God Consciousness”, but that Prabhupada rejected that name in favor of “Krishna Consciousness” because he felt that “God” was too vague, whereas “Krishna” was exact, personal, and scientific. And apparently he had never even discussed any of that with his early devotees prior to sitting down to figure out what they should name the organization?
Later, attempts would be made to assert “Krishna consciousness” into translations of writings by the Datta father-son duo. These assertions are not simply fitting a round peg into a square hole. They’re fitting a whole lot of different pegs into the same hole. What I mean is that the English translations published from sources such as The Harmonist neither match what you’re going to get from a translator, and provide the same translation for different phrases over and over again!
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Aside from looking in all ways dishonest, this is pretty wishy-washy for a guy whose intellectual tradition supposedly stems from the “master of razor-sharp logic”.
Pro Tip: When a guru says “science” or “scientific” with respect to either religion or consciousness, your best bet is to immediately, and without hesitation, punch him in the jimmies and run. (For legal purposes, I’m kidding and do not endorse this. Make your own decisions and take your own consequences. You don’t have to run away.)
Digging further into Swami Prabhupada’s story (that’s future-past-Abhay, sorry), he also [separately] claimed that “Krishna consciousness” came from a 16th-century verse written by Gaudiya Vaishnava saint Srila Rupa Goswami. From ChatGPT,
Punchy!
And this is how Prabhupada convinces those willing to believe him that “Krishna consciousness” is ancient wisdom that has been out there all along, and definitely not inserted into guru-lore by himself within a system that Freemasons invented just shortly after they invented the concept of “Christ consciousness” into so many of their other religious projects as a device to blur the boundaries between them.
Good story, Krishna bro.
“Let me take your kids and introduce them to some Krishna consciousness”?
We might suspect that after arriving in the U.S. Prabhupada was not, as he claimed, alone and isolated, but perhaps in contact with an agent who could guide his language to fit the flow of the language and culture of which he was not fully aware?
What we can trust for certain is that Prabhupada became the third elite aristocrat from among the earliest Indian families involved in Freemasonry to step into the guru lineage of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sect and give themselves new big boy guru names. Though it was not necessary for his cause, Abhay (not yet big boy Prabhupada) dropped out of Scottish Church College after completing his diploma requirements, but prior to receiving his diploma. This move was later explained as a sort of protest of the British Empire. But is that an honest story, or like so many of Gandhi’s stories, narratives that disguise his role as a change agent?
As part of the British Empire’s building of Calcutta into the new port of choice in Bengal, Freemasons got together and established Scottish Church College with the backing of the EIC. For a while, exams were simply held at a Freemasonry lodge. Abhay’s attendance at Scottish Church College represented a commitment that was becoming standard among Bengal’s elite native families. He attended classes with many of the Brahmo Samaj members, as well as members of the Young Bengali movement (remember the Young X template and its Masonic connections). Together, these aristocratic young men were a cadre participating in the reshaping of the subcontinent through economics and religion, together with their Freemason mentors. All of this informs the Bayesian sense of which narrative is correct:
The Official Narrative on Wikipedia: Abhay turned his back on the British Empire to study Gaudiya Vaishnava as an act of spiritual devotion, or
The Social Engineering Narrative: Abhay accepted the undercover role, on behalf of the Freemason network, of building Gaudiya Vaishnava into an attractive enough option to people searching for a spiritual home, knew too little about Hinduism to understand the difference, who could be sold on the notion of UFOs and aliens as part of the mythology, and who would be either willing to give up their children or commit crimes on behalf of their newfound gurus.
The British also dismantled the entire Indian shipping industry—for a while. It just so happens that when Prabhupada took his voyage to the U.S., he took it about a ship from the first Indian-run shipping company allowed in generations, the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. The Scindia, as it was known, was run by Sumati Morarjee, a woman from a wealthy textile manufacturer who just happened to be close confidants of both Gandhi and his Theosophical-Freemason Hindu-mentor Besant. Prabhupada’s ticket was complimentary.
Not long after Abhay refused his diploma, he began studying with his spiritual master, Datta the Younger a.k.a. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura who, as the story goes, told Abhay to preach Gaudiya Vaishhava theology to the English-speaking world. This stands out as at least a little weird considering that the vast majority of people in the vastly populated subcontinent had absolutely no idea about much of anything regarding Gaudiya Vaishnava.
Now, let’s make a brief timeline of Abhay Charan De’s life prior to moving to the U.S. in 1965, along with an additional bit of trivia:
1918, The 22-year-old Abhay marries 11-year-old Radharani Datta of the aforementioned Datta dynasty. Their first child who survived to adulthood was born three years later. They would have four additional children.
1922, Abhay rejects his diploma.
1923, Abhay enters the pharmaceutical industry. During this time, Abhay spent time with Jawaharlal Nehru, the future first Prime Minister of India, and his father Motilal Nehru.
1933, Abhay receives his disksha.
1940
1954, Abhay supposedly abandons his wife and children because she sold his copy of the Gita to buy tea, a habit he did not condone. They suffer 15 years of poverty.
1959, Abhay takes sannyasa, adopting the lifestyle of a celibate monk.
1967, Abhay accepts the name Prabhupada, or “one at whose feet the masters sit”.
1969, Abhay, now Prabhupada, begins sending ISKCON funds to his wife and children. The family also receives writes to the printing of his books in India. This step was taken in contravention to his monastic vows, and we might wonder if it purchased the silence or loyalty of his wife and children.
Prior to leaving India, Prabhupada cultivated just one single follower.
However, the Dattas had a handful of monks working with them prior to Abhay’s transformation into Swamiji Prabhupada. Not many, but a few. Most notably, British Viceroy and Governor of Bengal John Anderson began participating in some Gaudiya Vaishnava rituals around 1930.
Among the small number of Bengalis working with Bhaktivinoda Thakur were three whom he sent to Europe in 1933. All three were also from aristocratic backgrounds. Swami Bhakti Hriday Bon was the leader of that expedition. With him were Swami Bhakti Pradip Tirtha and Sambidanada Das. Their expedition to Europe was funded by the Maharajas of Tripura (Manikya Dynasty), Darbhangha (Khandavala Dynasty), Burdwan (Mahtab/Kapoor Dynasties), and Kumar Durjay Kishore Dev Burman Bahadur, Prince of Tripura. All of these wealthy families enjoyed immense wealth and lordship over lands under the British Raj. Some even fought alongside the British. And at most one of these families remained outside the Freemasonic fraternal system. In fact, Maharadhiraj Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab founded the Sir Andrew Fraser Masonic Lodge alongside the British Governor of Bengal. None of these families were traditionally involved in Gaudiya Vaishnava, though the Maharajas of Tripura eventually embraced it openly. That may have been due to its relationship with the Tagore family, and the voluminous treasuries filled with profits from the British-orchestrated opium trade.
The trip to Europe was an astounding success. As the story goes, the three monks from a small Hindu sect in India dazzled the highest tiers of British society where orientalism had reached fetish pitch. Within months of arriving in the UK, they established the London Gaudiya Mission Society and secured an audience with King George V. The Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, ensured that doors were opened for the wandering trio.
The three monks also managed to rope in several noteworthy converts who oddly jumped at the opportunity to join a tiny sect with almost no followers in its native country. Among these was the brilliant intellectual Ernst-George Schulz who studied Comparative Theology and Philosophy at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin. Though he had studied Eastern languages and religions for many years, this was the one time a religion outside of Christianity moved him to shift faiths. Another sudden convert was the German aristocrat Baron H.E. von Koeth. Austrian writer, poet, and Indologist Walther Eidlitz also quickly converted. Years later Eidlitz would move to Sweden where he pioneered Gaudiya Vaishnava in Scandinavia.
We might wonder why there have not been conversion ratios among academics since that one mission in 1933. It’s almost as if academics and intellectuals are not easily convinced by Gaudiya Vaishnava in this era in which its followers are many times the number they were more than 90 years ago. Maybe these were men on a mission other than that of devotion to Krishna, like setting the stage for global cosmopolitanism in the West—that mission primary to the Freemasons.
Either way, by the time Abhay left for the U.S., he had merely one single devotee in India, and the religious sect still barely saw active practice. Then he just happened to arrive in the U.S. at the precise moment when intelligence agencies were running all manner of operations to erect a degenerate counterculture, chock full of malignant gurus and cults, imposed on millions of young, anti-war Americans. We are told that Prabhupada arrived in New York with “the equivalent of seven dollars” to his name, which adds legitimacy to his supposed asceticism, and also drama, to a tale that grew tall over the decades.
This movement was soon joined by Beatles legend George Harrison, who apparently hadn’t had enough of bottom-feeder guru cults after the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi raped his good friend Mia Farrow. Harrison produced this chanty tune that almost certainly helped bring more young Westerners into the fold of Hare Krishna.
Nobody can say for certain whether this devotion was genuine or staged, but I have developed my own opinion on the matter, based on a lot of common threads. I personally don’t suspect that the Beatles were sincere about anything. In 1965, Paul McCartney gave an interview with Playboy magazine in which he acknowledged that the Beatles seem “anti-religious” to people, clarifying that they were all agnostics. I suspect that this was the real setup, and that the Beatles were aimed into the counter-cultural movements of the 60s to draw in atheist, agnostic, and spiritually searching young people, then steer them into nihilistic corners of the movement—a total inversion of the philosophy expressed at the sermon on the mount, which itself stands out as the most monumental anti-globalist stratagem recorded anywhere in ancient history.
I am somehow at this moment reminded of the Beatles “I Am the Walrus”.
It may be in fact true that a generation of spiritualist hippies left this world chanting “gaga googoo” or even “goo goo g’joob”? Don’t you think the devil laughs at them? I don’t know, but I know that Harrison never cut his hair. Maybe he loved Krishna, but man, chicks dig those locks!
Blessed are the oysters?
Recall that the Walrus is the character from Lewis Carroll’s poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter. I cannot help but to think that the poem’s style mocks degenerate religious discussion, such as debates over how many angels dance on the head of a pin if only half of them chant, “Hare Krishna Rama Rama”. While sometimes called a “nonsense poem”, I suspect that it was more like an admission that Freemasonry (in which Carroll’s family was heavily involved) promoted the degenerate, unproductive Devil as equal to the productive builders (Masons standing in for Carpenter Jesus) to outsiders. During the poem, light turns to darkness while Walrus and Carpenter make pseudo-intellectual small talk about the sand. They are then followed by young oysters whose elder brother knows better, but will now have sole dominion over his domain. The young oysters are like naive children, preparing a feast for the masters who also eat those servant children by the end. Goo goo g’joob. As good as pizza.
While not fully necessary to the story, some readers may want to listen to this conversation between a former academic liaison for ISKCON and his friend, himself a former Moonie.
Maybe I’m not being fair? I do believe in judging people by the fruits they bear. So, let’s examine the fruits of Hare Krishna.
That’s…so deep, bro. Do this for one hour every morning for ten years, and you are thereby absolved of responsibility for the oppression of her people. Also, you might transmit your consciousness to another dimension. That happens, bro. Keep trying.
Prabhupada’s fruits must certainly include his books. Prabhupada’s most important book is Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. This is a central clue to the con that is ISKCON. The Bhagavad-gita (”God’s song”, sometimes simply “the Gita”) amounts to 700 verses among the over half million verses contained in the religious volumes that make up the ancient Vedic religious library. In fact, we might even say that it’s not part of that library. It’s a small part of the vast epic known as Mahabharata, which contains around 100,000 verses describing a great war that might be described as something like the segue between the mystic cosmic past and the present world we know. In the Mahabharata, an epic battle takes place between two great factions, a description of which I will skip and let you find a good summary somewhere. The Bhagavad-gita is the name given to a single conversation that takes place within that epic.
The primary Hindu texts are classified as Shruti (that which is heard). The Mahabharata is classified as Smriti (that which is remembered). The elevation of texts of the Smriti over the Shruti is something like a heretical upheaval of Hinduism.
Is there absolutely nobody in government who understands that the Gita is something closer than Jonathan Livingston Seagull than a central spiritual text in Hinduism? Is this something like a wink that most of the elites understand?
So, is this upheaval entirely due to the oligarchical gurus (oligurus?) of modern Gaudiya Vaishnava?
No. And this puzzled me for a while, but after some reading, I believe I can explain what happened and why the globalists among the Freemasons seized on it.
Around 800 BCE, the Vedic philosopher Adi Shankara exceptionalized the Gita in what we might think of as an early interpretive exercise the way literature professors write papers about their interpretations of Shakespeare for publication in journals. In particular, Adi Shankara used the gita to champion a non-dualistic theology. Three centuries later, another philosopher Ramanuja challenged this interpretation, framing the text as devotion to a personal God. Two more centuries later, another thinker, Madhvacharya, insisted on a dualistic interpretation of the text. Just the fact that scholars were arguing over the centuries about a slice of text from an immense epic led to the Gita being translated, divorced from the larger Mahabharata, from Sanskrit into local vernacular languages.
But that text was never central to Vedic religion, and its actual meaning has been so highly debated that in the trial of Gandhi’s assassin, it was used both by the prosecution to condemn the crime, and also by the defense to justify it! Swearing on it is something like expressing devotion to religious sophistry.
The British Empire went about studying the Vedic texts when they began to take hold of India, commissioning some to be written down that were previously forbidden, and translating them all for studying [by the social engineers]. This angered many Brahmin, and few would have participated in the exercise. That moment was part of a controlled demolition of most continuous lineages of Vedic religion, with links further stressed by a combination of forced migrations and economic upheaval. All that laid the path for the British Empire to force a new religious path in India.
In 1785, Charles Wilkins, co-founder of the Asiatic League and most likely a Freemason given his social circle, translated the Gita to English. Once translated, the Gita became cocktail conversation among Western intelligentsia. Transcendentalist gurus such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson gave talks about it at American Freemasonry lodges.
Despite study and debate by Western academics, the philosophical ambiguity of the Gita still remained. And what can you accomplish with a text that can be quickly learned, and used to justify virtually any philosophical stance?
Have British Empire publisher MacMillan mass produce it. Then put it in the hands of every guru cult leader. There it is a weapon of mind control—particularly when elevated to supreme theocratic status. Alan Watts is one case in point. He wants his audience to take away a lack of distinction between humans, other animals, and even plants. This is a stark oversimplification of the commentaries of Hindu scholars about the divine nature(s) of various forms, and Vedic scholars would not use the Gita to settle those issues.
For the record, I suspect that the Mahabharata and the Epic of Gilgamesh share a common thread: the moment when the Yamnaya of the Eurasian Steppes, first men of horses, surprised the stable world order of the ruling classes, leading eventually to a conflict archeologists and geneticists are just beginning to work out in the details. We now know that Sanskrit’s first known presence was in Hittite (horse training) tablets in Anatolia, with Mesopotamia between that point and the Indus River Valley. Both epics encapsulate dramatic flood myths, and ships built to protect knowledge and life from which civilization could be re-established. There are certainly some amazing parallels in the story told in the oldest religions, but we don’t need to build cults to appreciate that fact.
The conflict of the Mahabharata may have been less fought on the battlefield than through economic and spiritual competition. But hey, that’s just a hypothesis. I’m simply eager to learn more. Those Yamnaya are ancestors to most of the population of South Asia, transitioned through a culture produced by Iranian (Aryan) admixture. Vishna’s presence in the Gita as a charioteer speaks to the importance of how the horse and wheel transformed the world during a great meeting between tribes representing a new order and an old order.
One way or another, the Gita was elevated in status prior to ISKCON, then used to legitimize ISKCON as an ancient religion carrying all the wisdom needed to survive the tests of time. It is also the case that the Gita is much like the Art of War in that the ancient text is quite short, so a book contains largely commentary that is simply the opinion of the author. This means that copyright applies, and a group like ISKCON can monopolize that book market, which brings in tens of millions of dollars, annually.
One last piece of trivia regarding the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement is that it has a sort of plant mascot. Tulasi is a basil associated with goddess Lakshmi, the consort of Lord Vishnu. Tulasi is the Earthly incarnation of Lakshmi. Tulasi is the avatar of Lakshmi, the divine feminine.
Note that there are mainstream Vedic scholars (Smarta/Monists) and neutral academics who take offense with the artificially engineered ISKCON religion on many levels that include some of my shared thoughts, but also many others. Amusingly, Swami Prabhupada often fired back as this critics by degrading them as illusionists (”Mayavadi”), their entire religious systems as “nonsense philosophy” and “spiritual suicide”. It was all a master class in DARVO.
For those who are having trouble justifying this story with generations of propaganda put in place to make the most degenerate, mystical, fractional forms of Eastern religion palatable to the world, understand that a large portion of the more educated communities of India are aghast with the Hare Krishna movement. Pranking the Hare Krishna movement is a favorite gag of Indian comedians. Because of course it is, and comedy is the best tool for unwinding the disturbing side of most things.
Part 2: Coming soon…
Thanks, Mathew. Fascinating.
Looking forward to part 2!! If I can just add a little of trivia to this massive corpus: the first time I heard of Hare Krishna was in one of my favourite musicals, (very catchy tunes, I understand the problematic propagandistic nature), the hippie enigma that is Hair. Prabhubada was just a recent implant, chanting Hare Krishna at Tompkins Square Park, attracting hippies from all over NY and the Hair writers included it in their play (consequently movie): https://youtu.be/5Aj1YVHXMQM?si=s6hGicbkZCJ98hqe - a few years before Harrison got in on the fun.
And speaking of Hair, one of the most memorable moments of the play, includes a monologue song lifted straight out of Hamlet:
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
Which just made me realize (under Baconian Shakespeare Project theory which I also subscribe to) that Hair was Freemason coded. I bet if I really delved in, there would be lots more clues.