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Cults? The Catholic Church has had a long and sordid history, long before any so-called infiltration.... all the way back to Emperor Constantine in the 300s, who only embraced Christianity because unlike the local pagans, the Chirstians pffered forgiveness for his brutally killing his wife and family. Disgusting morals at the highest levels continued until the Reformation forced the popes to start acting a bit more human.

Aside from this bit of digression, David Martin and Mikki Willis are both extremely new agey in a squishy way, and connected through some new age network. Willis's 9/11 story is questionable. Martin is just odd. I looked into him a while ago and on his college graduation page he stated that he lost his legs in an accident. He wrote a book, Lizards Eat Butterflies. He has a new age goddess type second wife, and they do cringeworthy social media video posts. A speech he gave a couple years ago sounded like a religious sermon, but at one point he stopped short of saying God, instead asking the question "who?" to the audience, and then thanking them for the "God" reply. His business seems to be based in patent research, but spins off into whatever expertise seems called for in any given moment. Strange.

Oh and don't get me started on Russell Brand - there is a video somewhere on rumble I think, something like "Who is Russell Brand" and covers a lot of his Pied Piper sketchiness. His "OBEY" moment with then-wife and fellow weirdo Katy Perry is telling, and is evidence for the idea he was her handler.

Speaking of mind control, Sirhan Sirhan is in the news again, after the rabbi RFK met with and kowtowed to tweeted praises to both RFK and his dad, supposedly such a great friend of Israel that a Palestinian assassinated him. Problem is Sirhan never got close enough or behind RFK to fire the fatal shots. Srihan was as obvious a mind controlled patsy as there ever was. That whole thing stinks and it stinks for some schmuck rabbi to throw that lone gunman BS in RFK's face, when he knows better.

I could go on - it is a juicy topic and appreciated. I look forward to reading your work.

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Your efforts in picking up and peering under this rock are much appreciated.

Something very, very weird is going on, that's for sure. The glorious Notre Dame Cathedral took 200 years to complete; I can't help but think that we are witnessing the culmination of an Evil hundreds of years in the making. Also kinda eerie to contemplate that the fire during Holy Week of 2019 seemed to portend the horror that's been unleashed on the world later that year, no?

As for Dundas and Ray Epps, it's interesting to note that Dante places betrayers in the deepest, coldest part of Hell. Next to Ol' Scratch himself. Traitors destroy trust. Societies collapse when trust is gone. We are living in very dramatic times.

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Looking forward to finding out how Tom Cruise fits in to all of this. Has he aged yet?

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Well, if we’re gonna go there, the Government is a cult.

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I often ask myself did the Trump presidency hurt or help the cult behavior that’s prevalent today?

It’s a chicken-egg dilemma. Was Trump a victim of unfair persecution, was he his own worst enemy? Or, worse, was everything a show?

From the beginning he came out swinging at “the swamp.” A swamp that he actually surrounded himself with and never drained near as I can tell.

It all feels like it’s contrived. Like a WWE wrestling match. The fake good guys vs the fake bad guys mixing it up so we dig deep and buy a ticket to the show.

Pre-covid Trump was a shoe-in for reelection. But had he been re-elected his detractors made it clear they’d never take the “Trump vaccine.” So was his crashing and burning by design to achieve almost total “vaccine” compliance?

Is everything theatre?

Trump declared the pandemic a National emergency on the auspicious date of Fri the 13th of March 2020. He pushed through DARPAs Operation Warp Speed “vaccinations” and is still bragging about it.

Is his current victimization a theatrical production to garner sympathy because he’s being groomed by the so-called swamp for a return?

It is important to understand Trump Derangement Syndrome works both ways and can be used to manipulate both sides to achieve a predetermined agenda. Trump’s enemies ultimately lined up to get transfected. Everyone could be getting roped-in to an unpleasant script without realizing it.

If we’re not careful and so quick to embrace what appears to be obvious we can all be sucked into cults.

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There is a lot to the presence of Moloch in our culture.

Here is Ginsberg's notorious take:

https://youtu.be/Nonab6djMAA

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Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 13, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Any thoughts about tracing this back in time?

I'm neither as intelligent, nor as thorough, nor anywhere near as organized as you - but I've been dabbling in this for quite some time now, and much of this seems to have proximal roots in theosophy, freemasonry and illuminism, and before that Sabbataean-Frankism. Illuminism and communism were/are essentially the same idea, and theosophy appears to have played a significant role in the fascist movement too in both Germany (deep occult roots inside the nazi party) and Italy (e.g. Julius Evola). EDIT - I forgot to add that Rasputin is also linked to theosophy through his key lieutenant, son-in-law and successor (from memory name was maybe Boris Soloviev) who was a Blavatsky acolyte.

Theosophy appears to be the direct precursor of the New Age movement and both were/are heavily involved in the United Nations (e.g. Alice Bailey, Robert Muller, David Spangler. Also Lucis trust previously known as the Lucifer publishing company). There appear to be strong links to the Kabbalah and Gnosticism in all of this too.

Further to that, something called the Academy of Divine Knowledge (now UNIFYD) seemed to link together a lot of prominent early anti-vaxxers inside a new age cult, which is itself tied to the United Nations through an individual named Sacha Stone. Members/teachers included David Icke (who appears to be a freemason as well), Del Bigtree, RFK Jr, Robert David Steele, Carrie Madej and dozens of others. Clay Clarke's reawaken america tour seemed to be linked to this group as far as I remember too. The web-site has changed, and much is now hidden - but you can see what it used to look like from this video https://www.bitchute.com/video/qETEsG2QU7xY/. Amusingly membership used to cost $33 per period (I can't remember the length of the period - but it isn't important - the key is the 33, as numerology appears to be a recurring theme of these cults probably derived from the Kabbalah).

Other ancient cult/sects which appear to be related - Knights Templar/Rosicrucians, Assassins, Ismaili sect esp Abdullah ibn Maymun (eventually resulting in the Kharmathites. The current leader of the Ismaili sect is the Aga Khan whose followers refer to him as the "bringer of light").

More recently Nxium is, I think, part of this, and Richard Branson appears to have been involved with that group hosting their meetings on his private island (Necker island) curiously located in the Bristish Virgin Islands about 25 miles from Epstein's Little St. James.

Also there's a fair bit of info out there regarding the infiltration of the catholic church which seems to have occurred relatively recently. The permanent instruction of the alta vendita (Italian freemasonry's plan to infiltrate the church) is a matter of record as is the pope's response at the time. Subsequently Vatican 2, various papal banking scandals, Malachi Martin's account (subsequently corroborated by the confession of a participant) of the enthronement of Lucifer in the vatican, the curious death of John Paul 1, the (forced?) partial abdication of Benedict, the idol worship of Francis (pacha mama) etc.

PS Random observation: Dr. David Martin has an eye of horus tattoo, as well as a very curious globalist background and a web-site littered with masonic symbology.

PPS Trump sports a fair bit of masonic symbology too.

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(Banned)Jun 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Aleister Crowley OTO Jack Parsons L Ron Hubbard.

You got occult, jet propulsion and the founder of Scientology all cuddled up together. Hubbard even ended up with Parsons wife.

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It's the latter: ["world's largest ever theatrical production aimed at convincing the world to accept a lesser level of rights and freedom (along with a series of market manipulations and grifts that result in little real organized opposition with the resources to push back)." ]

or maybe an unplanned and fractioned parallel timeline of the two possibilities.

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Don’t believe there’s any “What If” about this whole rotten s**t show. And it obviously runs even deeper that I had previously thought.

I remember talking with some Twitter folks awhile back about the whole snarled mess (this was during Trumps four years). We agreed that the tangle was deliberate…erected to obfuscate who exactly was connected to whom, and influencing (at the very least, but I think also coordinating) the evil that has suddenly come out front and center, everywhere and all at once.

God bless your labors to pull back the curtain. May God guard and guide you and shine His grace upon on you.

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Interesting that Dr. Malone, in his interview with Mappin, recognizes that the expression of normal proteins that should be "self" are treated as "non-self" by the immune systems of patients treated with such gene therapy, yet he has remained silent about the autoimmune origins of many of the "vaccine" adverse events like myocarditis. The video is evidence that he MUST have been aware of autoimmune problems we were warned about by Prof Dr Dolores Cahill in early 2021 and the biodistribution reported by Dr. Byram Bridle by summer 2021 along with the lack of aspiration reported by John Campbell. Yet he did not become an outspoken expert on such dangers, preferring instead to spend his time suing Dr. Breggin while at the same time agreeing with Breggin on demonizing the China for its role in the scam.

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I ignore the mainstream media and corporate ESG along with all cults. So many people are so lost and thus become a member of this cult or that hoping to find themselves. Cults are nothing more that another name for collectives where you surrender your individual sovereignty in favor of becoming a slave to the cult leaders.

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I've been feeling that vaccines themselves have been elevated to a cult status, such that the label "anti-vaxxer" carries the same weight as being labeled a blasphemer or Satan worshipper in 17th century Salem, MA. Or the same as any member of a latter-day cult questioning or challenging the words of the cult leader.

(Can someone tell me what MFM means? Thanks.)

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Notre Dame, that was no accident.

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Jun 12, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Interesting timing about the mind control part since the Unabomber just died. He took part in MK Ultra-type experiments at Harvard. With your math background, I'd be curious of your thoughts on him. I've read parts of his manifesto, and his description of the left in the 80s and early 90s sounds like the more totalitarian woke of today. I've head his PhD thesis was similar to John Nash's but never looked into it.

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Allison McDowell talks about a couple of Scientology connections (Tony Muhammad and Michael Baum) to the California chapter of children's health defense in minutes 23 through 43 or so of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/live/3FLhv02cyNc?feature=share

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