Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Book Review: Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster by David Icke

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This one definitely wasn't on my winter reading list, but my Signif Other brought it home from a kooky New Age bookstore and I just couldn't resist, even though it reeks of incense.

For those not familiar with Mr. David Icke (pronounced "Ike"), a crash course: He's a former UK football player and sports presenter who experienced some sort of breakdown around 1990. Ever since, he's been giving lectures and writing books about an ancient global conspiracy to control humanity, which he now says is headed by 4th-dimensional, evil Reptilian entities who interbred with certain humans to create 13 "Illuminati Bloodline" families.

The most powerful members of these families (the Bushes, the Windsors, et. al.) are not strictly human; they are possessed by the Reptilians, and can shape-shift at will during their Satanic blood-drinking ceremonies. Their goal is to turn humanity into a microchipped herd of cattle, under total physical and emotional control. To this end the Illuminati has introduced aspartame, tainted vaccines, fluoridated water, GM foods, television, the media, trauma-based mind control (he extensively quotes Cathy O'Brien and other alleged victims of the possibly fictional Project Monarch), and all religions. The Illuminati also use manufactured wars to keep humanity distracted and distressed (the Reptilians feed on our fear and bad vibes as well as our blood, you see), covertly funding both sides of conflicts. To enforce their will upon us, the Illuminati produce manufactured problems with pre-arranged "solutions" (a real-world form of the Hegelian Dialectic, dubbed "Problem-Reaction-Solution", or PRS, by Icke).

I admit I it: I like Icke. Sure, his research is spotty and he's breathtakingly gullible and he believes in giant shape-shifting reptilian Satanists, but he's sincere in his beliefs. You certainly can't say that about many authors nowadays, as my posts on James Frey, "Nasdiij", "J.T. LeRoy", et. al., show.
Some activists, notably Canadian human-rights attorney Richard Warman, believe Icke to be an anti-Semite using "12-foot Reptilians" as a code word for "Jews." For this reason, Indigo Books in Ontario will no longer carry his works and some of his Canadian appearances have been cancelled. Trust me, though - Icke believes in the lizards. And he despises all religions, not just Judaism. Also, he discusses Jews and Reptilians separately, and names mostly WASPy types as lizard people.

Icke's early books (up to 1999's The Biggest Secret) didn't mention the lizards at all. That's how Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster starts out, too; he reserves the multi-dimensional lizard stuff for the final chapter. Alice begins with an extensive overview of the Bush Dynasty, adhering to the theory that George Bush Sr. was the "Secret President" throughout the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush Jr. administrations as well as his own. Icke reviews Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Gulf War I, Enron, and a host of other dismal events before finally delving into 9/11 in chapter 7. As with all of Icke's books, Alice is a colossal mish-mash of everything he's ever read on the subject, some of it culled from reputable sources and some from utter lunatics he met in a back alley somewhere. Most of his information is boilerplate 9/11 conspiracy theory, but he does present numerous intriguing factoids that you won't easily find elsewhere. (This is true of most of his books, particularly And the Truth Shall Set You Free.) He has also retained a refreshing sense of humour, something very rare among conspiracy theorists.

The only thing I found particularly annoying about Alice was Icke's frequent reminders (roughly every other page) that predictions from his earlier books have come to pass, therefore we should believe everything he says now. Um, no thanks. I mean, when you spew out thousands of pages of predictions, you're bound to hit on the truth from time to time...

A sample of the interesting tidbits in Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster:

- The Statue of Liberty is a representation of the legendary Assyrian Queen Semiramis

- George and Barbara Bush are descendants of Crusader Godfroi de Bouillon, First King of Jerusalem, and 34 of the U.S. presidents were descended from Charlemagne.

- Ben Bradlee worked for the CIA at one point (he, too, is descended from Charlemagne).

But there are also many references to FEMA concentration camps, Satanic ritual abuse, and the chemical assault on humanity. Icke writes that fluoride is a "major intellect suppressant" found in cockroach poison, Prozac, and nerve gas; (uncited) studies have shown it makes people "stupid, docile, and subservient" (I'd love to know which researchers use the word "stupid" in their papers). Oh, and it renders people sterile. GM foods, vaccines, crop chemicals, and food additives are actually designed to "genetically modify the body, rewrite the DNA" in order to reduce the "ability of consciousness to manifest its genius through the brain."

Though he cites most of his sources, you obviously can't trust a thing Icke says until you've quadruple-verified it for yourself. His stuff is really for entertainment purposes only, a glimpse into the ultra-paranoid worldview that seems to be getting more and more mainstream by the day.

For more Icke and Reptilian info:
- http://www.davidicke.com/
- YouTube search
- Google Video search
- ReptilianAgenda.com
- Wikipedia entry on "Reptilian humanoids"
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Postby American Dream » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:40 am

Anti-Occult Nonsense On Stilts: Kurt Koch's Occult ABC

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In the world of anti-occult zealotry, Kurt Koch is something of a legend. A Lutheran pastor in Germany, he traveled the world addressing churches of nearly every denomination for over half a century, and claimed to have counseled about 20,000 people by the late '70s.

I was *lucky* enough to score a copy of his most famous book, Occult ABC, at my local secondhand bookshop.

While it's hard not to admire Koch's deep religious devotion, it's pretty easy to hate this book. Originally published in 1978, it reads like it was written in the early '50s and consists almost entirely of anecdotes - mostly secondhand stories told by missionaries and pastors. You know the kind: "You wouldn't believe what these savages are doing!" Koch even includes the old legend of the Hippie Babysitter and the Roasted Baby, substituting devil worshippers for the hippie. He also promotes the b.s. stories of "former Satanists" like Doreen Irvine and Mike Warnke. A big part of the reason Koch falls for this blarney is explained on p. 229: "When people have been convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit and have received Jesus Christ as their Lord, they generally speak the truth."

As you've probably guessed, just about everything that doesn't involve Bible-reading and praying to Jesus is "occult" in Koch's opinion. He devotes sections to acupuncture, homosexuality, porn, yoga, meditation, "descent from the ape", Freemasonry, and of course rock music. And Koch believes that any degree of occult influence can afflict multiple generations (the "sins of the father"), causing everything from skin diseases to demonic possession.

The wisdom Koch dispenses is often wildly contradictory. For instance, he maintains that all precognitive powers come from Satan, yet implies several times that it can be 100% accurate and that only a fool would ignore a warning from a psychic.

He stresses that some mental illnesses have natural causes and can be treated by psychiatry, while others are occult in origin and must be treated spiritually. But then he states that occult involvment isn't the cause of mental illness; it just paves the way for mental illness to develop.
He describes many cases in which occultists changed their evil ways because a spouse or parent prayed for their salvation for many years. Later, he tells us never to pray for occultists unless they have explicitly expressed a desire to change, because it simply won't work.

Some of his examples are just plain creepy. Koch boasts that Mirin Dajo died because some Christians prayed for his sword-piercing trick to fail onstage, and it did. (Actually, it didn't. Dajo died after slipping into a coma, and he was not performing at the time.)

In another example, Koch writes of a man who foolishly yoked himself to a non-Christian wife and spent the rest of his life regretting it. His poor son-in-law got so tired of the woman's nagging that he boxed her ears until she shut up. The lesson seems to be that it's A-OK to smack your mother-in-law around if she's a non-Christian.

Once, when a woman with a nasty skin disease consulted him, Koch asked her "how she ever got married in such a condition." Nice.

Then there was the little girl who become "dreadfully depraved" after being treated by a nature healer. "At the age of ten she seduced a married man - not vice versa." Where have I heard that before? Oh, right, from child molesters.

Here are just a few choice bits from Occult ABC:

Christian Scientists ganged up to psychically murder a man who left the church, giving him a skin disease that caused him to shed his skin "like a snake."

Sorcerors in East Timor engage in "criminal activity" by projecting parts of their spirits into owls, which fly to the homes of enemies to steal pieces of the enemies' livers.

After signing a pact with the Devil, a German woman become possessed and was repeatedly squished by a giant, invisible snake. Koch recorded about 100 cases of such blood pacts, and states that in the previous 20 years, "tens of thousands of young people have signed their souls to the Devil in their own blood." As with every other statistic in the book, we have no idea where he got these numbers.

Elves are real.

All hypnosis is dangerous, even stage hypnosis. If you allow yourself to be hypnotized by one, you may become a drunk like this one chick in Argentina. Stage hypnotists are criminals.

If you go to an iridologist, you might become a wife-beating drunk like this one dude.

If an occultist becomes a Christian, the Devil will be furious and will do everything in his power to oppose you. So you might become a wife-beater anyway, like this other dude.

UFOs are heralds of the Antichrist.

Gospel singer Henry Drummond, before becoming a Christian, could hypnotize people at a distance of 50 miles.

A woman with legs of unequal length went to a "spiritist healer" for healing, and the shorter leg magically grew. But when she became a Christian, it shrank.

You must never collect bric-a-brac from non-Christian cultures. "A minister's wife on Prince Edward Island had collected a whole table-full of figures of gods and cultic objects from the mission field. Today she is in a mental institution."

About 50% of the compulsive neurotics Koch counseled had connections with spiritism or magic in their backgrounds, hence these things cause compulsive neuroses. (Keep in mind that Koch has no training in psychology.)

Uri Geller is really psychic, and everyone who found their cutlery bent after one of his TV broadcasts had some psychic ability, as well. "Only the ignorant make fun of these things."

"Voodoo" practitioners drink blood and sacrifice children.

In his chapter on Freemasonry, Koch writes that "French historians like Abbe Barnuel maintain that the French Revolution" was engineered by Masons. First of all, it's Barruel. Secondly, he was not a historian. He was a conspiranoid priest who later rewrote his anti-Masonic thesis, shifting blame to the Jews.

Koch takes the view that porn is a Communist device to weaken the morals of Westerners. Perversion for Profit, anyone?

Anonymous psychiatrist: "The ouija board is filling our pyschiatric clinics in New York."

Koch on the manufacturers of ouija boards: "If the American government knew how much evil this one firm in Massassachusetts has brought on the American people, they would prohibit the production of these devilish boards at once."

Some Africans can turn themselves into leopards.

"I go to the dentist when it is necessary. But I always pray when I go, for dental treatment can last six months and cause much pain." (I'm guessing this wouldn't have been the case if he went to the dentist more than "necessary"...)

In the Arctic, archaeologists found bones that were said to be 20,000 years old. "I am somewhat skeptical about this claim."

On astrology: "There really ought to be a law prohibiting this and all other forms of fortune-telling. Astrology has been responsible for a number of suicides and murders."

You must not touch a practicing medium. You might get an electric shock, like this one guy.



And so on. From what I've seen, all Koch's books are like this one - so I won't be reading any of them.


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More Illuminati Defectors

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Leo Zagami

Leo Zagami is the first European in this series, the youngest person in this series, the first one to claim he has returned to the Illuminati to help reform it, and the first to establish his own religion. He surfaced online in 2006, on a now-defunct site called Illuminati Confessions, and quickly gained a small but devoted following in the conspiracy community. No one had stepped forward to take the place of Arizona Wilder after she went quiet in 2003, so Zagami was offering up the first brand-new revelations from an Illuminati insider in three years. By this time, Todd was confined to a psychiatric ward, Schnoebelen had moved on to talking about his vampirism, and the other defectors had been out of the Illuminati for at least a decade.

I have to admit, I don't have much love for this guy. He's certainly not as despicable as convicted rapist John Todd, but he definitely lacks the hucksterish charm of Warnke and Schnoebelen. I found much of what he had to say to be bigoted, hateful nonsense. This guy doesn't like Jews, Catholics (though he used to be one), Muslims (though he used to be one), or occultists (though he supposedly used to be one). He basically says the Third Reich was a Jewish creation, set up for the sole purpose of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. He says all Catholics are spies for the Vatican. He says Islam is a Jesuit-created deception. He tells us the Vatican is riddled with high-level Muslim moles and Satanists. (1)

Everything he has to say could have been gleaned from conspiracy paperbacks and a few websites; he has no startling revelations to offer, though he acts as if he's dropping pearls of rare wisdom. Talking about demons, he tells us, "If you knew the reality what these entities were, you would not even touch them, you would just drove the other way." (That's another problem: His English is so dodgy that listening to his interviews or reading his website is an agonizing ordeal.) (1)

Personal feelings aside, though, Zagami's information simply doesn't stand up to any amount of scrutiny.


Leo's Story

Unlike Marquis and Todd, Zagami wasn't exactly born into the Illuminati. He claims, however, that some of his relatives were high-ranking members. This, combined with his aristocratic background, opened doors for him when he was in his early twenties. That's when a family friend introduced him to Freemasonry, one of the most powerful branches of the Illuminati.

Zagami was born in Rome in 1970. His father, Elio Zagami, comes from an aristocratic Sicilian background (he is the son of the late Sicilian senator Leopoldo Zagami and the Marquisa di Gregorio). His mother, Jessica Lyon Young, is descended from European aristocracy. His maternal grandmother, the late bohemian novelist Anne Cumming (Felicity Mason), was a prominent member of the Illuminati. His maternal grandfather, writer Henry Lyon Young, was a first cousin of the Queen Mother. (2)

"That means I'm technically a Sicilian Don and a Prince of the Sacred Roman Empire and a person protected by their own Vatican secret constitutions, so they can't touch me," Zagami once boasted to conspiranoid radio host Greg Szymanski.

Zagami was raised as a Catholic, but introduced to the occult at an early age. His grandmother Mason gave him a copy of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth when he was just 11 years old, and he often dipped into his father's magical library. (1)

In 1993, 23-year-old Leo was initiated into an irregular Masonic lodge. Between that initiation and his departure from the Illuminati in 2006, he was connected to a bewildering array of Masonic lodges (all irregular, with one exception), as well as the Ordo Templi Orientis, a few fraternal organizations, and some secret societies. Ultimately he became a member of something he calls the Committee of Monte Carlo, a Freemasonic lodge that serves not only as a hub for arms-dealing (Leo's primary source of income at that time), but as a meeting place for "senior Masons" of various nationalities and traditions. It is also, of course, a front for the Illuminati.

Zagami tells us that this Monte Carlo lodge was an offshoot of Propaganda Due, or P2, the infamous Italian lodge, and that he was groomed to take over the reigns of power from P2's enigmatic "Puppet Master", Licio Gelli. Thanks to his aristocratic background, he moved rapidly through the Freemasonic ranks to join the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree (a degree conferred only by the Scottish Rite Freemasons)

I have long been fascinated by Propaganda Due and the banking-related scandals that erupted around it in the '80s. It's a staggeringly complex web of fraud, murder, and blackmail that I can't even begin to cover here, and much of what occurred remains a mystery.

So you would expect this Zagami guy to offer up a lot of juicy, inside information about Gelli, P2's inner workings, and the banking scandals, right?

Then you'll be disappointed. Wikipedia has more to say about Gelli than Leo Zagami does, and his brief recap of the scandals is P2 101. Seriously, you'll learn more from listening to 5 minutes of Robert Anton Wilson than you will from listening to 5 hours of Zagami - and unfortunately, I did listen to 5 hours of Zagami.

P2 effectively ceased to exist after its membership was exposed in 1981, and that occurred when Leo Zagami was about 11 years old. Are you telling me that one of the most powerful secret cabals in Italy was grooming a grade-school student to take over for the Puppet Master? Besides, Gelli already had a second-in-command, his business partner Umberto Ortoloni.

Zagami's mentor and "boss" within the Illuminati was the head of the Monte Carlo lodge. I thought Gelli was the head of this lodge? Well, never mind. That's not the last contradiction you'll see in this story.

Leo made his money by dealing in weapons. He also worked as a club DJ and music producer, attracting fans all over the world. Somehow, he was also linked to NATO's Operation Gladio. He went by several aliases. (2)

Zagami's Illuminati isn't headed by the Rothschilds, as most of the other Illuminati defectors in this series have stated, nor by Arizona Wilder's horny French noble "Pindar". And the Illuminati isn't headquartered in California like John Todd, Mike Warnke, or Wilder would have you believe. No, this Illuminati is centred in Jerusalem and Rome. Zionists and the Vatican are at the top of the power pyramid. Jesuits (or as Zagami calls them, "Jesooites"), in particular, are very powerful within the Illuminati. The pope takes all his orders from the Jesuit General (in 2006, when Zagami first appeared on the conspiracy scene, this was Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, the "Vatican's top Satanist"). (3)

This Illuminati strongly resembles the one described by Bill Schnoebelen, a surreal mishmash of occultism and ritual magick, Catholicism, Freemasonry, and New Age beliefs. The Ordo Templi Orientis is part of the Illuminati, as are Opus Dei and the Rotary clubs. Zagami even claims there's a real Priory of Sion, though it's not the same one Dan Brown used in The Da Vinci Code. (4)

Aleister Crowley's 1904 revelations are extremely important to them. The closest thing the Illuminati has to scripture is Crowley's Book of the Law, though the Bible and the Q'ran also play significant roles (as we have seen throughout this series, no one can seem to agree on the central texts used by the world's Satanic elite).

Zagami says the primary goal of the Illuminati is to usher in the endtimes and the earthly kingdom of God. But its members are also Satanists who outwardly adhere to the three main religions. So I guess that makes them....Christians pretending to be Satanists pretending to be Christians, Muslims, and Jews? And if that's not complicated enough, we have Muslim cardinals pretending to be Catholic (yet Zagami points out that Islam forbids the practice of magic, and the Vatican is steeped in occult practices - how does that work?).

For centuries, the Jesuits and the Pope have been practicing magicians who know how to summon demons from other dimensions. Today, these demons masquerade as aliens. The elite want you to believe that UFOs and ETs are unknown phenomena, because they can't admit they're conjuring demons with the use of black magic rituals. (1)
Sometimes, demons manifest as Reptilians.

Like Arizona Wilder, Zagami identifies the late pseudohistorian Zecharia Sitchin as a source of disinformation. His 2007 book The End of Days was written by order of the Vatican to distract people from the real aliens and the real endtimes preparations.

The late Monsignor Caraddo Balducci, one of the few high-ranking Catholic clerics to express interest in UFOs, was really an Illuminati demonologist. When he declared that ETs are not demonic, he was lying.

The Jesuits, too, are masters of disinformation. They invented Planet X and Nibiru, and they are behind much of the ersatz spirituality of the New Age movement. Meanwhile, they were eager to establish an observatory on Mount Graham despite Native American opposition because they know that demons dwell on top of that mountain, and they like to keep an eye on the sky for astrological purposes. You see, the Vatican's demon-invoking rituals have to be conducted at precise times in order to be effective.

Never mind that the Mount Graham Observatory is an international establishment, actually consisting of several different observatories maintained by different nations. The site was selected for its elevation and the low level of light pollution in the vicinity, as most observatory sites are.

Zagami insists the Jesooites churn out disinfo to mask the reality of our situation: We are in the midst of a continuous war waged between good and evil, angels and demons. Um. Isn't that precisely what the Catholic Church teaches?

Muslims, too, know how to summon djinn and use them for their own purposes. Zagami tells a rambling story about one of his ex-wife's relatives, an "uncle or granddad" who had a farm. Using secret codes from the Q'ran, this farmer was able to summon demons to do all his farm work for him. (1)

Zagami's Illuminati differs from Bill Schnoebelen's in many key aspects. Leo apparently didn't have to have sex with a fallen angel or converse with the dead as part of his initiation process, and he wasn't required to become a Catholic priest. He didn't have to convince seven people to sell their souls. These are all steps that Schnoebelen identifies as essential for all high-ranking Illuminati members. After a certain stage of illumination is reached, the initiate has to decide between lycanthropy and vampirism. Zagami has nothing to say about vampires and werewolves at all, so I guess he skipped that step.

This Illuminati also differs from John Todd's version. Zagami has worked as a club DJ, yet he doesn't have anything to say about the demonic evils of music, while Todd told churchgoers that each and every musical artist signed to a major label must sell his/her soul to the Devil, and described how Satanic rituals were used to implant demons into every master recording. Also, Todd stated that very few Illuminati members are Jewish, while Zagami says the entire organization is controlled by Jews and Catholics. Todd said the central scripture of Satanism is the fictitious Necronomicon; Zagami says it's Crowley's Book of the Law.

Zagami doesn't drop as many names as Arizona Wilder once did, but he's not as close-mouthed as Doc Marquis. He identifies key members of the Ordo Templi Orientis as CIA-controlled Illuminists. In addition to the Jesuit General Kolvenbach, he names the late Alberto Moscato as a high-ranking member and 33rd degree Mason, in charge of all the O.T.O's Satanic activities in Italy. The now-defunct political party Alleanza Nazionale was flush with Illuminati members. Giorgio Balestrieri, head of the Rotary Club in New York, was one of Zagami's superiors. Zagami claims Balestrieri is a weapons dealer and a P2 member. (1) Olympic athlete Jean-Pierre Giudicelli is a P2 member. Massimo Introvigne is a Satanist, and was present for a Black Mass held in the Vatican in 2000. (3) These are just of the names - some obscure, some well-known - that Zagami sprinkles into his interviews.


A dramatic conversion...sort of

Zagami began to have differences of opinion with Opus Dei and the American faction of the Illuminati in 2003. He knew that some of the demons being invoked by himself and his cohorts posed a threat to the rest of mankind, and wanted to put a stop to the rituals associated with them. The CIA-controlled American arm of the Illuminati would not be swayed. This was the beginning of his disenchantment with the occult practices of the Illuminati.

According to Zagami, rifts and battles are common among the various Illuminati factions. For example, Opus Dei and the Jesuits are at odds, each struggling for control. He was aligned with the Opus Dei faction, which doesn't practice black magic as enthusiastically as the Jesuit faction.
Zagami tried to distance himself from the Illuminati at this time, but was unable to extricate himself from it entirely. Instead, he fomented a small revolution within the ranks of the European Illuminati. (1)

In 2004, Zagami secretly established his own religion, Matrixism. Go ahead and guess what it's based on.

Given the heavy gnostic Christian overtones in that film, you'd think gnostic Christianity would be the natural choice for Zagami. But no. He'd rather make up a religion based on a freaking movie. I'm not really sure what this religion is all about, and frankly I don't care. For all I know, you take some drugs, sit in a chair, and pretend to do Kung Fu. If you're interested, its tenets are laid out on Zagami's website.

A year later, Zagami married a Sufi and converted to Islam. He wished to "infiltrate the bloodline of Prophet Mohammed", whatever the hell that means. (2)

But he was still a...what, exactly? A Catholic Satanist Matrixist?

In June 2006, Zagami discovered that former Italian president Francesco Cossiga had ordered Giorgio Balestrieri to have him killed if he didn't follow a specific set of orders. (2)

The previous month, his wife had a dream about Balestrieri working for the Antichrist.

In July 2006, Zagami visited London and observed first-hand the Illuminati preparations for the staged attacks of 7/7. Being a loyal Illuminati member at that time, he didn't alert anyone to what was happening.

On the day the attacks actually occurred, Zagami's son (his second child) was born. These events led him to the realization that the Illuminati isn't working for the betterment of mankind, and he finally decided to break away. He emerged as a "whistleblower" later that year. His former cohorts were displeased, of course, and for his own safety Zagami relocated to Norway with his family. This contradicts his boast about being untouchable because he was "protected by their own Vatican secret constitutions".

His first English-language interview was given to Greg Syzmanski in October, 2006.

His popularity was limited mostly to rabid anti-Zionists like Szymanski, Jeff Rense and Henry Makow (whom I've mentioned before on this blog), hateful bigots like "Unhived Mind" (a conspiracy blog that refers to Mitt Romney as "Fagmaster"), and ultra-credulous conspiranoids like the Project Camelot duo.

Zagami's new mission was to expose and interfere with the Illuminati to the greatest extent possible. He claims that his first counter-Illuminati actions led to his arrest and torture in Italy.

In February of 2008, Zagami was interviewed in his Oslo home by Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot. I've written about this wacky duo several times (here,for instance). Once, they declared that information from their sources indicated Earth would run out of oxygen in about three months (that was three years ago).

Nothing in the Zagami interview inspires me to change my mind about their work. At one point, Cassidy interrupts Zagami's rambling discourse about demonic aliens to ask, "Now you haven't sold your soul, is that correct?".

Zagami displays to the camera a folder bulging with "official documentation" that can validate his various claims, but we don't actually get to examine its contents.

Zagami and his wife separated in the same month this interview was conducted, and Leo promptly ditched Islam. He now denounces it as a Jesooite-created sham. This is a theory heavily promoted by Jack Chick, a key figure in the Rebecca Brown hoax and the John Todd hoax.
On his website, Zagami writes that he is also "affiliated with people connected with the gnostic congregation in Oslo (Ecclesia Gnostica Norvegia)".

He was forced out of Norway in early 2008.

Now here's where it gets confusing. In May 2008, after his separation from his wife and his departure from Islam, Zagami decided to rejoin the Illuminati - as a good guy this time. Now he "personally controls major parts of the Illuminati", a faction he calls the Illuminati Resistance. It is supported, he claims, by a chivalric order known as the Knights Templar of the Apocalypse, with members recruited from the military, law enforcement, the FBI, and the CIA. Zagami's Resistance also has its own paramilitary security corporation, Green Lyons Security Team, consisting of "approximately 12,000 troops". (2) He's starting to sound a lot like Benjamin Fulford. In fact, Fulford has played along with Zagami's Illuminati stories, even though Freemasons are the good guys in his version of the Illuminati. Both men are enthusiastically supported by the batshit-crazy Henry Makow.

Reminds me of the time bogus Holocaust survivors Lauren Stratford and Binjamin Wilkomirski met up and "recognized" one another.

In 2009, with an Italian girlfriend, Zagami returned to Italy. Then the girlfriend ended up betraying him in some crazy conspiracy, and in March 2009 he was confined to a mental asylum on the Isola Tiberina.

He remains a faithful Matrixist. In fact, he is now Neo Leo Lyon Zagami, the Prophet of Matrixism. He claims to have 16,000 followers. I'm not sure if 12,000 of them are also his employees or not.

This year, Zagami published the first volume of a projected three-volume memoir (in Italian).

In the four years since his re-entry into the Illuminati, Zagami has fallen out of favor with many of his fans in the conspiracy community. Greg Szymanski, who believes "the Illuminati is the Vatican and the Vatican is the Illuminati", denounced Zagami as a Luciferian Jesuit propagandist after an eccentric anti-Jesuit crusader named Slats Grobnik told him that Zagami can't possibly be a 33rd Degree Mason unless he possesses a copy of a "secret" book given only to high-level Masons, Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma. Never mind that you can buy it on Amazon.
Szymanski and Zagami seem to have buried the hatchet, however.

Disenchanted Zagami fans and critics have embraced some interesting theories about who he really is. One fellow thinks he's a Reptilian, and another seems to believe he's actually Aussie comedian Steve Hughes.

Back in 2007, Zagami warned that the Illuminati planned to "Nazify" the entire Western world by this year, persecuting all religious believers. Guess they're a tad behind schedule.


More Deep Thoughts and astounding insights from Leo Zagami:

"Magic is the calculation of the arts, with peculiar calculations around the symbols, to evoke certain entities and have from them, if you want, certain gratifications." (2008 Project Camelot interview)

"The president die, the president of the U.S., or no? Yes, he dies. One day, he will die. He can't be mortal, okay? So he has to meet death. Well, for him to meet death without the approval of the pope, is to be basically scrubbed off the map. Because they themselves are relying on those blessings and that network to bring their power to their successors, to the people after them, and to the people after and after." (Project Camelot interview)

"I also know for a fact the Satanist and Nazi, [Pope] Benedict, has a 24-year-old gay lover and that Satanic worshipping does go on at the Vatican. Most recently, in May of 2000, a Black Mass was celebrated with Satanist Aleister Crowley's follower William Breeze present, as as Satanists Alberto Moscato and Massimo Introvigne, who are intermediaries for the Jesuits." (2006 Greg Szymanski article)

"The P2 and the Jesuits keep their privileges alive in Monte Carlo because they blackmail even the gay Prince Alberto II of Monte Carlo who had been doing orgies with two black gay men and one black woman at the same time not knowing there was a P2 Brother with a camera living next door. The woman actually had a son from the Prince because of one of these encounters, as some of you in the gossip field might remember." (Szymanski article) Even if this was 100% true, would any of it really matter? Who cares what kind of orgies the dude has?

"Wahabi or wahibi as you call them were created by the Zionists and their English friends who think they are the lost tribe of Israel as the same happened with Arafat and the so-called Muslim Brotherhood created by English intelligence." (Syzmanski article) If you don't know how to spell nor correctly pronounce "Wahhabi", it's safe to say you don't know much about Wahhabism

"The reality of humanity's existence now has changed for ever. Mr. Zagami's arrival in Chicago on April 20 2008 a date chosen for its symbolic connotations, marks a watershed in the thus far unorganized grassroots resistance against the New World Order." (Zagami's website)


Why we probably shouldn't take Zagami's story at face value

He hasn't provided much in the way of documentation, and what he does present is just silly. Take, for example, the ridiculous Masonic ID badge that he flaunts as proof of his Masonic affiliation.

We know very little of his background. Which schools did he attend? Does he have siblings, and are they supposedly part of the Illuminati, too?
To be unkind for a moment, his physical appearance and demeanor are not those of someone from a privileged, aristocratic background. His English is poor, and his writing skills are minimal. He rarely waits for anyone to finish a sentence before continuing his circuitous, disjointed ramblings. Cosmetic dentistry has clearly never been a part of his life.

We don't have a shred of evidence for the existence of his 12,000-strong paramilitary force. Not one photo. Not a single video. Nothing.

We have absolutely no evidence that he was involved in arms trafficking. His only known source of income was his work as a club DJ.

His grasp of occult history is rather shallow. He can rattle off the names of famous magicians like Cagliostro and Crowley, but he doesn't have much to say about them. Some things are just wrong. For instance, he states that L. Ron Hubbard joined the "Parsons lodge" (the O.T.O.'s Agape Lodge in Pasadena) after he established Scientology. In reality, Hubbard was briefly involved with Jack Parsons four years before Dianetics was introduced. You'd think an O.T.O. initiate would know this. He identifies the head of the American O.T.O. in 2001 as Lon Milo DuQuette. Since 1996, this position (national Grand Master General) has been held by Frater Sabazius X°. DuQuette is the Deputy Grand Master.

Most of his "inside information" about the Illuminati is stuff that can be found in conspiracy literature. The rest is either unverifiable or nonsensical, like the Satanists posing as Muslims posing as Catholics. If the Illuminati really existed and really operated in this fashion, it would be a hot mess unworthy of our attention.

He has had 6 years to provide solid proof of his involvement in high-level Freemasonry and arms trafficking, 4 years to provide solid proof that he is in command of a huge paramilitary force, and a whole lifetime to provide solid proof of his august lineage. He has not done so.

If Zagami wasn't a big-time weapons dealer and Illuminati kingpin, then what was he?

Well, first of all, he wasn't a real Freemason for very long. The website Masonic Info has examined some of his claims, and they have a page dedicated to calling bullshit on them. His Committee of Monte Carlo doesn't seem to exist, P2 ceased to be an accepted lodge when he was still in kindergarten, and vanished completely when he was 11 years old. Zagami briefly belonged to only one regular lodge, Kirby Lodge 2818, and was ejected from it. This means that Zagami does not legitimately hold the title of 33rd Degree Mason.

From this history, it's clear that Zagami attempted to become a legit Mason, failed, then joined as many irregular lodges and traditions as he could. If he was an "untouchable" bloodline Illuminati member, groomed to take Licio Gelli's position, why did he get kicked out of the only regular lodge to which he ever belonged? Shouldn't his lodge brothers have quailed before his tremendous power?

Furthermore, according to comments on a conspiracy forum, Zagami was ejected from the O.T.O. and the Order of Memphis and Misraim, as well. Nicholaj Frisvold has expressed regret for initiating Zagami into the Franco-Haitian order, and the Norwegian O.T.O. also gave him the boot.
Again, if the O.T.O. is a branch of the Illuminati, and Leo Zagami is a powerful figure within the Illuminati, just how did he get kicked out of organizations that his people supposedly control?

Zagami's story is convincing to some people precisely because it is vague and full of unverifiable information. His supporters will say that Masonic lodges can exist in secret for decades (even though Gelli's P2 was exposed after just 5 years), that some Catholic clerics might very well be Satanists posing as Muslims, that Islam was invented by Jesuits as a means of controlling the Middle East, etc.

But isn't it also possible that an imaginative young DJ with the gift of gab used his interest in the occult and conspiracy theories to craft a personal history that would appeal to the more credulous members of the conspiracy community?




"Svali"

I'm not going to spend much time on the Illuminati defector known as Svali, because a "whistleblower" who won't even use his/her name is about as useful and reliable as a mousetrap made entirely out of cheese.

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"Svali" in 2003


Svali emerged in 2000, posting articles about Satanic ritual abuse and her own escape from a Luciferian cult on a blog called Svali Speaks (many of these articles have been reposted by others since that time).

Svali, then living in Texas, claimed she was raised by wealthy parents who belonged to an abusive Luciferian cult linked to the Illuminati. Born in Germany, she moved with her family to the U.S. in her early years. They settled in the San Diego area, where the cult has a large following.

She was subjected to extensive mind control programming and ritual abuse from a very young age. At 12, she was taken to a series of catacombs beneath the Vatican, filled with mummies. In one room was a large, golden pentagram, where she and two other children were to be officially inducted into the cult. An altar-like table of dark stone was set up in the center of the room. A small boy, 3 or 4 years old, was lying motionlessly on the table (appearing drugged or unconscious). The boy was ritually sacrificed in a ceremony that involved Latin incantations.

Terrified, Svali and the other two children didn't intervene. After the completion of the ritual, Svali was ordered to swear her allegience to the New World Order. She was warned that she, too, would be sacrificed if she ever violated her oath. (The Illuminati was evidently bluffing, because Svali survived an appearance on national television, radio interviews, and numerous blog posts that exposed the Illuminati's hideous deeds.)

By the age of 22, she was the cult's youngest "leadership council" member in San Diego. She was trained to program the children of other cult members, and acted as a "head trainer" until her escape in 1996. This involved indoctrination, martial arts, and firearms training as well as mind control programming. Hypnosis and sedation were often used prior to programming, to render the children more calm and suggestible. Electric shock was used to discourage certain behaviours.

Svali was instructed to give false information to the kids, and gradually realized that she must have been deceived as a child, too.
In the '80s, Svali was forced to marry another cult victim. They had two children together. Svali's husband became a Naval officer. By day, Svali taught at a Christian school and raised her children in an outwardly normal manner. They even attended Christian schools (affiliated with the Illuminati). By night, she and her husband - like all Illuminati members - were programmed to attend secret meetings. Each attendee would drive to an Illuminati meeting place, change out of their street clothes, and don a military-style uniform. Training sessions would then be held in the middle of the night, in well-guarded locations.

In 1996, when she was in her late thirties. Svali fled to another state, breaking away from the cult. She was separated from her husband at the time, and the children were with their grandparents. Mr. Svali subsequently filed for divorce, but then changed his mind and joined his wife in exile. Though they weren't menaced by vengeful cultists in the same manner that John Todd and Edna Moses claimed to have been, she was nervous enough to refrain from using her real name. Like Arizona wilder, she worked as a nurse.

Svali converted to Christianity, like most of the former Satanists and witches in this series. (5)

Svali's Illuminati is centred in Europe and headed by twelve cardinal-like "fathers". Each Illuminati centre is known as a "house". The power structure she outlined bears no resemblance to any of the other hierarchies described in this series, and the terminology is unique. Children are raised to enter one of twelve disciplines dominated by the Illuminati. They can't become, say, disc jockeys.

Svali told Henry Makow that although there are Jewish people in the Illuminati, bigotry prevents them from rising to high-level positions unless they renounce their faith. In fact, there is a strong Aryan, "Fourth Reich" element in the Illuminati.

The goal of this Illuminati is simply to control the world by the year 2050. Svali doesn't mention the endtimes. (5)

Svali appeared on a November 3, 2003 installment of the TechTV program Conspiracies, "Satanic Panic". Her story was embraced and promoted by many of the same people who fell for Zagami's tales: Greg Szymanski, Henry Makow, Project Camelot. None of these people pointed to the obvious inconsistencies between Svali's Illuminati and Zagami's Illuminati.

She gave one interview to Szymanski's Investigative Journal radio show on January 17, 2006. This was her last known radio interview.

At some point, a woman known only as Maria stepped forward to claim she was part of the same Illuminati Luciferian cult as Svali. According to Szymanski, Maria died mysteriously in St. Peter's Square. As Maria never revealed her true identity, there's no way to confirm this.

In 2006, Svali dropped out of communication, leading her supporters to worry she had disappeared. Project Camelot reported in 2009 that she was still alive and well, but after that she fell off the radar again. Her current status and whereabouts are unknown.



Sources

1. Project Camelot interview with Leo Zagami (February 2008)
2. Zagami's official website, leozagami.com (audio NSFW)
3. "More High Level Illuminati Inside Info From Monte Carlo P2 Masonic Lodge Defector" by Greg Szymanski @ Arctic Beacon.com. November 7, 2006.
4. Greg Szymanski interview of Leo Zagami on The Investigative Journal radio show. March 31, 2012. (YouTube)
5. Greg Szymanski interview of Svali on The Investigative Journal radio show. January 17, 2006. (Project Camelot)
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John Todd

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The only positive thing I can say about the late John Todd is that he makes everyone else in this series look good. At the height of his fame as a "former witch" he was a sexual predator, a military imposter, and a practicing witch who used several aliases.

John Todd emerged on the Christian scene around 1968, at least four years before Mike Warnke (according to the Cornerstone article on Warnke, he accused Warnke of stealing some of his Illuminati material), but never gained the level of mainstream popularity that Warnke did. His tales of Satanic intrigue were just too dark and outlandish for the average Christian. Frankly, you would have to be either blissfully innocent or profoundly stupid to buy any of Todd's b.s.

He was ultimately relegated to the far-right fringe, preaching to militia members and Christian Patriots about the endtimes and the need to establish armed strongholds. One of his last known locations before his arrest was Iowa, where he attached himself to a paranoid young couple named Randy and Vicki Weaver. He convinced the Weavers they needed to get away from populated areas and prepare for the end of the world. We all know how that turned out.

Even though his anti-occult invective wasn't as appealing as Warnke's, Todd still has his fans. Old audio recordings of his diatribes have popped up on YouTube, where he is vaunted as an Illuminati insider, framed by The Powers That Be. Henry Makow still promotes his story.

Who is John Todd?

No one really knows. His background is so occluded that even the year of his birth is in doubt. Possibly he was born in Ohio around 1950. He was taken into foster care as a youth. He suffered epileptic seizures throughout his life.

He was fairly good-looking and extremely tall (about 6'4").

Given his peculiar fascination with daytime television and gay porn movies, I strongly suspect he was a failed actor.

Todd first surfaced on the fundamentalist Christian scene in Arizona in 1968, performing as a Pentacostal preacher. He was about 19 or 20 years old, married to a slightly older woman named Linda. Earlier that year he had been arrested in Columbus, Ohio for malicious destruction of property.

He told Pastor James Outlaw of the Jesus Name Church that he had recently been saved at a Pentacostal church service after practicing witchcraft in the Navy, and wanted to be re-baptized as a Jesus Only believer.

He then vanished for several years, resurfacing in 1973 as a born again warlock. He again said he had been saved at a Pentacostal church service, and identified himself as an independent Baptist, but preached mostly to charismatics. He was now married to a woman named Sharon Garver.

He went on the fundamentalist lecture circuit in Cali, educating churchgoers about the international Satanic conspiracy. His talks were a blend of pop conspiranoia, anti-occult fearmongering, and tell-all braggadocio.

Todd said his real name was Lance Collins, and he had been born into a powerful family of devil-worshiping witches with ties to the Illuminati. The Illuminati is the life's blood of conspiracy culture today, but until the publication of Gary Allen's None Dare Call It Conspiracy in 1972, it was largely forgotten. Allen and Todd helped nudge it back into prominence within conservative circles. It is extremely likely that Todd's interest in the Illuminati was sparked by Allen's book; we know that he was at least aware of it, because during one of his talks a woman in the audience mentioned it and he recited the title along with her.

The Collinses were direct descendants of Scottish Druids who posed as Puritans and imported witchcraft to America before helping to establish the Illuminati.

Todd's mother was so ashamed of her witchy behaviour that she ended up in a mental hospital, hooked on barbituates. His foster mother, on the other hand, was the high priestess of all the witches in California, and his sister was made the high priestess of Ohio at the tender age of 13.

Todd was perhaps the first "former Satanist" to come from a Satanic family, but within a few years this would be the norm.

The hereditary Satanism he described bears little resemblance to Doreen Irvine's "black witchcraft", and no resemblance whatsoever to Mike Warnke's "third level" Satanism. Presumably, as an Illuminati member, Todd was privy to knowledge that Warnke never imagined.

He was reared on a diet of "occult" teachings: ufology, spells, Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis.

Witch parents aren't allowed to love or discipline their children; kids belong to the cult. At age 13 or 14, boys are sent to witch schools called Outer Courts to be trained as Satanic priests. Todd was initiated into the priesthood at 14. His sister became such a powerful high priestess that she could summon demons in the form of UFOs.

At age 18, while serving as a Green Beret, Todd became the high priest of his coven.

The Illuminati Todd describes is a configuration of pure evil represented (in part) by Freemasons, Mormons, international finance, Communists, and - paradoxically - the John Birch Society. He explained that very few Jews belong to the Illuminati, but the Rothschilds are at the top of the pyramid, totally controlling the illustrious Council of 13. All Illuminati members, whatever their supposed religious affiliation, are actually devil worshipers.

He claimed to know a great deal about the inner workings of Freemasonry, yet always called it "Masonary". He also called the Trilateral Commission "the Trilateral Council", and the Council on Foreign Relations "the Council of Foreign Affairs".

Clearly, he was somewhat familiar with John Birch literature. But he never explained why the John Birch Society, as part of the Illuminati conspiracy, would expose all these real Illuminati fronts.

Let's move on to the Satanism. Todd was, of course, a high-ranking Satanist within the Illuminati. He belonged to a Grand Druid Council headed by Raymond Buckland, the man hand-picked by Philippe Rothschild to head the Illuminati and a professor of anthropology at Columbia. Buckland revealed to Todd many things known only to high-level witches; lower-level witches were hand-fed disinformation and nonsense. He also received some witchcraft training from Ruth Carter Stapleton, sister of future president Jimmy Carter.

Buckland, as you may know, was indeed a very prominent witch. But he never taught at Columbia, and wasn't an anthropologist. He was a flight attendant for British Airways. (For more information on Buckland, see my post "John Todd Addendum".)

According to Todd, Satanists don't congregate. This is quite a contrast to Doreen Irvine's gatherings, which attracted up to 1000 black witches, and to Mike Warnke's San Bernadino-area coven of 1500.

In Todd's form of witchcraft, Satanists dealt directly with their high priests. They didn't even know the other members of their covens.

The central scripture of Satanism is the Necronomicon, but copies are rare. The only copies known to Todd were kept in St. Petersburg, Glasgow, and the British Library.

In case you're keeping track, that makes three different sacred texts in just three different "ex Satanist" accounts: The Book of Satan (Doreen Irvine), The Great Mother (Mike Warnke), and a book that doesn't freaking exist (Todd). But hey, at least we've heard of the Necronomicon. Those other two books don't seem to exist even in the realm of fiction.

All three cults were supposedly organized on a national level, and two encompassed the whole planet. So why aren't all these Satanists using the same books?

And just for the record, Lovecraft stories never named St. Petersburg or Glasgow as locations of the Necronomicon. There were copies at the British Museum, Harvard, the Biblioteque Nationale, the University of Buenos Aires, and Miskatonic University.

Todd also referred to the book several times as the "Necromonicon", just as he called Masonry "Masonary".

Sheesh, he couldn't even get his bullshit right.

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Satanic scripture. LOL.


Apocalypse Not

In '69, Todd enlisted in the military. Illuminati witches are exempt from military service, but he wanted to set up some covens in other countries and this was a convenient cover. He served in Vietnam as a Green Beret before being transferred to Germany. One night, in Stuttgart, he got crazy drunk and high and (for reasons known only to him) engaged in a firefight with one of his former commanding officers. The man was killed. From military confinement, Todd phoned his foster mother in L.A. and asked her to cast a spell on the members of the jury at his imminent court martial, to make them believe he was innocent. (It would have been simpler to cast a spell on the commanding officer in charge of the court martial, but what do I know? I'm not a Satanic Illuminati witch.)

Instead, someone pulled major strings for Todd. A Senator, a Congressman, and two generals personally escorted him out of his cell. He received an honorable discharge, no questions asked. The Army even destroyed all Todd's military records to help preserve the secrecy of the Illuminati.
In reality, Todd's papers were not destroyed. And they tell a slightly different story: He served as a clerk in the Army from February 1969 to July 1970 without ever setting foot in Vietnam. He was stationed in Germany for less than a month and was discharged under a Section 8. You know, that thing Klinger was always trying to get by running around in drag? I wonder just how unstable a person would have to be to get a Section 8 during 'Nam. I'm guessing "Charlie Sheen".

Anyway, Todd had been making death threats and false suicide reports. A psychiatric evaluation conducted in '69 found he suffered emotional instability, pseudologica phantastica, and possibly brain damage as well. He was also treated for a drug overdose at an Army facility in Maryland in 1969.

Devil Rock

Like evangelist/exorcist Bob Larson, Todd claimed to be a music industry insider. After 'Nam, he was a manager at Zodiac Productions (variously described as "the largest music conglomerate in the world" and "the largest booking agency"), so he knew that every rock musician in America had to become a witch before he could get a recording contract, and that every master recording was taken to a Satanic temple to be possessed by a demon. Each major record label had its own temple.

In one of his anti-rock lectures, he recounts a conversation he had with David Crosby after his conversion:

Todd: "Do they still bring the master [recording] to the Temple...and conjure demons into the master? Is the purpose of rock music still to use witchcraft, cast spells...?"
Crosby: "Of course. You know that, Lance."

The only moderately successful Zodiac Productions operating in the U.S. during the early '70s was a film company that produced one film (a '74 gay porno called The Portrait of Dorian Gay - NSFW) and several episodes of the '60s variety show The Hollywood Palace. It did not have a music division.

To explain why no one recognized this mammoth media conglom, Todd said Zodiac was forced to change its name because of the negative publicity he brought to it. He did not divulge the new name.

World Domination and Stuff

In '72, the Grand Druid Council received a diplomatic pouch from headquarters in London, containing an eight-year plan for world domination (culminating in December 1980). It involved economic breakdown, a military strike force comprised partly of prisoners, the execution of millions, and a Third World War that would spare only Jerusalem.

Around the same time, a letter from Satanic HQ announced the discovery of a man believed to be Lucifer's son. He would serve as a false messiah to lead the masses astray. Todd later identified this Antichrist as fellow Baptist Jimmy Carter.

It was shortly after this that Todd was supposedly saved at a Pentacostal church service. Sometimes he placed this event in California, sometimes it occurred in Texas.

After his conversion and defection in '73, the Satanists made many attempts on Todd's life. This campaign of terror echoes the assassination attempts described by Mike Warnke and his first wife, and was equally unsuccessful. How is that these international Satanists can pull off world wars, but they can't bump off two regular dudes?

Todd wouldn't have been hard to find. He was working at a Pheonix, Arizona coffeehouse run by Pentecostal Ken Long, a local leader of the Jesus movement.

Todd's extant lectures overflow with such stupefyingly retarded bullshit. Just a few examples:

Ayn Rand fans are Communists. Atlas Shrugged was commissioned by Philippe Rothschild (Rand's lover) as a blueprint for the destruction of the U.S. and the Communist/Illuminati takeover of the world. Rand inserted racy passages in the book to keep Christians away from it. Todd doesn't explain why Rothschild didn't just write it himself. (One wonders, too, why the Satanists concocted an eight-year plan in the '70s if Rand had already produced a step-by-step instruction manual for global domination back in '57. I guess the Illuminati doesn't mind busywork. Also, Rand's hinky sex life has been exhaustively documented - I mean, seriously, TMI - and it didn't involve any Rothschilds.)

JFK faked his death. Wait, no he didn't. As "personal warlock" to the Kennedys, Todd met with JFK many times in the early '70s. He never went into detail about this. In later talks, he said JFK was assassinated in 1963 because he was born again in Tampa, Florida.

Epilepsy is a medical condition, but the seizures are caused by demonic possession and/or medication. Todd actually instructed his epileptic listeners not to take their medication.

The supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows was based on the history of the Collins family. Todd was asked to bring a family diary to Hollywood, all expenses paid, one summer. He spent several months as a consultant to the writers while the series was being developed. I've never seen Dark Shadows, but my mother tells me most of the main characters were vampires and werewolves rather than witches, and there wasn't any explicit occult content other than maybe a few black candles. Episode synopses at Wikipedia indicate the plot elements were culled from classic Gothic lit and popular novels.

Most of the cast of the Star Wars movies were gay men who had slept with the producers, culled from The Young and the Restless. The Y&R cast contained so many witches that Todd referred to it as an "occult soap opera". But none of the primary Star Wars actors were ever in it. Mark Hamill was on General Hospital. Harrison Ford was never on a soap at all. Nor was Alec Guinness. James Earl Jones was on The Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Billy Dee Williams was on The Guiding Light; even though he still does a lot of soap work, he has never been on Y&R (interestingly, though, Ford and Williams appeared in some of the same films and TV shows: The Conversation, The F.B.I., and The Mod Squad). All of these men had considerable acting ability and would certainly not have to sleep with any producers to get work. Aside from Guinness, who was reportedly bi, not one of them appears to be gay. Maybe the Modal Nodes were gay warlocks?

Actress Cindy Williams (Laverne and Shirley) and her boyfriend started a witch cult. I suspect Todd singled out Williams because she and Penny Marshall co-wrote a screenplay about the Salem witch trials, Paper Hands. She was also in The Conversation, the tale of a man who lets paranoia and his imagination get the better of him. Hmm.

Most Israeli license plates contain the number 666. Todd was taking a big risk with this one. Any listener who had traveled to Israel would know he was full of it.

All of the people executed during the Salem witch trials were born again Christians rather than Puritans, and this is why the Collins family and other secret witches had them killed.

The Illuminati gave him $8 million to start the Christian record label Marantha Records, to corrupt Christian youth via Satanic rock music. Marantha would later produce such hardcore Satanic albums as Psalty's Funtastic Praise Party.

The Dunwich Horror, starring Sandra Dee, was the most accurate representation of witchcraft on film. LOL. I've seen this movie, and about the only thing it accurately represents is Grade B cheese.


Part II

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Doc Marquis

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Doc Marquis lecturing for The Prophecy Club, c. 1997

In the mid '80s, an Illuminati defector and former devil worshiper known as Joseph "Doc" Marquis slipped into the niche vacated by John Todd, who was serving time for a rape conviction. Marquis started out as a virtual John Todd clone, but proved to be far more resilient than his predecessor. For the past two decades, Marquis has deftly surfed the waves of Christian conspiracy culture.

An unassuming, clean-cut guy with a slight speech impediment, Marquis speaks calmly and softly, eschewing the brimstone theatrics and stand-up schtick that many ex-Satanists use to spice up their acts.

But his claims are transparently absurd, tailored for the same crowd that insists John Todd was framed by Illuminati overlords. In fact, Marquis was a supporter of Todd's work and discredited himself early on by parroting Todd's nonsense. Then he made things even worse for himself by declaring that Mike Warnke, Rebecca Brown, Elaine Moses and Lauren Stratford were Illuminati members, too. As we have seen, all these people crafted alternate histories for themselves in the '70s and '80s. (1)

There's some question as to whether Marquis can really call himself a former Satanist, since he has stated the Illuminati believes in Lucifer, not Satan, and holds Satanists in disdain (if this makes any sense, let me know). His real cachet is as a former Illuminati member. (2)

Marquis's first notable appearance was on the June 24, 1987 broadcast of Oprah. Though he began speaking publicly about his past sometime in the early '80s, this was his first major gig. The show dealt with Wicca, and Marquis (as a "former Illuminati member") was a nay-sayer, brought on to warn of the hazards of witchcraft alongside evangelist/exorcist Bob Larson. For the record, Oprah was open to everything Marquis had to say and at times chided other guests for questioning his more absurd statements about human sacrifice. After describing a previous guest who supposedly suffered Satanic ritual abuse, she said, "Just because... nobody found the bodies and nobody called in to a newspaper and said human sacrifices are going on, doesn't mean that it does not exist." (2)

If she had known more about his background, she might not have been so open. Prior to Oprah, Marquis was a supporter of The Family International and gave lectures at the church's Friendswood Home in Houston. (3)

The Family was once known as The Children of God, and under the leadership of the crazed pedophile David "Moses" Berg, its members were urged to become prostitutes and molest children. As an adult, Berg's son Ricky was still so severely traumatized by his molestation that he murdered one of the women who abused him, then killed himself.

The Family has tried very hard to shake its horrific past and move on, but COG's international legacy of child abuse and cult manipulation won't be forgotten anytime soon.

It was probably the Oprah appearance that gave Marquis just enough temporary street cred to be invited on Geraldo Rivera's May 1989 show about the Matamoros killings, as a "former Satanic high priest". Though the Matamoros drug murders involved a cultish cartel that practiced a bizarre form of ritual sacrifice (mostly on enemies, but sometimes on random strangers), they had nothing to do with Satanism and even less to do with the Illuminati. Marquis also boasts of appearing or acting as a consultant for Unsolved Mysteries, Hard Copy, and Talk of the Town, but I can't confirm any of that. (1)

Around 1997 Marquis gave two epic lectures to the Prophecy Club, the same fundamentalist/conspiracy outfit that hosted Satanic Illuminati vampire Bill Schnoebelen.

He was introduced as a seventh-generation (reformed) witch raised in an Illuminati family. In one talk, titled "America's Occult Holidays", Marquis wasn't content to slam Halloween. He also tried to convince his Christian audience to stop celebrating Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day in traditional ways, because it's all Pagan-Satanic worship. (4)

These days, Marquis lingers on the conspiranoid fringe where he belongs. His videos and books are available online, and he was a presenter at this year's Conspiracy Con, but I doubt there'll be any more mainstream TV appearances.


John Todd Redux

Marquis claims he was a member of the U.S. branch of the Illuminati from a young age, but he can't seem to decide what that age was. On Oprah, he said he was 5 years old when someone sent a demon to control him. (2) In his Prophecy Club talks a decade later, he was 3 years old when it all began. (4) At any rate, his tender age handily absolves him of all personal responsibility for the atrocities he attributes to the group, placing him in the same redeemed-victim category as John Todd (who was an Illuminati member from birth).

The Illuminati Marquis describes is identical in most respects to John Todd's, being comprised of powerful "witches" who worship Satan, practice human sacrifice, and control basically everything. The Rothschild family is at the head of the Illuminati, just as John Todd said. In fact, It was Mayer Rothschild who gave the Illuminati its seed money, back in 1776. He formed a governing "apostleship" made up of twelve financiers.

It is incredibly unlikely that Rothschild had anything to do with the founding of Adam Weishaupt's Bavarian Illuminati in 1776. At that time he was a coin dealer living in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, prominent in his field but virtually unknown outside of it. He would not enter the banking world in a big way until nearly a decade later. The Bavarian Illuminati was comprised mainly of academics - and in keeping with the spirit of the order and the prejudices of the times, there was not a single banker or Jew among its ranks.

Born in 1956, Joseph was apparently not raised by his birth parents. It was a "foster aunt" who dedicated him to the Illuminati when he was just 3 or 5 years old. Presumably, it was she who sent a demon to him. His parents were kept out of the loop, and raised Joseph as a devout Catholic in Massachusetts. On Oprah, he said he even taught Sunday School, which (as fellow guest Whitley Strieber pointed out) would be odd - Catholic churches don't usually have Sunday school.

Marquis explained that his training began with earth religion (witchcraft). "Eventually, as I got to the higher levels, your philosophy is changed. You are now told what's really going on." (2)

He must have moved up to the higher levels of witchcraft very quickly, because in later accounts he says he was just 10 years old when he began attending an occult training academy known as the Outer Court, just like John Todd. There he learned the rudiments of human sacrifice, alchemy, and other dark arts.

Like everyone else in this series, Marquis views any form of occultism as devotion to Lucifer. Earth religion and Satanism and the Illuminati are all jumbled together into one huge, amorphous lump of evil. He claims that all Wiccans of "higher levels" knowingly worship the Devil, and you can't be in the Illuminati without pledging allegiance to Lucifer.

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Artist's rendition of Doc Marquis's school


At 13 he was made a high priest of a Satanic Illuminati witch coven, just like John Todd. His initiation ceremony required him to slice his arm with an athame and sign The Book of the Dead in his own blood. This is what UK "black witches" Doreen Irvine and Audrey Harper supposedly had to do in the '60s, too, but they merely signed parchment. As we have seen, none of these worldwide Satanic cults use the same rituals, scriptures, or initiation rites. They can control the entire pop music industry, ritually slaughter hundreds of thousands of people every year without leaving a speck of evidence, and manipulate the whole geopolitical scene - but they just can't agree on a standard mode of worship. As Marquis and Irvine describe their cults, they operated like a Catholic church on Opposite Day: If a priest wears white, we'll wear black; if Catholics drink wine and pretend it's blood, we'll drink blood and pretend it's wine, etc. As you probably know, real Satanism is not merely an inversion of Christianity.

Marquis stated that Illuminists and all witches, in addition to worshiping Lucifer, pay homage to the Assyrian goddess Semiramis and the "god" Nimrod. I'm sure real witches would heartily disagree, but that doesn't stop David Icke and other professional conspiranoids from saying it continuously. Icke even insists the Statue of Liberty is an Illuminist representation of Semiramis (see page 8 of his Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster).

Nimrod is not exactly a god. He's an unruly descendant of Biblical patriarchs (Abraham, Noah) who supposedly reigned over various Mesopotamian cities. He may have been revered as a king of sorts, but the evidence for a cult of Nimrod is thin. It is mostly conspiracists like Alexander Hislop and Icke who conflate Nimrod with other deities and insist he was a consort of Semiramis, something mentioned only briefly by Josephus. This strain of thought seems to have begun with Hislop's 1853 tract The Two Babylons, or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife.

So this leaves only two possibilities: Either Marquis is lying about the Illuminati worshipping Nimrod and Semiramis, or the truth was found out by a cranky anti-Catholic dude who never left his native Scotland.

At any rate, Marquis doesn't go into much detail about Semiramis and Nimrod worship.

At 17 Marquis surpassed even Todd by becoming a "Master Witch" (a title Todd never mentioned). He ultimately attained the rank of Third Degree Master Witch, whatever that means. His superiors put him in charge of all the witches in three communities: Methuen and Lawrence in Massachusetts and Salem in New Hampshire.

After his formal witchcraft training was over he was ordered by his Illuminati superiors to join the Army as a medic, earning the nickname "Doc." This is a bit odd; Todd claimed Illuminati witches are exempt from military service. Marquis says he was part of the Illuminati plan to infiltrate every military base on the planet and recruit military brass (in the '80s, Christian conspiranoids were irate about Satanists being in the armed forces, with full Constitutional protection for their religious practices).

Marquis couldn't be bothered to come up with his own cast list for his Illuminati drama, so he just used Todd's: Prominent Wiccans Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Laurie Cabot and Raymond Buckland, plus Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth Carter Stapleton. Todd mistakenly claimed that Buckland had been an anthropology professor at Columbia, but Marquis moved him over to Harvard.

Later on, he added Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, and alien abductee Whitley Strieber to the Illuminati ranks. The Tate murders occurred, he said, because Sharon Tate expressed her intent to defect from the Illuminati. This is probably derived from a claim made by Wiccan Alex Sanders that he initiated Tate in the '60s, which has never been proven and was most likely (IMO) a PR gimmick.

Strieber earned Marquis's wrath by disputing his weird misinformation on Oprah (Strieber, though best-known as an alien abductee, appeared on the show only to discuss his novel Catmagic, which borrowed some ideas from Wicca).

One key difference between Todd's stories and Marquis's is that the latter's Illuminati Satanists congregate on a regular basis (Todd said they don't meet up at all, ever). According to Marquis, the Illuminati branches, and all the groups they control, perform human ritual sacrifices eight times per year. Marquis witnessed at least 100 human sacrifices during his time in the Illuminati. He talked about this on Oprah, explaining that the bodies of victims were left on roadsides or in wooded areas so that they would appear to be ordinary homicide victims. (2)

But the primary activity of the Illuminati is, of course, establishing a New World Order. In a hilarious illustration, Marquis identifies the elements of this hideous master plan to enslave mankind. They include Dungeons & Dragons, rock music, and "Sabbaths" (I think he means sabbats). All of the other ex-witches in this series warned about the evils of D&D, and Bill Schnoebelen even declared the game contained "real" spells that he gave to Gary Gygax in the late '70s (after the game was already created), but I believe Doc Marquis is the only former Satanist to actually elevate D&D to a central plank in the NWO agenda.

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New Word Order enforcer Elfwood Dragonflail with his weapon of choice.


Conversion and Anti-occult Crusade

Like Mike Warnke, Marquis credits Christians in the military with saving his soul. After his three years in the service he realized his way of life was spiritually bankrupt, walked into a church, and was saved on April 15, 1979.

He immediately severed all ties to the Illuminati. So the Illuminati issued a half-million dollar contract on his life. Marquis claims that there have been eight attempts on his life. Never mind that he was making public appearances throughout the '80s and early '90s. The Illuminati can control the world, but it can't figure out how to assassinate one unarmed dude at a podium. I guess this means the Nation of Islam is better-organized than the Illuminati, which also failed to kill John Todd (who died of natural causes in a mental institution) and Mike Warnke (who's still alive). (4)

To fight the creeping menace of occultism, Marquis established the now-defunct National Occult Liberation Outreach Center and later an anti-occult ministry called Christians Exposing the Occult (also defunct). Since the early '90s he has published numerous books and tracts, notably several volumes of the "American Focus on Satanic Crime" series, written with Alan H. Peterson. He now heads Creation Message Ministries with Cory Black, gives interviews to internet radio shows (mainly conspiracy-themed ones), and appears at conspiracy conventions such as Conspiracy Con and Future Congress.

Just a few of the stupid statements made by Marquis:

- In 1990, there were up to 3 million witches in New England. (1)

- Freemasons are an integral part of the Illuminati, just as John Todd said, and are working to install a Masonic Antichrist.

- Kabbala is a "very Satanic counterfeit to the Torah and other Old Testament books of the Bible."

- Every "occult" organization, from Theosophy to Wicca, takes its orders from the Illuminati. And every single one must commit ritual human sacrifices eight times per year (on Oprah, he said only four of eight . The number of victims would be staggering. Marquis claims law enforcement and judicial authorities allied with the Illuminati help cover up these crimes - but if his numbers are accurate, there simply wouldn't be enough authorities to cover up so many murders. (4)

- Certain "Witch queens" as young as 13 are so powerful they are given control of entire states. An identical claim was made by John Todd, who said his sister was in charge of the state of Ohio at age 13. (1)

- They use astrology to figure out when Easter is going to be every year. (4)

- Satanists are active in the "white slavery" and drug trades. As with all his other claims, Marquis offers no examples and no evidence. (1)

- Aleister Crowley was a Freemason, more evidence that Masonry and Satanist are intertwined. Bill Schnoebelen said this in a Prophecy Club lecture, too. It's not strictly true. Crowley was into esoteric Freemasonry and claimed many degrees, but is not considered a bonafide Mason. (4)

- On Halloween, Druids painted pentagrams-within-circles in human blood on the doors of people who refused to offer up human sacrifices. The victims were herded to Stonehenge and ordered to stick their heads into a cauldron of boiling water. Only those who dared to do it were spared sacrifice, but of course they were left horribly burned. This is the tradition of bobbing for apples began. I would love to see his sources for this, because the first known mention of apple-bobbing dates to the eighteenth century. There is no indication that Druids did anything such thing. Apple trees weren't systematically cultivated in Britain until after the Roman invasion, and the Roman empire suppressed Druid practices, so it's unlikely that a new Druid tradition developed just as its other traditions were being eliminated. (4)

- The First Amendment is too lenient; neo-Pagan groups should not have tax-exempt status, and their members should not have the same Constitutional protection as Christians. (4)


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You'll burn your face off, kid.


Like most former Satanists, Marquis spent a great deal of time attempting to explain the occult symbolism of such things as the 1992 Olympic cauldron (it was red because Rothschild means "red shield"), Christmas wreaths (Pagan-Satanic vaginas), and the dollar bill (hexagrams and pentacles).

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Quit staring at it, you perv.


To give Marquis a small amount of credit, he didn't try to convince anyone that Lovecraft's Necronomicon is the central scripture of Satanism, or that soap operas are full of devil-worshiping gay men, as John Todd did.

Marquis also offered his services as an "occult crime expert" to law enforcement agencies, training officers how to investigate occult-related crimes or acting as a consultant. I don't know if any agencies hired him, but Marquis did obtain a letter of recommendation from Chief Norman Connors of the Allenstown, Pennsylvania police. Apparently at Marquis's request, Connors conducted an "extensive background" check on Marquis and found no evidence of illegal activity. This may have been good for his career as an occult crime consultant, but it certainly doesn't say much for his reputation as a badass Illuminati Satanist that police couldn't find a speck of criminal conduct in his background. (1)

Marquis drew in a few supporters, such as the late Ted Gunderson, Karen Kintella, (director of a Houston-based ritual abuse group called Valuable Information For Cult Traumatized Individuals And MPD Survivors, or VICTIMS), The Family International, Ken Adachi, and Pam Schuffert.

In 1999, Marquis published his autobiography, Memoirs of a Former Illuminati Witch (American Focus Publishing).
He had learned a valuable lesson from the ex-Satanists who preceded him. He knew their testimonies were discredited largely because they could not (or would not) provide any verifiable information. He neatly skirted this problem by admitting, straight up, that he had absolutely no intention of giving us any evidence to support his stories. His memoir would be Christian testimony, and nothing else. Essentially, he said, "I'm not going to back up anything I have to say. Deal with it." He even admitted he was protecting the guilty, in order to prevent a Christian witch hunt. It seems his readiness to name names earlier in his career as an ex-witch hadn't paid off; it's much safer to offer up stories that are 100% free of falsifiable details. This will immediately get rid of any pesky nonbelievers who insist on stupid things like "facts" and "evidence", and ensure that the people who continue to support you will be the most gullible, malleable followers available.

Marquis still talks a lot about occult symbols hidden in plain sight, the Illuminati's New World Order plans, and Jesus. But his newest thing is predictions, or prophecies, involving conspiracies. He has ramped up the fear factor considerably. He says American concentration camps are being prepared for U.S. Christians, and claims to have been given a tour of one "death camp" in the Mojave desert. "As a former high level Illuminati planner for the New World Order, I was brought to the site of the future FEMA death camp in the Mojave. I knew exactly what it would be used for: the termination of Christian resisters of our 'PLAN' to seize this nation under martial law for our New World Order. My reaction when I stood within it's deadly confines when a Satanist? Sheer joy! I rejoiced over the thought of Christians being terminated in this place." That's interesting. FEMA didn't become active until after April 4, 1979 - about ten days before Doc left the Illuminati.

In May, on Stanley Monteith's radio show, he predicted that Obama may be assassinated by a Jewish person in 2012, and this would trigger an Islamic jihad against Israel because Obama is a closet Muslim. Boom, WWIII.

On August 20th, Marquis was a guest on Daniel Ott's online radio show The Edge. A bio posted on the show's website states Marquis trains mental health workers, FBI agents, and state and local police in recognizing and dealing with Satanic ritual abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder and "programming/brainwashing" (he has no formal training in psychology). I can find no evidence that Marquis has given presentations to law enforcement or mental health professionals.

Marquis gave two presentations at this year's Future Congress in July, and both consisted of very tired material. One was about the occult symbolism hidden in the D.C. street plan, U.S. dollar bills, and the Great Seal of the United States. Yawn. In the other presentation, he examined the illustrations used in the Illuminati card game to "prove how they planned Y2K, 9/11, the British Petroleum oil spill of 2010, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster of 2011, and other significant events years in advance".

I'm not even going to waste time explaining why Marquis's stories probably aren't true. Everything he says is recycled conspiranoid drivel. If he wants the world to take him seriously as a Luciferian Illuminati witch, he can start by coming up with one infintesimal speck of fresh information.


Sources:

1. Article on Joseph "Doc" Marquis by Kerr Cuhulain @ Witchvox
2. Unofficial transcript of Oprah June 24, 1987 broadcast
3. Xfamily.org entry for John Todd (Xfamily.org is run by former members of the Children of God/The Family International)
4. "America's Occult Holidays" Prophecy Club presentation by Doc Marquis (c. 1997)
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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby Hammer of Los » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:33 am

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Man oh man that swallowing the camel site is marvellous!

I mean that speaking as a bona fide Luciferian Illuminati Witch.

Todd also referred to the book several times as the "Necromonicon", just as he called Masonry "Masonary".


Necromoronicon where Todd is concerned.

Adopt the Masonary Position!

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http://swallowingthecamel.blogspot.com/ ... alked.html

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

The Hazards of Magical Thinking

I've talked about the perils of paranoia, and now it's time to examine the problem of magical thinking - irrational causal reasoning. Like paranoia, magical thinking appears to be on the rise these days. And magical thinking can be dangerous. The Xhosa and Thembu tribes of South Africa nearly starved themselves into oblivion because some a**hole ghost told them to sacrifice all their cattle. Many an alchemist poisoned himself in his quest for gold or immortality. Bridget Cleary was beaten and burned to death by a husband who suspected her of being a malicious fairy. Belief in the efficacy of lucky talismans or rituals can lead people to take risks they normally wouldn't even consider.

Now, there's probably little to no harm in believing you're an elf, wearing a QLink pendant, or practicing feng shui. But here are just a few examples of how magical thinking can go seriously, seriously wrong...

Fatal exorcisms: Untrained or inexperienced people who diagnose possession and attempt exorcisms have killed possessees, either by withholding food and water or by using violent means to dislodge the demons.

- In 1973, 19-year-old Anneliese Michel died while being exorcised by two priests. It subsequently came to light that she had stopped taking her medication for epileptic seizures.

- Father Daniel Petru Corogeanu of Romania starved a nun to death when he lashed her to a cross for days in an attempt to get the demons out of her.

- In 2000, Pastor Luke Lee of New Zealand killed Kum Ok Lee in the course of an exorcism. At his trial, he calmly assured the court she would rise from the dead. Also in New Zealand, in 2007, 22-year-old Janet Moses was drowned by family members who believed they were cleansing her of a curse.

- In 2003, 8-year-old Terrance Cottrell Jr. was smothered to death by a pastor during an exorcism.

- Last year, Ronald Marquez beat up his daughter and tried to perform an exorcism on his 3-year-old granddaughter. Police summoned to the scene by neighbors found Marquez with the child in a headlock, his daughter huddling nude and bloody in a corner. They Tasered him, which resulted in his death.

- In February of this year, Jan Clark murdered his wife after performing an exorcism on her. He claims the demons entered his body and forced him to kill her.


Baby-tossing: As reported recently, parents in India consider it lucky to pitch their infants 50 feet to the ground from the rooftop of a mosque. Do I really have to tell you what's wrong with this?

"Reptilians steal babies": Belief in a race of ultradimensional or extraterrestrial lizard-like entities that preys upon human beings is causing great emotional distress for some people. Kinesiologists Michael and Stephanie Relfe believe their first child was stolen from Stephanie's womb by Reptilians (they also believe Michael worked for the government on offworld colonies). Reverse-speech analyst Peggy Kane says she has been raped by Reptilians from the lower astral plane, and that a close friend was brutally murdered by them while he was a guest in her home. Psychic alien abductee Ted Rice believes that as an 8-year-old boy he was taken into a spaceship with his grandmother and forced to watch her copulate with a tall, reptoid alien disguised as his dead grandfather. When the woman prevented this creature from raping her grandson, she was warned she would die in two days' time. She did, Rice said. The late Karla Turner, author of Rice's biography, thought her fatal cancer was caused by Reptilians. She also thought the reptoids had eaten Rice's body and replaced it with an exact duplicate made from organic materials obtained during cattle mutilations! Peggy Kane also says many humans have been replaced by clones, after their real bodies have been horrifically tortured and consumed by the Reptilians.

And it gets worse. In 1999, professional scam artist Diazen Hossencofft managed to convince a clique of followers that his ex-wife, Girly Chew, was a Reptilian priestess in disguise. They abducted and murdered her at his request. Hossencofft also persuaded various women that he could cure cancer, and keep them eternally youthful with a serum he had developed. He told some his young son was a super-kid genetically engineered by NASA scientists. (This case was the basis for the CSI episode "Leapin' Lizards".)

Taking health advice from visionaries and mystics:

- The Conscious Development cult led by Texan Terri Keanely (formerly Hoffman) has been linked to several suicides, murders, and suspicious deaths, but one of the most disturbing stories is that of Hoffman's third husband, Richard Donald Hoffman. He committed suicide in 1988, leaving behind a video explaining that he had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer. However, no trace of cancer was found in Hoffman's body during autopsy. His children allege that Terri Hoffman persuaded their father he had cancer by revealing visions of his imminent death.
Keanely is currently one half of MoneyForce Press and co-author of The Colors of Money: Finding Your MoneyForce.

- Brazil's Joao de Dios (John of God) is not a doctor, but he can channel dead doctors to perform surgery through him (unlawfully, I might add). Some of his surgeries take place only on a psychic level, but others are hands-on, invasive procedures that involve real instruments. These don't resemble any known medical operations. ABC News reported in 2005 that one patient had forceps shoved up his nose and violently twisted. Needless to say, Joao doesn't do follow-ups. Yet he boasts of healing 15 million people in 35 years. As James Randi points out "Working 8 hours a day, taking no lunch hour, 6 full days a week for 35 years, taking no holidays at all, he would have to "heal" ONE PERSON EVERY 21 SECONDS of every minute of every hour of every day he worked, with no time off, and no failures!" Busy guy.
Ask yourself, what would happen if Joao collapsed during a surgery?

- Mother of five Michelle Mingo starved her infant son to death in 1999 because her sister-in-law had received a vision telling her Mingo needed to purge herself of her "ungodly vanity" and prescribed a dangerous diet regimen for both mother and son.


Indigo/psychic children: Thousands of parents believe their children are the next step in human evolution, endowed with marvelous powers: ESP, telekinesis, mediumistic ability, the gift of listening to trees (shades of The Ramones), etc. How are these children going to feel when, as adults, they gradually (or suddenly) realize that they're just plain ol', run-of-the-mill human beings? This is much bigger than Santa and the Tooth Fairy. These kids are essentially being told that they're supernaturally gifted, super-human, or just not human at all. That's a huge misconception to get over.

Not to mention, magical thinking can lose you a heap o' money:

- It has been estimated that Scientology Clears will have spent between $50,000 to +$300,000 in auditing and other costs in order to reach that level. For these prices, you can get psychoanalyzed (which is all auditing is, anyway, in a cruder form) and rent dozens of sci-fi movies. Same diff.

- Many have fallen for the Black Dollar (or Wash Wash) scam, but some have lost their life savings after being convinced by psychics that their money is cursed.

- Money spent on Kabbalah Center merchandise, QLink pendants, feng shui consultations, aura cleansing, firewalking workshops, and other dubiously effective products, treatments, and lessons could instead be invested in things that will benefit you directly. One example: Madonna spends the rough equivalent of one person's college loans on Kabbalah Water every year.

- Psychic surgery can cost hundreds of dollars, not including travel, meals, accomodations, and bribes paid to customs officials.

- A 2-hour family session at A Place of Light, a center for "intuitive children" and their relatives, starts at $75. The day program for preschoolers costs $50 per week, though there is a discount if their siblings can speak with the dead or something. Factor in travel costs (the center is in Massachusetts) and you're looking at some serious cash.
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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby Hammer of Los » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:39 pm

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Nah, that swallowing the camel guy ain't no wizard.

Nor prophet neither.

You'd be better off reading Dion Fortune or Manly Hall.

Or a thousand others.

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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby American Dream » Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:55 pm

Hammer of Los wrote:...

Nah, that swallowing the camel guy ain't no wizard.

Nor prophet neither.

You'd be better off reading Dion Fortune or Manly Hall.

Or a thousand others.

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Isn't there a very absolutist sort of dualism underlying this claim?

I believe there's a way that one can draw spiritual meaning from reading Hall and Fortune and simultaneously eschew the crazy amounts of bullshit described above which Camel Woman (rightly) does critique...
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Postby American Dream » Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:25 pm

“New Age orientalism is no less a circus than was the pageantry of Barnum. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi planned to build Maharishi Veda Land near Niagara Falls, Ontario, with such rides as the Magic Flying Chariot and the Corridor of Time. The complex was to have “the world’s only levitating building,” but thus far nothing has emerged […] In both, the Indian is seen as intensely spiritual and apolitical, as noble but silent, as knowledgeable but not cosmopolitan. The Indian is a passive character absorbed in the pursuit of pleasure and success without a developed social consciousness, one who embodies the script of U.S. orientalism from its dawn to its yawn. This is a narrow vision of a human being that does not say much of the lives of the real, living Indians […]”

The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad
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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby Hammer of Los » Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:07 am

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I never read Sexy Sadie.

Sorry 'bout that.

Nor am I prone to having a narrow vision of a human being.

I do always listen to your advice AD.

You know that.

But the Camel is a sceptic, not an agnostic.

I don't think they believe in real magic.

But I do.

Crazy bulls**t is as crazy bulls**t does.

The proof of the pudding;

Does a dog have buddha nature?

Dog Shit!

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Postby American Dream » Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:05 pm

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

— Carl Sagan
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