I struggle with where to start stories.
I heard Dan Carlin say on his last episode of Hardcore History that he’s addicted to context. He has stories he wants to tell and once he gets into them, the story changes so much that his original idea for one show on one topic turns into a six-part series on something else entirely. That’s how I feel about what I’m going to share with you right now. I’ve rewritten this several times, and each time it just got further and further away from me, to the point where I didn’t understand what I was even trying to communicate. So I’m just going back to basics, simplifying this for myself and for you. Honestly, you would have heard me rant for 45 minutes and go on tangent after tangent and try to tie a bunch of disparate points into one coherent message. But that wasn’t working for me, which means there’s no way it would have worked for you. Instead, I’m just gonna strip all that away - including the Reddit thread that initially inspired me to record this - but I’m gonna strip all that away and just be real.
In episode 29 of OCCULTURE, I spoke with Dan Willis. The first hour of that conversation Dan talked at length and in great detail about some of the hidden history of extraterrestrial contact with humanity and the process of disclosing that to the general public. But, when I contacted Dan about coming on the show, I didn’t mention this topic at all. I was much more interested in his work with Dr. Marcel Vogel on quartz crystals and the sacred geometry of water and how to structure it. Obviously Dan’s background beyond that is compelling, and if you heard that episode, you know why. He’s an ex-Navy guy whose professional travels have taken him many different places, including to Washington DC, where he testified in front of the National Press Club about what’s most commonly referred to as ETI, or extraterrestrial intelligence. He talked about human contact with ETI, deals cut between governments and ETI, technology embargoes with ETI, and so on.
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to talk about that in such great detail. I hadn’t prepared to talk about it. As I said, I was more interested in the other topics that we talked about in the second hour. Frankly, the disclosure topic doesn’t interest me much. It’s not because I don’t see any truth in the stories. I’m sure there’s something there. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, right?
My issue with this is the large group of people pushing for it, pushing for the truth to finally come out. But that group is pushing for this truth from a gang of corrupt authority figures. The people fighting for disclosure are fighting against an entity that has done nothing but hide, cloak, lie and kill to keep secrets. The more I think about disclosure, the more I think it’s just a matter of telling people what they want to hear, not necessarily what’s actually going on. It seems more like they’v spent all this time building up the fervor, creating another false reality beyond the veil, so that when the time came to “lift the veil”, when people started clamoring for some appeasement beyond this superficial bullshit we’ve all come to hate, that they’d have an answer for us.
Honestly, it seems like just another distraction. It’s just another false construct being built for you, instead of being built by you. That’s the heart of the issue for me. It’s more hive-mind groupthink. It’s more humans externalizing their search for truth instead of internalizing it. The further out you go to search for truth, the further away from it you actually are. That’s why I got rid of everything I had initially written and rewritten. I had 15 pages of me tumbling down a rabbit hole that started with disclosure, then somehow got onto coronal mass ejections and reptilians and the whole Corey Goode stuff, and then I just got lost in it. The whole thing made no fucking sense. It was me trying to externalize. I was trying to turn chaos into order, and that never works.
Those of you familiar with the occult know that answers are rarely found outside. They’re rarely given to you by others. You seek within, and you find within. The universe, the uni-verse, your one verse, is a reflection of you, of your truth within, whatever it may be. We need to stop assuming the external and the others that populate it are going to give us any sort of truth. Because others are only giving you their truth. The trick is to not let someone else’s truth become yours. Because then they can wield power over you. That’s the trap we’ve fallen into again and again as individuals and as a species.
I heard Walter Bosley say recently that paranormal phenomena knows your motives. It knows what you want to see. He said, “If you wanna go out and have the Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or the ET experience, you can go out and it will give you that. Of course that might not be what’s really going on.”
What is the “it” he’s talking about? Is it this aetheric energy that can literally manifest anything we desire? I don’t know, and I don’t want to pretend like I do. Who does know what’s really going on? No one does. We’re all trying to explain something that’s unexplainable. Which, again, is our fatal flaw as individuals and as a species. Each of us is trying to make order out of chaos. Instead of embracing the random, we settle for tidy, convenient, comfortable little reality bubbles that make too much sense. You ever met someone who’s too nice and it actually bothers the shit out of you? That’s what this is. It’s too nice, too comfortable - which means there’s something wrong with it.
Honestly, the universe, our individual uni-verse, our one verse, it’s completely random. There is no single explanation, interpretation or understanding of it that is correct or accurate. It’s chaotic and therefore cannot be made sense of. Anyone that says something is one specific way is a charlatan. Physicist or priest, parishioner or podcast host, I don’t care - charlatans, all of them. There is no such thing as objectivity; there is only subjectivity. The observer effect. No one can avoid it. As a group, we have forgotten this. As a group, we have forgotten this because we have lost touch with our subjectivity, with our individuality. We have herd mentalities, that groupthink, those hive minds I mentioned earlier. We have allowed our Selves - our (space) Selves, capital S - to be swindled. Our psyches have been manipulated, our senses raped, our spirits pillaged. We have allowed the chaotic nature of our (space) Self, we have allowed that real chaos inside us, to be siphoned off and used against us, to construct this fake order outside.
You remember the quote, right? Order from chaos, or out of chaos comes order. That’s exactly what we’ve allowed to happen. We allowed our individuality to be stripped away from us. Our individual sovereignty dissipated because it was easier on these mortal vessels. The chaos we all have inside of us was plundered and replaced by order, a new world order, constructed for you, not by you. They - whoever they are - built their order out of your chaos. Order is easier to control. Order is easier to explain, to interpret, to understand. Order is what ego feeds on. It’s what ego craves. Order is governed by the almighty dollar. Order is your shitty 9-to-5 job; all the bills you have to pay; all the rules, regulations, restrictions, and laws you’re forced to live under; all the incessant celebrity gossip, rigged sporting events, and mass media theatrics you subject yourself to. Order is genetically-modified bread and geopolitical circuses.
But that order is breaking down. Finally! Finally, we’re getting back to that chaos. We’re reclaiming our sovereignty, our psyche, our senses, our spirit! Yes! Yes! Finally! We’re awakening! Ascending! Our collective consciousness is rising!
Or is it?
See, this is where we have to be careful. This is where our discernment is going to be tested. We really have to let our hearts guide us here. Because maybe, just maybe, these ideas of collective consciousness and spiritual awakening and ascension, maybe this is the new order. Maybe this is the new world order that’s being constructed for us, instead of by us. Maybe the foundation for this order has been laid in the last several decades, and now the rest of it is being constructed, brick by brick, hashtag by hashtag, woke hipster by woke hipster.
This leads me to a theory, to an idea, known as hypernormalisation. This was an idea first presented in a 2006 book by Alexei Yurchak, titled “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation”. Here’s a quick synopsis of the book, from Wikipedia: “(The book) is about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 20 years before it collapsed. A professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, (Yurchak) argues that everyone knew the system (in the Soviet Union) was failing, but as no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a pretence of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the ‘fakeness’ was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed ‘hypernormalisation.’”
As I said, this book was published in 2006, but I wasn’t aware of it until about three months ago. I had stumbled across a documentary released late last year by the British Broadcasting Corporation called “HyperNormalisation”. This was directed by a British filmmaker named Adam Curtis, who’s a rather respected filmmaker. He’s won four BAFTAs, which is the British equivalent to the Emmys.
(I’ll link to this doc on YouTube in the show notes. I’d encourage you all to watch it, although it is about three hours.) The point of the film is simple, though: since the 1970s, governments, financiers, and technological utopians have given up on the complex "real world" and built a simple "fake world" that is run by corporations and kept stable by politicians.
Now, I discern this as an idea likely to be true. I say likely to be true because I’m reminded of the theory that Robert Anton Wilson put forth that states the only thing that exists is probability. So in this case, I find the probability of hypernormalisation being true to be higher than the probability of it being false. (I could also get really meta and say I find the probability of Wilson’s theory of probability being true to be higher than the probability of it being false. But I digress.)
This begs some important questions: If hypernormalisation is probable, what exactly is the fake world and what exactly is the real world? Where does the fake end and the real begin?
The fake world seems rather easy to parse through. It’s the one we’ve all been actively participating in, the one built on materialism and governed by the almighty dollar. It’s the genetically-modified bread and geopolitical circuses.
But what if this fake world also extends to what we consider to be real? By we, I mean people into the fringe, into the occult and the paranormal, conspiracy theories, spirituality, mythology, alternate cosmologies, etc. What if this paranormal portion of the fake world has also been constructed for us and we’re getting ready to walk right into it?
As Bosley said, paranormal phenomena knows your motives and knows what you want to see. And if the people who know this about the phenomena - and TPTB know about this, believe me - they’re doing all they can to influence you into wanting certain things, things that appear to be what we want, but things that ultimately keep order in place. Hey, if more and more people want corrupt leaders exposed, or extraterrestrial disclosure, guess what we’re gonna get? If you want to live in a world with 120 different alien species, here ya go. Here’s your draco reptilians and your greys and your blue avians. Ladies and gentleman, the deep state may have constructed an even deeper state for us to get lost in. We’re gonna get that flavor of bread, and we’re gonna get those types of circuses.
I guess all I’m saying is: be careful. Be careful with whom you’ve been cohabitating with, or co-creating with. You may feel as if your juju is on point, but unless you’ve mastered your Self and don’t need a co-creator, you’re still very much under the influence of their order.
Yes, this is a pivotal moment in our collective existence, but we have to remember that this in an individual journey.
One of my favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz. And 78 years after its release, it’s as relevant now as it’s ever been. We all want the man behind the curtain to reveal himself to us. But if The Wizard of Oz taught us anything, it’s that the answers we seek are already here. Remember that line when Dorothy and the gang stroll into meet the wizard and the curtain gets pulled back? “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” You know why? Because he’s a charlatan. An illusion. A reflection of your creative capabilities. Seriously. Pay him no mind. Your character is already courageous. Your mind is already sharp. Your heart is already pure.
But it’s time to reclaim your spirit.
It’s time to reclaim your chaos.
I just listened to this episode yesterday and what you said about them giving us the reality that we want got me thinking. The way this relates to the idea that reality or maya is pure illusion is interesting and makes you wonder about what's happening out there.
BTW, i'm a runesouper and follow you on twitter but prefer to keep my identities separate.
Hey, man, thanks for reading and listening! I thought when I wrote this no one would take to it, but the feedback I've received has been surprisingly positive. People are receptive to the ideas I presented here. It is nearly impossible to gauge what's going on, but this whole "lifting of the veil" has never sat well with me. Maybe I'm too cynical, or too conspiratorial, but I don't think for one second that Empire doesn't have something up their sleeve. If what we know is true, they've been using magick a lot longer than we have. They may have created more illusions than we can comprehend.
I don't engage much with the Rune Soup community, officially (not a premium member or anything), but I am quite fond of Gordon's work. Do I follow you back on Twitter?
Yeah I think so, I'll hit you up there so you know who I am.