#conspirituality

[creature-wizard]

Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

#starseed #starseeds #atlantis #ascension #5d #ancient aliens #ancient astronauts #ancient astronaut hypothesis #aliens #spiritualism #mysticism #dna activation #witchblr #new age #conspirituality #conspiracism

[mindsetmystic]

How to Meditate

1. Set a timer (most cell phones have these). I suggest 5 minutes for a true newbie, 10-15 for a beginner, 20-30 for people who are looking to really give it a go. Feel free to start at whatever time and work your way up. 

2. Sit in a comfortable place. I usually sit cross-legged in a chair that has a back for me to recline against. 

3. Close your eyes. Hold your hands in a natural manner. I hold my right fist in my left palm loosely in my lap. Breathe. 

4. I focus my gaze gently on the space in between my eyebrows. This gives my eyes a comfortable place to rest so that they aren’t wandering behind my eyelids. Try to find a natural spot to focus your eyes, possibly between the eyebrows or on the forehead. 

5. Thoughts and feelings will come. Observe them without thinking about them. Don’t analyze your thoughts/feelings and don’t try to push them away. Experience them and let them go. You hold onto things by thinking about them. 

6. Sometimes you will get lost in thought and forget that you are meditating. That happens. When it does, bring your attention back to the present moment. Breathe in, breathe out. Center yourself and begin simply observing again. Don’t create more waves by getting frustrated or trying to judge your meditation’s quality. 

7. When your timer goes off, don’t get up right away. Open your eyes and turn off the annoying alarm. Continue to be relaxed and observe your surroundings. Look around, breathe, move slowly. Then get up. The more you take your time when transitioning out of meditation, the more the effects persist into your normal day. 

Things to keep in mind:

Meditation will result in feeling peaceful and calm. But feeling peaceful and calm is not the sign of a good meditation. When you sit to meditate, you begin at the beginning. You are filled with karmas that are mental opinions and judgements you hold without realizing it. As you meditate, those karmas leave you. 

Sometimes there will be a pause in the constant noise of your mental karmas, then you will experience peace and stillness. This happens during some meditations and it is wonderful. Other meditations may be fraught with distraction and worry and pain. These meditations are no less valuable to your progress. Think of meditation as therapy sessions with God. Painful or peaceful, progress is being made. 

Also remember, you are not striving to attain anything in meditation. In meditation, you are returning to your Self, your original nature. That isn’t something you can attain through force but rather realize by relaxing. 

Stay sharp, stay aware, stay in the moment, and be the observer of your human body and everything that comes with it (thought, emotion, feeling). 

Daily meditation creates a snowball effect. The more your meditate, the better. But some meditation is always better than no meditation. Don’t let meditation become a chore. It is the only thing worth doing in your day but at the same time it never needs to become a source of guilt or hardship. 

I hope this helped to make some things clear and opened the doorway to the divine flowering of the Self. 

#self love #new age #the divine cosmic play of consciousness #meditation #conspirituality #self care #self esteem #third eye #self healing #meditative #self worth #spiritual development

[evilsoup]

Let's read 2024

Xmas book haul

Any of these will be worth doing a readthrough with Posts on each chapter. No promises of timescale of course. Which one to start with?

#lets read 2024 #why men #conspirituality #against decolonisation

[anticonspiracist]

This might be relevant to your interests!

#podcast rec #conspirituality #Spotify

[barbaragenova]

The collectivist logic of vaccination proves that immunity is a group effort. This truth strikes at the heart of the consumerist economy of alternative health treatments that are marketed to consumers based on individual needs. The notion that every human being in the world can benefit from the exact same 0.5mL dose of colorless vaccine is an insult to the world of bespoke treatments based on temperament, heritage, body type, or astrological sign. The vaccine tells the wellness-world consumer that they are not special, that they need no special crystals or remedies, nor special attention. It tells the alternative health practitioner who claims to be able to “boost the immune system” with herbs or acupuncture to take a seat and STFU.

Conspirituality 

#AHAHAHAH #YES #conspirituality #nonfiction #amreading #hell yeaaaaaaah

[longreads]

“For some primitive reason probably rooted in childhood, humans have a deep need to idealize other humans; to project the possibility of transcendence or redemption onto a charismatic other. The clash between the tender need to be led and an idol’s need for power forms a breeding ground for the worst of humanity.” —Blair Glaser

Read Blair’s reading list on culty stories and spiritual swindlers on Longreads.

#cults #spirituality #conspirituality #gurus #yoga #reading #longform #longreads

[xenofact]

You’re So Lucky You’re Not Special

You’re not the reincarnation of some famous historical figure.

You didn’t have a past life in non-existent Atlantis

You’re not a genetically engineered time-traveling super-soldier created to explore space and fight aliens.

You’re not a super-assassin secretly trained by the US government.

You’re not an alien Starseed here to save Earth.

You’re not touched by a bunch of suspiciously white-looking so-called “Ascended Masters” to Awaken Humanity.*

You’re none of those things.  Those things are just bullshit made up or hijacked by grifters to sell to you.  Their goal is to make you feel special by selling you a story that at best has a bare echo of truth, and at worse is made of whole cloth.  The internet has made this somehow worse.

The thing is the grifters, the opportunists, and their legions of followers are trying to sell you that you’re special just like them.  They sell a story of specialness you can all participate in, but not only is it a grift, it’s the same kind of specialness for all.  They’re not only deceiving you (and possibly themselves), but it’s not really specialness.

To make it somehow worse this kind of recycled bullshit and telephone-operator-con-games covers up the real wonders and horrors of reality.  It sells you a blueprint for destiny you can plug your own imagination into while you plug in your credit card number to buy yet another book.  It doesn’t encourage you to open your mind let alone your eyes or Third Eye, it just keeps feeding you more of the same.

You’re not special, not in their way.  What you are is unique because you’re you.  Whatever the gods, powers, destiny, or random chance has for you it’s yours.  You may well have been touched by supernatural forces or great opportunity or just plain luck, but it’s not going to be in any form that comfortably fits into a $199 two-hour online seminar.

And that’s great!  You get to choose how you deal with whatever kind of uniqueness you have.  Maybe you aren’t even that unique so you get even more choice and far less social pressure.

And who wants to be part of some great destiny or plan anyway?  Maybe you have your own ideas, your own life to lead, and you don’t need the pressure.  Take it from a professional Project Manager, a lot of plans fail or go off the rails anyway!

Go be the unique you.  That’s one destiny you can fulfill better than anyone.

- Xenofact

* SubGeniuses like myself DO have Yeti blood, but at this rate so does everyone else.  Also we’re just weirdos.  We’re more weird than special.

#uniqueness #psychology #conspirituality #specialness #you are unique and that matters #be yourself

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#spotify wrapped #podcasts #knowledge fight #conspirituality #behind the bastards

[biblioflyer]

Procedurally Generated AI Cults, Situational Vulnerability, & Lower Decks

Dear reader, I'm not as caught up on Lower Decks as I should be. So I'm working on amending that. S3E8 "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" struck me as giving the game away. Lower Decks isn't just good parody, its good Star Trek. Of course I knew that, but this reinforces it so well.

So lets get into the meat of it.

Boimler and the gang are enjoying a shameless self insert holo novel about the Lower Decks team being cool action heroes and saving the Cerritos from a time traveling Romulan scheme. Brad is shaken when he finds out that this transporter clone on the Titan has died in a senseless accident.

No longer able to enjoy the cinematic adventure he's constructed, Brad strays from the main plot line causing the holodeck to improvise. Brad is captivated by a street preacher promising answers to the biggest questions such as the meaning of life. A street preacher he didn't directly program into the story, the holodeck just inserted the preacher into the background for flavor. He was supposed to be just another voice in a procedurally generated cacophony. What's more the street preacher is an obvious cliche.

Unless you're devastated and unmoored.

Suddenly the affectation of secret knowledge scans as real and compelling. What was once silly and easily dismissed is intoxicating.

Set and setting as Morpheus would say quoting Timothy Leary who was almost certainly paraphrasing earlier thinkers.

When Boimler starts taking the street preacher seriously, like any good TTRPG storyteller, the Holodeck computer has to start improvising frantically. At one point Mariner even points out that the way an AI character is behaving is transparently a stalling tactic while the holodeck generates the next story point. Brad is not deterred.

Boimler is not stupid. He's Starfleet. He's memorized procedure manuals that put Vulcans to sleep. He knows he's talking to a machine. That none of this is "real" but there is a broken part of him in this moment that is open to the idea that through a sort of chaos magic, something real will be revealed in the AI's kludging together of hollow symbols that represent significance but have no deeper meaning behind them beyond what Brad reads into it.

Later on, the procedurally generated cult even stumbles, fails to make progress on its quest for enlightenment and falls apart in recrimination and bickering. Sound familiar?

However, this is just a momentary lapse because Brad is still unmoored, still desperate to find meaning from something that is coded as a higher power, and the moment his large language model messiah returns, Brad is all in.

This episode was hysterical but it was also painful. I have a grandmother who is all in on reactionary conspiracy theories and its hard to find things to talk to her about that aren't landmines. Especially considering my day job is in education, so now I don't know how much I can actually talk about my work without having to disarm the groomer bomb.

But anyway this episode does such a great job of showcasing concepts that have been discussed in many places but I would argue that the most genuine and informed discussion has taken place on the Conspirituality podcast with an honorable mention to Behind the Bastards for their "AI is Coming for Your Children" two parter. I feel like this coincides nicely with Robert Evans' less sensationalist takes on AI in which yes, people can immerse themselves in their own alternate realities even more so, but with the greatest threat very plausibly not coming from the malignancy of elites but rather the willingness of unthinking machines to tell us what we want to hear and other cynical actors trying to figure out how to profit by creating the illusion of meaning at scale.

That isn't to say that the designers of the holodeck mean any harm but its clear that even with appropriate safeguards in place, situational vulnerability remains quite real even after Barclay's unfortunate experiences. We're all searching for validation and meaning, and when we're at our lowpoints is when our BS detectors are weakest.

#star trek #holodecks #brad boimler #QAnon #cults #situational vulnerability #Conspirituality #Behind the Bastards #AI #grief #Star Trek Lower Decks #Lower Decks s3e8 #Lower Decks season 3 #uss cerritos

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

#conspiracy theories #conspiracy theory #conspiracism #conspirituality #conspiracy theorists #conspiracy theorist #spirituality #spiritual community #red flag #red flags #spiritual red flags #spiritual red flag #atlantis #lemuria #antisemitism #witch hunts #history #pseudohistory #religion #witchblr #paganblr #occultblr #discernment

[brianshares]

#anime #cult #happy science #animation #conspirituality #spirituality #new religious movements #helen keller #cartoons #new age #my posts

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

“Tik Tok is just capitalism with lip syncing” is one of the best descriptions of that app I’ve heard

(From a Conspirituality podcast episode—great podcast if you’re into the intersection of new age spirituality and conspiracy theories and fascism and so on. Definite recommend)

#til tok #capitalism #podcast #conspirituality

[carcosacurations]

the conspirators

#eldritch #portrait #fashion style #gigeresque #avant garde fashion #conspiracy #mk ultra #conspirituality #conspiracy theories #mkultra #mixed media

[savedbyshriners]

Thought Dump

Recently, I have been going back into researching conspiracies, secret societies, spirituality, etc. it all ties together.

Currently, I'm reading The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. It's been going through some early living cults, beginning freemasonry, early shamanism and all the things that tie up with these items. I've found that this author wrote MANY things in his time and I'm tempted to go through and read all of it.

Partly what got me back on this journey is reading the book The Secret History by Donna Tartt. The main character, Richard, becomes entangled with some shifty stuff in his ancient Greek class, which references tidbits of ancient philosophy... and now I'm here.

If anyone has any thoughts, recommendations, or anything they would like to share, please do!!! I'm looking for people who are as curious as I am :)

#thought dump #donna tartt #the secret history #freemasonry #manly p. hall #cults #cultism #philosophy #secret society #conspirituality #conspiracy #spiritual development #spirituality

[barbaragenova]

“Is Marianne Williamson’s promotion of A Course in Miracles any more relevant to her political persona than Biden’s Catholicism? If it demonstrably informs her every instinct and communication (as we expect it would given she sermonizes out of it every day), then yes, it is. If it leads her to suggest that meditation can help contain nuclear waste, divert hurricanes, heal the “scam” of clinical depression, or “boost the immune system” against COVID19, then yes, it is. 

Is it sexist to highlight Williamson’s reported history of interpersonal abusiveness, when male politicians get away with far worse? There is definitely a double standard to resist. But when a candidate builds a political persona on being a love-and-light wayshower, it’s important to evaluate what that actually looks like ground-level. It’s also important to consider whether immature behavior might be a plausible outcome of following the Jesus of A Course in Miracles, who is a huge asshole. 

Finally: if Williamson is the only candidate out there talking about reparations and M4A, is it reactionary to dismiss her on religious or behavioral grounds? Not if you’re actually interested in a functional progressive politics, free from magical thinking and charismatic bafflement.” 

#AHAHAH #conspirituality #podcast #marianne williamson #a course in miracles #asshole jesus #WHAT

[elektroskopik]

I never want to hear the phrase, "I did my own research!" uttered by someone who literally just sat on their ass and googled shit for hours on end.

#fuck antivaxxers #bitch please #real research means doing actual experiments #in a lab #and realizing that you dont know everything #research #science #2022 #conspirituality #vaccines #conspiracy theorists #covid 19