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Sunday 10 May 2020

The Lockdown Phoenix

Part One: Con-Spiracy

Some people like to talk about conspiracies. Conspiracy theories. They like to ridicule them; and if that doesn't work, then they try to ban them.

Here are some well-known modern conspiracy theories:

- A bunch of Muslims, who by all accounts were pretty hopeless at flying planes, seamlessly hijacked four planes, and with precision accuracy flew two of them into the middle of big towers, bringing them down. They were so skilled that they brought down another tower a little later without even flying into it.
- There was a dude who lived in a big desert in the middle of nowhere. He was so evil that he got a load of weapons together that were ready to destroy London in next-to no time.
- There is a gas, super-abundant in the Earth's atmosphere and necessary for plant life. However, when it is produced by human activity, it becomes highly dangerous, leading to imminent melting of all snow and ice, and to London, Tokyo, and New York being flooded out of existence.

In truth, a 'conspiracy theory' is any story about life which goes against the official version of events, spread by the organs of official versions of events. That's all it is. The term was, I believe, first employed by the CIA in an attempt to ridicule and discredit any ideas about the assassination of JFK which differed from the official story.

The use of 'conspiracy theory' is intended to ridicule, and thereby discourage members of the public from actually looking more carefully at reality. The only problem is that, with the passing of time, some conspiracy theories have proven to have a good deal of truth about them. Make of that what you will.

Current conspiracy theories abound around the topic of 5G. Specifically, we are informed that conspiracists claim that '5G causes you-know-what'. Ha! Ha! That's a crackpot idea if ever I heard one. What a bunch of idiots!

One way to try and dismiss people you happen to disagree with is by misrepresenting what they are saying, in order to make it sound more incredible. David Icke, the conspiracy king, is alleged to be among those who have claimed a causal relationship between the new technology and you-know-what. In fact, he has been thrown off Facebook and had his YouTube channel deleted for his pains.

The thing is: David Icke has never claimed that 5G causes the-nasty-thing. He has pointed out that the new technology seems to create in some people, at a certain strength, symptoms very similar to those sometimes associated with Covid-19. Particularly a certain kind of shortage of breath, an oxygen deprivation quite unlike anything associated with typical flu. He has also discussed the dangers to physical and psychological health that he believes come with deployment of 5G. So he is being deliberately misrepresented, at the very least.

Here's a proper conspiracy theory about 5G: We now have a new technology. It is untested for affects upon health, aside from a little bit by those who make it anyhow, and who have enormous vested interests. But we know that it poses no threat to health, despite it being untested. So we are going to impose it upon all humanity whether they like it or not.

Part Two: Lockdown Tarot

Three years ago I was performing Tarot on a regular basis, sometimes doing several spreads in a week. It was not something that 'I' exactly decided to do; it was more as if a decision was made that this should be done. 'I' was merely the vessel.

It was an energised and almost frenzied time in retrospect. I might now, with the passing of time, talk about 'creating mandalas' or some such. For sure, it was an exploration of the patterned nature of reality, a shift from linear, cause-and-effect consciousness, into a synchronistic, kaleidoscopic experience of existence and how it works. Life as constantly-changing patterning, everything laden with portent and meaning. Tarot had become the vehicle for a shift in consciousness, perceptual transformation.

Then the kundalini energy awoke, and the Tarot stopped. Immediately. It was as if its job had been done, a necessary shift executed. The peculiar quality of elements of life synthesising, which had been so characteristic of Tarot work, dissolved. A new perceptual pattern had been achieved: end of story.

Until just recently, that is. The unique strangeness of current phenomena surrounding you-know-what invoked the urge to look at Tarot once more. As if 'making sense' was as likely to emerge from the cards as from reading and listening to any number of articles, talks, interviews.

Around ten days ago I got out some cards again, and effected a reading about the high strangeness of current events. The state of the world. Looking for signs, for clues. It's like detective work, really.
The results were sufficiently interesting to deserve reproducing. Here we go:  

                            Three
                            'Light'
                        Ace of Swords

     One                Five                    Two
     The Past      Focal Theme      The Future
XX Judgement VII The Chariot   3of Chalices
             
                            Four
                           'Dark'
                      3 of Swords

And a few notes on the cards:

Past Influence: Judgement: 'The angel decrees that it is time to get out of our current stagnant situation and arise to a new calling.' 'The end of the fight, not through victory and neither through surrender.'

Future Possibilities: 3 of Chalices: 'Love, passion, affinity, union, concord.' 'That desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.'

Light: Ace of Swords: 'Triumph..... The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.' 'The power of knowing oneself.'

Dark: 3 of Swords: 'Division.' 'Self-loathing leading to self-deception. Letting yourself be the victim.'

Focal Theme: VII The Chariot: 'Triumph, progress. Energy in action.' 'Triumph over events and demons.'


Part Three: Science is Very Diabolic Indeed

That friend of mine sure was onto something....

Last weekend I watched the livestream of Rose/Icke lll on London Real. As well as being eager to see what was being said, I took it as an act of solidarity in these increasingly censorious times. It was apparently the most viewed livestreamed interview in the history of the internet, over one million folk tuning in. Good news.

The aspect of David Icke's work which, more than any other, relegated him to the dustbin level of 'conspiracy nut' in the eyes of the mainstream was his claim that human events are deeply influenced by non-human entities, who are working to implement a dark agenda of control. Reptilians. "Ha! Ha!" shrieked the tiny minds. "He's crazy."

I had become interested in seeing whether David would introduce this aspect in his current expositions on the Covid crisis. It is a dimension which is integral to his wider take on the human condition, but discussing it might be a kind-of high risk policy. At the same time, in the midst of the unique craziness of Now, if there ever is a time for weird notions...….

It's around the 1 hour 57 minute mark (it's not a short interview) that David brings the topic up. "The human world has been infiltrated by a non-human force manipulating human society." These are more-or-less his words.

As Icke himself asserts, there are many human cultures which have taken as read the existence of non-human forces that interface with human affairs. Forces both benevolent and malevolent. I have written ad nauseam about the Gnostic take on the archons. Most shamanic traditions take this dimension for granted, and that normal human perception partakes in only a small portion of the whole. Inca, Aztec, Maya. The annunaki of the Sumerians.

In some Tibetan Buddhist traditions, should there be a problem, you would call on the lama to perform rituals in order to placate or banish the demonic forces concerned. It is as if, in the wider context of human societies, ours, with its dismissal of the possibility of non-human forces, is the anomaly.

We are ….. the..... anomaly. Why..... is …… that? Boom! Got it! Science! (and we are talking of 'science' as popularly understood and imagined in the public realm).

If you wish to accomplish dark and dodgy deeds without being detected -which is what you will want to do - what better way than to promote a belief system which automatically excludes your very existence? Brilliant!

The scientific worldview insists on the world as perceived through the few senses, and that alone. Anything else is deemed superstition or plain barmy. Consciousness is reduced to things going on in the brain. Religion, telepathy, ghosts, spiritual experience, supernatural events, non-human entities that can't be seen with my everyday naked eye: bullshit. Such is the splendid cover created by worship of the religion of science.

It's a great irony. The modern world looks upon science as so advanced, so clever, so superior. While what it has done in reality is to sequester humanity inside a tiny box within the great expanse of life. This tiny box with its belief system acts as a hermetic seal, excluding anything else which may exist in the universe. Human consciousness in lockdown, whereby the non-human force of darkness can continue unrecognised, undisturbed, without fear of detection. Until now, that is....

Religion of science: the perfect cover-up for evil. Funny, isn't it?