This seems quite healthy; pausing along the path and asking questions - and then trusting that the Infinite Light welcomes and answers (with delight!) these questions (and doubts and fears) can only build a deeper and ever more loving relationship with that Light.
It seems to me you are wrestling with what to believe…what is true!!
Karl Popper (20th century philosopher) said truth (or facts) is what hasn’t been proved false. Vervaeke (and I don’t know if this was his original insight) says truth is the most plausible understanding.
I’ve read some pretty amazing books recently that have changed expanded my worldview….Ever-Present Origin by Gebser, Tillich’s Courage to Be…The Terrible Love of War by Hillman…Holland’s book Dominion (evolution of Christianity). My openness to wonder increases but I sit with ultimate unknowing.
My life practice now seems to be trying to be present now and now and again now (I guess very Buddhist) while embracing core ethical Christian compassion. The rest are questions that are mind f**ks that are intriguing. I think we and all life cooperates with everything else and also combats with everything else-life/death…love hate…eat or be eaten etc etc etc. If the Big Bang birthed us it’s the creative/destructive explosion that mirrors all. Try as we may to know it’s All ultimately unknowable. So I center myself and try to flow.
Such a useful exercise. As an aside, sometimes I sense all of us are walking and pausing on this path together as your writing so often reflects my own reality. You are not alone, etc etc. A wonderful thought.
I won't be doing her justice in my following description, but I HIGHLY recommend you read the Substack "Return to Anam" who is written by a highly gifted and highly sensitive woman, also a cult survivor (from Benjamin Creme's cult actually) and who has written several masterpieces on the subject of how destructive patterns latch on to humans and their meaning systems. Many parallels with your newfound awareness shared in this piece. https://rightsforrainbows.substack.com/p/what-if-the-matrix-is-perpetuated
Nice piece, Tom. I think about this quite a bit too, especially because, as an astrologer, I'm a member of the "damned" class. I believe we're in a time of return - to an understanding of the spiritual dimensions of reality, including the other intelligences we share it with. We went through a period of extreme materialism that enabled us to develop certain useful ideas and ways of working, but it required denying aspects of reality, and now we're in a process of rediscovery of all that was denied, armed with a more rigorous, empirical way of thinking about things. In other words, this is an era of spiritual science. You seem to be one of the many people carrying that torch now.
At the same time, the church, which formerly had dominion over spiritual matters, has its own ideas about these things and wishes to retain its primacy in these areas (and, to be kinder, protect people from harm). Astrologically speaking, I think this is the shift from the Age of Pisces (the two fish, Christianity and Islam) towards the Age of Aquarius, a sign concerned with knowledge of material and spiritual reality. The carriers of the Piscean impulse have natural "antibodies" against new ways of being and knowing, in the form of arguments that they're "demonic" and will lead to the end of the world.
This is not to say that we aren't also awash with bad ideas or that people aren't getting led astray by malevolent forces or that a lot of channels aren't being deceived about who or what is speaking through them. I just suspect that the transition away from the era of church and materialist dominion was probably always going to look something like this, in the early days. The guardrails are off. I think New Age ideas are best seen as the start of something, rather than the end point, so we're awash with nonsense and bullshit right now, but hopefully this will clear up somewhat over the decades and centuries.
This is where my own studies have taken me, although I do also sometimes entertain doubts similar to those you express in this piece. I guess all we can be expected to do is pursue the truth earnestly and adjust our ideas as evidence and our intuition suggest. Seems to me that's what you're doing. Thanks for this thoughtful piece, anyway.
Thanks, Dan. That's a perfect response. And honestly, as I've gone deeper into this over the last three months, I think a lot of this relates to my own personal issues that I'm clearing up. I just spent so long going through what I really believe in the nature of these ideas that it was very hard for me to think how they could possibly be problematic.
That said, I think there still may be murky channels and even deliberately deceptive forces. So I'm holding both sides lightly, but I'm not going to stop exploring. I'm grateful to have someone like you as a companion on the path.
I was raised in Benjamin cremes group as my parents were part of the inner circle. (Maybe you know that) It wasn’t the antichrist … I do feel I know enough what it is though…
I am not sure what information you are looking for because I’ve just found you. But let me know and I think I probably do have proof of deception. I didn’t write in detail about what I found out about Ben because I assumed no one was interested now that he died.
I should say that I was under some kind of psychic attack from what felt like birth since 8 years ago more or less.
You are right to be vigilant because there is absolutely deception from negative NHIs in the new age world and it was definitely around crème. I’ve lived it. It was also around Jiddu Krishnamurti which I’ve written about for example. However no fear is necessary. It’s not that the universe is out to get us, nor do I feel Earth is a prison planet. We have co created this ourselves.
That doesn’t mean Christianity is the solution even though the teaching from Jesus was good. They have been corrupted by exactly the same thing. It doesnt care what the belief is, it only shapes belief for its purpose. It hijacks spiritual people specifically and feeds on particular ways of being such as pride (which is why some religious teaching are correct). In the long run it doesn’t care whether you say the words of submitting to Jesus.
The evidence is in how abusive spiritual leaders have become especially sexually. Plenty of evangelical pastors have become corrupt and abusive. But this corruption has happened across all religions, and all beliefs, from Sufism to Chogyam Trungpa and Buddhism to John of God and of course to transcendental meditation (which explains Deepak Chopra and Epstein).
I have shown how many other religions contain clues to what has happened not just Christianity.
If you put the pieces together you can see it’s teaching us a lesson about the mind and about belief and even about the nature of our energy bodies.
I have started a podcast to investigate how this happens more deeply.
Thank you so much for this comment. I also have your booklet bookmarked to read when I'm on vacation next week. But it looks like a masterful synthesis of a load of different sources. As someone who runs a consciousness community, I am hyper aware of these dynamics, but I'm not naive enough to think there aren't ways I could be caught out.
What do you feel that it was that had you under attack? There was a dark substack recently that made allusions about Lucis, but when I asked them if they had any details, they never replied. My sense is always that it would be better to get this stuff out in the open so that other people can avoid making the same mistakes or being deceived by the same things.
Yes everyone can be caught out especially the ones trying to climb the ladder of consciousness.
I’m here on Substack to try to help prevent others from suffering as much as I did from the deception by building a language of awareness and database of defence ideas. Plus I feel we’re facing a systematic corruption of human spiritual development at the exact moment in history when we most need authentic spiritual evolution. But it’s lot of pressure for me to do alone and I have to challenge peoples attachments and beliefs to do it so many people cut me of when I do that.
There was another Hindu cult that infiltrated Bens cult and he is still at large at much more dangerous. I had a clearer view that there was an evil entity behind this guru because of how badly I was hurt and how many others who try to leave are hurt and because he rapes young men.
Bens entity was a different form of this same thing. It is what I feel is a similar shape shifting force, so likely part of the same thing. I agree with John Keel but it should be expanded to encompass other categories of anomalous experience and not just UFOs.
Ben genuinely believed he was helping to save the world - he himself was deceived by an entity that was constantly merged with him. You could not speak to Ben without talking to the master. I was speaking to this entity since I was a child and I have proof in hindsight that it lied to me. His predictions also turned out to he wrong.
Of course Bailey was doing the same and so was Leadbeater but I do not think they were as constantly ‘merged’ as Ben was.
Ben used to be the vice president of the UFO group the Aetherius Society ( founded by George king who spoke and channelled all the aliens) and I have evidence that he took their ideas and passed it of as his own masters ideas. It’s clear that Ben had immersed himself in entity contact in his early years and became somehow compromised.
Plus he seemed to wanted to have his own group after seeing the chain of others doing it before him including Blavatsky, or otherwise it was clear he was heavily influenced by that model of channeling contact.
From my perspective being someone who sees patterns and also seeing the cross pollination at work across all these groups, being pyschic, and having fought my own inner wars with deceptive entities myself, I get the sense they are part of and/or operating the same non local non time bound field, which is where my theory, which will you will read, came from. But it’s an open ontology. That and the fact that I perceive the world in frequencies and waves, especially mind and emotion.
As I have said in my first essay in August 2025 I made the following deductive argument. (In that essay I also describe my model on how I feel abusive gurus are made based on ancient texts.)
“According to Red Shambhala, the Roerich’s were part of this Soviet initiative. Helena Roerich’s Agni Yoga not only inspired figures like Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme, but it also wove the figure of Maitreya into a politically charged narrative. In her so-called “Mahatma letters” to Soviet officials, Roerich portrayed Maitreya — the future Buddha — as emblematic of Communism, declaring that “Buddha’s teaching is revolutionary” and that Maitreya represented “the symbol of Communism,” with millions of Buddhists ready to join a global commune led from the Soviet Union (Znamenski, Red Shambhala, p. 152–153; RGASPI, fond 495, opis 99, delo 74, listy 22–27). The letters predicted a glorious unification of Buddhism and Communism that would “shatter Europe” and liberate Asia from colonial oppression — a utopian future in which the Soviet-led commune was portrayed as the dawning of a higher spiritual age.
In reality, the future of Communism unfolded in ways diametrically opposed to that vision. Instead of ushering in justice and liberation, Communist regimes across the 20th and 21st centuries became synonymous with mass repression, economic collapse, and human rights atrocities. The historical record is grim: Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine (1932–33) deliberately starved millions (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute); Mao’s Great Leap Forward (1958–62) caused 30–45 million deaths through famine and failed policies (BBC); the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) saw 1–2 million killed and millions persecuted (Encyclopedia Britannica); and North Korea’s famine in the 1990s under Kim Jong-il killed at least a million while the regime operated brutal forced-labour camps (Amnesty International). Today, North Korea’s citizens still endure extreme repression, including pervasive surveillance, collective punishment, and political prison camps where torture, starvation, and forced labour remain routine.
If Helena’s Masters were truly advanced, omniscient beings capable of perceiving humanity’s trajectory, they should have foreseen that the political system they exalted would, in practice, lead to widespread oppression and suffering. The fact that their “prophecy” bore no resemblance to the actual human cost of Communism — and instead aligned with its propaganda — raises a serious credibility problem for those who continue to treat the Masters’ guidance as infallible.
It was Alice Bailey who originated the idea of the ‘Externalisation of the Hierarchy’ beginning in the 1970s, and so all that is indirectly responsible for the cult I was raised in. (I have recently found evidence that Benjamin copied a great deal of his group’s approach to ‘service’ and the construction of his Transmission Meditation pyramid machine from the Aetherius Society, while misleading people to believe it came from his ‘master.’ I will add that to my other article, one day.) They were purportedly ‘channelling’ masters of wisdom. Channelling was, and is, all the vogue.
Now the final question, considering spiritual humans are so susceptible to psychic deception, and that our brains are generally very deceptive (See for example, “The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human” by V.S. Ramachandran, “Self-Deception Unmasked” by Bella DePaulo and my favourite, “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts” by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson), and the consequences of getting it wrong, and/or have others misinterpret endlessly, means that many innocent people get hurt, why would any benevolent, all-knowing entity choose that way of communicating with them?”
Thanks for sharing this. Fear of being deceived was at the root of the psychosis that kick started my (re)discovery of my spiritual path. I agree with you - if I read it correctly - that if anything is the antichrist, it is this fear, this distrust in a benevolent universe that is at its route. The two quotes that come to mind:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” - Kennedy
And
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe” - Einstein
It was actually an enormous relief to read this piece realising I'm not alone in my struggle on this increasingly mind bending, reality shifting quest. The devil does indeed come in many disguises, mercurial in nature as 'he' is, so navigating this path is hugely precarious for all concerned and it takes great courage to write and share about these topics, so a heartfelt thanks for all that you do. Re potential harm my take is that each of us must always take personal responsibility for our own discernment of what feels true ( that does not excuse those 'bad actors' who deliberately set out to mislead or exploit others). Just as in all good fairy tales or myths, helpers and guides appear if we are curious and open enough to see them. They help to illuminate our path and reveal demons and monsters lurking in the shadows, but ultimately, like Theseus, we must find our own way to the centre of the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur by our own hand, through our own agency, following our own unique inner guidance be it synchronicities, dreams or other forms.
You have no idea how timely this is. I’ve been going to the center of my own maze recently. Massive, overlong article in process that will hopefully try and articulate the story. Thanks for your companionship…
Looking forward to the article when it's ready ✨️Re the maze sadly it's never just a one off heroic story of slaying our darkest inner demon then living happily ever after, so I guess on some level we're always making that journey to the centre, I know I am!!! BUT through repeated trips we surely learn to recognise the blind alleyways to avoid and to find ever better ways of reaching and weakening our Minotaur. And, most importantly, remembering the way out is ALWAYS THROUGH LOVING OURSELF, using Ariadne's ball of golden thread gifted to Theseus out of her love for him.
I was raised conservative Christian and still identify as a Christian, although I would more accurately say I'm a Christian Pluralist... Meaning I don't really believe it's the only truth or path out there. Saying that, I wonder if some of these people scare mongering are simply afraid their chosen religion is going to be challenged as not being the "only true way." I think there's room enough for God to reveal himself to people where they're at. I do think people need to be careful with mystical experiences and not trusting everything they encounter so I'm glad you're wrestling with this, but for the most part it seems like these experiences guide people into more love and empathy which is really the core of Jesus's teaching anyways.
These types of experiences wouldn't be so scary and off putting to our society (mostly those who haven't experienced it themselves) if we hadn't let ourselves become so focused on the material and physical aspect of our existence and lost our capacity for these transcendant experiences. The Art of Losing Control by Jules Evans speaks to this and has been one of my favorite reads. I'd definitely recommend checking it out.
You also mentioned people turning to Orthodox Christianity... I do love some of their teaching and researched it when I was deconstructing/reconstructing my faith. But ultimately I landed in the Episcopal church. It has the deep traditions and liturgy of Catholics/Orthodox that I was missing in my evangelical upbringing, while also being liberal and open to how our culture has changed up to the modern day (like valuing and enabling women to be leaders in the church). If people desire the structure of a religious framework, I really wish they would consider the Episcopal church.
In particular I love the work of Cynthia Bourgeault, and her work with "The Wisdom Jesus" and Centering Prayer. She's an Episcopalian priest and mystic and she's done a lot of interfaith work with other religions. She does podcasts, and I think it would be amazing to have her on your show.
This seems quite healthy; pausing along the path and asking questions - and then trusting that the Infinite Light welcomes and answers (with delight!) these questions (and doubts and fears) can only build a deeper and ever more loving relationship with that Light.
Thank you! It was helpful but scary at times
Relationship with the light
Not a relationship with
The angel of light
🫨
The synchronicities cubed
( the book, the website, the UN thing)
Were kinda crazy
Very much on the same page, drawn to new age consciousness type stuff
While writing off what can feel like primitive devil archetypes
The opposite of the sky God with a beard
Maybe I still harbor childish images of evil
Easy to write off
Seems to boil down to the most fundamental of spiritual concepts
Is there spiritual good
Is there a corollary spiritual evil
Good God it’s too much for a meager intellect to tackle
And yet we’re compelled to
Keep up the good work you’re the cream of the crop on substack
Thanks man, that last line of yours felt really special for me. Especially as I’m trying to feel my way through a lot of this…
It seems to me you are wrestling with what to believe…what is true!!
Karl Popper (20th century philosopher) said truth (or facts) is what hasn’t been proved false. Vervaeke (and I don’t know if this was his original insight) says truth is the most plausible understanding.
I’ve read some pretty amazing books recently that have changed expanded my worldview….Ever-Present Origin by Gebser, Tillich’s Courage to Be…The Terrible Love of War by Hillman…Holland’s book Dominion (evolution of Christianity). My openness to wonder increases but I sit with ultimate unknowing.
My life practice now seems to be trying to be present now and now and again now (I guess very Buddhist) while embracing core ethical Christian compassion. The rest are questions that are mind f**ks that are intriguing. I think we and all life cooperates with everything else and also combats with everything else-life/death…love hate…eat or be eaten etc etc etc. If the Big Bang birthed us it’s the creative/destructive explosion that mirrors all. Try as we may to know it’s All ultimately unknowable. So I center myself and try to flow.
Such a useful exercise. As an aside, sometimes I sense all of us are walking and pausing on this path together as your writing so often reflects my own reality. You are not alone, etc etc. A wonderful thought.
I won't be doing her justice in my following description, but I HIGHLY recommend you read the Substack "Return to Anam" who is written by a highly gifted and highly sensitive woman, also a cult survivor (from Benjamin Creme's cult actually) and who has written several masterpieces on the subject of how destructive patterns latch on to humans and their meaning systems. Many parallels with your newfound awareness shared in this piece. https://rightsforrainbows.substack.com/p/what-if-the-matrix-is-perpetuated
Woah thanks Sophie. Skimmed that last night. It’s a book! But weaves together so many threads. Will save it for my holiday.
Oh you already found me :)
Nice piece, Tom. I think about this quite a bit too, especially because, as an astrologer, I'm a member of the "damned" class. I believe we're in a time of return - to an understanding of the spiritual dimensions of reality, including the other intelligences we share it with. We went through a period of extreme materialism that enabled us to develop certain useful ideas and ways of working, but it required denying aspects of reality, and now we're in a process of rediscovery of all that was denied, armed with a more rigorous, empirical way of thinking about things. In other words, this is an era of spiritual science. You seem to be one of the many people carrying that torch now.
At the same time, the church, which formerly had dominion over spiritual matters, has its own ideas about these things and wishes to retain its primacy in these areas (and, to be kinder, protect people from harm). Astrologically speaking, I think this is the shift from the Age of Pisces (the two fish, Christianity and Islam) towards the Age of Aquarius, a sign concerned with knowledge of material and spiritual reality. The carriers of the Piscean impulse have natural "antibodies" against new ways of being and knowing, in the form of arguments that they're "demonic" and will lead to the end of the world.
This is not to say that we aren't also awash with bad ideas or that people aren't getting led astray by malevolent forces or that a lot of channels aren't being deceived about who or what is speaking through them. I just suspect that the transition away from the era of church and materialist dominion was probably always going to look something like this, in the early days. The guardrails are off. I think New Age ideas are best seen as the start of something, rather than the end point, so we're awash with nonsense and bullshit right now, but hopefully this will clear up somewhat over the decades and centuries.
This is where my own studies have taken me, although I do also sometimes entertain doubts similar to those you express in this piece. I guess all we can be expected to do is pursue the truth earnestly and adjust our ideas as evidence and our intuition suggest. Seems to me that's what you're doing. Thanks for this thoughtful piece, anyway.
Thanks, Dan. That's a perfect response. And honestly, as I've gone deeper into this over the last three months, I think a lot of this relates to my own personal issues that I'm clearing up. I just spent so long going through what I really believe in the nature of these ideas that it was very hard for me to think how they could possibly be problematic.
That said, I think there still may be murky channels and even deliberately deceptive forces. So I'm holding both sides lightly, but I'm not going to stop exploring. I'm grateful to have someone like you as a companion on the path.
I was raised in Benjamin cremes group as my parents were part of the inner circle. (Maybe you know that) It wasn’t the antichrist … I do feel I know enough what it is though…
I am not sure what information you are looking for because I’ve just found you. But let me know and I think I probably do have proof of deception. I didn’t write in detail about what I found out about Ben because I assumed no one was interested now that he died.
I should say that I was under some kind of psychic attack from what felt like birth since 8 years ago more or less.
You are right to be vigilant because there is absolutely deception from negative NHIs in the new age world and it was definitely around crème. I’ve lived it. It was also around Jiddu Krishnamurti which I’ve written about for example. However no fear is necessary. It’s not that the universe is out to get us, nor do I feel Earth is a prison planet. We have co created this ourselves.
That doesn’t mean Christianity is the solution even though the teaching from Jesus was good. They have been corrupted by exactly the same thing. It doesnt care what the belief is, it only shapes belief for its purpose. It hijacks spiritual people specifically and feeds on particular ways of being such as pride (which is why some religious teaching are correct). In the long run it doesn’t care whether you say the words of submitting to Jesus.
The evidence is in how abusive spiritual leaders have become especially sexually. Plenty of evangelical pastors have become corrupt and abusive. But this corruption has happened across all religions, and all beliefs, from Sufism to Chogyam Trungpa and Buddhism to John of God and of course to transcendental meditation (which explains Deepak Chopra and Epstein).
I have shown how many other religions contain clues to what has happened not just Christianity.
If you put the pieces together you can see it’s teaching us a lesson about the mind and about belief and even about the nature of our energy bodies.
I have started a podcast to investigate how this happens more deeply.
Thank you so much for this comment. I also have your booklet bookmarked to read when I'm on vacation next week. But it looks like a masterful synthesis of a load of different sources. As someone who runs a consciousness community, I am hyper aware of these dynamics, but I'm not naive enough to think there aren't ways I could be caught out.
What do you feel that it was that had you under attack? There was a dark substack recently that made allusions about Lucis, but when I asked them if they had any details, they never replied. My sense is always that it would be better to get this stuff out in the open so that other people can avoid making the same mistakes or being deceived by the same things.
Yes everyone can be caught out especially the ones trying to climb the ladder of consciousness.
I’m here on Substack to try to help prevent others from suffering as much as I did from the deception by building a language of awareness and database of defence ideas. Plus I feel we’re facing a systematic corruption of human spiritual development at the exact moment in history when we most need authentic spiritual evolution. But it’s lot of pressure for me to do alone and I have to challenge peoples attachments and beliefs to do it so many people cut me of when I do that.
There was another Hindu cult that infiltrated Bens cult and he is still at large at much more dangerous. I had a clearer view that there was an evil entity behind this guru because of how badly I was hurt and how many others who try to leave are hurt and because he rapes young men.
Bens entity was a different form of this same thing. It is what I feel is a similar shape shifting force, so likely part of the same thing. I agree with John Keel but it should be expanded to encompass other categories of anomalous experience and not just UFOs.
Ben genuinely believed he was helping to save the world - he himself was deceived by an entity that was constantly merged with him. You could not speak to Ben without talking to the master. I was speaking to this entity since I was a child and I have proof in hindsight that it lied to me. His predictions also turned out to he wrong.
Of course Bailey was doing the same and so was Leadbeater but I do not think they were as constantly ‘merged’ as Ben was.
Ben used to be the vice president of the UFO group the Aetherius Society ( founded by George king who spoke and channelled all the aliens) and I have evidence that he took their ideas and passed it of as his own masters ideas. It’s clear that Ben had immersed himself in entity contact in his early years and became somehow compromised.
Plus he seemed to wanted to have his own group after seeing the chain of others doing it before him including Blavatsky, or otherwise it was clear he was heavily influenced by that model of channeling contact.
From my perspective being someone who sees patterns and also seeing the cross pollination at work across all these groups, being pyschic, and having fought my own inner wars with deceptive entities myself, I get the sense they are part of and/or operating the same non local non time bound field, which is where my theory, which will you will read, came from. But it’s an open ontology. That and the fact that I perceive the world in frequencies and waves, especially mind and emotion.
As I have said in my first essay in August 2025 I made the following deductive argument. (In that essay I also describe my model on how I feel abusive gurus are made based on ancient texts.)
“According to Red Shambhala, the Roerich’s were part of this Soviet initiative. Helena Roerich’s Agni Yoga not only inspired figures like Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme, but it also wove the figure of Maitreya into a politically charged narrative. In her so-called “Mahatma letters” to Soviet officials, Roerich portrayed Maitreya — the future Buddha — as emblematic of Communism, declaring that “Buddha’s teaching is revolutionary” and that Maitreya represented “the symbol of Communism,” with millions of Buddhists ready to join a global commune led from the Soviet Union (Znamenski, Red Shambhala, p. 152–153; RGASPI, fond 495, opis 99, delo 74, listy 22–27). The letters predicted a glorious unification of Buddhism and Communism that would “shatter Europe” and liberate Asia from colonial oppression — a utopian future in which the Soviet-led commune was portrayed as the dawning of a higher spiritual age.
In reality, the future of Communism unfolded in ways diametrically opposed to that vision. Instead of ushering in justice and liberation, Communist regimes across the 20th and 21st centuries became synonymous with mass repression, economic collapse, and human rights atrocities. The historical record is grim: Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine (1932–33) deliberately starved millions (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute); Mao’s Great Leap Forward (1958–62) caused 30–45 million deaths through famine and failed policies (BBC); the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) saw 1–2 million killed and millions persecuted (Encyclopedia Britannica); and North Korea’s famine in the 1990s under Kim Jong-il killed at least a million while the regime operated brutal forced-labour camps (Amnesty International). Today, North Korea’s citizens still endure extreme repression, including pervasive surveillance, collective punishment, and political prison camps where torture, starvation, and forced labour remain routine.
If Helena’s Masters were truly advanced, omniscient beings capable of perceiving humanity’s trajectory, they should have foreseen that the political system they exalted would, in practice, lead to widespread oppression and suffering. The fact that their “prophecy” bore no resemblance to the actual human cost of Communism — and instead aligned with its propaganda — raises a serious credibility problem for those who continue to treat the Masters’ guidance as infallible.
It was Alice Bailey who originated the idea of the ‘Externalisation of the Hierarchy’ beginning in the 1970s, and so all that is indirectly responsible for the cult I was raised in. (I have recently found evidence that Benjamin copied a great deal of his group’s approach to ‘service’ and the construction of his Transmission Meditation pyramid machine from the Aetherius Society, while misleading people to believe it came from his ‘master.’ I will add that to my other article, one day.) They were purportedly ‘channelling’ masters of wisdom. Channelling was, and is, all the vogue.
Now the final question, considering spiritual humans are so susceptible to psychic deception, and that our brains are generally very deceptive (See for example, “The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human” by V.S. Ramachandran, “Self-Deception Unmasked” by Bella DePaulo and my favourite, “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts” by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson), and the consequences of getting it wrong, and/or have others misinterpret endlessly, means that many innocent people get hurt, why would any benevolent, all-knowing entity choose that way of communicating with them?”
https://rightsforrainbows.substack.com/p/no-were-not-going-to-4d-or-5d-in-the-way-you-think-ignoring-spiritual-abuse-is-in-our-way-a7d4fd8d043f?r=2isxgl&utm_medium=ios
Correction: The Project Blue Beam conspiracy theorist was Serge Monast, not Claude Monast. (Wonderful essay, by the way.)
Dude I need to edit thanks!
Thanks for sharing this. Fear of being deceived was at the root of the psychosis that kick started my (re)discovery of my spiritual path. I agree with you - if I read it correctly - that if anything is the antichrist, it is this fear, this distrust in a benevolent universe that is at its route. The two quotes that come to mind:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” - Kennedy
And
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe” - Einstein
I mean… I don’t think I want to live anywhere else even if I’m deluded.
It was actually an enormous relief to read this piece realising I'm not alone in my struggle on this increasingly mind bending, reality shifting quest. The devil does indeed come in many disguises, mercurial in nature as 'he' is, so navigating this path is hugely precarious for all concerned and it takes great courage to write and share about these topics, so a heartfelt thanks for all that you do. Re potential harm my take is that each of us must always take personal responsibility for our own discernment of what feels true ( that does not excuse those 'bad actors' who deliberately set out to mislead or exploit others). Just as in all good fairy tales or myths, helpers and guides appear if we are curious and open enough to see them. They help to illuminate our path and reveal demons and monsters lurking in the shadows, but ultimately, like Theseus, we must find our own way to the centre of the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur by our own hand, through our own agency, following our own unique inner guidance be it synchronicities, dreams or other forms.
You have no idea how timely this is. I’ve been going to the center of my own maze recently. Massive, overlong article in process that will hopefully try and articulate the story. Thanks for your companionship…
Looking forward to the article when it's ready ✨️Re the maze sadly it's never just a one off heroic story of slaying our darkest inner demon then living happily ever after, so I guess on some level we're always making that journey to the centre, I know I am!!! BUT through repeated trips we surely learn to recognise the blind alleyways to avoid and to find ever better ways of reaching and weakening our Minotaur. And, most importantly, remembering the way out is ALWAYS THROUGH LOVING OURSELF, using Ariadne's ball of golden thread gifted to Theseus out of her love for him.
I was raised conservative Christian and still identify as a Christian, although I would more accurately say I'm a Christian Pluralist... Meaning I don't really believe it's the only truth or path out there. Saying that, I wonder if some of these people scare mongering are simply afraid their chosen religion is going to be challenged as not being the "only true way." I think there's room enough for God to reveal himself to people where they're at. I do think people need to be careful with mystical experiences and not trusting everything they encounter so I'm glad you're wrestling with this, but for the most part it seems like these experiences guide people into more love and empathy which is really the core of Jesus's teaching anyways.
These types of experiences wouldn't be so scary and off putting to our society (mostly those who haven't experienced it themselves) if we hadn't let ourselves become so focused on the material and physical aspect of our existence and lost our capacity for these transcendant experiences. The Art of Losing Control by Jules Evans speaks to this and has been one of my favorite reads. I'd definitely recommend checking it out.
You also mentioned people turning to Orthodox Christianity... I do love some of their teaching and researched it when I was deconstructing/reconstructing my faith. But ultimately I landed in the Episcopal church. It has the deep traditions and liturgy of Catholics/Orthodox that I was missing in my evangelical upbringing, while also being liberal and open to how our culture has changed up to the modern day (like valuing and enabling women to be leaders in the church). If people desire the structure of a religious framework, I really wish they would consider the Episcopal church.
In particular I love the work of Cynthia Bourgeault, and her work with "The Wisdom Jesus" and Centering Prayer. She's an Episcopalian priest and mystic and she's done a lot of interfaith work with other religions. She does podcasts, and I think it would be amazing to have her on your show.