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How to Mould Whole Generations
of Young People with Zero or
Weak Moral Values
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Drumbeat: How to Mould Whole Generations of
Young People with Zero or Weak Moral Values
A collection of readings compiled by John Mulligan.
Version: 1.0, August, 2009, A4 US Letter Edition
Official address: On January 6, 2012, in Nambucca Heads, NSW, Australia, I was arrested by members of the
NSW Police Force, who were eagerly doing the dirty work of their satanic overlords, as usual. The reason? I was
trying to teach my family the real facts about the true religion, especially as it relates to love, sex, and marriage,
and the serious dilemma my family is in, spiritually speaking. Doing this God-given responsibility is now regarded
as a “hate crime,” as we should expect when Satan and his demonic followers are in control everywhere. I am now
“on the run” so to speak, and therefore I have no fixed address since that time. I might also point out that the
courts are Satan’s Courts, and have been for a long time now. Keep out of them because you will not get true
Godly justice there. The only thing you will get will be imprisonment, and perhaps even death, if you try to preach
the word of God in the wrong place and to the wrong people (even if they are your own family members). More
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Anyone reading this book is wise enough to follow their own counsel and therefore acknowledge that I
cannot, do not, and will not tell anyone what to do. That’s because I can’t open your gates for you. But I
can tell you the truth.
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Adolf Hitler said it best …
“... if you want to corrupt a country’s
youth, do it through the music ...”
“In 1991, 52% of our born-again church
kids said there is no absolute truth. In 1994,
62% said there is no absolute truth. In
1999, 89% of our born-again church kids
said there is no absolute truth. In 2002,
91% of born-again church kids said there is
no absolute truth.” 1
Christian News, New Haven, MO, May 28, 2003. Quoted in Riplinger, G.A., In Awe of Thy Word:
Understanding the King James Bible, Its Mystery and History, Letter by Letter, by, A V Publishing Corp.,
Ararat, VA, 2003. p. 29. Web: http://www.Avpublications.com
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Table of Contents
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How Did We Become Such Idiots? …………………………………
6
Our Children Have Been Led Into "Robotism" Apathy,
Violence and Drugs. ……………………………………………………..
13
Reading 1 …
Rock Music's Satanic Message. ………………………………………
16
Reading 2 …
Korn’s Thoughtless—Selling Satanism to Suburban Kids. ..
44
Reading 3 …
Popular Music is the Babylon System. ……………………………
55
Reading 4 …
Rihanna’s Disturbia: A Song about Being Possessed by Evil
61
Reading 5 …
The Occult and Prophetic Messages in Rihanna’s Umbrella
90
Reading 6 …
The God of Modern Youth—the Fame of Becoming a Rock
Star. ……………………………………………………………………………
112
Reading 7 …
The Satanic Roots of Rock. ……………………………………………
128
Reading 8 …
“Imagine a World Without Religion, It’s Easy if You Try.” ..
149
Reading 9 …
Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination. ……………………...
228
Reading 10 …
The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact Or Fiction? …………………….
246
Reading 11 …
A Satanic Checklist. ………………………………………………………
294
Appendix A …
The High Moral Damage of Rock Music. ……………………………….
309
Appendix B …
The Vatican Approves John Lennon: An Ill-Timed Act. …………..
313
Appendix C …
John Lennon, Prophet of the Devil. ……………………………………….
317
Appendix D …
Operation Chaos. …………………………………………………………………
326
Appendix E …
Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale? …………………………….
332
Appendix F …
Rock Rebels "Clash" Were Corporate Puppets. ……………………….
337
Appendix G …
Inside The LC: The Strange But Mostly True Story of
Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation. ……
343
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How Did We Come To Be Such Idiots?
The following essay has an interesting story. The author, a federal prisoner, wrote a
very intelligent and insightful letter to us late last February. In it he used the term
"idiot" in a very interesting way. In my response, I challenged him to develop the
term into something interesting, descriptive and inclusive in such a way as to be
informative and useful. What he came up with is not exactly what I had in mind. It’s
better. (DWH)
[This article was published in the Idaho-Observer in May of 2009 while I
was still in prison. And while Don Harkins edited the piece, he gave me
full credit for it. What was interesting about this article is that he
published it even though there were some things he initially disagreed
with, but published them according to the way I had written the piece.
Unfortunately, Don passed away suddenly in September, 2009 after
sustaining a very strange leukemia illness. Don was a good man and an
outstanding reporter who will be missed by his family, friends, and his
readers. I highly recommend the Idaho Observer. (WAT)]
By Walter Allen Thompson
Source: http://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-did-we-becomesuch-idiots.html
“Why does he act like such an idiot?”
How many times do we ask that question about other people—even about ourselves?
There is no shortage of idiots and they are the primary reason it is so difficult (if not
impossible) to live on Earth in peace and truth.
Idiot: 1. A person afflicted with idiocy (extreme deficiency of intelligence, commonly
due to incomplete or abnormal development of the brain). Idiots are incapable of
learning connected speech or of avoiding common dangers in life. 2. A fool;
simpleton—a term of reproach (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary [1947]).Today the
term "idiot" is most commonly used as a "term of reproach" while historic idiots are
now described as "retarded" or "mentally handicapped." We will be using "idiot" and
"idiocy" in the reproachful contexts in common usage today.
Foolishness, stupidity and ignorance are the product of influences that
relentlessly attack our sensibilities, faith and equanimity every day of our lives. They
attack the well-being of all men. Idiocy induces war and an enormous amount of
suffering upon mankind.
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The First Idiot …
Who was the first idiot? As a Christian, I will say that it was Satan. Here is
a being who was in heaven, but swore oaths with other angels and sinned against his
Creator—eternally damning himself because he wanted to usurp the authority of God
(Read Book of Enoch). And when God created man in His own image, Satan was intent
on destroying the lives of every man, woman and child.
The choice between good and evil—free will—has always been a part of God’s creation.
God did not create evil, but the tendency for Satan and mankind to choose evil has
always been present.
Satan became an idiot when he disobeyed God, incurring His wrath. Since
misery loves company, Satan spreads the misery by influencing mankind to disobey
God’s natural order of life. The "New World Order" was started with the first sin and it
has continued to this present day.
The March of the Idiots
The New World Order is the plan of the idiots who are responsible for the death and
destruction of the millions (if not billions) of lives memorialized in written history. The
reason is because the New World Order exists completely outside of God’s natural
order. Think of it as God’s natural order completely inverted or reversed: Good became
evil and evil became good; darkness is light and light is darkness. In God’s order the
strong and the wise came before weak idiots. In the New World Order we can
plainly see that idiots come before the wise because idiots love death
while the wise man loves life.
The worship of images, or "idols," is called "idolatry." The purpose of idolatry, the
worship of powerless objects, is to destroy mankind by influencing man to disobey
God’s natural order of life, thereby acting like an idiot.
Recently, the monetary and banking systems have been involved in numerous crises
and bailouts. When money was made of gold and silver it was strong. But paper debt
notes are weak, producing the boom and bust cycles that we have today. Any monetary
system that trades debt notes in exchange for goods and services is doomed to eventual
failure. Why? The people who designed and are currently running the money system
are idiots. In addition, the financial institutions are patronized and regulated by
idiots.
Idiot Worship
Most people know the histories of Hitler, Stalin, Mao-Tse- Tung and Pol Pot who
destroyed the lives of millions. These leaders were idiots. Worse yet is how other
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idiots look upon the works of these men with favor. This kind of idiocy—murderous
leaders and the people who support them—is apparent in our own political system. The
same kind of idiots are in control of the United States [and every other country in the
world]. Through idiots in the mass media, the idiots in leadership animate the rankand-file idiots to do their bidding. The idiots-in-charge derive their relative strength in
proportion to the numbers of rank-and-file idiots willing to support—even fight and
die—for their idiotic causes.
The idiots’ strength is the force of arms under war powers; it is easier to kill or
imprison anyone who questions the motives of the idiots-in-charge. And the idiot’s
message is this: "Let our strength be the law of justice."
Idiots Have No License
From where do the idiots-in-charge derive their authority? They are not
ordained by God because God is not an idiot. They are not ordained of God (as
in Romans, Chapter 13) because they break God’s commandments. The idiots have no
license to sin or do evil; no one has the authority to usurp God’s law; any claim that
idiots proceed with lawful authority is an utter farce: "For God made not death: neither
hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things, that they
may have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful and there is no
poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth."
God did not make us in His image to be idiots. I used to think that all men were
born evil; they are not. The evil we do is chosen. If we were born evil, then God’s
commandments would serve no purpose because it would be impossible to keep them.
It is not only possible for a man to keep God’s commandments, but also He expects us
to keep them. And this is exactly how we can abide in His natural order.
The idiot will say just the opposite. "But ungodly men with their works and words
called it to them..."
The idiot brings evil upon himself because he has contracted with evil to do evil; he
acts like an idiot because he is an idiot.
How Do We Stop Being Idiots?
While sitting in a prison for the last four years, I realized that I have to stop
doing what all the other idiots do. I discovered that my isolation from the
outside world was becoming an asset to me because I have had more time to
think things through. But all of my actions are my responsibility and there is no
excuse for me before God if I do wrong.
I can’t just stop being an idiot without knowing how to guard myself from acting like
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one. My mind is something that I consciously set out to guard so that I do not lapse
back into idiocy. My first line of defense is the eyes. I do not use them to offend God
in any way. I don’t look at or read things that will cause my mind to become unsettled.
I avoid all forms of material that is offensive to God’s natural order.
I use the same principle with my ears. I try not to hear anything offensive as it will
disturb the strength of my inner peace. By consciously guarding my eyes and ears, I
can effectively guard my mind and soul. As a result, I’m finding that I can enjoy
long periods of time in silence without getting bored.
The key to overcoming idiocy is goodness and virtue. We should be mindful
about how we speak about and treat others. By exercising self-control, we can break
the idiotic habits of saying and doing things that harm our fellow man. I actually feel
good when I get the urge to say something idiotic and then hold my tongue. I’ll admit
sometimes it is difficult but I feel good when I can suppress my evil inclination.
What are our obligations to God? Solomon says it in one sentence: "Let us hear the
end of all: fear God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole
duty of man” (Eccl. 12: 13-14, Geneva Bible).
The fear of God puts a man’s soul at rest because the man knows his duties to God and
he practices them. There is no fear of hell because his obedience to God’s
commandments is the source of his confidence, hope, faith and the love for his Creator.
On its surface, the fear of God putting a man’s soul at rest seems to be a paradox. I
think of it this way: The fear of God is as healthy as not putting my hand into a flame.
God will punish evil doers, so why be one?
I don’t fear Satan; I fear God. God makes the judgment; I want to have His favor
all of the time. I exercise my own self-control so as to not act like an idiot.
Idiocy’s Opposite
The opposite of idiocy is wisdom and with wisdom comes understanding.
"The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord: all they that observe them, have
good understanding: His praise endureth forever" (Psalms 111:10).
Here are some of the aspects of wisdom that I am paraphrasing from the wisdom of
Solomon:
Wisdom is glorious, does not fade, and seen of those who love her.
Wisdom is a treasure found by those who seek her.
Wisdom is the breath of the power of God; the worker of all things.
Wisdom moves more than motion; it is the pure influence flowing from the
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glory of the Almighty.
Wisdom is the unspotted mirror of God; the image of His goodness.
Wisdom is the brightness of his everlasting light; the knowledge of God, the
fear of God and the understanding of God.
Wisdom is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God; is patient, and
conversant with God.
The Choice Is Ours.
In light of the aformentioned, we can see that an idiot has no value to God if
he dies an idiot. To be an idiot greatly offends God. Man was created in the
image of God so when he acts like an idiot he, in a sense, defiles the "copy" of God and
is, therefore, a degraded version of the original. The only true happiness in life is
having the favor of God; nothing else is better. But there are those choices God
allows us to make between life and death, good and evil and heaven and hell; between
idiocy and wisdom.
Most governments have failed because they were run by idiots with no
regard for God’s commandments.
Religions of the world with doctrines other than that which God has promulgated are
not valid and will suffer the same fate as failed governments and for the same reasons.
Our problems today arise from people calling upon idols or false gods for
answers. We turn to our enemies as if they are our friends. We look to idiots as if
they are wise. We treat idiots with honor and treat the wise with contempt.
We turn to darkness and live as if it were light. We call upon ruthless idiots to do good
when we should know they are incapable of it. The idiots have the authority on
earth because we, the idiots, gave it to them.
Are There Any Good People In Government?
I take the position that, if they take an oath of office (forbidden in the scriptures), then
no, they cannot do good even if they wanted to; the structure of government is idiocy
with evil as its foundation.
Oh sure, there are some seemingly good things about government but they are always
twisted and perverted to do the work of evil because it was designed that way
and is working perfectly. The real purpose of most governments is to promote
and grow idiocy by enlisting legions of idiot evildoers to steal from the
people.
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Only One Way Out Of Idiocy
The only remedy for idiocy is to mend our ways and do good by being good and by
providing others with the example of our goodness through the plain testimony of our
actions. We are witnessing the last death-throws of this global idiocracy.
We should step aside and stand aloof from it all, keeping ourselves within God’s
natural order while adding virtues to our lives and exercising more self-control. If we
guide our hearts and minds to maintain God’s natural order in our spheres of
influence, then we will realize true peace. And pray for God to give the idiots a
place for repentance. This is the true power of God.
If It Weren’t For Idiots...
I will now close with an example of how things work when they are under the authority
of God. The following was written about 100 AD by Bishop Clement of Rome in his
Epistle to the Corinthians:
"The heavens, revolving under His government, are subject to Him in peace. Day and
night run the course appointed by Him, in no way hindering each other. The sun and
moon, with the companies of stars, roll on in harmony according to His
command, within their prescribed limits, without any deviation. The fruitful earth,
according to His will, brings forth food in abundance. At the proper seasons, for man
and beast and all the living beings upon it. Never hesitating, nor changing any of the
ordinances which He has fixed.
"The unsearchable places of the abysses, the indescribable arrangements of the lower
world, are restrained by the same laws. The vast unmeasurable sea, gathered
together by His working into various basins, never passes beyond the bounds
placed upon it, but does as He has commanded. For He said, ‘Thus far shall you
come, and your waves shall be broken within you.’ The ocean, impassable to man,
and the worlds-beyond, are regulated by the same enactments of the Lord. The
seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, peacefully give place to
one another. The winds in their several quarters fulfill, at the proper time, their
service without hindrance. The ever-flowing fountains, formed both for enjoyment
and health, furnish without fail their breasts for the life of men. The very smallest of
living beings meet together in peace and accord. All these the Great Creator and Lord
of all has appointed to the smallest of living beings to exist in peace and harmony;
while He does good to all, but most abundantly to us who have fled for refuge to
His compassions through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be glory and majesty for
ever and ever. Amen."
Compare the words of Clement to the idiocy of evil men. What is our
problem? Again, it rests on man’s desire to usurp the authority of God and to establish
a "New World Order" of idiocy and utter nonsense. God did not create evil; man does
that for himself. We all must place ourselves under the authority of God and live in
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harmony and peace under His natural order. To do anything else is idiotic.
Walter Allen Thompson is the author of The Grace of Repentance: Keeping God's
Commandments, which is available here: http://www.graceofrepentance.com
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Our Children Have Been Led Into "Robotism"
Apathy, Violence and Drugs.
“True to Hitler's vow, ‘We shall wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion
peculiar to our race’ (The Nazis and the Occult, Sklar, p.147), SS soldiers underwent
occult initiations and ceremonies, to replace their Christian faith and names with
ancient Germanic names and worship rites (Hitler being their incarnate deity), and to
harness latent spiritual forces believed to reside in the Aryan psyche. (Sklar, p.100)
[This was not an abrupt change, since these SS candidates had grown up in 1920s
Germany, where the occult, psychic phenomena and paganism were quite trendy.
Presumably their parents, school teachers, civic leaders and other role models had
already contributed to the next generation's conditioning by their own immersion in
Eastern mysticism and spiritism. The implications for today's youth, who are
being raised on an even more potent and invasive brew of the same, are
unmistakable.] Secrecy, a total dedication that erased all other loyalties,
unquestioning obedience, isolation from 'common society', a sense of self-sacrifice, a
place in an exalted and ancient line of "guardians" [as the black-cloaked, Forcewielding Jedi Knights were described in "Star Wars"], and a strict observance of
hierarchal status were the methods of fostering unity - all of them borrowed from
occult societies.
But under it all, the abject fear was instilled in SS men of being found unworthy of
their exalted status, especially through the sin of independent thinking. The
group-think to which they had been subjected since early childhood sank to new
depths to minimize the chances of such a mishap. A required achievement for SS
candidates was Kadavergehorsam, or "dead-body [unfeeling, robotic]
obedience." In merciless drills, they were trained to disregard their own emotions
and consciences by performing acts of brutality on self and others usually
associated with satanic cult rituals. (See descriptions in Sklar, p.96-100) (Such
practices in satanism are meant to produce an altered state of consciousness and, as
they believe, to channel the natural horror response into psychic energy which
empowers spells.) In the resulting numbness, they could carry out the most
horrific orders without thinking, and walk among sickening sights
without flinching. Himmler firmly believed in the holiness of this ultimate
devotion, in which the SS suffered and sacrificed more than their victims. For him, the
unsung "glory" of the SS was "to have stuck it out... and to have remained decent
fellows." As for Himmler himself: "I try to reach a compromise in my own life; I try to
help people and do good, relieve the oppressed and remove injustices wherever I can.
Do you think my heart is in all the things which have to be done simply from reasons of
state?" The extreme sacrifices of the SS, he said, were required in part by German
racial Karma; an individual "oughtn't to think of himself." (Sklar, p.90-91)
[Undoubtedly, many NAers [New Agers] will view themselves in precisely the same
light when they are required to take part in necessary future purges. The
view is already prevalent in NA that individual human rights must give way to
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humanity's rights, and this includes inflicting pain as well as enduring it.] It was also
German Karma, Himmler said, that they be "saved" by "a figure of the greatest
brilliance"—meaning not Hitler, but the spirit "incarnate" in him and possessing him.
(Sklar, p.157)”2
“The reasons for this stampede away from reason and into mysticism [in Nazi
Germany] have been attributed to a complex environment: the upheaval in German
society and economy, an inner emptiness and fatalism which stifles personal initiative,
an erasure of moral and spiritual boundaries which leaves youth with nothing to
believe in and nowhere to belong, disintegration of traditional family authority, a
social devaluation of personhood which makes one ashamed of having private values
and goals at variance with the group. (Sklar, p.150) [I would propose that all these
conditions are not the cause for the abandonment of rational thinking, so much as the
result of a society accepting theosophical principles like Karma and Group Mind.]”3
Related Article:
http://NazareneRemnant.org/the-satanism-of-hitler.html
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“From the occult, science, mind control and Intelligence have developed. By taking
over the Movie Industry, the Record companies, and by their control of the Fine Arts,
they know how to influence the teenagers to dance to their tune and
accept their kind of reality. This makes sense if you look at what kind of
"entertainment" we are enforced to enjoy. If you doubt it, just look at what influence
the modern music has on the kids; it's not uplifting and doesn't have love and
compassion as its end product. It promotes darkness, not light. And I am talking about
the overall effect, not individual artists, whom on rare occasions may release
something positive.
In fact, the music the teenagers have to listen to is often totally without quality and
lead many of them into "robotism", apathy, violence and drugs. It's also used for mind
control, as we shall see later. Real quality music is rejected by the big record companies
in favor for those with lack of talent. Since Black Sabbath in the beginning of the 70:s
and the Rolling Stones before them, Satanism (magic and black magic) has been
promoted through the music industry. Many groups followed on the same track and
have always been Hard Sale and heavily promoted and distributed. Ozzy Osbourne is
still going strong as is his buddy, Marilyn Manson. Some people dispute that Black
Sabbath were into Black Magic, but were actually singing about God and condemning
Satan. This is of course not true, but a playing with words. It doesn't matter how you
present the lyrics when the vibration of the music is dark and gloomy. Tony Iommi, the
guitar player in Black Sabbath, tuned down his guitar to create this low vibration in
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3
Source: “Nazism and The New Age, Hitler and the Occult,” http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/thenewage.html
Source: “Nazism and The New Age, Hitler and the Occult,” http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/thenewage.html
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their music, something that the later Heavy Metal and Death Metal Industry adopted
big time. Geezer Butler, bass player in Black Sabbath and the one who wrote most
lyrics, admitted in public that Black Sabbath were into black magic.
The same thing goes with Hollywood, which is also controlled and created by the
Jewish branch of the Illuminati and the Mafia (same Masters). The ‘E.T’-movies,
Dooms Day films and catastrophe-movies all align with the purpose to influence us in
certain directions, as we shall see later in this article. Occult movies have also been
made popular by Walt Disney and others to influence our children. All to prepare for
days to come. Still, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there is a lot to learn
from the Hollywood movies. The Brotherhood loves to put the truth out there in plain
sight in form of symbolism and coded messages. Those with the knowledge to interpret
it will be able to get the message. The rest of the population only see an entertaining
movie played out in front of them. They miss the whole point.” Wes Penre, The Secret
Order of the Illuminati: A Brief History of the Shadow Government, available here:
http://www.illuminati-news.com/moriah.htm Updated: September 26, 2009
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“I realized that this [rock] music got to the young people because the big beat
matched the great rhythms of the human body. And I further knew that they’d
carry the beat of rock and roll for the rest of their lives.” (Frank Zappa, from John P
Rohrer, The Unsanctified in the Sanctuary: Sacred Music Compromised, The
Landmark Anchor, Hanes City, FL., October 2003, p. 9)
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Reading #1
Rock Music's Satanic Message
By Henry Makow
“The second aspect of this mission is to bring about
the wholesale indoctrination of society as a whole.
Important to ensuring the compliance of Western
citizens, or at least ensuring they remain
oblivious, to the diabolical schemes of the
Illuminati, was a sophisticated large-scale
indoctrination program, known collectively as
the media and entertainment. Specifically,
these devices were exploited to distance Western
societies from their formerly held Christian morals,
which would otherwise motivate them to confront
such a conspiracy. The means of accomplishing this
denigration of society were, essentially, sex and
drugs and rock 'n roll.” (David Livingstone,
Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three Thousand
Year History, BookSurge LLC, Charleston, SC,
2007, p. 201)
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Rock Music's Satanic Message
October 28, 2006
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
Recently NBC Dateline had a story about two
average American teenagers who murdered and
cut up a friend, put the body parts in a garbage
bag and hid it in a drain sewer. (Dateline Videos
"It began as a Teen Drama")
The announcer, the parents and the audience
shook their heads and asked: "How could they do
this?"
I was dumbfounded too. After watching a ten-hour 4-DVD presentation on the Satanic
agenda infusing much youth music, I have the answer. Incredible and bizarre as it
sounds, the younger generation is being inducted into Satanism. It is being taught to
murder, rape and hate society in general, and especially Christians and Christianity.
Entitled "They Sold their Soul for Rock and Roll" the DVD makes a convincing
case that espousing Satanism is the price of success in the music industry. Starting
with the roots of Rock and Roll, down to Heavy Metal, Goth, Grunge and Rap, this
documentary shows that many famous musicians actually see themselves as
evangelists for Satan and say they derive their power from him. They have literally
sold their souls to the devil, and their primary goal is to make us do the same. The
MTV network is the handmaiden of this agenda.
Produced by "Fight the Good Fight Ministry" the DVD analyses the lyrics, interviews
and album art of more than sixty superstars. The consistent espousal of Satanists
Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey (Howard Levey) and Madame Blavatsky, and their
inclusion in the album art, along with familiar Satanic imagery, is part of a deliberate
elite agenda. The list of artists exposed includes the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,
Michael Jackson, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Manson and Eminem.
You can see excerpts on line. I recommend you watch Cobain, Manson and Eminem.
This excerpt from "DEMONS" by Rigor Mortis is typical of heavy metal.
"We come bursting through your bodies
Rape your helpless soul
Transform you into a creature
Merciless and cold
We force you to kill your brother
Eat his blood and brain
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Shredding flesh and sucking bone
Till everyone's insane
We are pestilent and contaminate
The world Demonic legions prevail"
(from "Satanic Roots of Rock and Roll" by Jack Phau)
The DVD explains how music is the most effective means of brainwashing and mind
control, especially if the audience thinks it's listening to spontaneous creative
expression. The DVD traces the Satanic message "Do as thou wilt" (formerly "do your
own thing") in many songs advocating free sex, drugs, violence, murder and mayhem.
You are God! You can do anything you want! There is no inherent moral order based
on universal Love and Justice. The rock concert scenes are chillingly reminiscent
of the Nazi Nuremberg Rally.
The unabashed espousal of evil raises the question: why are the world's biggest
corporations purveying this poison? Why is tainted spinach intercepted, yet this toxic
filth is actually pumped into the minds and souls of millions of unsuspecting children?
The Illuminati's central banking cartel controls these corporations. Its aim is
"revolution" i.e. "communism" – banker world dictatorship and the destruction of
Western Civilization (i.e. based on the four pillars of religion, nation, family and race.)
They need to translate their control of our government's credit (ability to print money)
into total control using their cultural and political puppets. This is why opposition
to socially destructive elements (e.g. purveying homosexuality to straights) often is
NOT tolerated, but vicious hatred against Christians and society in general is not only
acceptable, but actually bankrolled.
"Christianity is our only real enemy since all the political and
economic phenomena of the bourgeois states are only its
consequences," a member of the Illuminati explained.
The DVD reveals that the Columbine shooters knews the lyrics of Satanist bands by
heart, and literally were acting out these instructions. They deliberately targeted
Christian students but the term "hate crime" apparently doesn't apply to Christian
victims.
Cassie Bernall was asked to reject God to spare her life. She refused. She is a Saint but
there is little mention of her in the Illuminati media.
"How could this happen?" Tom Brokaw intoned. With one hand, the
mass media pretends to be shocked, and with the other hand it
teaches children to kill.
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Similarly, media and government pretend to stamp out child predators while at the
same time promoting rock groups that encourage children to have sex. The DVD shows
a "Spice Girl" serenading a six-year-old with a song advocating self-
What Are Demons?
“Demons are spirit beings without a body which seek a body to live in.
They do not care whether they live in a person or in an animal but they need a body
through which they can express themselves. There are conflicting theories as to their origin
but this does not matter for the purpose of this study.
The word “demon. comes from the Greek word “daimon” or “daimonion” meaning breath
or spirit.
Although we cannot see these spirit beings, nevertheless they do exist. Heathen cultures
have always acknowledged their existence but our so-called sophisticated western society
usually denies their existence.
Some psychologists have described them as “parts of the personality,” but refuse to
acknowledge their existence as spiritual beings. Jesus Christ had no problem about their
existence. Throughout the gospels we have references to Him casting them out of various
people.
In fact He said:
“These signs will follow those who believe. In My name they will cast
out demons.” (Mark 16: 17)
One of the functions then of Christians is to cast out demons and the purpose of this
book is to encourage Christians to be willing and able to do so. We don’t need to be afraid
of them.
“He, who is in us, is greater than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4: 4)
I had only been a committed Christian for a short time when a deeply troubled person was
brought to me for help. The Lord gently spoke into my ear the word, “abortion,” and as I
spoke this word out this man, who had been a committed Christian himself, fell to the
floor, curled up like a foetus and began to scream. It was in the subsequent weeks that as
we ministered to this man, I began to learn about demon activity.
Demons have an intense desire to live in a body. The legion of demons who lived
in the man who had come out of the tombs, begged Jesus to send them into the swine.
They said, “Send us to the swine that we may enter them.”
This is the desire of demons, to find a body in which they may live and thus express their
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characteristics.” (How to Cast Out Demons and Break Curses, 4 by Bill Subritzky,
http://www.doveministries.com/)
abandonment. It shows 14-year-old teenage girls who look like hookers admitting that
group sex orgies are commonplace.
Reaction to this DVD often is shock and denial. There is a tendency to dismiss it as the
overzealous work of Christian fundamentalists. Indeed, the makers are too quick
to reject Eastern religions as satanic and they fail to see how some performers like
Elvis Presley might have been honest dupes with good intentions. If you're not a
Christian, I urge you to overlook the sermonizing (although I personally think it is
pertinent.) The overall message cannot be denied and should not be ignored.
BRAINWASHING
The Illuminati started off innocently in the fifties and sixties, urging the young to defy
authority and indulge their libido. Little did we suspect that "Sargeant
Pepper" referred to the Satanist and MI-6 Agent Aleister Crowley and that the Beatles'
label EMI stands for "Electrical and Mechanical Instruments" one of Britain's largest
war contractors.
Little did we know the music industry is controlled by corporations using the mob,
and many performers are brainwashed and drugged and live in fear. Little did we
suspect that their rebellious message advanced the Illuminati's "divide and rule"
strategy. Or that their prescriptions for living would make us dysfunctional and ruin
our lives.
To a large extent, our lives are shaped by Illuminati-controlled popular culture and
history.We are fed our ideas and beliefs instead of using common sense and first-hand
experience. We are the product of someone else's lab experiment. The "someone else"
is a disciple of Satan who has hijacked humanity.
An argument can be made for some aspects of the "Sexual Liberation" and "New Age"
movements but the bottom line is they were designed to dilute and undermine
Christianity and serve as an intermediary step to a "Clockwork Orange" society (
"Grand Theft Auto" meets "Brave New World.")
No wonder we see so many young people wondering around looking like
zombies. What is the pernicious message constantly whispered in their ear? Is the
Illuminati breeding terrorists in our midst, but real ones this time ?
Society cannot eschew God and pretend to be neutral and secular. God is synonymous
with universal spiritual ideals: truth, love and justice. You cannot turn off the Light
without being consumed by Darkness. Don't be fooled. People who remove the Ten
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Commandments from public life are merely making room for golden calves and
sacrificial altars.
The "Open Conspiracy" is a cancer at the heart of Western Society and it is reaching a
critical stage. Do we have the "eyes to see and the ears to hear?" The source of this
cancer's power is the private central banking cartel. Do we have the courage to tackle
it? (This link will take you to the video of "America: From Freedom to Fascism." and
Web site.)
------Very important resource! Satan's Music More on Marilyn
Eye Opener! Wes Penre "Mind Control and the Field of Art"
See also my "The Fraudulent Basis of Modern Kulture" and "Bankers Behind the
'Counter' Culture."
Rock Industry Critic, Musician and Illuminati News Webmaster Wes Penre's
Comments
British Use of Media for Mass Psychological Warfare by L. Wolfe
Comments for "Rock Music's Satanic Message"
Leo said (November 8, 2006):
Dear Henry: another great article. But why stop at Rock Music. Call me crazy but I
think music in general serves a purpose other then we've been led to believe. A society
that is constantly deluged with "tunes" whether in the car, donut shop, mall, gas
station or work, is a society unable to hear the voice of God. We read in the Bible "be
still and know that I am God".How on earth are we to commune with our creator when
we're humming tunes all day because they've been subtlely implanted into our
consciousness.
I became aware of this a while back when in a donut shop trying to think while sipping
my coffee, all I could do was hum along to whatever was playing on their sound
system. Our controllers are producing a society of robots who have a continuously
running soundtrack playing in our heads.
Who benefits from this? Certainly not us. Our communication system to God has been
jammed and most people haven't got a clue. It's an addiction so evil, that people are
unable to tolerate silence. Once in the car, they must turn on the radio. As soon as they
arrive home the T.V. or radio must be activated as background noise. Even cottagers
must bring all the comforts of the city (TV, stereo etc) to their home away from home
lest they be without their "fix".
A society unconscious and unaware is of course easy to control. I could go on but I
won't. Lets tell people to turn off the "tunes" and turn up the volume on God.
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Mike said (November 3, 2006):
The article & responses mention the Beatles a few times. There've had their fair share
of conspiracy theories, of course, since the 'Paul is dead' thing of the late '60s. I won't
go into that now, but its just common sense (something Americans were once upon a
time supposed to have a lot of) that a group of such fame and affinity with the BBC and
other levers of the UK establishment would make a very tempting target at least, for
any scientists (mad or otherwise) out there with an eye (or ear) for social engineering.
John didn't last more than a decade (1970-80), so he's going to talk about the industry.
Paul's maybe not even Paul, and Ringo's been scared, drunk, and reclusive for decades
now. But George "Silent Beatle" Harrison was consistently more outspoken when it
came to moral/ethical issues; and was no doubt a man of strong religious convictions
and honest values. Hear his last song, on his last album, in the last year of his life.
What better title could there be for it than
"Brainwashed"?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/George-Harrison-BrainwashedLyrics/A32E349A9F14DB5348256C930012354D
Herb said (November 3, 2006):
Henry, you must be on to something bigger than you thought. The alcoholic says “I
don’t have a drinking problem.” Pop music must be as addictive as any other narcotic.
Back in 1989 Joe Schimmel [maker of "sold their soul"]came to my church with his
record collection and slide show and pretty much settled the question on what the
sexual revolution was all about. I remember the same reactions that are in many of
your reader comments. Is this why we cannot break free from our illuminated keepers?
They have given us a drug, and we cannot see that it has hooked so many who cannot
break free.
One comment goes back to rock and roll bands of the seventies saying Boston or ELO
were not satanic. So were they promoting anything useful? Since the music industry’s
target audience is youth, I think it is worth questioning the purpose of rock music and
what ever other forms it has taken with so called genre. How many lives have been
trashed by this assault on youth? They are hooked on mindlessness for life, and I&d bet
none of these defenders of rock are under 40.
Sound Christians over the last fifty years have rejected rock for what it is a demonic
assault on youth. So now it is in the churches too. Are these the same mindless
churches that ardently support a war based on lies and call Bush a born again
Christian? Is this the “great apostasy”?
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Lucifer is the deceiver and the Bible says he was created a musical being too:
JN said (November 1, 2006):
The examples you site are great examples of overt satanic messages... but I think theres
other, not so overt messages more in line with New Age (which is satanic, of course)
that hide themselves in plain view so to speak. For a long time I enjoyed listening to
the Red Hot Chili Peppers.. I always thought they had nice rhyming schemes and that
their song lyrics had a little more "brains" behind them than the usual dross...
Then one day I started reading their lyrics and seeing what they actually said.. and I've
come to believe that a lot of their songs are absolutely new age based, glorify the devil
as a good being, and some of their songs even seem to me to be songs meant to coax
the antichrist out of his shell, or something.
Try reading the lyrics to most of the songs of their album "by the way". Especially
"can't stop", "throw away your television", "cabron", "universally speaking", and "this
is the place".
try it.. you might be appallingly surprised, as I was.
Lisa said (October 31, 2006):
I think this quote is fitting for not only our gov't but also the "Christian" church of
today:
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason
from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his
banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates
freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of
government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar
to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the
baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the
body politic so that it can no longer resist. - Marcus Cicero, speaking to Caesar and the
Roman Senate
On a positive note, my son is now 20 and has had his eyes opened to 9/11 and many
things regarding this world. My daughter, on the other hand, that is a different story,
lol. Kids nowadays are smarter than we give them credit for. I have just learned to be
careful what I say to them, so that when I do talk, it is something worth listening to.
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Christopher said (October 31, 2006):
I like a lot of Rock and a lot of Country. I like Metallica, but there are some songs by
them that strongly advocate a Satanic message. I choose to ignore those songs and not
listen to them, am I still wrong for listening to any of their music? I don't know. But I
think now with more bands coming out like; Nickelback, Dashboard Confessional, etc.
that more of the Satanic message is focused in Rap music, seeing as how that's
UNFORTUNATELY the big thing now. Look how "cool" you are if you "go to the club"
and go home with a different person every night, look how "hard" you are if you wear
over-sized clothing and start fights in the club. Look how "bad ass" you are if you sell
drugs and talk about how much you love your money (a big sin.) Look how you wear
excessive amounts of over-sized gaudy jewelry and drink over-priced champaigne (oh!
another sin Vanity.) But I'd say there is a small amount in every kind of music. Even in
new (pop) country now, like Tim McGraw having a song talking about abortion, and
making excuses for it. But I definitely think that a lot of music that talks about mildly
immoral things is just a pure meaning of self expression, with the exception of Rap and
(satanic) metal/rock.
Ingrid in Sweden said (October 31, 2006):
There is yet another side to the phaenomena you describe in your article.
The main motivation for the development of Rock music was that youngstern wanted
to hear it. Although there was plenty of classics, jazz and easy listening around in the
late 60ties. But these did not correspond with the upcoming times of .. "liberation"
which actually only meant "change". Around puberty (between 15 and 24 years) kids
want change and the parents may well disagree, the more the better. In puberty kids go
through an inbuilt chemcical imbalance in the brain, which they experience as
depression, panic, paranoia and other mental disorders. Alcohol, drugs, music and
false promises abouts "saving the world" are welcome to ease the mind. And any
reason to make noise (as in the form of loud music) and destroy, what is experienced
as repression. Everything wrong inside is blamed on parents or society ouside. There is
also a lot of energy to create a new world after the pubertarian destruction of the
parents world. Once the chemical imbalance in the brain is over, people move on, and
rock music is not needed any longer as a salvation from mental disorder. Then it can
be enjoyed for other reasons: for ex. great tunes, voices, instruments.
Of course media companies have learned to exploit that confused state of mind for
business reasons. And they may even place distructive messages, you maybe right.
What disturbes me most is the total absence of shame. No values when profit rules. Is
the NWO valuefree?
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James said (October 31, 2006):
Undoubtedly, you are fed-up with nasty responses to your ROCK article, so I will try to
be a bit more pleasant.
Being a lifetime follower, and pro-musicman of ALL types of stuff, please allow me to
make a very important point. When one says "music" today, we can assume that the
contents contain; 1. Music, and 2. Lyrics.
You may be surprised to find that most listeners do not even care about the lyrics,
myself included.
I hear the voice as an instrument, and therefor do not care really what is being said.
Sure, many kids today listen to some S _ _ _ lyrics, but most of us just want to hear the
marvelous dynamics that ROCK
music provides.
Allow me to make a few recommendations to prove that great beauty does exist in the
rock field.
Bryan Ferry/ Roxy Music (28 albums, all good)
Porcupine Tree (incredible creativity)
Focus (classical based magnificence)
Gentle Giant (Masters of the music)
And let us not forget that the great John Lennon rejected his MBE award !
Richard said (October 30, 2006):
Where to begin? Your post tells the truth about something that even a lot of hard rock
fans know, but prefer to suppress at times. I still like to listen to Hendrix now and
then but, after reading a biography of his childhood abandonment by a wayward mom
and dad who left him and his brother as virtual orphans, taken into the homes of
neighbors and near strangers, I do so with a heightened awareness of the pain and
history of child exploitation that underlies his music. He was confused at best, but still
a believer in God, however with syncretic pagan elements like voodoo having crept in.
Hendrix was never an overt satanist like Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, who went so far
as to buy Aleister Crowley's house, or other avowed satanists like Courtney Love,
Eminem, et al.
Even Bono of U2 has proclaimed his allegiance to darkness. That's really no surprise,
given the Davos and D.C. crowds he hangs out with. Bono has dressed up on stage
many times as satan in drag, wearing heavy makeup and sporting red lame' horns,
calling himself MacPhisto. You can figure out some of the allusions of that name.
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Back in 1998 I saw an MTV interview with Marilyn Manson. In my work in a number
of public school systems I had noticed that a lot of kids with indications or known
histories of abuse, especially sexual abuse, were big fans of Marilyn Manson. I had
always reasoned that the singer must have been such a victim himself. In the 1998
MTV interview he revealed that around the age of 9, I think, he was sexually molested
over a period of months by a man who lived next door, who threatened to kill his dog if
he told anyone. This certain sheds additional light on Manson's antics and stage
persona.
I think it is important to note the fact that a history of sexual abuse as children
underlies for many people their predilection for the more extreme forms of satanic
music and performance art. Given that in the U.S. the statistics indicate that at least
one fourth of girls and one fifth of boys (higher epidemiological estimates run to one
third and one fourth, respectively) are victims at least once in their lives of some form
of unwanted (and always inappropriate and morally wrong) sexual activity by adults,
the interest in such entertainment follows. And vice versa, ie. such entertainment
softens kids up for exploitation on many levels.
This constitutes a plague. And it is one which is both fed by, and which feeds, the array
of satanic elements in music, culture, and the pederast power culture and occult
structure of the elite, ad nauseum.
Islam has a history of keeping a weather eye out for the unsalutary effects of much
music. Some branches of Islam hold all music to be potentially evil in effects, as do
some branches of Christianity, whereas the various muslim Sufi sects use music as a
form of praising God and drawing nearer in one's heart to the divine presence.
You have illuminated (I would like to re-take that verb for benevolent use again) a
terribly important aspect of our culture, and by allusion, also shed light on a much
deeper aspect of human culture, the power of music, and its potential range of effects
from demonic to divine.
My wife and I always appreciate your yeoman's efforts. If it weren't for a very few
individuals such as you, the web would be a near total wasteland as far as insight into
the forces that are moving our world is concerned.
Daniel said (October 30, 2006):
First of all I am a 44 year old musician, have played bass for 30 years, and my favorite
type of music is heavy metal. So I feel I have a pretty good perspective. Do I think
you're right, oh ya. Do I feel that the Illuminati uses music to infiltrate the minds of its'
listeners, oh ya, no doubt about it. When one simply stands back, and thinks for a
moment it is easy to understand why and how.
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The Underlying Beat
Constantly Changes
“He said we will use music, he described rock music, and it didn't make any
sense to me. I just didn't understand it. Since then, we are very much aware of
the fact that Pavlov was a Russian scientist who as you know used the dogs,
conditioned the doges to respond a certain way and then conditioned them to
respond other ways. Pavlov, we now know, was taken into Lenin's home in
Russia and he helped him complete the experiment. ...Then they did the next
experiment which was to play 2 metronomes, simultaneously, one at 60 and
one at 120 and the dog ... had a nervous breakdown. It collapsed, it
couldn't function, then they killed the dog by a very simple
experiment. They had one metronome going at 60 and one at 120 and this
one at 60 was suddenly stopped and switched to 120, this one at 120 stopped
and went to 60, and they went back and forth, and back and forth, and the
dog expired-just literally terminating the dogs.
Now that's __________ of rock music. That's the underlying beat that
goes on and it constantly changes, it is constantly changing. That's
why you'll have several guitars and several instruments that are the same; the
instruments are the same, they don't have a trumpet and saxophone and a
violin because what they need is the conditioning ability of those instruments.
They need intense volume, they can deliver any message whatsoever, whether
it is backward or forward, doesn't matter whether you can hear the words in
the language that we are speaking or whether it's exactly the opposite but the
brain will unscramble it and pick it up. And so we know, for example, that this
melodic dissonance can create a conditioning effect so that you will believe
whatever it is that you are taught.
This is the beginning of the free love revolution, is the beginning of
the drug culture, the beginning of anti-authority revolution, the beginning of
our deterioration of our respect for the flag, the country, the policemen, all the
institutions that hold the fabric of our society together.
And so these things, he described to me, in great detail. It was fascinating, it
just was sort of overwhelming to me. I just was, so much of it I didn't
remember because it was so foreign to what I could relate to and so he
indicated of course that they would use force where necessary.
He said to me that we'll take the children from their parents, early
enough so that we can condition them; we eliminate all mental,
emotional, and physical cripples at birth. They would of course
have to be terminated.”
(“Communist Revealed the ‘Plan’ to Mormon,” 5)
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If I were to try and find a way to corrupt the minds of youth, I would attempt to find
something that is popular, something that relates to the struggles of youth, something
that is repetative, and something highly symbolic. Ah Ha... music. One common thread
of todays youth is music. When I was young, no one cared around music, till
the walkman, and now music is everywhere. I see kids with MP3 players
everywhere, being used even at times when their activities conflict with music.
Music is now a very very powerful medium.
For kids today music is like breathing, how conveniant.
Combining this with the turmoil of youth, is like adding gasoline to the fire. When I
was young, rebellious, full of frustration and anger, music became a friend, an ally if
you will, in my daily struggle against the institution. There was a bond, and i'm sure
every kid knows of what I speak. One felt as if the music and lyrics were almost an
entity that knew how you felt and could relate to your struggle.
I remember a thousand favorite songs i've had over the years, never stopping to
wonder how is it I can remember those songs to this day. I can recite the lyrics, and
hum the melody, even though at times never prompted,they just appear with the
memory of a favorite moment. If only my ability to recall my chemistry and physics
had been that easy. Then again, if I had recorded my chemistry and physics and
listened to them over and over and over, it might have yielded the same result. Yet
another key component in mind control ...repetition.
The final key in my theory is symbolism. We see it everywhere, on everything. Music is
the perfect venue for symbolism. We see the hand signs, we see the band logos, we see
the fashion, we see the lifestyle, we see the videos, we see the reality tv, everywhere
music is, you find symbolism. It becomes part of who you are. Better yet we ourselves
become symbols.
These to me are the keys to how music is used as a form of mind control.
People do not understand mind control, but they need to find out. Henry, until I
started to research the Illuminati/New World Order and the ominous machine that it
is, I had never ever even thought of mind control. Upon my research into this topic I
quickly became confronted with two themes, mind control and satanism . People do
not know who the Illuminati are, and they have no knowledge of mind control and,
until they do, people cannot see how music can and is being used to change societies
norm and therefore in the end have them participating in satanism.
Prior to my awakening I was one of those people who coveted music without any
knowledge of it's use by satanists/Illuminati/New World Order to further there
mission. I believe that until people understand that there is angenda to use music
maliciously, and combine it with mind control techniques,people will always react in
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the typical way, denial. They do not want to admit they have been had, I didn't, still
don't, but it is a fact I can't deny anymore.
For those who feel Henry is saying every band, every group is satanic,read his article
again. Henry is not that dumb, trust me. What he is saying is satanists are using music
to the demise of us all, it is rampant, and it is being used as part of a large mind
contolling agenda.
Whether you want to admit how much you participate is up for debate, but not
whether it is taking place. Do the research, I have, I don't like to admit it, but they
fooled me for many years. Sometimes it is worth being wrong.
Thanks Henry, again for enlightening us through your words and perspectives, and
encouraging us to THINK.
Judy in New Zealand said (October 30, 2006):
Hi Henry,
Just read your article "Rock Music's Satanic Message" and you're onto it. I'm not as
familiar with the banking cartel which you refer to to as I am of young people and rock
music. As parents we ran the gauntlet with pernicious rock music worming its way into
our home without having purchased it. It is obvious that some of the modern rock
music is mood altering in a negative way. I was shocked when reading through the
lyrics of one particular group called "Slipknot" and noticed the depressive themes of
death and pain and the notes were deliberately distorted with the words screamed out.
Later I saw the same group being interviewed on late night television and they openly
spoke of involvement with spiritism which went some of way to explaining the morbid
themes throughout the music. I think the "heavy rockstars" the young people adore are
only phoney straw people driven by fame and wealth who don't much care that their
music may encourage suicidal thoughts or negative emotions.
Ultra violent video games along with the more extreme and restricted modern rock
music is toxic techno and potentially damaging to young people whose minds are
vulnerable and formative. In enlightened society peddlers of such vile sludge would be
viewed with the same public scorn as drug peddlers are.
From Judy
New Zealand
ps Forgot to mention in my first email in light of negative comment about a number of
contemporary Christian musicians I would draw attention to an outstanding
contemporary Christian musician, namely Fernando Ortega. He writes and composes
his own songs, the lyrics are poetic and the music beautiful and not tainted by hype.
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There is a rich spiritual intimacy in his music and a lullaby quality to some of the
slower songs.
Mike said (October 30, 2006):
Not all of us who write and record hard driving rock are satanic. But the Satanic elite
will use this medium to reach out to the white youth of the world, to mind shape,
demoralize and desensitize them to ever fighting the real parasites that run this world.
They are being programmed to kill themselves or others with in their proximity. The
use of zombie drugs like Zoloft, paxil, xanax, you name it, put the right lethal
combination together to create walking time bombs.
But this same medium can reach those same youths to absorb the light of truth into
them. It works both ways, and my buddys band has learned from the best and is
reaching the youth.
If you would like to hear some of it, shoot me a mailing address and i will be glad to
forward a couple of discs to you.
peace
Frank said (October 30, 2006):
I am sick and tired of christian moralists attacking all forms of occultism. RELIGION
is satan's #1 weapon; I am talking about the pathetic idea that God wrote one tome,
and that tome has a set of books that are his "Word".
Occultist are so evil, they brought the enlightment era; so evil they ended the dogmatic
morality in the 60's....not. While spoiled teenagers seek drugs instead of trance;
religious moralists seek "salvation" not spirituality. Ive even heard someone claim
Yoga is demonic while there really is no difference between a Kundalini Rising
expirience and when Jesus "saved" people in his travels (which he did, this is called
shaktipat, google it) ......Of course Kundalini has serpents symbols OMG RUN THE
DEVIL!!! I will not exaggerate anymore, i was just making a point.
Anyways this all amounts to saying that we don't have good music anymore because of
our society. Our Kids are pulled everyday with 2 types of spiritual-less groups: Secular
skeptic atheists who never accept anything above functiontionality, they who get
alarmed when you mention something of value with no material value, the ones that
make you seek boundless material riches, pathetic that they never see that the
"scientist" who made "modern science" where mostly occultists. Then there are the
repressive moralists who want you to surrender your mind to a CODE of BELIEFS (i
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am sorry but supposedly feeling God with you because you were praying is nothing but
a personal insult to one's intellect, thats just inspiration) that they hold as True.
There is no spirituality in not having sex. So i met a sexually open woman at a party
and I have the appropiate protection. Where is the Evil in that? that in a book it says in
a verse to wait dosn't make not waiting evil. The sad Truth is that many people are not
mature enough to handle liberated sexuality and love at the same time.
This kind of article involved all areas of humanity even some extra-areas so if i didnt
get anywhere so far, I wont do any better now. I have included an IMAGE that is
related to something i said here but i included it becuase it can be considred a
representation of the Truth. (Where Occultism meets Religion, where you see their
common Source, there is the Truth) …
http://www.geocities.com/orionbooks2002/fogc.html
… (this article will give you a glimpse for the first time in your life of an element of that
group you call the "illuminati" (they never used that name again after Bavaria) I
suggest you read Franz Bardon's "Frabato the Magician" i'm sure no one has lived up
to the Lord and understood the Divine more than him in our times. He is unpopular
both outside and inside occultism circles. Bardonian lodges are constantly harrased by
black lodges and recently intelligence services "occult" branches.
I also suggest you read "Initiation into Hermetics" the Theory section. Many initiates
(like many "Golden Dawn") have been duped into some kind of sinister yet intelligent
mix of Hermetics and goetic daimon worship. The True Path is free, it's deep and
meaninful and it's for the masses not to be held as a secret. While that book has a
complete Hermetic system in it (and a very perfect one) it is as if there where
conscious ignorance of the book and Bardon's works (like 9/11 truth).
http://www.geocities.com/lqairah3/initiationintohermeticsFranzBardon.pdf
Sam said (October 30, 2006):
I wholeheartedly agree with your recent commentary on rock music and its influence
as well as its message. Anyone who thinks that Rock started out innocently and
somehow got mangled up with recent the satanic garbage only believes what they want
to believe. One needs only look at the Beatles and their incorporation of the self
proclaimed Satanist Alester Crawly in one of their albums which features people they
hold in high regards. Also playing some rock music in reverse may be of further proof
of the mind manipulation and contamination of subliminal messages in most rock
music (and in music in general in my opinion)
listen for yourself:
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http://www.reversespeech.com/rev/stairrev.Mp3
http://home.socal.rr.com/satanslies/Music,%20Satan%20and%20How%20He%20Us
es%20It.htm
Curtis said (October 30, 2006):
I read your articles, and for the most part they seem intelligent and well thought out.
Now you seem to be losing your way, along with your rational and critical thinking
skills. You are becoming what the Bush administration wants every person to be, and
that is fearful and hysterical.
We both grew up about the same time. You survived and so did I. If you tried to apply
now your beliefs to what was happening back then, the alarms would never have
stopped the hype regarding Hendrix and his acid experience, or the Beatles and their
smoke pot theme, and of course Janis Joplin and her heroin use, God save us with
what the Doors represented. This is what youth does.
The alpha letters after your name don’t mean much to the masses anymore. Stop your
quivering, and Chicken Little shtick. You are over paranoid and sounding more and
more like Bill O’Reilly, and that certainly does not say much for you.
----Curtis, If you have vision, you can see where society is going before it actually gets
there. The people in "Brave New World" were happy, but they were slaves.
henry
Russ said (October 30, 2006):
While not all rock music is satanic--probably only a small percentage is overtly so, the
practical function of much of the non-satanic music is to draw young minds into the
genre.
Almost no one at first craves the sound and message of Marilyn Manson. Most young
listeners begin their rock music experience listening to something non-satanic and
"harmless." Once the appetite is whetted, however, kids look to extend their
experience. Many--especially boys/young men--begin to explore the outer edges of
rock looking to stimulate their appetite for excitement and the forbidden
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The Underlying Beat …
da-da-DAH! da-da-DAH!
January 8, 2010
Mack Writes: “I might have missed it, but you might want to look into an
article on the anapaestic beat in contemporary music.
Once you do the research on the underlying beat (da-da-DAH! da-da-DAH!)
and learn to identify it, you will probably find, like I did, that we are
constantly being blasted with it. It is in all the stores, coffee shops, gasstations, malls, gyms, and media. It has even taken over the churches via
"contemporary" services. And if no PA system is available, then kids, joggers,
and commuters use their i-pods to maintain the addiction they've developed
to this beat.
This particular beat originates with the African drum rhythm, and
it entered modern music when southern blacks applied it to other
instruments, forming jazz, and for singing in a folk ballad style, beginning
early rock music. Musical conductors took the beat (called syncopation) and
they formed swing and big-band style music.
Today this beat is in all forms of modern music, and blasted everywhere
so you can't get away from it. The subconscious mind knows exactly what it is
listening to and causes the body will tap or move or sway to the music without
a second thought.
Man is three parts: body, soul, and spirit. The African beat is aimed at the
carnal level of man, whereas the most elevated music is spiritual. Listening to
higher music aimed at the spiritual level (like ancient church music and
baroque) is peaceful and can be done without any urge to move the body at all.
Also, there is a lot of "good music" that appeals to the level of man's soul, and
is emotional (classical, folk, marching, hymns). This type of music usually has
even tempo beats or very light syncopation.
It is unhealthy to have all music tainted by this fleshy beat. It is like feeding
the body cotton-candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Unfortunately many
people are addicted, and don't even know it. Eventually their need for the beat
becomes so strong they actually can't stand hearing spiritual level music any
more: it becomes "corny" and "boring" to them.”6
6
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com
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with "harder" stuff. This is where satanic rock gets the majority of its devotees. Minds
must be primed.
I am the product of a very solid Christian home. Nevertheless and despite many
warnings, I very nearly followed this path all the way. Only because of God's grace did I
drop rock. (I made the decision to drop rock while at university, finding that the music
so pervaded my thoughts that I could not concentrate sufficiently to write an exam. As
my brain began to clear, I began to understand the profound influence rock had over
my thoughts and thenceforth my actions.) In my experience I found that I needed to
drop not just rock, but all of what I would describe as the "feeder" rock variations as
well. There is much else to listen to!
For those who claim that not all rock music is satanic, I would remind them that "wide
is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction" but "narrow is the way that
leads to life--and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13, 14.
Surely rock is not worth the risks.
Ron said (October 30, 2006):
I see Neff's idiotic response [below]to your excellent piece on Satanic music,
recommending Black Sabbath for "some really good Christian music". If you would like
some excellent material corroborating your position, please feel free to download the
PDF file of the book SATAN'S DRUMMERS at this location:
www.phoenixsourcedistributors.com/html/phoenix_journal_summary_9.html
We have featured your work many times in our review and you are "right on track".
Keep up the good work, sir.
Ron Kirzinger, Editor
CONTACT News Review
Paul from Vienna, Austria said (October 30, 2006):
Extraordinarily critical comments on the Rock and Roll article Henry. But how many
of those writers viewed the DVDs I wonder ? I've seen those DVDs and based on their
comments, I would say zero have watched them. In other words 100 % guesswork normally the hallmark of fools. No wonder the NWO are laughing - we will be defeated
by our own side at this rate.
Such emotional outbursts and anger - just for a review ? Don't take it personally
though - many obviously suspect it is true (at least they must if they have a sudden
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rush of blood to the brain once a day, and their eyes open), but maybe they can't face
the mental self-destruction as they paradoxically like the music or are addicted to it.
p.s. Curt’s comments [below] are ugly or should I say giftig ? Hmmm, Curt - das ist
eine gute Deutsche Name fur ein bl’dehund, na ? Curt, die einball (oder Fuhrer - der
Grsste Feldherr Alle Zeit), is “downstairs” now, and it is not Jews, nor Christians, nor
Muslims, Parsees, or Shintos that head the NWO gang, but satanists. Curt, may we ask
you what is your own religion and your own ancestry, and can you prove it ?
Tim said (October 29, 2006):
There is a lot of satanic hype in music. On that point I will give readily. However there
are just as many anti-NWO type bands and some
like Green Day openly call Bush a fascist.
The lyrics to American Idiot and Holiday are anything but satanic. The scream out
against the media lies and manipulation.
The recording industry cares only about money. They promote mostly drivel and pop
music that is devoid of any intelligence. They don't care about anything but making
money for themselves.
As much as they want to the recording industry can't control artists output. Once they
get popular, like Green Day, they can put out stuff
I'm sure the industry would rather not see.
Curt said (October 29, 2006):
Read your newest bilge, i.e. Rock Music's Satanic Message," and just wanted to point
out as I always do, "It''s the Jews Stupid!" Henry, you can't possibly not know that
Jews dominate the music business just as surely as they do the television media.
Do you really get that many readers any longer? I think your message is losing
credibility, while mine is gaining.
Have a nice day.
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James said (October 29, 2006):
Rock Music covers a very broad spectrum of music! Not all rock music, in fact MOST
rock music, is not in any way related to Satanic Rock. Satanic Rock is unique and
something unto itself, it's even unique to "heavy metal" now days.
Just as it would be improper to say "Drunk! - Country Music's Alcoholic Message" just
because about 30% of country music is about getting or being drunk.
I've been watching this hooplah for many years. There IS a contingent of musicians in
heavy metal which do use the Satanic to sell their albums, mostly because it's wild,
spooky and kids love it. They don't take it seriously, sad, though that may be. The
Marylin Mansons are few and far between.
But to indict all of Rock music? That's just flatheaded nonsense and so long as
Christians keep doing this they will be tuned out (and rightly so) by thinking people
who can easily discern this is just prejudiced. As stupid as suggesting Elvis' dancing
would catapult teen girls into sexual frenzies they couldn't control. Never happened. As
ridiculous as having Pat Boone replace Little Richard for fear that white girls would
want to date and sleep with black men. Rock and Roll has been surrounded from the
beginning by such ignorance, and it continues today.
I'm embarrassed for the researchers because they are typical brainless born agains,
and as a born again Christian myself, I really resent the way these yahoos bring
reproach upon Christianity and Christ's name with their fearmongering broadbrushed
nonsense.
You wanna hear some good Christian rock? Listen to BLACK SABBATH. Every song is
about how the devil will destroy your soul. THAT is a GOOD message. Is Creme
Satanic? Is Journey Satanic? Is Foreigner Satanic? Is ELO Satanic? I could go on and
on...
Do you realize the number of rock bands I could list off that have absolutely NO ties
whatsoever with anything even remotely Satanic? It would require a 3 meg pdf file!!
But you're citing right-wing evangelical hysteria that indicts ALL Rock music. That is
just plain ignorant. And people see it as ignorant -- you don't reach them with
ignorance like this. This just brings reproach.
You're not going to reach thinking people. You're just going to come off as someone
who lumps everyone into the boogie man "satanism" basket, and people are tired of
hearing that because they KNOW its absolute bullcrap.-----------James,
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Obviously not every song by every rock group is going to be purveying the Satanic
message but there are enough to recognize a consistent agenda. As for the others, how
many actually make us feel proud to be human beings, feel solidarity and love for
others, and feel really positive about life?
Henry
Stacy said (October 29, 2006):
Please alert your readers to the book entitled "Gods Of Wasteland" by Michael Matt. I
think this is the definitive book on this topic. As a Gen X-er, (age 37) I have an
addiction to popular music, but this book instantly changed my outlook, and I am
happy to say three years later I have come very close to completely removing popular
music from my life. It is hard though, and it has a certain nostalgic appeal. It is a very
powerful force not to be underestimated.
http://www.catholictreasures.com/cartdescrip/11157.html
Sarah in Australia said (October 28, 2006):
Back in 1990, I attended a lecture at my local Seventh Day Adventist church given by
Louis Torrez, yes, that Louis Torrez (base player for Bill Haley and the Comets). laying
before us his life's history, the path of his youth which led to his involvement in - dare I
say, virtual creation of rock 'n' roll music, his experiences in the band and so on, he
fervently, almost pleadingly informed us of how the very structure and rhythms
of the music itself can directly stimulate the 'carnal appetites' - principally
the back-beat, on the second and fourth beats of a bar, rather than first and third.
Furthermore, the life of drug-induced debauchery they lived was not glossed over
either. Still a brilliantly talented musician, he and his wife (a prominent US concert
violinist) have dedicated their lives to preaching the truth as to the demonic, satanic
foundations and nature of r&r. Tragically (myself at that time falling into this category)
many from amongst Christian ranks dismissed presentations like these as nothing
more than over-zealous 'kill-joying' designed to rob life of any vestige of fun. How
wrong we were. As if this were not bad enough, Christianity, in a desperate attempt to
drop down to the world's level, has embraced Rock holus bolus in its disgraceful drive
to try and win and hold onto its youth. nearly 60 years on, rock seems to have
dislodged everything else in its wake - the timeless musical classics both contemporary
and historical which so beautifully elevate the listener heavenward, providing
inspiration to strive and seek refuge above are not merely sidelined but deliberately
portrayed, in my belief, as toffy', snobbish' and inaccessible to the young (and not so
young).
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Dan said (October 28, 2006):
I've got to really write my 90's experiences out sometime. I lived in Austin, which I
know now is a youth 'experiment zone', a test center, for this level of social
engineering. It has a music industry--all the big musicians have links there, mostly
under the radar.
It also is a center for Satanic cult indoctrination, which I discovered by 1991 was
operated by none other than US Army psywar guru Col Michael Acquino. Aside for the
visible Temple of Set connection there, Austin is headquarters for the Southwest US
zone of the Ordo Templi Orientis, through the 'Scarlet Woman' Lodge. These were
both out in the open during the 90's, actively recruiting at UT, and aiming at med
students, law students, as well as lawyers and medical people already in practice.
The music industry is, as Svali said, an arm of recruitment for the Satanic satraps of
the Illuminati. They condition the kids for Satanism.
I could write a book on this.
I do not know what the influences are in this decade, though. The US has been in a
period of fear, and my take on it is that they switched emphasis to death rock groups
like Pantera and to gangster rap by the late 90's because those are militaristic--in a
Hitlerian, brownshirt sense. Aimed to direct poor male frustration and
confusion into an urge to kill and to be part of a heirarchy of killers.
Perfect for recruiting soldiers for the 'war on terror'.
In the seamy, Hyronimus Bosch world of teen music, females are objects for
sexual use, degradation and sacrifice to Satan. Males are serial killers in a
world of might justifies all.
Pretty picture. It makes no sense to us non-psychotic folks, but it's got a goal. They're
conditioning the next generations for being a 'horde' that can be used in
the 100 years wars they plan. Which isn't the end result.
What they want is a public they can use for killing a lot of people off, leaving a human
race that's a blank slate. Then they'll mold their 'new man' for their 'new age'. A
completely compliant slave.
Jim in Australia said (October 28, 2006):
What Michael Moore did NOT tell us in "Bowling for Columbine" is that you could buy
Manson's vomitus 'music' at K-Mart as well as 9mm bullets for automatic assault rifles.
Or that the rank, awful sounds of him wailing were conscription for the Father of all
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lies himself.
Separate Church from State (a fatuous idea taken from an unpublished letter of
Andrew Jackson's), and these kids have no moral compass. When young adults
need reasons why they should do the things they are asking to do, they find their
answers in Manson's nihilistic vomit?
Until I read this article I had passed on "Fahrenheit 9/11" because Moore misses too
many really hard questions. Missing the CONTENT of Manson's material in the
formulation of a theses against the Second Amendment is just as shoddy as not
mentioning that Dick Cheyney told NORAD to stand down on 9/11 because it was
"unamerican".
Thanks for the eye-popping article, Henry. As much as I did not like Manson's 'sound',
I had NO idea that this puke was the substance of what he had to offer. And Moore,
when he had a chance to examine it (lapsed catholic he continually rues that he is)
does NOTHING to expose Manson.
I don't believe rock music, of itself, is of Satan. Manson's obviously is - overtly though.
D said (October 28, 2006):
Good stuff, Henry. I couldn’t agree with you more. My own experience with music
went even further as I gained access into the perverted Christian Scene loaded with
coke and whores who prayed for forgiveness each Sunday and then drove off in their
new Rolls Royces.
Believe me, the Christian Scene is no different than working for Playboy, which is my
most Satanic contact in the stripping industry. Some of the most vile peoplel I have
ever met were part of the Christian Music scene. So, as you see, the Satanic culture is
rampant with hypocrits on the far Right (foley etc.) and the crazed liverals on the left.
From the Vatican to the corner bar, Satan is alive and well and most people are doing
his bidding with nary a thought of the eternal consequences.
"Steve" said (October 28, 2006):
I'm a part time musician myself. I play guitar and I play loud hard rock music. I've
been reading your website for quite some time now. I don't have any doubt myself that
rock music is used to convey the message of satanism. It may not be so obvious, but
most lyrics in rock music will usually incorporate self indulgence, sex, materialism or
out and out satanism. In a heavy metal or rock concert you'll be hard pressed not to
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notice the devil hand sign being displayed everywhere. I don't think this is a
coincidence at all.
I have even come across a lyric that really reminds me of Illuminati. It's a song called
"Nova Era" by a band called "Angra". Some excerpts:
"New day shines, fallen angels will arise
Nova Era brings the ashes back to life
All over now, all the great and awful lies
Angels will arise
Back to life!"
You may also notice that drug abuse was first popularized by rock bands in the 60s.
Woodstock truly had some great music going on, but the moral decadence brought
about by the excess of drugs and free sex is unworldly.
What keeps me from stopping to play is my love for the music. There's such a cathartic
feeling about playing the music that propels you to a certain emotional level that is
very satisfying. I believe you get the same feeling when you're high on drugs (not that
I've ever tried one), and maybe it IS designed to be like one. I'd like to believe that the
music and the lyrics are separate entities, although I know that's not true. Who knows,
one day I'd probably stop playing at all.
Rod said (October 28, 2006):
In the early 90's I bought a 5 part, 8 hour video titled " Hells Bells " a critique of the
rock music scene. Reel to Reel ministries produced it. It was very enlightening. It
seems by the description you mentioned of the other video that are very similar. It
opened my eyes. I listened to heavy metal Rock in high school and all the way through
my 20's. I frequented Rock concerts. Such as Kiss, Van Halen, Rush, and even Gun's
and Roses and Metalica at the end of my ignorance. I had never heard music talked
about in such deep terms before. I thought " it was only music". I didn't realize the
damage it was doing to me through indoctrination. The repetitiveness of it. Over and
over the bands would play the same guitar chords and rifts and the singer would sing
the same lyrics over and over. The repetition ensures that the listener will never forget
the words.
If music is powerful enough to lift your spirits and put you in a good mood. Then isn't
it also powerful to change your mood for bad? Songs make people cry, laugh,
reminisce, fight. Look at the music the boxers play when they are entering the ring to
pump them up. I can't think of anything more influential that music.
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To be fair. Rap music is just as bad, and even country music is getting pretty x-rated as
of late.
Maybe people should look into who owns the record labels? Who are the producers? I
think you will see the same group of people we see in the media. Print and TV. Evil is
the only word I can think of that fits appropriately.
David Livingstone2 said (October 28, 2006):
Looking at Manson's picture, I realize that he is not the evil we should be worried
about, but just another misguided kid, like so many living in America.
I was looking at Vloggies, which is an award for best vlogs, and at the top of the list is
Living in Baghdad, which is real Iraqis telling their miserable stories.
.
Everyone after that, on the other hand, are just the opposite. And they are all the same.
I just fluffy reflections and attempts at mild humor on nothing in particular. The
amazing thing is that the latter represent the mental state of Americans, while the Iraqi
vlog represents an attempt to wake them from that very sleep.
It is amazing how unconcerned Americans in general are.
And that is the heart of the problem, and the real aim of the Rock n Roll mind control
program.
We have to remember that what we are witnessing is an agenda that has been under
way since the successful coup d'etat of the Illuminati in
1776. Ever since, their primary aim has been to discredit Christianity, and by that, all
God-centered religions.
First, they managed to convince that the Church was a corrupt organization committed
only to its own power. The myth of evolution and of progress was further mobilized to
discredit religion as well.
But their fiercest blow was in suggesting that religious values are too
strict, or even counter to our nature. This is the very basis of Gnosticism, that
God is an oppressive god, and that he has imposed laws upon us that are natural. So
Satanists instead teach indulgence.
This is a clever diversion from the truth of the message of Christianity, and in fact of
Judaism and Christianity as well. Because did not teach us that we should be
"ashamed" of our bodies, but that we should "have shame", that is, show a little selfrespect.
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But sex is not the big issue in Christianity as it has been made out to be. Rather, Jesus'
central message was to "love one's neighbour". Self-restraint is an important matter,
but not the core issue.
The ultimate examples of this kind of prejudice against Christianity, and the supposed
prudishness of conventional values, are the overly-preachy and self-righteous efforts of
shows like South Park and the Family Guy. And Marilyn Manson is just another
symptom of this ignorance, or shall we say arrogange.
And so, through this ruse of criticizing Christianity's take on sexuality, the Illuminati
have succeeded in distracting the masses from the central issue. And I think that is
how you can explain America's complete lack of concern for the plight of so many of
humanity, as exemplified by the shallowness of a new legion of vloggers.
David Livingstone said (October 28, 2006):
This what it is all about, Tavistock and the Frankfurt school neo-Freudians.
Here's a piece by Coleman:
http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm
The point is not just to destroy society, but to teach the worship of Satan
disguised as "liberation". Because basically it is liberation from Christian values,
or just everyone's inborn sense of decency, which is errantly equated with "Christian
guilt".
This was all part of a large--scale mind-control project. One version was for the
masses, the other was for specific individuals, or Manchurian Candidates, trained as
'assassins", or more specifically terrorists.
The use of music to induce trance states is the very basis of the occult. This is
referred to in the BIble in the episode of the Golden Calf as "pagan revel". It involves
the use of music in combination with intoxicants, to rile the worshippers, until they
become possessed by 'the god' [demon], and are able to perform supernatural feats,
like soothsay, or more heinously, kill a child. This was then followed by the
consummation of the child, and then orgies.
In ancient times, these were called Mysteries. They formed the basis of first
Mitthraism, and from there to the rest of the so-called Western occult tradition. Today
is simply referred to as Black Magic.
Those with a hidden insight into the activities of the occult, like the Illuminati,
represented by the 20th centuries leading figures, including the Frankfurt School,
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recognized the possibilities of music to induce susceptible states of consciousness. So
they created Rock and Roll, evidently produced by some of their most dysfunctional
children.
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Reading #2
Korn’s Thoughtless—Selling
Satanism to Suburban Kids
By Vigilant Citizen
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Korn’s Thoughtless—Selling Satanism
to Suburban Kids
Jul 6th, 2009
By Vigilant
Source: http://vigilantcitizen.com/
The association of rock music with satanism isn’t new. Groups like Led Zeppelin [7],
Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath have exploited this type of imagery decades ago.
Young fans saw in those groups the perfect way to rebel against authority and the
ideal medium through which they could affirm their individuality. Korn’s
Thoughtless video could be considered a continuation of this “tradition” but with a
troubling twist: in this case, satanism is directly marketed to school kids and is
presented in as almost practical answer to their problems.
I can already see comments
saying: “Korn members aren’t
Satanic, they’re
Christian except for one who
is atheist”. That’s great to
know. I honestly don’t care
what religion artists claim to
be. You should also know
that I’m not writing this from
a “Christian fundamentalist”
standpoint. I’m simply not
one of those people and I
don’t think this way. I have
however studied
communication models. The
aim of this article is to
analyze the message of this video as a self-contained cultural product, which is diffused
to the masses through media corporations. Like a common TV advertisement, the
video is aimed towards a particular market (teens and pre-teens). It presents a
“In his expose of Led Zeppelin, Friend [Thomas Friend is the author of Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of
Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin.] wrote about the direct appeals of this rock band to recruit bond slaves for
Satan. One song, stated Friend, ‘...Dazed and Confused contains a two-part command from Robert Plant to the
listener to sell his or her soul to the Devil.’ Robert Plant, presumably of the Plantard bloodline, wrote the lyrics to
‘Stairway to Heaven’—a blend of Celtic/Druid rock music and mythology—which is considered the most popular
rock song of all time. Plant's lyrics are loaded with Celtic, Druidic and Black Sabbath symbolism, Arthurian lore,
specific allusions to Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and detailed instructions on how to make a pact with the Devil.
More than one analysis of Led Zeppelin's music has speculated that Stairway to Heaven is really the Stairway to
Tolkein's Middle Earth.” The Merovingian Dynasty: Satanic Bloodline Of The Antichrist And False Prophet,
Part V, William Cooper And The Three Bears. Available here: Available here: http://watch.pair.com/williamcooper.html
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problem to be solved and a solution which addresses the problem. This solution is
satanism. Here’s the video
Analysis of the Video
The main character of the video is an average student attending an upper-class,
suburban white high school. Girls are pointing and laughing at him for no apparent
reason. He is constantly picked on by jocks who can’t resist the urge to pummel the
crap out of him every time the boy walks by. After the jocks are done with him the boy
sits there, stunned and a banner above him informs us of an upcoming senior prom.
ZOMG! This guy got totally beat up and the prom
is totally coming soon! Totally lame situation!
Meanwhile, we see Korn playing inside the guy’s head. Jonathan Davis’ lyrics resonate
in his brain, representing the sick inner-thoughts that are fermenting inside of him.
Here are the lyrics:
Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
Pushing all the mercy down, down, down
I wanna see you try to take a swing at me
Come on, gonna put you on the ground, ground, ground
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it’s funny?
What the fuck you think it’s doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying with your dirty ass in front of me
All of my hate cannot be found
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
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Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
I’m above you, smiling at you, drown, drown, drown
I wanna kill and rape you the way you raped me
And I’ll pull the trigger
And you’re down, down, down
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it’s funny?
What the fuck you think it’s doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying with your dirty ass in front of me
All my friends are gone, they died (gonna take you down)
They all screamed, and cried (gonna take you down)
I’m never (?) back against the wall
Gonna take you down
So, the lyrics aren’t too nice or forgiving. They’re rather violent, vengeful and twisted.
They’re also obviously the words of a young person. I don’t see too many adults telling
each other “Why are you trying to make fun of me?”. Its more schoolyard talk. The
singer of Korn is yelling those lyrics inside the guy’s brain and is therefore the
messenger of those thoughts. Back to the video.
So the guy is in the cafeteria, alone and is looking troubled and disturbed. He is
drawing demonic images in his notepad. For a couple of seconds, some of the text
starts shimmering, giving it a supernatural feel.
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The evil entity inside of the guy is expressing itself
through his drawings. “I’m hiding” means that the
possessor is waiting for the right time to come out.
We soon understand that the drawings are actually an expression of the evil entity
inside the main character. It is announcing the coming transformation of our angry
guy. We then see his hand bubbling, further symbolizing that something inside of him
is trying to get out.
In the next scene, our main guy is minding his own business, swimming in the pool
when the jock douchebags see him and say “hey it’s that loser kid again, let’s all go in
the water and act like the bullies that we are.” So the guy gets his daily dose of
knuckles. Afterwards, we see him floating in the water with his skin crawling again.
Every unfortunate event seems to give more power to the being inside of him. It has
been historically recorded that people claimed to have fallen victim to spirit possession
felt a constant crawling sensation all over their skin. So the apparent discomfort of
the main character is also an actual effect of spiritual possession.
This thing on Davis’ mic stand is shown
during a couple of frames in the video.
Its a phallic symbol and female breasts
arranged to look like a satanic face.
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In the next scene, the guy is in the locker room and is apparently losing it. His skin
keeps crawling and he’s starting to look and act like a wild beast.
Then the actual possession takes place. We see the singer Jonathan Davis floating in
mid-air, with apparently no physical body and creepy devilish eyes. This scene alludes
to the etheric and metaphysical nature of the change that is occurring inside the main
character’s head. He looks in his yearbook, throws a TV out the window for some
reason and finally decides to get a phone book and finds an ad for escorts (prostitutes).
We see the singer’s devilish face flashing in the yearbook and the phone book,
signifying that the entity inside the guy is taking over his thoughts and pushing him to
carry out a great revenge.
Davis with devilish eyes taking over the boy’s thoughts
So we are now at the big prom night and we see the prom king and prom queen doing
their prom things. Then the loser that was picked on makes a dramatic entrance,
dressed like some kind of Scarface from the suburbs and escorted by a prostitute. The
escort removes her coat, revealing a demonic face, whose flashing eyes are
conveniently placed on her breasts. If you had any doubts concerning the nature of the
guy’s “disturbance”, they should be gone by now. The escort then flashes the devil’s
horns hand sign to leave absolutely no doubt about who she is. In fact, the girl is a
representation of Satan himself, who is assisting our guy in his plan.
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Pornstar Aimee Sweet playing as Satan,
flashing demon horns sign
The guy is then overpowered by this entity, making him tear open his shirt and then
vomit about like 32 gallons of sour milk of everybody. At this point, I can hear all the
young people who identified with the hero saying “Yeah, take that stupid prom king
and the rest of you conformists!” The escort is pointing and laughing at everybody as if
it was saying “Yeah, that was my plan and I’m proud of it”. In a final display of
satanism, we see a shot of vomit dripping on the Christian cross worn by the possessed
guy.
Interesting fact: in the original (but banned) video, the boy came in the prom with a
gun and shot everybody. Yup. So you can pretty much imagine that the vomit is
actually gun bullets. This whole scene is based on immorality, which is the playground
of the evil principle. Revenge, hate, prostitution and murder were part of Satan’s plan.
Message of the Video
This video irritated me because it directly took aim at school kids. In every school,
there are kids being picked on, laughed at and harassed on a daily basis. These kids
directly relate to the hardships of the hero of the video. His final victory becomes their
victory, and the underlying message of satanism becomes a positive one. In the final
prom scene, satanic possession gave the hero the strength, the courage and the
confidence to get back at everybody. Satan made the hero look cool, get a new
attitude and even got him a hot date. The girl flashes the devil horn sign, which is
associated with rock star attitude and being cool. So the guy is basically fulfilling
the ultimate fantasy of all rejected kids to get back at their oppressors. Oh, and he also
killed everybody in the original video. Who permitted that? Satan.
So, after the video, kids are left with a subconscious positive feeling towards
satanic possession. Who won? The possessed guy. Is he cool? Hell yes. Did
the jerks get their comeuppances? They sure did. Everything is good then. Satanism is
thus a great way to stop being a vulnerable, victimized loser and there’s no bad side to
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it. What the video fails to show is that high school is just a couple of awkward years in
a whole lifetime. [Nazarene Remnant comment: if we truly loved our children we would
find ways to home-school them ourselves!] It is a self-contained bubble that you
eventually get out of and the people that made fun of you quickly disappear from your
life. The video however amplifies the illusion suburban kids maintain that the “big
prom”, ”jocks” and their high school world is at the center of the universe. They are
lead to think that it is worth becoming self-destructive, vengeful and hateful because
there’s nothing else in life than high school. The video tells kids that Satan is there to
help them get the respect they deserve. Defenders of the video might say, that the
character didn’t CHOOSE to become this way, that others pushed him towards it.
Others might say that the video simply portrays the negative effects insults have on
persecuted kids. Yes, but the classical symbols of satanism are still present and
communicated to the viewer.
Am I saying that all people watching the video will immediately revert to satanism and
start shooting people? No, far from it. This video is simply part of the
conditioning young people are put through by mass media during their
whole childhood. It is yet another powerful piece of media that adds up to the
others, and, after many years, this conditioning slowly but surely molds a
generation of people with weak moral values.
What’s up with Korn?
Korn had always been associated with
the dark and twisted, much to their
fan’s enjoyment. Like many artists who
show talent, potential and
charisma, they however seem to have
been co-opted by the “establishment”
and became tools of the record
industry to promote the elite’s brand
of satanism. Their 2003 album
cover of ”Take a Look in the Mirror” is
typical Western Occultism.
The Member Who Defected
A Goat of Mendes (Baphomet) sits at the bottom of the
cryptic mirror. “Take a Look in the Mirror” refers to an
ancient superstition claiming that if one looks into a
mirror long enough at night or by candlelight, one will
see the Devil. This slightly distorted superstition takes
its roots in actual exercises occult students practice.
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In 2005, the lead guitarist, Brian
“Head” Welch, left the group to
rededicate his life to Christianity. The
guitarist claimed that he had moral
objections to the band’s music and
videos. He told MTV:
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“For the last year and a half, I wanted to leave, but someone would always talk to
me and convince me to stay. But I’ve had a problem with the way things were going
since the second record. I mean, we would do things, and I would be like, ‘Oh, this is
metal! This is the rock and roll life!’ But inside, I thought they took it too far. It was a
little too crude for me.”
Head passed out during Korn days.
Other members of the group did not appreciate his defection. Head added during the
same interview:
“I think it made the guys mad. It confused them. I left at the worst possible time. We
got off Sony, and all the money was there, we were going to own all of our songs, but
I had to prove to myself that money wasn’t my God. I talked to Jonathan [Davis] and
he said, ‘I don’t get it, man, you’re all happy and we’re sitting here grieving because
our band is breaking up. And I wanted to tell him, ‘Well, for years, you guys were out
partying while I was sitting on the tour bus wanting to die.’ “
Head had problems with the content of the songs and videos for a while, especially
since he had a daughter. In another interview Head stated:
“I can go up there and play those songs and those solos but … I distanced myself from
Korn for probably a year and a half, two years. I just wanted to fade away, it was
crazy. I was so gone. But I found my way out and I want to help anyone that wants
to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I had to go through the lows to appreciate the
highs and it’s not perfect but it’s damn near.”
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The band’s official statement concerning Head’s decision goes as follows:
“Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch, who has chosen Jesus
Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end. Korn
respects Brian’s wishes, and hopes he finds the happiness he’s searching for.”
The most striking aspect of those statements is their moral and spiritual nature. Head
had obviously developed an aversion to the band’s philosophy, hinting that something
was profoundly wrong with the message Korn transmitted to the fans. He believed
that his self-destructive lifestyle (addiction to drugs and alcohol) and Korn’s immoral
content could not be justified by any amount of money. He believed that something
greater was at stake here. He also especially didn’t appreciate the way he was
portrayed in some of the group’s videos. Did he feel that corporate America had
taken over the band to promote their mind corrupting agenda?
Whatever the case be, Head’s decision to quit
supports this analysis of “Thoughtless”.
Apparently disgusted by the direction taken
by the group, Head disowned Korn’s material
and sought refuge in Christianity. When you
see Satan’s face and don’t like what you see,
you usually run as far as you can the other
way. In his case, the other way was the
Church.
To Conclude
Korn fans love the group’s aggressive style to
which they can release their bottled up rage
and anger. The group’s trademark
twisted songs and videos have grown to be
increasingly mainstream which eventually
earned them the title of “corporate sell-outs”.
It is at this point that “Thoughtless” came
out. The made-for-MTV video kept some of
Korn’s deviant style but inserted typical
Head might be regular church-goer
elements of teen movies, attempting to reach
now but he’s still BAD ASS.
a young audience. The main character of the video is harassed and picked on by other
students and eventually gets revenge after going through supernatural changes. He
sold his soul to the devil, which made him “cool” but also made him kill everybody at
his school. He therefore effectively lost his soul. But kids will remember this: “what he
did was cool”.
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The video is an allegory for satanic possession, a practice where one obtains the help of
a supernatural being in exchange of the soul. “Thoughtless” refers to the insults of the
other students towards the perscuted boy, but it also refers to the state of a person
under possession. The hero of the video wasn’t in control of his thoughts and actions
anymore and himself became “Thoughtless”. If you’ve read other articles on this site,
you might notice that the story of this video is similar to those of Rihanna, Beyonce
and Omarion’s. They all show steps to satanic initiation. Why is that? Because the
same people are behind all of those videos. They just reach different
audiences through different styles of music. MTV and music channels
distribute those promotional videos to young people around the world. The ultimate
goal: to make you “thoughtless.”
Related posts:
Beyonce to Sasha Fierce: Symolic Occult Rebirth
Hidden Satanic Messages in Omarion’s Icebox Video
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Reading #3
Popular Music is
the Babylon System
By Paul Joseph Watson
“Dumbed-down, amoral, nihilistic drivel from the likes of
Gaga and Katy Perry serves to keep the masses in a state of
spiritual decay.
It has never been more apparent to those who have
awakened from the slumber imposed upon them by popular
culture that the establishment music industry now pumps
out the most dumbed-down, monotonous, garbage which
actually serves to induce depression and despair in those
who are enlightened and aware, while providing hypnotizing
bread and circuses for those still transfixed by the babylon
system.”
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Popular Music Is The Babylon System
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Dumbed-down, amoral, nihilistic drivel from the likes of Gaga and Katy Perry serves to
keep the masses in a state of spiritual decay.
Paul Joseph Watson
GCN Live.com
It has never been more apparent to those who have awakened from the slumber
imposed upon them by popular culture that the establishment music industry now
pumps out the most dumbed-down, monotonous, garbage which actually serves
to induce depression and despair in those who are enlightened and aware, while
providing hypnotizing bread and circuses for those still transfixed by the babylon
system.
If the readers of this website sat down and watched MTV for an hour, they’d probably
come away feeling dazed, confused, and disgusted at the parade of sickness, idolatry
and worship of everything that’s wrong in our society. Love of money, the
evisceration of morality, the exaltation of post-modern nihilism, the attack on the
family, the normalization of the bizarre, the sick and the twisted.
Mainstream popular culture is nothing more than a tool which the elite use to make us
feel worthless, pathetic, powerless and hopeless. They want us to believe that the most
significant thing we can ever achieve in life is to look cool and garner the approval of
our peers by wearing the uniform of whatever cult we are mandated to belong to, and
that we can only accomplish this by mimicking the retarded behavior of the
people we see in music videos. This is why legions of young people, whatever
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color they are or background they come from, walk around trying to look like and
imitate rappers who wear their pants half way down their legs, can barely talk, and
only live for getting smashed out of their skulls and having meaningless random sex
with women who they objectify as instruments of carnal pleasure.
They Will Have Problems with
their Eyes, or One of Them
“The priesthood of Melchizedek became one of the most powerful
and famous of its kind. Today the highest level of the Mormon
priesthood is called the Melchizedek Priesthood. When you next
come in contact with high level Mormons, Jehovah’s witnesses and
Freemasons [or someone who has let satan into their life], pay
great attention to their eyes, those who are most open to
possession by the creature have problems with their eyes or one of
their eyes, some even have a film of translucent skin across one of
them, the blacker they are the greater their possession.”8
Easily the biggest stumbling block in trying to educate people as to why they are
depressed, leading increasingly insular and emotionally unstable, unhealthy lives with
declining living standards is dragging them away from the very distractions that
contribute to their downfall.
The power of entertainment as an opiate of the masses has never been stronger,
and with the widespread rollout of 3D technology, the tools of hypnotism are only
becoming more and more potent.
A London Guardian report entitled “Lady Gaga and the New World Order” gives
serious credence to a website that not only discusses how popular music is used to
keep people downtrodden and distracted, but how it is replete with messages and
symbolism bragging about how the elite are using entertainment to keep the
masses enslaved.
The Vigilant Citizen has a good claim to be the world’s most distinctive music
critic. On his website, vigilantcitizen.com, he describes himself as a graduate in
communications and politics and a producer for “some fairly well-known ‘urban’
artists”. He has spent five years researching “Theosophy, Freemasonry,
Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism”. All of these
interests converge in his insanely detailed analyses of the symbolism of pop
videos and lyrics. Thus Pink’s MTV awards performance mimics a Masonic
8
From Egypt, available here: http://lifeinthemix2.co.uk/EGYPT.html
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initiation; Jay-Z’s Run This Town trumpets the coming of the New World Order
(NWO); and the video for Black Eyed Peas’ Imma Be Rocking That Body
advances “the transhumanist and police state agenda”.
What’s surprising is the methodical, matter-of-fact, occasionally humorous tone
of his essays. He does not write like a swivel-eyed loon rambling about
Obamunism (although, inevitably, there’s an unsavoury fascination with Jewish
influence). To those who don’t study occult symbolism, he concedes, it might all
seem “totally far-fetched and ridiculous”, but for those in the know “I was simply
stating the obvious”. His examinations are certainly exhaustive. Scrolling down
his densely illustrated posts, you may find yourself thinking, “Say, Lady Gaga
really does very often cover up one eye. And a lot of pop stars really do pretend
to be robots.”
Although the Vigilant Citizen insists he is neither a political conservative nor a
religious fundamentalist, he is heir to such off-piste 60s pop critics as the
Reverend David A Noebel, author of Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles,
and Gary Allen, who theorised that post-Rubber Soul Beatles material was so
technically sophisticated that it must have been “put together by behavioural
scientists in some think tank”. Leftwing thinkers at the time had their own take
on pop as mind control. Peter Watkins’ 1967 movie Privilege starred Manfred
Mann’s Paul Jones as a puppet of the state, pacifying the populace with catchy
patriotic tunes. In such analysis, the villains may change but the mechanisms
remain the same.
The fact that the Guardian writer seriously discusses how popular music is littered
with elitist symbolism without sneering the whole thing off as a conspiranoid delusion
is an example of how abundantly clear this process is becoming.
This kind of subject matter is no longer “out there,” it’s no longer considered wild to
simply point out that popular culture and particularly popular music is exercising an
undue and insidious influence on the moral, societal, and spiritual development of
younger generations and humanity in general.
Nowhere was it more obvious than during a recent Beyonce performance where she
was surrounded by dancing riot cops. As the vigilant citizen website explains, this is
about indoctrinating people to accept “the “robotization” of the human body and the
gradual introduction of a virtual police state”.
In other essays, Gaga’s habit of covering one eye is explained as her rejection of God
and her induction as a Luciferian priestess.
Notice how people like Christina Aguilera copy Gaga’s symbolism of humans as
soulless robots.
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The one-eyed Luciferian theme is also seen here with Rihanna.
While the website sometimes uses too broad a brush with which to identify servants of
the babylon system, for example, a Bob Dylan clip is misconstrued as him saying he
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sold his sold to the devil, when in fact as any Dylan fan will know, in the late 70’s he
became a Christian and started releasing gospel music, it does an excellent job in
pointing the finger at those who really have metaphorically sold their souls - people
like Katy Perry – to be used as tools with which to keep the masses in a perpetual state
of disorder and spiritual decay.
Tearing down the facade of this babylon system and dragging people away from the
constant hypnotic distractions of sports, dumbed-down music, fashion and every
other sideshow offered up to turn our heads from our true spiritual
development is as if not more important than educating people about the political
aspects of the new world order agenda.
We need to make it “cool” to be informed about what is happening to our world and
how we can change its course. This process has accelerated over the past decade and
many music artists have incorporated this awakening into their work. Bands like Muse
and the Foo Fighters, rappers like Paris and Eminem, are pushing back against the
tide of zombie brainwashing being fostered on us by the likes of Gaga and Katy Perry.
There’s no better way to conclude than with Bob Marley’s “Babylon System” song,
which perfectly illustrates everything we are up against in this battle.
Babylon System—Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5EoiQX7u5k&feature=player_embedded
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Reading #4
Rihanna’s Disturbia: A Song about
Being Possessed by Evil
By Vigilant Citizen
“While music can have many beneficial aspects, it had long
been long been used in the occult mystery rites to enflame
the passions and rile the worshipper into a trance
state of demon possession. These qualities were
recognized by the Illuminati researchers of the Frankfurt
School as powerful for indoctrination purposes. Essentially,
music can be used to reduce the listener to a state of
emotional immaturity, which renders him susceptible
to the message it contains. Aldous Huxley, the principal
agent of this conspiracy, published a book called The Devils
of Loudun in 1952, where he described this phenomenon:
If exposed long enough to the tomtoms and the singing,
every one of our philosophers would end by capering and
howling with savages. Assemble a mob of men and women,
treat them to amplified band music, bright lights, and in
next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost
mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a
position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.”
(David Livingstone, Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three
Thousand Year History, BookSurge LLC, Charleston, SC,
2007, pp. 204-205)
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Rihanna’s Disturbia: A Song about
Being Possessed by Evil
Part 2
April 20, 2009, By Vigilant
Source: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=551
Rihanna’s “Disturbia” is a catchy pop song getting
played on the radio, TV and by DJs around the
world. Do people realize that this song is about
being possessed by Evil? Why are those messages
being hammered into the minds of young people?
This is an analysis of the song’s lyrics and visuals.
Note: This article is Part 2 of the “Occult and
Prophetic Messages in Rihanna’s Umbrella.” You
can find Part 1 in the next section. I suggest you
read this Part 1 first to fully understand this one.
As discussed in Part 1 of this article, Rihanna’s
Umbrella is about becoming possessed by Evil. It
was a back-and-forth conversation between
Rihanna and an Evil Entity (we will call it Devil), who promised her success and
riches in exchange of her soul. During the song, Rihanna accepts the Devil’s
proposition and effectively becomes possessed. This was portrayed through the lyrics
of the song and the imagery of the video.
“Disturbia” is the follow-up of “Umbrella” and describes Rihanna’s state of mind as a
possessed individual. While possessed, the victims cannot think for themselves –
thoughts are given by the possessor and the possessed behave according to the
thoughts given. The lyrics and the video convey that message in a very direct and
blatant matter, without the subtleties and symbols of “Umbrella”.
While Umbrella seemed to be, at face value, a song about love and friendship, the song
actually described the manner in which Evil seduces weak spirits with promises of
material success. ”Disturbia” is about the mental torment of possessed individuals .
First off, let’s watch the video.
Intro …
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
What’s wrong with me?
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Why do I feel like this?
I’m going crazy now
In the intro, Rihanna wonders what’s happening. “What’s wrong with me” and
“I’m going crazy now” allude to the fact her mind isn’t functioning properly, as if it
was taken over by an unknown force.
While she asks herself those questions, we hear a repetitive chant that goes “Bum bum
be-dum bum bum be-dum bum”. This is basically a spell aimed to mesmerize and
hypnotize the subject, a practice reminiscent of ritualistic magic. If you know about
ancient practices of Black Magic, those spells where used to opens the listener’s mind,
placing him/her in a highly suggestive state. So, in the context of the song the Evil
Entity is playing with Rihanna’s head, mesmerizing her to open the gateway to
possession.
But what does it mean? “Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum” is in fact a
curse and an insult to the listener followed by a suggestion.
What’s a bum? It’s either
1. A tramp; a vagrant.
2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support
of others.
3. An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person
4. Buttocks
So either way you interpret it, the word “bum” isn’t flattering. This word is followed by
“be dum“. Phonetically, “be dum” sounds like “be dumb”. So the listener
unconsciously hears “Bum, Bum, be dumb” which means “You good-fornothing, idiotic person, let yourself become dumb, stop thinking and let yourself
be hypnotized and possessed”. To which Rihanna answers “I’m going crazy now”.
First Verse …
No more gas in the rig, can’t even get it started
Nothing heard, nothing said, can’t even speak about it
All my life, on my head, don’t wanna think about it
Feels like I’m going insane, yeah
“No more gas in the rig”
A rig means a car, a vessel, a means of transportation. Rihanna’s rig is her body. She’s
no longer in control of her body because evil has rendered her powerless. Because of
this her rig is “out of gas”, it cannot move by its own means anymore.
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“Nothing heard, nothing said, can’t even speak about it”
She can’t hear or say anything by her own means because she is disconnected from the
outside world. She can’t speak about it because she has agreed to keep her deal with
Evil secret. Even if she wanted to break that secrecy, she couldn’t because she is no
longer in control of her thoughts.
“All my life, on my head, don’t wanna think about it, Feels like I’m going
insane, yeah”
Since she has been possessed, Rihanna’s life has been so unbearable that she doesn’t
even want to think about it. She feels like she is losing her mental sanity.
It’s a thief in the night to come and grab you
It can creep up inside you and consume you
A disease of the mind it can control you
It’s too close for comfort
Those lines are very revealing and explain the true nature of Rihanna’s disturbance.
“It’s a thief in the night to come and grab you”
A thief is someone that is swift and sneaky. Furthermore, a thief in the night is, on top
of being swift and sneaky, hiding in darkness. He is basically invisible. Rihanna
describes an invisible entity that “came and grabbed her”. She is referring to the devil
entity who raped her spiritually and physically in the song “Umbrella”.
“It can creep up inside you and consume you”
This line can be interpreted in a sexual and spiritual way. The devil entity has creeped
up inside Rihanna and consumed her physically by raping her. It has also creeped up
inside her thoughts and took control of her soul.
“A disease of the mind it can control you”
Disease of the mind means that Rihanna’s mind isn’t functioning correctly, it is under
the control of another entity.
“It’s too close for comfort”
Her state of possession is making her uncomfortable. The presence of the devil entity is
way too close – its inside of her – which is painful in a physical and spiritual way.
Chorus …
Put on your brake lights, you’re in the city of wonder
Ain’t gonna play nice, watch out you might just go under
Better think twice, your train of thought will be altered
So if you must falter be wise
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Slow down, we’re no longer in your world. We’re in a world of deceit, illusions and
empty promises. This place can be very cruel and it can eventually take your life, so
make your decision carefully. If you decide to go ahead, you better be ready to live
with the consequences. You won’t control your thoughts anymore.
Your mind’s in disturbia, it’s like the darkness is light
Disturbia, am I scaring you tonight?
Disturbia, ain’t used to what you like
Disturbia, disturbia
“Your mind’s in disturbia”
Disturbia is the place where the individual is forced to dwell while being possessed.
“It’s like darkness is light”
This line is very significant for a couple reasons.
First, in Rihanna’s mindstate, darkness is light
which means evil is good and good is evil.
Honorable aspirations become dishonorable
while malignant actions become commendable.
Furthermore, “darkness” refers to Satan, who is
dubbed the “Prince of Darkness”. Rihanna is
saying that she is worshiping the Prince of
Darkness because he is the “light”, her savior,
her god.
“Disturbia, am I scaring you tonight”
To individuals that are not possessed, Rihanna’s
state of mind is scary.
“Disturbia, ain’t used to what you like”
Because she is possessed, her moral values became inverted. As she said earlier,
darkness is light. She does not think like regular, unpossessed people anymore. She is
not used to what you like.
Second Verse …
Faded pictures on the wall, it’s like they talking to me
Disconnecting on calls, the phone don’t even ring
I gotta get out or figure this shit out
It’s too close for comfort, oh
“Faded pictures on the wall, it’s like they talking to me”
Rihanna is plunged in the depth of possession where she is hallucinating and hearing
voices.
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“Disconnecting on calls, the phone don’t even ring”
She cannot get in contact with other people and she is not aware of people who are
trying get in contact with her. There is a supernatural intervention that is prohibiting
the possessed to reach other individuals who would seek to help her.
“I gotta get out or figure this shit out”
She wants to get out of the agreement she made with the devil entity or at least
understand what is happening to her.
It’s a thief in the night to come and grab you
It can creep up inside you and consume you
A disease of the mind it can control you
I feel like a monster, oh
“I feel like a monster, oh”
When your thoughts and actions are possessed by a monstrous entity, it is highly
probable that you feel like a monster as well.
Bridge …
Release me from this curse I’m in
Trying to maintain but I’m struggling
If you can’t go-o-o-o-o-o
I think I’m gonna ah ah ah ah ahhh
“Release me from this curse I’m in, Trying to maintain but I’m struggling”
Rihanna is talking to the evil entity, asking it to release her from the curse it had put
on her.
“If you can’t go-o-o-o-o-o, I think I’m gonna ah ah ah ah ahhh”
She says if YOU can’t go – ‘you’ referring to the possessor’. This confirms that her
state of mind is truly caused by the presence of an entity within her and nothing else.
She is speaking with the same demon that seduced her in the song “Umbrella”. She
then comes to the conclusion that if that entity doesn’t leave her body, she will “ah ah
ah ahh”…which probably means that she will kill herself. It is the only way she will
release herself from the shackles of possession. The ah ah ah’s make it seem like the
evil entity didn’t let her finish her thought by inflicting her pain. The demon wants her
to stay alive and keep her under his control.
The video of “Disturbia” visually represents the state of mental enslavement of
Rihanna and the control of her thoughts by an evil entity. We will now analyze the
visuals associated with the song.
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Analysis of the Video …
As it was the case for “Umbrella”, Rihanna plays both the evil entity and her possessed
self in the video. The scenes of the video are happening inside Rihanna’s head. We see
the Evil Entity in control of the situation, filling her mind with sick and twisted
thoughts while keeping Rihanna captive and torturing her.
The Evil Entity is
dressed in black with
the same long
fingernails worn by
Rihanna in
“Umbrella”. At the
beginning of the
video, she is seated
on a chair
ornamented with
horns which
associate this
character with Satan, often depicted with horns. Throughout the video, this entity is in
charge, lucid and in control of the situation. She is surrounded with odd looking
minions who are under her spell and obeying her orders. The character flirts with
twisted sexual practices like sado-masochism and bestiality, representing the twisted
intents of this entity. She takes pleasure in tormenting the possessed Rihanna, who is
represented in various ways in the video.
In this
depiction,
Rihanna is
behind bars,
representing
the
imprisonment
of her thoughts
and free will.
Her eyes are all
white. It is said
that “eyes are windows to the soul”. Rihanna’s soul has been taken over by the Evil
Entity, hence the white eyes.
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Rihanna is tied up in an
uncomfortable position
and struggling to free
herself. This represents
her struggle to free her
mind from the Evil
Entity’s control.
Tied up in another unpleasant
position and probably
regretting having taken this
deal.
She is here covered
with spider webs
with tarantulas
crawling all over
her. She’s been
caught in the evil
entity’s web of
lies. Spiders are
traditionally
associated with evil
and gives pretty
much everybody instant repulsion. Her arms stuck in the walls symbolize the fact that
she is powerless against the actions of the Evil Entity.
So the video describes how Rihanna became powerless against the Evil Entity who
totally took control of her. Sitting on a chair and surrounded by her minions, this
Entity filled Rihanna’s head with twisted and perverted thoughts. Rihanna is shown
bound or imprisoned in various ways but she is constantly trying to free herself. The
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video ends with the evil entity Rihanna looking straight at the camera almost
saying “watch out or you’ll be next.”
To Conclude
The article I’ve posted about
“Umbrella” had generated a great
deal of reactions. Some people
agreed with the analysis while
others called it “rubbish”. I’ve
decided to analyze “Disturbia”
because it really helps
understanding the meaning of
“Umbrella”. Those two videos are in
fact a story in two parts, and at the
origin of the album name “Good
Girl Gone Bad.” The story goes as
follows: Rihanna is contacted by the
evil entity which explains to her the
imminence of a huge crisis. It
claims that the crisis will affect the
whole world and it will make
everybody poorer. This entity can however protect Rihanna from that crisis. It
promises it will share its riches with the singer, even after her career as a celebrity is
over. But in order to protect her, the devil has to enter her physically and
spiritually. Rihanna agrees to the pact and so “the good girl becomes bad”. She
soon discovers that being possessed isn’t as great as she expected. She is
constantly tormented with sick thoughts and dark images. She cannot think for herself
anymore and she lost control of her actions. She doesn’t know how to free herself from
her mental enslavement so she considers killing herself.
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Did Rihanna write those songs?9 No. Is she aware of the hidden meaning of them?
Maybe, but it is not important. Is she possessed by Evil herself? Hard to say but
who cares really. What we need to remember is that Rihanna is basically a good
looking puppet used to sing catchy songs. Some if not most pop songs and sexy
videos contain predetermined messages aimed to the world’s youth. She is part of
the mass media system who basically raises and educates today’s
children. It plants in the minds of young people the values required to become the
type of citizen they want you to be: morally weak, highly suggestible and devoid of
critical thinking. [10] MTV, teen movies and all those other crappy media outlets are
preparing future generations to become idiots, a little like Rihanna in her video. Are
you in Disturbia?” (Source: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=551)
"Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by R&B singer Rihanna, released on June 4, 2007 in most
European countries and on June 5, 2007 in the United States. It has peaked within the top ten in 25 countries
across the globe. Rihanna worked with producers Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken and Timbaland along with singersongwriter Ne-Yo who penned some of the lyrics on the album. The album incorporates an up-tempo sound with
ballads, which also received mostly positive reviews by critics. The album was nominated for six Grammy Award
during the 2008 Grammy Awards and a total of nine Grammy Award nominations.
The album was considered to be more critically and commercially successful than her previous efforts-Music
of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006). Along with the album's success, the album's singles have gone on
to become major hits-these include the US number one hit singles "Umbrella",[1] "Take a Bow" and
"Disturbia";[2] the worldwide number one hit "Don't Stop the Music",[3] and the top ten and twenty hits "Hate
That I Love You",[4] "Shut Up and Drive",[5] and "Rehab." The album topped the charts in countries like the
United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland while peaking at number two on the Billboard 200.
She received criticism because of the sexual image she adopted during the recording.
The album was re-released in June 2008, a year after its original release, under the title Good Girl Gone Bad:
Reloaded. The double-disc deluxe edition package includes a DVD counterpart featuring behind the scenes
footage and four live performances from her concert tour with three new singles: the U.S., Canadian and UK
number-one "Take a Bow",[6] "If I Never See Your Face Again"[7] with Maroon 5 and "Disturbia", which became
the third single from the album to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album has been certified
Platinum, two times, by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting shipments to U.S. retailers of
two million copies."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Girl_Gone_Bad
9
Speaking about the state ownership of our children, Henry Makow said the following: “Growing up means
recognizing that other people are special in God's eyes too. Think of a child that doesn't want to grow up.
One who thinks he can do anything he wants. Who doesn't have to consider others. Who is never wrong and so
never admits it. Who thinks any opposition must be motivated by irrational hatred i.e. ‘anti-Semitism’ and not
his own behavior. Who wants the State to be his family and look after him. Think arrested development. Think
Illuminism and Communism. Think modern man. Think New World Order.” Henry Makow, Is "The Riddle of
Anti Semitism" a "Hate Message"? (Henry Makow, http://www.henrymakow.com/000612.html)
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Our Young Girls are the Prime Target
of the Purveyors of Satanic Music
and Songs like Disturbia
The young, unwise, impressionable, and highly vulnerable young people of the
world, and they mostly appear to be girls, are the prime targets of this satanic
music. Here are 13 typical comments (12 girls and one boy) from this target
audience who have no understanding of what they are really listening to …
Source: 11
“I love this song. It's so
“It's the best song of the
“This song rox my sox!”
catchy and I can't stop
year and I made my own
Hayley, 10, Northern Ireland
singing it!” Melissa, 12,
remix of it.” Zac, 9, Kent,
Harrow, England
England
“I really like this song at the
“I don't get the words but I
“I love most Rihanna songs.
moment! I think it is one of
like the bum-de bum bum
I have heard that Disturbia
the best songs out! It's a
bit.” Ella, 12, Brighton, England
is the last single from Good
wicked song! Love it!” Sarah,
Girl Gone Bad. I think it is a
14, London, England
very good song to end on. It
has the great Rihanna touch
and I hope we see it do well
in the charts!” Robyn 12,
Macclesfield, England
“This song is great!
“I love this song so much.
“I think Disturbia is a fun
Everyone is singing it on the
Another hit from Rihanna. I
song. The video is a bit
playground!” Lara, 10,
love the video - it has thriller
weird but I like it - it's really
Buckinghamshire, England
types in it. I can't wait for
different. Great song!”
more Rihanna songs.” Emily,
Sabrina, 14, London, England
12, Essex, England
“I love Disturbia!! Rihanna
“Disturbia has been in the
“I love the song and the
is the best - the video is
USA charts for weeks. It
video is good and a bit scary.
really cool too. Definitely my
really is special. So up-beat,
Well done, Rihanna.”
favourite song of 2008!”
so electronic, the clapping in
Michaela, 11, Wigan, England
Tiana, 11, Canterbury, England
the background really is
cool and Rihanna's voice is
amazing in the song.”
“I love this song!! It is so catchy and you find yourself singing the tune without realising.
It's really funky and great to dance to. I don't know one person who doesn't like it! I really
don't think it matters if the lyrics don't make sense because it's a dance song so they don't
11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7640000/newsid_7646200/7646215.stm
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need to! Think about all the other dance songs that are hot at the moment and look at their
lyrics. Love it. 5/5.” Felicity, 11, Leeds, England
Comments for this Article on
VigilantCitizen.com’s Blog
Basically, the readers’ comments on Vigilant’s blog could be divided into four classes:
CLASS 1: The
Lost Souls of this world.
CLASS 2: Those
who thought the analysis was a “load of rubbish.”
CLASS 3: Those
who hadn’t understood how they were being influenced, but now
have been woken up to the ruse, and will be more aware from now on.
Those who are wise to the ways of the enemy, and vigilantly follow Jesus’
teaching: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men.”
(Matthew 10: 16-17)
CLASS 4:
I have provided a few examples of each class below:
CLASS 1:
The Lost Souls of this world …
maybe May 9th, 2009 11:41 pm :
I dont know what to believe. I’ve been a run of the mill…ordinary christian all my life
until I found out I was gay. Never wanted to be gay. I hate myself for it now. Is god
doing all of this to me. And why me? Is it because of these songs I listen to.
Can’t get them out of my head
Feels like I’m lost inside it
RiRi if this is real I feel ur pain.
Feels like I’mm gonna ah ah ah ah ah
Louise May 25th, 2009 6:51 am :
ummm.
Okay I believe that music is used as a medium for some pretty ghastly ulterior motives
as are many other things…HUmans are basically controlled all the time..but ANYWAY.
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IF this song actually is demonic and is supposed to be used to possess people or
whatever..wouldn’t the devil or the satanists goal be to make being posessed sound
attractive rather than so disturbing? hence the name disturbia?
instead what is described is this horrible situation that rihanna is in.
YES it’s catchy, but if someone sings this their subconscious is taking in and as a result
understanding how horrible it is to be posessed (according to your analysis) so
wouldn’t this deter them from ever wanting or potentially being in that state? or going
over to “the dark side” ?
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Un HAPPY June 5th, 2009 5:47 pm :
does this make any sense its a video and a song its just shows a different side of
rihanna it doesent mean she is possessed its just a song i wondered if the devil was the
director of the video or what the people who are doing this are the gospel singers they
would like to be rich as the hip hop and r&b singers. So their plan is to let innocent
people think that all these singers worship the devil look at benny hinn when he tek all
de people money and scamping people and he claims to be assosiated with the lord dnt
be a hater bcuz u cant get ur music video on mtv……………. this is a myth i seen how
they make the video and i dont see no signs of her being possessed so ppl stop it it is
pointless and stupid................HATERZZZZ
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Peoples June 7th, 2009 2:56 pm :
interesting work Mr. Host….. but come on guys… i’m sure you guys are all interpreting
this thing the wrong way…. maybe she’s talking about if you people can’t go, as in can’t
leave her alone she’s going to kill herself…. if i had enough time i would stay and put it
in the correct way… i’m sure a few will understand that when your wealthy it’s hard to
live a good and normal life… it’s alot of stress guys and for rihanna she’s a musician so
she’s not going to tell you in details what’s going on in her life but really guys… i don’t
believe she’s litterally talking about any evil… she’s talking about people like us who’s
always looking out for new stuff to critisize…… lets make a change and go out and have
some fun please……Blessing to all…
UK June 13th, 2009 1:35 pm :
Hi im from the UK and don’t get me wrong i really believe in the devil and to a great
extent the content of this analysis. However, i’m just a little confused… could these
songs by rhianna not just be her interpretation portrayed through music of how people
become possessed and also the consequences rather than her actually being possessed
herself? Perhaps even warning us, trying to help us and guide away from the devil and
to god
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CLASS 2:
The Analysis was a “Load of Rubbish” …
wakeup May 1st, 2009 7:25 pm :
YOU PEOPLE ARE STUPID TO BELIEVE ALL THIS DUMB CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lala27 May 11th, 2009 10:06 pm :
BULL-SHIT!
yall are so stupid!
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GET A LIFE May 16th, 2009 11:26 pm :
GO GET A LIFE YOU “BUMS”!!!
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me May 20th, 2009 6:56 am :
i dont care i’d still screw to her all night!
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NovaSyx May 24th, 2009 5:48 pm :
People read too much into things. You can make almost anything sound demonic if you
analyse it hard enough. Thanks for convincing sheep into being even more sheep. If
you all read this and instantly believe it then perhaps you’re the victims of this ‘highly
suggestible, gullible’ age.
Let me guess, because I disagree with what is being said I am also under the devils
control and possessed too yes?
I pray for all of you.
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Alesha Dixon May 25th, 2009 4:06 pm :
You all are so so foolish to beleive these crap,those Analysis it are the devils,i mean
jobless devils……i pity you all who waste time reading this crap….
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CLASS 3:
Those who will be more aware from now on …
Debra April 24th, 2009 9:50 am :
“Umbrella is more subtle than Disturbia. I had not really analysed Umbrella or did I
ever think there were hidden messages in it, but the analysis when followed with the
analysis given for disturbia makes sense and any doubts are disspelled. From the first
time I watched Disturbia I have said that it is a disturbing video. I couldnt quite point
it out but it seemed evil there was just something wrong with it to the pint that it
scared me. Umbrella is a very catchy song and so is Disturbia (minus the video),
Umbrella is catchier coz it is more subtle Diturbia is not so subtle.
The influence of Rihanna as a popular diva and her songs on the youth cannot be
questioned.
Ok so maybe she didn’t write the songs and produce/ direct the video, the question
then is who did? Because these persons (writer and director/producer) have insight
into something and are tryin to communicate something, maybe even warn people of
the consequences of succumbing to the charms of the evil one, especially when
umbrella is followed with the disturbia explaining how you will feel, live your life after
possession and the imagery of a person without control over their life who if they could
will kill themself. Am sure noone wants to live like that.”
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uknown April 29th, 2009 12:08 pm :
im a teenage and this has completely freaked me out!!!!!! the way the devil can control
someone is unbeleivable and especially the way Rihanna was such a normal girl at the
beginning of her music career and now just a complete freak. sorry about the spelling
mistakes
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Traverse May 8th, 2009 10:08 am :
Wow – excellent analysis. I’m thankful that someone is offering interpretations of
these videos and songs that explain so clearly what is going on. You do a great job of
“cutting the crap” and exposing the esoteric in plain sight. I can think of a lot of people
who reject the idea of the NWO / occult conspiracy who might decide to reconsider
their position if presented with such a clear analysis.
Keep up the good work. Thank you!
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Michelle in Nevis May 8th, 2009 12:02 pm :
HI! I am also a young person living in the Caribbean, the island of Nevis, that is.
First and foremost i would like to point out that the persons who comment on this
article, and who agree with it present a logical, well thought out, mature response (like
my fellow caribbean from trinidad). The one’s who don’t agree with it however, always
seem to write something very rushed and imature like the person who ironically calls
themself wakeup.
Furthermore, i do not believe that these articles have been an attempt to destroy
rihanna and i dont really care if they are either as i dont particularly have any respect
for her, her music, or her life. It is more so promoting awareness and warning people
that things you may think are very simple may have deeper meanings.
The first time i heard umbrella yeah, it got stuck in my head and i walked around
singing it and dancing to it. I thought ‘whoa! rihanna is getting a lot edgier!’About the
third time i listened to it i thought to myself, wait, what is she talking about? entity?
there for infinity? i was puzzled for a minute but just pushed it out of my mind. I
figured it was another poorly written song flaunting catchy music and a catchy hook:
umbrella ella ella eh eh eh…….whatever. I heard the song disturbia which at first
annoyed me because of her raspy voice, but again it got stuck in my head and i thought
the same of it as i did the other. The first few clips in this video, however, sent shivers
down my spine but i payed no attention to it. In a couple more scenes i realised she
was surrounded by persons portraying the classical symbols of darkness or evil.
This song unlike the other seemed to have more lyrical depth. And without analyzing it
with regards to umbrella i figured the song was a metaphor aimed at explaining how
she had been taken over by anger completely forgetting the scenes in her video.
After reading these articles, which two of my friends told me about, everything added
up. These videos are definitely about more than rihanna becoming edgier! My
persuasion is completely seperate from religious reasons. They are more feelings that i
feel both when i listen to the songs and when i read these articles. Actually sitting here
and thinking of what to write is physically draining because of these feelings.
Music is very powerful. For singers like rihanna it is a gold mine (and she can’t sing
that well, did i mention her raspy voice?) For everyone it is one of the most powerful
ways to express themselves and it is also mentally enveloping. Of course, if in fact there
are evil spirits, music is a very useful tool especially when your throw music videos into
the mix. What’s very important to note is that her music AND her appearance have
been blatently dark and we ARE fueling her career everytime we listen to her music. I’d
personally rather fuel the careers of people who promote brighter thoughts, things and
futures and who invoke good feelings in my body and sole.
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I also believe that persons should seriously concider who and what they support: good
or bad?
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Yasmeen May 14th, 2009 6:48 pm :
OMG I never thought of it this way. I think I just might be going to delete the “GOOD
GIRL GONE BAD” songs off my ipod. Thanxx for the heads up. I guess there is more
meaning to everything out there now.
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Cassandra May 10th, 2009 2:42 pm :
I am a 18 yr old high school student who love listening to these type of music. As u
stated in the Umberella Analysis tht most of us may think its a love song talking about
a relationship and what not, i’m here to say i was o ne of those ppl untill i read tht
analysis. it really opened my eyes wide to the fact tht ppl don’t really take in what they
listen to, and tht a persons favourite singer or song may hold deep messeges tht one
need to be aware of. the image of the devil and Rihana knelt face down in the upright
triangle was “something else.” At 1st wen i saw the two beside each other i thought “y
the hell are these together?” and after reading the paragraph tht came after it i notive it
was a lil abstract and i had to look closely and think outside the box to actually see the
image of the devil picture in the pose of Rihana.. tht really scared the living shit out of
me.
The analysis of Disturbia finished off the msg tho. I have never realized the horns on
the chair at the beginning of the video untill i read what u stated and went back and
searched for it. I was looking for them to be pointing upwards and out as normal but
notices they were curved in like a Bull’s horn. Where she said she wanted out of the
poccession and tht she may even kill herself if she can’t free herself from her entity
made me thing hard. from a religious point of view, killin herself wud not help; she is
poccessed and want to be free, taking her own life won’t free her….maybe physically
but spiritually she is bound. She needs to repent all her sins to the Lord, ask for
forgiveness and tht is the only way to free herself from ther evil entity tht has taken
control of her thoughts, action and life.
She is the one who should have think twice.
Thank You for ur analysis it really brought fort the msg young people or even old need
to be awware of.
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D'Javan May 22nd, 2009 3:31 am :
This was totally amazing to me. I loved it and if you can analyze any other songs please
do because I will be more than interested in reading them from head to toe. You can
really bring people out of the darkness, excepting the ones who are possessed by
IGNORANCE.
THANK YOU ALOT (Trinidadian As Well)
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much more May 24th, 2009 2:16 am :
this all seems very true and is in fact much more widespread in music from the 60s
right up until today.
i seen umbrella backwards and it would seem there are hidden “backmasked”
messages in it aswell.
also that last pic above is like a face with horns, the eyes being her breasts and mouth
at stomach.
this could represent her sexuality being used to corrupt others and the whole chris
brown thing was weird too, if you seen the photos there are strange marks on her
temples and around her mouth, very similar to marks on britney spears who had been
in hospital around the same time, almost as if forced to ingest something or even
possibly electro shock as a form of mind control? of course britney is a mind controlled
puppet “groomed” by the dark disney empire, strange coincidence that her justin and
christina all came from there and all some of the biggest sellers or at least most
publicised of recent years.
its probably why britney cant seem to get it together and seems kind of dead inside
with glazed eyes and little to say thats worth anything, also most of these people mime,
have songs written for them and have not much talent above the average proper
musician, so why them?
the doors -possesed
led zep – de worshippers
beatles-same
the list goes on and on and on, look into it and the elites artsfoundations eg
rockerfeller and who owns the major music companies? who then own most other
smaller “independents” which are just branches/partners/subsidiaries under different
names, think about it
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Ruth May 24th, 2009 4:11 pm :
this is really true everyone has to believe it
i never realised till now
i thing if you watch the video backwards you will see a part where rhianna has horns
and her background is red
really scary but it really means she is possessed
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debs June 2nd, 2009 5:57 pm :
hi, is it possible to get analysis of more artists that are into the occult. it will be really
helpful, seeing as you have the gift. Thank you.
CLASS 4:
Those who are wise to the ways of the enemy, and the reality
of the power and existence of pure evil in the world …
Sinazo April 23rd, 2009 5:43 am :
“Thank you for this, there are so many more out there. . . Our generation needs the one
true God. He is the only one who can help us resist the “wolves in sheep skin” promises
of the devil. Other Christians would tell me not to listen to ‘cecular’ music, but they had
nothing to sustantiate their argument, so i just carried on, this is substantial. But I will
not cut myself away from it but I will watch and be VIGILANT so I can be aware of
what the enemies tactics are!!!!!!”
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Candy.s.c. April 27th, 2009 2:45 pm :
Hey,
I’m a teen from Trinidad (and Tobago) (host country of the recent Summit of the
Americas), my friend sent me an email with this and i googled and found a link to this
article. This is not only eye opening but extremely relevant. The very first time I heard
disturbia shivers ran up and down my spine. I remember telling my friend that
SOMETHING wasnt right with this song- that was before i watched the video. After
that i was without a doubt that some kinda demonic works were at play. Too many
people are ignorant of what goes on in the music industry why some of these socalled superstars are so successful. I do believe rihanna is in some way involved or
very much aware or even possessed herself because of how quickly she attained her
stardom. Other stars with MUCH greater talent than hers dropped out of the industry
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or are not even half as successful. The fact that she became so popular so quickly and
doesn’t possess any exceptional singing or dancing ability (in my opinion) was always a
very odd thing to me, and being familiar with the “spirit realm” or world or whatever
(despite what people may say the Caribbean is wrought with “obeah” or “black magic”
practice, and close contact with demons and demonic power- and the idea of someone
“selling their soul to the devil” for success or fame is not as far-fetched or unbelievable
as people might think, i should know, i live here. I have personally encountered at least
3 demon possessed people and heard about countless others, (we are pentecostal
christians) my mother and grandmother have personally cast out or helped cast out
demons from possessed people (and if you dont believe I don’t really care, i have seen
with my own eyes the things of nightmares, and i KNOW and believe without a doubt
that these things are real and extremely terrifying).
A few things to add though:
“no clouds in my stones”
Refer to Jay-Z’s diamonds and that they are of the highest clarity or completely
unclouded. It’s a reference to his great wealth and ability to enjoy the best that the
(human) world has to offer because he is already under the “umbrella”, he is there as
an incentive- example to her of what her life could be like if she accepts the offeringwealthy, able to afford the best (also note the reference to the G5- private jets, symbolic
of status, wealth, prestige).
ALSO …
The importance of SOUND is what makes music so potent and also why music is the
preferred medium of these “dark forces” to get these messages out there. Remember
that the bible says that God “commanded”, or spoke light, the world, the universe,
animals, humans, into existence. God told Moses to “speak” to the rock. Jesus “spoke”
to the fig tree and it withered, “spoke” to the storm to calm it, most if not all of his
miracles were performed with some kind of accompanying spoken word, some without
any physical contact, just plain words- “speech”. Music is an extension of sound just as
Singing is an extension of speech, both produced by joining, lengthening and/ or
shortening certain sounds and/ or words. It can be used to create atmosphere, mood,
generate or evoke just about any emotion. It has been proven that music influences the
behaviour of living beings, from plants to animals, and most importantly, humans.
(Whoever said that music can calm the beast or something like that was more accurate
that many may know.) Sound therapy can be used to cure certain mental illnesses (or,
in this case, invoke certain mental illnesses don’t you think?) Certain sounds (and
smells) are associated with and can invoke powerful or suppressed memories, more so
than images. Also, and most importantly, the bible says that “life and death is in the
POWER” of the what? TONGUE or the “spoken word”. Isn’t it strange that it didnt say
in the power of actions? Now think about this, before Lucifer, the head angel, became
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Satan, or the devil, do you know what he was in charge of in heaven? Take a wild
guess…
MUSIC…. Something to think about not so?
Look it up and form your own conclusions, but the evidence is there, so is the
symbolism.
Also, you don’t have to be a demon worshiper to become possessed.
There are school children (in Trinidad) who have become possessed by something as
seemingly insignificant as taking a pencil from another child or a child taking
something of theirs home, bringing it back and giving it to them- this is not even funny
or an exaggeration, I know cases where people who got violently ill, even died, became
demon possessed through these kinds of things, it was even in the papers a few times
(local news).
People can be possessed and not even know it until the demon manifests itself—there
are cases when people offer not their own souls, but the souls of OTHERS, their
enemies, “friends” even their own children, as a sacrifice to obtain wealth or
status- this happens right in the Caribbean, right in Trinidad where i live, those don’t
reach the news though.
Cases where some kind of payment is offered to a demon to “haunt” or terrorize a
person, family, city, because someone or the “obeah man/woman” believes that some
wrong has been committed against them or they want to maintain control over the
“village” (there are still villages in the Caribbean today).
People this is real- scary, maybe unbelievable, but real all the same. Don’t wait until it
happens to you or somebody you know to believe it- i always say it’s better to believe
something and find out it’s not true than NOT believe it and find out when you’re
under the fire. Don’t knock something because it seems hard to believe or understand.
Years ago brain surgery was unheard of, the idea of planes seemed completely
ludicrous and blacks were still in slavery, let alone leading America. Things change,
become revealed, people become knowledgeable, technology advances….
Hope yall take this seriously because this is soooo serious you wouldn’t even believe.
Things prophesied in the bible are coming to light, read it for yourself, don’t take my
word for it.
Anyway, my fingers are getting tired. I’ve said ALOT already, think about it, look it up,
believe …”
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miss f April 29th, 2009 9:57 am :
I am so thankfull that somebody has come up with a good explaination to the video.
when i first saw the video….even heard it….i knew something wasn’t right….i did not
want to watch it….something was dodgy… i have experienced enough in my life to
know that these things are true and exist…its such a shame though how people in this
world can be so ignorant and naieve…..those are the people that will get put under any
spell and whose minds will be poisend and corrupted. why?…because they are not
being AWARE about the deeper things of life. people are not always what they
seem….people that ignore these facts of life….im sorry to say…but they wont
survive….by knowing these things it makes u prepared….thats my opinion anyway.
tricy April 29th, 2009 3:24 pm :
i am pleased with this analysis!!! i have myself heard and analysed various songs,
however it isn’t easy to get others to see where u r coming from, most people find it
hard to believe that their “so called stars” are capable of such “acts” to say, yet it is very
real. i like your work and i believe that you should continue in enlightening soceity on
these “behind the scenes”. until then do your thing…. God bless…
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John May 7th, 2009 5:06 pm :
Anyone who believes in One God understands this stuff easily. And I’m not a Christian.
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neriras May 9th, 2009 8:26 am :
I am a Trinbagonian (Citizen of Trinidad and Tobago) and I know that there is only
one way to the real, genuine truth and that is through JESUS CHRIST who has been,
still is and will always be our Lord and saviour…..I believe that we are all part of one
body, specifically the body of Christ. Each with our own unique and special gifts! And
when used with him in mind the overstanding that comes and what can be achieved is
unmistakable, undeniable and totally believable. It’s just sooooo awesome!!! He gave
us the freedom of choice, make it. I know it’s hard but keep praying and having faith in
him…. If ur a good girl/ boy stay GOOD. If ur a good girl/ boy gone bad, keep in mind,
that there is always hope especially for change or even maturity …..The rain falls and
the sun shines on us all, good and bad…. Don’t judge, just love, love, love
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covered May 9th, 2009 9:00 pm :
this is very enlightening and more people need to pay attention to what they listen to,
watch and say (sing) it is really sad that these talented people could give up their lives
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for things that are vanity i also think that we need to be aware of the signs that God is
sending to us. the world is almost over. long ago they used to say that Jesus is coming
soon but now we have to say he is coming he is already sitting in His chariot just
waiting for the trumpet to sound. this economic downturn is DEFINITELY the last
straw because God said that the systems of this world will fail just before Jesus comes.
after the economy fails the leaders of this world will come together and turn to the
pope who will offer a hand if a law is passed to make all people worship on Sunday
instead of the Sabbath (Saturday). it is after this that Christ will come i am not being
slanderous or trying to bring down any religious bodies i am trying to make you aware
lest you be deceived if you think that i am crazy just google the word sabbath and you’ll
see also the fourth commandment says ‘remember the sabbath day to keep it holy’ we
as christians need to keep not 8 or 9 of God’s commandments but ALL it is the only
way that he will walk with us. i just want ot say to vigilant thank you so much for doing
what you are doing you will not believe how much difference this has made the only
thing i have to say is please analyse some more songs and videos like those of lil wayne
p.s i am not some crazy white man who hates black people i am a young black female
who has become aware of what is going on around me and is putting my trust in God
thank you so much and GOD BLESS
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believer May 12th, 2009 4:49 am :
Hi
You have done a great job here!!! I always thought that there was someting about this
girl, i couldnt put my finger o it but now i know. Did you notice that she never smile,
that she always looks sad and dark. I actually feel sorry for her. And J-Z, he is another
caracter. I personally think that Rihanna knows what the songs mean and you know
what the devil is a lier. He made sure of it that Rihanna is humiliated before the whole
world. People might think why “if she is possessed” in “Umbrella” she would now with
“Disturbia” wanna get out of the deal she made with Satan. People might think that
this is just an act but it isnt. It is part of Satans humilition. He does not ‘LOVE” or care
about anyone. She wanted wealth and now she got it and after she agreed, she now
realizes that its not so good a deal she made and want out. NOW, she is forced to
appear weak in the music video “Disturbia” before everyone. She would rather kill
herself cause she cant get out of the web. To the person who said that the Americans
wanna distroy Rihanna’ career……I have news for you. I am a South African and its not
about destroying anybody, its just to reveal the truth to the world and our kids. There
are innocent people out there and this eorld is sick! and we are living in the last days
and Satan want to gather his children before Jesus comes back to take us up into
heaven with him. To “WAKEUP” you better wake up and stop being so ignorant and
start reading your bible and start wondering why you breath or even get up in the
morning. There is a God and there is a Lucifer. I noticed that the number “6″ is
mentioned alot in the music video “Umbrella”……… Six girls, six men and the number
of times she was splashed with the liquid. Six is the number of the beast, go read it up
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in the bible. I pray that this girl realises her mistake and that Licifer is a lier and that
Jesus as Alive!!!!!! and that she would turn to him. I really feel so sorry for her. Lets
think of her in our prayers, all is possible for God. To the analiser of these songs…..May
Gods blessings be with you and may he protect you and carry you whereever you go so
that you can do more of what you are doing now. MAY THE GUIDANCE OF THE
LORD BE WITH YOU.
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Wise May 15th, 2009 4:32 pm :
Brilliant analysis! I listen to the songs just to keep abreast of what is going on in the
music world and actually find myself singing along sometimes. The rhythms and lyrics
of the music are so catchy. Without knowing it, much of what the songs are saying is
seeping into us more and more each time we listen to, sing the song or watch the video.
I believe this is a strategy used by those who are managing and in charge of producing
Rihanna, who are possessed themselves, to win other souls for the Devil. Of course,
because of her desire for popularity, she has given in to their commands of doing the
songs and videos, with her knowledge and approval. If she wasn’t in accordance with it
she would have declined from singing the songs and doing the videos like that. She
could be been like many other artistes like Tami Chynn who, when disagreement
comes, just leave the company.
I discovered something eerie about Rihanna lately but couldn’t put my finger on it. She
started off so good (even though I don’t think she has the greatest voice in the world)
but because she added a little Caribbean touch to the music, along with catchy lyrics,
she did jus sell off!!! When I look at where she is now (a soulless girl – white eyes,
queen of the damned with her gothic appearance) compared to her girly music which
involved clubbing, love and so on, there is a rift. Where did she go wrong?
Some persons, being star-blinded might just go along with the flow and just view it as a
more edgy and mature Rihanna. Music is the talk of the day at many middle and high
schools, so being able to speak about the latest music gets many people with the “IN”
crowd. Unfortunately, while they are getting IN to certain cliques, some evil spirits are
going INto them.
It was after my dance instructor warned about the type of music we listen to as
Christians & sent out this article that many of us understood what was going on. Some
still did not believe and came up with several excuses:
1. That is foolishness as some of who commented thought – I’ve read every single
comment on this issue and just feel sorry for those who do not believe. To me, they are
like the wicked people of Noah’s time who did not believe when he told them about the
flood. They were laughing at him and thought he was foolish like how some people are
now sneering at your analysis such as lala27, maybe & critical thinking. I believe that
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with the world in the state it is in, we should put nothing past the evil one. Instead we
need to draw close to God and ask for His direction. As Christians we should not be
listening to that music in the first place because it does not edify us in any way. Those
of us who have been filling ourselves with such music need to repent (as I have) and
ask God to give us the answers to whatever doubts we have. He will guide us as to what
we should and should not believe.
They just don’t understand her – In Disturbia, even Rihanna does not understand why
this is happening to her. She doesn’t realize that this is the consequence of pursuing an
evil path. God sets two ways and we should choose one, one that leads to the Eternal
Fire and the other, which leads to Everlasting life. Rihanna clearly chose the wrong
path and as a result, is facing the consequences: mental disturbance, physical
discomfort, inability to communicate effectively and be understood by others who do
not belong to her world. NOT TO MENTION DAT BACKSIDING WAH CHRIS
BROWN GI HAR!
They are only trying to tear down Rihanna’s career – No one is trying to do that. The
truth hurts and that’s all that matters.
Evil works in the dark, why would the devil expose his plan in a music video for
everyone to see? And
Why would the entity allow her to show the discomforts of serving him in a video?
The devil is trying to win souls for his kingdom since the world is drawing to an end.
Therefore, since music is one of the best media to attract people, especially the young,
he uses the catchy chorus as a mantra to invite him into their bodies and take over
their souls. God, being omniscient, knows of the devil’s plan and has revealed it in the
form of an analysis. God is gracious and merciful to humankind and has sent forth a
warning. God is actually giving us a chance, not banishing us eternally. I hope we all
take up God’s offer by believing and turning away from that music which will cost us
our soul.
Turn away from EVIL
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Malia May 20th, 2009 4:34 pm :
A most interesting breakdown. To add to this, Rihanna sings the line: ‘Took an oath
I’m a stick it out till the end.’ What is this oath? From what I found out this oath
that mega-famous people take in order to get the riches, fame and fortune they must
take what is known as the ‘Oath of Baphomet.’ Well worth looking into this. Look into
Tupac Shakur’s death in connection to this oath. He has said many things about the
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sick people who flanked him and ultimately had him killed because of certain things he
said about this before Suge Knight had him and Biggie Smalls killed.
Baphomet is another name for the devil.
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Jade May 26th, 2009 12:32 am :
upon hearing this song i was disturbed and was positive that Satan has a major say in
the song. the first time i saw the video, it was muted and to this day i have not been
able to watch it in its entirety. the satanism and spiritism and demonic-ness is no
evident, it is unmistakable.
i, like many of your readers, am from the Caribbean, Jamaica to be specific and i know
what “obeah” can do and i have heard of persons being possessed. although i have not,
neither do i hope to witness any possession myself, i know that the powers of darkness
are real and can do great damage.
i am quite surprised at the ignorance and blindness of some of the readers though.
when we listen to music, it enters the mind. this is something that not even the most
controlled person can hinder. and this song…all of it, is like a chant at some seance or
something and she is possessed and not liking it. even though persons may say, “oh,
that song is so gross and she’s so dark and ominous” and whatever, the song is
entering the mind and it is slowly desensitizing us to cults and satanism.
so you get to see a more glorified side in “Umbrella” and you see the painful part on
“Disturbia.” and as we all know life has ups and downs, so these songs are perhaps
contrasted in the same light to allow persons to see possession as “a part of life” having
both high and low points.
and about Rihanna, again as i said while commenting on umbrella’s review, i love(d)
her and i’m struggling with this. but her performances never fail to confirm the
analyses of Vigilant Citizen. the pyramid and the priestess attire in umbrella shows oh
so clearly the hidden meaning. and the pyramid again accompanied by zombies in
disturbia’s live performance! come on people we need to open our eyes!
and did i mention that CHRIS BROWN wrote this song?!
another very important point i want to make. demon possession can happen to
any person. the only way to be sure that it will not happen to you is to have Jesus in
your heart. the devil does not NEED permission to enter your heart. Jesus says in
Revelation 3:20 “Behold i stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and
opens the door i will come in and sup with him and He with Me.” so once Jesus is in
your heart it is ’satan-proof’ but without Jesus, the devil will just take up residency in
your heart.
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Guard vigilantly, the avenues of the soul.
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K June 2nd, 2009 9:33 pm :
I found this website by accident about three weeks ago. I was on a gossip site and
someone mentioned about the subtleties in the song “Umbrella”. I decided to google
and this was the first site that popped up. I have been coming ever since.
May I suggest some reading material? He Came to Set the Captives Free by
Rebecca Brown. This book is about two women–one a Christian, the other an ex-bride
of satan turned Christian. It’s a true story and it speaks of all that goes on in the occult
world, including music. The book gives an account from both women and what they
went through and how they met. It’s a real eye-opener. But this book is NOT for the
squeamish so I don’t recommend baby-Christians to read it unless they are led by the
Spirit to do so. And even for Christians, one has to be prayed up to read it because it is
extremely disturbing. This book makes this video “Disturbia” look like something on
Nickelodeon…okay…maybe not a great analogy.
The Spirit realm is indeed real. How else do you explain good and evil? And people
always say that God is the one who sends people to hell….is that so? When in fact the
person themselves chooses to deny God’s existence? No need to try to convince anyone
but that’s just something to really think about. It’s not complicated. And even if there
wasn’t a “god” (<—I love the quotations) and Christians have been wrong all of these
years, then we don’t lose anything. It’s a win-win situation.
To Vigilant and many others who have sites like this–or who are even facing
persecution amongst their associates–keep exposing satan’s lies. No matter if
you’re called crazy, stupid, dumb, etc. embrace it all. Matter of fact, be joyful for it!! It’s
a compliment. You know why? It’s because it means you’re doing something right. If
you weren’t being called those things, then you may need to rethink what you’re
conveying. Remember, Jesus was persecuted unlike any other. And because we
(Christians/Believers) are a part of the family, we will suffer the same fate.
In closing, I’d like to leave a little something, something:
Romans 1:18-25 NLT
“But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who surpress
the truth by their wickedness. They know the truth about God because he has made it
obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and
sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities–his
eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes they
knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they
began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result their minds became
dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead
of worshipping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like
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mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. SO GOD ABANDONED THEM TO
DO WHATEVER SHAMEFUL THINGS THEIR HEARTS DESIRED. As a result, they
did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about
God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the
Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise. Amen!”
Matthew 10:26 NLT
“But don’t be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when everything
that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all.”
(And last but certainly not least)
Matthew 13:11-15 NLT
“He replied, “You are permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven,
but others are not. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be
given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not
listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them. That
is why I use these parables, ‘For they look, but they don’t really see. They hear, but they
don’t really listen or understand.’ This fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah that says, ‘When
you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not
comprehend. For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear,
and they have closed their eyes–so their eyes cannot see and their ears cannot hear,
and their hearts cannot understand, and THEY CANNOT TURN TO ME AND LET
ME HEAL THEM.’”
Now, watch the deceiver use MY post against me and use people to attack me. But a
word to the “wise” and “knowledgeable”: I don’t believe in arguing or attacking others
for their opinions–especially over the Internet. I don’t wrestle with flesh and blood.
Argue with me, and all you will hear is the Word thrown right back at you. If you don’t
want Word and exposure to the Word?! Then allow me to make a friendly suggestion:
simply don’t respond. Your arguments will be futile because you will not be able to
convince me or any other faithful Christian on this site otherwise.
Godspeed to my fellow Christian brothers and sisters across the globe.
-xoxo
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Lawrence Luprypa June 19th, 2009 4:17 pm :
to all
“Resist the devil and he will flee from you”.
Says the Word of God ~ James wrote the first NT book, and knew Jesus personally.
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James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Peter also spent years with Jesus and wrote to believers: “Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he
may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith” 1 Peter 5:8,9.
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Farahi June 18th, 2009 8:47 pm :
Artist are a vehicle, for spreading a message be it good or bad, whether the song was
penned by the artist who sings it is not relevant, what is important however , is
what spirit orchestrated the lyrics, as this will ultimately define the
content, I think as Christians if we are honest we can answer the question of which
spirit? often without even hearing the chorus of a song. I beleive The act of singing
Is to glorify/worship, so when we sing songs which do not glorify god, there’s
only one other entity we are glorifying. This is a hard truth that many of us choose not
to accept, but I suspect it will cause the downfall of many of us. Hitler said if you
want to corrupt a countries youth, do it through the music … And I don’t
think there is any doubt about what spirit he was conveying. Anyhow case in point,
first by listening, then by singing along to the music( act of worship) is an
invitation for spirits to enter into you and corrupt your thoughts.
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Reading #5
The Occult and Prophetic Messages
in Rihanna’s Umbrella
By Vigilant Citizen
“The social theory of rock was elaborated by musicologist Theodor Adorno, who
headed the Radio Research Project:
In an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden domain, the listener who
remembers a hit song will turn into the song's ideal subject, into
the person for whom the song ideally speaks. At the same time, as one
of many who identify with that fictitious subject, that musical I, he will feel his
isolation ease as he himself feels integrated into the community of
‘fans.’ In whistling such a song he bows to a ritual of socialization,
although beyond this unarticulated subjective stirring of the moment his
isolation continues unchanged. ... The comparison with addiction is
inescapable. Addicted conduct generally has a social component: it is one
possible reaction to the atomization which, as sociologists have noticed,
parallels the compression of the social network. Addiction to music on the part
of a number of entertainment listeners would be a similar phenomenon.
In 1939, the Radio Project published some of their findings in the Journal of
Applied Psychology. Their conclusion was that Americans had, over the
previous twenty years, become ‘radio-minded,’ and that their listening had
become so fragmented that repetition of format was the key to popularity. The
play list determined the ‘hits,’ and repetition could make any form of music, or
any performer, a ‘star.’ As long as a familiar form or context was retained,
almost any content would become acceptable. ‘Not only are hit songs, stars, and
soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable types,’ said Adorno a few
years later, ‘but the specific content of the entertainment itself is derived from
them and only appears to change. The details are interchangeable.’” (David
Livingstone, Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History, p.
205)
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The Occult and Prophetic Messages
in Rihanna’s Umbrella
Part 1
December 14th, 2008
By Vigilant
Warning: 1. The analysis of this song deals with very disturbing subject matters.
2. The images are missing in this presentation. To see them go to the following link:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=175
3. Also in the original online version of this article, there are 115 blog comments,
mostly made by the young and immature. I have omitted these comments from this
section. To read them go to this link, and scroll to the end of the article:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=175
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What is Rihanna’s Umbrella song about? First times I’ve heard this song, I was
confused. Is it about a woman’s unconditional friendship for her man? Is it a “sexy
song”? At face value, it seems so. However, if you listen closely to Rihanna and Jay-Z’s
words, you might notice that the lyrics do not make any sense. The vocabulary used in
this song is not about a relationship between two lovers. The fact is, Umbrella is about
a subject matter that is sinister, dark and disturbing: becoming possessed by evil.
What does “under my umbrella” mean?
In a nutshell, the song talks about a storm that’s about to take place and Rihanna
offers her loved one protection under her umbrella. In this song, “You can stand under
my umbrella” can have a sexual connotation but it mostly means “You can be under
my protection”. When you are under something’s protection, this something has
more power than you regarding your own security. You depend on it. It has control
over you. IT possesses you. The song is not about love between woman and man, it’s
about being protected. It is not an equal relationship. The one that protects basically
owns the person that is protected.
Analyzing the song
The first thing that you need to know about the song’s lyrics is that Rihanna sings the
whole song but she actually takes on two roles. During the first half of the song,
she plays the role of an evil entity that is trying to seduce and possess Rihanna. For the
purpose of this analysis we’ll call this entity the Devil. The second role she plays is
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herself. So the song is basically a dialog between the Devil and Rihanna. The video of
the song makes this very clear and we’ll explain how later.
What is possession?
Possession, in relationship to non-human entities deals with the phenomena wherein a
non-human entity controls the human being through various methods. In possession,
the human being cannot think for themselves. Instead, their thoughts are given
to them by their possessor. We’ll see how the Devil tries and succeeds at
possessing Rihanna in this song. There is a reason why the album is called “Good Girl
Gone Bad”.
Jay-Z’s prophetic verse
So the song starts off with a verse of rapper Jay-Z. He plays the role of someone that
has already been possessed and already “under the umbrella” of the Devil. Here’s his
verse:
No clouds in my stones
Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank
Coming down with the Dow Jones
When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella
We fly higher than weather
And G5’s are better, You know me,
an anticipation, for precipitation. Stacked chips for the rainy day
Jay, Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine
Rihanna where you at?
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Explanation
“No clouds in my stones
Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank
Coming down with the Dow Jones”
So the “storm” is in fact related to the economy and the financial world. “Coming down
with the Dow Jones” reflects this situation. The Dow Jones is the main indicator of the
health of the stock market. If it plummets, we can talk about a market crash. This
reference is pretty eerie as it effectively predicts the crash of the stock markets that is
taking place now, which is two years after the release of the song. We all know that,
since September of this year (2008), the Dow Jones has experienced its biggest drops
since the great depression. Here’s a random quote from today’s news (December 11th):
Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday afternoon, with the Dow
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Jones industrials sliding 200 points, as investors weighed a lower sales
outlook and a widening trade gap that could spell trouble for
American businesses.
The fact that this song was made in 2006, two full years before even having signs of
recession is strange. You’ll notice that the whole song has a pessimistic outlook
concerning the future. Jay-Z is saying “Let it rain”, he doesn’t care about the financial
crisis, he “hydroplanes in the bank”. In other words, while the bank is being flooded
by this storm and people are drowning in it, he’s above the water and surviving the
crisis.
When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella
In other words, when the financial crisis will occur, we won’t be here to suffer through
it. “Rocafella” is the name of Jay-Z’s record label. It also refers to John D.
Rockefeller and his family, the biggest industrialists in American History and huge
actors in the formation of the social-economic world we’re currently living in. Many
historians claim the Rockerfellers have engineered the crash of 1929 to be able to
obtain a stronghold on America’s banking system. Congressman Charles A. Lindberg
Sr. accurately proclaimed in 1930:
“From now on depressions will be scientifically created.”
We fly higher than weather
And G5’s are better, You know me,
“We fly higher than the weather” means that Jay-Z cannot be affected by the financial
crisis because he is above the problem. He enjoys a protection that makes him
unvulnerable to the storm. The fact that he says “We fly higher than the weather”
implies that a select few can have the same kind of privileges he has. G5 is a kind of
private jet so he will live in luxury even when the crisis strikes the rest of the world.
an anticipation, for precipitation. Stacked chips for the rainy day
Jay-Z says here that he was expecting this major crisis (the precipitation) and so he has
prepared financially to face it. Seems like he had prior knowledge of the events that
would occur in the future. Is he talking about the recession that is happening now?
Jay, Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine
Rihanna where you at?
Jay aka “Rain Man”. He has been possessed by the Devil, contrarily to Rihanna, who
he calls “little Ms. Sunshine”. Rihanna is the good girl. Jay-Z is already bad and he is
asking Rihanna to join him.
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So Jay-Z lyrics have NOTHING to do with love, friendship or any type of relationship.
His lyrics talk about an imminent economic disaster and the fact that he is prepared to
face it.
Rihanna’s lyrics
You have my heart
And we’ll never be worlds apart
May be in magazines
But you’ll still be my star
Baby cause in the dark
You can’t see shiny cars
And that’s when you need me there
With you I’ll always share
Rihanna sings this part, but it is actually the Devil talking to Rihanna. He is “sweettalking” her so she can accept the idea of the Devil entering her body. Here’s how we
can translate the lyrics.
I love you
Even if I’m not from your world, I’ll never be far from you
You may be famous and in magazines
But you’ll always be MY star, nobody else’s
Because when you won’t be successful anymore
When you won’t be able to buy shiny cars and material things
That’s when you’ll need my protection
With you I’ll always share my riches
So the Devil is offering Rihanna a lifetime of riches and luxury, even when she’ll lose
her popularity and stop generating money from her singing carreer. Tempting isn’t it?
Chorus
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I’ll be here forever
Said I’ll always be your friend
Took an oath I’ma stick it out till the end
Now it’s raining more than ever
But we’ll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
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Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
Translation
When you shine from your success, we both profit from it
I will always be part of you
I will always be on your side
I promised you I would protect you and I will do it as long as necessary
Now the financial crisis is afflicting the world
But I’m still here with you
You can be under my protection
You can be under my protection
What’s up with the Ella Ella eh’s? It sounds catchy doesn’t it? The repetitive and
hypnotic rhythm of this chant makes it very reminiscent of magical spells, conjurations
or summons. It invokes the god Ba’el (the Master) an important figure in mythology.
According to famous occultist Francis Barrett, Ba’el has the power to make those who
invoke him invisible and he can make people wise. Does “Ella” backwards sound a little
like Ba’el?
2nd Verse
These fancy things, will never come in between
You’re part of my entity, here for Infinity
When the war has took it’s part
When the world has dealt it’s cards
If the hand is hard, together we’ll mend your heart
All of your material possessions will never separate me and you
You’re part of my entity, I own you, until the end of times
When the crisis has ravaged the world
When we’ll know the final outcome of the world
If you’re in trouble, me and you will stop the pain
“You’re part of my entity” is very relevant here because “entity” is not a word in the
vocabulary used between loved ones. Nobody will say to his/her lover “You’re part of
my entity”. An entity is not human.
An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need
not be a material existence.
-Wikipedia
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“Here for Infinity” also gives a non-human feel to the lyrics, as if this power doesn’t
live or die, it is immortal.
“When the war has took it’s part/ When the world has dealt it’s cards” is a particularly
gloomy passage. It basically predicts a terrible event that will strike severely the entire
world and that will rearrange the way it will function afterwards. Once again, we refere
to a huge crisis that is about to occur and the Devil is trying to convince Rihanna to let
her protect her.
Bridge
You can run into my arms
It’s okay don’t be alarmed
Come into me
There’s no distance in between our love
So go on and let the rain pour
I’ll be all you need and more
Because
This part is actually a dialogue between the Devil and Rihanna. It is difficult to notice
because there’s not difference in the tone of voice. The video however gives a visual
clue of the dialogue by reversing the image when Rihanna answers the Devil.
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So, the Devil is telling Rihanna ,,,
“You can run into my arms
It’s okay don’t be alarmed”
translation:
“You can come and seek my protection
Don’t be scared of the crisis”
Rihanna answers
“Come into me” as in “come inside of my body and possess me”
Both Rihanna and Devil say
“There’s no distance between our love” . The Devil is effectively now INSIDE of her,
there’s no more distance between them.
And the Devil finishes by saying:
“So go on and let the rain pour
I’ll be all you need and more”
translation:
Let the world get what it deserves, I’ll take care of you.
So now that you probably gained another perspective on the song’s lyrics, we can
proceed to analyze the video, which carry HEAVY symbolism and confirms the theory
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of the Devil trying to possess Rihanna. The video also adds a layer of interpretation by
depicting the process of possession as a rape.
Analyzing the video
At the beginning we see Jay-Z with six black-clad women. As previously stated, Jay-Z
is already possessed in the song. The six women represent Jay-Z’s thoughts being
controlled.
Then we see Rihanna dressed in black and wearing a top-hat, a visual clue to represent
the evil entity, which is masculine. The long, claw-like fingernails give a sense of a
demonic, ungodly creature. When Rihanna starts singing, she moves in sexually
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seductive way to reflect the Devil’s attempt to seduce Rihanna. He wants to possess her
not only mentally but physically also.
The picture above is the explosion we see in the video right after the first verse. This
explosion of chrome-colored liquid represents something truly disturbing:
The rape of Rihanna by the Devil.
The picture above represents the rape of Rihanna. Dressed in white and thus
embodying “the good girl with values”, Rihanna dances while performing defensive
gestures. She is trying to protect herself from the chrome liquid, which represents the
seminal fluid of the Devil. The liquid hits her a total of 6 times.
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We then see Rihanna naked, covered in chrome-colored liquid. Rihanna has been
raped by the Devil and covered with his semen. She seems in pain and not herself. On
the picture above we see her inside a triangle. This is VERY symbolic. For occultists, an
upwards triangle represents the phallus, the penis, male energy. Rihanna is inside the
triangle. She is completely “owned” and under the spell of the Devil’s sexuality.
Look closely at the frame above. It appears very briefly at around 2:46 in the video. It
is Rihanna on her knees, her head on the floor. It’s also something else: the FACE OF
THE DEVIL! It has been made to look like “Baphomet” (see right side image), who is
an intricate part of occult mysteries. You see the two eyes, snout and the long horns.
This frame has been digitally manipulated to look like this because it is anatomically
incorrect. No human can assume this position in real life. This image has been placed
on purpose and only for a fraction of second. Classic subliminal message.
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So Rihanna has been raped and we saw the face of the Devil, so what’s next?
Rihanna has now become the “Bad Girl” dressed in black. She is surrounded by 6 black
clad men (like Jay-Z at the beginning), to represent her state of possession. She dances
suggestively with a closed umbrella, which represents a phallus. The Devil has won, he
has taken over Rihanna. And she is asking for more. At the end of the song, Rihanna
asks her rapists to come into her again. Sick.
It’s raining
Ooh baby it’s raining
Baby come into me
Come into me
It’s raining
Oh baby it’s raining
The “ooh baby” makes it clear that we’re not talking about raindrops falling from the
sky. It means she is wet and ready to welcome the Devil again inside her.
The analysis of Rihanna’s Umbrella was to prove the fact that the general public is
blind to the hidden messages omnipresent in mass media. Kids from all over the world
sing and dance to this song while registering unconsciously the hidden layers of
symbolism.
To finish off this great report on Rihanna’s masterpiece of deceit, here’s her
performance at the MTV Europe awards. Once again, HEAVY occult symbolism here
(and she sucks at signing too).
Rihanna is dressed in a priestess costume surrounded by pyramids with illuminated
capstones. There is no mistaking the occult significance of those symbols, who confirm
the fact that this song is way more than simple love song. Umbrella was the first single
of the album “Good Girl Gone Bad”. The second single was “Disturbia” and represents
Rihanna’s state of mind while she under the control of the Evil Entity.
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Part 2 of this analysis is found in the previous section.
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Related posts:
1. Hidden Satanic Messages in Omarion’s Icebox Video
2. Beyonce to Sasha Fierce: Symolic Occult Rebirth
Postscript November 2009: Teaching
Our Children to Play Russian Roulette
Rihanna’s latest album, Rated R (with the “R” being formed by silver swords and
daggers) is an even more dangerous and in-your-face production, and this time the
satanic sexual slave theme, while still dominant, takes a backseat to the theme of
suicide and monarch mind-control. Long-time analyst of satanic symbolism in the
music industry, VigilantCitizen, makes the following comments in reference to
Rihanna’s latest offering:
“One of the first articles I've written for this
website was an analysis Rihanna's 2007 hit
Umbrella. The symbolism in that video was
very subtle and cleverly hidden. Since
Umbrella however, there has been a great
increase of dark occultism and references to
mind control in pop videos. I'm constantly
surprised by the increasing obviousness of
the imagery and the boldness of the
messages. The incorporation of
occult/mind control-themed elements in
pop music (aimed the young) is being
accomplished in a seamless and gradual
matter, apparently to desensitize the
viewers. Those elements invoke however
Rihanna’s new single, “Russian Roulette.”
dark truths about the entertainment
industry and some of its sinister "behind the scenes" practices. Dark rituals,
initiations, pacts and mind control methods are all part of it.” 12
Thankfully, some musicians are starting to speak out against the satanic degradation
that pop music has become.
Source: VigilantCitizen.com. Rihanna's “Russian Roulette” or What's Wrong with the Entertainment
Industry. Available here: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=2806
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“Just days after its release, Rihanna’s new
single ‘Russian Roulette’ has caused
numerous online discussions involving the
song’s dark lyrics and obvious play on
suicide.
Written by Ne-Yo, the track has many
wondering the direction of Rihanna’s
upcoming album Rated R, including
singer/songwriter Tiffany Evans, who feels
‘Russian Roulette’ could possibly lead
many Rihanna fans to commit suicide.
Tiffany Evans
Evans (best known for her single ‘Promise Ring’ ft. Ciara and her stint on Star Search)
took to her Twitter page on Wednesday morning to discuss the topic. She tweeted:
“Russian Roulette= Suicidal Rate gon sky rocket!
You gotta watch what u say. Because there are a lot of weak people in the
world. They are susceptible to anything so anything you say or do some people
actually do listen. So make sure its nothing bad. Its okay to be deep, but not
murder deep.
Man! I really wish I could tell you guys what the industry really is and what
stars are apart of destroying this world. The stars who worship satan, and
those who have killed to get the respect they have now. You’d be verrrry
surprised. Some of your favorite people pretend to worship God but they only
do that to save face. Or seem innocent.
Satan was head of music in heaven. He uses influential people … to help
influence the world. Think about that. Once u make a certain amount of money.
Just know that that’s when they ask u to join. To get in you have accept the
beast, worship. Once you join they assist u with ur career. make u huge. only if
u agree and obey to destroy Gods word. and his children.
Ppl listen and pay attention. Its a war going on right now between Good and
Evil. Evil will rule this world for a min. The people that have this power are the
people that RULE the whole world. I’m done I won’t say anymore before I get
in trouble.”
Evan’s tweets are centered around the ‘rumored corruption and brainwashing
that goes on behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, often referred to
as a group called the Illuminati.’” Source
According to VigilantCitizen, “R&B singer Omarion, who has been in the music
business since 2001 has provided the urban magazine Boombox a surprisingly honest
description of the industry. He entered the business as a pre-teen with the group B2K
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and went through some strange controversies. He is thus well placed to give a first
hand account the business. Here’s what he had to say regarding Rihanna’s ‘Russian
Roulette’ to the magazine Boombox.
‘I don't personally know Rihanna's
beliefs but I think there's a very dark
and very sinister part of the
entertainment business and I think it's
very visible,’ he said. ‘This is something
that a lot of people don't look at [but for
example] Michael Jackson used to be a
Jehovah's Witness and I remember
hearing that he wanted to separate from
the religion - and this was during the
time that he was doing Thriller [which ended up being] his biggest album.’
‘Fast forward to now,’ Omarion continued, ‘[and] it really made me think that there is a
[time as an artist] where there's going to be a choice. The [entertainment] world
[dictates] that you have to be with three or four women, or do this in order to get that
[and] I think it's really interesting. With God and the industry, it's really dark. The
dark side is having to get in, there's a certain submission you need to have. Just
like a gang [initiation], so to speak. You might have to do something against your
moral code. I'm not saying that it's always this way, but when you're someone that is
young and you're coming up in the industry and you really don't have a grip on your
morals it can be very dark. The game is just about over saturation.
‘I don't know if Rihanna [has fallen victim to those pressures]. I've never really heard
her speak about it,’ [Nazarene Remnant comment: Well, she’s certainly been singing
about it for a long time, my friend!] he said. ‘I hope that she doesn't believe in that
stuff and I don't think that she does, but I don't know. It's not just been a Rihanna
thing, [there's has been religious speculation] about a lot of artists.’”13
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If you follow along with what is being
said and sung by many musicians, you’ll
notice that there is a heavy emphasis
placed on such concepts as:
 “submission” (this is the mindcontrol theme) to satan and his
sexual system, which actually
favours homosexuality and
lesbianism as against
heterosexuality;14
 “gang initiation” (including both
heterosexual and homosexual gang
rape) into sexual slavery (what used
to be known as the sexual perversion
of Sado-Masochism [SM] is now
going out of vogue in favour of
outright open expression of our
essential inner self);
 there is a constant reference to gang
sex (Beyonce's latest scandalous
performance is an example of this);
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inflicting pain on yourself and others, with the ultimate pain being the killing
of another human being, or of self-murder (the suicide theme is starting to
become a trade mark of Rihanna), all tied together as part of the satanic
sacrificial system;
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in this system it’s important to wear the right uniform: nazi-style caps,
clothing, and other insignia are definitely “in,” as are tattoos, body-piercing,
strange hair designs, and don’t let me forget, the heavy use of black for
everything from cars, to mascara, to even dinner plates!
See our free The Catholic Church and “The Rite of Sodomy,” here:
http://nazareneremnant.org/the-catholic-church-and-the-rite-of-sodomy.html
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You’ll also notice that certain
key insignia and symbols are
nearly always present, and
they indicate that the wearer
has made a pact with the dark
order of satan. Musicians—
these satanic artists—are
forced to wear these symbols,
which of course shows
acceptance of this pact with
their satanic overlords:
Lady Gaga and 5 Great Circles or Rings attached to her waist
area. The 5 rings are also symbolic of the Olympic Games, as
well as the group known as “the Olympians,” who are the
infamous group known as “The Committee of 300.” For
explanation see our What the Study of History Should Have
Been.
▪
The closing of the right eye (the right eye is the ancient symbol for
the Sun, so the closing of that eye has to be a direct reference to the
Black Sun, a decidedly satanic image for those in the know);
▪
Many references to the Nazi Waffen SS symbol (actually this is a
lightning bolt or thunderbolt). While there are two meanings to the
Nazi SS anagram, its real meaning for initiates, the letters ‘SS’
referred to die Schwarze Sonne, the Black Sun.15 In fact the
thunderbolt, aka the Black Sun, is Lady Gaga’s trademark (she
seems to have copied the idea from the satanic David Bowie). The
thunderbolt is also direct reference symbol for satan being cast
down to Earth following his rebellion against God, as the following
Scripture proclaims: “And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as [a]
lightning [bolt] fall from heaven” (Luke 10: 18). The lightning bolt
is also going to be a powerful celestial signature for the return of
the Messiah (see Zechariah 9: 14; Matthew 24: 27; Matthew 28: 3;
Luke 17: 24).
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The use of all sorts of tattoos, which is a direct violation of God’s
Law.
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Daggers, swords, swastikas, the rings of Saturn (the rings of the
Olympians, the three Gorgons, plus the Tropic of Capricorn and the
Tropic of Cancer), and other jewellery.
For explanation of the Black Sun see our The Beguiled and the Doctrine of the “Two Spirits,” Birthright,
Sceptre, Loaves and Fishes, and The Meaning of the Nazi Swastika.
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All kinds of provocative and lewd dress, including the wearing of
female knickers as a face mask, seem to be common place now. The
symbol used to identify prostitutes in ancient Rome—the ankle
bracelet—is now a normal fashion statement!
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Satanic hand signals are now a commonplace thing in society, and
a telltale of the money-power elite, who delight in using them.
The things I have just listed are those that
many young stars—and ordinary young naïve
teens going out on their first date—have to
go through in order to be “accepted” by the
“gang.”
The satanic concepts and beliefs are totally
reflected in the symbolism of these stars’
video clips and photo shoots. Again the
emphasis is on totally sexualising all aspects
of the personality to a degree that is best
called “slutting up,” since this is a sure cue of
the moral system, or should I say lack of it,
in the “slutted-up” man or woman, boy or
girl subject. All aspect of the personality get
Lady Gaga’s Trademark—the Lightning Bolt.
a make-over by these satanic fiends when
anyone—our children included—associate with them. What is being “taught” is not just
free sex, but a sinister and deadly form of sex that is best referred to as “satanic sex,”
and that is a bizarre world of drugs, alcoholic, sexual slavery, sodomy, lesbianism, and
an emphasis on the dark side, on the degraded and the profane, in regard to the
creative act of sexual intercourse.
An important part of
satanic mind-control, or
being possessed by satan's
evil spirit, is the important
fact that you cannot escape
this situation using your
own power. That's because
of the sheer force of satan.
In fact in Rihanna's
“Russian Roulette” video
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clip, she is seen as being
tightly held in a death
embrace, whereby she is
incapable of escape. She is
just a passive witness of
her own death, which is
exactly what satan and his
followers expects of
anyone stupid enough to
have anything to do with
the occult.
Death Embrace #2
In the frame above (Death Embrace #2), “Rihanna is submerged under water, a scene
recalling the floating or weightlessness sensation felt by mind controlled slaves during
their ‘treatments.’ Bullets fly all around her but there's nothing she can do about it: she
is physically and mentally controlled and she must keep being a passive witness of her
own death. As she says in her lyrics, she must ‘pass this test’ and pull the trigger.
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
And I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
Know that I must must pass this test
So just pull the trigger
At the end of the video, Rihanna's companion shoots himself.”16
All of this degradation is a reflection of the simple fact that we were too naïve and
stupid to understand the deep things of satan and his followers, and how they have
long ago infiltrated the “education” system, the altar of which we personally deliver our
beloved children daily, to be indoctrinated and sacrificed with an ever increasing
diatribe of immorality, lies, and deceit. Now it includes teaching our young to
murder themselves! Remember the “people” behind the music industry are the
same “people” behind the education system, and the aim of all systems in fact, is to
turn everyone on the planet into a dumbed down slave, to be totally owned and totally
controlled by their slave-owner, the money-power elite. Just listen to this to fully
appreciate the inner workings of the mind of these monsters…!
“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane
because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers,
toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural
being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to
you as teachers to make all these sick children well—by creating the
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international child of the future.” Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Psychiatrist,
address to the Childhood International Education Seminar, 1973.
“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The
purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates
from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may
think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his
personal point of view. . . Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. .
. . We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be
controlled by electronic stimulation of the brain.” Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado,
Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale University Medical School, Congressional
Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, Feb. 24, 1974. Delgado was reported as part of the
"MK-Ultra" CIA mind-control program.
Well ladies and gentleman, the “international child of the future” is not future
anymore! In fact he and she have been with us for decades now, since most of us have
given our children to the state to father, but it is only in the last few years that we have
been awoken from our long and deep slumber, to wake up to what we have also been
totally complicit in ourselves. What a world we have made!
But of course the would-be New World Order satanic dictators, who will be given
dominion over the planet for 42 months, have not been backward in telling us17 exactly
what they plan to do:
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a
pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take
a Luciferian Initiation.” (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United
Nations)
Here is Vigilant Citizen’s conclusion to his article Rihanna's “Russian Roulette” or
What's Wrong with the Entertainment Industry:
“If you've read other articles on this site, especially those on Beyonce and Lady
Gaga, you're probably starting to realize this that there is a powerful thread
uniting these pop artists. All of them (and others I haven't yet covered) portray
mind control in their videos, flash in one way or the other the "One Eye"
symbol, are shown as (or with) lifeless mannequins and I'm not even discussing
the satanism part. This simply cannot be a coincidence. These articles are not
about demonizing or even condemning the artists [NazareneRemnant
comment: VigilantCitizen should also be much more vigilant about his own
stance in all this. He tries sitting on the fence too much, and the hottest place in
For a full in-depth treatment of just what they have been telling the world, for at least 100 years now, see our
freely available What the Study of History Should Have Been, available here:
http://NazareneRemnant.org/wtsohshb-ebook.html
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hell, I’m told, is reserved for people who like to sit on the fence.18]. They're about
acquiring the tools needed to understand the messages that bombard our
conscious and subconscious minds on a daily basis. In order to understand these
messages, one must understand where they're coming from. I'm pretty sure
some people will claim that Tiffany Evans and Omarion's testimonies were the
result of their jealousy of Rihanna's success. They're however not the only ones
who have discussed those taboo matters. Many rock stars (ie Bob Dylan) have
tackled those issues and have coded in their words the real nature of the
industry. Read between the lines and you might understand one of the reasons
behind the mental breakdowns, the drug abuse, the erratic behaviors and the
mysterious deaths the world's biggest stars.”19
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” (Philippians 2: 12)
19 Source: VigilantCitizen.com. Rihanna's “Russian Roulette” or What's Wrong with the Entertainment
Industry. Available here: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=2806
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Reading #6
The God of Modern Youth—the
Fame of Becoming a Rock Star
By Vigilant Citizen
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance – The Occult Meaning
Nov 15th, 2009
By Vigilant
Lady Gaga’s videos and performance
are extremely symbolic and filled with
hidden messages. Her latest video,
named “Bad Romance”, describes the
dark and ritualistic inner-workings of
the entertainment industry, by
symbolically depicting Gaga as a sex
slave. This article examines the occult
symbols present in the video and its
hidden meaning.
The video for the song Bad Romance is a
mix of deep symbolism with sheer
randomness, creative fashion with corporate product placements and modern day
decadence with religious imagery, all rolled up in a great big music industry
celebration. Gaga uses her odd-ball theatrical presence to its full extent, to shock,
creep-out and fascinate the viewers. If you’ve read my other articles on Lady Gaga (see
Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet pt 1 and pt 2), you’ll already be aware of the occult
symbols permeating her imagery. I’ve mentioned the presence of mind control
elements, of the horned god Baphomet, of secret societies and so on. Far from steering
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away from those themes, Gaga’s latest offering incorporates all of them in this video,
which is a great big metaphor for the music industry. Let’s look at the song.
Concept of the Song
Bad Romance is the first single out of Gaga’s Fame Monster album. If you look back at
her past works, the main message of her music is that she is willing to do anything,
even sacrifice herself, to obtain fame. The video continues in the same vein by
depicting Gaga as a willing victim in the music industry’s shady inner-workings. She
wants to live a Bad Romance with the abusive, cruel and satanic music industry. She’s
aware of all of its flaws but she still desires to be part of it more than anything else. She
is a Fame Monster…she feeds from fame…she enjoys being famous…if she is not
famous, she’ll die or something…you get the picture. At face value, the song lyrics seem
to be about her wanting to get “banged” by a kind of psychopath, but the video reveals
that the psychopath is in fact the music industry.
The song starts with a weird chant that goes
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
This is the type senseless crap drunk people like to yell in those disco dance parties you
crazy kids go to. Is there a deeper meaning to it? Gaga enounces it in a weird, gothic
accent, in the manner of a ceremonial/incantation, a little like the “Bum-bum-bedum”
of Rihanna’s Disturbia (article here). Ra as the name the ancient Egyptian sun god is
still of a great importance in today’s occultism (see the “Eye of Ra”, the All-Seeing
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Eye). Roma may be a reference to the roman catholic church, but I’m not sure. This
could be interpreted in many ways so I won’t linger on it.
I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)
I want your drama
The touch of your hand
I want your leather-studded kiss in the sand
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
Right away, it is obvious that the love that Gaga is seeking is wrong and sick. She’s a
sex slave and, apparently she likes it. She knows that the industry is ugly but she still
wants in. There is an obvious sense of sadomasochism, as she seems to know that this
love (of success in the music industry) will hurt her and treat her badly, but she’s up
for it. As we will examine in the video, there is also a spiritual meaning to the lyrics
where fame equals submitting to the dark, satanic side of the music industry. In other
words, the song is also about submitting to evil and the imagery of the video
corroborates this fact.
I want your horror
I want your design
‘Cause you’re a criminal
As long as your mine
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love-uuhh)
I want your psycho
Your vertigo stick
Want you in my rear window
Baby you’re sick
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
Here again, there is a mix of the “horror” of evil with hardcore sex references, which
convey the fact that she wants to be “penetrated” by this evil influence in order to gain
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its favors. There are references to Hitchcock movies (Psycho, Vertigo) that are cleverly
turned into sexually explicit lyrics.
During the bridge, Gaga sings emotionally “I don’t wanna be friends“. She does not
want to be an outsider of the music industry, she wants to be part of it. Later she says
“I want your love and, All your lovers’ revenge”, which means that she wants all of the
attention of the music industry to the point that she also wants the “hate” of the artists
who are jealous of her.
Of course, the lyrics are open to interpretation but the visuals of the video really give a
particular meaning to the words. Gaga is not singing to person, but to a group, an
entity, an organization. She is signing to the Illuminati, to the music industry, to
Baphomet: to the ones that have the power to make her famous. She wants to be part
of that sinister and corrupted system and write a Bad Romance with it.
Analysis of the Video
The video is dense with symbols and odd images. Some are significant while others
seem to be random. It is however obvious that the whole concept is a huge allegory for
the reality of fame. She plays the role of a mind-controlled and drugged sex slave who
is prepared to get auctioned to members of the Russian mafia. Here’s the video.
Main Story Line
The video starts with Gaga emerging from what looks like a high-tech coffin or maybe
a sensory deprivation tank.
At the beginning of the video, she is deprived of her senses. Either her eyes, her ears or
her nose are covered. Sensory deprivation is a torture technique used on prisoners or
mind controlled slaves in order to “break” them and to facilitate their re-education.
She is a beginner, an amateur and she doesn’t really know what she’s doing.
Gaga can’t see or hear anything
In one scene, she is wearing thick sunglasses and talking to herself through a mirror.
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This is reminiscent of The Who’s Tommy movie, where a deaf, dumb and blind boy
only becomes responsive when staring at the mirror.
The Who’s Tommy is a movie about a boy who becomes
deaf, dumb and blind after a traumatic event.
Gaga then bathes herself to “wash off her sins” as Gaga said in an interview about the
video. She is “wide-eyed” and innocent but we’ll see that she’ll gradually turn into a
“Fame Monster”.
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Innocent Gaga taking an innocent bath with her big innocent eyes
She is then roughly handled by two women. She fights them but she finally accepts her
fate and even raises her hands in praise.
Throughout the video, there is a back and forth between her being forced to go through
her duties as a slave and her willingness to go through them. She is then forced to
drink some vodka, which is in fact an MTV-friendly substitute for drugs. Mind
controlled sex slaves are heavily drugged to numb their thoughts and make them easy
to manipulate.
Gaga is then undressed and forced to perform in front of a bunch of men. Those
mafioso can represent the Illuminati, the dark force ruling the music industry. The
masks represent their hidden nature. Each individual represents a record
company, and they are bidding to see who will sign her.
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Gaga seems to be well aware of what is happening and she chooses to charm a
particular guy, who seems to have what she wants. The masked man seems to enjoy
what is happening to him and bids to obtain her.
One second left to the auction for the services of Lady Gaga
Gaga is then required to fulfill her duties as a sex slave by…you’ve guessed it… having
sex with the winning bidder. So she proceeds into a very symbolic room.
Her hands are strategically placed under the horned heads.
Immediately after, a fire ignites the room.
On each side of the bed are gazelle heads, who symbolically refer to Baphomet, the
horned idol of Western occultism.
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[Nazarene Remnant comment:
Different names for the Adversary, who
doesn’t mind at all by what name he is
called: Anu-Lucifer / Set / Seth / Baal /
Satyr / Jahbulon / Loki / Yima / Freyr /
Goat of Mendes / Typhon / Nun / Titans
/ Titanic? / Baphomet / Siva (Shiva) / Enki
/ Enki-Ea / Satan. Notice that the goatheaded (sign of Capricorn, which is the
lowest sign in the Zodiac) Satan is portrayed
as an hermaphrodite, with the breasts of a
woman and the beard and penis of a man.
The staff that is protruding from the groin
area also doubles as the penis. The head of
his penis (the penis of Pindar) looks very
much like a pine cone! See Chapter 2—“The
Key To All the Sacred Mysteries Lies in
Ancient Egypt,” of Birthright, Sceptre,
Loaves and Fishes, for the connection
between pine cones, the penis of satan, and
the antics that are goings on in the latter day
Catholic Church. Notice also the double serpents coiled up this staff, which many
people call the Caduceus of Mercury. Also notice that satan here is pointing to the first
crescent New Moon with his right hand, and to the last crescent Moon, with his left
hand. This is very significant. The Moon on Baphomet’s right-hand is “the path of
righteousness,” and lasts from first-crescent New Moon to day 15 each month, and this
is the period of the monthly New Moon Festival. The Moon on Baphomet’s left-hand is
the path of evil, and lasts from day 16 to the dark of the Moon (also called the
Conjunction or Astronomical New Moon) each month.
If you’ve read my other articles on the music industry, you already know of the
frequent use of the likeness of Baphomet in music videos and pictures. My past articles
on Gaga have shown her posing in the same way as the image above. Strategically
placed horned heads have appeared in her past videos and photo shoots. Having said
that, the presence of those horned heads in that room is not merely decorative, it is
very symbolic. End NR comment]
Gaga is “offering herself” at the altar of Baphomet in order to become initiated and
accepted into the Order. She does not want “to be friends” with the music industry, she
wants to be an insider (she’s not a “Fame Monster” for nothing). So this offering gets
consumed by fire, and not sex, because it is about Baphomet and not the Russian guy.
He was just a means for her to obtain what she wanted ... fame.
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When the fire starts, another scene plays simultaneously showing Gaga and masked
dancers dressed in red, the color of sacrifice and initiation. The virginal white
garments she wore during most of the video are replaced by bloody red, a visual
confirmation of the fact that she is now initiated and accepted as an insider. In my
article on the 2009 VMA awards (article here), we see that Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift
start out the show wearing white garments and, after a symbolic performance, they
appear completely dressed in red. The codes of the music industry seem to be used
over and over again, in videos, award shows and photo shoots.
Gaga then makes her trademark “Eye in the triangle” hand gesture after her initiation
to make it clear who owns her now…the Illuminati.
The final scene shows Gaga lying in bed with the burned skeleton of the Russian
mafiosi.
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Notice how everything is burnt except the two gazelle heads. The real “intercourse”
happened between Gaga and Baphomet. The guy was a tool, a middle-man who was
sacrificed in the process of Gaga’s initiation.
So Gaga basically went through the steps a mega-pop star has to go
through in order “make it big” in the music industry. She ultimately got
what she wanted and apparently played the game on her own terms. Let’s see how that
works out for her.
Other Symbols
Aside from the main storyline, the video is riddled with numerous symbols and images
which are occult in nature. Here are some of them:
Sun Symbolism
There are many symbols referring to the sun in the video. As said above, Ra is an
Egyptian sun god who is mentioned many times in the magic incantation-like “Rahrah” chant. Sun worship has always been at the center of occult mysteries
as it is considered to be the ultimate representation of God.
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Image of the sun in the razorblade shades. She is wearing a golden dress. Gold is
representative of the sun in occultism.
Golden sun light bringing her back to life
Gaga at the center of planetary orbits
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Anti-Christian Symbolism
Christianity has always been at odds with occult secret societies. Persecutions and
accusations come from both sides and one often defines itself by the negating the
other. This is also represented in the video.
The word “Monster” with a Christian cross underneath
it creates a not-so-subliminal unconscious association
The cross associated with the word “Monster” is also seen on her promotional pictures:
Notice the position of her hands
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A cross placed right on her “privates”. No matter what
religion you are, you know this is not a sign of respect
In this choreography, Gaga does what looks like the sign of the cross but her hand
gesture describes a triangle instead (classic phallic symbol). Enjoy my brilliantly drawn
triangle to help you visualize it.
Reptilian Monster Symbolism
In some scenes, Gaga gradually starts to look like reptilian monster, with a focus on
the spine.
[Nazarene Remnant comment: For the symbolic importance of the spine, see
Essay #1 “The Fall,” in our free book The Beguiled and the Doctrine of the “Two
Spirits,” which is on the DvD or online here:
http://NazareneRemnant.org/the-doctrine-of-the-two-spirits.html
Pay particular attention to the bent spine being a metaphor for the axis of the Earth
(which is also tilted), which is symbolic of human beings. Also notice the connection
between the Djed Pillar and becoming a Jedi Warrior (from the Star Wars series).
End NR comment]
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Emphasis on the spine
Why is her spine glowing?
Angry looking bat on her head
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Bulging spine… I’m not sure of what she is doing with her fingers either.
There is a great resemblance with the monster in this next painting.
I’m not sure of the origins of this painting but the monster looks like Gaga in some scenes.
In Conclusion
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance is by far the densest and most symbolic video I’ve ever
analyzed. It is a metaphorical yet accurate description of the steps which
must be taken in order to become part of the “mega-pop-star machine”.
Submission, control, business negotiations, initiation, secrecy and the embrace of dark
forces are all represented in the video. Once decoded, the song describes indeed the
Bad Romance of the music industry. The machine uses artists, it pimps them, it cheats
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on them with new, hotter artists and it finally dumps them when the initial appeal is
lost.
Gaga, the “Fame Monster” wants to be treated that way, knowing that there is not
other way to obtain world-wide fame. One might be extremely creative and talented,
however fame can only be achieved through the exposure provided by the media
corporations. They are owned by a secretive elite, represented by the
masks on the faces of the bidders in the video. Bad Romance, more than
simply serving the required dose of subversive symbolism to the MTV generation,
offers a chilling description of a music industry ruled by the elite. And now
comes the hardest part: getting this damn song out of my head.
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Reading #7
The Satanic Roots of Rock
By Donald Phau
“Researchers of the Radio Research Project concluded that
radio had already so conditioned the minds of its listeners,
having already rendered them fragmented and
unthinking, that repetition of format was the key to
popularity. In a report prepared for the University of
Michigan's Institute for Social Research, Paul Hirsch
described the product of Adorno's Radio Research Project.
According to Hirsch, the establishment of postwar radio's
Hit Parade ‘transformed the mass medium into an agency of
sub-cultural programming. Radio networks were converted
into round-the-clock recycling machines that repeated the
top forty hits.’ Hirsch documented how all popular culture,
including movies, music, books, and fashion, is now run on
the same program of preselection.” (David Livingstone,
Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year
History, pp. 205-206)
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The Satanic Roots of Rock
By Donald Phau
Source: http://jesus-is-savior.com/Miscellaneous/satanic_roots_of_rock.htm
NOTE: Through out the article we (Dial-the-Truth Ministries) have added some
additions/comments. Our comments are in BLUE.
Today, at almost any "heavy-metal'' rock concert one can hear the audience being
exhorted to rape and murder in the name of Satan. Lyrics such as the following are
typical:
“We come bursting through your bodies
Rape your helpless soul
Transform you into a creature
Merciless and cold
We force you to kill your brother
Eat his blood and brain
Shredding flesh and sucking bone
Till everyone's insane
We are pestilent and contaminate
The world Demonic legions prevail” 20
Any loving parent today would be horrified and shocked to learn that their sons and
daughters are eagerly listening to such evil. Perhaps though, some may think privately,
"If only we could return to the 'good old days,' with the music of the Beatles." Little do
most people suspect that it was with those innocent-looking Beatles, that most of the
trouble started.
Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been,
a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the
Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and
even murder. On the other side, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record
companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately
entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade.
The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From
the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the groups are heavily
immersed in drugs. For example, much-admired "stars'' such as John Lennon of the
Beatles and Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones, were heroin addicts. Richard had to
obtain blood transfusions, replacing his entire heroin-laced blood supply, in order to
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“Demons” by Rigor Mortis
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get a visa to enter the United States. (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling
Stones, p.319)
The "rock stars" are also totally artificial media creations. Their public image, as well
as their music, is fabricated from behind the scenes by controllers. For example, when
the Beatles first arrived in the United States in 1964, they were mobbed at the airport
by hundreds of screaming teenage girls. The national press immediately announced
that "Beatlemania" had besieged the U.S.A. But the girls had all been transported from
a girl's school in the Bronx, and paid for their screaming performance by the Beatles'
promoters.
The money of the 1960s rock groups, which in some cases mounted to hundreds of
millions of dollars, was also totally under the control of mob-connected promoters.
From 1963 to 1970, the Rolling Stones made over $200 million, yet the group's
members were all nearly bankrupt. None of them had any idea of where their money
went.
Between 1963 and 1964 the Beatles and the Rolling Stones laid siege to Western
European and American culture. This two-pronged invasion from England was wellplanned and well-timed. America had just suffered the shock of the assassination of
President John Kennedy, while in the streets the mass-based civil rights movement
had just held a Washington, D.C. rally, led by Martin Luther King, of 500,000 people.
The rock counterculture would be used as a weapon to destroy such political
movements.
Later in 1968 and 1969, years which saw a mass strike of students and workers in the
United States and Europe, huge, open-air rock concerts were used to head off the
growing discontent of the population. The rock concerts were devised as a means for
mass recruitment to the drug-saturated, free-sex counterculture. For the millions who
came to these concerts, thousands of tablets of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, were
made freely available. These drugs were secretly placed in drinks such as Coca-Cola,
turning thousands of unsuspecting victims into raving psychotics. Many committed
suicide.
Less than a half century ago, our young children studied violin and piano, learning
about the great classical composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. As will be
shown, the same record companies who today promote Satanic "heavy-metal" rock
have run covert operations to destroy the musical heritage of these great classical
composers.
For the past thirty years, Western society has been under the gun of a deliberate plan
of cultural warfare, with the purpose of eliminating Judeo-Christian civilization as we
know it. These plans must not succeed. So that the reader can better combat this evil,
we'll go back nearly thirty years, when those four innocent lads from Liverpool,
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England, the Beatles, were just starting out.
Creating the Beatles
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils in America/Rock-n-Roll/imagine.htmThe
Beatles first began
performing in the late 1950s in jazz clubs in England and West Germany. These clubs,
always located in the seediest part of the cities, served as a marketplace for prostitution
and the circulation of drugs. Beatle biographer Philip Norman writes: "Their only
regular engagement was a strip club. The club owner paid them ten shillings each to
strum their guitars while a stripper named Janice grimly shed her clothes before an
audience of sailors, guilty businessmen and habitues with raincoat-covered laps."
(Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 81)
The Beatles got their first big break in Germany, in August 1960, when they obtained a
booking at a jazz club in Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn district. Describing the area
Norman writes it had, "red-lit windows containing whores in every type of fancy dress,
all ages from nymphet to granny...Everything was free. Everything was easy. The sex
was easy... Here it came after you." (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their
Generation, p. 91)
Far from the picture of innocence, the Beatles, even in their first performances, were
always high on a drug called Preludin, "John (Lennon), would be foaming at the
mouth, he'd have so many pills inside him...John, began to go berserk on stage,
prancing and groveling...The fact that the audience could not understand a word he
said, provoked John into cries of `Sieg Heil!' and `F____ing Nazis' to which the
audience invariably responded by laughing and clapping." (Philip Norman, Shout! The
Beatles in Their Generation, pp. 152,91)
Off the stage, the Beatles were just as evil. Norman continues, "while in Hamburg,
John, each Sunday would stand on the balcony, taunting the churchgoers as they
walked to St. Joseph's. He attached a water-filled contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus
and hung it out for the churchgoers to see. Once he urinated on the heads of three
nuns."(Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 152)
While in Hamburg, in June of 1962 the Beatles received a telegram from their
manager, a homosexual named Brian Epstein, who was back in England.
"Congratulations," Epstein's message read. "EMI requests a recording session." EMI
was one of Europe's largest record producers, and their role in promoting the Beatles
would be key in the future.
Under the the strict guidance of EMI's recording director George Martin, and Brian
Epstein, the Beatles were scrubbed, washed, and their hair styled into the Beatles cut.
EMI's Martin created the Beatles in his recording studio.
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Martin was a trained classical musician, and had studied the oboe and piano at the
London School of Music. The Beatles could neither read music nor play any
instrument other than guitar. For Martin, the Beatles musicianship was a bad joke. On
their first hit record, "Love Me Do," Martin replaced Ringo on the drums with a studio
musician. Martin said Ringo, "couldn't do a [drum] roll to save his life." From then on,
Martin would take the simple little tunes the Beatles would come to him with, and turn
them into hit records.
Lockwood and EMI
EMI, led by aristocrat Sir Joseph Lockwood, stands for Electrical and Mechanical
Instruments, and is one of Britain's largest producers of military electronics. Martin
was director of EMI's subsidiary, Parlophone. By the mid-sixties EMI, now called
Thorn EMI, created a music divison which had grown to 74,321 employees and had
annual sales of $3.19 billion.
EMI was also a key member of Britain's military intelligence establishment.
After the war, in 1945, EMI's European production head Walter Legge virtually took
over control of classical music recordings, signing up dozens of starving German
classical musicians and singers to EMI contracts. Musicians who sought to preserve
the performance tradition of Beethoven and Brahms, were relegated to obscurity while
"ex-Nazi" Party members were promoted. Legge signed and recorded Nazi member,
the late Herbert Von Karajan, promoting him to superstar status, while great
conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwangler were ignored.
From the beginning, EMI created the myth of the Beatles' great popularity. In August
of 1963, at their first major television appearance at the London Palladium, thousands
of their fans supposedly rioted. The next day every mass-circulation newspaper in
Great Britain carried a front page picture and story stating, "Police fought to hold back
1,000 squealing teenagers." Yet, the picture displayed in each newspaper was cropped
so closely that only three or four of the "squealing teenagers" could be seen. The story
was a fraud. According to a photographer on the scene, "There were no riots. I was
there. We saw eight girls, even less than eight." (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in
Their Generation, p. 188)
In February 1964, the Beatles myth hit the United States, complete with the
orchestrated riots at Kennedy Airport, previously mentioned. To launch their first tour,
the media created one of the largest mass audiences in history. For an unprecedented
two Sundays in a row, on the Ed Sullivan Show, over 75 million Americans watched
the Beatles shake their heads and sway their bodies in a ritual which was soon to be
replicated by hundreds of future rock groups.
On returning to England, the Beatles were rewarded by the British aristocracy they
served so well . In October 1965, the four were inducted into the Order of Chivalry, and
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were personally awarded the accolade of Member of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth at Buckingham palace.
Up from the Dregs: The Rolling Stones
The credit for the origination of today's blatantly Satanic "heavy metal rock," goes to
the English group, the Rolling Stones. Their rise to fame was closely connected with
that of the Beatles.
The Stones, as they were called, were widely characterized as the counterparts to the
Beatles. "The Stones" were "mean,'' "dirty" and "rebellious," whereas the Beatles were
the well-groomed "Fab Four." Though seemingly competitors, they were merely two
sides of the same operation. The Stones' first hit record was actually written by the
Beatles, and it was Beatle member George Harrison who set up the arrangements for
their first recording contract.
Following the same game plan as the Beatles, in the spring of 1963 the Rolling Stones
appeared on one of England's most popular family television shows, Thank Your
Lucky Stars. Only this time, the reaction by the middle-aged viewers was quite
different from that to the Beatles. Hundreds of angry letters were sent, with a typical
letter stating "It is disgraceful that long-haired louts such as these should be allowed to
appear on television. Their appearance was absolutely disgusting."
The program, however, had exactly the planned effect. Rolling Stones' manager
Andrew Oldham was elated at the response. He told the group, "We're going to make
you exactly opposite to those nice, clean, tidy Beatles. And the more the parents hate
you, the more the kids will love you. Just wait and see." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down
With the Rolling Stones, p.17)
In 1964, the Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, as the Beatles had done
earlier. This time though, the coast-to-coast audience beheld the spectacle of the
television studio being ripped to shreds by Stones fans. Sullivan said on the air
afterward, "I promise you, they will never be back on our show." The publicity,
however, was exactly what was wanted. Within a few months, the group's records were
selling millions of copies.
The plan was now to use both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as the
means to transform an entire generation into heathen followers of the
New Age, followers which could mold into the future cadre of a Satanic
movement and then deploy into our schools, law enforcement agencies
and political leadership.
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Enter Satan
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils in America/Rock-n-Roll/led_zeppelin.htm
In his book, The Ultimate Evil, investigator-author Maury Terry writes that between
1966 and 1967, the Satanic cult, the Process Church, "sought to recruit the Rolling
Stones and the Beatles." During this period, Terry reports that a photo of Rolling
Stones leader Mick Jagger's longtime girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, appeared in an
issue of The Process Magazine. The picture shows her supine, as if dead, clutching a
rose. Terry's book goes on to implicate the Process Church cult in the Charles Manson
and Son of Sam multiple murders. It was the former lawyer for the Process Church,
John Markham, who recently ran the frameup trial against Lyndon LaRouche.
A key link between the Rolling Stones and the Process Church is Kenneth Anger, a
follower of the "founding father" of modern Satanism, Aleister Crowley. Anger, born in
1930, and a child Hollywood movie star, became a devoted disciple of Crowley.
Crowley was born in 1875 and was called the "Great Beast." He was known
to practice ritual child sacrifice regularly, in his role as Satan's high priest or "Magus."
Crowley died in 1947 due to complications of his huge heroin addiction. Before dying,
he succeeded in establishing Satanic covens in many U.S. cities including Hollywood.
Anger, like Crowley, is a Magus, and appears to be the heir to Crowley.
Anger was seventeen years old when Crowley died. In that same year, 1947, Anger was
already producing and directing films which, even by today's standards, reek of pure
evil.
During 1966-1967, when the Process Church is reported to be recruiting in London,
Anger was also on the scene. Author Tony Sanchez describes that Rolling Stones' Mick
Jagger and Keith Richard, and their girlfriends Marianne Faithfull and Anita
Pallenburg, "listened spellbound as Anger turned them on to Crowley's powers and
ideas." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling Stones, p.155)
While in England, Anger worked on a film dedicated to Aleister Crowley, called
Lucifer Rising. The film brought together the Process Church, the Manson Family
cult, and the Rolling Stones. The music for the film was composed by Mick Jagger.
Process Church follower Marianne Faithfull went all the way to Egypt to participate in
the film's depiction of a Black Mass. The part of Lucifer was played by a guitarist of a
California rock group, Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil was a member of the Manson
Family, and Anger's homosexual lover.
A few months after filming under Anger's direction in England, Beausoleil returned to
California to commit the first of the Manson family's series of gruesome murders.
Beausoleil was later arrested and is now serving a life sentence in prison along with
Manson. Having lost his star performer, Anger then asked Mick Jagger to play
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Lucifer. He finally settled upon Anton La Vey, author of The Satanic Bible and head
of the First Church of Satan, to play the part. The film was released in 1969 with the
title Invocation To My Demon Brother.
In London, Anger had succeeded in recruiting to Satanism the girlfriend of one of the
Rolling Stones, Anita Pallenberg. Pallenberg had met the Rolling Stones in 1965. She
immediately began sexual relations with three out of the five members of the group.
Anger, commenting on Anita, said, "I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a
witch...The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita...and Brian. You see,
Brian was a witch too."
One of the group's friends, Tony Sanchez, writes of Pallenberg in his book, Up and
Down with the Rolling Stones, "She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry
a string of garlic with her everywhere--even to bed--to ward off vampires. She also had
a strange mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals.
Her ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her
when she was working on a spell."(Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the Rolling
Stones, p.159)
He continues, "In her bedroom she kept a huge, ornate carved chest, which she
guarded so jealously that I assumed it was her drug stash. The house was empty one
day, and I decided to take a peep inside. The drawers were filled with scraps of bone,
wrinkled skin and fur from some strange animals." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With
the Rolling Stones, p.159)
In 1980, the seventeen-year-old caretaker of Keith Richard's New England estate was
found shot to death in Anita Pallenberg's bed. The death, ruled a suicide, was with
Pallenberg's gun. Richard's house was located near the East Coast headquarters of the
Process Church. According to an article in the English newspaper Midnite, a
Connecticut police officer, Michael Passaro, who had responded to the "suicide''
reported "strange singing" from the woods a quarter mile from the Richard's mansion.
The newspaper continues, "There have been several bizarre satanic rituals in the area
over the past five years. A local reporter attributed the outbreak of occultism to 'rich
people taking Acid.'"
In 1967, reflecting their ongoing association with Anger and the Process Church, the
Rolling Stones released their first rock album openly celebrating the Devil, titled, Their
Satanic Majesties Request. A few months earlier, the Beatles had released their first
album dedicated to the promotion of psychedelic drugs, Sargeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band. The album contained a fantasized version of an LSD trip, called
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", or L.S.D. for short. It became a top seller.
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Clearly, the Beatles' album was dedicated to
Satanist Aleister Crowley (pictured to left).
It was released 20 years, nearly to the day, after
Crowley's death in 1947, and its title song began
with the lyrics, "It was twenty years ago today..."
The album's cover featured a picture of Crowley.
One month after the album's release, the Beatles
shocked the world by announcing, publicly, that
they were regularly taking LSD. Beatle member
Paul McCartney, in an interview with Life
magazine said, "LSD opened my eyes. We only
use one-tenth of our brain." They also publicly
called for the legalization of marijuana.
The cat was now out of the bag, but the protests were few and minor. In England, the
BBC banned "A Day in the Life," and in the U.S.A., Maryland Governor Spiro T.
Agnew, who would later be watergated, launched a campaign to ban "Lucy in the Sky
With Diamonds."
Comment by Dial-the-Truth Ministries ADDENDUM ROCK MUSIC AND ALIESTER CROWLEY
Aleister Crowley is without a doubt, the main spiritual "teacher" of rock music. Crowley's
mission in life was to destroy Jesus Christ and Christianity, while exalting sex perversion,
drugs, magick and Satan.
Aleister Crowley spews his hatred of Jesus Christ in The World's Tragedy:
"I do not wish to argue that the doctrines of Jesus, they and they alone, have degraded
the world to it's present condition. I take it that Christianity is not only the cause but the
symptom of slavery." (Aleister Crowley, The World's Tragedy, p. XXXIX)
"That religion they call Christianity; the devil they honor they call God. I accept these
definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to his age, and it is their God and
their religion that I HATE and will DESTROY." (Aleister Crowley, The World's Tragedy, p.
XXXI)
In the introduction of The World's Tragedy, Israel Regardie says:
"This long, almost epic poem is one of the most bitter and vicious diatribes against Christianity
that I have ever read."
Crowley's most famous teaching, "Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law"
became the "mantra" of the 60's revolution of drugs, sexual perversion and anti-Christianity.
"Do your own thing" — "If it feels good do it".
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THE BEATLES and CROWLEY
According to The All Music Guide, The Beatle's Sgt. Pepper album, "will forever be known
as the recording that changed rock and roll". Time magazine said, Sgt Pepper's was
"drenched in drugs." (Time, Sept. 26, 1967, p.62)
The cover of Sgt. Pepper's showed the Beatles with a background of, according to Ringo
Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt.
Pepper's cover, ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES …"
(Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12)
One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was — the infamous
Aleister Crowley! Most people, especially in 1967, did not even know who Crowley was —
but the Beatles certainly did.
Sgt. Pepper
". . . we were going to have
mphotos on the wall of all our
mHEROES . . ."
"Hero" Aleister Crowley is
msecond from left on the top row:
The Beatles apparently took Crowley's teaching very serious — Beatle John Lennon, in
an interview, says the "whole idea of the Beatles" was — Crowley's infamous "do what
thou wilt":
"The whole Beatle idea was to do what you want, right? To take your own responsibility,
do what you want and try not to harm other people, right? DO WHAT THOU WILST, as long
as it doesn't hurt somebody. . ." ("The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono",
by David Sheff and G. Barry Golson, p. 61)
"They're COMPLETELY ANTI-CHRIST. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so antiChrist they shock me which isn't an easy thing." Derek Taylor, Press Officer for the Beatles
(Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 8, 1964).
"Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard Catholic
Spaniard." (John Lennon, A Spaniard in the Works, p.14)
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"Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be
proved right. . . .We're more popular than Jesus now." John Lennon (San Francisco
Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26)
LED ZEPPELIN
One of Crowley's most devout disciples is Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page. Page, even
bought Crowley's "house of horrors" — Boleskine, located on Lock Ness. Boleskine was the
home Crowley performed his "satanic-magick", including blood sacrifices. Crowley was buried
inside a dark chamber in Boleskine. Crowley's most famous teaching was "Do what thou wilt
shalt be the whole of the law". Page had inscribed in the vinyl on Zeppelin's Third album, Led
Zeppelin III, "Do what thou wilt. So mete it Be." Unbeknown to concert goers, Page would
actually perform Crowley rituals during some of Zeppelin's concerts.
OZZY OSBOURNE
Ozzy Osbourne called Crowley a
"phenomenon of his time" (Circus,
August, 26, 1980) Ozzy even recorded a
song of tribute to Crowley — Mr. Crowley:
. . . You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan's call . . .
Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse
Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy, known for uncontrollable and violent acts, confessed in an interview:
"I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if
I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it
is - Satan". Ozzy Osbourne (Hit Parader, Feb., 1978, p.24)
THE DOORS
Jim Morrison, superstar of the Doors, who died "mysteriously" on July 3, 1971 was deeply
involved in the occult . Morrison married his wife at a Wicca wedding standing in a pentagram
and drinking each others blood.
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The backcover of the Doors album "13", shows the group
gathered around a bust of Aleister Crowley.
Morrison admitted that Satan was the source of his music:
"I met the Spirit of Music. . . . An appearance of the devil in a Venice canal. Running, I
saw a Satan or Satyr, moving beside me, a fleshly shadow of my secret mind, . . ." (The Lost
Writings of Jim Morrison, p. 36-38)
Ray Manaxrek of the Doors, says of Morrison:
"He was not a performer. He was not an entertainer. He was not a showman. He was a
shaman. He was possessed."
"While [Jim Morrison] he was staying at the Chateau Marmont, he spent a few wild nights with
a buxom neighbor . . . once waking up in a tangle of bloody sheets after they shared
champagne glasses of each other's blood." (Pamela Des Barres, Rock Bottom, p. 208)
Many other rock artists "studied" Crowley such as: Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Graham
Bond, Sting, Daryl Hall, King Daimond, Bruce Dickinson, Stiv Bators, et al.
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Creating the Counterculture
The year 1967 marked a significant escalation in open cultural warfare against the
youth of the United States. The year saw the beginning of mass, open-air rock concerts.
In the two years which followed, over 4 million young people attended a series of
nearly a dozen of these "festivals," becoming the victims of planned, wide-scale drug
experimentation. Mind destroying hallucinogenic drugs such as PCP, STP, and the
Beatles-promoted LSD, were freely distributed at these concerts. These millions of
attendees would afterward return to their homes to become the messengers and
promoters of the new drug culture, or what came to be called the "New Age."
The first rock festival, "The First Annual Monterey International Pop Festival," was
attended by over 100,000 youngsters. The real purpose of Monterey Pop was the
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widespread distrubution of a new type of drugs, classified as psychedelics or
hallucinogens, such as LSD. At Monterey, thousands of younger teen-agers were
introduced to the new hallucinogenic drugs.
The first experimentation with LSD was begun in the early sixties, in the HaightAshbury section of San Francisco. The project was run by a joint CIA-British
intelligence task force under the code-name MK-Ultra. Part of the project called for the
free distribution of 5,000 tablets of LSD through a commune known as Ken Kesey's
Merry Pranksters. LSD's after-effects were then closely studied.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"We must always remember to thank the CIA and the army for LSD, by the way. That's
what people forget. . ." (The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, by David
Sheff and G. Barry Golson, p. 123) Dial-the-Truth Ministries - ADDENDUM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kesey, a so-called "poet" and convicted drug felon, became famous for driving around
California in a painted-up bus with his commune, the Merry Pranksters, distributing
LSD-laced Kool Aid to the unsuspecting.
The effect of LSD is to make the victim psychotic, along with the inability to discern
reality from drug-induced hallucinations. For many, this psychosis (also called a "bad
trip") could and did lead to suicide. When an individual is given LSD without his
knowledge, the psychosis-producing capabilities of the drug are amplified, and usually
leave the victim with permanent brain damage.
Dial-the-Truth Ministries - ADDENDUM
TIMOTHY LEARY AND ALEISTER CROWLEY
Timothy Leary, an Harvard psychologist, who was the LSD "guru" of the
60's. Leary preached spiritual "enlightenment" could be obtained by LSD.
Many rockers, like the Beatles, were deeply influenced by Leary. The
Beatle's song "Come Together" was dedicated to Leary, and Leary even
sang background on Lennon's "Give Peace A Chance".
Leary was also a very serious follower of Crowley. On PBS Late Night
America, Leary admitted to being an "admirer" of Crowley and Leary
believed he was carrying on Crowley's work:
"Well I've been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that I'm
carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years
ago, and I think the 60's themselves. . . He was in favor of finding yourself,
and 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' under love. It was
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a very powerful statement. I'm sorry he isn't around now to appreciate the
glories he started." (PBS Late Night America, from "Hells Bells video, Reel
to Real Ministries) Listen to it in RealAudio.
The organizer of the Monterey festival was John Phillips, a member of the rock group
the Mommas and the Papas. Phillips, as we shall see, was a drug pusher and closely
tied in with the network of Satanists around Charles Manson and director Roman
Polanski.
Phillips appointed a board of directors to promote and finance the concert. The
members of the board brought together a network of British intelligence operatives
and Satanists. The board of directors included Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones
manager), the Stones leader Mick Jagger, Beatle Paul McCartney and Phillips' friend,
record producer Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day.
The concert, including the staging and the huge innovative outdoor amplification, was
run by Phillips. It was the first time that an American audience was exposed to such
openly demonic British groups as The Who, and Jimi Hendrix. At the conclusion of
their act, The Who, in a drug-crazed frenzy, destroyed all their guitars, amplifiers, and
drums. Hendrix simulated masturbation with his guitar, on stage, while performing at
ear-splitting volume levels.
There was massive, open use of drugs. Author Robert Santelli, in his book, Aquarius
Rising, writes "LSD was in abundance at Monterey. Tabs of `Monterey Purple' were
literally given to anyone wishing to experiment a little." The police made no arrests,
setting another precedent for future outdoor concerts.
There was a larger scheme in operation. The scheme was tied into MK-Ultra and it
involved using Satanists around Phillips, along with agents such as Ken Kesey and
Timothy Leary. The plan was to turn nearby San Francisco into a Satanist gaming
preserve, mass recruiting and perverting young run-away teenagers.
Phillips had earlier written the music to a song called "San Francisco" which sold over
5 million copies. The song called for youth throughout the country to come to San
Francisco "with flowers in their hair." The song was a rallying cry to tens of thousands
who came flooding into San Francisco in the summer of 1968 to join the new "hippie"
movement, misnamed the Summer of Love. Some who came became the prey for the
likes of Charles Manson, who recruited his cult-"family" exclusively from runaway
youth.
Manson and the Rock Stars
Charles Manson has been portrayed as a lone psychotic who had hypnotic power over
his "Family". In reality, Manson was well-known to a whole network of Hollywood
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actors, actresses, promoters, partners and rock stars, and was providing sex and drugs
to many of them.
In his autobiography, Papa John, Phillips tells of an invitation he received to join Terry
Melcher and Beach Boy member Dennis Wilson, at Wilson's mansion. Wilson said,
"This guy Charlie's here with all these great-looking chicks. He plays guitar and he's a
real wild guy. He has all these chicks hanging out like servants. You can come over and
just screw any of them you want. It's a great party."
Manson's entire "Family" moved into the Beach Boys' mansion for nearly a year. The
Beach Boys, who have performed at the White House, are the top recording group of
EMI's subsidiary, Capitol Records.
On Sunday, August 10, 1969, Manson sent four members of his cult for their last visit
to Melcher's house. This time Melcher wasn't there, but the actress Sharon Tate, wife
of movie director Roman Polanski, and three others, were. When the group left, Tate
and the others had been savagely mutilated and murdered. As for Phillips, in June
1980, he was arrested for running a large-scale drug wholesaling operation.
The Age of Aquarius
The largest concert after Monterey Pop, the "Woodstock Music and Art Fair," would be
what Time magazine celebrated as an "Aquarian Festival"' and "history's largest
happening." The term "Aquarian" was carefully chosen. The Aquarian age signified
that the "Age of Pisces," which is the age of Christ, had come to an end.
At Woodstock, a small town in upstate New York, nearly half a million youth gathered
to be drugged and brainwashed on a farm. The victims were isolated, immersed in
filth, pumped with psychedelic drugs, and kept awake continuously for three straight
days, and all with the full complicity of the FBI and government officials. Security for
the concert was provided by a hippie commune trained in the mass distribution of
LSD.
Once again, it would be the networks of British military intelligence which would be
the initiators. Woodstock was the brain child of Artie Kornfeld, the director of EMI's
Capitol Record's, Contemporary Projects Division. The original funding was provided
by the heir of a large Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company, John Roberts, and
two other partners. It was another pharmaceutical company, the Swiss-based Sandoz
Laboratories, which had first synthesized LSD. Roberts would later be accused of using
his company for the mass drugging of the attendees.
Little adequate preparations were made for the nearly half a million people who came.
Joel Rosenman, one of the three partners, writes, as the concert neared, "Food and
water were clearly going to be in short supply, sanitary facilities overtaxed, tempers
short, drugs overabundant. Worst of all, there was no way for anyone who wanted to,
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to leave." Sitting in your own excrement was actually part of the plan, as John Roberts
jokingly wrote, "We're going to hand out bananas at the gate to bind our patrons."
A hippie commune called the Hog Farm, had a special role at Woodstock. The Hog
Farm was led by a man nicknamed Wavy Graver, who was a former member of Ken
Kesey's MK-Ultra operation, the Merry Pranksters. Communes like the Hog Farm were
commonly found in the remote parts of California and served as the breeding grounds
for Satanic cults, as well as terrorist groups. Members of these communes continually
interchanged with other communes and were the recruiting grounds for the Process
Church and Manson. Hog Farm member Diane Lake was a member of Charles
Manson's Family, at the time of the massacre of Sharon Tate and her guests.
On August 14, one day before the scheduled opening, the entire festival security force,
comprised of 350 off-duty New York City cops, pulled out. A spokesman for the New
York police claimed that no official arrangement was ever made with the city, a claim
the promoters vehemently denied. In an August 15, 1969 New York Times article, the
head of Woodstock's security said, "Now I don't have any security at all. I've been
struck. We're having the biggest collection of kids there's ever been in this country
without any police protection." Not surprisingly, the Hog Farm was put in charge of
security.
Woodstock funder and director John Roberts, openly admitted that he was well aware
of the Hog Farm's connection to drug distribution. He writes, "their fee was simply
transportation to and from the festival... a peace-keeping force that looked, talked, and
smelled like the crowd would be both highly credible and highly effective... and the
most important, they were wise in the ways of drugs, knowing good acid from bad,
good trips from bummers, good medicine from poison, etc."
The Hog Farm at the time was living in New Mexico's mountains. Roberts chartered a
Boeing 727, at a cost of $17,000, and flew 100 of them to New York.
To clear the final path for the planned drugging of half a million youngsters, the
district attorney for the area agreed privately that there would be no arrests or
prosecutions for violations of drug laws. John Roberts writes, "The District
Attorney...recognized early on that many of our customers would be using illegal
drugs, but also recognized that such use would be the least of our problems over the
course of the weekend. He acted, therefore, with compassion and good grace
throughout." Roberts also writes that he was meeting continuously with the FBI up to
and including one day before the start of the concert, and had their full cooperation.
The Experiment Begins
Two days before the scheduled start of the concert, 50,000 kids had already arrived in
Woodstock. Drugs immediately began to circulate. Many people brought their babies
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and, as Roberts says, even they were drugged. Roberts writes that at a nearby lake, "the
tots swam naked, smoked grass, and got into the music."
A poll conducted at the festival by the New York Times showed that 99 percent of
those attending were using marijuana. Local sheriff deputies, totally overwhelmed,
reported that no arrests were being made for drug use. The New York Times of August
17 quoted one deputy," If we did (make arrests), there isn't enough space in Sullivan or
the next three counties to put them in."
The use of marijuana was not the worst. Following the design of the original MK-Ultra
project, the mass distribution of LSD came next, much of it in LSD-laced Coca Cola, as
Kesey's Pranksters had done five years earlier. Roberts jokingly relates the following,
"a particularly abrasive cop ....had been handed an LSD-spiked Coke while directing
traffic. Long after all automobiles in the area had congealed to a standstill, the hardhat
was still out on the road waving them on. Finally they led him away."
For the next three days, the nearly half a million young people that arrived were
subjected to continual drugs and rock music. Because of torrential rains, they were
forced to wallow in knee-deep mud. There were no shelters, and no way to get out.
Cars were parked over eight miles away. Rosenman writes that the key to the
"Woodstock experiment" was "keeping our performers performing around the
clock...to keep the kids transfixed..."
Within the first 24 hours, over 300 kids reported to medical authorities, violently ill.
The diagnosis: they were having "bad" LSD trips. Thousands more would follow. On
August 17, the New York Times reported: "Tonight, a festival announcer warned from
the stage, that 'badly manufactured acid' (a term for LSD) was being circulated. He
said: 'You aren't taking poison acid. The acid's not poison. It's just badly manufactured
acid. You are not going to die.... So if you think you've taken poison, you haven't. But if
you're worried, just take half a tablet.'"
The advice, to nearly 500,000 people, "just take half a tablet" was given by none other
than MK-Ultra agent Wavy Gravy.
With a growing medical emergency on hand, a call went out to New York City for
emergency medical personnel. Over 50 doctors and nurses were flown in. By the end of
Woodstock, a total of 5,000 medical cases were reported.
Altamont: the Making Of a Snuff Film
The last major rock "festival" of the 1960s was held at Altamont racetrack, outside San
Francisco. The featured performers were the Rolling Stones, who now reigned
supreme in the rock world, since the Beatles had broken up. The suggestion for the
concert came from MK-Ultra agent Ken Kesey.
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This time, the audience was whipped into a frenzy, in open praise of the
Devil. The result was a literal Satanic orgy. At its conclusion, four people were dead
and dozens beaten and injured. Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones,
played the part of Lucifer. The performance marked the beginning of the
"heavy-metal" concerts of today.
Over 400,000 people attended the Altamont concert with far less preparation than
even Woodstock. Food, and even water, were nearly unavailable. But plenty of drugs
were to be found. Like Woodstock, the concert would become the vehicle for the mass
experimentation of drugs, especially LSD. Author Tony Sanchez describes the scene as
people gathered at Altamont:
"By midmorning there were more than a quarter of a million people milling
around, and things were becoming chaotic. There was a lot of bad acid (LSD-DP)
around, and people were freaking out all over the place. Everybody was getting
stoned out of his skull to pass the long hours before the music was to start-Mexican grass, cheap California wine, amphetamines ..." (Tony Sanchez, Up and
Down With the Rolling Stones, p.195)
"By midday virtually everyone was tripping...A man was almost killed as he tried
to fly from a speedway bridge--another acid case. On the other side of the site a
young guy screamed for help as he fell into the deep waters of a drainage canal.
The stoned-out freaks looked on bemused as he sank beneath the surface. No
one seemed sure if he had been real or an hallucination. It didn't matter
anymore anyway, he was dead. Elsewhere doctors were kept busy delivering
babies to girls giving hysterical premature birth." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down
With the Rolling Stones, p.195)
The descent into Hell would continue. The Rolling Stones had hired, for a reported
$500 worth of free beer, the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels to act as security guards for
the concert. Their real payment, however, was in drug sales. The Hell's Angels, an
outlaw gang made up of robbers, rapists and murderers, were the known controllers
and sellers of drugs on the entire West Coast.
When the festival did open, the crowd of nearly half a million people waited for more
than one and a half hours for the Stones to appear. It was only when nightfall arrived,
allowing for the use of special lighting effects, that the group finally came on stage.
Mick Jagger, the lead singer, was dressed in a satin cape, which glowed red under the
lights. Jagger was imitating Lucifer.
Author Sanchez next describes what he calls a preplanned "Satanic ritual."
As the group began playing, "strangely several of the kids were stripping off their
clothes and crawling to the stage as if it were a high altar, there to offer themselves as
victims for the boots and cues of the Angels. The more they were beaten and bloodied,
the more they were impelled, as if by some supernatural force, to offer themselves as
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human sacrifices to these agents of Satan." (Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the
Rolling Stones, p.199)
Standing in the crowd in front of the stage, with his girlfriend, was a black man by the
name of Meredith Hunter. Hunter would soon be singled out for human sacrifice.
The Stones had just released a new song entitled, "Sympathy for the Devil." It had
quickly become the number one record in the country. The song begins with Mick
Jagger introducing himself as Lucifer. As soon as he began to sing it at
Altamont, the entire audience rose up and began dancing in a wild frenzy.
Sanchez describes what happened next, "A great six foot four grizzly bear of a Hell's
Angel had stalked across to Meredith (Hunter) to pull his hair hard in an effort to
provoke a fight ...A fight broke out, five more Angels came crashing to the aid of their
buddy, while Meredith tried to run off through the packed crowd. An Angel caught him
by the arm and brought down a sheath knife hard in the black man's back. The knife
failed to penetrate deeply, but Meredith knew then that he was fighting for his life. He
ripped a gun out of his pocket and pointed it straight at the Angel's chest... And then
the Angels were upon him like a pack of wolves. One tore the gun from his hand,
another stabbed him in the face and still another stabbed him repeatedly,
insanely, in the back until his knees buckled."
"When the Angels finished with Hunter, several people tried to come to his aid, but an
Angel stood guard over the motionless body. `Don't touch him,' he said menacingly.
`He's going to die anyway, so just let him die.'"(Tony Sanchez, Up and Down With the
Rolling Stones, pp. 201,202)
It was never proven that Meredith actually had a gun. Later, arrests were made. No
one was ever indicted because no one person would step forward as a witness out of
fear of retaliation by the Angels.
Throughout the bloody killing the Rolling Stones continued to play "Sympathy for the
Devil." The entire group watched from the stage as Meredith Hunter was
killed right before them. In addition, incredibly, the entire murder was
professionally filmed by a film crew hired to film the concert. Shortly thereafter the
film was released throughout the country with the title of a Rolling Stone's song,
"Gimme Shelter."
Was the murder preplanned by Satanists? In his book, The Ultimate Evil, author
Maury Terry tells how Satanic cults circulate among themselves films of their human
sacrifices. These films are called "snuff films." Terry relates that one of the seven
Son of Sam murders in New York City was actually filmed from a nearby parked van.
The film was then purchased by a rich Satanist. "Gimme Shelter," which was a boxoffice hit, can still be purchased or rented today for only a few dollars, at your local
video store.
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Behind "Heavy-Metal" Rock
The same year as Altamont, 1969, marked the beginning
of the evil career of Ozzy Osbourne. Osbourne formed the
band Black Sabbath. The group modeled itself on the
Rolling Stones. The next fifteen years would witness a
procession of young drugged-out rock performers, like
Osbourne, each competing for the "big money" and the
recording contracts that came with it. The key criteria of
those who would "make it" was their ability to portray
decadence and evil. These were the "heavy-metal"
groups.
In 1985, New Solidarity newspaper, which has since
been forcibly shut down by the federal government,
conducted an interview with Hezekiah Ben Aaron, then
the third-ranking member of the Church of Satan. Ben
Aaron is now a devout Christian. In the interview, Aaron revealed that it was his
Church that started such "heavy-metal" rock groups as Black Sabbath, The Blue Oyster
Cult, The Who, Ozzy Osbourne, and many others. The Church of Satan was then led by
its high priest, Anton LaVey. Many report, however, that LaVey, a former circus lion
tamer, was just a front man for the real high priest, Kenneth Anger, the man who
earlier recruited the Rolling Stones to the occult.
The following is an excerpt from that interview: "I was working for the Church...the
Church had other people who were middlemen for other companies. There were
middlemen for Apple [set up by the Beatles], Warner Brothers, and other record
companies. Someone would come to me and say, Ì have a tape recording, and I'd like
for you to check it out. I'd like to see if you would be interested in sponsoring a Rock
group.' I'd say Àll right, I'll check it out.' A few days later Ben Aaron would call back
and set up another meeting. He continues, Ì'd hand you $100,000, and you wouldn't
sign anything. What you wouldn't know is that a mirror on the back of the wall is a
one-way mirror and we're tape recording and photographing, or video taping
everything that goes on. The payback, if you fail to make the group work, is really bad.
Sometimes it's up to 60% on the dollar."
Aaron's interview continued: "we send you to a store, we provide you with uniforms
and we provide you with amplifiers. It's all paid through the money we gave you. We
set you up with a road tour. We set you up with engagements. We book you."
Aaron then explained that if the group did not make it he was given orders to collect
the money or make other "arrangements." These "other arrangements," perhaps, are
the key to the dozens of reported rock star "suicides." The underworld drug mafia has
ample means to eliminate non-payers. Some readers may remember the following
statement Beatle John Lennon made to the international press back in 1966:
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"Christianity will go. It will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm
right and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now."
Hopefully, he will be proven to be wrong.
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Reading #8
“Imagine a World Without Religion,
It’s Easy if You Try …”
By Nazarene Remnant
“It turns out that little to our knowledge the Beatles, Rolling Stones and others didn't
write those songs. A German of the Frankfurt School born September 11th 1903 named
Theodor Ludwig Adorno did. Americans never knew this and still don't. Adorno
said in a German interview (w/subtitles) years ago that the combining of political
protest against the Viet Nam war with pop rock music trivialized the protest
because that context makes war and atrocities just another consumer
item. War, serial killers, economic crashes become processed in the minds of the
media consumer with cartoons, sitcoms, beer and McDonalds. This is shown in a
montage at the close of the '76 movie Network too.” 21
Dan, a reader of Henry Makow's blog article, “Lou Dobbs Quits Cabala News Network,” November 19, 2009.
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/lou_dobbs_leaves_cabala_news_n.html
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The NWO have been overtly destroying the true religion, while secretly
building up theirs. Lennon would have had to know about this, otherwise
the line in his song Imagine puts him out of touch with the reality of the
world. Perhaps that was his aim anyway!
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I
think we are being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I am
liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane
about it.” (John Lennon)
These kids have been made into Luciferians and don't even know
it. They will find themselves right at home in the New Satanic
Order, for a little while anyway. But when the honeymoon is over,
they will find that the future is all about murder, possibly their
own, which is something they simply weren’t told about by their
“teachers” and “mentors.”
Imagine John Lennon been played for such a fool for such a long
time. But he was duped right up to the eyeballs by a fiendish,
unaware that he was being used to “teach” a whole generation of
young people to …
You can't talk to the young because all they know are the current
trends and their knowledge of historical fact is appalling.
Imagine, John Lennon asks, what a world without religion would
be like, making the assumption that it would be paradise on Earth.
But what we have now, in 2009, is such a world! And just have a
look at the state of such a world, as Reading #6 seeks to show you.
IN other words, John Lennon was a deceived dup of the New
World Order demonic forces who will turn this Earth into a savage
nightmare.
And make no mistake, the NWO is not going to be a world without
religion, as you may have been deceived into believing. No, we are
about to see a One World Religion that will shock you way beyong
beyond comprehension!
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The Beatles—Illuminati Mind Controllers
August 5, 2012
Source:
http://www.henrymakow.com/beatles_wer
e_mind_control.html
The Beatles were an Illuminati
creation.
Their songs were written for them
and
handlers scripted their actions and
words.
They demonstrate that popular
culture is really mind control.
By David Richards
(henrymakow.com)
The original cover of the 1966 "Yesterday and
Today" album: Beatles got a good laugh from
abortion.
In his book, The Committee of 300,
former MI6 officer John Coleman reveals the Beatles were a psychological operation
run by the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.
The Beatles were created to advance the formation of a corrupted Brave New Worldstyle slave populace. This agenda kicked in big time during the 60s, with rock groups
acting as social agitators.
Free love, drugs and rock music were promoted. To replace Christianity, the
Illuminati introduced the New Age Movement: spiritual doctrines that do not
require the individual to follow the Moral Law. (See this interview with John
Coleman.)
The Beatles were presented as anti-establishment but received endless mainstream
media attention. In 1965, they received MBEs (Members of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire) from the Queen.
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OCCULT REFERENCES
The occult references in the
Beatles work prove they were
Illuminati puppets.
A promotional photograph for the
Yellow Submarine album shows
John Lennon flashing the devil
horns. Paul McCartney makes a
'666'/EYE OF HORUS hand sign.
The front cover of the With The
Beatles album shows their faces
half in shadow. This is the 'One Eye of Horus' that is epidemic in the music industry
today. The black/ white duality is the Masonic doctrine to balance good
and evil.
A Beatles compilation was released in 1988 titled 'Past Masters'. Past Master is a
Masonic term used to describe the former Worshipful Master of a Masonic Lodge. The
album contains exactly 33 songs!
In the film, 'The Magical Mystery Tour,' the Beatles use a magic wand to cast spells on
unsuspecting members of the public. Magic wands are made from holly trees (hence
Holly-wood) and are the instrument of the occult magician who has his audience (the
populace) in a trance. The film features several Masonic handshakes.
The songs also feature occult lyrics. The song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' refers to
Lucifer in the sky with "diamonds" (aka "stars", the Dogstar Sirius representing
Lucifer).
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The track 'Across The Universe' is
about demon possession. John
Lennon sings 'gai guru deva' (all
hail to the devas). In Theosophy, a
deva is a spiritual entity, i.e.
demon, which exists behind the
scenes manipulating and directing
human behavior. Luciferians
believe they are possessed by these
entities when they rape, torture
and kill innocent victims.
Four working class young
men could not have written
these songs!
Rare photo of John, Yoko and Andy Warhol having a gay
time.
[Nazarene Remnant
comment: “It turns out that little
to our knowledge the Beatles,
Rolling Stones and others didn't
write those songs. A German of the
Frankfurt School born September 11th 1903 named Theodor Ludwig Adorno did.
Americans never knew this and still don't. Adorno said in a German interview
(w/subtitles) years ago that the combining of political protest against the Viet Nam war
with pop rock music trivialized the protest because that context makes war
and atrocities just another consumer item. War, serial killers, economic
crashes become processed in the minds of the media consumer with cartoons, sitcoms,
beer and McDonalds. This is shown in a montage at the close of the '76 movie Network
too.” 22
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Comment by Hendrik said (May 10, 2005) for Henry Makow's article "Bankers Are
Behind The 'Counter' Culture," May 7, 2005, here:
http://www.savethemales.ca/000916.html
Remember lucy being the masonic code for lucifer? w.r.t. sky and diamonds - heaveans
and souls - the line makes perfect satanic sense: lucifer in heavens gathering his
currupted souls. the same line pointing to LSD as way to corrupt seems too much of a
coincidence to me and i wonder if any beatle song text has not been written by tavistoc.
(hint: some aural seers discribe the human energetic field as two opposite interlocked
pyramids, looking like a six star in profile and resembling a diamond..)
Dan, a reader of Henry Makow's blog article, “Lou Dobbs Quits Cabala News Network,” November 19, 2009.
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/lou_dobbs_leaves_cabala_news_n.html
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Dan said (May 10, 2005):
The days of counter culture are done. They don't need it any more. Now they are
moving into a period of more direct means. The job of 50's commuinism, beatnik-ism,
60's 'anti establishmentism', sex drugs and rock n' roll has been accomplished. Our
original humanity has been co-opted as a human culture, replaced by addictions to
credit cards, and anti-depressants. The people are now soft, scatter brained, and
demoralized.
There is an internet company in Austin Texas, called 'Illuminati Onine' (IO). They sell
T-shirts, with their eye in the pyramid logo, that say, 'Everything is under control'.
Phil said (May 9, 2005):
I think you are absolutely right about the '60s counter culture movement and its effect
on the most selfish generation in history: the baby boomers. What fascinates me about
the '60s movement is that it was truly an ode to hedonism and self-aggrandizement at
the cost of the nuclear family.
Of course, the baby boomers don't see it that way. To them, it was bucking the system.
But really, when given their vast numbers and the chance to change things, did they
improve the world? No, they created a generation of spoiled children (which several
authors have referred to as a trophy generation), a worship of material culture (every
baby boomer needs an SUV and a second home with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, and granite
throughout), they polluted the planet at a faster rate than any other group in history,
and they continue to foist the cost of their lives on the young people in the countries in
which they live. But hey, there will always be the summer of '69. End NR comment]
The Beatles were originally a hack rock 'n' roll cover band playing in the red light
district in Berlin. We are supposed to believe that only a few years later they composed
songs with deep occult meanings!
THE SCRIPT
The Beatles behavior was scripted by handlers who knew the agenda behind the group.
The drug agenda was pushed in the infamous interview Paul McCartney gave with the
BBC in 1966, when he 'admitted' to taking acid four times.
The interview was intended to cause controversy, which it did, and encourage young
people to try LSD. If the BBC were really against drug use, they wouldn't have
broadcast the interview to millions of people.
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Once we realize that the Beatles were supposed to turn young people against
Christianity, their anti-Christian sound bites look scripted.
In 1963 Paul said, "Christianity doesn't fit in with my life." In 1966 John was more
forthcoming, telling Newsweek, "Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I
needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right."
In the 60s, the big record labels had total control over artists. Do we believe
the Beatles could have spouted anti-Christian sentiment in opposition to their label
EMI?
Their photo shoots were also clearly designed by Illuminati handlers.
A shocking example is the alternate cover to the 'Yesterday/ Today' album that
pictures the Beatles covered in the body parts of dead babies. This was a sick laugh
at abortion, the inevitable result of the free love agenda the Beatles were
promoting.
The front cover of the Sgt. Pepper album
features the Beatles 'heroes.' They
include a whole host of Illuminati
stooges: Aldous Huxley, Karl Marx,
Aleister Crowley, Mahatma Ghandi, HG
Wells and George Bernard Shaw among
others. Tellingly, it includes cutouts of
the Beatles from their early days. Is this
an admission that they also
served the Illuminati?
CONCLUSION
I bought all the Beatles albums when I
was a teenager. I loved the music but felt
something was wrong. The songs were
melodically perfect but lacked emotional resonance. Now I know why: the group
was an Illuminati creation.
After learning this information about the band, I listened to the music again. Now that
I can hear the malevolent agenda behind the songs; they're ruined for me.
The Beatles made the West more degraded, divided and weak.
Journalist David Noebel summarized it well in 1982, when he judged the impact John
Lennon had on music.
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"The present rock 'n' roll scene is one giant, multi-media portrait of
degradation-a sleazy world of immorality, venereal disease, anarchy,
nihilism, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, death, Satanism, perversion and
orgies."
In the style of true Satanists, the Beatles sold this sickness as "Love," a
reminder that the world is controlled by a satanic cult, the Illuminati, that hates God,
and hates you and I.
David Richards is a 24-year-old British citizen who teaches English in Mongolia.
MAKOW COMMENT: We are unconscious of how popular music is used to control
our feelings and actions. Most songs make a religion out of "love" and make us seek a
non-existent ideal mate instead of God, obedience to whom is the principle of our selfdevelopment, i.e. religion.
Related:
Bankers Behind the Counter Culture
Tavistock Institute - Best kept Secret in America
First Comment by Al Thompson:
One of the most destructive forces that was unleashed upon western civilization by the
Beatles was the promotion the pagan Hindu religion. This was primarily done
by the introducing of Transendental Meditation and the practice of yoga into the
mainstream public. Of course, this is actually called for in the Protocols of
Zion by the open worship of Vishnu.
"12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions - aristocratic, republican,
revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists ....
Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of
them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse
quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited
patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those
fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp
will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain
belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag
which we hang out for them." (Protocols of Zion)
7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found
its personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs of the
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machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the aid of official police
which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the GOYIM,
hinders governments from seeing. In our programs ONE-THIRD OF OUR
SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense
of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no
disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however,
will be cruelly punished that there may be development of abuses of this right."
(Protocols of Zion)
So it is obvious to me that the so-called "Jews" have promoted the pagan beliefs of
Hinduism. One might ask: What does a Jew have to do with a Hindu? I'm not really
sure, but it seems to me that if one is a pagan, they will use anything evil to promote
their agenda. The definition of a Jew can mean almost anything just as the definition
of a Christian. Here, the so-called Protocols of Zion are intrinsically Hindu in nature
and of course evil is at the core of the writing.
"Later the Beatles lead the way for many Americans into pagan religion with visits to
Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi." The Beatles did indeed lead the way to promoting
the gurus and the Hindu religion was thrust upon western civilization through the
music of the Beatles and other various groups. And of course, every time I point this
out I get slammed for it. So much for religious tolerance. Today, the practice of yoga is
pervasive throughout society and everyone that I know who practices it
becomes completely unglued and unreasonable if I criticize it. The
problem is that the practice unites a person with some kind of "divine being" which is
not God the creator, but some kind of "consciousness" by which the mind is emptied.
There's even so-called "Christian" churches that have yoga classes.
Music has an extraordinary way of twisting the mind. I used to listen to
George Harrison's Hare Krishna song over and over again. I like the song but
wondered about its meaning and intent. I now realize that it was most certainly a plan
to turn the young people over to paganism. People who are critical of Zionists should
be asking the question as to why Hinduism was promoted in the writing of
the Protocols of Zion. What do Jews have in common with Hindus? Maybe the
made up the story about Christ too. Or, the Christ represented by mainstream
"Christians" is really Vishnu. There are all kinds of possibilities. If it wasn't for
some early Christian writings that I read over the last years, I would
have completely given up on Christianity. This is why I try to stay away from
governments and religions as they are too inconsistent in their doctrines to be of any
value.
As a former musician, I have observed that music has the frightening power to get
people to do things they wouldn't normally do. It is almost like a drug. What is
interesting is that there is no warning in any of the scriptures about any kind of music.
It's probably like anything else: it's not offensive in and of itself, but it will be the
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content that will determine whether it is good or bad. In the case of the Beatles, it
was all crap.
http://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-yoga.html
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Comments for "The Beatles -- Illuminati Mind Controllers "
Joe said (August 5, 2012):
Reply to Al Thompson: The Protocols of Zion were written to divide and conquer
different people following different religions. They simply had to involve Hinduism to
deflect the true enemies. Conversion is not allowed in Hinduism and the practice of
Yoga has many health benefits. If you want, you can change the chantings to say Jesus.
I wanted to know what you have to say about Jesus actually being a Hindu yogi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_years_of_Jesus. There is also a film about this
called the Man from Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
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Brian said (August 5, 2012):
OK, yeah, the Beatles and the Illuminati connection are apparent. But the author, all of
24 years old makes it sound as though they were complete mind-controlled
automatons who were virtual robots.
In spite of all the negative aspects of this Tavistock creation it's not like their basic
humanity didn't come through in some of their songs. Even though "gai guru deva" has
its demon-related overtones, "Across the Universe" is not some heavy metal crap
whose demonic content is ever-so obvious. It's really quite a sweet song if you simply
listen to it and don't put all the emphasis on some Theosophical affiliation.
Both Lennon and Harrison in particular wrote some lovely music whose content
shouldn't be simply dismissed out of hand. And Lennon himself came to denounce
"The Beatles". Kind of like JFK, with both of them starting to see the light on a lot of
the Illuminati m.o.
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Justin said (August 5, 2012):
David Richards, and the discredited John Coleman, don't know what they are talking
about. Richards has one source. And his own, uninformed opinion. That might fly in
Elementary School, but it stinks, and sinks like a stone, in the real world.
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"Four working class young men could not have written these songs": They didn't; two
did, and frequently one.
And the only working class member was Ringo, who wrote very, very little. The other
three members were regular Suburbanites. Any cursory research, at all, would have
revealed same. They were Intelligent, and Educated.
Early British Invasion bands were only "rock groups acting as social agitators"?
The Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, Tom Jones, Petula Clark, Cilla Black,
Dusty Springfield, The Kinks, Freddy and The Dreamers, The Searchers, Wayne
Fontana and The 'Mindbenders', The Honeycombs, Peter and Gordon, Status Quo,
Herman's Hermits and Gerry and The Pacemakers were surely ‘Agents Of Destruction’,
yes?
We have all the misinformed goofballs on the Internet that we can use at this time.
Applications are now closed. Thanks.
Since the mass, general social rejection of "organized" religion had already occurred,
The Beatles led a continuing search for the truth, and stumbled frequently, as they
candidly admitted, at that time. The Beatles were very Human, and the last horse-toescape-the-barn before "the hammer came down", in fact. They snuck- through as an
oddity, but grew rapidly to try to fulfill the Leadership Role to which WE had elected
them. They still stand, Today, as the Ultimate Art Group.
Every few years we are subjected to some self-appointed "Genius", like these "scribes",
who wants to advance himself/themselves, by trying to “expose” The Beatles. The
Beatles were Real. They stand alone. Amazingly.
-Justin
How has Coleman been discredited? He revealed the truth.
henry
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Matt said (August 5, 2012):
The Beatles may have been the biggest experiment ever thrust-ed upon us, by the
Tavistock Institute in the means of social deception. Apparently Paul McCartney died
in a car accident in 1966, after leaving the studio and picking up a woman (possible
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agent?) in the rain on his way home. That night the Beatles were told of this news by
an MI5 agent and future handler MAXWELL.
From this point on the Illuminati/Travistock Institute owned the Beatles. They held an
obscure Paul McCartney look a like contest in England but never aired the winner. The
winner went on to undergo plastic surgery and become Paul McCartney.
John Lennon agreed to finish the huge backlog of songs he and Paul had written. He
left the band when all the original material ran out, then was shot for threatening to
"go public". The Illuminati wants to physically shape reality, and make lies/deception
seem real and true.
modus operandi of the illuminati … public figures (& doubles) used as puppets to
manipulate the masses;(i.e.- Pope Paul VI -imposter pope and destruction of the
catholic church from within) elimination of opposition to this elite by horizontalization
(the likely assassination of James Paul McCartney with impunity); deception of the
public by a cartel of media groups controlled by a governing Luciferian elite
(Illuminati); social control through Psychological Operations (PsyOps);
Paul McCartney Really is Dead- a documentary on the audio tapes made by
George Harrison on his death bed.-worth watching
http://vimeo.com/28273681
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Robbie said (August 5, 2012):
The Beatles were AntiChrist, according to their own Press officer:
“They're COMPLETELY ANTI CHRIST. I mean, I am anti Christ as well, but
they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy thing.”
Source: Derek Taylor – Beatles press officer.
Saturday Evening Post, 8th August 1964.
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John Lennon.
“I've sold my soul to the DEVIL.”
Source: Coleman Ray, Lennon. Page 256.
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John Lennon.
John Lennon said, “Jesus, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist bastard
catholic spaniard”
Source: John Lennon, A Spaniard in the Works. Page 14.
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John Lennon.
“It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium.”
Source: The Playboy Interviews, Page 203.
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John Lennon.
“When the real music comes to me it has nothing to do with me, `cause I`m just a
channel.
It`s given to me and I transcribe it like a channel.”
Source: Video - Hell`s Bells 2.
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John Lennon.
“But my joy is when you’re like possessed, like a medium, you know.
I’ll be sitting around and it will come in the middle of night or at a time when you don’t
want to do it, that’s the exciting part, I don’t know who the (Expletive) wrote it, I’m
just sitting here and the whole (Expletive) song comes out.
So it, you’re like driven and you find yourself over on a piano or a guitar, because it’s
been given to you or whatever it is you tune into.”
Source: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Peebles, The Last Lennon Tape, 1981, page
113.
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Paul McCartney.
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“The music to “Yesterday” came in a dream. The tune just came complete.
You have to believe in magick. I can’t read or write music.”
Source: Interview on Larry King Live, CNN, 12th June 2001.
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I have similar quotes from other Artists, people may contact me for them:
[email protected]
Youtube Videos on the Beatles:
The Beatles Created By The Tavistock Institute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHC0s6G3VbM
The Beatles and the Occult, Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yervVjnlivM&feature=relmfu
The Beatles and the Occult, Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADE8T5KDY98&feature=player_embedded
Paul McCartney on Acid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDELeIgYpQc
Satanic Beatles: Hidden Messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DO6c9V0Tyw&feature=fvwrel
The Tavistock Agenda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3IM0esWXM&feature=fvwrel
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The Beatles and the Aquarian Conspiracy
Source: http://educateyourself.org/cn/colemanbeatlesandAquarianConspiracy01mar07.shtml
[Editor's Note: People who are sentimental about the Beatles will find it hard to believe
that they were pumped up and used by the Illuminati to introduce soft drugs among
middle class American youth. They were also a vehicle for the introduction of mind
control "trigger words" into everyday jargon. I recall very well when the Beatles made
their debut on the American rock scene. Their sudden and explosive "popularity" in
America made no sense to me at the time. I couldn't understand what was so great
about the Beatles and why they were portrayed as 'threatening' to the crown of the
then King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley.
America, after all, was the birthplace of Rock & Roll, Allen Freed, and "do wop, do
wop". America alone could boast of the greatest names and groups in Rock & Roll- not
Europe or Asia, and certainly not England. American Rock & Roll performers were the
envy of world and were emulated and copied down to the smallest mannerism and
detail by European and Asian youth. How is it that a bar band from Liverpool doing
almost all American rock cover tunes like Chuck Berry songs would suddenly be blitzed
across American media as the "greatest sensation to ever hit the shores of America"?
Huh? Musically speaking, there was nothing "fabulous" about the "Fab Four". They
were a cover band; but that's it! Yes, they had some decent hits after they took
American "by storm" but NOT before. So how is it that they got to the top of Rock &
Roll Mountain here in America without really climbing it? Simple, they were
helicoptered up there by the Committee of 300 and the Tavistock Institute of Human
Relations and no one is in a better position to tell you how it was done than the author
of this article, Dr John Coleman...Ken Adachi]
By Dr. John Coleman
http://educateyourself.org/cn/colemanbeatlesandAquarianConspiracy01mar07.shtml
March 1, 2007
The Beatles and the Aquarian Conspiracy by Dr. John Coleman (Mar. 1, 2007)
An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is
recognized as unwelcome change by the large population group in the sights of
Stanford Research Institute, was the "advent" of the BEATLES. The Beatles were
brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large
population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.
When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have imagined
the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part
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of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a living organism which sprang From "THE
CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No.
4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director,
Professor Willis Harmon.
The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the
old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial
body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a
large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new
phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the
Beatles. Words such as "rock" in relation to music sounds, "teenager," "cool,"
"discovered" and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the
acceptance of drugs and arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they
went, to be "discovered" by "teenagers." Incidentally, the word "teenagers" was never
used until just before the Beatles arrived on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock
Institute for Human Relations.
As in the case of gang wars, nothing could or would have been accomplished without
the cooperation of the media, especially the electronic media and, in particular, the
scurrilous Ed Sullivan who had been coached by the conspirators as to the role he was
to play. Nobody would have paid much attention to the motley crew from Liverpool
and the 12-atonal system of "music" that was to follow had it not been for an
overabundance of press exposure. The 12-atonal system consisted of heavy, repetitive
sounds, taken from the music of the cult of Dionysus and the Baal priesthood by Theo
Adorno and given a "modern" flavor by this special friend of the Queen of England
and hence the Committee of 300.
Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center created trigger words which then came into
general usage around "rock music" and its fans. Trigger words created a distinct new
break-away largely young population group which was persuaded by social engineering
and conditioning to believe that the Beatles really were their favorite group. All trigger
words devised in the context of "rock music" were designed for mass control of the new
targeted group, the youth of America.
The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that Tavistock
and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like trained robots "with a
little help from their friends"--code words for using drugs and making it "cool." The
Beatles became a highly visible "new type"-- more Tavistock jargon--and as such it was
not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing, hairstyles and language
usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This was part of
the"fragmentation-maladaptation" process worked out by Willis Harmon and his
team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.
The role of the print and electronic media in our society is crucial to the success of
brainwashing large population groups. Gang wars ended in Los Angeles in 1966 as the
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media withdrew its coverage. The same thing will happen with the current wave of
gang wars in Los Angeles. Street gangs will wither on the vine once media saturation
coverage is toned down and then completely withdrawn. As in 1966, the issue would
become "burned out." Street gangs will have served their purpose of creating
turbulence and insecurity. Exactly the same pattern will be followed in the case of
"rock" music. Deprived of media attention, it will eventually take its place in history.
Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute,
came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno
write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words
in the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used
when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill.
To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."
Tavistock and Stanford Research then embarked on the second phase of the work
commissioned by the Committee of 300. This new phase turned up the heat for social
change in America. As quickly as the Beatles had appeared on the American scene, so
too did the "beat generation," trigger words designed to separate and fragment society.
The media now focused its attention on the"beat generation." Other Tavistock-coined
words came seemingly out of nowhere: "beatniks," "hippies," "flower children" became
part of the vocabulary of America. It became popular to "drop out" and wear dirty
jeans, go about with long unwashed hair. The "beat generation" cut itself off from
main-stream America. They became just as infamous as the cleaner Beatles before
them.
The newly-created group and its "lifestyle" swept millions of young Americans into the
cult. American youth underwent a radical revolution without ever being aware of it,
while the older generation stood by helplessly, unable to identify the source of the
crisis, and thus reacting in a maladaptive manner against its manifestation, which
were drugs of all types, marijuana, and later Lysergic acid, "LSD," so conveniently
provided for them by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, SANDOZ, following the
discovery by one of its chemists, Albert Hoffman, how to make synthetic ergotamine,
a powerful mind-altering drug. The Committee of 300 financed the project
through one of their banks, S. C. Warburg, and the drug was carried
to America by the philosopher, Aldous Huxley.
The new "wonder drug" was promptly distributed in "sample" size packages, handed
out free of charge on college campuses across the United States and at "rock" concerts,
which became the leading vehicle for proliferating the use of drugs. The question that
cries out for an answer is, what was the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) doing at the
time? There is compelling circumstantial evidence that would appear to indicate that
the DEA knew what was going on but was ordered not to take any action.
With very substantial numbers of new British "rock" bands arriving in the U.S., rock
concerts began to become a fixture on the social calendar of American youth. In
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tandem with these "concerts," the use of drugs among the youth rose in proportion.
The devilish bedlam of discordant heavy beat sounds numbed the minds of listeners so
that they were easily persuaded to try the new drug on the basis that "everybody is
doing it." Peer pressure is a very strong weapon. The "new culture" received maximum
coverage from the jackal media, which cost the conspirators not one single thin dime.
Great anger was felt by a number of civic leaders and churchmen over the new cult but
their energies were misdirected against the RESULT of what was going on and not
against the CAUSE. Critics of the rock cult made the same mistakes that had been
made in the prohibition era, they criticized law enforcement agencies, teachers,
parents anybody but the conspirators.
Alan Ginsberg
Because of the anger and resentment I feel toward the great drug plague, I make no
apology for using language which is not customary for me to use. One of the worst drug
slobs ever to walk the streets of America was Alan Ginsberg. This Ginsberg pushed the
use of LSD through advertising which cost him nothing, although under normal
circumstances it would have cost millions of dollars in TV advertising revenues. This
free advertising for drugs, and LSD in particular, reached a new high in the late 1960's,
thanks to the ever-willing cooperation of the media. The effect of Ginsberg's mass
advertising campaign was devastating; the American public was subjected to one
cultural future shock after another in rapid succession.
We became over-exposed and over stimulated and, again, may I remind you that this is
Tavistock jargon, lifted from the Tavistock training manual, overwhelmed by its new
development and, when we reached that point, our minds began to lapse into apathy; it
was just too much to cope with, that is to say, "long range penetration had taken hold
of us." Ginsberg claimed to be a poet but no greater rubbish was ever written by
anyone who ever aspired to becoming a poet. Ginsberg's designated task had little to
do with poetry; his main function was to push the new subculture and force acceptance
of it upon the large targeted population group.
To assist him in his task, Ginsberg cooped the services of Norman Mailer, a writer of
sorts who had spent some time in a mental institution. Mailer was a favorite of the left
wing Hollywood crowd and so had no problem with getting maximum television time
for Ginsberg. Naturally Mailer had to have a pretext-- not even he could blatantly come
out with the true nature of Ginsberg's television appearances. So a charade was
adopted: Mailer would talk "seriously" on camera with Ginsberg about poetry and
literature.
This method of getting wide television coverage at no cost to themselves was followed
by every rock group and concert promoter who followed the example set by Ginsberg.
The electronic media moguls had big hearts when it came to giving free time to these
dirty venomous creatures and their even dirtier products and filthy ideas. Their
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promotion of horrible garbage spoke volumes and, without abundant help from the
print and electronic media, the drug trade could not have spread as rapidly as it did in
the late 1960's-early 197O's, and probably would have been confined to a few small
local areas.
Ginsberg was able to give several nationally televised performances extolling the
virtues of LSD and marijuana, under the guise of "new ideas" and "new cultures"
developing in the art and music world. Not to be outdone by the electronic media,
Ginsberg's admirers wrote glowing articles about"this colorful man" in the art and
social columns of all of America's largest newspapers and magazines. There had never
been such an across-the-media-board free advertising campaign in the history of
newspaper, radio and television and it cost the promoters of the Aquarian
conspiracy, NATO and the Club of Rome not one red cent. It was all absolutely free
advertising for LSD, only thinly disguised as "art" and "culture."
One of Ginsberg's closest friends, Kenny Love, published a Five-page report in the
New York Times. This is in accordance with the methodology used by Tavistock and
Stanford Research: If something is to be promoted which the public has not yet been
fully brainwashed to accept, then have someone write an article, covering all
sides of the subject matter. The other method is to have live television talk
shows in which a panel of experts promotes the product and or idea under
the pretext of "discussing", it. There are point and counter-point, both pro and con
participants airing their support or opposition. When it is all over, the subject to be
promoted has been dinned into the public mind. While this was new in the early
1970's, today it is standard practice on which talk shows thrive.
Love's Five-page pro LSD pro Ginsberg article was duly printed by the New York
Times. Had Ginsberg tried to buy the same amount of space in an advertisement, it
would have cost him at least $50,000. But Ginsberg didn't have to worry; thanks to his
Friend Kenny Love, Ginsberg got the massive advertising all for free. With newspapers
like the New York Times and the Washington Post under the control of the Committee
of 300, this kind of free advertising is given to any subject matter, and more especially
to those promoting decadent life styles--drugs-hedonism-- anything that will confuse
the American people. After the trial run with Ginsberg and LSD, it became standard
Club of Rome practice to call upon major newspapers in America to give free
advertising on demand to people and ideas they were promoting.
Worse yet--or better yet, depending upon the viewpoint-- United Press (UP) picked up
Kenny Love's free advertising for Ginsberg and LSD and telexed it to HUNDREDS of
newspapers- and magazines around the country under the guise of a "news" story.
Even such highly respectable establishment magazines as "Harpers Bazaar" and
"TIME" made Mr. Ginsberg respectable. If a nation-wide campaign of this magnitude
were presented to Ginsberg and the promoters of LSD by an advertising agency, the
price tag would have run into at least $1 million in terms of 1970 dollars. Today the
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price tag would be nothing less than $15-$16 million dollars. It is no wonder that I
refer to the news media as "jackals."
I suggest that we try to find any media outlet to do an expose on the Federal Reserve
Board, which is what I did. I took my article, which was a good expose of the greatest
swindle on earth, to every major newspaper, radio and television station, magazine
house and several talk-show hosts. A few made promises that sounded good--they
would definitely air the article and have me discuss it--give them about a week and
they would get back to me. Not one of them ever did, nor did my article ever appear in
the pages of their newspapers and journals. It was as if a blanket of silence had been
thrown over me and the subject I was endeavoring to promote, and indeed that was
precisely what had happened.
Without massive media hype, and without almost around the clock coverage, the
hippie-beatnik rock, drug cult would never have gotten off the ground; it would have
remained a localized oddity. The Beatles, with their twanging guitars, silly expressions,
drug language and weird clothes, would not have amounted to a hill of beans. Instead,
because the Beatles were given saturation coverage by the media, the United
States has suffered one cultural shock after another.
The men buried in the think tanks and research institutions, whose names and faces
are still not known to but a few people, made sure that the press played its part.
Conversely, the media's important role in not exposing the power behind the future
cultural shocks made certain that the source of the crisis was never identified. Thus
was our society driven mad through psychological shocks and stress. "Driven mad" is
taken from Tavistock's training manual. From its modest beginnings in 1921, Tavistock
was ready in 1966 to launch a major irreversible cultural revolution in America, which
has not yet ended. The Aquarian Conspiracy is part of it.
Thus softened up, our nation was now deemed ripe for the introduction of drugs which
was to rival the prohibition era in scope and the huge amounts of money to be made.
This too was an integral part of the Aquarian Conspiracy. The proliferation of drug
usage was one of the subjects under study at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
at Tavistock's Sussex University facility. It was known as the "future shocks" center, a
title given to so-called future oriented psychology designed to manipulate whole
population groups to induce "future shocks." It was the first of several such institutions
set up by Tavistock.
"Future shocks" is described as a series of events which come so fast that the human
brain cannot absorb the information. As I said earlier, science has shown that there are
clearly marked limits to the amount of changes and the nature of them that the mind
can deal with. After continuous shocks, the large targeted population group discovers
that it does not want to make choices any more. Apathy takes over, often preceded by
mindless violence such as is characteristic of the Los Angeles street gangs, serial
killers, rapists and child kidnapers.
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Such a group becomes easy to control and will docilely follow orders without rebelling,
which is the object of the exercise. "Future shocks," says SPRU,"is defined as physical
and psychological distress arising from the excess load on the decision-making
mechanism of the human mind." That is Tavistock jargon lifted straight from
Tavistock manuals--which they don't know I have.
Just as an overloaded electrical circuit will activate a trip switch, so do humans "trip
out," which is a syndrome that medical science is only now beginning to understand,
although John Rawlings Reese conducted experiments in this field as far back as
the 1920's. As can be appreciated, such a targeted group is ready to "trip out" and take
to drugs as a means of escape from the pressures of so many choices having to be
made. This is how Drug usage was spread so rapidly through America's "beat
generation." What started with the Beatles and sample packages of LSD has grown into
a flood-tide of drug usage which is swamping America.
The drug trade is controlled by the Committee of 300 from the Top down. The drug
trade started with the British East India Company and was closely followed by the
Dutch East India Company. Both were controlled by a "Council of 300." The list of
names of members and stockholders of the BEIC read like something out of Debretts
Peerage. BEIC established the "China Inland Mission," whose job it was to get The
Chinese peasants, or coolies, as they were called, addicted to opium. This created the
market for opium which the BEIC then filled.
In much the same way the Committee of 300 used "The "Beatles" to popularize"social
drugs" with the youth of America and The Hollywood "in-crowd." Ed Sullivan was sent
to England To become acquainted with The first Tavistock Institute "rock group" to hit
the shores of the United States. Sullivan then returned to the United States to draft the
strategy for the electronic media on how to package and sell the group. Without the full
cooperation of the electronic media and Ed Sullivan, in particular, "The Beatles" and
their"music" would have died on the vine. Instead, our national life and the character
of the United States was forever changed.
Now that we know, it is all too clear how successful the "Beatles" campaign to
proliferate the use of drugs became. The fact that "The Beatles" had their music
and lyrics written for them by Theo Adorno was concealed from public
view. The prime function to "The Beatles" was to be discovered by teenagers, who
where then subjected to a non-stop barrage of "Beatle music," until they became
convinced that they liked the sound and adopted it, along with all that accompanied it.
The Liverpool group performed up to expectations, and with "a little help from their
friends," i.e., illegal substances we call drugs created a whole new class to young
Americans in the precise mold ordained by the Tavistock Institute.
Dr. John Coleman.
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(1) An Institute in UK where they research in mind control, run by highly trained
psychiatrists who answer to the Illuminati. From here Ayatollah Khomeini,
Radovan Karadzic and Milosevic among others were all trained for their mission.
It's not mentioned here, but the Rolling Stones were created from the same source and
with the same purpose. Beatles were supposed to be the "good guys" while the Rolling
Stones were the "bad guys". Also, Rolling Stones were experts in creating repeating
"riffs", meaning a musical phrase that's looping over and over again (like in
"Satisfaction", "Jumping Jack Flash" etc.). These repeating riffs trigger the mind
and make one receptive to whatever sub-message you want to transfer into the minds
of the listener. In the case of the Rolling Stones we have satanic messages in their
lyrics, and they have repeated that over and over through the years (a more recent
example is the"Bridge To Babylon" album).
Another interesting thing is that The Beatles were knighted by Queen Elisabeth in the
60's for their "good work". Ringo told the press he'd been so nervous he had to smoke
pot in the bathroom before he met the Queen. Recently Paul McCartney was knighted
again. The question is: is it the same Paul McCartney?
Forward courtesy of Kanya Vashon McGhee <[email protected]>
© Copyright 2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved.
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The Unholy Legacy of The Beatles
Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21
"Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." Romans 12:9b
Source: http://logosresourcepages.org/index.html
Recently when I turned on the news I heard that Beatle
George Harrison had died on November 30 at age 58 of
cancer. The report went on to say that Harrison was
surrounded by old friends from the Hare Krishna
movement. In fact, Guada Chandra Das of the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness stated
that Harrison died to the sound of Hindu "chanting and
praying." His body was then cremated, his widow and 23year-old son carried the ashes to India and sprinkled them
in the Ganges river in Varnasi and Allahabad, India. They
were accompanied by two Hare Krishna devotees who
performed Hindu rites as the ashes were scattered on Tuesday, December 4th.
Harrison left millions of dollars to the Hindu, Hare Krishna Foundation and was
responsible for popularizing the false religion of Hinduism to multitudes
of people in the West.
For the next 48 hours radio and television news special reports and newspapers lauded
the wonderful contributions George and the Beatles had made to the music world and
society. While I certainly agree that the Beatles have left a legacy, I disagree concerning
the nature of that legacy. It is an unholy and detrimental legacy, as I will
demonstrate shortly.
However, before we look into that matter, I want to share with you my personal
observations about what I perceive to be the three major contributing factors that have
brought about the degeneration of the foundational biblical norms and values of our
society within my lifetime.
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First, there is Hugh Hefner, his magazine and immoral philosophy.
There are several verses that should frame our thinking before we consider our first
point Matthew 5:28 "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust
after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." Job 31:1 "I made a
covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" 1 Corinthians 6:18
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."
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Hugh Hefner was born in 1926 and has a genius IQ of 152. The problem is
that he "used his smarts" for evil and not for good. On December of 1953 the first issue
of Playboy hit the street featuring the now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe.
He brought pornography "out of the closet" so to speak, and made it more readily
available. His magazine and the "Playboy Philosophy," is nothing more than barnyard
morality. This purveyor of smut, more than any other man in my lifetime, paved way
for the introduction of hardcore pornography in our culture, and has had a major role
in the undermining the sexual morals of American men and women. I believe Isaiah
3:9 applies - "The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they
declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have
rewarded evil unto themselves."
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The Womans Liberation Movement
There are several verses that should frame our thinking before we consider this second
point Titus 2:4-5 "That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their
husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed."
Ephesians 5:23-24 "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church
is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
The second major contributing factor that have brought about the degeneration of the
foundational biblical norms and values of our society within my lifetime is the
womans liberation movement. The modern American movement was founded
when in 1953 by a book called The Second Sex by French feminist writer Simone De
Beauvoir, was published in the United States. The more radical wing of the feminist
movement adopted the phrase "women's liberation" which was first used in this book.
The philosophies and practices of the womans liberation movement are undermining
and destroying our homes and families.
That brings me to the focal point of todays message
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Thirdly, the Beatles and Their Music
Some may wonder why I would even bother to address the issue of the Beatles. My
friend David Cloud said, " The Beatles are the most popular and influential rock band
of all times." And he’s right. There are others who are not Fundamentalists that concur
with this. Sid Bernstein said, "only Hitler ever duplicated [the Beatles']
power over crowds when the Beatles talk-about drugs, the war in Vietnam, religionmillions listen, and this is the new situation in the pop music world" (Time, Sid
Bernstein, Sept. 22, 1967, p. 60).
John Lennon created a furor in 1966 when he claimed, "We're more popular
than Jesus now." He went on to say, "Christianity will go, it will vanish and
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shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right."
(Newsweek, March 21, 1966).
When I read the above quotes, Ephesians 5:8-11 comes to mind; "For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For
the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what
is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them."
Christians should neither support, nor pattern themselves after people or groups who
heralded the demise of Christianity and claimed to be "more popular than Jesus" and
as we will see, those described as "missionaries of the acid (drug) society," the "super
drug culture prophets." It would be reasonable to think that professing Christians
would take that stand, wouldn’t it? However, sadly, that is not the case! Worldly
Christians look at the Beatles as their heroes. These perverse men (John
Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey a.k.a. Ringo Star) and
their music are the role models for many musicians, even so called "Christian"
musician are Beatles fans. The group called Jars of Clay names the Beatles and Jimmy
Hendrix as their inspiration and the lead guitarist is described as a "Beatles fanatic."
DC Talk opens its "Jesus Freak" concerts with the Beatles song Help. Phil Keaggy
plays "homage to the Beatles" on one of his albums and Caemdons Call often performs
Beatles songs.
I remind you of Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ." Perhaps that’s why my mother was not at all impressed with the Beatles.
She sat right there with me, as I watched the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 when the
Beatles sang "I want to Hold Your Hand." Right from the word "go", she did not like
the Beatles. She did not like their floppy mop hair or their music. She was of the
opinion that the Beatles and their music taught the kids rebellion and she was right! By
April of that same year "Beatlemania" was attacking America.
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Rebellion Against God
The Beatles rebellion against the God of the Bible goes way back for most of them!
One example is the fact that John Lennon was taken to Sunday School by his Aunt
Mimi. He even sang in the choir. But, by age 11, John was permanently barred from
Sunday services in his aunt's Anglican church because he "repeatedly
improvised obscene and impious lyrics to the hymns." (Rock Lives; p. 114).
He did things even cruder and viler than that, such as urinate on members of the
"clergy" from second floor windows and display homemade dummies of Christ in lewd
poses. In his 1965 book published by Simon & Schuster, John Lennon blasphemed the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit by calling them "Fahter, Sock and Micky Most." In 1964
Paul McCartney stated, "We probably seem to be anti-religious none of us believes in
God."
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Does the Bible say anything about those who do not believe in God? YES!
It says they are fools. Psalms 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth
good." That description pretty well describes the character and accomplishments of the
Beatles "corrupt" and having "done abominable works." The words of their own press
officer Derek Taylor, affirm the application of Psalms 14 to the Beatles: "They're [the
Beatles] completely anti-Christ. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so antiChrist they shock me which isn't an easy thing" (Saturday Evening Post, August 8-15,
1964, p. 25).
One last illustration to prove the point. George Harrison financed Monty Python's vile
and blasphemous mockery of Christ in the movie "Life of Brian." Even Newsweek
magazine described the movie as "irreverent." Time magazine called it an "intense
assault on religion" (Time, Sept. 17, 1979, p. 101).
Later the Beatles lead the way for many Americans into pagan religion with visits to
Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Beatles soon split with the Maharishi. One reason
was his suggestion that they turn over 25 percent of their income to his work. Another
reason was they caught the Guru eating meat, which was not allowed to his disciples,
and engaging in acts of immorality with female disciples. Lennon later composed a
song about the Maharishi titled "Sexy Sadie." George Harrison alone remains a
follower of Hinduism. In 1971 George Harrison released his pagan hymn "My
Sweet Lord" praising the Hindu god Krishna which ends with the Hare Krishna chant.
Our culture is reprobate when it lauds groups like the Beatles. And what of Christians
who look to them and their music for inspiration? Are they not reprobate? They are
building on the wrong foundation!
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Drug Culture Prophets
Testifying before the House Select Committee on Crime, popular family enter-tainer
Art Linkletter, who lost a child to drug abuse, referred to the Beatles as the
"leading missionaries of the acid society" (Crime in America- Illicit and
Dangerous Drugs, October 1969).
Media researcher Brian Key observed: "The Beatles became the super drug
culture prophets of all time" (Key, Media Sexploitation, 1976, p. 136).
The student newspaper for the University of Wisconsin noted that the Beatles have
"proselytized the use of drugs so subtly that words and conceptions once only common
to drug users are found in sentences of teeny-boppers and statesmen alike" (Daily
Cardinal, Dec. 3, 1968, p. 5, cited by David Noebel, The Legacy of John Lennon, p. 63).
The Beatles were heavily into the drug scene. They began taking drugs during their
earliest band days before they became popular. In fact, many of the Beatles songs were
about drugs. These include "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Day Tripper," "Yellow
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Submarine," "Help," "Rubber Soul," "Cold Turkey," "Glass Onion," "I Am the
Walrus," and "Penny Lane." (All of these were admitted to be drug songs by the
Beatles.)
John Lennon admitted that he began taking LSD in 1964 and that "it went on for years.
I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time" (Rolling Stone, Jan.
7, 1971, p. 39; cited by Jann Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 76). John Lennon read
Timothy Leary's book The Psychedelic Experience in 1966, after Paul McCartney took
him to the Indica, a hip New Age bookshop in London. Lennon wrote "Tomorrow
Never Knows" after taking LSD, and he wrote the songs "Come Together" and "Give
Peace a Chance" for Leary.
Their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's album heralded the drug
revolution in America ("Approbation on Drug Usage
in Rock and Roll Music," U.N. Bulletin on Narcotics,
Oct.-Dec. 1969, p. 35; David Noebel, The Legacy of
John Lennon, pp. 56,58). Time magazine reported
that Sgt. Pepper's was "drenched in drugs" (Time,
Sept. 22, 1967, p. 62). The album "galvanized the
acid subculture and gave LSD an international
platform" (Waiting for the Man, p. 145). BBC
removed the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" from
the air because of its drug implications. On the Sgt.
Pepper album Ringo Starr sang, "I get high with a
little help from my friends." The members of the Beatles later openly admitted
that the album was "a drug album" (Flowers in the Dustbin, p.253). Sgt. Pepper's was
hugely influential, one of the best-selling albums of rock history. The London Times'
theater critic Kenneth Tynan observed that the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album was "a
decisive moment in the history of Western civilization."
Lennon admitted to the Rolling Stone interviewer that there were "a lot of obvious LSD
things in the music." Lennon said, "God isn't in a pill, but LSD explained the mystery
of life. It was a religious experience." In an interview with Playboy in 1981, Lennon
said the Beatles smoked marijuana at breakfast and were so stoned that they were "just
all glazed eyes." In 1969, Lennon said: "If people can't face up to the fact of other
people being naked or smoking pot, then we're never going to get anywhere"
(Penthouse, Oct. 1969, p. 29, cited in The Legacy of John Lennon, p. 66). Paul
McCartney told Life magazine that he was "deeply committed to the possibilities of
LSD as a universal cure-all." He went on to say, "After I took it, it opened my eyes. We
only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think what all we could accomplish if we could
only tap that hidden part. It would mean a whole new world. If politicians could use
LSD, there would be no more war, poverty or famine" (Life, June 6, 1967, p. 105).
Just as Hugh Hefner brought pornography out of the closet and popularized it, so the
Beatles brought illegal drugs out of the closet and popularized them! That is their
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legacy! And their end? Revelation 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which
is the second death." The Beatles are sorcerers in the truest sense of the word. The
word sorcerers is a translation of the Greek word pharmakeus, (far-mak-yoos'; 5332)
and refers to anyone who uses and or deals in illicit drugs. The Beatles definitely fit
that mold.
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Miscellaneous Perversions, Debauchery, Occult Involvement and
More
Time will just not allow me to address the many other problems with the Beatles, so I
will just mention a few other things in passing. Lennon's 21st birthday party was "a
huge drunken noisy orgy" (The Beatles, p. 177). Lennon and Yoko Ono lived together
for a year while he was still married to Cynthia and Ono was still married to an
American filmmaker. When Cynthia returned from a vacation in Greece, she found
Ono living with her husband in her own home. Ono was still married to another man
when she announced that she was expecting a baby by Lennon. The mocking Two
Virgins album cover featured the nude photos of Lennon and Ono on the front and
back. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heavily involved in the occult. John purchased
entire sections of occult literature in bookstores (Hellhounds on Their Trail; p. 181).
The Beatles advocated Communism and the overthrow of authority in songs such as
"Revolution No. 9," "Working Class Hero," Back in the USSR," "Power to the People,"
"Sometime in New York City," "Give Peace a Chance," "Bloody Sunday" (which called
British police "Anglo pigs"), "Attica State" ("now's the time for revolution"), "Angela"
(which glorified communist Angela Davis), and "Piggies." Lennon performed at antiAmerica rallies and called upon America to leave Vietnam to the communists. He said:
"I really thought that love would save us. But now I'm wearing a Chairman Mao
badge, that's where it's at. I'm just beginning to think he's doing a good job" (Lennon,
cited by Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 86). All of them were heavily into
immorality. Perhaps Ringo Star put it best: "We got drunk a lot. You couldn't help it.
We had a lot of girls. We soon realized that they were easy to get" (TV Guide, July 29,
1978, p. 21). McCartney said: "We didn't all get into music for a job! We got
into it to avoid a job, in truth-and get lots of girls."
I think that David Noebel summarized the influence of the Beatles the best. While he
was specifically talking about John Lennon, it does apply to the entire group the way I
see it. He said on "the present rock 'n' roll scene, Lennon's legacy, is one giant, multimedia portrait of degradation-a sleazy world of immorality, venereal disease, anarchy,
nihilism, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, death, Satanism, perversion, and orgies" (The
Legacy of John Lennon, by David Noebel, 1982, p. 15).
The Beatles are NOT great hero, role models that should be emulated, but rather
shunned as I inciters of rebellion and corrupters of our culture.
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I proffer Psalm 1 in conclusion
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of
the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but
are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand
in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD
knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish."
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“Tavistock” The Best Kept Secret in America
From Dr. Byron T. Weeks, MD
July 31, 2001
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml
[Editor's Note: No one deserves more credit than Dr. John Coleman for bringing to
light the history and true purpose of the City of London's Tavistock Institute and its
many subdivisional institutions and organizations which was exposed in stunning
detail in his 1992 book, Conspirators' Hierachy: The Story of The Cimmittee of 300.
Dr Coleman has rightly complained that many NWO expose writers who have followed
in his wake, have used his original research without crediting him as the originating
source and in fairness to him, it should be observed that the information presented
below is a reflection of his pioneering investigations into Tavistock.
The article below was sent to John Quinn by Dr. Byron Weeks. The insidious
propaganda and public opinion manipulations (including mind control agendas)
orchestrated by London's Tavistock Institute is covered at length in the books of David
Icke and Dr John Coleman, but this recent article adds fresh insights and historical
perspective. Our thanks to Brice Taylor <[email protected]> for forwarding...Ken
Adachi]
Preface from John Quinn (NewsHawk)
This forwarded article was received from Byron Weeks; who in our opinion really has a
good firm handle on exactly WHAT is up on many levels with the extraordinarily
extensive "control trips" currently being directed against the peoples of the world by
elements of the global shadow government.
Weeks, whom I quoted at length in the book PHOENIX UNDEAD, has sent us this
compelling look at a globally-active British institute which has had it's hands in just
about every social and political/governmental movement of note throughout much of
the world for the past 50 years.
For example, ever wonder who and what is "behind", let's say, the CIA? Well, they
don't swear allegiance to America, that's for certain. Try the British royal family.
This report is the real stuff--solidly researched and meticulously documented; so for
lots more truly concept-bending data, read on.
NewsHawk Inc.
------------To John Quinn
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I believe Tavistock has always had secret ties to British Freemasonry.
Byron T. Weeks, MD
Col. AFUS, MC, Ret.
-------------------------TAVISTOCK - THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN AMERICA
TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE . . . . . . . . .
30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4DD.-Formed in 1947, the Tavistock Institute is an independent not-for-profit organization
which seeks to combine research in the social sciences with professional practice.
Problems of institution-building and organizational design and change are being
tackled in all sectors - government, industry and commerce, health and welfare,
education, etc. - nationally and internationally, and clients range from multinationals
to small community groups. A growth area has been the use of a developmental
approach to evaluation of new and experimental programs, particularly in health,
education and community development. This has also produced new training events
alongside the regular program of group relations conferences. The Institute owns and
edits the monthly journal Human Relations (published by Plenum Press) which is
now in its 48th year, and has recently launched (in conjunction with Sage
Publications) a new journal Evaluation.
Three elements combine to make the Institute unusual, if not unique: it has the
independence of being entirely self-financing, with no subsidies from the government
or other sources; the action research orientation places it between, but not in, the
worlds of academia and consultancy; and its range of disciplines include anthropology,
economics, organizational behavior, political science, psychoanalysis, psychology and
sociology.
The ideology of American foundations was created by the Tavistock Institute of
Human Relations in London. In 1921, the Duke of Bedford, Marquess of Tavistock, the
11th Duke, gave a building to the Institute to study the effect of shellshock on British
soldiers who survived World War I. Its purpose was to establish the "breaking point" of
men under stress, under the direction of the British Army Bureau of Psychological
Warfare, commanded by Sir John Rawlings-Reese.
Tavistock Institute is headquartered in London. Its prophet, Sigmond Freud, settled
in Maresfield Gardens when he moved to England. He was given a mansion by
Princess Bonaparte. Tavistock's pioneer work in behavioral science along Freudian
lines of "controlling" humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology.
Its network now extends from the University of Sussex to the U.S. through the
Stanford Research Institute, Esalen, MIT,
<http://watch.pair.com/Hudson.html>Hudson Institute,
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<http://watch.pair.com/heritage.html>Heritage Foundation, Center of Strategic and
International Studies at Georgetown, where State Dept. personal are trained, US Air
Force Intelligence, and the Rand and Mitre corporations. The personnel of the
corporations are required to undergo indoctrination at one or more of these Tavistock
controlled institutions. A network of secret groups, the Mont Pelerin Society,
Trilateral Commission, Ditchley Foundation, and the Club of Rome is conduit
for instructions to the Tavistock network.
[Editor, Tim Aho's note: See Watch Unto Prayer report on The Heritage Foundation
founded by Paul Weyrich with funding from Joseph Coors, who also founded and
financed respectively the Moral Majority and Council for National Policy.]
Tavistock Institute developed the mass brain-washing techniques which were first
used experimentally on American prisoners of war in Korea. Its experiments in crowd
control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but
nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behavior
through topical psychology. A German refugee, Kurt Lewin, became director of
Tavistock in 1932. He came to the U.S. in 1933 as a "refugee", the first of many
infiltrators, and set up the Harvard Psychology Clinic, which originated the
propaganda campaign to turn the American public against Germany and involve us in
World War II.
In 1938, Roosevelt executed a secret agreement with Churchill which in effect ceded
U.S. sovereignty to England, because it agreed to let Special Operations Executive
control U.S. policies. To implement this agreement, Roosevelt sent General Donovan
to London for indoctrination before setting up OSS (now the CIA) under the aegis of
SOE-SIS. The entire OSS program, as well as the CIA has always worked on guidelines
set up by the Tavistock Institute.
[Editor, Tim Aho: See Watch Unto Prayer report on <http://watch.pair.com/jbscnp.html>The John Birch Society & Council for National Policy for information
regarding CIA operations on the Christian Right.]
Tavistock Institute originated the mass civilian bombing raids carried out by Roosevelt
and Churchill purely as a clinical experiment in mass terror, keeping records of the
results as they watched the "guinea pigs" reacting under "controlled laboratory
conditions". All Tavistock and American foundation techniques have a single goal---to
break down the psychological strength of the individual and render him helpless to
oppose the dictators of the World Order. Any technique which helps to break down the
family unit, and family inculcated principles of religion, honor, patriotism and sexual
behavior, is used by the Tavistock scientists as weapons of crowd control.
The methods of Freudian psychotherapy induce permanent mental illness in those
who undergo this treatment by destabilizing their character. The victim is then advised
to "establish new rituals of personal interaction", that is, to indulge in brief sexual
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encounters which actually set the participants adrift with no stable personal
relationships in their lives, destroying their ability to establish or maintain a family.
Tavistock Institute has developed such power in the U.S. that no one achieves
prominence in any field unless he has been trained in behavioral science at Tavistock
or one of its subsidiaries.
Henry Kissinger, whose meteoric rise to power is otherwise inexplicable, was a
German refugee and student of Sir John Rawlings-Reese at SHAEF. Dr. Peter Bourne,
a Tavistock Institute psychologist, picked Jimmy Carter for President of the U.S. solely
because Carter had undergone an intensive brainwashing program administered by
Admiral Hyman Rickover at Annapolis. The "experiment" in compulsory racial
integration in the U.S. was organized by Ronald Lippert, of the OSS and the American
Jewish Congress, and director of child training at the Commission on Community
Relations. The program was designed to break down the individual's sense of personal
knowledge in his identity, his racial heritage. Through the Stanford Research
Institute, Tavistock controls the National Education Association. The Institute of
Social Research at the National Training Lab brain washes the leading
executives of business and government.
Such is the power of Tavistock that our entire space program was scrapped for nine
years so that the Soviets could catch up. The hiatus was demanded in an article
written by Dr. Anatol Rapport, and was promptly granted by the government, to the
complete mystification of everyone connected with NASA. Another prominent
Tavistock operation is the Wharton School of Finance, at the University of
Pennsylvania. A single common denominator identifies the common Tavistock
strategy---the use of drugs. The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA, in which
unsuspecting CIA officials were given LSD, and their reaction studied like "guinea
pigs", resulted in several deaths.
The U.S. Government had to pay millions in damages to the families of the victims, but
the culprits were never indicted. The program originated when Sandoz AG, a Swiss
drug firm, owned by S.G. Warburg Co. of London, developed Lysergic Acid [LSD].
Roosevelt's advisor, James Paul Warburg, son of Paul Warburg who wrote the
Federal Reserve Act, and nephew of Max Warburg who had financed Hitler, set up
the <http://watch.pair.com/FreedomHouse.html#ips>Institute for Policy Studies to
promote the drug. The result was the LSD "counter-culture" of the 1960s, the "student
revolution", which was financed by $25 million from the CIA.
One part of MK Ultra was the Human Ecology Fund; the CIA also paid Dr. Herbert
Kelman of Harvard to carry out further experiments on mind control. In the 1950s, the
CIA financed extensive LSD experiments in Canada. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron,
president of the Canadian Psychological Association, and director of Royal Victorian
Hospital, Montreal, received large payments from the CIA to give 53 patients large
doses of LSD and record their reactions; the patients were drugged into weeks of sleep
and then given electric shock treatments.
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One victim, the wife of a member of the Canadian Parliament, is now suing the U.S.
companies who provided the drug for the CIA. All the records of the CIA's drug testing
program were ordered destroyed by the head of MK Ultra. Because all efforts of the
Tavistock Institute are directed toward producing cyclical collapse, the effect of the
CIA programs are tragically apparent. R. Emmett Tyrell Jr., writing in the Washington
Post August 20, 1984, cites the "squalid consequences of the 60s radicals in SDS" as
resulting in "the growing rate of illegitimacy, petty lawlessness, drug addiction,
welfare, VD, and mental illness".
This is the legacy of the Warburgs and the CIA. Their principal agency, the Institute
for Policy Studies, was funded by James Paul Warburg; its co-founder was Marcus
Raskin, protege of McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation. Bundy had
Raskin appointed to the post of President Kennedy's personal representative on the
National Security Council, and in 1963 funded Students for Democratic Society,
through which the CIA operated the drug culture.
Today the Tavistock Institute operates a $6 Billion a year network of Foundations in
the U.S., all of it funded by U.S. taxpayers' money. Ten major institutions are under its
direct control, with 400 subsidiaries, and 3000 other study groups and think tanks
which originate many types of programs to increase the control of the World Order
over the American people. The Stanford Research Institute, adjoining the Hoover
Institution, is a $150 million a year operation with 3300 employees. It carries on
program surveillance for Bechtel, Kaiser, and 400 other companies, and extensive
intelligence operations for the CIA. It is the largest institution on the West Coast
promoting mind control and the behavioral sciences.
One of the key agencies as a conduit for secret instructions from Tavistock is the
Ditchley Foundation, founded in 1957. The American branch of the Ditchley
Foundation is run by Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State, and director of the
Rockefeller Foundation, and Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign
Relations.
[Editor, Tim Aho's note: The wife of Winston Lord (CFR, Bilderberg, Skull & Bones),
Bette Bao Lord (CFR, Bilderberg), is Chairman of the Board of Freedom House whose
manipulation of the Christian Right via the Religious Persecution issue is documented
in our report <http://watch.pair.com/FreedomHouse.html>Freedom House: A CFR
Front.]
One of the principal but little known operations of the Rockefeller Foundation has
been its techniques for controlling world agriculture. Its director, Kenneth
Wernimont, set up Rockefeller controlled agricultural programs throughout Mexico
and Latin America. The independent farmer is a great threat to the World Order,
because he produces for himself, and because his produce can be converted into
capital, which gives him independence. In Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks believed they
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had attained total control over the people; they were dismayed to find their plans
threatened by the stubborn independence of the small farmers, the Kulaks.
Stalin ordered the OGPU to seize all food and animals of the Kulaks, and to starve
them out. The Chicago American, February 25, 1935 carried a front page headline, SIX
MILLION PERISH IN SOVIET FAMINE; Peasants' Crops Seized, They and their
Animals Starve. To draw attention from this atrocity, it was later alleged that the
Germans, not the Soviets, had killed six million people, the number taken from the
Chicago American headline by a Chicago publicist.
The Communist Party, the Party of the Peasants and Workers, exterminated the
peasants and enslaved the workers. Many totalitarian regimes have found the small
farmer to be their biggest stumbling block. The French Reign of Terror was directed,
not against the aristocrats, many of whom were sympathetic to it, but against the small
farmers who refused to turn over their grain to the revolutionary tribunals in exchange
for the worthless assignats. In the United States, the foundations are presently
engaged in the same type of war of extermination against the American farmer.
The traditional formula of land plus labor for the farmer has been altered due to the
farmer's need for purchasing power, to buy industrial goods needed in his farming
operations. Because of this need for capital, the farmer is especially vulnerable to the
World Order's manipulation of interest rates, which is bankrupting him. Just as in the
Soviet Union, in the early 1930s, when Stalin ordered the Kulaks to give up their small
plots of land to live and work on the collective farms, the American small farmer faces
the same type of extermination, being forced to give up his small plot of land to
become a hired hand for the big agricultural trusts. The Brookings Institution and
other foundations originated the monetary programs implemented by the Federal
Reserve System to destroy the American farmer, a replay of the Soviet tragedy in
Russia, with one proviso that the farmer will be allowed to survive if he becomes a
slave worker of the giant trusts.
Once the citizen becomes aware of the true role of the foundations, he can understand
the high interest rates, high taxes, the destruction of the family, the degradation of the
churches into forums for revolution, the subversion of the universities into CIA
cesspools of drug addiction, and the halls of government into sewers of international
espionage and intrigue. The American citizen can now understand why every agent of
the federal government is against him; the alphabet agencies, the FBI, IRS, CIA and
BATF must make war on the citizen in order to carry out the programs of the
foundations.
The foundations are in direct violation of their charters, which commit them to do
"charitable" work, because they make no grants which are not part of a political goal.
The charge has been made, and never denied, that the Heritage-AEI network has at
least two KGB moles on its staff. The employment of professional intelligence
operatives as "charitable" workers, as was done in the Red Cross Mission to Russia in
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1917, exposes the sinister political economic and social goals which the World Order
requires the foundations to achieve through their " bequests ".
Not only is this tax fraud, because the foundations are granted tax exemption solely to
do charitable work, but it is criminal syndicalism, conspiracy to commit offenses
against the United States of America, Constitutional Law 213, Corpus Juris Secundum
16. For the first time, the close interlocking of the foundation "syndicate" has been
revealed by the names of its principle incorporators---Daniel Coit Gilman, who
incorporated the Peabody Fund and the John Slater Fund, and became an
incorporator of the General Education Board (now the Rockefeller Foundation);
Gilman, who also incorporated the Russell Trust in 1856, later became an incorporator
of the Carnegie Institution with Andrew Dickson White (Russell Trust) and Frederic A.
Delano. Delano also was an original incorporator of the Brookings Institution and the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Daniel Coit Gilman incorporated the Russell Sage Foundation with Cleveland H.
Dodge of the National City Bank. These foundations incorporators have been closely
linked with the Federal Reserve System, the War Industries Board of World War I, the
OSS of World War II and the CIA. They have also been closely linked with the
American International Corporation, which was formed to instigate the Bolshevik
Revolution in Russia. Delano, an uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was on the
original Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1914. His brother-in-law
founded the influential Washington law firm of Covington and Burling. The Delanos
and other ruling families of the World Order trace their lineage directly back to
William of Orange and the regime which granted the charter of the Bank of England.
Tavistock Institutions In The United States
Flow Laboratories Gets contracts from the National Institutes of Health.
Merle Thomas Corporation Gets contracts from the U.S. Navy, analyzes data from
satellites.
Walden Research Does work in the field of pollution control.
Planning Research Corporation, Arthur D. Little, G.E. "TEMPO", Operations
Research Inc. Part of approximately 350 firms who conduct research and conduct
surveys, make recommendations to government. They are part of what President
Eisenhower called "a possible danger to public policy that could itself become captive
of a scientific-technological elite."
Brookings Institution Dedicates its work to what it calls a "national agenda." Wrote
President Hoover's program, President Roosevelt's "New Deal", the Kennedy
Administration's "New Frontiers" program (deviation from it may have cost John F.
Kennedy his life), and President Johnson's "Great Society." Brookings has been telling
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the United States Government how to conduct its affairs for the past 70 years and is
still doing so.
Hudson Institute This institution has done more to shape the way Americans react
to political and social events, think, vote and generally conduct themselves than
perhaps any except the BIG FIVE. Hudson specializes in defense policy research and
relations with the USSR. Most of its military work is classified as SECRET. (One idea
during the Vietnam War was to build a moat around Saigon.) Hudson may be properly
classified as one of the Committee of 300's BRAINWASHING establishments. One of
its largest clients is the U.S. Department of Defense which includes matters of civil
defense, national security, military policy and arms control.
[Editor, Tim Aho: This is the same <http://watch.pair.com/Hudson.html>Hudson
Institute which gave us GOALS 2000 and authored the Freedom From Religious
Persecution Act, which became the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. This
law required the creation of a federal commission to monitor religion chaired by a
presidentially-appointed Ambassador-at-Large on International Religious Freedom
under the mandates of the United Nations' covenants and authority of the
International Criminal Court.]
National Training Laboratories One of the key institutions established for this
purpose in the United States was the National Training Laboratories (NTL). Founded
in 1947 by members of the Tavistock network in the United States and located
originally on an estate in Bethel, Maine, NTL had as its explicit purpose the
brainwashing of leaders of the government, educational institutions, and corporate
bureaucracies in the Tavistock method, and then using these "leaders" to either
themselves run Tavistock group sessions in their organizations or to hire other
similarly trained group leaders to do the job. The "nuts and bolts" of the NTL
operation revolves around the particular form of Tavistock degenerate psychology
known as "group dynamics," developed by German Tavistock operative Kurt Lewin,
who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and whose students founded NTL.
In a Lewinite brainwashing group, a number of individuals from varying backgrounds
and personalities, are manipulated by a "group leader" to form a "consensus" of
opinion, achieving a new "group identity." The key to the process is the creation of a
controlled environment, in which stress is introduced (sometimes called dissonance)
to crack an individual's belief structure. Using the peer pressure of other group
members, the individual is "cracked," and a new personality emerges with new values.
The degrading experience causes the person to deny that any change has taken place.
In that way, an individual is brainwashed without the victim knowing what has taken
place.
This method is the same, with some minor modification, used in all so-called
"sensitivity groups" or "T-groups," or in the more extreme rock-drug-sex
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counterculture form, "touchy-feely groups," such as the kind popularized from the
1960s onward by the Esalen Institute, which was set up with the help of NTL.
From the mid-1950s onward, NTL put the majority of the nation's corporate
leaderships through such brainwashing programs, while running similar programs for
the State Department, the Navy, the Department of Education, and other sections of
the federal bureaucracy. There is no firm estimate of the number of Americans who
have been put through this process in last 40 years at either NTL, or as it is now known
the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, which is based in Rosslyn,
Virginia, or its West Coast base of operations, the Western Training Laboratories
in Group Development, or in various satellite institutions. The most reliable
estimate is in the several millions.
One of the groups that went through the NTL mill in the 1950s was the leadership of
the National Education Association, the largest organization of teachers in the
United States. Thus, the NEA's outlook has been "shaped" by Tavistock, through the
NTL. In 1964, the NTL Institute became a direct part of the NEA, with the NTL setting
up "group sessions" for all its affiliates. With funding from the Department of
Education, the NTL Institute drafted the programs for the training of the nation's
primary and secondary school teachers, and has a hand as well in developing the
content of educational "reforms," including OBE.
Also known as the International Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences.
This institute is a brainwashing center in artificial stress training whereby participants
suddenly find themselves immersed in defending themselves against vicious
accusations. NTL takes in the National Education Association, the largest teacher
group in the United States. While officially decrying "racism", it is interesting to note
that NTL, working with NEA, produced a paper proposing education vouchers which
would separate the hard-to-teach children from the brighter ones, and funding would
be allocated according to the number of difficult children who would be separated
from those who progressed at a normal rate. The proposal was not taken up.
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce
Founded by Eric Trist One of the "brain trusts" of Tavistock, Wharton has become one
of the more important Tavistock in so far as "Behavioral Research" is concerned.
Wharton attracts clients such as the U.S. Department of Labor---which teaches how to
produce "cooked" statistics at the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates
Incorporated. This method was very much in demand as we came to the close of 1991
with millions more out of work than was reflected in USDL statistics. Wharton's
ECONOMETRIC MODELING is used by every major Committee of 300 company in
the United States, Western Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the United
Nations, and the World Bank. Institute for Social Research Among its clients are The
Ford Foundation, U.S.Department of Defense, U.S.Postal Service and the U.S.
Department of Justice. Among its studies are "The Human Meaning Of Social Change",
"Youth in Transition" and "How Americans View Their Mental Health".
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Institute For The Future This is not a typical Tavistock institution in that it is
funded by the Ford Foundation, yet it draws its long-range forecasting from the
mother of all think tanks. Institute for the Future projects what it believes to be
changes that will be taking place in time frames of fifty years. So called "DELPHI
PANELS" decide what is normal and what is not, and prepare position papers to
"steer" government in the right direction to head off such groups as "people creating
civil disorder." (This could be patriotic groups demanding abolition of graduated taxes,
or demanding that their right to bear arms is not infringed.) This institute
recommends action such as liberalizing abortion laws, drug usage and that cars
entering an urban area pay tolls, teaching birth control in public schools, requiring
registration of firearms, making use of drugs a non-criminal offense, legalizing
homosexuality, paying students for scholastic achievements, making zoning controls a
preserve of the state, offering bonuses for family planning and last, but most
frightening, a Pol Pot Cambodia-style proposal that new communities be established in
rural areas, (concentration camp compounds). As can be observed, many of their goals
have already been more than fully realized.
INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (IPS)
One of the "Big Three", IPS has shaped and reshaped United States policies, foreign
and domestic, since it was founded by James P. Warburg and the Rothschild entities in
the United States. Its networks in America include the League for Industrial
Democracy. Lead players in the League for Industrial Democracy have included Jeane
Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Irwin Suall of the ADL,
Eugene Rostow, Arms control negotiator, Lane Kirkland, Labor Leader, and Albert
Shanker. IPS was incorporated in 1963 by Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnett, both
highly trained Tavistock Institute graduates. The objectives of IPS came from an
agenda laid down for it by the Tavistock Institute, one of the most notable being to
create the "New Left" as a grass roots movement in the U.S. Its been said that Barnett
and Raskin controlled such diverse elements as the Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg,
National Security Council staff member Halprin, The Weathermen Underground, the
Venceramos and the campaign staff of candidate George McGovern. No scheme was
too big for IFS and its controllers to take on and manage.
Through its many powerful lobbing groups on Capitol Hill, IPS relentlessly used its
"Big Stick" to beat Congress. IPS has a network of lobbyists, all supposedly operating
independently but in actual fact acting cohesively, so that Congressmen are pummeled
from all sides by seemingly different and varied lobbyists, In this way, IPS was, and is
still, able to successfully sway individual Representatives and Senators to vote for "the
trend, the way things are going." By using key pointmen on Capitol Hill, IPS was able
to break into the very infrastructure of our legislative system and the way it works.
IPS became, and remains to this day, one of the most prestigious "think tanks"
controlling foreign policy decisions, which we, the people, foolishly believe are those of
our law makers. By sponsoring militant activism at home and with links to
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revolutionaries abroad, by engineering such victories as "The Pentagon Papers,"
besieging the corporate structure, bridging the credibility gap between underground
movements and acceptable political activism, by penetrating religious organizations
and using them to sow discord in America, such as radical racial policies under the
guise of religion, using establishment media to spread IPS ideas, and then supporting
them, IPS has lived up to the role which it was founded to play.
[Editor, Tim Aho: See Watch Unto Prayer report on
<http://watch.pair.com/FreedomHouse.html>Freedom House: "Grants (for the IPS)
came from the Samuel Rubin Foundation and the Stern Family Fund. Samuel Rubin
was himself a member of the elite Comintern of the Communist Party, founded by
none other than Lenin himself. Billionaire Armand Hammer assisted Rubin in
making the fortunes which helped launch IPS. Philip Stern, an IPS trustee, was the
president of Stern Fund. The executive director of the Stern Fund, David R. Hunter,
was previously an official of The National Council and the World Council Of
Churches. (Dr. James W. Wardner, Unholy Alliances, p.125)]
STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Jesse Hobson, the first president of Stanford Research Institute, in a 1952 speech
made it clear what lines the institute was to follow. Stanford can be described as one of
the "jewels" in Tavistock's Crown in its rule over the United States. Founded in 1946
immediately after the close of WWII, it was presided over by Charles A. Anderson,
with emphasis on mind control research and "future sciences." Included under the
Stanford umbrella was Charles F. Kettering Foundation which developed the
"Changing Images of Man" upon which the Aquarian Conspiracy rests.
Some of Stanford's major clients and contracts were at first centered around the
defense establishment but, as Stanford grew, so, did the diversity of its services:
Applications of Behavioral Sciences to Research Management Office of Science and
Technology
SRI Business Intelligence Program
U.S. Department of Defense Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering
U.S. Department of Defense Office of Aerospace Research
Among corporations seeking Stanford's services were Wells Fargo Bank, Bechtel
Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, McDonnell Douglas Corporation,
Blyth, Eastman Dillon and TRW Company. One of Stanford's more secret projects was
extensive work on chemical and bacteriological warfare (CAB) weapons.
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Stanford Research is plugged into at least 200 smaller "think tanks" doing research
into every facet of life in America. This is ARPA networking and represents the
emergence of probably the most far reaching effort to control the environment of every
individual in the country. At present Stanford's computers are linked with 2500
"sister" research consoles which include the CIA, Bell Telephone Laboratories, U.S.
Army Intelligence, The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Rand, MIT, Harvard and
UCLA. Stanford plays a key role in that it is the "library", cataloging all ARPA
documentation.
"Other agencies".....one can use one's imagination here, are allowed to search through
SRI's "library" for key words, phrases, look through sources and update their own
master files with those of Stanford Research Center. The Pentagon uses SRI's master
files extensively, and there is little doubt that other U.S. Government agencies do the
same. Pentagon "command and control" problems are worked out by Stanford.
While ostensibly these apply only to weapons and soldiers, there is absolutely no
guarantee that the same research could not , and will not be turned to civilian
applications. Stanford is known to be willing to do anything for anyone.
[Editor, Tim Aho: See Watch Unto Prayer report
<http://watch.pair.com/dolphin.html>Lambert Dolphin & the Great Sphinx, which
documents the connections of SRI's Lambert Dolphin with the Edgar Cayce
Foundation and The Discernment Ministries.]
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT),
ALFRED P. SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
This major institute is not generally recognized as being a part of Tavistock U.S.A.
Most people look upon it as being a purely American institution, but that is far from
the truth. MIT- Alfred Sloan can be roughly divided into the following groups:
Contemporary Technology Industrial Relations NASA-ERC Computer Research
Laboratories Office of Naval Research Group, Psychology Systems Dynamics
Some of MIT's clients are:
American Management Association
Committee for Economic Development
GTE
Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
NASA
National Academy of Sciences
National Council of Churches
Sylvania
TRW
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U.S. Army
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Navy
U.S. Treasury
Volkswagen Company
RAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Without a doubt, RAND is THE think tank most beholden to Tavistock Institute and
certainly the RIIA's most prestigious vehicle for control of United States policies at
every level. Specific RAND policies that became operative include our ICBM program,
prime analyses for U.S. foreign policy making, instigator of space programs, U.S.
nuclear policies, corporate analyses, hundreds of projects for the military, the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) in relation to the use of mind altering drugs like peyote, LSD
(the covert MK-ULTRA operation which lasted for 20 years).
[Editor, Tim Aho's note: The founder of the Rand Corporation, Herman Kahn, also
founded the Hudson Institute in 1961. In Educating for the New World Order, B.K.
Eakman tells of a training manual for "change agents" developed for the U.S.
government by Rand Corporation: ". . . a how-to manual with a 1971 U.S. Office of
Education contract number on it entitled 'Training for Change Agents'; seven volumes
of 'change agent studies' commissioned by the U.S. Office of Education to the Rand
Corporation in 1973-74; scores of other papers submitted by behaviorist researchers
who had obtained grants from the U.S. Office of Education for the purpose of exploring
ways to 'freeze' and 'unfreeze' values, 'to implement change,' and to turn potentially
hostile groups and committees into acquiescent, rubber-stamp bodies by means of
such strategies as the 'Delphi Technique.'" (p. 118)]
Some of RAND's clients include:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
Chase Manhattan Bank
International Business Machines (IBM)
National Science Foundation
Republican Party
TRW
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Department of Health
U.S. Department of Energy
There are literally THOUSANDS of highly important companies, government
institutions and organizations that make use of RANDS's services. To list them all
would be impossible. Among RAND's specialities is a study group that predicts the
timing and the direction of a thermonuclear war, plus working out the many scenarios
based upon its findings. RAND was once accused of being commissioned by the USSR
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to work out terms of surrender of the United States Government, an accusation that
went all the way to the United States Senate, where it was taken up by Senator
Symington and subsequently fell victim to scorn poured out by the establishment
press. BRAINWASHING remains the primary function of RAND.
These institutions are among those that fund The UNIFORM LAW FOUNDATION,
whose function is to ensure that the Uniform Commercial Code remains the
instrument for conducting business in the United States.
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Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations
(layer of The Committee of 300)
Source: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/wake_up_america.html
This group was formed at Oxford University, London, by the Royal Institute of Of
International Affairs in 1922. Major John Rawlings Reese, a British Army technician,
was instructed to set up the largest brainwashing facility in the world at the Tavistock
Institute for Human Relations as a part of Sussex University.
This became the core of Britain's Psychological Warfare Bureau. It was Tavistockdesigned methods that got the United States into the Second World War and which,
under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Lewin, established the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Lewin became the director of the Strategic Bombing Survey, which was a plan for the
Royal Air Force to concentrate on bombing German worker housing while leaving
military targets, such as munition plants, alone. The munition plants on both sides
belonged to the international bankers who had no wish to see their assets destroyed.
The idea behind saturation bombing of civilian worker housing was to break the
morale of the German worker.
It was not designed to affect the war effort against the German military machine.
Lewin and his team of actuaries reached a target figure, that if 65% of German worker
housing was destroyed by nightly RAF bombing, the morale of the civilian population
would collapse. The actual document was prepared by the Pru-dential Assurance
Company. The RAF, under the command of "Bomber" Harris, carried out Lewin's
plans, culminating in the terror firestorm bombing of Dresden, in which over 125,000,
mainly old men, women and children, were killed.
The truth of "Bomber" Harris's horror raids on German civilians was a well kept secret
until long after the end of WW II. Today its primary mission is to establish a global
brainwashing and opinion forming network. This institute is the originator of the
Aquarian Conspiracy, designed to weaken the nations of the world by encouraging
drug use, free sex, homosexuality and lesbianism. It has been very successful in the
United States. It works through many research institutes and think tanks. The
principal ones in the United States are the Stanford Research Institute, Rand Research
and Development Corporation, the Institute For Policy Studies, the Aspen Institute,
the Hudson Institute, and the Brookings Institute. Tavistock runs over 30 research
institutions in the United States.
These Tavistock-U.S. institutions have in many cases grown into gargantuan monsters,
penetrating every aspect of our government agencies and taking command of all policy
making. One of Tavistock's chief wreckers of our way of life was Dr. Alexander King, a
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founder member of NATO and a favorite with the Committee of 300, as well as an
outstanding member of the Club of Rome.
When it was decided that a super-body would control European affairs, the RIIA
founded the Tavistock Institute, which in turn created NATO. For Five years NATO
was financed by the German Marshall Fund. Dr. King was assigned by the Club of
Rome to destroy America's education by taking control of the National Teachers
Association and working in close conjunction with certain law makers and judges.
Scientists engaged in the process of conditioning are called "social engineers" or "newscience social scientists" and they play an integral part in what we see, hear and read.
The "old school" social engineers were Kurt K. Lewin, Professor Hadley Cantril,
Margaret Meade, Professor Derwin Cartwright and Professor Lipssitt who, together
with John Rawlings Reese, made up the backbone of new-science scientists at
Tavistock Institute.
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The Beatles and the Aquarian Conspiracy
[Editor's Note: People who are sentimental about the Beatles will find it hard to
believe that they were pumped up and used by the Illuminati to introduce soft drugs
among middle class American youth. They were also a vehicle for the introduction of
mind control "trigger words" into everyday jargon. I recall very well when the Beatles
made their debut on the American rock scene. Their sudden and explosive "popularity"
in America made no sense to me at the time. I couldn't understand what was so great
about the Beatles and why they were portrayed as 'threatening' to the crown of the
then King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley.
America, after all, was the birthplace of Rock & Roll, Allen Freed, and "do wop, do
wop". America alone could boast of the greatest names and groups in Rock & Roll- not
Europe or Asia, and certainly not England. American Rock & Roll performers were the
envy of world and were emulated and copied down to the smallest mannerism and
detail by European and Asian youth. How is it that a bar band from Liverpool doing
almost all American rock cover tunes like Chuck Berry songs would suddenly be blitzed
across American media as the "greatest sensation to ever hit the shores of America"?
Huh? Musically speaking, there was nothing "fabulous" about the "Fab Four". They
were a cover band; but that's it! Yes, they had some decent hits after they took
American "by storm" but NOT before. So how is it that they got to the top of Rock &
Roll Mountain here in America without really climbing it? Simple, they were
helicoptered up there by the Committee of 300 and the Tavistock Institute of Human
Relations and no one is in a better position to tell you how it was done than the author
of this article, Dr John Coleman...Ken Adachi]
By Dr. John Coleman
http://educateyourself.org/cn/colemanbeatlesandAquarianConspiracy01mar07.shtml
March 1, 2007
The Beatles and the Aquarian Conspiracy by Dr. John Coleman (Mar. 1, 2007)
An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is
Stanford Research Institute, was the "advent" of the BEATLES. The Beatles were
When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have imagined
the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part
of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a living organism which sprang From "THE
CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No.
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4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director,
Professor Willis Harmon.
The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the
old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial
body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a
large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new
phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the
Beatles. Words such as "rock" in relation to music sounds, "teenager," "cool,"
"discovered" and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the
acceptance of drugs and arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they
went, to be "discovered" by "teenagers." Incidentally, the word "teenagers" was never
used until just before the Beatles arrived on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock
Institute for Human Relations.
As in the case of gang wars, nothing could or would have been accomplished without
the cooperation of the media, especially the electronic media and, in particular, the
scurrilous Ed Sullivan who had been coached by the conspirators as to the role he was
to play. Nobody would have paid much attention to the motley crew from Liverpool
and the 12-atonal system of "music" that was to follow had it not been for an
overabundance of press exposure. The 12-atonal system consisted of heavy, repetitive
sounds, taken from the music of the cult of Dionysus and the Baal priesthood by Theo
Adorno and given a "modern" flavor by this special friend of the Queen of England
and hence the Committee of 300.
Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center created trigger words which then came into
general usage around "rock music" and its fans. Trigger words created a distinct new
break-away largely young population group which was persuaded by social engineering
and conditioning to believe that the Beatles really were their favorite group. All trigger
words devised in the context of "rock music" were designed for mass control of the new
targeted group, the youth of America.
The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that Tavistock
and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like trained robots "with a
little help from their friends"--code words for using drugs and making it "cool." The
Beatles became a highly visible "new type"-- more Tavistock jargon--and as such it was
not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing, hairstyles and language
usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This was part of
the"fragmentation-maladaptation" process worked out by Willis Harmon and his
team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.
brainwashing large population groups. Gang wars ended in Los Angeles in 1966 as the
media withdrew its coverage. The same thing will happen with the current wave of
gang wars in Los Angeles. Street gangs will wither on the vine once media saturation
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coverage is toned down and then completely withdrawn. As in 1966, the issue would
become "burned out." Street gangs will have served their purpose of creating
turbulence and insecurity. Exactly the same pattern will be followed in the case of
"rock" music. Deprived of media attention, it will eventually take its place in history.
Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute,
came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno
write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words
in the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used
when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill.
To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."
too did the "beat generation," trigger words designed to separate and fragment society.
The media now focused its attention on the"beat generation." Other Tavistock-coined
words came seemingly out of nowhere: "beatniks," "hippies," "flower children" became
part of the vocabulary of America. It became popular to "drop out" and wear dirty
jeans, go about with long unwashed hair. The "beat generation" cut itself off from
main-stream America. They became just as infamous as the cleaner Beatles before
them.
The newly-created group and its "lifestyle" swept millions of young Americans into the
cult. American youth underwent a radical revolution without ever being aware of it,
while the older generation stood by helplessly, unable to identify the source of the
crisis, and thus reacting in a maladaptive manner against its manifestation, which
were drugs of all types, marijuana, and later Lysergic acid, "LSD," so conveniently
provided for them by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, SANDOZ, following the
discovery by one of its chemists, Albert Hoffman, how to make synthetic ergotamine,
a powerful mind-altering drug. The Committee of 300 financed the project
through one of their banks, S. C. Warburg, and the drug was carried
to America by the philosopher, Aldous Huxley.
The new "wonder drug" was promptly distributed in "sample" size packages, handed
out free of charge on college campuses across the United States and at "rock" concerts,
which became the leading vehicle for proliferating the use of drugs. The question that
cries out for an answer is, what was the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) doing at the
time? There is compelling circumstantial evidence that would appear to indicate that
the DEA knew what was going on but was ordered not to take any action.
With very substantial numbers of new British "rock" bands arriving in the U.S., rock
tandem with these "concerts," the use of drugs among the youth rose in proportion.
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that they were easily persuaded to try the new drug on the basis that "everybody is
doing it." Peer pressure is a very strong weapon. The "new culture" received maximum
coverage from the jackal media, which cost the conspirators not one single thin dime.
Alan Ginsberg
slobs ever to walk the streets of America was Alan Ginsberg. This Ginsberg pushed the
use of LSD through advertising which cost him nothing, although under normal
free advertising for drugs, and LSD in particular, reached a new high in the late 1960's,
thanks to the ever-willing cooperation of the media. The effect of Ginsberg's mass
advertising campaign was devastating; the American public was subjected to one
Tavistock jargon, lifted from the Tavistock training manual, overwhelmed by its new
was just too much to cope with, that is to say, "long range penetration had taken hold
of us." Ginsberg claimed to be a poet but no greater rubbish was ever written by
anyone who ever aspired to becoming a poet. Ginsberg's designated task had little to
do with poetry; his main function was to push the new subculture and force acceptance
of it upon the large targeted population group.
To assist him in his task, Ginsberg cooped the services of Norman Mailer, a writer of
sorts who had spent some time in a mental institution. Mailer was a favorite of the left
wing Hollywood crowd and so had no problem with getting maximum television time
for Ginsberg. Naturally Mailer had to have a pretext-- not even he could blatantly come
out with the true nature of Ginsberg's television appearances. So a charade was
adopted: Mailer would talk "seriously" on camera with Ginsberg about poetry and
literature.
This method of getting wide television coverage at no cost to themselves was followed
by every rock group and concert promoter who followed the example set by Ginsberg.
The electronic media moguls had big hearts when it came to giving free time to these
dirty venomous creatures and their even dirtier products and filthy ideas. Their
promotion of horrible garbage spoke volumes and, without abundant help from the
print and electronic media, the drug trade could not have spread as rapidly as it did in
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the late 1960's-early 197O's, and probably would have been confined to a few small
local areas.
Ginsberg was able to give several nationally televised performances extolling the
virtues of LSD and marijuana, under the guise of "new ideas" and "new cultures"
developing in the art and music world. Not to be outdone by the electronic media,
Ginsberg's admirers wrote glowing articles about"this colorful man" in the art and
social columns of all of America's largest newspapers and magazines. There had never
been such an across-the-media-board free advertising campaign in the history of
newspaper, radio and television and it cost the promoters of the Aquarian
conspiracy, NATO and the Club of Rome not one red cent. It was all absolutely free
advertising for LSD, only thinly disguised as "art" and "culture."
One of Ginsberg's closest friends, Kenny Love, published a Five-page report in the
New York Times. This is in accordance with the methodology used by Tavistock and
Stanford Research: If something is to be promoted which the public has not yet been
fully brainwashed to accept, then have someone write an article, covering all
sides of the subject matter. The other method is to have live television talk
shows in which a panel of experts promotes the product and or idea under
the pretext of "discussing", it. There are point and counter-point, both pro and con
participants airing their support or opposition. When it is all over, the subject to be
promoted has been dinned into the public mind. While this was new in the early
1970's, today it is standard practice on which talk shows thrive.
Love's Five-page pro LSD pro Ginsberg article was duly printed by the New York
Times. Had Ginsberg tried to buy the same amount of space in an advertisement, it
would have cost him at least $50,000. But Ginsberg didn't have to worry; thanks to his
Friend Kenny Love, Ginsberg got the massive advertising all for free. With newspapers
like the New York Times and the Washington Post under the control of the Committee
of 300, this kind of free advertising is given to any subject matter, and more especially
to those promoting decadent life styles--drugs-hedonism-- anything that will confuse
the American people. After the trial run with Ginsberg and LSD, it became standard
Club of Rome practice to call upon major newspapers in America to give free
advertising on demand to people and ideas they were promoting.
Worse yet--or better yet, depending upon the viewpoint-- United Press (UP) picked up
Kenny Love's free advertising for Ginsberg and LSD and telexed it to HUNDREDS of
newspapers- and magazines around the country under the guise of a "news" story.
Even such highly respectable establishment magazines as "Harpers Bazaar" and
"TIME" made Mr. Ginsberg respectable. If a nation-wide campaign of this magnitude
were presented to Ginsberg and the promoters of LSD by an advertising agency, the
price tag would have run into at least $1 million in terms of 1970 dollars. Today the
price tag would be nothing less than $15-$16 million dollars. It is no wonder that I
refer to the news media as "jackals."
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I suggest that we try to find any media outlet to do an expose on the Federal Reserve
Board, which is what I did. I took my article, which was a good expose of the greatest
swindle on earth, to every major newspaper, radio and television station, magazine
house and several talk-show hosts. A few made promises that sounded good--they
would definitely air the article and have me discuss it--give them about a week and
they would get back to me. Not one of them ever did, nor did my article ever appear in
the pages of their newspapers and journals. It was as if a blanket of silence had been
thrown over me and the subject I was endeavoring to promote, and indeed that was
precisely what had happened.
Without massive media hype, and without almost around the clock coverage, the
hippie-beatnik rock, drug cult would never have gotten off the ground; it would have
remained a localized oddity. The Beatles, with their twanging guitars, silly expressions,
drug language and weird clothes, would not have amounted to a hill of beans. Instead,
because the Beatles were given saturation coverage by the media, the United
States has suffered one cultural shock after another.
The men buried in the think tanks and research institutions, whose names and faces
are still not known to but a few people, made sure that the press played its part.
Conversely, the media's important role in not exposing the power behind the future
cultural shocks made certain that the source of the crisis was never identified. Thus
was our society driven mad through psychological shocks and stress. "Driven mad" is
taken from Tavistock's training manual. From its modest beginnings in 1921, Tavistock
was ready in 1966 to launch a major irreversible cultural revolution in America, which
has not yet ended. The Aquarian Conspiracy is part of it.
Thus softened up, our nation was now deemed ripe for the introduction of drugs which
was to rival the prohibition era in scope and the huge amounts of money to be made.
This too was an integral part of the Aquarian Conspiracy. The proliferation of drug
usage was one of the subjects under study at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
at Tavistock's Sussex University facility. It was known as the "future shocks" center, a
title given to so-called future oriented psychology designed to manipulate whole
population groups to induce "future shocks." It was the first of several such institutions
set up by Tavistock.
"Future shocks" is described as a series of events which come so fast that the human
brain cannot absorb the information. As I said earlier, science has shown that there are
clearly marked limits to the amount of changes and the nature of them that the mind
can deal with. After continuous shocks, the large targeted population group discovers
that it does not want to make choices any more. Apathy takes over, often preceded by
mindless violence such as is characteristic of the Los Angeles street gangs, serial
killers, rapists and child kidnapers.
Such a group becomes easy to control and will docilely follow orders without rebelling,
which is the object of the exercise. "Future shocks," says SPRU,"is defined as physical
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and psychological distress arising from the excess load on the decision-making
mechanism of the human mind." That is Tavistock jargon lifted straight from
Tavistock manuals--which they don't know I have.
Just as an overloaded electrical circuit will activate a trip switch, so do humans "trip
out," which is a syndrome that medical science is only now beginning to understand,
although John Rawlings Reese conducted experiments in this field as far back as
the 1920's. As can be appreciated, such a targeted group is ready to "trip out" and take
to drugs as a means of escape from the pressures of so many choices having to be
made. This is how Drug usage was spread so rapidly through America's "beat
generation." What started with the Beatles and sample packages of LSD has grown into
a flood-tide of drug usage which is swamping America.
The drug trade is controlled by the Committee of 300 from the Top down. The drug
trade started with the British East India Company and was closely followed by the
Dutch East India Company. Both were controlled by a "Council of 300." The list of
names of members and stockholders of the BEIC read like something out of Debretts
Peerage. BEIC established the "China Inland Mission," whose job it was to get The
Chinese peasants, or coolies, as they were called, addicted to opium. This created the
market for opium which the BEIC then filled.
In much the same way the Committee of 300 used "The "Beatles" to popularize"social
drugs" with the youth of America and The Hollywood "in-crowd." Ed Sullivan was sent
to England To become acquainted with The first Tavistock Institute "rock group" to hit
the shores of the United States. Sullivan then returned to the United States to draft the
strategy for the electronic media on how to package and sell the group. Without the full
cooperation of the electronic media and Ed Sullivan, in particular, "The Beatles" and
their"music" would have died on the vine. Instead, our national life and the character
of the United States was forever changed.
Now that we know, it is all too clear how successful the "Beatles" campaign to
proliferate the use of drugs became. The fact that "The Beatles" had their music
view. The prime function to "The Beatles" was to be discovered by teenagers, who
where then subjected to a non-stop barrage of "Beatle music," until they became
The Liverpool group performed up to expectations, and with "a little help from their
friends," i.e., illegal substances we call drugs created a whole new class to young
Americans in the precise mold ordained by the Tavistock Institute.
Dr. John Coleman.
(1) An Institute in UK where they research in mind control, run by highly trained
psychiatrists who answer to the Illuminati. From here Ayatollah Khomeini,
Radovan Karadzic and Milosevic among others were all trained for their mission.
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It's not mentioned here, but the Rolling Stones were created from the same source and
with the same purpose. Beatles were supposed to be the "good guys" while the Rolling
Stones were the "bad guys". Also, Rolling Stones were experts in creating repeating
"riffs", meaning a musical phrase that's looping over and over again (like in
"Satisfaction", "Jumping Jack Flash" etc.). These repeating riffs trigger the mind
and make one receptive to whatever sub-message you want to transfer into the minds
of the listener. In the case of the Rolling Stones we have satanic messages in their
lyrics, and they have repeated that over and over through the years (a more recent
example is the"Bridge To Babylon" album).
Another interesting thing is that The Beatles were knighted by Queen Elisabeth in the
60's for their "good work". Ringo told the press he'd been so nervous he had to smoke
pot in the bathroom before he met the Queen. Recently Paul McCartney was knighted
again. The question is: is it the same Paul McCartney?
Forward courtesy of Kanya Vashon McGhee <[email protected]>
© Copyright 2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved.
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Phillip Jones needed to educate John Lennon about obvious distortions and
half-truths ….
Religion:
“Christianity holds at its core a symbol which has for its content the individual way of
life of a man, the Son of Man, and it even regards this individuation process
as the incarnation and revelation of God himself.” -- C.G. Jung.
The faith of the West was de-constructed in part by the Illuminati `Money Power`
providing massive financial support for aberrant trends which have the effect of
secularizing and politicising religion. There can be no doubt that the greatest possible
source of resistance to illegitimate power is to be found in a people's religion, whose
central purpose it is to give the individual a spiritual and intellectual form base from
which to make relative all the pressures and influences he encounters, and secure a
deep-rooted sense of purpose and direction. Thus, religion, by whatever name it is
called, must always be at the core of a people's culture, nourished by and giving
nourishment to all the arts. From which it follows that religious error must
have the most destructive consequences when exploited by powers whose
purposes are anything but religious.
It is all the more so when the error is of a kind which, like today's social gospel heresy,
defeats religion's central purpose, and substitutes for inner illumination a set of
spurious brain-spun ‘ideals’ indistinguishable from those which activate Marxist trade
union leaders and unscrupulous politicians. The result has been a secularization and
politicization of Christianity in the West, with the setting-up, at very great cost, of a
worldwide organization centred on the World Council of Churches.
To borrow an expression from the American poet Ezra Pound, "there is no mediaeval
description of hell which exceeds the inner filth of the mentalities of some of the
ministers and prelates for whom every species of cruelty and villainy is condoned,
even incited, if perpetrated under the banner of universalist political objectives
prescribed by the money power. Not surprisingly, these same churchmen can be
relied on to block "by diseased will or sodden inertia: (Ezra Pound's words) any
cleansing of a monetary system that gives to them so much power and importance;
they will quote you the Bible on every sin in the calendar but never against the
fountain-head of every species of sin - the practice of usury.”
Two world religions, Christianity and Islam stand between Lucifer and his goal of
world rule. Christianity has been under sustained attack for two centuries at least and
is badly mauled and debilitated. Now the flow of evil emanating from the ‘Centre’ is
being aimed at Islam.
Freemason Albert Pike revealed how this was to be done in the letter he wrote
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Giuseppe Mazzini August 15th 1871, the text of which can and should be read in Part
Three of this series.
Here is Pike’s letter to Mazzini …
“Pike then told Mazzini that, after World War Three had ended, a global social
cataclysm will be provoked that will be greater than the world has ever known:
‘We shall unleash the Nihilists [meaning terrorists] and the atheists, and we
shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show
clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, the origin of savagery and
of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend
themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate
those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with
Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass
or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its
adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the
pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This
manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will
follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and
exterminated at the same time.’”
I ask the reader to study every word of this diabolically inspired document.
According to Pike’s military blueprint, drawn up between 1859 and 1871, three global
wars and three major revolutions were to place the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed
in position to usurp world powers. Two World Wars have been fought according to
schedule. The Russian and Chinese revolutions have achieved success. Communism
has been built up in strength and Christendom weakened. World War Three is
now in the making. If it is allowed to break out, all remaining nations will be
further weakened, and Islam and political Zionism will be destroyed as world powers.
The reader must not forget that the Arab world alone is made up of millions of people,
many of whom are Christians; many are of the Jewish faith; many are Muslims, but
all subscribe to belief in the same God Christians worship as the Creator
of the Universe. The Quran of the Islamic faith is in spirit and essence a divinely
inspired continuation of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, excepting
that the Muslim religion, while accepting Jesus Christ as the greatest of God’s prophets
before Mohammed, does not permit its members to believe in the Divinity of Christ.
Those who direct the Luciferian conspiracy at the top realize only too well that before
they can provoke the final social cataclysm, they must first of all bring about the
destruction of Islam as a world power, because if Islam were not destroyed, it might
eventually ally itself with Christianity in the event of an all out war with the forces of
the Illuminati. If that were allowed to happen, the balance of power would shift in
favour of the `Righteous Alliance` established finally, by the coming together of
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Christianity and Islam.
It is of the greatest of importance that these facts, which explain the political intrigue
and chicanery now going on in the near, middle, and far East, be brought to the
attention of all the good people of our world, whatever their background, so they may
take action to prevent the last phases of the Luciferian conspiracy from being put into
effect, and bring to fruition the prediction made in Chapter 20 of Revelations, i.e.,
that Satan shall be bound for a thousand years.
The events of the past half century would indicate that we are rapidly approaching that
period of the world’s history when, if it were not for the intervention of God, “No
flesh would survive” (Matt. 24:22, Mark 13: 20). It is imperative that the general
public know the diabolical fate being prepared for the whole of the human race.
If there is a Third World War, I believe that a likely scenario is that the United States
will be the only remaining world military power, albeit a degraded and depleted one.
Then, the remains of the world's population, exhausted and terrorised by a war unlike
any other, will clamour for, and demand a world government, so that ìt could never
happen again.` And they will get it if the Luciferian conspiracy is allowed to be
developed to its intended conclusion. Then, through the auspices of the United
Nations, a puppet `Priest King` of the `Royal Blood`[17] who many believe is already
waiting in the wings, will be made `World Ruler,` though under the malevolent
influence and direction of the àgentura` of the Illuminati, who will have been
appointed, not elected, to be his `Specialists,` Èxperts,` and Àdvisors.`
The High Priests of the Luciferian Creed know they cannot usurp world authority
power before the United States is ruined as the last remaining `superpower,` so those
who direct the Global Conspiracy at the `capstone level` are arranging matters so the
United States will, as Lenin stated, “Fall into our hands like an overripe fruit.” This is
how those events taking place today indicate clearly that the subjugation of the U.S.A.
is planned.”23
Philip Jones 28th July 2009. The Nexus of Evil. Source:
http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/08/nexus-of-evil-pre-emptive-strike-on.html
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The Root Of All Evil
Manipulating Order Out Of Fear
By Philip Jones
22 May, 2009
Source: http://www.rense.com/general85/rootof.htm
On 29th April 2009, the UK's Daily Mail ran the following headline:
"Teenager burned alive in scene from horror
movie was 'caught up in love triangle'"
The ‘newspaper’ reported that on June 6th last year, seventeen year old Simon Everitt,
died after being tied to a tree, doused all over with petrol, and then burned alive. The
reason? Because he had had an affair with the girlfriend of one of his alleged killers.
Everitt, had been seen arguing with the accused Jonathan Clarke shortly before he
disappeared on June 6th last year. The Court heard the teenager had allegedly been
lured to a remote woodland and killed. His charred remains were found in a ditch close
to the tree he had been tied to with blue nylon rope.
The prosecution introduced into evidence a horror movie called Severance which
Clarke allegedly watched in March last year, three months prior to the crime. Jurors
were shown a clip from the film, in which a young woman is seen tied to a tree, before
being doused in liquid and then set on fire. The prosecution case is alleging that the
killing of Mr Everitt was a recreation of the film scene.
2006 film Severance
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This appalling story would still be so if it were a lone and rare occurrence, but we live
in an age of unprecedented evil and chaos. During my fifteen years spent as a Police
officer, I served for three years attached to the Juvenile Bureau in Central London,
dealing with young offenders, and became increasingly concerned and dismayed at the
levels of extreme and calculated violence being displayed by many British youths, and
the severity of the attacks perpetrated on their victims.
So the question is; has it always been this way, or is our world becoming a more
dangerous, corrupt and perverse place to live? In the Bible Book of Timothy we read
this:
“But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be
here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming,
haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no
natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control,
fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride],
lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion
but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.” (Timothy 3:1-5)
I am aware that I am running the risk of over use of this verse, and yet nothing I have
read elsewhere so perfectly describes our human condition here in the early part of
the twenty first century.
The Road To Perdition.
Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from an American woman with whom I
correspond fairly regularly and she gave comment on another article of mine entitled
‘As You Sow, So Shall You Reap.’ The lady mentioned that she was of the opinion that
the above Biblical verse no more described our world today than it has previous era's
and that this was simply an unfortunate description of the human experience down
through the ages. But I beg to differ. Yes, throughout man's history on this planet,
there have been evil and evil doers, but the sheer scale and scope of the carnage now
being wrought on man by what is ostensibly at least his fellow man has no
precedent that I am aware of.
How far down the road to perdition have we come, when such a sick and tragic tale as
that above can be counted amongst hundreds, even thousands of acts of wickedness
being perpetrated by humanity on humanity. Read any newspaper, watch the prime
time news, listen to the radio any hour of the day or night and one is bombarded by
horror.
Just skimming through the News today on the Internet, here were some of the
headlines from around the world:
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 A teenage student, armed with an assault rifle, holds his fellow students and
teachers hostage at gunpoint in Brazil.
 Another little girl goes missing believed abducted in Australia.
 In France, a teenager confesses to having murdered someone just for the thrill
of it and to having shown the corpse to friends who kept the secret for weeks.
 In Russia, a sexual predator is arrested for exchanging tips with other
pedophiles on how to seduce children over the Internet.
These are just some of the shocking crimes making the news nowadays. Can any of us
feel secure in our homes? Many of us will know how it feels to be a victim of crime. Do
you feel safe in your neighborhood, especially at night? Have you or your family been
affected by crime? Millions of people worldwide—even in countries once considered
relatively safe—admit to having a haunting fear of crime and violence. Consider the
following snapshots from various lands.
Asia:
The Asia Times reports: “Once Japan was among the safest countries
in the world. Now, however, the once-cherished sense of personal
safety appears antiquated, and national security has been supplanted
by deep anxiety about crime and global terrorism.”
South
America:
In a news report yesterday, prominent figures in Brazil predict that
urban warfare in São Paulo in almost inevitable. Following many
weeks of sporadic violence, the country's president urged an
immediate deployment of the army onto the city's streets. In Central
America and Mexico, due to the estimated presence of at least 50,000
juvenile gang members on the streets of the major cities, the
authorities of the region have placed the security forces on alert, says a
report in the newspaper Tiempos del Mundo. Since 2005 it is believed
that about 60,000 people have died at the hands of juvenile gangs in
El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala."
Canada:
USA Today reports that Law Enforcement ‘agencies’ point to an
alarming increase in gangs, "Police have identified 73 street gangs
operating in Toronto." According to the same source, the Toronto
police chief stated that he knew of no simple solution to this growing
menace of organised urban violence.
South
Africa:
Patrick Burton, a crime researcher, states in the Financial Mail: "Fear
of crime permeates every aspect of young South Africans' lives." This
includes "violent crimes such as aggravated robberies, hijacking and
bank heists," says the paper.
France:
Many residents of housing estates, or housing developments, endure
daily terror as "they climb staircases that have been vandalised, enter
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car parks that have become no-go areas, and use public transport that
is dangerous after dark." Guardian Weekly.
United
States:
Organized gangs are adding to the crime wave. According to a report
in The New York Times, in one particular state, a police survey
reported that nearly 17,000 youths, male and female, belong to one of
some 700 gangs. This is an increase of about 10,000 members in just
four years.
The UK:
Referring to a UNICEF report about the state of children and crime,
The London Times reported that : "Increasing numbers of young
Britons are dying at the point of a gun. Victims and perpetrators of
gun crime are getting younger and younger." The prison population in
England and Wales has ballooned to over 80,000.
Kenya:
A mother and daughter who did not exit their vehicle fast enough were
shot by carjackers alongside a busy highway, says a news report.
Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has become notorious for all kinds of crime,
including carjackings, muggings, and violent home invasions.
The Root Of All Evil.
It appears that regardless of where in the
world we live, every day seems to bring in
another crop of ever more lurid crimes. As
our youth is systematically immunised
against horror by television, movies, video
games and graphic war scenes on prime time
news shows, the rest of us feel our ‘pain’
threshold is approaching overload. So we ask
ourselves what has caused all morality and
restraint to become so downgraded, whilst
evil, vice and licentiousness reign virtually
unopposed? But perhaps the question should
be not what but who has caused this demise of all things decent?
In the Bible Book of Revelation, we read :
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters
of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great
wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Revelation 12:12.)
The concept of a literal Satan/Lucifer/Devil will, to many reading this, be little more
than an absurdity. Yet some of these same doubters will readily accept the concept of
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ET for example. This writer accepts the Biblical account in so much as he has explored
other avenues of thought on this matter and found all of them to lack the authority of
the Scriptures. Jesus himself acknowledged that although people are capable of wicked
acts, he clearly identified the very source of evil as being Lucifer the Devil.
As writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy states, for centuries no one in
Christendom doubted the reality of the Devil. Rather, Christians were at times
"obsessed by the power of Satan and his demons," as Professor Norman Cohn puts it.
(Europe's Inner Demons) This obsession was not limited to simple, uneducated
peasants. The belief that the Devil materialized in the form of an animal to preside
over evil and obscene rituals, for example, "belonged not to the folklore of the illiterate
majority, but, on the contrary, to the world view of the intellectual elite," says
Professor Cohn. This "intellectual elite"—including learned clerics—was responsible for
the witch-hunts that swept through Europe from the 15th to the 17th century, when
church and civil authorities are said to have tortured and killed about 50,000 alleged
witches.
Not surprisingly, many have rejected what they consider to be wild, superstitious
notions about the Devil. Even back in 1726, Daniel Defoe derided people's belief that
the Devil was a frightful monster "with bat's wings, horns, cloven foot, long tail, forked
tongue, and the like." Such ideas, he said, were "weak fancied trifles" manufactured by
"devil-raisers and devil-makers" who "cheated the ignorant world with a devil of their
own making."
Is that how you see things? Do you agree that "the devil is in reality man's invention to
account for his own sinfulness"? That statement appears in The Zondervan Pictorial
Encyclopedia of the Bible, and many who profess to be Christians think that way.
Christendom's theologians, says Jeffrey Burton Russell, have by and large "dismissed
the Devil and the demons as superstitious relics."
Yet, to some people, the Devil is very real.[24] They reason that there must be some
kind of superhuman, malignant force behind the recurrent evils that pervade man's
history. "The horrors that the twentieth century has produced," says Russell, provide
one reason why "belief in the Devil, after a long lapse, is rapidly reappearing."
According to author Don Lewis, a number of modern, educated people who "smile
patronisingly" at the superstitious beliefs and fears of "their artless ancestors" are
"once again becoming enthralled by the evil element in the supernatural."-Religious
Superstition Through the Ages.
Nazarene Remnant comment: Such people include Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and all of
the Illuminati Inner Circle Bloodline families around the world. They know the truth, for they worship and serve
this Fallen creature. And of course one of satan’s greatest ploys is in the deception that he does not exist. We are
about to learn the full shocking reality of him!
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The Book of Genesis tells us that Lucifer induced other angels to join him in rebellion.
Like he himself, these `Fallen Angels` took an improper and perverse sexual interest
in humans with disastrous consequences.
Evil Fills the Earth.
In Genesis 6:1,2 we read: "When men started to grow in numbers, and daughters
were born to them, then the sons of God began to notice the daughters of men, that
they were fair; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they
chose."
Who were those "sons of God"? The Bible refers to them as the Nephilim, the ‘Fallen
Angels’ who joined with Lucifer in rebellion against God. Having copulated with
mortal women, they produced a race of hybrids who grew into giants, known in the
scriptures as the ‘Anakim.’ They are described as "the mighty ones who were of old, the
men of renown" Genesis 6:4.
The Nephilim and their progyny took wickedness to new lows. "The earth came to be
ruined in the sight of God and became filled with violence," Genesis 6:11. And it was
not long before humanity adopted the violent, depraved ways of the newcomers in
their midst.
How did these ‘Fallen Angels’ and their offspring exert such a powerful evil influence
on humans? By appealing to mankind's sinful inclination and desires. The result? "All
flesh ruined its way on the earth." Finally, God destroyed that world in a global Deluge,
sparing only righteous Noah and his family. (Genesis 6:5, 12-22). The scriptures tell us
that the incarnate angels returned to the heavens in disgrace. As debased demons, they
continued to oppose God, and they have remained a potent force in human affairs.
Myths Legends or Hidden Truth.
Stories about demigods, giants, and a cataclysmic flood are found in ancient
mythologies worldwide. For example, the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh mentions a
flood, a ship, and survivors. Gilgamesh himself was described as a lustful, violent
demigod, or part god, part man. Aztec mythology tells of an ancient world inhabited by
giants and of a great deluge. Norse legend describes a race of giants and a wise man
named Bergelmir who constructed a large boat and saved himself and his wife. The
combined testimony of all such legends corroborates the Bible's testimony that all
humans have descended from the survivors of a deluge that destroyed an ancient
wicked world.
Lucifer Uncovered. The traits of the Nephilim are seen in people today. The extent of
Lucifer's evil influence is revealed at 1 John 5:19 which states: "The whole world is
lying in the power of the wicked one." This great deceiver, the original adversary is
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clearly maneuvering mankind into a tempest of increasing woes. In fact, from looking
at the state of our world today, it is obvious that he is more determined than ever to
unleash chaos and suffering. Again, In Revelation 12:7-12 we read : "Woe for the earth,
because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short
period of time." So how can we recognise Lucifers's influence over mankind today?
Primarily, he does so through his agents here in this dimension, those bloodline
families who claim descent from the Nephilim. I am speaking about the Illuminati. In
his stellar Historical account of this cabal, the Canadian Author David Livingstone
writes;
"The Illuminati claim to be descended of Fallen Angels, who taught them the
"Ancient Wisdom", also known as the Kabbalah, which they have been
preserving throughout the centuries. These Fallen Angels are referred to in the
Bible, Book of Genesis, as the Nephilim, or "Sons of God", and were said to have
descended to earth and intermarried with human beings. Christian
interpretations struggle with the passage, choosing to translate the term into
"mighty men". However, apocryphal Jewish texts explain that they were the
devil and his legions, who were cast out of Heaven, and took wives from the
female descendants of Cain. They produced a race known as the Anakim"
The New Age Movement also plays it's part in this conspiracy of evil by promoting a
false and deceitful pantheistic spiritualism that molds and governs the way that people
think and act (See my Lucifer Rising Article on Rense.com). It seems to me that evil is
in the èther` these days and the Bible seems to confirm this in Ephesians 2:2 which
calls Lucifer "the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit or, prevailing attitude that
now operates in the sons of disobedience." Instead of encouraging goodness, decency,
morality and righteousness, this demonic "air" breeds rebellion against God and all his
standards of what is fine and proper. Lucifer and his demons thus promote and
aggravate the evil perpetrated by humans.
One manifestation of this "air" is the plague of pornography, which inflames improper
sexual desires and makes aberrant behavior appear to be appealing. Rape, sadism,
gang rape, bestiality, and the sexual abuse of children are some of the subjects that
pornography features as entertainment. Even in its less noxious forms, pornography
can be highly addictive and harms those who view it or read it, turning them into
habitual voyeurs. It is an evil that damages both human relations and one's
relationship with God. Pornography reflects the debased mentality of the demons who
promote it, rebels whose improper sexual desires date back to the Pre-Flood world of
the Nephilim.
Another symptom of the sickness in our world is the escalation of violence in all it's
forms. It is no coincidence that violence, often with occult themes, now saturates the
popular media. The Nephilim are dead and gone, but their descendent's live among us
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and have captured all the positions of power and influence. (See Fritz Springmeier’s,
Blood Lines of The Illuminati).
Violence, Vice and Disorder.
What are they doing about it ? During the fifteen years I spent as a Police Officer in
Central London, I witnessed time and again how the so called justice system in the UK
failed it's citizens. I watched as all manner of criminal activity escalated, particularly
crimes involving violence against the person, lewd and perverse behaviour and
gradually over time, I became sickened by the daily occurrences of social depravity.
And as the situation became ever more desperate, the government and it's will to
combat this ‘nosedive’ into chaos became ever more invisible. It was almost as if they
actually wanted chaos to reign unchecked. This was long before I understood the
Modus Operandi of that elitist Luciferian Cabal known as the Illuminati.
Ordo Ab Chao (Order Out Of Chaos). In many of his books and articles, the British
researcher and author David Icke uses the term, ‘Problem Reaction Solution’ to
simplify what should more correctly be called the ‘Hegelian Dialectic.’
Nonetheless, I agree that Mr Icke's interpretation is spot on and I believe that
successive UK governments, have conspired for many years to create a situation where
chaos and disorder go unchallenged by authority in order to let it reach the point
where the hapless and distraught citizens cry out in their collective agony that
‘something must be done’ no matter what the cost, to either their wallets or their
liberties. The ‘Hidden Hand’ of the Illuminati [Nazarene Remnant comment: the
Illuminati own and control the Police forces and Emergency Services all over the
world. In New South Wales, Australia they have recently been rebadged as the
Department of Police and Emergency Services, or, appropriately, DOPES] which
manipulates our world today from behind the scenes, has brought our civilisation to
the point whereby many people, mesmerised by television 24/7 shrug their shoulders
at the ever more depraved images of brutality and depravity on their screens and even
worse on the streets where they live. At the same time, people's ability to withstand
this all out assault on the collective and individual psyche bends ever more and
approaches breaking point.
For the better part of my adult life, I have watched as successive British ‘Governments’
have allowed, even encouraged by their inaction, violence, vice and criminality to
proliferate on the streets of our towns and cities. They have done nothing whilst
pedophiles prey on our young children, whilst prostitutes prowl the night, drawing
every form of depravity and perversion with them. They have sat back for four decades,
whilst drug abuse has destroyed whole families, even communities passing one
impotent piece of legislation after another, knowing full well that it would fail. Our
‘leaders’ have allowed every form of vice imaginable to become legal and profited
themselves from it, whilst a whole generation of our most vulnerable are exposed
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nightly to the violent and degenerate images being broadcast into their living rooms by
those purveyors of evil in Hollywood, and those much closer to home.
While paying ‘lip service’ to law and order, it is clear that at least since the end of
WWII, the British State, riddled from top to toe as it is with Traitors, Satanists,
Freemasons, Marxists and other subversives, has not only stood idly by whilst a once
proud and decent nation fell inexorably ever more into it's present sad and degraded
state, but knowingly and with malice aforethought, actively orchestrated,
manufactured and encouraged all those above mentioned factors which has
contributed to and caused the gradual erosion and decline in all that was once good
about Britain.
We are living in what many Christians believe to be the ‘End Days’ prophesied in the
Bible. Not so long ago, I would have raised an eyebrow or two at such a suggestion. But
even a former Police Officer like myself, who is by nature sceptical, and who for the
majority of his life denied God and Christ can look at the evidence and join the dots.
These are undoubtedly Satanic times. All around us, we see the symbols of the so
called ‘Light Bearer’ who in typically Masonic doublespeak is nothing of the sort. He is
the dark and malevolent force which has plagued humanity since Eden. The horrific
and bloodthirsty murder of Simon Everitt, bears the hallmarks of a ritual killing, and
just as with the vast multitude of other innocent victims of dreadful and murderous
violence; Lucifer, the real killer and mastermind of all that is evil will for now go ‘Scot
Free’ while if convicted, Johnathon Clarke rots his life away in prison having sold his
soul for what?
References:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174378/Teenager-burned-alive-scenehorror-movie-caught-love-triangle.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/index.htm Fritz Springmeier
http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/book/toc.html David Livingstone
http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=49
New American Standard Bible
Professor Norman Cohn : Europe's Inner Demons
http://nord.twu.net/acl/dialectic.html by Niki F. Raapana and Nordica M. Friedrich
Thanks to the David Icke Research Archive
http://www.davidicke.com/content/category/6/18/32/
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Don Lewis : Superstition down the ages.
My Blog http://www.nylonmanden.dk/index.php?option=com_
content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=43
Feedback welcome [email protected]
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Occult Secrets of Jay Z, Kanye and Nas
By Skeetsers
Source: http://www.100777.com/
Watch on YouTube.com here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-xVN0xERk
“An in depth look at the very disturbing truth behind some of mainstream music's
most 'popular' celebrities and their occult practices.
Download the video here and share it with everyone.
"What it's about is the fact that Jigga is a Lucifer-worshiping Mason. And he's pulled in
Kanye and Nas. All the symbols are masonic/pagan/satanic especially the pink goat's
head shirt Kanye is wearing. And just listen to the song...it's about secret societies and
the satanic Illuminati which employs Jigga. Do some research...free your mind." RizNJ
-------------------“An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is
Stanford Research Institute, was the “advent” of the BEATLES. The Beatles were
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When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have
imagined the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an
integral part of “THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY,” a living organism which sprang
From “THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN,” URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report
No. 4/4/74. Policy Report prepared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy,
Director, Professor Willis Harmon. The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a
spontaneous rebellion by youth against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully
crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a
highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group targeted for
change against its will. New words and new phrases— prepared by Tavistock— were
introduced to America along with the Beatles. Words such as “rock” in relation to
music sounds, “teenager,” “cool,” “discovered” and “pop music” were a lexicon
of disguised code words signifying the acceptance of drugs and arrived with and
accompanied the Beatles wherever they went, to be “discovered” by “teenagers.”
Incidentally, the word “teenagers” was never used until just before the Beatles arrived
on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.
As in the case of gang wars, nothing could or would have been accomplished
without the cooperation of the media, especially the electronic media and, in
particular, the scurrilous Ed Sullivan who had been coached by the conspirators as
to the role he was to play. Nobody would have paid much attention to the motley crew
from Liverpool and the 12- atonal system of “music” that was to follow had it not been
for an overabundance of press exposure. The 12-atonal system consisted of heavy,
repetitive sounds, taken from the music of the cult of Dionysus and the Baal priesthood
by Adorno and given a “modern” flavor by this special friend of the Queen of England
and hence the Committee of 300. Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center
created trigger words which then came into general usage around “rock music” and its
fans. Trigger words created a distinct new break-away largely young population group
which was persuaded by social engineering and conditioning to believe that the Beatles
really were their favorite group. All trigger words devised in the context of “rock
music” were designed for mass control of the new targeted group, the youth of
America.
The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that
Tavistock and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like
trained robots “with a little help from their friends”—code words for using drugs and
making it “cool.” The Beatles became a highly visible “new type”—more Tavistock
jargon—and as such it was not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing,
hairstyles and language usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This
was part of the “fragmentation-maladaptation” process worked out by Willis Harmon
and his team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.
brainwashing large population groups.
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Gang wars ended in Los Angeles in 1966 as the media withdrew its coverage. The same
thing will happen with the current wave of gang wars in Los Angeles. Street gangs will
wither on the vine once media saturation coverage is toned down and then completely
withdrawn. As in 1966, the issue would become “burned out.” Street gangs will have
served their purpose of creating turbulence and insecurity. Exactly the same pattern
will be followed in the case of “rock” music. Deprived of media attention, it will
eventually take its place in history.
Online for educational purposes at: JAG 07-146: www.jagia-07146.co.nr Following the
Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other
“Made in England” rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write
their cult lyrics and compose all the “music.” I hate to use these beautiful words in the
context of “Beatlemania”; it reminds me of how wrongly the word “lover” is used when
referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call
“rock” music, is an insult, likewise the language used in “rock lyrics.”
too did the “beat generation,” trigger words designed to separate and fragment
society. The media now focused its attention on the “beat generation.” Other
Tavistock-coined words came seemingly out of nowhere: “beatniks,” “hippies,”
“flower children” became part of the vocabulary of America. It became popular to
“drop out” and wear dirty jeans, go about with long unwashed hair. The “beat
generation” cut itself off from main-stream America. They became just as infamous as
the cleaner Beatles before them.
The newly-created group and its “lifestyle” swept millions of young Americans into the
cult. American youth underwent a radical revolution without ever being
aware of it, while the older generation stood by helplessly, unable to identify the
source of the crisis, and thus reacting in a maladaptive manner against its
manifestation, which were drugs of all types, marijuana, and later Lysergic acid,
“LSD,” so conveniently provided for them by the Swiss pharmaceutical company,
SANDOZ, following the discovery by one of its chemists, Albert Hoffman, how to
make synthetic ergotamine, a powerful mind-altering drug. The Committee of 300
financed the project through one of their banks, S. C. Warburg, and the drug was
carried to America by the philosopher, Aldous Huxley.
The new “wonder drug” was promptly distributed in “sample” size packages, handed
out free of charge on college campuses across the United States and at “rock”
concerts, which became the leading vehicle for proliferating the use of drugs. The
question that cries out for an answer is, what was the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
doing at the time? There is compelling circumstantial evidence that would appear to
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indicate that the DEA knew what was going on but was ordered not to take any
action.
With very substantial numbers of new British “rock” bands arriving in the U.S., rock
tandem with these “concerts,” the use of drugs among the youth rose in proportion.
that they were easily persuaded to try the new drug on the basis that “everybody
is doing it.” Peer pressure is a very strong weapon. The “new culture”
received maximum coverage from the jackal media, which cost the conspirators not
one single thin dime.
slobs ever to walk the streets of America was Alan Ginsberg. This Ginsberg pushed
the use of LSD through advertising which cost him nothing, although under normal
free advertising for drugs, and LSD in particular, reached a new high in the late 1960’s,
thanks to the everwilling cooperation of the media. The effect of Ginsberg’s
mass advertising campaign was devastating; the American public was subjected to one
Online for educational purposes at: JAG 07-146: www.jagia-07146.co.nr Tavistock
jargon, lifted from the Tavistock training manual, overwhelmed by its new
was just too much to cope with, that is to say, “long range penetration had taken hold
of us.” Ginsberg claimed to be a poet but no greater rubbish was ever written by
anyone who ever aspired to becoming a poet. Ginsberg’s designated task had little to
do with poetry; his main function was to push the new subculture and force
acceptance of it upon the large targeted population group.
To assist him in his task, Ginsberg co-opted the services of Norman Mailer, a writer
of sorts who had spent some time in a mental institution. Mailer was a favorite of the
leftwing Holly-wood crowd and so had no problem with getting maximum television
time for Ginsberg. Naturally Mailer had to have a pretext—not even he could blatantly
come out with the true nature of Ginsberg’s television appearances. So a charade was
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adopted: Mailer would talk “seriously” on camera with Ginsberg about poetry and
literature.” Dr John Coleman, The Committee of 300, pp. 33-35.
“The drug trade is controlled by the Committee of 300 from the Top
down. The drug trade started with the British East India Company and was closely
followed by the Dutch East India Company. Both were controlled by a “Council
of 300.” The list of names of members and stockholders of the BEIC read like
something out of Debretts Peerage. BEIC established the “China Inland Mission,”
whose job it was to get The Chinese peasants, or coolies, as they were called, addicted
to opium. This created the market for opium which the BEIC then filled.
In much the same way the Committee of 300 used “The “Beatles” to popularize “social
drugs” with the youth of America and The Hollywood “in-crowd.” Ed Sullivan was
sent to England To become acquainted with The first Tavistock Institute “rock group”
to hit the shores of the United States. Sullivan then returned to the United States to
draft the strategy for the electronic media on how to package and sell the group.
Without the full cooperation of the electronic media and Ed Sullivan, in particular,
“The Beatles” and their “music” would have died on the vine. Instead, our national life
and the character of the United States was forever changed.
Now that we know, it is all too clear how successful the “Beatles” campaign to
proliferate the use of drugs became. The fact that “The Beatles” had their music
view. The prime function to “The Beatles” was to be discovered by teen-agers, who
where then subjected to a non-stop barrage of “Beatle music,” until they became
The Liverpool group performed up to expectations, and with “a little help from their
friends,” i.e., illegal substances we call drugs created a whole new class to young
Americans in the precise mold ordained by the Tavistock Institute.” Dr John Coleman,
The Committee of 300, p. 37.
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Adorno as Critic: Celebrating the
Socially Destructive Force of Music
Elizabeth Whitcombe
August 28, 2009
Source: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Whitcombe-AdornoI.html
The Frankfurt School was a
group of predominantly Jewish
intellectuals associated with the
Institute for Social Research. It
originated during the Weimar
period in Germany, and became
a bastion of the cultural left.
With the rise of National
Socialism, the Frankfurt School
was closed by the German
government, and many of its
members emigrated to
America.
Theodor Adorno was the
Frankfurt School's music critic
(as well as the first author of The
Authoritarian Personality, probably
the best known of the Frankfurt
School works). He looked at
music like a recording engineer
Theodor Adorno
looks at music. But the most important thing is that Adorno used music
psychology as a revolutionary tool.
Adorno understood what qualities make music intellectually challenging and what
qualities make music “popular” or non-intellectual. He asserted that intellectual
music was best suited for bringing about revolution. Why? Because he
thought that the revolution would begin in the elite strata of society and work its way
down to the masses — that it would be a top-down event. As a result, he thought it was
important that the elite world of classical music turn its back on the traditional high
culture of the West. (He was wrong: As discussed below, time would show that
popular music actually had greater revolutionary potential.)
Adorno's views were shaped by his times. In the 1920s and 1930s the intellectual elite
embraced their ability to re-engineer society. Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund
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Freud) wrote his famous defense of public manipulation, Propaganda, in 1928. Two
years before, Charles Diserens applied the same philosophy to music:
Our purpose then is to study the influence of music on the organism. We approach
music from the practical rather than the aesthetic standpoint, regarding it as a
necessity, a possible means of re-education and human reconstruction for all, rather
than a mere subject of unproductive pleasure, or an object for criticism from the
learned few. (The Influence of Music on Behavior, Diserens 1926.)
Adorno certainly shared the insights of Diserens and Bernays. He felt that society
needed to be remade and music was an excellent way to do that.
Adorno's standard for judging music was its revolutionary potential. During the 1920s,
the Frankfurt School aspired to be the intellectual vanguard for Marxism in Germany.
According to their theory, the First World War should have precipitated a European
socialist revolution, but this didn't happen. The German middle class collectively
rejected international socialism after WWI. This was an intellectual slap in the face for
Adorno and his colleagues.
The Frankfurters blamed Western Culture for brainwashing people against their brand
of socialism. Western culture would need to go. Critical Theory was the Frankfurters'
contribution in the war against the Western middle class, and Adorno was its drummer
boy.
Adorno's strategy took a page out of Plato's Republic: Innovations in music presage
innovations in culture. He wanted to find a type of music that would disrupt the
bourgeois way of life and reshape the West in his own image. (See his "Why is the
New Art so Difficult to Understand?")
Which composers did Adorno find revolutionary enough? The later Beethoven,
Mahler and Schoenberg. On the other hand, Wagner was both loved and hated.
Adorno liked Beethoven because his later work broke musical norms — it avoided
“harmonious synthesis” and had a destructive violence that previous works lacked
("Late Style in Beethoven," 1937). However, works like Missa Solemnis — a choral
piece celebrating Christ — were “neutralized” by social acceptability ("Alienated
Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis," 1959). This negative stance toward a
Christian religious work is doubtless a reflection of the hostility of the Frankfurt School
intellectuals toward Christianity which they saw as a as a conservative unifying force in
society.
According to Adorno, Beethoven's later works, which were composed after he was deaf,
offered tantalizing glimpses of revolutionary changes to come. To get a better idea of
what was different about this music, let's turn to another critic.
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In What is Art?, Leo Tolstoy gives a damning account of Beethoven's later work.
According to Tolstoy, Beethoven's later innovations are alienating and no longer speak
to the common man. They are “totally contrived, unfinished and therefore often
meaningless, musically incomprehensible works.”
Tolstoy claims that Beethoven's later music typifies the disconnect
between the upper classes and the people who worked the land. (Bear in
mind that Tolstoy was a Russian.) In Tolstoy's view, Beethoven's later work is immoral
art, because the people who ultimately paid for it (the laboring classes) couldn't enjoy
it. By cultivating a taste for the later Beethoven, the aristocracy was disconnecting
itself from the little people. Such art tears at the fabric of society. Good art, to Tolstoy,
upholds Christian values and can also speak to the people that sacrificed for it. It
brings society together in an ennobling way.
For the Frankfurt School, the view of society as an organic, harmonious whole with
cooperation among the social classes would smack of National Socialism and
consequently be the epitome of evil. It is not surprising therefore, that Adorno admired
the late Beethoven.
Gustav Mahler was the next link in Adorno's revolutionary chain. A coreligionist of
Adorno, he was famous for using the sounds of whips and hammers in his work.
Adorno says that in Mahler's compositions “The underworld of music is mobilized
against the disappearing world of the starry heavens in order for the latter to be moved
and to be a corporeal presence among humankind” ("Mahler Today," 1930). The
“starry heavens” represents the ossified Viennese music establishment, which Adorno
believed should to be brought back to earth in the service of revolutionary activism.
"Mahler's ecclesia militans is a salvation army, better than the real thing — not
moderated in a petit-bourgeois way, not retrospectively proselytizing, but ready and
willing to summon the oppressed into proper battle for the things of which they have
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been robbed and which they, alone, are still capable of achieving.” ("Mahler Today,"
1930) To Adorno, the “hero is the deserter” in Mahler's symphonies ("Marginalia on
Mahler," 1936).
Adorno claimed that the bourgeois musical world was repressing Mahler's work
because Mahler shunned “moderate peacefulness.” In Adorno's words: “The genuine
significance of Mahler that can be discovered for today lies in the very violence with
which he broke out of the same musical space that today wants to forget him”
(:Mahler Today," 1930).
Adorno pairs the work of Mahler and Schoenberg — both rejected by the conservative
forces of the status quo: “Whole groups of formulae are common to the fight against
Schoenberg and against Mahler — the Jewish intellectual whose deracinated intellect
ruins oh-so-beneficent Nature; the despoiler of venerably traditional musical goods.”
Ultimately, Adorno interprets Mahler as striving toward “the end of the order that bore
the sonata” — the end of traditional European high culture.
This, of course, is an anti-Jewish stereotype that was common in Europe beginning in
the 19th century: Whether or not they converted to Christianity, Jewish intellectuals
were seen as subverting European culture, shattering the social cohesiveness of the
society, and mocking and defying social conventions (See Chapter 2 of Kevin
MacDonald's Separation and Its Discontents, p. 51ff). Adorno, himself a Jewish
intellectual (although far from deracinated), naturally sympathizes with this stance.
Indeed, the Frankfurt School generally is considered part of this anti-Western tradition
— precisely the reason that the Frankfurt School was exiled from National Socialist
Germany.
Adorno's views on Richard Wagner are strongly colored by the fact that Wagner was
idealized in Germany during the National Socialist period. To Adorno, Wagner is the
would-be revolutionary composer who tries and fails. In attempting to break out of the
thematic melody form, he simply ends up repeating fragments.
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Richard Wagner
But what really bothered Adorno about Wagner is the connection to National
Socialism. Although Wagner was dead before Hitler was conceived, Adorno thought
that one couldn't have Wagner without National Socialism. In every crowd applauding
a Wagnerian work there lurks “the old virulent evil” which Adorno calls “demagogy”
("Wagner's Relevance for Today," 1963).
Adorno believed that Wagner's work is “proselytizing” and “collective-narcissistic” —
clearly pejorative terms. Adorno’s complaint about the “collective-narcissistic” quality
of Wagner’s music is really a complaint that Wagner’s music appeals to deep emotions
of group cohesion. Like the Germanic myths that his music was often based on,
Wagner’s music evokes the deepest passions of ethnic collectivism and ethnic pride. In
Adorno’s view, such emotions are nothing more that collective
narcissism, at least partly because a strong sense of German ethnic pride tends to
view Jews as outsiders — as “the other.”
It is not surprising that Wagner was by far the most popular composer during the
National Socialist period. It is also not surprising that Adorno, as a self-consciously
Jewish intellectual, would find such music abhorrent. One wonders if he would have
similarly considered the Israeli national anthem as an expression of collective
narcissism.
Adorno could never quite shake off Wagner's greatness. He found Wagner's music to
be erotically free, so he figured there must be something “right-wing, petit bourgeois”
about opposing the composer. In the age of psychoanalysis, no Jewish intellectual
would want to appear to be anti-erotic. Adorno’s solution was to claim that Wagner's
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greatest works are the ones that the public doesn't like ("Wagner's Relevance for
Today," 1963). This was clearly an attempt to have his cake and eat it too: If the public
was deeply moved by Wagner, it was a sign that Wagner was appealing to emotions of
ethnic cohesion. The only safe works of Wagner are those that don’t result in such
emotions.
In the end, Adorno falls on the side of disliking Wagner because his music reinforces
the status quo. And of course, where Wagner’s music promotes ethno-nationalism, the
powers that be must intervene.
Arnold Schoenberg, whose “intellectualism is legend,” was Adorno's ideal
revolutionary composer ("Toward and Understanding of Schoenberg"
1955/1967). Adorno ranks Schoenberg with Shakespeare and Michelangelo: He is a
god in the art world. Schoenberg had a strong Jewish identity and was a Zionist (Klara
Moricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in
Twentieth Century Music).
Schoenberg wrote atonal music, meaning that it was designed to defy traditional
musical forms and heuristic expectations. It takes a musically trained person to
appreciate just how well designed the discord is; but even for musicians listening to
Schoenberg is hard work. Schoenberg's music is a curiosity to composers; much like
how an unusually diseased organ in formaldehyde is a curiosity to medical professors.
As a result, Schoenberg's music was never popular and Adorno was bitter about this.
Music that meets our ears' expectations tends to be pleasurable. Adorno recognized
that beautiful music has a pacifying effect and pacification was at odds with his
political goals — at least the goals he held in pre-WWII Germany. This is why Adorno
had such good things to say about Schoenberg.
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The common characteristic these four composers shared was that they wrote music
which challenged the listener's expectations to varying degrees. Varying degrees is the
important distinction here.
Some of the most beautiful music is that which teases our expectations. Prof. David
Huron of Ohio State University wrote a phenomenal book in 2006 called Sweet
Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Huron offers an
explanation of why discord falling into harmony is beautiful and gives us a pleasurable
feeling.
But when unpredictability is taken too far, music becomes discordant and ugly. It
leaves the listener feeling dissatisfied and dislocated. Adorno believed that these
feelings were necessary to jolt people into thinking and (naturally!) joining his
revolutionary cause.
Adorno applied his revolutionary dislike of predictability to technology also. He
disliked radio and some recording technology because he thought it made music sound
flatter — more like pop and jazz ("The Radio Symphony," 1941). Adorno hated bigband jazz because he felt it was not destructive enough to Western culture: It satisfied
erotic urges in a socially tolerated way. Truly revolutionary music shouldn't waste
energy like jazz did.
Schoenberg — with his awkward and unappealing music — was supposed to light our
way to the future. He didn't. Adorno had conflated intellectualism with Frankfurt
School politics — the two do not go hand in hand. To really reach the masses, what the
Frankfurt movement needed wasn't intellectualism, but advertising power. Adorno's
initial misidentification of effective revolutionary music would be a useful lesson to
other propagandists.
Apart from a few aesthetes (such as small coteries of Schoenberg devotees), effective
revolutionary music works with our expectations of beauty, not against them. Effective
revolutionary melodies should be easy to follow and have strong beats — like most
popular music. In his essay "On Popular Music," Adorno relates the open secret of
what makes “hit” music: standardization. What he describes are tunes that play to our
most basic musical expectations and heuristics, while erring on the side of simplicity.
The music is super-predictable and encourages mindless listening: “The forms of hit
songs are so strictly standardized, down to the number of measures and exact
duration, that no specific form appears in any particular piece” ("On the FetishCharacter in Music," 1938). Adorno used this phrase to describe big-band jazz, but
he might as well be describing pop music today: The Beatles, The Spice Girls, The
Jackson Five — the list goes on.
Adorno understood how to make effective advertising music or “popular music.” He
understood that better than anyone else in his day, probably. But Adorno's tastes were
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elitist. He would be embarrassed and ashamed to create music that he felt was as
mindless as big-band jazz. Adorno wanted to hobnob in the rarified air of übereducated musical creators.
Adorno didn't like the commonness of pop music; he wanted to believe that his
revolution was somehow more intellectual than that. The notion that Frankfurt ideas
would be pushed by pop songs — the musical equivalent of a girl in a bikini advertizing
beer or a sports car — would be repugnant to him.
Repugnant or not, advertizing works. Composers like Beethoven and Wagner
understood how to play with our listening expectations and create something
meaningful at the same time. They were true master composers. The shock value of
Mahler or the contrived intellectualism of Schoenberg do not rate in comparison —
and this is reflected in their relative popularity today.
Adorno never got over his dislike of popular music. He always wanted to believe that
somehow revolutionary people would overcome their evolutionarily-determined
listening preferences. But Nature always wins in the end.
And if Adorno wanted a successful Frankfurt-style revolution, he would have to work
with the tools Nature provided. Enter Atlantic Records
To be continued.
Elizabeth Whitcombe (email her) is a graduate of MIT in Economics with a
concentration in International Economics. She is a financial analyst and
free-lance writer living in New York City.
Source: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Whitcombe-AdornoI.html
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Reading #9
Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination
By Salvador Astucia
“Paley said that television created the capability to ‘outGoebbels, Goebbels.’ To Adorno and his ‘fellow travellers,’
‘Television is a medium of undreamed of psychological
control.’ Adorno declared, ‘Television aims at the synthesis
of radio and film, and is held up only because the interested
parties have not yet reached agreement, but its
consequences will be quite enormous and promise to
intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter so
drastically...’
Adorno states that all television programming contains,
first, an overt message, referring to the plot, characters,
scene, etc. It is in this overt content that successful formula
are employed to guarantee viewership. But within this overt
content, according to Adorno, there lies a ‘hidden
message’ that is less obvious, and which represents a
particular moral theme for purposes of indoctrination.”
(David Livingstone, Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three
Thousand Year History, p. 207)
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Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination
The FBI’s War on Rock Stars
By Salvador Astucia, April 2004
Source: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Preface.htm
This book is more than a history of rock music or an effort to solve the riddles of who
really killed John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin,
Kurt Cobain and countless other rock stars. Hopefully this book will serve as a
wake-up call to young rock artists struggling in today's music scene. The message is
simple: The FBI views rock artists as a threat to its agenda of promoting Zionism and
war and it will eventually kill or destroy any highly successful, influential rock star who
continually expresses views without first getting proper approval. The Bureau has been
a Zionist, war mongering organization since its creation in 1908 by Charles Joseph
Bonaparte, great nephew of the famous Corsican conqueror and Jewish emancipator,
Napoleon Bonaparte. The FBI's Zionism doctrine endorses war, not merely as a means
of protecting America, but as an economic and cultural ideology fueled by religious
fanaticism. The FBI and Orthodox Zionists Jews believe that war is always necessary,
the fulfillment of Old Testament scriptures, and they believe in profiteering from the
war machine they created and aggressively defend. Anyone who objects and has a
sizable audience is viewed as an enemy and is eventually cut down like a stalk of wheat
that has grown too tall in a wheat field. This has been the fate of many rock stars. They
grew too tall and were cut down.
The real threat of rock music is it allows unapproved voices to shape
public opinion, an area in which the FBI and other governmental agencies spend
billions annually. Unlike other forms of entertainment, rock bands usually compose,
perform, and record their music with little help from others. When they perform their
music live, they often work tens of thousands of fans into emotional frenzies, willing to
do anything the rock stars command. This is quite a bit of power in the hands of a
small unelected group of young people. In this regard, rock stars are different from
most entertainers. An actor, for example, has little control over a movie in which he or
she appears. Layers of supporting staff and vast sums of money are needed in order to
generate the resulting product, a movie. A typical movie requires a screenplay writer, a
producer, a director, a camera crew, a lighting crew, audio technicians, make-up
artists, and so on. Conversely, all a rock band needs is a recording studio, a recording
engineer, and perhaps a mastering engineer; things that can be rented at a fraction of
the cost of the cheapest movie production. If a rock band can sell its CDs, then they
have created their own market, their own supply and demand. If enough people like
their sound, they will emerge as stars. At some point, they may decide to write political
songs or make public statements on various political topics of the day.
This explanation may seem too simple to be true, but the scenario I have described has
frequently occurred throughout the fifty-year history of rock. Elvis rose to fame after
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being recorded in primitive conditions by Sun Records founder/engineer/ producer
Sam Philips. By 1977, Elvis was obsessed with the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, believing his death and his brother Bobby's death were the result of
governmental conspiracies. To my knowledge Elvis never made any public statements
regarding the deaths of the Kennedy brothers, likely because he died before he had the
opportunity. The Beatles had a similar story. They did virtually everything themselves
with limited assistance from recording engineer/producer/musician George Martin.
Eventually, the group's leader, John Lennon, became an outspoken political activist.
The same thing happened with Jim Morrison and the Doors, not to mention Jimi
Hendrix. More recently, Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana achieved phenomenal success
largely through their own efforts. Like Elvis, Lennon, Morrison, and Hendrix, Cobain
died mysteriously.
Of course political statements are not necessarily required in order to become a target
of the FBI. To my knowledge, Janis Joplin was not particularly political, but she was
apparently targeted by the Bureau as well. Both Elvis and Lennon were targeted long
before they expressed any political interests. Although Lennon is remembered by many
for publicly stating his opinions on various political topics, most notably expressing
opposition to the Vietnam War, I have concluded that the FBI targeted him long before
he stated such opinions. The evidence presented in this book reveals that Lennon was
probably deemed a threat as early as August 15, 1966 when the Beatles gave an historic
performance at Shea Stadium in New York City, playing before 56,000 screaming,
hysterical fans. As leader of the Beatles, Lennon's only crime at that point was being a
star who shined too brightly.
Shea Stadium was the first modern rock concert. Exactly four years later, on August 15,
1969, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was held on a farm in Bethel, New York.
Woodstock was the peaceful gathering of about 400,000 young rock-music fans and
marked what is considered the high point of the American youth counterculture of the
1960s. Although Woodstock was overtly a rock concert, it was also viewed by many as a
powerful political statement against US involvement in the Vietnam War at a time
when American forces were at an all-time high: 540,000 soldiers.
On the Beatles next tour, a year after the Shea Stadium performance, they were
harassed and physically assaulted on several fronts, receiving extremely bad press in
America after Lennon made an innocent remark about the Beatles being more popular
than Jesus. In Manilla, they were man-handled by government thugs after first lady
Amelda Marcos leaked erroneous reports to the press that the Beatles had snubbed
her. Death threats followed and as a result, the Beatles stopped touring at the height of
their fame. Lennon fought back the only way he knew, through political discourse.
Prior to 1966, his lyrics had been fairly tame. Afterwards, he began pushing the
envelope more and more both in his song lyrics and in non-musical political activities
as well.
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Rock stars should be aware of the vast forces aligned against them. The FBI has 11,000
agents working in 59 field offices throughout the United States. One of the FBI's top
functions is propaganda. Agents in each field office monitor all newspapers and
journals published within its geographic region. The Bureau works jointly with six
media conglomerates which are Jewish-run* and control virtually all of the electronic
news media. The six media conglomerates are Time Warner, the Walt Disney
Company, Vivendi Universal, Viacom, General Electric, and News Corporation
Limited. The Jewish/FBI monopoly of the American news media allows both entities
to commit virtually any crime against the United States government and its people and
easily cover their tracks.
Hopefully this book will inspire young rock stars to continue the struggle for world
peace, for they are among the last pockets of resistance against America's rising
militaristic domination. And hopefully the younger generation of rock stars will learn
from the mistakes of their predecessors. Hopefully current rock stars will realize that
the FBI's army will try to get them to self-destruct through substance abuse and sexual
temptations. Even worse, once a rock star begins using drugs or alcohol in excessive
amounts, he/she can easily be murdered, and a false cover story propagated that the
death was related to substance abuse, suicide, or both, regardless of any facts which
might indicate foul play. The FBI has the power to propagate such false stories through
the use of its vast propaganda network working in concert with the previously stated
six Jewish-controlled media conglomerates. Hopefully this book will encourage a new
generation of rock stars to be less na‹ve than their predecessors. Perhaps the new
generation of rockers will realize that they are more than entertainers, more than poets
and songwriters, more than sex symbols. They are soldiers fighting in the front lines of
a war against tyranny. In the Sixties, rock stars often sang of revolution in a figurative
sense. In the 21st Century, any reference to revolutions should become more literal.
- Salvador Astucia, April 2004
INTRODUCTION
Author’s Personal Thoughts
Source: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Intro.htm
John Lennon was one of the most beloved and influential people who lived in the
Twentieth Century. Although his only claim to fame was singing, playing guitar and
writing songs, once he achieved superstar status with his rock group, the Beatles, he
used his enormous celebrity to promote the cause of peace. He therefore became a
threat to those who profit from war. When the world learned of his murder on
December 8, 1980, the outpouring of love and grief for the slain Beatle was
overwhelming. In life, John Lennon held no position of direct power. He was not an
elected official. He was not a president, a king, or religious leader. He led no crusade,
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formed no political party. He was merely an entertainer who spoke openly about issues
he believed were important. Many have compared the world’s reaction to his death to
that exhibited when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
I personally was so grief-stricken by Lennon’s sudden death that I became physically ill
and quickly developed an ear infection which required antibiotics. I recall stopping at a
pharmacy to get my prescription filled, clearly grief-stricken and sick, but I stood in
line waiting to pay the cashier for the prescription drugs I needed. Beside me in
another line, I heard a young man—a few years older than me—whistling I’ve Just
Scene a Face by the Beatles. I knew I was not alone in my pain. For years, I had
difficulty reading about his murder. It was so painful to think of someone I felt was my
brother being cut down so violently, so brutally. But time has a way of healing wounds.
As I grew older I watched some of my loved ones pass on, which gave me strength to
reflect on John Lennon’s murder and other tragic events which occurred in my life, but
beyond my personal circle of friends and family.
In the final chapter of my book, Opium Lords, (April 2002) I suggested that Lennon
was the victim of a government sponsored assassination. Admittedly I focused mainly
on motive rather than details of the case because I had not devoted much time to
researching the rock star’s murder when I wrote Opium Lords. Nevertheless, I was
intrigued that Lennon’s younger son, Sean, had publicly stated his belief that his father
was likely assassinated by the United States government. In recent years, Sean
reportedly made the following statement:
[He] was a counterrevolutionary and was very
dangerous to the government. If he had said
‘Bomb the White House tomorrow,’ there would
have been 10,000 people who would have done it.
The pacifist revolutionaries are historically killed
by the government, and anybody who thinks
Mark Chapman was just some crazy guy who
killed my dad for his own personal interest is
insane or very naive. It was in the best
interest of the United States to have my
dad killed. And you know, that worked against
them, because once he died, his power grew. So I
mean, fuck them! They didn’t get what they
wanted.1
A short while ago I decided to research John Lennon’s murder in depth. As I suspected
Sean was absolutely correct. There was a conspiracy. The United States government
had reason to silence John Lennon. I will discuss motive shortly, but for now, let us
focus on the crime scene itself. Regardless of motive or the accused killer’s state of
mind, I will demonstrate that Mark David Chapman is completely innocent and should
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therefore be released from prison as soon as possible. Here is a brief summary of my
findings:

Lennon’s wounds were on the wrong side of his body. The autopsy revealed four
wounds to the left side of the upper body: two in the left shoulder, two in the left
side of the back. On Dec. 10, 1980, (two days after the murder) the New York
Times published a diagram showing where Lennon and Chapman were standing
when the fatal shots were fired. Chapman was reportedly standing to Lennon’s
right, several feet behind him. Before shooting, Chapman allegedly called to the
victim, "Mr. Lennon." As Lennon turned, Chapman fired five shots; four hit
Lennon. Since Chapman was reportedly standing to Lennon’s right in back of
him, Lennon would certainly have turned to his right in response to Chapman’s
call. This means the right side of Lennon’s body was facing Chapman as he
turned. The wounds should have been on the right side of the body, but
surprisingly they were on the left.

The doorman at the Dakota on the night of the shooting was an anti-Castro
Cuban, Jose Perdomo; Chapman’s primary accuser. It is widely known that
Cuban exiles have been used extensively by the intelligence community since the
failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

Patrolman Peter Cullen, one of the officers in the first police car responding to
the shooting, believed the shooter was a handyman at the Dakota, not Chapman.
Cullen thought Chapman "looked like a guy who worked in a bank." Perdomo
convinced Cullen that Chapman was the assailant.

Hours after the shooting, the New York Times reported that Lennon was shot
near the main lobby in the Dakota entryway. The next day the NYT reported that
he was shot near the entrance of the Dakota, about 20-to-25 feet away from the
spot originally reported. The shift in location was apparently needed because
police and witnesses found Chapman at the entrance of the Dakota building, not
20-to-25 feet inside.

Lennon’s true assassin was probably the handyman (aka, elevator operator) who
fired from inside or near a service elevator located across from the concierge
stand where Lennon collapsed after being shot. Shooting from the service
elevator would easily hit the left side of Lennon’s body which is where the
wounds were located.

Mark David Chapman has never been judged legally insane, although opinion
leaders within the American news media continually portray him as crazy. He
pled guilty to the crime, thereby forfeiting his right to a trial. As a result, he has
spent the last 22 years of his life in Attica State penitentiary for a crime he did
not commit.
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
Facts indicate that Chapman was likely the victim of mind control—a
combination of drugs, hypnosis or both—which caused him to commit numerous
self-incriminating acts; however, murder was not one of them. Ironically,
Chapman himself believes he shot Lennon, although he cannot recall several key
details of the crime. The power of suggestion is an incredible tool.

There are no known witnesses to the crime; however, several "crime scene
witnesses" observed events shortly before and after the shooting. But I have
found no statements from any person who actually observed Chapman shoot
Lennon; not even Yoko Ono.
Fear of Assassination
One of the reasons the Beatles stopped touring in 1966 was because they feared John
would be assassinated. On July 29, 1966, Datebook published John’s interview with
British journalist Maureen Cleave. Datebook had quoted John out of context, where he
stated that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." The American magazine’s
misrepresentation of the innocent statement created anti-Beatle reactions around
America, particularly in the South. On August 12, 1966, just before the Beatles next
tour began, John held a press conference in Chicago to explain his comments about
Christianity and apologize. On August 19, 1966, the Beatles performed at a Memphis
concert and someone let off a firecracker. The entire Beatles’ entourage reportedly
looked at John, thinking he had been shot.2 Tony Barrow was public relations manager
for the Beatles at that time and witnessed the incident. The following is an excerpt
from an interview Barrow gave years later where he discussed John’s remarks about
Christianity, the Beatles last tour, and the exploding firecracker in Memphis:
BARROW: The third and final phase of that horrendous year [1966] was the
last tour of the United States, where we began with Beatle records being
burned and John Lennon under the direct threat of assassination from
religious zealots in the southern United States, the Bible Belt states. It was the
misconstruing of his comment about Jesus Christ’s diminishing popularity,
which wasn’t in any way boastful. It was just a comment he made. By the time
it reached certain southern states, it was taken very badly by certain religious
factions and there was the threat of death hanging over that whole tour.
I do recall that once we did get down to that area, the southern states, that a
firecracker was let off during the concert in Memphis and everybody, all of us
at the side of the stage, including the three Beatles on stage, all looked
immediately at John Lennon. We would not at that moment have been
surprised to see that guy go down. Of course, that was 14 years too early for
that. John had halfheartedly joked about the Memphis concert in an earlier
press conference, and when we got there everything seemed to be controlled
and calm, but underneath somehow, there was this nasty atmosphere. It
wasn’t a happy day at all. It was a very tense and pressured kind of day.3
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That incident apparently affected John deeply for the rest of his life. Two years later he
wrote a rather bizarre song entitled "Happiness is a Warm Gun," which appeared on
the Beatles White Album. But once you understand about the firecracker incident in
Memphis in 1966, the song seems rather down to earth.
His half-sisters were Julia Dykins Baird (b. 1947), Jackie Dykins (b. 1949), and Victoria
Elizabeth Williams* (b. June 19, 19454)—Julia and Jackie being the offspring of mother
Julia and common law husband, John "Bobby" Dykins (b. 1918 - d. 1966); Victoria
being the offspring of mother Julia and Taffy Williams. John’s half-brothers were
David Henry Lennon (b. February 1969) and Robin Francis Lennon (b. October 1973)
from the union of his father and second wife Pauline Jones. John never met his two
half-brothers (his father’s sons) who were easily young enough to be John’s sons. John
apparently never knew Victoria either; she was reportedly adopted by a Norwegian
Captain and his family.
John’s father—Alfred "Freddy" Lennon†—was in the Merchant Navy when John was
born and consequently was at sea for long stretches of time. World War II pushed the
young couple apart and eventually they divorced. John was raised by his mother Julia’s
sister, Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Stanley (b. 1903 - d. December 6, 1992), and her
husband George Toogood Smith (b. 1903 - d. June 5, 1955). John grew up at the
Smith’s upper middle-class home, a semi-detached house, known as "Mendips" at 251
Menlove Avenue, Woolton. The Smiths had no children of their own.
John lost contact with his father but remained close to his mother, who visited him
often at Menlove Avenue. John frequently visited Julia and her common law husband,
John "Bobby" Dykins, and their two daughters, Julia and Jackie, at the family’s
Liverpool flat. John experienced two traumatic events before he reached adulthood.
When he was fourteen, John’s Uncle George died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage.
George was 52. Three years later, when John was 17, Julia was killed in a traffic
accident when an off duty policeman ran her down as she walked home from Mimi's
house. Julia was 44. John never fully recovered emotionally from the shock of losing
his mother so tragically, but he transferred his pain into music and inspirational poetic
lyrics which would capture the imagination of the world a few years later. That’s really
the essence of all art: channeling the artist’s emotions into a creative outlet. And John’s
singing voice—when in top form—seemed to radiate from records directly to the
listeners’ hearts. He didn’t have strong technical technique; mainly raw, uninhibited
emotion. And the sound of his voice was totally unique.
Years later, John’s half-sister Julia Dykins Baird described her mother’s musical and
creative influence over John:
JULIA BAIRD: Where did John get his musical talents? Oh, from my mother
definitely. Some people, like my cousin, Leila, said that my mother had far more
talent than John ever had because he only inherited a slight spot of it. The
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whole family is biased toward my mother, of course, beautifully so. But she did
really have enormous talent. She was a very creative person. She did paintings
on the wall, directly on the wall. We grew up with all that around the kitchen
chimney. And she would always play. If she was reading us something like "The
Teddy Bear’s Picnic" [a children’s story], we’d get the da, da, da, da and the
mouth organ and stuff like that. We got it all. Everything was well decorated.
Of course, John was six and a half years older than me, so she was beginning to
teach him. She’d been taught the banjo by her grandfather. She’d inherited this
beautiful mother-of-pearl, four-string banjo, a very big one. She used to play
"That’ll Be the Day" by Buddy Holly, one of the ones John sang later. I
remember us standing over him, making him play it again and saying, "Yes, it
will hurt. Press harder. Press harder. Yes, it hurts."…5
John eventually migrated from the banjo to the guitar and became friends with two
other guitar players, Paul McCartney (b. June 18, 1942), George Harrison (b. February
25, 1943 - d. November 29, 2001). By 1955, the three teenagers were enamored with
the new American musical craze, rock ‘n’ roll, and imitated the genre’s leader, Elvis
Presley. Eventually the threesome picked up drummer Richard Starkey (aka, Ringo
Starr; b. July 7, 1940) and evolved into the Beatles, the most influential rock group of
the Twentieth Century. In 1964, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Love Me Do," and "She
Loves You" stayed at the top of the American charts for months, simultaneous with
Capitol Records’ sudden release of nearly 60 Beatles recordings—packaged in five
albums—to the American public.* Consequently, their music dominated the airwaves
for nearly two years and ushered in Beatlemania, the mass hysteria among their
teenage fans across the globe. The songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul
McCartney epitomized rock creativity in the Sixties. John added to the Beatles’
mystique with the publication of two humorous books, "A Spaniard in the Works" and
"In His Own Write."
On August 23, 1962, John married artist Cynthia Powell (b. September 10, 1939). On
April 8, 1963, the couple had a son, Julian Lennon. In July 1964, the young family
moved to the "Kenwood" mansion in Weybridge, England. But fame, fortune and
constant touring took its toll on the marriage. John and Cynthia divorced on
November 8, 1968. On March 20, 1969, John married avant garde Japanese artist
Yoko Ono (b. February 18, 1933). The couple quickly became outspoken critics of
America’s military involvement in Vietnam. John began recording with Yoko, apart
from the Beatles, in the Plastic Ono Band. They recorded memorable anti-war songs
such as "Give Peace a Chance," "Instant Karma," "Happy Christmas (War is Over),"
and "Imagine."
John also began to express political opinions regarding Britain’s persecution of the
Irish. His empathy for the Irish probably came from his hometown, Liverpool, a city
closely linked to Ireland culturally and geographically. The famous North-England
port city is about 120 miles east of Dublin, separated by the Irish Sea. A high level of
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Irish immigration to Liverpool occurred during and after the Irish potato famine of
1845 through 1848. Consequently, many of the Irish customs became part of
Liverpool’s culture, most notably the prominence of the Roman Catholic Church in a
Protestant nation historically opposed to Catholicism and known for its oppression of
Irish Catholics.6 Like many Liverpudlians, John was raised Roman Catholic, and
consequently, was viewed as a second class citizen within the British social order. In
fact, John’s heritage was apparently Irish-Catholic on both the maternal and paternal
sides of his family. According to Edward MacLysaght’s book, The Surnames of Ireland,
"Lennon" is an Irish surname from Counties Cork, Fermanagh, and Galway.7 "Stanley"
(the surname of John’s mother) is a common English name which—according to
MacLysaght—"is on record in Ireland since the Thirteenth Century, mainly in the
Counties Louth and Meath" and "is now fairly numerous in both Leinster and parts of
Munster."8
John’s Irish heritage would certainly explain his innate rebellious nature and his
eventual public positions on several Irish political struggles. Contrary to popular belief,
John’s opinions about Ireland were probably sincere convictions he held his entire life,
being the apparent descendant of Irish immigrants who migrated to Liverpool. Ireland
was under British colonial rule for centuries, but became a sovereign, independent,
democratic state in 1937, although Northern Ireland remains under British rule to this
day. In 1972, John wrote and recorded a song, "Sunday Bloody Sunday,"* which
describes how British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Irish civilian demonstrators in
the Northern Ireland city of Derry on January 30, 1972.9 Sunday Bloody Sunday
appeared on John’s 1972 album, Some Time In New York City. On the same album
was "The Luck of the Irish," co-written by John and Yoko, which discusses how the
British have persecuted the Irish for a thousand years. Although these songs are
considered highly political by many, they are quite similar to other Irish popular songs
about British atrocities in Ireland, most notably Pete St. John’s "The Fields of Athenry"
which has become a de facto national anthem of Ireland.
John took similar positions, not directly in support of the Irish, but in general
opposition to British rule. In 1969, John became active in clearing the name of James
Francis Hanratty, a British citizen tried by the British government and subsequently
executed (hanged) on April 4, 1962 for the murder of Michael Gregsten (36) and the
rape and attempted murder of Valerie Storie (22) on August 22, 1961. Irregularities in
the Hanratty case paved the way to ending capital punishment in Britain. On
December 11, 1969, John and Yoko startled a crowd of fans outside the Kensington
Odeon in London at the premiére of Ringo Starr’s movie, The Magic Christian, by
carrying a banner reading "Britain Murdered Hanratty." Three days later, on
December 14, 1969, John and Yoko attended a speech made by Hanratty’s father at
Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, during which the elder Hanratty declared his son’s
innocence.10
John was encouraged to express himself politically by his second wife, Yoko Ono. Yoko
is the oldest of three children from the marriage of Eisuke Ono and Isoko Yasuda Ono.
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Prior to World War II, the Ono family was part of Japanese aristocracy,* but they lost
everything after Japan’s defeat in World War II. Yoko said later that during the war
years she was always hungry, and the family was often reduced to begging for food
door to door. Eventually the Ono family acquired new wealth and social prominence in
post-war Japan.
Eight years older than John, Yoko had been married twice before. Her first husband
was Julliard student, Toshi Ichiyangi. Her second husband was Tony Cox. She and Cox
had a daughter, Kyoko Cox (b. August 8, 1963). Many Beatle fans disliked Yoko; many
accused her of breaking up the Beatles. In 1998, Yoko reflected on her life with John:
YOKO ONO: They say that Venus was jealous of lovers. Forget Venus. In our
case it was the whole world. But as far as we were concerned, we felt lucky that
we had found each other. Aside of the fact that we were both rebellious and
emotional, we were true opposites. John was tallish. I was smallish. John
made music for the people. I made music for the avant-garde…John was
humble, in a way only a very successful person could be. I was proud, like
most people living in an Ivory Tower, who never had to test the big
water. Coming from a semi-working class background, John was street-wise. I
was totally inexperienced when it came to the games of the real world. And we
felt so, so lucky that we fell in love with each other. It was a blessing neither of
us expected at that time in our lives. We couldn’t take our eyes off one another.
We couldn’t get enough of each other. But the outside pressure was very
strong. It was so strong, that sometimes we had to separate from each other in
order to protect our love. We thought we were clever, that we did everything
right, and nothing and nobody could tear us apart. Never, never, never. But it
happened: our separation. So sudden, too. He was taken away from me for
good.11
In 1971, John and Yoko moved to New York City to find Kyoko,† who was being kept
away from Yoko by Cox. In June 1973, John and Yoko moved to the Dakota, a chic
condominium complex in Manhattan. Shortly after moving in, John and Yoko
separated for 15 months, but eventually reconciled. On October 9, 197512 (John’s 35th
birthday), Yoko gave birth to a son, Sean. John spent the ensuing five years in
seclusion but returned to public life in the fall of 1980. He was assassinated on
December 8, 1980. A memorial to John—"Strawberry Fields"—stands in New York
City's Central Park West.13
The day after John was killed, Yoko publicly asked people to send donations, in lieu of
flowers, to the Spirit Foundation, then located at 1 Battery Park Plaza, New York, NY
10004. She described the Spirit Foundation as "John’s personal charitable
foundation." Yoko said the foundation was set up a year earlier by John with a grant of
$100,000. The Foundation’s assets were devoted to the following causes: Hale House,
East Harlem Family Health Service, Covenant House, Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, New York Foundling Hospital, St. Barnabas House Salvation
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Army, the WBAI-Pacifica radio network, the Police Athletic League and the New York
City Police Department Vest Fund to purchase bulletproof vests for officers and
WNET, the public television channel.14
ENDNOTES
1. Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America, p. 222
2. Two sources describe the firecracker incident in Memphis: (1) David Pritchard &
Alan Lysaght, The Beatles: An Oral History, p 224; (2) Marie Clayton & Gareth
Thomas, John Lennon: Unseen Archives, p 167. The date of the Memphis concert
(August 19, 1966) is shown on a 1966 tour schedule on a Beatles webpage:
http://www.beatles.ws/1966.htm.
3. David Pritchard & Alan Lysaght, The Beatles: An Oral History, p 224
4. Ray Coleman, Lennon: The Definitive Biography, p 88
5. David Pritchard & Alan Lysaght, The Beatles: An Oral History, pp. 5-6
6. SOURCES: (1) Encyclopedia Britannica: Liverpool; (2) American Automobile
Association (AAA): Map of England, Wales & Republic of Ireland
7. Edward MacLysaght, The Surnames of Ireland, p 194
8. ibid, p 278
9. Remembering Bloody Sunday, http://larkspirit.com/bloodysunday/
10. SOURCES: (1) Ray Coleman, Lennon: The Definitive Biography, p 710; (2) Marie
Clayton & Gareth Thomas, John Lennon: Unseen Archives, pp. 283, 285 & 287
11. Yoko Ono, Lennon Anthology: Introduction, pp. 2-5
12. Ray Coleman, Lennon: The Definitive Biography, pp 590 & 595. (Page 590 states
that John and Yoko's separation began in the autumn of 1973. Page 595 states that the
separation lasted for 15 months.)
13. SOURCES (Lennon bio): (1) Ray Coleman, Lennon: The Definitive Biography; (2)
Hunter Davis, The Beatles, Second Revised Edition; (3) David Pritchard & Alan
Lysaght, The Beatles: An Oral History; (4) http://www.lennon.net; (5)
http://www.instantkarma.com/yokobio.html
14. SOURCES: (1) Announcement, New York Times, Dec. 10, 1980, "Yoko Ono Asks
Mourners to Give To a Foundation Lennon Favored;" (2) Paul L. Montgomery, New
York Times, Dec. 11, 1980, "Suspect in Lenon's Slaying is Put Under Suicide Watch," p
B3
PART I: LENNON’S MURDER
Chapter 1: The Crime Scene
Chapter 2: The Motive
PART II: The Bureau
Chapter 3: The FBI, Past & Present
Chapter 4: FBI Surveillance on the Internet
PART III: PRIMAL SOUNDS
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Chapter 5: King Elvis and the Golden Age of rock ‘n’ roll
Chapter 6: The Second Insurgency
Chapter 7: Flower Power, 1966-1967
PART Iv: The manson murders
Chapter 8: Entanglements
Chapter 9: The Crimes
Chapter 10: Bugliosi’s folly
Chapter 11: What really happened?
PART V: ROCK STARS & THE NEW LEFT
Chapter 12: Jimi Hendrix
Chapter 13: Jim Morrison
Chapter 14: More casualties
Epilogue
Source: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Death_Cert.htm
UPDATE (Salvador Astucia, June 22, 2004) -- While writing Rethinking John
Lennon's Assassination, I attempted to obtain John Lennon's autopsy report from the
New York City Medical Examiner's Office, but was denied access. But even without
seeing the autopsy report first-hand, we still knew the nature of the wounds because
on December 10, 1980, the New York Times published a summary the autopsy report
in an article written by Paul Montgomery. In the stated article, Montgomery described
John Lennon's wounds as follows, per the autopsy report:
"According to the autopsy, four shots struck Mr. Lennon, two in the
left side of his back and two in his left shoulder. All four caused
internal damage and bleeding."
Recently I obtained a copy of the John Lennon's death certificate (see below),
which matches Paul Montgomery's summary of the autopsy report. The death
certificate gives the following description of the wounds and cause of death:
"...Multiple gunshot wounds of left shoulder and chest....Left lung
and left subclavian artery; External and internal hemorrhage.
Shock."
The death certificate does not specify whether the chest wound was an entry or exit
wound; however, Paul Montgomery indicated it was an exit wound because he claimed
two bullets struck "the left side of his back", per the autopsy report.
This means the shooter was standing to John's left; however, a crime scene sketch
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showed Chapman standing behind John, to John's right (see Figure A). The sketch
also shows a service elevator in front of John, to John's left. That is probably where the
real shooter fired the fatal shots. With this information, a different version of the crime
emerges: As John walks from the entrance to the lobby, the shooter (someone other
than Chapman) fires from the vicinity of the service elevator, hitting John twice in the
left shoulder. After being hit twice, John runs to the lobby stairs, and the shooter fires
three more shots, hitting him twice in left side of the back; one shot misses completely.
The last three shots leave three bullet holes in the glass lobby doors (per Fenton
Bresler's description of the crime). Apparently the two bullets that hit John in the left
side of the back exited the left side of his chest, leaving bullet holes in the glass lobby
door.
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Enlarged description of cause of John Lennon’s death …
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NEW - FBI Files on the Early Beatles (1964)
Source: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/EarlyBeatlesFBI.htm
Several books are available which document FBI files on John Lennon, but virtually all
of them focus on the Bureau's surveillance of his political activities from the late Sixties
through the early Seventies. Few people are aware that the FBI started a file on the
Beatles on March 31, 1964. This was likely a continuation of the J. Edgar Hoover's
contempt for Rock 'n' Roll from the Fifties, notwithstanding the payola scandal of 1959
and 1960 which drove Rock 'n' Roll promoter Alan Freed to an early grave.
The following are summaries of four sets of FBI files on the early Beatles:
March 31, 1964 - Herman Kenin, President of the American Federation of
Musicians, complains to State, Justice, and Labor Departments about the Beatles.
Kenin argues the Beatles should not be allowed to perform in America unless an
exchange arrangement can be worked out where Americans perform in England.
To view FBI documents, clear here.
August 9, 1964 - Los Angeles Times article--written by Art Berman--is added to the
Beatles' file. The article--entitled "Beatles' Visit Posing Top Security Problem"-describes how special security is needed to protect the Beatles from their adoring fans.
August 18, 1964 - The FBI is advised that the Beatles received death threat prior to
their performance in Denver, Colorado. Promoter Vern Byers receives a post card
directing him to cancel the Beatles' show, or a "hand grenade" will be thrown at the
Beatles "instead of jelly babies." The FBI incorrectly classifies the death threat as
"extortion." No suspects are found and the FBI closes the case on September 21, 1964.
August 18 through September 18, 1964 - Numerous reports are added to the
Beatles' file. The FBI is apparently running surveillance on the Beatles 1964 tour,
describing events as they arrive and perform in various cities. To view FBI documents,
clear here.
NEW - Star Wars Connection to Lennon's Murder
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NEW - Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is a Spook Operation!!!
NEW - Analysis of crime scene video further exonerates Chapman.
NEW - Lennon's true assassin may have been a hit man supplied by Jewish mobster,
Morris Levy
Lennon's true assassin may have been a hit man
supplied by Jewish mobster, Morris Levy.
Source: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Usenet/LennonvsLevy.htm
Oct. 9, 2004, Salvador Astucia
In the Seventies, John Lennon had a run-in with a known mobster, Morris Levy. Levy
had founded Roulette Records in 1956, and owned copyrights to several songs. Levy
wasn't really a music publisher per se, but he realized copyrights were a valuable
commodity. So he obtained as many as possible, including rights to Chuck Berry songs
and countless others.
Lennon's last album with the Beatles, Abbey Road, included his song "Come
Together," which used a lyric from a Chuck Berry song, "You Can't Catch Me," which
Levy owned. In 1970, Lennon revealed in an interview that he had borrowed the lyric
("here come ole flat top") from the Berry tune. As a result, Levy sued Lennon, but
backed down when Lennon proposed a settlement. His next album would be a
collection of oldies, including three songs Levy owned. Recording began in late 1973,
but the project was delayed. Morris interpreted the holdup as a breach of settlement.
He had dinner with Lennon, who promised to complete the oldies album. Shortly
thereafter, Levy asked Lennon if he could borrow the unedited tape of songs intended
for the album, just for listening. Lennon complied. When Levy received the tape, he
immediately released the songs as a TV mail-order album, Roots. Lennon sued and
won.4
If Levy was able to steal an unreleased tape of recordings from a superstar like John
Lennon and not be prosecuted as a criminal, then he may have been "protected" at that
time by the United States government in exchange for doing the dirty work for certain
intelligence agencies. Therefore, it is highly possible that a man like Levy might have
supplied certain right-wing factions within the FBI with a hit man to kill Lennon on
Dec. 8, 1980, a month before Ronald Reagan's inauguration. Of course, pinning the
crime on Chapman wasn't a mob operation. Grooming a patsy and getting the news
media to cover up the crime was clearly the work of US intelligence working jointly
with Jewish media moguls.
To read excerpts from a Usenet discussion on the topic of John Lennon's law suit
against Morris Levy, click here.
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END
SOURCE: Fredric Dannen, "Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music
Business" (2003 edition), p 49
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Reading #10
The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact Or Fiction?
Source: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm
“In 1960, Huxley was appointed visiting professor at MIT in
Boston. He created a circle at Harvard parallel to his West
Coast LSD team. The Harvard group included Huxley,
Osmund, and Watts, Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert.
From the discussions of the Harvard seminar, Leary put
together the book The Psychedelic Experience, based on the
ancient Tibetan Book of the Dead. Watts at the same time
founded the Pacifica Foundation, which sponsored the
WKBW in San Francisco and WBM-FM in New York City
radio stations, which were among the first to push the
Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and the Animals, and would
later pioneer ‘acid rock’ and eventually ‘punk rock.’ As
admitted by Jefferson Airplane's leading musician, Paul
Kantner:
The new rock music is intended to broaden the
generation gap, alienate parents from their children, and
prepare young people for revolution.’” (David Livingstone,
Terrorism And The Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year
History, p. 209)
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There is a sizeable portion of the otherwise reading population that refuses to look at
ANYTHING connected to Lyndon Larouche. In its most acute form, this intellectual
close-mindedness centers primarily on his lack of what some believe is an essential
positive regard for the British royalty. Perhaps the most "outlandish" OR "true-blue"
publication has been Chapter VII of EIR, DOPE, INC. (3rd Ed. 1992). Following the
chapter is a fragmentary chronology of events. True or false. You decide for yourself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Aquarian Conspiracy
In the spring of 1980, a book appeared called The Aquarian Conspiracy that put itself
forward as a manifesto of the counterculture. Defining the counterculture as the
conscious embracing of irrationality -- from rock and drugs to biofeedback,
meditation, "consciousness-raising," yoga, mountain climbing, group therapy, and
psychodrama. The Aquarian Conspiracy declares that it is now time for the 15 million
Americans involved in the counterculture to join in bringing about a "radical change in
the United States."
Writes author Marilyn Ferguson: "While outlining a not-yet-titled book about the
emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of this
movement; its atypical leadership, the patient intensity of its adherents, their unlikely
successes. It suddenly struck me that in their sharing of strategies, their linkage, and
their recognition of each other by subtle signals, the participants were not merely
cooperating with one another. They were in collusion. It -- this movement -- is a
conspiracy!"1
Ferguson used a half-truth to tell a lie. The counterculture is a conspiracy -- but not in
the half-conscious way Ferguson claim -- as she well knows. Ferguson wrote her
manifesto under the direction of Willis Harman, social policy director of the Stanford
Research Institute, as a popular version of a May 1974 policy study on how to
transform the United States into Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The
counterculture is a conspiracy at the top, created as a method of social control, used to
drain the United States of its commitment to scientific and technological progress.
That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley to the
United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the United States for the
mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this conspiracy apart step-by-step from its
small beginnings with Huxley in California to the victimization of 15 million Americans
today. With 'The Aquarian Conspiracy', the British Opium War against the United
States has come out into the open.
The Model
The British had a precedent for the counterculture they imposed upon the United
States: the pagan cult ceremonies of the decadent Egyptian and Roman Empires. The
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following description of cult ceremonies dating back to the Egyptian Isis priesthood of
the third millennium B.C. could just as well be a journalistic account of a "hippy be-in"
circa A.D. 1969: "The acts or gestures that accompany the incantations constitute the
rite [of Isis). In these dances, the beating of drums and the rhythm of music and
repetitive movements were helped by hallucinatory substances like hashish or mescal;
these were consumed as adjuvants to create the trance and the hallucinations that
were taken to he the visitation of the god. The drugs were sacred, and their knowledge
was limited to the initiated . . . Possibly because they have the illusion of satisfied
desires, and allowed the innermost feelings to escape, these rites acquired during their
execution a frenzied character that is conspicuous in certain spells: "Retreat! Re is
piercing thy head, slashing thy face, dividing thy head, crushing it in his hands; thy
bones are shattered, thy limbs are cut to pieces!"2
The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent youth of America is not
merely analogous to the ancient cult of Isis. It is a literal resurrection of the cult down
to the popularization of the Isis cross (the "peace symbol") as the counterculture's
most frequently used symbol.
The High Priesthood
The high priest for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the grandson of Thomas
H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Roundtable group and a lifelong collaborator of
Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself sat on the RIIA council for nearly fifty years, headed
the Research Division of British intelligence throughout World War II, and served as
wartime briefing officer of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Toynbee's "theory" of
history, expounded in his twenty-volume History of Western civilization, was that its
determining culture has always been the rise and decline of grand imperial dynasties.
At the very point that these dynasties -- the "thousand year Reich" of the Egyptian
pharaohs, the Roman Empire, and the British Empire -- succeed in imposing their rule
over the entire face of the earth, they tend to decline. Toynbee argued that this decline
could be abated if the ruling oligarchy (like that of the British Roundtable) would
devote itself to the recruitment and training of an ever-expanding priesthood
dedicated to the principles of imperial rule.3
Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the "Children of
the Sun," a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain's Roundtable elite.4
Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sir Oswald Mosley, and D.H.
Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover. It was Huxley, furthermore, who would launch
the legal battle in the 1950s to have Lawrence's pornographic novel Lady Chatterley's
Lover allowed into the United States on the ground that it was a misunderstood "work
of art."5
Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford by H.G. Wells, the
head of British foreign intelligence during World War I and the spiritual grandfather of
the Aquarian Conspiracy. Ferguson accurately sees the counterculture as the
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realization of what Wells called The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World
Revolution. The "Open Conspiracy," Wells wrote, "will appear first, I believe, as a
conscious organization of intelligent and quite possibly in some cases, wealthy men,
as a movement having distinct social and political aims, confessedly ignoring most of
the existing apparatus of political control, or using it only as an incidental implement
in the stages, a mere movement of a number of people in a certain direction who will
presently discover with a sort of surprise the common object toward which they are
all moving . . . In all sorts of ways they will be influencing and controlling the
apparatus of the ostensible government."6
What Ferguson left out is that Wells called his conspiracy a "one-world brain" which
would function as "a police of the mind." Such books as the Open Conspiracy were for
the priesthood itself. But Wells's popular writings (Time Machine, The Island of Dr.
Moreau, and so forth), and those of his proteges Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
and George Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm), were written as "mass appeal" organizing
documents on behalf of one-world order. Only in the United States are these "science
fiction classics" taught in grade school as attacks against fascism.
Under Wells's tutelage, Huxley was first introduced to Aleister Crowley. Crowley was a
product of the cultist circle that developed in Britain from the 1860s under the guiding
influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- who, it will be recalled, was the colonial minister
under Lord Palmerston during the Second Opium War. In 1886, Crowley, William
Butler Yeats, and several other Bulwer-Lytton proteges formed the Isis-Urania Temple
of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. This Isis Cult was organized around the
1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Madame Helena Blavatsky, in which the Russian
occultist called for the British aristocracy to organize itself into an Isis priesthood.7
The subversive Isis Urania Order of the Golden Dawn is today an international drug
ring said to be controlled by the Canadian multi-millionaire, Maurice Strong, who is
also a top operative for British Intelligence.
In 1937, Huxley was sent to the United States, where he remained throughout the
period of World War II. Through a Los Angeles contact, Jacob Zeitlin, Huxley and
pederast Christopher Isherwood were employed as script writers for MGM, Warner
Brothers, and Walt Disney Studios. Hollywood was already dominated by organized
crime elements bankrolled and controlled through London. Joseph Kennedy was the
frontman for a British consortium that created RKO studios, and "Bugsy" Siegel, the
West Coast boss of the Lansky syndicate, was heavily involved in Warner Brothers and
MGM.
Huxley founded a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in San Francisco, that
consisted exclusively of several hundred deranged worshipers of Isis and other cult
gods. Isherwood, during the California period, translated and propagated a number of
ancient Zen Buddhist documents, inspiring Zen-mystical cults along the way.8
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In effect, Huxley and Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mann and his
daughter Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid the foundations during the late 1930s and the
1940s for the later LSD culture, by recruiting a core of "initiates" into the Isis cults that
Huxley's mentors, Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and Crowley, had constituted while
stationed in India.
LSD: 'Visitation from the Gods'
"Ironically," writes Ferguson, "the introduction of major psychedelics like LSD, in the
1960s, was largely attributable to the Central Intelligence Agency's investigation into
the substances for possible military use. Experiments on more than eighty college
campuses, under various CIA code names, unintentionally popularized LSD.
Thousands of graduate students served as guinea pigs. Soon they were synthesizing
their own 'acid.' "9
The CIA operation was code named MK-Ultra, its result was not unintentional, and it
began in 1952, the year Aldous Huxley returned to the United States.
Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was developed in 1943 by Albert Hoffman, a
chemist at Sandoz A.B. -- a Swiss pharmaceutical house owned by S.G. Warburg. While
precise documentation is unavailable as to the auspices under which the LSD research
was commissioned, it can be safely assumed that British intelligence and its subsidiary
U.S. Office of Strategic Services were directly involved. Allen Dulles, the director of the
CIA when that agency began MK-Ultra, was the OSS station chief in Berne,
Switzerland throughout the early Sandoz research. One of his OSS assistants was
James Warburg, of the same Warburg family, who was instrumental in the 1963
founding of the Institute for Policy Studies, and worked with both Huxley and Robert
Hutchins."10
Aldous Huxley returned to the United States from Britain, accompanied by Dr.
Humphrey Osmond, the Huxleys' private physician. Osmond had been part of a
discussion group Huxley had organized at the National Hospital, Queens Square,
London. Along with another seminar participant, J.R. Smythies, Osmond wrote
Schizophrenia: A New Approach, in which he asserted that mescaline -- a derivative of
the mescal cactus used in ancient Egyptian and Indian pagan rites -- produced a
psychotic state identical in all clinical respects to schizophrenia. On this basis, Osmond
and Smythies advocated experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs as a means of
developing a "cure" for mental disorders.
Osmond was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent role in MK-Ultra. At the
same time, Osmond, Huxley, and the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins held a
series of secret planning sessions in 1952 and 1953 for a second, private LSD mescaline
project under Ford Foundation funding.11 Hutchins, it will be recalled, was the
program director of the Ford Foundation during this period. His LSD proposal incited
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such rage in Henry Ford II that Hutchins was fired from the foundation the following
year.
It was also in 1953 that Osmund gave Huxley a supply of mescaline for his personal
consumption. The next year, Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception, the first manifesto
of the psychedelic drug cult, which claimed that hallucinogenic drugs "expand
consciousness." Although the Ford Foundation rejected the Hutchins-Huxley proposal
for private foundation sponsorship of LSD, the proposal was not dropped. Beginning
in 1962, the Rand Corporation of Santa Monica, California began a four-year
experiment in LSD, peyote, and marijuana. The Rand Corporation was established
simultaneously with the reorganization of the Ford Foundation during 1949. Rand was
an outgrowth of the wartime Strategic Bombing Survey, a "cost analysis" study of the
psychological effects of the bombings of German population centers.
According to a 1962 Rand Abstract, W.H. McGlothlin conducted a preparatory study
on "The Long-Lasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in Normals: An
Experimental Proposal." The following year, McGlothlin conducted a year-long
experiment on thirty human guinea pigs, called "Short-Term Effects of LSD on
Anxiety, Attitudes and Performance." The study concluded that LSD improved
emotional attitudes and resolved anxiety problems.12
Huxley At Work Huxley expanded his own LSD-mescaline project in California by
recruiting several individuals who had been initially drawn into the cult circles he
helped establish during his earlier stay. The two most prominent individuals were Alan
Watts and the late Dr. Gregory Bateson (the former husband of Dame Margaret Mead).
Watts became a self-styled "guru" of a nationwide Zen Buddhist cult built around his
well-publicized books. Bateson, an anthropologist with the OSS, became the director of
a hallucinogenic drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration
Hospital. Under Bateson's auspices, the initiating "cadre" of the LSD cult -- the hippies
-- were programmed.13
Watts at the same time founded the Pacifica Foundation, which sponsored two radio
station WKBW in San Francisco and WBM-FM in New York City. The Pacifica stations
were among the first to push the "Liverpool Sound" -- the British-imported hard rock
twanging of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and the Animals. They would later pioneer
"acid rock" and eventually the self-avowed psychotic "punk rock."
During the fall of 1960, Huxley was appointed visiting professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston. Around his stay in that city, Huxley created a circle
at Harvard parallel to his West Coast LSD team. The Harvard group included Huxley,
Osmund, and Watts (brought in from California), Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert.
The ostensible topic of the Harvard seminar was "Religion and its Significance in the
Modern Age." The seminar was actually a planning session for the "acid rock"
counterculture. Huxley established contact during this Harvard period with the
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president of Sandoz, which at the time was working on a CIA contract to produce large
quantities of LSD and psilocybin (another synthetic hallucinogenic drug) for MKUltra, the CIA's official chemical warfare experiment. According to recently released
CIA documents, Allen Dulles purchased over 100 million doses of LSD -- almost all of
which flooded the streets of the United States during the late 1960s. During the same
period, Leary began privately purchasing large quantities of LSD from Sandoz as
well.14
From the discussions of the Harvard seminar, Leary put together the book The
Psychedelic Experience, based on the ancient cultist Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was
this book that popularized Osmund's previously coined term, "psychedelic mindexpanding."
The Roots of the Flower People
Back in California, Gregory Bateson had maintained the Huxley operation out of the
Palo Alto VA hospital. Through "SD experimentation on patients already hospitalized
for psychological problems, Bateson established a core of "initiates" into the
"psychedelic" Isis Cult.
Foremost among his Palo Alto recruits was Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson administered
the first dose of "SD to Kesey. By 1962, Kesey had completed a novel, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest, which popularized the notion that society is a prison and the only
truly "free" people are the insane.15
Kesey subsequently organized a circle of "SD initiates called "The Merry Pranksters."
They toured the country disseminating SD" (often without forewarning the receiving
parties), building up local distribution connections, and establishing the pretext for a
high volume of publicity on behalf of the still minuscule "counterculture."
By 1967, the Kesey cult had handed out such quantities of "SD that a sizable drug
population had emerged, centered in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
Here Huxley collaborator Bateson set up a "free clinic," staffed by **Dr. David Smith -later a "medical adviser" for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws (NORML); **Dr. Ernest Dernberg an active-duty military officer, probably on
assignment through MK-UItra; **Roger Smith-a street gang organizer trained by Saul
Alinsky. During the Free Clinic period, Roger Smith was the parole officer of the cultist
mass murderer Charles Manson; **Dr. Peter Bourne -- formerly President Carter's
special assistant on drug abuse. Bourne did his psychiatric residency at the Clinic. He
had previously conducted a profiling study of GI heroin addicts in Vietnam.
The Free Clinic paralleled a project at the Tavistock Institute, the psychological
warfare agency for the British Secret Intelligence Service. Tavistock, founded as a clinic
in London in the 1920s, had become the Psychiatric Division of the British Army
during World War II under its director, Dr. John Rawlings Rees.16
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During the 1960s, the Tavistock Clinic fostered the notion that no criteria for sanity
exist and that psychedelic "mind-expanding" drugs are valuable tools of
psychoanalysis. In 1967, Tavistock sponsored a Conference on the "Dialectics of
Liberation," chaired by Tavistock psychoanalyst Dr. R.D. Laing, himself a popularized
author and advocate of drug use. That conference drew a number of people who would
soon play a prominent role in fostering terrorism; Angela Davis and Stokely
Carmichael were two prominent American delegates.
Thus, by 1963, Huxley had recruited his core of "initiates." All of them -- Leary,
Osmund, Watts, Kesey, Alpert -- became the highly publicized promoters of the early
LSD counterculture. By 1967, with the cult of "Flower People" in Haight-Ashbury and
the emergence of the antiwar movement, the United States was ready for the
inundation of LSD, hashish and marijuana that hit American college campuses in the
late 1960s.
'The Beating of Drums . . .'
In 1963, the Beatles arrived in the United States, and with their decisive airing on the
Ed Sullivan Show, the "British sound" took off in the U.S.A. For their achievement, the
four rocksters were awarded the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the
Queen. The Beatles and the Animals, Rolling Stones, and homicidal punk rock maniacs
who followed were, of course, no more a spontaneous outpouring of alienated youth
than was the acid culture they accompanied.
The social theory of rock was elaborated by musicologist Theodor Adorno, who came
to the United States in 1939 to head the Princeton University Radio Research
Project.17 Adorno writes: "In an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden
domain, the listener who remembers a hit song will turn into the song's ideal subject,
into the person for whom the song ideally speaks. At the same time, as one of many
who identify with that fictitious subject, that musical I, he will feel his isolation ease
as he himself feels integrated into the community of "fans." In whistling such a song
he bows to a ritual of socialization, although beyond this unarticulated subjective
stirring of the moment his isolation continues unchanged . . . The comparison with
addiction is inescapable. Addicted conduct generally has a social component: it is one
possible reaction to the atomization which, as sociologists have noticed, parallels the
compression of the social network. Addiction to music on the part of a number of
entertainment listeners would be a similar phenomenon."18
The hit parade is organized precisely on the same principles used by Egypt's Isis
priesthood and for the same purpose: the recruitment of youth to the dionysiac
counterculture.
In a report prepared for the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, Paul
Hirsch described the product of Adorno's Radio Research Project.19 According to
Hirsch, the establishment of postwar radio's Hit Parade "transformed the mass
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medium into an agency of sub-cultural programming. Radio networks were
converted into round-the-clock recycling machines that repeated the top forty hits."
Hirsch documents how all popular culture -- movies, music, books, and fashion -- is
now run on the same program of preselection. Today's mass culture operates
like the opium trade: The supply determines the demand.
The Vietnam War and the Anti-Vietnam War Trap
But without the Vietnam War and the "anti-war" movement, the Isis cult would have
been contained to a fringe phenomenon -- no bigger than the beatnik cult of the 1950s
that was an outgrowth of the early Huxley ventures in California. The Vietnam War
created the climate of moral despair that opened America's youth to drugs.
Under Kennedy, American military involvement in Vietnam -- which had been vetoed
by the Eisenhower administration -- was initiated on a limited scale. Under Lyndon
Johnson, American military presence in Vietnam was massively escalated, at the same
time that U.S. efforts were restricted -- the framework of "limited war." Playing on the
President's profile, the anglophile Eastern Establishment, typified by top White House
national security aide McGeorge Bundy and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara,
convinced President Johnson that under the nuclear "balance of terror," or the regime
of Mutual and Assured Destruction, the United States could afford neither a political
solution to the conflict, nor the commitment to a military victory.
The outcome of this debacle was a major strategic withdrawal from Asia by the United
States, spelled out in Henry Kissinger's "Guam Doctrine," adoption of the spectacular
failure known as the "China Card" strategy for containing Soviet influence, and
demoralization of the American people over the war to the point that the sense of
national pride and confidence in the future progress of the republic was badly
damaged.
Just as Aldous Huxley began the counterculture subversion of the United States thirty
years before its consequences became evident to the public, Lord Bertrand Russell
began laying the foundations for the anti-war movement of the 1960s before the 1930s
expired. Russell's "pacifism" was always relative -- the means to his most cherished
end, one-world government on the imperial model, that would curb the nation-state
and its persistent tendency toward republicanism and technological progress.
Lord Russell and Aldous Huxley cofounded the Peace Pledge Union in 1937
campaigning for peace with Hitler-just before both went to the United States for the
duration of World War.20 During World War II, Lord Russell opposed British and
American warfare against the Nazis. 1111947, when the United States was in possession
of the atomic bomb and Russia was not, Russell loudly advocated that the United
States order the Soviets to surrender to a one-world government that would enjoy a
restrictive monopoly on nuclear weapons, under the threat of a preemptive World War
III against the Soviet Union. His 1950s "Ban the Bomb" movement was directed to the
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same end-it functioned as an anti-technology movement against the peace-througheconomic development potentials represented by President Eisenhower's "Atoms for
Peace"' initiative.
From the mid-1950s onward, Russell's principal assignment was to build an
international anti-war and anti-American movement. Coincident with the escalation of
U.S. involvement in Vietnam under British manipulation, Russell upgraded the old
Peace Pledge Union (which had been used in West Germany throughout the postwar
period to promote an anti-capitalist "New left" wing of the Social Democratic Party,
recruiting several future members of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang in the process)
into the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
In the United States, the New York banks provided several hundred thousand dollars
to establish the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), effectively the U.S. branch of the
Russell Peace Foundation. Among the founding trustees of the IPS was James
Warburg, directly representing the family's interests.
IPS drew its most active operatives from a variety of British-dominated institutions.
IPS founding director Marcus Raskin was a member of the Kennedy administration's
National Security Council and also a fellow of the National Training Labs, a U.S.
subsidiary of the Tavistock Institute founded by Dr. Kurt Lewin.
After its creation by the League for Industrial Democracy, Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS), the umbrella of the student anti-war movement, was in turn financed
and run through IPS -- up through and beyond its splintering into a number of
terrorist and Maoist gangs in the late 1960s.21 More broadly, the institutions and
outlook of the U.S. anti-war movement were dominated by the direct political
descendants of the British-dominated "socialist movement" in the U.S.A., fostered by
the House of Morgan as far back as the years before World War!.
This is not to say that the majority of anti-war protesters were paid, certified British
agents. On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of anti-war protesters went into
SDS on the basis of outrage at the developments in Vietnam. But once caught in the
environment defined by Russell and the Tavistock Institute's psychological warfare
experts, and inundated with the message that hedonistic pleasure-seeking was a
legitimate alternative to "immoral war," their sense of values and their creative
potential went up in a cloud of hashish smoke.
'Changing Images'
Now, fifteen years later, with nearly an entire generation of American youth
submerged in the drugs that flooded the nation's campuses, the Aquarian
Conspiracy's Marilyn Ferguson is able to write: "There are legions of [Aquarian]
conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of
public schools, in factories and doctors' offices, in state and federal agencies, on city
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councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations,
in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country."22
Like the British inundation of China with drugs in the nineteenth century, the British
counterculture has succeeded in. subverting the fabric of the nation, even up to the
top-most levels of government.
In 1962, Huxley helped found the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, which became
a mecca for hundreds of Americans to engage in weekends of T-Groups and Training
Groups modeled on behavior group therapy, for Zen, Hindu, and Buddhist
transcendental meditation, and "out of body" experiences through simulated and
actual hallucinogenic drugs.23
As described in the Esalen Institute Newsletter: "Esalen started in the fall of 1962 as a
forum to bring together a wide variety of approaches to enhancement of the human
potential . . . including experiential sessions involving encounter groups, sensory
awakening, gestalt awareness training, related disciplines. Our latest step is to fan
out into the community at large, running programs in cooperation with many
different institutions, churches, schools, hospitals, and government."24
Esalen's nominal founders were two transcendental meditation students, Michael
Murphy and Richard Price, both graduates of Stanford University. Price also
participated in the experiments on patients at Bateson's Palo Alto Veterans Hospital.
Today Esalen's catalogue offers: T-Groups; Psychodrama Marthon; Fight Training for
Lovers and Couples; Religious Cults; LSD Experiences and the Great Religions of the
World; Are You Sound, a weekend workshop with Alan Watts; Creating New Forms of
Worship; Hallucinogenic Psychosis; and Non-Drug Approaches to Psychedelic
Experiences.
Several tens of thousands of Americans have passed through Esalen; millions have
passed through the programs it has sired throughout the country.
The next leap in Britain's Aquarian Conspiracy against the United States was the May
1974 report that provided the basis for Ferguson's work. The report is entitled
"Changing Images of Man," Contract Number URH (489~215O, Policy Research
Report No. 414.74, prepared by the Stanford Research Institute Center for the Study of
Social Policy, Willis Harman, director. The 319-page mimeographed report was
prepared by a team of fourteen researchers and supervised by a panel of twenty-three
controllers, including anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist B.F. Skinner, Ervin
Laszlo of the United Nations, Sir Geoffrey Vickers of British intelligence.
The aim of the study, the authors state, is to change the image of mankind from that of
industrial progress to one of "spiritualism." The study asserts that in our present
society, the "image of industrial and technological man" is obsolete and must be
"discarded": "Many of our present images appear to have become dangerously
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obsolete, however . . . Science, technology, and economics have made possible really
significant strides toward achieving such basic human goals as physical safety and
security, material comfort and better health. But many of these successes have
brought with them problems of being too successful -- problems that themselves seem
insoluble within the set of societal value-premises that led to their emergence . . . Our
highly developed system of technology leads to higher vulnerability and breakdowns.
Indeed the range and interconnected impact of societal problems that are now
emerging pose a serious threat to our civilization . . . If our predictions of the future
prove correct, we can expect the association problems of the trend to become more
serious, more universal and to occur more rapidly."
Therefore, SRI concludes, we must change the industrial-technological image of man
fast: "Analysis of the nature of contemporary societal problems leads to the
conclusion that . . . the images of man that dominated the last two centuries will be
inadequate for the post-industrial era."
Since the writing of the Harman report, one President of the United States, Jimmy
Carter, reported sighting UFOs his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
made speeches proclaiming the advent of the New Age, the Joint Chiefs of Staff every
morning read so-called intelligence reports on the biorhythms and horoscopes of the
members of the Soviet Politburo. The House of Representatives established a new
congressional committee, called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, where
the likes of Ferguson have come to lecture up to a hundred congressmen.25
What began as Britain's creation of the counterculture to open the market for its dope
has come a long way.
The LSD Connection
Who provided the drugs that swamped the anti-war movement and the college
campuses of the United States in the late 1960s? The organized crime infrastructure
which had set up the Peking Connection for the opium trade in 1928 -- provided the
same services in the 1960s and 1970s it had provided during Prohibition. This was also
the same network Huxley had established contact with in Hollywood during the 1930s.
The LSD connection begins with one William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock. Hitchcock was
a graduate of the University of Vienna and a scion of the millionaire Mellon banking
family of Pittsburgh. (Andrew Mellon of the same family had been the U.S. Treasury
Secretary throughout Prohibition.) In 1963, when Timothy Leary was thrown out of
Harvard, Hitchcock rented a fifty-five-room mansion in Millbrook, New York, where
the entire Leary-Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its later move back to
California.26
Hitchcock was also a broker for the Lansky syndicate and for the Fiduciary Trust Co.,
Nassau, Grand Bahamas --- a wholly owned subsidiary of Investors Overseas Services.
He was formally employed by Delafield and Delafield Investments, where he worked
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on buying and selling vast quantities of stock in the Mary Carter Paint Co., soon to
become Resorts International.
In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus Owsley Stanley III.
As Owsley's agent, Hitchcock retained the law firm of Babinowitz, Boudin and
Standard 27 -- to conduct a feasibility study of several Caribbean countries to
determine the best location for the production and distribution of LSD and hashish.
During this period, Hitchcock joined Leary and his circle in California. Leary had
established an LSD cult called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and several front
companies, including Mystics Art World, Inc. of Laguna Beach, California. These
California-based entities ran lucrative trafficking in Mexican marijuana and LSD
brought in from Switzerland and Britain. The British connection had been established
directly by Hitchcock, who contracted the Charles Bruce chemical firm to import large
quantities of the chemical components of LSD with financing from both Hitchcock and
George Grant Hoag, the heir to the J.C. Penney dry goods fortune, the Brotherhood of
Eternal Love set up LSD and hashish production-marketing operations in Costa Rica
in 1968. 28
Toward the end of 1968, Hitchcock expanded the LSD-hashish production operations
in the Caribbean with funds provided by the Fiduciary Trust Co. (IOS). In conjunction
with J. Vontobel and Co. of Zurich, Hitchcock founded a corporation called 4-Star
Anstalt in Liechtenstein. This company, employing "investment funds" (that is, drug
receipts) from Fiduciary Trust, bought up large tracts of land in the Grand Bahamas as
well as large quantities of ergotamine tartrate, the basic chemical used in the
production of LSD.29
Hitchcock's personal hand in the LSD connection abruptly ended several years later.
Hitchcock had been working closely with Johann F. Parravacini of the Parravacini
Bank Ltd in Berne, Switzerland. From 1968, they had together funded even further
expansion of the Caribbean-California LSD-hashish ventures. In the early 1970s, as the
result of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, both Hitchcock and
Parravacini were indicted and convicted of a $40 million stock fraud. Parravacini had
registered a $40 million sale to Hitchcock for which Hitchcock had not put down a
penny of cash or collateral. This was one of the rare instances in which federal
investigators succeeded in getting inside the $200 billion drug fund as it was making
its way around the "offshore" banking system.
Another channel for laundering dirty drug money -- a channel yet to be compromised
by federal investigative agencies is important to note here. This is the use of taxexempt foundations to finance terrorism and environmentalism. One immediately
relevant case makes the point.
In 1957, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins established the Center for the
Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) in Santa Barbara, California. Knight
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Commander Hutchins drew in Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Mann Borghese, and some
Rhodes Scholars who had originally been brought into the University of Chicago
during the 1930s and 1940s.
The CSDI was originally funded 1957 to 1961 through a several-million-dollar fund that
Hutchins managed to set up before his untimely departure from the Ford Foundation.
From 1961 onward, the Center was principally financed by organized crime. The two
funding conduits were the Fund of Funds, a tax exempt front for Bernie Cornfeld's lOS,
and the Parvin Foundation, a parallel front for Parvin-Dohnnan Co. of Nevada. IOS
and Marvin-Doorman held controlling interests in the Desert Inn, the Aladdin, and the
Dune -- all Las Vegas casinos associated with the Lansky syndicate. IOS, as already
documented, was a conducting vehicle for LSD, hashish, and marijuana distribution
throughout the 1960s.30 In 1967 alone, IOS channeled between $3 and $4 million to
the center. Wherever there is dope, there is Dope, Inc.
REFERENCES:
1. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles: J.P. Archer, 1980), p.19.
2. Paul Ghalioungui, The House of Life: Magic and Medica' Science in Ancient Egypt
(New York: Schram Enterprises, 1974).
3. Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1935).
4. Martin Green, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after 1918
(New York: Basic Books, 1976).
5. See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
6. H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress
Upon Human Life and Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1902), p.285.
7. Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and
Modern Science and Theology (Los Angeles: Theosophy Co., 1931).
8. Francis King, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (New York: Citadel, 1974), p.118.
9. Ferguson, Aquarian Conspiracy, p. 126n.
10. Institute for Policy Studies, "The First Ten Years, 1963-1973," Washington, D.C.,
1974.
11. Humphrey Osmund, Understanding Understanding (New York: Harper and Row,
1974).
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12. Rand Corporation Catalogue of Documents.
13. Gregory Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of the Mind (New York: Chandler, 1972).
14. Ralph Metzner, The Ecstatic Adventure (New York: Macmillan, 1968).
15. See Clark, The Huxleys.
16. Michael Minnicino, "Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory of War," The
Campaigner (April 1974).
17. Theodor Adorno was a leading professor of the Frankfurt School of Social Research
in Germany, founded by the British Fabian Society. A collaborator of twelve-tone
formalist and British intelligence operative Arnold Schoenberg, Adorno was brought to
the United States in 1939 to head the Princeton Radio Research Project. The aim of
this project, as stated in Adorno's Introduction to the Sociology of Music, was to
program a mass "musical" culture that would steadily degrade its consumers. Punk
rock is, in the most direct sense, the ultimate result of Adorno's work.
18. Theodor Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music (New York: Seabury
Press, 1976).
19. Paul Hirsch, "The Structure of the Popular Music Industry; The Filtering Process
by which Records are Preselected for Public Consumption," Institute for Social
Research's Survey Research Center Monograph, 1969.
20. Ronald Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1976), p.457.
21. Illinois Crime Commission Report, 1969. The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) was
established in 1963 by Marcus Raskin, a former National Security Adviser under NSC
Director McGeorge Bundy, and by Richard Barnet, a former State Department adviser
on arms control and disarmament. Among the board of trustees of IPS were Thurmond
Arnold, James Warburg, Philip Stern, and Hans Morgenthau, with seed money from
the Ford Foundation (later to be headed by McGeorge Bundy). IPS has functioned as
the "New left" think tank and control center for local community control, community
health centers, and direct terrorist organizations. In its report "The First Ten Years,"
the Institute lists among its lecturers and fellows, members of the Weathermen group,
and known associates of the Japanese Red Army, the Puerto Rican terrorist Armed
Forces of National Liberation (FALN), and the Black Liberation Army. See also Carter
and the Party of international Terrorism, Special Report by the U.S. Labor Party,
August, 1976.
22. Ferguson, Aquarian Conspiracy, p.24.
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23. Criton Zoakos et al., Stamp Out the Aquarian Conspiracy, Citizens for LaRouche
monograph, New York, 1980, pp. 60-63.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., pp. 10-12.
26. Mary Jo Warth, "The Story of Acid Profiteers," Village Voice, August 22, 1974.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Hutchinson, Vesco.
FRAGMENTARY AQUARIAN CHRONOLOGY
In the 1820s De Quincy confessed to the high incidence of opium eating among the
English aristocrats and artists of his day. Among habitual users of Laudanum and
morphine have been included Coleridge, Dickens, Carlyle, Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and the poet Laureate Tennyson. Britain's Foreign Minister, Lord John
Russell and Anthony Ashley Cooper (Earl of Shaftesbury) "guided the political
training of ex-American George Peabody, founder of the Morgan financial empire."
In 1857 Morgan and Peabody were saved by an emergency line of credit (800,000
pounds) furnished by the Bank of England with Barings a guarantor of the loan.
Peabody later become friends with the "top racial ideologues in British science,
Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin."
The American Museum of Natural History, of which the main functions are education,
research, exhibition, and publication, was founded in 1869 by a group of wealthy men,
among whom was the elder J. P. Morgan. Inspired by the urging of a young naturalist,
Albert Smith Bickmore, and by the theories of Darwin and Huxley which had suddenly
given a new interpretation to the origin of life, the group resolved to found a museum
that would be the "means of teaching our youth to appreciate the wonderful works of
the Creator."
The British biologist Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975), contributed to knowledge in
embryology, systematics, genetics, ethology, and evolutionary studies. He studied the
development of many organisms, writing, with Sir Gavin De Beer, Elements of
Experimental Embryology (1934). Huxley presented many of his ideas of evolutionary
mechanisms in Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (1942). In 1946 he was appointed
the first director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). In 1948 Sir Julian Huxley, called for a radical eugenic policy
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in UNESCO: "Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of
controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically
impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is
examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at
stake that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable." The fact that
emergence of an organized youth-counterculture around "post-industrial" utopianism
reflected the emergence of the forementioned types of psycho-social conditioning,
should not be read as evidence that the emergence of the movement itself was in any
sense "spontaneous," or "natural." Very little in modern history has been less natural,
indeed more unnatural, than the self-styled nature cult which has grown up, "on behalf
of the environment," around the 1961 initiatives of Prince Philip's and Prince
Bernhard's reactionary World Wildlife Fund. The members of the new youthcounterculture were virtually campus-laboratory guinea-pigs, whose
behavior was induced and directed, from the top-down, from the outset.
The environment preparing this operation was established as early as the 1920s, under
British Brigadier Dr. John Rawlings Rees of the London Tavistock Clinic. The entire
operation was dominated by relatively highly refined methods of mass-brainwashing,
assisted by such networks as the Lewin centers at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the network of Freudian and kindred
brainwashing networks, such as "MK-Ultra," spun out from under the direction of
Julian Huxley at the UNO and the London Tavistock Clinic. His humanistic beliefs
were set forth in the classic Religion Without Revelation (1957). "I use the word
'Humanist' to mean someone who believes that man . . . his body, his mind, and his
soul were not supernaturally created but are all products of evolution," Julian Huxley
once said. In 1957 Julian Huxley wrote: "And the relation to practical existence may
be one of escape, as in asceticism or pure Buddhism; or of full participation, as in
classical Greece or the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia; or of rendering unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars's, as in usual Christian practice." The IUCN has
lately produced the UN's Global Biodiversity Assessment, which suggests that the
human population should be reduced to one billion. From the very beginning key UN
figures such as Brock Chisholm, Julian Huxley and Paul G. Hoffman "were promoting
anti-natalist policies." The United Nations is a specific example of Humanism at work.
The first Director General of UNESCO, the UN organization promoting education,
science, and culture, was the 1962 Humanist of the Year Julian Huxley, who practically
drafted UNESCO'S charter by himself. The first Director-General of the World Health
Organization (WHO) was the 1959 Humanist of the Year Brock Chisholm. One of this
organization's greatest accomplishments has been the wiping of smallpox from the face
of the earth. And the first Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization
was British Humanist John Boyd Orr. The poppy seed from which it is derived was
long known to the Moguls of India, who used the seeds mixed in tea offered to a
difficult opponent. It is also used as a pain-killing drug which largely replaced
chloroform and other older anesthetics of a bygone era. Opium was popular in all of
the fashionable clubs of Victorian London and it was no secret that men like the
Huxley brothers used it extensively. Members of the Orphic-Dionysus cults of Hellenic
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Greece and the Osiris-Horus cults of Ptolemaic Egypt which Victorian society
embraced, all smoked opium; it was the "in" thing to do.
Entering the University of Vermont (which was located in Burlington) at the early age
of fifteen, Dewey still evinced no special talent, until in his senior year he led his class
and won the highest marks on record in philosophy. This transformation in Dewey's
scholastic record was occasioned by his accidental perusal of a physiology textbook
written by Thomas Henry Huxley, the foremost supporter in England of Darwin's
theory of evolution. Awakened to the excitement of the effort to understand the world,
and beginning to doubt his early moralistic beliefs, Dewey delved into philosophy for
an answer to the conflict between revealed dogma and the findings of science. This was
the beginning of Dewey's lifelong task of reconciling these two poles.
In 1890 Fabian Havelock Ellis saw the leadership of women as a source of renewal.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was "the
beloved son of English intellectual aristocrats." His father Leonard was an editor and
minor poet. His mother was the former Julia Arnold. A granduncle, Matthew Arnold
(1822-1888) was a celebrated poet and critic.
Aldous's Round Table father, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), was a Victorian
scientist, essayist, defender of Darwin (evolutionist) and an agnostic. T.H. Huxley, on
the eve of the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species, promised to support
Darwin's thesis. However, he warned that he had burdened his argument
unnecessarily. He was so vociferous in his defense that he earned the nickname
"Darwin's Bulldog." He once said: "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as
heresies and to end as superstitions." Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863)
embroiled him in further controversy; it espoused the idea that the closest relatives of
humans are the anthropoid apes. Having studied under Professor Thomas H. Huxley,
H. G. Wells went on to teach school in North Wales. Huxley described his Church of
Humanity as "Catholicism minus Christianity". To Huxley the only good Church was a
dead Church. Huxley adopted David Hume's philosophy. He professed belief in God
and cut the ground from under every argument for his existence. Sir Leslie Stephen in
the Dictionary of National Biography pronounced him "the acutest thinker in Great
Britain in the 18th Century" and exposed the clerical libels about his last hours.
Huxley was not only one of the most decorated men of science of his time, but all his
life an outspoken agnostic (a term which he himself coined to avoid the harshness of
atheist). Pious folk spread a myth about conversion late in life but his son Leonard
shows in his biography of his father that all this is nonsense. A few months before he
died he said to his son: "The most remarkable achievement of the Jew was to impose
on Europe for 18 centuries his own superstitions."
Patrick Geddes (1854- ) held summer meeting at the Edinburgh school, utilizing the
Outlook Tower to preach his three S's; 1) sympathy for people and the environment, 2)
synthesis of all factors relating to a case, and 3) synergy -- the combined cooperative
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action of everyone involved (Boardman 15). As Meller wrote, "Geddes felt that he had
formed a new philosophy of education which incorporated the many methods he had
learned from Le Play, Comte, Huxley, and others during his endeavors into biology
civics, and geography."
In 1898 Havelock Ellis reported to the Smithsonian Institution: "If it ever should
chance that the consumption of mescal becomes a habit, the favorite poet of the
mescal drinker will certainly be Wordsworth. Not only the general attitude of
Wordsworth, but many of his most memorable poems and phrases cannot -- one is
almost tempted to say -- be appreciated in their full significance by one who has
never been under the influence of mescal. On these grounds it may be claimed that the
artificial paradise of mescal, though less seductive, is safe and dignified beyond its
peers." At the turn of the century, both William James and Havelock Ellis undertook
their study of hallucinogenic agents. James used nitrous oxide (apparently to avoid
bad stomach cramps) while Ellis used the newly discovered peyote.
In 1902 William James of Harvard "redefined religion" as an "experience rather than
a dogma."
The Bakers were prominent in supporting eugenics and utopian-feudalist social
engineering. Captain James A. Baker, so the story goes, the grandfather of the current
boss of Foggy Bottom, solved the murder of his client William Marsh Rice and took
control of Rice's huge estate. Baker used the money to start Rice University and
became the chairman of the school's board of trustees. Baker sought to create a center
for diffusion of racist eugenics, and for this purpose brought in Julian Huxley of the
infamous British oligarchical family to found the biology program at Rice starting in
1912. Huxley was the vice president of the British Eugenics Society and actually helped
to organize "race science" programs for the Nazi Interior Ministry, before becoming
the founding director general of UNESCO in 1946-48. James A. Baker III (CFR) was
born April 28, 1930, in the fourth generation of his family's wealth. Baker holdings
have included Exxon, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Standard Oil of California, Standard
Oil of Indiana, Kerr-mcgee, Merck and Freeport Minerals. Baker also held stock in
some large New York Banks during the time that he was negotiating the Latin
American debt crisis in his capacity as secretary of the treasury. Secretary Baker's
family wealth and power came from their representing Harriman, the international oil
companies and George Bush's Zapata Petroleum, all sponsors of the population
control, or ban-dark-babies movement. This movement is synonymous with the
Scottish Rite.
Aldous Huxley's mother died when he was 14. Three years later an eye infection left
him blind for 18 months. Although his sight improved, he was plagued with poor vision
all his life. He was 6'4", thin and fragile. His head was high-brow and had a lot of hair.
"He tended to be a spiffy dresser, wearing suits in subtle colors, a watch and chain,
sometimes a reptile tie, other times a wide-brimmed hat." He studied at Eton and
than at Balliol College, Oxford. He wanted to become a Doctor but an eye infection
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nearly blinded him which caused him to abandon this dream and probably accounted
for the bitterness in his writings and his aversion to the human body. In 1916 he took a
degree at Oxford. He was friendly with Lord Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell -famous leaders of the Bloomsbury group. It was at their country place that he met D.H.
Lawrence. Huxley said Eliot was "curiously dull -- as a result, perhaps, of being, at
last, happy in his second marriage." In 1919 he married Maria Nys, a Belgian refugee.
They had one son -- Matthew. As a journalist, Huxley wrote and published two
volumes of symbolist poetry. "Following the war, he flirted briefly with the thentriumphant, predominantly English imagist movement."
Before the end of 1918, in the first postwar election, Captain Sitwell was contesting
Scarborough as a Liberal candidate for Parliament. He lost the election, but secured
8,000 votes to his Tory opponent's 12,000. Simultaneously, Sitwell entered upon
another new career as joint literary editor, with Herbert Read, of the quarterly Art and
Letters. A few years before, Sitwell had known no contemporary writers but his own
sister; he was now ideally placed to remedy that lack. With his brother, he had taken a
London house on Swan Walk where there were more pictures than furniture, and
French paintings hung even in the kitchen. Sitwell's guest list at Swan Walk, and later
at 2 Carlyle Square, resembled the index to a history of modern literature. Arnold
Bennett, in his diary for June 15, 1919, approved of the dinner and the decor he had
found at Swan Walk and noted that his dining companions included, among others, W.
H. Davies, Lytton Strachey, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, and
Herbert Read. The sexual perversions of Bloomsbury were a deliberate statement of
moral autonomy. Homosexuality, according to Keynes and his sometimes lover Lytton
Strachey, was the supreme state of existence, "passing Christian understanding," and
superior to heterosexual relationships. The ethical superiority of homosexuality lay in
its striking opposition to the external morals of the Victorian era, and the moral laws of
God. As Deacon surmised, Keynes' homosexuality was ultimately a rebellion "against
the Puritan ethic: he hated Puritanism in any form . . ." Although Keynes attended
religious services until in his teens, as he once explained to a friend, he was confident
that Huxley had exploded the whole Christian religion. He wrote another friend, telling
him that Christians were irrational and exhibited stubborn pride: "They don't want to
admit that a position they've taken up with confidence is untenable." According to
Keynes, Christianity represented "tradition, convention and hocus pocus." As a young
man at Cambridge Keynes became involved with a secret society called the "Apostles"
which included such notables as Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Clive Bell and Leonard
Woolf. It was an association that was to last a lifetime. Many of the Apostles, including
Keynes, were later to become regular members of the "Bloomsbury Group" named
after the Bloomsbury district of London where the group regularly met. The Apostles
(and later the Bloomsbury group) were quite taken by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, a
once fervent Quaker who, losing his faith, became a thorough philosophical sceptic. As
Keynes's biographer, Robert Skidelsky, concluded, as far as the Bloomsburries were
concerned, the value of Moore's book, Principia Ethica, lay chiefly in its "rational
justification of a rearrangement of values." They were looking for an ethic which
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would release them from the duties required of Victorian gentlemen. And in their eyes,
Moore's book provided just this.
In 1921 Huxley turned to more creative writing. After two volumes of short stories, he
began a series of novels. His sophisticated satire caused him to become known as a
prophet of doom for the cult of the amusing. His reputation was firmly established by
his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), a witty satire on the intellectual pretensions of his
time. In 1923 Aldous Huxley, 29, English novelist-critic published Antic Hay. His most
celebrated novel -- Point Counter Point -- appeared ten years following World War I.
The hero was said to have been modeled after D.H. Lawrence.
Huxley met the writer Gerald Heard who imparted to him a quasi mystical notion of
the evolutionary development of human consciousness.
Between 1923-1933 Huxley visited Italy where he saw much of Lawrence and became
"a kind of disciple." In 1933 he edited the letters of the dead Lawrence.
Huxley's early comic novels, which include Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves
(1925), and Point Counter Point (1928), demonstrated his ability to dramatize
intellectual debate in fiction; he discussed philosophical and social topics in a volume
of essays, Proper Studies (1927).
In 1924 a collection of Huxley's poetry was published.
John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) was prominent on the English literary scene for
three decades. Murry was editor of the literary journals the Athenauem (1919-21) and
Adelphi> (1923-48), the husband of writer Katherine Mansfield, and friend to such
luminaries as Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence. Huxley caricatured Murry as the
pretentiously "spiritual" editor, Burlap, in his novel Point Counter Point (1928).
In the 1930s, biology professor Hermann J. Muller lost his job (under the otherwise
liberal president H.Y. Benedict) because he had written for a Marxist student
publication without obtaining permission. Muller later won the Nobel Prize, at Indiana
in 1946, for work he did at Texas that led to blood plasma transfusions, which saved
tens of thousands of lives in World War II. A politically naive leftist in the 1930s,
Muller won Julian Huxley's praise as "the greatest living geneticist."
In both fiction and nonfiction Huxley became increasingly critical of Western
civilization in the 1930s. Brave New World (1932), his most celebrated work, is a
bitterly satiric account of an inhumane society controlled by technology, in which art
and religion have been abolished and human beings reproduce by artificial
fertilization. Huxley's distress at what he regarded as the spiritual bankruptcy of the
modern world led him toward mysticism and the use of hallucinatory drugs. Huxley,
suggested a world where people went to the "feelies" rather than the movies, where
men were attended by "pneumatic girls" (a phrase borrowed from T.S. Elliot's poem
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"Whispers of Immortality") and where reproduction would be controlled by the state.
The perfect psychedelic, soma, was described: "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly
hallucinant -- all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol, none of their
drawbacks." In the preface to his Brave New World Revisited (p. viii) Huxley wrote, "If
I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of
sanity . . . Economics would be decentralist and Henry Georgian."
In 1931 Aldous Huxley read Phantastica and wrote a scathing condemnation of "all
existing drugs" in the Chicago Herald Examiner. He concluded that the solution was
not prohibition but the search for better drugs.
In 1933 the Tales of Jacob by Thomas Mann were published. In October 1933 the
magazine Esquire began publication and included writing by Hemingway and Aldous
Huxley.
In 1934 Aldous Huxley visited Central America.
In 1936 Aldous Huxley published Eyeless in Gaza. He termed chastity "the most
unnatural of the sexual perversions." Frederick Matthias Alexander -- one of the
founders of the Alexander method -- was used by Huxley as his model for the
anthropologist Miller. The novel portrayed its central character's conversion from
selfish isolation to transcendental mysticism. In 1936 Huxley's transition to mystical
writings began. "Because Crowley had extensive contacts with the European secret
societies his specialist knowledge was used by the SIS [Britain's Secret Intelligence
Service] for 'Black Propaganda' purposes. Crowley had confided to the writer Aldous
Huxley in 1938 when they met in Berlin that Hitler was a practicing occultist. He also
claimed that the OTO had helped the Nazis to gain power."
The story of the first LSD is well-known -- of concoction in 1938, and then discovery of
dramatic psychoactive effects when Albert Hofmann five years later swallowed
1/4,000ths of a gram (250 micrograms).
Christopher Isherwood (1904-) was a follower of Swami Prabhavananda, a playwright
and fiction writer who translated the Bhagavad-Gita and other Hindu writings from
Sanskrit. He converted from Anglicalism to Hinduism. During World War II he was a
pacifist and served alternative service with the Quakers. He became a convert to the
Vedanta Society.
Huxley became interest in "eclectic mysticism" at a time of the intense fundamentalist
religious revival in California. Huxley borrowed from Wells the phrase "Doors in a
Wall." This referred to the use of drugs in death cult rituals. Huxley called drugs
"modifiers of conscience" and said that hallucinatory drugs had been used since the
earliest recorded history. Huxley dabbled in drugs such as the Mandrake plant. Many
who have been encouraged to use drugs have died prematurely through overdosing or
by suicide.
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In a 1940 letter Aldous Huxley said that he was "profoundly optimistic about
individuals and groups of individuals existing on the margins of society."
Orwell contested Huxley's vision in Brave New World because he believed that it did
not provide an accurate picture of the mechanisms of power in the totalitarian present
and future. In a 1940 essay, Orwell wrote: "Mr. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
was a good caricature of the hedonistic Utopia, the kind of thing that seemed possible
and even imminent before Hitler appeared, but it had no relation to the actual future.
What we are moving towards at this moment is something more like the Spanish
Inquisition, and probably far worse, thanks to the radio and the secret police." In an
article on "Prophecies of Fascism" in the same era, Orwell made similar claims: "In
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a sort of post-war parody of the Wellsian Utopia,
these tendencies are immensely exaggerated. Here the hedonistic principle is pushed
to its utmost, the whole world has turned into a Riviera hotel. But though Brave New
World was a brilliant caricature of the present (the present of 1930), it probably casts
no light on the future."
Huxley wrote to his brother Julian that social transformation could be obtained by an
attack on all fronts -- economic, political, educational and psychological. In 1942
Aldous Huxley published The Art of Seeing.
Gerald Heard first visited Black Mountain with his friend Aldous Huxley in 1937. He
was so taken with the idea of learning communities that he went on to found Trabuco
College in Ventura, California, in 1942.
Huxley's writing culminated in a rather complete exposition of the mystical way in
1945 -- The Perennial Philosophy.
At the close of World War II he wrote: "Between ivory towerism on the one hand and
direct political action on the other lies the alternative of spirituality. And between the
totalitarian fascism and totalitarian socialism lies the alternative of decentralism
and cooperative enterprise--the economic-political system most natural to
spirituality." What some called "dream killers" Huxley called "bad artists."
"[(S)uch propagandists] accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing something,
but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point
of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects . . .
totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they
could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical
rebuttals. -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1946, revised forward).
Huxley, who moved to southern California in 1947, was primarily a moral philosopher
who used fiction during his early career as a vehicle for ideas; in his later writing,
which consists largely of essays, he adopts an overtly didactic tone. Like his
contemporaries D. H. Lawrence and George Orwell, Huxley abhorred conformity and
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denounced the orthodox attitudes of his time. The enormous range of his intellect and
the pungency of his writing make him one of the most significant voices of the early
20th century. "As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends . .
. to increase. And the dictator . . . will do well to encourage that freedom. In
conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, the movies
and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."
-- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1948).
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell in 1949 stating: "The philosophy of the ruling minority
in 1984 is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond
sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on
indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less
arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and that
these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."
The Societe Europeenne de Culture, a think tank created in 1950 through the efforts of
Venetian intelligence operative Umberto Campagnolo, has for the past three decades
pulled intellectuals from both East and West into organizing for an "international
culture," based on rejecting the existence of sovereign nations. The SEC counted
among its members the cream of the postwar intelligentsia: Adam Schaff of Poland,
Bertolt Brecht of East Germany, Georg Lukas of Hungary, and Boris Paternak of the
Soviet Union, as well as Stephen Spender and Arnold Toynbee, Benedetto Croce and
Norberto Bobbio, Julian Huxley and Thomas Mann, Francois Mauriac, and Jean
Cocteau. Later, the SEC launched the Third World national liberation ideology.
Andrijah Puharich was born in 1918. He received medical degree from Northwestern
University in 1947. Reportedly a friend of Aldous Huxley. In 1952 he had first contact
with "the Nine", the highest minds in the universe, through a medium.
Aldous Huxley's 1952 book, The Devils of Louden, was inspired by a 1632 incident in
Louden, France. Jeanne des Anges, a nun, suffered nightmarish erotic hallucinations
after being spurned by Cure Grandier -- who was burned at the stake.
Psychedelics (hallucinogens) such as mescaline (derived from the cactus peyote) and
psilocybin (which comes from a Mexican mushroom) were originally eaten by
primitive men to induce visions. Huxley, in his "remarkable work," reported his
experiences with mescaline. Huxley's persuasive book was one of the first modern
works to put forward any kind of argument for experimental drug taking and it is
generally believed to have been responsible for sparking off the wave of semiintellectual interest in drugs which finds its expression in today's so-called 'drug
culture.'"
In 1952, the first International Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical
Union (IHEU) was held in Amsterdam. IHEU represents more than 3 million
members in 30 countries. The early sponsors of IHEU were also instrumental in
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founding the United Nations. They included Lord Boyd Orr -- first head of the World
Food Organization, Sir Julian Huxley, first head of UNESCO and Canadian physician
Brock Chisholm, first head of the World Health Organization. In 1952 British
psychiatrists Humphrey Osmond and John Smythies published "A New Approach to
Schizophrenia," theorizing that when the body is confronted with extreme anxiety it
produces the hallucinogen adrenochrome, inducing schizophrenic or psychotic
reactions. The next year they flew out to bring Aldous Huxley a vial of mescaline.
Huxley later cabled his editor that mescaline was "the most extraordinary and
significant experience available to human beings this side of the Beatific Vision." He
then dashed off The Doors of Perception in a month. In The Doors of Perception he
wrote: "The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the
same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less
self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to
understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the
unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
In 1953 Robert Hutchins quoted Aldous Huxley: "But in actual historical fact, the
spread of free compulsory education, and, along with it, the cheapening and
acceleration of the older methods of printing, have almost everywhere been followed
by an increase in the power of ruling oligarchies at the expense of the masses."
Hutchins added: "The case of the much-vaunted literacy of the Japanese provides
striking confirmation of the conclusions of Toynbee and Huxley that the spread of
universal, free, compulsory education had promoted the degradation and
enslavement of men."
Humphry Osmond experienced mescaline in the early 1950s, and in May 1953
provided this to Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles. Huxley's report to Osmond, The Doors
of Perception, remains a milestone in psychedelic history, as does the word that
Osmond coined -- "psychedelic." Currently, Osmond works as a psychiatrist in
Tuskaloosa, Alabama. He is coauthor of The Hallucinogens (Academy Press) and How
to Live with Schizophrenia, co-editor of Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of
Hallucinogenic Drugs (Anchor Books) and author of Understanding
Understanding. Osmond's interest in this field grew out of a fascination with
schizophrenia and alcoholism. He went into the Navy once he had qualified for
medicine at Guys Hospital in London in 1942. Oscar Janiger had his first LSD
experience in 1954. After a training in botany, he entered the fields of teaching and
psychiatry. He has lectured at UC Irvine and the California College of Surgeons, was
research director for the Holmes (holistic health) Foundation, maintains a private
practice, and founded the Albert Hofmann Foundation. He administered LSD to 875
people, many from the creative communities of Beverly Hills and Hollywood. In 1955
Huxley's first wife died. In 1956 he married Laural Archera. In Heaven and Hell (1956)
he described the use of mescaline to induce visionary states of mind.
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In its May 13, 1957 issue, Life ran a feature called "Seeking the Magic Mushroom." R.
Gordon Wasson, a J.P. Morgan Vice-President, and his wife, recounted their 1955
visionary adventures among "psilocybe cultists in darkest Mexico."
Huxley called Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA " the greatest social architect of our
time." Syanon, a revolutionary rehabilitation program using AA, was founded in Ocean
Park, California by Chuck Dederich in 1958 and spread as drug use expanded.
In his Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley in 1958 described a society in which
war had been eliminated and where "the first aim of the rulers is at all costs to keep
their subjects from making trouble." He described a likely future: "The completely
organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical
conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced
happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep teaching . . ." He
predicted non-violent tyranny: "Under the relentless thrust of accelerating overpopulation and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective
methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; and quaint
old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.
The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the
traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the
good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and
editorial -- but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile
the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thoughtmanufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."
In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited , Huxley wrote a diatribe against
overpopulation and overconsumption. His comment about Aryan drug use as part of
an elite religious ceremony seems to be historic in nature. There was a priesthood that
was very knowledgeable about the effects of drugs. The Isis cult seems to have also
used drugs in its productions. Hitler thought he talked to "the evil one" while on a
mescaline trip. When alone or with his inner circle, did he engage in religious
ceremonies, evocations or incantations? Or did they use drugs to get "high?" The
Huxley quote does suggest drugs and religious worship were connected as early as the
Aryan conquest of India. The word "Iran" derives from "Aryan."
In Brave New World Revisited Huxley contested Orwell: "George Orwell's 1984 was a
magnified projection into the future of a present that contained Stalinism and an
immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism. Brave New World was
written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian
tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931, systematic terrorism was not the
obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship
of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so
brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully
convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent
developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed
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Orwell's book of some of its gruesome versimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course,
make nonsense of everybody's predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the
Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks
as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of
something like 1984."
Neil Postman commented: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there
would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us
of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be
reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us.
Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we
would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture,
preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal
bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil
libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to
take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In Brave New
World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what
we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."
Purchased in 1960 for $285, this small substance may be said, without exaggeration, to
have perpetrated the most significant cultural revolution of our time. John Beresford, a
pediatrician of British extraction working in New York City, purchased gram H-00047.
Before long, it passed into the systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards,
Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Huston Smith, Aldous Huxley, Paul Lee, Richard Katz,
Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph
Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is some
possibility," commented Michael Hollingshead, a main distributor, "that my friends
and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."
In the summer of 1960 Timothy O'Leary used magic mushrooms for the first time in
Mexico. He realized his old self was dead, collaborated with Dr. Richard Albert and
discussed the meaning and implication of the new world with Aldous Huxley. In the
1960-1961 school year Leary and Albert began a series of experiments on Harvard
graduate students -- using pure psilocybin -- and with a physician in attendance. When
students at Harvard were given mushrooms, they "came up with accounts of mystical
experiences which largely duplicated accounts of mystical experiences of Christian
saints they had read in books. Takers of mescaline commonly have similar
experiences to Huxley's, just as Huxley's were similar to those reported by earlier
experimenters like Havelock Ellis." In 1960 Leary tried psychedelic mushrooms while
on a vacation in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The experience opened up a new world for him:
"I realized I had died, that I, Timothy Leary, the Timothy Leary game, was gone. I
could look back and see my body on the bed. I relived my life, and reexperienced
many events I had forgotten. More than that, I went back in time in an evolutionary
sense to where I was aware of being a one-celled organism. All of these things were
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way beyond my mind." Leary was in Mexico in August, 1960, intending to work on a
book.
Around 1961 Aldous Huxley said at a U.S. State Department-sponsored conference at
the California Medical School in San Francisco: "There will be in the next generation
or so . . . a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and
producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak. Producing a kind of painless
concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties
taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from
any desire to rebel -- by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced
by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." Timothy
Leary recalled his conversation with Huxley who told him to be a brain-drug
cheerleader for evolution like he and his grandfather before him. However, Huxley told
Leary that the obstacle to the evolution was the Bible: "Drugs that open the mind to
multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that
the time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good-natured pluralism
and scientific paganism had arrived."
Huxley was among those who encouraged Michael Murphy and Richard Price in their
decision to open Esalen in 1961. Murphy and Price wrote to Huxley, who believed
science and mysticism were complementary activities, and whose elucidation of "the
perennial philosophy" and ideas about the human potential shaped Esalen's work for
the next 32 years. It is said that Aldous Huxley, that modern of moderns, went to a few
Ouspensky meetings in London. Eventually Huxley settled for Gerald Heard who drew
heavily on Eastern philosophy. In Huxley we may find a symptom of a desperate
tendency to turn in our crisis to ideas and teachings that stand outside the stream of
Western culture. At Huxley's suggestion, Murphy and Price sought out Gerald Heard,
philosopher and mystic, who cast a deep Irish spell with accounts of people and events
that revealed the secrets of human transformation. An afternoon with Heard in the
summer of 1961, in which Heard displayed his characteristic enthusiasm and sense of a
cosmic mandate, confirmed Esalen's two founders in their decision to start a seminar
center. In the first three years of the Big Sur human-potential center, the lecturers
included Alan Watts, Arnold Toynbee, Gerald Heard, Linus Pauling, Carl Rogers,
Norman O. Brown, Paul Tillich, Rollo May and Carlos Castaneda. Esalen's first
brochure "flew under the title of a series of 1961 lectures by Aldous Huxley: 'Human
Potentialities.'"
Like the hero in Maugham's The Razor's Edge, Michael Murphy went to India seeking
enlightenment. He lived for eighteen months at the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry
-- an institute combining the wisdom of East and West. Michael Murphy and Richard
Price decided in 1961 to open the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California as a center for
humanistic psychology. The institute, which was opened in 1962, conducts workshops,
seminars, and symposia. The late Hindu Geru Sri Aurobindo has a follower
by the name of Maurice Strong who has connections with David
Rockefeller, the Rothschilds and other groups of the money elite.
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One evening in 1962, Abraham Maslow was forced to seek shelter at the nearest
residence due to fog: "He arrived in time for an Easlen study group that was
unpacking a case of twenty copies of his latest book."
In 1962 Billy and Tommy Hitchcock purchased Millbrook. It became "the shrine where
acid was sanctified." Tommy had become friends with Leary toward the end of the
1950's.
In the Summer of 1962, Billy Hitchcock met Dick Albert at his mother's house and
recalled: "I found Dick funny -- he understood how to laugh at himself, and he had a
background similar to mine. He was Jewish, his father was head of the Hartford and
New Haven Railroad. He opened me up. He got me to read Thomas Mann, Salinger .
. . he was already having his problems with Harvard, and he had established this
community in Mexico, Zihuatanejo. Tommy and Peggy went down there, and Peggy
told me I should try a psychedelic. I said, 'Why?' She said, 'That's a good question, try
it, you've got nothing to lose.'" Mescaline was the drug of choice at that time.
In 1962 Look Magazine did a special issue on California. Aldous Huxley was cited as
among the Californians who were calling for a new national constitutional convention.
In 1962 Allan Watts published The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry
of Consciousness with a forward by Timothy Leary and Richard Albert.
On November 27, 1962, Leary and Alpert stated: "If you announce your discovery
you're in trouble. If you discuss it quietly with friends you have a cult. If you try to
apply these potentials within the conventional, institutional format you are sidetracked, silenced, blocked or fired . . . For the first time in American history and for
the first time in the Western world since the Inquisition there now exists a scientific
underground and foundation largesse, over a hundred responsible professional
researchers are volunteering their time, their own money, risking their reputations
and their legal freedom to research consciousness without institutional support."
In 1963 Richard Deacon published the 310-page City of Man: The Hopes and
Possibilities of a World Culture which included a discussion of the ideas of Toynbee,
Teilhard de Chardin, Mumford, Jaspers, Wells, Huxley, Northrop, and many others.
In 1963 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. They combined rock and
mystical music, long hair, and the worship of Hinduism. The guru who was sought
after by the Beatles was Maharishi Mahesh (TM) Yogi. Drugs were suggested in many
of their songs: "Yellow Submarine" (a "submarine" is a "downer"), "Lucy in the Sky
With Diamonds" (the initials of the main words are LSD), "Hey Jude" (a song about
the drug known as methadrine), "Stawberry Fields" (where opium is grown to avoid
detection) and "Norwegian Wood" (a British term for marijuana). John Lenon's song
"Imagine" attacked religion ("Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell
below us, Above us only sky"), espoused a do you own thing philosophy ("Imagine all
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the people, Living for today"), attacked nationalism ("Imagine there's no countries"),
attacked religion ("It is isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too"),
called for the abolition of private property ("Imagine no possessions"), supported a
new international order ("I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A
brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world") and advocated a
one-world government ("You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope
someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.") Lennon called for
abolition of private property and then left his Japanese-born widow a
$250 million estate.
In 1963 Harold Asher wrote Experiments in Seeing -- a story of his search for mystical
experience through LSD. Initially LSD was classified as a "new" drug with few
restrictions on its experimental use. In 1963 it was reclassified as an "investigational
new drug" and made available only to carefully selected investigators. In 1963 Timothy
O'Leary founded the International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to
encourage research on psychedelic substances. The institute, however, died for lack of
outside interest or support. In the Good Friday Study W.H. Clark -- a Leary follower,
found that subjects given psilocybin before attending religious services were more
likely to have a life-changing or mystical experience. In March 1963 Leary and Alpert
began recruiting for the IFIF. They attracted the "young, the idealistic, the eccentric,
and the rebellious . . ." They lectured in Los Angeles to promote the International
Federation for Internal Freedom. Leary left without notifying univesity authorities and
went to Mexico to arrange the lease of a hotel in Zihuatanejo for use as an IFIF
summer colony.
In May 1963, two months after Leary's Mexico departure, Richard Alpert publicly
attacked the administration's stand on denying psilocybin to undergraduates. He was
fired by Harvard on May 27.
Major issues at Harvard that caused friction for Leary included no doctor being
present during experiments, use of undergraduates and drug sessions being conducted
off campus or even in Leary's house. In the Spring of 1963 Leary and Albert were
dismissed from their academic positions. Leary was fired for not attending his classes.
He admitted the non-attendance but thought he was on approved leave. Albert
separated from Leary and lectured on the West coast while Leary settled in at an estate
in Millbrook, New York -- owned by a wealthy supporter of Leary's beliefs.
The IFIF colony was in operation by June 1963. The stay was a short one. After an
unassociated murder, a newspaper in Mexico City began a campaign against the group
and the Mexican government ordered the group out. In the summer of 1963, Leary
rented Millbrook from Wall Streeter and Lehman Brothers's Billy Hitchcock for $500 a
month.
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Leary and Alpert holed up in Millbrook, New York. In Volume I of the Psychedelic
Review, in the Fall of 1963, Leary and Ralph Metzner did an article on Herman Hesse - the German novelist whom the group adopted as its literary prophet.
Arnold Toynbee, in the September 29, 1963 edition of The New York Times, discussed
an alliance between the Soviets and the Fabian-controlled West to face the yellow
menace of Red China.
Before his death JFK said the Country "is in dire peril . . ." and that it might not
"survive his term in office." Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's secretary for 12 years, quoted him as
saying: "If they are going to get me, they will get me even in Church" (meaning
anywhere). Mary Pinchot Meyer told Timothy Leary: "They could not control him
(JFK) anymore."
The use of peyote in religious ceremonies was declared legal in California
in 1964.
In 1964, the Leary-Alpert manual for the psychedelic experience, based on the Tibetan
Book of the Dead, was published.
In 1964 Augustus Owsley Stanley III tried LSD for the first time as a 29-year-old
Berkley dropout.
None of the ideas of the "Now Generation" of 1964 were less than thirty years old.
By 1964 Ken Kesey and his Merry Prankster friends were touring the country in a
Day-Glo-painted school bus. Later they gave Acid Test parties and supplied LSD which
was still legal. Music was provided by the Grateful Dead at later Acid Tests. The
Grateful Dead began at 710 Ashbury street as an acid-rock group with electric guitarist
Jerry Garcia, 24, drummer Mickey Hart, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and others. The
name was taken from an Oxford dictionary notation on the burial of Egyptian
pharoahs. McKernan died of alcohol and drugs.
In 1964 and 1965, George Leonard traveled around the country working on "what he
thought would be the most important story of his career. It would run in two or three
subsequent issues of Look, he anticipated, and he intended to call it 'The Human
Potential.'" The article, which eventually ran to some 20,000 words, was never
published by Look. It was considered "too long and too theoretical."
In 1965 Esalen's Michael Murphy (student of Eastern philosophy and humanistic
psychology) joined forces with Look's George Leonard (Student of Social and Political
Movements in the U.S.). In the Fall of 1965, B.F. Skinner, S.I. Hayakawa, Watts, Carl
Rogers and J.B. Rhine led seminars.
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Esalen became particularly popular as the scene of
various exploratory approaches to personality development and consciousness
expansion. These types of activities have remained the institute's focus. A former
President of the American Psychological Association has said that Esalen is potentially
"the most important educational institute in the world."
Alice Bailey, the most prolific writer for the New Age, wrote in 1965: "The Illuminati
have ever led the race forward; the knowers, mystics and saints have ever revealed
to us the heighth of racial and individual possibilities."
The Psychedelic Reader came out in 1965 as an anthology to the 1964 manual. Alpert
gradually dropped away from the group while Leary became even more outspoken.
Alice Bailey, the most prolific writer for the New Age, wrote in 1965: "The Illuminati
have ever led the race forward; the knowers, mystics and saints have ever revealed
to us the height of racial and individual possibilities."
In 1965 alone the British sent 136 ships with oil and other war good that docked at the
port of Haiphong. At a time when America had 300,000 troops in South Vietnam,
England had sent only 11 police instructors and a professor of English. Standard and
Shell were taking 33,000 barrels of oil daily out of North Thailand and refining it at
Bangehak and Srivacha. While Thailand officials lied, the Bangkok News said that
foreign companies had taken 40,000,000 barrels of oil out of the Burma ground in
1965. President De Galle of France blasted the Standard Oil "policy" in Vietnam.
Standard Oil had operations in North Vietnam and Burma. The Shelf Coast extended
from Hong Kong to Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. No news stories revealed that
thousands of barrels of oil were being taken out by Standard Oil every day. Moody's
Manual of Industrials listed nearly 300 foreign operations but not a line about the
Thailand wells. Once this was revealed, the next issue eliminated all mention of foreign
operations. It was first said there was no oil industry in Thailand. Later authorities
advised that the production of oil was a major industry.
In 1965 Allen Ginsburg used the phrase "flower power" at a Berkley rally. The flower
antiwar theme appeared in "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "San Francisco
(Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" and in fashions. The Hells Angels had
attacked the marchers calling them "Un-American."
A 1965 article by San Francisco Examiner reporter Michael Fallon used the term
"hippie." The beats used the term hippie as a term of disdain. While hippies used drugs
for the sake of experience, beats had used drugs for the sake of art. They also preferred
rock music to jazz. While beatniks had adopted from the black culture, the hippies
looked to Native Americans. Deerskin moccasins, silver and turquoise jewelry and
headbands were adopted as well as ingesting peyote buttons.
Identification with Native Americans occurred along with referring to communal
groups as tribes. The multimedia show "America Needs Indians" was a big hit in 1965.
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By May 1965, Owsley Stanley III was filling orders for LSD from around the country
from his Los Angles laboratory. He financed the rock group The Grateful Dead, the
San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper, joined up with Ken Kesey and became
the chief supply chemist for the Acid Tests.
In August 1965, Ken Kesey invited the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels to a
party at his home in La Honda. He introduced them to LSD. They became heavily
involved with both supply and demand until the end of the 1960s. In December 1965
Leary's 16-year-old daughter was found at customs with a pillbox in her brassiere that
contained a smidgen of marijuana. An indictment was made against Leary for
attempted to smuggle marijuana out of the country without paying a duty on it. Billy
Hitchcock set up the Leary defense fund. The case was taken to the Supreme Court
where it was thrown out on the grounds of double jeopardy. After this incident, Leary
"let Millbrook really start to run downhill." Ken Kesey rolled up in a bus with the
Merry Pranksters and it was rumored that 80 Hell's Angels were aboard.
Death cults existed four thousand years ago. The resurgence of death cults began with
the arrival of Aldous Huxley in America. He copied the formula from the Isis-Orsiris
cult, the Dionysus cult and the rituals of Tibetan and Egyptian high priests. A principal
disciple of his was Timothy Leary. LSD, which was made by Hoffman La Roche, was
introduced into America by Huxley and Bertand Russell. After working with Leary at
Harvard, Huxley and Leary created the International Federation for Internal Freedom
Psychadelic Training Center in Mexico. Students at this "invisible university" had
lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the center it was taught that "death is a
transition, it is only a change in form, in some cases a happy release." Among the
death cults are the Luciferian Society, the Dionysus Cult, the Osiris-Horus cult of
ancient Egypt, the Freemasons, the Urania Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the
Children of the Sun, witchcraft, demon worshipers and Aquarians who venerate
Caligula. Death cults are devil-worshiping in purpose and all end in death for someone.
In their first seminar on Human Potentiality, led by Willis Harman, every program
leader was involved with LSD research: Adams, Harman, Gregory Bateson, Gerald
Heard, Paul Kurtz, and Myron Stolaroff. Other drug-culture luminaries, such as
Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, taught at Esalen, and various psychedelics were
used by the staff and students, although drug-use was not officially endorsed.
Strangely, the Institute was never raided by the authorities. Charles Manson and
members of his family played an impromptu concert at Esalen three days before their
massacre at the Sharon Tate house.
In Island Huxley's society relied upon the mind for healing. His last novel featured
extended families, learning by doing and imagining and commerce was bowed to
ecology. Huxley died on November 22, 1963, in Los Angeles. This was the exact same
day that JFK was assassinated. This was also the day that C.S. Lewis died. He "asked
for and received an injection of LSD on his deathbed . . ." "His time on earth spanned
the end of the Victorian Age and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, and he was
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always in the vanguard of, never afraid to investigate (and even to believe in) the
strange and the mystical, yet he never lost respect for everyday reality." He authored
47 books, including Crome Yellow and After Many A Summer Dies the Swan. Huxley
spent forty years living in and working in Hollywood collaborating with Adorno and
Horkheimer.
At the height of their popularity, the Beatles went to India -- the land of the Hindus.
Aldous Huxley wrote about soma -- an intoxicating drink for the Brahmins. In fable it
was personified as a god -- representing the moon.
Dr. Louis Jolyon West is a director of AFF. An expert in brainwashing for the Air Force
and the CIA, West first achieved fame from his MK-Ultra feat -- he injected LSD-25
into an elephant and killed it. West researched "the psychology of dissociated states"
for the CIA, using LSD and hypnosis. His friend {Aldous Huxley} suggested to Dr.
West during an MK-Ultra experiment that West hypnotize his subjects prior to
administering LSD, in order to give them "post-hypnotic suggestions aimed at
orienting the drug-induced experience in some desired direction." Huxley was friends
with Dr. Louis "Jolly" West, and suggested that West try combining LSD with
hypnosis. Dr. West was called upon by the government to examine Jack Ruby, who had
killed Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald could stand trial for his alleged role in the
assassination of President John Kennedy. Huxley was also interested in
parapsychology, and lectured on the topic at Duke University. It was at Duke where
Huxley had contact with J.B. Rhine, who reportedly did experiments in psychic
phenomena for the CIA and the Army. Longtime CIA doctor Louis J. West once treated
Aldous Huxley. It was West's diagnosis that Ruby was a "candidate suitable for
treatment" that allowed him to be put on drugs.
In 1964, Lilly held seminars at the Esalen Institute, and was Group Leader and
Associate in Residence from 1969 to1971.
Laura Huxley, Aldous's widow, sponsored a foundation devoted to "conscious
childbirth" called Our Ultimate Investment.
During the radical 1960s, the late Leary and Richard Albert did extensive research on
LSD and other psychedelic elements -- in collaboration with Aldous Huxley, Allen
Ginsberg and others. The pair escaped to a mansion in upstate New York. While Leary
continued to ride naked on horses, Richard Alpert went to India in 1967 and met his
spiritual teacher -- Neem Karoli Baba. He came back with a new name -- Baba Ram
Dass ("servant of God"). He then began teaching Kali-worship (goddess of thieves) to
Harvard students. After six years or so of getting high, visited India. There he met a
23-year-old man named Bhagwan Dass. Eventually, after fasting, yoga and meditation,
Albert was introduced to Dass' s guru -- Maharaji. He then changed his name to Ram
Dass, returned to the U.S. and wrote Be Here Now. When he became Ram Dass, he
forsook his Jewish upbringing and was estranged from his family. His never-named
father was a wealthy lawyer, President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
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Railroad and founder of Brandeis University. The recently sick Ram Dass is said to be
known and loved all over the world as the self-described "HinJew." Dismissed from
Harvard with Leary in 1963, Dass was involved with the Zihuatanejo Project, the IFIF
(The International Foundation for Internal Freedom) and the Castalia Organization at
Millbrook, all of which were attempts to realize a psychedelic utopia as presented in
Island by Aldous Huxley, and Glass Bead Game by Herrman Hesse.
Michael Kahn was an important associate of Timothy Leary during the mid-1960s,
taking LSD trips with him and providing him with privacy periodically in those
turbulent years. He has observations of related activities at Harvard and Millbrook.
Kahn lectures at UC San Anselmo. His writings include The Tao of Conversation and
Between Therapist and Client.
LSD was not made illegal until 1966. In 1966 Leary founded the League of Spiritual
Discovery.
In 1966 Leary was arrested for the possession of marijuana at the Millbrook, New York
estate and appeared at three congressional hearings. He told Sen. Ted Kennedy that
"LSD is not a dangerous drug." In that same year he began his own religion -- the
"League of Spiritual Discovery" -- with LSD as the sacrament. Its slogan was: "Turn
On, Tune In, and Drop Out." G. Gordon Liddy, local Assistant District Attorney, used
as his slogan for the Republican nomination for Congress: "Throw Hitchcock Out of
Millbrook."
In 1967 the New York Phoenix House established seminar rap session techniques. It
was started by five former drug addicts.
The musical Hair opened in 1967. The song "Age of Aquarius" talks about the
influence to be felt at the end of the century at "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius."
The Age of Pisces lasts from 0 A.D. to 2000 A.D. The Age of Aquarius begins at 2000
A.D. to last until 4000 A.D.
By 1967 many of the Haight-Ashbury residents had turned from acid to speed.
Beginning in 1967, Timothy Leary said in lectures delivered around the country: "turn
on (to the scene), tune in (to what is happening), and drop out (of high school, college,
grad school . . .)."
In 1967 Owsley was arrested in his lab and sentenced to three years in jail.
In 1967 the Beatles accompanied the Maharishi to India and announced their intention
to give up drugs and follow his teachings.
In 1967 a court decision, involving Timothy O'Leary, held that the use of marijuana
was not essential to the practice of Hinduism.
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By 1967 a large drug population had emerged in San Francisco where Ken Kesey had
handled out LSD. In 1967 a Tavistock-sponsored "Conference on the Dialectics of
Liberation" was chaired by Dr. R.D. Laing. Two of the American delegates were Angela
Davis and Stokley Carmichael. "By 1967, with the cult of 'Flower People' in HaightAshbury and the emergence of the anti-war movement, the United States was ready
for the inundation of LSD, hashish, and marijuana that hit American college
campuses in the late 1960s."
The 1967 Be-In was referred to as "A Gathering of the Tribes." The January 1967
Human Be-In was followed by the "Summer of Love" in Haight-Ashbury. Bill Graham
staged concerts at the Fillmore six days a week. The event was coordinated by Allen
Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Jerry Rubin. Some 10,000 "heard speeches, danced to
music by San Francisco bands, chanted Hindu and Buddhist rituals, ate free turkey
sandwiches (some laced with LSD), and generally celebrated the birth of the
countercultural community."
In April 1967, warnings were issued and businesses were closed in Haight-Ashbury
after a huge influx of hippies. In response, as a form of protest, Hippies marched
shouting "Haight is love." Over 30 people were arrested in the demonstration.
The Grateful Dead hosted an Om Festival featuring om chanting with the music for
2,500 during the Summer of Love.
During the winter 1967-1968, LSD reached a peak. Its use declined thereafter.
Mescaline, which offers less of an inner experience but a more intense sensory show
than LSD, became the hallucinogen of choice for many previous LSD users.
Esalen became "real" when the New York Times ran an article on it on December 31,
1967 in the Sunday Magazine. Hot baths, which may be taken in the nude, "are
considered a rite of passage into a new life."
In April 1968 Columbia University was seized by a group of students for several days.
James Kunen, one of the student leaders, wrote in The Strawberry Statement that a
report on the SDS convention mentioned men from Roundtable International trying
to buy radicals. "These men are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to
decide how our lives are going to go . . . They offered to finance our demonstration in
Chicago. We were also offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot
of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the Left."
Jerry Rubin once said: "The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary
community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and
the millionaire businessmen." During the fall of 1969 $85,000 in Carnegie Foundation
funds were paid to the SDS. An undercover SDS police informant said he had
"wondered where the money was coming from for all this activity, and soon
discovered it came through radicals via the United Nations, from the Rockefeller
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Foundation, the Ford Foundation, United Auto Workers, as well as cigar boxes of
American money from the Cuban embassy."
Brandeis University was the head of all SDS chapters throughout the United States.
The founders and some of its top administrators have been "violently anti-religious
and have left wing associations."
In 1969, after a series of arrests on drug charges, Leary was sentenced to a minimum
security prison in California.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair drew 300,000 in August 1969 to Bethel, New
York. Performers included Jim Hendrix, Joan Baez, Ritchie Havens, the Jefferson
Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana and others. Abbie Hoffman
called it "the first attempt to land man on the earth."
On December 6, 1969, the Altamont Music Festival outside San Francisco
attracted 300,000 to a free Rolling Stones concert. The Hells Angels administered
several beatings and stabbed a boy to death when he tried to reach the stage.
In 1970 Margaret Mead said: "There are no elders who know what those who have
been reared within the last 20 years know about the world into which they were
born." She called for psychologically "qualified" parents to rear all the children -leaving the less qualified parents free to explore their inner selves and one another.
Margaret Mead said in 1970: "This break between generations is wholly new: it is
planetary and universal." In 1970, just before the Nixon/Kissinger invasion of
Cambodia (that produced a storm of antiwar protests on and off campuses), the
Bilderbergers discussed the "future function of the university in our society."
Participants included Paul Samuelson, Graham T. Allison (later Dean of the Kennedy
School at Harvard University) and Andrew Cordier (Dean of the School of
International Affairs at Columbia University 1962-68) (also acting president of
Columbia in 1968 during the student occupation). In 1970 Governor Reagan
acknowledged the possibility of a "bloodbath" to put down campus unrest.
After being organized in New York by a small group concerned with pollution and
smog, the first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. Activities around the country
included car "funerals," traffic blockades and clean-up programs. On Earth Day, April
22, 1970, Norman Cousins (CFR), the longtime president of the United World
Federalists (later the World Federalist Association), proclaimed, "Humanity needs
world order. The fully sovereign nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of
the environment . . . The management of the planet . . . requires a world
government." The UNESCO Biosphere Conference and ecological activism produced
the first Earth Day in 1971. Both Earth day and the beginning of the Army-McCarthy
hearings share the date April 22 (Lenin's birthday).
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In September of 1970 Leary escaped from prison by walking away from prison. He
turned off a flame he had ignited ten years before. "A real cop-out."
In 1973 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead received a years probation in New Jersey for
possession of LSD, marijauna and cocaine.
Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) overcame beatings by his father by retreating into "a
point in space with no dimensions." He devoured all the classics within his reach from
the Bible through Mill and Voltaire to Darwin and Huxley. By the age of 14, he was
reading Plato and knew he was interested in psychology. In 1956 he went for psychoanalytic training at the Freudian-oriented Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in
London. From 1962-1965, Laing directed the Langham Clinic in London and began to
experiment with mind-expanding substances as a means of accelerating
transcendental trips to the inner self. In 1967, a conference sponsored by psychiatry's
National Association for Mental Health (NAMH) in the United Kingdom was devoted
to "The Role of Religion in Mental Health." The Reverend George Croft, a lecturer in
experimental psychology, said that distressed persons were seeking psychotherapists
rather than ministers because as Jung suggested, ministers were not expected to
possess "psychological knowledge or insight." Also speaking was psychiatrist Dr. R. D.
Laing from the Tavistock Institute who suggested that the clergy get more in touch
with the "egoic experience," and seminaries and theological colleges should discuss
this as a church component. In the early 1970's he studied under Buddhist and Hindu
spiritual masters in Ceylon, India and Japan, and lectured throughout the U.S. Laing
was a vegetarian with a respect for life such that he could not even bear to cut the
grass.
In 1975, Princeton Professor Richard A. Falk (CFR) laid out a map in On the Creation
of a Just World terming the seventies as the decade of "consciousness raising," the
eighties the decade of "mobilization" and the ninties the decade of "transformation."
In 1975 the "Masters" told Alice Bailey that the time was right for the open
propagation of "The Plan."
In 1975 the War in Vietnam officially ended.
In 1975 the "Brain/Mind Bulletin" magazine was first published by Marilyn Ferguson
as "a vehicle for pulling . . . information on mind and consciousness together."
In the summer of 1976, Bruce traveled back to Europe and to England. He met and had
lunch with Albert Hofmann on the Rhine river. Hofmann told him stories of meetings
with Huxley and Leary and other noted figures in the "psychedelic movement" as it
was known back then. He also met and became friends with Michael Hollingshed,
author of The Man Who Turned on the World, an autobiography by this trickster who
was responsible for turning both the Beatles and Tim Leary onto their first trips.
Hollingshead conveyed a substantial amount of gram H-00047 to Harvard University
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and to London, after coming to the U.S. as an official working for British-American
cultural exchange. Hollingshead's activities centered in Manhattan, London and
Katmandu. He wrote much about psychedelics in a variety of head magazines.
Returning from Europe in 1976, Bruce left Los Angeles for Santa Cruz, California,
where he was to spend most of the next two decades. Bruce escorted Hofmann and his
wife Anita during their tour of Santa Cruz. Also there were other noted psychedelic
researchers, including Oscar Janiger, William McGlothlin, Ron Siegel and others. At a
dinner, Hofmann toasted his pcychedelic grandchildren -- many of them there,
including Leary, Ram Dass and Metzer, the noted Harvard trio who had collaborated
on research and together wrote The Psychedelic Experience, based on the Tibetan
Book of the Dead. Bruce had done a lot of footwork, hiking through the redwood
campus of the University of California Santa Cruz, setting up the logistics. Now tired of
this massive organizational effort, Bruce went off with his friend Danny, who together
drank a bottle of psilocybin extract. Having just read Island by Huxley and Intelligence
Agents by Timothy Leary, some of the circuits in Bruce's mind began to perceive new
connections and sychronicities. As he walked with his friend down to the windswept
beaches, he thought about his original expectations for the 'Sixties. He then believed
the counter-culture would become the dominant culture in some revolution of love and
ecstasy.
At Jonestown, Guyana, 914 followers of paranoid pastor the Rev. Jim Jones obeyed his
order to join him in death by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. Mass-murderer
Jim Jones cooperated with Bertrand Russell and Aldous Huxley indirectly through the
Peace Pledge Union. The New Agers were proud to claim Jim Jones and his People's
Temple as their own until his Guyana murder-suicide fiasco. After that, they never
mentioned him again except to point to him as an example of the dangers of religious
fundamentalism. When Jones moved to San Fransciso and purchased land to build a
new Temple, it is said the land had been the site of the Albert Pike Memorial Temple.
In November 1978 over 900 people died at the People's Temple in Guyana. At
Jonestown, it was intially assumed that the large vat of drink containing poison was
the cause of the suicides. Autopsies showed that 700 of the 900 had died of gunshots
wounds and stangulation -- not poison. "They had not committed suicide at all;
they were brutally mass murdered. According to Jack Anderson, a tape made
by Rev. Jones mentioned a man named Dwyer. Richard Dwyer was the deputy chief
of the U.S. mission to Guyana and accompanied Rep. Leo Ryan to investigate the
encampment. The Congressman was murdered but Dwyer was not affected. He
claimed that Jones' reference to him was "mistaken." In 1959 he had began working
for the CIA and had "no comment" when Anderson asked if he was a CIA agent."
Among the drugs found at Jonestown was chloral hydrate -- used in the
CIA's secret mind control program known as "MK ULTRA." Did the CIA
slaughter 900 at Jonestown to cover up a massive-scale drug
experiment?
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In the late 1970's, Esalen became involved with an Englishwoman named Jenny
O'Connor, who claimed to be in psychic contact with the Nine Dick Price and other
members of the Esalen staff became increasingly dependent on the Nine, to the point
of listing them as program leaders and members of the Esalen Gesalt Staff in
brochures.
In the 1970's, Mike Murphy became interested in Russian parapsychology, and visited
the country to meet experimenters in this field. This led to a close connection between
Esalen and some Russian officials, who set up an exchange program. Lasting into the
1980's, this exchange was dubbed "hot-tub diplomacy". John Mack was reportedly
involved in this exchange. Esalen also held seminars in quantum physics, and was the
birthplace of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group. Other individuals who have
come to lead seminars at Esalen at one time or another include Carlos Castenda, Dutch
psychic Peter Hurkos, (trunk murderer, fugitive and Earth Day founder) Ira Einhorn,
Rollo May, Jack Sarfatti, John Lilly, Terrance McKenna, Ian Wickramasekera, and
Charles Tart. Werner Erhard was also close with Michael Murphy and Esalen.
In February, 1979, Lilly attended an LSD reunion party, hosted by Dr. Oscar Janiger,
along with Laura Huxley, Sidney Cohn, Willis Harman, Alfred Hubbard, and Timothy
Leary, among others. Huxley was turned on to mescaline by Dr. Humphrey Osmond,
who in turn was introduced to the drug by Alfred Hubbard. Hubbard personally guided
Huxley through his second mescaline trip and his first experience with LSD.
In 1979 Mark Satin's New Age Politics book was published by Delta with the back
jacket comment of the Toronto Star: "He's already miles ahead of the academics and
intellectuals who cling to the Marxist vision." Satin prefers to work for a "planetary
guidance system" as opposed to "a world government". His guidance system would
"regulate society, not organize it."
In his 1980 book, Cosmos, Carl Sagan wrote: "Every nation seems to have its set of
forbidden possibilities, which its citizenry and adherents must not be permitted to
think about . . . in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national
sovereignty."
In 1980 Alvin Toffler discussed an "emerging globalist ideology" in The Third Wave:
"This consciousness is shared by multinational executives, long-haired environmental
campaigners, financiers, revolutionaries, intellectuals, poets, and painters, not to
mention members of the Trilateral Commission. I have even had a famous four-star
general assure me that 'the nation-state is dead.' Globalism presents itself as more
than an ideology serving the interests of a limited group. Precisely as nationalism
claimed to speak for the whole nation, globalism claims to speak for the whole world.
And its appearance is seen as an evolutionary necessity -- a step closer to a 'cosmic
consciousness' that would embrace the heavens as well."
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In 1980 Marilyn Ferguson described the New Age consciousness revolution "The
Aquarian Conspiracy represents the Now What. We have to move into the unknown:
The known has failed us too completely. Taking a broader view of history and a
deeper measure of nature, The Aquarian Conspiracy is a different kind of Revolution,
with different revolutionaries. It looks to the turnabout in consciousness of a critical
number of individuals, enough to bring a renewal of society." The New Age was
boosted to a global movement by Marilyn Ferguson's book -- considered to be "The
New Age Bible." It promotes reincarnation as a pillar of the New Age belief system,
giving it modern day credibility. Ferguson's book, furthering the worldview of a "new
society," soon became a text in college courses, and was published in eight countries in
ten translations. Of the responses obtained by Marilyn Ferguson, the individual most
often named as influential by Aquarian Conspirators was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
who wrote in 1931: "The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, a
conspiracy." Aldous Huxley was named second, followed by Carl Jung and Abraham
Maslow Aldous Huxley believed that the U.S. religious revival would begin with drugs - not evangelists. He pointed out that even temporary self-transcendence would shake
the entire society to its rational roots: "Although these new mind-changers may start
by being something of an embarrassment, they will tend in the long run to deepen the
spiritual life of the communities . . ." He predicted the impact on religion: "From being
an activity concerned mainly with symbols, religion will be transformed into an
activity concerned mainly with experience and intuition -- an everyday mysticism."
Willis Harman's "Changing Images of Man" has been too technical for most so the
service of Marilyn Ferguson was obtained to make it more easily understood. "The Age
of Aquarius" heralded nude stage shows and a song which made the top of the charts:
"The Dawning of the Age of the Aquarius" swept the globe. Many current Evangelical
leaders will be well-suited for leadership in the global church/state alliance. They are
already Politicians of the Radical Center as described by Marilyn Ferguson: ". . . they
don't take strident positions. Their high tolerance of ambiguity and their willingness
to change their minds leave them open to accusations of being arbitrary,
inconsistent, uncertain or even devious."
On April 25, 1982, New Age leader Benjamin Creme said: "What is the Plan? It
includes the installation of a new world government and a new world religion under
Maitreia." On April 25, 1982, full-page newspaper display ads in some 20 major cities
trumpeted: "THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE." Towards the end of the ad it read:
"WITHOUT JUSTICE THERE CAN BE NO PEACE." This was virtually the exact
militant phrase heard on TV coverage of the L.A. riots: "No Justice, No Peace!"
In 1983 Esalen sponsored a Soviet-American satellite linkup with cooperation of the
Soviets and the Academy of Sciences.
Forty years after his discovery of the soul-manifesting effects of LSD, Hofmann
traveled to the UC campus at Santa Barbara for a psychedelic conference where he
described what he had learned. The following day, May 15, 1983 at the Lhasa Club in
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Los Angeles, he joined Oscar Janiger, Laura Huxley, John Kramer, Ron Siegel and
other psychedelic researchers at a "Caucus for the Restoration of LSD as a Scientific
Tool."
In 1984, the United States withdrew its membership in UNESCO. In 1984 O'Brien
explained to Smith: "We have cut the links between child and parent . . ."
In the mid-1980s, a lecture series by the late Joseph Campbell promoted the idea of
the wisdom of primitive myths to more than 100 million people worldwide. He said the
cult of Osiris-Isis was as valid as the Christ "myth."
In 1985 Norman Cousins stated: "World government is coming, in fact, it is
inevitable."
Nostradamos foretold that after the last battle the Grand Monarque of "Trogan blood
and Germanic heart" (King of Blois and Belgic) will rise and reign from Avignon -ancient city of Cathars and Popes -- watched over by the Black Virgin. Before 1999 he
will restore the church to "pristine pre-eminence" through Rome. The Barque of St.
Peter will be destroyed. Nostradamus has been termed a propagandist for the
Merovingians. His parents, converted Jews, adopted a masculine form of Our Lady as
their name.
America's legal and education elites have replaced the Western Christian tradition with
a humanistic system that holds: 1) There is no transcendent, personal God, 2) Both the
world and man result from evolutionary forces, which continue to direct them, 3)
Societal institutions such as family and civil law have no theistic origins, 4) Theistically
ordained absolute standards do not exist for the guidance of either individuals or
institutions, 5) The Bible is false and useless as a source of guidance for man in his
attempt to progress and 6) Man's self-effort is the primary, if not sole, tool available to
him in his attempt to progress.
In 1987 Texe Marrs outlined 13 key characteristics of the New Age: 1) A One World
Religion, Political and Social order; 2) Revival of the Babylon religion (mystery cults,
sorcery, occultism and immorality); 3) A New Age Messiah; 4) Spirit Guides, 5) The
rallying cries of World Peace, Love and Unity; 6) New Age teachings spread around the
globe at all levels of society; 7) Spread of the apostacy that Jesus is neither God nor the
Christ; 8) All religions as a part of the New World Religion; 9) Discrediting and
abandonment of Christian principles; 10) Children seduced and indoctrinated into
New Age dogma; 11) Flattery being use to entice the world to believe that man is Divine
God; 12) Science and the New World Religion will become one; 13) Elimination of
Christians will resist the Plan. The New Age has nine doctrinal corner-stones: 1)
Eastern mysticism; 2) Mind control through psychology; 3) Mystery cosmic teachings;
4) The worship of science as revelation; 5) Instaneous Evolution; 6) Hedonism; 7)
Pantheism; 8) Selfism; 9) Leadership by spiritually superior beings.
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In 1987 Christopher Hyatt, head of the Order of the Golden Dawn, said in an interview:
"The Guards of the Ancient era . . . the ones dying right now . . . are not willing to give
up their authority so easily. I foresee, on a mass scale, that the New Age is not going
to come into being as so many people believe and wish to believe. I see it as requiring
a heck of a lot of blood, disruption, chaos, and pain for a mass change to occur."
James Shelby Downard looked forward to the time beyond Must Be, to the era which
will witness the return of could be. After the coming cataclysmic chastisement has run
its cleansing course, we will once again wish upon a star and dream a destiny free of
the Masonic chain that at present binds our nation as tightly as the hangman's rope
once bound the rotted cadavers on Tyburn Tree. Barbara Marx Hubbard, in The Book
of Co-Creation wrote: "Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is
electing to transcend . . . One-fourth is destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In
the past they were permitted to die a 'natural death.' . . . Now as we approach the
quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human -- the human who
is an inheritor of god-like powers -- the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated
from the social body . . . Fortunately, you are not responsible for this act. We are. We
are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We
are the riders of the pale horse, Death."
In 1987 Esalen celebrated its 25th anniversary. Among the innovative thinkers named
as shaping its major principles was Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Arnold Toynbee, Fritz
Perls, B.F. Skinner, and James Pike (an Episcopal Bishop).
Environmental curricula and children's ecology books echo those scary scenarios
envisioned by the "extreme activists." Many blame parents for exaggerated global
problems. "They may deny it," says Captain Eco, the high flying superhero of a large
picture book called Captain Eco and the Fate of the Earth, "but . . . they're stealing
your future from under your noses." Captain Eco takes two children on a tour of the
damaged earth. After showing them all the familiar abuses in the worst possible light,
the captain points them to the final mega-problem: "and that's YOU." "We're not that
bad, are we?" they respond. "Not you personally, but the whole human race. There
are so many of you . . . Either you go on . . . polluting all over the planet . . . Or you
can work toward a better world . . . Will you help me?"
Following the death of his wife, Howard O'Brien decided to move the family to
Richardson, a town in Dallas County in northeastern Texas, a transition that Rice has
likened to "stepping through TV to the world of America we had seen from afar." And
indeed Anne Rice seemed to have led a far more conventional life in Texas than she
had in Louisiana. At Richardson High School she was the features editor on the
student newspaper, and, after her graduation in about 1959, she entered Texas
Woman's University, in Denton (according to another source, she attended North
Texas State University, also located in Denton), where she joined the ranks of those
young people who were questioning traditional religious and societal values. "I
remember walking into Voertman's bookstore and seeing all those racks of books,"
she recalled during an interview with Stewart Kellerman for the New York Times
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(November 7, 1988). "All this stuff I wasn't supposed to read as a Catholic. Aldous
Huxley, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus. I had to know what was in those books."
Stanford environmentalist Stephen Schneider said: "We'd like to see the world a better
place . . . to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That,
of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary
scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any
doubts we might have . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between
being effective and being honest."
The teachings of Jiddhu Krishnamurti can be found in books, films, university courses,
workshops, progressive schools that he started, and a dynamic foundation that bears
his name. As of 1990, his works have been translated into forty-seven languages,
including Swahili; though them his influence is felt worldwide. His ideas, which
revolved around the centrality of individual consciousness free from the programmed
filters of religion and culture, attracted people as varied as George Bernard Shaw,
Greta Garbo, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Albert Einstein, Alan
Watts, Jackson Pollack, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Christopher Isherwood, and Charlie
Chaplin.
In 1990, Bruce began meeting with a student organization at Stanford University
called Higher Consciousness. After presenting himself and sitting in on presentations
by Stanley Krippner, Nina Graboi, Dennis McKenna and others, Bruce and the leaders
of Higher Consciousness planned and put on a major conference, "The Bridge: Linking
the Past, Present and Future of Psychedelics." Keynoters were Timothy Leary and
Terence Mckenna, and John Lilly, Howard Reingold, Robert Anton Wilson, Francis
Huxley (nephew of Aldous), Stanley Krippner, Stephen Gaskin, and Arthur Hastings
were among the 60 presenters. After the conclusion of this 1991 conference, Bruce
planned his next event, Bicycle Day, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery
of LSD in 1993. Bicycle Day was the name Bruce gave to the "50th Anniversary of the
discovery of LSD," and Bruce in collaboration with Rick Doblin of MAPS and a student
organization at his old almamatter, UC Santa Cruz, put on a celebration in the school's
Performing Arts theater. Sharing the podium with Bruce and Rick Doblin was Oscar
Janiger, founder of the Albert Hofmann foundation. Videos of Humphry Osmond,
Albert Hofmann and Ken Kesey were shown, and also re-enactment of the last LSD
trip of Aldous Huxley was performed by Laura and Francis Huxley.
The crisis of environmentalism has been developed as a means to bring about a oneworld government: "Through a skillful wedding of socialism, New Age Pantheism and
a manufactured climate of despair over a 'dying planet', these powerful individuals
(David Rockefeller and Edmund de Rothschild) are creating a climate of fear
which will see mankind not only accept, but demand, a one-world government
to deliver us from environmental apocalypse. This one-world government will,
of course, be the capstone of their planned New World Order. "In searching
for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of
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global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill," declared
members of the Club of Rome in a sweeping 1991 report on global governance. "All
these dangers are caused by human intervention . . . The real enemy, then, is
humanity itself."
In the Summer of 1991 Tal Brooke quoted Brock Chisolm, director of the UN World
Health Organization in SCP Journal: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to
remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions,
national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
On May 4, 1992, Gorbachev received the first Ronald Reagan Freedom award from
Reagan at the former president's presidential library in Simi Valley. Two days later
Gorbachev made a speech in Fulton, Missouri at Westminister College calling for a
greatly strengthened UN and a new "global government" for a multipolar world. In
mid-1992, Mikhail Gorbachev was sponsored in his U.S. trip by the Esalen Institute.
The institute has long called for the creation of a Council of Wise Persons (Brain
Trust). While on his tour, Gorby took time out for a private meeting with Henry
Kissinger. Gorbachev, on May 6, 1992, went to Fulton, Missouri (the site of Winston
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech) to call for the creation of a new "global
government." He also denounced "exaggerated nationalism" while calling for a
"global international security system." The worst of the dangers, said the former
President of the Soviet Union, is ecological. He listed "global climatic shifts, the
greenhouse effect, the ozone hole, acid rain, contamination of the atmosphere, soil
and water by industrial and household waste, the destruction of forests . . ." He
praised the Club of Rome as "authoritative." This is the organization that wants to
limit the earth's birth rate and redistribute the world's wealth. "However, I believe that
the new world order will not be fully realized unless the United Nations and its
Security Council create structures, taking into consideration existing United Nations
and regional structures, which are authorized to impose sanctions and make use of
other measures of compulsion, especially when the rights of minority groups are
being particularly violated." On May 8, 1992, Gorbachev told the Chicago CFR that:
"The New World Order means a new kind of civilization." Gorbachev wants the UN to
set up a "Brain Trust" of the world's elite to "push global politics toward detente."
This would include "Nobel Laureates, diplomats and churchmen." In early May, 1992,
UN Secretary -- General Ghali told a meeting of the American Association of
Newspaper Publishers that a permanent UN military force was needed to "protect the
peace" and "ensure human rights" and intervene "at the local and community levels."
Al Gore, who wrote a book to spread a similar message, said, "We must make rescue of
the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." In Earth in the
Balance, he calls for a "worldwide education program" and a "panreligious
perspective" based on "the wisdom distilled by all faiths."
In 1993, Vice President Al Gore also established the National Religious Partnership for
the Environment -- with its offices also located at the Cathedral. The Partnership is
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composed of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churches, the
Evangelical Environmental Network, and the Consultation of Jewish Life and the
Environment -- and has received a multimillion-dollar commitment from The
Rockefeller Foundation and others to fund a major ecumenical/eco-spiritual broadside
aimed at churchgoers. Every Roman Catholic Church in America will soon be the
object of ruling class largesse. Laurence Rockefeller is also said to have assisted the
publication of The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by former Dominican priest turned
New Age Episcopalian Matthew Fox.
In January 1993 CBS featured an hour on the comeback of LSD. A week or two later,
fashion reports said the sixties/seventies look was back -- including bell bottoms and
dresses exposing the belly. Richard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news,
has said: "We're going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues
and subjects that we choose to deal with."
Lyndon LaRouche is a big booster of ecumenicism; curiously, both LaRouche and the
Masonic-Theosophist organization World Goodwill have recently been singing the
praises of a 15th century Catholic ecumenicist, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. In this
climate, even Herbert "British-Israel" Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God has
reversed its course, and its offending doctrines as well, to become properly ecumenical
--- certainly a telling point!
Ram Dass gave a three-hour talk in 1994 at the "Celebration Of the Birth Centenary of
Aldous Huxley." It ended with an ecstatic Dance of Shiva on stage with Laura Huxley
and Tai Ji Master Chungliang Al Huang while the section of Island was read aloud.
The second aeon, said Crowley, the tutor of the young Aldous Huxley, was that of
Osiris, the father. This period "was characterized by patriarchial religions such as
Judaism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity." Aleister Crowley wrote that in the
initiation for the new age "the whole planet must be bathed in blood . . . This bloody
sacrifice is the critical point of the World Ceremony . . ." He worshiped the goddess as
"Our Lady Babylon." "The Great Whore (was) an ancient epithet for the Goddess."
Alice Bailey wrote that the Moon was now a dead thought form which will crumble in
the near future. Gurdjieff disagreed, He believed it was a plant waiting to be born, and
it is coming to life by devouring human of death. Isis (the "Star of the Sea") was the
Egyptian goddess of fertility. She was represented as standing on the crescent moon
with stars surrounding her head. This Isis thing is more extensive than one might
think -- figures quite prominently in the British circles. Here too with A. Huxley.
Jonathan Cott, in Isis and Osiris: Exploring the Goddess Myth (Doubleday 1994) said
in his Acknowledgments: "I am inestimably grateful to my editor, Jacqueline Onassis,
for guiding me through the realms of Isis and Osiris . . ." in Isis and Osiris (the book
Jackie Onassis supervised just before her death) a group called Ammonites is
prominent and in fear of persecution. The chief God of the Ammonites was Milcom.
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A Professor Elletson proposed that the Satanic money power seeks to spiritually and
genetically destroy the culture and civilizations of Aryan, Indo-European or Western
Man. Arnold Toynbee admitted that an original or "Aryan" or "Indo-European"
language preceded all other languages. H.G. Wells said that those who were of Aryan
dissent thought alike. The former was a high officer in British Intelligence while the
latter was a Fabian. Albert Pike is quoted by Elletson on Aryanism. Pike was a student
of Sanskrit (which he learned later in life).
Gorby forum attendee Willis Harman, New Age philosopher, president of the Institute
of Noetic Sciences, and author of Global Mind Change and The New Metaphysical
Foundation of Modern Science, has had a profound effect on our society in the past
couple of decades. In "Our Hopeful Future: Creating a Sustainable Society," one of his
new essays, Harman reported: "Around the world one detects murmurings that
industrialized and 'developing' countries alike have a need for a new social order -that, in fact, the situation calls for a worldwide systemic change." "In the economydominated world, as anthropologist Margaret Mead once put it bluntly, 'the
unadorned truth is that we do not need now, and will not need later, much of the
marginal labor -- the very young, the very old, the very uneducated, and the very
stupid.'" "This dilemma is perhaps the most basic one we face," said Harman. Society
can't afford "from an environmental standpoint, or from the standpoint of tearing
apart of the social fabric -- the economic growth that would be necessary to provide
jobs for all in the conventional sense, and the inequities which have come to
accompany that growth. This dilemma, more than any other aspect of our current
situation, indicates how fundamental a system change is now required." David C.
Korten is a disciple of Harman.
The Royal Institute of International Affairs used the life-time work of Aldous Huxley
and Bulwer-Lytton as its blueprint to bring about a state where mankind will no longer
have wills of their own in the One World Government-New World Order of the fastapproaching New Dark Age. Huxley said: "In many societies at many levels of
civilization, attempts have been made to fuse drug intoxication with God intoxication.
In ancient Greece, for example, ethyl alcohol had its place in the established religions.
Dionysus, Bacchus, as he was often called, was a true divinity. Complete prohibition
of chemical changes can be decreed but cannot be enforced."
Homosexual drug-addict and City of London agent, Aldous Huxley,
introduced LSD into the USA on behalf of the clandestine Tavistock
Institute, said to be responsible for the Port Arthur Massacre.
So much of what 'man' has thought and done has, as we have just read, been folly.
However, God, Whom these 'intellectuals' have left out of the equation, promised us a
prophet and a way to escape the destruction being wrought by such carnal men
(Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7). That prophet was William Branham (1909-1965). His
ministry is reported on Bible Believer's web Site.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. Were Orwell and Huxley preparing us or warning us as Fabians?
2. Are the British Royals something we now admire in America?
3. Were drugs intentionally introduced to the U.S. at a time the British gave us no help
in Vietnam?
4. Can we criticize the British royals for being into the cult of Isis after looking at the
top of our nation's capitol?
5. Name a good recent book exposing British Fabianism.
6. Why is Gorby here when he can't get 2% of the vote in Russia?
7. President Bush and Paul McCarthy were both knighted by the Queen. Why?
8. Who presently is a member of the Knights of the Garter?
(From The Aquarian Conspiracy, http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm)
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Reading #11
A Satanic Checklist
“Satanic forces invade every day, without sounding a trumpet. They intend to
permeate every portion of our lives. They can and will creep in through any
crack in our spiritual armor. I have only scratched the surface in
comprehending how widespread and camouflaged are the traps laid by the
evil one. I thank God for removing the veil that has kept me blind to what is
really going on.
As parents, we often PURCHASE spiritually dangerous things as GIFTS for
our children, not realizing these things could lead to their downfall! I bought
the Rock Band game for PS3 for my teenager. Having always wanted to
learn to play the drums, myself, I also spent some time playing the game and,
at first, it was fun. I had to play the songs over and over to learn how. The
repitition of these songs had an unhealthy effect on me. When I played the
vocal part of the game and was able to READ the lyrics, I realized all was not
"fun and games" as it first appeared. The rhythms also had an unsettling
effect. I am frightened and appalled by the Satanic content in this game! There
is also prophesy in some of the songs via lamentations as songwriters tell
firsthand accounts of their souls demise. Even The Simpsons game is full of
bizarre and prophetic ramblings.”25
The story continues here: “As our ACCUSER on judgment day, Satan will gleefully point out the "handwriting"
has been on the "wall" for anyone bothering to look. He who hath ears, let him hear.
As I began to ‘wake up’ to these REVELATIONS; I took my teen to a Christian Youth Center and found the
Rock Band game among their entertainment fare. I asked if any of the adults in charge had reviewed it's content.
Nobody was able to answer my question. Some strange occurances followed this experience. I was under attack
(spiritually) in a number of ways. The Bible tells us that Satan can appear as an angel of light. One night in a
dream, he appeared as a HEXAGON of light, that was actually quite beautiful. At that time, I was researching a
variety of subjects including language origins and the history of mathmatics; "ancient religions"; the paranormal;
weather patterns; angels/aliens; escatology, etc. Sometimes I played the Rock Band game to relax during study
breaks. It became one of those "cracks" I mentioned before.
Mercifully, the Holy Spirit never left my side through it all. God made sure I balanced the research that took
me into dangerous waters with the healthy meat of His Word.” Blog comment by beyekind1-2nother on
http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/occult-check-list
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Occult Check List #1
Source: http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/occult-check-list
When counselling people for deliverance, it is important that all occultic involvement
is exposed, including that of ancestors, where possible, as it opens the door for
curses. Here is a list of things to check for—which can be handed to the person
seeking deliverance.
Appendix 1: Occult Check List
Possible Demonic Entry Points:
[ ] Abstract art (under hallucinogenic stimulus)
[ ] Acupuncture [26]
[ ] Amulets (tigers claw, sharks tooth, horseshoe over door, mascots, talisman (magic
picture)
Many people would question Acupuncture being on this list, as one reader, Krystle, did. Here is Timothy
Luke’s answer: “Hi Krystle. The problem as I understand it, with eastern medicine is found in its religious
origins. When it deals with energy flow, it is based upon the false concept of "yin and yang" or whatever other
names may be given to it. This is a practice that says we are spiritually divided.... some call it "male, female"
energy, others call it, "good, bad" energy, etc.
God created us in HIS image. God is ONE. God looked on Adam and Eve BEFORE the fall and said, "it is
VERY GOOD" God created man good, with no evil in him. God also created man with no division in him. When
did this division come in? It came in when sin entered in.
When sin entered in, evil spirits also entered in. So, in the yin and yang, we are seeking to manipulated evil
forces. This in fact opens the door to the forces we are seeking to eliminate. Since you and I cannot slice up an
evil spirit and examine it under a microscope, what I have just stated becomes a matter of faith, not sight.
I will share with you that in the days of my wife's illness with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, multiple chemical
sensitivities, we searched out eastern practices. When we read Blessing or Curse, You can Choose by Derek
Prince, we were convicted and renounced and repented from all these forms. We told God we would have all
remnants of them removed by sundown. During that time the Lord spoke to my wife and told her quite clearly,
"rise and walk". We have not looked back since, other than to make sense of what we had gone through. Our
Story gives a fuller account.
In hindsight, the eastern medical practices we used gave a temporary boost. Yet, if you were to graph the
projection of my wife's health, it was in steady decline. We thought how fortunate we were that we had these
things to help us, or "just think where we would be!" In fact, we were going downhill.
Acupuncture is a means of manipulating the flow of energy (good and evil) in the body. God's best is that we
get the evil, or negative, energy (spirits) REMOVED, and that we do not co-habit with them. This is why Jesus
Christ died on the cross, that we might put the enemy under our feet and walk on free of his internal influence.
We cast out devils, not manipulate and redirect them.
Jesus cast out spirits of infirmity and people were healed. He cast out spirits of insanity, and they came into
their right minds.
You may be having success with your procedures, but I testify today that since the Lord spoke to her, she is
100% well and walking in the blessings of Deuteronomy 28 (read it for yourselves please) and not the curses of
Deuteronomy 28.
God bless you, and I hope this sheds light on the topic. I do not know what Phiten is, but I suspect what I have
covered about acupuncture addresses this issue as well. Tim.”
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[ ] Ankh (a cross with a ring top used in satanic rites) [27]
[ ] Apparitions - occultic
[ ] Astral travel
[ ] Astrology
[ ] Augury (interpreting omens)
[ ] Automatic writing
[ ] Birth signs
[ ] Black arts
[ ] Black magic (involving hidden powers for bad ends)
[ ] Black mass
[ ] Blood subscriptions (pacts)
[ ] Cartomancy (using playing cards)
[ ] Chain letters
[ ] Charming or enchanting (attempts to use spirit power)
[ ] Charms and charming for wart removal
[ ] Chinese astrology
[ ] Clairaudience (ability to hear voices and sounds super-normally - spirited voices
alleging to be those of dead people giving advice or warnings)
[ ] Clairsentience (supernormal sense perception)
[ ] Clairvoyance (ability to see objects or events spontaneously or supernormally above
their normal range of vision - second sight)
[ ] Colour therapy
[ ] Concept therapy
The Ankh is actually an ancient Christian symbol! See Birthright, Sceptre, Loaves and Fishes for explanation!
See chapter 14 “Jubilation!”
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[ ] Conjuration (summoning up a spirit by incantation)
[ ] Coven (a community of witches)
[ ] Crystal ball gazing
[ ] Crystals
[ ] Death magic (where the name of the sickness plus a written spell is cast into coffin
or grave)
[ ] Demon worship
[ ] Disembodied spirits
[ ] Divining rod or twig or pendulum (Hosea 4:12)
[ ] Dowsing or witching for water, minerals, under-ground cables, finding out the sex
of unborn child using divining rod, pendulum, twig or planchette
[ ] Dream interpretation (as with Edgar Cayce books)
[ ] Dungeons and Dragons
[ ] Eastern meditation/religious - Gurus, Mantras, Yoga, Temples etc
[ ] Ectoplasm (unknown substance from body of a medium)
[ ] Enchanting
[ ] E.S.P. (extra sensory perception)
[ ] Findhorn Community
[ ] Floating trumpets
[ ] Fortune telling
[ ] Gothic rock music
[ ] Gurus
[ ] Gypsy curses
[ ] Hallucinogenic drugs (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, sniffing glue etc)
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[ ] Handwriting analysis (for fortune telling)
[ ] Hard rock music - Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones
[ ] Most non-Christian Heavy metal and hard rock music - Slayer, Behemoth, AC/DC,
Guns and Roses, Beyonce, Lady gaga, Rihanna.
[ ] Hepatoscopy (examination of liver for interpretation)
[ ] Hex signs (hexagrams)
[ ] Horoscopes
[ ] Hydromancy (divination by viewing images in water)
[ ] Hypnosis
[ ] Idols
[ ] Incantations
[ ] Iridology (eye diagnosis)
[ ] Japanese flower arranging (sun worship)
[ ] Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (Reincarnation, Hinduism)
[ ] Kabbala (Occult Lore)
[ ] Karma
[ ] Levitation
[ ] Lucky charms or signs of the Zodiac or birthstones
[ ] Magic (not sleight of hand but use of supernatural power)
[ ] Mantras
[ ] Martial arts (Aikido, Judo, Karate, Kung fu, Tae Kwan Do etc)
[ ] Matthew Manning
[ ] Mediums
[ ] Mental suggestion
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[ ] Mental telepathy
[ ] Mental therapy
[ ] Mesmerism
[ ] Metaphysics (study of spirit world)
[ ] Mind control
[ ] Mind Dynamics
[ ] Mind mediumship
[ ] Mind reading
[ ] Moon-mancy
[ ] Motorskopua (mechanical pendulum for diagnosing illness)
[ ] Mysticism
[ ] Necromancy (conjuring up spirits of the dead)
[ ] Numerical symbolism
[ ] Numerology
[ ] Occultic games
[ ] Occult letters of protection
[ ] Occult literature, eg The Greater World, The 6th & 7th Book of Moses, The Other
side, The book of Venus, Pseudo-Christian works of Jacob Lorber, works by Edgar
Cayce, Aleister Crowley, Jean Dixon, Levi Dowling, Arthur Ford (The Overt Worship of
Spirit Beings), Johann Greber, Andrew Jackson Davis, Anton Le Vay, Ruth
Montgomery, John Newborough, Eric Von Daniken, Dennis Wheatley, Alice Bailey.
* Such books should be burned, regardless of cost.
[ ] Omens
[ ] Ouija boards
[ ] Pagan fetishes
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[ ] Pagan religious objects, artifacts and relics
[ ] Pagan rites (Voodo, Sing sings, Corroborees, Fire walking, Umbahda, Macumba)
[ ] Palmistry
[ ] Pk (parakineses - control of objects by the power of the mind and will)
[ ] Parapsychology (PS) - especially study of demonic activity
[ ] Pendulum diagnosis
[ ] Phrenology (divining/analysis from the skull)
[ ] Planchette (divining)
[ ] Precognition (foreknowledge of the occurrence of events)
[ ] Psychic healing
[ ] Psychic sight
[ ] Psychography (use of heart shaped board)
[ ] Psychometry (telling fortunes by lifting or holding object belonging to the enquirer)
[ ] Punk rock music
[ ] Pyramidology (mystic powers associated with models of pyramids)
[ ] Rebirthing
[ ] Reincarnation
[ ] Rhabdomancy (casting sticks into the air for interpreting omens)
[ ] Satanism
[ ] Seances
[ ] Self hypnosis
[ ] Significant pagan days
[ ] Silva Mind Control (SMC - Psychorientology)
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[ ] Sorcery
[ ] Spells
[ ] Spirit knockings or rappings
[ ] Star signs
[ ] Stichomancy (fortune telling from random reference to books)
[ ] Stigmata - ie occultic types.
[ ] Superstitions (self or parents or grandparents)
[ ] Table tipping
[ ] Tarot cards (22 picture cards for fortune telling)
[ ] Tea-leaf reading
[ ] Thought transference
[ ] Tk (telekineses - objects move around room, instruments play, engines start...)
[ ] TM (Transcendental Meditation)
[ ] Trances
[ ] Transmigration
[ ] Travel of the soul
[ ] UFO fixation
[ ] Uri Geller
[ ] White magic (invoking hid-den powers for `good ends')
[ ] Witchcraft
[ ] Yoga (involves Eastern demon worship)
[ ] Zodiac charms, birthdates
[ ] Zodiac signs
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Acts 19:19: “Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books
together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of
them, and it totalled fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
*
Deuteronomy 7: 25, 26: “You shall burn the carved images of their gods
with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for
yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your
God.
*
Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to
destruction like it; but you shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an
accursed thing.’
Appendix 2: Non Christian Religions And Cults
1 Timothy 4:1 says: "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will
depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons..."
*
Ananda Marga Yoga Society, Anthroposophical Society (Eurythmy, Rudolf Steiner,
Waldorf Schools); Astara, Bubba Free John; Bahai; Buddhism; Children of God
(Family of Love); Christadelphians; Christian Science; Church of the Living Word
(John Robert Stevens "The Walk"); Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare
Prophet); Confucianism; Divine Light Mission (Guru Maharaj Ji); Druids Lodge;
ECKANKAR (Paul Twitchell); Enlightment (heightened awareness, nirvana, satori,
transcendental bliss, god-realisation, expanded consciousness, altered perception of
reality, cosmic consciousness etc); Esalen Institute (Michael Murphy); e.s.t. (Erhard
Seminar Training); Foundation faith of the Millenium (Robert de Grimston);
Foundation of Human Understanding (Roy Masters); Freemasonry;
Gurdjieff/Subud/Renaiisance (Esoteric Christianity); Hare Krishna; Hinduism
(Karma, reincarnation, avatars, Bhagavad-Gita, Yoga, T.M.); Holy Order of MANS;
Inner Peace Movement; International Community of the Christ/The Jamilans;
Jehovah's Witnesses (Dawn Bible Students); Krisnamurti Foundation of America;
Meher Baba (Sufism Reorientated Inc); Mind Sciences; Mormons (Church of the
Latter Day Saints); Mukatananda Paramahansa (Siddha Yoga Dham Centres); NeoGnosticism; New Age Movement; Nichiren Shoshu/Soka Gakkai (NSA Lotus Sutra);
Rastafarianism; Ratanaism; Religious Science; Rev Ike (Frederick Eikeren Koetter);
Rev Sun Myung Moon (Moonies, Unification Church); Rosecruicianism (AMORC);
Sathya Sai Baba; Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics); Self Realisation
Fellowship; Sharmanism; Shintoism; Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship;
Spiritualism/Spiritism; Sri Chimnoy; Swami Kriyananda; Swami Rami; Swami
Vivekananda (Vedanta Society); Swedenborgianism; Taoism; Theosophy; Urantia;
Unity School of Christianity (Charles Myrtle and Lowell Fillmore); Yogi Bhajan (Sikh
Foundation/3HO Foundation); Zen.
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[Nazarene Remnant comment: to this list must be added the Roman Catholic
Church, and just about every Protestant Church on the planet, because most of
them just follow the errors of Catholicism, with a few minor variations here and there.
Even the so-called Sabbath Keeping Churches of God need including on this list
because of their errors pertaining to marriage, divorce, their understanding of the Holy
Spirit, their false Jewish calendar (thus they keep the wrong Holy Days, and always
have)], church leadership, and many many other things.]
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Occult Check List #2
Source: http://orderofsaintpatrick.org/warfare/occultck2.html
One of Satan’s favorite weapons against us is occult involvement. The occult is Satan’s
world of the spirit. The special danger is that is appeals to our spiritual hunger, the
hunger of our spirit to find the Lord, and diverts us from Him into the occult
underworld, a dead end.
We need to remember that all occult involvement brings spiritual confusion. It grows
out of the feeling that there may be other spiritual forces out there besides God, and we
can consult them or use them, or try to stay on the good side of them. When we go
along with these feelings we violate the first commandment, “You shall have no other
gods beside me”, and Jesus’ commandment, “You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and soul and mind and strength.”
Remember too that the wrong things we do in innocence and ignorance hurt as much
as the things we do deliberately. God’s way of healing us through confession and
forgiveness works not only for our sins but for our errors and our ignorance as well. So
we must confess and receive forgiveness for our occult involvement, whether they were
done in sin or in error or in ignorance.
Satan has his little occult traps set up all through our world. As you read through the
list below, ask the Holy Spirit to recall to your mind every involvement you have had.
Circle each one you have participated in so you can confess it and renounce it.
Have you ever, just for fun, out of curiosity or in earnest:
Soothsayers, Fortune Tellers
1. Had your fortune told by tea leaves, palm reading, crystal ball, card laying, etc.?
(Isaiah 2:6; Dan. 2:27; Micah 5:12; Acts 16:16)
2. Have you ever read or followed horoscopes or had a chart made for yourself?
3. Have you ever contacted a psychic in person or through a psychic hotline? Have you
ever sought a psychic experience?
4. Have you ever played with Tarot cards, crystal ball, a magic eight-ball?
5. Have you ever practiced water witching to find something? Pendulum swinging,
Automatic writing, a Ouija board?
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6. Have you ever consulted a medium, numerologist, had your handwriting analyzed?
Acted as a medium?
Necromancy, Spiritism (I Sam. 28:7-11; Isaiah 8:19; Lev. 19:31 and 20:6)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Have you ever attended a seance or spiritualist meeting?
Have you talked to dead or prayed to the dead?
Do you believe in reincarnation? Have you ever had a reincarnation reading?
Have you ever played role-playing games that include occult powers like
Dungeons & Dragons?
5. Have you ever played games involving occult powers, like ESP, telepathy, table
lifting, levitation of objects, lifting bodies or soul-travel, etc.?
6. Have you ever practiced channeling?
7. Have you ever sought healing through magic spell or charms or through a
Christian Scientist or spiritualist? Sought psychic healing or had psychic
surgery?
8. Have you ever used an object of any kind for protection or ‘good luck’? Are you
superstitious?
9. Do you have an invisible friend you talk to? Does a spirit give you advice?
10. Have you ever been involved with prolonged chanting, dancing, rattling or
drumming?
Have you read or possessed books on: (Acts 19:19-20)
1. Astrology, numerology, interpretation of dreams, or cults such as Christian
Science, Unity, Scientology or Science of Mind?
2. Books on witchcraft, fortune telling, magic, ghosts, ESP, psychic phenomena or
possession?
3. Have you followed the writings of Edgar Cayce, Carl Jung, Jean Dixon, Helen
Schucman, Shirley MacLaine, L. ‘Ron’ Hubbard (church of Scientology) or any
other New Age author?
4. have you taken the advice of Deepak Chopra, Carlos Castaneda, Sylvia Browne,
Dalai Lama, John Edward, Course in Miracles?
5. Have you read Harry Potter books, movies, games, action figures by J.K.
Rowling?
Sorcery or Magic (II Kings 17:17, 21:6; Isaiah 47:9; Mal. 3:5; Acts 8:11, 13:4-12; Rev.
18:23,22:8)
1. Have you ever cast a magic curse, hex or spell? Made a charm?
2. Have you ever used LSD, Marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine or any mindexpanding drugs or abused prescription drugs?
3. Have you ever had a problem with alcohol?
4. Have you ever practiced mind control over any person or animal?
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5. Have you done Novenas, or tried to get any of the saints or the virgin Mary to do
things for you? Have you ever burned a candle for good luck? Buried a St.
Joseph statue?
6. Do you have anything in your home that was given to you by someone in the
occult? Do you have anything in your home of an occult nature?
7. Have you ever attended witchcraft, powwow, pagan, Wicca, shaman or other
nature-based religious activities?
8. Have you ever been hypnotized, practiced self-hypnosis? (This can be an
opportunity for infestation.)
Sins of the Flesh, Sin of the Eyes (I John 2:16)
1. Have you ever exposed yourself to pornography on the internet, in magazines,
Playboy pictures, TV or stage shows, books, topless bars or X-rated movies?
2. Have you ever had a problem with habitual masturbation?
3. Have you seen shows about sexual deviation, homosexuality or lesbianism?
4. Have you been involved in sexual deviation, homosexuality or lesbianism?
5. Have you been involved in group sex or bestiality?
6. Have you ever had sexual relations with a person who is not your legal spouse. If
possible, recall them by name (first name or initial is sufficient)
7. Have you had an abortion? Have you fathered a child that was aborted?
Devil Worship
1. Have you made a pact with Satan, or been involved in or witnessed Satan
Worship or Black Magic? Have you ever prayed to Satan?
2. Have you ever listened to heavy metal, Gothic, psychedelic or punk rock with a
Satanic or shamanist influence, e.g. AC/DC, Queen, Guns N’Roses, KISS, Black
Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Doors, etc.? Do you own CD’s by them?
Witchcraft (Gal. 5:19-20; I Sam. 15:23, 28:7; II Kings 9:22, 23:24; I Chron. 10:13; Isaiah 8:19,
19:3, 29:4; Micah 5:12)
1. Have you ever wished somebody else was dead? Wished you were dead?
2. Have you ever planned or attempted to take your own life?
3. Have you ever planned or attempted to take someone else’s life?
Other Religions
4. Have you read about or tried to use yoga, pilates, transcendental meditation
5. Have you ever practiced or been around practitioners of Santeria, Voodoo,
umbanda or quimbanda?
6. Have you studied oriental martial arts, such as taekwondo, aikido, kenpo, jui
jitsu, shoalin, kung fu, tai chi?
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7. Have you ever been involved in Freemasonry, Eastern Star, Demolay, Rainbow
Girls or Job’s Daughters?
8. Have you ever been involved with Gnosticism, goddess worship or seeking truth
within yourself? Sought contact with the “collective unconscious”, “Gaia” or
“Atman”?
9. Have you studied and practiced the Kabbalah?
10. Do you have any statues, masks, trinkets, paintings, charms or talismans from
other religions?
11. Have you ever visited or worshiped in a shrine or temple of a nonJudeo/Christian religion?
12. Do you possess any books or articles from any of these religions?
Generational Influence
1. Have other family members had problems with alcohol or drugs? Anger or
violence? Incest or sexual perversion?
2. Do you know of any relatives or ancestors who have been into any of the things
on this sheet?
3. Is there a pattern of early death, insanity, blindness, violence, sickness or
depression in your extended family?
4. Do you have a fascination with evil, violence or the occult?
5. Do you find yourself interested in demonic types of movies such as: Exorcist,
Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen?
6. Do you find yourself drawn to scary movies such as Freddy Kruger, Alien, Jaws,
Friday the 13th?
May the Lord Jesus Christ bless the reader of this page.
[Nazarene Remnant comment: When you read highly generalized phrases “lunar
cult,” and “Moon worshippers,” know full well that you are being played big time! The
Moon plays a tremendously important role in both true Christianity (from the first
crescent New Moon through to day 15 of the lunar month, we have the ancient New
Moon Festival, which is how the Birthright Holy Spirit performs the important role of
bringing us to life again, from sure physical and spiritual death. It is as Jesus taught
us: “Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” John 3: 3), and in the religion of
satanists (from day 16 through the to the dark of the Moon at month’s end—called the
astronomical conjunction—is satan’s possession of the Moon, and it is in this period
that his unholy spirit is written unto the hearts and minds of sinners, whether they be
ignorant of sin, or fully complicit in it.). You had better find out why these things are
so! In fact all the material on our site is focused first upon teaching you the absolute
necessity for spiritual purification, and how to go about it. If you want to gain an
appreciation of how satan takes possession of a person—and I think you should,
because to defeat the enemy, you need to know exactly what you are fighting—consider
the following information from Vigilant Citizen’s blog post “Lil Wayne's ‘On Fire’: A
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Video About Occult Initiation” (and remember, satanists don’t have baptisms, they
have initiations!): “Lil Wayne's newest album will be called Rebirth. This term has,
more often than not, a spiritual connotation. Since one cannot physically be ‘reborn’
during a lifetime, the term Rebirth almost always indicates a spiritual metamorphosis.
Countless religious and spiritual groups in history describe the initiate's awakening as
a Rebirth, where the old self dies and the new, improved self is born. Whether we look
at Born-Again Christians, Buddhists, Freemasons or even members of the Church of
Satan, the symbolic rebirth is commemorated by some sort of ritual. Didn't Jesus
himself say: ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born
again’? Director Chris Robinson has fully embraced this concept by inserting religious
imagery throughout the video to ‘On Fire.’ The symbolism of the video couldn't
however be clearer and I won't play with words: Lil Wayne's Rebirth is a
Satanic one. As simple as that. The ‘hot girl’ Lil Wayne is describing is, in fact, the
Devil himself. The juxtaposition of religious symbols with Lil Wayne's encounter with
this sexy temptress gives to the video a second layer of meaning: a spiritual one. The
video is based on the reversal of the classical paradigm of good vs. evil, making evil
seem sexy, desirable and cool. This theme has been used before, as in Rihanna's
Umbrella and Disturbia (articles here and here) where the artist is seduced into the
‘dark side.’ Lil Wayne's Rebirth seems to confirm Lil Wayne's initiation into the
industry's dark side and ‘On Fire’ is the initiation ritual. Here's the video.”]
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APPENDIX A
The High Moral Damage of Rock Music
Christine Fitzgerald
Source: http://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/D021_MoralCost_Fitzgeraldi.htm
It seems everything has now been said about the life and death of Michael Jackson.
The news media have been hammering away, day after day, glorifying this man as the
greatest star of all times. People have wept and wailed because he is no more. They
have even compared him to Mozart.
But wait – why all this glory and adulation? His life
doesn’t bear it out. He was a man haunted not by
tragedy, but by vice and degeneracy.
The effect that music has on a person is not the
subject of new research. It has long been known that
music is one of the most powerful arts because it
molds the whole human person, body and soul.
Indirectly, it plays a role in shaping society either for
good or for evil, for the formation of good character
or for vice.
As far back as Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher,
the power of music was recognized. Plato wrote that
music is an art that sinks into the depths of the soul
and remains there. He firmly believed that music
should be used to educate youth because of its
capacity to mold character by its power of
suggestion.
Sadly, even a French magazine
for nobility is glorifying Jackson
Recent studies have found that soothing classical
music - Mozart, in particular - can develop the intelligences of babies as well as their
coordination, memory and concentration, along with a host of other positive results.
Bad music, on the other hand, can thwart and deform character, confirming what Plato
taught so long ago.
It was not only the words, but also the beat or rhythm, that subverts. Certain rhythms
– by the uniformity of their beats – have a hypnotic effect. Researchers found that
plants subjected to rock music wilted, while those put near classical music flourished.
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They found that some rhythms possessed the power to evoke certain body and
emotional responses, such as the power to relax or to enervate, to induce calmness or
anger, to move persons to love or to hate something, to glorify (as in our patriotic
songs) or to trivialize and make vulgar (as in some of our post-Vatican II songs).
The hypnotic effects of these rhythms
unlock the subconscious and make a
person more open to the ideas
suggested in the words. This makes a
serious connection of music with
revolution, revolt, immorality,
addiction to drugs, tendency to
suicide and practice of Satanism – all
so prevalent in today’s world.
Aristotle, the great competitor of
Plato, also had much to say on the
subject. Music works on the will, he
Healthy formation: Youth performing in a Mozart concert
explains, through representation. He
noted that music directly represents the passions or states of the soul: gentleness,
courage and temperance – as well as their opposite qualities.
Hence, when one listens to music that represents a certain passion, one is invited to
experience that same passion. If, over a long period of time, one habitually listens to
the kind of music that arouses ignoble passions, one’s whole character will be strongly
inclined to those passions. Both Plato and Aristotle believed that music affects almost
everything, having some indirect influence even over the governance of the State.
Church Fathers and Saints ,such as St. Gregory the Great, have confirmed those
principles when setting out rules on the sacred music appropriate to be played in
churches. Think about the elevation and serenity of the Gregorian Chant, so called in
honor of that great Pontiff. This early concern for appropriate sacred music was always
present in the Church. An author who presents the qualities of polyphonic chant quite
well is Palestrina, whose serious and elegant music befits the presence of God in the
Tabernacle: "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46: 10)
This short inspection into the subject shows that music has an enormous power over
the sensibilities and will of man, and that this power can be used to form either good or
evil characters, a healthy or a degenerate society. It was once believed that the culture
and art of a society were mirrors that reflected its health. With this in mind, it's
frightening to see the direction in which our society is headed.
Jackson’s ambience of hypnotic frenzy
When we look at what the "genius" of Michael Jackson has done, not much needs to be
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said about the bad influence of the beat of his music has over the fans during his
concerts. The loud, hard, driving, relentless pounding of drums and synthesizers sets
up an ambiance of hypnotic frenzy. It opens the soul to the messages of the songs,
delivered at a volume almost unendurable to the human ear. For the common person,
that noise crowds out any possibility of analyzing or rejecting the messages the words
transmit. Only acceptance is
possible.
The mob at a rock concert begin
to sway as the beat overwhelms
and overtakes the sensibilities,
leaving reason and constraint far
behind. Then add to this mix the
thundering words fostering
Satanism, immorality,
revolution, suicide, violence, and
drugs and the visual image of a
man grasping himself and
dancing in an overtly immoral
manner - and you have a picture
of the message of this "great
star.”
Can a youth come home from a
concert unchanged? No, it's not
possible. The youth now has a
different idea of authority and
The "genius" of Jackson was rooted in the occult and revolt
morals in the Church, country
against nature
and family. All that the Catholic
Church and parents have taught and fostered concerning purity has been countered.
Revolutionary images are left in the youth's mind that perhaps will remain there
forever.
Our Lady of Fatima said to the three children, "The sins that will carry the most souls
to Hell will be sins against purity." One can only imagine how many sins of impurity
can be laid at the feet of this "great star," his music and his dance.
Reject rock'n roll
We should have the courage to take the necessary steps to protect our families and
ourselves from rock'n roll and all that surrounds it. The entire rock culture and its
revolutionary "stars" must be totally rejected. We must make a resolution not to allow
any of it in our homes or ambiences so that our families can develop in a healthy and
pure atmosphere. Nothing will change for our families or our country unless we begin
to change its morality, dress code, and customs at our own homes. With this effort and
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the protection of Our Lady, our beloved country will have a hope for the restoration we
all long for.
If my people who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked way, then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive
their sin and heal their land (2 Paralipomenon 7:14).
Posted July 20, 2009
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APPENDIX B
The Vatican Approves John
Lennon: An Ill-timed Act
Mark Stabinski
Source: http://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/D018cpLennon_Stabinski.htm
Two recently published newspaper articles follow which once again show the absurdity
of the Conciliar Church's global agenda.
In the first article, Student View: Campus Life Not Catholic, (1) you will find utterly
deplorable Catholic survey statistics voiced by Catholic Youth who now are attending
Catholic Colleges. The questions and answers all pertain to fundamental Articles of the
Catholic Faith, and reveal that a striking percentage of the Catholic students disagree
with the teachings of the Church – and say that Catholic education had little effect on
their faith or moral formation.
Nearly half the respondents had had sex
outside marriage, 27 % viewed pornography, a
third said they regularly got drunk, and 59 %
had friends who engaged in recreational drug
use. Seventy-eight per cent of respondents
believed using a condom to prevent pregnancy
was not a sin, 57 % thought same-sex marriage
should be legal, 60 % believed pre-marital sex
with someone one loved was not sinful, and 60
% believed that abortion should be legal in
some cases.
In the second article: "we are next shocked to Ministry at the UC Santa Cruz Newman Center
find out that one of the Conciliar Church's
principal press organs, L'Osservatore Romano, is reporting that the "Vatican 'forgives'
John Lennon" in a gesture of mercy for Lennon's 1966 uttered blasphemy that "The
Beatles were more popular than Jesus." (2)
And, why now? What event has prompted the Vatican to so belatedly "absolve" John
Lennon of his 44 year old blasphemy against God and against Holy Mother Church?
Again, unbelievably, here is what we are told: "The semi-official Vatican newspaper
marked the 40th anniversary of The Beatles' White Album with an article praising
Lennon and the Fab Four from Liverpool." (3)
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The Beatles White Album (1968)
For all of the undersigned's readers who somehow missed the 1960s cultural
revolution in both the World and in the Church: permit me to identify merely a few of
the White Album's most precious
treasures:
• "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" - a
song which is metaphorically wistful
about the pleasures available to all souls
who make use of this "gun" (i.e., a
hypodermic syringe that makes
"happiness" attainable on earth by
injecting oneself with heroin and
cocaine - a speedball). Such desired
enjoyment is threatened when "Mother
Superior jumps the gun," that is,
whenever Religious Authorities attempt
to deny men their hedonistic pleasures.
• "Why Don't We Do It In The
The Beatles with their guru, the Maharishi
Road?" - This song praises the
instantaneous pleasure that all acts of fornication avail men. Further, it proposes such
pleasures need never be delayed for such practical matters as having to search for
some motel room: hence, "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
• "Helter Skelter" - Law Enforcement authorities learned that this song was the
anthem of the Satanic cult of Charles Manson and his murderous “family.” Those
words were written in blood on the walls of Sharon Tate's home after both she and her
unborn child had been ritualistically slain.
• "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine" - The chant that goes on
seemingly endlessly is surrounded by and immersed in a veritable cacophony of voices
and inhuman and unearthly sounds. The three 9’s turned upside-down, of course,
permits a soul to reach that 'magick' number of '666,' yet another idolization of "The
Beast/666" Aleister Crowley, the self-professed Satanist par excellence and 33rd
degree Freemason whose photo image appears on the front cover of The Beatles “Sgt.
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
I could go on and dissect the other remaining songs found on the tracks of The White
Album, but I believe that my point is already made.
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Vatican praises their “strange alchemy of sounds and words”
Consider how Eastern Mysticism,
transcendental meditation, hallucinogenic
drug use, mind "expansion," free sex and
such were likewise popularized by the Fab
Four. Through their influence, countless
young men and women happily and
electively opened their minds and
surrendered their psyches, consciousness
and consciences to unidentifiable spiritual
forces - all clearly not from the Heavenly
Angelic Realm.
The hippie culture that fed on the Beatles cult
and music
Consider how Satanism, Witchcraft and all
of the other dark occultist arts have
exploded globally in the four decades since
the appearance of The White Album and The
Beatles’ diabolical (whether wittingly of
unwittingly) influence on our planetary
culture.
Why, even the Editor and his journalists at L'Osservatore Romano, are not afraid to
assert this belief: "In a half-page illustrated article, the paper praised The Beatles for
what it called their "unique and strange alchemy of sounds and words."
Thus, our immemorial Catholic Faith has now "evolved" to the point where even a
strange alchemy of sounds and words is deemed worthy of praise by the Vatican, and
seen as a fit source of inspiration for young musicians who today follow in the Beatles’
footsteps.
Former Church teaching ignored
In more "primitive" times, Holy Mother Church explicitly taught that the free and
routine use of alchemy and magick placed any and all souls dabbling in such things at
tremendous risk of suffering actual demonic infestation, oppression, obsession and
possession.
This sound teaching, like almost everything else in Modernist Rome, has undergone a
supposedly amenable progression in the minds of Vatican authorities. Once again, they
openly confess that this new teaching would have been unthinkable not so long ago:
"He (Benedict XVI) now allows the newspaper of the tiny independent Vatican state to
reflect the reality of the world outside in a way that would have been unthinkable in
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the days of Pope Paul VI who reigned during heyday of The Beatles."
This "rigidity" of Paul VI then, lamentably, served as an occasion for the Vatican’s
press organ to make this final observation:
"In another article on the same page entitled ‘Twilight of the Gods,’ the newspaper
lamented the passing of the golden days of Hollywood and said the mysterious
fascination of the star system of Hollywood in the 1950s had been superseded by the
cult of so-called celebrities."
A pertinent question
The article Student View: Campus Life Not Catholic successfully documents and
affirms that young Catholic men and women who are now attending American Catholic
universities and colleges are demonstrably losing their Catholic Faith in ever
increasing numbers. Worse yet, a majority are actually becoming publicly supportive of
and involved in utterly anti-Catholic movements.
Now, my dear readers, after you finish reading the article I summarized above, ask
yourself this elementary question: Why - in the midst of the greatest Faith crisis among
youth in History - would the Vatican elect to commemorate a Rock Group (The
Beatles), that Rock Group's leader (John Lennon) and one of that Rock Group's most
anti-Catholic and pro-Demonic Albums (The White Album)?
Surely, this Vatican announcement has brought in its wake the exceedingly joyful
acclamation of The Adversary and all of His subservient legion both invisible and
visible.
The Second Vatican Council's Revolution continues...
1. Tim Drake, National Catholic Register, November 23-29, 2008
(http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/16579
2. David Willey, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/europe/7744282.stm
3. Ibid.
Posted December 3, 2008
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APPENDIX C
John Lennon, Prophet of the Devil
By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Source: http://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/D019cpLennon_Plinio.htm
On December 12, 1980, four days after John Lennon was killed, Prof. Plinio gave a talk
analyzing the meaning of his life. Since the Vatican recently “absolved” Lennon for
having affirmed that the Beatles were “more popular” than Our Lord Jesus Christ and
praised his music, it seems quite timely to revisit those comments of Prof. Plinio. This
is why TIA is reproducing them here.
A topic that is exciting the media this week is the murder of musician John Lennon by
a man who is being called mentally ill. Lennon is a person who has been praised and
honored beyond any reasonable limit. I say this because one of the Brazilian
newspapers posted a blasphemous ad comparing him to Our Lord Jesus Christ. It
commented that after Lennon’s death, one should expect that no more Christs to
expire by violence.
I believe this is one blasphemy on top of
another: First, because there is no series of
Christs in History. The place of Our Lord has
no parallel with any other man. Second, it
leads one to think that the only merit of
Christ’s death would be to have suffered
violence. According to this view, there would
be no sin to be redeemed, no error to be
corrected, no unjust persecution of the good to
be lamented, no innocent Victim who
voluntarily offered Himself for us. The only
thing that counts is that his life ended
violently. Our Lord was infinitely more than
just a victim of violence. But I don’t want to
lose time with this. Let’s go ahead and analyze
the life of this personage, John Lennon.
We find men who behaved badly in any period
of History. What draws our attention in this
case is not only Lennon’s corrupt morals and
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customs, but the way the public received him and his music. You know the principle,
“Tell me with who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.” We could
paraphrase it, saying “Tell me who you praise, and I will tell you who you are.” If this
man was praised by the media of an entire epoch, then this epoch can be defined by
Lennon’s thinking. Thus, I will not study Lennon for what he was personally, but for
what our epoch accepted him as being.
To assist me in this commentary, I requested a short biographical note. I will read it
now.
Biographical note
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England
in 1940. He was one of the four members of
the rock band The Beatles whose albums sales
broke records, selling hundreds of millions of
copies. The Beatles deeply marked the 1960s,
introducing a new way of being that helped to
launch the Revolution of the Sorbonne (May
1968). In 1970 the band dissolved, to the
distress of its fans. Each member then
followed his own path.
Lennon made a fortune of over $240 million
dollars. He bought a luxury five-story
apartment in the Dakota building, one of the
most fashionable residences in New York, and
several country houses. During this period, he
entered deeper into Eastern mysticism,
making many trips to India. His external
appearance changed to correspond to his new
convictions.
Lennon - the dirty, sloppy style of the hippy
He lived with a Japanese woman, Yoko Ono,
and invited the press to photograph and film a sexual act of the couple at his
apartment.
On the night of December 8, 1980, at around 11 p.m., he stepped out of a limousine in
front of his apartment and a man on the street asked him: “Mr. Lennon?” He
answered: “Yes.” The man, Mark David Chapman, fell to his knees, held his gun with
both hands, aimed and shot five bullets at him. In the records of the police
investigation, it was reported that the killer had heard an interior voice of the Devil
telling him to end Lennon’s life. The voice said: “Kill Lennon, he is mine and I want
him.”
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Comments of Prof. Plinio:
I am not going to analyze the music of The Beatles to judge its artistic value, but rather
I will consider from a Catholic perspective the influence this music had on the public
and the kind of thinking it generated. This is an interesting exercise to make from the
Revolution vs. Counter-Revolution (R-CR) perspective, for this music fundamentally
produces a temperamental state that in itself exercises an influence over a person,
independent of the lyrics. It demonstrates how the Revolution in the tendencies
produces the Revolution in the ideas.
The advantage the Revolution takes of music
The great revolutions always had their counterparts in music. Music plays a special
role in helping a revolution to be made or a war to be won. Music with great élan
played or sung by troops in battle move the soldiers to go forward and win much more
than a syllogism of an instructor ever could.
Imagine a professor going into battle with the soldiers carrying a loud-speaker and
saying: “Soldiers: To serve your country is a duty; and to die for your country is a glory.
Therefore, fulfill your duty, achieve glory and die!” Not many soldiers would be
convinced by such a syllogism. Instead, grand music filling the whole battlefield with
its reverberating notes - louder than the artillery fire and machine guns - will help to
generate the sense of heroism necessary to win the battle. Such music is an instrument
of war.
The Beatles unleashed a contagious hysteria,
above, and decisively influenced the modern
generation, below
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An analogous thing happens with the
revolutions. I think that the most
characteristic revolutionary music is La
Marseillaise. It was the song the
revolutionary mobs sang as they marched to
the Tuilerie in Paris to destroy the
monarchy. The music has an extraordinary
grasp and something of a satanic fire. It
exalts, drags, intoxicates, and creates
illusions in those who hear it - and thus
helped the Revolution reach its goals.
In this sense, the music of The Beatles also
helped the Revolution achieve its goals. What were the weapons of this war? They were
the hundreds of millions of records sold around the world, which spread the
tendencies toward revolution against good customs and authority. The rock music
disseminated in the ‘60s was a strong force in promoting the Cultural Revolution.
Having started in Berkeley a decade before, the symbolic explosion of this Revolution
actually took place in Paris at the Sorbonne University in May of 1968. What
tendencies did this music spread?
Despite the luxury in which he lived, John Lennon appeared in the media and the
minds of the common people as a man dressed in tattered clothing, a sloppy, dirty man
who took the microphone to sing songs that produce a drugged effect on its victims. It
leads them along the road of obscenity and filthiness. Lennon and his companions
were like garbage trucks which, instead of collecting peoples’ trash from the streets,
would spread garbage wherever they went.
Society always has morally degenerate people, but generally they are the exception to
the rule, rejected and derided. Lennon and his companions transformed this type of
degenerate person into a normal, accepted pattern of society. This is what this
tendential revolution did.
Eastern mysticism aims to destroy the individual
The Hindu mysticism to which Lennon adhered is a variant of Brahmanism. I will not
enter into details on it here. Generally speaking, its thinking is similar to that of
Gnosis, which affirms that the great catastrophe was the emergence of the individual.
Here in this room there are around 400 persons. Each one of us feels the pleasure of
being himself, the joy of feeling the unfolding of his own personality. He is able to say:
“I am not this or that person next to me. I am myself.”
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For Hindu mysticism, things are not like this.
It considers it a great disaster that individual
personalities came into existence. For it, the
ideal is for all individuals to disappear and
reintegrate into nothingness. They should
enter this vacuum and become nothing. This is
the Hindu path to light and bliss. It is not the
Catholic Heaven where man retains his
individuality for all eternity, adoring a God
who is the model ideal of his personality and,
therefore, will continuously help to increase
and perfect it. The Hindu imagines that man
enters into nothingness.
A metaphor may help you understand this
philosophy. Imagine a powerful acid that
Lennon started in Eastern mysticism as a
dissolves any paper. Now, imagine a great
disciple of guru Maharishi Mahesh
writer, thinker or poet who commits his
thoughts or poetry to paper. He dies, leaving all his work on paper. A careless heir
accidentally lets those papers fall into a large container of the strong acid. All his work
- whose richness came from its originality - is destroyed in the acid and comes to
nothing. Any civilized man considers this a distressing episode because an original
intellectual or artistic work was lost. The Hindu, however, considers such disaster to be
the ideal.
Each of us is like a thought or a poem made by God. Hindu mysticism wants to destroy
those likenesses of God and make the personalities of all men disappear by immersing
themselves into an impersonal reality that it
considers a divinity.
The Magical Mystery Tour was made
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Thus, this Lennon who achieved almost
during the Beatles' 'psychedelic' period
everything a young man from Liverpool could
desire - an enormous fortune, an
extraordinary celebrity, a life entirely dedicated to pleasure – decides to immerse
himself in Eastern mysticism, whose finality is to destroy life. Lennon opted to reject
all the material pleasures that no longer satisfied him. What a frustrated life! How
absurd it is to compare this man to Our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Resurrection and
the Life! Who by His own power resurrected from death on the third day and came to
reign over the living and the dead for all eternity. Lennon’s life is the very opposite.
Parallel to this, Lennon and the Beatles experimented with drugs. Now then, the man
who takes drugs is trying to flee from this life and enter an unreal life of illusions.
Lennon was not satisfied with his $240 million and being an international celebrity,
but felt the need to delve into the world of drugs. In other words, his life no longer
meant anything to him. He said that he took LSD more than 1,000 times. In reality, he
was a man who had already surrendered his life. When the murderer killed him, he
killed a dead man, so to speak. Indeed, when a man is doing all he can to destroy
himself, in a certain way he has already diad.
This is a good example of the lie of human grandeur.
A demonic immorality
This man invited the press to photograph and film a conjugal act. This is entirely
coherent with the hippy mentality and the Cultural Revolution. What should be
intimate, given its prosaic, sordid, and indecorous note, was practiced in the open.
Everything that was naturally private for the previous generations, the Beatles made
public.
This confirms our metaphor of Lennon dispersing garbage, of distributing filth and
ugliness. Here, I believe, he touched evil itself. This act publicly exposed all its hideous
aspect in order to accustom the moral sense of the public to extreme impurity.
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The Devil rejoices in this type of exhibition
of impurity. Imagine if the Devil were given
the liberty to bring whatever he wanted into
a magnificent building like the Vatican or the Austrian palace of Schonbrunn. Do you
think that he would introduce some new splendid piece of furniture? Or an exquisite
flower or magnificent painting? No. The Devil is the enemy of God and the enemy of
the natural order created by God. When he is given liberty, he disrupts the order. This
is what he likes to do. As much as possible he spreads the horrendous, dirty and ugly.
If he could, he would fill the salons of the Vatican or the Schonbrunn with garbage. He
would tear them up, burning and destroying all that he could. When exorcists oblige
the Devil to leave a mark of himself to prove that he was in the soul of a person, he
normally breaks, shreds and burns something in the room as he is expelled from a
soul. This is consistent with his spirit.
Lennon making the sign of Satan in a pose for
the press
If the Devil were to conceive a revolution for our days, it would be exactly like the
Beatles’ revolution. This public sin, in my opinion, is an expression of the Devil
himself. It is as if the Devil were telling the world: “This is the impurity proper to me. I
am acting through my disciple Lennon, as I sing through his voice. Now, come and
adore me.”
Preparing the public for the Devil
I believe that when men like Lennon and his fellow Beatles have conquered the public
opinion of our century, then we are not far from seeing the day when all the
institutions will be transformed in accordance with the ideals of the Cultural
Revolution. Therefore, one can somehow say that the kingdom of the Devil exists on
earth to the measure that the Beatle’s music becomes accepted by the general public.
Someone could object, “But the French Revolution also had some horrible aspects of
impurity, ugliness and dirtiness. Why do you interpret them so tragically when they
appear in the Beatles’ revolution?
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The other revolutions had these aspects in a
transitory way in some episodes. Generally
speaking, they tried to veil those horrendous
aspects, and instead to present beautiful
things in order to attract the public. The
Beatles’ revolution is different. That dirt,
ugliness and filth constitute the very message
the Beatles want to spread. It is a very
different step.
So, that scandalous and public act of impurity
that Lennon performed is like a trumpet
announcing the Devil's arrival.
I don’t have any document proving that this
was Lennon’s intention. However, any
Satanist, any person who worships the Devil
would be quite capable of doing what he did.
The two actions fit perfectly.
Lennon: "The whole Beatle idea is to do what
you want..."
So, we understand that what the media and, to
great measure, the world is mourning today is a man who was a musical prophet of the
Devil.
The way Lennon was killed also gives the impression that he was marked by the Devil
to die. We can wait and see what the police investigation will conclude in this regard,
but the first impression it gives is that he knew that his time limit was up. It seems that
his death had already been fixed by the leaders of some diabolic sect.
It reminds me of those pacts that some persons make with the Devil. Some trustworthy
stories tell us about how the Devil appears to this or that person and proposes: “I will
give you 20 or 40 years of complete success on this earth, and then I will come to take
you and bring you to Hell.” When the agreed-upon hour arrives, the Devil comes to
demand his part of the bargain.
When we read the report of how Lennon was killed, we see that he didn’t have any
natural reaction of trying to escape the murderer. Why didn’t he try to avoid being
shot? He could have run; he could have kicked the man keeling at his feet; he could
have called out for help. He did nothing, just passively awaited the shots as if it were
something he was expecting.
The statement of the murderer – who affirmed that he heard the voice of the Devil
claiming that Lennon’s soul belonged to him – concurs with this.
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A Revolution leading to anarchy
This revolution is what I called the Fourth Revolution in my book Revolution and
Counter-Revolution. It heads toward anarchy. This is actually affirmed in one of the
slogans of the Sorbonne Revolution: “It is forbid to forbid.” No one can stop a person
from revolting against nature or any authority. For instance, the authority says: “You
should not steal.” The revolution says that since this command comes from an
authority, it should not be obeyed. Each one should be able to do whatever he wants,
even if it is to steal.
In Greek an means ‘without’ and archia means ‘authority’; so, anarchia or anarchy
means without authority. No one is superior to anyone else. Each one does whatever
he wants. There is no rule, no logic and no law. Man is reduced to the state of an
animal that follows his own instincts. This is the Beatles' revolution.
These are the tendencies and ideas that come to my mind regarding the episode of the
killing of John Lennon. They confirm for us how far the Revolution has advanced, how
close we are to the kingdom of the Devil, and how timely our fight for the CounterRevolution is. This fight – under the protection of Our Lady – will bring the triumph of
her Immaculate Heart.
This lecture by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira was taken from the transcript of the
tape, translated and adapted by Atila S. Guimarães
Posted January 12, 2009
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APPENDIX D
Operation Chaos
WHO'S NEXT?: CIA Killings of American and British Rock Musicians,1968-1998
By Alex Constantine
Source:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010624131458/www.konformist.com/rocknroll/chaos.
htm
Research assistance: The late Mae Brussell's "Operation CHAOS," an unpublished
essay, and film-maker Lew Lee.
Reports of appalling excesses committed by domestic intelligence operatives during
the Vietnam era have surfaced repeatedly in the public print since the evacuation of
Saigon: the FBI's COINTELPRO outrages, the probable involvement of military
intelligence officers in the murder of Martin Luther King, et.al,, assaults on 1960s
activism by the CIA's CHAOS division, the distribution of LSD to subvert the anti-war
movement, a litany of Watergate "horrors" and various ill-conceived, federallysanctioned undercover operations. Some of this closet activity has only come to light
decades later, including the existence of a CIA-led "Sovereign Committee," an
assemblage of prominent reactionaries bent on turning back the civil rights movement
in the South of the 1960s by decimating the lives of its leading spokesmen.
Still eclipsed by federal classification are the tactics of the U.S. intelligence sector in
the destabilization of the lives of musicians and counter-cultural activists, as revealed
in a Senate Intelligence Committee report released on April 26, 1976:
"Show them as scurrilous and depraved. Call attention to their habits and living
conditions, explore every possible embarrassment. Send in women and sex,
break up marriages. Have members arrested on marijuana charges.
Investigate personal conflicts or animosities between them. Send articles to the
newspapers showing their depravity. Use narcotics and free sex to entrap.
Use misinformation to confuse and disrupt. Get records of their bank
accounts. Obtain specimens of handwriting. Provoke target groups into
rivalries that MAY RESULT IN DEATH."
Killing was, without question, deemed a sound option by an intelligence sector
embroiled in suppressing the popular backlash to military-industrial authority. One
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covert operation proposed by the President Nixon's Plumbers unit,, a CIA cadré,
involved the bombing of 100,000 demonstrators at a rock concert in Mission Bay, San
Diego during the 1972 Republican convention (an event subsequently moved to Miami,
where the same White House special operations unit planned to provoke a riot to be
blamed on the Left, per Harper's magazine for December 1972, until the whistle was
blown by FBI informant and Green Beret vet William Lemmer before a Florida grand
jury).
The music industry of the Vietnam period was the binding force of a cultural
revolution. Music and the politics of the Left were one. "War," Mick Jagger reflected,
"stems from power mad politicians and patriots. Some new master plan would end all
these mindless men from seats of power." Mick Jagger's audience sang his revulsion,
but their enmity toward the warfare state was mutual.
The back channels of the intelligence world swarmed with crooks and killers. This
genré belched forth the late Robert Hall, associate of Robert Vesco and Howard
Hughes, a private investigator in L.A. summed up by former Harper's editor Jim
Hougan: "tough, reasonably brave and decidedly larcenous ... a father, a wiretapper, an
informer, a dope peddler and a double agent" (Spooks, William Morrow, 1878).
Hall tailed Sal Mineo one evening in 1975 ... the very night the actor was stabbed to
death. (Mineo's had signed on to play Sirhan Sirhan in a film about the murder of
Robert F. Kennedy - in it, CIA assassination and post-hypnotic programming were to
be prominently featured themes.)
Hall was retained by the managers of seven rock bands to investigate physicians who'd
slipped their musicians fraudulent prescriptions, drugs that altered their personalities,
sabotaged public appearances, hindered their lives and music.
Hall reported that two doctors and a dentist had prescribed the mind-altering
drugs. This information was turned over to the authorities. No action was taken. Hall
was gunned down shortly thereafter, on July 22, 1976. The homicide investigation
turned up tapes recorded by Robert Hall. Beverly Hills Police Chief Jack Eggars
immediately resigned due to his involvement with the drug dealer, as revealed in the
tapes. The media, observed the late political researcher Mae Brussell, linked the killing
to "Hollywood's most famous celebrities in drug and sex scandals, exposures of
television starts and high Washington officials, drug traffic from Los Angeles to the
Malibu community, international sports events, the Los Angeles police department
(one of their former agents is now retired, and heads the Police Science Department at
L.A. Valley College and supplied the fatal weapon used to kill Hall)."
Jack Ginsburgs, Hall's partner, was charged with the murder. Ginsburgs, according to
Hougan, was "a pornographer, the proprietor of XXX, Inc. The son of a White Russian
émigré, he'd spent his youth inside the decadent Shanghai Bund - that romantic
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foreign colony which [was] a meld of opium, kinky sex and intrigue." Gene LeBell was
also charged. LeBell, another partner in Hall's firm, owned a pharmacy in Hollywood.
Between 1967 and 1976, many of the music industry's most politically active talents
died, among them Mama Cass Elliott, folk singers Richard Farina, Phil Ochs and Tim
Buckley, Jim and Pamela Morrison, Gram Parsons, Otis Redding, songwriter Jimmy
Reed, Clarence White of the Byrds, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead's "Pig Pen," Jimi
Hendrix, Michael Jeffrey (Hendrix's manager), Keith Moon, others. Since, the deaths
of John Lennon and Bob Marley were succeeded by books exploring the possible
involvement of the CIA.
Operation Chaos (forthcoming), will examine evidence of complicity by the
intelligence "services" - recruiters of morally-erosive holdouts of fascist regimes and
Mafia stinkbugs - in the deaths of over a dozen musicians associated with the "New
Left," among them:
Brian Jones: The coroner's report concluded, "death by misadventure" on July 2,
1969. the Rolling Stone complained that police planted marijuana on him, and he
compared his handling by the law to the hounding of Lenny Bruce, recalling the tactics
detailed in the 1976 Congressional Intelligence Committee report. Two books
published in 1994, Paint It Black by Geoffrey Guiliano and Terry Rawlings' Who Killed
Christopher Robin?, concluded that Jones had been murdered. England's Independent
reported on April 4, 1994, "Murder Claims Raise Doubts Over Rolling Stone's Death."
The 27-year-old guitarist may have been "deliberately drowned in the swimming pool
of his country mansion by one of his aides, Frank Thorogood." The books cited above
are in agreement that before Jones drowned, Thorogood conned the musician out of
thousands of pounds. Was Thorogood a contract killer?
Keith Richards: "Some very weird things happened the night Brian died. We had
these chauffeurs working for us, and we tried to find out. Some of them had a weird
hold over Brian. I got straight into it and wanted to know who was there and couldn't
find out. The only cat I could ask was the one I think who got rid of everybody, and did
a whole disappearing thing so that when the cops arrived, it was just an accident."
Phil Ochs: Wrote songs condemning war. In 1974 he sang at Madison Square Garden
with Bob Dylan, the occasion: "An Evening with Salvadore Allendé." The death of Phil
Ochs was determined to be "death by hanging" in April, 1976. Two years before, he'd
had a bout of depression and bizarre behavior that left him with a multiple personality,
a psychological state much explored by the CIA's mind control community.
Richard Farina: Married Mimi Baez, sister of Joan Baez - to the national security
state born. Joan Baez wrote in her autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With (Signet,
1987), that when she was a young girl, "most of the bright young Stanford scientists
went off to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was being developed. My
father recognized the potential destructive power of the unleashed atom even in those
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early days. So he took a job as a research physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York." Cornell was the home base of the CIA's mind control experiments, and Joan
Baez is a self-described survivor of ritual child abuse, which employs a form of mind
control, trauma-based programming, a technique perfected by the CIA.
"Soon my father was invited to become Head of Operations Research at Cornell.
Exactly what the job entailed was classified information, but he was offered a threeweek cruise on an aircraft carrier as an introduction to the project and promised a
huge salary. As it turned out, he would be overseeing Project Portrex, a vast
amphibious exercise which among other things involved testing fighter jets, then a
relatively new phenomenon. Millions of dollars would be poured into the project,
about which he was to know little and say less." Farina, who had married into a CIA
family, was killed in a motorcycle crash. According to the sleeve of his last record,
"Goldwater was about to win the California primary and the skies were somewhat
uneasy."
Jimi Hendrix: From the Sunday Telegraph, December 12, 1993: "The former
girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, the rock guitarist, spoke for the first time yesterday about
how she has succeeded in reopening the investigation into his drug-related death 23
years ago.
"Kathy Etchingham has spent the past three years - almost as long as she was
Hendrix's live-in lover - investigating the circumstances surrounding the star's death.
A 34-page dossier she sent to Sir Nicholas Lyell, the attorney-general, has prompted
Scotland Yard to reopen the case and may lead to a new inquest. In it she pointed to
alleged inconsistencies in statements given by Monika Dannemann, a German blonde
who was Hendrix's girlfriend at the time of his death.... The police will examine
whether there was any delay in calling an ambulance for Hendrix....
"Etchingham, 46, now married and a mother of two, said: ‘At the time of his death I
didn't doubt what I was told. But then I began reading the biographies and seeing
interviews and I could see gaping holes.’"
Mama Cass Elliott: Count in her entourage at the time of her death one Bill
Mentzer, since convicted for the murder of fledgling Hollywood producer Roy Radin.
Mentzer was convicted with an accomplice, Alex Marti, former leader of an Argentine
death squad, to life in prison. Cass had recently finished two weeks at the London
Palladium. The coroner's report was not conclusive. She "probably choked to death,"
but there was "a possibility of heart attack."
Bob Marley: After the last performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers in America, at
Madison Square Garden, Marley took seriously ill. Three years before, in London, the
singer had injured a toe in a football match. The toe was found to be cancerous, and
Marley was treated in Miami, Florida with no success. By 1980, the growth had
infected his entire body. He struggled with the disease for eight months at the clinic of
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Dr. Joseph Issels in Bavaria. Dr. Issels' brand of alternative medicine was non-toxic.
For a brief time Bob's condition appeared to stabilize. Eventually, however, the battle
proved too much. He died in a Miami hospital on Monday May 11, 1981. Excerpt of an
interview with Lew Lee, a documentary filmmaker (the Oscar-winning Panama
Deception and All Power to the People, an examination of the FBI's COINTELPRO
excesses), conducted on October 30, 1997.
LEE: People came by his house. There were always people going in and out. Someone
gave Bob a pair of boots. He put his foot in and said "Ow!" A friend got in there - you
know how Jamaicans are. He said,"let's get in here" - in the boot, and he pulled a piece
of copper wire out. It was embedded in the boot.
A.C.: Do you believe it was radioactive?
LEE: I didn't think so at the time, but I've always had my suspicions because Marley
later broke his toe playing soccer, and when the bone wouldn't mend, the doctors
found that the toe had cancer. The cancer metastasized throughout his body, and he
[Marley] believed he could fight this thing. He wanted to do anything but to turn to
Western medicine. This may have been a mistake, maybe not. So they appointed for
Bob - Chris Blackwell, I guess, and a couple of other people - they found this doctor is
Switzerland, Dr. Issels, who said that he could cure Bob. And they cut Bob's dreadlocks
off. And he was getting all of this crazy, crazy medical treatment in Switzerland. I know
this because Ray Von Evans, who played in Marley's grounp, we were very close
friends. As Bob was receiveing these medical treatments, Ray would come by every two
or three months - 1979-80 - and told me, "Yeah, mon,They're killing Bob. They are
KILLING Bob." I said, "What do you mean 'they are killing Bob?'" "No, no, mon," he
said. "Dis Dr. Issels, he's a Nazi!" We found out later that Dr. Issels WAS a Nazi doctor.
And he had worked with Dr. [Joseph] Mengele.
Mengele survived the war and enjoyed the protection and employment of the CIA. On
five occasions his death has been reported. Attempts to bring the facts to light have
been subverted by employees of the Agency. John Lennon: British barrister Fenton
Bresler has long maintained that the Beatle's murder was the result of CIA mind
control programming. In Who Killed John Lennon? (1989), Bresler observed: "What
really got the FBI and CIA so geared up about Lennon was [his plan] for a
'revolutionary road show,' starring Lennon and Yoko. This combination of rock music
and radical politics was to barnstorm its way across America." Did a programmed
killer abort the said barnstorm? The FBI has long resisted all efforts by Jon Weiner, a
professor at the university of California, Irvine, to lay hands on Lennon's file, which
remains top secret. Why?
The mystery of Lennon's death - and unresolved circumstances in a score of
others (the theft and burning of Byrd guitarist Clarence White's corpse by a Manson
Family member, for one) - could well be dispelled by access to sealed files. The
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National Security Act of 1947, the CIA charter, does not grant national security thugs a
license to kill.
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APPENDIX E
Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale?
August 31, 2010
By L. C. Vincent
(for henrymakow.com)
Prologue
Vibration throughout the frequency spectrum of sound, heat, and light, is the
organizational principle of matter. Sound is the organizational principle of our
Universe, of physical matter and most importantly, living matter.
The science of Cymatics illustrates that when sound waves move thru a physical
medium (air, water, sand, metallic particles, etc.) the frequency of the waves has a
direct effect upon the structures which are created by the sound waves as they pass
thru that particular medium. YouTube videos show these fascinating patterns and
arrangements here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiSCBXbHAg
Sound is also the basis for form and shape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Io6lop3mk&feature=related
CONSPIRACY
Imagine an incredibly powerful, wealthy person who secretly prospers from conflict,
disease and war learns that certain sound frequencies (those easily divisible
by two, signifying opposition) create conflict, discord and disharmony while those
divisible by three (signifying balance, polity, reconciliation, harmony) produce
symmetry, and visually harmonic, pleasing structures.
Now imagine that he has the power to establish the tuning standard of all musical
instruments throughout the Western World.
Imagine that he bases the entire scale of musical artistic creation upon a frequency
which would skew vibrations towards discord.
It sounds like science fiction. Yet this is exactly what transpired in September
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1939 when Rockefeller (Illuminati) financial interests dictated that the standard tuning
for the note of "A" above middle C would henceforth be said to vibrate at
precisely 440 cycles per second.
This unnatural standard tuning frequency, removed from the symmetry of sacred
vibrations and overtones, has declared war on the subconscious mind of Western
Man.
The standard tuning fork, which is set to vibrate the note "A" above middle C at 440
cycles per second, is based upon a frequency only divisible by two rather than three,
which means that all of the musical notes both above and below it are affected.
Despite the apparent "sweet music" a symphony orchestra can produce, when all
instruments are tuned based on the A=440Hz key frequency, they are
covert weapons no matter what "music" they may be playing.
These destructive frequencies entrain the thoughts towards disruption, disharmony,
disunity. Additionally, they also stimulate the controlling organ of the body -- the
brain -- into disharmonious resonance, which ultimately creates disease and war.
"MILITARIZATION OF MUSIC"
In a paper entitled "Musical Cult Control," Dr. Leonard Horowitz writes:
The music industry "...features this imposed frequency that is 'herding' populations
into greater aggression, psycho social agitation, and emotional distress
predisposing people to physical illness....“while the agents of this conspiracy
provide 'therapeutic' pacification in the form of myriad psychotropic
drugs and tranquilizers for the stress they purposely created, and
chemotherapy for the more serious illnesses it inspires."
He says, "Energy (vibration) impacts "life" (biology) and our bodies through the most
common medium of life: water. Our body weight, which is nearly 80 percent water,
vibrates and resonates to frequencies, and frequencies entrain our physical matter as
well as thought processes. Light and sound have been shown as the primary drivers of
intercellular communication, which indicates that our health, or lack of it, may indeed
by a product of the vibrational resonance of sound and light."
As noted, the Rothschild-Rockefeller (Illuminati) alliance chose "....to determine
the musical factors capable of producing psycho pathology, emotional
distress and 'mass hysteria.'"
BAD VERSUS GOOD VIBRATIONS
The initial effort to make A=440 Hz the basis of standard tuning took place in 1910
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when the Rockefeller Foundation issued a grant to the American Federation of
Musicians to popularize the concept. The initial effort failed.
However, the BSI -- British Standards Institute -- officially adopted A=440 Hz in 1939,
promoted by the strange consortium of Rockefeller Foundation influence and the Nazi
government. Ironically, The British adopted a tuning standard promoted by the Third
Reich, just as both went to war. While 440Hz had been rejected by British musicians
only 3 months prior, Josef Goebbels persuaded the BSI to adapt 440Hz
saying it was of extraordinary importance.
As Dr. Leonard Horowitz concludes: "Music bioenergetically affects your body
chemistry, psycho neuro immunology, and health. Your body is now vibrating
musically, audibly and subliminally, according to an institutionally imposed frequency
in harmony with aggression and in dissonance rather than vibrating in harmony with
Love."
Musical instrument tuning using the artificially imposed standard of
A=440Hz may promote physical and mental disease and distrust, while effectively
suppressing spirituality, intuition and creativity. This universal tuning frequency has
been empirically shown to suppress the creative, intuitive aspects of our mind, while
negatively affecting our body chemistry and our immune systems.
CONCLUSION
I don't know if anyone can prove a direct link between aggression, disassociation,
paranoia and violence to a tuning system that was promoted by both the Rockefellers
and the Third Reich. However, just the fact that these two entities came
together to push this standard is more than suspicious in my mind.
Although more than a few people have made the connection between the music of
John Philip Sousa and his marching music as a stimulus to war, that specific link is in
reference to composition, not frequency and vibration based on a tuning system.
"Intuitively, I think my sources are correct. But how does one go about proving
that a specific frequency tuning is creating social stress, disharmony or
physical violence and war? But the fact that the Rockefellers and the Third Reich
pushed this tuning standard over the opposition of British musicians makes it
suspicious, even sinister."
The Rockefeller--Illuminati axis, their money and research, imposed this
artificial tuning "standard" upon Mankind for the purpose of creating
chaos. It continues to this day to funnel our minds and emotions along paths of
negativity. It is high time for new, good vibrations to become ascendant and a "new
standard" of vibrational tuning to emerge. It is time for the power of Love to triumph!
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L C Vincent
[email protected]
Mr. Vincent was a professional musician for 7 years and has a very nice
collection of guitars along with a wonderful Yamaha keyboard. He has
had a passionate love of music since age 6 -- while most children had a TV
for a baby sitter, he had a radio -- and controlled that dial!
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Comments for "Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale? "
Dan said (September 1, 2010):
There has been a lot of speculation that the Beatles were a creation of the British
Tavistock Institute, and that the sinister genius behind their music was Theodore
Adorno.
Skipping web sites that make unproven claims, this one presents the best thesis I've
seen on this subject. I'm no music theory expert. Everyone knew Beatles music was far
more complex than the working class English trade school dropout teenagers could
pump out either by genius or chance. It turns out that Beatles tunes contained entirely
unique elements, yet derivative of multiple ancient music traditions. Every tune
contains unconventional chord progressions which seem familiar to the listener but
take sudden detours to unexpected, yet somehow compatible musical memes.
In recent years musicologists who've analyzed Beatle music identified the signature
quirky components in the published theories on effect of music on awareness and
behavior which came out of the infamous Frankfurt School think tank. It's now
highly suspected that Frankfurt school sociologist/musicologist/composer Theordor
Adorno is responsible for scoring and arranging the music of the Beatles from 19621969, when Adorno died, and the Beatles disbanded. - D.
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME03/Words_and_chords.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KJbeL4F-M
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Orest said (September 1, 2010):
In Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut the role of music in bringing about a
deepening level of hypnotic enchantment to a mass of Satanic celebrants was
made very evident in the movie's orgy scene. In fact, the film's main character, a New
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York City high society doctor [played by Tom Cruise, who has high-level Satanic
connections], is able to penetrate the inner sanctum of the black mass devotees
because of his past friendship with the musician hired to provide part of the
soundtrack for the group's late-night sex ritual in a Gothic mansion. Creepiness does
not begin to describe the overall effect this pivotal scene must have on any normal
sensitive person, any decent individual. For that, we can in part "thank" the pagan and
occult motifs in Kubrick's choice of mood-colouring music.
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Nozim said (September 1, 2010):
I regularly follow your online articles from your website. Today, I read the following of
your latest article:
http://www.henrymakow.com/musicalscale.html
I kindly ask you to read the following ruling about music in Islam based on Qur'an and
hadeeth of prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/5000/music
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APPENDIX F
Rock Rebels "Clash" Were Corporate Puppets
By David Richards
(For henry makow.com)
October 9, 2010
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/rock_music_rebels_are_corporat.html
“I
believe there is an agenda at work in the system in which
we live which will always say: 'You Do This Or We Won't
Support You.’” (Vince White, guitarist, The Clash)
Picture New Yorks' Shea Stadium full to
the rafters, a sea of 60,000 people swirling
and shouting. Four Englishman take to the
stage clothed in guerrilla punk attire
consisting of jackboots, berets and cut
jeans. They start playing aggressive punk
songs. The crowd erupts.
They are The Clash, one of the biggest
bands of 1980's, with large commercial and
critical success in Europe and the States.
The Clash were sold as, 'the only band that matters,' a claim based on their raw and
experimental sound, anti-establishment attitude and socialist sloganeering.
In 1983, the band's guitarist Mick Jones quit and auditions were held to find a
replacement. His replacement was Vince White, an angry young punk living in a bedsit
in London, with no previous experience in the music industry.
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White served as the band's guitarist during their
tumultuous final few years, which culminated in
what is viewed as their worst album, "Cut the Crap"
(1985.)
He was taken behind the scenes and saw how
things really work. He relays his experiences in his
book 'Out of Control' which apart from being a
compelling story, reveals how a group viewed as
authentic and intellectual can be controlled by
corporate puppeteers.
The band did not write their own songs. Their socialist ideals were just
marketing. Manager Bernie Rhodes ran the group like a dictator.
Painful for Clash fans, singer and punk icon Joe Strummer is portrayed like a Geisha in
the morning: a flawed mortal practicing a morally dubious trade.
What follows is my interview with Vince.
You say you were treated as a wage slave and the band was, 'an oppressive
totalitarian dictatorship that would have shocked Stalin.' What led you to
make these comments?
My experience was one in which attempts were made to mind control me. To
subvert my sense of my own self and my own reality. To subject me to the will of
others and their own agenda. That's what control freaks do.
In the book you and the band are terrorized night and day by manager
Bernie Rhodes. He seems to be in complete control of every aspect of the
band. Was he more than a manager?
Yes, quite clearly he was. A manager is supposed to manage bands, ie. operate 'inbetween' the artists and the assholes that flog the recordings. Bernie overstepped and
believed he could be an artist too. So you end up with a bureaucratic mind thinking
they can be 'artistic' and the results are clearly embarrassing.
NONE of ['Cut the Crap"] was created by the band. The 'band' played on the
recordings but everyone was TOLD what to do. Even Joe [Strummer] himself was
under the thumb. What an asshole! He really let himself stoop to that level! I have NO
RESPECT for that. Sorry. It's not nice to speak ill of the dead but there you go.
The Clash are viewed as fiercely socialist. How sincere were these beliefs?
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Socialism is the means by which the financial oligarchy can subvert the minds of the
populace and control them. It's that fucking simple. A child of 7 could get this. Only
most people are so wedded into the system and will ignore the facts in
favor of their own personal gain. Socialism is the death of the human
race.
And I'm not fucking joking and let me just say I don't like the Chinese. I don't like
their fat ugly faces. I wish they'd fucking fuck off. There are hundreds of these cunts
in Portobello Road these days, where I live. That's another thing the Clash promoted:
multiculturalism. I don't buy it. I'm English and I don't like foreigners. Why are
aliens allowed to flood in here?
Britain and the United States are the greatest countries to have ever existed in human
history and now it's downhill for all of us from here on out. The New World Order is
an open door policy. Globalism. Our culture is being destroyed by immigration.
We're finished. By that, I mean the human race is finished because the only hope for
mankind is the Judeo-Christian ethic. Everything else, including Islam, Buddhism,
Marxism., etc is total fucking shit.
By making socialism Punk, do you think The Clash were successful in
selling socialist ideology to Western youth?
I think they just reinforced what was already there. Leftist ideology was so
prevalent at that time. If, like me, you didn't approve of leftist ideas you were
immediately branded a fascist. The Clash simply jumped on that bandwagon to
become successful. But whether there's more to it is hard to say. But for sure, Joe
Strummer's daddy wasn't a bank robber. He was a British diplomat. He worked for
the British government. I heard Mick's father was in the SAS. Paul's family were
members of the Communist party....
What would you say to people who believe 'the cream always rises to the
top' in the entertainment industry?
There are certain aspects of performing like singing ability and songwriting and a
general human spirit which are necessary to be successful. Unfortunately, apart
from that, I believe there is an agenda at work in the system in which we live which
will always say: 'YOU DO THIS OR WE WON'T SUPPORT YOU'.
The end result is that the public wants what the public gets.
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Comments for "Rock Rebels "Clash" Were Corporate Puppets"
Dan said (October 10, 2010):
The Richards interview with Vince of the Clash is excellent. People need 'closure' on
the bands and stars the influenced their lives in youth. Vince comes off quite well
actually, he's honest and under no illusions, and not selling any. Vince should be on
lecture tour speaking to 20 year olds right now and they should listen and learn.
But what the engineers are putting out for the latest generation is the mind
controlled child Lady Gaga who spouts "I hate the truth".
I heard Mark Mothersbaugh of the '80's pop-punk band 'DEVO' say recently "we came
to the opinion that rebellion and anarchy were obsolete, and the only way to change
things in our culture was through subversion,"
Their socialist handlers must have laughed their asses off at how far behind the curve
that statement was. Mothersbaugh still doesn't get it. Whereas 60's and 70's era
musicians balked at lucrative offers to sell their hits for use as jingles for corporate TV
commercials, DEVO decided not only to sell their tunes but to actually perform in a
few. Mothersbaugh still thinks their appearance in commercials was a subversive act.
'DEVO' is their abbreviation of 'de-evolution'. He said they got the idea from an old 'B'
movie based on H.G. Wells "Island of Dr. Moreau", about a mad scientist on a remote
island performing genetic experiments who makes his own colony of human-animal
hybrids who eventually rebel and kill him, then themselves because they know they're
an abomination.
Mothersbaugh also composed the theme music for 1980's saturday morning 'kid show'
'PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE' starring Paul Reubens as 'Pee Wee Herman'. Reubens, the
cast, producers and writers were gay. The children's show was a big hit until one night
Reubens, on vacation visiting his mother in his hometown in Florida was arrested for
public indecency (masturbating in a public place) in a local porno theater. Several
years later Reubens made a cameo appearance at the MTV music awards, with no lines
and in Pee Wee drag. He just walked out on stage and bowed, and got a 3 minute
standing ovation. Obviously the 'subversion' was streaming gayness into the television
viewing material of children through TV shows and TV commercials adults didn't
examine. At a glance it just blends in with the kaleidoscope of surreal colorful
absurdity which is television.
In 2001 Ruebens was arrested at his home in Los Angeles for collecting 'vintage' child
pornography. The Illuminati are behind Reubens so the District Attorney accepted a
plea bargain reducing the child pornography possession charge(a felony) to a charge to
pleading guilty for possession of 'obcene material' (a misdemeanor).
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Reubens was on NBC recently being treated like a persecuted martyr who was ahead of
his time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4653913/
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Luke said (October 10, 2010):
I,too ,was a big Metallica fan in high school when they betrayed their Thrash Metal
roots with the Black Album.The spell was broken: hearing James Hetfield cooing
"Nothing Else Matters" led me to try other metal genres such as Power, Doom, Stoner
etc.I still enjoy metal,though I'm no longer a rebellious teenager, just a regular dad.
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Bill said (October 10, 2010):
Dear Henry
I've read numerous of your articles over what must now be years...? Or maybe its
months, but feels like years, mostly from the links from the Jeff Rense site.
Often I've wanted to comment, whether positive or negative, but mostly, my apologies,
I'm just too lazy to commit. You know how blogs are, and then you get sucked into
often difficult or conflictual debate.
However, hope you don’t mind me saying, but the article by David Richards about
Vince White is plainly offensive, and for all the wrong reasons, but mainly Vince
White's blatantly racist attitudes, both towards the Chinese and Chinese people living
in the U.K., and also certainly to all non-Judeo-Christians, which is as daft a
combination of words as any.
If I were to write directly to Vince White, I'm certain I'm incensed enough to call him
'A Racist Cunt', which suitably reflects the language he uses himself.
It's also a shame as while I did like one or two of the Clash's records, at the time 'Punk'
came across to me as a highly negative and racist music ideology, mostly fake and a
marketing exercise, and it took decades of friends who were enamoured with punk in
their youth to try to persuade me Punk was more egalitarian and diverse than just a
bunch of pseudo-working class Brit rockers expressing themselves with an individual
sound. If they were all as stupid as this Vince White, then they were indeed just a
bunch of idiots.
I am offended by this article. I see no point, joy, progress or positivity in promoting
this moron's views. Why did you do it?
Other than that, all the best.
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Bill,
I don't post views like that very often but I think people have a right to voice these
opinions, whether we agree or not. I'm surprised at how naive WASPs are.
Multiculturalism is aimed at dispossessing them.
henry
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Karen said (October 9, 2010):
I grew up with The Clash, and I and many of my friends blamed Vince White for the
band's demise. It wasn't until much later that I realized that popular music was
NOT in the hands of the musicians but in the hands of the Illuminati.
The Elite do have an agenda, and music is just one more tool to capture the minds of
the population and distract them from the TRUE agenda. If The Clash don't work any
more, well, we'll launch Suicidal Tendencies, if that doesn't work, we'll launch
Metallica, and on and on. It is happening in all genres of music: Rap, Country,
Christian, Classical, all of it. The Rolling Stones have lasted so long because their
members are practicing Satanists, and are members of the Illuminati. Anyway, I'm
sure that it's much more complicated than my little brain can comprehend, but you get
the picture.
There is a reason that God tells his people to stay out of the world. Vince had nailed it
right on the head.
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APPENDIX G
Inside The LC: The Strange But Mostly
True Story of Laurel Canyon and the
Birth of the Hippie Generation
By Dave McGowan
“And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within
the next generation or so a pharmacological method of
making people love their servitude, and producing … a
kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so
that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but
will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any
desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing
enhanced by pharmacological methods.” (Aldous Huxley, 1959)
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“Through clever and constant application of propaganda people
can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way
around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as
paradise.” (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923)
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“If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need
Prozac?” (Davce McGowan, 2000)
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Part 1
By Dave McGowan
The Center for an Informed America
8 May 2008
Source: http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html
"There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear"
Frank Zappa: Pro-war, authoritarian, and
what else? ©Unknown
Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time
nearly four-and-a-half decades ago - a time when America last had uniformed ground
troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, 'democracy' on a
sovereign nation.
It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy
Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling
Vietnam's Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the 'Tonkin Gulf Incident,'
will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America's deep immersion
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into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American
bodies - along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies - will litter the
battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged
provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so
many times before, a 'false flag' operation (which is to say, an operation that involves
Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else).
It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was
quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns
out, is an 'attack' that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but
officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that
the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an
unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission
and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when
Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend
as though they had.)
Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will - without a declaration of war and
with no valid reason to wage one - begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By
March of that same year, the infamous "Operation Rolling Thunder" will have
commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of
bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be
dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst
crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet.
Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on
Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as 'advisers' and
'trainers' had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965,
fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school,
will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop
strength will have surged to 200,000.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new 'scene' is just
beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially
isolated community known as Laurel Canyon - a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet
vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin
from the San Fernando Valley - musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to
gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within months, the
'hippie/flower child' movement will be given birth there, along with the new style of
music that will provide the soundtrack for the tumultuous second half of the 1960s.
An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon
beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to
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drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The
band's debut effort, "Mr. Tambourine Man," will be released on the Summer Solstice of
1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the
Papas ("If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears," January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee
("Love," May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention ("Freak Out," June
1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young ("Buffalo
Springfield," October 1966), and The Doors ("The Doors," January 1967).
One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the
enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic,
controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures to take up residence in Laurel
Canyon. Curiously enough though, the self-proclaimed "Lizard King" has another
claim to fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel is of
much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is the son, as it turns out,
of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison.
And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to fabricate an incident
that will be used to massively accelerate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself to
become an icon of the 'hippie'/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose.
It is, you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison's story is in
any way unique.
During the early years of its heyday, Laurel Canyon's father figure is the rather
eccentric personality known as Frank Zappa. Though he and his various Mothers of
Invention line-ups will never attain the commercial success of the band headed by the
admiral's son, Frank will be a hugely influential figure among his contemporaries.
Ensconced in an abode dubbed the 'Log Cabin' - which sat right in the heart of Laurel
Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue
- Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the
mid- to late-1960s. He will also discover and sign numerous acts to his various Laurel
Canyon-based record labels. Many of these acts will be rather bizarre and somewhat
obscure characters (think Captain Beefheart and Larry "Wild Man" Fischer), but some
of them, such as psychedelic rocker cum shock-rocker Alice Cooper, will go on to
superstardom.
Zappa, along with certain members of his sizable entourage (the 'Log Cabin' was run as
an early commune, with numerous hangers-on occupying various rooms in the main
house and the guest house, as well as in the peculiar caves and tunnels lacing the
grounds of the home; far from the quaint homestead the name seems to imply, by the
way, the 'Log Cabin' was a cavernous five-level home that featured a 2,000+ squarefoot living room with three massive chandeliers and an enormous floor-to-ceiling stone
fireplace), will also be instrumental in introducing the look and attitude that will
define the 'hippie' counterculture (although the Zappa crew preferred the label
'Freak'). Nevertheless, Zappa (born, curiously enough, on the Winter Solstice of 1940)
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never really made a secret of the fact that he had nothing but contempt for the 'hippie'
culture that he helped create and that he surrounded himself with.
Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a pro-war, rigidly authoritarian controlfreak, it is perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth
movement that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to say that Frank's dad also
had little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was, in
case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to - where else? - the
Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America's chemical
warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MKULTRA operations. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa literally grew up at the Edgewood
Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of his life in military housing on the grounds
of the facility. The family later moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force
Base, where Francis Zappa continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the
military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an icon
of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose.
Zappa's manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who
had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and
club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years
traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels,
curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA. Not to
worry though; according to one of Zappa's biographers, Cohen wasn't in the Congo on
some kind of nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was there, believe it or not, to
supply arms to Lumumba "in defiance of the CIA." Because, you know, that is the kind
of thing that globetrotting ex-Marines did in those days (as we'll see soon enough when
we take a look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).
Making up the other half of Laurel Canyon's First Family is Frank's wife, Gail Zappa,
known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval
officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons
research for the U.S. Navy. Gail herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of
Naval Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had
"heard voices all [her] life"). Many years before their nearly simultaneous arrival in
Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with "Mr. Mojo Risin'" himself,
Jim Morrison (it is claimed that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a
hammer). The very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria,
Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries - John Phillips and
Cass Elliott.
"Papa" John Phillips, more so than probably any of the other illustrious residents of
Laurel Canyon, will play a major role in spreading the emerging youth 'counterculture'
across America. His contribution will be twofold: first, he will co-organize (along with
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Manson associate Terry Melcher) the famed Monterrey Pop Festival, which, through
unprecedented media exposure, will give mainstream America its first real look at the
music and fashions of the nascent 'hippie' movement. Second, Phillips will pen an
insipid song known as "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," which
will quickly rise to the top of the charts. Along with the Monterrey Pop Festival, the
song will be instrumental in luring the disenfranchised (a preponderance of whom are
underage runaways) to San Francisco to create the Haight-Asbury phenomenon and
the famed 1967 "Summer of Love."
Before arriving in Laurel Canyon and opening the doors of his home to the soon-to-be
famous, the already famous, and the infamous (such as the aforementioned Charlie
Manson, whose 'Family' also spent time at the Log Cabin and at the Laurel Canyon
home of "Mama" Cass Elliot, which, in case you didn't know, sat right across the street
from the Laurel Canyon home of Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski, but let's not get
ahead of ourselves here), John Edmund Andrew Phillips was, shockingly enough, yet
another child of the military/intelligence complex. The son of U.S. Marine Corp
Captain Claude Andrew Phillips and a mother who claimed to have psychic and
telekinetic powers, John attended a series of elite military prep schools in the
Washington, D.C. area, culminating in an appointment to the prestigious U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis
After leaving Annapolis, John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant of 'Founding
Father' John Adams. Susie's father, James Adams, Jr., had been involved in what Susie
described as "cloak-and-dagger stuff with the Air Force in Vienna," or what we like to
call covert intelligence operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the
Pentagon, alongside John Phillip's older sister, Rosie, who dutifully reported to work
at the complex for nearly thirty years. John's mother, 'Dene' Phillips, also worked for
most of her life for the federal government in some unspecified capacity. And John's
older brother, Tommy, was a battle-scarred former U.S. Marine who found work as a
cop on the Alexandria police force, albeit one with a disciplinary record for exhibiting a
violent streak when dealing with people of color.
John Phillips, of course - though surrounded throughout his life by
military/intelligence personnel - did not involve himself in such matters. Or so we are
to believe. Before succeeding in his musical career, however, John did seem to find
himself, quite innocently of course, in some rather unusual places. One such place was
Havana, Cuba, where Phillips arrived at the very height of the Cuban Revolution. For
the record, Phillips has claimed that he went to Havana as nothing more than a
concerned private citizen, with the intention of - you're going to love this one "fighting for Castro." Because, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of folks in those days
traveled abroad to thwart CIA operations before taking up residence in Laurel Canyon
and joining the 'hippie' generation. During the two weeks or so that the Cuban Missile
Crisis played out, a few years after Castro took power, Phillips found himself cooling
his heels in Jacksonville, Florida - alongside, coincidentally I'm sure, the Mayport
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Naval Station.
Anyway, let's move on to yet another of Laurel Canyon's earliest and brightest stars,
Mr. Stephen Stills. Stills will have the distinction of being a founding member of two of
Laurel Canyon's most acclaimed and beloved bands: Buffalo Springfield, and, needless
to say, Crosby, Stills & Nash. In addition, Stills will pen perhaps the first, and certainly
one of the most enduring anthems of the 60s generation, "For What It's Worth," the
opening lines of which appear at the top of this post (Stills' follow-up single will be
entitled "Bluebird," which, coincidentally or not, happens to be the original codename
assigned to the MK-ULTRA program).
Before his arrival in Laurel Canyon, Stephen Stills was (*yawn*) the product of yet
another career military family. Raised partly in Texas, young Stephen spent large
swaths of his childhood in El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Panama Canal Zone, and
various other parts of Central America - alongside his father, who was, we can be fairly
certain, helping to spread 'democracy' to the unwashed masses in that endearingly
American way. As with the rest of our cast of characters, Stills was educated primarily
at schools on military bases and at elite military academies. Among his contemporaries
in Laurel Canyon, he was widely viewed as having an abrasive, authoritarian
personality. Nothing unusual about any of that, of course, as we have already seen with
the rest of our cast of characters.
There is, however, an even more curious aspect to the Stephen Stills story: Stephen will
later tell anyone who will sit and listen that he had served time for Uncle Sam in the
jungles of Vietnam. These tales will be universally dismissed by chroniclers of the era
as nothing more than drug-induced delusions. Such a thing couldn't possibly be true, it
will be claimed, since Stills arrived on the Laurel Canyon scene at the very time that
the first uniformed troops began shipping out and he remained in the public eye
thereafter. And it will of course be quite true that Stephen Stills could not have served
with uniformed ground troops in Vietnam, but what will be ignored is the undeniable
fact that the U.S. had thousands of 'advisers' - which is to say, CIA/Special Forces
operatives - operating in the country for a good many years before the arrival of the
first official ground troops. What will also be ignored is that, given his background, his
age, and the timeline of events, Stephen Stills not only could indeed have seen action
in Vietnam, he would seem to have been a prime candidate for such an assignment.
After which, of course, he could rather quickly become - stop me if you've heard this
one before - an icon of the peace generation.
Another of those icons, and one of Laurel Canyon's most flamboyant residents, is a
young man by the name of David Crosby, founding member of the seminal Laurel
Canyon band the Byrds, as well as, of course, Crosby, Stills & Nash. Crosby is, not
surprisingly, the son of an Annapolis graduate and WWII military intelligence officer,
Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. Like others in this story, Floyd Crosby spent much of his
post-service time traveling the world. Those travels landed him in places like Haiti,
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where he paid a visit in 1927, when the country just happened to be, coincidentally of
course, under military occupation by the U.S. Marines. One of the Marines doing that
occupying was a guy that we met earlier by the name of Captain Claude Andrew
Phillips.
But David Crosby is much more than just the son of Major Floyd Delafield Crosby.
David Van Cortlandt Crosby, as it turns out, is a scion of the closely intertwined Van
Cortlandt, Van Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families. And while you're probably
thinking, "the Van Who families?," I can assure you that if you plug those names in
over at Wikipedia, you can spend a pretty fair amount of time reading up on the power
wielded by this clan for the last, oh, two-and-a-quarter centuries or so. Suffice it to say
that the Crosby family tree includes a truly dizzying array of US senators and
congressmen, state senators and assemblymen, governors, mayors, judges, Supreme
Court justices, Revolutionary and Civil War generals, signers of the Declaration of
Independence, and members of the Continental Congress. It also includes, I should
hasten to add - for those of you with a taste for such things - more than a few highranking Masons. Stephen Van Rensselaer III, for example, reportedly served as Grand
Master of Masons for New York. And if all that isn't impressive enough, according to
the New England Genealogical Society, David Van Cortlandt Crosby is also a direct
descendant of 'Founding Fathers' and Federalist Papers' authors Alexander Hamilton
and John Jay.
If there is, as many believe, a network of elite families that has shaped national and
world events for a very long time, then it is probably safe to say that David Crosby is a
bloodline member of that clan (which may explain, come to think of it, why his semen
seems to be in such demand in certain circles - because, if we're being honest here, it
certainly can't be due to his looks or talent.) If America had royalty, then David Crosby
would probably be a Duke, or a Prince, or something similar (I'm not really sure how
that shit works). But other than that, he is just a normal, run-of-the-mill kind of guy
who just happened to shine as one of Laurel Canyon's brightest stars. And who, I guess
I should add, has a real fondness for guns, especially handguns, which he has
maintained a sizable collection of for his entire life. According to those closest to him,
it is a rare occasion when Mr. Crosby is not packing heat (John Phillips also owned and
sometimes carried handguns). And according to Crosby himself, he has, on at least one
occasion, discharged a firearm in anger at another human being. All of which made
him, of course, an obvious choice for the Flower Children to rally around.
Another shining star on the Laurel Canyon scene, just a few years later, will be singersongwriter Jackson Browne, who is - are you getting as bored with this as I am? - the
product of a career military family. Browne's father was assigned to post-war
'reconstruction' work in Germany, which very likely means that he was in the employ
of the OSS, precursor to the CIA. As readers of my "Understanding the F-Word" may
recall, U.S. involvement in post-war reconstruction in Germany largely consisted of
maintaining as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible while shielding war
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criminals from capture and prosecution. Against that backdrop, Jackson Browne was
born in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Some two decades later, he
emerged as ... oh, never mind.
Let's talk instead about three other Laurel Canyon vocalists who will rise to dizzying
heights of fame and fortune: Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek and Dewey Bunnell.
Individually, these three names are probably unknown to virtually all readers; but
collectively, as the band America, the three will score huge hits in the early '70s with
such songs as "Ventura Highway," "A Horse With No Name," and the Wizard of Ozthemed "The Tin Man." I guess I probably don't need to add here that all three of these
lads were products of the military/intelligence community. Beckley's dad was the
commander of the now-defunct West Ruislip USAF base near London, England, a
facility deeply immersed in intelligence operations. Bunnell's and Peek's fathers were
both career Air Force officers serving under Beckley's dad at West Ruislip, which is
where the three boys first met.
We could also, I suppose, discuss Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and Cory Wells of
Three Dog Night (two more hugely successful Laurel Canyon bands), who both arrived
in LA not long after serving time with the U.S. Air Force. Nesmith also inherited a
family fortune estimated at $25 million. Gram Parsons, who would briefly replace
David Crosby in The Byrds before fronting The Flying Burrito Brothers, was the son of
Major Cecil Ingram "Coon Dog" Connor II, a decorated military officer and bomber
pilot who reportedly flew over 50 combat missions. Parsons was also an heir, on his
mother's side, to the formidable Snively family fortune. Said to be the wealthiest family
in the exclusive enclave of Winter Haven, Florida, the Snively family was the proud
owner of Snively Groves, Inc., which reportedly owned as much as 1/3 of all the citrus
groves in the state of Florida.
And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of Laurel Canyon superstars. What one
finds, far more often than not, are the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence
complex and the sons and daughters of extreme wealth and privilege - and oftentimes,
you'll find both rolled into one convenient package. Every once in a while, you will also
stumble across a former child actor, like the aforementioned Brandon DeWilde, or
Monkee Mickey Dolenz, or eccentric prodigy Van Dyke Parks. You might also
encounter some former mental patients, such as James Taylor, who spent time in two
different mental institutions in Massachusetts before hitting the Laurel Canyon scene,
or Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, who was institutionalized repeatedly during his teen
years, once for attacking his mother with a knife (an act that was gleefully mocked by
Zappa on the cover of Fischer's first album). Finally, you might find the offspring of an
organized crime figure, like Warren Zevon, the son of William "Stumpy" Zevon, a
lieutenant for infamous LA crimelord Mickey Cohen.
All these folks gathered nearly simultaneously along the narrow, winding roads of
Laurel Canyon. They came from across the country - although the Washington, DC
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area was noticeably over-represented - as well as from Canada and England. They
came even though, at the time, there was no music industry in Los Angeles. They came
even though, at the time, there was no live music scene to speak of. They came even
though, in retrospect, there was no discernable reason for them to do so.
It would, of course, make sense these days for an aspiring musician to venture out to
Los Angeles. But in those days, the centers of the music universe were Nashville,
Memphis and New York. It wasn't the industry that drew the Laurel Canyon crowd,
you see, but rather the Laurel Canyon crowd that transformed Los Angeles into the
epicenter of the music industry. To what then do we attribute this unprecedented
gathering of future musical superstars in the hills above Los Angeles? What was it that
inspired them all to head out west? Perhaps Neil Young said it best when he told an
interviewer that he couldn't really say why he headed out to LA circa 1966; he and
others "were just going like Lemmings."
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Part 2
May 13, 2008
"He was great, he was unreal - really, really good."
"He had this kind of music that nobody else was doing. I thought he really had
something crazy, something great. He was like a living poet."
©Steven Johnson
[Today's first trivia question: both of the above statements were made, on separate
occasions, by a famous Laurel Canyon musician of the 1960s era. Both quotes were
offered up in praise of another Laurel Canyon musician. Award yourself five points
for correctly identifying the person who made the remarks, and five for identifying
who the statements refer to. The answers are at the end of this post.]
In the first chapter of this saga, we met a sampling of some of the most successful and
influential rock music superstars who emerged from Laurel Canyon during its glory
days. But these were, alas, more than just musicians and singers and songwriters who
had come together in the canyon; they were destined to become the spokesmen and de
facto leaders of a generation of disaffected youth (as Carl Gottlieb noted in David
Crosby's co-written autobiography, "the unprecedented mass appeal of the new rock 'n'
roll gave the singers a voice in public affairs.") That, of course, makes it all the more
curious that these icons were, to an overwhelming degree, the sons and daughters of
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the military/intelligence complex and the scions of families that have wielded vast
wealth and power in this country for a very long time.
When I recently presented to a friend a truncated summary of the information
contained in the first installment of this series, said friend opted to play the devil's
advocate by suggesting that there was nothing necessarily nefarious in the fact that so
many of these icons of a past generation hailed from military/intelligence families.
Perhaps, he suggested, they had embarked on their chosen careers as a form of
rebellion against the values of their parents. And that, I suppose, might be true in a
couple of cases. But what are we to conclude from the fact that such an astonishing
number of these folks (along with their girlfriends, wives, managers, etc.) hail from a
similar background? Are we to believe that the only kids from that era who had
musical talent were the sons and daughters of Navy Admirals, chemical warfare
engineers and Air Force intelligence officers? Or are they just the only ones who were
signed to lucrative contracts and relentlessly promoted by their labels and the media?
If these artists were rebelling against, rather than subtly promoting, the values of their
parents, then why didn't they ever speak out against the folks they were allegedly
rebelling against? Why did Jim Morrison never denounce, or even mention, his
father's key role in escalating one of America's bloodiest illegal wars? And why did
Frank Zappa never pen a song exploring the horrors of chemical warfare (though he
did pen a charming little ditty entitled "The Ritual Dance of the Child-Killer")? And
which Mamas and Papas song was it that laid waste to the values and actions of John
Phillip's parents and in-laws? And in which interview, exactly, did David Crosby and
Stephen Stills disown the family values that they were raised with?
In the coming weeks, we will take a much closer look at these folks, as well as at many
of their contemporaries, as we endeavor to determine how and why the youth
'counterculture' of the 1960s was given birth. According to virtually all the accounts
that I have read, this was essentially a spontaneous, organic response to the war in
Southeast Asia and to the prevailing social conditions of the time. 'Conspiracy
theorists,' of course, have frequently opined that what began as a legitimate movement
was at some point co-opted and undermined by intelligence operations such as
CoIntelPro. Entire books, for example, have been written examining how presumably
virtuous musical artists were subjected to FBI harassment and/or whacked by the CIA.
Here we will, as you have no doubt already ascertained, take a decidedly different
approach. The question that we will be tackling is a more deeply troubling one: "what if
the musicians themselves (and various other leaders and founders of the 'movement')
were every bit as much a part of the intelligence community as the people who were
supposedly harassing them?" What if, in other words, the entire youth culture of the
1960s was created not as a grass-roots challenge to the status quo, but as a cynical
exercise in discrediting and marginalizing the budding anti-war movement and
creating a fake opposition that could be easily controlled and led astray? And what if
the harassment these folks were subjected to was largely a stage-managed show
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designed to give the leaders of the counterculture some much-needed 'street cred'?
What if, in reality, they were pretty much all playing on the same team?
I should probably mention here that, contrary to popular opinion, the 'hippie'/'flower
child' movement was not synonymous with the anti-war movement. As time passed,
there was, to be sure, a fair amount of overlap between the two 'movements.' And the
mass media outlets, as is their wont, did their very best to portray the flower-power
generation as the torch-bearers of the anti-war movement - because, after all, a ragtag
band of unwashed, drug-fueled long-hairs sporting flowers and peace symbols was far
easier to marginalize than, say, a bunch of respected college professors and their
concerned students. The reality, however, is that the anti-war movement was already
well underway before the first aspiring 'hippie' arrived in Laurel Canyon. The first
Vietnam War 'teach-in' was held on the campus of the University of Michigan in March
of 1965. The first organized walk on Washington occurred just a few weeks later.
Needless to say, there were no 'hippies' in attendance at either event. That 'problem'
would soon be rectified. And the anti-war crowd - those who were serious about ending
the bloodshed in Vietnam, anyway - would be none too appreciative.
As Barry Miles has written in his coffee-table book, Hippie, there were some hippies
involved in anti-war protests, "particularly after the police riot in Chicago in 1968
when so many people got injured, but on the whole the movement activists looked on
hippies with disdain." Peter Coyote, narrating the documentary "Hippies" on The
History Channel, added that "Some on the left even theorized that the hippies were the
end result of a plot by the CIA to neutralize the anti-war movement with LSD, turning
potential protestors into self-absorbed naval-gazers." An exasperated Abbie Hoffman
once described the scene as he remembered it thusly: "There were all these activists,
you know, Berkeley radicals, White Panthers ... all trying to stop the war and change
things for the better. Then we got flooded with all these 'flower children' who were into
drugs and sex. Where the hell did the hippies come from?!"
As it turns out, they came, initially at least, from a rather private, isolated, largely selfcontained neighborhood in Los Angeles known as Laurel Canyon (in contrast to the
other canyons slicing through the Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon has its own
market, the semi-famous Laurel Canyon Country Store; its own deli and cleaners; its
own elementary school, the Wonderland School; its own boutique shops and salons;
and, in more recent years, its own celebrity reprogramming rehab facility named, as
you may have guessed, the Wonderland Center. During its heyday, the canyon even
had its own management company, Lookout Management, to handle the talent. At
one time, it even had its own newspaper.)
One other thing that I should add here, before getting too far along with this series, is
that this has not been an easy line of research for me to conduct, primarily because I
have been, for as long as I can remember, a huge fan of 1960s music and culture.
Though I was born in 1960 and therefore didn't come of age, so to speak, until the
1970s, I have always felt as though I was ripped off by being denied the opportunity to
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experience firsthand the era that I was so obviously meant to inhabit. During my high
school and college years, while my peers were mostly into faceless corporate rock
(think Journey, Foreigner, Kansas, Boston, etc.) and, perhaps worse yet, the twin
horrors of New Wave and Disco music, I was faithfully spinning my Hendrix, Joplin
and Doors albums (which I still have, or rather my eldest daughter still has, in the
original vinyl versions) while my color organ (remember those?) competed with my
black light and strobe light. I grew my hair long until well past the age when it should
have been sheared off. I may have even strung beads across the doorway to my room,
but it is possible that I am confusing my life with that of Greg Brady, who, as we all
remember, once converted his dad's home office into a groovy bachelor pad.
Anyway ... as I have probably mentioned previously on more than one occasion, one of
the most difficult aspects of this journey that I have been on for the last decade or so
has been watching so many of my former idols and mentors fall by the wayside as it
became increasingly clear to me that people who I once thought were the good guys
were, in reality, something entirely different than what they appear to be. The first to
fall, naturally enough, were the establishment figures - the politicians who I once, quite
foolishly, looked up to as people who were fighting the good fight, within the confines
of the system, to bring about real change. Though it now pains me to admit this, there
was a time when I admired the likes of (egads!) George McGovern and Jimmy Carter,
as well as (oops, excuse me for a moment; I seem to have just thrown up in my mouth
a little bit) California pols Tom Hayden and Jerry Brown. I even had high hopes, ohso-many-years-ago, for (am I really admitting this in print?) aspiring First Man Bill
Clinton.
Since I mentioned Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown, by the way, I must now digress
just a bit - and we all know how I hate it when that happens. But as luck would have it,
Jerry Brown was, curiously enough, a longtime resident of a little place called Laurel
Canyon. As readers of Programmed to Kill may recall, Brown lived on Wonderland
Avenue, not too many doors down from 8763 Wonderland Avenue, the site of the
infamous "Four on the Floor" murders, regarded by grizzled LA homicide detectives as
the most bloody and brutal multiple murder in the city's very bloody history (if you get
a chance, by the way, check out "Wonderland" with Val Kilmer the next time it shows
up on your cable listings; it is, by Hollywood standards, a reasonably accurate retelling
of the crime, and a pretty decent film as well).
As it turns out, you see, the most bloody mass murder in LA's history took place in one
of the city's most serene, pastoral and exclusive neighborhoods. And strangely enough,
the case usually cited as the runner-up for the title of bloodiest crime scene - the
murders of Stephen Parent, Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski and Abigail
Folger at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, just a couple miles to the west of
Laurel Canyon - had deep ties to the Laurel Canyon scene as well.
As previously mentioned, victims Folger and Frykowski lived in Laurel Canyon, at
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2774 Woodstock Road, in a rented home right across the road from a favored gathering
spot for Laurel Canyon royalty. Many of the regular visitors to Cass Elliot's home,
including a number of shady drug dealers, were also regular visitors to the
Folger/Frykowski home (Frykowski's son, by the way, was stabbed to death on June 6,
1999, thirty years after his father met the same fate.) Victim Jay Sebring's acclaimed
hair salon sat right at the mouth of Laurel Canyon, just below the Sunset Strip, and it
was Sebring, alas, who was credited with sculpting Jim Morrison's famous mane. One
of the investors in his Sebring International business venture was a Laurel Canyon
luminary who I may have mentioned previously, Mr. John Phillips.
Sharon Tate was also well known in Laurel Canyon, where she was a frequent visitor to
the homes of friends like John Phillips, Cass Elliott, and Abby Folger. And when she
wasn't in Laurel Canyon, many of the canyon regulars, both famous and infamous,
made themselves at home in her place on Cielo Drive. Canyonite Van Dyke Parks, for
example, dropped by for a visit on the very day of the murders. And Denny Doherty,
the other "Papa" in The Mamas and the Papas, has claimed that he and John Phillips
were invited to the Cielo Drive home on the night of the murders, but, as luck would
have it, they never made it over. (Similarly, Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night, a
regular visitor to the Wonderland death house, had set up a drug buy on the night of
that mass murder, but he fell asleep and never made it over.)
Along with the victims, the alleged killers also lived in and/or were very much a part of
the Laurel Canyon scene. Bobby "Cupid" Beausoleil, for example, lived in a Laurel
Canyon apartment during the early months of 1969. Charles "Tex" Watson, who
allegedly led the death squad responsible for the carnage at Cielo Drive, lived for a time
in a home on - guess where? - Wonderland Avenue. During that time, curiously
enough, Watson co-owned and worked in a wig shop in Beverly Hills, Crown Wig
Creations, Ltd., that was located near the mouth of Benedict Canyon. Meanwhile, one
of Jay Sebring's primary claims-to-fame was his expertise in crafting men's hairpieces,
which he did in his shop near the mouth of Laurel Canyon. A typical day then in the
late 1960s would find Watson crafting hairpieces for an upscale Hollywood clientele
near Benedict Canyon, and then returning home to Laurel Canyon, while Sebring
crafted hairpieces for an upscale Hollywood clientele near Laurel Canyon, and then
returned home to Benedict Canyon. And then one crazy day, as we all know, one of
them became a killer and the other his victim. But there's nothing odd about that, I
suppose, so let's move on.
Oh, wait a minute ... we can't quite move on just yet, as I forgot to mention that
Sebring's Benedict Canyon home, at 9820 Easton Drive, was a rather infamous
Hollywood death house that had once belonged to Jean Harlow and Paul Bern. The
mismatched pair were wed on July 2, 1932, when Harlow, already a huge star of the
silver screen, was just twenty-one years old. Just two months later, on September 5,
Bern caught a bullet to the head in his wife's bedroom. He was found sprawled naked
in a pool of his own blood, his corpse drenched with his wife's perfume. Upon
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discovering the body, Bern's butler promptly contacted MGM's head of security,
Whitey Hendry, who in turn contacted Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg. All three
men descended upon the Benedict Canyon home to, you know, tidy up a bit. A couple
hours later, they decided to contact the LAPD. This scene would be repeated years later
when Sebring's friends would rush to the home to clean up before officers investigating
the Tate murders arrived.
Bern's death was, needless to say, written off as a suicide. His newlywed wife, strangely
enough, was never called as a witness at the inquest. Bern's other wife - which is to say,
his common-law wife, Dorothy Millette - reportedly boarded a Sacramento riverboat
on September 6, 1932, the day after Paul's death. She was next seen floating belly-up in
the Sacramento River. Her death, as would be expected, was also ruled a suicide. Less
than five years later, Harlow herself dropped dead at the ripe old age of 26. At the
time, authorities opted not to divulge the cause of death, though it was later claimed
that bad kidneys had done her in. During her brief stay on this planet, Harlow had
cycled through three turbulent marriages and yet still found time to serve as
Godmother to Bugsy Siegel's daughter, Millicent.
Though Bern's was the most famous body to be hauled out of the Easton Drive house
in a coroner's bag, it certainly wasn't the only one. Another man had reportedly
committed suicide there as well, in some unspecified fashion. Yet another unfortunate
soul drowned in the home's pool. And a maid was once found swinging from the end of
a rope. Her death, needless to say, was ruled a suicide as well. That's a lot of blood for
one home to absorb, but the house's morbid history, though a turn-off to many
prospective residents, was reportedly exactly what attracted Jay Sebring to the
property. His murder would further darken the black cloud hanging over the home.
As Laurel Canyon chronicler Michael Walker has noted, LA's two most notorious mass
murders, one in August of 1969 and the other in July of 1981 (both involving five
victims, though at Wonderland one of the five miraculously survived), provided rather
morbid bookends for Laurel Canyon's glory years. Walker though, like others who have
chronicled that time and place, treats these brutal crimes as though they were
unfortunate aberrations. The reality, however, is that the nine bodies recovered from
Cielo Drive and Wonderland Avenue constitute just the tip of a very large, and very
bloody, iceberg. To partially illustrate that point, here is today's second trivia question:
what do Diane Linkletter (daughter of famed entertainer Art Linkletter), legendary
comedian Lenny Bruce, screen idol Sal Mineo, starlet Inger Stevens, and silent film
star Ramon Novarro, all have in common?
If you answered that all were found dead in their homes, either in or at the mouth of
Laurel Canyon, in the decade between 1966 and 1976, then award yourself five points.
If you added that all five were, in all likelihood, murdered in their Laurel Canyon
homes, then add five bonus points.
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Only two of them, of course, are officially listed as murder victims (Mineo, who was
stabbed to death outside his home at 8563 Holloway Drive on February 12, 1976, and
Novarro, who was killed near the Country Store in a decidedly ritualistic fashion on the
eve of Halloween, 1968). Inger Steven's death in her home at 8000 Woodrow Wilson
Drive, on April 30, 1970 (Walpurgisnacht on the occult calendar), was officially a
suicide, though why she opted to propel herself through a decorative glass screen as
part of that suicide remains a mystery. Perhaps she just wanted to leave behind a
gruesome crime scene, and simple overdoses can be so, you know, bloodless and
boring.
Diane Linkletter, as we all know, sailed out the window of her Shoreham Towers
apartment because, in her LSD-addled state, she thought she could fly, or some such
thing. We know this because Art himself told us that it was so, and because the story
was retold throughout the 1970s as a cautionary tale about the dangers of drugs. What
we weren't told, however, is that Diane (born, curiously enough, on Halloween day,
1948) wasn't alone when she plunged six stories to her death on the morning of
October 4, 1969. Au contraire, she was with a gent by the name of Edward Durston,
who, in a completely unexpected turn of events, accompanied actress Carol Wayne to
Mexico some 15 years later. Carol, alas, perhaps weighed down by her enormous
breasts, managed to drown in barely a foot of water, while Mr. Durston promptly
disappeared. As would be expected, he was never questioned by authorities about
Wayne's curious death. After all, it is quite common for the same guy to be the sole
witness to two separate 'accidental' deaths.
Art also neglected to mention, by the way, that just weeks before Diane's curious death,
another member of the Linkletter clan, Art's son-in-law, John Zwyer, caught a bullet to
the head in the backyard of his Hollywood Hills home. But that, of course, was an
unconnected, uhmm, suicide, so don't go thinking otherwise.
I'm not even going to discuss here the circumstances of Bruce's death from acute
morphine poisoning on August 3, 1966, because, to be perfectly honest, I don't know
too many people who don't already assume that Lenny was whacked. I'll just note here
that his funeral was well-attended by the Laurel Canyon rock icons, and control over
his unreleased material fell into the hands of a guy by the name of Frank Zappa. And
another rather unsavory character named Phil Spector, whose crack team of studio
musicians, dubbed The Wrecking Crew, were the actual musicians playing on many
studio recordings by such bands as The Monkees, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, and The
Mamas and the Papas.
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Part 3
May 13, 2008
"I mean, fuck, he auditioned for Neil [Young] for fuck's sake."
Graham Nash, explaining to author Michael Walker how close Charlie Manson was to
the Laurel Canyon scene.
©Geffen
During the ten-year period during which Bruce, Novarro, Mineo, Linkletter, Stevens,
Tate, Sebring, Frykowski and Folger all turned up dead, a whole lot of other people
connected to Laurel Canyon did as well, often under very questionable circumstances.
The list includes, but is certainly not limited to, all of the following names:
* Marina Elizabeth Habe, whose body was carved up and tossed into the heavy
brush along Mulholland Drive, just west of Bowmont Drive, on December 30, 1968.
Habe, just seventeen at the time of her death, was the daughter of Hans Habe, who
emigrated to the U.S. from fascist Austria circa 1940. Shortly thereafter, he married a
General Foods heiress and began studying psychological warfare at the Military
Intelligence Training Center. After completing his training, he put his psychological
warfare skills to use by creating 18 newspapers in occupied Germany - under the
direction, no doubt, of the OSS.
* Christine Hinton, who was killed in a head-on collision on September 30, 1969. At
the time, Hinton was a girlfriend of David Crosby and the founder and head of The
Byrd's fan club. She was also the daughter of a career Army officer stationed at the
notorious Presidio military base in San Francisco. Another of Crosby's girlfriends from
that same era was Shelley Roecker, who grew up on the Hamilton Air Force Base in
Marin County.
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* Jane Doe #59, found dumped into the heavy undergrowth of Laurel Canyon in
November 1969, within sight of where Habe had been dumped less than a year earlier.
The teenage girl, who was never identified, had been stabbed 157 times in the chest
and throat.
* Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Laurel Canyon
blues-rock band, Canned Heat, was found dead in his Topanga Canyon home on
September 3, 1970. His death was written off as a suicide/OD. Wilson had moved to
Topanga Canyon after the band's Laurel Canyon home - on Lookout Mountain Avenue,
next door to Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash's home - burned to the ground. "Blind
Owl" was just twenty-seven years old at the time of his death. A little more than a
decade later, Wilson's former bandmate, Bob "The Bear" Hite, who had once
acknowledged in an interview that he had partied in the canyons with various
members of the Manson Family, died of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 36.
* Jimi Hendrix, who reportedly briefly occupied the sprawling mansion just north of
the Log Cabin after he moved to LA in 1968, died in London under seriously
questionable circumstances on September 18, 1970. Though he rarely spoke of it, Jimi
had served a stint in the U.S. Army with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell.
His official records indicate that he was forced into the service by the courts and then
released after just one year when he purportedly proved to be a poor soldier. One
wonders though why he was assigned to such an elite division if he was indeed such a
failure. One also wonders why he wasn't subjected to disciplinary measures rather than
being handed a free pass out of his ostensibly court-ordered service. In any event, Jimi
himself once told reporters that he was given a medical discharge after breaking an
ankle during a parachute jump. And one biographer has claimed that Jimi faked being
gay to earn an early release. The truth, alas, remains rather elusive. At the time of
Jimi's death, the first person called by his girlfriend - Monika Danneman, who was the
last to see Hendrix alive - was Eric Burden of the Animals. Two years earlier, Burden
had relocated to LA and taken over ringmaster duties from Frank Zappa after Zappa
had vacated the Log Cabin and moved into a less high-profile Laurel Canyon home.
Within a year of Jimi's death, an underage prostitute named Devon Wilson who had
been with Jimi the day before his death, plunged from an eighth-floor window of New
York's Chelsea Hotel. On March 5, 1973, a shadowy character named Michael Jeffery,
who had managed both Hendrix and Burden, was killed in a mid-air plane collision.
Jeffery was known to openly boast of having organized crime connections and of
working for the CIA. After Jimi's death, it was discovered that Jeffery had been
funneling most of Hendrix's gross earnings into offshore accounts in the Bahamas
linked to international drug trafficking. Years later, on April 5, 1996, Danneman, the
daughter of a wealthy German industrialist, was found dead near her home in a fumefilled Mercedes.
* Jim Morrison, who for a time lived in a home on Rothdell Trail, behind the Laurel
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Canyon Country Store, may or may not have died in Paris on July 3, 1971. The events
of that day remain shrouded in mystery and rumor, and the details of the story, such as
they are, have changed over the years. What is known is that, on that very same day,
Admiral George Stephen Morrison delivered the keynote speech at a decommissioning
ceremony for the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, from where, seven years
earlier, he had helped choreograph the Tonkin Gulf Incident. A few years after Jim's
death, his common-law wife, Pamela Courson, dropped dead as well, officially of a
heroin overdose. Like Hendrix, Morrison had been an avid student of the occult, with a
particular fondness for the work of Aleister Crowley. According to super-groupie
Pamela DesBarres, he had also "read all he could about incest and sadism." Also like
Hendrix, Morrison was just twenty-seven at the time of his (possible) death.
* Brandon DeWilde, a good friend of David Crosby and Gram Parsons, was killed in
a freak accident in Colorado on July 6, 1972, when his van plowed under a flatbed
truck. In the 1950s, DeWilde had been an in-demand child actor since the age of eight.
He had appeared on screen with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including
Alan Ladd, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda.
Around 1965, DeWilde fell in with Hollywood's 'Young Turks,' through whom he met
and befriended Crosby, Parsons, and various other members of the Laurel Canyon
Club. DeWilde was just thirty at the time of his death.
* Christine Frka, a former governess for Moon Unit Zappa and the Zappa family's
former housekeeper at the Log Cabin, died on November 5, 1972 of an alleged drug
overdose, though friends suspected foul play. As "Miss Christine," Frka had been a
member of the Zappa-created GTOs, a musical act, of sorts, composed entirely of very
young groupies. She was also the inspiration for the song, "Christine's Tune: Devil in
Disguise" by Gram Parson's Flying Burrito Brothers. Frka was probably in her early
twenties when she died, possibly even younger.
* Danny Whitten, a guitarist/vocalist/songwriter with Neil Young's sometime band,
Crazy Horse, died of an overdose on November 18, 1972. According to rock 'n' roll
legend, Whitten had been fired by Young earlier that day during rehearsals in San
Francisco. Young and Jack Nietzsche, Phil Spector's former top assistant, had given
Whitten $50 and put him on a plane back to LA. Within hours, he was dead. Whitten
was just twenty-nine.
* Bruce Berry, a roadie for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, died of a heroin overdose in
June 1973. Berry had just flown out to Maui to deliver a shipment of cocaine to
Stephen Stills, and was promptly sent back to LA by Crosby and Nash. Berry was a
brother of Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean. (Dean Torrence, the "Dean" of Jan and Dean,
had played a part in the fake kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., just after the JFK
assassination. The staged event was a particularly lame effort to divert attention away
from the questions that were cropping up, after the initial shock had passed, about the
events in Dealey Plaza.)
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* Clarence White, a guitarist who had played with The Byrds, was run over by a
drunk driver and killed on July 14, 1973. White had grown up near Lancaster, not far
from where Frank Zappa spent his teen years. At least one member of White's
immediate family was employed at Edwards Air Force Base. The driver who killed
young Clarence, just twenty-nine years old at the time of his death, was given a oneyear suspended sentence and served no time.
* Gram Parsons, formerly with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and
the Flying Burrito Brothers, allegedly overdosed on a speedball at the Joshua Tree Inn
on September 19, 1973. Just two months before his death, Parson's Topanga Canyon
home had burnt to the ground. After his death, his body was stolen from LAX by the
Burrito's road manager, Phil Kaufman, and then taken back out to Joshua Tree and
ritually burned on the autumnal equinox (Kaufman had been a prison buddy of Charlie
Manson's at Terminal Island; when Phil was released from Terminal Island in March
of 1968, he quickly reunited with his old pal, who had been released a year earlier.) By
the time of Gram's death, his family had already experienced its share of questionable
deaths. Just before Christmas, 1958, Parson's father had sent Gram, along with his
mother and sister, off to stay with family in Florida. The next day, just after the winter
solstice, "Coon Dog" caught a bullet to the head. His death was recorded as a suicide
and it was claimed that he had sent his family away to spare them as much pain as
possible. It seems just as likely, however, that "Coon Dog" knew his days were
numbered and wanted to get his family out of the line of fire. The next year, 1959,
Gram's mother married again, to Robert Ellis Parsons, who adopted Gram and his
sister Avis. Six years later, in June of 1965, Gram's mother died the day after a sudden
illness landed her in the hospital. According to witnesses, she died "almost
immediately" after a visit from her husband, Robert Parsons. Many of those close to
the situation believed that Parsons had a hand in her death (very shortly thereafter,
Robert Parsons married his stepdaughter's teenage babysitter). Following his mother's
death, Parsons briefly attended Harvard University, and then launched his music
career with the formation of the International Submarine Band, which quickly found
its way to - where else? - Laurel Canyon. Gram's death in 1973 at the age of 26 left his
younger sister Avis as the sole surviving member of the family. She was killed in 1993,
reportedly in a boating accident, at the age of 43.
* "Mama" Cass Elliot, the "Earth Mother" of Laurel Canyon whose circle of friends
included musicians, Mansonites, young Hollywood stars, the wealthy son of a State
Department official, singer/songwriters, assorted drug dealers, and some particularly
unsavory characters the LAPD once described as "some kind of hit squad," died in the
London home of Harry Nilsson on July 29, 1974 (Nilsson had been a frequent drinking
buddy of John Lennon in Laurel Canyon and on the Sunset Strip). At thirty-two, Cass
had lived a long and productive life, by Laurel Canyon standards. Four years later, in
the very same room of the very same London flat, still owned by Harry Nilsson, Keith
Moon of The Who also died at thirty-two (on September 7, 1978). Though initial press
reports held that Cass had choked to death on a ham sandwich, the official cause of
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death was listed as heart failure. Her actual cause of death could likely be filed under
"knowing where too many of the bodies were buried." Moon reportedly died from a
massive overdose of a drug used to treat alcohol withdrawal.
* Amy Gossage, Graham Nash's girlfriend at the time, was murdered in her San
Francisco home on February 13, 1975. Just twenty years old at the time, she had been
stabbed nearly fifty times and was bludgeoned beyond recognition. Amy's father, a
famed advertising/PR executive, had died of leukemia in 1969. Not long after, her halfsister had been killed in a car crash. In May of 1974, her mother, the daughter of a
wealthy banking family, died as well, reportedly of cirrhosis of the liver. That left just
Amy, age 19, and her brother Eben, age 20, both of whom reportedly had serious drug
dependencies. Amy's brutal murder, cleverly enough, was pinned on Eben. Police had
conveniently found bloodstained clothes, along with a hammer and scissors, sitting on
the porch of Eben's apartment, looking very much as though it had been planted. A
friend of Eben's would later remark, perhaps quite tellingly, "If Eben did kill her, I'm
convinced he doesn't know he did it."
* Tim Buckley, a singer/songwriter signed to Frank Zappa's record label and
managed by Herb Cohen, died of a reported overdose on June 29, 1975. Buckley had
once appeared on an episode of The Monkees, and, like Monkee Peter Tork (and so
many others in this story), he hailed from Washington, DC. Buckley was just twentyeight at the time of his death. His son, Jeff Buckley, also an accomplished musician,
managed to remain on this planet two years longer than his dad did; he was thirty
when he died in a bizarre drowning incident on May 29, 1997.
* Phyllis Major Browne, wife of singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, reportedly
overdosed on barbiturates on March 25, 1976. Her death was - you all should know the
words to this song by now - ruled a suicide. She was just thirty years old.
There are a few other curious deaths we could add here as well, though they were only
indirectly related to the Laurel Canyon scene. Nevertheless, they deserve an honorable
mention, especially the Bobby Fuller and Phil Ochs entries; the former because it is a
rather extraordinary example of the exemplary work done by the LAPD, and the latter
because it just may contain a key to understanding the Laurel Canyon phenomenon:
* Bobby Fuller, singer/songwriter/guitarist for the Bobby Fuller Four, was found
dead in his car near Grauman's Chinese Theater on July 18, 1966, after being lured
away from his home by a mysterious 2:00-3:00 AM phone call of unknown origin.
Fuller is best known for penning the hit song "I Fought the Law," which had just hit the
charts when he supposedly committed suicide at the age of twenty-three. There were
multiple cuts and bruises on his face, chest and shoulders, dried blood around his
mouth, and a hairline fracture to his right hand. He had been thoroughly doused with
gasoline, including in his mouth and throat. The inside of the car was doused as well,
and an open book of matches lay on the seat. It was perfectly obvious that Fuller's
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killer (or killers) had planned to torch the car, destroying all evidence, but likely got
scared away. The LAPD, nevertheless, ruled Fuller's death a suicide - despite the
coroner's conclusion that the gas had been poured after Bobby's death. Police later
decided that it wasn't a suicide after all, but rather an accident. They didn't bother to
explain how Fuller had accidentally doused himself with gasoline after accidentally
killing himself. At the time of his death, one of Fuller's closest confidants was a
prostitute named Melody who worked at PJ's nightclub, where Bobby frequently
played. The club was co-owned by Eddie Nash, who would, many years later,
orchestrate the Wonderland massacre. A few years after Bobby's death, his brother and
bass player, Randy Fuller, teamed up with drummer Dewey Martin, formerly of
Buffalo Springfield.
* Gary Hinman, a musician, music teacher, and part-time chemist, was brutally
murdered in his Topanga Canyon home on July 27, 1969. Convicted of his murder was
Mansonite Bobby Beausoleil, who had played rhythm guitar in a local band known as
the Grass Roots. To avoid confusion with the more famous band already using that
name, the Laurel Canyon band changed its name to Love. Beausoleil would claim that
the band's new name was inspired by his own nickname, Cupid.
* Janis Joplin, vocalist extraordinaire, was found dead of a heroin overdose on
October 4, 1970 at the Landmark Hotel, about a mile east of the mouth of Laurel
Canyon, where she occasionally visited. Indications were that she had taken or been
given a "hot shot," many times stronger than standard street heroin. Joplin's father, by
the way, was a petroleum engineer for Texaco. And though it might normally seem an
odd coupling, it somehow seems perfectly natural, in the context of this story, that
Janis once dated that great crusader in the war on all things immoral, William
Bennett. Like Morrison and Hendrix, Joplin died at the age of twenty-seven.
* Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, lead guitarist and bass player for the Allman
Brothers, were killed in freakishly similar motorcycle crashes on October 29, 1971 and
November 11, 1972. Allman was the son of Willis Allman, a US Army Sergeant who had
been murdered by another soldier near Norfolk, Virginia (home of the world's largest
naval installation) on December 26, 1949. In 1967, Duane and his younger brother,
Gregg, then billing themselves as The Allman Joys, ventured out to Los Angeles. While
there, Gregg auditioned for and was almost signed by the Laurel Canyon band Poco,
which featured Buffalo Springfield alumni Richie Furay and Jim Messina, as well as
future Eagle Randy Meisner. Duane was killed when a truck turned in front of his
motorcycle at an intersection and inexplicably stopped. Just over a year later, Oakley
had a similar run-in with a bus, just three blocks from where Allman had been killed.
Following the crash, Berry had dusted himself off and declined medical attention,
insisting that he was okay. Three hours later, he was rushed to the hospital, where he
died. Both Oakley and Allman were just twenty-four years old.
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* Phil Ochs, folk singer/songwriter and political activist, was found hanged in his
sister's home in Far Rockaway, New York on April 9, 1976. Throughout his life, Ochs
was one of the most overtly political of the 1960s rock and folk music stars. A regular
attendee at anti-war, civil rights, and labor rallies, Ochs appeared to be, at all times, an
unwavering political leftist (he named his first band The Singing Socialists). That all
changed, however, and rather dramatically, in the months before his death. Born in El
Paso, Texas on December 19, 1940, Phil and his family moved frequently during the
first few years of his life. His father, Dr. Jacob Ochs, had been drafted by the US Army
and assigned to various military hospitals in New York, New Mexico and Texas. In
1943, Dr. Ochs was shipped overseas, returning two years later with a medical
discharge. Upon his return, he was immediately institutionalized and didn't return to
his family for another two years. During that time, he was subjected to every
'treatment' imaginable, including electroshock 'therapy.' When he finally returned to
his family, in 1947, he was but a shell of his former self, described by Phil's sister as
"almost like a phantom." Beginning in the fall of 1956, Phil Ochs began attending
Staunton Military Academy, the very same institution that future 'serial killer'/cult
leader Gary Heidnik would attend just one year after Ochs graduated. During Phil's
two years there, a friend and fellow band member was found swinging from the end of
a rope (I probably don't need to add here that the death was ruled a suicide). Following
graduation, Phil enrolled at Ohio State University, but not before, oddly enough,
having a little plastic surgery done to alter his appearance (doing such things, needless
to say, was rather uncommon in 1958). In early 1962, just months before his scheduled
graduation, Ochs dropped out of college to pursue a career in music. By 1966, he had
released three albums. In 1967, under the management of his brother, Michael Ochs,
Phil moved out to Los Angeles. Michael had begun working the previous year as an
assistant to Barry James, who maintained a party house at 8504 Ridpath in Laurel
Canyon. In the early 1970s, with his career beginning to fade, Phil Ochs began to travel
internationally, usually accompanied by vast quantities of booze and pills. Those
travels included a visit to Chile, not long before the US-sponsored coup that toppled
Salvador Allende. In early summer of 1975, Phil Ochs' public persona abruptly
changed. Using the name John Butler Train, Ochs proclaimed himself to be a CIA
operative and presented himself as a belligerent, right-wing thug. He told an
interviewer that, "on the first day of summer 1975, Phil Ochs was murdered in the
Chelsea Hotel by John Train ... For the good of societies, public and secret, he needed
to be gotten rid of."
That symbolic assassination, on the summer solstice, took place at the same hotel that
Devon Wilson had flown out of a few years earlier. One of Ochs' biographers would
later write that Phil/John "actually believed he was a member of the CIA." Also in
those final months of his life, Ochs began compiling curious lists, with entries that
clearly were references to US biological warfare research: "shellfish toxin, Fort
Dietrich, cobra venom, Chantilly Race Track, hollow silver dollars, New York Cornell
Hospital ..."
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Many years before Ochs' metamorphosis, in an interesting bit of foreshadowing,
psychological warfare operative George Estabrooks explained how US intelligence
agencies could create the perfect spy: "We start with an excellent subject ... we need a
man or woman who is highly intelligent and physically tough. Then we start to develop
a case of multiple personality through hypnotism. In his normal waking state, which
we will call Personality A, or PA, this individual will become a rabid communist. He
will join the party, follow the party line and make himself as objectionable as possible
to the authorities. Note that he will be acting in good faith. He is a communist, or
rather his PA is a communist and will behave as such. Then we develop Personality B
(PB), the secondary personality, the unconscious personality, if you wish, although this
is somewhat of a contradiction in terms. This personality is rabidly American and anticommunist. It has all the information possessed by PA, the normal personality,
whereas PA does not have this advantage ... My super spy plays his role as a
communist in his waking state, aggressively, consistently, fearlessly. But his PB is a
loyal American, and PB has all the memories of PA. As a loyal American, he will not
hesitate to divulge those memories." Estabrooks never explained what would happen if
the programming were to go haywire and Personality B were to become the conscious
personality, but my guess is that such a person would be considered a severe liability
and would be treated accordingly. They might even be find themselves swinging from
the end of a rope. Phil Ochs was thirty-five at the time of his death.
And with that, I think we can move on now from the Laurel Canyon Death List. The list
is not yet complete, mind you, since we have only covered the years 1966-1976. Rest
assured then that we will continue to add names as we follow the various threads of
this story. Some of those names will be quite familiar, while others will be significantly
less so. One of the names from that era that has been all but forgotten is Judee Lynn
Sill, who was once favorably compared to such other Laurel Canyon
singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judi Collins and Carole King. By the time of her
death on November 23, 1979, however, she had been all but forgotten, and not a single
obituary was published to note her passing.
Judee was born in Studio City, California, not far from the northern entrance to Laurel
Canyon, on October 7, 1944. Her father, Milford "Bud" Sill, was reportedly a
cameraman for Paramount Studios with numerous Hollywood connections. When
Judee was quite young, however, Bud moved the family to Oakland and opened a bar
known as "Bud's Bar." He also operated a side business as an importer of rare animals,
which required him to spend a considerable amount of time traveling in Central and
South America. Such a business, it should be noted, would provide an ideal cover for
covert intelligence work. In any event, Bud Sill was dead by 1952, when Judee was just
seven or eight years old. Depending on who is telling the story, Bud died either from
pneumonia or a heart attack.
Following Bud's death, the family relocated back to Southern California and Judee's
older brother Dennis, still in his teens, took over the family importing business. That
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didn't last long though as Dennis soon turned up dead down in Central America, either
from a liver infection or a car accident. The animal importing business, I guess, is a
rather dangerous one.
Judee's mother, Oneta, met and married Ken Muse, an Academy Award winning
animator for Hanna-Barbera who was described by Judee as an abusive, violent
alcoholic. At fifteen, Judee fled her violent home life and lived with an older man with
whom she pulled off a series of armed robberies in the San Fernando Valley. Those
activities landed her in reform school, which did little to curb her appetite for drugs,
crime and alcohol. She spent the next few years with a serious heroin addiction, which
she financed by dealing drugs and turning tricks in some of LA's seedier
neighborhoods.
By 1963, Judee had cleaned herself up enough to enroll in junior college. In the early
winter of 1965, however, Judee's mom, her last surviving family member, died either of
cancer or of complications arising from her chronic alcoholism (take your pick; the
details of this story will likely remain forever elusive). Barely an adult, Judee was left
all alone in the world, and thus began another downward spiral into drugs and crime,
which culminated in her being arrested and possibly serving time on forgery and drug
charges.
In the late 1960s, with her addictions apparently temporarily curbed, Sill joined the
Laurel Canyon scene, where she attempted to forge a career as a singer/songwriter.
Her first big break came when she sold the song "Lady O" to The Turtles (yet another
Laurel Canyon band to hit it big in the mid-1960s; best known for the hit single
"Happy Together," The Turtles were led by lead vocalist/songwriter Howard Kaylan,
who happened to be, small world that it is, a cousin of Frank Zappa's manager and
business partner, Herb Cohen). The band released the song, which featured Judee's
guitar work, in 1969. The next year, Sill became the first artist signed to David Geffen's
fledgling Asylum record label. The year after that, her self-titled debut album became
Asylum's first official release. The first single from the album, "Jesus Was a
Crossmaker," was produced by Graham Nash, whom she opened for on tour following
the album's release.
Though critically well-received, the album's sales were disappointing, in part because
the record was overshadowed by the debut albums of Jackson Browne and The Eagles,
both released by Asylum shortly after the release of Judee's album. Sill's second album,
1973's "Heart Food," was even more of a commercial disappointment. Nevertheless, in
1974 she began work on a third album in Monkee Mike Nesmith's recording studio.
Prior to completion, however, she abandoned the project and promptly disappeared
without a trace. What became of her between that time and her death some five years
later remains largely a mystery. It is assumed that she once again descended into a life
of drugs and prostitution, but no one seems to know for sure.
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It is alleged that she was seriously injured when her car was rear-ended by actor Danny
Kaye, causing her to suffer from chronic back pain thereafter, thus contributing to her
drug addictions. According to a friend of hers, she lived in a home that featured an
enormous photo of Bela Lugosi above the fireplace, a large ebony cross above her bed,
and racks of candles. She is said to have read extensively from Rosicrucian
manuscripts and from the writings of Aleister Crowley, to have possessed a complete
collection of the work of Helena Blavatsky, and to have been a gifted tarot card reader.
What is known for sure is that, on the day after Thanksgiving, 1979, Judee Sill, the last
surviving member of her family, was found dead in a North Hollywood apartment. The
cause of death was listed as "acute cocaine and codeine intoxication." It was claimed
that a suicide note was found, but friends insisted that the supposed note was either a
portion of a diary entry or an unfinished song. One of her friends would later note that,
at some point in her life, Judee began to realize that "there was a part of her that
wasn't under her conscious control." I'm guessing that Phil Ochs, and quite a few other
characters in this story, could relate to that.
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Part 4
May 19, 2008
The bridge of the USS Bon Homme Richard, January 1964. Just months later, the guy on the right would
guide his ship into the Tonkin Gulf, and the young man on the left would begin a remarkable
transformation into a brooding rock god. The Bon Homme Richard, by the way, was launched on April
29, 1944, under the sponsorship of Catherine McCain, the grandmother of a certain presidential
contender. ©Unknown
Until around 1913, Laurel Canyon remained an undeveloped (and unincorporated)
slice of LA - a pristine wilderness area rich in native flora and fauna. That all began to
change when Charles Spencer Mann and his partners began buying up land along what
would become Laurel Canyon Boulevard, as well as up Lookout Mountain. A narrow
road leading up to the crest of Lookout Mountain was carved out, and upon that crest
was constructed a lavish 70-room inn with sweeping views of the city below and the
Pacific Ocean beyond. The Lookout Inn featured a large ballroom, riding stables,
tennis courts and a golf course, among other amenities. But the inn, alas, would only
stand for a decade; in 1923, it burned down, as tends to happen rather frequently in
Laurel Canyon.
In 1913, Mann began operating what was billed as the nation's first trackless trolley, to
ferry tourists and prospective buyers from Sunset Boulevard up to what would become
the corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue. Around that
same time, he built a massive tavern/roadhouse on that very same corner. Dubbed the
Laurel Tavern, the structure boasted a 2,000+ square-foot formal dining room, guest
rooms, and a bowling alley on the basement level. The Laurel Tavern, of course, would
later be acquired by Tom Mix, after which it would be affectionately known as the Log
Cabin.
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Shortly after the Log Cabin was built, a department store mogul (or a wealthy furniture
manufacturer; there is more than one version of the story, or perhaps the man owned
more than one business) built an imposing, castle-like mansion across the road, at the
corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and what would become Willow Glen Road. The
home featured rather creepy towers and parapets, and the foundation is said to have
been riddled with secret passageways, tunnels, and hidden chambers. Similarly, the
grounds of the estate were (and still are) laced with trails leading to grottoes, elaborate
stone structures, and hidden caves and tunnels.
Across Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the grounds of the Laurel Tavern/Log Cabin were
also laced with odd caves and tunnels. As Michael Walker notes in Laurel Canyon,
"Running up the hillside, behind the house, was a collection of man-made caves built
out of stucco, with electric wiring and light bulbs inside." According to various
accounts, one secret tunnel running under what is now Laurel Canyon Boulevard
connected the Log Cabin (or its guesthouse) to the Houdini estate. This claim is
frequently denounced as an urban legend, but given that both properties are known to
possess unusual, uhmm, geological features, it's not hard to believe that the tunnel
system on one property was connected at one time to the tunnel system on the other.
The Tavern itself, as Gail Zappa would later describe it, was "huge and vault-like and
cavernous."
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Lookout Inn
With these two rather unusual structures anchoring an otherwise undeveloped canyon,
and the Lookout Inn sitting atop uninhabited Lookout Mountain, Mann set about
marketing the canyon as a vacation and leisure destination. The land that he carved up
into subdivisions with names like "Bungalow Land" and "Wonderland Park" was
presented as the ideal location to build vacation homes. But the new inn and
roadhouse, and the new parcels of land for sale, definitely weren't for everyone. The
roadhouse was essentially a country club, or what Jack Boulware of Mojo Magazine
described as "a masculine retreat for wealthy men." And Bungalow Land was openly
advertised as "a high class restricted park for desirable people only."
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"Desirable people," of course, tended to be wealthy people without a great deal of skin
pigmentation.
As the website of the current Laurel Canyon Association notes, "restrictive covenants
were attached to the new parcel deeds. These were thinly veiled attempts to limit
ownership to white males of a certain class. While there are many references to the
bigotry of the developers in our area, it would appear that some residents were also
prone to bias and lawlessness. This article was published in a local paper in 1925:
Frank Sanceri, the man who was flogged by self-styled 'white knights' on Lookout
Mountain in Hollywood several months ago, was found not guilty by a jury in Superior
Judge Shea's courtroom of having unlawfully attacked Astrea Jolley, aged 11.
"Wealthier residents were also attracted to Laurel Canyon. With the creation of the
Hollywood film industry in 1910, the canyon attracted a host of 'photoplayers,'
including Wally Reid, Tom Mix, Clara Bow, Richard Dix, Norman Kerry, Ramon
Navarro, Harry Houdini and Bessie Love."
The author of this little slice of Laurel Canyon history would clearly like us to believe
that the "wealthier residents" were a group quite separate from the violent hooligans
roaming the canyon. The history of such groups in Los Angeles, however, clearly
suggests otherwise. Paul Young, for example, has written in L.A. Exposed of Los
Angeles' early "vigilance committees, which stepped in to take care of outlaws on their
own, often with the complete absolution of the mayor himself. Judge Lynch, for
example, formed the Los Angeles Rangers in 1854 with some of the city's top judges,
lawyers, and businessmen including tycoon Phineas Banning of the Banning Railroad.
And there was the Los Angeles Home Guard, another bloodthirsty paramilitary
organization, made up of notable citizens, and the much-feared El Monte Rangers, a
group of Texas wranglers that specialized in killing Mexicans. As one would expect,
there was no regard for the victim's rights in such kangaroo courts. Victims were often
dragged from their homes, jail cells, even churches, and beaten, horse-whipped,
tortured, mutilated, or castrated before being strung up on the nearest tree."
And that, dear readers, is how we do things out here on the 'Left' Coast.
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Laurel Canyon Map
Before moving on, I need to mention here that, of the eight celebrity residents of
Laurel Canyon listed by the Association, fully half died under questionable
circumstances, and three of the four did so on days with occult significance. While
Bessie Love, Norman Kerry, Richard Dix and Clara Bow all lived long and healthy lives,
Ramon Navarro, as we have already seen, was ritually murdered in his home on Laurel
Canyon Boulevard on the eve of Halloween, 1968. Nearly a half-century earlier, on
January 18, 1923, matinee idol Wallace Reid was found dead in a padded cell at the
mental institution to which he had been confined. Just thirty-one years old, Reid's
death was attributed to morphine addiction, though it was never explained how he
would have fed that habit while confined to a cell in a mental hospital.
Tom Mix died on a lonely stretch of Arizona highway in the proverbial single-car crash
on October 12, 1940 (the birthday of notorious occultist Aleister Crowley), when he
quite unexpectedly encountered some temporary construction barricades that had
been set up alongside a reportedly washed-out bridge. Although he wasn't speeding (by
most accounts), Mix was nevertheless allegedly unable to stop in time and veered off
the road, while a crew of what were described as "workmen" reportedly looked on. It
wasn't the impact that killed Mix though, but rather a severe blow to the back of the
head and neck, purportedly delivered during the crash by an aluminum case he had
been carrying in the back seat of his car. There is now a roadside marker at the spot
where Mix died. If you should happen to stop by to have a look, you might as well pay a
visit to the Florence Military Reservation as well, since it's just a stone's throw away.
Harry Houdini died on Halloween day, 1926, purportedly of an attack of appendicitis
precipitated by a blow to the stomach. The problem with that story, however, is that
medical science now recognizes it to be an impossibility. According to a recent book
about the famed illusionist (The Secret Life of Houdini, by William Kalush and Larry
Sloman), Houdini was likely murdered by poisoning. Questions have been raised, the
book notes, by the curious lack of an autopsy, an "experimental serum" that Houdini
was apparently given in the hospital, and indications that his wife, Bess, may have
been poisoned as well (though she survived). On March 23, 2007, an exhumation of
Houdini's remains was formally requested by his surviving family members. It is
unclear at this time when, or even if, that will happen.
Houdini's death, on October 31, 1926, came exactly eight years after the first death to
occur in what would become known as the "Houdini house." In 1918, not long after the
home was built, a lover's quarrel arose on one of the home's balconies during a
Halloween/birthday party. The gay lover of the original owner's son reportedly ended
up splattered on the ground below. According to legend, the businessman managed to
get his son off, but only after paying off everyone he could find to pay off, including the
trial judge. The aftermath of the party proved to be financially devastating for the
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family, and the home was apparently put up for sale.
Not long after that, as fate would have it, Harry Houdini was looking for a place to stay
in the Hollywood area, as he had decided to break into the motion picture business. He
found the perfect home in Laurel Canyon - the home that would, forever after, carry
his name. By most accounts, he lived there from about 1919 through the early 1920s,
during a brief movie career in which he starred in a handful of Hollywood films. A key
scene in one of those films, "The Grim Game," was reportedly shot at the top of
Lookout Mountain, near where the Lookout Inn then stood.
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Houdini House
On October 31, 1959, precisely thirty-three years after Houdini's death, and forty-one
years after the unnamed party guest's death, the distinctive mansion on the corner of
Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Willow Glen Road burned to the ground in a fire of
mysterious origin (the ruins of the estate remain today, undisturbed for nearly fifty
years). On October 31, 1981, exactly twenty-two years after the fire across the road, the
legendary Log Cabin on the other side of Laurel Canyon Boulevard also burned to the
ground, in yet another fire of mysterious origin (some reports speculated that it was a
drug lab explosion). And twenty-five years after that, on October 31, 2006, The Secret
Life of Houdini was published, challenging the conventional wisdom on Houdini's
death.
Far more compelling than the revelations about Houdini's death, however, was
something else about the illusionist that the book revealed for the first time: Harry
Houdini was a spook working for both the U.S. Secret Service and Scotland Yard. And
his traveling escape act, as it turns out, was pretty much a cover for intelligence
activities. Just as, as I think I wrote in a previous newsletter, John Wilkes Booth used
his career as a traveling stage performer as a cover for intelligence operations. And just
as - sorry to have to break it to you - many of your favorite movie and television actors
and musical artists continue in that tradition today.
The book, of course, doesn't make such reckless allegations about any performers
other than Houdini. I added all of that. What the book does do, however, is
compellingly document that Houdini was, in fact, an intelligence asset who used his
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magic act as a cover. Not only did the authors obtain corroborating documentation
from Scotland Yard, they also received an endorsement of their claim from no less an
authority than John McLaughlin, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency (who knew it was that easy? - maybe I should give John a call and run some of
my theories by him).
It appears then that, of the eight celebrity residents of Laurel Canyon listed on the
Laurel Canyon Association website, at least two (Novarro and Houdini), and possibly
as many as four, were murdered. That seemed like a rather high homicide rate to me,
so I looked up a recent study on the Internet and found that, on average, a white
person in this country has about a 1-in-345 chance of being murdered. Non-white
persons, of course, have a far greater chance of being murdered, but nowhere near the
1-in-4 to 1-in-2 odds that a white celebrity living in Laurel Canyon faces.
Statistically speaking, if you were a famous actor in the 1920s, you would have been
better off playing a round of Russian Roulette than living in Laurel Canyon.
Anyway ... two ambitious projects in the 1940s brought significant changes to Laurel
Canyon. First, Laurel Canyon Boulevard was extended into the San Fernando Valley,
providing access to the canyon from both the north and the south. The widened
boulevard was now a winding thoroughfare, providing direct access to the Westside
from the Valley. Traffic, needless to say, increased considerably, which probably
worked out well for the planners of the other project, because it meant that the
increased traffic brought about by that other project probably wasn't noticed at all.
And that's good, you see, because the other project was a secret one, so if I tell you
about it, you have to promise not to tell anyone else.
What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally
envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in two-and-a-half
secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the installation was hidden
from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By 1947, the facility featured a fully
operational movie studio. In fact, it is claimed that it was perhaps the world's only
completely self-contained movie studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the
covert studio included sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing
facilities, an animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It
also had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.
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Lookout Mountain Laboratory
Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures - more
than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel Canyon the real
'motion picture capital of the world'). Officially, the facility was run by the U.S. Air
Force and did nothing more nefarious than process AEC footage of atomic and nuclear
bomb tests. The studio, however, was clearly equipped to do far more than just process
film. There are indications that Lookout Mountain Laboratory had an advanced
research and development department that was on the cutting edge of new film
technologies. Such technological advances as 3-D effects were apparently first
developed at the Laurel Canyon site. And Hollywood luminaries like John Ford,
Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and
Marilyn Monroe were given clearance to work at the facility on undisclosed projects.
There is no indication that any of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine
studio.
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The facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians, editors,
animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security clearances - and all
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reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel Canyon. Accounts vary as to when the
facility ceased operations. Some claim it was in 1969, while others say the installation
remained in operation longer. In any event, by all accounts the secret bunker had been
up and running for more than twenty years before Laurel Canyon's rebellious teen
years, and it remained operational for the most turbulent of those years.
The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the early
1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret movie studio
somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the first to learn of its
existence, through classified documents he obtained while researching his 1995
documentary, "Trinity and Beyond." And yet even today, some 15 years after its public
disclosure, one would have trouble finding even a single mention of this secret
military/intelligence facility anywhere in the 'conspiracy' literature.
I think we can all agree though that there is nothing the least bit suspicious about any
of that, so let's move on.
In the 1950s, as Barney Hoskyns has written in Hotel California, Laurel Canyon was
home to all "the hippest young actors," including, according to Hoskyns, Marlon
Brando, James Dean, James Coburn and Dennis Hopper. In addition to Hopper and
Dean, yet another of the young stars of "Rebel Without a Cause" found a home in the
canyon as well: Natalie Wood. In fact, Natalie lived in the very home that Cass Elliot
would later turn into a Laurel Canyon party house. A fourth young star of the film, Sal
Mineo, lived at the mouth of the canyon, and the fifth member of the "Rebel Without a
Cause" posse, Nick Adams, lived just a mile or so away (as the crow flies) in
neighboring Coldwater Canyon.
With the exception of Hopper, all of their lives were tragically cut short, proving once
again that Laurel Canyon can be a very dangerous place to live.
First there was that great American icon, James Dean, who ostensibly died in a near
head-on collision on September 30, 1955, at the tender age of twenty-four. Next to fall
was Nick Adams, who had known Dean before either were stars, when both were
working the mean streets of Hollywood as young male prostitutes. Adams died on
February 6, 1968, at the age of thirty-six, in his home at 2126 El Roble Lane in
Coldwater Canyon. His official cause of death was listed as suicide, of course, but as
actor Forrest Tucker has noted, "All of Hollywood knows Nick Adams was knocked
off." Nick's relatives reportedly received numerous hang-up calls on the day of his
death, and his tape recorder, journals and various other papers and personal effects
were conspicuously missing from his home. His lifeless body, sitting upright in a chair,
was discovered by his attorney, Ervin "Tip" Roeder. On June 10, 1981, Roeder and his
wife, actress Jenny Maxwell (best known for being spanked by Elvis in "Blue Hawaii"),
were gunned down outside their Beverly Hills condo.
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Next in line was Sal Mineo, whose murder on February 12, 1976 we have already
covered. Last to fall was Natalie Wood, who died on November 29, 1981 in a drowning
incident that has never been adequately explained. Before being found floating in the
waters off Catalina Island, Wood had been aboard a private yacht in the company of
actors Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. She was forty-three when she was laid
to rest.
The list of famous former residents of the canyon also includes the names of W.C.
Fields, Mary Astor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, and Robert
Mitchum, who was infamously arrested on marijuana charges in 1948 at 8334 Ridpath
Drive, the same street that would later be home to rockers Roger McGuinn, Don
Henley and Glen Frey, as well as to Paul Rothchild, producer of both The Doors and
Love. Mitchum's arrest, by the way, appears to have been a thoroughly staged affair
that cemented his 'Hollywood bad boy' image and gave his career quite a boost, but I
guess that's not really relevant here.
Another famous resident of Laurel Canyon, apparently in the 1940s, was sciencefiction writer Robert Heinlein, who reportedly resided at 8775 Lookout Mountain
Avenue. Like so many other characters in this story, Heinlein was a graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and he had served as a naval officer. After that, he
embarked on a successful writing career. And despite the fact that he was, by any
objective measure, a rabid right-winger, his work was warmly embraced by the Flower
Power generation.
Heinlein's best-known work is the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, which many in the
Laurel Canyon scene found to be hugely influential. Ed Sanders has written, in The
Family, that the book "helped provide a theoretical basis for Manson's family." Charlie
frequently used Strange Land terminology when addressing his flock and he named his
first Family-born son Valentine Michael Manson, in honor of the book's lead character.
David Crosby was a big Heinlein fan as well. In his autobiography, he references
Heinlein on more than one occasion, and proclaims that, "In a society where people
can go armed, it makes everybody a little more polite, as Robert A. Heinlein says in his
books." Frank Zappa was also a member of the Robert Heinlein fan club. Barry Miles
notes in his biography of the rock icon that his home contained "a copy of SaintExupery's The Little Prince and other essential sixties reading, including Robert
Heinlein's sci-fi classic, Stranger in a Strange Land, from which Zappa borrowed the
word 'discorporate' for [the song] 'Absolutely Free.'"
And that, fearless readers, more or less brings us to the Laurel Canyon era that we are
primarily concerned with, the wild and wooly 1960s, which we will take a closer look at
in the next chapter of this saga.
So what, if anything, have we learned today? We have learned that murder and
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random acts of violence have been a part of the culture of the canyon since the earliest
days of its development. We have also learned that spooks posing as entertainers have
likewise been a part of the canyon scene since the earliest days. And, finally, we have
learned that spooks who didn't even bother to pose as entertainers were streaming into
the canyon to report to work at Lookout Mountain Laboratory for at least twenty years
before the first rock star set foot there.
One final note is in order here: we are supposed to believe that all of these musical
icons just sort of spontaneously came together in Laurel Canyon (one finds the words
"serendipitous" sprinkled freely throughout the literature). But how many peculiar
coincidences do we have to overlook in order to believe that this was just a chance
gathering?
Let's suppose, hypothetically speaking, that you are the young man in the photo at the
top of this post, and you have recently arrived in Laurel Canyon and now find yourself
fronting a band that is on the verge of taking the country by storm. Just a mile or so
down Laurel Canyon Boulevard from you lives another guy who also recently arrived in
Laurel Canyon, and who also happens to front a band on the verge of stardom. He
happens to be married to a girl that you attended kindergarten with, and her dad, like
yours, was involved in atomic weapons research and testing (Admiral George Morrison
for a time did classified work at White Sands). Her husband's dad, meanwhile, is
involved in another type of WMD research: chemical warfare.
This other guy's business partner/manager is a spooky ex-Marine who just happens to
have a cousin who, bizarrely enough, also fronts a rock band on the verge of
superstardom. And this third rock-star-on-the-rise also happens to live in Laurel
Canyon, just a mile or two from your house. Just down a couple of other streets, also
within walking distance of your home, live two other kids who - wouldn't you know it?
- also happen to front a new rock band. These two kids happened to attend the same
Alexandria, Virginia high school that you attended, and one of them also attended
Annapolis, just like your dad did, and just like your kindergarten friend's dad did.
Though almost all of you hail from (or spent a substantial portion of your childhood in)
the Washington, D.C. area, you now find yourselves on the opposite side of the
country, in an isolated canyon high above the city of Los Angeles, where you are all
clustered around a secret military installation. Given his background in research on
atomic weapons, your father is probably familiar to some extent with the existence and
operations of Lookout Mountain Laboratory, as is the father of your kindergarten
friend, and probably the fathers of a few other Laurel Canyon figures as well.
My question here, I guess, is this: what do you suppose the odds are that
all of that just came together purely by chance?
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Part 5
June 6, 2008
June 6, 2008
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"Call them freaks, the underground, the counter-culture, flower children or hippies they are all loose labels for the youth culture of the 60s ..."
Barry Miles, author of Hippie
"This is how I remember my life. Other folks may not have the same memories, even
though we might have shared some of the same experiences."
So begins David Crosby's autobiography, Long Time Gone (co-written by Carl
Gottlieb). As it turns out, quite a few other folks seem to remember some people in
Crosby's life who are all but ignored in the lengthy book. The names are casually
dropped only once, and not by Crosby but rather in a quote from manager Jim Dickson
in which he describes the scene at the Sunset Strip clubs when The Byrds played: "We
had them all. We had Jack Nicholson dancing, we had Peter Fonda dancing with
Odetta, we had Vito and his Freakers."
Following that brief mention by Dickson, Gottlieb briefly explains to readers that, "Vito
and his Freakers were an acid-drenched extended family of brain-damaged
cohabitants." And that, in an incredibly self-indulgent 489-page tome, is the only
mention you will find of "Vito and his Freakers" - despite the fact that, by just about all
other accounts, the group dismissed as "brain-damaged cohabitants" played a key role
in the early success of Crosby's band. And the early success of Arthur Lee's band. And
the early success of Frank Zappa's band. And the early success of Jim Morrison's band.
But especially in the early success of David Crosby's band.
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As Barry Miles noted in his biography of Frank Zappa, "The Byrds were closely
associated with Vito and the Freaks: Vito Paulekas, his wife Zsou and Karl Franzoni,
the leaders of a group of about 35 dancers whose antics enlivened the Byrds early gigs."
In Waiting for the Sun, Barney Hoskyns writes that the early success of The Byrds and
other bands was due in no small part to "the roving troupe of self-styled 'freaks' led by
ancient beatnik Vito Paulekas and his trusty, lusty sidekick Carl Franzoni." Alban
"Snoopy" Pfisterer, former drummer and keyboardist for the band Love, went further
still, claiming that Vito actually "got the Byrds together, as I remember - they did a lot
of rehearsing at his pad."
And according to various other accounts, The Byrds did indeed utilize Vito's 'pad' as a
rehearsal studio, as did Arthur Lee's band. More importantly, the Freaks drew the
crowds into the clubs to see the fledgling bands perform. But as important as their
contribution was to helping launch the careers of the Laurel Canyon bands, "Vito and
his Freakers" were notable for something else as well; according to Barry Miles, writing
in his book Hippie, "The first hippies in Hollywood, perhaps the first hippies
anywhere, were Vito, his wife Zsou, Captain Fuck and their group of about thirty-five
dancers. Calling themselves Freaks, they lived a semi-communal life and engaged in
sex orgies and free-form dancing whenever they could."
Some of those who were on the scene at the time agree with Miles' assessment that
Vito and his troupe were indeed the very first hippies. Arthur Lee, for example, boasted
that they "started the whole hippie thing: Vito, Karl, Szou, Beatle Bob, Bryan and me."
One of David Crosby's fellow Byrds, Chris Hillman, also credited the strange group
with being at the forefront of the hippie movement: "Carl and all those guys were way
ahead of everyone on hippiedom fashion." Ray Manzarek of The Doors remembered
them as well: "There were these guys named Carl and Vito who had a dance troupe of
gypsy freaks. They were let in for free, because they were these quintessential hippies,
which was great for tourists."
If these folks really were the very first hippies, the first riders of that 'counter-cultural'
wave, then we should probably try to get to know them. As it turns out, however, that
is not such an easy thing to do. Most accounts - and there aren't all that many - offer
little more than a few first names, with no consensus agreement on how those first
names are even spelled ("Karl" and "Carl" appear interchangeably, as do "Szou" and
"Zsou," and "Godot" and "Godo"). But for you, dear readers - because I apparently
have way too much time on my hands - I have gone the extra mile and sifted through
the detritus to dig up at least some of the sordid details.
By all accounts the troupe was led by one Vito Paulekas, whose full name is said to
have been Vitautus Alphonsus Paulekas. Born the son of a Lithuanian sausage-maker
circa 1912, Vito hailed from Lowell, Massachusetts. From a young age, he developed a
habit of running afoul of the law. According to Miles, he spent a year-and-a-half in a
reformatory as a teenager and "was busted several times after that." In 1938, he was
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convicted of armed robbery and handed a 25-year sentence following a botched
attempt at holding up a movie theater. By 1942, however, just four years later, he had
been released into the custody, so to speak, of the US Merchant Marine (a branch of
the US Navy during wartime), ostensibly to escort ships running lend-lease missions.
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Following his release from the service, circa 1946, Vito arrived in Los Angeles. What he
did for the next fifteen years or so is anyone's guess; there is virtually no mention of
those years in any of the accounts I have stumbled across. What is known is that by the
early 1960s, Vito was ensconced in an unassuming building at the corner of Laurel
Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, just below the mouth of Laurel Canyon (and very near
Jay Sebring's hair salon). At street level was his young wife Szou's clothing boutique,
which has been credited by some of those making the scene in those days with being
the very first to introduce 'hippie' fashions. Upstairs was the living quarters for Vito,
Szou and their young son, Godot. Downstairs was what was known as the "Vito Clay"
studio, where, according to Miles and various others, Paulekas "made a living of sorts
by giving clay modeling lessons to Beverly Hills matrons who found the atmosphere in
his studio exciting."
According to most accounts, it wasn't really the Mayan-tomb decor of the studio that
many of the matrons found so exciting, but rather Vito's reportedly insatiable sexual
appetite and John Holmesian physique. In any event, Vito's students also apparently
included such Hollywood luminaries as Jonathon Winters, Mickey Rooney and Steve
Allen. Nevertheless, though Paulekas claimed to be a serious artist (a painter, poet,
dancer and photographer, in addition to a sculptor), there is scant evidence that I have
seen that supports such claims (I am not, however, the most objective of art critics, as I
am, as best I can determine, apparently not cultured enough to 'get' the majority of
what passes for art).
As for his erstwhile sidekick, Carl Orestes Franzoni, he has claimed in interviews that
his "mother was a countess" and his father "was a stone carver from Rutland, Vermont.
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The family was brought from Italy, from the quarries in the northern part of Italy, to
cut the stone for the monuments of the United States." That would make his father, I'm
guessing here, someone of some importance in the Mason community, if Carl is to be
believed. By Franzoni's own account, he grew up as something of a young hoodlum in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and later went into business with some shady Sicilian characters
selling mail-order breast and penis pumps out of an address on LA's fabled Melrose
Avenue. As Franzoni remembered it, his business "partner's name was Scallacci, Joe
Scallacci - the same name as the famous murderer Scallacci. Probably from the same
family." Probably so.
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Franzoni, born circa 1934, hooked up with the older Paulekas sometime around 1963
and soon after became his constant sidekick. As previously mentioned, the group also
included Vito's wife Szou, an ex-cheerleader who had hooked up with Paulekas when
she was just sixteen and he was already in his fifties. Also in the troupe was a young
Rory Flynn (Errol Flynn's statuesque daughter), a bizarre character named Ricky
Applebaum who had half a moustache on one side of his face and half a beard on the
other, most of the young girls who would later become part of Frank Zappa's GTO
project, and a lot of other oddball characters who donned ridiculous pseudonyms like
Linda Bopp, Butchie, Beatle Bob, Emerald, and Karen Yum Yum.
Also flitting about the periphery of the dance troupe were a young Gail Sloatman (the
future Mrs. Zappa, for those who have already forgotten) and a curious character on
the LA music scene by the name of Kim Fowley. The two were, for a time, closely allied,
and even cut a record together as "Bunny and the Bear" that Fowley produced
("America's Sweethearts"). In 1966, Fowley produced a record for Vito as well, billed as
"Vito and the Hands." The 7" single, "Where It's At," which featured the musicianship
of some of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, came no closer to entering the charts
than did Fowley and Sloatman's effort. Sloatman, by the way, soon found work as an
assistant and booking agent for Elmer Valentine, who we will meet shortly.
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Fowley, as with so many other characters in this story, has a rather interesting history.
He was born in 1939, the son of actor Douglas Fowley, a WWII Navy veteran and
attendee of St. Francis Xavier Military Academy. According to the younger Fowley's
account, he was initially abandoned to a foster home but later taken back and raised by
his father. He grew up in upscale Malibu, California, where he shared his childhood
home with "a bunch of actors and guys from the Navy." At the age of six-and-a-half,
Fowley had an unusual experience that he later shared with author Michael Walker:
dressed up in a sailor suit by his dad and his Navy buddies, he was taken "to a
photographer named William, who took a picture of me in the sailor suit. His studio
was next door to the Canyon [Country] Store." Right after that, he was driven down
Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the near-mythical Schwabs Drugstore, where "everybody
cheered and two chorus girls grabbed my six-year-old cock and balls and stuck a candy
cigarette in my mouth."
Nice story, Mr. Fowley. Thanks for sharing.
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It's probably safe to assume that childhood experiences such as that helped to prepare
Fowley for his later employment as a young male street hustler, a profession that he
practiced on the seedy streets of the city of angels (by Fowley's own account, I should
probably add here, just as it was James Dean himself who claimed to have worked
those same streets with Nick Adams). Following that, Fowley spent some time serving
with the Army National Guard, after which he devoted his life to working in the LA
music industry as a musician, writer and producer - as well as, according to some
accounts, a master manipulator.
Around 1957, Fowley played in a band known as the Sleepwalkers, alongside future
Beach Boy Bruce Johnston. At times, a diminutive young guitarist named Phil Spector
- who had moved out to LA with his mother not too many years earlier, following the
suicide of his father when Phil was just nine - sat in with the group. During the 1960s,
Fowley was best known for producing such ridiculous yet beloved novelty songs as the
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Hollywood Argyles' "Alley Oop" and the Rivington's "Papa Oom-Mow-Mow," though
he also did more respectable work, such as collaborating on some Byrds' tracks and
having some of his original songs covered by both the Beach Boys and the Flying
Burrito Brothers.
In 1975, Fowley had perhaps his greatest success when he created the Runaways,
further lowering the bar that Frank Zappa had already set rather low some years
earlier when he had created and recorded the GTOs. The Runaways featured underage
versions of Joan Jett and Lita Ford, whom Fowley tastefully attired in leather and
lingerie. As he would later boast, "Everyone loved the idea of 16-year-old girls playing
guitars and singing about fucking." Especially, I would imagine, their mothers and
fathers. Some of the young girls in the band, including Cherie Curry, would later
accuse Fowley of requiring them to perform sexual services for he and his associates as
a prerequisite for membership in the group.
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Prior to assembling the Runaways, one of Fowley's proudest accomplishments had
been producing the 1969 album "I'm Back and I'm Proud" by rockabilly pioneer Gene
Vincent, featuring backing vocals by Canyonite Linda Ronstadt. Just two years later,
Vincent - a Navy veteran raised in that penultimate Navy town, Norfolk, Virginia permanently checked out of the Hotel California on October 12, 1971 (there's that date
again), due reportedly to a ruptured stomach ulcer. Not long before his death, Vincent
had been on tour in the UK, but he had hastily returned to the US due to pressure
from, among others, promoter Don Arden. Known none-too-affectionately as the "Al
Capone of Pop," Arden had a penchant for guns and violence and he was known to
openly boast of his affiliation with powerful organized crime figures. In addition to
being a business partner of the equally nefarious Michael Jeffery, Arden was also the
father of Sharon Osbourne and the former manager of her husband's band, Black
Sabbath ... but here I have surely digressed, so let's try to bring this back around to
where we left off.
One other accomplishment of Fowley's bears mentioning here: he received a guest
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vocalist credit on the Mothers of Invention album "Freak Out," as did both Vito
Paulekas and his sidekick, Carl Franzoni, to whom the song "Hungry Freaks, Daddy"
was dedicated (some sources claim that Bobby Beausoleil also provided guest vocals on
Zappa's debut album, though his name does not appear in the album's credits).
By at least as early as 1962, not long before Carl Franzoni joined the group, the Freak
troupe was already hitting the clubs a couple nights each week to refine their unique
style of dance (perhaps best described as an epileptic seizure set to music) and show
off their distinctively unappealing, though soon to be quite popular, fashion sense. In
those early days, they danced to local black R&B bands and to a band out of Fresno
known as the Gauchos, in dives far removed from the fabled Sunset Strip - because,
Franzoni has said, "There were no white bands [in LA] yet," and "There were no clubs
on Sunset Boulevard."
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That, of course, was all about to quickly change. As if by magic, new clubs began to
spring up along the legendary Sunset Strip beginning around 1964, and old clubs
considered to be long past their prime miraculously reemerged. In January 1964, a
young Chicago vice cop named Elmer Valentine opened the doors to the now worldfamous Whisky-A-Go-Go nightclub. Just over a year later, in spring of 1965, he opened
a second soon-to-be-wildly-popular club, The Trip. Not long before that, near the end
of 1964, the legendary Ciro's nightclub began undergoing extensive renovations.
Opened in 1940 by Billy Wilkerson, an associate of Bugsy Siegel, the upscale club had
flourished for the first twenty years of its existence, with a clientele that regularly
included Hollywood royalty and organized crime figures. By the early 1960s though the
Strip was dead, and the once prestigious club had gone to seed.
Ciro's reopened in early 1965, just before The Trip opened its doors and just in time, as
it turns out, to host the very first club appearance by the musical act that was about to
become the first Laurel Canyon band to commit a song to vinyl: The Byrds. By 1967,
Gazzaris had opened up on the Strip as well, and in the early 1970s Valentine would
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open yet another club that endures to this day, The Roxy. Smaller clubs like the
London Fog, where The Doors got their first booking as the house band in early 1966,
opened their doors to the public in the mid 1960s as well.
The timing of the opening of Valentine's first two clubs, and the reopening of Ciro's,
could not have been any more fortuitous. The paint was barely dry on the walls of the
new clubs when bands like Love and The Doors and The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield
and the Turtles and the Mothers and the Lovin' Spoonful came knocking. The problem,
however, was that the new clubs were not yet well known, Ciro's had been long left for
dead, and nobody had the slightest idea who any of these newfangled bands were.
What was needed then was a way to create a buzz around the clubs that would draw
people in and kick-start the Strip back to life, as well as, of course, launch the careers
of the new bands.
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The bands themselves could not be expected to fill the new clubs, since, besides being
unknown, they also - and yeah, I know that you don't really want to hear this and I will
undoubtedly be deluged with letters of complaint, but I'm going to say it anyway weren't very good, at least not in their live incarnations. To be sure, they sounded great
on vinyl, but that was largely due to the fact that the band members themselves didn't
actually play on their records (at least not in the early days), and the rich vocal
harmonies that were a trademark of the 'Laurel Canyon sound' were created in the
studio with a good deal of multi-tracking and overdubs. On stage, it was another
matter entirely.
Enter then the wildly flamboyant and colorful Freak squad, who were one key
component of the strategy that was devised to lure patrons into the clubs (the other
component of the strategy, hinted at in one of the quotes near the top of this post, will
be covered in installment #7). Vito and Carl's dancers were a fixture on the Sunset
Strip scene from the very moment that the new clubs opened their doors to the public,
and they were, by all accounts, treated like royalty by the club owners. As John
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Hartmann, proprietor of the Kaleidoscope Club, acknowledged, he "would let Vito and
his dancers into the Kaleidoscope free every week because they attracted people. They
were really hippies, and so we had to have them. They got in free pretty much
everywhere they went. They blessed your joint. They validated you. If they're the
essence of hippiedom and you're trying to be a hippie nightclub, you need hippies."
As the aforementioned Kim Fowley put it, with characteristic bluntness, "A band didn't
have to be good, as long as the dancers were there." Indeed, the band was largely
irrelevant, other than to provide some semblance of a soundtrack for the real show,
which was taking place on the dance floor. Gail Zappa candidly admitted that, even at
her husband's shows, the real attraction was not on the stage: "The customers came to
see the freaks dance. Nobody ever talks about that, but that was the case." Frank added
that, "As soon as they arrived they would make things happen, because they were
dancing in a way nobody had seen before, screaming and yelling out on the floor and
doing all kinds of weird things. They were dressed in a way that nobody could believe,
and they gave life to everything that was going on."
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For reasons that clearly had more to do with boosting attendance at the clubs than
with any actual talents displayed by the group, Vito and Carl seem to have become
minor media darlings over the course of the 1960s and into the 1970s. The two can be
seen, separately and together, in a string of cheap exploitation films, including Mondo
Bizarro from 1966, Something's Happening (aka The Hippie Revolt) from 1967, the
notorious Mondo Hollywood, also released in 1967, and You Are What You Eat, with
David Crosby, Frank Zappa and Tiny Tim, which hit theaters in 1968. In 1972, Vito
made his acting debut in a non-documentary film, The White Horse Gang.
Paulekas reportedly also popped up on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, and
Franzoni made an appearance on a 1968 Dick Clark TV special. The golden child,
Godot Paulekas, was featured in a photo in Life magazine circa 1966, and the whole
troupe showed up for an appearance on the Tonight Show. According to Barry Miles,
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Vito also "appeared regularly on the Joe Pyne Show and in between the bare-breasted
girls in the late fifties and early sixties men's magazines."
Joe Pyne, for those of you too young to remember (myself included), is the guy that we
have to thank for paving the way for the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean
Hannity, Michael Savage, Don Imus, Morton Downey, Jr., Jerry Springer and Wally
George. For Mr. Pyne, you see, was the guy who pioneered the confrontational
interview style favored by so many gasbags today. The decorated Marine Corps veteran
debuted as a talk-radio host in 1950 and quickly became known for insulting and
demeaning anyone who dared to disagree with him, guests and listeners alike. In 1957,
he moved his show to LA, and by 1965, he was nationally syndicated both on the radio
and on television. His favored targets, as you may have guessed, included hippies,
feminists, gays, and anti-war activists, and his interviews frequently ended with his
guest either walking off or being thrown off the stage. Nearing the peak of his
popularity, Pyne died on March 23, 1970 at the age of forty-five, reportedly of lung
cancer. His ideological offspring, however, live on.
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Part 6
June 6, 2008
June 6, 2008
“Vito was in his fifties, but he had four-way sex with goddesses … He held these claysculpting classes on Laurel Avenue, teaching rich Beverly Hills dowagers how to
sculpt. And that was the Byrds’ rehearsal room. Then Jim Dickson had the idea to put
them on at Ciro’s, on the basis that all the freaks would show up and the Byrds would
be their Beatles.” Kim Fowley
Recruits for Vito and Carl’s dance troupe weren’t likely hard to come by, given that,
according to Miles, Vito operated “the first crash pad in LA, an open house to countless
runaways where everyone was welcome for a night, particularly young women.” By the
mid 1960s, the group had expanded into a second communal location in addition to
the basement studio at 303 Laurel Avenue: the ubiquitous Log Cabin. According to
Jack Boulware, writing in Mojo magazine, architect Robert Byrd and his son built a
new guesthouse (aka ‘the treehouse’) on the property in the early 1960s, and “The
following year, a communal family of weirdos moved into the cabin and treehouse,
centered around two underground hipsters named Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni,
organizers of freeform dance troupes at clubs along the Sunset Strip.” By 1967, the
dancers were splitting “their rent with staff from the hippie publication The Oracle.
Retired journalist John Bilby recalls at least 36 people living and partying at the Log
Cabin and treehouse, including the band Fraternity of Man. ‘Tim Leary was definitely
there, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were there,’ Bilby says.”
For those who may not necessarily be ‘in the know’ about such things, the Fraternity of
Man were best known for the novelty song, “Don’t Bogart Me,” Tim Leary was best
known for being a painfully obvious CIA asset, and The Oracle was a San Franciscobased publication with intelligence ties that specialized in pitching psychedelic
occultism to impressionable youth.
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According to Barry Miles, “Franzoni’s commune ended in May 1968,” as that was when
The Oracle moved out and our old friend Frank Zappa moved in. The lead Mother “had
visited Karl at the log cabin on a previous trip and realized it was perfect for his needs.”
And it was an easy move for Frank, since he was already living in the canyon at the
home of Pamela Zarubica (aka Suzy Creamcheese) at 8404 Kirkwood Drive, where
Zappa had met his new wife, Gail, and where Gail’s old kindergarten pal, James
Douglas Morrison, was known to occasionally pass the time. Ms.
Zarubica/Creamcheese was yet another member of Vito’s dance troupe.
As multiple sources remember it, Miles is mistaken in his contention that Franzoni’s
commune came to an end; Frank Zappa took over as ringmaster, to be sure, but
Franzoni and all his cohorts stayed on. Carl had a room in the basement, where he was
known to bowl, usually naked and intoxicated, in the middle of the night. The doomed
Christine Frka had a room down there as well, as did other future GTOs. Various other
members of the dance troupe occupied other nooks and crannies in both the main
house and the guesthouse/treehouse. Indeed, as Miles noted correctly, the Freak
dancers became so closely associated with the Mothers of Invention that “they got
dubbed as ‘the Mothers Auxiliary’ and Karl Franzoni, in particular, was included in a
lot of group photographs.”
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And that, my friends, is the story of Vito’s Freakers – or at least a sanitized version.
Because there is, as it turns out, a very dark underbelly to this story. And much of it is
centered around that angelic hippie child that the readers of Life magazine met in
1966, and who we now must sadly add to the Laurel Canyon Death List. For young
Godot Paulekas, you see, never made it past the age of three (by most accounts). The
specifics of the tragedy are all but impossible to determine, unfortunately, as there is
little agreement in the various accounts of the event. Left unclear is exactly how the
child died, when the tragedy occurred, and what age the boy was.
According to Barry Miles, “Vito and Szou’s three-year-old son Godo had fallen through
a trapdoor on the roof of the building and died.” Michael Walker tells of a “two or
three” year old Godot “fall[ing] to his death from a scaffold at the studio.” An article in
the San Francisco Weekly had it as “a 5-year-old boy” who died when he “fell through a
skylight.” Super-groupie and former Freak dancer Pamela DesBarres agreed with the
skylight scenario, but not the age: “Vito’s exquisite little puppet child, Godot, fell
through a skylight during a wacky photo session on the roof and died at age three-anda-half.” Alban Pfisterer of the band Love recalled a much darker scenario: “[Vito] got
married, had a baby, gave it acid, and it fell off the roof and died.”
When Robert Carl Cohen recently digitally remastered his notorious Mondo
Hollywood for DVD release, he added postscripts for all the famous and infamous
people who were featured in his film. For “Godo” Paulekas, he inserted the following
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caption: “Died age 2 – victim of medical malpractice.” Thus we now have a further
muddying of the waters. Since Cohen’s claim though is so clearly at odds with every
other account of the incident, and since he was quite close to Vito and thus inclined to
cast his friend in the best possible light, we can probably safely disregard Cohen’s
belated postscript.
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The details of the incident that can be ascertained are, to put it mildly, rather
disturbing. We know, for example, that a musician and writer named Raphael told
writer Michael Walker that, before the child’s death, he had been present one evening
at Vito’s place when Godot was brought out: “They passed that little boy around,
naked, in a circle with their mouths. That was their thing about ‘introducing him to
sensuality.’” We also know that Vito and Szou had a rather odd reaction to the death of
their first-born son and only child, as recounted by Ms. DesBarres: “I was beside
myself with sorrow, but Vito and Szou insisted on continuing our plans for the evening.
We went out dancing, and when people asked where little Godot was, Vito said, ‘He
died today.’ It was weird, really weird.”
That it was, but perhaps even weirder is the full text of the quote from the San
Francisco Weekly that I earlier presented you with an edited version of: “[Kenneth
Anger’s] first candidate to play Lucifer, a 5-year-old boy whose hippie parents had
been fixtures on the Los Angeles counterculture scene, fell through a skylight to his
death. By 1967, Anger had relocated to San Francisco and was searching for a new
Lucifer.” As many readers may be aware, he soon found his new Lucifer in the form of
Mansonite and former Grass Roots guitarist Bobby “Cupid” Beausoleil.
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And so it was that the soon-to-be convicted murderer replaced the cherubic hippie
child as the face of Lucifer. But what was it, one wonders, that drew Anger’s twisted
eye to the young boy? And how close a relationship did Anger have with Paulekas and
Franzoni? And most importantly, how did Godot Paulekas really die? We will likely
never know for sure, but let’s just quickly review some of the factors that might come
into play when searching for a solution to this mystery:
- The young boy was reportedly subjected to pedophilic treatment by his parents and
others.
- The boy’s parents displayed a truly chilling indifference to the child’s death.
- Kenneth Anger had expressed an interest in filming the boy.
- Pamela DesBarres contends that the toddler died during a “wacky photo session.”
- Alban Pfisterer has claimed that the child was drugged.
- Bobby Beausoleil has said that some of Anger’s film projects were for private
collectors: “every once in a while he’d do a little thing that wouldn’t be for
distribution.”
- Finally, according to biographer Bill Landis, Kenneth Anger was at one time
investigated by the police on suspicion that he had been producing snuff flicks.
You all will have to draw your own conclusions on this one. As a responsible journalist,
I obviously cannot indulge in any reckless speculation here, and I think we can all
agree that I have not tried to lead you in any specific direction, but have merely laid the
facts out on the table for your review. Moving on then …
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Pamela DesBarres shed further light on the dark edges of the Freak troupe with this
description of a scene that Vito had staged one evening in his studio: “two tenderly
young girls were tonguing each other … everyone was silently observing the scene as if
it were part of their necessary training by the headmaster, Vito … One of the girls on
the four-poster was only twelve years old, and a few months later Vito was deported to
Tahiti for this very situation, and many more just like it.”
It was actually Haiti that Vito appears to have fled to, and then to Jamaica (which at
the time had no extradition treaty with the United States), accompanied by his wife
Szou and their new baby daughter Groovee Nipple (or possibly Gruvi Nipple; does
anyone really care which is the proper spelling?) According to Miles, this occurred in
December of 1968, though other accounts vary. Carl Franzoni, meanwhile, became
embroiled in some unspecified legal troubles of his own and went into hiding,
resurfacing in Canada by some reports. At around that same time, Frank Zappa moved
on to yet another location in Laurel Canyon, a high-security home on Woodrow Wilson
Drive.
Also at around that same time, according to author Ed Sanders, the Manson Family
came calling at the Log Cabin: “One former Manson family associate claims that a
group of four to six family members lived on Laurel Canyon Boulevard in the log cabin
house once owned by cowboy-actor Tom Mix. They lived there for a few weeks, in late
1968, in a cave-like hollow in back of the residence.” According to Franzoni, Manson
also came calling at the Vito Clay studio on Laurel Avenue: “Applebaum took over
Vito’s place when Vito vacated at Beverly and Laurel. So he inherited all the people
that came after that … he was the beginning of the Manson clan. Manson came there
because he had heard about Vito but Vito was gone.”
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It does not appear as though Vito was actually deported, by the way, but rather that he
fled the country in a very Mike Ruppertian fashion to avoid likely prosecution. In any
event, it makes perfect sense, in retrospect, that Charlie Manson and his Family came
calling just as Vito fled the scene, and that a Mansonite replaced the Freak child as the
embodiment of Lucifer. For the truth, you see, is that, in many significant ways,
Charles Manson was little more than a younger version of Vito Paulekas. Consider, if
you will, all of the following Mansonesque qualities that Vito (and to some extent, Carl)
seemed to share:
- Vito appears to have spent a good portion of his younger years in prisons and reform
schools, as did, as we all know, Charles Milles Manson.
- Vito considered himself to be a gifted artist and poet, as did our old friend Charlie
Manson.
- Vito, according to Miles, “was something of a guru,” as was, quite obviously, Chuck
Manson.
- Vito surrounded himself with a flock of very young (often underage) women, as did
Manson.
- Vito was considerably older than his followers, and so too was Charlie.
- When Vito addressed his flock, they listened with rapt attention as though they were
being delivered the word of God, as was true with Charlie as well.
- Carl Franzoni was known to wear a black cape and refer to himself as “Captain Fuck,”
while Manson was also partial to black capes and declared himself to be “the God of
Fuck.”
- Vito is said to have had a virtually insatiable libido, as did, of course, Chuck Manson.
- Vito’s flock adopted nicknames to aid in the depersonalization process, as did
Charlie’s.
- Vito’s troupe included a Beverly Hills hairstylist named Sheldon Jaman, while
Charlie’s included a Beverly Hills hairpiece stylist named Charles Watson.
- Vito believed in introducing children to sexuality at a very young age, while in the
Manson Family, as Sanders has noted, “Infant sexuality was encouraged.”
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- Vito apparently liked to stage live sex shows for his followers, usually involving
underage participants, which was also a specialty of Charles Milles Manson.
- Finally, Vito encouraged his followers to drug themselves while he himself largely
abstained, thus enabling him to at all times maintain control, while Manson limited his
own drug intake for the very same reason.
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Franzoni and Manson were not, by the way, the only folks on the Laurel
Canyon/Sunset Strip scene who developed a fondness for black capes in the latter half
of the 1960s. As Michael Walker noted in Laurel Canyon, during that same period of
time David Crosby had “taken to wearing an Oscar Wilde/Frank Lloyd Wright-ish cape
wherever he went.”
In unrelated news, Ed Sanders notes in The Family that, “Around March 10, 1968, a
convoy of seven Process automobiles containing thirty people and fourteen Alsatian
dogs journeyed toward Los Angeles.” Vincent Bugliosi added, in his best-selling Helter
Skelter, that in “1968 and 1969, The Process launched a major recruiting drive in the
United States. They were in Los Angeles in May and June of 1968 and for at least
several months in the fall of 1969.” The Processians, it should be noted, were instantly
recognizable on the streets of LA due to the fact that they had a curious habit of
donning black capes wherever they went.
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In other news, it appears as though Frank Zappa also displayed some of the same lessthan-admirable qualities shared by Manson and Paulekas. As DesBarres observed,
“Vito was just like Frank, he never got high either. They were both ringmasters who
always wanted to be in control.” And as Barry Miles noted in his Zappa biography,
Frank’s daughter Moon “recalls men with straggling beards, body odour and bad
posture who crouched naked near her playthings …” Also, the “Zappa children watched
porn with their parents and were encouraged in their own sexuality as soon as they
reached puberty. When they became teenagers, Gail insisted they shower with their
overnight guests in order to conserve water.” Because, you know, apparently the
Zappas were having a hard time paying their water bill.
By the early 1970s, Vito Paulekas had resurfaced up north in Cotati, California, with
Carl Franzoni once again at his side. The two were, by all accounts, treated like rock
stars in the funky little town, and they are to this day proudly and prominently
featured on the city’s official website. By some accounts, Vito even served as mayor of
the town, with Franzoni assisting as his Director of Parks and Recreation. Paulekas
also taught classes at Sonoma State College, presumably in the art department. Szou
eventually split from Vito and went to work for an attorney, leaving the hippie life (and
hopefully the “Z” in her name) behind. Franzoni, meanwhile, turned up now and then
on that early version of America’s Got Talent known as The Gong Show (apparently as
one of the ‘Worm Dancers’).
The Gong Show, of course, was the brainchild of Chuck Barris, who famously claimed
that during the days when he appeared to be working as a mild-mannered game show
producer, he was actually on the payroll of the CIA, and that while he was ostensibly
serving as a chaperone to the couples who had won trips on The Dating Game, what he
was really doing was carrying out assassinations. Kind of like, I guess you could say,
that Harry Houdini guy. One reader, by the way, insists that “Chucky Baby” was at one
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time a resident of – guess where? – Laurel Canyon (though I have not been able to
confirm that).
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Anyway, during those same 1970s, “The cabin and treehouse scene,” according to Jack
Boulware, “grew creepy.” Actually, it had always been pretty creepy, it likely just
became a little more openly creepy. Eric Burden of the Animals moved in after Zappa
vacated and the property continued to be communally occupied. In fact, it appears to
have remained something of a commune throughout the 1970s, quite possibly right up
until the time that it burned to the ground on October 31, 1981. Who paid the rent is
anybody’s guess – as is why such a prestigious property seems to have been made
available for dirt cheap to pretty much any “communal family of weirdos” who wanted
to move in.
Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni appear to have remained in northern California
throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. Franzoni was still milling about the area as
recently as 2002. In February of this year, the aging Freak, now reportedly 74, rode
along on a tour of 1960s hotspots offered by a local tour company and delighted the
crowd by reenacting his distinctive dance style in front of Vito’s former studio. The
tour operator billed Franzoni as “the King of the Freaks,” a title formerly held by his
mentor, Vito Paulekas. The original king, alas, had died in October of 1992. His
memorial service was held, appropriately enough, on October 31, 1992.
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More images of Paulekas and Franzoni can be found at the following locations:
Mondo Hollywood
Vito Paulekas ("Popup Exhibits" at the bottom of the page)
Where the Action Was Hollywood Rock 'n Roll Tour
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Part 7
June 22, 2008
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Occult imagery from the film The Trip.
"As all halfway-decent managers in the rock era have done, [Jim] Dickson worked on
seducing the in-crowd and creating a buzz around [The Byrds] ... The timing was
perfect ... LA's baby-boomers were mobile, getting around, looking for action. And
now they were joined by the hip elite of Hollywood itself, from Sal Mineo and Peter
Fonda to junkie comic Lenny Bruce."
Barney Hoskyns, Waiting for the Sun
As important as the Freaks were to building an audience for the new Laurel Canyon
bands, there was another group that played a key role as well: Hollywood's so-called
"Young Turks." Like the Freaks, the Turks became an immediate and constant
presence on the newly emerging Sunset Strip scene. And as with the Freaks, their
presence on the Strip was heavily promoted by the media. Locals and tourists alike
knew where to go to gawk at the Freaks and, as an added bonus, quite possibly rub
shoulders with the likes of Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper
and Warren Beatty, along with their female counterparts like Jane Fonda, Nancy
Sinatra and Sharon Tate.
Many of these young and glamorous Hollywood stars forged very close bonds with the
Laurel Canyon musicians. Some of them, including Peter Fonda, found homes in the
canyon so that they could live, work and party among the rock stars (and, in their free
time, pass around John Phillips' wife to just about every swinging dick in the canyon,
including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, Roman Polanski, and Gene
Clark of The Byrds). Some of them never left; Jack Nicholson to this day lives in a
spacious estate just off the portion of Mulholland Drive that lies between Laurel
Canyon and Coldwater Canyon. Not far west of Nicholson's property (which now
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includes the neighboring estate formerly owned by Marlon Brando) sits the longtime
home of Warren Beatty.
From the symbiotic relationship between Laurel Canyon actors and Laurel Canyon
musicians arose a series of feature films that are now considered counter-cultural
classics. One such film was 1967's The Trip, an unintentionally hilarious attempt to
create a cinematic facsimile of an LSD trip. Written by, of all people, Jack Nicholson,
the movie starred fellow Turks Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern. Seated in
the director's chair was Roger Corman, who, throughout his career, worked side-byside with David Crosby's dad on no less than twenty-three feature films. Recruited to
supply the soundtrack for the film was Gram Parson's International Submarine Band
(Parson's music, however, was ultimately not used, though the band does make a brief
on-screen appearance). The house where most of the film was shot, at the top of
Kirkwood Drive in Laurel Canyon, was the home of Love's Arthur Lee.
Another 'psychedelic' cult film of the late 1960s with deep roots in Laurel Canyon was
the Monkee's 1968 big-screen offering, Head. Also scripted by Nicholson (with
assistance from Bob Rafelson), the movie included cameo appearances by canyon
dwellers Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Frank Zappa. The music - performed, of
course, by The Monkees - was a mix of songs written by the band and contributions
from Canyon songwriters like Carol King and Harry Nilsson. And shockingly, some of
that music is actually pretty good. Even more shockingly, the movie overall is arguably
the most watchable of the 1960s cult films. It is certainly a vast improvement over, for
example, 1968's wretched Psych Out (starring Nicholson and Dern).
I do realize, by the way, that some of you out there in readerland cringe every time that
I mention The Monkees as though they were a 'real' band. The reality though is that
they were every bit as 'real' as most of their contemporaries. And while the made-forTV Beatles replicants were looked down upon by music critics and fans alike, they were
fully accepted as members of the musical fraternity by the other Laurel Canyon bands.
The homes of both Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork were popular canyon hangouts in
the late '60s for a number of 'real' musicians. Also regularly dropping by Dolenz' party
house were Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
The difference in perception between their peers and the public was attributable to the
fact that the other bands knew something that the fans did not: the very same studio
musicians who appeared without credit on The Monkee's albums also appeared
without credit on their albums. And then, of course, there was the fact that so many of
Laurel Canyon's 'real' musicians had taken a stab at being a part of The Monkees,
including Steven Stills, Love's Bryan MacLean, and Three Dog Night's Danny Hutton all of whom answered the Monkees' casting call and were rejected.
There were undoubtedly other future stars who auditioned for the show as well, though
most would probably prefer not to discuss such things. Despite persistent rumors,
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however, there was one local musician who we can safely conclude did not read for a
part: Charles Manson. Given that the show was cast in 1965 and began its brief
television run in 1966, while Charlie was still imprisoned at Terminal Island awaiting
his release in March of 1967, there doesn't appear to be any way that Manson could
have been considered for a part on the show. And that's kind of a shame when you
think about it, because if he had been, we might today remember Charlie Manson not
as one of America's most notorious criminals, but rather as the guy who made Marcia
Brady swoon.
And, let's be honest here, would that really have been any worse than seeing her go gaga over the likes of Davy Jones? I mean, I could have understood if she had gotten
weak in the knees over, you know, a real man like David Cassidy or Bobby Sherman.
Now, I hope we can all agree that those guys were cool ... right? Is everyone with me on
this? Anyone? ... Anyone? ...
You know, I'm thinking back right now as I sit here, and I can actually picture in my
mind the covers of a couple of Bobby Sherman albums that I had in my personal coll ...
err, that we had lying around the house for some reason, I'm not really sure why, and
... come to think of it, I think there might have even been a Bobby Sherman poster or
two pulled from the pages of Tiger Beat magazine, and, uhmm, I suppose I can see how
that might seem a little bit, uhhh, what's the word I'm looking for? ... 'gay' or whatever
to a modern, twenty-first-century-man-about-town, but I'm sure that, if you checked
into it, you would find that there were a lot of young boys back 'in the day' who just
really dug Bobby Sherman and those great songs like "Julie (Do You Love Me)" and
"Easy Come, Easy Go" and ... uhmm ... maybe this is a good time to get back to where
we left off.
Returning then to the counter-cultural films of the 1960s, the most critically acclaimed
of the lot, and the one with the deepest roots in Laurel Canyon, was Easy Rider.
Directed (sort of) by Dennis Hopper, from a script co-written by he and Peter Fonda,
the film starred Fonda and Hopper along with Jack Nicholson (the only one in the
movie who did anything resembling actual acting). Hopper's walrus-mustachioed
character in the film was based on David Crosby, who was regularly seen racing his
motorcycle up and down the winding streets of Laurel Canyon (that motorcycle, by the
way, had been a gift from Crosby's good buddy, Peter Fonda). Fonda's absurd 'Captain
America' character was inspired either by John Phillips' riding partner, Gram Parsons,
or by Crosby's former bandmate in The Byrds, Roger McGuinn (depending upon who
is telling the story.) That very same Roger McGuinn scored the original music for the
film. His contributions were joined on the soundtrack by offerings from fellow
Canyonite musicians The Byrds, Steppenwolf, Fraternity of Man and Jimi Hendrix.
And the movie's hippie commune was reportedly created and filmed in the canyons,
near Mulholland Drive.
Since Easy Rider had such deep roots in the Laurel Canyon scene, we need to briefly
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focus our attention here on one other individual who worked on the film: art director
Jeremy Kay, aka Jerry Kay. Before Easy Rider, Kay had worked on such cinematic
abominations as Angels from Hell, Hells Angels on Wheels (with Jack Nicholson), and
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger's occult-tinged homage to gay bikers). In the mid1970s, Kay would write, direct and produce a charming little film entitled Satan's
Children. Of far more interest here than his film credits though is his membership in
the 1960s in a group known as the Solar Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis (or OTO),
which found itself in the news, and not in a good way, just after Easy Rider opened on
theater screens across America.
Two weeks after Easy Rider premiered on July 14, 1969, police acting on a phone tip
raided the Solar Lodge's compound near Blythe, California and found a six-year-old
boy locked outdoors in a 6'x6' wooden crate in the sweltering desert heat. The young
boy, whose father was a Los Angeles County probation officer (as was Michelle Phillip's
father, by the way), had been chained to a steel plate for nearly two months in
temperatures reaching as high as 117° F. According to an FBI report, the box also
contained a can "partially filled with human waste and swarming with flies ... The
stench was nauseating." Before being put in the box, the child had been burned with
matches and beaten with bamboo poles by cult members. The leader of the cult,
Georgina Brayton, had reportedly told cult members that "when it was convenient, she
was going to give [the boy] LSD and set fire to the structure in which he was chained
and give him just enough chain to get out of reach of the fire." Killing the child had also
been discussed (and apparently condoned by the boy's mind-fucked mother).
Eleven adult members of the sect were charged with felony child abuse, the majority of
them young white men in their early twenties. All were brought to trial and convicted.
In a curious bit of timing, the raid that resulted in the arrests and convictions
coincided with the torture and murder of musician Gary Hinman by a trio of Manson
acolytes. Though it is, not surprisingly, vehemently denied by concerned parties,
various sources have claimed that Manson had ties to the group, which also
maintained a home near the USC campus in Los Angeles. There is no doubt that
Charlie preached the same dogma, including the notion of an apocalyptic race war
looming on the horizon. The massacre at the Tate residence occurred less than two
weeks after the raid on the OTO compound. Manson's Barker Ranch hideout would be
raided a few months later, on October 12, 1969 - the birthday, as I may have already
mentioned, of Aleister Crowley, the Grand Poobah of the OTO until his death in 1947.
Sorry about that little digression, folks. I'm not entirely sure how we ended up at the
Barker Ranch when the focus of this installment was supposed to be on the Young
Turks. So having now established that those Turks were a fully integrated part of the
Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene, and also that they played an important role in
luring the public out to the new clubs to check out the new bands, our next task is to
get to know a little bit about who these folks are and where they came from. Let's begin
with Mr. Bruce Dern, who has some of the most provocative connections of any of the
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characters in this story.
It is probably safe to say that Dern's parents had rather impressive political
connections, given that baby Bruce's godparents were sitting First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt and future two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson (he
lost both times, in 1952 and 1956, to Eisenhower). Bruce's paternal grandfather was a
guy by the name of George Dern, who served as Secretary of War under President
Franklin Roosevelt (for the youngsters in the crowd, 'Secretary of War' is what we used
to call the 'Secretary of Defense' in a slightly less Orwellian era). George had also
served as Governor of Utah and Chairman of the National Governors' Association.
Bruce's mother was born Jean MacLeish, and she happened to be the sister of
Archibald MacLeish, who also served under Franklin Roosevelt, as the Director of the
War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and as the Assistant Director of the
Office of War Information. In other words, Archibald MacLeish was essentially
America's Minister of War Propaganda. He also served at various times as an Assistant
Secretary of State and as the Librarian of Congress. By far the most impressive item on
his résumé, however, was his membership in everyone's favorite secret society, Skull
and Bones (class of 1915, one year before Prescott Bush was tapped in 1916).
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Bruce Dern and Peter Fonda in The Trip. The view from Arthur Lee's Laurel Canyon home.
It would appear then that, even by Laurel Canyon standards, Mr. Dern has friends in
very high places. Let's turn our attention next to the guy being embraced by Dern in
the photo above, Mr. Peter Fonda. Of course, we all know that Fonda is the son of good
ol' Hank Fonda, lovable Hollywood liberal and all-around nice guy. And certainly even
a contrarian such as myself would not be so bold as to suggest that Henry Fonda might
have some skeletons in his closet ... right? Just for the hell of it though, there are a few
chapters of the Hank Fonda saga that we should probably review here.
We can begin, I suppose, by noting that Hank served as a decorated US Naval
Intelligence officer during World War II, thus sparing Peter the stigma of being the
only member of the Laurel Canyon in-crowd to have not been spawned by a member of
the military/intelligence community. Not too many years after the war, Hank's wife,
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Francis Ford Seymour, was found with her throat slashed open with a straight razor.
Peter was just ten years old at the time of his mother's, uhmm, suicide on April 14,
1950. When Seymour had met and married Hank, she was the widow of George
Brokaw, who had, curiously enough, previously been married to prominent CIA asset
Claire Booth Luce.
Fonda rebounded quickly from Seymour's unusual death and within eight months he
was married once again, to Susan Blanchard, to whom he remained married until
1956. In 1957, Hank married yet again, this time to Italian Countess Afdera Franchetti
(who followed up her four-year marriage to Fonda with a rumored affair with newlysworn-in President John Kennedy). Franchetti, as it turns out, is the daughter of Baron
Raimondo Franchetti, who was a consultant to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The
countess is also the great-granddaughter of Louise Sarah Rothschild, of the everpopular Rothschild banking family (perhaps you've heard of them?)
Before moving on, I should probably mention that Hank's first wife, Margaret Sullavan
- who was yet another child of Norfolk, Virginia - also allegedly committed suicide, on
New Year's Day, 1960. Nine months later, her daughter Bridget followed suit. In 1961,
very soon after the deaths of first her mother and then her sister, Sullavan's other
daughter, Brook Hayward, walked down the aisle with the next Young Turk on our list,
Dennis Hopper. For those who may be unfamiliar with Hopper's body of work, he is
the guy who was once found wandering naked and bewildered in a Mexican forest. And
the guy who, after divorcing Hayward in 1969, married Michelle Phillips on Halloween
day, 1970, only to have her file for divorce just eight days later claiming that Hopper
had kept her handcuffed and imprisoned for a week while making "unnatural sexual
demands."
Without passing judgment here, I think it's fair to say that Michelle Phillips has been
around the block a time or two, if you catch my drift, so if even she thought Hopper's
demands were a bit over the top, then one can only wonder just how "unnatural" they
might have been. For what it's worth, Hopper just recently told a journalist that he
"didn't handcuff her, [he] just punched her out!" In his mind, apparently, that makes
him somewhat less of an asshole.
Most official biographies of Hopper would lead one to believe that he was the son of a
simple farmer. Dennis recently acknowledged, however, that that was clearly not the
case: "My mother's father was a wheat farmer and I was raised on their farm. But my
father was not a farmer." To the contrary, Hopper's dad was "a working person in
intelligence" who during WWII "was in the OSS. He was in China, Burma, India."
Hopper has proudly proclaimed that his father "was one of the 100 guys that liberated
General Wainright out of prison in Korea," which might be a little more impressive
were it not for the fact that it was actually the Red Army that freed Wainright and
other prisoners; the US intel team just came to pick them up, debrief them and
transport them home ... but that, I suppose, isn't really relevant.
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After the war, according to Hopper, his dad carried a gun, which I suppose is what
most lay ministers in the Methodist Church do. The family also left the farm in Kansas
and relocated to San Diego, California, home of the Imperial Beach Naval Air Station,
the United States Naval Radio Station, the United States Naval Amphibious Base, the
North Island Naval Air Station, Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation, the United States
Naval Training Center, the United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and the
Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. And just north of the city sits the massive Camp
Pendleton Marine Corps Base. Other than that though, San Diego is just a sleepy little
beach town where Hopper's dad ostensibly worked for the Post Office.
The modern version of Dennis Hopper, by the way, is wildly at odds with the hippie
image that he at one time tried very hard to cultivate. Today's Dennis Hopper is an
unapologetic cheerleader for Team Bush who proudly boasts of having voted a straight
Republican ticket for nearly thirty years. He could very well turn up on the campaign
trail in the coming months with his lips firmly planted on the ass of war criminal John
McCain.
To briefly recap then, we have thus far met three of the 'Young Turks' and we have
found that one of them is the nephew of a Bonesman, another is the son of a Naval
Intelligence officer who was once married to a Rothschild descendent, and the third is
the slightly deranged son of an OSS officer. Come to think of it, we have actually
covered one of the 'Turkettes' as well, since Jane Fonda obviously came from the same
family background as her younger brother, Peter. As for the other female members of
the posse, Sharon Tate was the daughter of Lt. Col. Paul Tate, a career US Army
intelligence officer, and Nancy Sinatra is, of course, the daughter of Francis Albert
Sinatra, whose known associates included Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Sam
Giancana, Carlo Gambino, Goetano Luchese and Joseph Fishetti (a cousin of Al
Capone).
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10050 Cielo Drive (now 10066 Cielo Drive), as it looks today.
Frank Sinatra was also a client of hairdresser-to-the-stars Jay Sebring, as was Henry
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Fonda, who also at one time, strangely enough, lived in the guesthouse at 10050 Cielo
Drive. Yet another client of Sebring's was the next Young Turk on our list, Warren
Beatty, whose father, Ira Owens Beaty, was ostensibly a professor of psychology. Young
Warren, however, spent all of his early years living in various spooky suburbs of
Washington, DC. He was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1937, after which his father
moved the family to Norfolk, Virginia, which I think I may have mentioned is home to
the world's largest Naval facility (the reason for that, by the way, is that Norfolk is the
gateway to the nation's capital). The family later relocated to Arlington, Virginia, home
of the Pentagon, where Warren attended high school and where he was known on the
football field, as John Phillips (who attended a rival school) remembers it, as 'Mad
Dog' Beaty.
Ira Beaty's relatively frequent relocations, and the fact that those relocations always
seemed to land the family in DC suburbs that are of considerable significance to the
military/intelligence community, would tend to indicate that Warren's dad was
something other than what he appeared to be - though that is, of course, a speculative
assessment. But if Ira Beaty was on the payroll of some government entity, working
within the psychology departments of various DC-area universities, then it wouldn't
require a huge leap of faith to further speculate about what type of work he was doing,
given the wholesale co-opting of the field of psychology by the MK-ULTRA program
and affiliated projects.
The next Young Turk up for review is the one who went on to become arguably the
most acclaimed actor of his generation, Mr. Jack Nicholson. The following is a
biographical sketch of Nicholson as presented by Wikipedia: "Bundy was born at the
Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. The identity of his
father remains a mystery ... To avoid social stigma, Bundy's grandparents Samuel and
Eleanor Cowell claimed him as their son; in taking their last name, he became
Theodore Robert Cowell. He grew up believing his mother Eleanor Louise Cowell to be
his older sister. Bundy biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth state that
he learned Louise was actually his mother while he was in high school. True crime
writer Ann Rule states that it was around 1969, shortly following a traumatic breakup
with his college girlfriend."
Uhhm ... hang on a minute ... I think I might have screwed up. Something doesn't seem
quite right, but I'm not exactly sure what .... Oh, shit! I see what I did wrong! I
accidentally cut and pasted 'serial killer' Ted Bundy's bio instead of Jack Nicholson's.
Sorry about that. This is how Jack's bio is supposed to read: Nicholson was born at
some indeterminate location to an underage, unwed showgirl. The identity of his
father remains a mystery ... To avoid social stigma, Nicholson's grandparents John
Joseph and Ethel Nicholson claimed him as their son; in taking their last name, he
became John Joseph Nicholson, Jr. He grew up believing his mother June Francis
Nicholson to be his older sister. Reporters state that he learned June was actually his
mother in 1974, when he was 37 years old. By then, June had been dead for just over a
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decade, having only lived to the age of 44.
It is said that Nicholson was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, but there
is no record of such a birth at the hospital or in the city's archives. As it turns out, Jack
Nicholson has no birth certificate. Until 1954, by which time he was nearly an adult, he
did not officially exist. Even today, the closest thing he has to a birth certificate is a
'Certificate of a Delayed Report of Birth' that was filed on May 24, 1954. The document
lists John and Ethel Nicholson as the parents and identifies the location of the birth as
the Nicholson's home address in Neptune, New Jersey.
It appears then that there is no way to determine who Jack Nicholson really is. He has
told journalists that he has no interest in identifying who his father was, nor, it would
appear, in verifying his mother's identity. What we do know is that the nucleus of the
1960s clique known as the Young Turks (and Turkettes) was composed of the following
individuals: the nephew of a Bonesman; the son of an OSS officer; the son of a Naval
intelligence officer; the daughter of that same Naval intelligence officer; the daughter
of an Army intelligence officer; the daughter of a guy who openly associated with
prominent gangsters throughout his life; the son of a probable spychologist; and a guy
whose early years are so shrouded in mystery that he may or may not actually exist.
I should probably also mention here that Henry Fonda scored his first acting gig
through Dorothy "Dodie" Brando, the director of a local theater and the mother of Jack
Nicholson's future neighbor, Marlon Brando. Being the small world that it is, Marlon's
mom happened to be a good friend of Hank's mom, Elma Fonda. Truth be told, the
families had likely had close ties for a long time. A very long time. The ancestors of
both Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda, you see, arrived in New York at nearly the
same time, roughly three-and-a-half centuries ago.
Marlon Brando is in a direct line of descent from French Huguenot colonists Louis
DuBois and Catharine Blanchan DuBois, who arrived in New York from Mannheim,
Germany circa 1660 and promptly founded New Rochelle. Other descendents of
DuBois include former U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall, former Massachusetts
Governor and CFR member William Weld, current California First Lady Maria Shriver,
and quite likely U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Zachary Taylor.
Henry Fonda, on the other hand, is a direct descendent of Jellis Douw Fonda and
Hester Jans Fonda, Dutch colonists who arrived in New York circa 1650 and settled
near what would become Albany. The Fondas had sailed out of Friesland, Netherlands
on a ship dubbed the Valckenier, which happened to be co-owned by a very wealthy
Dutchman by the name of Jan-Baptist van Rensselaer. And Mr. van Rensselaer, as
those who have been paying attention in class will recall, happened to be from the
bloodline that would one day produce a guy by the name of David van Cortland Crosby.
It would appear then that Peter Fonda kind of owed Crosby that Triumph motorcycle
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that he gave him back in the '60s, what with David's ancestors having been cool
enough to give Peter's ancestors a lift over to the New World and all.
One other thing we could note here about Hank Fonda before wrapping up this
installment: on September 28, 1919, when Henry was just fourteen years old, he bore
witness to a crime so brutally sadistic and depraved that one wonders what such an
event would do to a young boy's psyche. According to an account published at the time,
a young black man named Will Brown, accused of raping a white girl, was beaten
unconscious by an angry mob. His clothes were then torn off and he was hanged from
a lamppost. Though quite dead, his corpse was then riddled with bullets, after which
he was cut down and dragged behind a car. His body was then doused with fuel and
burned. Following that, Mr. Brown's charred, battered, bullet-ridden corpse was
proudly dragged through the streets of downtown. To commemorate the event, the
lynch rope was cut into small pieces that were sold for 10 cents each to eager buyers.
And that, my friends, is a snapshot of the sick society we live in ... but here, perhaps, I
have digressed.
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Another view of 10066 Cielo Drive; now as in the sixties it is accessed via the private road that runs
behind the stilt homes.
Let's wrap up this installment with a quick review of what we have learned about the
people populating Laurel Canyon in the mid-to-late 1960s. We know that one subset of
residents was a large group of musicians who all decided, nearly simultaneously, to
flood into the canyon. The most prominent members of this group were, to an
overwhelming degree, the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence community.
We also know that mingled in with them were the young stars of Hollywood, who also
were, to an astonishing degree, the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence
community. And, finally, we know that also in the mix were scores of
military/intelligence personnel who operated out of the facility known as Lookout
Mountain Laboratory.
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I got to tell you here folks that, given the relatively small size of Laurel Canyon, I'm
beginning to wonder if there was any room left over for any normal folks who might
have wanted to live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. But even so, I'm sure that there are still
some hardcore 'coincidence theorists' in the crowd who will still see all of this as "much
ado about nothing." I am committed though to helping those folks see the light, no
matter how much it might hurt their sensitive eyes, so I am going to toss one more
provocative element into the Laurel Canyon mix, courtesy of Paul Young's L.A.
Exposed:
"The most infamous male madam [throughout LA's sordid history] would have to be
Billy Bryars, the wealthy son of an oil magnate, and part-time producer of gay porn.
Bryars was said to have a stellar group of customers using his 'brothel' at the summit of
Laurel Canyon. In fact, some have claimed that none other than J. Edgar Hoover, the
founder and chief executive officer of the FBI, was one of his best clients ... when
Bryars fell under police scrutiny in 1973, allegedly for trafficking in child pornography,
officers obtained a number of confessions from some of his hustlers, and some of them
identified Hoover and [Clyde] Tolson as 'Mother John and Uncle Mike,' and claimed
that they had serviced them on numerous occasions."
It appears then that the top law-enforcement officials in the nation were also a part of
the Laurel Canyon scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s, along with various other
unnamed persons of prominence. And we also find, not too shockingly at this point,
that Laurel Canyon was a portal of child pornography, which of course goes hand-inhand with the reports that we have already reviewed of organized, multi-perpetrator
child sexual abuse. And lest we forget, we also have that long and bloody Laurel
Canyon Death List, which, in the next installment, is going to get even longer, and even
bloodier.
Stay tuned ...
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And now, faithful readers, allow me to address a few common questions that have
arisen, beginning with:
1. Where the hell are the freakin' photo captions? How am I supposed to know what I
am looking at?
Sorry about that. I meant to include a note with the last two posts instructing readers
that the photos have pop-up captions; if you let your cursor hover over the images, the
secrets should be revealed.
2. What is the subtitle of the series, "The Strange but Mostly True Story ..." supposed
to mean? Do you just make this shit up as you go along?
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The subtitle alludes to the fact that when dealing with anything concerning Hollywood,
there is almost always more than one version of the 'truth.' Much of what passes for
truth in Hollywood is actually legend and mythmaking, and much of what is dismissed
as rumor and legend is actually at least an approximation of the truth. I have
endeavored to report this story as accurately as humanly possible by utilizing my
finely-honed bullshit detector to separate fact from fiction. Most of the important
details of the story, in any event, are not disputed.
3. Are you planning on ultimately publishing this as a book?
I doubt it. I considered putting it together as a book manuscript, but I ultimately
decided to put it out on the Internet instead, for a couple of reasons, the first of which
is that I wanted people to actually read it. And you people, if we're being honest here,
aren't really into that 'old school' concept of buying and reading books. The reality is
that, based on the traffic to my site of late, far more people have read this series in the
couple of months that it was been in progress than have read my last book after four
years in print.
The other reason that I chose to present this material via the Internet is so that all of
you can help to insure that the story is told as accurately as possible. This is, in a sense,
a collaborative effort. Though I am willing to do most of the heavy lifting, I am relying
on all of you to point out any gaffes or omissions. In other words, this is very much a
work in progress and I have already made some minor corrections in previous posts
thanks to feedback from readers.
Thanks to one particularly helpful reader who has access to California's Birth, Death,
Marriage and Divorce Indexes, as well as U.S. Census information, we now know a
little more about the Paulekas clan than we did before. Vitautas Alfonso Paulekas was
born on May 20, 1913 in Massachusetts, the son of John and Rose Paulekas. He had
one older sister, Albena, and two younger brothers, Bronislo and John. Vito married
Szou (real name Sueanne C. Shaffer) on July 7, 1961, when he was 48 and she was just
18. If they met when she was 16, as seems quite probable, then Vito was 46 at the time,
rather than in his fifties as previously reported.
By far the most interesting information to surface concerns young Godo Paulekas.
Born on December 1, 1963, Godo died on December 23, 1966, having just made it past
his third birthday. December 23 was, curiously enough, the winter solstice (or very
close to it). And it wasn't just any winter solstice, mind you, but specifically the first
winter solstice in the Age of Satan (as declared by Kenneth Anger's buddy, Anton
LaVey, on April 30, 1966). The date of his death also means that young Godo died less
than 48 hours before Christmas morning, and yet his parents still thought it a good
time to go out dancing.
Vito and Sueanne divorced in Northern California in March of 1975. Before doing so,
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they produced several more children, each given increasingly ridiculous names. Gruvi
Nipples Paulekas was born on June 23, 1967, exactly six months after Godo's death
and, therefore, very near the summer solstice. Bp Paulekas was born on December 29,
1969, just days after the third anniversary of Godo's death. Bizarrely enough, Sky
Paulekas was born on December 1, 1971, on what would have been Godo's eighth
birthday. Last but certainly not least, Phreekus Mageekus Paulekas was born on
January 28, 1974, a little over a year before Vito and Sueanne divorced. According to
one report, Gruvi has joined Godo in the great beyond, a victim of her voracious
appetite for drugs and alcohol.
As for Carl Franzoni, there were indeed a couple of brothers named Franzoni who were
brought over from Italy in the early 1800s to carve the Masonic monuments of
Washington. According to Ihna Thayer Frary's book, They Built the Capitol, Guiseppe
Franzoni (and his brother Carlo) "had especially good family connections in Italy, he
being a nephew of Cardinal Franzoni and son of the President of the Academy of Fine
Arts at Carrara." Also shipped over were Francisco Iardella, a cousin of the Franzoni
brothers, and Giovanni Andrei, a brother-in-law of Guiseppe Franzoni. Thus far, I have
been unable to verify that Carl Franzoni is in fact descended from these men, but it
seems quite likely given that Carl would probably not be aware of such an obscure
chapter of American history were it not for a family connection.
One final note: I looked it up and it turns out that Bobby Sherman ended up becoming
a sheriff's deputy. For real. Unlike his late-1960s Here Comes the Brides co-star, David
Soul, who later became fake bad-ass cop 'Hutch,' Bobby became a real bad-ass cop. So
I guess he was pretty cool after all. Except for, of course, the hair. And the clothes. And
the sappy songs. And the bad acting. And ...
Let's just forget that I ever brought it up.
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Part 8
July 24, 2008
"No one here gets out alive"
Jim Morrison
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Dr. Strangelove
My apologies to readers for the long delay in getting this post up. These past several
weeks have not been easy ones for your fearless host. Things started going south near
the end of June, when our beloved family cat was taken ill and died upon arrival at the
local vet's office. To many readers, this may seem a rather insignificant loss, but I have
to say, in all honesty, that Thomas just may have been the coolest cat to ever prowl the
streets of Los Angeles. His presence in our home is surely missed.
Not too long after Thomas' passing, my computer became quite ill as well. At first, it
looked as though there was little hope of saving her. My tech buddy had all but
pronounced her DOA when he unexpectedly detected a faint spark of life and a will to
live. She could be saved, he proclaimed, but it would take some time and money. Given
her advanced age (2 in human years, which is about 137 in computer years), he
suggested I might be better off buying a new model. But then, of course, I would find
myself face-to-face with the dreaded abomination known as Windows Vista. Also, I
didn't really need the headache and tedium of setting up a new machine, transferring
everything over, etc.
So I decided to wait it out, and for several days I found myself completely lost in the
world. My computer and my cat, you see, were my two very best non-human friends.
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They were also, more importantly, my research assistants. I am a night-owl by nature
and it is in the wee hours of the morning, when the wife and kids are fast asleep, that I
create literary masterpieces (like the one you are reading right now). My two trusted
and loyal companions in those endeavors have long been my computer and my cat.
And now they were both gone. Fuck.
The computer ultimately made a full recovery and returned home ready for action.
Thomas, unfortunately, would not be coming back, so we would have to soldier on
without him. But then, alas, came news of a far greater tragedy: a friend of 20+ years
had succumbed to injuries sustained in a rock-climbing accident near his home in
Superior, Colorado. Just 47 years old and an avid outdoorsman, rock climber,
mountain biker and hockey player, he leaves behind that which he cherished most in
his life - three young kids, the oldest of whom is just 14. He was a good man and a good
friend who touched many lives during his relatively short stay here on planet Earth,
and he will not soon be forgotten.
It is, therefore, with a heavy heart that I return now to my position as self-appointed
Laurel Canyon tour guide.
Sometimes pieces of the puzzle just seem to fall from the heavens. I don't really know
why that happens - and to be honest, I find it somewhat disconcerting at times. On
Sunday, July 6, the venerable Washington Post, in a most timely manner, generously
provided a new piece of the puzzle that even I, your jaded host, find rather remarkable.
It seems that a former reporter and novelist by the name of Alex Abella "has written a
history of RAND, which was founded more than 60 years ago by the Air Force as a font
of ideas on how that service might fight and win a nuclear war with the USSR ... Abella
focuses on Albert Wohlstetter, a mathematical logician turned nuclear strategist who
was the dominant figure at Rand starting in the early 1950s and whose influence has
extended beyond his death in 1997 into the current Bush administration ... Wohlstetter
epitomized what became known as the 'RAND approach' -- relentlessly reductive,
determinedly quantitative analysis of whatever problem the independent, non-profit
think tank was assigned, whether the design of a new bomber or improving public
education in inner-city schools."
Let me interrupt here for just a brief moment to note that the RAND corporation is a
lot of things, but "independent" has never been one of them. Anyway, getting back to
the Post's timely book review, we find that "it was not so much Wohlstetter himself as
his acolytes ... who had a major impact in Washington." Most of those acolytes need no
introduction, as the names should be instantly recognizable to just about everyone:
Richard Perle (who once dated Wohlstetter's daughter), Paul Wolfowitz, Zalmay
Khalilzad, and Andrew Marshall ("formerly a RAND economist, who, as promoter of
the high-tech 'Revolution in Military Affairs' in Donald Rumsfeld's Defense
Department, was dubbed the Pentagon's 'Yoda'.")
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In the latter half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, while Wohlstetter was with the
RAND corporation and also a professor at UCLA (and while his wife Roberta also
worked as an analyst for RAND), Albert and his followers - the men who now serve as
the apparent architects of US foreign policy - regularly met in a heavily wooded
neighborhood in Los Angeles known as ... actually, I think I'm going to defer back to
the Washington Post's book review and let journalist Gregg Herken tell you how
"those bright, eager and ambitious young men ... had sat cross-legged on
the floor with their mentor at his stylish house in (drum roll, please!)
Laurel Canyon."
The title of the Post's book review is "Dr. Strangelove's Workplace," which presumably
is a reference to the notorious RAND corporation. But I think that we can all agree that
the title could just as easily apply to Wohlstetter's stylish Laurel Canyon home. In fact,
as the pieces of this puzzle continue to fall into place, it is beginning to seem as though
"Dr. Strangelove's Workplace" might be a good title for the entire damn canyon. We
now know that, in addition to hosting both a secret military/intelligence facility and a
call-boy/kiddy-porn operation servicing prominent public figures, Laurel Canyon was
also the birthplace and meeting place of what we now know as the 'neocon'/PNAC
crowd, as well as the home base of the guiding light of the Rand corporation.
Thus far in our journey, we have encountered Masons, the FBI, the OSS, the CIA, the
secret society known as Skull and Bones, the Rothschild family, military intelligence of
every conceivable stripe, the OTO, the RAND corporation, the 'neocon' cabal, and just
about every other nefarious group that regularly pops up in the 'conspiracy' literature with one very obvious exception: we have not yet met up with any member of the
legendary Rockefeller clan. Luckily though, we're about to remedy that oversight.
This next contribution comes from deep within the archives of Time magazine, from an
article entitled "The Bride Wore Pink," published six decades ago on February 23,
1948: "One morning last week, bespectacled Bryant Bowden, editor of the weekly
Okeechobee (Fla.) News, sauntered into the Okeechobee courthouse and stopped to
eye the bulletin board in the main hall. Among the marriage-license applications,
which, by Florida law, must be publicly posted for three days before a ceremony, he
saw something which made him goggle. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, of New York - the
fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons and one of the most eligible bachelors in
the world - had stated his intention of marrying one Eva Sears, also of New York."
"Editor Bowden had a bitter moment - his paper would not be published for two days.
Then he remembered that he was the Okeechobee correspondent for the Associated
Press. He telephoned the AP office in Jacksonville. A few hours later, the whole U.S.
journalistic horizon glowed a bright pink with the fireworks he had touched off."
"While the first headlines blazed (and while Manhattan gossip columnists scrambled
to assure their readers that they had known all about the romance for months), herds
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of reporters were dispatched to find an answer to the question: Who is Eva Sears?
Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker (Ghighi Cassini) haughtily announced that she was Mrs.
Barbara Paul Sears of the fine old Philadelphia Pauls and thus a society girl of
impeccable pedigree. He was wrong."
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Jievute Paulekas, aka 'Bobo' Rockefeller, on the cover of Life Magazine
Indeed he was. So who was this mystery woman - this woman who had once had a
brief career in Hollywood before moving to Paris and taking a job as a secretary at the
U.S. embassy? She appears to have gone by many names at different times in her life,
including Eva Paul, Eva Paul Sears, Barbara Paul, Barbara Paul Sears, and "Bobo"
Rockefeller. None of them, however, was the name she was given at the time of her
birth. As Time magazine noted so many years ago, "Her parents were Lithuanian
immigrants and she was born Jievute Paulekiute in a coal patch near Noblestown, Pa."
Even that, however, was not her real name - at least not by American custom and
tradition.
In her parents' homeland, I am told, "Paulekiute" is the feminine version of a surname
we have previously encountered: "Paulekas," which was her parents' surname. Eva
Paul's father, as it turns out, just happened to be the brother of Vito Paulekas' father (a
fact verified by - and brought to my attention by - a member of the Paulekas family.)
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I'm no genealogist, but I'm pretty sure that that means that the self-styled "King of the
Hippies" was a first cousin of "Bobo" Rockefeller, and a cousin-in-law (or something
like that) of Winthrop Rockefeller himself. Vito was also a cousin of the couple's only
child, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, who would later serve as the Lieutenant Governor of
the state of Arkansas.
The Paulekas family, alas, missed the couple's day of celebration. According to Time,
"Bobo's mother and stepfather ... were unable to attend the ceremony because they
were making a batch of Lithuanian cheese on their Indiana farm." I guess we all have
our priorities. Truth be told though, the Paulekas clan has a somewhat different
explanation: they were deliberately excluded from the ceremony as it was felt they
were a bit too uncultured to break bread with the likes of the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor and the Marquess of Blandford.
We will be revisiting Vito Paulekas in an upcoming edition, to review other new
information that has come my way. For now, we will just note that we can add the
Rockefellers to the list of folks connected to the Laurel Canyon scene. And that, of
course, made Laurel Canyon the ideal place for all the rock musicians and hippies and
flower children to hang out in the 1960s and 1970s, even with the stench from all the
dead bodies that kept piling up. Speaking of which, let's check in and see what names
have been added to the Laurel Canyon Death List since we last took a peek.
The first new name I see is Mr. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, who purportedly
drowned without assistance in his home swimming pool on July 3, 1969, at the age of
27 (Jim Morrison would allegedly die precisely two years later, also at the age of 27).
Just three days after Jones' tragic death, the Stones, with the Hells Angels providing
security, played a previously-scheduled concert in Hyde Park, footage of which appears
in Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother. Despite his (disputed) claims of
being the founder of the Stones, Jones had been unceremoniously dumped by the
group on June 9, less than a month before his death. He was replaced just four days
later by Mick Taylor (who would later leave the group and be replaced by Ron Wood).
It would later be claimed that Jones was booted from the band due to his grossly
inflated ego and his chronic substance abuse problems.
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©Unknown
Anton LaVey, of the Church of Satan, from Invocation of my Demon Brother
"Fair enough," you say, "but what does any of that have to do with Laurel Canyon?
Clearly the Stones were not a Laurel Canyon band." True enough, but as Barney
Hoskyns has written (in Hotel California), "In the summer of 1968 the English band
was flirting heavily with Satanism and the occult ... and spending a lot of time in Los
Angeles." A lot of time, that is, in and around Laurel Canyon - and during that time,
Mick Jagger was involved in two occult-drenched film projects: Kenneth Anger's
Lucifer Rising and Donald Cammell's Performance.
Jagger was the first musical superstar tapped by Anger to compose a soundtrack for
his Lucifer Rising project, which at the time was to star Mansonite Bobby Beausoleil
(who had, as we all remember, replaced Godo Paulekas). Anger would later solicit a
soundtrack for the long-delayed film project from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the
proud owner of one of the world's largest collections of Aleister Crowley memorabilia,
including Crowley's notorious Boleskine estate on the shores of Scotland's Loch Ness.
When ultimately released, however, the film featured a soundtrack by neither Jagger
nor Page, but rather one that was composed, recorded and arranged inside a prison
cell by convicted murderer Bobby Beausoleil. The pre-prison footage that Anger had
shot of Beausoleil, meanwhile, ended up in a different film: the aforementioned
Invocation of My Demon Brother. Starring in Lucifer Rising, as Osiris, was
Performance writer and co-director Donald Seaton Cammell.
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©Unknown
Donald Cammell as Osiris, from Lucifer Rising
Donald Cammell was the son of Charles Richard Cammell, who happened to be a close
friend and biographer of notorious occultist and British intelligence asset Aleister
Crowley. Donald himself was the godson of the Great Beast. Cammell's decidedly
Crowleyian film was originally to star his good friend Marlon Brando, but the role
ultimately went to actor James Fox. Brando and Cammell, by the way, once wrote a
novel together - a novel so horrifyingly bad that I dare not mention its title here for
fear that some of you may purchase it out of curiosity and then blame me for any
trauma you endure while attempting to actually read it.
Speaking of Brando, by the way, have I mentioned yet the curious string of deaths that
began eighteen years ago, on May 16, 1990, when Marlon's son Christian gunned down
Dag Drollet, the father of his sister Cheyenne's unborn child, in Marlon's Laurel
Canyon-adjacent home? Though convicted, Christian got off with a rather light
sentence, thanks primarily to Marlon having had his own daughter, the prosecution's
potential star witness, locked away in a mental institution in Tahiti, safe from
subpoena. A few years later, on April 14, 1995, 25-year-old Cheyenne was found
swinging from the end of a rope, her death unsurprisingly ruled a suicide.
The next year, Christian Brando was released from prison and promptly became
involved with a woman by the name of Bonnie Lee Bakley, who caught a bullet to the
head on May 4, 2001 while in the company of new hubby Robert Blake (her tenth
husband). Marlon dropped dead next, on July 1, 2004 (though his death wasn't
particularly suspicious, given that he was getting on in years). His home was promptly
purchased by good friend and neighbor Jack Nicholson, who immediately announced
plans to bulldoze it, declaring the structure to be decrepit. He never did though explain
why a man wealthy enough to own his own chain of Polynesian islands was
purportedly living in a derelict abode. A few years later, on January 26 of 2008,
Christian Brando dropped dead at the relatively young age of 49.
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Returning now, after that brief digression, to our discussion of Donald Cammell's
Performance, we find that Mick Jagger was cast to play the role of 'Turner,' a
debauched rock star (which, obviously, was a real stretch for Mick). Fox played 'Chas,'
a violent organized-crime figure. He was trained for the role by David Litvinoff, a reallife crime figure and associate of the notoriously sadistic Kray brothers. Litvinoff
reportedly sent Fox to the south of London for a couple of months to hang out with his
gangster buddies; when he returned, according to various accounts, Fox had literally
become the violent character he portrayed in the film.
©Unknown
Bobby Beausoleil from Invocation of my Demon Brother
Recruited to create the film's soundtrack was Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche, an
occultist and the son of a supposed 'medium.' Nitzsche, along with Sonny Bono, had
begun his music career as a lieutenant for gun-brandishing producer Phil Spector
(Nitzsche was one of the architects of Spector's famed "wall of sound"). Nitzsche was
also a familiar presence on the Laurel Canyon scene, collaborating with such noted
bands and artists as Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Randy Newman,
Michelle Phillips, The Turtles, Captain Beefheart and Carole King. Nitzsche also
worked with several of the people we will be adding today to the Laurel Canyon Death
List, including David Blue, Ricky Nelson and Sonny Bono. And one guy who was
already added to the list: Tim Buckley.
Nitzsche's Performance soundtrack was composed, according to author Michael
Walker, "in a witch's cottage in the canyon" (I'm not exactly sure what a "witch's
cottage" is, but it's nice to know that Laurel Canyon had one). One of the musicians
hired by Nitzsche to play on that soundtrack was Lowell George, who we will also be
adding to the Laurel Canyon Death List. For now, let's add Donald Cammell to the list,
since on April 24, 1996, he became yet another of the characters in this story to catch a
bullet to the head (need I add here that the wound was reportedly self-inflicted?)
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Nitzsche died five years later of a heart attack, on August 25, 2000. A few years earlier,
he had made an appearance on primetime television - as a gun-brandishing drunkard
arrested on the streets of Hollywood on 'Cops'.
Before moving on, there is one other thing I need to mention about Cammell's film:
John Phillips once stated that Performance was about estranging one's self from
society in order to create a new, better social order. "With really intelligent people,"
according to Phillips, "it's almost a matter of inbreeding at this point." I don't know
about all of you readers out there, but when I first stumbled upon that quote, it
suddenly dawned on me that one element that was previously missing from this story
was a pro-eugenics comment from one of our flower-power icons, so I'm glad that we
were able to squeeze that in.
©Unknown
Screen capture from Lucifer Rising
Since we now seem to have segued onto the topic of John Phillips, let's go ahead and
add his good friend Steve Brandt to the Death List. Brandt, who was also a close friend
of the victims at 10050 Cielo Drive, allegedly overdosed on barbiturates in late
November of 1969, some three-and-a-half months after the Manson murders. In the
days and weeks following those murders, Brandt had placed numerous phone calls to
the LAPD. Those calls became increasingly frantic in nature, and Brandt became
increasingly fearful that his own life might be in jeopardy. He soon decided to put
some distance between himself and LA, so he headed for New York City. On the night
of his death, according to Phillips' autobiography, Brandt attended a Rolling Stones
concert at Madison Square Gardens, where he attempted to run on stage but was
repelled and beaten by a security guard. He then went home and, according to official
mythology, overdosed.
It seems obvious that if someone had information that desperately needed to be made
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act upon, and if the information was of the type that could not, needless to say, be
taken to the mainstream media, and if the year was 1969 and the mass communication
technology that we now take for granted did not yet exist, then grabbing the mike at a
Stones concert at Madison Square Gardens might just be one of the most effective
means of disseminating that information. Brandt failed in what may have been an
attempt to do just that, and he turned up dead just hours later. Shit happens, I guess.
Moving on, I couldn't help noticing that when I mentioned David Blue a few
paragraphs back, a lot of you scratched your heads and asked, "David Who?" Allow me
then to quickly introduce you to another of the forgotten talents of Laurel Canyon.
Blue was born Stuart David Cohen on February 18, 1941; shortly thereafter, his father
was deployed overseas. According to David, his dad "came hobbling home on crutches
and stayed depressed all his life" (not unlike, it seems fair to say, the family situation of
our old friend Phil Ochs). David and his slightly older half-sister, Suzanne, endured a
hellish existence consisting of alternating periods of rages and silences. Suzanne got
out first, only to end up busted for prostitution in New York City in 1963. Suzanne's
next stop, just a few months later, was at the county morgue.
David, meanwhile, had gotten out of the house as well, by dropping out of school and
joining the US Navy at the age of seventeen - just as Lenny Bruce had done. Like Jimi
Hendrix, Blue was purportedly booted out of the service, after which he decided to
become a folk singer. His first album was released in 1966; a later effort was produced
by Graham Nash, who also, as everyone surely recalls, produced a record for Judee Sill,
with whom Blue had much in common (you people had better be paying attention
because - I'm warning you! - there will, at some point, be a quiz on all this shit, and if
you miss too many questions on that quiz, you will be locked out from further access to
these articles!)
... ... ... ... Just kidding!! I don't even know how to set that shit up! But if I did, I would
totally fucking do it! Anyway, let's get back to our story ...
Like Judee Sill, David Blue was one of the Laurel Canyon stars who never quite shone
as brightly as they should have. And also like Sill, Blue was one of the first few acts
signed by David Geffen's fledgling Asylum label. Finally, as with Judee, David was long
forgotten by the time of his death, on December 2, 1982, when the forty-one-year-old
Blue dropped dead while jogging in New York's Washington Square Park. The former
rising star (and occasional actor) lay in the morgue for three days before anyone
noticed that he was missing.
One final note to readers: early on in this series, when I urged readers to pick up a copy
of Programmed to Kill, I neglected to add that there is an older post on this website
that you should read as well. If you haven't done so already, or haven't done so lately,
pull up a chair and work your way through "Celluloid Heroes, Part II: The Tangled
Web of Charlie Manson" which starts on the next page.
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Celluloid Heroes: Part II
or: The Tangled Web of Charlie Manson
David McGowan
February 10, 2002
Source: http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/wtc13.html
“[In Hollywood], everyone's a producer or a hit man.” (Douglas Clark, convicted
Sunset Strip serial killer and the son of a Naval Intelligence operative.)
“I don’t know if you guys have ever in your entire life shot anybody, but it’s really fun
to do.” (Former child actor Carol Bundy, Clark's convicted accomplice, speaking to the
police.)
It has frequently been said that if you scratch just beneath the glossy and oh-soglamorous exterior of the Hollywood dream factory, you will find the dark and ugly
reality that lurks just beneath the surface. But just how dark and ugly is that reality?
There is certainly no shortage of recurrent weirdness that passes for business-asusual in the land of make-believe that we like to call Hollywood. For such a small and
tight-knit community, the Hollywood gang has generated more than its fair share of
scandal and sleaze over the better part of the last century.
Is that merely because, in our celebrity-obsessed culture, every misstep of the
entertainment community is open to such intense scrutiny? Would we find the same
skeletons in the closets of any other group in the country that was subjected to such
unabashed media and public voyeurism? Is Hollywood merely a microcosm of America
itself, illuminated by the harsh glare of the stage lights?
If so, then it is truly a strange and scary world that we live in. Consider, if you will,
just a few recent examples of Tinseltown weirdness:
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Actress Margot Kidder, missing for a week, surfaces in the bushes of a stranger's
yard with her head shaved and a few of her teeth conspicuously absent.
Actress Anne Heche similarly goes missing, only to show up at the door of a
stranger in the middle of nowhere babbling about being beamed up to the
mothership.
Actor/comedian Martin Lawrence decides to stop traffic one day on busy
Ventura Boulevard by wandering into the street, waving a gun and shouting
incoherently.
Actor Robert Downey, Jr. finds himself sleeping in the bed of a neighbor, with
no idea of how he got there.
Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who purportedly survived the killing fields of Cambodia
before starring in Hollywood's version of events there, doesn't survive the streets
of Hollywood; he is gunned down in February of 1996.
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Actor Jack Nicholson decides to blow off some steam by attacking the vehicle of
another motorist with a golf club.
Someone 'falls' to their death from the apartment of actor James Caan.
Comic actor Eddie Murphy is arrested in the company of a transsexual
prostitute. He/she dies a violent death shortly afterwards, though the press
doesn't pay much attention.
Actor Hugh Grant is arrested while being serviced by Hollywood prostitute
"Divine" Brown. Brown's pimp subsequently surfaces in the company of a neoNazi singer who claims he was offered money by Courtney Love to kill Kurt
Cobain. The would-be assassin turns up dead soon after telling this story to
filmmaker Nick Broomfield.
Actor Brian Keith, the former star of television's Family Affair, is found with a
fatal bullet wound in his head on June 24, 1997. His death, ruled a suicide,
continues a long tradition of Hollywood notables allegedly shooting themselves
in the head. Included on that list are Herve "Tatoo" Villechaize (September 4,
1993), Del Shannon (December 8, 1990), Jon-Erik Hexum (October 12, 1984),
Freddie "Chico" Prinze (January 29, 1977), Pete Duel (December 31, 1971), and
George "Superman" Reeve (July 1, 1959).
On June 2, 1996, the 35th anniversary of her grandfather Ernest's alleged
suicide, Margaux Hemingway joins the list of Hollywood personalities whose
deaths are attributed to drug overdoses. Margaux is the fifth member of her
family to have their deaths ruled as suicides. River Phoenix's death on
Halloween, 1993, outside of Johnny Depp's Viper Room, is also attributed to an
overdose.
Nothing unusual about any of that, I suppose. Looking further back over the
sordid history of Hollywood, consider also these examples of unexplained weirdness
(and these examples are, it should be noted, just the tip of a very large iceberg):
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At Marlon Brando's Los Angeles estate, his son Christian shoots and kills sister
Cheyenne's significant other, Dag Drollet, in May of 1990. Christian and his
father claim that the shot was fired accidentally during a struggle for the gun.
There is no sign of a struggle, and Drollet is found in a sitting position with a
cigarette lighter and the remote control for the TV still in his hands. Attorney
Robert Shapiro, who also represented Robert Evans in the Cotton Club murder
case, cops a plea that results in Brando serving just five years. By that time,
Cheyenne is dead, allegedly a suicide victim. Christian is later considered as a
husband by Bonnie Lee Bakley, before she decides to marry Robert Blake. Five
months later, Bakley is dead.
Actors and actresses like Clara "It Girl" Bow, Frances Farmer, and the
aforementioned Oscar Levant and Wallace Reid find themselves forcibly
confined to mental hospitals. Farmer later tells of being beaten, raped, locked in
a cage, and administered electroshock torture (oops ... I meant to say
electroshock therapy).
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Mob enforcer Johnny Stompanato is found stabbed to death in the home of
actress Lana Turner. Turner's young daughter takes the rap, though she doesn't
appear to be physically capable of committing the crime.
Actress Natalie Wood goes missing in the middle of the night from a yacht while
in the company of actors Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. She
subsequently is found floating in the Pacific Ocean. Witnesses later claim that
she had been in a motel room with Walken on Catalina Island.
Aspiring actress Elizabeth "The Black Dahlia" Short is found literally cut in half,
with her mutilated remains left on display, on January 15, 1947.
People close to actress Sarah Miles develop a knack for committing suicide.
There is the roommate who jumps out of the window of their shared apartment.
There is the ex-gardener who owes Miles money and decides to gas himself. And
of course there is the business manager who is discovered dead in Sarah's motel
room and declared to be the victim of a drug overdose – though there is
reportedly blood on his face and on the bed in which he is found. Miles has
purportedly spent the night in the room of her co-star at the time: Burt
Reynolds.
Actress Thelma "Hot Toddy" Todd turns up dead in her car, allegedly the victim
of suicide by means of carbon monoxide poisoning. Blood on her face, a cut lip
and a dislodged tooth indicate that she was beaten senseless prior to her ....
uhhh .... suicide. Todd had at one time been the wife of Pat DiCicco, one of
"Lucky" Luciano's top lieutenants.
Three years after Todd's death, popular comedian Ted Healy - who had had a
fling with Thelma - is beaten to death. Though the details of his death were
never reported, it has been fairly common knowledge in Hollywood circles for
decades that Healy was beaten by DiCicco and actor Wallace Beery. Present at
the time of the beating is Albert "Cubby" Broccoli – first cousin of DiCicco,
friend of Howard Hughes, and one-time agent for Lana Turner. Broccoli goes on
to produce the James Bond films, penned by British intelligence asset Ian
Fleming. Assisting in covering up the murder of Healy is Shemp Howard of the
Three Stooges, whose careers were launched by Healy.
Comedian/actor John Belushi is found dead in his room in a West Hollywood
hotel in March of 1982. He is said to be yet another victim of a drug overdose.
His last known visitors, on the night of his death, are Robert DeNiro and Robin
Williams. The story of his death, and tragically short life, is then told in a book
by former Office of Naval Intelligence 'briefer' Bob Woodward.
A number of the people involved with the movie Rebel Without a Cause die
mysterious deaths at young ages – including stars James Dean, Natalie Wood,
Sal Mineo (who is stabbed to death outside of his apartment on November 12,
1976) and Nick Reid (who is found dead of mysterious causes on February 7,
1968).
Silent film legend Ramon Navarro is found dead in his home on Halloween day,
1968. He has been brutally tortured and murdered in what appears for all the
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world to be a ritual homicide. Two brothers, both young male prostitutes, are
charged with the crime.
Actor Bob Crane is murdered and it subsequently emerges that he had a secret
life that centered around a passion for hardcore, homemade porno films.
Nothing unusual about any of that either, I suppose. But consider the web spun by
the man known as Charles Milles Manson. Now this is where we really cut to the core
of the dark underbelly of Hollywood. Join me then, if you will, as we embark on a
journey that I like to call "Seven Degrees of Charlie Manson."
Before doing so, allow me to introduce a few members of the stellar cast of this
strange and twisted tale:
● Sharon Tate - the most famous of the Manson victims, and the daughter of Colonel
Paul Tate, U.S. Army Intelligence. Tate was killed on August 9, 1969, along with
Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, and Voytek Frykowski.
● Kenneth Anger - former child-star turned underground filmmaker, and the son of
a 'military-industrial complex' engineer who developed machine-guns for Kellogg
during WWII and later worked for Douglas Aircraft.
● Judy Garland - child actor and singer who was kept drugged on a daily basis from
about the age of five, first by her mother, and then by the studios. Garland was found
dead on the summer solstice of 1969, just seven weeks before the Tate/LaBianca
murders.
● John Phillips - musician/composer who founded the singing group The Mamas
and The Papas and who was born in a military hospital, the son of a career Marine
officer. John later attended the U.S. Naval Academy.
● Roy Radin - theatrical producer who specialized in staging vaudeville revival
shows. Radin was working with Robert Evans to produce The Cotton Club when he was
shot some twenty-seven times in the head in 1983. Radin began his career while still a
teenager by staging shows in Masonic temples.
● The Hell's Angels - the most well-known of the biker gangs that arose after WWII
due to the efforts of returning OSS and military officers. The Angels were led by Ralph
"Sonny" Barger, reportedly an informant for the Oakland Police Department who was
also on the payroll of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
● Jayne Mansfield - actress/sex symbol who was decapitated, allegedly in a car
accident, on June 29, 1967. According to Jayne's daughter, Mansfield's parties featured
the rich and famous getting naked and filming themselves. Tate and husband Roman
Polanski were reportedly the producers and collectors of 'fame porn' as well.
● Robert F. Kennedy - U.S. Senator and presidential candidate who was
assassinated in Hollywood on June 5, 1968. Kennedy was allegedly shot from pointblank range behind his right ear by Sirhan Sirhan, who was standing several yards in
front of and to the left of the candidate. Like I said, shit happens.
Without further ado, we begin this journey - for no particular reason - with the
aforementioned Phil Hartman, who was a highschool friend of Lynette "Squeaky"
Fromme, who later became a disciple of Charlie Manson, a jailhouse correspondent of
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John Hinckley, and the attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford, who was once a
roommate of modeling entrepreneur Harry Conover, whose wife was the infamous
Candy Jones, who was 'treated' by CIA-linked hypnotist William Jennings Bryan, who
also 'treated' the purported Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, whose name was written
repetitively throughout the diaries of Sirhan Sirhan, who was also 'treated' by Bryan,
who served as the technical director on The Manchurian Candidate, which was
directed by John Frankenheimer, at whose beach house a dinner was held on June 5,
1968 whose attendees included "Mama" Cass Elliot, Roman Polanski, and Sharon Tate,
who was killed just over a year later by followers of Charlie Manson, whose music was
recorded by Doris Day's son, music producer Terry Melcher, who lived with girlfriend
Candace Bergen at 10050 Cielo Drive the year before it became a slaughterhouse after
being rented by Polanski, who initially was slated to pen the screenplay for Day of the
Dolphin, which purported to tell the story of Dr. John Lilly, who was a friend of
Timothy Leary, whose Mellon family-owned Millbrook estate was frequently visited by
Dr. Max "Feelgood" Jacobson, who once 'treated' Judy Garland and who served as the
personal physician of John Kennedy, whose assassination prompted the shelving of the
film The Manchurian Candidate by its star, Frank Sinatra, who was a frequent
companion of fellow 'Brat Packer' Sammy Davis, Jr., who was an acknowledged
member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, from where Manson recruited killers
Bobby "Cupid" Beausoleil and Susan "Sexy Sadie" Atkins, who confessed to her
cellmates that she had stabbed to death actress Sharon Tate, who was inducted into
witchcraft on the set of the Polanski-directed film The Fearless Vampire Killers by
Alexander "King of the Witches" Saunders, who received 'training' as a child from
Aleister Crowley, whose followers included Anton LaVey and fellow Church of Satan
member Kenneth Anger, who was the roommate (and probable lover) of Family
member Bobby Beausoleil, who once appeared in an underground film titled Mondo
Hollywood, which also featured hairdresser and Manson victim Jay Sebring, who was
a former lover of Sharon Tate, who was a friend of a wealthy widow named Charlene
Caffritz, who played host to - and filmed the exploits of - Charlie and some of his girls,
who also lived for a time with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, who recorded a song penned
by Charlie, who was an occasional member of the entourage of Mama Cass, who was
listed as a defense witness for Charlie's trial (but never called), as was her Mamas and
the Papas band-mate John Phillips, who was close to Polanski, Tate, Melcher, Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Cass Elliot, and film producer Robert Evans, who was working
with - and very likely contracted the execution killing of - Roy Radin, whose assistant
was Michael DeVinko aka Mickie DeVinko aka Mickie Deans, who married - just a few
months before her untimely death - Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland, who as a teen was
flooded with phone messages and telegrams by admirer Oscar Levant, whose dead
body was found by Candace Bergen, who - as a photojournalist for Life magazine covered the preempted presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, who was
romantically linked to Marilyn Monroe, who was also linked to Anton LaVey, who
appeared in Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother (released in August of
1969) along with Bobby Beausoleil, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who was a guest
at the 1968 London wedding of Sharon Tate to Roman Polanski, who - during a nude
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photo shoot - molested a thirteen-year-old girl at the home of Jack Nicholson, who was
a friend of Cass Elliot, as were Robert Evans and Manson victims Jay Sebring, Voytek
Frykowski and Abigail Folger, who provided funding for the Himalayan Academy,
which Kenneth Anger helped form with Timothy Leary, who was at the side of the
stage at the 1969 Altamont concert where - while the Rolling Stones played the Process
Church-inspired Sympathy for the Devil* - a fan was killed on film by the Hell's
Angels, who had been romanticized and transformed into anti-establishment heroes in
the film Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger and the book Hell's Angels by Hunter S.
Thompson, both of whom have been accused of making snuff films** for private
collectors, which was also a favorite pastime of Charlie Manson, one of whose
underage recruits was Didi Lansbury, who had written permission to travel with
Charlie from her mother, Angela Lansbury, who starred as the control agent in The
Manchurian Candidate, which was based on the novel of the same name by Richard
Condon, who once served as a publicist for Walt Disney, who once owned the home
where the Manson Family slaughtered Leno LaBianca and wife Rosemary, who was
involved in the trafficking of drugs, as were many of those in this twisted saga,
including Charles Manson, victims Voytek Frykowski and Abigail Folger, John Phillips
and Kenneth Anger, who was a huge fan of the dark and violent imagery of the
Rosicrucian-inspired, L. Frank Baum-penned Oz books, which inspired the band The
Magick Powerhouse of Oz, which was led by Bobby Beausoleil, who was also at one
time in the band Love with Arthur Lee, four of whose members later turned up dead or
missing and presumed dead, as did Charlene Caffritz, Cass Elliot (who allegedly
choked on a sandwich in 1974), Dennis Wilson (who allegedly drowned on December
28, 1983), and Gram Parsons, whose corpse was stolen and burned at Joshua Tree on
the autumnal equinox of 1973 by his band's road manager, Phil Kaufman, who was a
good friend from prison of Charlie Manson, who met (at Cass Elliot's house) and
received money from victim Abigail Folger, who also funded Kenneth Anger, who at
various times lived with both Jimmy Page (who purchased Crowley's home and many
of his artifacts) and Keith Richards & Anita Pallenberg, whose home - in 1979 - yielded
the body of a teenager who had been shot to death, as was John Lennon the next year
by Mark David Chapman, who shortly before doing so met with - and offered a gift of
live bullets to - Kenneth Anger, whose films were cited as a major influence by
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who was implicated by witnesses in the
Halloween 1981 execution killing of New York photographer Ronald Sisman (a close
associate of Roy Radin), who was reportedly in possession of a snuff film of one of the
Son of Sam murders, which were allegedly committed by David Berkowitz, who from
prison accurately described the Sisman killing before it happened and who took the fall
for the Son of Sam murders to cover up the involvement of others, including possibly
Roy Radin and wealthy art dealer Andrew Crispo, who admitted being present at the
site of a ritual murder which was committed by a man named Bernard LeGeros, who
was the son of a State Department official, as was Pic Dawson, who was a regular
member of the entourage of Cass Elliot, as was a one-time bodyguard of publisher
Larry Flynt named Bill Mentzer, who was convicted of killing Radin and who was
suspected of involvement in numerous other contract murders, including some of
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those attributed to David Berkowitz, who was 'examined' by psychiatrist/hypnotist
Daniel Schwartz, as was Mark David Chapman, who was obsessed with the film The
Wizard of Oz and the book The Catcher in the Rye, which was written by reclusive
author J.D. Salinger, who served in the OSS with Henry Kissinger, who was a close
adviser to Gerald Ford, who once met and shook hands with Mark David Chapman,
who was 'examined' by psychiatrist/hypnotist Bernard Diamond, who also 'examined'
Sirhan Sirhan, who had connections to the Process Church, as did many of those
ensnared in this sordid web, including Kenneth Anger, John Phillips, Roy Radin,
David Berkowitz and Charlie Manson, who attended a New Year's Eve party at the
home of John Phillips, who wrote the siren song of the 'Summer of Love,' bringing
thousands of hippies and flower children streaming into San Francisco and into the
hands of such figures as Louis "Dr. Jolly" West, Anton LaVey, Charlie Manson, Bobby
Beausoleil, Timothy Leary and Kenneth Anger, who - just three days after the
suspicious death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones - filmed the Hell's Angels stomping the
crowd at a 1969 Stones concert in London, just five months before they did the very
same thing to the crowd at Altamont, which was organized by San Francisco attorney
Melvin Belli, who consulted with F. Lee Bailey whilst the latter was busily railroading
Albert DeSalvo and later consulted with Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, who
was offered an honorary membership in the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey's
daughter Zeena, who along with boyfriend Nickolas Schreck staged an event on 8-8-88
celebrating the slaughter of the victims of the Manson Family, who some researchers
believe were involved in the murders attributed to the "Zodiac," who called and sent
correspondence to Melvin Belli, whose clients included the widow of Hermann
Goering and Jack Ruby, who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, the purported assassin
of John Kennedy, whose brother Robert was romantically linked to Jayne Mansfield,
as was Anton LaVey, who served as Roman Polanski's technical director on the 1968
film Rosemary's Baby, which was set in New York's Dakota Apartments, where John
Lennon was gunned down by Mark David Chapman, who shared a fixation on The
Catcher in the Rye with failed assassin John Hinckley, Jr., who stalked actress Jodie
Foster, who is working on a film biography of Leni Riefenstahl, who was met by - and
admired by - fellow filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who laced his film Scorpio Rising with
Nazi imagery, including the prominent use of swastikas, not unlike the one carved into
the forehead of Charlie Manson, who - at the Cielo Drive home of Polanski and Tate had a chance meeting with Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra, who was
married to actress Mia Farrow, who starred in the Polanski-directed Rosemary's Baby,
which was produced by Robert Evans, a friend of Henry Kissinger, who was the
righthand man of President Richard Nixon, whose election was ensured by the
assassination of Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan, who was yet another client of
Melvin Belli, as were the Hell's Angels and Nazi-collaborator Errol Flynn, who made
two films with Ronald Reagan, who was an occasional visitor to the childhood home of
Candace Bergen, who - as a photojournalist - chronicled the short-lived administration
of Gerald Ford, who married one of his friend Harry Conover's 'Covergirls,' who later
opened the Betty Ford Center, where various celebrities in and out of this web
routinely check in for tune-ups.
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I could probably go on, but I really have to get back to work on my screenplay. I'm
thinking of trying to break into Hollywood. I have this great script about a guy who is
propelled to the heights of power through a combination of fraud, arrogance, legal
manipulation and public denial to lead an imperialist military power that masterfully
uses propaganda to turn reality on its head.
When the man-who-would-be-king first takes office, the public views him with a
considerable amount of well-deserved skepticism. But then there is an apparent attack
upon the state which is used as a pretext to rally the support of the people behind a
reactionary social agenda and a war of unspecified duration with unspecified goals.
Some suspect that the attack was actually an inside job, but they are ridiculed by those
who scoff at the notion that their government would attack one of its own institutions.
Meanwhile, the anti-hero sells the country out to huge corporate and financial
interests and institutes overt police state measures to keep the masses in line should
the people ever begin to catch on that their collective reality is little more than a grand
illusion. Much later, historians reluctantly admit that the purported attack was in fact
a staged provocation, but by then it is too late.
I'm almost done with the final draft. I just have to decide whether to name my
anti-hero Adolf or George. Then I'm going to have my people get in touch with Jerry
Bruckheimer's people and close the deal.
Of course, I might have to take out some of the plot elements and replace them
with gratuitous, but really cool, special effects sequences. But it will still be a great
movie. Maybe even as good as the biography of the Marquis de Sade that Kenneth
Anger had long planned to film, in the original castle where deSade's crimes were
committed. But that's another story altogether.
* A number of journalists have written that the killing took place later in the concert.
This is perhaps due, at least in part, to the deceptive way in which the film of the event,
Gimme Shelter (arguably the most widely viewed snuff film ever created), was edited.
In the film, the killing is deliberately shown out of sequence, making it appear as
though it occurred at the end of the concert. It did in fact occur while the Stones played
Sympathy for the Devil, as can be discerned from a careful viewing of the final minutes
of the video version of the film. The band, fully aware of what was going on
immediately in front of the stage, played on. <back>
** Thompson, whose legal representation is provided by the same politicallyconnected law firm that successfully shielded John and Patsy Ramsey from
prosecution, has been accused by the child witnesses in the case dubbed the 'Franklin
Cover-Up.' Anger was suspected by police investigators, but was shielded from
prosecution by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, a devoted follower of Aleister Crowley.
Kinsey died shortly after he and Anger visited Crowley's Thelema Abbey in Sicily.
<back>
References
1. Bain, Donald The Control of Candy Jones, Playboy Press, 1976
2. Bowart, Walter Operation Mind Control, Dell Publishing, 1978
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3. Bugliosi, Vincent with Curt Gentry Helter Skelter, Bantam Books, 1974
4. Bresler, Fenton Who Killed John Lennon?, St. Martin's Press, 1989
5. Constantine, Alex The Covert War Against Rock, Feral House, 2000
6. Cromelin, Richard “John Phillips; Singer-Songwriter Led the Mamas and the
Papas,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2001
7. DeCamp, John W. The Franklin Cover-Up, AWT, Inc., 1992
8. Farr, Louise The Sunset Murders, Pocket Books, 1992
9. Fricke, David “Life of a California Dreamer,” Rolling Stone #867, April 26, 2001
10. Gilmore, John and Ron Kenner Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the
Family, Amok, 2000
11. Landis, Bill Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger, Harper
Collins, 1995
12. Lee, Martin and Bruce Shlain Acid Dreams, Grove Press, 1985
13. Levenda, Peter Unholy Alliance, Avon, 1995
14. Marks, John The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Times Books, 1979
15. McGunagle, Fred “The Man Who Killed John Lennon,” The Crime Library,
www.crimelibrary.com
16. Moench, Doug The Big Book of Conspiracies, Paradox Press, 1995
17. Mueller, Jim "A Nyuk on the Wild Side; Did the Three Stooges Cover Up the
Murder of Their Founder?" Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2002
18. Sanders, Ed The Family, Dutton, 1971
19. Street-Porter, Janet Scandal!, Penguin Books, 1981
20. Terry, Maury The Ultimate Evil, Barnes and Noble Books, 1999
21. Vankin, Jonathan and John Whalen The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time,
Citadel, 1998
22. Vankin, Jonathan Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes, Illuminet Press, 1996
23. Wick, Steve Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Cotton Club Murder, St.
Martin's, 1990
24. “The John Lennon Assassination,” A&E American Justice
25. “John Lennon: The Final Days,” E! True Hollywood Story
26. “Oscar Levant,” E! Mysteries and Scandals
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Part 9
August 11, 2008
"Everybody was experimenting and taking it all the way. It opened up a negative
force of energy that was almost demonic."
Frank Mazolla, editor of the film Performance
"There were a lot of weird people around. There was one guy who had a parrot called
Captain Blood, and he was always scrawling real cryptic things on the inside walls of
my house - Neil Young's too."
Joni Mitchell, describing the Laurel Canyon scene at the tail end of the 1960s
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Ricky Nelson
(Some of the images in this edition were originally slated for inclusion in an earlier
installment of this series, but my computer was not very cooperative at the time so
they were left out. All of the images contained in this chapter, by the way, and all
other images in this series that are not otherwise credited in the captions, are my
own original photos.)
Like Brandon DeWilde, Kenneth Anger, Mickey Dolenz and Van Dyke Parks, Ricky
Nelson began his Hollywood career as a child actor. He was the son, as everyone surely
knows, of America's favorite 1950s TV mom and dad, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Ricky
began his rock 'n' roll career in 1957, when he was just seventeen. By 1962, he had
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scored no fewer than thirty Top 40 hits, trailing only superstars Elvis Presley and Pat
Boone.
That reminds me that, before I forget, I need to add Elvis to the death list as well. And
before you send me letters of protest, let me assure you that I do indeed know what a
lot of you are thinking: "But Dave, Elvis isn't dead! I just saw him the other day at the
7-11 right around the corner from my house. And, sure, he was looking a little bloated,
but he was definitely alive. I mean, unless you're going to try to convince me that I
watched a dead guy put away a ¼ lb. Big Bite."
Oh wait ... that might not be right ... what you are probably really thinking is: "Elvis?!
The King?! You can't be serious! How the hell does The King figure into any of this?
What are you going to tell us next - that comedians John Belushi and Phil Hartman
belong on the death list as well?"
Uhmm, have you been peeking at my notes or something? Because I actually am, as a
matter of fact, going to include Mr. Hartman on the list (and I could include Mr.
Belushi as well, since he did die at the Chateau Marmont Hotel, which happens to lie at
the mouth of Laurel Canyon). But we'll get to Phil Hartman later; for now, let's talk a
little bit about Mr. Presley and his admittedly tangential connections to Laurel Canyon.
Elvis arrived in LA in 1956, to begin what would prove to be a prolific film career that
would continue throughout the 1960s and would result in the inexcusable creation of
nearly three dozen motion pictures, each one arguably more appalling than the last. In
the early years of his film career, Elvis reportedly spent his off-hours hanging out with
his two best Hollywood pals - a couple of young roommates and Canyonites named
Dennis Hopper and Nick Adams. In later years, Presley's backing musicians considered to be among the best session musicians in the business - were in high
demand among the Laurel Canyon crowd. Elvis' bass player, for example, can be heard
on some of the Doors' tracks. The entire band was recruited by "Papa" John Phillips to
play on his less-than-memorable solo project. Mike Nesmith's critically-acclaimed
post-Monkees project, the First National Band, featured Presley's band as well. Gram
Parsons also hired Elvis' band to back him up on the two solo albums he recorded at
what proved to be the twilight of his life and career.
Those two solo efforts by Parsons, by the way, prominently featured the voice of a
young singer/guitarist named Emmylou Harris, a relatively late arrival to the canyon
scene. Harris is the daughter - brace yourselves here for a real shocker, folks - of a
career US Marine Corps officer. As with so many other characters in this story, she
grew up in the outlying suburbs of Washington, DC, primarily in Woodbridge, Virginia
- which happens to be the home of an imposingly large Army 'research and
development' installation known as the Harry Diamond Laboratories Woodbridge
Research Facility. In other words, Emmylou Harris fit right in with the rest of the
Laurel Canyon crowd.
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©Unknown
A view into the San Fernando Valley from Mulholland Drive in Laurel Canyon; in the foreground is the
undergrowth where the body of Marina Habe was found.
But here I seem to have digressed from our discussion of Elvis (which was, if I
remember correctly, itself a digression from our discussion of Ricky Nelson). Given
though that he had only peripheral connections to Laurel Canyon, I guess I don't really
have much more to say about Elvis, other than that he reportedly died on August 16,
1977, the victim of a drug overdose at the young age of forty-two. As with Morrison,
however, there have been persistent rumors that Elvis didn't actually die at all, but
rather reinvented himself to escape from the fishbowl.
As for Nelson, in the mid-1960s he successfully shed his 'teen idol' image and emerged
as a respected pioneer of the country-rock wave that Canyonites Jackson Browne,
Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles would soon ride to dizzying heights of commercial
success. One future member of the Eagles, Randy Meisner, played in Nelson's Stone
Canyon Band. As the name of the band would seem to imply, Nelson did not live in
Laurel Canyon but rather in one of the many neighboring canyons, but he and his band
were very much a part of the early country-rock scene that included Laurel Canyon
bands like The Byrds, Poco, the Flying Burrito Brothers and the First National Band.
Nelson was killed on New Year's Eve, 1985, in a rather unusual plane crash. According
to Nelson's Wikipedia entry, "the original NTSB investigation long ago stated that the
crash was probably due to mechanical problems. The pilots attempted to land in a field
after smoke filled the cabin. An examination indicated that a fire originated in the right
hand side of the aft cabin area at or near the floor line. The passengers were killed
when the aircraft struck obstacles during the forced landing; the pilots were able to
escape through the cockpit windows and survived."
I can't be the only one here who is pondering the obvious question: exactly when was it
that the pilots were able to escape through the cockpit windows? I assume that they
did not parachute out when the aircraft was still at altitude, leaving the passengers to
crash and die. And they certainly couldn't have bailed out and survived while the
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aircraft was coming in for a landing. So was it after the plane touched down? If so,
exactly how much time was there between when the plane touched down and when it
impacted the fatal obstacles? How long was this 'escape window,' as it were? I would
think it was mere seconds, if even that, which wouldn't seem to be enough time to
execute an escape. And if the plane was going fast enough on the ground that the
impact killed all aboard, what are the odds that anyone would survive such an escape
attempt? I think maybe the NTSB needs to take another look at this one.
For the final eight years of his life, Nelson lived in a rather unusual home. In 1941,
swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn had purchased an eleven-and-a-half-acre chunk of
the Hollywood Hills just off Mulholland Drive and had a sprawling home built to his
specifications. According to Laurie Jacobson and Marc Wanamaker, writing in
Haunted Hollywood, the mansion featured "several mysterious secret passageways,
and more than a few peepholes." The home appeared to have been designed to allow
for surreptitious observation of guests in the home's numerous bedrooms. It is claimed
that Flynn incorporated the unusual design features so that he could satisfy his own
voyeuristic impulses. Researcher/writer Charles Higham, however, has cast Flynn as a
Western intelligence asset (and Nazi sympathizer). And if Flynn was an intelligence
operative, then it is far more likely that the home was built not so much for Flynn's
personal pleasure, but rather as a means of compromising prominent public figures
(much like the home of, for example, Craig Spence).
©Unknown
The Shoreham Towers Apartments, from where Diane Linkletter took a dive.
After Nelson's death, the palatial home stood vacant until a curious incident took
place; referring once again to Jacobson and Wanamaker, we find that "A gang broke in
and murdered a girl in the living room. Then a mysterious fire burned half the house.
The ruins were torn down." Shit like that has been known to happen to folks foolish
enough to leave their expensive canyon homes sitting vacant ... well, except for the part
about the "gang." As far as I know, the canyons have never had much of a "gang"
problem. In the Hollywood Hills, the words "crime" and "gang-related" never show up
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at a party together. And when was the last time anyone ever heard of a "gang"
kidnapping a girl and then taking her to a remote, isolated mansion to murder her?
All things considered, I'm thinking that perhaps what the authors meant to say was
that "a group of people broke in and murdered a girl ..." But that, of course, raises the
question of exactly what sort of group of people jointly commit a premeditated
murder? Other than death squads, the only such groups that come to mind are
generally referred to as "cults," which I'm guessing are far more common in the
canyons than are "gangs."
In addition to having a fondness for multi-perpetrator murders, it appears as though
cults also like to start fires, oftentimes because fires are a really effective way of
destroying evidence. Some of you may, however, be thinking that since the Hollywood
Hills are plagued by wildfires on a more or less annual basis, then there is nothing
particularly unusual about the fact that Nelson's home, and more than a few of the
other homes in this story, were destroyed by fire. For the most part though, the fires
that destroyed these structures were not natural wildfires but rather fires of mysterious
origin that seemed to target specific buildings. As Michael Walker noted, "Laurel
Canyon would burn and burn again, targeting with uncanny precision the homes of its
seemingly enchanted rock demimonde."
(One exception was the Laurel Canyon home of blues-rocker John Mayall, which
burned down to its foundation in a ferocious wildfire on September 16, 1979; that
wildfire also claimed the home of Whisky owner Elmer Valentine. It was from Mayall's
Bluesbreakers, by the way, that the Rolling Stones recruited guitarist Mick Taylor, who
I regrettably disparaged in the initial version of the last installment of this series.
Taylor was actually quite an accomplished guitarist whose work with the Stones was
frequently uncredited and who was underutilized by the band. My apologies to all the
fans of the Rolling Stones that I offended.)
Moving on then to the next new name on our list, we find that on December 31, 1943 precisely forty-two years before the plane crash that would claim the life of Ricky
Nelson - Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., better known as John Denver, was born in
Roswell, New Mexico. A few years later, the town of Roswell would make a name for
itself and become something of a tourist destination. But that is not really our focus
here today, though it should be noted that Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr. might well
have known a little something about that incident, given that he was a career US Air
Force officer assigned to the Roswell Army Air Field (later renamed the Walker Air
Force Base), which was likely the origin of the object that famously crashed in Roswell.
After spending his childhood being frequently uprooted, as did many of our cast of
characters, Denver attended Texas Tech University in the early 1960s. In 1964, he
apparently heard the call of the Pied Piper and promptly dropped out of school and
headed for LA. Once there, he joined up with the Chad Mitchell Trio, the group from
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which Jim McGuinn had recently departed to co-found The Byrds. By November 1966,
Denver was front-and-center at the so-called 'Riot on the Sunset Strip,' alongside folks
like Peter Fonda, Sal Mineo and a popular husband-and-wife duo known as Sonny and
Cher.
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Sal Mineo's home, where he was stabbed to death.
A decade later, in the latter half of the 1970s, Denver could be found working alongside
a spooky chap by the name of Werner Erhard, creator of so-called 'EST' training. After
graduating from the 'training' program, Denver penned a little ditty that became the
organization's theme song. In 1985, Denver testified alongside our old friend Frank
Zappa at the PMRC hearings. Twelve years later, in autumn of 1997, Denver died when
his self-piloted plane crashed soon after taking off from Monterey Airport, very near
where the Monterey Pop Festival had been held thirty years earlier. The date of the
crash, curiously enough, was one that we have stumbled across repeatedly: October 12.
The next name we need to add to the list is one that has already worked its way into
this narrative a time or two: Sonny Bono. As previously noted, Bono began his
Hollywood career as a lieutenant for reclusive murder suspect Phil Spector. In the
early 1960s, Bono hooked up with an underage Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre to form a
duo known first as Caesar and Cleo, and then as Sonny and Cher. The pair were
phenomenally successful, first on the Sunset Strip and later on television. Bono, of
course, ultimately gave up the Hollywood life and found work in a different branch of
the federal government: the U.S. House of Representatives.
On January 5, 1998, Sonny Bono died after purportedly skiing into a tree. At the time,
Bono occupied a seat on the House Judiciary Committee, which was about to come to
sudden prominence with the investigation and impeachment of President Bill. The ball
was already rolling by the time of Bono's death, and on January 26, 1998, just three
weeks after the alleged skiing incident, Clinton held the now-notorious press
conference in which he uttered the fateful words: "I did not have sexual relations with
that skank, by which I mean that the executive penis did not, at any time, penetrate her
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womanly parts, though it is possible that she may have taken a few puffs on the
presidential cigar, if you fellas know what I mean. Does anyone else have a question?"
By that time, of course, Bono's seat on the panel had been set aside for his robowife
(who was, perhaps, more willing to act out the charade).
And now, as promised, let's turn our attention to Phil Hartman. As everyone likely
remembers, Saturday Night Live alumnus Hartman was murdered in his Encino home
on May 28, 1998. That much is not in dispute. Decidedly less clear is the answer to the
question of who it was that actually shot and killed Hartman. The official story, of
course, holds that it was his wife Brynn, who shortly thereafter shot herself - with a
different gun, naturally, and reportedly after she had left the house and then returned
with a friend, and after the LAPD had arrived at the home. There is a very strong
possibility, however, that both Phil and his wife were murdered, with the true motive
for the crime covered up by trotting out the tired but ever-popular murder/suicide
scenario.
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A view of Lenny Bruce's Hollywood Hills home.
In most people's minds, of course, Phil Hartman is not associated with the Laurel
Canyon scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. But as it turns out, Hartman did
indeed have substantial ties to that scene. To begin with, during the time that Jimi
Hendrix lived in LA (in the spacious mansion just north of the Log Cabin on Laurel
Canyon Boulevard), Hartman worked for him as a roadie. Soon after that, Phil found
work as a graphic artist and he quickly found himself much in demand by the Laurel
Canyon rock royalty. In addition to designing album covers for both Poco and America,
Hartman also, believe it or not, designed a readily recognizable rock symbol that has
endured for nearly forty years: the distinctive CSN logo for Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Hartman had ties to the darker side of Laurel Canyon as well. He was, for example, a
high school chum of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who would later find herself living
alongside Charlie Manson at the infamous Spahn Movie Ranch. In bygone years, by
the way, that very same Spahn Movie Ranch was frequently used as a filming location
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by western star Tom Mix, who was, as we all know, the man whose name was forever
tied to the Log Cabin. Curiously enough, the Log Cabin's guesthouse (aka the Bird
House), which is still standing, was designed and built by architect Robert Byrd, who
also, according to one report, designed the house at 5065 Encino Avenue where Phil
Hartman was murdered, and the house at 10050 Cielo Drive where Sharon Tate and
friends were murdered.
While we're on the subject of the Bird House, I should mention that you can find
numerous photos of the guesthouse and the grounds of the property at this website (
LINK ). Notice that among its other amenities, the house features a rather medievallooking dungeon, because one never knows when a dungeon might come in handy for,
uhmm, storing roots or something. Notice also that what was built as a 'guesthouse'
probably makes your own home look like it belongs in a shantytown, which would tend
to indicate that the property's main residence, the Log Cabin, was a decidedly opulent
dwelling.
One more curious factoid that I feel compelled to toss out here, since I did reference
the Spahn Movie Ranch, is that during the days of the Manson clan's stay at that now
infamous former film set, there was a similarly dilapidated movie set that was located
right across the road from Spahn. It's name, in case you were wondering, was the
Wonderland Movie Ranch.
Speaking of Wonderland, let's turn our attention next to four individuals whose names
will probably not be familiar to most readers: Ronald Launius, Billy Deverell, Barbara
Richardson and Joy Miller. All died on July 1, 1981, all by bludgeoning, and all at the
same location: 8763 Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon. All were members of a
gang that trafficked heavily in cocaine and occasionally in heroin. The leader of the
group was Ron Launius, who reportedly embarked on his criminal career, and
established his drug connections, while serving for Uncle Sam over in Vietnam, which
is also where he began to build his carefully-crafted reputation as a cold-blooded killer.
At the time that he became a murder victim himself, Launius was a suspect in no fewer
than twenty-seven open homicide investigations. He was also a drug supplier to
various members of the Laurel Canyon aristocracy.
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The death house at 8763 Wonderland Avenue, as it looks today.
Victim Billy Deverell was Launius' second-in-command, and victim Joy Miller was
Billy's girlfriend as well as the renter of the Laurel Canyon drug den. Victim Barbara
Richardson was the girlfriend of another member of the gang, David Lind, who
conveniently was not at the home at the time of the mass murder. That could well have
been due to the fact that Lind was, according to various rival drug dealers, a police
informant for both the Sacramento and Los Angeles Police Departments. He was also a
member of the ultra-violent prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood (as is, by
several accounts, a guy that we have bumped into several times during this journey:
Bobby Beausoleil). Lind, who met Launius when the two had served time together, is
alleged to have overdosed in 1995, though it is widely believed that he actually went
into the federal witness protection program.
The next name to go on our list is that of Brian Cole, bass player for The Association,
an LA folk-rock band known for the hit songs "Along Comes Mary" and "Never My
Love." The Association was not a Laurel Canyon band but they did have close ties to
the scene. The group was formed by Terry Kirkman and Jules Alexander; Kirkman had
formerly played in a band with Frank Zappa, while Alexander was fresh from a stint in
the US Navy. Jerry Yester, a guitarist and keyboardist with the band, was formerly with
The Modern Folk Quartet, a band managed by Zappa manager Herb Cohen and
produced by Byrds' manager Jim Dickson. Guitarist Larry Ramos had formerly been
with the New Christy Minstrels, which also produced Gene Clark of The Byrds.
On June 16, 1967, Cole and his band were the first to take the stage at the Monterey
Pop Festival, followed by such Laurel Canyon stalwarts as The Byrds, Buffalo
Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas. Five years later, on August 2, 1972, Cole
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was found dead in his Los Angeles home. The cause of death was reportedly a heroin
overdose. Cole was one month shy of his thirtieth birthday at the time of his death.
Another new name on the Laurel Canyon Death List is Lowell George, the founder and
creative force behind the critically-acclaimed but largely obscure band known as Little
Feat. George was the son of Willard H. George, a famous furrier to the Hollywood
movie studios. Lowell's first foray into the music world was with a band known as The
Factory, which cut some demos with a guy by the name of Frank Zappa. The Factory
evolved into the Fraternity of Man, though without George, who had left to serve as
lead vocalist for The Standells. George returned, however, to join the band in the
studio for the recording of their second album. By that time, as we have already seen,
the Fraternity of Man had taken up residence in the Log Cabin, alongside Carl
Franzoni and his fellow Freaks.
George next joined up with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, though his tenure
there was destined to be a short one; like so many others, Lowell left embittered by
Zappa's dictatorial approach to making music and his condescending treatment of his
bandmates. During his time with Zappa, George helped Frank out in the studio with
the GTOs' first (and only) album, as did Brits Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart (who, readers
of Programmed to Kill will recall, was one of the last people known to have been in the
company of a pair of underage girls before they became victims of a 'serial killer' in
June 1980).
After parting company with Zappa, George formed Little Feat, a band composed
mostly of musicians from the Fraternity of Man sessions. Lowell, who is credited with
being a pioneer of the use of slide guitar in rock music, served as singer, songwriter
and lead guitarist for the band, which released its debut album in 1970. Though well
regarded within the industry and by critics, the band's albums failed to sell and George
ultimately announced the demise the band and recorded a solo album. After playing a
show on June 29, 1979 at George Washington University in support of that album,
George was found dead in an Arlington, Virginia hotel room, very near the Pentagon.
Cause of death was said to be a massive heart attack, though George was just thirtyfour years old at the time.
According to Barney Hoskyns (writing in Hotel California), "A regular social stop-off
for George was a Laurel Canyon house on Wonderland Avenue belonging to Three Dog
Night singer Danny Hutton. A drop-in den of debauchery, the Hutton house featured a
bedroom with black walls and a giant fireplace. Lowell would often swing by and
entertain the likes of Brian Wilson or Harry Nilsson." Nilsson and his regular drinking
buddy, John Lennon, were frequent guests at this "den of debauchery."
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The, uhmm, charming Wonderland Avenue School, just down the road from the Wonderland death
house.
Former Beatle John Lennon is, to be sure, one of the most famous names to be found
on the Laurel Canyon Death List. Lennon also has the distinction of being one of the
few Laurel Canyon alumni whose cause of death is acknowledged to have been
homicide. The ex-Beatle, of course, never lived in the canyon, but he was a fixture on
the Sunset Strip and at various Laurel Canyon hangouts, frequently in the company of
Harry Nilsson. And as readers surely recall, he was gunned down on December 8, 1980
- purportedly by Mark David Chapman, but more likely by a second gunman.
Lennon was, as everyone knows, murdered in front of New York's Dakota Apartments,
which had been portrayed by filmmaker Roman Polanski in the 1960s as a den of
Satanic cult activity (in his film Rosemary's Baby). Not long before Lennon's murder,
Chapman had approached occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger and offered him a gift of
live bullets. Just days after Lennon was felled, Anger's long-delayed final cut of Lucifer
Rising made its New York debut, not far from the bloodstained grounds of the Dakota
Apartments. And not long after that, the 'Reagan Revolution' began to transform
America.
Exactly three weeks after Lennon's death, Tim Hardin - Canyonite, folk musician, close
associate of Frank Zappa, author of Rod Stewart's "Reason to Believe," onetime tenant
in Lenny Bruce's Laurel Canyon-adjacent home, and former U.S. Marine - died of a
reported heroin and morphine overdose in Los Angeles. At the time of his death, on
December 29, 1980, Hardin was just thirty-nine years old.
Eight years later, on July 18, 1988, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Christa Paffgen,
better known as Nico, died of a reported cerebral hemorrhage in Ibiza, Spain under
unusual circumstances. After achieving some level of fame as a vocalist with the Velvet
Underground, Nico had left the Warhol stable and migrated west to Laurel Canyon,
where she formed a bond with a then-unknown singer-songwriter named Jackson
Browne, who contributed a few songs to Nico's 1967 debut album, Chelsea Girl (so
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named for New York's Chelsea Hotel, from where Devon Wilson took a dive, and where
the persona of John Train murdered the persona of Phil Ochs). Also contributing a
song to Nico's solo debut was Mr. Tim Hardin.
On December 4, 1993, some five years after Nico's curious death, Frank Zappa died in
his Laurel Canyon home of inoperable prostate cancer. Some have speculated that the
cancer could have developed as a result of the chemical agents Zappa was exposed to
throughout his early childhood at the Edgewood Arsenal.
And so it goes. In the next installment, we will add two more famous names to the
death list, and we will use them as springboards to launch into two rarely-told stories
that will add new levels of complexity to the Laurel Canyon saga.
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Part 10
August 29, 2008
"By the time Manson shifted base from Rustic Canyon to an old ranch in Chatsworth,
he'd begun formulating the notion that he and his followers had to prepare
themselves for a race war with Black America." Barney Hoskyns (in Hotel California,
his take on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene)
In this outing, we will be temporarily leaving Laurel Canyon. But don't worry; we won't
be traveling far, and we'll be returning soon enough.
Today we will be exploring Rustic Canyon, which lies about nine miles west of Laurel
Canyon. It was there, in Lower Rustic Canyon, that Beach Boy Dennis Wilson lived in
what Steven Gaines described in Heroes and Villains as "a palatial log-cabin-style
house at 14400 Sunset Boulevard that had once belonged to humorist Will Rogers."
The expansive home sat on three landscaped acres of gently rolling hills.
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The Floor of Upper Rustic Canyon
In the summer of 1968, as is fairly well known, Charlie Manson and various members
of his entourage moved in with Wilson. "Tex" Watson, curiously enough, was already
living there. As many as two-dozen members of Manson's clan spent the entire
summer there, with Wilson picking up the tab for all expenses. The Mansonites
(mostly nubile young women) regularly drove Wilson's expensive cars and demolished
at least one of them. Dennis didn't seem to mind; he was busy recording Manson in his
home studio and inviting fellow musicians, like Neil Young, over to the house to hear
Charlie perform (Young was so impressed that he urged Mo Ostin to sign him).
Dennis would later claim that he had destroyed all the Manson demo tapes, that he
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remembered almost nothing of his time with Charlie and the Family, and that he
certainly knew nothing about the Tate and LaBianca murders, which were committed
in the summer of 1969, about a year after the Family had vacated the Rustic Canyon
residence.
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The end of the line for the stairway leading to the floor of Rustic Canyon
At some point in time, Wilson had a change of heart and decided that maybe he did
indeed know a little something about the murders. "I know why Charles Manson did
what he did," said Dennis. "Someday, I'll tell the world. I'll write a book and explain
why he did it." Needless to say, that book was never written and Wilson's story, if
indeed he had one, was never told. Instead, Dennis Wilson drowned under
questionable circumstances on December 28, 1983, in the marina where his beloved
ship was docked.
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A Mansonesque artifact on the floor of Rustic Canyon
But this story isn't really about Dennis Wilson; it's about Charlie Manson and his
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alleged motive for allegedly ordering the Tate and LaBianca murders. According to the
'Helter Skelter' scenario popularized by lead prosecutor/disinformation peddler
Vincent Bugliosi, Manson was hoping to spark an apocalyptic race war. It is said that
Charlie believed that America's black population would prevail over whitey, but that,
having won the war, the victors would be incapable of governing themselves. And that,
alas, is when Charlie and his retinue would emerge from the shadows to take
command.
According to Barney Hoskyns, Manson began formulating his race war theory during
his stay in Rustic Canyon. If true, then Charlie appears to have been following in the
footsteps of a former Rustic Canyon guru - one who preceded him by a few decades,
and who, like Charlie, had a certain fondness for swastikas.
Just to the north of Dennis Wilson's old home is a vast wilderness of undeveloped
canyon lands. Lower Rustic Canyon soon gives way to Upper Rustic Canyon, and all
signs of human civilization abruptly vanish. The land remains wild and undeveloped
save for an old fire road that winds along the summit between Rustic Canyon and a
neighboring canyon. That road is closed to the public and vehicle traffic is nonexistent.
Aside from an occasional hiker wandering in from nearby Will Rogers State Park, there
is nary a human to be seen.
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A former entrance into the tunnel complex
The farther in one hikes, the more wild and untamed it becomes. Along with the sights
of the city, the sounds and the scents quickly disappear as well. Within a very short
time, it is surprisingly easy to forget that one is still within the confines of the city of
Los Angeles. In its fall splendor, the canyon looks nothing like the Los Angeles that I
know and don't quite love. It is beautiful, serene, pastoral. And yet, filled with mist and
heavily overgrown, it is also vaguely ominous.
If one knows where to look, there is a narrow concrete stairway that is accessible from
the fire road. This stairway descends down to the floor of the canyon, and it is a very,
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very long descent. Five hundred and twelve steps long, to be exact. As one makes the
descent, this stairway, which seems to go on forever, seems wildly out of place. With
time to kill on the way down, one finds oneself pondering (actually, most people
probably wouldn't, but I did) how many man-hours it took to set forms for 512 poured
concrete steps, and how truckloads of concrete had to be poured out here in the middle
of nowhere.
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A view into the now colorful water reservoir
Reaching the canyon floor, one finds that, though the native flora has struggled
mightily to reclaim the land, remnants of a past civilization can be seen everywhere.
Some structures remain largely intact - a nearly 400,000-gallon, spring-fed reservoir
serving a sophisticated potable water system; a concrete-walled structure that once
housed twin electrical generators capable of lighting a small town; more concrete
stairways hundreds of steps long, each snaking its way up the canyon walls; weathered
livestock stables; professionally graded and paved roads; countless stone retaining
walls; an incinerator; concrete foundations and skeletal remains of former dwellings;
the rusting carcass of a Mansonesque VW bus; and, at the former entrance, an
imposing set of electronically-controlled, wrought-iron security gates.
It is the kind of place that seems tailor-made for Charlie and his Family - remote and
secluded, yet accessible by the Family's custom-built dune buggies; with just enough
crumbling infrastructure to provide rudimentary shelter for the clan; and with
elaborate security provisions, including sentry positions and a formerly-electrified
fence completely encircling the 50-acre compound (as well as, by some reports, an
underground tunnel complex). And it was located just a short hike up the canyon from
the place that Charlie Manson called home in the summer of 1968.
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Murphy Ranch's generator station, as it looks today
While exploring this place, obvious questions begin to come to mind (they would, that
is, if I didn't already know the answers, but try to work with me here): who developed
this remote portion of the canyon? And why? Why here, in what feels like the middle of
nowhere? The goal appears to have been to create a hidden and completely selfsustaining community, and an extraordinary amount of money was invested in
infrastructure development ... but why?
Very few Angelenos know of the curious ruins in Rustic Canyon, and fewer still know
the history of those ruins. Every now and then though, a local reporter will pay a visit
and the story will make a one-time appearance in a local publication, briefly casting
some light on a bit of the hidden history of Los Angeles. In May 1992, Marc Norman of
the Los Angeles Business Journal was one such reporter ("Hermit Chic - Rustic
Canyon").
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Security gates still stand at the former entrance to the compound
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plus acres north of [Will] Rogers' property in 1933, but the owners were actually
named Stephens - Norman, an engineer with silver-mining interests, and Winona, the
daughter of an industrialist and a woman given to things supernatural. Local lore has it
that Winona fell under the spell of a certain unnamed gentleman ..." This trio, along
with unnamed others, began "a 10-year construction program costing $4 million ...
starting with a water tank holding 375,000 gallons and a concrete diesel-powered
generator station with foot-thick walls - both of which are still visible. The hillsides
were terraced for orchards, an electrified fence circled the boundaries and a huge
refrigerated locker was built into a hillside ... The one thing Murphy/Stephens couldn't
seem to get right was their main house. The first architect hired was Welton Becket,
but there are also sketches by Lloyd Wright, and in 1941, Paul Williams drafted
blueprints for a sprawling mansion with 22 bedrooms, a children's dining room, a
gymnasium, pool and a workshop in the basement."
Thirteen years later, in September 2005, Cecelia Rasmussen of the Los Angeles Times
added a few details to the story ("Rustic Canyon Ruin May Be a Former Nazi
Compound," September 4, 2005): "Southern California has been the cradle to many
odd cults, credos, utopias and dystopias. Among the most mysterious are the ruins of a
Rustic Canyon enclave once known as Murphy Ranch ... on [Rustic Canyon's] secluded
and woodsy floor stand the eerily burned-out and graffiti-scarred remains of concrete
and steel structures, underground tunnels and stairways leading from the top of the
canyon to the bottom ... Behind the locked and rusted wrought iron entrance gates and
flagstone wall stand the traces of a small community that had the capacity to grow its
own food, generate its own electricity and dam its own water ... The hillsides were
terraced with 3,000 nut, citrus, fruit and olive trees, and fitted with water pipes,
sprinklers and an elaborate greenhouse. A high barbed-wire fence discouraged
intruders ... research indicates that it could have been home to up to 40 local Nazis
from about 1933 to 1945 ... armed guards patrolled the canyon dressed in the uniform
worn by Silver Shirts, a paramilitary group modeled after Hitler's brownshirts ... A
man known through oral histories only as 'Herr Schmidt' supposedly ruled the place
and claimed to possess metaphysical powers."
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A portion of the overgrown foundation of what was once a state-of-the-art greenhouse
Herr Schmidt, needless to say, was the gentleman whose spell Winona Stephens fell
under. According to Marc Norman, Schmidt "convinced her that the coming world war
would be won by Germany, that the United States would collapse into years of violent
anarchy and that the chosen few (read: the Stephenses, the certain gentleman and
other true believers) would need a tight spot in which to hole up, self-sufficient, until
the fire storm had passed. Then they could emerge not only intact but, thanks to the
superiority of their politics, rulers of the anthill and, not incidentally, the origin of its
new population."
Sound familiar?
Murphy Ranch also reportedly featured a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel tank, livestock
stables, and dairy and butchering facilities. Along both sides of the compound "rise
eight crumbling, narrow stairways of at least 500 steps each," as the LA Times noted.
Those stairways apparently led to sentry positions high on the canyon walls (for the
record, they are not actually crumbling, though most are overgrown with impenetrable
vegetation). During Murphy Ranch's years of operation, nearby residents reportedly
complained of late-night military exercises and the sounds of live gunfire echoing
through the canyons.
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The rusted and twisted remains of a residential structure
To summarize then, it appears that the city of Los Angeles was home to a secret,
militarized Nazi compound that was in operation both before and during World War
II. Remnants of that blacked-out chapter of LA history can be seen to this day, though
few make the trek. The purpose of the decaying compound was to ride out an anarchic,
apocalyptic war, so that the chosen few could emerge as the rulers of the new world.
It was all so very Mansonesque, and, ironically enough, Manson and his crew spent an
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entire summer camped out at a home that was within a two-mile hike of this curious
place. It should have been something of a Mecca for Charlie, and yet he apparently
knew nothing of its existence. It seems somehow disrespectful that the Family didn't
choose to set up camp here rather than at, say, Barker Ranch. At the very least, they
should have paid a visit.
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Former fruit and nut orchard with remnants of a sophisticated irrigation system
In the late 1940s, after the close of the war, Murphy Ranch was reportedly converted
into an artist's colony. Architect Welton Becket, who designed several of the structures
at the ranch, went on to design two of LA's landmark structures: the Capitol Records
building and the Music Center. In 1973, the property once known as Murphy Ranch
was purchased by the city of Los Angeles. As far as I know, the city has no plans to
reopen the facility.
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"Van Cortlandt and Untermyer functioned as outdoor meeting sites for the cult."
Maury Terry, referring to the cult behind the 'Son of Sam' murders (from The Ultimate
Evil)
Just to the west of Laurel Canyon, and slightly to the east of Coldwater Canyon, lies a
large estate known as Greystone Park, home of the long-vacant Greystone Mansion.
The home, and the grounds it sits on, is said to be, to this day, the most expensive
private residence ever built in the city of Los Angeles. Constructed in the 1920s, the
home and grounds carried the then-unfathomable price tag of $4,000,000 (by way of
comparison, the Lookout Inn, built a decade-and-a-half earlier, was projected to cost
from $86,000-$100,000; in other words, the single-family residence cost at least 40
times what the lavish 70-room inn cost - and the inn required bringing infrastructure
and building materials to a remote mountaintop).
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A modest courtyard on the grounds of the Greystone estate
The massive, 46,000 square-foot edifice sits amid 22 lavishly landscaped acres of
prime Hollywood Hills real estate. This rather ostentatious home was built by
uberwealthy oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny as a wedding present for his son, Edward
"Ned" Doheny, Jr.. If that plotline sounds vaguely familiar, it is probably because
Edward Doheny was the inspiration for Upton Sinclair's Oil, and thus for the
homicidal Daniel Plainview character in There Will Be Blood (some of the interior
shots near the end of that film, of expansive, marble-floored rooms, could very well
have been shot in the real Greystone, though the exterior shots certainly were not).
Upon the home's completion, in September 1928, young Ned Doheny and his new
bride moved into the humble abode. Within months, the home would be bloodstained;
soon after, it would be permanently abandoned.
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A view of Greystone Mansion
Poor Ned, you see, was found dead in the cavernous home on February 16, 1929. Near
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him lay the lifeless body of his assistant/personal secretary, Hugh Plunkett. Both men
had been shot. Despite persistent rumors of an inordinately long delay in reporting the
deaths, and of the bodies having been moved to re-stage the crime scene, no formal
inquest was ever conducted and the case was written off as a murder/suicide arising
from a gay lovers' quarrel. Plunkett was said to be the triggerman and the media
quickly went into a frenzy playing up the scandalous homosexuality angle and
portraying young Plunkett as positively demented.
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Another modest courtyard on the grounds of the Greystone Estate
It is anyone's guess whether or not the two really were gay lovers, but it matters little;
the rest of the story was almost certainly a work of fiction. In reality, both men were
likely murdered as part of the massive cover-up/damage-control operation that
followed the disclosure of the Harding-era Teapot Dome scandal, which the Doheny
family, as it turns out, was very deeply immersed in. The murder/suicide scenario was
then trotted out because, as we all know, if the alleged perpetrator is already dead, it
pretty much eliminates the need for things like investigations and trials.
Some forty years after those gunshots rang out in the opulent Greystone Mansion, a
new Ned Doheny, scion of the very same Doheny oil clan, would join the ranks of the
Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters club. Like Terry Melcher and Gram Parsons,
Doheny was viewed by some as a 'trust-fund kid.' His closest circle of friends included
country-rockers Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther and Glen Frey. In addition to recording
his own solo albums (his self-titled debut was released in 1973), Doheny contributed to
albums by such Laurel Canyon superstars as Don Henley and Graham Nash.
Strangely enough, New York City once had a large estate known as Greystone as well.
That Greystone was donated to the city as parkland, and it thereafter became known as
Untermyer Park - the same Untermyer Park identified by Maury Terry as one of the
two principal ritual sites used by the Process Church faction behind the 'Son of Sam'
murders. The other site used by the cult was Van Cortlandt Park, named for Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, a former Mayor of New York and one of David Van Cortlandt Crosby's
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forefathers. Another of Crosby's forefathers lent his name to Schuyler Road, which
happens to run along the western boundary of the Greystone Park in the Hollywood
Hills.
©Unknown
One of the many gargoyles on the grounds of Greystone
I have no idea what, if anything, any of that means, but I thought it best that I toss it
into the mix.
**********
Before wrapping up this installment, this seems like as good a time as any to introduce
you all to a couple of Laurel Canyon characters who we haven't yet met, and who would
attain a certain amount of fame, though not in the entertainment industry.
One of the two, whom we'll call Jerry, had a decidedly conservative upbringing. Born
into a politically well-connected Republican family, Jerry devoted his early years to
pursuing a career in the Jesuit priesthood. His father, an active Republican Party
operative, was an aspiring politician who initially had no luck in getting himself elected
to office. Ultimately though, he succeeded in capturing the coveted California
Governor's seat in 1959, and he did it by employing a simple gimmick: he merely
changed the "R" after his name to a "D." He held the seat for two terms, through 1967,
and then was replaced by a fellow who had employed a similar trick: replacing the "D"
after his name with an "R."
That gentleman, of course, was Ronald Wilson Reagan, who would govern the state
through 1975, when he handed the reins over to Jerry, who, like his dad, had decided
that he was a liberal Democrat. In fact, according to the media, Edmund G. "Jerry"
Brown, Jr. was an ultraliberal extremist whose politics fell somewhere to the left of
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
During Laurel Canyon's glory years, Jerry Brown resided in a home on Wonderland
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Avenue, not too many doors down from the Wonderland death house (and from the
homes of numerous singers, songwriters and musicians). His circle of friends in those
days, as some may recall, included the elite of Laurel Canyon's country-rock stars,
including Linda Ronstadt (with whom he was long rumored to be romantically
involved), Jackson Browne and the Eagles.
Another figure making the rounds in Laurel Canyon during the same period of time
was a gent by the name of Mike Curb. At various times, Curb worked as a musician,
composer, recording artist, film producer and record company executive. He also had
the notable distinction of serving as the musical director on the notorious
documentary feature Mondo Hollywood, which ostensibly chronicled the emerging
Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene. Filmed from 1965 through 1967 (well before the
Manson murders), the film featured representatives from the Manson Family (Bobby
Beausoleil), the Manson Family's victims (Jay Sebring), the Freak troupe (Vito, Carl,
Szou and Godo), and Laurel Canyon's musical fraternity (Frank Zappa and his future
wife, Gail Sloatman). It also featured acid guru Richard
"Babawhateverthefuckitwasthathecalledhimself" Alpert.
Mondo Hollywood, as I mentioned in a previous installment, was the creation of
filmmaker Robert Carl Cohen, who, as it turns out, has an interesting background for a
guy whose destiny was to capture on film the emerging 1960s countercultural scene. In
1954, Cohen served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The following year, he was on
assignment to NATO. Following that, he served in Special Services in Germany. The
very next year, he produced, directed, edited and narrated a documentary short
entitled Inside Red China. Two years later, he wore all the same hats for a
documentary entitled Inside East Germany. A few years later, he put together another
documentary entitled Three Cubans.
Cohen has proudly proclaimed that he was the first (or at least among the first)
Western journalists/filmmakers allowed to enter and shoot footage in each of these
countries. In the case of Cuba (and likely the others as well), he did so under the
sponsorship of the U.S. State Department. Mr. Cohen would like us to believe that he
undertook these projects as nothing more than what he outwardly appeared to be - an
independent filmmaker - but I have a hunch that few readers of this site are naïve
enough to believe that a private citizen not working for the intelligence community
could land such assignments.
Have I mentioned, by the way, that Cohen is not a fan of this website? I know this
because he sent a few e-mails my way in which he denounced my site as being "based
on slander and third-party hearsay," or some such gibberish, and he followed that up
by issuing some empty legal threats. As it turns out though, I don't much give a fuck
what Robert Carl Cohen thinks of my website.
And now, after that brief digression, we return to our discussion of Laurel Canyon's
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dynamic duo of Jerry Brown and Mike Curb. In addition to his work on Mondo
Hollywood, Curb also served as 'song producer' on another key countercultural film of
the era, Riot on the Sunset Strip (which, despite its title, had little to do with the actual
event). In addition, Curb scored a slew of cheaply-produced biker flicks, including The
Wild Angels, Devil's Angels, Born Losers, The Savage Seven and The Glory Stompers.
Along the way, he worked alongside many of Laurel Canyon's 'Young Turks,' including
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
It is unclear whether the paths of this odd couple crossed during Laurel Canyon's glory
years, but as fate would have it, they were to cross in 1979 in Sacramento, California.
Mike Curb, you see, after being encouraged by Ronald Reagan to venture into politics,
was elected to serve as Governor Jerry Brown's second-in-command. And so it was
that these two men, both veterans of the 1960s Laurel Canyon scene, came to sit sideby-side in the governor's mansion, one sporting a "D" after his name, and the other an
"R."
Governor Brown, however, had little time to spend on actually governing the state of
California. Tossing his hat into the presidential ring, he spent much of the first half of
his second term out of the state, working the campaign trail. This allowed Lieutenant
Governor Curb, as acting governor of the state, to sign into law a withering array of
reactionary legislation that was far removed from what the people had in mind when
they elected 'Governor Moonbeam.' This arrangement allowed the nominal liberal of
the Laurel Canyon tag-team, Jerry Brown, to keep his hands clean even as his
administration moved far away from its originally stated goals - and even as he made
little effort to rein in his wayward underling.
These days, Jerry Brown maintains little of his liberal façade. As California's Attorney
General, he works hand-in-hand with the state's Nazi-loving governor, Ahhnuld
Schwarzenegger. Of course, if his carefully-crafted image is to be believed,
Schwarzenegger is practically a liberal himself. The truth however, is something much
different ... or maybe not. Given that we are living in an era when a straight-faced
media can routinely describe Bill and Hillary and Barry O as liberals, then I suppose
Jerry and Arnie have as much right to wear that label as anyone. But then again, so do
George and John.
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©Google Earth
A map showing the location of Greystone (in the lower left corner)
©Google Earth
A close-up aerial view of Greystone
©Google Earth
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An aerial view of the former Murphy Ranch; the entry gates and reservoir can be clearly seen at the top
of the image
Part 11
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
“By that, I mean, 'Get me a lead singer. He's got sort of an androgynous blonde hair,
very pretty. We need a guitar player, sort of hatchet-faced, wears a hat, plays very
fast, very dramatic. He must be very dramatic. Get me a pound of bass player, pound
of drummer ... they're making little cardboard cutouts. They hire a producer, they
hire writers ... And in the current stuff now, they don't even bother getting people to
play. Don't bother with that guitar player, bass player, drummer - nonsense ... The
people in those bands can't write, play, or sing.” (David Crosby, describing the
synthetic, manufactured nature of today's rock bands.)
“David was obnoxious, loud, demanding, thoughtless, full of himself - of the four of
them [David Crosby, Steven Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young], the least talented.”
(David Geffen)
First of all, before getting back into the Laurel Canyon scene, I need to say that some of
you people really need to mellow out on the visits to my website. Seriously. This isn't a
crack-house, for fuck's sake, so just chill out a little bit. I mean, I've grown accustomed
to the fact that you feel free to drop in unannounced at all hours of the day and night,
but maybe, just maybe, you could consider doing it a bit less frequently. Is that so
much to ask?
Don't get me wrong here - I'm flattered by the attention. I really am. The problem
though is that you have overloaded my now-overworked website, causing it to
spontaneously disappear on, of all days, the morning of September 11, 2008. And to
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add insult to injury, the generic, no-frills page that popped up instead, proclaiming
that my site was under house arrest for the crime of exceeding its bandwidth
allocation, was arguably more attractive than my actual homepage.
Luckily, this problem was quickly brought to my attention by a few alert readers and I
was able to liberate my site by digging deeply into my pockets to come up with the bail
money that the jailers were demanding (I think they referred to it as "adding
resources" to my site, but I wasn't really fooled by that. And I didn't, by the way, really
dig that deeply into my pockets. But that's not the point. No, the point is that my site is
- and I'm sure that there are many of you who do not know this - primitive by design. It
is my belief that the 'retro website' look will soon be all the rage, and I want to be at the
forefront of that movement. Everything old will someday become new again, and the
'net has been around for long enough now, given our collectively short attention span,
that a return to basics - to those first tentative baby-steps some of us took in creating
one of those newfangled things called 'websites' - is all but guaranteed. My site,
needless to say, will become the template that will be followed by everyone who wants
to run with the in-crowd. I will, of course, be regarded as something of a visionary.
Unfortunately though, I will ultimately be revealed as a fraud when, a few years down
the road, legions of fans suddenly realize that, long after the fad has passed, my site is
still retro. Self-righteous critics will denounce me as a poser, a charlatan - they may
even invoke that most demeaning of future slurs and label me a 'Palin.' But before that
happens, the brief time during which I shall have basked in the limelight will have
made it all worthwhile.
Of course, none of that has much to do with purchasing additional bandwidth for my
site, so I guess it does come down to the money issue after all. Because if your behavior
continues, I fear that the situation could soon spiral completely out of control, forcing
me to come to you, like every other asswipe on the Internet, with hat in hand. Before
long, I could be spending all of my time organizing annual f

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