This is a really excellent post on the reality of the hidden aspect of human history. I’ll be posting at least one more link to another part of the post tomorrow:
Father Chad Ripperger describes how demons besiege the imagination and emotions to such a degree that the person cannot think outside the perceptual box that has colonized them. He calls this obsession in the clinical, theological sense. The person is not fully possessed. They function. They hold jobs. They make decisions. They simply cannot perceive anything outside the boundaries the besieging force has constructed around them. He has observed, publicly, that this pattern is identical to the psychology of ideological movements. He has said that when you strip the veneer away, communism and diabolic psychology operate on the same structural logic.
Now consider a different kind of morphing.
Watch a college freshman arrive at an elite university in September. Watch them again in June. The vocal fry has set in. The upswing at the end of declarative sentences, turning statements into questions. The flattened affect. The identical vocabulary deployed across thousands of individuals who believe themselves to be independent thinkers.
They did not choose this. It overtook them.
By the time they reach Silicon Valley, the morphing is complete. They speak as one voice. They believe they arrived at their opinions independently. Listen to the way Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speaks. The measured cadence. The pauses calibrated to signal thoughtfulness. The vocal register that never rises and never breaks. It is the voice of a system, not a person.
Listen to how many in Generation Z now pronounce the word ‘women.’ The shift is uniform. It is not regional. It did not emerge from any dialect. Millions of people began mispronouncing the same word in the same way at the same time, and no one can identify the point of origin. Linguists call it a speech trend. The ancient world would have called it something else.
When millions of people begin speaking in the same cadence, using the same contractions, the same tonal shifts, the same moral vocabulary, at the same time, that is not culture. That is memetic synchronization. The ancient world had a name for it. The modern world calls it a meme and treats it as a joke. The word “meme” was coined by Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, as a deliberate parallel to “gene”: a unit of cultural transmission that replicates, mutates, and colonizes minds. Dawkins meant it as a scientific metaphor. The ancients would have recognized it as a description of exactly what they were warning about.
As I discussed in my recent piece, Money, Sex, and Sorcery, the word “glamour” comes from the Scots English alteration of “grammar,” which itself derives from “grimoire,” a book of spells. A glamour, in its original meaning, is a spell cast through language. It is the manipulation of perception through words. It makes the enchanted person see something other than what is actually there.
Ripperger describes the same dynamic from the exorcism room: demons, he says, put a perspective on your imagination. They alter how you perceive a person, a situation, a reality. The thing itself has not changed. Your perception of it has been replaced. He says this is how demons destroy marriages, careers, and institutions. They do not change the facts. They change how the possessed person sees the facts.
This is why it is very important to not only devote yourself to speaking the truth to the greatest extent possible, but also knowing your own mind. I once had what I am certain was a demonic dream, because not only were the dream-thoughts definitely not my own, but the characterizations of other people in the dream were intrinsically false and fundamentally different than what I absolutely know to be my true perspective on them. It was scripted to attempt to influence my thinking in a destructive direction, and the temptations offered were not of a sort that even appealed to me.
It was rather like seeing an email and immediately recognizing it to be spam. What the false non-science of modern psychology calls “the subconscious” is actually made up of several elements, and one of them is the pathway with which spirits, both good and evil, communicate with the mind.
And, of course, it’s even more important to avoid doing the sorts of things that open up one’s mind to alien influences. Keep those doors resolutely shut, and even if your personal weaknesses lead to you repeatedly open them again and again, never tire of going back and shutting them, every single time.
Science is considerably more fake than genuine. And history is considerably deeper and darker than is generally acknowledged. And not every individual with whom you speak is speaking for himself.