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In Hermeticism and other esoteric occult traditions, The Great Work, or Magnum Opus, is the process for spiritual evolution of the human soul, the dismantling of the ego and attainment of enlightenment within a physical lifetime. And the 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot are a visual timeline of this lifetime enlightenment.

The 22 Major Arcana are typically divided into three phases of experience, with The Fool acting as the soul moving through them.

Phase one represent the soul being born into the physical world and building a functional human ego, the necessary baseline of human...

For most of our human history, winter was an existential struggle for everyone, and late October in the Northern Hemisphere was a season of visible death. The daylight collapses fast, the harvest is in, vines and fields are put to bed, and animals are slaughtered. Up until very recently, there was no fresh produce and frozen meats all winter long at the grocery store. And any species concerned about mortality as much as man is, will naturally build ritual around the most death-saturated weeks of the year.

Originally, May 13th was designated by the Church as All...

A reasonable, educated guess tells us that about 10 million monkeys are alive on Earth today. And based on their distribution, less than 5% of them will ever see a human being or any evidence that humans exist. The big monkey-city tourist spots are rare, the overwhelming majority of monkeys live within tropical rain-forests where humans do not venture. And since the beginning of recorded history, a small percentage of humans from all over the world have reported seeing large hairy hominids.

Amazonian tribes call it the Mapinguari. Andean Traditions call them Ukumarí. The Sherpa people of the Himalayas c...

Human evolution has been effected by calendars, and the calendars we use have changed throughout history. Classical writers like Aristotle, Apollonius of Rhodes, and others recorded traditions of a Greek tribe, the Arcadians, who claimed to have lived in the land “before the moon was in the sky.” This concept is sometimes called Proselenos, which translates to “those who were before the Moon.” If this was the case, timekeeping could have been tracked through the migration of animals, cycles of vegetation, and local weather patterns.

Calendars dating back ten thousand years were attuned to the cycles of the moon...

During the late 1800s, hundreds of thousands of orphan children were trafficked in America on trains and sold at fairs. Some of these children were taken from their parents, some were taken off the street, and some were born into Masonic communities, birthed within a vast network of privately run orphan asylums and foundling hospitals which were managed by a branch of Freemasonry known as the Odd Fellows.

The Odd Fellows is a masonic fraternity dating back at least three hundred years. Their charge is to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate th...

Reincarnation philosophies are most developed in the Indian religions but are prevalent throughout all of world history. The various Indian religions differ on the details but all share a doctrine of karma, the law of cause and effect, and believe the birth-death cycle ultimately ends when the individual self achieves union with God. Meaning that liberation is an internal process, and a choice that only the individual can attain for themselves.

The mainstream monotheistic religions reject reincarnation, teaching there is only one earthly life. But several other groups have always embraced reincarnation. This includes the Gnostics, the...

In his 1979 book, Messengers of Deception, Jacques Vallée warned that UFO cults and “disclosure” narratives were being manipulated by psychological warfare units to shift human belief systems toward authoritarianism. In his recent book, Volume 6, he shares his journals documenting his interaction with today’s disclosure movement groups, and he is highly skeptical.

Vallée has long argued that if a hidden group, either human or non-human, wanted to control human society, they would project a myth, a cover story to hide the truth. And the Disclosure movement is being groomed by the military with the Nazi-Occult-Alien narrativ...

Officially we are told that humans have never made contact with those commonly called, Aliens. But the historical record is full of accounts that say otherwise. From the earliest known writings of Sumer, which describe a time when a superior non-human species was ruling over humanity, through Moses’ ‘burning bush,’ Joseph Smith’s ‘pillar of light,’ the giants of the past, and all the friends of George Adamski and Howard Menger who were allegedly having encounters during the 1950s — human history is full of close encounters of the 3rd and 4th kind.

In 1952 the White House was swarmed by UFO...

The Default Mode Network, or DMN, is a network of the brain that lights up during self-reflection. These are the neurons that create the ego-story. Neuroimaging studies have shown that experienced meditators are not firing the ego-story neurons as much as non-meditators, and are accessing other parts of the neural network more. Scientific studies confirm that the narrating ego is a construct of the mind, and conscious awareness is a measurable neural condition.

The philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims that beyond the biological organism there is no separate entity that qualifies as a “self,” and that our sense of i...

The autonomic nervous system has two main divisions: The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. They work together to help keep your body balanced and alive. The Sympathetic nervous system is known as the fight-flight-or-freeze mode and you can think of it as an alarm system that switches on in states of emergency. It releases adrenaline and cortisol, raises heart rate and blood pressure, regulates blood to large muscles, and suppresses non-essential functions like digestion. The Parasympathetic nervous system is known as the rest-and-digest mode. It conserves and restores energy. It lowers heart rate, supports digestion, deepens...

In the first chapter of the Hebrew Bible, it says that “God created man in His image.” In Hebrew, this is written as tzelem Elohim, and some rabbinical interpretations hold that humans can function as icons that draw God’s presence into the world—similar to the murtis in Hinduism.

Christianity builds on this foundation, teaching that every person has high value and the potential for transformation through Christ.

According to the Bible, humans are made in the image of God, are given free will, and possess the ability to bring new human life into the worl...

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Trained in Rosicrucian philosophies, Rudolf Steiner taught that humans have several bodies: the physical body, the etheric body — which animates the physical body, the “I” or the ego, and the astral body. According to Steiner there are three different dimensional worlds existing together, the physical, the astral, and the spirit. He claimed that when you fall asleep, your astral body separates from the physical and drifts into the astral world, a realm that the astral body is native to, and that death is a complete version of this separation, followed by a retrospective review and ascension. He also taught that a...

Mysterious crop circles have been documented since the fourteenth century. Project Blue Book tells us the US military began investigating them in the 1950s. By the mid 1980s, several photographers began documenting them from above, which is obviously the intended view, these formations have stunning symmetry and detailed geometry. The East Field Pictogram, hundreds of feet long, was discovered on July 12th of 1990, and Led Zeppelin used it on the cover of their new Remasters release. Crop circles were about to go mainstream.

But within weeks, crop circle investigator, Colin Andrews, was approached by the BBC and...

Materialism is the view that the universe is a lifeless machine composed of particles of matter governed by physics. This belief excludes consciousness and non-physical phenomena, which are then labeled as pseudo-science. This materialist view began falling apart in the early 20th century with Planck’s discovery of the quantum of action, and with the work of Heisenberg, Bohr, and others. Physicist Henry Stapp argued that the quantum conception of matter, where physical reality is mid-way between classical matter and mind, provides a coherent framework for the causal power of the mind, a process you can find described thousands of...

Ernst Chladni documented the frequency patterns created in sand as it conforms to the sound frequencies emitted from vibrating metallic plates, he developed a formula that connected the specific frequencies with their manifest patterns, and published the results in his 1787 treatise. His work became an essential tool for violin and other musical instrument makers, and after publishing his 1802 book, Die Akustik, Chladni earned the title, “father of acoustics,” and his work became known as Cymatics. An incredible study that was hardly known of until the 1990s, when it began to spread on the internet and be demonstrated in videos.

Flock cameras capture a complete vehicle fingerprint and use neural networks to identify and track people. Flock’s system can generate “heat maps” charting a vehicle’s movements for 30 days, which can be used to reconstruct a person’s movements, associations, and habits. Flock’s Nationwide Data Sharing allows police in one state to track vehicles in another without probable cause. Flock cameras have been under much public scrutiny lately, and many have been destroyed. But Flock isn’t the only private company helping to build a mass surveillance state.

A Company called, Axon, launched a clip-on streetlight ca...

A stele is like an ancient Egyptian billboard. Pharaohs used them to record major events, announce their deeds, and communicate with the public. The “Dream Stele” is a large stone slab, 4.2 meters tall, made of granite. It was carved with hieroglyphs around 1400 B.C. during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose IV of the 18th Dynasty, who had it placed between the paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza as the back wall of a small chapel he built there. It was later buried under sand where it remained for centuries before being rediscovered in 1818 by Giovanni Battista Caviglia.

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The most radical political prose ever written into a founding document of a nation is found in the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson; “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” He went further, and wrote that when a government pursues a “long train of abuses and usurpations” it’s the people’s duty to “throw off such government.”

In a 1787 letter to James Madison, Jefferson wrote, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing... It p...

The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax levied by Parliament on the colonies, which had no elected representatives in Parliament to approve or debate it. British Parliament later stated in the Declaratory Act that they had “full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever.” According to the story, the American Revolution wasn’t about the size of the tax, it was about the right of Britain to impose taxes on the colonists without their consent.

From 1868 to 1913, 90 percen...

In the heliocentric model, a pole shift or a solar nova could be caused by a large planetary object passing by the Earth close enough to trigger a destructive effect. Theories include large comets, an unknown planet in our solar system, or a binary sun. While pop culture is religiously sold on the heliocentric model, empirical evidence and quantitative data say otherwise. Many respected scientists acknowledge that based on observations, you cannot disprove the geocentric model. Based on direct observation, the Earth does appear to be a flat motionless plane.

When America’s Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, pr...

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The Zodiac wheel divides the ecliptic — the Sun’s apparent path through the sky — into 12 equal sections of 30 degrees each. Each section is named after a star constellation found in that sector. The term ‘Great Year’ was elaborated by Plato in 4th century BC Greece. He described it as the cosmic time frame required for all heavenly bodies to complete their cycles and return simultaneously to their original alignment. Later astronomers found that it takes 2,160 years for the equinox to shift through one sign of the Zodiac wheel, which places the complete Great Year at around 25,920 years to move through al...

The great Gothic cathedrals of Northern France, all dedicated to the Virgin — Notre Dame — were built within a hundred-year window with engineering knowledge that was not supposed to exist at the time. When plotted on a map, they mirror the constellation of Virgo, and point to the stone Cross of Hendaye, an otherwise unassuming monument in southwestern France.

In The Mystery of the Cathedrals, the enigmatic writer Fulcanelli described the Cross of Hendaye as “a humble stone cross, as simple as it is strange.” Within it was an alchemical code intended for those initiated into the mystery schools...

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Project Nanook, the Strategic Air Command’s mission over the Arctic in the late 1940s, revealed that the magnetic pole was moving about 10 miles per year and is accelerating exponentially. After being analyzed by the OSS and the RAND corporation, it was decided that reporting this news to the public would “destroy the moral fiber of society.” And was kept private.

Charles Hapgood, the lead geoscience researcher working within the same network, produced the crustal displacement theory which argued that rapid catastrophic shifts explain how Antarctica was once temperate, how the Sahara was once green, and how mammot...

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The Hopi Prophecy is based on an oral record that spans thousands of years. It speaks of cyclical cataclysms and says that one is coming in our near future, and that it will be the transition between the end of the Fourth World and the beginning of the Fifth.

Several ancient texts have documented cyclical cataclysms. The Bible begins with the replenishing of the Earth, which many biblical scholars interpret as a restoration after a previous destruction, and it ends with destruction.

During the 16th century, Nostradamus wrote of the earth trembling so violently that...

The AI Data Centers in America have already become hugely unpopular. The noise pollution from their cooling systems reach up to 100 decibels and run non-stop. They are drawing down aquifers in areas that are already in short supply, turning the water brown and tainting it with a disinfectant smell, and there is no benefit to the local community. A U.S. Chamber of Commerce report found that each data center provides about 157 jobs.

Because of all this, developers have been using non-disclosure agreements with local officials, and projects are announced only weeks before voting for approval. There...

The United Nations emblem uses a projection map which is centered on the North Pole. This projection was chosen in 1945 when the UN was founded and the Arctic was strategically irrelevant. Today it has become the world’s most contested zone. The center of the UN’s map is precisely the terrain that every major power is now scrambling for.

The Russian narrative is that a coming Pole Shift will thaw parts of Siberia and the Arctic coastline, of which Russia controls approximately 53%. This Northern Sea Route, the NSR, saves 15 days of travel compared to the Suez Cana...

The Smart Dust project was funded by DARPA for military applications — specifically for rapid deployment of defense sensor networks onto the battlefield. Battlefield sensing is inherently about detecting people who don’t know they’re being detected. The invisibility and undetectability are deliberate design priorities.

This technology appeared in the public with US Patent 11,354,666 B1, “Smart Dust Usage”, which was filed on May 26, 2016, and granted on June 7, 2022. It is assigned to Wells Fargo Bank and describes a system for authenticating a user making a payment using “smart dust.”

Smart Dust is technically known as MEMS, microelectrome...

The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, otherwise known as Dimona, is the cornerstone of Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program. Construction began in secret in 1958 with the help of France, which helped build Israel a 24-megawatt heavy-water reactor as part of a clandestine weapons program, believed to have been completed in 1965, with their first functional nuclear device produced before June of 1967.

When U.S. officials first inquired about the site, Israeli representatives described it as a textile plant, a metallurgical research installation, and a pumping station. When American inspectors were eventually granted limited access in 1965, Israeli en...

The confidence game, commonly known as the “con game”, relies upon the exploitation of trust, hope, ego, and emotion, and is one of the oldest and most effective forms of deception known to man. Human beings are not naturally that suspicious. Starting in childhood, most are conditioned to trust and cooperate with one another. And we are hardwired to look for patterns that confirm our beliefs rather than challenge them. We are also more inclined to stick with our decisions even when new contradictory evidence arises. Some people live their entire lives oblivious to this, some learn to rise abov...

According to the Brookings Institution’s analysis of carbon tax timing, high fossil fuel prices are the worst time to impose a carbon tax, but are the best time to build the underlying market architecture. And that infrastructure is rapidly being built and deployed by the biggest multinational corporations, governments and states, and the United Nations — especially in the past few months.

Announced at Davos in January 2026, the carbon market platform EcoGuard automates the full carbon credit lifecycle. The carbon market is expected to reach $5 trillion by 2035. This infrastructure is designed to be “invisible and ubiquitous” — the goal is fo...

On average, the United States has been starting wars with other nations once every ten years since its founding. And during this same time, Iran hasn’t started any. Foreign interest in Iran during the modern era began in the early Nineteen-Hundreds with the Anglo-Persian Oil company. The British Crown became dependent upon Iranian oil, and the people of the Middle-East were subjected to a century of betrayals, strategic deception, and psychological operations. In 1921, Britain overthrew the Iranian government. During World War II, both Britain and the USSR invaded Iran to steal their oil. In 1953, Britain and the USA ov...

Despite having the world’s most powerful navy, the United States cannot force the Strait of Hormuz open, which every US military expert knew would be closed if Iran was attacked. This is why the US Navy is miles away. And it is why America’s NATO Allies are refusing to participate.

The Iranians may have suffered the brutal Shock & Awe of the United States military, but they have been preparing for decades, and as the US is already running low on weapons, Iran has plans for a long term asymmetrical war, a defensive fight for their very...

According to Hebrew scripture, the 35 acres of land in southeast Jerusalem known as, the Temple Mount, was originally a threshing floor for processing grain and was purchased by King David for the purpose of building an altar. The First Temple was built around 957 BC, stood for nearly four centuries, and was destroyed in 586 BC. It was this First Temple, Solomon’s temple, which became the symbolic importance of the Temple Mount.

The Zohar and Kabbalah describe how the demon Asmedai taught Solomon how to control demons, which is how he built the Temple. The legend of King So...

The first commercial oil well was established in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA. By 1900, about 94% of the world’s oil came from the USA and Russia. During that same time the British Empire was known as the “workshop of the world,” and was powered by massive domestic coal reserves. They controlled about 25% of the Earth’s land surface and population, but produced less than 0.5% of the oil. This became a major dilemma for the British Navy if they were ever to switch from coal to oil.

In 1901, a 60-year lease of 500,000 square miles in Persia was bought by a Britis...

As a promising young astrophysicist, during the Stalinist purges of the Soviet Union , Nikolay Kozyrev was sent to the Russian Gulag in the Arctic, where he reportedly developed his unconventional ideas about time. Ten years later, he was released, returned to science, and achieved his most significant work.

Kozyrev proposed a theory he called “torsion field theory”, which postulated that time is an active physical substance with measurable properties that can vary, including density and flow rate. He said that time interacts directly with consciousness, sending energy and information, and he believed that curved reflective forms could focu...