Kimberly Steele

The person whose channel is referred to above is actually serious -- he conflates clown symbolism (pale skin, red hair, circuses) with Satanic conspiracy.  His leaps of unexamined, random illogic and projection of the shadow are impressive even for a Truther.  I have deleted the channel name and the link URL because he does not seem entirely there and I would not put it past him to personally target people who disagree with his views.  

The Trouble with Truthers

One of the reasons I don’t care for non-mainstream social media alternatives such as Bitchute, Rumble, and Telegram is the amount of anti-Semitism tolerated on those platforms. Bitchute is especially guilty, with any random video playing host to astonishingly offensive comments about how Jews must be responsible for all the evils of the world. I’m not sure if the anti-Semitic comments that proliferate on Bitchute, Rumble, and to a lesser extent, Youtube are real or if they are posted by bots in order to tarnish the platforms in question and drive away intelligent conversation.

Truthers also like to target Freemasonry, insisting that every elite and well-monied person in history is and was part of an ongoing Satan-worshipping conspiracy to ruin the world of normies. They try to play both sides, taking their grandkids to see a Disney movie and buying its related merchandise and the very next hour ranting online about the grotesqueries of Christina Aguilera and her strap-on dildo performance. One of these things is the natural result of the other, and you cannot have your Disney princess cake and eat it too.

There is a person in one of my many online groups who posts Truther propaganda, usually in the form of black men exposing what they perceive as Satanism in the media, politics, and entertainment. These black men are uniformly American and either purport to be born again Christians or a long lost tribe of black Jews. I came at this person pretty hard and I have come close to outright banning her from my groups. Perhaps she will earn a ban in 2023. Sadly, she is far from the only one of her kind. Her post of a Telegram video attempting to smear Freemasons by revealing pentagrams, hexagrams, and a Freemason compass symbols as part of a Satanic plot earned this retaliatory screed from me:

 

"Do you know anything about the occult? Do you know that the word means "hidden"? Did you know that one of the main traditions of serious occultists like myself is the practice of discursive meditation, which comes from medieval Christianity? Do you know anything about Freemasonry that you haven't learned from Bitchute, Rumble, and Dan Brown novels? I'm getting VERY tired of seeing all of this unanalyzed projection of the shadow in this group. If you're looking for the evilly evil Satanists, you might try rooting out the Satanic crap in your own life first before casting stones at 80-something year old lodge members who donate huge chunks of their retirement money to charity. Let me guess: you're probably not fit to throw stones because you live in a glass house..."

 

Projection of the Shadow and Other Acts of Avoidance

I believe the Truther movement, as much as it claims to be about responsibility, prosperity, and faith, is actually about running away from hard limits, gaining and holding on to unearned wealth, and blaming other religions for the increasingly undeniable failures of Christianity. When leftists project their shadows, they are trying to avoid saying “I am full of hatred. When I get up in the morning, my thoughts are dominated by rage towards someone who i am convinced is oppressing me and people like me.” Truthers, for all their claims to the contrary, COULD SAY THE EXACT SAME THING.

Truthers think of themselves as the Good People just as frequently as their enemies think of themselves as the Good People. The truth is somewhere in the middle: there are good people and bad people on both sides, and actually most people are a mix of good and bad, present company included. The religious Christian Right forgets that it is just as elite and elitist as the atheist and pagan Left. Forty years ago it was the pathetic parents of Gen X who bought into Tipper Gore’s hysterical policing of dirty, profanity-laden music CDs. The Christian Right started the US down the path of thought police. Furthermore, Pray the Gay Away camps not only do not work, they are what led to the backlash we see today of Big Pharma getting in bed with its woke sympathizers to trick children into surgically mutilating themselves out of natural puberty. I may have only learned one thing from the study of The Cosmic Doctrine (hopefully there’s more than that but I will be the first to admit the inferiority of my brain to retain knowledge) but it is, like I say in my Ogham readings, a doozy. That thing is Dion Fortune’s statement that if you want to rise above hatred, you must hate the hatred more than you hate the object of your hatred. This means looking inward and recognizing the despicable enemy inside yourself before you project the shadow upon the evilly evil Freemasons, or the Big Bad Patriarchy/ whiteppl/ meanie deadnamers.

The Limits of Human Power

The amount of mysterious power attributed to Masons, occultists, Jews, and other random non-Christians would be very funny if it wasn’t used as reason to start the Spanish Inquisition reboot in the current millennium. Truthers who fetishize an Apocalypse that never arrives are prime candidates for the same sort of Stalinism they allegedly rail against. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is just as prescient a vision as George Orwell’s 1984, and both books had plenty of true historical situations from which to draw when painting their pictures of dystopian futures. The desperate urge to project villainy on That Drag Queen Over There is convenient for the former Tipper Gores and original Karens is psychologically interesting.

When we look at the lifestyle Truthers are protecting, a large number of them are comfortable suburbanites in enviable positions. Not all on the Right are in depressed areas in flyover states. Some are the same big boys with big toys who made the 1980s a living hell for anyone with less money, power, and influence. How many of them are still the clueless elite, throwing money willy-nilly at Big Pharma and its minions instead of taking responsibility for their health, buying Chinese made crap at Costco and enriching Jeff Bezos with their Amazon Prime memberships, and going to the big box church on Sunday so they can feel better about worshipping materialism in the company of other materialists?

Speaking of their churches, they’re mostly a sham. I don’t go into a place that looks like a corporate hotel to worship and I think it is a good guess that Jesus would also avoid such a place. If I have a demon, and I would argue I do, the last place I expect to get that demon cast out is a Christian church or any place of mainstream faith. They still wear masks at the Buddhist temple near me, in fact, they force that Satanic symbol on children. I don’t like places where religious leaders resent occultists like me for knowing what they are supposed to know. How is it that an ex-atheist (it has been fewer than 10 years) has more of a gnosis of the ecosystem of the non-material world than some religious nerd who purports to have spent their whole waking life in church or temple? Yet I am not trying to be arrogant here when I say I am more literate about those things than the average preacher. That said, when I compare myself to such an “expert”, it is like a kid who just learned to read in the first grade comparing herself to a deliberately illiterate adult who failed to learn to read out of ignorance and sometimes spite.

Bless You for Reading This, You Must Have Lots of Patience...

For those of you still reading this, I thank you, as my rants have taken on the seeping darkness of our times lately. On a more positive note, I saw something I never thought I would see last week. For those of you who do not know him, Mark Passio is a firebrand occultist who has a large following. He does livestreams and speaks in public. He also occasionally performs with his band because he is a musician. Mark has dedicated his life on lifting people out of ignorance and promotes the Great Work. For those who do not know what the Great Work is, in the occult vernacular, it is the term of the “many paths, one destination” a soul takes as it returns to the God who created it. As the term implies, the process involves a great deal of hard work on oneself and the world one occupies. I was shocked when Greg Reese, an intelligent and thoughtful contributor to Alex Jone’s Infowars, did a segment from Mark Passio on De Facto Satanism. De Facto Satanism is what John Michael Greer refers to as the sleepy, materialist trance that most people spend their day to day lives within. Greg Reese is a person who I would consider to be a Truther, and to see him promoting the diligence required for the Great Work instead of the same old lazy excusetarian, scapegoat-oriented Christianity was extremely refreshing.

Another strange and (I think) good sign was a performance of the Orphic Hymns I did in the odd setting of a burger bar in Naperville at an Open Mic. It was a foggy night and almost no people attended the Open Mic in the heart of Naperville, one of the most affluent and elite suburbs of Chicago. Because there were not enough performers, I somewhat reluctantly went on stage to fill in the blanks. The Orphic Hymns — my adaptations of the ancient Greek worship poems — were actually well received. Among the three or four other performers, they seemed to be the obvious favorite. People were tapping their toes, humming along, and a small group actually started dancing in the empty bar during the Orphic Hymn to Hermes and Apollo. I don’t think this had a snowball’s chance in hell of happening in the Naperville of 10-20 years ago. Of course it may mean absolutely nothing, but it certainly made me think twice.