A Conspirituality Curriculum
Knowledge is power and the most powerful knowledge is often actively hidden from us.
Conspirituality is about hidden truths and the fearless pursuit of truth in all aspects of life. Who hides these truths and why? What are some of the hidden truths? How can we benefit from knowing about them?
Songs of Innocence, Experience and Higher Innocence
It seems the most radical idea in the world is that everyone deserves to own their own home with a garden and have free health care, free education and a career that allows them to achieve and to serve to their full potential while living a comfortable life in a peaceful, free and prosperous society.
But the wealthy and powerful want to live so much larger than life that they require most of us to spend our lives being servants to them, surviving within a narrow range between desperation and minimal privilege barely above subsistence. Schemes, both legal and illegal are hatched to rob us of our legacies and wages and to keep us from organizing to reclaim lives of dignity. Our true leaders are destroyed in a multitude of ways to maintain this social order for the wealthy and powerful.
And so, those of us who set out to live “the most radical idea” in real life soon find ourselves running up against invisible barriers— glass ceilings at work, fraudulent businesses that rip us off, corrupt government officials, and even violent retaliations if we “go too far”. This is colloquially known as the “School of Hard Knocks”— wisdom gained from painful life experience. Such lessons tend not to be taught in any actual school. These are not the “songs of innocence” as William Blake might say. These are what he would consider “songs of experience” and, yes, they are very painful to learn— so painful that often we recoil from them, pretend they never happened, go into denial and try to get by pretending our lessons of innocence are “all ye need to know”.
But, in so denying the hard lessons of life, we settle. We settle for that narrow band between desperation and minimal privilege and we get stuck there. It is this settling that makes for generational strife in western cultures. The youth know, but cannot fully articulate, that such settling, such stuck-ness is a kind of early death. The elders, traumatized survivors of structural abuse every one, try to train their children and grandchildren to conform and settle as early as possible to avoid the traumas they endured— to avoid, even, the very truth that motivates this kind of twisted protection also known as “sheltering”.
Given, apparently, only the choices of painful truth and comfortable lies, “most men lead lives of quiet desperation”, as Thoreau put it. They remain quiet because examining the reasons behind these choices is painful in itself and shatters the comfortable illusions that most people, like the character Cypher in “The Matrix”, choose instead of the actual truth, which is, in essence, “You are a slave, Neo”.
Knowledge truly is power. None of us will ever have enough years in our lives to live out all the lessons in the “songs of experience” for ourselves. If we really want to learn all the hard lessons, we need to band together with other trusted brothers and sisters and learn from each others’ bitter and painful lessons as well as the painful lessons of trusted stories from people who lived before us.
That’s where this curriculum begins. But, as in Blake’s formulation, it doesn’t end with the painful “songs of experience”. The painful songs lead us forward and, eventually, upward into “songs of higher innocence”. It’s a beautiful realm, like a glorious summit at the end of a difficult climb and, I believe, is very much worth the trouble.
Secrets About Weaknesses of the Powerful and Powers of the “Weak”
Beyond meeting basic human needs and comforts, the main goal of wealth, as the current socioeconomic game is currently played, is to achieve unlimited power to preserve one’s position of extreme privilege in society and to guard against anything that might change it. Because knowledge is power every bit as much as money is power (indeed knowledge, such as insider trading info, can often be the source of great wealth) those with the means to do so use their resources to hide two main kinds of information from the rest of us:
First, the powerful want to hide secrets about themselves— not just the secrets of their success (so others can’t replicate them and compete against them— but also secrets about their wrongdoing and abuses that may have given them unfair advantages over the rest of us. Sometimes these wrongdoings are of a criminal nature and on a very large scale. Revealing these secrets would tend to undermine their power. Most of the intrigues that get labeled as “conspiracy theories” are included in this category.
Secondly, the powerful want to hide secrets about you— powers you might have but don’t know about yet. Sometimes this type of information allows you to enhance your physical, mental, legal or political abilities and, thus, enable you to compete more effectively against the powerful for more control over your own life. A few simple examples might include knowledge about how to form a union at work, how to access government regulators and ombudsmen to intervene on your behalf with a large company that’s ripping you off or how to use diet and natural supplements to reduce your risk of cancer. This category includes alternative health tips, knowledge about toxic products to avoid as well as some truly fascinating possibilities related to spirituality and non-material aspects of reality.
Internet as Battleground
The internet is, thus, a battleground of competing narratives. On the one hand you have peers coalescing around various themes and promoting what they believe to be true and reliable information. On the other hand are establishment forces (government agencies, wealthy individuals, powerful corporations) trying to keep their false and misleading narratives dominant in the minds of the public (public relations).
Of course, there is also a great deal of benign information on the internet— real facts, educational material, knowledge that helps us to become skilled and useful. This is the kind of information that many can master in high school or college. But, when it comes to actual power in our society, this is all information of little consequence. The problem is we tend not to notice when we cross the line from benign inconsequential true information into the more malignant highly consequential false information. If The benign information is a rocket booster, then the malignant information is the payload— falsehoods that, once lodged in our minds, help make us controllable in ways often too subtle for us to notice.
The psychological aspects of decolonizing our minds alone are more than enough to fill an entire course. There are many aspects to this conundrum. Many courses. One could probably even people a university with professors and students to truly lay bare the structures of misinformation and oppression operating in our society.
But we don’t have time for that now. We just need a crash course in breaking down the false narratives that have been misleading us for much of our lives. Gregory Bateson said “Information is a difference that makes a difference”, by which he meant a difference (between what you thought you knew before and what you know now) that makes a difference (between actions you would have taken based on your earlier knowledge and actions you may take now that you know better). There are many, many, many sources of material that could go into an outline like this, but I’ve tried to keep it limited to the most essential sources. I want you to have in your grasp the difference that makes a difference. This is not an encyclopedia, not a whole operating system, if you will, it is just a collection of bug fixes to patch bugs in our understanding of the world and enable us to take actions that, according to newer and better understandings of the world, will afford us the greatest chances of success in achieving the “most radical idea”
Disclaimers
It is likely that some or most of the creators of the content collected in the outline below would NOT want to be in a list that includes some or most of the other content in the list. Suffice it to say there is no implied endorsement or even approval to be included in this list on the part of the authors, directors, producers and other content creators.
It is likely that you will be be tempted to throw the whole list out or have judgements about my vetting ability because there will almost certainly be some items you believe you know are false. You might be right. I would have felt the same not all that long ago. We should always be prepared to discover that we are wrong about something and I endeavor to live by that ethic. Indeed, the ability to unlearn something we discover to be false is key to progress. I would urge you to consider each item independently and be very careful about relying on the word of authorities who may have conflicts of interest and, perhaps, consider giving my vetting ability the benefit of the doubt.
And so, without further ado, here is A Conspirituality Curriculum:
Outline / Syllabus
Abuse of Power: Violence
1.1. Assassinations1.1.1 John F. Kennedy 22 NOV 1963
1.1.1.1 “JFK and the Unspeakable”, book by James Douglas, 2008, Amazon
1.1.1.2 “JFK” film, Oliver Stone, 1991, IMDb
1.1.1.3 “The Kennedy Assassination: what really happened: A deathbed confession, new discoveries, and Trump's 2017-18 document release implicates LBJ in the murder”, Kindle, Dr. Jerome A. Kroth, Amazon,
1.1.2 Robert F. Kennedy 5 JUN 19681.1.2.1 “A Lie Too Big to Fail”, book by Lisa Pease, 2018, Amazon
1.1.3 Martin Luther King Jr 7 APR 19681.1.3.1 “An Act of State”, book by William F. Pepper, 2008, Amazon
1.2. Wars1.2.1 Vietnam
1.2.1.1 “The Fog of War”, film by Errol Morris, 2005
1.2.1 Afghanistan
1.2.1.1 “'Excuse For War': Taliban Says There's 'No Evidence' Osama Bin Laden Was Behind 9/11”, Darragh Roche, Newsweek
1.2.2 Iraq
1.2.2.1 “Scott Ritter in His Own Words”, TIME magazine, 2002 (no evidence of WMD’s before the 2003 invasion)
1.2.3 Syria
1.2.3.1 “Vanessa Beeley Presents Exposé on White Helmets at Swiss Press Club in Geneva”, 21st Century Newswire
1.2.4 Ukraine
1.2.4.1 “Robert Parry: The Mess that Nuland Made”, Consortium News, 13 July 2015 and 26 February 2022
Abuse of Power: Environmental Pollution
2.1 Endocrine Disruptors
2.1.1 “Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story”, 1997, Dianne Dumanoski, Amazon
2.2 Global Warming (Climate Change)
2.2.1 “Chasing Ice”, film, James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Jeff Orlowski, 2013, Amazon
2.2.2 Website: Skeptical Science (debunks 190+ hoaxer “arguments”)
Abuse of Power: Financial
3.1. Central Banks & Fiat Currency3.1.1 “The Money Masters”, film, Patrick S.J. Carmack, Bill Still, 1996, Youtube
3.1.2 “The Big Short”, film, 2015, IMDb
3.1.3 “The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, John Perkins, 2016, Amazon
Health: Alternative and Natural Treatments
4.1. COVID Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, etc.4.1.1 “The Real Anthony Fauci”, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021, Amazon
4.2. Cannabis for Epilepsy, Cancer, Depression, Pain4.2.1 Cannabis Cancer Research Overview, Cannaceutics
4.2.2 “Run from the Cure”, Rick Simpson, Christian Laurette, 2008, TopDocumentary Films
4.2.3 “WEED”, CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Youtube
Health: Toxic Products to Avoid/Eliminate
5.1. Aspartame5.1.1 “Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World”, Documentary, Cori Brackett, J.T. Waldron, 2005, Amazon
5.2. Glyphosate (Round-up)5.2.1 “The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product”, ABC News In-depth, Four Corners, 2018
5.3 Silver Amalgam (Mercury containing) dental fillings
5.3.1 “It's All in Your Head: The Link Between Mercury Amalgams and Illness”, book, Hal Huggins, 1993, Amazon
5.4 Water fluoridation
5.4.1 “The Fluoride Deception”, book, Christopher Bryson, 2004, Amazon, Youtube Bryson Interview
Weird Science
6.1. Quantum Physics, Double Slit Experiments and Entanglement6.1.1 “What the Bleep Do We Know? Down the Rabbit Hole”, Excerpt
6.2 LENR, aka “Cold Fusion”6.2.1 “Cold Fusion is Hot Again”, CBS News, 60 minutes, 2009, Vimeo
6.3 Sonoluminescence and Cavitation, Youtube
6.4 Are Plants Sentient?
6.4.1 Mythbusters episode re: Cleve Baxter’s polygraph testing of plants, Youtube
Spirituality:
7.1. Near-Death Experiences7.1.1 “Present! - Pim van Lommel (part one) Consciousness Beyond Life”, Youtube: Part 1 / Part 2
7.2. Reincarnation7.2.1 “Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot” (re: James Leininger), Bruce Leininger, 2009, Amazon, Youtube
7.2.2 Dr. Ian Stevenson, Wikipedia
7.3 Remote Viewing7.3.1 “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, 2004, Russell Targ, Amazon
7.3.2 “Russell Targ on Psychic Abilities banned TEDTalk paranormal studies”, Youtube
7.4 Mysticism
7.4.1 John Chang, Chi healer, Indonesia
7.4.1.1 “John Chang Spiritual Master of Yin and Yang Chi”, Youtube7.4.1.2 “The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal”, book, 2000, Kosta Danaos, Amazon
Unique (Outside the three clusters)
8.1 UFOs, UAPs, OVNI, Black Ops Aviation & Aliens8.1.1 The Disclosure Project, Press Conference at the National Press Club, 2001, Youtube
8.1.2 “Out of the Blue”, film, JamesFox, Tim Coleman, Borix Zubov, 2003, DailyMotion, IMDb
Stories That Could Be False (The discipline of weeding out junk ideas is important)
9.1. The Flat Earth (No flat earth model explains the night sky as we see it from different latitudes, pendulum swings, lunar eclipses, etc.)
9.2. Hollow Earth (Earth would have imploded long ago along fault lines during earthquakes)
9.3. Moon Landing Was a Hoax9.3.1 Celebrate the Moon landing with 10 debunked ‘Moon Hoax’ arguments, Scott Sutherland, 2013, Yahoo
Psychological Dynamics related to Narrative Control and Defeating “Mind Control”
10.1 The Asch Conformity experiment, Youtube
10.2 The Milgram experiment, Youtube (User: “Nothing Down Canada”)
10.3 Trauma
10.3.1 “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma”, 2014, Bessel van der Kolk M.D., Amazon
10.4 Hypnosis
10.4.1 “The Assassination of Stephen Fry”, Youtube
10.5 Grieving
10.5.1 “Five Stages of Grief” from “On Death and Dying” by Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969, Wikipedia.
10.6 Gaslighting and Narcissistic Personality Disorder / Sociopathy / Psychopathy
10.6.1 What is Gaslighting, WebMD
10.7 Propaganda and Public Relations
10.7.1 “The Century of the Self”, film, Adam Curtis, 2002, Youtube
10.8 “First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy”, Youtube
10.9 “MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate”, Youtube
10.10 Cognitive Dissonance, “What is Cognitive Dissonance?”, VeryWellMind
Miscellaneous
11.1 “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, film, 2006, Chris Paine, Wikipedia, IMDb
11.2 “Gandhi”, film, 1982, Richard Attenborough, Wikipedia, IMDb
11.3 “The Man Who Planted Trees”, short film, Frédéric Back, 1987, Based on book by Jean Giono, Amazon
11.4 “I Am”, Tom Shadyac, 2010, IMDb
11.5 The Replication Crisis, Wikipedia
11.6 “Fantastic Fungi”, film, IMDb, Louie Schwartzberg, 2019, Netflix
11.7 “CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy: Election 2018 Edition”, Jonathan D. Simon, 2018, Amazon
Knowledge that’s Negative for the 1% and Positive for the 99% is Called Positive Knowledge
A criticism often leveled at conspiritualists is that we are somehow “too negative” or that we have been overcome by “negativity” and if what we are saying were false, such criticism would have some validity. If, however, it’s true that cannabis can cure cancer, for example, then the positivity due to the lives that could be saved in the future with this knowledge should easily outweigh the negativity of realizing we have a corrupt medical establishment that has hidden this information for decades and that millions have died unnecessarily as a result. We must never stay stuck in a horrible status quo just because we don’t want to face how horrible it is and make corrections.
Usually, for each of these gems of hidden knowledge, there is a silver lining. Even the assassinations of the 1960’s, for which there could be no living perpetrators to bring to justice, yield some positives. The insight into how government agencies can react against such leaders and how those agencies can participate in both murders and their cover-ups can help us to avoid repeating history in the future.
And, as we venture out of the power and corruption topics into the health and spirituality topics, the silver lining becomes more prominent than the cloud it surrounds. The existential angst of materialism and the presumed oblivion at the end of life are far more negative, as I see it, than any assassination or economic fraud in the outline. One can benefit quite profoundly from knowing these truths even though it can take some time to move past the shock of knowing them.
If we accept the lessons of reincarnation and near-death experiences, namely that we are immortal beings worthy of the profound love of a mysterious divine being of light, it can go a long way toward dispelling the existential despair that has been a prominent feature of western culture since the “age of reason” began.
Additionally, instead of becoming controlled by a centralized religious authority, we become truly free of such external worldly controls and realize the dream of Martin Luther and many other religious rebels— to have a direct, personal relationship with the Divine unencumbered by clergy or doctrine or “shoulds”. I am aware of the potential irony that I am identifying with Conspirituality as a new religious community. That is why the outline must never be considered absolute truth. Truth is a journey. It’s only when we think we’ve found “The Truth” that we stop progressing toward the ultimate Truth. Thus, those who consider themselves conspiritualists don’t have to agree on any particular points, we just agree that a life lived in pursuit of truth is a good life and we respect each other wherever we may be on any of the paths to the “mountain top”. Conspirituality shares this principle with Science: No particular knowledge is absolutely true. It is all just provisional and subject, always, to new data. The only thing that remains constant is the method. We aspire to grow in our capacity to follow the best method for discerning truth.
But, returning to Reincarnation and NDE’s, if these are true, and we are free from any centralized religious authorities, we become the most free and uncontrollable that it is possible for humans to be, as I see it at least. No mafia thug can “make us an offer we can’t refuse”. We can live freely and fearlessly like Victor Jara, the Chilean musician who refused to stop making music even though Pinochet’s goons cut his fingers off and ultimately killed him. They could never kill the music any more than they could kill Victor’s soul.
And what if a large part of humanity started not only accepting reincarnation as real, but also started living and interacting in ways that make sense from this perspective? Could racism exist in a population that believes it has existed in the bodies of many different races before this life? Could sexism exist in a population that believes their current gender is only a temporary part of their identity? Could wars of aggression ever be thought justifiable when the people know their souls have lived in many countries and cultures before this life?
These are just the beginnings of what I’m calling the positive “silver linings” of the implications of the outline. And again, of course, absolute belief in reincarnation is not necessary to be a conspiritualist. It might be as gravitational fields are to Science— roughly 99.99% “settled”. But I know a guy who has an experimental apparatus in his garage with bowling ball sized lead weights and counterweights balanced on the points of ruby crystals with which he’s trying to show that gravity is something quite different from what the textbooks say. I don’t understand it, but I respect his dedication to exploring this possibility, even if it turns out to be a dead end. Again, it’s the journey and the method that matter.
So, in closing, I hope this outline lands in a “sweet spot” for you. I wouldn’t want it to be a list you look at and say, “yeah, I know all that” (although I’d probably want us to at least be following each other on social media). I wouldn’t want the outline to not make any difference for you any more than I’d want it to be so alien to your world view that you immediately toss the whole thing out… with prejudice. If you’re leaning that direction you probably wouldn’t have read this far, so I salute you for that. But if you’re still here and leaning toward rejecting the whole outline outright, I would ask you to notice the thoughts and reasons for that decision. What are the truths and authorities you hold to that are at odds with what’s in the outline? How reliable are they? What are the axioms of your world view? What if the assumptions we tend to rely on as facts really are just assumptions after all? Can you test the information by digging into one or two items and seeing if additional research makes any difference? Please just do your level best to consider it with an open mind. That’s all I ask.
This curriculum can be truly mind-blowing in the best possible ways if you’re open to that kind of challenge.
Namaste, fellow traveler.
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The outline is, of course, a work in progress and I envision it being curated more by a community than any one individual in future. Please let me know if you find broken or mis-directed links or if you would like to recommend better or additional links and topics. We live in a time that calls out for courageous conversations. Let’s answer that call.