DARK Pill: How Satan-Worshipping Pedophiles Have Taken Over Conspiracyland
According to a March 2021 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans and 23 percent of Republicans believe that,
“The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”
I know that polls must not be trusted, but I can easily believe that tens of millions of people agree with that statement. It’s not just an American phenomenon; it is widespread in France too, as I have painfully observed in recent months (more later).
Part of those believers might also agree with the statement that, “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by Jews,” but, if asked to choose, they would probably say that the Satan-worshipping pedophiles are above the Jews in the occult hierarchy of Illuminatis. Attempts at syncretism sometimes emerge, as when Candace Owens voiced her belief that:
“what we have right now is a pedophile ring that has assumed a ton of power in the world by pretending that any person who notices is antisemitic. My theory is that these people are not Jewish; they publicly present themselves as Jewish, but in reality, they worship and follow an entirely different faith, and it’s satanic. … These are demonic, monstrous people who are using Judaism to hide their actions.”
My theory is the opposite: Jewish supremacists are using Satanism “to hide their actions.” The transgenerational sect of Satan-worshippers operating in total impunity at the highest level of Hollywood, Wall Street, and Washington—raping, torturing, sacrificing and drinking the blood of children in black masses—is a fantasy to deflect attention from the cult that really controls Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington.
Assuming Satan-worshipping pedophiles (SWPs) do exist, they are self-hating individuals driven by perversion and ambition. How could they have any kind of loyalty to each other? Do they control each other by blackmail? In that case, they will kill each other when they can. Blackmailing will not make loyal. Therefore, SWPs can never be a driving force in politics, let alone in history.
Only a community bonded by a common history and identity, an assumed common blood, a common ideology or religion, possibly a common hatred, and at the very least a common aim and a transgenerational determination to advance it, can have global political power and long-term influence on history. The Satanists have no power; that’s why you can denounce them as much as you can without consequence. (It does make you feel and look brave, though!)
Surely there exist some nuts worshipping Satan in disgusting ways. But Satan is a Christian concept. Worshipping Satan means believing that Christ and Satan are waging a cosmic war, and choosing to side with the loser. Generally speaking, our ruling elites are simply not into this paradigm. You may call them “satanic” in the sense of “evil” if you like, but they certainly do not care for Satan.
In this article, I will not insult readers of the Unz Review, by trying to convince them that the world is not governed by the SWP cult. I assume you figured that out already. Still, I think that this modern quasi-religious creed is worth examining as a case-study in “controlled opposition”, or perhaps what Ron Unz has termed “promoted opposition”—or how about “over-the-top opposition”. The very fact that millions of people fall for that farfetched conspiracy theory needs to be explained.
The SWP mythology is what I call the “dark pill” (I would have said “black pill” but for the other context it is now used for). The metaphor of the “red pill”, from the movie The Matrix, has passed into everyday language: we are red-pilled when we realize that the mainstream narrative is a lie. The dark pill is, if you like, an overdose of red pills. Having escaped the virtual “prison for your mind” with the red pill and thus gained a foothold in reality, you will, if you swallow the dark pill, feel the ground crumble beneath your feet once again and sink into a black hole, as distressing as the world before the red pill was reassuring.
The dark pill is another prison for your mind. It impedes your ability to reason logically. It makes you feel powerless. It is an inverted religion to give you hopelessness. It has been extremely effective in framing the mind of a conspiracy-minded public who have turned to Internet as their sole channel for information, and it has become one of the most pervasive popular paradigms of post-modernity.
It is the slippery slope of our tendency to see the super-rich and the super-powerful as inherently evil. The more horrific the rumors about them, the more credible they seem. The dark pill makes us forget that we’re dealing with men. Corrupt men, as most of us would probably be in their place, but still men nonetheless, sons and fathers, with social needs, and a concern for their reputation and legacy.
The SWP mythology is not very different from David Icke’s reptilian theory (The Biggest Secret, 1999), according to which the world’s leaders do not belong to ordinary humanity, but are related to the “tall, blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the Alpha Draconis star system, now hiding in underground bases, [who] are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy against humanity” (Wikipedia). According to a poll in 2013, 4 percent of registered American voters believed in David Icke’s ideas. They are surely part of the 15 percent who believe in the SWP international.
The SWP conspiracy theory not only generates learned helplessness (there is nothing you can do against Satan, except pray and “trust the plan”). It also diverts our attention. After all, compared to Satan’s followers feeding on babies and the blood of tortured children, Yahweh’s followers seem like gentle lambs! If the international underground fraternity of the SWPs rule the world, then nothing else matters. International Zionism could even be a good thing, if it could help rid us of these satanic vampires.
Does Satanism exist?
In symbolic terms, the inverted pentagram is a false flag to conceal the star of David. Those who would have us believe that Satan-worshippers have taken over Christian civilization may not be exactly the same who blamed Allah-worshippers for 9/11, but they are like two tentacles of the same octopus.
The difference, of course, is that Satan-worshippers have no significant existence. Yes, I know, there exist Satanic churches. The oldest is the Church of Satan, founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey. But Lavey is a Jew and a staunch Zionist who in his autobiography claims to have helped smuggle weapons to Israel. Malcolm Jarry, who more recently founded the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, is a self-described “secular Jew” and an “unwavering supporter of Israel,” who claims that “there is not much conflict between being Jewish and a Satanist.” (He has a point, since Satan is Yahweh’s executioner in the Hebrew Bible: the author of 1 Chronicles 21 hesitates between “Yahweh unleashed an epidemic on Israel,” “the angel of Yahweh wreaks havoc throughout the territory of Israel,” and “Satan took his stand against Israel.”)
Why do Jews found Satanic churches in Western countries? Probably because: 1. they must infiltrate every religion, even non-existing ones; 2. they want to blaspheme and subvert Christianity in every possible way; 3. they can always use Satanism as a bogeyman.
Granted, every Satanist high-priest is a charlatan, but not all of them are Jews. Michael Aquino, founder of The Temple of Set is not. But he is an expert in PSYOP, who co-authored in 1980 a smart military report titled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory.
In any case, these religious cults are just for show. They make do with funny clothes, ugly gadgets and dark invocations, but are under FBI surveillance and don’t engage in any criminal activity.[1]
So much for religious Satanism, essentially a snare for deranged self-hating Christians. What about cultural Satanism, in heavy metal rock and transgressive pop-culture in general? I don’t need to tell you who is behind it. It’s not the Satanists, it’s the Yahwists who are promoting Satanic codes in the entertainment industry, for the same reason they are promoting pornography, transgenderism, and all the rest: they want Christian civilization out, spiritually and physically. Besides, you need to show some Satanism in order to blame Satanism as a civilizational threat. Satanism (pervert displays like in the recent opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris) and anti-satanism (the moral outrage at such pervert exhibitions) make an artificial dialectical opposition, meant not to produce an Hegelian synthesis, but confusion and division.
Among the Jews who played a key role in injecting Satanic nightmares into Western culture let us not forget the directors of the two earliest blockbuster horror movies, Roman Polanski for Rosemary’s Baby (1968), and William Friedkin for The Exorcist (1973). The impact of these films—and the genre they inspired—on the collective psyche cannot be exaggerated.
If there was no Satanism, or at least some appearance of Satanism, the rumor that Satanists rule over us would not gain traction. If Satanism did not exist, Israel would have to invent it. Which is what they do (by Israel, I mean here worldwide organized Jewry, WOJ). Israel has a double motive for fostering religious and cultural Satanism, both as a virus to stress and weaken Christian society, and as a smokescreen to conceal its own enterprise of world corruption and domination. What I mean is somewhat the opposite of what is meant by the illustration below: not Satan making Israel, but Israel making Satan. B’nai B’rith is sewing satanism into the Western social fabric.
Yes, there are certainly real brain-dead Satanists. And yes, there are pervert pedophiles and child-murderers, with every possible background. There are even pedophile networks with high-profile politicians among their clients. And—who knows—there might even be Satan-worshipping pedophiles, although I’ve never seen any credible evidence for it.
But blaming the SWPs for what is wrong in the West is just like blaming the “one-percent psychopaths” for the 2008 economic crisis, as did the 2011 film I am Fishead. Of course, individual psychopaths are a problem, and psychopathy is well worth studying. Robert Hare’s book Without Conscience actually inspired me to conceptualize Israel as “the psychopath among nations”. Collective psychopathy is different from individual psychopathy, though, and I think it is a grave misunderstanding to call Netanyahu or any other Israeli leader psychopaths. They are not. What they have is a collective psychopathy, resulting from the worship of their psychopathic god, and possibly from the trauma ritually inflicted on every eight-days-old male for a hundred generations (details here).
The QAnon PsyOp
If almost one Republican in four believes that, “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles,” the credit goes largely to the pro-Trump team who engineered the PsyOp known as QAnon since 2016. Its message to Americans was that the world would be saved as soon as Trump neutralizes that network of SWPs, more or less identical with “the Deep State” that Trump said he was fighting, or the “Swamp” that he said he would drain, or Democrats in general.
This was not the first time that a Satanic craze was used as political propaganda. British sociologist Richard Jenkins has written a book titled Black Magic and Bogeymen, documenting a psychological operation conducted by military intelligence in Belfast in the troubled times of the 1970s. Captain Colin Wallace, head of the army’s “black operations” in Northern Ireland, told Jenkins that they deliberately stoked up a Satanic panic from 1972 to 1974, even placing black candles and upside-down crucifixes in derelict buildings in some of Belfast’s war zones and crime scenes, and leaking stories to newspapers about black masses and Satanic rituals. The purpose was simply to demonize and thereby delegitimize the struggle of paramilitary groups on both sides.[2]
What proved especially effective in the QAnon operation starting in 2016 was the association of pedophilia and Satanism. For if the threat posed by Satanism is doubtful, pedophile rings are, on the other hand, a disturbing reality. It is highly unlikely that the Pizzagate scandal, triggered by the hacked emails of John Podesta in 2016, was a total fabrication. As Aedon Cassiel wrote on the Unz Review: “we know that high-level sex abuse is in fact a thing that happens in the upper echelons of power, and we know that it gets covered up when it occurs, and we know that the media is often complicit in the cover-up as well.”
QAnon overexploited the story (without naming too many names), and enriched it with still more gruesome memes such as “adrenochrome”, an elixir of youth allegedly consumed by upper-class pedo-satano-psychopaths, extracted from the pituitary glands of children under torture. The idea seems to have been borrowed from the novel and the film Las Vegas Parano (1972 and 1998). Can you think of anything more horrible than a massive child trafficking ring to drain the blood of tortured children for the use of our global elite? The “adrenochrome harvesting” theory has been embraced on mainstream television by quite a few people, including actor Jim Caviezel and others associated with the recent movie The Sound of Freedom. (That Caviezel is mostly remembered for his role as Jesus in Mel Gibson’s Passion is not irrelevant, since the theory is particularly well received in fundamentalist Christian circles, and definitely echoes ancient antisemitic blood libel.) Watch here, if you dare, a recent example of a genuinely fake news story feeding the adrenochrome hoax.
The SWPs are the explicit theme of several “documentaries” of the QAnon school, such as Out of Shadows (2020), a very professionally-made film in which stuntman Mike Smith tells of his “awakening” and how he “found God” and “started searching for the truth” after learning about the SWPs in Hollywood from his “pelvic floor therapist”, an invisible angel with no name and no face who, strangely, never reported what she saw to the police. Here is the key passage, to illustrate the level of credibility of the film, and the level of gullibility of the targeted public:
I recommend watching the whole film with a focus on the visual and sound effects used to make empty rhetoric appear informative. A critical look at such films help us understand how manipulative this sort of videos can be.
What is worth noticing is that, at the outset, Smith emphatically denies being into “conspiracy theories” such as “bigfoot, or aliens, or flat earth, or 9/11 conspiracy, or JFK.” This is extremely typical of dark-pillers. They will totally ignore (and here even deride) historical research on 9/11 or the JFK assassination. And when these events are brought into the picture, you will probably hear the word “Illuminati”, but never the word “Israel”. This is an unmistakable clue of the origin and the intent of such material.[3]
The Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 1990s
The SWP mythology has a history before its appropriation and elaboration by the QAnon movement. It is interesting to recall its early appearance in the “Satanic Panic” that shook the USA and other English-speaking countries in the 1980s and 90s. The origin of this collective hysteria has been the subject of numerous books and documentaries. In Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (Basic Books, 1995), Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker wrote:
“According to a claim that has been promoted for more than a decade by preachers, police, prosecutors, psychotherapists, child-protection workers, and antipornography activists there exists in this country—and, indeed, around the world—a massive conspiracy of secret satanist cults that have infiltrated everywhere into society, from the CIA to police stations to judges’ chambers and churches. The devil worshippers have even secreted themselves in day-care centers and preschools, the story goes, where they pose as teachers. This prospect has been particularly frightening, for it is said that satanists consider youngsters attractive prey for rape and torture and easy recruits for their faith.”[4]
“In a culture as heterogeneous as ours, so extensive a moral panic can be achieved only by concerted efforts at institutionalizing it,” the authors insist. “It was a powerful effort that did not come together overnight. But as it took shape, a veritable industry developed around the effort to demonstrate the existence of ritual abuse.” The media played a key role, as usual. What journalists are good at is transforming two cases into an epidemy, and a local news item into nationwide outrage. Moral panic call for political action, so that, ultimately, “the psychotic delusions of a few individuals were translated into public policy.”[5]
“By the mid-1980s, belief in ritual abuse had been institutionalized by professional societies, journals, the mass media, and a federal government that energetically promoted its champions’ claims. Advocates used these forums to develop a new logic and language that made the unbelievable sound credible, despite impassioned efforts by defendants and their attorneys to discredit it.”[6]
It all started in the practice of “recovered memory” therapists influenced by the book Michelle Remembers, first published in 1980 at St. Martin’s Press, based on the “memories” recovered by Michelle Smith with the help of hypnotherapist Lawrence Pazder.
The success of Michelle Remembers sparked other books on Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), such as Audrey Harper and Harry Pugh’s Dance with the Devil (1990), in which hypnotized Audrey “remembered” being impregnated several times to give birth to babies to be consumed in Satanic rituals. The influence of Polansky’s Romary’s Baby (1968) is quite clear.
The story of Michelle Smith and how it ignited the Satanic Panic of the 1980s is the subject of a documentary released last year: Satan Wants You. But on that early stage of the epidemy, I recommend the freely available The Search for Satan, a remarkable film directed by Ofra Bikel and aired on PBS in 1995. The same team also made the two-part, four-hour masterpiece Divided Memories, dealing with the “false memory” controversy at large (the second part contains stories of “recovered memories” of Satanic ritual abuse). The Search for Satan documents the role played by a number of criminally incompetent psychiatrists like Bennett Braun, Roberta Sachs, Corydon Hammond and Judith Peterson, who, through “seances” akin to exorcisms, managed to convince patients like Mary Shanley and Patricia Burgus that they possessed dozens of personalities and had belonged to Satanist bloodlines for many generations. These doctors were championed by feminists like Gloria Steinem, and given national voice by Geraldo Rivera in his prime-time NBC broadcast of October 26, 1988, “Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground”. Note that Braun, Sachs, Steinem and Rivera are Jewish. So are Helen Bass and Laura Davis, the authors of The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988), the book that contributed more than any other to the epidemy of false memories of sexual abuse.
The ”false memory syndrome” was a heavy blow against the father figure in Western society. And it is no surprise that accusations of Satanic ritual abuse have been made very publicly by vengeful divorced women against their former husbands, as in the Hampstead case near London, when Ella Draper, in a bitter battle over her children, accused the father Ricky Dearman of leading a pedophile Satanic cult and having forced his children to kill babies and drink their blood. It turned out that the children, who had made those accusations on camera, had been brainwashed under torture by the mother’s boyfriend, Abraham Christie.[7]
Enter MK-Ultra and the Nazis
Women with “recovered memories” of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) often ended up being diagnosed with multiple personalities too. The diagnosis of “multiple personality disorder” (MPD) was included in 1980 into the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-3). Although the DSM warned that MPD was extremely rare, its ratification greatly contributed to legitimize the practices of recovered memory therapists, who felt empowered to produce under hypnosis multiples “alters” in patients who had never before had been diagnosed with MPD.[8] The many abuses of this diagnosis, and the realization that the disorder often has an iatrogenic origin (meaning that it is produced by therapy), prompted its withdrawal from the 1994 edition (DSM-4). In its place was introduced “dissociative identity disorder”, drawing from the work of French physician Pierre Janet (1859-1947) on dissociative post-traumatic amnesia, a well-documented phenomenon.
To explain why victims of the SWPs did not remember any of their horrific abuses until hypnotized decades later, believers claim that the SWPs had… well, hypnotized their victims (and members as well) to program and dissociate them into multiple personalities. Revelations about the CIA project MK-Ultra in the mid-1970s came handy, and the SWP conspiracy mythology now typically includes wild exaggerations of the possibilities of mind-control through MK-Ultra-type techniques including drugs, torture and hypnosis. In TRANCE Formation of America: True life story of a mind control slave (1995), Mark Phillips, a self-styled former CIA operative, recounts how he rescued Cathy O’Brien from a government network that had turned her into a MK-Ultra sex slave, by splitting her personality into multiple “alters” since early childhood. Neither she nor her family had noticed anything until Phillips helped her “recover” her memories by hypnosis.
The Nazis are typically included in that elaborate recipe, as a cherry on the cake. In the film Out of Shadows, mentioned above, we hear about Himmler and his evil experiments to create a race of overlords, complete with a photo of his gothic-style castle. In Robin de Ruiter’s The 13 Satanic Bloodlines, we learn that Joseph Mengele played a crucial role in the development of the “Monarch Mind Control program” (a sub-program within MK-Ultra, of which so little is known that imaginations can run wild), and “was part of the occult hierarchy seeking total control of the world.”[9] The introduction of the Nazi ingredient into the MK-SWP dark pill is a sure sign of the ethnicity of its creators. You will not find Israel mentioned in there, except in very rare cases. Corydon Hammond, one of the mad psychiatrists featuring in the film In Quest for Satan, delivered in 1992 , at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder, a speech in which he claimed to know that techniques used to program sexual abuse victims to repress their memories were brought to America by “a Hasidic Jewish Nazi” named Dr. Greenbaum.
The Satanic panic of the 80s-90s mostly affected English-speaking countries. It didn’t have any impact in France. One of the reasons, I think, is the cultural ascendency of Freudian psychoanalysis, which rejects hypnosis and minimizes the reality of incest and sexual abuse (this has been very damaging in its own way, as Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson explains in The Assault on Truth).[10] As a result, the French public is totally unaware of the controversy and the literature on false memories. That explains, in part, the success of a film released in May of this year, Les Survivantes, which, much to my chagrin, is received very positively within the French “truth community”. The film is based on the testimonies of women who have “recovered” their memories of Satanic ritual abuses by hypnosis. Anneke Lucas, from Belgium, is one of them, but the “star” of the film is Hélène Pelosse, a former high-profile government official, who gives plenty of interviews, in which she explains for example that her role in the Satanic baby-slaughter where she was dragged by her grand-father—together with many other members of her family who still remember nothing—, she had the role of “cleaner”, meaning that she had to collect “the heaps of children’s corpses … disemboweled, butchered, burned, massacred, raped, chainsawed. … I had to take a bucket and go and collect all these body parts, put them all in a bucket, and then I had to cook all that, and serve it for dinner, and then clean up; I had to wash the dishes.” According to Pelosse’s “flashes” (she also underwent “exorcism”), Church dignitaries and high-profile politicians, including Emmanuel Macron, are members of this cult. I am now trying my best to warn Frenchmen against buying into this, but find myself quite alone in this fight, and even receive death threat for it.[11]
In the rest of this article, I would like to present two case-studies of hoaxes that have contributed to dark-pilling millions of people in America and Europe with the SWP mythology. I think they give us some insight into the way dark-pilling works on people who lack logical judgment and the habit of reading books. The first case comes from the man considered “the most influential conspiracy theorist”, the second from an unknown man whose only credential is his capacity to shed a tear when mentioning child-sacrifice.
Alex Jones and the dark secret of the Bohemian Grove
Alex Jones is famous for his capacity at ignoring the role of Israel in 9/11 or in the Kennedy assassinations. It has been argued that his red pill is a substitute or an antidote to the jewpill. His rants are replete with “CIA”, “Deep State”, “New World Order”, “Military-Industrial Complex”, “Bilderberg”, “Inside Job”, and other trigger-words calling exclusive attention to the parts played by American Gentiles in the betrayal and destruction of their own country.
Alex Jones also contributed to the SWP mythology, along with QAnon. One of his contributions is his documentary Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000). Let’s debunk this hoax, which has benefitted from an immense circulation worldwide. It will give us a good measure of how vulnerable to manipulations are the followers of Alex Jones, often too trusting and too lazy to do their own research.
The Bohemian Grove is an estate of redwood forest of some 2,700 acres in Monte Rio, California, belonging to the Bohemian Club of San Francisco (who also owns a six-story clubhouse in downtown San Francisco). Every summer, in June and July, hundreds of members and guests gather there for a two-week encampment. On July 15, 2000, Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, infiltrated the Grove and filmed the opening ceremony, called “The Cremation of Care”, with a hidden camera. The footage was the centerpiece of the above-mentioned documentary. Jones claimed that “The Cremation of Care” was an “ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony,” which may involve human sacrifice.
The claim is based first and foremost on an exaggeration of the “secrecy” surrounding the Bohemian Grove, and on the deliberately blurred nature of the images filmed by Hanson. Let’s first point out that the two men entered the Bohemian Grove through the main gate, took the club’s shuttle bus to the opening ceremony and then left in the same way, without being searched. Moreover, far from being secret, the Bohemian Club’s activities are described in several serious works, such as William Domhoff’s Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness (HarperCollins, 1975). Lists of members and guests are readily available.
Founded in 1872, the club began as a gathering for journalists, intellectuals and artists (Jack London and Mark Twain hung out there), but gradually evolved into a country club for the rich and powerful (famous is optional), who appreciate the opportunity to socialize in nature away from prying eyes (peeing on redwood trees is an initiation rite). Membership costs around $25,000, and the waiting list is very long. The Bohemian Grove retreat is punctuated by various outdoor theatrical performances written especially for the occasion and typically involving dozens of members as actors or extras (as only men are accepted into the club, female roles are played by men). Professional entertainers are often invited to share their talents (free of charge).
One of the club’s mottos is borrowed from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Weaving spiders come not here.” “It is supposed,” Domhoff writes, “to warn members not to discuss business and worldly concerns, but only the arts, literature, and other pleasures, within the portals of Bohemia.”[12] No doubt the rule is often infringed, but that’s the rule anyway.
Another important rule is that whatever is said within the Club, and during the Grove retreat in particular, is strictly off the public record. It is easy to understand that people tracked by journalists, who will not hesitate to make public their private conversations, feel a need for such an environment. Understandably, this rule also generates controversy, as when in 1971, President Nixon was pressured to renounce attending.
The opening ceremony, entitled “The Cremation of Care”, is a theater play with Wagnerian-style orchestra music performed since 1880 (but rewritten several times), including a procession attended by members and guests. “Dull Care”, an expression borrowed from an old English ditty (Begone Dull Care), symbolizes “the concerns and woes that important men supposedly must bear in their daily lives.” During the retreat, Bohemians are invited to “cast your grief to the fires and be strong with the holy trees and the spirit of the Grove.”[13] The performance takes place around the “Great Bohemian Owl”, a 40-foot tall concrete statue, that is the totem of the club. At its feet, Dull Care’s effigy is burned in a coffin by the Eternal Flame of Fellowship.
This is a playful form of paganism, a little old-fashioned. No Satanism there, unless you want to call any un-Catholic ritual “satanic”. Alex Jones’s claim that the Owl represents the god Moloch is totally groundless and so is, of course, the rumor of human sacrifices; Jones said they “cannot be ruled out”,[14] but the same can be said of the unicorns, since you cannot prove a negative. (Ironically, the god Moloch was originally identical with Yahweh, as discussed in my article “The Devil’s Trick: Unmasking the God of Israel”.)
Hanson’s verdict, that “the men who meet here deep in the woods are involved in a vast conspiracy that has but one ultimate aim: global domination,” or his suggestion that the Grove is “a dark conspiracy fueled by the power of, and adoration for, an ancient dark owl God,” are no more than incantations designed to conjure up images in the minds of believers.[15]
Ronald Bernard and the bankers’ black masses
In 2013, an interview appeared of a man presenting himself as a Dutch financier named Ronald Bernard. The video was quickly translated into several languages and attracted tens of thousands of views in Europe. In 2017 news of his mysterious death circulated (on a site specializing in fake news, thepeoplesvoice.tv), but his Youtube channel, which now has 50,000 subscribers, continued to post new material until 2023. Bernard claims to have had first-hand knowledge of the criminal practices of the globalist financial elite, and to have dealt directly with “governments, multinationals, secret services and other terrorist organizations,” sometimes overseeing personally the delivery of trucks full of cash. He found out that these people were Luciferians or Satanists when they finally took him “to places called Churches of Satan”, where they did “their Holy Mass with naked women and liquor and stuff.” He enjoyed it until he was asked to “participate in the sacrifice of children,” and said no.
He broke down and went on studying the Bible and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, had a near-death experience, and realized that “the entire world as we think we know it, is just an illusion we believe in.” Ah, and before leaving the satanic world, says he: “I got tortured physically … in order to make sure I would never break the contract of secrecy.” This is supposed to explain the fact that, despite knowing everything, he will say nothing: not a name, not a place, not a date that might give some flesh to his purely timeless, spaceless and nameless story (a moving story of redemption from hell and finding Christ, just like Mike Smith’s in Out of Shadows). In fact, it’s impossible to find even the name of the companies he claims to have directed. Ronald Bernard, who says that he “played at the highest level [of the financial elite] for about five years,” simply has no curriculum vitae. I suspect he doesn’t even have a birth certificate.
What reinforces my suspicion is that his only project is the creation of a “financial platform” called B. of Joy, which promises you an “emotional return” in exchange for your money.
The only reason that seems to convince people of the sincerity of his testimony is the tear he sheds when recalling that crucial moment when he saw a child being sacrificed. It’s intriguing, I agree. But the world is full of actors ready to pass themselves off as experts or insiders and talk nonsense in grotesque documentaries like Above Majestic—in which Ronald Bernard appears, incidentally.
Your choice of believing “Ronald Bernard” or not believing him depends on your understanding of “truth” and the way to find it. If you think that any claim, especially extraordinary ones, needs to be proven, then there is not the slightest reason to believe him. If you think that claims, even extraordinary ones, should be believed until proven false (especially if coming from handsome people), then you will believe him. This is, unfortunately, the logic that tends to prevail within Conspiracyland, at least in the French village. It is a religious mentality.
Notes
[1] Massimo Introvigne, Satanism: A Social History, Brill, 2016.
[2] Richard Jenkins, Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74, Cork UP, 2014. Read online his article “Spooks and spooks” from Witchcraft Continued, eds Willem De Blecourt and Owen Davies, Manchester UP, 2004.
[3] I have written in French a more complete analysis of Out of Shadows here: www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Hollywood-CIA-Epstein-Pizzagate-decouvrez-le-documentaire-Out-of-Shadows-59118.html
[4] Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker, Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt , Basic Books, 1995 (on archive.org), p. 1-2.
[5] Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence, pp. 5 and 54.
[6] Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence, p. 136.
[7] Listen to the podcasts “Hoaxed” by Alexi Mostrous for Turtoise Media, on www.youtube.com/watch?v=97a9oLUOVVY
[8] Rosie Waterhouse, Satanic Panic: A Modern Myth, 2023, p. 31.
[9] From Ruiter’s preface to Nathalie Augustina’s book Nathalie: Confession d’un super model.
[10] Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1984.
[11] See in French here, here, and here. Special thanks to Yves Rasir, director of Néosanté Éditions, my only ally in this fight.
[12] G. William Domhoff, Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness, Harpercollins College, 1975, p. 4.
[13] Domhoff, Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats, p. 2.
[14] Mike Hanson, Bohemian Grove : cult of conspiracy, RiverCrest Publishing, 2012, p. xxix.
[15] Hanson, Bohemian Grove, pp. 41 and 45.
Source: The Unz Review
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