Controlled Opposition and the Truth Movement
“The Trucker convoy is a psy-op/controlled op”
"Joe Rogan is a shill/controlled op”
"David Icke is controlled op”
“Dr. Robert Malone is a shill/controlled op”
"Jordan Peterson is controlled op”
“Trump/Q is a psy-op/controlled op”….etc, etc.
Over the past couple of years as more people have taken “the red pill”, I’ve seen these controlled opposition/shill/psy-op accusations being thrown around like candy by people in the so-called “truther community”, more than ever before.
I’ve been in this “game” since the ’90s and went deep down the rabbit hole including many dead ends, detours, and distractions. There is a LOT of nonsense out there in the “conspiracy world” as well, not just the MSM. Many seekers are stuck in over-simplified black and white thinking - out of body, glued to the computer screen.
Or they claim that their “intuition” and “feelings” tell them that this person or that event is a “psy-op” or “shill”. Feelings and perceptions can be very deceptive and people tend to mistake all kinds of impressions, feelings, perceptions [shadow projections], and thoughts for their “intuition” or “gut feeling”.
I’m not taking myself out of the equation. I have done it too at times [and obviously I still have my own subjective blind spots because I'm not enlightened, i.e. awake in the true meaning of the word], especially when I was only focused on external information and not engaged in any sincere self-work.
It is also important to "zoom-out" and understand the bigger cosmic forces at work in light of the evolution of consciousness, diving deeper into esoteric work, understanding occult/divine laws, esoteric evolutionary astrology, the cycles of the ages, the different levels of being within humanity, the process of soul evolution, etc…..yet, I would never ever claim to have “figured it all out”.
Many “red-pilled” folks tend to project their shadow and unresolved unconscious stuff externally and claim to know exactly what is going on with very rigid ideas of what is “true” and what are “lies", who are the “good guys” and who is a “shill” and “controlled op” or “psy-op”. Sometimes things can be very obvious and need to be called for what they are, but oftentimes, it is not as simple. Far from it.
I have had to eat humble cake many times to realize that truth is a process and way more nuanced, deep, subtle, and complex than these superficial categories thrown around by the social media conspiracy “red-pilled” community these days, especially over the past two years.
Moreover, seeking truth is an internal job, first and foremost, yet most people are externally focused with a superficial level of information gathering, not realizing how they are getting trapped in their own minds. In its essence, the matrix is a mind program working through us/you.
Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely “controlled ops” and Cointelpro (Counter Intelligence Programs) as I’ve written about many times as well [even back in the 90s] but these terms are highly abused these days by overly paranoid “everything is a trap” fringe conspiracy folks who clearly have not done much self-work at all to understand their own psyche, mind, conditioned/programming, level of being, shadow, projections, and unconscious trauma responses which we ALL have.
Ironically, “the matrix has them” too as Neil Kramer once said; they are caught in the “2nd matrix” as he coined it, prisoners of their own paranoid mind.
I’ve seen this mind trap a LOT in the past 25 years of digging down the rabbit hole and increasingly even more so now. That’s how an awakening impulse can get hijacked by occult forces as well. Not through any cabal psy-op/controlled op but through your own disassociated paranoid mind. It also attracts these forces like in a self-inflicting thought-loop feeding on it and feeding it.
For the record, I don’t identify myself with nor am I part of any “truth community”. I love community but no thanks to the identification, attachment, and label. The idea of “like-mindedness” can also easily be abused. While it is important to have similar values and aims and be “like-minded” to a degree [obviously] as in “looking in the same direction" in community and friendships, I’m not so much interested in being around “like-minded” people based on purely intellectual information.
"Like-mindedness" can easily mean indulging in the same shadow projections and paranoia, justifying each other's pathologies, shadow, and triggers without self-awareness which also most often results in gossip and slandering on baseless assumptions.
I’m not interested in the mental noise out there for it is impossible to understand “the matrix” intellectually and by information alone, nor will you defeat it, transcend or escape via your mind and information alone.
I’m more interested in people engaged in the Great Work, going to the “root” of it all [which is within yourself], and who are sincere in the inner process. I’ve also realized over the years that not many people are sincere. They may dabble in “shadow work” a bit here and there but the real work is very confronting, messy, and very painful for you need to face the lies you tell yourself which is way harder than pointing out the lies “out there”.
As Gurdjieff once said, “In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself."
It is also necessary now to "unite the clans" as David Whitehead says [and we talked about it in our podcast chats] even if we don't agree on everything. Can you be around people who you don’t necessarily agree with you on everything [as long as they don’t attack you personally for your views] nor do they necessarily need to agree with all of your views/perceptions but they have the same aim in light of the Great Work? - too truly awaken and understand that seeking truth is a process. It never stops. It changes. There are vastly different levels of being and everyone plays their role on both sides of the spectrum from “evil” to “good” and BOTH is within you too.
I have “changed” my views a few times over the past 25 years which made some people upset [based on their projected perceptions of who they “think” I am with all the distortions, black and white thinking, and straw man arguments] and hence they started branding me as controlled op (I’m still waiting for my paycheck form the CIA) or shill or that I work for the “Illuminati” (not kidding), slandering, backstabbing, and gossiping.
Why did my views change? Because it is the process of truth-seeking within [shadow work, self-remembering/soul integration] and without and the continuing inner work which cleanses my perceptions and it's ongoing....over lifetimes. As above, so below. As within, so without.
It’s like a new thing in the truther/red-pilled/conspiracy community: “Anyone who doesn’t agree with me or I don’t agree with is controlled op and a shill.”
I realize more and more how everything is way more nuanced and way beyond this superficial black and white thinking I see in the “truth community”. Personally speaking, getting deeper into the work of Integral Yoga and reading Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine" has been quite the eye-opener and extremely humbling to read and digest. It's not easy reading [for it goes beyond taking it in intellectually] and I'm not saying everyone "should" read it but in my life, it has put everything into a much bigger picture context without getting lost in the shadows on the wall like in Plato's allegory in the cave.
Lately, there has been another deep dive - a necessary descent - into the darkest corners of my being and psyche with more layers of shadow material to dig through and trauma to transmute that made me realize how I still engage in unconscious projections at times, act out of unconscious wounds and many parts of my being are still far from spiritualized as I aspire to the Divine with as much surrender as I’m currently able to. It’s not easy work. It’s a battle for there all kinds of forces interfering with the process - an internal war - yet at the same time they are teachers for all there is are lessons.
No Ascent without Descent. For the collective and the individual. “None can reach heaven who have not walked through hell” as all esoteric traditions conveyed in their own words, including Carl Jung….until all and everything is brought out of the shadows [within yourself too], made conscious of, and spiritualized. Matter, life, humanity, and nature - spiritualized, fully and complete….that is the Will of the Divine in this adventure of consciousness. It's a long process during this Time of Transition.
Until then, enjoy the show and don't forget to look within. Deep within. Beyond your likes and dislikes, your desires, wants, and needs. As I said before and experienced myself - after all the "red-pilling" and rabbit-holing you do with all the mental information overload, distracting yourself from what really matters, you will hit a mirror and stare at yourself...and that's when the real work begins.
There WILL be strong resistance within you to truly engage in it for it is always more tempting to externalize. It’s not about hiding out or retreating within. No, inner and outer work need to go hand-in-hand. They can't be separated but are interrelated.
But living from within is key so conscious action can arise out of essence and soul-being in alignment with Divine Will. It will ask you to engage in life more fully without blame or victimhood, taking full self-responsibility which can be terrifying to the ego-personality caught in self-importance or self-pity.
Until then not much will change externally, just different disguises and manifestations of the same for nothing truly changes [only the superficial appearance of change] if consciousness and your level of Being don't change. And none of that changes by gathering information alone. You'll just get trapped in the mind and that's exactly where the occult forces want you to get stuck in - the over-skeptical black-pilled paranoid mind. An interesting new "breed" of "truthers", hijacked by wetiko.
These are just my 2 cents on this topic. Laura and I have talked about it in our podcasts as well.
Godspeed.
Bernhard Guenther
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