Lt. Col. Michael Aquino Admits To "UFO" Technology Cover-Up [Whistleblower Testimony]

ATSZOMBIE
Soooooo credible witness's

What makes someone a credible witness these days? Credible people are often mistaken because they are people.

who see

I had some pretty vivid dreams where I saw some weird things

GIANT FLYING TRIANGLES FOOTBALL FIELDS IN LENGTH are all high on crack?!

I'm not aware of the association between crack and seeing this type of imagery. Maybe you have to like smoke a lot of it over several days. Still, I could not find a reference.
However, there seems to be evidence that all kinds of things can be seen which does require the ingestion of a substance.

Yea..ok....idiot

did you know that an 'idiot' was once an actual medical term as was imbecile? "Idiot-savant" is still used today.

excellent points by the way.

Thank you for sharing this thread. I am sorry about those who seem to have declared a "MindWar" of their own against you! Let us disregard their mind games for a moment and just take one honest view of the narrow picture we have of the world of top secret technology. The unlimited budgets. Strange disappearances. Odd behaviors. Obsessive research during the cold war. I don't see why some UFO sightings could not be engineered by humans. And if they COULD be engineered by humans, if humans COULD accomplish this... well, then, it only stands to suffice that they did.

Certain small minds cannot conceive of what can be done with a unified effort between many humans, or even a small dedicated group, combined with enough funds to keep them going. Well they have been going for a long time...over 100 years maybe. What do You think they could have come up with?

Certain "orb" sightings I am convinced are spiritual in nature and may be the result of occult activity. This may pertain to other "non-mechanical" sightings as well. Although we cannot rule out the possibility of some bio or even spiritual technology at play here. The occult could very well be interweaved throughout much of it. Powerful men are attracted to, well, more power. If they can be led to believe these occult activities will lead to more power, why would they not pursue this, unless they had some strong spiritual beliefs of their own which would not condone such occult participation? On average, it would seem that those with money and power do not allow such petty things as that to get in the way of their most primal desires...

The GUT
I still call bs on some of the above.

My friend, the first thing we learned on the first day of the PSYOP officer course in 1969 is that everything is BS. Meaning that everything is written from a perspective, with conscious or unconscious bias, and with a motive or agenda. We all swim in a sea of it, unaware of the water because it is the complete environment. The PSYOPerator's first task, therefore, is to identify all the BS in a given communictions event, then rework it towards a deliberate objective.

That's conventional PSYOP as taught and practiced in DOD, DOS, and other interested departments/agencies, not to mention Madison Avenue. This is the realm of propaganda, which addresses the 5% of your thought processes which are conscious.

MindWar is a substantially different concept, because it addresses the 95% of your thought which is subconscious. This is what makes it both undetectible and unstoppable. Accordingly this book opens a door which is as consequential as the Manhattan Project. It has one and only justification: to preempt, reduce, and ideally eliminate conventional war (PhysWar/PW). In short, it stops people from injuring and killing one another, and blowing stuff up. It differs from ordinary "antiwar" efforts (which are once again at the 5%/conscious level) also because it does not seek to eliminate war, but rather to transform it. As discussed in the book, it is intended to work in conjunction with a special kind of sociopolitical engineering called ParaPolitics, originally formulated by one of my old teachers and friends, Raghavan Iyer.

This is an ambitious goal and a tall order, and the crux is that it demands the desire for the Good which Plato insisted is at the core of the human intellect. In the book I include the following quote from Albert Camus to drive this home [from a letter he wrote to a German friend while a member of the French Resistance during WW2]:

Albert Camus
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defined according to one’s wishes. You supposed that in the absence of any human or divine code the only values were those of the animal world - in other words, violence and cunning. Hence you concluded that man was negligible and that his soul could be killed, that in the maddest of histories the only pursuit for the individual was the adventure of power and his only morality, the realism of conquests. And, to tell the truth, I, believing I thought as you did, saw no valid argument to answer you except a fierce love of justice which, after all, seemed to me as unreasonable as the most sudden passion.

Where lay the difference? Simply that you readily accepted despair and I never yielded to it. Simply that you saw the injustice of our condition to the point of being willing to add to it, whereas it seemed to me that man must exalt justice in order to fight against eternal injustice, create happiness in order to protest against the universe of unhappiness. Because you turned your despair into intoxication, because you freed yourself from it by making a principle of it, you were willing to destroy man’s works and to fight him in order to add to his basic misery. Meanwhile, refusing to accept that despair and that tortured world, I merely wanted men to rediscover their solidarity in order to wage war against their revolting fate.

As you can see, from the same principles we derived quite different codes. Because you were tired of fighting heaven, you chose injustice and sided with the gods. I, on the contrary, chose justice in order to remain faithful to the world. I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning, and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one. This world has at least the truth of man, and our task is to provide its justifications against fate itself. And it has no justification but man; hence he must be saved if we want to save the idea we have of life. With your scornful smile you will ask me: What do you mean by saving man? And with all my being I shout to you that I mean not mutilating him and yet giving a chance to the justice that man alone can conceive.

I have dropped MindWar into an inferno of globally-continuing PhysWar. We will have to see whether Plato was right.

The GUT
My question for the moment: You claim to uphold your loyalty to your Constitutional oath. Do you mean that? Alexander seems to hold a position more in line with globalism. The Colonel co-authored a paper with his son that advocates the continued blending of military and national/local police forces. Certainly NOT what our forefathers had in mind no matter what any corrupted law student/politico might twist it to mean.

Yes, I take all my oaths seriously. Once again, however, the Constitution was, and continues to be used today as, a PSYOP device. It is constantly interpreted, selectively applied/ignored by officials and public alike. ParaPolitics overcomes this problem as much as possible in a mechanism, but ultimately we come back to that Platonic Agathon.

The military and police forces have different functions, so I don't think they should be combined or blended. Indeed a MW military would look substantially different from the present PW one. I am quite serious in the book when I say that the old image of Special Forces is John Rambo and the new one is Mary Poppins.

Globalism sounds good on paper--much like democracy, communism, and socialism does--what do you think of it? Globalism that is.

Globalism is already an economic and ecological reality, and fast becoming a demographic one. As discussed in MW, the nation/state system of the last few centuries is fast becoming only a population-control device, not an intrinsically flourishing entity.

And, to stay on topic: What do you make of historical, non-Nazi-based, non-black-ops accounts of the UFO phenomenon?

Most are explained away by the [again] PSYOP principle that people see and believe what they want to. Which is why you can be jerked around by a good stage magician (of whom I am also one). Even here.

Anyway during my years at USSPACECOM I worked with NRO, and they were the first to admit there's stuff up there they can't identify. Part of the problem is that after decades of Earth-launches of all sorts, orbital space is a vast junkyard of debris. Trying to keep track of it all is a major hassle.

As mentioned previously, there's a strict classified limit to what I can say on this topic, sorry.

Do I remember you critiquing remote viewing, btw?

Yes, doesn't happen. Covered again in MindWar.

maquino

Most are explained away by the [again] PSYOP principle that people see and believe what they want to. Which is why you can be jerked around by a good stage magician (of whom I am also one). Even here.

Indeed, my wanting to believe the "whistleblower exposes the hip hop conspiracy" example is proof of that.
I already feel to a large extent its true, and so believed the viral ad posing as exposure.

I have been reading through a few of your links over the past few days, and instead of my expected "shock" and "disgust" I have instead found your writings to be very intelligent. I have found your responses on this thread to be not only personable but also humourous. Im very much in awe at your vitae, they are seriously top notch credentials, you are very much a "bad ass" in every sense.
As much as I never thought I would, I find myself agreeing with much of what you have said, although I do have some reservations.

The old Geraldo footage shows to me that Ted Gunderson's response to you was pretty damn lame if Im honest. About not wanting to put undercover agents into a position where they might have to take part in murders etc, was a bit ridiculous, considering what our secret services have been doing in the name of our protection.

And I think a question and answer session with yourself on ATS would be great.
Im going to keep reading the information you have posted on Xeper.org, Im finding it fascinating, and I may even be tempted to buy your book. My insights and intuition have brought me to many of the same conclusions regarding "god" although I dont fully subscribe to the idea of the prince of darkness.

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And I think a question and answer session with yourself on ATS would be great.

That already appears to be occurring successfully on this thread.

Thank you kindly, Michael Aquino, for your participation. There's a lot of informational gold on these pages...

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Do I remember you critiquing remote viewing, btw?

Yes, doesn't happen. Covered again in MindWar.

So you are saying that people can't see things in other places or even other planets just by thinking? Thats crazy. So what do you do in psyops then?

So is it just playing on people's fears of what they don't understand? Planting false ideas and just let them grow on their own? Being In IT during the Y2k fiasco, I understand. People that don't know about computers fall victim to this sort of thing.

AntiVirus companies take full advantage. Virus hoaxes were all the rage back in the day. So much so the hoax was better than the virus as people would warn each other about some fake virus. Even actual viruses are mostly psychological.

ZetaRediculian
So you are saying that people can't see things in other places or even other planets just by thinking? Thats crazy.

Then go right ahead and do it if it works for you.

MindWar
Beginning in 1973 first the CIA, then the NSA, and finally DOD embarked upon a $20 million series of “ESP” experiments together with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Originally entitled “Project Scanate”, in 1995 it was retitled “Project Stargate”.

Stargate attempted “remote viewing” experiments, which failed due to the simple fact that the transmission of visual information to the brain does not occur outside of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), approximately 400-790 THz. It is impossible for EMS waves in this range to survive coherently through atmospheric interference at the extensive distances proposed by SRI. Moreover the electrical impulses within the brain are far too weak even to escape the skull, much less travel any distance beyond it ...

Basically SRI and the government were made [taxpayer-expensive] fools of by pranksters or scamsters with some knowledge of related areas of stage magic. It's not all difficult. I gave Charlie Chan one example above; here's another example you can have fun with.

The most sophisticated specialty of this kind of stage magic is called "mentalism"; it's my own field in that art. Sometimes I can even do it over the Internet [or it may just be that the Force gives me power over weak minds].

Let's try it:
First some randomization to make it more difficult:
(1) Think of any number between 1 and 10.
(2) Multiply it x9.
(3) You now have either a 1-digit or 2-digit number. If 2 digits, add them to get a single digit number.
(4) Now subtract, say, 5 from that digit, leaving you with another 1-digit number, whatever it is.
(5) Pick the corresponding letter of the alphabet. So 1=A, 2=B, and so on.
(6) Think of a country whose name begins with that letter.
(7) Think of an animal whose name begins with the last letter of the country's name.
(8) Think of a fruit whose name begins with the last letter of that animal's name.
Don't post here or tell me any of this. I'll consult my crystal ball, bend a few spoons, and dial up Barnabas Collins in a seance and see what I can do in a day or so.

maquino
Basically SRI and the government were made [taxpayer-expensive] fools of by pranksters or scamsters with some knowledge of related areas of stage magic. It's not all difficult.

So, I guess that makes, in your estimation, Col. John B. Alexander either foolish or a scammer of some sort. Which brings me to a question I was just about to ask. How fortuitous. Allow me to set it up.

PSI-TECH, as many know, was a commercial Remote Viewing company founded in 1989 by Ed "Killshot" Dames. Ed Dames is rather well-known for a number of outstandingly inaccurate predictions associated with RV'ing.

One of the members sitting on the PSI-TECH board of directors was Col. John B. Alexander (Ret) who is also a longtime member of the Remote Viewing Association.

Col. John B. Alexander & Members of the Remote Viewing Assoc.

In light of you giving John Alexander such glowing recommendations for his book, intellect, and knowledge and, further, having shared your view that remote viewing is basically ridiculous and without validity; how are we to interpret your recommendation of Alexander's acumen?

That would seem to leave Alexander, in light of your assertions about Remote Viewing either somewhat of an easily-fooled quack or pulling some sort of scam. See what I'm saying?

Hence why should/would we trust him or his book?

John Alexander with "Mind-Bent" Metal and Hal Puthoff, Scientology Level OT VII


And one more question:

While I might agree with some of your views regarding the UFO phenomenon, and I certainly share your skepticism of Remote Viewing, some questions are sure to arise on why we should trust you especially as regards ufological matters.

For one, traditional psyops often require the operative to create lies and deceptions.

In addition, you've stated here and elsewhere that you are bound by your security clearances and oaths and as such can't reveal what would be primarily of most interest to the ATS members in this thread.

Yet that doesn't stop you from giving alleged hints about top secret black project tech. That seems a little dichotomous. Where do your loyalties lie?

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Okay, I've got my answer - but I won't say anything more about it. I am interested in what you come up with.

Joe Rogan did a remote viewing show which featured Ed Dames, Paul H. Smith and a very excellent mentalist/magician named Banachek. Banachek was so skilled, that it literally came across as genuine remote viewing or magic and blew everybody's minds. But if you and these people are into the occult, is it not a type of psychic skill, in the end, anyways? Remote viewing maybe is just the wrong name for it.

I clicked on maquino's first link and found the card game (which I did not fall for but I can see how most would...I may not be the quickest thinker every single time, but by golly, I am thorough), and after finishing that, I began to snoop around, hoping there was some further mystery...what I was really hoping to find was some of maquino's secret knowledge or perhaps a secret code which, when broken, will show you how to join the Temple of Set hehe...all joking aside, I'm quite sure I am nowhere near ready for any of that knowledge, or any of whatever you get from the Temple of Set.

Although I will add, after reading some more of this thread (im pretty sure now ill have to go back and read it all... ), that...wow! What a lofty goal...to go back BEFORE the "Osirian corruptions" to find truth. That was a long time ago. To come forward and say that there is an older, more accurate version is pretty stunning. I can't decide if its brave, daring, or the perfect marketing ploy. I guess I will have to learn more about the Temple of Set to decide for myself. Of course my opinion means nothing here and I'm aware of that. I will just take a mental note here... Remote Viewing: not real. Channeling ancient deities: a very real thing.

It's too bad that Kantzveldt only came to deride maquino and left us with no real knowledge or links to search for ourselves to make up our own minds...

Ok so there I was, poking around where I'm not supposed to be, as usual...seeking out that which was not meant to be sought, or was it? And I happened to notice that, on page one of the card trick, you can scroll down and notice that 70-80% of the way down into the darkness of the "cave", there is a hyperlink. It's very small. Its just the number one. I couldnt figure out where the hyperlink goes, it seems to go to the same page but with /page28note1 added to the end of the name. The page itself was the same I think...

So then I copy pasted and found tons of text hidden in the black. It's about psychology, which was a bonus, but many of the paragraphs start or end abruptly, including the beginning and end of the text. Seems to be a page or more taken from a book?

Anyway, I just thought it was something weird, and I surely do hope not to detract from the flow of discussion with Mr. Aquino, but it may be relevant to the discussion, who knows?

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I think you would be a worthy opponent in the interwebs. I've seen that before. It's clever...eh?

Now in this video, mr Blaine does his levitation trick. He is a master. We never get to see him levitate as the viewer except for once but that was staged and he used wires. The real trick is so simple which is why they don't show you. But who cares. Look at the people's reactions! That's the mind-eff.



It's the knowledge you have that your target doesn't. Mr Blaine knows a trick and he knows how people think and he knows how to act. Their minds go crazy as it scrambles to make sense of it all. They "saw" him levitate. "It's no joke, he's spiritual, I read about this stuff".

This the same reaction and type of thinking that goes on around here. It's a total mind spasm. Give someone some "credible data" and watch.

Do you play cards Mr. Aquino?

Level 0: I know nothing
Level 1: What do I have?
Level 2: What does my opponent have? Here
Level 3: What does my opponent think I have?
Level 4: What does my opponent think that I think they have?
Level 5: What does my opponent think that I think they think I have?

Who has the advantage in a card game? The guy with the best hand of course! That's the guy I want to play against. It's the guy who knows about the things that most players don't, like math and that most players at a random game are level 2. But of course you want to feed them some "credible" information that makes their minds spasm and make a mistake.

But it's the people that believe in some crazy stuff at the table that makes you wonder. Magical thinking and just being plain wrong about how math works. It's the SAME stuff you see around here!

So someone "knows" what's going on but it's a "secret" which makes it unknown but it must be a good secret because they are keeping it closely guarded. What is it? This the prime state you want them in.

Am I close?

3n19m470
I will just take a mental note here... Remote Viewing: not real. Channeling ancient deities: a very real thing.

Haha, pretty darn funny. And a fair observation. Don't forget that UFOS are Nazi-derived black ops. Set, however, he's a good guy. Him and Michael talk. Maybe they do.

I'm waiting for his explanation of "contact" as well. That would seem to fall under the interdimensional hypothesis wouldn't it?

It's too bad that Kantzveldt only came to deride maquino and left us with no real knowledge or links to search for ourselves to make up our own minds...

Yes, that was interesting. I'm still betting she's coming back to discuss it. We'll see.

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The card trick game online seems really amazing at first, which is how magic tricks work - but you will soon realize that the card you chose was removed from the hand, because ALL of the cards were changed to a different color or suit.

The mysterious link on the page is still quite interesting, however...

For those that have been on the fence about purchasing MindWar, I'd say go for it. I'm about a third of the way in and even if it tanked completely from here on, I wouldn't regret my purchase.

M. Aquino is a good writer and an interesting philosopher and if he's true to what he's written, and what I've read so far, then he shares a lot in common with the way many of us feel about war and screwed-up foreign policy.

I do have some critiques and I expect to encounter more areas that I either tend to disagree with and/or wonder about their feasibility. I'll probably address some of that here, but I look forward to doing a fairly in-depth review thread on it and hopefully have some good discussion with others who choose to read it as well.

All in all, however, it's one of the better reads I've come across in awhile, and I've been spending give or take $200 a month on books for the last year or so. Gotta give credit where it's due and even in areas that I question, I find much of interest and fodder for further research.

Back to the book...

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It's too bad that Kantzveldt only came to deride maquino and left us with no real knowledge or links to search for ourselves to make up our own minds...

Very well, i shall fully instruct you in all the weird and wonderful ways of Set, here's a 2012 paper on the rascal giving full contextual overview;

Seth...a misrepresented God?

However it isn't really that hard to understand, what Set represented was untameable and often violent aspects of the natural world, his symbolic representations were brute beasts beneath reason, such as the Hippo, the crocodile, wild pig and ass.

In the various narratives featuring Set he is as the lewd and brutish rustic buffoon, ever lustful and of a disturbed nature.

This could also be personified by natural phenomena such as dark storms that blew in off the desert or even incursions by brutish foreign hordes into Egypt, or indeed just to foreigners in general.

These dark and unruly aspects of nature were understood then by the Egyptians in terms of contrast to the ordering of Horus, from Pre-Dynastic times they had been feared and in some regions worshipped/placated.

With Set seen as a natural rebel to Order, he was the bringer of destruction, destroyer of Temples, slayer of peoples, his attitude toward the Books of Thoth was to toss them into the river, learning and reason is anathema to the Cult of Set.

When he receives his come uppance for this his front paw is ripped off and placed in the Celestial North, he is imprisoned there, the Northern skies were seen as the lowest part of the Heavens by the Egyptians, an underworld of sorts, populated by brute and dangerous beast constellations, in contrast to the Sun in the Southern skies.

So that is what Set was to the ancient Egyptians and we can compare this to the so called Philosophy of Set

xeper.org...


It should be readily apparent the whole thing is a farce and has nothing to do with Set as understood by the ancient Egyptians, there is no great mystery to Set at all, the highest initiate would have been the village idiot.

What the Temple of Set represents is turning something not understood because of feeble scholarship, into an invitation to share in delusion and fantasy.

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I'm waiting for his explanation of "contact" as well. That would seem to fall under the interdimensional hypothesis wouldn't it?

I see your point. There is no mechanism for thoughts to escape our brains but there is one for entering from the outside?

More card tricks? Admittedly, I didnt pay much attention to the whole Set discussion. The most I ever got out of such philosophies or religions was basic mind warp hocus pocus nonsense. The robes and the symbols , yawn.

Someone once sent me a hex via u2u which I immediately blocked with my lvl 10 anti hex shield. needless to say, I evaporated their planet with my robot army in retaliation.

Unfortunately some mod removed most of this genius.

This "hex" had some Latin words and some numbers which I was supposed to google I guess which would have led me down the matrix of the occult which would strike the "fear" in me as i discovered the meanings of the words were nefarious. The stuff I didnt understand or "know" would have sent me into a mind spasm.

What I get out of this is that essentially this "church" and "psyops" employ the same sort of hocus pocus or magic trick which is his general theme.

Btw, I am a level 42 ancient wizard so don't eff with me.

The GUT
So, I guess that makes, in your estimation, Col. John B. Alexander either foolish or a scammer of some sort.

No, I'd say he's an audience of persons who are either intentional pretenders [for whatever their motives - money, publicity, fun, etc.] or innocently naïve true-believers. I've never cross-examined John on why he originally became involved, what his level of involvement was/is, or what/why at present. He's quite smart enough to know what he's doing and why. If this obsesses you, go ask him.

In light of you giving John Alexander such glowing recommendations for his book, intellect, and knowledge and, further, having shared your view that remote viewing is basically ridiculous and without validity; how are we to interpret your recommendation of Alexander's acumen?

Just that on various subjects we happen to draw different conclusions. You're also free to draw conclusions on any of such subjects different from John's or mine if you don't agree with either of us.

Hence why should/would we trust him or his book?

John's UFO book is about UFOs, not "remote viewing". Evaluate it critically on its contents.

we should trust you especially as regards ufological matters.

People generally trust others based on past experience and/or knowledge about their past. If you find me to be a liar about something, don't trust me. If you don't, then just critically evaluate what I say and decide whether it sounds convincing/reliable to you. And of course I can also be mistaken about things like anyone else.

In the Intelligence profession we have a whole checklist of information/source accuracy & substance that we routinely apply to raw information before it becomes "intelligence", and then it usually gets a coding for users.

For one, traditional psyops often require the operative to create lies and deceptions.

Yes, but I am a professional, not an amateur or free-lancer. I do it on behalf of the United States. FYI The iron law of US PSYOP, applicable to all Departments and Agencies, is the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibits any PSYOP against American citizens. In these days where it's increasingly difficult to constrain the targeting of any information, it's that much more of a challenge to implement, but it continues to be the 500-lb canary in the room for professional PSYOPers.

Note that I said "professionals". There are a lot of BS artists in the government whose credentials and job descriptions are not officially/formally PSYOP, and who probably haven't even heard of Smith-Mundt. Can't help you there!

In addition, you've stated here and elsewhere that you are bound by your security clearances and oaths and as such can't reveal what would be primarily of most interest to the ATS members in this thread. Yet that doesn't stop you from giving alleged hints about top secret black project tech. That seems a little dichotomous. Where do your loyalties lie?

As previously, I can give my opinion about unclassified information like anyone else, and I can advise people against what I think are blind alleys. I never violate classified information, period. My citizenship loyalty is to the United States, and my moral loyalty is to my own conscience and standard of ethics - which haven't changed since I became an Eagle Scout in 1961.

The bent spoon in that photo recalls Uri Geller et al. and all the hoo haa about that silly stage-magic trick back in the 1970s. So one evening back then while visiting the Magic Castle, I asked a seasoned close-up expert about it. "Nothing to it," he said, "Give me a quarter." I did. He rubbed it between his fingers for a moment, tossed it back to me bent 90°. I said, "You switched it." He replied indignantly, "I did nothing of the sort. I'll prove it to you - Give me your car keys." I said, "I believe you!"

ZetaRediculian
Do you play cards Mr. Aquino?

I never knew how or cared to gamble beyond pulling an occasional slot-machine lever in Vegas. Then I saw Casino Royale, which is neck-and-neck my favorite 007 film along with Goldfinger, so I decided I should try to learn at least something basic. Bought a few books on Blackjack, studied, practiced virtual on my iMac. Next trip to Vegas I was put off by the high ($10) minimums at BJ tables, and I wasn't all that thrilled about the calibre of the other players I saw. Found a $3 virtual BJ machine at one of the big hotels. It had the added benefit of a video lady dealer who bent way forward giving you each virtual card. After an hour of intense James Bond playing, I was ahead $30. Lilith walked over to a nearby one-armed bandit, gave it one pull, and collected $50. There's no justice in the universe.

I do know a few stage-magic tricks with cards, and used to have fun at Renaissance Faires doing them with someone's Tarot deck. People expect tricks with regular decks, but not with Tarot, so I would get some amazed/horrified hippiewiccans on occasion.

Kantzveldt
It should be readily apparent the whole thing is a farce and has nothing to do with Set as understood by the ancient Egyptians, there is no great mystery to Set at all, the highest initiate would have been the village idiot. What the Temple of Set represents is turning something not understood because of feeble scholarship, into an invitation to share in delusion and fantasy.

No kidding? Gee whiz, what a bummer.

I'm rather partial to Robert Wilson's observation in Shrödinger's Cat I:

"Theology was a system for explaining things by coining words which nobody could understand and pretending that the words meant something. Among the Western primates the chief word used for this purpose was 'God'. Among the Eastern primates it was 'karma'. Both words were of course crude primate gropings toward the system of quantum checks-and-balances which causes the greatest Whole System, and all the lesser Whole Systems, to cohere."

ZetaRediculian
What I get out of this is that essentially this "church" and "psyops" employ the same sort of hocus pocus or magic trick which is his general theme.

Many of the same influence/control principles of MindWar relate in varying degrees and contexts to what the Temple of Set describes under the heading of "Lesser Black Magic". You could also say the same thing about professional stage magic, and for that matter human interaction generally. We daily "practice PSYOP" on one another without "formalizing" it as such, and usually without much skill, methodology, or deliberation. MW & LBM might be seen as raising such things to the level of precise definition, concentration, and application.

Btw, I am a level 42 ancient wizard so don't eff with me.

You are so out of luck; I'm level 43.