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Brad Johnson reportedly under investigation

2009-08-09T11:57:00.215Z

I ran across this post from Brad on SOE where he claims to have received a call telling him he is under investigation. Of course, being Brad he has come to the stunning conclusion that it must be because he is doing something right because the dark cabals are out to get him. Well Brad, I'm sure if there were such a thing as a shadow government, dark cabal, etc and they actually cared about a con man like you, the last thing they would do is let you know.

.... Kissinger himself...LOL

The New Age Infiltration of the Truth Movement ,Venus Project

2009-07-19T19:14:28.414Z

This new age movement was expressed years ago,and is used today to ushering a one-world-religion and abolish christianity.Brad is influence in The Venus Project, but the truth behiind it is staggering. The planet Venus(lucifer) orbits between the earth and sun, this is significant because obama change logo is the rising of the sun(fake christ) and even venus project logo. The Venus Project is only for the elites, to decease the popluation to 90%, and use technology and robots to replace humans. Zeitgeist is mention in the video.the truth was mix with lies.

The New Age Infiltration of the Truth Movement (2009 Final Cut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibNkjjPjVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWH7mYB9hf8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMBi48wdHs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLr__1I8mU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORcU0scMOE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6mr5YsyE8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWPZUXhx1U&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQnt7Ic0mY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75n0_vSowuc&feature=player_embedded

Just in case you thought SOE were the only really crazy assholes out there

2009-06-10T15:56:30.890Z

I've been following this other new age group 'Galactic Roundtable' since March or so, headed buy this guy Mark Huber who supposedly was in Navy Intelligence and is now a 'point man' for "intelligence" from galactic and top secret sources (83 levels above the president or some fanciful shit). Now, among their crazy claims and predictions is that disclosure, NESARA, and first contact will all be ready to go by July 10th. Their basis for this assertion was an off the cuff comment that President Obama made at the White House Correspondent's Dinner that that in the next 72 days he'd accomplish everything that needed to be done, and then in his typical 'im the messiah' humor, he would rest the next day. Well this group was all over it like flies on shit and immediately believed that everything would happen by then. So now they're floating this news story coming from Dr. Michael Salla, a UFO researcher (and questionable source if you ask me) that by Friday some French government official will make it public knowledge that there is an extra terrestrial presence on Earth and that he was in some secret United Nations meeting in february where the reaction to UFO sightings was discussed. Since England opened their X-Files, both Italy and Brazil have, and now Uruguay is too. It could be that France will make their files public, but the whole report reeks of wishful thinking.

But now the thing that really, really pisses me off. No more than a day after the disappearance of Air France Flight #447 they were claiming that the passengers and crew were taken aboard a 'Wingmaker Ship'(whatever the fuck that is). And now that bodies and scattered wreckage are being discovered, they're screaming 'black ops' at the top of their lungs. Here is a sample of one such deluded individual:

"Since when do people looking for & finding bodies ever find a body & then say it
had a ticket on it from the plane it supposively came from? When people find
real bodies from real crashes that is never mentioned, period. No need to try to
prove something that is real.
This reminds me of a small child giving too much information about something
they are obviously guilty about but attempting to cover up & get caught quickly
in the process because of that TMI.
Again, never in my life have I heard anyone ever discuss a body found after an
air tragedy & then they (feel a need?) to mention in the news that it had a
ticket for that specific flight in it. Can anyone say BS?! hmmmmmmm.....

Now since when do you discover only the complete tail fin of a plane just
floating on the surface days after the plane was supposed to have gone down? How
does that happen? These things don't just break off clean & then sit there
conveniently floating for you to find days later. hmmmmmmm
And if that's so easy to find (all of a sudden) where's the rest of the plane &
the black boxes? These are things I just couldn't get out of my mind this
morning as I woke up at 430am eastern & felt a need to share.

As far as 14 bodies go, if you can clone, duplicate, or forge-replace one you
can do it 14 times. However, it still stinks the same. hmmmmmm"

Not four hours later this individual posted again that due to his post some of his electronic equipment was "attacked".

The people in this group make SOE members look sane.

More brainwash

2009-04-10T18:41:57.689Z

http://saviorsofearth.ning.com/forum/topics/the-consciousness-experiment

April 10th...welcome to the nothing

2009-04-10T18:22:11.162Z

Someone wanna break out the hose and cool these folks down?

http://saviorsofearth.ning.com/forum/topics/my-post-today-on-blossoms-blog

Profile of a Cult Leader

2009-03-20T18:33:59.053Z

I was going to post this following Brad's letters but I didn't want to flood it and sidetrack that blog post. Here is a little doc I found detailing the profile of a typical cult leader. How many of these points "resonate" with the personality and actions of Mr. Jewawan? I apologize if it or something similar has been posted before.

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cprofile.htm

From rkeller@netaxs.com Wed Dec 30 07:27:49 1998
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Profile of Cult Leaders
From: rkeller@netaxs.com (Rod Keller)
Date: 30 Dec 1998 15:27:49 GMT

I've been reading _Captive Hearts, Captive Minds_ by Madeleine Tobais and Janja Lalich. It's a 1994 book on cults and abusive relationships. Madeleine was in an eastern meditation cult, and Janja was in a political cult, so they do not focus on Scientology very much. But I was struck by how their profile of cult leaders matches LHR. They describe cult leaders as psychopaths. I've summarized chapter 5, Characteristics of a Cult Leader, below. Spelling errors are mine. You can order the book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0897931440/denniserlichdefeA

I think the specific comparisons to LRH are obvious, but I'm curious if former members have any personal experiences that match the profile, perhaps some stories that haven't already been published in the biographies or in affidavits.

1. Glibness/Superficial Charm

Glibness is a hallmark of psychopaths. They are able to use language effortlessly to beguile, confuse, and convince. They are captivating storytellers. They exude self-confidence and are able to spin a web that intrugues others and pulls them into the psychopath's life. Most of all, they are persuasive. Frequently they have the capacity to destroy their critics verbally or disarm them emotionally.

2. Manipulative and Conning

Cult leaders do not recognize the individuality or rights of others, which makes all self-serving behaviors permissible. The hallmark of the psychopath is the _psychopathic maneuver_, which is essentially interpersonal manipulation "based on charm. The manipulator appears to be helpful, charming, even ingratiating or seductive, but is covertly hostile, domineering... [The victim] is perceived as an aggressor, competitor, or merely an instrument to be used ... The manipulation inevitably becomes the end-all and is no longer qualified by the reality principle." In other words, there are no checks on the psychopath's behavior -- anything goes.

The psychopath divides the world into suckers, sinner, and himself. He discharges powerful feelings of terror and rage by dominating and humiliating his victims. He is particularly successful when, through an overlay of charm, he makes an ally of his victim -- a process sometimes described as emotional vampirism or emotional terrorism.

3. Grandiose Sense of Self

The cult leader enjoys tremendous feelings of entitlement. He believes everything is owed to him as a right. Preoccupied with his own fantasies, he must always be the center of attention. He presents himself as the "Ultimate One": enlightened, a vehicle of god, a genius, the leader of humankind, and sometimes the most humble of the humble. He has an insatiable need for adulation and attendance. His grandiosity may also be a defense against inner emptiness, depression, and a sense of insignificance. Paranoia often accompanies the grandiosity, reinforcing the isolation of the group and the need for protection against a perceived hostile environment. In this way, he creates an us-versus-them mentality.

4. Pathological Lying

Psychopaths lie coolly and easily, even when it is obvious they are being untruthful. It is almost impossible for them to be consistently truthful about either a major or minor issue. They lie for no apparent reason, even when it would be easier and safer to tell the truth. This is sometimes called "crazy lying". Confronting their lies may provoke an unpredictably intense rage or simply a Buddha-like smile.

Another form of lying common among cult leaders is known as _pseudologica fantastica_, an extension of pathological lying. Leaders tend to create a complex belief system, often about their own powers and abilities, in which they themselves sometimes get caught up. "It is often difficult to determine whether the lies are an actual delusional distortion of reality or are expressed with the conscious or unconscous intent to deceive."

These manipulators are rarely original thinkers. Plagerists and thieves, they seldom credit the true originators of ideas, often co-opting authorship. They are extremely convincing, forceful in the expression of their views, and talented at passing lie detector tests. For them, objective truth does not exist. The only "truth" is whatever will best achieve the outcome that meets their needs.

5. Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt

At the core of the psychopath is a deep-seated rage which is split off and repressed. Some researchers theorize that this is caused by feeling abandoned in infancy or early childhood. Whatever the emotional or psychological source, psychopaths see those around them as objects, targets, or opportunities, not people. They do not have friends, they have victims and accomplices -- and the latter frequently end as victims. For psychopaths the ends always justify the means. Thus there is no place for feelings of remorse, shame, or guilt. Cult leaders feel justified in all their actions since they consider themselves the ultimate moral arbiter. Nothing gets in their way.

6. Shallow Emotions

While they may display outbursts of emotion, more often than not they are putting on a calculated response to obtain a certain result. They rarely reveal a range of emotions, and what is seen is superficial at best, pretended at worst. Positive feelings of warmth, joy, love, and compassion are more feigned than experienced. They are unmoved by things that would upset the normal person, while outraged by insignificant matters. They are bystanders to the emotional life of others, perhaps envious and scornful of feelings they cannot have or understand. In the end, psychopaths are cold, with shallow emotions, living in a dark world of their own.

Hiding behind the "mask of sanity," the cult leader exposes feelings only insofar as they serve an ulterior motive. He can witness or order acts of utter brutality without experiencing a shred of emotion. He casts himself ina role of total control, which he plays to the hilt. What is most promised in cults -- peace, joy, enlightenment, and security -- are goals that are forever out of reach of the leader, and thus also the followers. Since the leader is not genuine, neither are his promises.

7. Incapacity for Love

As the "living embodiment of God's love," the leader is tragically flawed in being unable to either give or receive love. Love substitutes are given instead. The leader's tremendous need to be loved is accompanied by an equally strong disbelief in the love offered him by his followers; hence, the often unspeakably cruel and harsh testing of his devotees. Unconditional surrender is an absolute requirement.

8. Need for Stimulation

Thrill-seeking behaviors, often skirting the letter or spirit of the law, are common among psychopaths. Such behavior is sometimes justified as preparation for martyrdom: "I know I don't have long to live; therefore my time on this earth must be lived to the fullest." "Surely even I am entitled to have fun or sin a little." This type of behavior becomes more frequent as the leader deteriorates emotionally and psychologically -- a common occurrence.

Cult leaders live on the edge, constantly testing the beliefs of their followers, often with increasingly bizarre behaviors, punishments, and rules. Other mechanisms of stimulation come in the form of unexpected, seemingly spontaneous outbursts, which usually take the form of verbal abuse and sometimes physical punishment. The psychopath has a cool indifference to things around him, yet his icy coldness can quickly turn into rage, vented on those around him.

9. Callousness/Lack of Empathy

Psychopaths readily take advantage of others, expressing utter contempt for anyone else's feelings. Someone in distress is not important to them. Although intelligent, perceptive, and quite good at sizing people up, they make no real connections with others. They use their "people skills" to exploit, abuse, and weild power. Psychopaths are unable to empathize with the pain of their victims.

10. Poor Behavioral Controls / Impulsive Nature

Like small children, many psychopaths have difficulty regulating their emotions. Adults who have temper tantrums are frightening to be around. Rage and abuse, alternating with token expressions of love and approval, produce an addictive cycle for both abuser and abused, as well as create a sense of hopelessness in the later.

The cult leader acts out with some regularity -- often privately, sometimes publicly -- usually to the embarassment and dismay of his followers and other observers. He may act out sexually, aggressively, or criminally, frequently with rage. Generally this aberrant behavior is a well-kept secret, known only to a few disciples. The others see only perfection.

These tendencies are related to the psychopath's need for stimulation and inability to tolerate frustration, anxiety, and depression. Often a leader's inconsistent behavior needs to be rationalized by either the leader or follower in order to maintain internal consistency. It is often regarded as divinely inspired and further separates the empowered from the powerless.

11. Early Behavior Problems / Juvinile Deliquency

Psychopaths frequently have a history of behavioral and academic difficulties. They often "get by" academically, conning other students and teachers. Encounters with juvinile authorities are frequent. Equally prevalent are difficulties in peer relationships and developing and keeping friends, marked control problems, and other aberrant behaviors such as stealing, fire setting, and cruelty to others.

12. Irresponsibility / Unreliability

Not concerned about the consequences of their behavior, psychopaths leave behind them the wreckage of others' lives and dreams. They may be totally oblivious or indifferent to the devestation they inflict on others, something which they regard as neigher their problem nor their responsibility.

Psychopaths rarely accept blame for their failures or mistakes. Scapegoating is common, blaming followers, those outside the group, a member's family, the government, Satan -- anyone and everyone but the leader. The blaming may follow a ritualized procedure such as a trial, "hot seat" denunciation, or public confession. Blame is a powerful reinforcer of passivity and obedience, producing guilt, shame, terror, and conformity in the followers.

13. Promiscuous Sexual Behavior / Infidelity

Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, polygamy, rape, and sexual acting out of all sorts are frequently practiced by cult leaders. Conversely, there is often stringent sexual control of the followers through such tactics as enforced celibacy, arranged marriages, forced breakups and divorces, removal of children from their parents, forced abortions or mandated births. For psychopaths, sex is primarily a control and power issue.

Marital fidelity is rare in the psychopath's life. There are usually countless reports of extramarital affairs and sexual predation upon adult and child members of both sexes. The sexual behavior of the leader may be kept hidden from all but the inner circle or may be part of accepted group sexual practices. In any case, due to the power imbalance between leader and followers, sexual contact is never truly consensual and is likely to have damaging consequences for the follower.

14. Lack of Realistic Life Plan / Parasitic Lifestyle

The psychopath tends to move around a lot, making countless efforts at "starting over" while seeking out fertile new ground to exploit. One day may appear as a rock musician, the next as a messiah; one day a used car salesman, the next the founder of a mass self-transformation program; one day a college professor, the next the new "Lenin" bringing revolution to America.

The flip side of this erratic life planning is the all-encompassing promise for the future that the cult leader makes to his followers. Many groups claim as their goal world domination or salvation at the Apocalypse. The leader is the first to proclaim the utopian nature of the group, which is usually simply another justification for irrational behavior and stringent controls.

The leader's sense of entitlement is often demonstrated by the contrast between his luxurious lifestyle and the impoverishment of his followers. Most cult leaders are supported by gifts and donations from their followers, who may be pressured to turn over much of their income and worldly possessions to the group. Slavery, enforced prostitution, and a variety of illegal acts for the benefit of the leader are common in a cult milieu.

Psychopaths also tend to be preoccupied with their own health while remaining totally indifferent to the suffering of others. They may complain of being "burned out" due to the burden of "caring for" their followers, sometimes stating they do not have long to live, instilling fear and guilt in their devotees and encouraging further servitude. They are highly sensitive to their own pain and tend to be hypercondriacs, which often conflicts with their public image of superhuman self-control and healing abilities. According to them, the illnesses they _don't_ get are due to their powers, while the ones they _do_ get are caused by their "compassion" in taking on their disciples' karma or solving the group's problems. This of course is another guru trick.

15. Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility

Cult leaders change their image and that of the group as needed to avoid prosecution and litigation, to increase their income, and to recruit a range of members. Cult leaders have an innate ability to attract followers who have the skills and connections that the leaders lack. The longevity of the group is dependent on the willingness of the leadership to adapt as needed and preserve the group. Frequently, when illegal or immoral activities are exposed to the public, the cult leader will relocate, sometimes taking followers with him. He wll keep a low profile, only to resurface later with a new name, a new front group, and perhaps a new twist on the scam.

PRÆAMBULUS

2009-02-10T20:40:31.858Z

Often in past months discussions and various posts, reference is made to such notions as Belief, Cult and the likes without some people seem to be very aware of what it refers to, of what it means.

For more simplicity, avoiding searching pages and references, I have compiled some of the notions and concepts in this forum section, with a brief description for each notion and links to further reading, pointing themselves to other links of interest.

Some might see words like "cult" nearly as insults, yet far from being insults, words and notions such as "cult" and the notions gathered here are just definitions of concepts found in a community like SoE, but also in all the major religions and countless sub-groups that virally appeared since the late 60's.

APOTHEOSIS (SELF-DEIFICATION)

2009-02-10T20:21:20.286Z

Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθεόω, apotheoō "to deify") refers to the exaltation of a subject to divine level. The term has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre.

In theology the term apotheosis refers to the idea that an individual, group, or locale has attained godlike stature. In art the term refers to the treatment of any subject (a figure, motif, convention or melody) in a particularly grand or exalted manner.

Further Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis

BELIEF

2009-02-10T20:17:45.810Z

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.

The relationship between belief and knowledge is subtle. Believers in a claim typically say that they know that claim. For instance, those who believe that the Sun is a god will report that they know that the Sun is a god. However, the terms belief and knowledge are used differently by philosophers.

Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge and belief. A primary problem for epistemology is exactly what is needed in order for us to have knowledge. In a notion derived from Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, philosophy has traditionally defined knowledge as justified true belief. The relationship between belief and knowledge is that a belief is knowledge if the belief is true, and if the believer has a justification (reasonable and necessarily plausible assertions/evidence/guidance) for believing it is true.

A false belief is not considered to be knowledge, even if it is sincere. A sincere believer in the flat earth theory does not know that the Earth is flat. Similarly, a truth that nobody believes is not knowledge, because in order to be knowledge, there must be some person who knows it.

Later epistemologists have questioned the "justified true belief" definition, and some philosophers have questioned whether "belief" is a useful notion at all.

Delusional beliefs

Delusions are defined as beliefs in psychiatric diagnostic criteria (for example in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Psychiatrist and historian G. E. Berrios has challenged the view that delusions are genuine beliefs and instead labels them as "empty speech acts", where affected persons are motivated to express false or bizarre belief statements due to an underlying psychological disturbance. However, the majority of mental health professionals and researchers treat delusions as if they were genuine beliefs.

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the White Queen says, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." This is often quoted in mockery of the common ability of people to entertain beliefs contrary to fact.

Further Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief

CULT

2009-02-10T20:12:30.401Z

A Cult may refer to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding population considers to be outside the mainstream. In common or popular usage, "cult" has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees (see Cult following), but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups. For this reason, most, if not all, non-fan groups that are called cults reject this label.

From about 1920 onward, the popular negative connotation progressively interfered with scientific study using the neutral historical meaning of "cult" in the sociology of religion. A 20th century attempt by sociologists to replace "cult" with the term New Religious Movement (NRM), was rejected by the public and not entirely accepted by the social-scientific community.

Dictionary definitions
Dictionary definitions of the term "cult" include at least eight different meanings. These include both classic and unorthodox religious practice, extreme political practice, objects or concepts of intense devotion including popular fashion, and systems for the cure of disease based on dogmatic teachings.

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary lists five different definitions of the word "cult."

1. Formal religious veneration
2. A system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents;
3. A religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents;
4. A system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator;
5. Great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book).

The Random House Unabridged Dictionary's eight definitions of "cult" are:

1. A particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies;
2. An instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers;
3. The object of such devotion;
4. A group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc;
5. Group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols;
6. A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader;
7. The members of such a religion or sect;
8. Any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.

Webster's New World College Dictionary defines "cult" as:

1a. a system of religious worship or ritual
1b. a quasi-religious group, often living in a colony, with a charismatic leader who indoctrinates members with unorthodox or extremist views, practices or beliefs
2a. devoted attachment to, or extravagant admiration for, a person, principle or lifestyle, especially when regarded as a fad [the cult of nudism]
2b. the object of such attachment
3. a group of followers, sect

Further Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult