While there is a truism that the Direct Experience (or Gnosis) is the greatest form of Wisdom, searching for truth among materialist sources will often lead to manipulation. Some believe that truth is unique to the individual, and spiritually speaking, this is true. However, when this is applied to the material world, people often follow their own personal biases, looking for alignment. A spiritual person can become trapped in the material world, when they fall for alternative facts that align with their personality. As an example, a spiritual person who believes in seeking truth, may seek out truth that is alignment with their anti-government belief system — calling Government backed medicine a poison and encouraging people to consider pandemics, government false flag operations. When the seeker broadcasts this message to a wide audience (such as social media), they become part of the gravity driving the agenda, convincing more people to fall in alignment with something that ultimately is false.
Not too long ago, there was a conspiracy that school shootings were false flag events, generated by the government in order to build a fear of guns. The idea being, that government wants to control the population by taking away their 2nd amendment rights. However, this data was false. These shootings were real and the minimization or nullification of the events, made life a living hell for the surviving parents.
Conspiracies appeal to people who think about life, but also lack the wisdom to judge the data they are receiving. These are people who like to feel they have some acquired knowledge about something hidden in plain sight. Often this type of person aligns with a spiritual focus, because spirituality teaches that the Kingdom of God is within us – or around us – already. This hiding in plain sight is a reality when we talk about the secret foundational forms of creation – yet it is made a travesty when materialists use the same concepts to peddle earthly conspiracies.
What’s the Point?
People who are victims of conspiracies will often ask, “what is the point of this being fake? What’s to gain spreading fake news?” It’s an argument that raises a question in order to discredit anti-conspiracy thought. Before answering that question, we can clearly see that people have openly spread false data, and false news, since recorded history. Atlantis, Big foot, Secret entrances into the earth where other realms reside, photos of fairies, doctored and faked UFO photos… People love to deceive other people. It’s in our very DNA to prank others.
There used to be a fake newspaper called “The Weekly World News” that told made up stories, so unbelievable they were laughable. But not all fakery is openly false. Sometimes it’s made to resemble truth, and in such situations it spreads like a virus.
Money
A co-worker once shared a YouTube channel with me. It was of a “scientific” truth sayer. This fellow was against Newtonian physics. He got a following of 150,000 people or more, who loved his videos. His message was about a conspiracy to push the idea of atomic structure (which he said was false). He said all material is held together by magnetic and gravitational bonds. To him, atoms didn’t even exist, and what people had photographed in atomic microscopes was misunderstood.
After noting his followers, I also noticed he was selling a PDF book. No publisher. No advertising costs. He simply sold his thoughts on science in a rambling of pseudo-science. The PDF cost $7, which wasn’t much of a cost… and I realized at that point, his whole thing is likely about money. If 30% of his followers buy that $7 book, he earns $315,000.
Power
Beyond the money angle, there’s an angle of power. Each time a person clicks on a fake news article, the marketing algorithms add more content for them to see. Soon this person is in an echo chamber of similar ideas, drawn down the marketing funnel. At first it could be a simple link referring to a UFO coverup, or as a friend of mine did: follow a fake story about a fast food restaurant using GMO based chickens to grow 12 legs a pop – so they can get more chicken legs per chicken. By reading that article, similar articles are pitched to the reader. Next is big foot, then articles on vaccines. Perhaps a conspiracy arises against the Ukrainian president. Following the breadcrumbs down the funnel, a person becomes isolated in conspiracy.
How else does someone believe that Hilary Clinton had a secret plot to institute Sharia Law in America? A relative of mine pitched this conspiracy to me. I laughed at it, asking if they even knew what Sharia Law was. As they were an evangelical Christian, I explained that Sharia Law is everything their closed-minded view of the world was in alignment with: anti marriage equality, anti-abortion, anti-women… Then I asked, does Hilary exemplify any of that? Like or hate her, we have to admit she doesn’t fit the ideology of Sharia Law.
It takes a funnel of false data to get a reasonable person to believe that a Liberal is also a Sharia Law enforcer. This control over reality is what politicians live for. They can topple an election by simply whispering in the shadows. Look at how thousands of people attempted an American coup on Jan 6. Again, people driven by false information.
How to Spot It
In a perfect world, we would all have intimate knowledge of our biases and predilections. We would know our inherent drives and be able to spot our alignment to ideas based on our personal desires and not objective truth.
When we lack the ability to discern our own motivations, we can also use logic and reasoning.
Sensationalism
Is the story sensational? Many conspiracy stories that are spread over social media, are overly-sensational. The more sensational, the less evidence they have to support it. This is a warning sign of false data.
The idea that a company is genetically modifying their chicken to grow more legs, so they can more cost effectively sell buckets of chicken legs is incredibly sensational. What evidence did they provide? A photoshopped image? A false “leaked interview” or memo? Where’s the imperial evidence?
Sometimes people will bring up false medical advice given by “doctors” or “scientists.” They may spread a story that says, “Scientists now believe environmental change is a conspiracy of China.” The article references to doctors who are not specialists in their field, but are obscure unknowns. This isn’t valid data, it’s simply false testimony.
When 2% or less of scientists appeal to a conspiracy theory, for them to be right, we have to assume that the 98% of other scientists have been bought out. It’s absurd and it quickly becomes a “global conspiracy.”
Bias
Does the conspiracy theory have a bias? Is it attacking a group (Democrats or Republicans)? Is it attacking a culture (Mexicans or Ukrainians)? Look below the surface of what’s being said and ask what the motive. Who is being painted in a bad light, who is being painted in a good light?
Discovering bias often reveals false data.
Look at political bias, as an example. How fake is it that a political organization will have multiple members fighting for power – to become the presidential candidate only to flip after it’s secured? They will slander each other – people on their own team, and then once someone secures the spot of power for their political side, all those people they were fighting with immediately support them.
The Problem of Social Media
In the 1980’s Christians became enthralled with the idea that Satan was everywhere. He was in music, in movies, in books, in photos and paintings. They played music backwards to find “secret messages hidden in plain sight.” In fear, they burned books, destroyed music and held exorcisms to cleanse people of some unknown evil. It is a group think, now called the “Satanic Panic.”
The Satanic Panic spread across America. People were falsely imprisoned, others lost their jobs over the witch hunt of Satanists. All of this happened without any form of social media. This spread by word of mouth and television.
Today, social media, is a platform where we participate in spreading truth. Our truth, even if false, is considered true if enough people are sharing it. If a large group of people spread a rumor that the Earth is flat, it will inundate readers until a significant seciton of people believe in it.
Facebook tried to combat the problem by tagging fake news being spread with “This is likely a fake story.” I knew someone who complained that Facebook was too biased because they flagged everything she was posting as “fake news.” Reviewing her feed, I can attest she was spreading entirely fake news. She was so far down the funnel, she couldn’t see reality like most people, instead she saw reality through a colored lens of manipulation.
How to Deal with It
It must be understood that the mechanisms for truth seeking in the material plane, do not work in the spiritual (or vice versa). Seeking our own direct experience of truth works spiritually, but not physically. On the physical plane we are a victim of our inherent bias and ego. Truth on the physical plane is derived through careful scientific reasoning and the scientific method. Yet spiritual discovery should be handled on a personal level with a direction of Gnosis (self discovery).
Keeping these two approaches separate and unique, we can apply logic and reasoning to physical understanding, and direct experience of truth to the spiritual world.
Stop sharing on social media. If we share a story that “vaccines kill people” and someone follows our share and dies, we are part of the problem of their death.
Arguing with people is often pointless.
Seek out well respected sources of data and remember that true global conspiracies are incredibly rare. We are more than likely to fall victim to false conspiracy stories attempting to gain our power or money, than we are to find a real conspiracy.