New Age COINTELPRO and the Optimism Gestapo

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
--California Uber Alles, Dead Kennedys

Why has there not been a mass transformation of consciousness, culminating in peace on earth, as so many promised back in the early days of the New Age movement? The answer is that there may be a metaphysical COINTELPRO at work, all under the cover of love and light.

Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary groups who threatened our government during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war. Sensing that these groups might incite American citizens into radical action, the FBI sent in agents to agitate members of these various groups, often pitting them against each other through various forms of subterfuge, such as blackmail.

It appears that the CIA, FBI, and NSA are now sending their goons into the metaphysical marketplace, making sure that people who think they are aspiring to higher and positively transformative things are, in reality, only becoming more self-indulgent, disconnected, and confused.

The biggest influx of these agents occurred during the blossoming of the “human potential” movement in the early ‘70s, through such institutions as Esalen. Legions of people threw away their protest banners and followed their bliss during a time when directly addressing the socio-political problems of the day was imperative.

Since then, the emphasis on personal development—and more recently, the You Create Your Own Reality movement—a significant segment of the population has been brainwashed into disdaining all socio-political issues. For what better way to disempower people than to have them focus on their personal evolution at the expense of their families, communities, and the countries they live in?

Metaphysical Double-Speak

Probably the most flagrant examples of New Age COINTELPRO are channelers who convey disturbing messages from supposedly highly evolved discarnate entities. For example, when the war in Iraq first started in 2003, a well-known channeler in Santa Fe, NM, who channels the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, allegedly claimed that the war was an “ultimate expression of [Sekhmet’s] compassion for the human race.” It would take a considerable amount of gullibility to swallow this kind of nonsense, but swallow it the New Agers did.

With such multidimensional “logic” at hand, practically any injustice, whether torture, environmental destruction, or manipulation of the economy by global powers, can be justified as an act of compassion. This is no different from the theocratic stance of George W. Bush when he said that God told him to invade Iraq! Such metaphysical double-speak is dangerous, yet is nevertheless seeping into popular culture.

Of course, not all channelers are working for the shadow government. Rather, we should use much discernment in regard to channeled information. If channeled information through predictions of global cataclysm, for instance, creates fear and makes us feel ungrounded, unsure, and mistrusting, then it probably is coming from a COINTELPRO source and should be taken with an immense grain of salt.

The Optimism Gestapo

However, perhaps the most insidious aspect of the New Age movement is what I call the Optimism Gestapo, or those who regulate and insist on positive thinking by any means necessary, where any criticism or expression of negative or painful emotions are disdained.

I once brought up to an Ashtar Command “ascencionist” (i.e. someone who believes that extraterrestrials will come and save her), the fact that democratic senator Paul Wellstone may have been murdered in order to get republican Norm Coleman elected. Before I could elaborate, she cut me off by saying, “It was just his time.”

She was intolerant of the fact that I dared interfere with the reality she was creating, free of conspiracy, cutthroat politicians, and skullduggery. And the more I have played devil’s advocate with New Agers, the more I have discovered that such intolerance is the norm. For there currently is a belief amongst New Agers that anything negative that one expresses will only further magnetize negativity. However, those who pursue this line of thinking just end up repressing their negative emotions, only to have them burst forth in uncontrollable ways.

As an example, I once was in a massage therapist’s office proofreading a manuscript for him. I was reading how he had a deep respect for his Japanese ancestors who originated the massage techniques he used in his practice. The phone rang and I heard him say, “Just dial 911,” then slammed the phone down. He then turned to me and explained, “That was my wife. My kid just fell down some stairs. I can’t deal with it.”

On the surface, the massage therapist conveyed an aura of humaneness and caring, all the while repressing his shadow side, as evidenced by his coldness towards his wife and child. Dr. Carl Jung recognized the danger of such repression and recommended confronting the nether-regions of our psyches—primarily through dream work—as a way of achieving healthy psychological equilibrium.

Anyone seeking a supportive metaphysical community should first ask themselves if their ability to think independently is being compromised. For keeping one’s metaphysical radar functioning is most important in a world crawling with “forced cheer” gurus, COINTELPRO channelers, and self-help authors.

Jaye Beldo
Mysteries Magazine
Fall 2007

also see:
MK-ULTRA SubProject 130: Personality Theory
Link Between A Course in Miracles and the Stanford Research Institute
New Age Fascism
Protect Yourself from the Mystic Bourgeoisie

Comments

[ce399]

California Uber Alles [updated]

I am Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

Bush Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!

[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!

[Chorus]

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Schwarzenegger
When you mess with President Schwarzenegger

[Chorus]

[Hemisphere Creep]

You fuckd-up the last bit there.

[Flying Lizards]

Thanks friends. I am one who has experienced first hand the so-called 'paranormal'. I have my evidence. Yet, there is a great subterfuge in the New-Age. And you have hit the nail on the head. Though i experience all of the symptoms of so-called "Global Acceleration Syndrome" I refuse to surrender critical thinking, as we have this ability to protect us from metaphysical mumbo jumbo. These turkeys do not represent our dormant abilities. Just as the Cointel in the political Left do not represent Anarchism or Direct Democracy. Again, thanks. (your anarcho seer friend)

[Hemisphere Creep]

The goal for most of these New Age gurus and self-help groups is to depoliticize and infantalize the 'victims' of a 'mentally ill' global (computer) system. 'Forgiveness' and similar emotions /concepts are utilized as a form of social control in a world stripped bare of any notion of social justice and historical memory; and even when the memory is present, the application of the lessons learnt in any 'real world' context is buried in an avalanche of designer (e's and i's)--clothing, mobile phones, laptops, HDTV, wi-fi and other similar unspeakable horrors: appendages for the standardization of the 'human' product. The 'content' contained in these appendages has liquidated every 'singularity.' The fact that every human city has not, as of yet, overtly transformed into Oaxaca, Mexico in 2007 is a testament to the Thanatopsis Urge hardwired into the human genome.

[ce399]

Most certainly in agreement regarding the negative aspects of clothing. Those bastards who wear clothing of any sort in privatized public space should be liquidated. The continued colonialist territorialization of the body vis-à-vis 'cosmetic appliances' threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of any integrity in human affairs.

[Hemisphere Creep]

Dear CE: unfortunately I must protest your continued and persistent semitic concrètist posture.

[ce399]

Like the United Methodist Church, ce399 has completely divested from any and all cement and concrète territorial modifications by Caterpillar, Inc. Peoria, Illinois. The other epicenter of the New World Order is Occupied Palestine. That is why my United Methodist Pastor is holding these Zionist anti-Semites accountable for their unabated cacophonic and extrajudicial pastiche.