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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

John! I’ve been on a similar path myself! Same topic, different name. I call these Mind Viruses, “The Deadening.”

From my article, we read the following:

“For millennia, every culture has warned of invisible influences that affect human consciousness. The ancient Greeks called them Archons. Christians call it Satan or Beelzebub. To Native Americans, it’s wetiko. Carl Jung called it “the imitator and evil principle.” Modern philosophers call them mind parasites.”

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/humanity-vs-the-deadening-the-complete

This is a spiritual battle and we need spiritual and intellectual defense.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

It is a spiritual battle and people really need to reconnect to our Creator in order to restore sanity. Matt 6:5. Enter into your closet (room) and shut the door...and the Father which seeth in secret will reward you openly. Our Creator is all powerful and people really need to go to our Source. The answers will come, when people do as the Master told the lawyer in Matt 22;35-40. The #1 Commandment was to acknowledge and love the One who created the world and all life.

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

AMEN. I believe you are on to something here. Spiritual warriors of some skill are needed to neuter the Satanic Archons and the patterns they have impressed upon human consciousness. Time for a spiritual jail break!

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Kari Willis's avatar

This looks like a good one to have on the coffee table! Good conversation starter for sure!

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

wow...this is the perfect book people need to read now as we grapple with our total "cognitive crash" as we see the sold world dissolving and weird demons pushing deadly injections and selling us a crock of sh*t while they steal as much as they can.

At the present I am reading a book by Julia Scheeres about the Jones town self annihilation. It seemed relevant to me right now. Nothing surprises me. At my senior residence we are still being urged to get our "boosters" and a few people have stopped me in the hall to inquire if I "got mine".

Well, I am quite proud that i never took any-- but I don't want them to have a stroke so I just nod noncommitedly in a way that could mean anything.

It's so sad. These are good people who always did what was "required" and wanted to "keep their neighbors safe"...

Good grief.

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

A few years back an intriguing documentary on the Rajneesh cult in Oregon touched on the Jonestown incident. Though the documentary did not overtly reach the conclusion I did, it was worth watching. My conclusion (analysis) was that the Rajneesh events were part of a CIA MK ULTRA social engineering project that targeted Oregon specifically. When you break apart the pattern of what took place - psychiatry, mind-altering drugs, coercion, undercover ops - it is difficult to reach any other conclusion. We may be seeing that op unleashed on a grander scale now.

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Brandy's avatar

Sounds like an excellent book. I hope there will be an audible version.

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John Leake's avatar

There will be!

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M. N. Mead's avatar

Absolutely brilliant -- thank you for this important oh-so-timely work. I always thought of Dostoyevsky's novel as "The Possessed" and it's perhaps the only one I haven't read (!!). As a young man, I was deeply into both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky -- his "Brother's Karamazov" has been among my favorite all-time reads. Now I will need to read Demons, and your new book to boot!

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John Leake's avatar

Thank you!

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Carl Eric Scott's avatar

Honestly, it's the very best. I mean nothing can touch Crime and Punishment in terms of sheer drive, and in terms of portrayal of insanity, but Demons has other qualities, and works well as a mystery. Finally, it's the one that best conveys D's central concerns.

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M. N. Mead's avatar

Well, in my view Brothers Karamazov represents one of the most profound moral, spiritual, and metaphysical inquiries of all time -- covers the full spectrum of human nature and it continues to inspire me to this day. And i look forward to reading Demons soon!

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Carl Eric Scott's avatar

And here's a good scholarly discussion of it, by the great Jacob Howland: https://newcriterion.com/article/demons-at-150/

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Deb's avatar

Pre-ordered! Will look for forward to it's release! Thank you for all your great writing!

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Peter W Allen's avatar

absolutely : the hell we are living thru is institutionally corrupt to its core, is a madness Goya probably had no concept of. We are indeed eating ourselves alive in more ways than one.

ps: art history major, Athenian art concentration

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Laura's avatar

Preordered! I’m looking forward to it.

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John Leake's avatar

Thank you!

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Peter W Allen's avatar

Brilliant John, no greater manifestation than the bullet in Kirk's neck, and in Trump's ear, mutilated children, live-birth abortions, 70k Gazans slaughtered, Goya revisited indeed.txs

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John Leake's avatar

Glad you correctly perceived all of the cover image allusions! Some readers think the cover is too disconcerting, though it seems to me the subject matter is even more disconcerting!

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RoseMartyn's avatar

I love Goya. Especially the nightmare images. Perfect for this subject matter.

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Kurt's avatar

John, you can go in a number of different directions with that great idea. You could cover cults and psychological research, such as the Asche Conformity work, Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority and the Zimbardo Prison Experiment. The list is endless. Can’t wait.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

You must mean February 10th, 2026?

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John Leake's avatar

Thank you! I have such a foggy brain this morning!

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

You’re welcome. I knew you’d want to correct it.

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Wayne Bonin's avatar

Darn it! I thought you had developed a time machine, and the book would magically appear on my shelf as soon as I ordered it.

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Danielle's avatar

How much “mind” damage was caused by the holy vax?

Ever since Covid, people seem to have lost their minds.

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Curious and Concerned's avatar

Great way to frame the phenomenon. Can it be treated with a broad, natural anti-viral agent? What would that look like? (I'm only being partially facetious).

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mejbcart's avatar

looks like a good book, BUT the only things disturbs me, is that in order to buy from Am-a-zon (CIA based endeavor..) one needs to have an Iphone.. Personally, will never buy anything at all from these CRIMINALS (Bezos et al.)

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Laura's avatar

I don’t think this is true. I’ve had to log on to my computer to buy things on Amazon and to adjust things within my account. The app limits what you can do. Try using a web browser and see how you like it.

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Alamo Dude's avatar

Another label for Mind Viruses is “Harmonic Distortions” of reality. Harmonics are not just the hard scientific evidence of God. They are the Divine Compass to the way hOMe. From the visible behind the veil to the Apocalypsed Divine Absolute Infinite Alpha~Omega Truth/Light/WORD/Love.

With out God to design, guarantee over forwards only moving linear time (another hard scientific proof of God) and maintain 10o% reliably repeatable harmonics, then music and language would decay into atheist gibberish. And the scientific method would fail with out reliable repeatability. We can infer that two fundamentals friction don’t “create” harmonics. They reveal the harmonics that are invisibly there 24/7 in the “dark energy” Sonics Matrix movie screen where the MoL, Movie of Life is “projected”. At 5 frames per microSecond. Unless Fear-Adrenaline and Negative destructive guilt-Cortisol cause the frame rate to speed up into tunnel vision Slo-Mo in the reptilian brain stem the Amygdala. Until Hope, Joy, Happiness, Charities and Divine Worship restore the framing rate up into the common sense frontal cortex. And allow the framing rate to relax with DHEA erasing Adrenaline and Cortisol. And allow Divine Guidance and Intuition from the pineal gland.

Atheists are now left in Peter Pan “what if tomorrow” mode with zero real science to validate their chaos wishful thinking. Since they are afraid of their own shadows (negative human nature), rules, competition and authority. With out competition, rules and authority, life could not animate the inanimate. With out the 72,000 anodes potential differences in competition with the 72,000 cathodes, life force Lifetrons would not flow embedded from God’s Breath into human breaths converted into electrical energy heart beats. The 144,000. The neutral or Virgins being 72(,000). Pausing the lifetron flow of the competition of the 144,000 long enough to experience the In-The-Light-tenment of Absolute Divine Truth via the Graces of God’s mercy>Love. Reinforcing our faith in “God is Love” is the God of Life, not death.

God Bless, 🙏🙏🙏

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John Leake's avatar

thank you for sharing your intriguing reflections on this subject!

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Crixcyon's avatar

..."portrayed as the liberator and savior of mankind"...known as death in some circles.

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