Can the Internet Turbocharge Mind Power Metaphysics?

BY HARV BISHOP

Did an online cartoonish green frog catalyze collective mind power metaphysics to elect Donald Trump? Strange as it may seem, it could have been a contributing factor.

Let’s start at the beginning. I’ve blogged twice in the last year to raise awareness about the Alt-Right’s embrace of positive thinking to elect a president they believed was sympathetic to their nativist, anti-immigrant aims. To many, myself included, the Alt-Right is simply fascism and neo-Nazism rebranded for a new era. Call it fascism with a friendly face, but dig beneath the surface and you’ll find anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and homophobia. In short they believe that white European culture is endangered from within by a multi-cultural society.  The alt-right is also allergic to democracy as it ideally should give all folks, not just whites, a say in how society is run. Russia is seen by Alt-Righters as a last bastion of traditional western culture so NATO is suspect and Putin a friend. I would argue that there are links to Trumpism though all Trump supporters aren’t Alt-Right.  (I have written a more detailed account of Alt-Right aims and means here).

The Alt-Right is a loosely knit group of neo-fascists and youthful disaffected internet activists. But there may be more to this amazing story. Their power is multiplied not only by sympathetic fellows in government and media, but also by internet connectivity amplified by collective mind metaphysics drawn from the work of Neville Goddard and contemporary magical practices. The full story awaits the publication in late May of Dark Star Rising: Magic and Power in the Age of Trump by one of my favorite metaphysical authors, Gary Lachman.

“Internet posts are having a real-world effect,” Lachman said in a streaming interview with Jeremy Johnson of Evolve and NuraLearning. Lachman referrred to this phenomenon as “syncromysticism” where the internet becomes a “techno-astral plane” masking visible the human imagination with all its power.

The following will give a sense of what might happen when mass directed thought is fueled by internet connectivity and a passionate and one-pointed focus.

This is complex story that begins in the fringes of internet where lonely folk, people angry with so-called political correctness, and the ability to express any rage-filled view anonymously created a toxic cocktail. The detailed story with all its twists and turns would take more space than I have here so I’m promising you the short and sweet version based on research by Lachman, blogger A.T. L. Carver and others.

Let’s start with the cartoonish green frog. Pepe was originally a benign internet icon featured in mainstream posts by the singer Katy Perry and others. It was later adopted by a politically incorrect discussion board the on 4Chan website, a mean-streets version of Instagram. Trump’s political incorrectness struck a chord with this group and they created memes with Pepe the frog to support Trump and their own boundary-tweaking views.

This internet subculture then begins to see synchronicities, where events are connected through meaning rather than causally connected, as described by Lachman.  For instance, Pepe was associated with an ancient frog diety symbolizing both chaos and bringing light into the world. In turn, this coincidence was believed to be a sign about the chaotic disruption of the Trump candidacy and hope for the future Trump would bring if elected. Sequences of repeated numbers in 4Chan posts were often seen by users as synchronistically significant. One post, reading “Trump will win,” had a particularly auspicious number sequence.

This political movement may have been the first partly brought about by a vanguard of slacker nerds, Lachmann says,  “living in their parent’s basements” who saw Trump “as the ultimate non-PC troll.” It’s an open question, he notes, how much of this was about political passion and how much was about tech geeks having fun in a contemporary world stripped of meaning and responsibility. “It’s the essence of postmodernism,” Lachman says, adding that Donald Trump, a reality TV phenomenon, played someone who hired and fired people. Now The Apprentice franchise  has moved out of the staged world of TV and into the White House with real consequences, he notes.

BS you say? Perhaps. Lachman admits it sounds “ludicrous” on its face.

But if intention and belief can affect the real world, does it matter if the messages where truly synchronistic or if people fervently believed they had meaning?

Chaos magic is a recent post-modern magical school that stresses working with enhancing the probability of desired futures through symbols and higher consciousness. It has also been adapted by internet culture and the Alt-Right. This should not reflect negatively on Chaos magicians any more than Neville’s teachings should be disowned because they were distorted by a neo-Nazi. I’ve found many interesting things in studying and practicing some Chaos magic that New Thoughters can learn from. I will blog on it in the future.

Chaos magicians often employ what are called sigils (SIDG-uls ), renderings of selected letters from affirmations converted into whimsical abstract shapes. These sigils are then focused on while in a trance state to increase the likelihood of a new reality. The theory is that the native language of the subconscious is symbols and that symbols can find their way into the subconscious with less resistance than a regular affirmation. Once safely past subconscious barriers what the sigil symbols represent are more likely to be manifested in the magician’s life.

Sigils are not that weird. Dr. Joe Dispenza’s latest book Becoming Supernatural has practices that reduce a manifestation goal to single letter from the alphabet that symbolizes the new desired reality and is then meditated on.

The famed comic book writer and occultist Grant Morrison has argued that widely viewed corporate logos such as the McDonald’s arches and Nike swoosh function as sigils that embed themselves in mass consciousness.

So, with that in mind, imagine large numbers of people with a fervent intention and belief focused online on the symbolic Pepe and other pro-Trump memes (memes are popular pictures that spread virally online).

Strange? Yes. Preposterous? Maybe. Maybe not.

In his new book Real Magic, the rigorous researcher Dean Radin reports on a study of the November 2016 election using a new kind of Random Number Generator (RNG) for one day before and four days after Election Day. RNGs have been found to fluctuate in non-random ways during certain highly emotional mass events such as 9/11. Radin notes that truly random data shouldn’t show relationships between samples. Yet, after midnight Paciffic time when it was apparent Trump had won, the 32 RNGs spiked within minutes of the news. The spike was detected by all 32 RNGs.  The odds of the collective RNG spike being due to chance, he reports, would be one in 226 million.

A major strength of Chaos Magic is the willingness to place practical experimentation ahead of dogma. If there is shred of possibility that this was factor in the success of the Alt-Right can New Thought at least experiment with ways to harness the power of the internet for the greater good? Why should innovation and new approaches to collective mind power practices be limited to the hate-filled fringes of the internet?