01-25-2025, 05:04 AM
The Psychology Of Being Black-Pilled & The Social Media Armchair Conspiracy Theorist
By Bernhard Guenther, January 16, 2025
Laura and I have discussed the rising sentiment of being “black-pilled” in our podcasts “How Your Inner Work Fuels A Collective Awakening” (2024) and “The Blackpilled Matrix Mind Trap and the Antidote” (2023).
https://media.blubrry.com/thecosmicmatri...M112_1.mp3
I’ve also discussed this negative conspiracy mindset with David Whitehead twice over the past two years: “The Black-Pilled Delusion—Truth Warrior Podcast” and “Cultists In The Truth/Freedom Movement.”
https://media.blubrry.com/thecosmicmatri...M144_1.mp3
In light of current and recent events, I’ve observed that many more people in the so-called “truth movement” fall prey to being black-pilled.
On the psychological level, black-pilling is an (unconscious) trauma response and also a symptom of depression and suppressed emotional pain.
It’s also PTSD from the last five years, resulting in over-paranoia and seeing psy-ops everywhere. I have compassion for that because it is a projection of their suffering. I can see myself in them, too, since I had my moments of black-pilledness.
However, so much negativity [also based on black-and-white thinking and psychological splitting (over-simplified ideas of “good” and “evil” projected externally)] sucks one’s soul over time, and one becomes a feeding ground for entities that install these paranoid thought forms in a constant feedback loop, looking for a boogeyman to blame.
Disembodied and dissociated, they will only see what their level of consciousness can see: darkness and negativity in blame/victim consciousness and externalizing evil without ever sincerely facing their own darkness within.
The wetiko-infused psyche and shadow of the black-pilled mind will also pull more of the same out of the “magician’s hat” for them to justify their negative projections. As a result, they give their creative power and energy away and feed what they fear. Like Don Quixote chasing illusory windmills, he mistook for the “enemy.”
In other words, they will see precisely only what they want to see, manifested through egregore hive mind thought-form entities (the “truther” version of NPCs.) It’s an endless loop stuck at a lower level of consciousness
In a tragic, ironic, metaphysical twist, they create the thing they claim to expose and fight against and imprison themselves out of their own minds.
As Don Juan Matus said, in “The Active Side of Infinity:”
“Through the mind, the predators (occult hostile forces) inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them.”
Living in that externalized state – especially constantly glued to the internet in a disembodied state – they are more vulnerable to manipulation.
At the same time, they believe [lie to themselves] that they are “awake”, “free”, and “sovereign.” – a devastating form of self-delusion, more damaging [to the soul development] than people who are asleep and don’t claim to be awake.
Once you realize, on an embodied level, that everything you see and experience and everyone else sees/ experiences is a projection based on your/their level of consciousness, the “game” changes. This realization is the first step to true empowerment and freedom for yourself and humanity.
Listen to these two podcasts for context and how your level of consciousness affects the world and your perceptions:
How Your Inner Work Fuels A Collective Awakening
https://veilofreality.com/2024/12/16/how...44-part-1/
How to Raise Your Level Of Consciousness
https://veilofreality.com/2024/09/11/how...38-part-1/
Being Black-Pilled
What it is not:
Questioning official narratives
Pointing out corruption and lies
Considering that certain narratives or events are negative psy-ops or staged events for a nefarious agenda
Having disagreements
What it is:
Overly negatively oriented: pessimistic, angry, cynical, sarcastic, hopeless, depressed, nihilistic (can also be unconscious)
Lack of healthy optimism and positivity
Seeing almost every event as a negative psyop and conspiracy
Believing that evil/darkness will win (listen to this podcast to understand what “evil” is and why it can’t exist as an absolute, separate from “God”)
Given way to much power to the boogeyman and the “controllers” (resulting in unconscious disempowerment)
Seeing every weather anomaly and disaster (wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes) as “man-made geoengineering”
Black-and-white thinking and psychological splitting (Inability for nuance, seeing certain people and events only as all bad/evil)
Predominantly projecting doom and gloom and negativity into the future (fear porn)
– Being predominantly disembodied, dissociated, and stuck in the head, resulting in anxiety that becomes a normalized state without noticing it [due to lack of somatic self-awareness]
Getting stuck in victim/blame consciousness [below 200, taking David Hawkins’ map of consciousness as a reference.]
Being in a negative, depressed state of mind because of information overload
Glued to the internet/social media and overly focused on conspiracies as if “exposing” them via posting in social media will change/save the world
Calling people prematurely shills, controlled-op, or agents just because you disagree with them, or based on psychological splitting, shadow projection, or the “guilt by association” fallacy
https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-c...sociation/
Factors that contribute to being “black-pilled”:
Lack of consistent psycho-spiritual self-work
Having no psychological self-awareness (for example, how your unconscious shadow and projections can pollute your views and perceptions)
Over-focused on 3D conspiracies, having no awareness of the hyperdimensional matrix and how non-physical occult forces and wetiko manipulate them through their minds with thought injections, tagging into their blind spots, shadow, and dis-embodied state of being – the spiritual war on unseen levels
Having no “spiritual vision” in the context of the evolution of consciousness, karmic cycles, and the bigger picture of the interplay of dark and light in the duality of the creation over lifetimes but seeing everything in superficial black-and-white linear 3D tunnel vision
Believing the matrix is only something or someone “out there” – a particular group, organization, or secret society
Missing the spiritual teaching function of “evil”
Externalizing everything and seeing others and the outside world as “separate”
Externalizing all evil as they feed the hyperdimensional divide-and-conquer agenda
Lack and reluctance to face the darkness and evil within oneself
How not to get black-pilled:
Engaging in shadow work and becoming aware of your projections and triggers (learn and study what shadow work is and how to do it)
https://veilofreality.com/2024/07/19/fac...adow-work/
Facing your shadow within instead of only externalizing all evil
Processing any negative emotions without projecting them on others, escaping, or suppressing them
Engage in the practice of “Holding the Tension of Opposites” within
Getting into the body somatically since unconscious negative emotions manifest as tension and keep us head-centric, dissociated, and create/attract negative thoughts, keeping you in a negative state of mind in a self-defeating loop
Limit on-screen time
Be discerning what media you consume
Surround yourself with uplifting music and beautiful art
Be in nature daily, walk on the earth barefoot
Read and study high-level spiritual teachings (Contemplate and meditate on what you read)
Have a spiritual practice, work with prayer
Read and study transpersonal psychology and the basics of human psychology to learn about yourself and heal yourself [Know Thyself!]
Engage in inner child healing (mother/father wound)
Get into the joy of the inner child and playful nature
Focus on your life’s purpose, find your bliss (Hero’s Journey)
Focus on productive, creative solutions
Develop healthy optimism and see the silver lining in challenging situations
Remember that all there is are lessons for your and everyone’s soul evolution
Create more than you consume
Don’t be attached to your views and opinions
– Let go of pride, develop humility (For example, instead of only pointing out what you think is “wrong” with the world, develop vulnerability and share your inner process (without falling into victim/blame). It helps to become more relatable and stay hum
Recognize that your mind will never understand or grasp the Ultimate Truth; Honor and embrace the mystery of Life
Recognize that whatever you heal within yourself has a more profound positive effect on the world than social media conspiracy activism
Lastly, don’t take yourself so seriously
For positive inspiration, listen to our podcast “How To Thrive In 2025: A PsychoSpiritual Guide.”
https://veilofreality.com/2024/12/29/how...45-part-1/
The Social Media Armchair Conspiracy Theorist
The rise of social media and information overload combined with the rising black-pill mindset over the past five years and the ever-diminishing attention span has given birth to a new breed of armchair conspiracy theorists. Here is my definition of the typical modus operandi of the social media armchair conspiracy theorist:
Making premature conclusions based on assumptions without concrete proof or just by repeating/reposting conspiracy memes other people post [without verifying for yourself first], kinda like the “truther” version of NPC. I’ve done that myself, too, at times, so I’m not taking myself out of the equation.
Here are two examples based on the recent fires in LA (Pacific Palisades):
There is a picture going around of a burned area in the Pacific Palisades with standing trees next to burned-down houses. Many truthers share that image as “proof” that DWEs (“direct energy weapons”) were in play, targeting the houses directly and avoiding the trees.
But that is not proof. It’s an assumption and a premature conclusion. For example, it is scientifically known that many trees remain unaffected in burned communities because they contain a lot of water and don’t burn down that easily. This is nothing new.
Also, in the US, especially in California, most houses are built entirely on wood, paper, and drywall, like a tinder box. It burns down to the ground within minutes. This is unlike in Europe, where most homes are built on concrete, stone, and brick.
When I pointed that out, people said: “But there is proof that DEWs exist!!”
Okay, that’s cool. But that’s a straw man argument since I never said DEWs don’t exist or denied their possible use. I have written about DEWs and geoengineering over the years. However, you can’t make an informed judgment from a picture alone or take it as “proof” that DEWs have been used in this case. It’s not proof. It’s an assumption.
Using arguments like “that doesn’t look natural”, “that can’t be natural,” or my “instincts”, “intuition,” and “feelings” tell me it was DEW are not proof either. They are just baseless opinions, which can be mistaken as “intuition” and “feelings,” most often infused with unconscious bias.
Ponting out that is also not gaslighting, which seems to be the new overused word by some truthers when you question their assumptions. They mistake this as the “truth,” as if their perceptions are entirely objective.
I have lived in this area for 16 years (in Topanga Canyon between Malibu and Palisades). While I can’t imagine going back anywhere in California (for personal, political, and economic reasons), I had a great time living in the beautiful Canyon and am grateful for this land.
We had wildfires almost yearly, especially with the strong Santa Ana winds during the dry season. It’s not abnormal. You don’t need a crystal ball to predict it. A wildfire came straight to my house once in 2015 (see video below), and I had to fight it off with a garden hose. It was so fast and hot that it gave me much respect for the force of a wildfire.
The firemen just arrived on time. Big helicopters and planes dumped water over my house and the canyon. I got soaked and screamed with joy! These guys are heroes.
https://veilofreality.com/wp-content/upl...p_WEB-.mp4
Other times, a wildfire approached my home. I had to evacuate several times while living in Topanga. I put all my necessary belongings into my car, each time uncertain if I would have a home to return to. I have been without power and internet for several days every year (also due to rain and mudslides).
I know a few people who lost everything in those fires. It comes with living “in paradise”—in nature, in the California sun and weather, and five minutes from the beach.
Now I see already armchair conspiracy theorists claiming that this fire is artificially initiated by “direct energy weapons” for “Agenda 2030”, smart cities, etc. On the other side of the coin are leftist environmentalists claiming it’s all due to “man-made climate change.”
No, not all weather anomalies or wildfires are caused by humans, either directly through some clandestine “weather manipulation” technology or indirectly through “man-made climate change.”
I’m not implying these technologies don’t exist, but sometimes, bigger forces of nature are at work (the same goes for hurricanes and earthquakes) that have no apparent “human cause” and are incomprehensible to the human monkey mind, which always looks for someone and something to blame.
There have always been fires, even before there were big cities or technology. Since the 1800s, hundreds of fires have occurred in that area. It’s part of the land’s history.
“The unique interplay of topography, fuel load, and wind has made the Santa Monica Mountains home to some of the most spectacular and horrific fires in the history of our nation. The Hume Fire of 1956, the Wright Fire of 1970, and the Piuma Fire of 1985 are the past names of the same “beast” that appeared on November 2, 1993.
There have been literally hundreds of fires in the Santa Monica’s throughout history, and many share similar routes to the ocean, through the same canyon corridors of the Santa Monica Mountains. Residents and fire fighters who experienced the Hume, the Wright, or the Piuma Fire claim that the speed and fury with which the Topanga Fire blew to the coast is unparalleled.” [Source]
The other armchair conspiracy theory is the cancellation of fire insurance before the fires, which some truthers see as a grand conspiracy that they knew the fire was coming.
Insurance companies are getting out of the game because it’s becoming increasingly net-loss. That’s a common-sense explanation. But that explanation doesn’t satisfy the armchair conspiracy theorist. Something more sinister must be going on! Here, we can see the negative bias—black-pill territory.
Does this mean negligence, arson, or other fishy activities made the fires worse or even initiated them? Of course, there were, but not all of them are grand conspiracies for smart cities. Does that mean there is no agenda? I didn’t say that either.
Sometimes, these fires are caused by human stupidity, like throwing a cigarette into a dry bush or making a campfire in the canyon. Sometimes, it’s arson by a deranged person. Sometimes, it’s just nature—lightning hitting a tree, and the wind does the rest.
The fire you see in the 2015 video near my house was started by a transformer that exploded on a power line in the canyon.
That’s where nuance comes in and not falling into black-and-white thinking. Sometimes, the best attitude is “I don’t know” instead of claiming to know exactly what is going on.
The Dark Half of the Truth and Divine Will
Things are way more complicated and beyond the mind to grasp, especially when you consider the unseen evolutionary forces, natural forces, and collective and personal karmic cycles in the context of the evolution of consciousness and Divine Will.
But resting in not knowing is extremely difficult for the armchair conspiracy theorist or anyone for that matter (I know it’s been for me), especially a black-piled one who immediately has a negative bias of needing to blame some boogeyman.
Attaching to a concrete idea of what “is going on” gives us psychological comfort to be “in the know” based on whoever the blame is projected on. It calms the ego in its illusion of being “in control,” when, in fact, no one is in control, not even the “evil-doers,” the globalists, the Illuminati, or whoever people think “controls the world.” Only God is “in control” beyond the mind’s comprehension.
Does that mean conspiracies, nefarious agendas, and evil don’t exist? Of course, they do. I’ve written about it for the past 25 years.
Does that mean since “God is in control,” that we just become passive and ignore evil? Not at all. That would be spiritual bypassing. God is not separate from you, nor will he save or do the work for you.
Welcome to the paradox of the dualistic mind in the play of creation.
I have written about this in more depth on my website over the years. I’ve also been going through this process as a dedicated “conspiracy theorist” since 1998, when I started questioning everything we’ve been told and taught.
Ironically, as it has become cool and more socially acceptable to be a “conspiracy theorist,” I can see (and have seen it in myself) the mind trap when getting stuck on that level of externalizing everything and how it hinders a true awakening. Balance is key—the balance between inner and outer work, never losing our inner compass and never forgetting what the journey is all about.
I’m a work in progress. I would never claim to be fully “awake” in the true meaning of the word beyond limiting informational “awareness” or to have “transcended duality.” Everything I write about is a mirror I put on myself.
I’ve been in black-pill territory many times. One thing I do know is that the inner work and facing yourself and the lies you tell yourself is far more difficult than externalizing the process and trying to expose “evil” and the lies “out there” (which is often a distraction and compensation for not facing one’s darkness within)
But the only way out is in and through where the Kingdom of God awaits, the true Self in its glory as pure expression for the Divine.
Once you dedicate yourself to the process, you will realize that your inner work truly fuels a collective awakening.
If we want to awaken and help the world awaken, we need to ensure our “mirror” is clean. In the words of Satprem:
“Night after night, in his sleep or with his eyes wide open, the seeker uncovers very strange worlds; One after another, he unearths all the birthplaces of human perversion, human wars, human concentration camps, where everything we live here is being prepared; he catches in their dens all the sordid forces that move the petty and cruel men.
The more Light he possesses, the more darkness he uncovers. Night after night, he tracks down the surreptitious rot that undermines Life, for how can anything change as long as that gangrene is there?
Now, the dark half of the truth has become illuminated. Every stumbling or error kindles a flame of pain and seems to produce a breach of light below.
Every weakness summons up a corresponding force, as if the energy of the fall were the very energy of the ascent; every imperfection is a step toward a greater fulfillment.
There are no sins, no errors, but only countless mishaps that compel us to attend to the full extent of our kingdom and to embrace everything in order to heal and fulfill everything.
Through a tiny crack in our armor, a love and compassion for the world have entered in, which none of the radiant purities can ever understand. Purity is impregnable, self-contained, sealed off like a fortress; some fissure is needed for the Truth to come in!
Furthermore, the seeker no longer thinks in terms of good and evil, but in terms of exact and inexact. When a sailor needs to take his ship’s bearing, he does not use his love of the sea to do so, but a sextant, and he makes quite sure that the mirror is clean.
If our mirror is not clean, we can never see the reality of things or people, because everywhere we will meet only the reflection of our own desires or fears, the echo of our own turmoil, not only in this world but in all the other worlds, in waking, in sleep, and in death.
In order to see, we need to stop being in the center of the picture. The seeker will therefore need to discriminate between those elements that blur his vision and those that clarify it; such will be the essence of his “morality.”
There is a truth of Love behind evil. The nearer one draws to the infernal circles, the more one uncovers the great need in the depths of Evil and begins to understand that nothing can be healed without a corresponding intensity.
A flame is kindled within, more and more powerful and warm beneath the suffocating pressure – there is just Her, nothing but Her – as if Love alone could confront the Night and persuade it of its luminous half.
As if all that Shadow had been necessary so that Love might be born. In truth, the heart of every shadow, of every evil harbors the inverse mystery.
And as each of us bears or harbors a special difficulty, at once the contradiction and the sign of our destiny, it may be that, similarly, the immense “faults” of the earth – her sins and sufferings and the thousand gaping wounds of a pauper – are the very sign of her destiny, and that someday she will incarnate perfect Love and Joy because she will have suffered all and understood all.
As we progress, the superconscious line recedes upward and the subconscious line downward.
Everything widens, everything is illuminated, but everything also closes in and converges around a sharp point of darkness, increasingly acute, crucial and pressing, as if we had turned for years and years – for lifetimes – around the same Problem without ever having truly touched it.
Then, suddenly, it is right there, at the bottom of the hole, wriggling beneath the Light – all the evil of the world within one point.
The time of the Secret is drawing near. For the law of descent is not a law of oppression, sin, or fall, any more than it is a law of rentance or heavenward escape, but truly a Golden Law, an unfathomable Premeditation that draws us simultaneously upward and downward into the depths of the subconscient and inconscient, to that central point,that knot of life and death, shadow and light, where the Secret awaits us. The nearer we draw to the Summit, the more we touch the Depths.”
– Satprem, The Adventure of Consciousness (read more HERE.)
https://veilofreality.com/the-dark-half-of-the-truth/
https://veilofreality.com/2025/01/15/the...res-in-la/
By Bernhard Guenther, January 16, 2025
Laura and I have discussed the rising sentiment of being “black-pilled” in our podcasts “How Your Inner Work Fuels A Collective Awakening” (2024) and “The Blackpilled Matrix Mind Trap and the Antidote” (2023).
https://media.blubrry.com/thecosmicmatri...M112_1.mp3
Quote:Bernhard and Laura discuss the recent rise of the so-called “black-pilled” aspect of the “truther community” – people are overly focused on doom & gloom and negativity, seeing psy-ops and controlled ops everywhere. They look at it from trauma and hyperdimensional occult perspective and how the awakening impulse can get hijacked by occult forces working through our minds.
They share their views on the film “Sound of Freedom,” the topic of pedophilia, parenting, child trafficking, and the political polarization which will increase in 2024 as Pluto stations in Aquarius. Furthermore, they discuss the process of psychological splitting and fragmentation, archetypal symbols, the antidote, and much more.
Related article: Controlled Opposition and the Truth Movement
Show Notes Part 1:
What does it mean to be black-pilled?
We’re dealing with a lot of collective trauma
The “conspiracy bypass” as a trauma response
Getting caught in the second matrix
The importance of self-awareness
The relational wound
Controlled op, psy-ops, and shills
Our view about the film “Sound of Freedom”
The disagreements within the “truth movement” about the film
The dark side of Pluto in Aquarius
An archetypal symbol reaching mass consciousness from a Jungian perspective
It starts at home in the family
Children, pedophilia, and social media
The importance of conscious parenting and secure attachment
To process of psychological splitting at the core of the black-pilled truther
Bernhard’s experience being called a shill, controlled op, etc.
The cure to psychological splitting
The antidote to becoming black-pilled
In Part 2 (only for members), we go deeper into:
How the awakening impulse can get hijacked by occult forces working through our minds
The real psy-op is feeding negativity and doom & gloom
Self-fulfilling prophecy, reality creation, and frequency wars
The growing extreme polarization between the Left and Right (will intensify in 2024)
Projective Identification and Divide & Conquer
The hyperdimensional matrix: occult forces feed off extreme polarization based on negative emotions and the lower self
Thought projections become entities and elementals that come back around
Extremism will rise on both sides (Pluto in Aquarius theme)
Sub-cultures (including the truth movement) easily turn cultish due to unconscious trauma
Mass splitting, mass fragmentation, and mass insanity on the rise
The inner psycho-spiritual work is more important than ever, as things will intensity in 2024
Evolutionary stages and subdivisions: the main difference between the consensus state and the individuated state
Many people in the truth movement are still in the consensus state
Signs when the individuation is not solid yet
How the hyperdimensional matrix and occult forces target the truth seeker
What is the goal of truth-seeking?
Find a way your uniqueness can contribute to positive, creative change
The necessity to break open the heart again and again
I’ve also discussed this negative conspiracy mindset with David Whitehead twice over the past two years: “The Black-Pilled Delusion—Truth Warrior Podcast” and “Cultists In The Truth/Freedom Movement.”
https://media.blubrry.com/thecosmicmatri...M144_1.mp3
Quote:There is a common misconception that engaging in inner work is just hiding out in a cave or at home and avoiding the world. Many people equate inner work with non-action and not standing up against evil; inner work is a passive state, and evil and darkness will succeed if we don’t do something.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In this episode, we explore the essential foundation of what inner work entails, using both psychological and spiritual work, how facing your shadow, wounding, healing your trauma, inner child, and inner division will positively affect the world and your personal life.
We go over the different levels of consciousness, how they affect the world, and why people at higher integrated levels of consciousness have significantly more power and positive effects in the world than people at lower states of consciousness stuck in negativity and blame/victim consciousness.
We examine the traps of inner work related to spiritual bypassing, why no step can be skipped, the many misconceptions about inner work, and how to avoid the common pitfalls.
In the second hour, we clarify the much-discussed issue of being “black-pilled,” what it is and is not, and how one’s level of consciousness directly affects how one sees the world and how it affects one’s life.
We also discuss what keeps most people from engaging in deeper inner work and why some people are not ready for it in accordance with their soul journey and karmic lessons, how inner work leads you to find your bliss in life, and personal myth which in return also affects the world positively by being your true Self.
Furthermore, we will provide concrete and practical suggestions that you can apply to your life to help you through this process.
Show Notes Part 1:
What do we mean by inner work?
The foundational principles of inner work
What kind of inner work are we talking about?
Common misconceptions about inner work and shadow work
How inner work affects your personal life positively
How your inner work affects the world positively
Aspects of negativity
The majority of humans calibrate at a negative level of consciousness
How higher levels of consciousness counterbalance the majority of negativity and darkness in the world
We change the world not by what we say, have, or do but as a consequence of what we have become (level of soul embodiment)
Why our own inner evolution serves all of mankind
How negative states of consciousness contribute to the negativity and evil in the world, making it grow stronger
How to raise your frequency and enter higher levels of consciousness
How your inner work expands to alleviate the suffering of others and the darkness in the world
The inner work is far more challenging than the ego’s temptation to externalize everything
In Part 2 (only for members), we go deeper into:
Being “black-pilled,” what it is and is not (since there are many misconceptions)
How not to get black-pilled and take the “white pill”
How your level of consciousness directly relates to how you see the world and how it affects your life
Energy fields based on our level of consciousness are portals out of which we see the world
The lower energy fields of “Me against the world,” blame/victim consciousness, life-denying, negativity
The higher energy fields of harmony with the world, empowered, life-affirming, positivity
Whatever happens in your life, you will see any event through the perception based on your level of consciousness
What keeps most people from engaging in deeper inner work
Any “I can’t” is a result of being stuck in a lower state of consciousness
Some resistance can be interferences and attacks of entities and occult hostile forces
Self-diminishing excuses/thoughts, self-pity, and the victim/blame trap
Key attributes to engage in inner work
Why some people are not ready for inner work
The importance of finding your personal myth and following your bliss
In light of current and recent events, I’ve observed that many more people in the so-called “truth movement” fall prey to being black-pilled.
On the psychological level, black-pilling is an (unconscious) trauma response and also a symptom of depression and suppressed emotional pain.
It’s also PTSD from the last five years, resulting in over-paranoia and seeing psy-ops everywhere. I have compassion for that because it is a projection of their suffering. I can see myself in them, too, since I had my moments of black-pilledness.
However, so much negativity [also based on black-and-white thinking and psychological splitting (over-simplified ideas of “good” and “evil” projected externally)] sucks one’s soul over time, and one becomes a feeding ground for entities that install these paranoid thought forms in a constant feedback loop, looking for a boogeyman to blame.
Disembodied and dissociated, they will only see what their level of consciousness can see: darkness and negativity in blame/victim consciousness and externalizing evil without ever sincerely facing their own darkness within.
The wetiko-infused psyche and shadow of the black-pilled mind will also pull more of the same out of the “magician’s hat” for them to justify their negative projections. As a result, they give their creative power and energy away and feed what they fear. Like Don Quixote chasing illusory windmills, he mistook for the “enemy.”
In other words, they will see precisely only what they want to see, manifested through egregore hive mind thought-form entities (the “truther” version of NPCs.) It’s an endless loop stuck at a lower level of consciousness
In a tragic, ironic, metaphysical twist, they create the thing they claim to expose and fight against and imprison themselves out of their own minds.
As Don Juan Matus said, in “The Active Side of Infinity:”
“Through the mind, the predators (occult hostile forces) inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them.”
Living in that externalized state – especially constantly glued to the internet in a disembodied state – they are more vulnerable to manipulation.
At the same time, they believe [lie to themselves] that they are “awake”, “free”, and “sovereign.” – a devastating form of self-delusion, more damaging [to the soul development] than people who are asleep and don’t claim to be awake.
Once you realize, on an embodied level, that everything you see and experience and everyone else sees/ experiences is a projection based on your/their level of consciousness, the “game” changes. This realization is the first step to true empowerment and freedom for yourself and humanity.
Listen to these two podcasts for context and how your level of consciousness affects the world and your perceptions:
How Your Inner Work Fuels A Collective Awakening
https://veilofreality.com/2024/12/16/how...44-part-1/
How to Raise Your Level Of Consciousness
https://veilofreality.com/2024/09/11/how...38-part-1/
Being Black-Pilled
What it is not:
Questioning official narratives
Pointing out corruption and lies
Considering that certain narratives or events are negative psy-ops or staged events for a nefarious agenda
Having disagreements
What it is:
Overly negatively oriented: pessimistic, angry, cynical, sarcastic, hopeless, depressed, nihilistic (can also be unconscious)
Lack of healthy optimism and positivity
Seeing almost every event as a negative psyop and conspiracy
Believing that evil/darkness will win (listen to this podcast to understand what “evil” is and why it can’t exist as an absolute, separate from “God”)
Given way to much power to the boogeyman and the “controllers” (resulting in unconscious disempowerment)
Seeing every weather anomaly and disaster (wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes) as “man-made geoengineering”
Black-and-white thinking and psychological splitting (Inability for nuance, seeing certain people and events only as all bad/evil)
Predominantly projecting doom and gloom and negativity into the future (fear porn)
– Being predominantly disembodied, dissociated, and stuck in the head, resulting in anxiety that becomes a normalized state without noticing it [due to lack of somatic self-awareness]
Getting stuck in victim/blame consciousness [below 200, taking David Hawkins’ map of consciousness as a reference.]
Being in a negative, depressed state of mind because of information overload
Glued to the internet/social media and overly focused on conspiracies as if “exposing” them via posting in social media will change/save the world
Calling people prematurely shills, controlled-op, or agents just because you disagree with them, or based on psychological splitting, shadow projection, or the “guilt by association” fallacy
https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-c...sociation/
Factors that contribute to being “black-pilled”:
Lack of consistent psycho-spiritual self-work
Having no psychological self-awareness (for example, how your unconscious shadow and projections can pollute your views and perceptions)
Over-focused on 3D conspiracies, having no awareness of the hyperdimensional matrix and how non-physical occult forces and wetiko manipulate them through their minds with thought injections, tagging into their blind spots, shadow, and dis-embodied state of being – the spiritual war on unseen levels
Having no “spiritual vision” in the context of the evolution of consciousness, karmic cycles, and the bigger picture of the interplay of dark and light in the duality of the creation over lifetimes but seeing everything in superficial black-and-white linear 3D tunnel vision
Believing the matrix is only something or someone “out there” – a particular group, organization, or secret society
Missing the spiritual teaching function of “evil”
Externalizing everything and seeing others and the outside world as “separate”
Externalizing all evil as they feed the hyperdimensional divide-and-conquer agenda
Lack and reluctance to face the darkness and evil within oneself
How not to get black-pilled:
Engaging in shadow work and becoming aware of your projections and triggers (learn and study what shadow work is and how to do it)
https://veilofreality.com/2024/07/19/fac...adow-work/
Facing your shadow within instead of only externalizing all evil
Processing any negative emotions without projecting them on others, escaping, or suppressing them
Engage in the practice of “Holding the Tension of Opposites” within
Getting into the body somatically since unconscious negative emotions manifest as tension and keep us head-centric, dissociated, and create/attract negative thoughts, keeping you in a negative state of mind in a self-defeating loop
Limit on-screen time
Be discerning what media you consume
Surround yourself with uplifting music and beautiful art
Be in nature daily, walk on the earth barefoot
Read and study high-level spiritual teachings (Contemplate and meditate on what you read)
Have a spiritual practice, work with prayer
Read and study transpersonal psychology and the basics of human psychology to learn about yourself and heal yourself [Know Thyself!]
Engage in inner child healing (mother/father wound)
Get into the joy of the inner child and playful nature
Focus on your life’s purpose, find your bliss (Hero’s Journey)
Focus on productive, creative solutions
Develop healthy optimism and see the silver lining in challenging situations
Remember that all there is are lessons for your and everyone’s soul evolution
Create more than you consume
Don’t be attached to your views and opinions
– Let go of pride, develop humility (For example, instead of only pointing out what you think is “wrong” with the world, develop vulnerability and share your inner process (without falling into victim/blame). It helps to become more relatable and stay hum
Recognize that your mind will never understand or grasp the Ultimate Truth; Honor and embrace the mystery of Life
Recognize that whatever you heal within yourself has a more profound positive effect on the world than social media conspiracy activism
Lastly, don’t take yourself so seriously
For positive inspiration, listen to our podcast “How To Thrive In 2025: A PsychoSpiritual Guide.”
https://veilofreality.com/2024/12/29/how...45-part-1/
The Social Media Armchair Conspiracy Theorist
The rise of social media and information overload combined with the rising black-pill mindset over the past five years and the ever-diminishing attention span has given birth to a new breed of armchair conspiracy theorists. Here is my definition of the typical modus operandi of the social media armchair conspiracy theorist:
Making premature conclusions based on assumptions without concrete proof or just by repeating/reposting conspiracy memes other people post [without verifying for yourself first], kinda like the “truther” version of NPC. I’ve done that myself, too, at times, so I’m not taking myself out of the equation.
Here are two examples based on the recent fires in LA (Pacific Palisades):
There is a picture going around of a burned area in the Pacific Palisades with standing trees next to burned-down houses. Many truthers share that image as “proof” that DWEs (“direct energy weapons”) were in play, targeting the houses directly and avoiding the trees.
But that is not proof. It’s an assumption and a premature conclusion. For example, it is scientifically known that many trees remain unaffected in burned communities because they contain a lot of water and don’t burn down that easily. This is nothing new.
Also, in the US, especially in California, most houses are built entirely on wood, paper, and drywall, like a tinder box. It burns down to the ground within minutes. This is unlike in Europe, where most homes are built on concrete, stone, and brick.
When I pointed that out, people said: “But there is proof that DEWs exist!!”
Okay, that’s cool. But that’s a straw man argument since I never said DEWs don’t exist or denied their possible use. I have written about DEWs and geoengineering over the years. However, you can’t make an informed judgment from a picture alone or take it as “proof” that DEWs have been used in this case. It’s not proof. It’s an assumption.
Using arguments like “that doesn’t look natural”, “that can’t be natural,” or my “instincts”, “intuition,” and “feelings” tell me it was DEW are not proof either. They are just baseless opinions, which can be mistaken as “intuition” and “feelings,” most often infused with unconscious bias.
Ponting out that is also not gaslighting, which seems to be the new overused word by some truthers when you question their assumptions. They mistake this as the “truth,” as if their perceptions are entirely objective.
I have lived in this area for 16 years (in Topanga Canyon between Malibu and Palisades). While I can’t imagine going back anywhere in California (for personal, political, and economic reasons), I had a great time living in the beautiful Canyon and am grateful for this land.
We had wildfires almost yearly, especially with the strong Santa Ana winds during the dry season. It’s not abnormal. You don’t need a crystal ball to predict it. A wildfire came straight to my house once in 2015 (see video below), and I had to fight it off with a garden hose. It was so fast and hot that it gave me much respect for the force of a wildfire.
The firemen just arrived on time. Big helicopters and planes dumped water over my house and the canyon. I got soaked and screamed with joy! These guys are heroes.
https://veilofreality.com/wp-content/upl...p_WEB-.mp4
Other times, a wildfire approached my home. I had to evacuate several times while living in Topanga. I put all my necessary belongings into my car, each time uncertain if I would have a home to return to. I have been without power and internet for several days every year (also due to rain and mudslides).
I know a few people who lost everything in those fires. It comes with living “in paradise”—in nature, in the California sun and weather, and five minutes from the beach.
Now I see already armchair conspiracy theorists claiming that this fire is artificially initiated by “direct energy weapons” for “Agenda 2030”, smart cities, etc. On the other side of the coin are leftist environmentalists claiming it’s all due to “man-made climate change.”
No, not all weather anomalies or wildfires are caused by humans, either directly through some clandestine “weather manipulation” technology or indirectly through “man-made climate change.”
I’m not implying these technologies don’t exist, but sometimes, bigger forces of nature are at work (the same goes for hurricanes and earthquakes) that have no apparent “human cause” and are incomprehensible to the human monkey mind, which always looks for someone and something to blame.
There have always been fires, even before there were big cities or technology. Since the 1800s, hundreds of fires have occurred in that area. It’s part of the land’s history.
“The unique interplay of topography, fuel load, and wind has made the Santa Monica Mountains home to some of the most spectacular and horrific fires in the history of our nation. The Hume Fire of 1956, the Wright Fire of 1970, and the Piuma Fire of 1985 are the past names of the same “beast” that appeared on November 2, 1993.
There have been literally hundreds of fires in the Santa Monica’s throughout history, and many share similar routes to the ocean, through the same canyon corridors of the Santa Monica Mountains. Residents and fire fighters who experienced the Hume, the Wright, or the Piuma Fire claim that the speed and fury with which the Topanga Fire blew to the coast is unparalleled.” [Source]
The other armchair conspiracy theory is the cancellation of fire insurance before the fires, which some truthers see as a grand conspiracy that they knew the fire was coming.
Insurance companies are getting out of the game because it’s becoming increasingly net-loss. That’s a common-sense explanation. But that explanation doesn’t satisfy the armchair conspiracy theorist. Something more sinister must be going on! Here, we can see the negative bias—black-pill territory.
Does this mean negligence, arson, or other fishy activities made the fires worse or even initiated them? Of course, there were, but not all of them are grand conspiracies for smart cities. Does that mean there is no agenda? I didn’t say that either.
Sometimes, these fires are caused by human stupidity, like throwing a cigarette into a dry bush or making a campfire in the canyon. Sometimes, it’s arson by a deranged person. Sometimes, it’s just nature—lightning hitting a tree, and the wind does the rest.
The fire you see in the 2015 video near my house was started by a transformer that exploded on a power line in the canyon.
That’s where nuance comes in and not falling into black-and-white thinking. Sometimes, the best attitude is “I don’t know” instead of claiming to know exactly what is going on.
The Dark Half of the Truth and Divine Will
Things are way more complicated and beyond the mind to grasp, especially when you consider the unseen evolutionary forces, natural forces, and collective and personal karmic cycles in the context of the evolution of consciousness and Divine Will.
But resting in not knowing is extremely difficult for the armchair conspiracy theorist or anyone for that matter (I know it’s been for me), especially a black-piled one who immediately has a negative bias of needing to blame some boogeyman.
Attaching to a concrete idea of what “is going on” gives us psychological comfort to be “in the know” based on whoever the blame is projected on. It calms the ego in its illusion of being “in control,” when, in fact, no one is in control, not even the “evil-doers,” the globalists, the Illuminati, or whoever people think “controls the world.” Only God is “in control” beyond the mind’s comprehension.
Does that mean conspiracies, nefarious agendas, and evil don’t exist? Of course, they do. I’ve written about it for the past 25 years.
Does that mean since “God is in control,” that we just become passive and ignore evil? Not at all. That would be spiritual bypassing. God is not separate from you, nor will he save or do the work for you.
Welcome to the paradox of the dualistic mind in the play of creation.
I have written about this in more depth on my website over the years. I’ve also been going through this process as a dedicated “conspiracy theorist” since 1998, when I started questioning everything we’ve been told and taught.
Ironically, as it has become cool and more socially acceptable to be a “conspiracy theorist,” I can see (and have seen it in myself) the mind trap when getting stuck on that level of externalizing everything and how it hinders a true awakening. Balance is key—the balance between inner and outer work, never losing our inner compass and never forgetting what the journey is all about.
I’m a work in progress. I would never claim to be fully “awake” in the true meaning of the word beyond limiting informational “awareness” or to have “transcended duality.” Everything I write about is a mirror I put on myself.
I’ve been in black-pill territory many times. One thing I do know is that the inner work and facing yourself and the lies you tell yourself is far more difficult than externalizing the process and trying to expose “evil” and the lies “out there” (which is often a distraction and compensation for not facing one’s darkness within)
But the only way out is in and through where the Kingdom of God awaits, the true Self in its glory as pure expression for the Divine.
Once you dedicate yourself to the process, you will realize that your inner work truly fuels a collective awakening.
If we want to awaken and help the world awaken, we need to ensure our “mirror” is clean. In the words of Satprem:
“Night after night, in his sleep or with his eyes wide open, the seeker uncovers very strange worlds; One after another, he unearths all the birthplaces of human perversion, human wars, human concentration camps, where everything we live here is being prepared; he catches in their dens all the sordid forces that move the petty and cruel men.
The more Light he possesses, the more darkness he uncovers. Night after night, he tracks down the surreptitious rot that undermines Life, for how can anything change as long as that gangrene is there?
Now, the dark half of the truth has become illuminated. Every stumbling or error kindles a flame of pain and seems to produce a breach of light below.
Every weakness summons up a corresponding force, as if the energy of the fall were the very energy of the ascent; every imperfection is a step toward a greater fulfillment.
There are no sins, no errors, but only countless mishaps that compel us to attend to the full extent of our kingdom and to embrace everything in order to heal and fulfill everything.
Through a tiny crack in our armor, a love and compassion for the world have entered in, which none of the radiant purities can ever understand. Purity is impregnable, self-contained, sealed off like a fortress; some fissure is needed for the Truth to come in!
Furthermore, the seeker no longer thinks in terms of good and evil, but in terms of exact and inexact. When a sailor needs to take his ship’s bearing, he does not use his love of the sea to do so, but a sextant, and he makes quite sure that the mirror is clean.
If our mirror is not clean, we can never see the reality of things or people, because everywhere we will meet only the reflection of our own desires or fears, the echo of our own turmoil, not only in this world but in all the other worlds, in waking, in sleep, and in death.
In order to see, we need to stop being in the center of the picture. The seeker will therefore need to discriminate between those elements that blur his vision and those that clarify it; such will be the essence of his “morality.”
There is a truth of Love behind evil. The nearer one draws to the infernal circles, the more one uncovers the great need in the depths of Evil and begins to understand that nothing can be healed without a corresponding intensity.
A flame is kindled within, more and more powerful and warm beneath the suffocating pressure – there is just Her, nothing but Her – as if Love alone could confront the Night and persuade it of its luminous half.
As if all that Shadow had been necessary so that Love might be born. In truth, the heart of every shadow, of every evil harbors the inverse mystery.
And as each of us bears or harbors a special difficulty, at once the contradiction and the sign of our destiny, it may be that, similarly, the immense “faults” of the earth – her sins and sufferings and the thousand gaping wounds of a pauper – are the very sign of her destiny, and that someday she will incarnate perfect Love and Joy because she will have suffered all and understood all.
As we progress, the superconscious line recedes upward and the subconscious line downward.
Everything widens, everything is illuminated, but everything also closes in and converges around a sharp point of darkness, increasingly acute, crucial and pressing, as if we had turned for years and years – for lifetimes – around the same Problem without ever having truly touched it.
Then, suddenly, it is right there, at the bottom of the hole, wriggling beneath the Light – all the evil of the world within one point.
The time of the Secret is drawing near. For the law of descent is not a law of oppression, sin, or fall, any more than it is a law of rentance or heavenward escape, but truly a Golden Law, an unfathomable Premeditation that draws us simultaneously upward and downward into the depths of the subconscient and inconscient, to that central point,that knot of life and death, shadow and light, where the Secret awaits us. The nearer we draw to the Summit, the more we touch the Depths.”
– Satprem, The Adventure of Consciousness (read more HERE.)
https://veilofreality.com/the-dark-half-of-the-truth/
https://veilofreality.com/2025/01/15/the...res-in-la/