I'm beginning to think the Seung Cho "conspiracy theories" are not nearly weird enough. If there is an occult component to the massacre, which seems likely from his incredible killed-to-wounded ratio, then the powers behind it don't care where his sister works, and they don't need shadowy meetings in the alphabet agencies. All they need is to watch and wait for someone to get in the proper mental state to serve as their host, or "agent." A given operation might have many agents on many levels with many motives, with a control structure that does not exist in the physical world, and uses mechanisms that we would not recognize as "mechanisms."

So instead of saying, "This killer was a Manchurian candidate trained by the CIA, and this one was demonically possessed, and this one was acting on his own," I suggest that all murderous humans and human institutions in history and prehistory have been part of the same pattern, or movement, or being. A half million year old skull split by an axe had the same killer as the victims of Jack the Ripper and the Nagasaki bombing. This being's intelligence exists on levels we do not yet understand, and it perpetuates itself through abuse, trauma, and domination, all of which consume and move through humans the way a fire moves through a forest.

May 9. Back to the fringe! A couple weeks ago, after the Virginia Tech shootings, I made the point that if all these shooters are mind controlled assassins, it has "shocking metaphysical implications". My point was, either some shooters are acting on their own, or humans are so innately good that they can't do mass murder without overwhelming focused manipulation. But now I'm seeing the outlines of a third way. Patricia sends this article, The Making of Child Assassins, which pulls together some fascinating information about the mental states and histories of mass shooters, and then almost apologizes for the picture that emerges: occult possession.

"Occult" is a word we use to point at something that we cannot understand with our present way of thinking. One tool that can help us understand it is a recent film called The Matrix, and a better but less known tool is an old book called Flatland, specifically the parts about what a three dimensional creature looks like from a two dimensional world. From Flatland on Wikipedia:
...the three-dimensional Sphere has the ability to stand inches away from a Flatlander and observe them without being seen, can remove Flatland objects from closed containers and teleport them via the third dimension without traversing the space in between, and is capable of seeing and touching the inside and outside of everything in the two dimensional universe.
Now imagine if extra-dimensional beings can do this not only with physical objects, but with consciousness. Suppose they've been doing it for all of history. Suppose what we think of as "you" and "me" are just three-dimensional cross-sections of higher dimensional beings whose existence we can barely imagine.

I'm beginning to think the Seung Cho "conspiracy theories" are not nearly weird enough. If there is an occult component to the massacre, which seems likely from his incredible killed-to-wounded ratio, then the powers behind it don't care where his sister works, and they don't need shadowy meetings in the alphabet agencies. All they need is to watch and wait for someone to get in the proper mental state to serve as their host, or "agent." A given operation might have many agents on many levels with many motives, with a control structure that does not exist in the physical world, and uses mechanisms that we would not recognize as "mechanisms."

So instead of saying, "This killer was a Manchurian candidate trained by the CIA, and this one was demonically possessed, and this one was acting on his own," I suggest that all murderous humans and human institutions in history and prehistory have been part of the same pattern, or movement, or being. A half million year old skull split by an axe had the same killer as the victims of Jack the Ripper and the Nagasaki bombing. This being's intelligence exists on levels we do not yet understand, and it perpetuates itself through abuse, trauma, and domination, all of which consume and move through humans the way a fire moves through a forest. Sometimes the fire is obvious, like in present-day Iraq, and sometimes it smolders underground, like in early 20th century Germany or late 20th century America. Someone pointed out the other day that all the Republican presidential candidates look like they're suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

I also think there are good meta-beings, and that the reason there is still so much good in the world is not that the evil meta-beings are playing with us before they kill us, but that the good meta-beings are stronger and have deeper roots. I expect the fire to flare up, to threaten many of us, and then to die down for a long time.