Whenever someone presents a packsged worldview that includes a lot of new (to some) information our first impulse might be to promote that person. He tells tales about stuff that can’t be documented. He doesn’t offer the caveat that this is just his opinion or seems to be true based on circumstantial evidence. This is more than just a courtesy, by the way–it’s an accountability issue.
If someone has rather done a reasonable amount of reading and watching on his own, though, one is less inclined to fall in line with a charismatic personality. I think this sort of discernment and accountability is one of humanity’s biggest challenges, right now.
The Icke phenomenon is a case in point. A lot of people who carried his banner ten years ago are feeling a little sheepish by now, having discovered that all of the usable information he presented was already available from other published sources. It’s kind of easy to get caught up in someone’s showmanship.
A good test to see whether we’ve been sucked into personality worship is to take note if we’re using that personality as a standard for our own discernment.
Another drawback of getting in line behind a personality is that we will tend to distrust our own intuitive promptings after that.
Whenever I start hearing a name being promoted a lot, unless that person has done something remarkably new, like introduce a free energy engine or bring the dead back to life, I automatically wonder who’s doing the promoting, and why and this might have nothing to do with whether or not that person is genuine. I see this sort of promotion through personal email lists every day, exactly the same way that disinformation is promoted most effectively.
The periodic Jew-bashing campaigns are a case in point–those are not spontaneous; they’re probably financed and organized, probably by the Zionists [Image Can Not Be Found] but it’s sent to a few people who have huge personal mailing lists and those people dutifully pass it along, probably assuming that it’s ‘important new information.’ There’s a LOT of that going on (the Jew-bashing is one of many popular, enraging subjects) but caveat emptor, because if one is willing to use his discernment he can just discard this junk when it shows up. I often ‘reply to all’ with some balanced comments and that’s gotten me removed from a whole lot of people’s lists. Thinking rationally is uncomfortable for people who are caught up in emotions.
A couple of years after Rense failed to stop this unorganized movement by condemning our work on his syndicated radio show for a couple of months, he started requiring people to pay for participation on his website, if memory serves. So did Stewart Swerdlow. I think that was done to stem the tide of departing credibility in both cases.
Drunvalo was the guy who first published Flower of Life data, which some of us now use productively, but a lot of people who fell in line with him now regret it. I think the masons had kept that FOL secret, before, and needed an ‘infusion’ just to survive as an organization so they let it out in a controlled way. I never found the fellow actually applying this information toward a productive end but Cesco and Kelly sure have done that. We did start seeing younger masons after the young, charismatic official gurus, including that one, got busy in the 90s. Before that, the masons were all retired WWII guys with yellow teeth, who talked too loud and wore funny hats. These younger ones look a little scary to me [Image Can Not Be Found]
The nicest compliment I get from readers is that EW is a rarity: someplace for them to go for empowering information from a lot of regular folks. I think real stuff will only ever appeal to a small percentage of people but these are the ones who improve the world, after all, so relative obscurity is actually a blessing.
Orgonite is spreading all over the world, no matter what we do or don’t. I learned, last week, that there are a a lot of orgonite manufacturers in Greece and they’re quite competitive with each other. Someone in Greece told me that. How would we know, otherwise? Most Greeks don’t use English, nor even the Roman alphabet [Image Can Not Be Found]
I doubt they know or care about ‘Croft’ and that’s in order. Genuinely empowering information almost always sneaks in through the back door; it’s hardly ever popularly promoted. I figure that if we can keep EW clean and viable we’ll at least get footnotes someday and Carol and I will always be content to have our little share of this dynamic market.
I think the MMS thing is another example of this kind of promotion and it’s apparently run its course: almost two years of very aggressive, seemingly grassroot dissemination (as is so often done with charismatic personalities) but nobody I know has yet heard of one personal account of a MMS cure or conclusive benefit and I’m hearing of MMS less and less. That’s an example, I think, of compelling popularity without substance.
Fulford needs to earn his credibility, just like the rest of us Making pronouncements might have its uses but sooner or later, like with Icke these days, the piper will need to be paid.
~Don
