Category: Paranormal

The Evil Avatar of Bishop at the National Cathedral: Fighting back and taking our country away from them

When Bishop Marianan Edgar Budde from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington lectured Trump about progressive causes during the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral, the only explanation for it was that a vast evil was at work and revealing itself through its earthly avatars.  For which people like her are.  This evil knows that people no longer respect it or are willing to give it a seat at the table in America and that it is losing power.  And it was upset about it.  It reminded me of what happened to Mike Pence at the Broadway play Hamilton after the 2016 election, where the cast there felt they had a right to lecture the incoming Trump administration to keep itself in the dirt and not to get any funny ideas about elevating humanity to any assumption of greatness, and otherwise to scare people away from following God’s commandments to a better life.  Mike Pence himself has shown a tendency to be one of these avatars of evil and it’s always the same demonic voice that pops up in different people.  Evil is not the same entity, but it spawns from the same type of voice that has always loomed in the background.  Only this time, there was a kind of Wicked Witch of the North sort of panic in it, and it came out that day in front of the nice and wonderful Trump family sitting there to have a national prayer before the Inauguration Day ceremonies.  Yes, Melania’s big hat that day was appropriate for the evil we are all fighting, but now, instead of hiding in the background, it shows itself with a sort of desperation we knew was always there.  It was utterly inappropriate but not unexpected.

We didn’t see the clips until later, the next couple of days after the National Prayer, and Trump had to call her what she was and dismiss her radicalism essentially, but I kept thinking of my favorite Akira Kurosawa movie, Dreams when thinking about that day.  It is something I’ve mentioned to my audience before, and I talk about it a lot when appropriate, but there is a fantastic scene in that movie that Japanese people seem to understand better than almost any culture in the world, and that is the nature of evil and how to manage it.  Three mountain climbers are lost during a snowstorm, and they can’t find their camp, and they are dying.  An angel comes to whisper in their ears to let go of this life and to join her in the next.  She is very beautiful and convincing, and to escape the pain of the storm, the leader of the group is tempted to follow her to death.  But while she gently nudges him, he remembers who he is and decides to fight back, so he begins to resist.  The angel starts to panic because she intends to take him away into the realm of death.  After several minutes of this struggle, the demon gives up, and its face reveals what it always was: the face of a skull, not a beautiful woman; it evaporates into the storm, and shortly, the skies clear, and it is revealed to the three dying climbers that they had found their camp.  It was always there, but evil kept them from seeing it.  It’s an excellent scene from a fantastic movie by an outstanding film director.  And it applied to that Bishop that day who thought she had a right and obligation to lecture Trump on how he needed to run his administration. 

Evil has been working through DEI and many other left-leaning practices to deplete our culture and send us all back into the realm of Hell, where they rule through broken people and low ambition.  When we notice in the Bible that the Hebrews have many rules against a dirty life, it is essentially to push back against this desecration of human achievement, and the cheerleaders are always these weak people who seem to have lost their minds because, in truth, they are being controlled by a vast evil that uses them for their magical practices.  In many ways, our country turned away from that evil by electing Trump, and we decided to push back against these evil creatures, one of which showed itself as a Bishop in a Church that the radical left tried to burn down just four years ago.  This is how people like this Bishop even get into those jobs to begin with, as the people who run the church feel they need to appease evil by giving them one of their own so that the vast evil that is always lurking in the shadows won’t try to destroy them again.  Appeasement is the game; we have been playing it as a country for far too long.  We are pushing back against their influence, and they aren’t happy about it.  They hide their intentions behind good causes, just as this bishop was hiding within the safety of the Church.  So, how many of these other evil creatures have been hiding behind DEI policies that mean to kill us all and convince us to give up a good life and follow manipulative demons into the world of death and destruction? 

Trump was right to demand an apology and not to accept her nonsense just because she was evil hiding behind the role of a church bishop.  Like those mountain climbers in that Akira Kurasawa story, Trump was pushing back at evil, representing us so that we could drive many of these evil characters out of the White House and our government in general.  To Make America Great Again means we must embrace the concept of greatness and not lower ourselves to assumptions of guilt and futility.  We are not going to build our society around the seductions of evil, to take advantage of our compassion for those less fortunate, and to be tricked into building our entire culture around weakness disguised as compassion while destroying, in the process, everything that is good.  And maybe for the first time from such a public person, Trump pushed back when otherwise everyone would have just shut their mouths because the person speaking was a bishop, and from an evil point of view, nobody in their right mind would criticize a person of God.  Except it’s all been a trick, and Trump, like that mountain climber, pushed back at evil and sent it on its way in frustration, which came out in the voice of the Bishop.  She was, like the seductress demon, rejected and now displaced.  The demons of Hell are confused as to what can be done now that people are aware of them and want to fight back instead of appeasing them with unearned guilt.  Saul Alinsky understood how to usher in this vast evil by the good nature of Christian people.  And it had been working; evil has been having its way with all of us.  Until now…………

Rich Hoffman

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I Tried to Tell Everyone: The Democrats are destroyed, and they are never coming back

So how did we get here, with Trump in the White House, to answer the question that Democrats have been asking of themselves lately?  Some are just going crazy because they don’t understand what happened.  But I warned everyone back in the 90s that if they went down this path with leadership, then they would choke on it.  Bill Clinton got caught up in all kinds of things, and this is after we had 8 years of Ronald Reagan, so people had pretty high expectations of what a president should be.  Bill Clinton was a disaster.  His womanizing and references to drugs were embarrassing, and when we showed outrage about the behavior, people like James Carville would come out and say, “It’s the economy stupid,” meaning things were working under Clinton, so don’t worry about the other stuff.  Saul Alinsky purposefully exploited this good nature with Republicans openly in his book Rules for Radicals, where they do something wrong and then blame the people they are working against for actually doing it.  And they got away with it perpetually because Republicans were too friendly to call them out on what they were doing wrong, giving them unearned merit in political existence.  Obama was even worse; once the “Democrats” realized what they could get away with, they overloaded the insults on Republicans and their expectations of morality in political leaders with defacing results, with Obama rumors of being gay, doing drugs, and not being even born in the United States, with him being given unwarranted respect just because of his skin color, with his communist background with a wide range of father figures who were troubled people.   He launched his political career in the living room of Bill Ayers, the convicted domestic terrorist from the Weather Underground.  They insulted us with open support for the Castro communists just off the coast of Cuba, and whenever we pointed things out, we were told to sit down, shut up, and be happy with the job they were doing.  Don’t judge.  (We need to turn Cuba into another American state)

Well, people steamed on this kind of thing for several decades, and I have been waiting for Republicans to crack the code and figure out the game.  Cracking that morality code is why I write these articles every day: to help people, conservatives or people thinking about becoming conservatives, with the confidence they need to fight true evil, and these people are exactly that.  They took over our public offices and desecrated them, then told us not to have an opinion about it.  So, I have been hoping for someone like Trump to come along for a long time.  As a reminder, four years after Reagan, I campaigned hard for Ross Perot.  I told the story this past week of when Perot’s daughters gave me a very nice tie from that campaign in Dallas, Texas, the night before the election in 1992.  I liked Perot over Bush because he knew how to defend America with warranted merit, whereas Bush did not.  And Clinton was just a sleazy con artist.  Many people blamed me for Ross Perot pulling votes away from Bush over the years in political circles.  But Bush was only accelerating the problem of the kind of evil coming out of the Democrat Party, and we were going to go down the tube one way or another.  I wasn’t about to put my name next to failure to keep a party together, hoping that Bush would give us a few pieces of lent from Reagan and that we should be happy about it.  I have been on a moral crusade in politics since then.  Naturally, I was among the first to sign up when the Tea Party movement came around. 

I was doing work in Hollywood when Barack Obama came along after 8 years of whitewashing George Bush’s very unsatisfying behavior.  I hated Obama tremendously, and I saw the way he was seducing all the Hollywood types out in California in 2008.  I could have kept quiet and made a lot of money, like everyone else.  But I stepped away to contribute myself to the rebellion against the demons of the world, and I’m glad I did.  And a few years into that movement, we started taking out all the RINOs in politics who had been helping this vile evil along.  And when Trump began to get serious about running for president, which I knew about because of the Ross Perot Reform Party that formed in the wake of his efforts, Trump was getting serious at the end of the 1990s.  I saw him at a few events and thought he would be great.  The only drawback, I thought, was his womanizing.  He had been married too much and was associated with gambling casinos.  But after a few years of Obama, I started to think that Trump would be the perfect undoing of the massive destruction that the Democrats had done to the world.  By the time 2015 came around, I had been supportive of Trump before he went down the escalator.  I was a fan of the Bill O’Reilly interview where he proposed a “why not” scenario for Trump.  And the rest has been history.  Trump has been for Republicans the exorcism against demons that has been desperately needed for several decades now. 

The Democrat game of “ignoring what we do, but we’ll use everything against you” method, which was exposed fully during that first Trump term, and people could see just how bad everything was, was falling apart.  Then the way that Bret Kavanaugh was put through the wringer and, most recently, Pete Hegseth over silly things like drinking or womanizing, after what the Democrats had given us—homosexuals having sodomized sex in our government buildings on camera for all to see, then being told not to judge, was too much for people to endure anymore.  Trump had morality problems, but after what we had become used to, people were willing to overlook those things and vote for someone who could do the job.  People no longer wanted a moral leader from an elected representative.  They gave up on that a long time ago, thanks to Democrat behavior.  So they moved toward merit; they just wanted someone who could do the job they needed best.   And in that world, Democrats aren’t very good at anything but complaining, so they can’t compete.  And Trump is running them all down, and people are happy about it.  But how did it happen?  Well, Democrats lowered the bar so much that they never seemed to consider that it would lower for Republicans, too.  I don’t think Trump is a low bar by any measure.  It allowed excellence as an executive to move into public office even if it took three marriages and kids by all different women to be overcome so he would get a chance among voters.  People thought, “Why not? After all, the Democrats gave us.”  And now they can’t compete with Trump.  They destroyed themselves with this Saul Alinsky game.  They put themselves out of business, and given that little history I presented, they will never return.  They will never gain any political footing ever again.  And while they were looking around, trying to figure out what happened, I tried to tell everyone, especially them.  But they didn’t listen, and here they are.

Rich Hoffman

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The Armour of God: Being the arbriter of divine justice

I understood Melania Trump’s outfit for the Inauguration.  Retribution comes to mind, and appropriately so.  Nobody should expect to get away with what they did to the Trumps under any circumstances.  And being a person who expresses herself through fashion, I understood Melania’s message clearly.  She’s the same age as my wife, so culturally, we all share the same references, and the first thing that came to my mind was the Clint Eastwood film, High Plains Drifter.  Melania says what she needs to tell through fashion, and she was holding the Bibles for Trump at his swearing-in; her look was undoubtedly expressive.  It was stylish and, for most people, very stunning. Indeed, she did not take the safe road.  However, after I saw Trump’s speech to Davos, I knew precisely what they were doing, and it was undoubtedly the appropriate message. 

Now, what have I been telling you all along?

You can tell that, as a couple, they have talked about this moment and what they would do if they had the opportunity to return to the White House.  And by the way that Trump spoke to the very people who had plotted his destruction, the people I call the Desecrators of Davos, Trump knew what he needed to do.  With her big wide-brimmed hat, Melania Trump might have been the visual expression of President Trump himself.  But President Trump personally delivered the much-deserved rebuke right in front of their faces to some of the most evil people on planet Earth.  He was doing on a large scale what the movie High Plains Drifter did in a fictional sense to a much smaller town called Lago, set in the old west and the efforts of western expansion that explored the challenges psychologically of a people trying to settle in a remote part of the world while trying to manage the temptations of a lack of law and order.

In the movie, a wonderfully psychological thriller that was one of the early directing efforts by Clint Eastwood, which he also starred in, a stranger rides into town, and he appears to have very superior gunfighting skills, for which the city wants to hire him to protect them from three bandits that are about to be released from jail.  The three criminals want revenge for what the town did to them.  They hired them to kill Marshal Duncan over mining rights to the city, and in the process, the entire town was a little bit guilty of the murder.  Once the killers were put in jail for the crime, they swore revenge upon release, which is why the town now was seeking to kill the killers by hiring the strange gunman, Clint Eastwood.  It’s a very good movie and certainly one of my favorites.  I don’t mind saying that I loved the film so much that it inspired the contents of my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, because, in both cases, the contents are about much more than what is shown at face value.  I talk about being a ghost in my book and life because of the lessons I learned from that great movie, High Plains Drifter.  You can often do much more in the world as a ghost than as a flesh and blood, earthly figure.  The town is paralyzed with fear and guilt by all they have done to the point where they will do anything the Stranger says.  Anything.  And when I saw Trump talking to the Davos crowd, it was the same thing as Clint Eastwood showed in that movie, where the entire town served him, hoping to erase their guilt for past crimes by committing all new ones and appeasing a power they recognize as being superior to them. 

Of course, the Stranger punishes everyone in town who has revenge coming.  And we find out at the end that the Stranger all along looks to have been the ghost of Marshal Duncan.  He knew what he was doing because he was the person that they had all killed.  And he came back to life to get revenge on them all.  And I know that look on Trump’s face, the confidence that comes from surviving death and getting another chance to get revenge on the people who hurt you.  I try not to make all these stories about me, but I use my personal experience to give a foundation to any testimony.  And I know what it feels like to survive circumstances where you were almost killed but are spared by the Armour of God to bring to the world revenge in the way that God understands it.  It is a very satisfying feeling when you realize that God puts his hand on you to be his instrument of retribution.  And, after the assassination attempts against Trump right before the election, you can tell he’s feeling it.  I have walked away from major, major, very devastating car crashes at high speeds, over 100 miles an hour, and slept like a baby that was unharmed just a few hours later except for a few bumps and bruises.  I have been shot at lots of times.  I have had many plots for my demise fail spectacularly by people who are very good at those kinds of things, and I was able to make complete fools of them over and over again.  It was amazing that Trump’s assassin missed his head by just millimeters.  Such a close call certainly gets your attention and shows divine intervention.  But I can count more than 50 times I have experienced such a rare occurrence, which is statistically impossible once, let alone that much.  I don’t think about it much daily, but watching Trump at Davos reminded me of all those times, and statistically speaking, it’s far more than luck at work.  That’s why I talk about the Book of Ephesians so much; it is the best literature in the world at describing the power and need for the Armour of God.  It’s a very real thing for a few select people fortunate enough to experience it.  But to feel it, you essentially have to face death and survive.  And once you realize that the hand of God is on you, you fear nothing.

In High Plains Drifter, it isn’t revealed until the end of the movie that the Stranger is the ghost of Marshal Duncan, which then explains why he knew so much about the characters he was torturing throughout the movie, using the guilt of their crimes as a weapon to destroy them personally.  It also explains why the Stranger had no fear of death because he had already gone through that ordeal and was resurrected by the hand of God to enact revenge on the wicked.  It’s a wonderful story, and retribution is a morality of its own.  Trump, dealing with the most sinful people on planet Earth all collected together, did precisely what he needed to do.  And all they could do was sit there and take it.  Trump, with the Armour of God on him, knew what they had all done, and he was intent on making them all choke on their guilt.  This is precisely what happened at Davos at the end of his speech.  They clapped like fools toward their own demise.  And Trump earned the right to do it because they tried to kill him many times over.  He survived to come back to the White House and give retribution to all those worldwide who were in on the many crimes against him.  Whether it’s a little fictional town called Lago from High Plains Drifter or the entire global community of politicians and business leaders plotting to rule over us all, retribution was the theme.  And a well-deserved theme defined best by Melania Trump’s fantastic attire at the Inauguration.  A retribution well deserved by an executor of justice for which Trump became the Hell-hound from the grave to bring justice to those who deserve severe punishment for the crimes they committed against all humanity.

Rich Hoffman

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Vivek Ramaswamy Will Be Ohio’s Next Governor: The MAGA center of the universe, Middletown

The important lesson here is that when I tell you something, listen.  Don’t play around with debating things with me.  Just take the information I give you, do something good with it, and don’t waste time.  I told everyone weeks ago, like two weeks before Christmas in 2024 that Vivek Ramaswamy was going to be the next governor in Ohio.  DeWine would appoint Jon Husted as the senator appointee for J.D. Vance because Vance was going to the White House as Vice President.  It was more than a little irritating to watch during Trump’s inauguration that people still didn’t know why Vivek Ramaswamy was stepping away from the creation of D.O.G.E., a shared task with Elon Musk to bring efficiency and cost cutting to the government in general.   Things had changed since election day and I was letting people know about it so they could make plans.  But instead, people acted surprised by the news that Vivek was stepping away for some mysterious reason.  It’s not a mystery.  Vivek Ramaswamy is going to put his efforts behind running for governor, which takes work, and this is something that Trump wants.  In case people didn’t figure it out, J.D. Vance was being positioned to get some wins early in the Trump administration because he was the picked candidate to be the next president.  That’s why he’s so young, and when Trump was doing all the ceremonial stuff for the inauguration, it was clearly to put J.D. Vance in people’s minds to be the continuation of all the work Trump is about to do.  Vice Presidents are usually just background noise, but this was not the case when the Middletown High School band came to Washington, D.C., to perform at the parade, which was quite good to see.  Everything was happening for a new generation to pick up the baton and run with it, and this move with Vivek Ramaswamy is part of that plan. 

Ohio is positioned and nurtured to be the most technologically proficient state in America, an example of what MAGA politics can do for the rest of the country.  A boom looming in the background will require a person like Vivek Ramaswamy to make happen from the executive branch, not as President, but as the Governor of the State of Ohio.  Additionally, to facilitate all this, we now have two extremely pro-business senators, Bernie Moreno, and Jon Husted, to help make it all happen.  The signs for Middletown, Ohio, are already ready to place at the entrance to the city, indicating that it is the hometown of J.D. Vance, whom Trump will put on the fast track to some critical negotiations.  It’s all going to matter in a few short months, and by the time Governor DeWine steps away, and Vivek Ramaswamy steps in, we’re all going to be living in a different world.  It’s going to move, bewilderingly fast, and everyone will have to just hang on and make the most of it.  There’s a reason I even said anything at all.  I want to see people profit off the information because Ohio’s invention pace will matter much more than traditional media coverage.  Who knew what when so that the human race could advance?  Usually, in society, for something good to happen, there has to be a political will, and the point of all this Vivek Ramaswamy news is that there is a plan that comes straight out of the White House now that features Ohio as the place to be in the world for tech innovations, that only someone like Vivek Ramaswamy could bring about.

That’s also why I have been featuring the industries that will thrive under the Trump administration.  For all this time, most of the media coverage has been about whether or not Trump could ever become president again, and as Inauguration Day progressed and I had a chance to talk to thousands of people about it, it was pretty clear that I was the only one saying from day one of the Biden administration, that Trump would return to the White House and everything that happened on that great day on January 20th, 2025 would happen just as I said it would.  So when I tell everyone these things, listen.  Don’t argue with me when I talk about the hyperloop program in Ohio and sky taxi services that will replace Uber, and regenerative medicine, don’t debate me.  Take the information I give you and do something with it.  And I apologize in advance, not that I apologize for anything. We have to move fast here.  At my speed, not current culture speed.  I can’t possibly answer all the emails and call everyone who wants to talk to me.  Not because I want to be rude, but because there isn’t time in the day.  I had over 10,000 emails just yesterday, and there is no way I could read them all and still do everything I need to do.  Usually, I scan through for what looks like essential headings or people I know, and I give those more attention than the others.  But if I don’t call you back, it’s not personal.  My task is to let people know about each other and provoke them to take the following steps.  Because some of these ideas will take thousands of hours of planning and millions of dollars to facilitate, they will need champions to drive them. 

Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be the next governor of Ohio.  I have shown support for Attorney General Yost, but I’m sure there are accommodations for him to clear the way for Vivek because that’s the kind of person it will take to do all the things I mentioned and to make Middletown great again in the way that Trump wants to make America Great Again.  And it all comes down to J.D. Vance being in the White House for the next 12 years to carry on all the good work that is about to be done with Trump.  I first met Vivek at an event in Middletown, so this isn’t a new kind of thing.  Everything next-generation MAGA centers around Middletown, Ohio, and a restoration of an economy there that had been husked out by globalism.  But all that is coming to a fast end, and the things I have mentioned that are part of tomorrow’s economy only need the right people to make them happen.  And that is happening as we speak.  You might have noticed how Trump, after his speech in the Rotunda, specifically spoke with Vivek Ramaswamy and Kristi Noem before leaving.  Vivek is a rising star, not a descending one, just because he won’t be a part of D.O.G.E.  That is Elon Musk’s project.  Vivek has a different path, and it all points to a new tomorrow where Ohio, a Rust Belt state, will lead the world in a way that no country on Earth has yet.  More than Taiwan.  More than Dubai.  And much, much more than China.  But it all requires people to see the big picture, which I have handed to everyone so they can take the next steps and advance our culture in ways that have never been seen before.  Stop thinking small!

Rich Hoffman

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I Really Like Palmer Luckey: What the new Anduril Plant in Ohio means to global manufacturing

Stories like this one are my favorite because they get down to the fundamental issue of why I do all the things I do socially.  I get pretty frustrated with people sometimes, and a few times in 2024, I came really close to just closing up my tent flap and not opening it again for anybody and letting them rot away.  To be honest, I don’t try to help people because I want to help them with their lives.  I do it because I have to share space with them and I get tired of their limitations holding back the kind of world I want to live in.  So, I try to teach as many people as possible how they should live so they don’t hold back so much from the world I want to live in.  But when they stall out and don’t listen to what I tell them, I come close to just letting them rot away and turn to things that make me personally happy, and forget about them.  But sometimes it is worth it, and stories like the announcement in mid-January in Ohio about Anduril, the defense contractor, investing a billion dollars to a south of Columbus campus led by Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Facebook Oculus virtual reality headset, are a ray of hope.  The plan is to build a giant campus to build autonomous drones for a direct market defense need that is going to arise during the Trump administration in the year 2027.  So, this manufacturing ambition will be over 90 football fields long and host over 4000 jobs. It will be quite an addition to the loop around Columbus, Ohio, and will join the new Intel factory that is being built just north of the city.  And as exciting as all this is, I can say from inside knowledge that this is just the tip of the iceberg in Ohio. 

Many people have worked hard to lay the political foundation for something like this Anduril project.  They could have gone anywhere in the world that they wanted, but they picked Ohio, a spot just above Washington Court House for a reason.  I know all those reasons, and there is a reason I have been saying the things I have about vertical takeoff taxi markets, regenerative medicine, and hyperloop.  I told everyone weeks ago that Vivek Ramaswamy would be the governor and Jon Husted would be appointed to J.D. Vance’s senate seat.  And that Bernie Moreno would be the other very pro-business senator.  Many very good people have been building this political structure to facilitate massive growth in Ohio, which I think will be the next Silicon Valley, but only much more significant.  Ohio is the place to be and I’m not surprised by any of this news.  More people are out there, like Palmer Luckey, a wonderful young man who was homeschooled full of ambition, so he knows how to think outside the box. I think he’s fantastic.  He is proposing essentially with this Anduril ambition to be the SpaceX of the defense industry.  He is a massive Trump supporter.  He gets what is coming, and he is building this fighter drone technology to meet a change in state war obligation that is looming from information that is well known.  Trump will try to negotiate us away from a war with China.  But odds are, all that will fall apart; they will lose their power and won’t like it.  And they aren’t going to just turn the world back over to the sovereignty of America.  No, they are going to want to fight it out.  And Palmer Luckey is doing what he needs to do to get out in front of it with this Anduril factory. 

But this is where things get interesting.  The defense industry is filled with cost-plus companies and a structure that protects it from innovation, so what does this young man Palmer Luckey think he will do to change things?  Luckey is talking about shipping drone units in 2026 ahead of a 2027 need date.  And things just don’t happen that fast in the defense industry.   Well, they will now.  The people behind Anduril, including the investors, understand what the game is, and that is the destruction of the cost-plus model that has long hampered the defense industry.  You see it everywhere: the old legacy companies and their suppliers all act like trolls under a bridge, charging extraordinary amounts of money to do basic things.  Most of these cost-plus companies have radical labor unions whose costs are way out of alignment with reality, so you must throw a lot of congressional money at delayed schedules to get mediocre results.  Anduril is proposing to take the cost plus out of the equation and to become the SpaceX of the defense market, and they will change the way business is done.  And the Trump administration will be very supportive, so Anduril’s timeline is not far-fetched.  Anduril has the money.  They have the vision.  They have a political structure that wants them to succeed.  They have all impediments out of their way.  And it makes me happy because I want to see more people like Palmer Lucky and companies like Anduril born into reality.

The way it works at SpaceX and Andruil is that to avoid the cost-plus supply chains; they vertically integrate so they can work around the compliance loops that protect cost-plus companies and their sandbagging techniques that are designed to prevent the product from hitting schedule targets so they can always drive congress to more funding through the extortion of the schedule.  Cost-plus suppliers constantly force expedited fees based on their purposeful limited capacity because that is how the cost-plus game has always worked.  Companies like Andruil and SpaceX are just doing everything themselves, which is why Andruil is building such a large facility: for self-reliance and vertical integration.  The trend was to get as many people in a supply chain as possible in as many countries as possible.  However, globalism put that trend into motion to protect the cost-plus scam.  And that is all coming apart now under this new Trump administration and Ohio politics.  And people like Palmer Luckey are some of the first to see it.  That’s also why Intel is building a plant in Ohio out of all places.  Innovation needs to be fast and vigorous.  Not slow and stupid.  And I am very encouraged that there are companies like Andruil out there and that there are young people like Palmer Luckey who want to do good things in the world.  I want to see a lot of companies, preferably all companies and education systems, adopt approaches to business like Andruil and SpaceX.  It’s the rate of resolution that I can get excited about, and while the industry hopes Andruil will fail in its ambitions and slip schedule like all the other fools in the world, I am betting they won’t.  I think Palmer Luckey understands in a way I have been working to teach people for many years.  And he’s doing it, and once people see his success, they will all want to copy it. And for me, that is the best news of this century!  I can live in a world with people who think like Palmer Luckey.  But I have no desire to deal with the losers of the cost-plus structure of stalled ambition and lazy labor that has emerged from the defense work scams that have been so embarrassing.  With this announcement from Andruil, I see a lot of hope for the future.

Rich Hoffman

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Of Course “Imagine” was Played at Carter’s Funneral: They were always about using communism to destroy the American way of life

I thought it was quite appropriate that Jimmy Carter, at his funeral after living 100 years of life, wanted to have the ridiculously dumb song by John Lennon, “Imagine,” sung.  The song summed up his life, really, and is the reason that he was the worst president until, of course, Joe Biden came along.  All these old hippies are showing a developed pattern.  They grew up liking the Beatles and John Lennon and have been trying to build a world they learned about in that song.  Ironically, shortly after the Carter funeral, that same kind of radicalism is coming out in the politics of California.  Remember Gavin Newsom talking about preserving the rivers to save some fish, but also to pay off debts to the Native American indigenous people, promises that we owed them?  Yes, there are plenty of people who run around in the political circles of Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, and Gavin Newsom who are very happy to see the massive wildfires burning out entire communities of Hollywood because, just like the end of the latest Yellowstone television show, the goal is to get rid of white people and return the land to the red people who they think lived in America first.  They get a lot of these dumb ideas from the communists of the British invasion and their favorite musical artists like the Beatles.  As teenagers smoking dope and having reckless sex, they were very open to the exploits of those radical leftists, and it shaped their lives into the disasters they grew up to become as adults.  Just because people think something doesn’t make it right, and I would say all people exposed to this period of history reflected in music like John Lennon’s had their minds destroyed in ways that have cascaded the destruction to millions of other people. 

I know many people who love the song “Imagine,” and they are, by their nature, good people.  However, they should not be involved in influencing people’s lives.  Songs like “Imagine” are not harmless.  I would consider it more damaging than most rap music because it sells itself as helpful, peace-loving, and even Christian.  Except that it is an anti-god diatribe by a diabolical atheist in John Lennon.  Every time I hear that song, I look for a bunch of dope smokers in tie-dye t-shirts to break out a pottery wheel and start slinging mud on it to make a vase.  To return to the primitive just as they did at Woodstock and to have sex with strangers because nobody should own anybody and everything should be free.  Free love, free money, no borders, country, or heaven.  No values.  Just dirty old hippie love, that’s what John Lennon was singing about, and yes, it has a catchy tune.  That’s how they sucker people into its demonic worship, always with catchy melodies that people sing along to without thinking about the real meaning of the song.  “Imagine” is a terrible song, something that could easily be said to have been purposely created to undermine our entire society and launch us all into globalism.  Without question, this is the same kind of popular song that dirty old men trying to sleep with prostitutes at Davos economic forums play when they are trying to appear hip to 21-year-old girls who have no idea who John Lennon is.  But they like the wine and the money, so they listen like brain-dead fools to the anthem of globalism.

“Imagine” is a communist ballad, a deliberate attempt to convince vast populations to throw away capitalism and embrace communism fully.  And it should have always been considered a national security problem.  There’s nothing good about it; John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, who helped him with that song, was a dedicated communist.  When she talks about peace, she means to lower the resistance to individual property rights and to surrender all integrity to the shared resources of the lazy and diabolical.  To watch Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sing the old John Lennon song in a church, of all places, was a purposeful insult to the American way of life.  But that’s how Jimmy Carter lived his life.  Remember how he tried to work with communist forces against Ronald Reagan in the background?  Jimmy Carter might have been a nice guy and an innocent peanut farmer, but like Yoko Ono, they kill you with kindness.  Putting a couple of country music stars out to sing a song to sell communism in a Catholic cathedral doesn’t make it any less of an attack.  It was also interesting that Trump was at the funeral, representing a noticeable effort to make America Great Again.  But great from what?  Well, the teachings of people like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who purposefully tried to bring communism to America through their art.  And before Trump had a chance to get back into office to do that very thing, the Carter funeral was a chance to spit in the face of the MAGA movement with their war cry of progressive sentiment and blatant communist intentions.  “Imagine” is a song meant to spit in all our faces; how dare we want to have marriages and countries and do good in life so we can go to Heaven.  To attack every premise of values supporting individual rights over collective salvation sold to them through a catchy tune. 

I’m not a fan of Garth Brooks.  He cheated on his wife a lot and was a crybaby of country music.  Having him perform the song shows even more the kind of people that Jimmy Carter valued and thought represented America.  Jimmy Carter was a loser.  And he surrounded himself with other losers with a political philosophy that took all those misfits and hid them from social judgment through the communist movement.  And “Imagine” was their war song of peace.  Peace was their weapon to undo the kinds of values that people wanted to fight for.  By taking away the value people had for things, people would not want to fight each other over anything and would instead rot away in a hippie haze, smoke dope, advocate in fact for the legalization of marijuana, and advocate for a borderless world just as the Indians had before Christopher Columbus came along and messed it all up for everyone.  That is why Jimmy Carter was a terrible president and why it was entirely appropriate that he wanted “Imagine” played at his funeral by a bunch of losers and despots.  I agree with Steve Bannon’s take on John Lennon; he was a degenerate, and having that song played in a Christian setting was a spit in all our faces.  But it also tells everyone clearly what these fools are all about and why they are so detrimental to the human race.  After 100 years of life, that was the summary of Jimmy Carter’s life and efforts to recreate “Imagine” in the world and make it a reality, which is why he will always be remembered as being the second worst president in the history of the world.  But at least he lived long enough to see the worst, another old hippie, drug-abusing loser, Joe Biden, who made from his loins the diabolical production of flesh that is everything wrong with the world, Hunter Biden.  “Imagine” is a world where all these people are in charge.  We just experienced it, and what it was can only be described as a nightmare that is finally coming to an end.  “Imagine” that!

Rich Hoffman

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Catherine Herridge Delivers the Goods: A CIA whistleblower reveals how they kill people with energy weapons

There is a lot wrong with the Matthew Levelsberger case, where he supposedly drove a Tesla Cybertruck to the front lobby of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas and detonated a car bomb on January 1st, 2025 and we are all supposed to believe that it wasn’t connected to the terror attack in New Orleans.  And that the driver shot himself in the head with a Desert Eagle moments before the explosion and that all kinds of evidence was found at the scene that makes a nice story for quick FBI resolution. But for the fact that he emailed a letter to some media personalities that said that he was in trouble as a whistleblower and that he didn’t think they’d let him flee to the Mexican border.  Then, of course, everything could be untrue and part of a plot of deception to hide the real villains and causes for the intended violence.  But let’s not speculate here because we have been given a lot to speculate about, and that is entirely likely the point.  I happen to carry a Desert Eagle as my concealed carry weapon so I know how powerful it is.  It’s not the kind of gun you hold with one hand and shoot and still have a head after.  We now know that there was a driver in the car already there moving his head just before the explosion and that the head was still in one piece, which a .50 caliber bullet hadn’t yet made a mess of.  The attempt to create a public relations sensation and connect all this to Area 51 somehow shows a CIA amateur hour that reminds me a lot of the Oklahoma City bombing and the concealment of the third terrorist.  Of course, that all was covered up by the more horrible terror event 9/11, which happened just a few years later and involved even a deeper level of cover-up.  I think the safe thing to say is that the terrible people who have been in charge of our government never thought that the Internet was going to create free speech. Rather, it would serve as a propaganda vehicle for big global government, and they have now lost control of the message, just ahead of Trump’s inauguration for a second term. They are getting desperate and trying all the old tricks, but people are figuring them out in a way they aren’t prepared for.

So, let’s discuss what we know about this level of deception, which came from Catherine Herridge, the former Fox reporter who is now doing independent journalism. And she was always one of the good ones, a classic reporter who does things for the right reasons.  Just a few days before this terrorist attack at Trump’s Vegas Hotel, she did a significant segment that was on “X” about a CIA whistleblower that got to the real meat and potatoes on this terrorist subject and to whom the CIA is actually loyal, the concept of a domestic America or a global one world government for which they are a front-line military effort of overthrow?  And to that second point, what are their weapons hidden behind conspiracy theories, most of which they create to keep people through deception from knowing what they are up to?  And to that point, Catherine Herridge is no conspiracy theorist.  She is among the last of the mainstream media who worked well in that world and is the best they have to offer.  She’s not a wild and crazy Alex Jones.  She is the kind of woman who was a senior investigative correspondent for CBS in Washington D.C., And here she was with a CIA whistleblower around Christmas of 2024 with a story revealing that the CIA uses energy weapons to get rid of people they don’t want talking about their actions. 

When we talk about energy weapons, in this case, it’s an AHI energy weapon, an Anomalous Health Incident.  It’s where an energy wave can be fired at your body, and the effects can scramble your cell structure and rip away your immune system so that all the parasites already in your body can run free and destroy you with advanced illnesses.  And here was Catherine Herridge showing proof in a proper way of a real CIA whistleblower about how she had outlived her usefulness to them, and now they were trying to get rid of her by scrambling her brain.  And it’s not just this one person; there are a lot of whistleblowers coming out about this blatant abuse of employees by the CIA to close up loose ends on the kind of people who gain a career’s worth of secrets only to become dangerous and disposed of early in retirement before they get a chance to talk too much in old age.  Based on the evidence, this is a policy among the CIA to keep former and current employees quiet about the classified projects they work on.  And I believe the whistleblower in Catherine’s interview.  I have always thought that’s how they killed Andrew Breitbart.  Steve Bannon says no, that Andrew already had pre-existing medical conditions.  But I would say this is how the CIA likes to kill people through the appearance of natural causes, as they do with the heart attack gun, which is a little dart of ice that, once it enters your body, melts and releases chemicals that send people into cardiac arrest.  I’ve always thought that was the cause of the heart attack with the film director, Stanley Kubrick, because the elites featured in the movie and their Ishtar-based sex practices didn’t want people to see what they were up to, and they sought to send a message by killing the director during the rough-cut part of the film’s production of Eyes Wide Shut.  Steven Spielberg took over the cut of the film advocated by Tom Cruise and his wife, Nichole Kidman, and the film was released, shocking the world with a peak under the curtain of polite society.  And none of those Hollywood people were ever the same again.

Energy weapons could scramble your nervous system from a remote location that would never trace the aggression to the aggressor.  And all that the victim would see was that they suddenly became sick.  These weapons could be used to advance cancer growth, diabetes, brain disease, and all sorts of health conditions that would appear to be natural causes.  But in all truth, there are murders and political hits to preserve a view of the world driven by globalism and all kinds of flawed characters who want to destroy our concept of an American representative republic.  That’s how they have been controlling the herd, as they see us that way, not as people they serve but as those they must make submit to their authority, as a black budget enterprise that is not accountable to our mechanisms of government.  And this story about these energy weapons came out just a few days ahead of the terrorist events of January 1st.  And ahead of the threat of President Trump declassifying a lot of these CIA acts of terror so people can know for themselves things like who killed President Kennedy.  And what was really behind Watergate?  And who performed the coup behind getting rid of President Trump the first time.  We don’t need to turn to conspiracy theory for the answer because Catherine Herridge had a real-life CIA whistleblower to tell us precisely what is going on, along with other witnesses.  We only needed a media member to carry the story, which is what Catherine did.  And suddenly, the motivations for terrorist attacks become much more obvious from this desperate band of characters.  And the Las Vegas event was desperate.  It was sloppy and full of holes.  And performed by desperate people facing public scrutiny they aren’t prepared to deal with.  So they are trying the old tricks, and people aren’t buying it.  An attempt to use a government asset that they could probably provoke through an energy weapon, an advanced condition of PTSD, to control a damaged mind, and to try to turn the public against Trump and Elon Musk with this terror attack is a script we’ve seen before.  The Cybertruck could even drive itself to the detonation zone.  But this isn’t the 90s like with Oklahoma City, where the story could be controlled.  Or even the 2000s, where the narrative of the hijacked airlines running into the World Trade Center could be sold as Islamic terror and a chance to celebrate firefighters and patriotism as we sent troops to bomb dirt in Iraq and Syria.  No, this is the age of independent journalism, and Catherine Herridge presented the goods, and the CIA is in deep trouble, as they should be.  They have been up to no good for far too long, and we are at a time where they will have to pay for what they’ve done.  And they are in a panic.  Get rid of the CIA, and many of these problems would disappear.  Whatever we replace them with must be accountable to Congress.  The CIA was a disaster from the start, and it is beyond reform. 

Rich Hoffman

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Josh Gates and the Secrets of All Civilization: Why the World Economic Forum is involved in the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe

I do a lot of important things over a week.  But as I told my kids while we were in line to get into the Josh Gates Live: An Evening of Legends, Mysteries, and Tales of Adventure at the Taft Theater in downtown Cincinnati, nothing was more important than the three of us going there together while my wife watched all the grandkids.  My kids grew up on Josh Gates, and more specifically, Indiana Jones, who obviously very much inspired Josh Gates. It was important in ways that most people don’t measure things.  Specifically, I wanted to know a few things about Josh Gates in person that don’t come through the editing of his many thousands and thousands of television shows and interactions through the filter of social media.  Josh Gates is a very talented and good guy who has done much with a quirky in-between media lifestyle.  My family has immensely enjoyed his trips around the world.  My kids were interested in going, so I bought some tickets, not knowing what to expect from a live show.  But I did get my answers, answered.  And it’s not so much what he said, but what he didn’t say as a very successful producer of several shows on Discovery Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel over the years.  He’s seen everywhere on earth, all the various political systems, and conducted paranormal research in some of the most haunted places in the world.  But as I spent time with my kids for that evening in Cincinnati and ran into a surprising number of people I have known over the years, as the place was packed, I was thinking of a video my youngest daughter had sent me by Jimmey Corsetti at Bright Insight, a video channel dedicated to the next generation Josh Gates, Graham Hancock type of material that permeates the foundation of everything and leads right to the doorstep of the World Economic Forum.  So, there was a lot to unpack as the lights dimmed, and Josh Gates came out with a roaring applause to confirm a mystery I had long been wondering about.  And it turned out to be a fantastic evening.

At the end of the night, Josh Gates answered a question from the audience: does he believe in the paranormal after all his adventures? His answer was a cryptic one; my interpretation of it was that there was a social narrative driving the finance industry to not discuss their fingerprints in the activities that most haunt the human race.  Josh Gates is a mainstream guy who gets to fly worldwide, filming exciting television.   But he has had to make a deal with the many devils of that industry who like the ratings, but it’s best to always keep the answers just out of reach of the audience as the Oak Island show does.  Take people on an adventure and show them lots of exciting stuff.  But don’t bring meaning or personal opinions into it; we’ll fund your shows.  Let people ask questions, but never give them the answer.  It’s the way that people who want to control other people control other people, which is why, as Josh Gates was talking, I was thinking of that Bright Insight segment that featured why Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was being protected for tourism by the World Economic Forum disguised as helpful, but in truth, it is to prevent further excavations that show just how advanced humanity has been for over 10,000 years now.  As a professional, Josh knows where the lines are, and he stays within them even if there is plenty of evidence that shows just how mysterious the world is. 

Josh Gates gave an excellent answer to the audience when he answered that what matters in all these adventures is the stories, not so much how true they are.  Philosophically, reality can be decided by all kinds of circumstances.  However, the value of a story in unlocking the brain is ultimately more important.  I was thinking of many mysteries that personally bother me because I know there is a significant game of control trying to keep all humankind from discovering their true origins.  Most wars are about keeping everyone so unstable that the official narrative of human existence can be contained in a narrative controlled by those who want to rule the world.  I didn’t get to answer Josh Gates when he asked the audience what he should explore paranormally in Cincinnati if he were to try after a person from the audience asked him.  I would have told him that most of the downtown area of Cincinnati is deeply haunted and has been long before the city was ever built, especially along 5th Street.  Fountain Square and Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse in the center of the town are built over the locations of a giant Indian Mound that was destroyed to create the city, so the whole area has deep ties to a paranormal world that is much older than many people think.  Including the Taft Theater where we were.  One of the people I know who went there and talked to me the day after received a tour of the place, not realizing she was a ghost.  She’s been there for years and haunts people often, disguising herself as a helpful usher.  But for no reason at all, she took him and his wife on a tour of the whole place and showed him where all the people who had died in the building still resided.  I believed his story, quite certainly.  I have some “experiences” at the Masonic lodge near the P&G headquarters that more than confirm the presence of lots of paranormal activity.  That whole street from Mt. Adams to the Museum Center is a haunted hot spot, and Josh Gates could have an exciting show there.  But my only question to the storyteller was, “Did she show you where the bathroom was?” 

Adventure has many layers, and I do travel and see things for myself.  I admire how much Gates has been able to travel and return to tell about it.  My family loves to travel, and we try to travel together as much as possible.  However, few people worldwide have traveled as much as Josh Gates; his perspective is important.  We live in a haunted world, hiding deep mysteries that are being kept from us deliberately to maintain a social order conducive to the rule of a narrow band of aristocrats to maintain an illusion of ruling over us.  And that is why the World Economic Forum communists are suppressing further investigations at Gobekli Tepe and many other historic sites around the world. It’s the same attitude they have in China, where many of the world’s biggest mysteries can’t even make it out of the communist media market.  They want to be the god their public worships; they don’t want their people to know much about their past.  So, the real fight in the world is between this knowledge of more and the people who want to rule and try to control the narrative.  Josh Gates said that his job is to show people many exciting places.  And that the value of those places is in the stories they tell.  Through those stories, you can learn the truth about things you otherwise wouldn’t have.  But the real essence of the mysteries is under the world’s political order, which is where my interest is.  And I got more out of that little event than I would have thought, and it was a wonderful evening.  Josh Gates is a wonderful dude. 

Rich Hoffman

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Let’s Talk About Sex and UFOs: The point of everything, everywhere, all the time

What Tucker Carlson said about UFOs being more spiritual than physical has caused a lot of discussion recently.  Elon Musk took notice and even added to the debate.  But I think when people think of UFOs and life on other planets and our interactions with all these things, we assume all the rules of conduct are applied to our observable universe without considering the still-revealing worlds of quantum mechanics.  A lot is happening in particle sciences with quarks, gluons, muons, and neutrinos.  Every second trillions of these hyper crazy neutrinos are passing through our bodies, and through the earth so fast that they act like the atoms that make up our material world, aren’t even there.  And all these quantum particles point to the very real issue of dark matter and dark energy, “dark” because we can’t see it with our visible light spectrum, yet it makes up most of the matter of our known universe.  So, things get out of control quickly with new information once you ask these questions.  Then, concerning all that, time dilation is very real, where folds of time actually wrap over themselves and behave differently relative to the application of gravity, the mass of a planet, and its position relative to us.  When you have moments of déjà vu, it’s likely attributed to this condition of dark matter folding over on itself with a physical reality that has already taken place but is observed at a different time because of all these attributes we are uncovering in particle sciences.  And, of course, as we go ghost hunting and record paranormal phenomena, we may actually communicate with ghosts who try to interact with us and talk back.  We have assumed that these are characters of the afterlife in a kind of linear format.  But logically, they would trace back more logically to the type of information we are constantly interacting with within dark matter, where the true location of what we call Heaven likely resides.  It is all around us, but men do not see it.

I say all that because of the need to understand these things where science is taking us.  Many of the religions of the world are likely our interpretations of interacting with many characters from paranormal phenomena.  In the Bible, prophets were constantly in a relationship with God who had a lot of concerns about what was going on in our world, even if he could only manifest in a puff of smoke over the gold wings of the Ark of the Covenant under certain conditions of blood sacrifices poured out over the lid with incense burning in the background.  Many of the events of the Bible and other religions could directly be attributed to quantum mechanics and the many lifeforms we are just learning to manage through our interactions with dark matter.  Some of these lifeforms could be massively bigger than us for which we are but a neutrino passing through them trillions of times every second, or much, much smaller, where the contents of an entire universe could be contained in every neutrino, that to our perception is smaller, and faster than anything known in the universe, probably breaking the speed of light by their very nature.  But what is the speed of light if time can actually be warped through dark matter?  So thoughts, feelings, and even politics based on these interactions would have a massive influence over our lives and the future of the known universe, in ways that nothing in science fiction has ever quite figured out.  Perhaps Frank Herbert from the Dune books was dancing with the truth in all its massive assumptions.  But probably, he was just pecking on the surface.

To understand some of these things, I think sex is the best measure.  A nice, attractive couple goes out on a date, cleans up their car, wears nice clothes, and puts on perfumes for dinner, where the food is prepared immaculately.  The wine is poured and consumed with sophistication and small talk to get the couple at ease with each other.  At the end of the night, there is a decision as to whether the couple wants to get into a state of undress and enjoy the human attributes of sex and the good feelings that come with it.  But all along were the sperm and eggs within the man and woman who are waiting in the multitudes to be injected into a situation to meet each other, and they observe the scale of all these things passively without having any fundamental understanding of why things are happening.  The purpose of it all is to inspire human beings to have sex and to make a baby that repopulates the earth.  Who designed that programming? That is the constant thought of religion, but science must increasingly be applied.  That is a lot of effort to make it possible to have a baby.  Most of the sperm that has ever been created, and most eggs in a woman, will never see a real opportunity to fulfill the meaning of their entire existence.  So they will interact with the mating rituals of procreation, the dinner, the dancing, the food, the smells, but will likely never meet an egg to fertilize and produce a child.  Yet, that is the entire purpose of the practice: to get a man and a woman filled with cells and all kinds of biological information to get together and exchange bodily fluid so life could be produced. 

When we look around our world and consider our political options, we are like the sperm looking to do our life’s work but with limited access to the big picture.  We know our impulse to act, and the conditions of our lives may be up to random circumstances well beyond our comprehension.  Yet those activities may have complete control over whether our life fulfillment achieves what it was designed for, whatever that is.  When we interact with and observe quarks, gluons, muons, and neutrinos, we see elements from the big picture without understanding them.  But we will, and I would argue that the purpose of the human imagination is to pull all these elements together for the benefit of everything.  Our thoughts don’t have to reside in our minds but are likely permeating everywhere in the universe’s dark matter on a grand scale.  What we tune into with our individual lives is but a radio of a constant broadcast that occurs over many lifetimes and people who arise to witness it.  But the purpose of the whole thing could be said to be like sex, with all the dating rituals that go on, all the small talk, to get to an opportunity to inject sperm into a woman to fertilize an egg released at just the right time and place that one out of many thousands will have a chance to fulfill its reason for creation.  And what is the meaning of that creation, a baby that has to spend 18 years growing into an adult, only to do the same thing all over again with different participants?  So when we talk about UFOs and paranormal activity, we need to understand that all those neutrinos passing through us have life and concerns contained within them that have information directly connected to the other side of the universe by the trillions.  They impact how we think, what evil or good might occur, and what creative concepts our minds might develop.  But in truth, we have much more to learn about the nature of these things. And it is likely the point of our imaginations to give birth to something new, which the universe is trying to achieve through us, and is likely the point to all life, everywhere, all the time.

Rich Hoffman

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Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’: The kind of political philosophy that will take mankind into a space economy

I spend a lot of time thinking about the challenges of becoming an interplanetary civilization.  When people ask me why I do what I do, I tell them it’s not for money, it’s not for popularity, and it’s certainly not for a platform for politics.  I am interested in philosophy as Socrates exhibited it, specifically, the thinking it will take to move humanity off the Earth and become a multi-planetary species.  This past week, two things happened that reminded me of this task. The first was the Starship launch, which was very successful with SpaceX.  The second Dune movie did very well at the box office, showing continued interest, which I think is terrific because it gives people access to the old Frank Herbert books, which I think are masterpieces on a biblical scale, as opposed to just science fiction.  I have been thinking a lot about Frank and his books lately, the six he wrote, then the final two in the original series that his son continued to conclusion. 

If we want to be an interplanetary civilization, we must first solve some fundamental problems. One of those is the problem of power and why people crave it. One great example of exploring that problem is the novels by Frank Herbert in, Dune, the eight-book analysis introduced to the world through the latest movies, which are very good. But just the start of quite a journey.  More people would better understand our current circumstances if they read Frank Herbert’s books because he deals with a lot of serious stuff in that fantastic series.  Yes, as in the movies, they are dealing with the human race as they have colonized space, all over the universe space, not just a regional galaxy, 10,000 years in the future.  The politics are very similar to the concerns of the Old Testament, with bloodlines and kingdoms at the heart of the story.  Frank is very concerned with the nature of politics, so these Dune books are more about sociology and politics than they are about science or fiction. In the movies, the one from 1984 and now these recent ones, the lead character rises to greatness to become the new emperor, and that’s the end of the story.  That fits a typical narrative for a Hollywood movie.  But Dune is much more than these things, so these stories have been hard to make into movies.  The point in building up the lead story and characters is that the rest of the book rips them apart in a kind of libertarian study of the human race and how power corrupts, or does it?  One thing that Frank does that I am very interested in, that very few anybodies has ever touched, is how the spirit world influences the politics of humanity.  It’s an offering of the kind of Divine Council discussed in Psalms 82 and certainly reflects what Paul talked about in Ephesians.  Who rules us from beyond the grave, and how far down the rabbit hole does it go?  In those Dune books, Herbert even calls his work a prediction, not fiction, as he sets out to study ecology.  I think of our political life as just the surface reflections of much deeper forces at work, not all of them human as we think of the word.  And not just spiritual as we think of Casper the ghost or the Holy Spirit.  We must look at the spirit world as it strives to exist outside our known universe and expect that they are using self-interest to manipulate our lives to their advantage.  Frank Herbert deals with that level of political management, and it’s fantastic and can’t really be captured in the movies. 

As crazy as our political system is, I consider it a healthy necessity.  What America is going through is needed for global management of political systems that can then carry over into off-world colonies, which are coming at us much faster than people realize.  And we must solve some of these problems before we come to that impasse.  We must have a political system based on a healthy understanding of capitalism before we start moon colonies and cities on Mars.  Too much micromanagement of adventures into space will stop progress, and as Herbert assumes in his books, humanity reverts to the biblical necessity of royal bloodlines through the Vico Cycle.  I disagree with a lot about Herbert, especially regarding drug use.  But like the work of Graham Hancock that I have talked about in using ayahuasca to communicate with the spirit world, the spice in Dune is essentially the same kind of thing, and I think Herbert is on to something essential as far back as 1965.  Many of the Baal worshipers of Canaan also used psychedelics in their rituals, and in that context, it is likely the cause of the frequent turning away from God that is a majority of the narrative in the Bible.  Frank Herbert in Dune explores why this is the case and when drugs are used to speak to other spirit beings, who they are, and what they are motivated by.  And by coming to terms with that, you can then understand the kind of evil that is loose in the world now, and understand it with some perspective. 

Herbert goes so far as to place political motivations for spiritual influence in his many Dune books and migrates beyond universal influence, which is pretty impressive as a work of fiction.  I would put it on the level of Atlas Shrugged and other Ayn Rand works.  I don’t agree with everything she does either, but the thought process is beneficial.  Somewhere in these intellectual works are the answers we need to become an interplanetary species, so I don’t get too excited about transitory elections.  What we are all fighting against each other to achieve is the war of ideas that survive into the future, and I tend to think of these efforts in the most extensive picture possible. The trajectory of change will far exceed standard election cycles.  It’s why people win that matters, why certain people are attracted to power, and how power corrupts or is helpful to society.  And how a tyrant today might be a benefactor tomorrow.  Morality is often not so much determined by what we see but by what we are growing to understand and how that understanding is influential across over 22 dimensions.  And as we continue to build nations and colonies in space, what kind of political system should they have to accommodate with all considerations available, as we can know them, through science or fiction.  The Dune books have some magnificent things to say along those lines, and I think it is wonderful that the movies are doing well and that people are learning about the books for the first time.   One thing that space travel needs is a healthy appreciation of government systems that embrace capitalism.  Future religions must be joined at the hip; otherwise, their value will fall apart.  So, it’s not enough to build a Starship and start moving people into a new space economy.  We must work on the deep philosophical problems that have permeated the human race since the beginning.  And we have to solve them with something fresh, and America is the leader of that movement.  In the long run, it will make much more sense for people.

 

Rich Hoffman

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