“Patsies and Errand Boys”*

Has our evolution devolved to this?
a multi-cell conglomerate
manifesting as
 "The Domination System"?

Recently, two “cell-conglomerates” came under the microscope of my readings: the banking and the pharmaceutical — both of which sustain our rapacious Domination System. The sad commentary is that we humans are the food and waste of many cell-complexes as we run our energy-errands in and out of the cell membranes (or mem-Brains as Bruce Lipton likes to call them.) Have we become “patsies and errands boys” nigh every one of us? O, déjà vu!

The banking cell-complex was creatively described decades ago:

The owners of the land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman for the owners came. . . . Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. . . . If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank-or the Company-needs-wants-insists-must have-as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time. . . . The owner men sat in the cars and explained. You know the land is poor. You've scrabbled at it long enough, God knows. The squatting tenant men nodded and wondered and drew figures in the dust, and yes, they knew, God knows. If the dust only wouldn't fly. If the top would only stay on the soil, it might not be so bad. . . . Well, it's too late. And the owner men explained the workings and the thinkings of the monster that was stronger than they were. . . . You see, a bank or a company ... those creatures don't breathe air, don't eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so. . . . The bank-the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size... . We have to do it. We don't like to do it. But the monster's sick. Something's happened to the monster. . . . Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours... . We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men. No, you're wrong there-quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. [John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath]¹

The pharmaceutical complex was described more recently:

Physicians: The Pharmaceutical Patsies: ... Medical doctors are caught between an intellectual rock and a corporate hard place; they are pawns in the huge medical industrial complex. Their healing abilities are hobbled by an archaic medical education founded on a Newtonian, matter-only universe. Unfortunately, that philosophy went out of vogue seventy-five years ago, when physicists officially adopted quantum mechanics and recognized that the universe is actually made out of energy. In their postgraduate years, those same doctors receive their continuing education about pharmaceutical products from drug reps, the errand boys of the corporate healthcare industry. Essentially, these nonprofessionals, whose primary goal is to sell product, provide doctors with “information” about the efficacy of new drugs. Drug companies freely offer this “education” so they can persuade doctors to “push” their products. It is evident that the massive quantities of drugs prescribed in this country violate the Hippocratic Oath taken by all doctors to “First do no harm.” We have been programmed by pharmaceutical corporations to become a nation of prescription-drug-popping junkies with tragic results.²

Do any of us recognize ourselves in any of the numerous complexes that sustain the Domination System? Let us recognize the System we have helped energize:

Our entire social system has become an "economy"; no earlier society would have characterized itself thus. Profit is the highest social good. Consumerism has become the only universally available mode of participation in modern society. The work ethic has been replaced by the consumption ethic, the cathedral by the skyscraper, the hero by the billionaire, the saint by the executive, religion by ideology. The Kingdom of Mammon exercises constraint by invisible chains and drives its slaves with invisible prods.³

How about we take a good, long look at our labours⁴ and ask if we are serving as food and waste for a world gone mad for power? And then ask ourselves if we can redeem the powers or if we must remove ourselves from being a food source / energy provider to the Domination System and move into a system that seeks to actualize both the whole and the part?

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* Words used by Bruce Lipton in his book: The Biology of Belief | 10th Anniversary Edition (p. 96). Hay House. Kindle Edition.

1. As quoted by Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination [Vol. 3] (Kindle Locations 752-767). Kindle Edition.
2. Lipton, Bruce H.. The Biology of Belief  | 10th Anniversary Edition (p. 95-96). Hay House. Kindle Edition. Lipton's prescription: “We need to step back and incorporate the discoveries of quantum physics into biomedicine so that we can create a new, safer system of medicine that is attuned to the laws of nature.”
3. Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 815-818). Kindle Edition.
4. Just a few examples to get us asking if we serve as “patsies and errand boys.” Do our actions foster injustice, corrupted science, fraud, elitism, targeted surveillance, war, abuse, cover-ups, pollution, disease, arms and drugs dealing, false flags and crisis staging, PR and propaganda, fake news and scripted weather, and on and on?

Lost Soul of America

“Honest Abe”

Have we, the USians, become so USified that we see nothing beyond self-delusion? What makes US think, with all our nefarious and oft-denied history,¹ that we do not deserve, in multiple measure, the castigation and counsel delivered by Abraham Lincoln nigh 160 years ago.²

Have we become so normalized to the lies and crimes of the powers-that-be that we passively acquiesce (even joyously) to assassination whatever the alleged crimes of the victim³? Is Trump proving one of the most useful public “assets” that the Criminal Infested Agency (CIA) has ever encountered — so self-deceived he can't discern the intentions of his subtle puppet-masters — how set-ups are arranged outside his inner circle and then orchestrated by plants within that circle to play upon his egoic, bullying brashness? Why do we take such pride in being the criminal bully (without conscience⁴) of nations, justifying murder in the name of preemptive right and alleged USian safety and justice? Have we not clued in yet that terror-lies-murder have become the first and preferred “reaction / solution” to every challenge perceived (and oft-orchestrated) by US? that anyone who does not “play-ball” with the deep-US-state will be targeted whether innocent or guilty of alleged crimes?

It is way past time to sever forever the global ratlines of energy acquisition and control; of trafficking (weapons, drugs, organs, humans, sex); and of money-laundering, all of which feed the monstrous beast WE have become.

DO NOT MISTAKE: The originating Spirit and Soul of the USA still inspires and should inspire, but the crimes of corrupted politicians, officials, civil servants, and citizens who pretend to honor that Spirit are increasing to the point of no-return.

And DO NOT FORGET: National loyalty does not mean blind loyalty. In the relevant words of Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example to the world. I speak out against this war because I am disappointed with America. There can be no great disappointment where there is no great love.”⁵

Let US love the Spirit and lost Soul of America — the best of the USA. Let US wake up and stand — and demand that our elected and non-elected officials also stand — as moral examples to the world. And if they will not so stand: let us swiftly indict, prosecute, and replace them.

Perhaps we should begin with US-SOS Mike Pompeo (and then ponder what the applauding crowd reveals about our Lost Soul)?

Ex-CIA director Pompeo: 'We lied, we cheated, we stole' (GrayZone: April 24, 2019; 0:26 from Q&A at Texas A&M University) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac
(also Secretary Pompeo:"Lying, Cheating, & Stealing reminds you of the glory of the American experiment" (10Beads: Time: 0:1:50) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9zczFARuM

To hear the whole answer to the last question, go to minute 28:22 of the full Q&A:

“Secretary Pompeo Participates in Q&A Discussion at Texas A&M University” (U.S. Department of State, Time: 32:31) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wbfjspVww 

where those who know the real history of US imperialism and mendacity will witness the tragic hubris and hypocrisy that characterizes this corrupted nation. Yes, SOS, “We should never shy away from calling [you / US] out” (30:16; 30:34; 31:46). And if we wish a complete compendium of “bad actors,” (30:22; 30:50) history will undoubtedly rank US as lead actor. There is a mountain of published evidence already, if only we would inform ourselves.

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1. ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2008/06/memo-to-cindy-mccain-et-al.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2017/08/swamp-dwellers.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2017/10/operation-psychopath.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/10/pulling-curtain.html
2. “May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of Civil War, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted on us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” From Lincoln’s Works 1: 382; VI: 156; cited by John Patrick Diggins, The Lost Soul of American Politics, 330. As quoted in Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence: 2 (Powers, Vol 2) (Kindle Locations 5945-5954). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.
NOTE: how have we NOT forgotten God, when, in the space between prayers, rituals, and “worship,” we sanction our own forms of criminality, tyranny, terror, greed, and murder?
3. Did Soleimani Kill 600 Americans? - Questions For Corbett (CorbettReport: Jan. 10, 2020; Time: 12:19) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WHXvYpIaw&t=530s
The Assassination of Soleimani: What You Need to Know (Corbett Report Extras: Jan. 6, 2020; Time 36:59) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvaBgW_YU8s
4. Every “American” should take 26 seconds and listen to Pompeo: Ex-CIA director Pompeo: 'We lied, we cheated, we stole' (The GrayZone: April 24, 2019; 0:26) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac and then ask if the applauding crowd remembers God or has any conception of justice, ethics, morality, or sense of human decency?
5. “The Casualties of War,” cited by Coleman Barr Brown, “Grounds for American Loyalty in a Prophetic Christian Social Ethic” [diss., Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1979], 162. As quoted in Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence: 2 (Powers, Vol 2) (Kindle Locations 5962-5967). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.

The Unmentionables?

What do the powers-that-be in our secular society resist acknowledging?

Angels, spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satan— these, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture. The dominant materialistic worldview has absolutely no place for them. These archaic relics of a superstitious past are unspeakable because modern secularism simply has no categories, no vocabulary, no presuppositions by which to discern what it was in the actual experiences of people that brought these words to speech. And it has massive resistance even to thinking about these phenomena, having fought so long and hard to rid itself of every vestige of transcendence.¹

To a degree far beyond current recognition, the myth of materialism has served as such an integrating agent for modern society, but it has been an integration bought at the cost of what is most human, most aesthetic, and most meaningful in life.²

Having repressed the spiritual so long, however, we no longer have ready access to it. The wells of the spirit have run dry. We can scarcely rediscover in a few generations what it has taken the race millennia to learn by costly trial and error. So we find ourselves returning to the ancient traditions, searching for wisdom wherever it may be found. We do not capitulate to the past and its superstitions, but bring all the gifts our race has acquired along the way as aids in recovering the lost language of our souls.³

Here is someone else who has begun to frankly talk:

Does Satan Exist? (Amazing Polly: Dec 3, 2019, Time: 28:43) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsWIPv4TZzQ

How much will we allow ourselves to see? to hear? to understand?

Where are we experiencing evil disguised as the divine? Where are we experiencing the divine perceived by everyone as evil? How can we discern the difference? The struggle is most redemptive when if one enters it fully committed to discovering and doing the will of God to the very limit; that is, to seeking the creative transformation latent in the situation in which one finds oneself at any given moment. It is the “satanic” aspect of God’s will— justice, mercy, and truth misperceived as evil by the Powers That Be— that constitutes the threat and, simultaneously, the effectiveness of nonviolent civil disobedience.⁴

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1. Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence: 2 (Powers, Vol 2) (Kindle Locations 129-133). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.
2. Ibid. , (Kindle Locations 144-146). (Bold emphasis added.)
3. Wink, Walter; Collected Readings, (pp. 64-65). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.
4. Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence: 2 (Powers, Vol 2) (Kindle Locations 909-913). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.

Boondoogle?

Do we need a new word?

Here's an old one: boondoggle (pronounced boon -dog-gull):

A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.
  (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle)

Here's a possible new derivative: boondoogle (pronounced boon-doo-gull):

A boondoogle occurs when a corporation or entity that began its existence with a vision of service to humanity and with a mantra such as “Don't Be Evil,”¹ BUT, due to the rapid accumulation of wealth and a burgeoning sense of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, loses its way and falls into an inversion of purpose.
   [Usage example: The ABC Corp did a boondoogle.]

A recent case in point of a boondoogle, you ask? Just “google” the name Zachary Vorhies,² (ex-employee of Google) or, better yet, avoid the “hit pieces” and go directly to

● Fmr. Google Employee Alleges Blacklisting of Hundreds of Conservative Websites, Delivers Documentation (CBN News, August 15, 2019 ~Time: 2:25 min.)  at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hr8dAJBnK4&t=2s ; OR

● Google "Machine Learning Fairness" Whistleblower Goes Public ... (Project Veritas, August 14, 2019 ~ Time 19:34) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VeElBAeas ; OR
● Google’s Power to Shift Elections—Zachary Vorhies, Greg Coppola and Dr. Robert Epstein (American Thought Leaders,  Time 52:03) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buYS1biprSs ; OR
● Red Pill News - Whistleblower Zachary Vorhies Revealed Part 1 (RedPill78: Sept 1, 2019 ~ Time 36:20) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQ6k9B60So ; OR
● see other Vorhies' interviews conducted as “life insurance.”
● See also other Big Tech offenders at EXPOSED: Political Censorship in Big Tech (Project Veritas, August 2, 2019 ~ Time 6:08) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NzDLvVBdA

Should we be surprised at this boondoogle considering the spirit of power³ that seems to overwhelm most institutions and people who come anywhere near the seduction so perfectly described 180 years ago?

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men [and institutions], as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.⁴

In the words of Walter Wink:

An institution becomes demonic when it abandons its divine vocation for the pursuit of its own idolatrous goals.⁵

Exposing the delusional system is the central ascetical task in our discernment of the Powers. For the Powers are never more powerful than when they can act from concealment. ... to masquerade as the permanent furniture of the universe, to make the highly contingent structures of current oppression appear to be of divine construction—such is the genius of their deceptive art.⁶

The mighty prefer, therefore, to rule by means of invisible constraints: unseen filaments tied to the public's arms and legs, and imperceptible spiritual brain-implants causing the masses to will to be what has been made of them.⁷

But Wink also says:

The Powers are not intrinsically evil; they are only fallen. What sinks can be made to rise again. We are freed, then, from the temptation to satanize the perpetrators of evil. We can love our nation or church or school, [or corporation] not blindly, but critically, recalling it to its own highest self-professed ideals and identities. We can challenge these institutions to live up to the vocation that is theirs by virtue of their sheer createdness. We can oppose their actions while honoring their necessity.⁸

The Fall does not mean that everything we do is evil, vain, or hopeless, but merely that it is all ambiguous, tainted with egocentricity, subject to deflection from its divine goal, or capable of being co-opted toward other ends.⁹

Perhaps this current boondoogle is just one more ironic fulfillment of old Isaiah's words from circa 700 BCE?

[T]heir works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: ...¹⁰

Let us, WE THE PEOPLE, find ways to help turn these boondoogles back to their high vocations and potentials.¹¹

Let us muster the courage to speak of the “spirituality of institutions”:

Any attempt to transform a social system without addressing both its spirituality and its outer forms is doomed to failure. Only by confronting the spirituality of an institution and its concretions can the total entity be transformed, and that requires a kind of spiritual discernment and praxis that the materialistic ethos in which we live knows nothing about. To put the thesis of these three volumes in its simplest form: The Powers are good. The Powers are fallen. The Powers must be redeemed.¹²

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
2. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Zach_Vorhies
3. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-spirit-of-power.html
4. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:39
5. Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 1083-1084). Kindle Edition.
6. Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1308-1310).
7. Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1312-1314).
8. Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1010-1012).
9. Ibid, (Kindle Locations 1087-1089).
10. Old Testament | Isaiah 29:15-16 (Bold emphasis added.)
11. ● Almost every major reform can be traced back to a single person or a small group of people who were outraged by wrong. | Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 1107-1108). Kindle Edition.
● We have only to remind its managers that it exists to serve values beyond itself (though this "reminding" may require a protracted boycott or strike). Adam Smith himself acknowledged this when he wrote that the ultimate goal of a business is not to make a profit. Profit is just the means. The goal is the general welfare. |  Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1016-1018). Bold emphasis added.
12. Ibid. (Kindle Locations 203-206). Yes, we must muster the courage because “The current world-atmosphere has decreed that spirits are not real, nor God, nor miracles, nor spiritual healing. Therefore no respectable intellectual discourse is permitted on these themes.” |  Ibid. (Kindle Locations 804-805).

More of Walter Wink:
● In the biblical view [the Powers] are both visible and invisible, earthly and heavenly, spiritual and institutional. The Powers possess an outer, physical manifestation (buildings, portfolios, personnel, trucks, fax machines) and an inner spirituality, or corporate culture, or collective personality. The Powers are the simultaneity of an outer, visible structure and an inner, spiritual reality. The Powers, properly speaking, are not just the spirituality of institutions, but their outer manifestations as well. | Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 112-115). Kindle Edition.
● The Domination System is, so to speak, the system of the Powers, in a satanic parody of God, who might be called the System of the systems. The Domination System is thus equivalent to what the Bible so often means by the terms "world," "aeon," and "flesh." The Bible's insight into this system is essential if we are to oppose the Powers and the system that perpetuates them. |  Ibid. (Kindle Locations 749-751).
● The Powers are good, fallen, and redeemable all at once; and they were good, they fell, and they will be redeemed in God's domination-free order that is coming. |  Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1053-1054).
● Discernment does not entail esoteric knowledge, but rather the gift of seeing reality as it really is. Nothing is more rare, or more truly revolutionary, than an accurate description of reality. |  Ibid. (Kindle Locations 1316-1317).
● [I]t is not just the physical universe that was created with Christ as its means, medium, and goal, but quite specifically the Powers. They only have their being because of him; they are upheld, even in their defections, by him. They exist to serve the purpose of the whole creation as it comes to its focus in him. But if the Powers have been created by God in and through and for Christ, then they cannot be wholly demonized. No matter how evil the empire or a monarch or the priesthood or the local magistrate or Satan himself becomes, none of them can be ascribed Manichean or dualistic status. They are still, despite themselves, inseparably bonded to the principle of rationality and cohesiveness in the universe (Col. 1:17). Like a cancer dependent on the host organism for its very destructive energies, evil remains inescapably parasitic of the whole. Try as they will to become autonomous and set up their own interests as the highest good, the Powers must inevitably come to terms with the Power of the Powers. | Walter Wink. Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (The Powers : Volume One) (Kindle Locations 720-725). Kindle Edition.