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Esoteric Agenda

Hey, want to watch a movie and have a discussion with me?
Last week, my friend David sent me a link to a documentary film called Esoteric Agenda. Within 24 hours, several other Shift Your Spirits readers sent me the same link, all asking “Have you seen this?” A few of you requested a reaction from me…

So that you aren’t overwhelmed by despair, I’ll give you a few choice transcriptions from the end up front, because the last five minutes bear the reward:

This is the difference between the power of our Creator and anything else — particularly evil: That you can go into a pitch black room, full of evil, full of darkness, and light a little candle, and instantly that darkness flees. But you can’t do the opposite. You can’t go into a well-lit room full of truth and wisdom and righteousness and joy and health and harmony with the Universal power — You can’t take any amount of Darkness and go into that well-lit room and have any effect whatsoever.

That is the metaphor which I frequently think of when I think that I’m not empowered. It is the greatest lesson for me, and I think for everybody else, to know that we are on the winning side and that we win in the end.

I don’t know the identity of this speaker (perhaps you can tell me).

The closing narration reads like an introduction:

As you are watching this, understand that it is not a fight to be fought, it is not a war to be waged, no gun rights have to exercised, not a finger has to be lifted. Most people wonder how one person can make a difference. They ask that if all this is so simple, and all this information is available, why hasn’t someone else conquered their fears and changed the world for everyone else?

This is the most difficult and beautiful conundrum to our lives. Your reality affects you and only you, your curiosity has led you to this genre of information to serve a very specific purpose in your life.

To understand visually how the Universe is truly a hologram, a math professor at Yale University developed a formula that is plugged into a computer program… [it] shows a seemingly disorganized pattern; but no matter how far you zoom into the design, you will always find the same pattern within the whole pattern. Each fractal, broken down infinitely, will always reflect the whole. When one fractal changes its pattern, the sum total of the whole pattern changes along with it.

This exemplifies that the whole world does not need to be awoken, there’s no race to inform the 6 billion people on this planet of this message, it is only important that you personally learn to conquer your innermost fears and learn to love.

Links:
This final section can be found as Part 13 out of 13 on YouTube
The entire film can be found on Google Videos

I certainly can’t tell you what to think about this movie, and before I tell you what I think about this movie, I want to hear what you think… Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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38 Responses to “Esoteric Agenda”

  1. sravana on March 30th, 2008 2:39 am

    Well. That was interesting. Two hours later, thanks for the link, I think. ;) ;) What a way to spend a Saturday night. I think I need a nice hot bath after that!

    I thought that it was incredibly poorly put together. I’m still not sure if they were saying that pagan practices are bad, or being used to bad ends, but still good… or something that the Elites have kept for themselves (obviously the guy never met a Wiccan). It felt like they simply threw every conspiracy theory together with every new age idea, put it in a mixer, and spiced it up with that autopsy pic of John Kennedy (which I’d never seen, and now wish I never had).

    It’s not like I don’t have a decent handle on 2012 (via the books of Barbara Hand Clow), but the mentions of the Mayan calendar were just that - as though the creator thought “oh, I’d better throw in some 2012, just for fun”. I didn’t see the reason for that, except to link to all the Elites references to laws that will come into effect in …. 2012! Woo! (but if you listen to Carl Johann Calleman, it’s Oct of 2011, anyway).

    The whole section on how every president can be traced back to the Bilderbergers (or whoever) was completely without any proof - are we supposed to unthinkingly swallow that, or what? And we are owned by the UK? Huh? In this New Financial Age, we certainly are wedded at the hip to the UK and the EU and all the rest (so much so that the recent news rumble is that the almighty pound may be in for a … are you ready? … pounding (sorry for the pun - NOT) due to the average UKer’s debt which is supposedly even bigger than us poor suckers in the US.

    As someone who is very aware that this is the only habitable planet we’ve got, I found the wholesale condemnation of environmentalism to be shortsighted - even if it’s part of the “Elite’s” agenda. I’ve read enough to know that androgenic climate change can be questioned without losing one’s sanity (or burning one’s ACLU card), but REALLY. And there *are* too many of us for the carrying capacity of the planet. (you can tell that I have no children, right?) Not that I’m advocating genocide, at all.

    When I got to the end and the footnotes, I noted that many of the websites/books listed are of questionable validity - while the other half were seemingly valid. I heart Alex Jones greatly, but rense.com? And even Alex is overly-alarmist and full of himself at times.

    I found the whole message of the movie to be FEAR FEAR FEAR, with the hairpin 180 degree whiplash turn at the end - it’s all about LOVE. WTF? There was no preparation for that, and going from light’s interaction with DNA to Love in the last couple of minutes of the movie (all the while quoting the discredited 100th monkey theory) as some sort of solution to all the FEAR FEAR FEAR of the first hour and 50 minutes seemed to me shallow, empty and hollow. I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with all that information - and to me, that’s the problem with all the conspiracy theorists. It’s all very interesting, but this Virgo always begs the question: So? (sorry for sounding like Darth Cheney). Now what? My vibrations are going to be raised come hell or high water on the solstice in 2012 (if I’m ready for it, otherwise I… what? won’t survive? Will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West?), and that will be the answer to the Codex Alimentarius and the re-settlement of 99% of the US population? (so that’s what all those secret “detention facilities” are for!!)

    As I heard in a seminar yesterday - there are 2 basic human emotions: love and fear. By choosing one or the other you determine your destiny. Over the years I’ve done a pretty good job of choosing fear - but the fact that I can look at this video and shrug my shoulders tells me that I’ve had rather enough of THAT for this lifetime.

  2. Amy T on March 30th, 2008 8:25 pm

    I do believe we are all holographic, in fact everything is. If one thing is, then everything must be because there is only one “fabric”. And yet we all hold each our own holographic dream so there are individual dreams and the dream of the whole. There is a definite coolness factor to the universe that this can all be happnin’ at once.

  3. sravana on March 30th, 2008 10:11 pm

    A good friend of mine blogged about this, after I sent her the link: http://buddingyogini.blogspot.com/2008/03/do-you-need-fear.html

  4. Sheldon on March 30th, 2008 11:32 pm

    Here’s my conclusions after seeing this:

    1. I’m supposed to embrace my emotions (which stem from love and fear).

    2.Love is better than fear.

    3. Change is inevitable.

    Nothing I didn’t already know. Just a different way to explain it. I see some problems, though.

    1. The movie ends with “What Will You Do?” Only love and fear inspire action, so why is one better than the other?

    2. What do you do when you love somebody who is afraid of love?

  5. Jennifer Mannion on March 31st, 2008 8:08 pm

    Hi Slade, My husband and I watched the movie last night and it stayed with both of us today so firstly it DID have an impact. I agree with sravana in that it was kind of strange that the first hour and 50 minutes was all stuff that scares the hell out of you and then the last 10 minutes were all about your choice of love or fear…. I would rather have heard much more about the last 10 minutes personally…. Why go on about how badly the media and the government is trying to put fear into you and make a movie doing the same without some kind of compensation and more positive things to think about and do at the end to change your fate….. I started disbelieving what the media told me after seeing “Wag the Dog” years ago and now the only news I will occasionally watch is The Daily Show because at least I know I will laugh and they make comedy out of what is going on and the state of things. I am very interested to hear your comments on the movie….. Thanks Slade for making me aware of “Esoteric Agenda” and for wanting to get a discussion going on this very interesting movie. Gratefully, Jenny

  6. Sally on March 31st, 2008 11:43 pm

    Hi Slade,

    Thank you for bringing this interesting material to your readers. This is the first I had heard of the movie but not the content of it.

    I too am curious what you think.:) I started watching the movie in clips on youtube but felt too confused. So I switched to the full version on Google (thank you so much for that link).

    As I watched I just kept waiting for the pieces to be brought together in some useful information. Like Jennifer, we stopped watching tv long ago. I stopped listening to news years ago. But I have seen all that this movie shows in other videos on youtube. It really isn’t new.

    The best part about the whole thing was the end:) Thank you for putting that in your post as encouragement.

    And the sign at the end of the movie just seemed to encourage a state of fight or fear rather than Love. Perhaps I felt that way because of the “fear tactic” built into most of the film.

    I must say it was interesting, but not very well put together.

    Love to all

    Sally

  7. Patte on April 1st, 2008 10:32 pm

    Isn’t this what we have all been studying? Are not these the ideas we have all been trying to integrate, that we are all one, that what we do to ourselves, good or bad, we do to all of us? We are not to judge, but to do the best we can to be the best we know to be ?

  8. Patte on April 1st, 2008 10:41 pm

    Sorry,
    I only watched 13, not the whole 2 hours. Now that I have read everyone elses comments, I am glad I didn’t.

  9. Barbara on April 3rd, 2008 5:58 pm

    Hi there.

    Reactions. I once again had to face my sensitivity and vulnerability. All the talk of conspiracy, control, a future of robot-like existence touches me in places I often don’t know I have.

    It is apparent to me how I can get steeped in and then stay immersed in what is so negative. And then wanting to get out. It can be as natural and automatic as the fight and flight reaction. It is no wonder then the effort it can take NOT fighting, even though what I am fighting for seems to be my preference, never mind the better more logical choice. It does explain, too, my want to avoid conflict and my inability to really do that regularly. It comes out in more subtle ways than overt action, but it is there nonetheless.

    The other thought this movie provoked was my ability to distill truth. Would I know? Can I know? Is there a way to be unscathed by all that is not true? I had a fleeting thought/image just now of all that is negative touching me as its energy travels by me. How easily it can mix with my own energy, stick with my doubt or fear or even hope. Like to like.

    And as for all stories, it was nice to see the happy ending well used. There are solutions, manners in which we can be surrounded by all in that’s been created and create otherwise. I do wonder if the sole intent of the moviemaker was to demonstrate percentages of evil vs. good in the time spent on each. Simply reflecting our current reality.

  10. Amy T on April 3rd, 2008 7:19 pm

    This was an interesting point made by Barbara!
    “I do wonder if the sole intent of the moviemaker was to demonstrate percentages of evil vs. good in the time spent on each. Simply reflecting our current reality.”

    If you live in the now, can you choose joy continuously? Just do it? Move your own personal “percentage” up. Then as your joyful energy passes by/into others’ energy will it mix with theirs (light being more powerful that the absence of light that is darkness)? Can we reach a tipping point the more people choose joy?

  11. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on April 4th, 2008 7:51 pm

    Forgive my delay in weighing in on this film; I waited for several reasons — obviously, to give others a chance to share their mindful opinions and evaluations, but also because I haven’t been able to locate the correct spelling of kaka. (Google says this is some kind of parrot — I was looking for softer alternatives for bullshit.)

    Here’s some interesting statistics regarding my invitation to watch and talk about this film:

    A total of 8 people emailed me this link before I posted it.
    300 + people clicked through the link.
    63 people have replied by email or my contact form to share their thoughts.
    7 of you left a public comment.

    Here’s what’s either interesting, noteworthy, and/or disturbing to me — 100% of the people who emailed me privately about this film seemed to accept it without any refutation, questioning, skepticism, etc. Their emotional responses did vary from being “bothered” or upset by it to saying “yeah, they knew all this… and knew what was required of them.” But the bottom-line, not a single person (behind-the-screens) seemed the slightest bit outraged by the film itself.

    Isn’t it very telling that those of you who took the time to leave a public response here in the comments “called it out on the carpet” to some degree?

    You guys rock — thank you for being thoughtful, honest, and brave in what you had to say.

    I was pleased when Sravana left a first comment and it absolutely echoes my own sentiments. I basically read what you wrote, Sravana, and think “You took the words right out of my mouth!”

    I am always reluctant to link to or call attention to things that I just want to criticize or deconstruct. You can spend a lifetime trapped in a loop of intellectual righteous outrage (an entire conversation/ personal experience I’m going to save for a separate post). I chose to offer this up as a kind of experiment because it’s representative of a lot of other things — it calls into question, for me, issues like:

    Who decides what you believe?

    What is the flexible nature of history as a tool for justifying arguments? It was a women’s studies history professor in college who first alerted to the idea that you can ask different questions, with different agendas, and that history provides supportive evidence that can conform to your question. In other words, it’s less about inevitable, undeniable Truth with a capital T and much more about the historian asking the question and what his or her angle may be… Just like using the Bible as a source, you can find all kinds of support for entirely contradictory arguments…

    Fire and Brimstone as Spiritual Motivation — i.e., I’m going to scare you into behaving in the way I want you to. This is Old Testament - Angry God - You’re going to Hell if you don’t…

    Fear as a Marketing Tool — i.e., I tell you what’s wrong with you, what you’re afraid you don’t know, what you’re afraid you might be missing; I activate your anxieties and worries and then I offer you my name brand snake oil solution to make it all better, for just $19.95 if you act now and call to order. As an experience internet marketer, I can tell you that this is a prevalent, consciously chosen, and highly effective way to sell all manner of shit. Obviously, I choose some other approaches… This Fear as Motivator tool, in the context of the work I do here, would be if I told you you are in incredible danger from negative entities and you need me to clear them; there’s some secret you’re missing that’s holding you back — I know what it is and I’ll tell you. etc. You get my point.

    Isn’t this “Scare the hell out of people so you can come riding in on a white horse, wearing a white hat, and promise to save everyone from the Evil” basically the Bush Administration Foreign Policy? Isn’t the pharmaceutical industry working the same agenda with “treatments” and “on-going drug therapy” but never actual CURES for anything?

    And my big question here is if you’re the one introducing the fear in the first place, what does that tell you? I’ve read about Professional Service Scams throughout history where Termite/Pest Control companies dump nests of insects in your front yard in spring, and show up at your front door offering their solutions in the fall, just in the nick of time. Aren’t you thankful to them?

    Yes, this goes on all over the place in so many different scenarios, industries, contexts… the bottom line for me regarding this film is

    “Isn’t the fear mongering and conspiracy tactics this film proposes to uncover for you and the option/alternative it offers built in the EXACT SAME FORMAT?”

    WTF?

    In my humble opinion, for everyone who requested it, Esoteric Agenda is the definition of Hypocrisy.

    It is immature and adolescent in its revelation, and absolutely completely transparently ignorant of neo-paganism. Pick any faith and you can find a perversion:

    The Inquisition was a perversion of Catholicism/Christianity.
    The Salem Witch Trials were a perversion of Puritan beliefs.
    The Nazi’s perverted all kinds of power…
    Radical Islamic Extremists pervert Muslim beliefs.

    The list goes on and on. Hell, pick a fraternity or a multi-national company or a presidential administration and string together facts and meaningful coincidences, combine them with the right compelling technical pacing and trigger paranoia and program neuro-linguistic and hypnotic triggers… You can make all kinds of compelling stories.

    Compelling doesn’t it make it true or useful to anyone. Exposing things is not the same thing as manifesting their opposite. Tearing down a tower of evil is not constructing a temple of light.

    Why beat me over the head with 1 hour and 50 minutes of horror and deliver me into 4 closing minutes of beautiful insight? I knew a girl in high school who confessed to me one time that she tied her shoes too tight during the day because she enjoyed how good it felt to take them off…

    That’s sado-masochistic, don’t you think?

    I included that closing piece here separately because the man who spoke about the Candle in the Darkness did so with true elegance. I love his lecture. It’s valid. I would love to know who he is and where I can find more of what he has to say.

    Clearly, the makers of this film can not take any credit for his words, only for knowing how to yank them off YouTube and splice them in a digital sequencing program.

    My final thoughts/ considerations/ questions — the things I’m left to stew on and ponder — are simply the power of this web connected medium and what it can potentially be used for.

    The power of the technology exists separately from the content.

  12. sravana on April 4th, 2008 8:25 pm

    Slade wrote: Forgive my delay in weighing in on this film; I waited for several reasons — obviously, to give others a chance to share their mindful opinions and evaluations, but also because I haven’t been able to locate the correct spelling of kaka. (Google says this is some kind of parrot — I was looking for softer alternatives for bullshit.)

    Umm… I think it’s “caca”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cac%C4%81re#Cac.C4.81re:_to_defecate

    ;)

    I’m glad you liked my comment - even after sitting through 2+ hours of that movie (which had me thinking that I needed to buy a gun somewhere in the middle) I knew that I needed to spend another 30+ minutes writing about it (when I needed to be sleeping). It was, to use your term, CACA.

    Today I received an email from a friend about a movie called “Zeitgeist” (another conspiracy theory movie … “yin” to the Secret’s “yang”) - I can send you the link if you’d like. I haven’t looked at it, but may tomorrow. Except, of course, I have a life to attend to.. ;)

    sravana

  13. Sonn on April 5th, 2008 3:46 am

    this film is one man’s opinion. I personally won’t put any credence to it at all. An interesting way to get your opinion across to the masses don’t you think ?huh?? create a video !! opinions are like everything else…everyone’s got one, this is just a different way of talking about it.

    has anyone watched zeitgeist the movie?? also available on google or zeitgeistthemovie.com..(i think) also worthy of discussion :))

  14. Keera Ann Fox on April 6th, 2008 9:56 am

    Slade, thanks for visiting my blog! Sravana, thanks for the free advertising. :-)

    I watched the longer and better made “Zeitgeist”, but it has the exact same premise as “Esoteric Agenda”, which is They are all In It Together and the rest of us are their pawns. Where “Esoteric Agenda” says They want to nearly wipe out the human population, “Zeitgeist” suggests They just want to control it, body and soul.

    I do have faith that humanity won’t turn into sheep or that small groups of people can carry out evil plans without liability. But those of us with more of a clue should call caca where necessary so we can help others see the truth more clearly.

  15. Shaking the hell right out of it : Shift Your Spirits on April 6th, 2008 3:31 pm

    [...] Okay, I was testing everyone with last week’s movie night. Forgive me for being a little obnoxious as an opportunity to make a point. I decided when I started blogging and publishing articles that I had to stay away from taking a deconstructionist point of view. “The News” is generally about broadcasting what’s wrong in the world at any given moment. For anyone who identifies as an intellectual, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of critiquing, taking apart, and dissecting what’s wrong. You could spend a life-time looking at everything through a pessimistic lens or filter, always diagnosing, never contributing solutions. [...]

  16. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on April 6th, 2008 4:31 pm

    Thanks Keera!

    The post on your blog makes a great contribution to this conversation.

    For an alternative to Zeitgeist or anything else for that matter with a similar premise, please check out Humanity Ascending. I have some links to Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution at the end of my new post “Shaking the hell out of it.”

    You’ll LOVE it.

  17. Lucius on April 21st, 2008 8:47 pm

    The purpose of the film may be to get us to think and act primarily the latter. Most of us for the majority of our lifetime have been brought to believe things that are not true. Why? = Control. Why? = because no matter where you find yourself on the food chain for most people there is comfort in constant predictability. If you know the forcast you can prepare for the best outcome. I don’t agree with the film 100% but I don’t disagree with the film 100% either. There are truths within the film you just have to sift through the BS to find it. Because it stil was produce be people whose brains are still half shackled. However the only way to get our attention because of where most people are mentally and spiritually is throught the use one the one emotion that get our attention immediately. FEAR. However it is not fear that is important …it how we react to the fear.
    We have to realize that there are people/groups who have a relentless appetite for power as describe by the speaker in the film who made an analogy to a Chessmaster. The film maker may have used conjecture with how he strung together his hypothesis however the basis of the film is true. Zeitgeist which is another film that explores some of the same topics is the same way. The movie has many people attention however what are your going to do the information presented. With this film you can take the red pill are the blue pill. Most people will take the blue pill and believe whatever they want to belive. The few who take the red pill will be given the opportunity to encounter the truth. What you do with it it is up to you. The battle between light and darkness is so intense that the more you come to understand the light/force the more intense and subtle the battle against darkness becomes because those that which to control you don’t want you to be free. Because when you are in the light you can see the light in all things and discern it from that which is of darkness.

  18. LeePancheetah on April 25th, 2008 6:34 am

    So far I have come across many different documentaries on YouTube and Google Video. It’s obvious that something is going on and there is “a man behind the curtain.”

    I don’t have any intention of being a conspiracy theorist, but I do have to think about what is going on in the World right now and also in my own back yard.

    Here are a couple of things I am keeping an eye on:

    If you haven’t seen “Hacking Democracy” you might want to check that out as it provides some very compelling evidence of falsifying or tampering with the last 2 Presidential Election’s electronic results. So is it “President Bush” or is it more politically correct to call him “Governor Bush” as this documentary would suggest that this is the highest elected office that he has legitimately held.

    This does tie into “Esoteric Agenda” because this video specifically referred to John Kerry and George W. being tied to the elites. John Kerry promised to do a full investigation if voter fraud was suspected and according to “Hacking Democracy” he called off the investigation even though he told his campaign advisor he knew there was voter fraud. Hmmm? Suspicious.

    What about the Federal Reserve and the IRS. Numerous videos like Aaron Russo’s- “America: Freedom to Fascism” and “Zeitgeist” and even “Esoteric Agenda” all talk about how these are both unconstitutional. They cite supreme court justices, the IRC Code says that it is a voluntary tax and doesn’t even define “income” when the constitution defines it as profits & gains NOT wages or labor.

    Even how they came into power: IRS was falsely ratified and didn’t have enough state votes to make the 14th &16th amendments constitutional. The Federal Reserve is a Private For-Profit Corporation that creates money out of thin air for the government and banks in which the tax payers are footed the bill. Both cannot be audited and they’re considered part of the government? The Grace Commission from the Reagan Administration showed that the IRS collected money went to paying the interest on America’s Debt to the Federal Reserve, but Trillions of $$$ went unaccounted for.

    If that holds truth then who gives a shit if these so called “conspiracy theorists” are 100% accurate. You could be financing your own demise! Then giving a “fear” speech to denouncing these guys. The IRS is using its own fear tactic as we speak by using an authoritarian approach to get you to pay them for an unconstitutional tax. Let me ask you this- How many of you are “Ramble Rouser’s” that are still paying Federal Income taxes without asking questions?

    I may sound like I’m just regurgitating crap from these “Conspiracy Theorists” but bear with me because I might just be on to something here…According to these documentaries JP Morgan made a false statement in the early 1900’s that one of the most prominent banks at the time was going (reference the videos for exact times and bank names) bankrupt. He caused a mass panic and everyone pulled their money out causing major instability. This later allowed an elaborate plan for the elites to create & initiate the Federal Reserve & get it through congress to regulate the markets.

    Right before the infamous stock market crash of 1929 banks that were owned by the rothchilds, morgans, warburgs, rockeffellers, etc were issuing Margin loans where people could pay $100 and ger $1,000 worth of a companies stock. The catch was that they could be called back with only 24 hours notice. Numerous banks did this all at once which caused the crash. Banks that weren’t owned by these elitists went under. As a result these banks & Corporate America was snatched up for pennies on the dollar by these Elitists. They now control American Business.

    This brings me up to speed on what is happening now- only it has to do with American Property especially Housing. The millions of people who were sucked in by the “Teaser Rates” will most likely lose their homes. Why? When the term expires if they continue to only pay the minimum amount due their principal loan amount will keep growing year after year until it is impossible to for them to pay the minimum. They will eventually owe more than the home is worth so how in the hell do they sell it if they are upside down on the mortgage? They don’t. It will go right back to the bank.

    The real BS is how the government recently decided to “Bail Out” the banks by creating something like $200,000,000,000.00 to throw at the banks. But wait a @#$% minute- if the Federal Reserve is a private for profit corporation and most likely all major banks are owned by these elitists then they are bailing themselves out, making a boatload of cash, and leaving the taxpayers (how are losing the homes anyways) to foot the bill! The IRS will be right behind sticking it to everyone as they are the collection agents for the Federal Reserve. The elitist now own the American Property.

    This poses the next problem. The amount of inflation being caused is destroying the US dollar and we need a recession before it becomes a depression. Most likely this will simply lead to the North American Union, blah, blah, blah…after all it’s just people instilling “fear” and conspiracies right?

    I might follow up with this post later but I’ll leave with this- If the government has nothing to hide (which they have hid so much in the past) then there is nothing to worry about. They are just so good at being so suspicious and destroying our civil liberties every time something bad happens.

    Oh, and just to contradict myself I might add that the person behind the “Esoteric Agenda” might himself just be an Elitist with a cover: He has 90% of the video being the gloom & doom scenario and spills all, then pretty much says that its ok you can’t stop it and to love everyone even your enemies even if fluoride & aspartame jacked your teeth up and lowered your IQ and ate a hole in your brain- well I call your bullshit, so if you tread on me, my friends, and my fellow Americans then step into the pit and try to love someone.

    Have a blessed day! More fun to come…

  19. Amy on April 25th, 2008 9:19 pm

    You know, I am a conspiracy theorist at heart. But like Woody Allen said “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t really after you.” The game (politics, economy, etc, ad nauseum) has been GAME OVER for more years than any of us have been alive. It would not even cause me to blink if powers that be did, in fact, rig an entire election, kill JFK, or set up 9/11 as an excuse to start a war for economic gain. Question is, what can we DO about illegal taxation or a fake walk on the moon or anything else for that matter? It will take a spiritual REVOLUTION that begins in each of us - quietly, on the inside - and catches on like wildfire!

    Fight fire with WILDFIRE!!!!

  20. Humanity Ascending — Spiritual Online Films : Shift Your Spirits on April 27th, 2008 3:35 pm

    [...] I’m stunned by the traffic to, the excitement generated by, the (relatively unchallenged) interest in, and the amount of time, energy, and willingness to believe in, to glory in, to contemplate the spiritual pandemic of the Glass Half-Empty (Esoteric Agenda, Zeitgeist, etc.) [...]

  21. Carol on April 27th, 2008 11:20 pm

    We need not light a candle in the darlness, we are…let me emphasize that…we are…the light and the darkness. Both. All of us. When we pay attention to the light we see spiritually, when we pay attention to the dark we see from an ego standpoint.
    The construct of being human relies on us seeing from an ego standpoint.. Our goal is not to fight the construct, or to ignore the construct, it is to integrate the light and the dark…the spirit and the ego…so we can elevate the whole.
    An example: In WWII there were many who hid Jews from the Nazis. They did so at the risk of their own lives and the lives of their families, their children, their home, all they held dear…to keep strangers safe. This is an act of love that can only take place within the construct…a choice that is impossible on the spiritual plane. On the spiritual plane we know those people are souls connected to us and we know we live forever so there is nothing to lose. But here, it took embracing fear out of love and then living with it day in and day out. Those who made that choice are heroic in a way never known before and because of them, the universe expanded in love and light. This is no small thing. We contribute to both the construct and the spiritual every day of our lives, But it all works to the good. Everything works to the good.
    Amazing, dont you think?

  22. Madison on May 1st, 2008 9:44 pm

    I’m going to start out this with a bit of knowledge that I probably shouldn’t even share which will inevitibly cause people to disregard everything I say here.
    I’m only 16 years old and haven’t lived much of a life quite yet, but everything in this world facinates me tremendulously. When I found Esoteric Agenda, through a friend it was just further proof to me that there is so much in which we don’t know, and never will know unless we choose and attempt to see it.

    On to the main point of this, your use of the metaphor in the blog. You can lighten a dark room with only a candle but you can not darken a light room, and so on is probably my favorite metaphor I have ever seen used. But I was thinking about it, and I have an arguement.

    There is a way to darken a light room, and it’s what many people in our world to day do. They close their eyes, they remain oblivious to any thing put in front of them, they don’t take advantage of the amazing machine that our brain is, and they don’t WANT to learn.

  23. Ryan on May 8th, 2008 6:28 am

    Hello Slade, i stumbled across your post about that specific quote at the end of the movie,
    so who is the man who quoted that, i want to know his name!

  24. G on May 25th, 2008 9:06 am

    Since no one else here has said it I will, I’m pretty sure the guy who was in the video who everyone loves so much for his statement is Leonard Horowitz.

  25. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on May 25th, 2008 12:51 pm

    G,

    Thank you for taking the time to identify him — Leonard Horowitz — a lot of people have asked and I had no idea who it could be.

  26. MIKYLOHAE on June 8th, 2008 8:38 am

    slade,Help me on this
    Its crazy cause i heard a sample of esoteric agenda on 90.7KPFK FM and it wasn’t a coincidence.I think i attracted it.

    Q;What is the world without,in its relation to the world within?
    A;The world without is a reflection from the world within.

    So my point in fact…..
    What if I thought that an occult order/conspiracy existed in my pre-dominant mental attitude,or that this government is corrupted?and reflected it back in a more linear physical form?and in return got answers to what my constant thoughts were?

  27. Slade | Shift Your Spirits on June 8th, 2008 1:23 pm

    Mikylohae,

    Hmm… Very interesting. And of course the more you observe a phenomenon like this and believe it, then it feeds back to you (us) in a perpetual loop of manifestation.

    I do absolutely believe that our collective vision of ourselves is self-fulfilling. According to your theory, I’d have to say the most powerful thing you can do is to begin absorbing, exploring, and holding a vision of humanity’s power that is good.

  28. Steven Smax on June 10th, 2008 10:54 pm

    I do disagree with the major critique of the Esoteric Agenda video in that it is not a hypocritical piece inciting fear into the viewer’s minds. I think that if you get scared watching it then you are looking at in with the wrong perspective. Instead, I believe the video is intended to liberate your mind by exposing hidden truths and ideas. I think it opens a great range of so called ‘conspiracy theory’ topics for discussions and is designed to get you to think outside of the box and to not be another rat lost in the proverbial maze looking for that piece of cheese that will make us all happy. Given the positive side of the ending is a little short and should be expanded on a little more if we are truly looking for that perfect balance of good and evil in literature and media today. However take it for what it is, this video is a real eye opener.

  29. Pollitin on June 15th, 2008 10:26 pm

    The movie was certainly interesting and had me sitting in a dark corner of my room with my new death date.

    However, I do not find it logical that they’re planning to kill off 3 billion people.
    As today’s standards, we are NOT supporting the current 6 billion people, so why the need to kill off more? People are still dieing in Dar fur, starving in Africa, and wasting away in hospital beds.

    Why would the government kill off all its tax payers, the one feeding them the money? Unless they kill off the constitution (which is in progress) and make their own rules, I don’t see it happening. It was would be SO much more productive to go to war and take more land and kill all the fatty Americans. At least the strong and brave army propaganda commercials on TV will have a little more use, and as long as there isn’t a draft I honestly don’t have a problem with it.

    I do believe it is true that we have become completely cut off from nature and it does seem interesting that earlier civilizations were so astounded by the stars. I have lied down in the grass and stared at the stars. You kind of get lost for a few minutes.

    Overall, Zeitgeist movie seems more plausible, and The E Agenda almost makes me WANT Zeitgeist to happen compared to their movie. Like any conspiracy movie, you take small and true facts and then stretch them out a little. I’m giving The E Agenda an A+ for the fear but a F for accuracy.

    But damn, if it is true… wouldn’t that suck? But by the looks of people’s reaction here, people agree that the “let’s kill 3 billion people” is true. Otherwise I would be saying WHY are we here typing? Let’s get out and DO something. But people don’t seem to be have that attitude.

  30. Pollitin on June 15th, 2008 10:30 pm

    Last paragraph should of said:

    But damn, if it is true… wouldn’t that suck? But by the looks of people’s reaction here, people agree that the “let’s kill 3 billion people” is FALSE. Otherwise I would be saying WHY are we here typing? Let’s get out and DO something. But people don’t seem to be have that attitude.

  31. Ilja on August 13th, 2008 1:52 pm

    I’ve seen the movie yesterday, and one thing that puzzled me is that, although the things said affect whole mankind, most of the “conspiracy’s” apply to the US?
    I’m from the Netherlands and most of the things that where said to cause the new world order to gain complete controll, could not happen here since we have a completely different way of government.
    Sure, the US has influance on how we live our lives, but not to the extent it affactes our democracy. The Dutch have a habit of going their own way, and keep faraway from people/country’s telling them what to do.
    So my question in regard to this (eye opening) movie is: How does this so called man behind the curtain think he can have such a major influance on the lives of people living outside the US when they have no (or partial) economic control? The only answer i.m.o is that most of the mentioned conspiracy’s cannot be true simply because their power does not reach that far, at least, that’s what I hope ;-)

    Anyway, the movie does inspire to always keep an open mind to things happening around you, and that you should not just believe what others teach or tell you whitout looking into the matter yourself and draw your own conlcusions.
    Things are hardly ever as bad as they seem at first. It’s just looking at things from another (positive) perspective

    Another good docu that compares to this movie is Oil, Smoke and Mirrors.

  32. Brian on September 8th, 2008 5:38 pm

    Overall, I think it is excellent. It always helps to understand the nature of the playing field one is engaged on. You only need -look- at the results being produced to understand most of the government power structures on this planet are corrupt. For me, this movie connects a lot of dots.

    Most of the wisdom of the old world has been twisted and buried by those with an agenda to stay in dominance. BUT, the really good thing is that humanity in general is waking up and asking -a lot- more questions. It’s only a matter of time until that begins to snowball and we will have some major changes on this planet. So the overall message -is- a very positive one.

    For me, EA is just a particular viewpoint based on what certain people have observed. I found it informative and helpful overall and of course still retain the right to disagree with any particular portions I haven’t observed to be true. I do think movies like this should come with a warning label. Something like: “This is an attempt at brutal truth. If your goal is just to feel good and secure over the weekend, please strongly reconsider viewing at this time.”

    Some of us prefer the certainty that knowledge brings over a sense of comfort founded on beliefs and belief systems. I personally found that EA gave me some added certainty on where he have come from and where certain powers that be are attempting to go. And even what I can do if I don’t like it.

  33. 911truthfarmer on September 29th, 2008 3:23 pm

    I saw it this weekend and I mostly agree with the first reviewer. I think this producer has been listening to too much Alex Jones, who I consider a true patriot, but sometimes alarmist. I accept the NWO is out there and they have an agenda for us sheeple, (just read David Rockefeller’s quote about the media complicity in the “plan”), plus they have more guns. And they are building more internment camps, why?

    Change must start at home as they say, but concurrently we need to stand up and be counted, while trying to maintain our sanity too. I founded the local 9/11 truth meetup here and we hear about all the conspiracies. It’s a challenge to stay positive sometimes. But I can’t sit by while this country is destroyed. Btw, I recommend Bill Cooper’s (R.I.P.) videos and books. The “elites” really do have a plan. We need one too, and it should start with getting involved! Do SOMETHING.

    As for the film, it contradicts itself regarding paganism. It’s sloppy, and a bit amateurish IMHO. I think they wanted to top Zeitgeist, but it hopped from topic to topic without tying it together, and there were no references to documentation at all. It advocates to do your own research, trust no one, so does that include the filmmakers? I think so.

    I have to disagree with the filmmaker and many of my compatriots regarding climate change. Many in the truth movement have come to regard it as a scam and part of the NWO plan to control us. Well, maybe it is, but that doesn’t mean we can’t also use it to our advantage. The fact is, we should use the spiritual practice of ACT AS IF is it true, because it can only benefit the planet to reduce carbon emissions, have more open space, cleaner water and food, and less people. I don’t advocate eugenics or other population control except rational and voluntary birth control, and education (esp young women) which is known to reduce pop growth. Greening the economy will create new domestic industries, which can’t be bad. Carbon tax, no, that’s not good. Disarmament is a good thing. How that is achieved is open to discussion, but I think Kennedy’s document was presented to scare you. Taken in the context of the times, I think most people consider it a noble goal. Nowadays, I have far less trust that the U.N. is a truly altruistic body. Many people in it are, no doubt, but they don’t call the shots, so we need to maintain a healthy skepticism.

    A great quote I read yesterday was, “Anything the government wants you to know, probably isn’t true.” Knowing what I know now, I believe that to be the case. What we are told is probably 5-10 years behind the plans that are being implemented. The North American Union was planned years ago, and is now slowly coming into being. THey are destroying the economy to achieve these ends. We are led to believe the economy is an unwieldy beast that moves and sways of its own accord. This is a falsehood. They know what they do, and how to get there. This mortgage crisis, and bailout and consolidation of wealth was part of the scheme. You have to hand it to them, they have much more patience. I guess it is easy to when your hands are the ones pulling the strings.

    One thing we have to remember though, they are weak, scared souls, merely human. We have the true power of humanity and love and brotherhood, but we have gotten lazy and apathetic. It’s not completely our fault, like children we trusted, but we are waking up slowly. Hopefully our grandchildren will be able to live free and thank those of us who tried to make a difference.

    Don’t lose hope, whatever you do. Find a way to spread the word, and the love. I’m no Christian, but Jesus strikes me as one type to emulate. He walked the line between a spiritual being and a political being. The Dalai Lama as well. But there does come a point when we have to say NO MORE! And I think that point has come.

    I leave with this question:

    Could we ever have a general strike in this country? Because I think that is the only way we’ll ever make real change occur. We have to peacefully strike and shut down the machine, before we are completely ground up in it.

    Have faith, sisters and brothers.

  34. Scott on November 16th, 2008 12:30 am

    I would recommend reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. If you read this it seems like Huxley’s feared vision of the future may be more of a reality than fiction.

    This is what the book talks about in regards to The World State:

    “The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line—mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. At the same time as the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., “By Ford!”). The World State calendar numbers years in the “AF” era—“After Ford”—with year 1 AF being equivalent to 1908 AD, the year in which Ford’s first Model T rolled off of his assembly line. The novel’s actual year is AD 2540, but it is referred to in the book as A.F 632.

    From birth, members of every class are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep (called “hypnopædia” in the book) to believe that their own class is best for them. Any residual unhappiness is resolved by an antidepressant and a hallucinogenic drug called soma (Greek for “body”), distributed by the Arch-Community Songster of Canterbury, a secularised version of the Sacrament of Communion (”The Body of Christ”).

    Contrary to what modern readers would expect, the biological techniques used to control the populace in Brave New World do not include genetic engineering. Huxley wrote the book in the 1920s, thirty years before Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA. However, Mendel’s work with inheritance patterns in peas had been re-discovered in 1900 and the eugenics movement, based on Artificial selection, was well established. Huxley’s family included a number of prominent biologists including Thomas Huxley, half-brother and Nobel Laureate Andrew Huxley, and brother Julian Huxley who was a biologist and involved in the eugenics movement. In light of this, the fact that Huxley emphasizes conditioning over breeding is notable (see nature versus nurture). As the science writer Matt Ridley put it, Brave New World describes an “environmental not a genetic hell.” Human embryos and fetuses are conditioned via a carefully designed regimen of chemical (such as exposure to hormones and toxins), thermal (exposure to intense heat or cold, as one’s future career would dictate) and other environmental stimuli, although there is an element of selective breeding as well.”

  35. Carl on December 13th, 2008 7:59 am

    I’m not the smartest guy. 30 year old welder. Never went to college and will probly spell many words incorrectly in this comment. However. I do believe the very core of this video is to keep an open mind. Don’t dismiss evrything because it seems too crazy. Out of the norm from what you are taught and believed every since you was a kid in grade school. If columbus didnt have an open mind about the world not being flat… Then what? Someone else would have i suppose. One of the hardest things I’ve had trouble understanding was religion. I have figued out that some of the most judging and close minded people i have ever met, have been so called religious people. Although it says in the bible do not judge. Another question i have a hard time with is, what happened to all the people before christianity? Where did they go if they never knew about christ? Before christianity the number one religion was greek mythlology. It has an answer for everything thats happens in life or why things are the way they are. The one thing it did not offer was A heaven after life. So it was over taken fairly quick.( JUST IN CASE YOU ARE READING THIS. NO I DONT USE PARAGRAPHS. LOL) If you are religious and have SEEN this video. The whole video. Does this sound familiar? A New World Power takes control of the earth. People begin to starve and famine is spread across earth. The goverment then steps in and says we can help you. But You will do as we say. Sounds to me like the antichrist (New World Power) That comes to earth. Bigger natural disasters , starvation, disease and famine come to the earth. Humans brave uspeakable horrors. The antichrist (New World Power) says, I can help but you must take this number (666). The very first comment was the first one I read. Johann Calleman might have His own theory of a date and time the world would end or come to a dramatic change but the mayan calender does state and always has stated the end or dramatic change would come Dec. 21 2012. Sould we believe it? I don’t know. I’m only 30 and I think I have survived about 5 doomsday predictions already. But what if it is real? As far as pagan rituals being bad or good. Not really the point. Basically it’s saying that almost every religion and many symbols we still use are from one religion. In my own opinion. For me to take a lot of truth from this video would drive me crazy. But if you are like me you have always kept your mind open. Maybe not always believeing that a book handed down from thousands of years ago hasn’t changed a thousand times. Ever heard of the telephone game? A bunch of people get in a line . The first person says something. By the time it gets to the last person it is something completely different. And that’s within a couple minutes. Not thousands of years. But an even bigger mystery of the Bible is that at almost any time from thousands of years ago. You can reference the Bible and many prophecies and Things happening now are very similar. You can flap your arms a million times and never fly. Because our arms aren’t made for it. We have been told that from day one. But noone ever told a bee that. And despite his wings being too small it flies. So if you wasnt told that you can only do that or you couldn’t do this, what could we be then?

  36. Jamie on February 28th, 2009 2:52 pm

    This movie really threw me for a loop. I do belienve a great deal of it is accurate. The unfortunate side of the situation is that it renders us helpless against the plans that it depicts as already being set in motion. Is our only course of action to wait for the axe to fall? The end of the film does have a refreshing theme of sharing love, however will our love alone stop the “powers that be?”

  37. David on March 24th, 2009 7:11 pm

    The “filmmaker” is Ben Stewart, lead singer of the band Hierosonic. What are his credentials to make these claims? Does he have a degree in any of the subjects he is discussing? Does Ben Stewart have his own agenda? Why should we listen to him, when the information contained in this “film” is so full of flaws and mistakes? You need to ask these type of questions so as to not fall into Ben’s agenda.

  38. Diana on May 14th, 2009 5:05 pm

    i really loved the soundtrack too, but i can’t seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone know the names of the tracks at least?

    thank you

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