Stranger Things: Haunting the Future

Stranger things final conclusions

I wrote a blog article at the time of the first series so it seems appropriate to write another article after the final episodes over Christmas and new year.

My article was  sub-titled ‘Will got lost in the Woods’ and I discussed how the lost child is such a prevalent figure in our culture and society. I referred to paedophilia in the film industry (which is collectively known as ‘Hollywood’). But the institutional abuse of children goes far deeper and wider.

 Stranger Things seems to me to have gone full circle in terms of highlighting the way that children are vital to a connection between the material world and other dimensions (in the physicist David Bohm’s terms, the explicate and implicate order).

 

That is the reason why the children are used in the Government/Deep State experiments that are the basis for the beginning of the series (although later series took the narrative off to other realms).

And the other narrative thread in the opening series was Will’s abduction in to the Upside Down.

In the final series, Vecna tells Will that he took him because he was weak and vulnerable, and therefore a suitable conduit for him to channel between the material world and the Upside Down (literally, as he tells the now 17 year old Will his younger self was creating the tunnels beneath Hawkins as he slept).

 

Vecna says in the final series that he uses children as their minds are open and susceptible. El challenges him and says that he has underestimated that children are also strong and adaptable. I think there are elements of both in the reason the powerful ab-use children – they want to use the vulnerability to feed off the fear which they create in their victims, but there is also an inner power within children. This is something inside all of us, but the pressures of life, physical contamination and mental trauma and indoctrination (much of which engineered by those same people in power) dull the spark within us.

Vecna’s use of children to draw some sort of psychic power, can be linked to the military/government scientists using the blood from Kali (aka Eight, who was also a child in the experimental programme, who has psychic powers) and before that Henry, to create a new series of children with psychic powers.

In the final episodes, Vecna/Henry needs a new generation of young victims in order to bring about his plan to draw another world from an alternative dimension. He takes several schoolchildren, beginning with Holly, the sister of Mike and Nancy Wheeler.

Holly’s name carries significance, as the plant was an important Pagan symbol. The Holly King was in a perpetual fight of the seasons with the Oak King – the Holly King ruled from the Autumn Equinox until his power peaked at the Winter Solstice. The opening season of Stranger Things is set around Christmas, the second at Halloween.

The character Holly, when captured by the demigorgons and taken to Vecna in the alternate dimension dresses up like Alice in Alice in Wonderland. There is an old film poster of a Disney version of the film, on the wall of Henry’s house, to emphasise the point. There are many theories of an esoteric nature about  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s (pen name Lewis Carrol) story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

 It was based on his original manuscript ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’ , which reminds me of the Upside Down and tells about Alice being drawn in to a parallel, ‘nonsense’ world.

 The phrase ‘down the rabbit hole’ is now a staple to describe someone who becomes engrossed in uncovering the truth from surrounding deception (or, in a negative sense, to fall in to deceptive narratives and lose touch with reality). There’s also a link back to the very first episode, season one, as when the security forces kill the café owner who finds Eleven, and she runs away, Jefferson Airplane’s song ‘White Rabbit’ is playing in the background. This song is a classic of the late ‘60s psychedelic movement, with the line ‘Feed your Head’ an obvious reference to psychedelic drugs. Much has been written that the counter culture of this time, and the drugs, were created and pushed into the zeitgeist by covert state forces. The MK Ultra programme which is explicitly referenced in the first season of Stranger Things used drugs as part of the mind control. Books like Chaos by Tom O’Neil

have shown that the MK Ultra and similar programmes were played out on a national and international scale through popular culture and entertainment. Charles Manson was one major facet of this. [An aside, the series biggest name star at its beginning was Winona Ryder,

now into her forties, who began as a child actress in the Eighties. Her godfather was Timothy Leary, the 60s counter culture advocate for LSD, who was a friend of her father, Michael Horowitz. Leary has been implicated in MK Ultra and Dave McGowan in Weird Scenes inside the Canyon who wrote ‘Tim Leary was known for being a painfully obvious CIA asset and also had a home in Laurel Canyon.

Tim Leary and Charles Manson were both incarcerated in California Medical Facility-Vacaville at the same time in 1974 with Dr. Donald Lunde, who was appointed by judges or retained by lawyers, in some of the most infamous CIA-MK ULTRA-MIND CONTROL cases of the Twentieth Century.’]

 

Girls in the Hood

When Holly puts on the cloak (not a red one, but still, the image is very fairy tale-like) she breaks a prohibition from Henry to never go in the woods outside the house. This is clearly a trope of old folk tales, one we are all familiar with. Holly breaks the prohibition in a positive way, in keeping with the early versions of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (or ‘Red Cap’ as she was known in many places).

 Holly goes in to the woods because of a message left for her by Max and finds out who Henry really is.

The original oral folk tale on which ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was based symbolised a girl’s transition to womanhood and also narrated her overcoming the wolf (or werewolf) through her own cunning and resourcefulness. This was changed significantly by Charles Perrault in the first known literary version of the tale, in the eighteenth century. Whereas the original peasant girl is ‘forthright, brave, and shrewd’, Perrault wrote Little Red Riding Hood as ‘pretty, spoiled, gullible, and helpless’ (Zipes 1993, 9). Her faults lead her to be consumed by the wolf, punished for her deviance from the prescribed route and behaviour. This new fate was given to the girl in line with new codes of socialisation that were developing in Perrault’s time (Zipes 1993, 9). Bettleheim complains that Perrault’s tale ‘is not—and was not intended by Perrault to be—a fairy tale, but a cautionary story which deliberately threatens the child with its anxiety-inducing ending’. Bettleheim goes on from this to assert that it ‘seems that many adults think it better to scare children into good behaviour than to relieve their anxieties as a true fairy tale does’ (Bettleheim 1991, 167).

I referred in that article  in 2016 to how children being lost in the woods was a deep, perennial motif within so many ‘fairy’ tales and folk legends that make up our cultural DNA. Stories like ‘Hansel and Gretel’ featured children being separated by their parents and lost in the woods.

Of course, as I pointed out in my book The Lost Child in Literature and Culture, tales like this weren’t just about children losing their way, they were often about the parents deliberately removing them from the home and abandoning them in the woods because they could no longer feed them. Although the psychonalyst Bruno Bettleheim argued that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ had a positive message about a child growing into an adult and learning to fend from themselves away from their parents, I would say there is a rather deep scar embedded in this story and others like it, that a child is a burden on their parents and poverty and the pressures of life, cause some parents to be so desperate that they are forced to push them away, possibly to death.

In a different way, this forced mentality is at the heart of the modern ‘climate crisis’ agenda, which tells us that the human population is too large, and we over-consume to place a burden on the Earth’s resources. And this is causing environmental devastation. The answer, they say, is to reduce the population. The stark reality of that is not clearly articulated in the mainstream, of course, because ultimately that would entail admitting that the agenda is saying that people now living shouldn’t be here – the world would be better if they didn’t exist. In other words, many people now living should be dead, and many yet to be born should never enter the world. As has been pointed out by commentators such as James Corbett, the current ‘Green’ agenda, in its institutional forms at least, is a delicate repackaging of eugenics, the pseudo-science that advocated for sterilisation of those people deemed to be mentally or physically unfit, or somehow inferior.

 

The 1980s, technology and time

This seems like a long detour from the subject of fairy tales and Stranger Things. But, my interest in the “lost child” as both a constant, tragic reality in human society, and as a metaphysical archetype that transcends the material, can partially be traced back to the 1980s, the decade in which the entire Stranger Things series are set. At university, while studying English Literature, I was first captivated by Ian McEwan’s novel The Child in Time.

This was published in 1988, having taken several years to be written, interrupted by McEwan’s fatherhood.

This started a trend for me, in seeing various themes both of societal decay and of the disruption of time, around the figure of a lost child. In The Child in Time, there is frequent discussion of quantum physics through a  character who is a scientist. Probably influenced by McEwan’s relationship with Penny Allen, who was a spiritual healer and astrologer, the novel weaves discussions about time and childhood, with metaphysics and spirituality. This started my interest in the way that quantum physics,  and, more recently plasma, give scientific explanations of much which is termed supernatural. I think as well, there are many things that make the 1980s a critical decade in changes in reality and time. On a material level, it was the decade of Thatcher and Reagan, when much of the social fabric we have today was begun. Traditional industries were broken up, much of the current globalisation started to gain pace, and modern technological advancements started to take hold.

Throughout the seasons of Stranger Things, forms of technology  are prominent. From the early episodes, Will communicates to his mother through a phone (in a crackly, static way) and then through Christmas lights. Electricity crosses the boundary between the normal world and the Upside Down. Perhaps a nod to the electric universe theory.

I think the disruptions of time and our perceptions of reality could be connected to the ramping up of the operations of particle accelerators, most particularly CERN.  The 1980s were the year of very notable advancements. To mention 2 from CERN’s website:

11 June 1986 Heavy-ion collisions begin [I just noticed after first posting this article, the experiments were known as A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE)!!]

‘Just after the big bang the universe was too hot and dense for the existence of familiar particles such as protons and neutrons. Instead, their constituents – the quarks and gluons – roamed freely in a "particle soup" called quark-gluon plasma. In 1986 CERN began to accelerate heavy ions – nuclei containing many neutrons and protons – in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to study the possibility that quark gluon-plasma was more than just a theory. The aim was to "deconfine" quarks – set them free from their confinement within atoms - by smashing the heavy ions into appropriate targets. The first experiments used relatively light nuclei such as oxygen and sulphur, and produced results consistent with the quark-gluon plasma theory, but no real proof. In 1994 a second generation of experiments began with lead ions, and by 2000 there was compelling evidence that a new state of matter had been seen.’

In the final season of Stranger Things, there is reference to ‘exotic matter’ which is given in the narrative as the means by which the alternative dimension of the ‘Mind Flayer’ is being drawn in to our reality. Exotic matter refers to ‘materials or forms of energy that possess unusual properties, such as negative mass, negative energy density, or negative pressure. Unlike ordinary matter, which is composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons, exotic matter includes states like Bose–Einstein condensates, quark–gluon plasma, and antimatter. These substances are often studied in theoretical physics and have implications for our understanding of the universe and potential future technologies.’

‘Exotic matter is typically associated with scenarios that require violations of known energy conditions, such as traversable wormholes and warp drives. […] These theoretical constructs challenge the standard framework of general relativity, which assumes the dominance of positive energy densities and matter. Exotic matter, in this sense, refers to hypothetical materials that exhibit negative energy density or other unusual properties, allowing for phenomena like faster-than-light travel, time loops, and the existence of traversable wormholes.’ Exotic Matter: Theoretical Foundations and Potential Applications in Modern Physics. Vikram Kumar. Department of Physics, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi.

08 February 1988 Large Electron–Positron Collider tunnel completed

‘The excavation of the tunnel for the Large Electron–Positron Collider – Europe’s largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel – was completed on 8 February 1988. The two ends of the 27-kilometre ring came together with just one centimetre of error. The picture above shows a tunnelling crew after completing a section of the tunnel between points 2 and 3 on the LEP ring.’ 

14 July 1989 Large Electron–Positron collider: First injection

‘With its 27-kilometre circumference, the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider was – and still is – the largest electron–positron accelerator ever built. LEP consisted of 5176 magnets and 128 accelerating cavities. CERN’s accelerator complex provided the particles and four enormous detectors, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, observed the collisions. LEP was commissioned in July 1989 and the first beam circulated in the collider on 14 July.’

 

Another ‘side’ invention that occurred at CERN at the end of the 1980s

which has had the biggest effect on our material reality, in terms of how we communicate to each other, and how perceptions of the world are manipulated and transmitted, is the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. I believe it is significant that such a huge advancement in what has become the largest expansion in media since the printing press came about in CERN as I believe there is much about the experiments that have led to disruptions in perceptions of time and reality, if not the actual material fabric of the world. 

These scientific and technological milestones, that have altered our world in practical, social ways, as well as potentially altering the actual quantum ground of all there is. Probably appropriate that the ‘Mind Flayer’ is like a giant spider,

and Henry emulates the spiders he observes as a child. Their webs are multi-dimensional, weaving through the layers of reality and consciousness.

 

Demiurge as the lost child

My wife Liz mentioned before this final series about how Stranger Things had elements similar to Gnosticism, as the character El/even ‘created’ the Upside Down, or at least broke down the barrier between that and the real, everyday world.

 She calls the head scientist in the laboratory who moulded her in the fictional version of MK Ultra/Montauk ‘Pappa’. The Gnostics believed there was an original creator ‘Father’ who produced the ‘Aeons’, similar to angels, and that Sophia was the last of these. The experimental programme which produced Eleven, and ‘1’, aka Henry/Vecna, could be seen as a scientific/man-made version of the Gnostic creation.

Liz also referred to Gnosticism’s belief in how the material world was created as being centred around a lost child – as Sophia wanted to have a child but she went about it in the wrong way: she conceived without the involvement of her male partner or the approval of the Father. Her child was the “demiurge,” a misshapen, belligerent creature that was utterly unlike the other heavenly beings.

Sophia immediately realized her horrible mistake and cast her child out of the Pleroma (the Gnostic version of heaven inhabited by the Aeons) . The demiurge, now alone, believed that he was the only being who had ever existed, and created the material world out of his ignorance, foolishness, and malevolence, trapping sparks of divinity within Adam and Eve along the way.

Because of her fall and its dire consequences, Sophia became a flawed being. Her deficiency rendered her unable to remain in the perfect “Fullness” of the Pleroma, so she was placed just outside of the Pleroma, in a realm above that of her malevolent son. In anguish, Sophia repented, and the Father agreed to bring her back to the Pleroma once what had become lacking in her was restored to its natural fullness.

Sophia had broken the way conception was meant to be, through a union of a male and a female Aeon. Sophia is the name given in recent years to a prototype robot which was later awarded Saudi Arabian citizenship (incidentally, the robot was produced in 2016, the year Stranger Things premiered).

I think the promotion of transhumanism and AI is being pushed partly as a replacement for real children, the children which those in power want to either destroy, control or use to tap into their inner power.

 

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Media, Manipulation and Hellfire

When finding their way through Henry’s memories to ‘shortcut’ to where he is, Max takes El and Kali through a school corridor to a stage where hooded figures are doing a ritualistic style dance with ghost masks on their faces (similar to those in the Scream films). The play is apparently produced by Joyce Byers, Will’s mother, as she was at school with Henry.

 When the curtain closes across the stage, Max pulls it back and takes them through to Henry’s house where he is in a trance, joined hand-in-hand with the children . This abrupt juxtaposition of the education system, then theatre, as two forms of indoctrination, provides the portal to a scene where the  inherent power within children is being used to travel between dimensions.

The scenes of Henry hand in hand with the children with candles lit around them was already reminiscent of a Satanic ritual. It was during the 1980s that headlines on both sides of the Atlantic proclaimed a ‘Satanic panic’ and many of the stories were soon discredited as being false memories planted by delusional or unscrupulous social workers and other professionals. I would agree that such professions have increasingly been used to create false narratives, with children and adults. But it seems to me that much of the ‘Satanic panic’ hyperbole and counter discrediting was set-up to hide actual abuse of children. This is alluded to in season 4 of Stranger Things, when there is frequent mention of Dungeons and Dragons being demonic, and the children who are members of the “Hellfire Club” come under suspicion when Eddie is accused of murdering Chrissie.

Another layer to add of course is that ‘Hellfire Club’ was a term used to describe several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Great Britain and Ireland in the 18th Century. The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high-society friends. The most notorious club associated with the name was established in England by Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.

A 1730s incarnation of the Club under Sir Francis Dashwood met at the George and Vulture Inn. This version's club motto was Fais ce que tu voudras (Do what thou wilt), a philosophy of life associated with François Rabelais's fictional abbey at Thélème and later used by Aleister Crowley.

According to at least one source, their activities included mock religious ceremonies and partaking of meals featuring such dishes as "Holy Ghost Pie", "Breast of Venus", and "Devil's Loin", while drinking "Hell Fire Punch". Members of the club supposedly came to meetings dressed as characters from the Bible.

 

Wharton's club came to an end in 1721 when George I, under the influence of Wharton's political enemies (in particular, Robert Walpole) put forward a Bill "against 'horrid impieties'" (or immorality), aimed at the Hellfire Club. After his Club was disbanded, Wharton became a Freemason, and in 1722 he became the Grand Master of England.

In Stranger Things, the checkerboard floor found in Freemason lodges makes regular appearances through the seasons. In the final series, it is the floor of the radio station that two of the older characters broadcast from. This emphasises the connection between the occult, secret societies, technology and the media.

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Back to the Future

The Duffer Brothers apparently came up with the synopsis for Stranger Things after originally thinking of a narrative inspired by the ‘concept of the 2013 film Prisoners, detailing the moral struggles a father goes through when his daughter is kidnapped, and expand it out over eight or so hours in a serialized television approach. As they focused on the missing child aspect of the story, they wanted to introduce the idea of "childlike sensibilities" they could offer, and toyed around with the idea of a monster that could consume humans. The brothers thought the combination of these things "was the best thing ever".’

So, lost children were central at the outset, and then the fantastical ideas emerged from that. To me, this connects with the themes and arguments of my book The Lost Child in Literature and Culture – the lost child archetype is a material, real tragedy which is a massive rupture in our societies, and out of that is metaphysical rupture in our reality, which disrupts and traverses the boundaries between dimensions.

‘To introduce this monster into the narrative, they considered "bizarre experiments we had read about taking place in the Cold War" such as Project MKUltra, which gave a way to ground the monster's existence in science rather than something spiritual.’ (Wikepedia). I would say, as in the cross over between science and the spiritual in Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time novel, that scientific concepts such as quantum physics and plasma are different ways of expressing the metaphysics of many spiritual beliefs, consciousness and the supernatural. The ‘bizarre’ experiments like MK Ultra were actually sickening and traumatic. Rather than be dismissed as some madcap ideas, they should be properly considered as the attempts to manipulate and control people, and disrupt perceptions of reality.

The original working title for the series was ‘Montauk’, a reference to the Montauk Project where it is alleged that huge numbers of children were kidnapped and used for trauma based mind control experiments, with an emphasis on trying to create and discover those who had telekinetic and psychic powers. In the final epilogue of the last episode, Hopper proposes to Joyce and says he has been offered a new job so they can leave Hawkins to move to…Montauk.

 Apparently, the Duffer Brothers chose the year 1983 as the setting for the first season ‘as it was a year before the film Red Dawn came out, which focused on Cold War paranoia. Subsequently, they were able to use all their own personal inspirations from the 1980s, the decade in which they were born, as elements of the series, crafting it in the realm of science fiction and horror.’

The Soviet Union certainly do feature prominently in later seasons, and they also carried out many secret experiments with the aim of unlocking esoteric knowledge and breaking the barriers between the material and metaphysical. But they are just another aspect in the period of the 1980s, a critical time for a shift in the nature of things.

The other psychic child become adult in the final series is Kali, another name chosen for its evocative esoteric connections. The goddess of darkness and destruction who is also revered in Hinduism as the bringer of creativity, as one must follow the other.

 The ‘Kali Yuga’ is the dark period of thousands of years out of which our world is just emerging.

Stranger Things is not the only story in recent years that focuses on troubled or lost children and plays with shifts and ruptures in time and reality, set in our past of the 1980s. The film Donnie Darko and the German streaming series Dark are also very powerful. As we seem to splinter further in terms of our societies and our perceptions of reality, we seem to  be increasingly drawn back to this past, looking back as we are haunted by our future.

Thoughts on Southport

 

Thoughts on Southport

 

A few instant thoughts – why would a17-year old, of whatever origin, background, ethnicity, suddenly decide to get a taxi to a yoga studio, called The Hart Space, running a dance class for young children, themed on Taylor Swift? It has all the hallmarks of the many engineered, mind-controlled killers, lone gunmen, school shooters, supposed terrorists over the years, many in the U.S. but more frequently in Britain, Europe and other western countries.

So many times this has happened, recently as well in the U.S. with the Donald Trump ‘shooting’, which I believe was also staged, with a poor patsy killed by the authorities and blamed for the shootings.

The internet quickly put out a name for the alleged assailant. That he was said to be of  Islamic, immigrant nationality. Mainstream media has rejected this as fake news – Reuters for instance – ‘Misleading posts, opens new tab on X, Facebook, and TikTok said the detained suspect was an asylum seeker named “Ali Al-Shakati” and that he arrived in Britain by boat in 2023.’

Predictably, frustrated and angry people took to the streets and started rioting. Which was in turn condemned by the media.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the attacker was found out to be British, white, as this can then be used in the continuing campaign against ‘online misinformation’, the increasing censorship. The fake news, if it is, that the attacker was an immigrant, would kill 2 birds one stone – if they keep things bubbling along enough, for increasing violence on one side, which, they will then hope, will get a counter riot from immigrant/ethnic populations. They can then reveal that that the attacker is British and unleash an even great backlash on the ‘right wing conspiracy theorists’ – similar to the January 6 supposed riots and attempted coup in the U.S. – They can even use the ‘domestic terrorist’ designation for us.

So that’s why it’s important people don’t fall in the trap. Many commentators have predicted for years, decades even, that there would be increasing immigration to the U.K. and western countries to break down those nations, continue to divide and rule. And also, with all the other fears and pressure they have increasingly inflicted on all populations, the increased numbers of immigrants – many times previous years, since the CONVID scam and the lockdowns, when so many other agenda initiatives were rushed in with greater and greater intensity.

A side line – the heatwave. A friend of mine mentioned when we were at the Glastonbury Symposium at the weekend how surprising there were no chem trails as they usually do, which has led to the record rainfall in the last 12 months and the general blocking of the sun and decreasing of temperatures (despite their ridiculous propaganda that we have and record hot spring months, when for myself I’ve never known the need to have our central heating on at the end of May! So, now it is very hot, humid. The classic scenario you’ve seen in many films and descriptions of actual social unrest – the raising of heat, in a country particularly that’s not accustomed to it, raises emotional temperatures too.

So the powder keg has been lit. Elsewhere, there was the Trump 'shooting' of course, the increasing, continuing horrific genocide of the Palestinians by Israel, supported by U.S. and also Britain and the rest of the West. The protests across western countries which have had counter pro-Israel, anti-Islam, anti-immigration protests. Legislation in the U.S enforcing the draconian laws against so-called antisemitism which basically outlaws any criticism of Israel’s actions and anyone who is Jewish, no matter what they may have done.

And now, they have killed a Hamas leader, prompting angry rhetoric of retaliation from Iran.

To go back to the tragic murder scene in Southport. This was a place near Liverpool, a city in the U.K. which has long been known as a place of working class fervent, of protest and scally anti-establishment criminality. A prime place perhaps to spark a backlash and maybe then feel justified in increasing police levels. They mention, hardly relevant really, that the girls were at a Taylor Swift themed event. This made me think of the Ariana Grande concert in nearby Manchester and the alleged explosion by a patsy terrorist. The connection of celebrity, pop puppets in a blood sacrifice ritual to create a breakdown in society.

The language used in the alleged disinformation on the Southport attacker, that he is ‘known to MI5’ recalls the supposed Manchester Arena bomber who was known to MI5 (another patsy).

And finally, perhaps at a slightly more esoteric level the location of the murders  - Hart Street. A blood sacrifice – child sacrifice – stabbed in the heart. Possibly random, but look at a map of the U.K. I had an image of it like a body, Scotland the head, sat down with the bum around the south east [no offence], and leg stretched out in front as Cornwall. Wales is like a protruding belly, perhaps even a pregnant one. And Southport sits above it, you could say where Albion (to use a Blakeism) has its chest. And what do we have within our chests?

 

We know the rapid increase in heart attacks in this country, caused by what in the U.K. are termed ‘jabs’. I’ve thought before – in the U.K. the injections are knowns as ‘jabs’ and there have been issues, particularly in London, about increased knife crime. In the U.S the term is ‘shots’, and the U.S. has problems with gun crime, and that is also being used for the agenda.

The venue for the dance class was called ‘Hart Space’ and was run by a yoga teacher. In yoga - The Heart Chakra (Anahata Chakra) is the fourth energy center in the yogic tradition. It is located in the centre of the chest and is associated with love, compassion, and forgiveness. A balanced Heart Chakra allows us to confidently give and receive love.

This sacrifice is seeking to destroy these energies and turn positive in to negative, love into violence, new life into death, hope into hopelessness.

I agree with David Icke on twitter following the rioting in Southport:

‘Falling for the plot. Scenes in Southport near a mosque in the wake of the child murders. They are pawns in a game they don't understand and this is what they need to know:

I have been warning for so long that the plan was to allow unchecked numbers of people from other cultures and religions into the West - mostly adult young men - and then instigate trigger events to create (un)civil war between them and the indigenous culture.

We are now there in a classic divide and rule in which two 'sides' manipulated by the same force are brought into conflict to create chaos and mayhem to (1) justify fascist laws; (2) generate widespread fear and anger; and (3) have the 'sides' so focused on fighting each other that they don't see the strings attached to both held by the same hand.

Both 'sides' are being played by a hidden hand via puppet governments with mass immigration that has transformed Western cities with the incoming cultures. This has been coldly calculated for decades and especially since the Blair era which set out to culturally change Britain in a way that was irreversible. The focus should be directed at those in political power and their masters in the shadows who have made this happen and go on doing so.

Cultures from other lands need to respect the culture they enter and not, as some do, seek to usurp it and impose their own. If you go on doing that then (un)civil war is inevitable.

Both 'sides' have been put in this situation by a Cult that hates them. Whether white or brown you are all just human trash to the Cult. We have to find common ground and realise that we are being played off against each for an agenda that involves the fascist control of all of us.

Both sides need to realise there is a common foe and find common cause in responding to that. If we don't, we have seen nothing yet.’

Now the military want to stop you speaking...

 A weapon has recently been patented, by the U.S. navy for some reason, which can record and transmit people's speech back to them, in an auditory loop. This 'non-lethal' weapon is described in articles such as the one below as aiming ' to surreptitiously render a person unable to speak.' 

More than one article makes the analogy of using the internet to call someone, or being in a Zoom meeting, and getting noises bounce back at you, or lots of people speaking at once and not muting their microphones, and the confusion such a cacophony causes. The effect is often that any discussion is made incoherent,  a modern tower of babble. Of course, in our recent forced isolations, we became increasingly reliant on such technological communication. Worth remembering that while our words need a synthetic medium to be transmitted to others, they are more prone to distortion.

The New Scientist recently published an article with an interview with a cognitive neuroscientist which describes how the delayed feedback impairs our ability to control our voice. The weapon can be targeted at the ears of individuals and may cause them to stammer, stop talking altogether, or distort their speech.

I'm reminded again of my novel, The Individual, where a future version of humanity never speak. This weapon is another step in the war on words: whether mainstream media propaganda and lies or big tech censorship, or restrictions on human face-to-face (unmasked) interactions, our ability to communicate freely is being eroded. Another crucial aspect of being human is being taken from us.

Thoughts on the sad murder of Sarah Everard

 Firstly, I want to make clear that any loss of a life is a terrible tragedy. This piece of writing is not belittling that in any way, in fact I want to stress that bigger forces are manipulating this for their ongoing agenda, to damage many more lives.

Alarm bells went off for me when I heard that the suspected murderer was a policeman. Firstly, I thought of the analysis of Neil Sanders in his book Your Thoughts are Not Your Own that many serial killers in the U.S. have had involvement with the military or police, or been influenced by family members in law enforcement or armed forces. He suggested that these murderers could have been themselves victims of the mind-control the rest of his book documents.  Programmes like MK Ultra have now become part of our cultural lexicon after their reference in popular, mainstream entertainment like Stranger Things. The policeman alleged to have murdered Sarah Everard was, even more suspiciously, a member of a division working on the security of Parliament and diplomats.

I’m not saying that the policeman here was mind-controlled but his profile as a murderer in uniform fits into the agenda that has been forced on us over the last 12 months. I read that Pritti Patel proclaimed that people shouldn’t distrust the police because of the actions of one bad person, that the vast majority of policemen and women were trustworthy and doing a good job. If you read her words another way, she is saying a significant minority of police can’t be trusted.

This narrative recalls the Black Lives Matter, ‘defund the police’ protests of last year. An apparent violent murder of a black man by a policeman was ramped up within hours to go around the world and instigate riots and division. I say ‘apparent violent murder’ because I know there are a number of anomalies regarding the video of the George Floyd incident, and claims that Floyd had actually died some time before, that he and the policeman knew each other and were both actors. Such information and disinformation is typical; what is striking is the way this video went ‘’viral’ (to use the loaded term) and was immediately taken up by BLM, who received millions of dollars in funding from billionaires and multi-nationals. The rich and the powerful fell over themselves to ‘take the knee’ (a number of researchers pointed out this was a Masonic ritual).

In the upside down world the one percent have put us in, a protest movement was created so those who considered themselves ‘woke’ and ‘liberal’ could protest against the abuse of power with the support and enablement of those in power. People, many with the right intentions to stop the very real injustices of racism and police brutality, became the tools of those responsible for these injustices. Divisions were created between black and white, people fought on the streets, already struggling businesses were destroyed.

And now, protests are planned to ‘reclaim the streets’ in London and other parts of the U.K. to call for freedom for women to be able to walk the streets without fear. Of course, no-one should fear going out, should have the freedom to go out and live their life as they please. But the people jumping on this bandwagon are, for the most part, totally unaware of the irony and hypocrisy of campaigning for something which we have all been denied: the entire population are told they must live in fear, refused freedom of movement, expression and speech.  

Again, the explosion from mainstream media, through internet, social media has propelled this isolated incident into blanket statements like ‘why I hate men’’, ‘protect your daughters, educate your sons’ (graffiti seen in Bath today). A Green party peer, Jenny Jones, called for a 6pm curfew for all men so women could walk the streets safely at night. The fact we are all still in lockdown, and told to stay home to ‘’save lives’ seems to have been lost on commentators.

Like BLM, the right of people to protest is being proclaimed loudly by many people who have condemned the anti-lockdown protestors. Yes, the right to protest is vital, so don’t criticise those who want to resist actual establishment totalitarianism and civil rights abuses.

The rights of women and the eradication of violence against them are valid causes. My wife has worked with survivors of abuse and I know it is sadly all too prevalent in the world. But the repressive lockdowns imposed by our government and championed by the supposedly liberal, have caused a horrific escalation of domestic violence. Perhaps allowing us all our civil rights would actually improve the lives of women and enable those in damaging situations to escape?

It strikes me that this tragic death is being used to further the agenda which we have been suffering within. Like the Floyd video and the riots and propaganda that followed, the police are being cast in a negative light. I think the police have been guilty, here and elsewhere, of abuses in arresting people, including the elderly, for simply wanting to walk around, or socialise in their house. The campaign that is ensuing now, like BLM, deflects attention from the fact that we are ALL being subjected to coercion, control and abuse in some form. The powers that shouldn’t be want conflict. They also want to divide and rule, so identity politics is used as a tool to push people apart. BLM was pitting black against white, or left against right (in the false political paradigm). Now, they are trying to divide women from men.

One potential result of this, or at least another element amongst many, is a decrease in the birth rate. Fertility is already at a record low, sperm counts in men are way down and girls are experiencing early puberty and women are losing eggs and having more miscarriages (Count down: The infertility crisis - EHN ). Physical changes caused by radiation, heavy metals, chemicals are exacerbated by social changes. The sudden proliferation of transgenderism, with children being encouraged to take puberty blockers whose effects can’t be reversed if there is any future change of mind, result in the inability to bear children. The UK government guidance on the current experimental COVID ‘vaccines’ says that they ‘don’t know’ what their effect on fertility will be. Some people have declared they won’t have children because of man-made (elite fabricated) CO2 climate change - a continuing part of the institutionalised self-loathing for being human which feeds into the eugenics agenda to reduce the population.

I see the reaction to this individual tragic murder (which will sweep up many who are genuine in their intentions) as fulfilling another goal of the elite: when there is talk of society (maybe, hopefully, if we are really obedient) slowly being opened up, this is provoking calls for curfews, engendering fear about being out and in public. I read an internet chat with several women remembering times they had been on nights out in the past, getting drunk with friends, and walked home alone. None mentioned they had been attacked, they may have been putting themselves at unnecessary risk at the time, but they were now talking about going out with friends in negative terms. The longed for freedom to go out again and party was being corrupted as another fear was brought to the forefront of their minds. One of the women said she would go on one of the ‘reclaim the streets’ protests, just as she had gone on BLM marches, but she disapproved passionately of anti-lockdown protests.

I’m sure, following Jenny Jones ridiculous statement, there will be further calls in the coming weeks and months for either women to stay home to stay safe, or for men to stay home to make women feel safe. Another facet of the agenda of fear and control will be played out, encouraging people to distrust each other and retreat to insular, virtual worlds.  

The Language Virus

 

I wrote a novel years ago which was partly about a future people who have no symbolic or verbal language. They only communicate telepathically by transmitting images and emotions. Language of the past is seen by these future people as synonymous with violence and deception and because of this, merely uttering sounds from the mouth is seen as shameful. Speaking is now taboo and this prohibition is rigidly enforced by the elders of the village.

I was reminded of this when stumbling upon several reports, in mainstream media, of official, supposedly scientific studies which said that not only singing can spread the virus, so can talking. For example:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8647491/Talking-just-risky-SINGING-spreading-coronavirus.html

and:

Moving on from the fact the above article was published in the ‘I’ newspaper in the U.K. on September 11^th, and the fact it pushes the boundaries even in these insane times for how far we are supposed to believe the pronouncements of scientists, the article states that actually raising your decibels in speech increases the transmission of the virus. It tells us that ‘droplets too small for the eye to see are ejected while speaking. They evaporate to leave behind particles big enough to carry viable virus’. This puts the thought out (and the planting of thoughts is itself an invisible transmission that infects people’s minds) that by speaking to someone, you can be killing them, or killing someone else in the future. This reminds me of both Tony Burgess’ novel Pontypool Changes Everything, where zombies are created through a breakdown in language, and Ben Marcus’ novel The Flame Alphabet where a deadly disease is transmitted through speech, specifically by children. In The Flame Alphabet, the adult authorities have children rounded up and taken to internment camps. In unrelated news the British Army, in their role ‘helping’ people to test and self-isolate in Liverpool (first city in a nationwide operation) have been carrying out testing of children in schools. At least one school told parents their children would be barcoded and those who test positive ‘secured’:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/army-to-carry-out-mass-covid-19-tests-on-children-in-liverpool/ar-BB1aOl6f?MSCC=1603455896

‘Secured’? Where and how? Imagine being a parent receiving that letter (the school in question were forced to backtrack). Far worse, imagine being one of the children faced with the army coming to their school, administering tests on them, and telling them they are infectious and need to be isolated from their friends and family…

In further unrelated news, there have been articles about camps in Canada where people with COVID can be housed, away from the general population. Michael Ryan, a high-level WHO official, publicly stated that most infections were now happening in homes and authorities therefore needed ‘to go and look in families to find those people who may be sick, and remove them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner.’ So, asking for children to be removed from their families, or for parents to be removed from their children, if someone is thought to be with COVID. Even though children, even in official, sanctioned studies, are at almost zero risk of serious illness. The infamous Bill 6666 introduced in the American Congress in May this year gives $100 billion funding for the testing and tracing of people who may have ‘the’ virus, through mobile units which can go to community ‘hot-spots’ and test and ‘quarantine’ people ‘at their residences’. The Bill is short and vague, which is in keeping with emergency legislation ushered through in this country (U.K.) without any meaningful questioning by our politicians.

 And this brings us to another side of the importance of language: reading and listening to what is said, and speaking out to question it. This is being denied, restricted or silenced. The mainstream media overwhelmingly pumps out propaganda to support the official narrative and will only mention counter arguments disparagingly, in ways which frame it as nonsense and dangerous to be considered. The big internet search engines and social media platforms have carried out a purge of those voices which are deemed undesirable. Even videos and written articles by qualified doctors, other medical professionals and scientists have been removed from the internet for daring to question the imposed narrative, no matter the accuracy of the data they provide, no matter the research they have done and the expert analysis and opinion they contain. There have even been those who have lost their job or been arrested, such as the German Dr Heiko Schoning at the Hyde Park protest, and the Swiss cardiologist Dr Thomas Binder MD (as he discusses on the Richie Allen Show on 4 November https://player.fm/series/the-richie-allen-show-2428800/the-richie-allen-show-wednesday-november-4th-2020 )

 The oft quoted right to free speech has been dismantled and, perhaps most disturbingly of all, people and institutions that call themselves liberal are the quickest and loudest to shout THEIR message that  censorship is GOOD. Censorship is important because to be allowed to question is dangerous. Many of these people have the temerity to accuse those campaigning AGAINST the destruction of civil rights as fascist. Our world is so clearly conforming to the blueprint written by Orwell over 70 years ago – ‘Doublethink’ and ‘newspeak’ are all tools utilised daily.

Language has been dumbed down, reduced to soundbites, memes, twitter posts and slogans. Repetition of the mind-control propaganda of our time burrows phrases into our minds so everyone spews them out as if they always have, ‘lockdown’ (previously confined to prisons), ‘stay safe’, ‘protect the NHS’, ‘clap for carers’, ‘stay home’ till we are all bound with the new normal.

Words have power, they can manipulate, they can take over minds, they can control. And they can kill. And so can the denial of words, if people stay silent when they should speak out. Language is at the centre of this agenda as it is to all human society. Through words, the propaganda machine manipulates and controls. An analogy of what is happening this year would be a crowded hall with many people where one person shouts ‘Fire!’ Whether through malice, or error, or perhaps they have seen a very small flame. But the word is heard by others who panic, not seeing the fire but fearing it anyway they start to run and shout ‘fire’ as well, so people start to scream as the panic spreads and there is a stampede for the exits. Some people, the weakest, stumble, are pushed, and fall to the floor while others trample over them to try and save themselves. And the weak and unfortunate die because of fear, from a word, not from smoke or fire.

We have been told for months that the people around us, our friends, even our own families, are to be avoided and kept at a distance. We are forced to wear masks, in some countries even in the open air, so speech is often muffled and facial expressions are obscured. The most basic human interaction is rendered criminal; we are told we are endangering the ones we love if we embrace them. And the people pushing this are doing it because when you are physically close to someone you can confer meaning and emotion which is not always possible in the same way remotely, in a Zoom meeting or FaceTime call. Barriers are broken and a word can be whispered in the ear which the authorities can’t hear.

The prohibition against singing contributes to the destruction of culture which the lockdown measures have caused. But to actually begin to suggest that speech itself, the way we communicate, can lead to death, can be infectious like a killer virus, is starting a process which…it couldn’t surely could it?... leads to a world like my novel, where actual speech is considered dangerous and vile.

 

 If we consider the word ‘virus’, this had already taken on a new meaning through computer software – again with Gates central, as head of Microsoft – as a stream of code, of data, that erodes text, erodes the strata of programs which hold together a creation, from which a virtual construction is built. And now we have the present constructed virus – with its web of words and symbols eroding the foundation of our existing view of reality. The propaganda and censorship obliterating words which are deemed wrong, the Fahrenheit 451 book-burning of the digital age. Gates is now driving the vaccine agenda, his foundation investing billions to buy the influence of medical officials, governments and media. The new experimental vaccines for the ‘virus’ are, for the first time I understand, RNA. So, they are introducing synthetic messenger RNA molecules into cells. The mainstream is determined to dissuade so-called conspiracy theory that this is re-writing human DNA. But, at a molecular level, the vaccine is changing the way a body’s cells communicate and supposedly causing the cells to react in a specified way. As, in the macrocosm, us individual people are given new instructions to make us react and interact in a predetermined way. And it isn’t as if the re-writing of DNA is something which is only in the realms of science fiction or ‘conspiracy theory’:

The current stage in the imposition of the new order is now being rolled out in the guise of the ‘Great Reset’ which is in no way whatsoever to be confused with the New World Order. The ‘pandemic’ has conveniently opened the opportunity for this new world…, sorry, Great Reset but the supposed architect of it, Klaus Schwab, wrote his book Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution two years ago or more. In this book, as noted on the Zerohedge.com website, Schwab openly discusses and actually advocates a transhumanism which is supposedly the province of crazy conspiracy theorists.

“Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us—they will become part of us,” writes Schwab. “Indeed, some of us already feel that our smartphones have become an extension of ourselves. Today’s external devices—from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets—will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains.”

Schwab is enthusiastic about “active implantable microchips that break the skin barrier of our bodies.” He asserts that such “implanted devices will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally through a ‘built-in’ smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or moods by reading brain waves and other signals.”

Worrying as all this is, it also made me think of my novel that I mentioned at the beginning of this article. Schwab and other technocrats want unspoken ‘thoughts or moods’ transmitted via technology implanted within the human body. My imagined future was more about a telepathic, almost spiritual connection between people. Sadly, the elites governing our future want ultimate control of our minds. They already have most people’s anyway, now the means to do it is becoming more blatant, and intrinsically implanted within the human. So we are being moved to a situation where eventually people will only communicate through technology, through images, codes and data. The individual voice is being lost.

 

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Stranger Things: what lies beneath

I wrote in my book The Lost Child in Literature and Culture that the lost child figure is a void beneath our world. Symbolically this is represented in Stranger Things by the ‘Upside Down’ netherworld of the ‘demigorgon’ (or the ‘Mind Flayer’  in the new series) but also, in a more mechanical and “real” way by the introduction of a secret underground military base that has been built by the Russians under the Starcourt shopping mall in Hawkins. This underground base works as symbol and representation on many levels. The references to the Cold War (as the series are all set in the 1980s) serve as propaganda now in our time when the Russians are again presented as one of the bad guy nations threatening the democracy and family-values of America and its allies in the west. Joann Conrad wrote in 1999 that during Reagan’s administration (the dominant presidency in the 1980s) Russian Communism was presented as a threat to the nuclear family (and what a loaded term that is) of America. The government idealised the blond, blue-eyed child as a symbol of American wholesomeness while introducing policies which damaged the family. The ideological enemy of Communism and the nation of enmity, the Soviet Union, were presented as the threat to the lives of American children when the real damage was being inflicted on them from within American society. The presentation of a Russian state guilty of infiltrating America and corrupting the minds of the young is a convenient parallel with today’s anti-Russian media and governments. Surely it should remind us that we are being shown the same propaganda now as we were in the Cold War, and against Germany before the First World War, to give two examples.

Which brings us to another metaphor: the Russian base is constructed beneath a shopping mall. The series portrays the damage done to small, traditional businesses of the small town, Hawkins. The mall is the place to go for the residents, particular the young. The establishment was built with the complicity of the corrupt city mayor but he is merely the dupe of the Soviet Russian state. Therefore the programme neatly blames the corruption of society, and particularly its children, on a foreign enemy rather than internal forces. One of the series’ episodes is entitled ‘Mall rats’ which links the now-common term for children who spend all their time in shopping malls with the rats who are the initial carriers of the monstrous Mind-Flayer’s plague. And rats are also frequently subterranean, travelling via sewers and burrowing underground.

The motif in the third series of the small town inhabitants being subsumed and taken over by the monster from ‘Upside Down’ was reminiscent not only of the zombie films like Day of the Dead (watched by the children who sneak in to the cinema to watch) but also the Invasion of the Body Snatcher films where humans become possessed by aliens who take away their soul, their humanity. Of course, the earlier 1978 film Dawn of the Dead set the zombies in a shopping mall.

This is an important message also – that people who look and act as if they have free will are actually being controlled from outside, their thoughts and actions are not actually their own. The ‘Upside Down’ is supposedly an evil, inverted version of our world which threatens the wholesome childhood games of small-town America. Except, in this series the Mind-Flayer is trapped within our world, the darkness is within, like the underground military base is hidden beneath the town of Hawkins. The monster even bites into Eleven and a small sub-creature has to be extracted from her leg (after which she loses her telekinetic powers). This is reminiscent of films like Alien, with the famous alien from the belly, and David Cronenburg’s “body horror” – and this third series did seem to make more reference to horror films of the 70s and 80s rather than the predominant sci-fi and “family” film references from the era which the first two series referenced.

Again, by having the underground base built by the Russians, the story obscures the fact that our western governments have untold miles of underground, secret military bases. They are frequently claimed to be sites where the likes of the MK Ultra experiments were carried out on children (the actual American government programme referenced in the first series of Stranger Things, which was given as the source of Eleven’s confinement and torture). In series three, four of the young people find themselves in the underground base, on a mission which the youngest of them terms ‘child endangerment’. The two oldest youths are captured and beaten and drugged while wearing sailor suites from the ice-cream parlour where they work. They are representations of the children abused and used by the deep state of many countries.

Many argue that underground bases are still places where many of the hundreds of missing children in our society are taken. A man from Ammanford, South Wales has recorded horrific sounds coming from under a property he used to live next to. The sounds of the screams are so shocking I urge people to be wary of listening while also stressing the importance of listening so whatever is happening to these poor women and/or children will not continue to be covered up:

http://www.noisesinmylane.co.uk/

Whether it is beneath a seemingly abandoned house in South Wales, in a giant underground military facility (like the one that Isaac Kapey, the Hollywood outer of alleged paedophiles, supposedly committed suicide outside of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VEKqNCmko) , or the Epstein island, paedophilia is being committed beneath the ground on which we walk and in the society where we try to bring up children. And it is being covered up, not only by the ground but by the corrupt deep state and secret societies who control us. Because paedophilia, and other crimes against children, are the most destructive obscenity upon which our world is built, and to expose it is to uncover the lie upon which the common perception of reality is built.

The child Eleven is herself a junction of the mental potential of us all and the abuses of this by those who control us. The character is also, in the first series at least, presented as androgynous-looking (as Jay Dyer noted in his online analysis). She is human but more than human and a link between “our world” and the ‘Upside Down’. She is also the means by which the opening, the crack between the world and the ‘Upside Down’ is closed. The lost child is presented as both the conduit through which the monstrous evil comes into our world (as Will’s disappearance began the first series) and as the means by which we can confront and ultimately block off this evil. This is at the heart of my discussion in my book: that the lost child is a trauma in our society, which the fears of our society centre around. The lost child is within the foundations, literally, of our world. Jay Dyer wrote in his article on the first Stranger Things Series, on his Esoteric Analysis website, that:

The sacrifice of the youth for the dark designs of the shadow government is the ultimate conspiracy in the series, but what is more remarkable than this is the explanation by the Man in Black Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) that the sacrifice of sons and daughters for the gorgodemon is for the good of America.  In other words, we are given the impression our villain knows the real source of the dark power in Hawkins, the demonic, and that the sacrifice of humans and blood draws it nearer and nearer.  Foolishly assuming this dark energy can be harnessed for U.S. supremacy, Dr. Brenner is behind both MK Ultra and the SDI program that requires the sacrifice of America’s “sons and daughters”!  This spiritual dimension is the accurate and insightful aspect of the series, but the message is not all good.

The message is not in any way good. The title of Joann Conrad’s essay, centring around the Jonbenet Ramsey case, refers to the ‘Lost Innocent and Sacrificial Delegate’. One child, a child with an image which is endlessly repeatable and conforms to the ideal presented as an embodiment of a culture, is made to stand in for all the other children in the country as a sacrifice to supposedly  reinforce the ‘values’ of that culture, that nation.  Actually, the image of the child, the tragic loss of the child, only reinforces what is inherently false and destructive behind those fabricated values.

In literary, academic research, much has been written about Freud’s essay on the ‘uncanny’, which in German translates as ‘unheimlich’, or un-homely. In the German word, the negative word contains within it the good connotation, and therefore, through some linguistic contagion, the ‘good’ word, ‘homely’, contains at least the potential for its subversion. The uncanny is that sense of something being not quite right within the apparently normal and everyday, the sense of uneasiness about the world around you which makes you feel unsafe. And it is important that this uneasiness is also within language, because language influences, and frequently controls, how we think about the world. Our world is constructed by language and what we believe about who we are and where we are in the world is governed to a huge degree by what we say, read, write and hear.

Which brings me to Orwell’s 1984, and his concepts of newsspeak and double-think, the way control and manipulation of language can be used to eradicate dissent and control meaning. A paragraph from the novel:

"It's a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.'s idea originally, of course," he added as an afterthought."

This reminds me of un/Heimlich in German but here ambiguity is ripped out of language so the wielders of power do not only control the narrative, they control the words and therefore any thoughts. I have written in my book The Lost Child in Literature and Culture and also in my novel, The Individual (available on Lulu.com) about how the lost child figure is not only central to our society and culture, it is actually at the heart of our language. Words now, as they are used particularly in the public spheres of the media and politics, are empty or, worse, they say one thing and mean the opposite. The most damning deception is the abuse of children at the deepest and highest levels of society. I believe that this suppressed trauma is the reason why so many stories in our history and our recent culture are about lost, endangered or silent children. Children who are outside of normal language (and Eleven’s speech is slightly fractured as a result of her imprisonment in the government facility from an early age) highlight the arbitrariness of meaning. Their inability to speak, or to fully enter into the language which defines the world, shows that there is an emptiness at the heart of what we say.

But also, as I have listened and read more people’s research in recent years, I realise that the lost child figure in our culture is not only an unconscious symbol which repeats and reappears constantly, it is also frequently consciously placed in our sight to burrow within our minds. I have written about how the lost child figure in stories and images acts as a screen in the double-edged meaning of the word – it projects out like a TV screen (or on a TV or film screen – like the children in Stranger Things), showing us what someone else wants us to see, while also being a screen which is put up between us and the truth, so we cannot see behind it. So we watch and are entertained, get our vicarious thrills, perhaps taking our psyches to places which are supposedly forbidden, and we do not see or hear or feel the real children who are stolen, spirited away and buried beneath our feet.

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