by LilyPatToo » Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Good thread on a subject that interests me a lot. It must be remembered that there are a great many people in this world who tend to exhibit a violent allergic reaction to the slightest whiff of a conspiracy. Any conspiracy. I'm married to one, in fact, which has allowed me to observe the effects closely over several decades. I, for whom history seems to be composed mainly of conspiracies, find it very interesting when they are so vehemently denied. There is perhaps some hidden process occurring that isn't immediately obvious, even to the thinker himself--perhaps even a deliberately induced....wait--that sounds like a conspiracy! ;o)<br><br>Actually, I had little interest in the Masonic conspiracy subject until something very strange happened to me in January of 2004. I'd begun walking (and listening to music on a new iPod) in order to lose some weight I'd gained. A decade before, I'd been diagnosed as "highly dissociative", but I had no idea that walking and listening to music was an extremely dissociation-inducing combination for people like me. <br><br>And for that reason, I was very surprised (and upset) when I became aware of what appeared to be an alternate personality that was surfacing in my mind every time I walked one particular route--around Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA. and past a large ornate Scottish Rite Masonic temple. This personality seemed to be fixated on the temple itself and her yearning to get to it was distracting enough that it actually made me walk the Lake more frequently than I would have chosen to do on my own. I dropped 50 lbs. in very little time, in fact, and got my doctor off my back, which was a lovely side effect.<br><br>When I went online to research Multiple Personality Disorder, I found out that it is now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder. I also found out some rational answers to personal mysteries, like the fact that a lifetime of "missing time" now made sense (and, happily, without the dubious addition of abducting aliens). But some of this personality's traits were very disturbing--she was 14 and had been a prostitute for as long as she could remember. And she had a powerful, very compelling personal connection to Masonic temples for which she had no explanation. Not to that temple in particular, but to any one anywhere.<br><br>I began digging in my past, which has a lot of large blank spots, for any personal connection to Masons and could come up with only one odd memory of my maternal grandmother telling me that her husband, my grandfather, was secretly a Mason. This is disputed by other members of the family, and all the records I've been able to find have him a member of the Kiwanis Club, not the Masons. He was a well-respected local business owner and politician in my hometown in western PA.<br><br>But I also have a vivid memory of that same grandmother taking me to what I thought was a church for some kind of religious ceremony. I was given a crystal goblet of red wine to drink, which awed me, since I was 4 years old and had been raised Roman Catholic (like my father's side of the family) and thought that only priests got to drink the wine during Mass. And I remember the black and white tiled floor we were standing on, too, since I'd never seen one in a church before. I have loathed them ever since, too, for no reason I can think of.<br><br>My 2+ years of research since that January have led me down some very strange paths. Lily, as the alternate personality calls herself, turns out to be almost identical to alters that many other women have. And since I've begun pursuing this inquiry, I've run into a degree of denial in most people's minds around this subject that I don't think is self-generated at all. I think that there is a "snicker factor" being deliberately inculcated in the American public, particularly, that is serving to deflect inquiries into serious human rights abuses that are ongoing and very, very covert.<br><br>And some of them are said to have been perpetrated inside Masonic buildings after hours, without the knowledge or consent of the rank and file members. While I reject the paranoid ravings of some of the Fundie Christian groups who have posted much of the online information on Masonic conspiracies and I deplore having them for bedfellows in my own research, the fact remains that some of what they say matches up with Lily's information perfectly. Some of it, not all.<br><br>I only discovered Rigorous Intuition recently, so I have no idea if Jeff has addressed this subject, but I'd love a pointer to any articles he's written on this or related subjects. His writing on alien abduction vs. covert/intel ops human abduction (which is how I found this site) is so much more balanced (from my POV) than most of the True Believer/disinfo dreck that I wade through daily that I nearly wept with relief when I read it. Ditto for his great interview of Kathleen Sullivan. I came here hoping to find an active thread on it, but alas....<br><br>LilyPat <br> <p></p><i></i>