Those who unfailingly subscribe to mainstream narratives seem to love to psychoanalyze those they casually dismiss as ‘conspiracy theorists.’ One will often read and hear sweeping assumptions about psychological motivations and needs, rather than any thorough reasoning about the particular subjects at hand.

I can’t count how many articles I’ve seen that make the same set of points about “why people believe in conspiracy theories,” which are usually based on the same set of generalizations and assumptions. It goes like this: People just need to believe in something. People don’t want to accept the world as random. It makes people feel better to see the world as being under someone’s control. We want to see big events as having big causes. And so on.

These points are then repeated over and over by those who have attached themselves and their egos to the “rational skeptic” role. It’s a predictable pattern. This is how disinformation and propaganda works. The top of the pyramid needs only to plant the seed, once the meme takes off the work is done for them.

Granted, there may be kernels of truth in these considerations, and being open to ideas of a conspiratorial, alternative and/or esoteric nature is no guarantee of developed critical thinking skills. Conspiracy culture does not exist outside the matrix but firmly within it, and there is plenty of absurdity and bad reasoning to be found. It’s a mistake that many people in the conspiracy community make. One only needs to read a few Youtube or Facebook comments on a conspiracy-related page to see it. If you are willing to adopt any claim or belief that smacks of global conspiracy and cry “sheep!” at anyone who disagrees, you have limited yourself just as much as the hardened academia-worshipping skeptic or the religious fundamentalist . This is just being mind controlled on another level, and I firmly believe the power structure counts on this type of reaction. It’s also ignoring the metaphysical and ethical lessons that can come, and ought to come, from being “awake.” In cases like this, conspiracism is indeed fulfilling a psychological need, but there’s nothing psychologically unique to conspiracy here, and it would be completely disingeous to pretend that only conspiracy theorists engage in this type of thinking. It’s symptomatic not of conspiracy theory, but of how most people in general think and respond to thinking contrary to their own, no matter what worldview is held.

But back to the psychoanalyzing skeptics. As is to be expected, rarely do the self-appointed skeptics (who have hijacked the term) turn the looking glass upon their own “coincidence theorist” views and engage in analysis of why it’s so much more comfortable for them to accept official stories and narratives as their base hypothesis, to ignore the incredible amount of both primary sources and well-researched secondary analysis on subjects like mind control, black technology, cultural engineering, academic bias, suppression of evidence, historical cover-ups, etc and to unthinkingly accept authority’s (unfounded) claims to legitimacy. They never seem to be able to look around and see the obvious markers all around us, from the mere fact that we are forced to wear clothes (seriously, actually take a moment and think about the absurdity of that, and the many implications of it) or the esoteric and occult symbolism plastered all over the media people consume and the architechure they live with daily. And contrary to the main point that is usually presented, that conspiracy theorists (I hate using the term, actually, because it’s so often used as a slur, but nevermind) are simply adopting a worldview that fulfills a psychological need, to awake to the fact that the halls of power are filled with psychopathic occultists, or that you’ve been a willing, enabling participant in a mass cultural hallucination of a highly destructive nature for most of your life, is in fact a very jarring and traumatic realization… at least at first. Eventually one realizes that knowledge truly is power, and that reclaiming personal soverignity is a fantastic goal and opportunity. However, the early period of awakening can be psychologically overwhelming, and there is a great deal of material out there that is directed towards creating fear, paranoia and hopelessness. Fear is the fuel that drives our civilization.

The design of the whole thing is very clever. Any time your reasoning skills or intutition allow you to reject one aspect of this society or reality, there’s a ready-made subcultural group or ideology just waiting in the wings to agree with you and put your thoughts into another limited box of finite possibilities. Transcending this pattern is indeed liberating for the psyche, but there’s yet another counter to the claim that conspiracy theory is based primarily on psychological need and fulfillment. Those of us, like me, who ultimately find it an inescapable conclusion that we do live in a highly conspiratorial and manipulated world realize as soon as these viewpoints enter our minds that to talk about, discuss and promote these subjects will get us quickly labeled and ridiculed by most people, not just by strangers on the internet but posssibly by friends, family and the people we respect. And the more one’s worldview diverges from what’s “normal,” the more likely this is.

Political conspiracy is one thing, but even people and researchers who accept conspiracy in the political realm may be quick to ridicule those who see conspiracy operating at a larger and more all-encompassing level – namely the metaphysical and spiritual realm. For some folks, it’s fine to bring up false flag terrorism, but mention something like… say, the possible genetic manipulation of the human genome by a non-human species, or the seemingly interdimensional nature of mystical experience, and no doubt a great deal of people will immediately place you into the “crazy” category. Again, this is how cultural conditioning and programming works, and seeing past one veil is no guarantee that your mind isn’t still compromised by other elements of social engineering. I find it helpful to always keep this in mind.

It is not a comforting thought to realize that the way you see the world has the potential to isolate you from the people you love, though thankfully realizations about political, global and spiritual conspiracy frequently go hand in hand with psychological realizations about the nature of the self and the ego. This can help a person build a strong sense of self that is not defined by external factors such as the opinions of others, develop a more spiritual existence, and allow one to see such ridicule for what it often is- the non-informed, kneejerk reactions of a throughouly brainwashed people. This becomes particularly clear if you are like me. For many years I adopted the role of the “rational skeptic” and easily laughed at or brushed off anything not sanctioned by the academic mainstream, but I was ultimately able to see how this worldview was acting as a tool to limit not only my thinking but also my daily concious experience of reality. And no matter your perspective, or how ‘crazy’ people may find your worldview, if one truly embraces and spreads love and goodness, one is likely to see love and goodness in return.