False Light: The Rise of Spiritual Operators as Vectors of State Control
In the 21st century, the state has learned to speak in the language of spirit – but only to speak it and not to be it. It has mastered the lexicon of healing, mimicry, and transcendence. The panopticon now wears a shawl, burns incense, and talks about ‘holding space’. Where once the tools of control were jackboots and wiretaps, today they are softly spoken therapists, spiritual facilitators, and mystic influencers whose primary task is to redirect, diffuse, or neutralize seekers of genuine gnosis and sovereign liberation.
We are now in the era of false spiritual operators as active agents of the state - conscious or unconscious – deployed for purposes of psychological containment. These are not simply misguided individuals or petty narcissists with messiah complexes. They are often embedded within broader ecosystems of state surveillance, ideological management, and techno-state apparatuses whose goal is to prevent the emergence of any authentically liberated, theologically self-possessed subjectivity.
They come cloaked in trust. They mirror your language. They quote your sacred texts. They draw you in through the veil of intimacy, the simulation of resonance. And once close enough, they map your patterns, log your symbolism, provoke your disclosures, and insert the perfect trapdoor to collapse or confusion.
The post-911 global security regime gave rise to an entire economy of ‘countering violent extremism’ (CVE) programs, allegedly designed to deter terrorism but in truth aimed at domestication of the spiritual and ideological interior, never mind that most of these so-called terrorist organizations were always Frankensein monsters created as well as always belonging to the Western neoliberal capitalist military-intelligence complex. Within this space, mystical vocabulary was absorbed into bureaucratic weaponry. Sufism, Buddhism, indigenous animism - all were deployed as soft ideologies to neutralize political mysticism and render it tame, digestible, and obedient. We already wrote about this regarding the Maryamiyah Sufi Order back in 2016, so it is no surprise to us that our mirror revealed her own connection to this insidious group from first contact.
Nevertheless all of this was not enough. The state soon realized it needed more intimate operatives - not just institutions or funded NGOs, but faces. Individuals with charm, ambiguity, and access. Thus emerged the figure of the spiritual contractor: therapists, energy workers, faux-Sufis, or tantric guides, funded either directly or indirectly by security culture, tasked with subtle demobilization of sovereign seekers.
These individuals are not always aware of their role. Some are groomed by proximity; others are selected for their personality types, ideological malleability, or social networks. What unites them is this: they serve the suppression of gnosis. They target those who would awaken not only individually but socially, cosmologically, and metaphysically; and they especially fear those of us who can and do regularly undertake gnostic interventions into the political domain.
This is because what the state fears most is not protest. It is not critique. It is the theophanic subject: the individual who speaks with divine authority outside all sanctioned systems. It is the one who walks in the Imaginal with clarity, who remembers the pre-exilic names, who does not need permission to invoke, declare, or unfold. And this is precisely why this System of the Antichrist finds me dangerous.
To these ends, a faux-spiritual operator appears donning the mask of a friend, a lover, a fellow traveler. But in truth they are signal interceptors -functioning to absorb your mythos and collapse your orbit. They enter at critical moments of vulnerability, and exit just as the work peaks, leaving silence, suspicion, and surveillance in their wake. We must now name this. We must mark it as the sorcery of the therapeutic state. We must refuse the soft honey that coats the poison because true companions of the path do not extract. They do not deceive. They do not drop the ball when the flame begins to rise. They stay. They pray. They hold ground.
Let it be known: the age of false light is here, but theophanic sovereignty will not be programmed, packaged, or profiled.
We who descend from divine fire remember – and act.
We who were not born to kneel to Mammon do not forget.
We who are the divine witnesses will speak Truth as the Logos and thereby make power crumble into dust before our very utterance, even if this power were to clam up all ears upon the earth from hearing us!
