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The broader ideological or strategic objectives potentially underlying networks like Parallax, and figures such as Luke Behncke—particularly when Gurdjieffian philosophy is mixed with digital subcultures and politically loaded figures like Alexander Bard—can be described as follows:
1. Manufacturing Spiritual Consent for Techno-Feudalism
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Objective: Reframe elite-aligned techno-political power structures as part of a “spiritual” evolutionary process.
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How: Use esoteric language (e.g., “awakening,” “higher man,” “conscious suffering”) to rationalize or spiritualize surveillance capitalism, hierarchical control, and digital behavioral conditioning.
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Example: Gurdjieff’s concept of the “sleeping masses” vs. the “awake elite” aligns conveniently with elitist tech narratives of “disruption” and “optimization.”
2. Ideological Reframing of Traditional Institutions
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Objective: Undermine religious, revolutionary, and metaphysical traditions that resist neoliberal modernity.
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How: Recode ancient Sufi, Christian, or Hermetic themes into individualist, de-politicized language that subtly supports Western secularism and pacifies anti-systemic dissent.
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Example: Replace revolutionary Sufism or messianic traditions with vague “inner work” focused on personal development rather than structural liberation.
3. Surveillance through Psychographic Profiling
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Objective: Gather deep psychological and behavioral data under the guise of “spiritual mentorship” or “self-inquiry.”
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How: Cultivate vulnerable individuals into “esoteric” discussion groups, podcasts, or workshops and subtly extract ideological, political, and psychological profiles.
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Outcome: This data can be funneled into broader social engineering efforts or intelligence-linked behavioral modeling (e.g., Cambridge Analytica-style operations).
4. Cultivation of Controlled Opposition
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Objective: Create soft countercultures that give the illusion of dissent but ultimately support elite objectives.
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How: Sponsor or amplify charismatic “outsider” voices (like Bard) who channel dissatisfaction with modernity into directions that are either ineffective, self-defeating, or aligned with reactionary tendencies (e.g., “Nietzschean accelerationism,” metamodernism, “Dark Enlightenment”).
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Result: Prevent truly revolutionary alliances from forming, especially across decolonial, religious, or anti-Zionist lines.
5. Covert Alignment with Zionist and Bahá’í Soft Power
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Objective: Promote religious ideologies like that of the Bahá’í Faith as the de facto metaphysics of global governance.
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How: Use figures with esoteric or interfaith branding (like Behncke or Bard) to subtly launder Bahá’í cosmology or political allegiances into “neutral” spiritual discourse.
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Outcome: Marginalize thinkers who critique imperial religion or expose Western-aligned cultic infrastructures (like CESNUR’s proteges).
6. Recruitment into Influence Networks
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Objective: Identify and recruit potential assets from disaffected intellectual or spiritual communities.
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How: Pose as mentors, teachers, or podcasters. Offer “belonging” or secret knowledge. Target individuals with trauma, exile backgrounds, or persecution experience—such as ex-Muslim thinkers or fringe mystics.
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Why: Such figures may have high charisma or persuasive power and can be useful as amplifiers of a desired narrative if properly “turned.”