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The history of the New Age movement is riddled with stories of cults that have sexually abused initiates under the pretenses of actualizing human potential, attaining spiritual enlightenment, or evolving a higher consciousness. In many cases, these alleged sex cults have been reportedly entangled with intelligence agencies, such as the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad. Consider the following three case studies: 

1. The Finders cult, which was investigated for child sex trafficking and Satanic ritual abuse, was reported to be a CIA front operation posing as a “‘futurist’ network” guided by “human potential” psychology, “New Age” spirituality, and “Eastern mysticism.”
2. Sects of Tibetan Tantric Buddhists under the auspices of the Dalai Lama, who has served as a longtime CIA asset, have been accused of sexually abusing devotees through Tantric rituals conducted at Maurice Strong’s New Age mountain retreats in Crestone, Colorado [1].
3. The NXIVM cult, which branded its “sex slaves” under the cloak of its “human potential” development programs, was supported by members of the billionaire Bronfman family,  at least one of whom was instrumental in the broader network of the child sex trafficking operations of Jeffrey Epstein, who was evidently yoked with the CIA and the Mossad [2].

Are these overlaps between New Age sex cults and intelligence agencies merely tenuous coincidences? Or do these patterns suggest the existence of underground networks of intelligence operatives who orchestrate or infiltrate New Age cults in order to experiment with Tantric sex rituals and other forms of “sex magic” as tools for psychological operations? 

To be sure, the overlaps between these three case studies are not just thematic. Consider the curious common denominators of New Age futurist, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and her Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution:

1. Hubbard appointed NXIVM cult leader Nancy Salzman as an “ally” of her Birth 2012 “shift” toward Malthusian sustainable development through conscious transhuman evolution [3]. 
2. Hubbard also preached her Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution at Strong’s New Age outpost for Tibetan Tantric gurus in the mountains of Crestone [1]. 
3. Hubbard’s efforts to advance conscious evolution through her Synergistic Convergence, or SYNCON, conferences were also aided by members of the Finders cult [4]. 

Perhaps Hubbard’s position at the juncture of these alleged sex cults is coincidental. Yet, Tantra and other forms of sexual mysticism have been deliberately intermarried with Hubbard’s Malthusian vision of conscious transhuman evolution. Today, her Rockefeller-funded Foundation for Conscious Evolution is led by Marc Gafni who, despite being accused of sexually abusing two underage girls, is advancing a new rendition of conscious evolution through Integral Evolutionary Tantra and CosmoErotic Humanism . Like Hubbard, Gafni has magnified his “cosmo-erotic” version of conscious Tantric evolution through public displays of “co-creation” with the Dalai Lama, who also rendezvoused with NXIVM. 

Meanwhile, Hubbard’s Malthusian vision of conscious transhuman evolution has been carried on through the World Future Society, which she co-founded with Edward Cornish, reportedly with the help of the Finders’ “Game Caller” [4], whose alleged sex cult was implicated as a CIA shell operating as a “‘futurist’ network” that provided “information gathering” services for the price of “finders’ fees.” In fact, Hubbard’s World Future Society is listed as a “forecasting . . . resource” alongside the CIA in a US Army Psychological Operations (PSYOP) manual authored by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino [5], who was investigated for child sexual abuse involving Satanic rituals. Hubbard also cultivated “co-creation” of global consciousness with fellow evolutionary, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon [6], who set up the US Army’s First Earth Battalion of New Age psychic soldiers.

Whether fortuitously or strategically, Hubbard personally occupied a nexus between New Age sex cults and intelligence agencies while her Malthusian beliefs in conscious transhuman evolution have been married to Tantra and other modes of sex magic practiced by gurus and spooks alike. Tracing the threads that tie together Hubbard and her legacy with these sex cults and intelligence agencies, this final article in my “Barbara Marx Hubbard” series examines whether these threads are anchored to coordinated PSYOPs aimed at socially engineering New Age cultures to believe in futurist promises of collectivized self-actualization through technocratic globalization and sustainable transhuman evolution. To be sure, as expounded  in previous installments of this series, Hubbard’s conscious evolutionary faith has been proselytized to generate new cultural values that are commensurate with transhumanism and sustainable development, which are the crux of emerging global technocracy of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

From Conscious Transhuman Evolution to CosmoErotic Humanism 

Throughout this series, I have documented how Hubbard’s Foundation for Conscious Evolution, which was financed by Laurance Rockefeller, has been pushing for the “synergistic” convergence of biotech, nanotech, and supercomputing artificial intelligence (AI) in order to engineer a new transhuman species in tandem with a new “global system” that can save humankind from planetary “crises, most especially environmental” crises. Before her death, Hubbard appointed “former Orthodox rabbi,” Marc Gafni, as an “Evolutionary Scholar in Residence” at her Foundation for Conscious Evolution where he has since taken over her mantle as the current president and director. Notwithstanding multiple accusations that he sexually assaulted two underage girls, Gafni is now touting a revamped version of conscious evolution known as “CosmoErotic Humanism,” which integrates Tantric sex rites that have been implicated in numerous sexual abuse scandals involving cults immersed in Eastern mysticism, “human potential” psychology, and other “New Age” modalities that constitute “conscious evolution.”

In an apparent video response to my first article in this series, Gafni acknowledged Hubbard’s transhumanism, yet claimed that he had convinced her to repent of the errors of her transhumanist ways. Nevertheless, to this day (nearly three years later), the official website of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution continues to advance “synergistic” transhuman evolution driven by the “[t]he advent of radical evolutionary technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, quantum computing, space exploration, etc. . . . [T]he tools are there to transform ourselves, our bodies and our world. We can and are actually moving beyond the creature human condition toward a new species, a universal humanity, capable of coevolving with nature.” As Gafni attempts to pivot the Foundation for Conscious Evolution away from the technocratic tenor of Hubbard’s transhumanist rhetoric, he is now propagating a “cosmo-erotic” rebranding of her evolutionary gospel. 

Gafni’s cosmo-erotic rendition of conscious evolution is a spin on Hubbard’s concept of “tel-erotic co-creation,” which was expounded at the 2015 Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS) International Conference. According to the IONS Conference host, the word “tel-erotic” combines the Greek terms of “‘telos,’ which means purpose or goal,” and “‘Eros,’ the god of love”; but to be sure, “eros” narrowly refers to sensual pleasure and other forms of hedonic “love,” not the selfless love and charity signified by the Greek word “agápe.” Nonetheless, in Hubbard’s IONS speech, she pontificated how the tel-erotic synergizing of evolutionary “purpose” and “love” generates “suprasex,” shifting consciousness “from procreation to co-creation.” The tel-erotic “evolution of sexuality,” according to Hubbard, is predicated on the Malthusian premise that “we have hit a limit to mass procreation. We’re going to be having fewer children, and children by choice,” so “instead of joining genes,” the tel-erotic co-creation of suprasex “joins genius” in order to steer conscious evolution toward “sustainable” transhumanism.

While Hubbard’s evolutionary rite of tel-erotic suprasex stresses the conscious Malthusian decoupling of reproduction from sexuality, Gafni’s CosmoErotic Humanism channels the sensual, or erotic, energies of sexuality as esoteric initiations into supposedly higher, or more evolved, levels of spiritual consciousness. According to his personal website, Gafni’s philosophy of CosmoErotic Humanism calls for “a new sexual narrative” that exalts “Eros [a]s the deepest Reality of Cosmos, the pulse of evolution, the universal energy of emergence, intimacy, and wholeness. CosmoErotic Humanism unfolds a new evolutionary theory of Eros, a phenomenology of Eros, and re-imagines the ancient sacred mysteries of Eros.” 

Hubbard herself anointed Gafni’s theory of CosmoErotic Humanism, as she wrote the foreword to his  book, A Return to Eros, which he co-authored with Kristina Kincaid, who is the Vice Chair of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the Director of Gafni’s Integral Evolutionary Tantra Institute. In a promotional for A Return to Eros, Gafni’s website publicizes how he and Kincaid unveil “the radical secret tenets of relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy,” elucidating how the “qualities of the erotic modeled by the sexual are actually the same core qualities of the sacred.” Gafni and Kincaid also lead the Eros Mystery School, which propagates CosmoErotic Humanism through workshops that induct initiates into “tantric practices” in order to catalyze “the evolution of love” and “achiev[e] expanded consciousness” by “open[ing] the doors to embody deeper hidden orgiastic wisdom.” 

If this emphasis on the hedonic eros of sexual love, rather than the self-sacrificing love of agápe, isn’t taboo enough, it is disturbing to note that Gafni was accused not only of sexually abusing his adult students at his “New Age-style” Bayit Chadash spiritual center, but also of sexually assaulting two underaged girls, one of which he allegedly assaulted when he was her “youth leader.” On a 2018 episode of the Dr. Phil show, Gafni was confronted about these allegations. During this interview, Dr. Phil read from a letter in which Gafni confessed to the allegations. Although Gafni admitted that he wrote and signed the letter, he redacted it by stating that the letter was a “mistake” which he “greatly regrets.” Gafni, who was quoted as saying that one of the girls was “14 going on 35,” denied any forcible assault, asserting that he was “in love” with the girls and only engaged in “heavy petting . . . above the waist.” After quibbling with Dr. Phil over the legal definition of statutory rape, Gafni conceded that even the “heavy petting” was “against the law,” yet he reasserted that he had done nothing “immoral.” Dr. Phil ended the episode by noting that, although Gafni has been formally denounced by a list of over 100 “rabbis” and “New Age” leaders, he has never been “arrested” for, “charged” with, or “convicted” of any of the alleged sex crimes.

Despite these allegations, Hubbard ordained Gafni as a tel-erotic apostle of her Foundation for Conscious Evolution. On Gafni’s personal website, it notes that Hubbard venerated:

“Marc Gafni [a]s a rising star . . . [who is] paving the way for a new psychology and spirituality for evolving humanity to fulfill our enormous potential. He has incorporated the 13.8-billion-year Evolutionary Impulse of Creation directly in the heart of humanity as our motivation to love, to grow to become our Unique Selves, the future human. It is a joy to work with Marc.  . . . He is inspiring us to change . . . to the new source code of co-creating and co-evolving with one another.”

According to Gafni, it was Hubbard, along with Kincaid and ed-tech futurist Zak Stein, who helped him coin the concept of CosmoErotic Humanism. On his personal YouTube channel, Gafni recorded a video titled “Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard,” which boasts that “there could be nothing that would make Barbara more ecstatic, than this book,” First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, which was co-authored by Gafni and Stein under the single pseudonym “David J. Temple.” 

If you think that CosmoErotic Humanism is just a fringe philosophy without reach, it should be noted that Stein, who serves on the Scientific Advisor Board of the Neurohacker Collective, has been sowing seeds of “conscious” and “cosmo-erotic” evolution through a futurist think tank known as “Game B.” Describing itself as a “community of . . . thinkers and doers, bodhisattvas and businesspeople, economists and ecologists, visionaries and pragmatists,” Game B convenes transdisciplinary “working groups” which explore “political meta-modernism” in order to “forge a new ‘social operating system’” that is “resilient” and “sustainable.” Transcending the “collective evolutionary path” of Game A, which is “the world’s current civilization,” Game B harnesses “the expansion of our consciousness” to achieve cosmic “At-One-Ment” by “fully groking the ‘other’” through “a tantric return to non-judgment.” 

The referees of Game B include key players from the “Intellectual Dark Web,” such as Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, and Eric Weinstein, along with Nora Bateson, who is a member of the Club of Rome, which published the Limits to Growth “environmentalist” treatise that shaped Hubbard’s Malthusian outlook on conscious transhuman evolution as well as the sustainable development initiatives of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 and the 4IR and “Great Reset” policies of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is worth noting here that Stein is also a member of the Club of Rome and that Nora is the daughter of renowned cognitive scientist and cybernetician, Gregory Bateson, who collaborated with Hubbard’s “kindred spirit,” Jonas Salk, on a Lindisfarne Association panel titled “Conscious Evolution and the Evolution of Consciousness.” It is also worth noting here that Game B cultivates “collective intelligence” to advance the “Cognitive Revolution,” which is a concept  coined by WEF transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari. 

Gafni’s cosmo-erotic revamping of Hubbard’s Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution is also being proselytized by his Tantric evolutionary, Aubrey Marcus. A co-leader of Gafni’s Eros Mystery School, Marcus hosts a popular podcast that explores the “optimization” of “human potential” through the “conscious evolution” of “cosmo-erotic” sexuality instilled with Tantric mysticism and other forms of “sex magic.” The Aubrey Marcus Podcast, which has platformed Gafni and Kincaid along with a number of Hubbard’s colleagues, including Marianne Williamson, Bruce Lipton, and Stanislav Grof, has also platform-boosted numerous Game B players, including Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, John Vervaeke, Charles Eisenstein, Alexander Bard, Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, Daniel Schmachtenberger, and Jamie Wheal.

In summary, Hubbard’s Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution has been tantrically titivated by Gafni’s philosophy of CosmoErotic Humanism, which is being evangelized through the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, the Integral Evolutionary Tantra Institute, the Eros Mystery School, and Game B. At the same time, Gafni’s Cosmo-Tantric rendition of conscious evolution is being popularized by Marcus’s alternative media platform and its adjacent multi-level marketing (MLM) networks that push wellness products and “self-empowerment” workshops under the pretense of optimizing human potential. While Gafni’s CosmoErotic Tantra is being propagated through alt-media and self-help MLMs, Hubbard’s vision of conscious evolution has been similarly proselytized through other Tantric sects and human potential MLMs that have been embroiled in sexual abuse scandals. 

NXIVM, the Human Potential Movement, and Hubbard’s Birth 2012 Shift to Conscious Evolution

In her Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution,Hubbard named Nancy Salzman as an “ally” of her Birth 2012 Campaign through the Transformational Leadership Council, which Hubbard listed as an “Affiliated Organization” of the Birth 2012 Campaign [3]. Salzman is a co-founder and the former president of the NXIVM multi-level marketing (MLM) company, which manipulated “consciousness-raising” human potential psychology to orchestrate a sex abuse cult. In fact, in Birth 2012 and Beyond, Salzman is promoted alongside the web address for the NXIVM MLM: “www.nxivm.com” [3]. In brief, both the president of the NXIVM sex cult and the MLM itself were endorsed by Hubbard as “co-creators” of her Birth 2012 “shift” into the new age of conscious transhuman evolution.

Most notorious for using a cauterizing wand to brand its sex slaves with the initials of its co-founder, Keith Raniere, the NXIVM sex cult known as “Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS),” which translates to “Lord of the Obedient Female Companions,” was a “secret society” within the MLM. The NXIVM MLM involved Hollywood celebrities, such as Smallville actress Allison Mack, and high-profile political figures, including Roger Stone, who has served as a political advisor to Donald Trump; Joe Bruno, who was a state senator of New York; and Emiliano Salinas, son of the former President of Mexico, Carlos Salinas. 

The NXIVM cult lured its supplicants through “consciousness-raising” seminars steeped in human potential psychology, which was developed by Hubbard’s mentor, Abraham Maslow, who advanced the Human Potential Movement (HPM) through his Eupsychian Network, where Hubbard distributed her Center Letter [7]. According to Maslow, his “third force” of “humanistic” psychology, which he coined as a stepping stone toward the “fourth force” of “transhuman” psychology, transcends the environmental stimulus-response conditioning of the “first force” of behavioral psychology and the subconscious psychoanalysis of the “second force” of Freudian psychology in order to achieve “self-actualization” through a combination of “positive psychology” and “gestalt psychology” techniques [8]. Promising self-actualization through NXIVM coursework, Raniere and his partner in crime, Salzman, manipulated a concoction of “positive thinking” and groupthink within the pyramid scheme of an MLM company in order to coerce NXIVM adherents into submitting to sexual abuse under the pretense of attaining higher levels of consciousness.

In particular, NXIVM’s “Executive Success Program (ESP)” borrowed from the HPM psychotherapies of the Landmark Forum’s Erhard Seminars Training (EST), which was developed by Werner Erhard, a friend of Hubbard’s protégé, Marc Gafni. Orchestrated by Raniere and Salzman, NXIVM’s HPM-inspired ESP workshops were structured as a hierarchy of MLM courses that certify graduates with “sashes” and “stripes” as they progress through the ranks to become NXIVM coaches and recruiters. The HPM psychology and the MLM pyramid structure of NXIVM’s ESP courses were also borrowed from the Amway MLM megacorporation. Before rising to NXIVM stardom, Raniere worked for the Amway MLM, which, like NXIVM, recruits salespeople by touting promises of human potential development resulting from successfully leveling-up through its corporate pyramid. After his stint at Amway, Ranieri created his own MLM, National Health Network, where he teamed up with his future criminal accessory, Salzman.

Currently, Raniere is serving a 120-year prison sentence after being convicted of the crimes of “forced labor conspiracy,” “wire fraud conspiracy,” “sex trafficking,” and “racketeering,” including “predicate acts” of “sexual exploitation of a child” and “production and possession of child pornography,” which he committed as the ringleader of the NXIVM sex abuse cult. Raniere’s accomplice, Salzman, was released from jail in 2023, having served less than 20 months of her 42-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to “racketeering conspiracy, including predicate acts of conspiracy to commit identity theft and conspiracy to obstruct justice” as Raniere’s coconspirator. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Assistant Director-in-Charge, Michael J. Driscoll, “as Raniere’s right hand for more than a decade, Nancy Salzman’s conduct supported NXIVM’s objectives to recruit victims, stave off critics, and alter evidence connected to a federal lawsuit.” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent-in-Charge, Peter C. Fitzhugh, stated that “Salzman was essential to the NXIVM criminal enterprise, not merely a peripheral co-defendant.”

To be sure, there is no evidence that Hubbard’s endorsement of Salzman and NXIVM was published with Hubbard’s knowledge of NXIVM’s sex crimes or Salzman’s culpability in aiding and abetting those crimes [3]. There is also no record of Hubbard ever publicly disavowing Salzman or the NXIVM cult after the fact. Either way, NXIVM’s “consciousness-raising” human potential MLM, Hubbard’s Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and Marc Gafni’s CosmoErotic  Mystery School have all enticed their aspirants with HPM empowerment mantras that were coined by Hubbard’s mentor, Abraham Maslow [8], and refined by Gafni’s friend, Werner Erhard. NXIVM’s MLM structure is also congruous with the network of MLMs floating Gafni’s cosmo-erotic rebranding of Hubbard’s gospel of conscious evolution. Altogether, NXIVM, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and the Eros Mystery School have all leveraged similar HPM modalities and MLM networking tactics to “shift” populations into actualizing “tel-erotic,” “cosmo-erotic,” “Tantric,” and other vogues of “conscious” evolution, including sustainable transhuman evolution for the 4IR [3]. In addition, NXIVM, Hubbard, and Gafni all shared a common tie to the Dalai Lama, who is the religious figurehead of Tantric sects of Tibetan Buddhism that have been scandalized by accusations of ritualized sexual abuse [1]. 

Crestone and the Conscious Evolution of Tibetan Tantra 

Hubbard also preached her Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution to the “sustainable interfaith community” of Crestone, Colorado [1], which was fostered by Maurice and Hanne Strong’s Manitou Foundation. In coordination with the Strongs’ Manitou Institute and Conservancy, the Manitou Foundation manages Crestone’s “Mountain Tract properties” as an outpost for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and non-profit corporations to incubate sustainable development initiatives that leverage “consciousness studies” and ecumenical spirituality to advance the globalist objectives of the UN[1]. According to Christine A. Chandler, a former resident of Crestone’s sustainable interfaith community, the Strongs’ Manitou Mountain Tract properties are also a haven for sex abuse cults that have involved Tibetan Tantric Buddhists under the auspices of the Dalai Lama [1], who has advocated for conscious evolution in collaboration with Hubbard and her protégé, Marc Gafni.

Titled Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism, Chandler’s memoir states that at the core of Tibetan Lamaism are secretive Tantric sects that practice the occultic sex rituals of Dzogchen, which channels the cosmic “rays” of the primordial Rigpa, or “rainbow,” energy of the universe in order to ascend to the metaphysical kingdom of Shambhala through the evolutionary enlightenment of consciousness [1]. Notwithstanding the eminent Lamas who pontificate that their Tantric sex rituals are divine rites of initiation into the higher rays of consciousness, Chandler contends that the cult of Tibetan Tantra exploits, abuses, and debases disciples through a sophisticated methodology of brainwashing that meets psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton’s eight criteria for determining a “thought control system” [1].

After several years of Tantric devotion to the Tibetan guru Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Chandler moved to Crestone where Maurice Strong, who served alongside Hubbard on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future Society, and his wife Hanne, who has “deep ties” to the Tibetans, issued Manitou land grants to an array of sustainable development non-profits and Tibetan Buddhist “spiritual centers” [1]. These Manitou-sponsored spiritual centers include Yeshe Khorlo and Karma Thegsum Tashi Gomang, which are administered by the Tantric Nyingma and Kagyu sects of Tibetan Buddhism, along with the Third Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Pundarika Foundation [1]. According to Enthralled, Manitou land grants were also issued to several other Eastern mystical cults, including “Roshi Baker’s Zen group,” “the late Sai Baba group,” and “Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Tantric cult group,” each of which was involved or implicated in sex scandals or sexual abuse crimes before setting up Crestone retreats. It was Hubbard’s benefactor, Laurance Rockefeller, who was “the first and main donor” to the Manitou Land Grant Program [1]. It is worth noting here that Hanne Strong reportedly bragged about how “pleased” she had been when a “High Lama,” the Sixteenth Karmapa, “recognized” her son as a “tulku,” or, in other words, a “reincarnation” of a “Tibetan saint” [1].

At Crestone, Chandler served as a disciple of Tsoknyi Rinpoche, who taught Tantric Buddhism at the Lerab Ling retreat under the leadership of Sogyal Rinpoche, whom Chandler and others have accused of sexually abusing his acolytes under the pretense of Tantric initiation rites that would purportedly raise their consciousness [1]. Throughout Enthralled, Chandler also details her encounters with several other Tibetan gurus, including Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and Osel Tendzin, all of whom she alleges sexually abused their adherents [1]. Chandler’s accounts of these sexual crimes are corroborated by reports from several mainstream media outlets, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, which have recorded accusations of sexual abuse from other victims of these Tantric gurus. Additionally, her reports of widespread sexual abuse among the Tantric orders of Tibetan Buddhists have also been corroborated by the confessions of the Tibetan guru, Kalu Rinpoche, who publicly admitted to being sexually abused by elder Lamas.

According to Chandler, the New Age communitarian hub of Crestone was also visited by Barbara Marx Hubbard, who preached her gospel of conscious transhuman evolution there [1]. In Enthralled, Chandler relays how: 

“Barbara Marx Hubbard declared all Crestonians would survive the Great Shift, the coming apocalypse she had been predicting for years, because she told them they were the more evolved race in this sacred place. The rest would be scorched as bad seeds.  . . . 

Hubbard told everyone in Crestone that they were the special ones; the ‘more evolved’; the already saved; since they are part of the great SHIFT into a spiritualized world governance that will be the result of a higher consciousness-shifting of the planet into a transcendent plane of existence, where Crestonians already dwell.” [1]

Hubbard’s rhetoric here mirrors that of her infamous unpublished manuscript, The Revelation: Alternative to Armageddon, which declares that, in order for humankind to consciously evolve into a new transhuman species, “one-fourth” of the population, who are “defective seeds,” must “be eliminated from the social body” by “the riders of the pale horse” during a “quantum shift.”

Hubbard’s evolutionary prophecy of a Malthusian apocalypse is also echoed by the Tibetan Buddhist Kalachakra Wheel of Time eschatology, which is preached by the Dalai Lama. According to Chandler, Hubbard “is a good friend and ally of the Dalai Lama, another apocalyptic believer of prophecies with his Kalachakra Wheel of Time Tantra” [1]. In the Kalachakra Tantra scriptures, it is ordained that the “End Time” of this age will commence when the King of Shambhala leads a messianic crusade to cleanse the earth of “barbarians” in a holy war that will usher in a dharmic “Golden Age” of enlightened consciousness.

Hubbard’s Malthusian prognostications about conscious transhuman evolution have also been echoed by Hanne Strong, who declared that “[y]ou cannot function in Crestone unless you evolve. This energy is so high that a lot of people come and cannot function at this level of energy. That is why the energy is here. To let people evolve” [1]. In a similar statement, Hanne professed that “a lot of people come in [to Crestone] and they cannot function at this level of energy. It disturbs them. They lose it. You cannot function in it unless you evolve. It is all about evolving. This energy is helping people evolve rapidly. That is the secret of Crestone” [1]. Notice here that, according to Hanne, there are certain types of people who are not “functionally” capable of “evolving” and will therefore “lose it” when immersed in the evolutionary “energy” of Crestone just as, according to Hubbard, there are certain “bad” or “defective” seeds who cannot consciously evolve and will therefore be “eliminated” when the “quantum shift” in evolutionary consciousness permeates the globe.

As I have documented throughout this series, Hubbard’s Malthusian outlook on conscious transhuman evolution was likewise shared by Hanne’s husband, Maurice Strong, who was the godfather of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have been advocated by the Dalai Lama. With help from Hubbard’s “beloved patron” [6], Laurance Rockefeller, Maurice was instrumental in setting up the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of UN Agenda 21, which laid the groundwork for the Malthusian SDGs of UN Agenda 2030. It is worth noting here that, notwithstanding the greenwashed ethos of Maurice’s pioneering role in spearheading the UN’s campaign to save the planet through sustainable environmentalism, his leadership at the UN was marred by implications that he was complicit in the UN “Oil-for-Food” money laundering scandal.

Sharing a common Malthusian outlook on the future of environmental sustainability and spiritual evolution, Maurice and Hubbard both participated in the State of the World Forum (SWF), which was orchestrated by the first and only president of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who was also a member of the Club of Rome. Bringing together New Agers, religious leaders, business magnates, heads of state, and representatives of global governance institutions such as the UNEP, the SWF fostered a “worldwide . . . spiritual renaissance” committed to “ecological sustainability” and “global governance.” Among SWF attendees were Laurance Rockefeller’s nephew, Steven Rockefeller, and a number of Hubbard’s New Age colleagues who have also reverently collaborated with the Dalai Lama. 

These liaisons between Hubbard and the Dalai Lama include the following SWF speakers:

• Deepak Chopra, who is the author of Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being, led a group of “friends” to Dharamsala, India, where he spoke alongside the Dalai Lama. Chopra and Hubbard served together as Fellows of the World Business Academy while Chopra, who praised Hubbard as “the voice for conscious evolution of our time,” also served as an “ally” of her Birth 2012 Campaign[3].

• Jean Houston, who has ministered as an advisor to the Dalai Lama, is featured along with Hubbard in the Dalai Lama Renaissance documentary, which records their “Synthesis Group” conference with “His Holiness” in India [1]. In Birth 2012 and Beyond, Houston is recorded as an “ally” of Hubbard’s Birth 2012 Campaign [3]. Additionally, Houston and Hubbard served together as Fellows of the World Business Academy.

• Hazel Henderson has served alongside the Dalai Lama on the International Advisory Board of the Forum 2000 Foundation. In addition, she has spoken at the World E-Conference on Culture of Peace and Sustainability along with the Dalai Lama, and they also participated together in a public “dialogue” on “Business as an Instrument of Societal Change.” Henderson and Hubbard served together as Fellows of the World Business Academy while Henderson was also one of Hubbard’s  “[c]olleagues and teachers of conscious evolution,” according to The Book of Co-Creation [7].

• Lynne Twist, who participated in “Synthesis Dialogues” with the Dalai Lama, recounts how her “profound experience” with “His Holiness” inspired her to embrace “money” as an “ally of our own transformation and the transformation of the world in which we live.” Both Twist and Hubbard served together as Fellows of the World Business Academy, while Twist also “closely collaborat[ed]” with Hubbard’s Birth 2012 Campaign [3].

• Michael Murphy is a co-founder of the Esalen Institute where the Dalai Lama has participated in public dialogues that have resulted in a book of his teachings being published by Esalen, which was part of Abraham Maslow’s Eupsychian Network along with Hubbard.

As a result of the State of the World Forum, the Gorbachev Foundation convened another international forum: the Global Peace Forum, which was hosted in Moscow, Russia, where a speech was given by the Dalai Lama, whose teachings have since been frequently promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

A similar global forum was propositioned to the Dalai Lama by Hubbard’s cosmo-erotic protégé and Tantric evolutionary, Marc Gafni. During a “private spirituality conference” at the “home” of “His Holiness,” Gafni proposed “meetings” or “conferences . . . of local leaders, regional leaders, and international leaders who would get together for a week, one week a year, to do spiritual practice of any kind, so that when they negotiate, they actually feel the interconnectivity of reality” and are thus able to co-create a “different world.”

In brief, Hubbard, the Dalai Lama, Gafni, and the Strongs have all collaborated in efforts to convene global meetings that would synergistically converge New Age spirituality, world governance, and sustainable development under a singular mission toward conscious evolution. At the same time, Hubbard’s Malthusian prognostications about an apocalyptic shift toward conscious transhuman evolution resonate with the Dalai Lama’s Kalachakra Wheel of Time eschatology, the Malthusian bent of Maurice Strong’s UN sustainable development initiatives, and Hanne Strong’s evolutionary spirituality, which envelopes the “sustainable interfaith community” of Crestone where Tantric Lamas preach the Kalachakra. In turn, Crestone, which is still a haven for Tibetan Buddhist spiritual centers to this day, has offered a launchpad where Tantric esotericism can be leveraged to initiate a “global citizenry” into Hubbard’s transhumanist belief in conscious evolution merged with the Strongs’ communitarian movement toward planetary sustainable development under a world government unified by an ecumenical world religion [1][9]. 

Indeed, in Chandler’s memoir, Enthralled, she maintains that “Crestone-Baca is the brainchild of the Strongs, and main headquarters where international corporatism, eastern cultism, local and county governments, and the green movement all connect and network together to create their Utopian version of how local government should be in America, under the directorate of the United Nations” [1]. More specifically, according to Chandler, Crestone’s Tantric orders of Tibetan Buddhism are: 

“part of the ‘spiritualized arm’ of the Strongs’ U.N. Agenda 21. The purpose was to facilitate and solidify the delusional dreams of a spiritualized world government merged with environmentalism, and many of these new religious movements and eastern cult groups in Crestone had even been given temporary or permanent ‘advisory and consultative status’ on the U.N. Economic and Social Council to facilitate a world citizenship movement from that esteemed perch.” [1]

To be sure, the Dalai Lama has issued public statements disavowing Lamas who have been accused of sexual abuse. Yet, Chandler claims that these denunciations are merely public relations cover-ups. She contends that, behind the scenes, the Dalai Lama actually orders his devotees to keep vows of secrecy surrounding the Tantric sexual taboos and misconducts of the Lamas [1]. If Chandler’s allegations sound far-fetched, consider that, in 2023, the Dalai Lama was recorded prompting a young boy to “suck” his “tongue” during a televised event. In response to public outcries, the Dalai Lama apologized “for the hurt his words may have caused,” yet others, including at least one “top Tibetan leader,” asserted that the lewd advance was not an act of pedophilia, but rather an “affectionate behavior” or a Tibetan cultural custom of showing a “sign of respect.” 

Nonetheless, it is worth noting that the Dalai Lama wrote the foreword to Keith Raniere’s book, The Sphinx and Thelxiepeia, and he also spoke at a 2009 World Ethical Foundations Consortium conference, which was a NXIVM satellite event where he bestowed a Tibetan scarf upon Raniere. It was Raniere’s NXIVM accomplices, Clare and Sara Bronfman, with the help of the Dalai Lama’s “gatekeeper,” Lama Tenzin Dhonden, who arranged for the Dalai Lama to attend the NXIVM satellite event after Sara and Dhonden consummated a sexual affair.  

It is also worth noting that, according to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, it was the “Ascended Masters” of Tibet who bequeathed upon her the secret mystery wisdom of Theosophy, which is the occult source of the New Age belief in conscious evolution, which was coined by Theosophist Alice Bailey before it was revamped by Hubbard. In fact, Bailey, whose teachings are the crux of the UN World Core Curriculum, professed that her evolutionary New Age prophecies were inspired from her communion with an Ascended Master named Djwhal Khul, otherwise known as “The Tibetan.” Blavatsky’s protégé, Annie Besant, and her Theosophical counterpart, Charles W. Leadbeater, adopted a young Indian boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom Leadbeater reportedly sexually abused while grooming him to become the “vehicle” for the New Age messiah, “Lord Maitreya.” According to Chandler, the Tibetan Lamas believe that Tantric evangelism has the power to ultimately usher in “The Age of Maitreya,” which is a utopian “Golden Age” prophesied in ancient Buddhist and New Age lore [1]. 

In sum, the Theosophical roots of Hubbard’s New Age gospel of conscious transhuman evolution stem from Tibetan esotericism while the New Age messianic belief in the coming Age of Maitreya is a rendition of Tibetan Buddhist eschatology. At the same time, Marc Gafni’s cosmo-erotic twist on Hubbard’s conscious evolution is spun from Tibetan Tantra while New Age Theosophy is the bedrock of the UN’s World Core Curriculum. Formulated by UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Muller, who participated in Mikhail Gorbachev’s State of the World Forum along with Hubbard, the World Core Curriculum is the UN’s global education curriculum, which spreads Bailey’s New Age teachings, including her theory of conscious evolution, as a universal pedagogy for schools throughout the member nations of the UN. Meanwhile, UN Agenda 2030 and New Age spirituality are being amalgamated at the Strongs’ sustainable interfaith community in Crestone, which has offered a launchpad where the futurist bent of Hubbard’s conscious transhuman evolution has been synergized with the mystical bent of Tibetan Lamaism’s conscious Tantric enlightenment. Altogether, the SDGs of UN Agenda 2030 and the New Age indoctrination of the UN World Core Curriculum, which have been cultivated at Crestone, are both guided by the doctrine of conscious evolution, which is rooted in a Theosophical remix of Tibetan esotericism that is steeped Tantric mysticism.

Of SYNCONs, Spy-Ops, and PSYOPs: From Finders to Mind Wars

Barbara Marx Hubbard also associated with a cult known as “The Finders,” which experimented with communal living, including communal sex and communal parenting, guided by “human potential” psychology, “New Age” spirituality, and “Eastern mysticism.” Operating communes out of Virginia and Washington DC with apparent military intelligence ties, the Finders founder, Marion D. Pettie, who was otherwise known as “The Game Caller,” inculcated his followers through a system of experimental “games” ostensibly aimed at raising the consciousness and actualizing the human potential of the “players” [4]. According to Finders member Robert “Tobe” Terrell, the Finders cult helped Hubbard set up her Synergistic Convergence conferences on multiple occasions [4]. Hubbard and the Finders were also linked through memberships with her World Future Society [4]. The Finders, who would be investigated for human trafficking and child sexual abuse involving “satanic rituals,” also endeavored to bankroll William Irwin Thompson’s Lindisfarne Association [4], which came to be stationed at the Strongs’ mountain tract outpost in Crestone where Hubbard preached her gospel of conscious transhuman evolution [1]. 

In 1987, two Finders members, Douglas E. Ammerman and Michael Houlihan, were arrested and charged with child abuse by Tallahassee police who received an anonymous phone call reporting “two ‘well-dressed men’ who were ‘supervising’ six disheveled children in a neighborhood park.” According to the Washington Post, a “police spokesman” described the children, who had been traveling in a van with the two Finders, as “hungry and . . . pretty pathetic” while “a court document” described them as “dirty, unkempt, hungry, disturbed and agitated.” United Press Internationalrecounts how the children “were covered with scratches and insect bites” while other reports relayed that the children said they were fed only as a reward and were forbidden from living indoors.

According to the New Times, the children described living at a commune with “lots of mommies and daddies” who take orders from a man they refer to as “the Game Caller.” A Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) report states that the children said they were “being ‘weaned’ from their mothers,” and “[t]he oldest child . . . did not know . . . her last name.” The children also said that “the adults had to do what the ‘Game Caller’ said, and the adults told the children what to do.” TPD spokesman Scott Hunt reported that one of the girls “showed signs of sexual abuse.” According to the New York Times, “after receiving a half-dozen phone calls threatening to the children,” the police moved the children to a “shelter” at an “undisclosed” location “protected by armed guards.”

As a result of the Tallahassee arrest, DC police raided a Finders warehouse where, according to news media, they “removed large plastic bags” that contained “wallet-sized pictures of children, . . . and some were of naked children.” TPD spokesman Hunt informed the press that “the Finders cult might have been accustomed to selling or smuggling the children of its members out of the country.”According to the Washington Post, “Customs officials” launched a probe into “whether a child pornography operation was being conducted” by the Finders while the FBI investigated whether the Finders were complicit in “the transportation of children across state lines for immoral purposes or kidnaping.” 

These investigations into the Finders would ultimately be dropped, citing a lack of evidence. But, in 2019, the FBI released its 870-page vault of files concerning the Finders investigation, which includes FBI memorandums, US Customs Service records, and TPD and DC Metro police reports. In turn, many unanswered questions have been raised by several investigative journalists, including Elizabeth Vos of Mint Press News, Derrick Broze of the Conscious Resistance Network, and John Brisson of We’ve Read the Documents, all of whom have highlighted how the initial police and Customs reports conflict with the FBI’s determination that the Finders case lacked evidence.

Prior to being investigated for child sexual abuse and human trafficking, the Finders helped Barabara Marx Hubbard orchestrate her Synergistic Convergence (SYNCON) conferences on multiple occasions [4]. On one such occasion, some of the Finders rendezvoused with former MIT Professor William Irwin Thompson, who propositioned the Finders to broker investments into his Lindisfarne Association, which was created to promote the cultivation of a “new planetary culture” [4].

According to The Gamecaller, which narrates the memoirs of Tobe Terrell’s experiences as a Finder, he and a fellow Finder, Roy Mason, took a road trip from the Finders headquarters in Washington DC to Montreal, Canada, “for the American Humanistic Psychology annual convention” where they attended a session hosted by the Tantric guru Chogyam Trungpa [4]. Reflecting on this encounter with Trungpa, Terrell recalls, “I don’t remember much of what he said, but I had no doubt as to what he was. I’d never been in a presence like his before” [4]. 

On the way back from the humanistic psychology convention, which was integral to the Human Potential Movement, Terrell and Mason stopped in Boston “to help Barbara Marx Hubbard, who’s staging a ‘Syncon,’” otherwise known as a “Synergistic Convergence” conference [4]. Terrell narrates how “[w]e’d attended the first one when it was held at the Washington Hilton and we’d stored the Syncon props afterward on the second floor of the warehouse” [4]. Terrell goes on to describe the entire SYNCON process:

“[t]he props are primarily plywood barriers, which are used to form a great circle in which the Syncon takes place.

Inside the circle are further barriers that form pie-shaped wedges, each wedge representing a category of human knowledge.  . . . [E]xperts from each field meet inside the wedges and try to arrive at a consensus on what to do about the most important problems in their field. When they think that they have done so, a wall is taken down between their field of knowledge and an adjoining field. Then the combined experts from the two fields redefine the problems and take down another barrier. The timing for their removal is determined by Barbara and her principal assistant Jerry Glenn. Gradually all of the walls come down until, at the end of the third day, everybody is sitting in one circle considering the biggest problems for the planet as a whole. As usual, the Syncon is considered a success by all who come.” [4]

After leaving Hubbard’s SYNCON, Terrell and Mason traveled “south” toward “Huntington,” New York, to the Lindisfarne Association to meet with William Irwin Thompson, whose “work” was “admire[d]” by the mastermind of the Finders: “[Marion] Pettie” [4]. Just“[a] few months later,” the Finders would “hear that Lindisfarne ha[d] lost its land and that Thompson [wa]s looking for another place,” so the Finders wrote “a letter to him . . . offer[ing] him some land in Nethers [Virginia] as a location for the new incarnation of Lindisfarne” [4].In turn, at Pettie’s behest, Terrell met personally with Thompson to negotiate the proposed deal [4]. Terrell writes, “[a]s was his usual practice, Pettie does not meet with him [Thompson], leaving that to his lieutenants,” who “report on Thompson’s visit” [4]. The Finders’ offer to grant a plot of land for a new Lindisfarne property was ultimately rejected by Thompson, who was only interested in “cash” to pay the expenses for rebuilding Lindisfarne at a different location in “Cooperstown, New York” [4]. 

Nevertheless, Thompson’s search for a Lindisfarne property would be resolved by Hubbard’s World Future Society colleague, Maurice Strong. Thompson joined forces with Strong through the “Gaia movement” that was sparked by James Lovelock’s “Gaia hypothesis,” which posits that the biosphere and ecospheres of planet Earth are super-organically co-evolved by conscious interventions from sentient lifeforms [1]. According to Christine Chandler, Thompson was “a student of Hindu Kriya yoga,” and he led “the original Gaia movement group,” which played a role in setting up his new Lindisfarne center at Crestone  [1]. In Enthralled, Chandler explains how “[t]he Gaia group relocated their ‘intentional community’ of Lindisfarne to meet in the friendliness of the natural world of Crestone . . . Apparently, this Gaia group of Thompson’s believed in the myth of Crestone being the perfect place to ‘confab’ together about the future ‘planetary communities’ that would solve the world’s problems” [1]. At Crestone, Lindisfarne received financial backing from Hubbard’s benefactor, Laurance Rockefeller. 

In brief, after failed negotiations with the Finders, Thompson moved his Lindisfarne Association to Strong’s Manitou property. There, it was funded by Rockefeller money and assimilated into the New Age collective of Crestone, where Hubbard preached her gospel of conscious transhuman evolution to communitarian acolytes of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. Altogether, The Gamecaller reveals how one Finder’s field trip links together members of the World Future Society, human potential psychologists, the Tantric guru Chogyam Trungpa, Barbara Marx Hubbard’s SYNCONs, and William Irwin Thompson’s Lindisfarne Association, which was bankrolled by Rockefeller capital at Maurice Strong’s Crestone outpost for conscious evolution and Tibetan esotericism.

Hubbard, Strong, and the Finders were also connected through the World Future Society, which Hubbard co-founded with Edward Cornish. According to Steam Shovel Press, which interviewed Pettie, an unattributed “Investigative Leads” memo relays that Pettie “established a ‘futurist’ network, assisting Edward S. Cornish in founding the World Future Society and [sic] working through Roy Mason and John Naisbitt.” To be sure, in The Gamecaller, Terrell quotes Pettie saying he had known Cornish “for 20 years” [4]. In fact, Cornish hired Hubbard’s SYNCON aide, Roy Mason, who was a member of the Finders, to serve as the architecture editor for The Futurist, which is the flagship publication of the World Future Society [4]. According to Cornish, Mason “had lots of associates,” who were probably fellow Finders, “whom he could call on as volunteers for [World Future] Society projects.” When a Finders cabin in Virginia was searched during the investigations into the cult’s alleged sexual abuse and child trafficking crimes, it was revealed that World Future Society literature was strewn about the domicile. Incidentally, the World Future Society and the Finders cult were both headquartered in Washington DC [4]. 

It is worth noting here that, in FindFar, which is the third volume in Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino’s MindWar series on psychological operations, Hubbard’s World Future Society is listed as a “3D forecasting . . . resource” alongside the CIA, which was incriminated in the Finders investigations; Stratfor, which is commonly dubbed “the private CIA” and is self-described as “the world’s leading geopolitical intelligence platform”; and the Hudson Institute, which was set up by Herman Khan, who was a World Future Society member and a RAND Corporation analyst [5]. Like Aquino, who was himself embroiled in an alleged child sex abuse scandal as a US Army Psychological Operations officer, Pettie and the Finders were entangled with intelligence operations that were ostensibly linked to their cult’s alleged child abuse and trafficking crimes.

According to a NewsLine bulletin from the NameBase intelligence officer database, webmaster Daniel Brandt, who worked with a team of Finders operating under the guise of an organization called “The Information Bank,” procured a “memo of undetermined origin that summarizes Pettie’s intelligence links.” Brandt’s synopsis of the memo recounts that “Pettie began his career with assorted OSS contacts, served as a chauffeur to General Ira Eaker, became a protégé of Charles Marsh ( . . . who ran his own private intelligence network), and was trained in counterintelligence in Baltimore and Frankfurt, Germany. His wife worked for the CIA, and Pettie himself was run by Col. Leonard N. Weigner (whose . . . career was spent in air force intelligence and the CIA).” In fact, Pettie’s intelligence training and his chauffer service under General Eaker are confirmed by Tobe Terrell in an interview with Derrick Broze of the Conscious Resistance Network, and Pettie himself confirmed his wife’s CIA associations in an interview with Steam Shovel Press. 

Although Pettie denied ever contracting directly with the CIA, he confessed that he “kept open house mainly to intelligence and counterintelligence people in Washington.” He also said, “I run a private intelligence game, and I send people out undercover to find out various things.” According to the anonymous memo relayed in Brandt’s NameBase bulletin, “on [Col.] Weigner’s advice Pettie resigned from the military and surrounded himself with ‘kooks’ so that he could infiltrate the ‘beat,’ human potential, and now the New Age movements.” 

It is worth noting here that the Human Potential and New Age Movements have also been appropriated by military intelligence operations through Hubbard’s World Business Academy comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon [6]. Channon conceived the US Army’s First Earth Battalion, which experimented with cultivating psychic superpowers that are explored in Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare at Goats. Channon, whose First Earth Battalion assimilated Hubbard’s concept of “supra-sex,” professed that “Barbara Marx Hubbard is a spiritual visionary and masterful planetary social inventor” [6]. In fact, Channon championed the “science of conscious evolution” as a compass for realizing the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were the precursors to the UN SDGs. In brief, the New Age and Human Potential Movements, which are integral to Hubbard’s Malthusian gospel of conscious transhuman evolution, were penetrated by intelligence operations that were evidently coordinated by her futurist cohorts, Channon and Pettie.

To be sure, the Finders have denied all allegations that the cult is a front for intelligence operations. However, the Associated Press recounts a “Customs report” which avers that “the CIA” had “admitted to owning the Finders organization as a front for a domestic computer training operation but that it had ‘gone bad.’” In fact, a company called “Future Enterprises Inc.” was investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) as a potential CIA “front company” run by the Finders. Consequently, a “CIA spokesman” told media outlets that the CIA did contract with “Future Enterprises Inc. for computer training in the 1980s,” but that it was unaware of “any connections between the company and the Finders.” Nonetheless, Finders member Tobe Terrell was indeed employed by Future Enterprises. Succinctly, at least one member of the Finders worked for Future Enterprises, which contracted with the CIA, while other members of the Finders were evidently involved in setting up a “‘futurist’ network” through Hubbard’s World Future Society [4], which is endorsed in military PSYOP literature as an intelligence “forecasting . . . resource” [5]. It is also worth noting here that Finders member Kristin Knauth founded Foresight Alliance, where she still works as a Senior Futurist and Foresight Analyst who has provided future forecasting and scenario planning services for the Rockefeller Foundation.

Adding to these suspicions of intelligence links, computerized telecommunications equipment, which was highly sophisticated for the pre-internet era of the 1980s, was discovered on several Finders properties during investigations. The Washington Postrelayed that, upon searching the Finders’ van, “[a]uthorities in Florida . . . found 20 floppy computer discs and a device . . . [that] could be used to hook into a computer in another location by telephone.” A TPD report states that the Finders children told police how “the Game Caller . . . would tell them what to do” by “using the computer in the van (a TRS-80).” While searching a Finders DC property, US Customs Special Agent Ramon J. Martinez inspected a proto-email system known as “MCI,” which the Finders used to transmit “telex messages,” including one that “expressed an interest in ‘bank secrecy’ situations” and one that “specifically ordered the purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a contact in the Chinese Embassy.” 

Notwithstanding the Finders’ denial of CIA involvement, Martinez determined that “the investigation into the activity of the FINDERS had become a CIA internal matter” and that the CIA was blocking him from pursuing his own investigation. In turn, Martinez dispatched his Customs reports to former CIA officer Skip Clements, who operated Technology Strategic Planning, which was a private intelligence firm. Clements forwarded Martinez’s documents to US Congressman Tom Lewis, who prompted the DOJ to investigate the CIA’s alleged obstruction of justice, stating that “all the evidence points to” the likelihood that “our own government ha[d] something to do with this Finders organization and turned their backs on these children.” Nevertheless, the DOJ ultimately exonerated the CIA of interfering in the Finders case.

It is worth noting here that the Finders are not the only cult to be entrenched with intelligence agencies, New Age spirituality, and sexual abuse accusations. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Dalai Lama, who is the religious figurehead of Crestone’s Tibetan Tantra cults [1], served as an asset for the CIA, which paid his administration a yearly stipend of $1.7 million, including  an annual subsidy of $180,000 earmarked for the Dalai Lama himself. Today, one of the Dalai Lama’s most prominent disciples and financial benefactors is eBay Founder, Pierre Omidyar, a billionaire technocrat who has yoked up with several ostensive “CIA cutouts.” According to The Grayzone, Omidyar’s CIA “regime-change” cooperators include the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Frontier Design Group along with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which awarded its Democracy Service Medal to the Dalai Lama, who has also joined forces with the NED. Omidyar, who operates an impact investment firm that collaborates with the WEF to “Evolv[e] Humanity” by “Evolving Technology” for “the digital revolution,” is also an acolyte of the Dalai Lama’s “gatekeeper,” Lama Tenzin Dhonden, who had an affair with Sara Bronfman while serving as the liaison between the Dalai Lama and the NXIVM human potential cult.

Sara’s father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., who lauded Nancy Salzman as “one of the most influential females in my life” before publicly denouncing NXIVM as “a cult,” played a notable role in facilitating the rise of transhumanist child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein.  After facilitating Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement,  US Attorney Alexander Acosta imparted that he “was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone” [2]. In One Nation Under Blackmail, investigative journalist Whitney Webb documents myriad connections between the “Epstein Network,” the CIA, and the Mossad [2]. 

It is also worth noting here that Epstein’s “shadowy” non-profit corporation, Gratitude America Ltd., bankrolled the Chopra Foundation, which is committed to “expanding consciousness” under the headship of Hubbard’s evolutionary “ally,” Deepak Chopra [3], who has also fellowshipped with the Dalai Lama. Epstein also financed the Edge Foundation, which strives to “evolve” a “Third Culture” with the help of Eric and Bret Weinstein, both of whom are Game B players along with Zak Stein, who “co-created” CosmoErotic Humanism with Hubbard and Marc Gafni. Another Epstein-funded non-profit, the Santa Fe Institute, which is a “global research network” that “search[es] for order” in the “evolutionary processes” of “complex systems dynamics,” including “biological, social, and technological systems,” was chaired by Jim Rutt, who also set up Game B. Additionally noteworthy, Gafni’s book, Soul Prints, is endorsed by the Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life.

Altogether, these interconnections between intelligence agencies, sexual abuse allegations, and the cults of NXIVM, Tantra, and the Finders reveal that Hubbard occupied a nexus between multiple intelligence operations entangled with an array of sex cults that have inculcated supplicants through human potential psychology, Buddhist mysticism, and other New Age esoterica which are integral to her Neo-Theosophical gospel of conscious transhuman evolution.

Before closing, this analysis would be remiss to omit the accusations of Satanic ritual abuse levied against the Finders. Not to be sensational, the relevance here is that Hubbard expressed sympathies for the Devil on several occasions [10], which perhaps betray a common Luciferian spirituality that was not only shared by Hubbard and the Finders, but was also the crux of her Neo-Theosophical belief in conscious transhuman evolution. 

According to the Washington Post, “D.C. police sources” reported that a “warehouse linked to the [Finders] group” contained “pictures of children engaged in what appeared to be ‘cult rituals’” while “[o]fficials of the U.S. Customs Service” described one such picture as a “photograph of a child in chains.” US Customs Special Agent Martinez itemized “a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participating in a blood ritual.  . . . The photos showed the execution, disembowelment, skinning, and dismemberment of two goats at the hands of the children.” At another Finders property in DC, a “police detective” observed that a circle of “several round stones had been gathered” amidst other evidence of practices “sometimes used in satanic rituals.” In a separate Finders investigation prior to the Tallahassee arrest, a “confidential” source told DC police that the Finders were “a cult” involved in “brainwashing” and the use of children for “rituals.” This confidential source, according to the Washington Post, also “told of being recruited by the Finders with promises of ‘financial reward and sexual gratification’ and of being invited by one member to ‘explore’ satanism with them.” 

To be sure, these claims about the Finders’ Satanic rituals were ultimately dismissed as symptoms of “Satanic panic,” and Tobe Terrell has maintained that the Finders were never involved in any Satanic activities. However, Terrell’s memoir notes that Marion Pettie was an “admire[r]” of William Irwin Thompson [4], who co-authored Reimagination of the World with Luciferian, David Spangler, who professed that “Lucifer . . .  is the angel of man’s evolution” and that “the Luciferic initiation . . . is an initiation into the New Age.” 

Similarly, Hubbard’s New Age gospel of conscious transhuman evolution was inspired by Lucifer, whom she credited for kindling the evolution of human consciousness by offering Eve the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. In The Revelation: Alternative to Armageddon, Hubbard proclaimed that “[t]wo evolved Sons of God, Lucifer and Christ, were actual beings sent to nurture godly beings on Earth. Lucifer attracted Eve to do what she naturally would have done — become self-conscious.” In The Hunger of Eve, Hubbard confessed, “[w]hen I first read Genesis in my youth, I was on Eve’s side. I thought she was right to eat the apple of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil — I would have! It was worth the suffering to struggle out of animal innocence to become human” [10]. Like Lucifer, who told Eve she would become god-like upon eating the Fruit of Knowledge, Hubbard evangelized New Agers by preaching that scientific knowledge will generate transhuman technologies which will enable humans to consciously evolve into “godlings.” 

Likewise, the coiner of conscious evolution, Theosophist Alice Bailey, avowed “Lucifer” as the “Ruler” of “Humanity” and “Self-consciousness” in two of her occult tomes: The Externalization of the Hierarchy and The Destiny of Nations. Bailey also founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, which she revamped into the Lucis Trust, which holds “Consultative Status” with the UN and “play[s] an active role in the United Nations, particularly in spreading information about the UN and fostering support for UN programs,” including “sustainable development” initiatives that are integral to the transhumanist 4IR.

It is worth noting here that the PSYOP architect of “MindWar,” Michael Aquino, who endorsed Hubbard’s World Future Society [5], was a disciple of Satanist Anton LaVey and the founder of the Temple of Set, which is an offshoot of LaVey’s Church of Satan. Like the Finders, Aquino was implicated in a child sexual abuse scandal that allegedly involved Satanic rituals. It is also worth noting here that the “sex magic” rites of Satanic occultist, Aleister Crowley, whose exegesis of the “Enochian Keys” influenced LaVey’s Satanic Bible and Aquino’s Satanic Bible: 50^th Anniversary ReVision, are based on Tantra. According to Secret Agent 666by Richard B. Spence, who is a professor of history at the University of Idaho, Crowley was a British intelligence asset.

In sum, whether or not there is any veracity to the allegations of Satanic ritual abuse levied against Aquino and the Finders, Luciferianism dovetails with the “Lefthand Path” of Tantric sex magic, which is practiced by Hubbard’s cosmo-erotic protégé, Marc Gafni, along with Tibetan gurus who have collaborated with the Manitou Foundation and the NXIVM human potential cult. Luciferianism is also the spiritual ethos of Hubbard’s Neo-Theosophical gospel of conscious evolution, which she propagated through collaborations with Gafni, NXIVM’s Nancy Salzman, and the New Age community of Crestone. Moreover, the Luciferian mythos of humanity becoming godlike through the Tree of Knowledge is congruent with 4IR axiology, which is bent on technologically evolving humankind into a new transhuman species that Hubbard and other eminent futurists, such as WEF mouthpiece Yuval Noah Harari, conceive as god-like. 

The Fog of Psych-War

To be clear, my account of Hubbard’s connections with the Finders, Crestone, NXIVM, and Gafni is not intended to implicate that she was complicit in the sexual abuse allegations or convictions of these individuals and organizations. Rather, the connections documented herein are highlighted to illuminate how Hubbard’s Neo-Theosophical gospel of conscious transhuman evolution is enmeshed with a tapestry of New Age spirituality, human potential psychology, and Tantric sexuality that has been systematically exploited by cults that have been entangled with PSYOPs and intelligence operations. 

It is difficult to quantify the degree to which Tantric, Satanic, or other forms of sex magic are baked into Hubbard’s gospel of conscious transhuman evolution. It is likewise difficult to determine whether Hubbard volunteered her conscious evolutionary mission to be used for psychological operations conducted by intelligence contractors, or whether such contractors co-opted it for their own agendas. Either way, Hubbard and the CIA, along with other intel agencies and PSYOP special forces, share a mutual history of propagating New Age futurism with the common effect of socially engineering cultures to believe in utopic promises of human potential actualization through various modes of conscious evolution, including sustainable transhuman evolution through 4IR technocracy. Whether a circuitous stratagem or the spontaneous convergence of imbricating ideologies and organizations, the synergistic legacy of Hubbard’s Tantric, Satanic, and intel-PSYOP associations is reified in the encroaching 4IR machinations of globalist technocrats whose transhumanist reimagining of the future emerges from an arcane sacralization of conscious Luciferian evolution instilled with sexual mysticism.

References

[1]  Christine A. Chandler, Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017)

[2]  Whitney Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2021). 

[3]  Barbara Marx Hubbard and The Welcoming Committee, Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution (USA: Shift Books, 2012).

[4]  Tobe Terrell, The Gamecaller (Gainesville, FL: Old Rag Publishing, 2009).

[5]  Michael A. Aquino, FindFar (San Francisco: CreateSpace, 2017).

[6]  Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential (Novato, CA: New World Library, 1998).

[7]  Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Revelation: Our Crisis Is a Birth (The Book of Co-Creation) (Sonoma, CA: Foundation for Conscious Evolution, 1993).

[8] Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being, 2^nd ed. (New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1968).

[9]  Rosa Koire, Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 (Santa Rosa, CA: Post Sustainability Institute Press, 2011).

[10] Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey Toward the Future (Eastsound, WA: Island Pacific NW, 1989). 

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations.

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