Rick Spence

So he's the new Nixon. And this is where the new Nixon apparently made a good impression on the right people, because he did indeed get the Republican nomination, and he did indeed become president.

Let's put it this way. The general public, rich people are inherently suspicious. Yeah. Let's put it that way. First of all, they've got all that money and exactly how did one obtain it? And I do not, of necessity, adhere to the view that behind every great fortune there is a great crime, but there often are. There are ways in which it's acquired. But I think it's...

One of the things I think that can happen is, particularly when people acquire a huge amount of money, and I won't name any names, but let's say there are people who perhaps in the tech sphere, who coming from no particular background of wealth, suddenly find themselves with $600 billion. Well, this is the question you would have to ask yourself, why me?

because you're one of the rare, tiny group of human beings who will ever have that kind of wealth in your hands. Even if you are a convinced atheist, I think at some point you have to begin to suspect that the cosmic muffin, Providence, whatever it is, put this money in your hands to do what? Achieve great things. Just think of all the stuff.

So you're going to start a foundation and you're going to start backing all the things that you like. I think there's an element of ego that comes in with it as well. And Again, it may not be so much what the rich person with a huge amount of money at their disposal and a lot of fuzzy ideas about what to do with it can be influenced by others.

It's always that question as to who's actually manipulating these events. What's going on in that regard? In some way, they can be a very useful sucker. Find somebody with a lot of money and get them to finance the things that you want them to do. The Bohemian Club is...

I don't think in and of itself inherently evil or sinister, but it means that there are lots of different people in it who have different agendas. It goes back to what I said about how somebody feels about the cremation of care ritual.

This is either just a waste of time, it's just some sort of silly thing that we're doing, or it is something of great importance, perhaps even mystical or religious importance, because that's ostensibly, what it's pretending to be. It's always this question as to what degree you begin to play, and the play becomes serious. That tends to happen a lot.

Well, what is broadly referred to, well, we're getting to, what's occultism? What's the occult? The occult is the hidden.

That's all it really means, specifically hidden from sight.

And the basis of it is the idea that what is hidden? Well, what is hidden from us is most of the world, most of reality. So the basic concept within occultism, the basic concept within most religions, which are approved forms of occultism, is that the world, the physical world that we are aware of, is only a very small part of a much larger reality.

And that what the methods and practices of occultism arguably do is to allow someone to either enter into this larger reality or to access that larger reality for purposes to be exploited here. The most interesting statement about, and a key element of this becomes the thing called magic. Now we all know magic, you know, it's a guy standing on stage performing a trick.

But the interesting thing about a stage magician is that a stage magician is, we know when we're watching this that it's a trick. Yet we can't really figure out, if he does it well, how that trick is being accomplished because it seems to defy physical laws. And that's what's fascinating about it.

So even though you know it's a trick, if you can't figure it out, it has this kind of power of fascination. But it's mimicking something. Stage magic is mimicking real magic. So it's real magic. Well, let's go back to Alistair Crowley. Cause you know, he, he always has to go. We knew he's, I knew he was going to come up at some point in this earlier because he always does.

All roads lead to Alistair Crowley. All roads lead to Alistair Crowley. Um, Alistair Crowley. And I've said this enough that I should be able to get it right, but I'm paraphrasing here. He goes magic, which of course he spelled with a K to, you know, or CK. Um, is the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

So in a way, that's sort of mind over matter, but it's the idea that one can, through will, through intention, bend reality to make something happen. Somebody once put it this way, it's tipping the luck plane. So, you know, you got some kind of a level plane. What you're trying to do is just tip it just a little bit so the marble rolls over one side or another.

Now, that presupposes a lot of things that, is there a luck plane? I don't know. But, you know, it's a good sort of idea to have. And here again, don't become overly bothered trying to figure out whether you actually can bend reality. become bothered by the fact that there are people who believe that they can and will go to great efforts to do so and will often believe they have succeeded.

So it's this effort to believe Make things occur in a particular way. Maybe just to sort of nudge reality in one little way or another. And that's where things like rituals come in. Rituals are a way of focusing will and attention. We're all there. We're all thinking about the same thing. And you have to imagine just how.

The pervasiveness of what could be called that kind of magical thinking every day is everywhere. So let me give you an example. Have you ever attended a high school football pep rally? Think of what's going on there. Okay, your team is going to battle the other team. You've now assembled everyone in the gymnasium. You've got people who are dancing around in animal totem costumes.

And what are you chanting? Everyone is supposed to chant that the other team dies, that you will be horribly defeated and that our team will be victorious. That is a magic ritual. The idea is, if it comes into this idea, it's very popularly about visualizing things. Visualizing, manifesting, I love this term. You need to manifest your success. Well, that's just magic. That is magic.