The CIA Tried to Weaponize BLACK MAGIC… (Declassified)

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What was Operation Often and who initiated it?

Aubrey Marcus 0:00

Operation Often was initiated around 1967 and 1968 by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's Technical Services Division, as part of the agency's Cold War efforts to investigate investigate unconventional methods for intelligent gathering, behavioral manipulation, and psychological warfare. Um Often was the successor or parallel to MKUltra, which famously tested LSD and other drugs on unwitting subjects, but it shifted focus toward the esoteric and supernatural. The program's official mandate per declassified memos was to, quote, explore the world of black magic and quote, harness the forces of darkness, end quote, to determine if occult forces could be weaponized for operational use. Such as influencing minds, predicting events, or disrupting enemies.

Aubrey Marcus 0:49

It challenged the idea that the inner reaches of the mind are beyond reach, blending pharmacology with mysticism. Testing occurred at facilities, including hospitals, prisons, and universities, often involving animal and human subjects. Recruitment of occult practitioners. CIA operatives, including Gottlieb, consulted and recruited a wide array of individuals such as fortune tellers, palm readers, clairvoyants, astrologers, mediums, psychics, demonologists, witches, warlocks, and satanists. These consultations aim to test whether rituals, spells, or invocations could produce verifiable effects, like inducing hallucinations, altering behavior, or gaining intelligence insights. How crazy is

Andrew Bustamante 1:39

what you just read? Like it's it's not unheard of for the time. But where we're sitting right now. Like we were trying to weaponize

Aubrey Marcus 1:50

the inner mind. Yes. And so the point that I was going to get to is in the mindset that everything is war, they were the intelligence, you know, the intelligence apparatus was willing to investigate Dark magic, black magic, occult power, consulting Satanists, consulting these dark rituals to see if they could weaponize it. And of course, who knows what ended up happening to that. Eventually the program was stopped, but maybe, you know, like did it continue? Did they find some success? There's there's obviously like you know, circles within circles of what gets continually classified or not.

How did the CIA recruit occult practitioners for black‑magic research?

Aubrey Marcus 2:31

Not shared. I don't know how that system works. You probably know better than me. But one way or another, they were testing the dark forces. But where is the idea to test? Like, what happens if we actually test the light forces, the angelic forces, the power of God to actually unify people and to help them make better decisions? It just seems like this is a because of the mindset, which is everything is war, we you know, we including you know, just speaking broadly for the US and our intelligence apparatus, we were willing to test These occult magical practices, which are highly disruptive to the brain. You start tapping into this, you play on the dark side. It's, I mean, from all of my psychedelic plant medicine experiences, it's highly confusing and disruptive.

Aubrey Marcus 3:21

You have to be very mindful, you know, if you actually start to engage with like the dark side of the force, to use like a Star Wars term. Like it's not something to be trifled with, nor something that anybody who who has any sense even messes with. But because everybody also knows there's the light side. And that's actually where you can find your own personal fulfillment and you can also provide massive healing. There what seems to be necessary is a fundamental shift. Like, okay, if we're willing to test, you know, the powers of these dark forces for war, what about the powers of goodness and love and beauty and truth? You know, what effect will that have on a population if we want our population to actually thrive?

Aubrey Marcus 4:07

It seems like we're at a place where if we're willing to test the

Aubrey Marcus 4:21

took this, you know, as a horrible atrocity, what happened to them? I mean, unspeakable things happened and hostages were taken, et cetera.

What were the intended weaponizable effects of black‑magic experiments?

Aubrey Marcus 4:29

And they've gone on the course that they've gone on. But as Charles Eisenstein points to, what would have happened if they just said, this horrible thing happened and this is the state of the world.