# Apeirron

> An open-source knowledge graph mapping the biggest questions humanity asks — consciousness, ancient civilizations, intelligence operations, reality, and more. Every idea is a node; every connection has a reason.

Each node below is a self-contained investigation, primary-sourced and interlinked with related topics in the graph. The full graph of 198 nodes is browsable at https://www.apeirron.com.

## About

- Homepage: https://www.apeirron.com
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## Mind

- [Altered States](https://www.apeirron.com/node/altered-states): In 1954, Aldous Huxley swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescaline, sat down in his garden in Los Angeles, and wrote what would become one of the most…
- [Carl Jung & The Collective Unconscious](https://www.apeirron.com/node/jung): In October 1913, at the age of thirty-eight, Carl Gustav Jung was traveling alone on a train through the Swiss countryside when he experienced a waking vision.
- [Consciousness](https://www.apeirron.com/node/consciousness): There is something it is like to be you. Right now, reading these words, there is an experience happening — light hitting your eyes, meaning forming in your…
- [Daniel Dennett & Modern Materialism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/dennett): Daniel Clement Dennett (1942--2024) was the most formidable materialist philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
- [Descartes & Cartesian Dualism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/descartes): In the winter of 1619, Rene Descartes -- a 23-year-old French soldier and mathematician -- locked himself in a heated room (poele) in southern Germany and…
- [DMT & The Spirit Molecule](https://www.apeirron.com/node/dmt): Well into his study, Rick Strassman had a problem he had not been trained for. He was a careful psychiatrist running a rigorous, government-sanctioned study of…
- [Dualism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/dualism): You are, right now, having an experience. Light enters your eyes. Electrical signals traverse your neurons. Neurotransmitters cross synaptic gaps.
- [Epicureanism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/epicureanism): "Death is nothing to us." With that declaration, Epicurus (341-270 BCE) distilled an entire metaphysics into an ethical principle.
- [Free Will & Determinism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/free-will): The setup was almost insultingly simple. A subject sits in front of a modified oscilloscope on which a bright dot sweeps around a circular face like the second…
- [Idealism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/idealism): What if matter is not the foundation of reality? What if consciousness is? Idealism is the philosophical position that mind, experience, or spirit is more…
- [Kant & Transcendental Idealism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/kant): Immanuel Kant (1724--1804) never traveled more than ten miles from his hometown of Konigsberg, Prussia.
- [Kundalini & The Serpent Power](https://www.apeirron.com/node/kundalini): In the winter of 1937, a thirty-four-year-old Kashmiri civil servant named Gopi Krishna was sitting in meditation before dawn, as he had done at the same hour…
- [Materialism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/materialism): Materialism is the philosophical position that everything that exists is physical.
- [Maya & Non-Duality](https://www.apeirron.com/node/maya-nonduality): In 1896, a sixteen-year-old boy named Venkataraman Iyer was sitting alone on the upper floor of his uncle's house in Madurai when he was seized, without…
- [Morphic Resonance](https://www.apeirron.com/node/morphic-resonance): In September 1981, the most prestigious scientific journal in the world ran an editorial recommending that a book be burned.
- [Near-Death Experiences & Reincarnation](https://www.apeirron.com/node/near-death-experiences): On a morning in August 1991, a thirty-five-year-old musician named Pam Reynolds was clinically killed on purpose.
- [Panpsychism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/panpsychism): Here is the problem, stated as plainly as possible: we live in a universe made of matter.
- [Pharmacratic Inquisition](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pharmacratic-inquisition): In 1992, the ethnobotanist and lecturer Terence McKenna published Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, a book that argued something…
- [Plato & The Theory of Forms](https://www.apeirron.com/node/plato): Imagine prisoners chained in a cave since birth. Their legs and necks are fixed so that they can see only the wall directly in front of them.
- [Project Monarch](https://www.apeirron.com/node/project-monarch): On December 3, 1992, a clinical psychologist named D. Corydon Hammond stood before an audience of therapists at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference…
- [Pythagoras](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pythagoras): In approximately 530 BC, on the southern coast of what is now Italy, in the prosperous Greek colonial city of Croton (now the modern Italian city of Crotone,…
- [Quantum Consciousness & The Observer](https://www.apeirron.com/node/quantum-consciousness): The setup is the simplest in modern physics and it has never stopped being disturbing.
- [Stoicism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/stoicism): Around 300 BCE, Zeno of Citium began teaching in the Stoa Poikile — the "Painted Porch" — in the Athenian agora.
- [Synchronicity](https://www.apeirron.com/node/synchronicity): Sometime around 1949, in a consulting room in Küsnacht on the shore of Lake Zürich, an analysis had stalled.
- [Taoism & the Tao Te Ching](https://www.apeirron.com/node/taoism): The legend is one of the most beautiful in the history of philosophy, and almost certainly false.
- [Terence McKenna & The Stoned Ape](https://www.apeirron.com/node/stoned-ape): Picture McKenna on a darkened lecture stage in the late 1980s, a small man with wire glasses and a reedy, hypnotic Midwestern drawl, asking an audience to walk…
- [The Hard Problem](https://www.apeirron.com/node/hard-problem): In 1995, philosopher David Chalmers drew a line through the study of the mind. On one side he placed the "easy problems" — explaining how the brain processes…
- [The Illusion of the Self](https://www.apeirron.com/node/illusion-of-self): In 1739 a twenty-eight-year-old Scotsman went looking for himself and could not find him.
- [The Law of Attraction & New Thought](https://www.apeirron.com/node/law-of-attraction): In 2004 Rhonda Byrne, a Melbourne television producer whose father had just died and whose career and finances were collapsing around her, was handed a small,…
- [The Pineal Gland & The Third Eye](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pineal-gland): In the early 1640s, in his rented houses across the Dutch Republic, René Descartes was buying the carcasses of animals from butchers and slaughterhouses and…

## Origins

- [Alchemy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/alchemy): Around the year 300, in the Greco-Egyptian city of Panopolis, a man named Zosimos wrote down a dream.
- [Aleister Crowley & Thelema](https://www.apeirron.com/node/crowley): On the afternoon of April 8, 1904, in a rented flat in Cairo, a twenty-eight-year-old Englishman sat at a desk with a pen while, he would insist for the rest…
- [Ancient Astronauts](https://www.apeirron.com/node/ancient-astronauts): In 1968, a Swiss hotelier and convicted fraudster named Erich von Däniken published a book he had written on prison stationery between stretches of his…
- [Astrotheology & The Christ Myth](https://www.apeirron.com/node/astrotheology): In the summer of 2007 a feature-length film with no studio, no theatrical release, and no named distributor appeared on Google Video and spread across the…
- [Atlantis](https://www.apeirron.com/node/atlantis): It is the most famous place that may never have existed. A civilization of immense power and sophistication, destroyed in a single day and night, swallowed by…
- [Gnosticism, the Demiurge & the Archons](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gnosticism): In December 1945, a Bedouin farmer named Muhammad Ali al-Samman was digging for sabakh — soft, nitrate-rich soil used as fertilizer — at the base of the Jabal…
- [Göbekli Tepe](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gobekli-tepe): In 1994, a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt visited a hilltop in southeastern Turkey that local farmers had been plowing around for generations.
- [Kabbalah & the Tree of Life](https://www.apeirron.com/node/kabbalah): Sometime after the Spanish Kabbalist Moses de León died in 1305, a wealthy man named Joseph offered his widow a large sum of money for the original manuscript…
- [Lost Ancient Civilizations](https://www.apeirron.com/node/ancient-civilizations): In October 1994, a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt walked onto a limestone hill in southeastern Turkey that local farmers had complained about for…
- [Megalithic Mysteries](https://www.apeirron.com/node/megaliths): In the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, three stones rest in the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek.
- [Sacred Geometry](https://www.apeirron.com/node/sacred-geometry): There is a moment in the education of every mathematician — usually early, usually unexpected — when the subject stops feeling like a human invention and…
- [Saturn & The Black Cube](https://www.apeirron.com/node/saturn-black-cube): On November 12, 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft passed within 124,000 kilometers of Saturn's cloud tops and transmitted the first high-resolution images of…
- [Tartaria and the Mud Flood](https://www.apeirron.com/node/tartaria): It is the youngest lost civilization in the conspiracy canon — not buried under twelve thousand years of sediment and myth like atlantis, not pushed back into…
- [The Anunnaki & Sitchin's Sumerian Translations](https://www.apeirron.com/node/anunnaki): In the early 1970s, a New York shipping executive named Zecharia Sitchin spent his evenings with photographic plates of cuneiform tablets, a Sumerian sign…
- [The Book of Enoch & The Watchers](https://www.apeirron.com/node/book-of-enoch): In November 1773, a Scottish traveler named James Bruce arrived in Marseille after a six-year expedition through Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
- [The Hermetic Tradition](https://www.apeirron.com/node/hermetic-tradition): In 1460, a monk named Leonardo da Pistoia brought a Greek manuscript to Cosimo de' Medici in Florence.
- [The Hollow Earth](https://www.apeirron.com/node/hollow-earth): There is a idea so persistent that it has survived the invention of seismology, the mapping of the Earth's core, satellite imagery of every square meter of the…
- [The Holy Grail and the Bloodline of Christ](https://www.apeirron.com/node/holy-grail): In 1182, a French poet named Chretien de Troyes sat down to write a romance for his patron, Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders.
- [The Piri Reis Map](https://www.apeirron.com/node/piri-reis-map): In 1929, during the conversion of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul into a museum, a Turkish historian named Halil Edhem was going through a stack of materials in…
- [The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis](https://www.apeirron.com/node/younger-dryas): Approximately twelve thousand eight hundred years ago, the Earth, which had been emerging from the depths of the last glacial maximum and slowly warming for…

## Cosmos

- [AATIP & The Pentagon UAP Disclosure](https://www.apeirron.com/node/aatip-disclosure): On the morning of Saturday, December 16, 2017, The New York Times published a front-page article titled "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's…
- [Area 51](https://www.apeirron.com/node/area-51): In the summer of 1955, a small team of Lockheed engineers and CIA officers drove into the Nevada desert along an unmarked road, past the last town, past the…
- [Majestic 12](https://www.apeirron.com/node/majestic-12): In December 1984, a Los Angeles television producer and UFO researcher named Jaime Shandera opened his mailbox and found a plain envelope with no return…
- [Nibiru & Planet X](https://www.apeirron.com/node/nibiru): On a spring day in 1976, a book appeared on the shelves of American bookstores that proposed, with meticulous footnotes and an air of absolute conviction, that…
- [Skinwalker Ranch](https://www.apeirron.com/node/skinwalker-ranch): In the summer of 1994, Terry Sherman and his wife Gwen bought a 480-acre cattle ranch in the Uintah Basin of northeastern Utah, on the banks of the Uinta River…
- [The Fermi Paradox](https://www.apeirron.com/node/fermi-paradox): In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, New Mexico, with Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil…
- [The Moon Landing Hoax](https://www.apeirron.com/node/moon-landing): On July 20, 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched a grainy, ghostly television image of Neil Armstrong descending a ladder onto the surface of the Moon.
- [The Roswell Incident](https://www.apeirron.com/node/roswell): In the first week of July 1947, something fell out of the sky and struck the high desert of southeastern New Mexico.
- [UFOs & UAPs](https://www.apeirron.com/node/ufos): On December 16, 2017, the New York Times published an article that should have ended the world as we knew it.

## Power

- [Agenda 21 & Sustainable Development](https://www.apeirron.com/node/agenda-21): On June 14, 1992, in a convention hall on the edge of Rio de Janeiro, a seventy-two-year-old Canadian businessman named Maurice Strong gaveled to a close the…
- [Bohemian Grove](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bohemian-grove): In the summer of 2000, a man with a hidden camera walked through the gates of one of the most exclusive private retreats on Earth.
- [Climate Change Denial & The Manufacture of Doubt](https://www.apeirron.com/node/climate-denial): In July 1977, a senior scientist named James Black stood before the Management Committee of the Exxon Corporation — the men who ran what was then the largest…
- [Color Revolutions](https://www.apeirron.com/node/color-revolutions): On November 22, 2003, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched on the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, carrying long-stemmed red roses.
- [Corporate Personhood & The Corporation](https://www.apeirron.com/node/the-corporation): The most consequential sentence in American corporate law was not written by a judge, and it was not part of any ruling.
- [Counterculture as Psyop](https://www.apeirron.com/node/counterculture-psyop): On April 17, 1965, between fifteen and twenty-five thousand people marched on Washington, D.C. to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War.
- [Denver International Airport](https://www.apeirron.com/node/denver-airport): You land at Denver International Airport, walk off the jet bridge, and the first thing you see is a horse.
- [Economic Hit Men & The IMF/World Bank](https://www.apeirron.com/node/economic-hitman): Sometime in 1971, in an apartment in Boston, a young economist named John Perkins was being seduced and recruited at the same time.
- [Edward Bernays & The Engineering of Consent](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bernays): On the morning of Easter Sunday, March 31, 1929, ten young women stepped out of the Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan, walked the few blocks to Fifth Avenue,…
- [Freemasonry](https://www.apeirron.com/node/freemasonry): On June 24, 1717 — the Feast of St. John the Baptist — four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron Ale House near St Paul's Cathedral and formed the Grand…
- [Invisible Control Systems](https://www.apeirron.com/node/control-systems): In 1928, Edward Bernays — nephew of Sigmund Freud and the father of modern public relations — published a book called Propaganda.
- [Klaus Schwab & The World Economic Forum](https://www.apeirron.com/node/schwab-wef): In April 2017, Klaus Schwab — the German-born economist who had founded the European Management Forum at the Swiss alpine resort of Davos in January 1971,…
- [Manufacturing Consent & The Propaganda Model](https://www.apeirron.com/node/manufacturing-consent): In 1922, the journalist Walter Lippmann published Public Opinion, the foundational text of modern media theory, and gave one of its chapters a title that would…
- [Money as Debt & Fractional-Reserve Banking](https://www.apeirron.com/node/money-as-debt): In March 2014, the Bank of England published a paper that should have been front-page news and instead vanished into the footnotes of monetary economics.
- [P2, Banco Ambrosiano & Roberto Calvi](https://www.apeirron.com/node/p2-banco-ambrosiano): On the morning of June 18, 1982, a postal clerk crossing Blackfriars Bridge in the City of London looked down at the scaffolding beneath the eastern arch and…
- [Predictive Programming](https://www.apeirron.com/node/predictive-programming): On March 4, 2001 — exactly six months and seven days before September 11 — the Fox television network aired the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of…
- [Secret Societies](https://www.apeirron.com/node/secret-societies): In 1798, John Robison — professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and fellow of the Royal Society — published Proofs of a Conspiracy…
- [Skull & Bones](https://www.apeirron.com/node/skull-and-bones): On the evening of November 2, 2004, the American people went to the polls to choose between two candidates for the presidency of the United States.
- [Technocracy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/technocracy): In the winter of 1932, with a quarter of the American workforce unemployed and the price system that was supposed to govern the economy visibly broken, a tall,…
- [The 27 Club](https://www.apeirron.com/node/celebrity-27-club): On a September night in 1970, in a basement flat at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London's Notting Hill, Jimi Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit.
- [The Bilderberg Group](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bilderberg): On May 29, 1954, sixty-one men from eleven Western countries arrived at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, a quiet suburb of Arnhem in the eastern…
- [The Breakaway Civilization](https://www.apeirron.com/node/breakaway-civilization): In 2010, the historian Richard Dolan introduced a concept that had been circling the edges of UFO research, classified aerospace speculation, and deep politics…
- [The CFR & Trilateral Commission](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cfr-trilateral): In 2002, at the age of eighty-seven, David Rockefeller — grandson of the founder of Standard Oil, longtime chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of…
- [The Clinton Body Count](https://www.apeirron.com/node/clinton-body-count): On the morning of July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent W. Foster Jr. — deputy White House counsel, Hillary Clinton's former law partner at the Rose Law Firm in…
- [The Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth](https://www.apeirron.com/node/club-of-rome): In the basement computing facility at MIT in the early months of 1971, a mainframe running a simulation language called DYNAMO was quietly producing the most…
- [The Deep State](https://www.apeirron.com/node/deep-state): In January 2014, a retired congressional staffer named Mike Lofgren published an essay on Bill Moyers's website titled "Anatomy of the Deep State." Lofgren had…
- [The Eugenics Movement](https://www.apeirron.com/node/eugenics): In the spring of 1927, the Supreme Court of the United States was asked to decide whether the Commonwealth of Virginia could cut open a young woman named…
- [The Federal Reserve](https://www.apeirron.com/node/federal-reserve): On a cold November night in 1910, a private railway car sat waiting at a train station in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- [The Frankfurt School & The Culture Industry](https://www.apeirron.com/node/frankfurt-school): In the autumn of 1944, in a stucco house on South Kenter Avenue in the Pacific Palisades, two German exiles were finishing a book they expected almost no one…
- [The Georgia Guidestones](https://www.apeirron.com/node/georgia-guidestones): In June 1979, a well-dressed, silver-haired stranger walked into the offices of the Elberton Granite Finishing Company in Elbert County, Georgia, and asked the…
- [The Illuminati](https://www.apeirron.com/node/illuminati): On May 1, 1776 — the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, a coincidence that conspiracy theorists have never stopped noting — Adam Weishaupt,…
- [The Knights Templar](https://www.apeirron.com/node/knights-templar): In 1119, nine French knights led by Hugues de Payens presented themselves to King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with a singular offer: they would protect Christian…
- [The Military-Industrial Complex](https://www.apeirron.com/node/military-industrial-complex): On the evening of January 17, 1961, three days before he handed the presidency to John F.
- [The New World Order](https://www.apeirron.com/node/new-world-order): On the evening of September 11, 1990 — a date that would acquire a second and far more terrible significance exactly eleven years later — President George…
- [The Petrodollar System](https://www.apeirron.com/node/petrodollar): In the summer of 1974, a thirty-six-year-old former Salomon Brothers bond trader named William Simon, newly installed as U.S.
- [The Protocols of the Elders of Zion](https://www.apeirron.com/node/protocols-of-zion): In August 1921, a correspondent for The Times of London named Philip Graves sat in Constantinople with two books open side by side on his desk.
- [The Reptilian Elite](https://www.apeirron.com/node/reptilian-elite): In 2012, a Public Policy Polling survey found that four percent of registered American voters — roughly twelve million people — believed that "lizard people"…
- [The Rockefeller Dynasty](https://www.apeirron.com/node/rockefeller): On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v.
- [The Rothschild Dynasty](https://www.apeirron.com/node/rothschild): On the morning of June 19, 1815, a single horseman rode into the small French port of Ostend with a despatch in his saddlebag.
- [The Shadow Elite](https://www.apeirron.com/node/shadow-elite): In 1966, Carroll Quigley — a professor of history at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and mentor to a young Bill Clinton — published a…
- [The Shock Doctrine & Neoliberalism](https://www.apeirron.com/node/shock-doctrine): September 11, 1973. Hawker Hunter jets of the Chilean Air Force put rockets into La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, while the democratically…
- [The Tavistock Institute](https://www.apeirron.com/node/tavistock): On June 24, 1947, a small group of British psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and social scientists incorporated a new institution in central London.
- [The Vatican & The Jesuit Order](https://www.apeirron.com/node/vatican-jesuits): On the evening of March 13, 2013, white smoke rose from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
- [Thule and Vril](https://www.apeirron.com/node/thule-vril): On January 1, 1918, in a hotel room in Munich, a German occultist named Rudolf von Sebottendorff — born Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer, a former merchant marine…

## Operations

- [9/11](https://www.apeirron.com/node/nine-eleven): At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 — a Boeing 767 carrying 92 people — struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center between…
- [AIDS as Bioweapon](https://www.apeirron.com/node/aids-bioweapon): On June 5, 1981, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — a publication of the Centers for Disease Control that, under normal circumstances, is read only by…
- [Amerithrax: The 2001 Anthrax Letters](https://www.apeirron.com/node/amerithrax): On October 2, 2001, a sixty-three-year-old photo editor named Robert Stevens checked into the JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, confused and feverish,…
- [BCCI & Nugan Hand: The Intelligence Banks](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bcci-nugan-hand): A little before dawn on January 27, 1980, a wealthy Australian lawyer named Frank Nugan was found dead in his silver Mercedes-Benz on a quiet road outside…
- [Chemtrails](https://www.apeirron.com/node/chemtrails): On a clear autumn morning in 1996, a document appeared on the website of the United States Air Force's Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
- [CIA Drug Trafficking](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cia-drugs): In April 1989, after the Iran-Contra affair had been sanitized by the Tower Commission and the congressional hearings had ended with no senior official serving…
- [COINTELPRO](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cointelpro): On the evening of March 8, 1971, while most of America was watching the heavyweight boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden…
- [Epstein & The Blackmail Network](https://www.apeirron.com/node/epstein): In the summer of 1955, a CIA officer named George Hunter White sat behind a two-way mirror in an apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco's Telegraph…
- [Gary Webb](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gary-webb): He was forty-nine years old when he died, and he had been one of the most decorated investigative journalists in the United States.
- [HAARP and Weather Manipulation](https://www.apeirron.com/node/haarp): In the winter of 1993, on a remote stretch of boreal flatland near the town of Gakona, Alaska — population roughly two hundred, accessible by a single road…
- [Jonestown](https://www.apeirron.com/node/jonestown): By the early afternoon of November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan had seen enough to know the settlement was not what it claimed to be.
- [Lockerbie & Pan Am 103](https://www.apeirron.com/node/lockerbie): At 7:02 on the evening of December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 — a Boeing 747 named Clipper Maid of the Seas, thirty-eight minutes out of London Heathrow and…
- [Marilyn Monroe](https://www.apeirron.com/node/marilyn-monroe): On the night of August 4, 1962, something happened inside a modest Spanish Colonial house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los…
- [MKUltra](https://www.apeirron.com/node/mkultra): On August 3, 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy opened a joint hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific…
- [Operation Ajax](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-ajax): On March 15, 1951, the Iranian parliament — the Majlis — voted unanimously to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
- [Operation CHAOS](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-chaos): On August 15, 1967, CIA Director Richard Helms issued a directive that would become one of the most consequential — and most illegal — orders in the history of…
- [Operation Condor](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-condor): On September 21, 1976, at 9:35 in the morning, a car bomb detonated on Sheridan Circle in the Embassy Row district of Washington, DC — less than fourteen…
- [Operation Cyclone](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-cyclone): On July 3, 1979, six months before any Soviet soldier crossed the Amu Darya, President Jimmy Carter signed the first of a sequence of presidential findings…
- [Operation Gladio](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-gladio): On August 3, 1990, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stood before a joint session of the Senate Committee on the Italian Intelligence Services and the…
- [Operation Glasnost](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-glasnost): On the afternoon of December 16, 1984, a black Zil limousine rolled up the long gravel drive to Chequers, the English country house that serves as the official…
- [Operation High Jump](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-high-jump): On December 2, 1946, a naval task force of a size not seen since the Pacific campaign sailed south from Norfolk, Virginia, into the Atlantic.
- [Operation Mockingbird](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-mockingbird): In 1977, Carl Bernstein — half of the reporting duo that had broken the Watergate story and helped bring down a president — published a 25,000-word article in…
- [Operation Northwoods](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-northwoods): On March 13, 1962, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a document to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
- [Operation Paperclip](https://www.apeirron.com/node/operation-paperclip): On May 22, 1945 — fourteen days after Germany's unconditional surrender — a thirty-three-year-old SS officer named Wernher von Braun sat in a military hospital…
- [Pearl Harbor Foreknowledge](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pearl-harbor-foreknowledge): At 7:48 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, the first wave of 183 Japanese aircraft -- fighters, dive bombers, torpedo bombers, and horizontal bombers -- crossed…
- [Pope John Paul I](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pope-john-paul-i): On the morning of September 29, 1978, the Catholic Church announced that the pope was dead.
- [Project Blue Beam](https://www.apeirron.com/node/project-blue-beam): Serge Monast was born in Quebec in 1945. He died in his apartment in the Montreal suburb of Magog on December 5, 1996, at the age of fifty-one, of a heart…
- [Project Star Gate](https://www.apeirron.com/node/project-stargate): Sometime in March 1979, a Soviet Tupolev reconnaissance aircraft went down in dense jungle in Zaire.
- [Rex 84](https://www.apeirron.com/node/rex-84): On July 5, 1987, Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas — a gravel-voiced Democrat who had been in the car behind Kennedy's limousine in Dallas and who had held the…
- [Scientology & Operation Snow White](https://www.apeirron.com/node/scientology): At dawn on July 8, 1977, 134 FBI agents executed simultaneous raids on Church of Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
- [Tesla & Suppressed Technology](https://www.apeirron.com/node/tesla-suppressed-tech): On the morning of January 8, 1943, a maid at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan entered Room 3327 on the thirty-third floor and found the body of an elderly man…
- [The Assassination of John Lennon](https://www.apeirron.com/node/john-lennon): At approximately 10:50 p.m. on Monday, December 8, 1980, John Winston Ono Lennon — forty years old, former Beatle, author, artist, and the most politically…
- [The Assassination of Malcolm X](https://www.apeirron.com/node/malcolm-x): On the afternoon of February 21, 1965, approximately four hundred people gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Audubon Ballroom, a former movie palace on…
- [The Bay of Pigs](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bay-of-pigs): At dawn on April 17, 1961, approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles waded ashore at Playa Giron and Playa Larga, two beaches on the southern coast of Cuba in a marshy…
- [The Business Plot](https://www.apeirron.com/node/business-plot): In late July or early August of 1933 — the exact date is contested across the surviving accounts — a Morgan-affiliated bond salesman named Gerald C.
- [The Death of Princess Diana](https://www.apeirron.com/node/princess-diana): On the night of August 30, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Emad "Dodi" Fayed dined at the Ritz Paris, the hotel owned by Dodi's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed.
- [The Franklin Scandal](https://www.apeirron.com/node/franklin-scandal): On November 4, 1988, federal regulators — the National Credit Union Administration, backed by the FBI — raided the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in…
- [The Gulf of Tonkin Incident](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gulf-of-tonkin): At 3:40 p.m. on August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson picked up the telephone in the White House and called Robert McNamara, his Secretary of Defense.
- [The Iran-Contra Affair](https://www.apeirron.com/node/iran-contra): On November 3, 1986, a Lebanese magazine called Ash-Shiraa published a story that would crack open the most consequential political scandal in post-Watergate…
- [The Iraq WMDs & PNAC](https://www.apeirron.com/node/iraq-wmds): On the morning of February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell took his seat at the United Nations Security Council, opened a folder, and spent…
- [The JFK Assassination](https://www.apeirron.com/node/jfk): At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, the presidential motorcade turned left from Houston Street onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
- [The MLK Assassination](https://www.apeirron.com/node/mlk-assassination): On the evening of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and delivered what would become his final…
- [The Montauk Project](https://www.apeirron.com/node/montauk-project): On the eastern tip of Long Island, past the lighthouse where the land runs out into the Atlantic, there is a decommissioned air-defense base called Camp Hero.
- [The Octopus & PROMIS](https://www.apeirron.com/node/octopus-promis): On the afternoon of August 10, 1991, a hotel housekeeper at the Sheraton in Martinsburg, West Virginia, found a freelance writer named Joseph Daniel Casolaro…
- [The Philadelphia Experiment](https://www.apeirron.com/node/philadelphia-experiment): In the autumn of 1955, a copy of a recently published paperback arrived at the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C.
- [The Phoenix Program](https://www.apeirron.com/node/phoenix-program): In November 1969, a former Navy lieutenant named Anthony Herbert testified before a small congressional subcommittee that he had personally witnessed the…
- [The Reichstag Fire](https://www.apeirron.com/node/reichstag-fire): At approximately 9:14 p.m. on the evening of Monday, February 27, 1933, a theology student named Hans Flöter was walking home from the State Library in Berlin…
- [The RFK Assassination](https://www.apeirron.com/node/rfk-assassination): At 12:15 a.m. on June 5, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy stood at the podium in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
- [The Sinking of the Lusitania](https://www.apeirron.com/node/lusitania): On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania — the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ocean liner in the Atlantic service — was steaming eastward…
- [The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment](https://www.apeirron.com/node/tuskegee-experiment): On the morning of July 26, 1972, Jean Heller of the Associated Press sat down at her desk in the Washington bureau and began writing a story that would become…
- [The USS Liberty Incident](https://www.apeirron.com/node/uss-liberty): At approximately 2:00 p.m. local time on June 8, 1967, the fourth day of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Israeli Air Force Dassault…
- [Watergate](https://www.apeirron.com/node/watergate): A few minutes before 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills was making his rounds at the Watergate office complex in Foggy…

## Modern

- [5G Health Fears & The 5G–COVID Theory](https://www.apeirron.com/node/5g-covid): In the first week of April 2020, as the United Kingdom entered its first national lockdown and the death toll from a new coronavirus climbed past a thousand a…
- [Big Pharma and the Vaccine Conspiracy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/big-pharma): In September 2009, Pfizer Inc. — the world's largest pharmaceutical company — pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge of misbranding Bextra, a painkiller…
- [CBDCs & The Cashless Society](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cbdc): On October 19, 2020, during a virtual panel hosted by the International Monetary Fund on the future of cross-border payments, Agustín Carstens — the Mexican…
- [COVID-19 & The Lab Leak](https://www.apeirron.com/node/covid-lab-leak): On December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, a thirty-three-year-old ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, sent a message to a private WeChat group of fellow…
- [Directed-Energy Weapons & The Wildfire Theory](https://www.apeirron.com/node/directed-energy-wildfires): On the morning of August 8, 2023, a downed Hawaiian Electric power line, whipped by winds gusting past sixty miles an hour, set fire to dry grass on the edge…
- [Election Fraud Theories](https://www.apeirron.com/node/election-fraud): On November 7, 2000, the United States of America discovered that it did not know how to count votes. The discovery was not metaphorical.
- [GMO, Monsanto & Roundup](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gmo-monsanto): On the morning of August 10, 2018, a jury in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco delivered a verdict that would cost a corporation $289 million…
- [Havana Syndrome](https://www.apeirron.com/node/havana-syndrome): Late in 2016, an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency stationed under diplomatic cover in Havana, Cuba, was at home when, by his account, he was hit by…
- [HyperNormalisation](https://www.apeirron.com/node/hypernormalisation): At a Party congress somewhere in the long Brezhnev afternoon, a speaker finishes and the hall begins to applaud.
- [Mass Surveillance](https://www.apeirron.com/node/mass-surveillance): In 1975, Senator Frank Church — the Idaho Democrat who chaired the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence…
- [Paul Is Dead](https://www.apeirron.com/node/paul-is-dead): On October 12, 1969, a caller identifying himself as "Tom" phoned WKNR-FM in Detroit and told disc jockey Russ Gibb that Paul McCartney was dead.
- [Pizzagate and the Epstein Network](https://www.apeirron.com/node/pizzagate): On the evening of December 4, 2016, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Edgar Maddison Welch drove from Salisbury, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C., carrying…
- [QAnon](https://www.apeirron.com/node/qanon): On the evening of October 28, 2017, an anonymous user posted on the /pol/ board of 4chan — the politically incorrect subforum of the anarchic imageboard that…
- [Sandy Hook and the Crisis Actor Theory](https://www.apeirron.com/node/sandy-hook): At 9:35 a.m. on the morning of Friday, December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, four times in the head with a…
- [The Boston Marathon Bombing](https://www.apeirron.com/node/boston-marathon): At 2:49 p.m. on April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs detonated approximately twelve seconds and 210 yards apart near the finish line of the 117th Boston…
- [The Dead Internet Theory](https://www.apeirron.com/node/dead-internet): In the summer of 2021, an anonymous user with the handle IlluminatiPirate posted a long, unsettling essay on Agora Road's Macintosh Café — a small,…
- [The Death of Kurt Cobain](https://www.apeirron.com/node/kurt-cobain): On April 8, 1994, an electrician named Gary Smith arrived at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard East, a gray-shingled house in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood of…
- [The Disappearance of MH370](https://www.apeirron.com/node/mh370): At 12:41 a.m. local time on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — a Boeing 777-200ER, registration 9M-MRO, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members…
- [The Great Reset](https://www.apeirron.com/node/great-reset): On June 3, 2020, with much of the world still locked inside, businesses shuttered, economies in freefall, and more than six million COVID-19 cases confirmed…
- [The Las Vegas Shooting](https://www.apeirron.com/node/las-vegas-shooting): At 10:05 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday, October 1, 2017, a 64-year-old man named Stephen Craig Paddock opened fire from the windows of Suite 32-135 on…
- [The Noosphere & The Global Brain](https://www.apeirron.com/node/noosphere): In the 1930s, a Jesuit priest sat in the deserts of Mongolia and China, digging for the bones of early humans, and wrote — in a manuscript his own Church would…
- [The Oklahoma City Bombing](https://www.apeirron.com/node/oklahoma-city): At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck packed with approximately 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane — an improvised…
- [The Seth Rich Case](https://www.apeirron.com/node/seth-rich): At 4:19 in the morning on July 10, 2016, Seth Conrad Rich was shot twice in the back while walking home to his apartment in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of…
- [The Tupac and Biggie Murders](https://www.apeirron.com/node/tupac-biggie): On the night of September 7, 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur — twenty-five years old, the most commercially successful and politically provocative rapper in America,…
- [The Venus Project & Resource-Based Economy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/venus-project): The research center sits on twenty-one and a half acres outside Venus, Florida, a speck of a town between Lake Okeechobee and the citrus groves, and for…
- [The Waco Siege](https://www.apeirron.com/node/waco): On the morning of February 28, 1993, seventy-six agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms arrived at a religious community called Mount Carmel…
- [Transhumanism & The Singularity](https://www.apeirron.com/node/transhumanism): In 1957, a year before he helped found the World Wildlife Fund and a decade after he became the first Director-General of UNESCO, the biologist Julian Huxley…
- [TWA Flight 800](https://www.apeirron.com/node/twa-flight-800): On the evening of July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 — a Boeing 747-131, registration N93119, carrying 212 passengers and 18 crew members on a…
- [Vaccines & Autism — The Wakefield Affair](https://www.apeirron.com/node/vaccine-autism): The press conference was the mistake. The paper itself was a cautious, hedged, twelve-page case series — the weakest grade of clinical evidence, careful in its…
- [Water Fluoridation](https://www.apeirron.com/node/water-fluoridation): In 1901 a young dentist named Frederick McKay arrived in Colorado Springs and began to notice something he had never read about in any textbook.
- [Zeitgeist (The Film Series)](https://www.apeirron.com/node/zeitgeist): In June 2007 a two-hour documentary with no studio, no distributor, no theatrical release, and a director almost no one had heard of appeared for free on…

## Reality

- [CERN & The Large Hadron Collider](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cern): In the autumn of 2016, a video began circulating on the internet that was, by any reasonable standard of conspiracy content, perfect.
- [Crop Circles & Cattle Mutilations](https://www.apeirron.com/node/crop-circles): In September 1991, two men in their sixties from Southampton, England — Doug Bower, a picture framer, and Dave Chorley, a painter — walked into the offices of…
- [Cymatics & The Vibratory Universe](https://www.apeirron.com/node/cymatics): In 1787, a German musician and physicist named Ernst Chladni stood before an audience with a flat brass plate, a scattering of fine sand, and a violin bow.
- [The Aether & Zero-Point Energy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/the-aether): In the summer of 1887, in the basement of a dormitory at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Albert A. Michelson and Edward W.
- [The Bermuda Triangle](https://www.apeirron.com/node/bermuda-triangle): On the afternoon of December 5, 1945, five torpedo bombers lifted off from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine training mission…
- [The Flat Earth](https://www.apeirron.com/node/flat-earth): There is a belief so apparently absurd that its very existence demands explanation.
- [The Gaia Hypothesis](https://www.apeirron.com/node/gaia-hypothesis): Sometime in the mid-1960s, in a low building at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, a British chemist named James Lovelock was handed a problem that…
- [The Holographic Universe](https://www.apeirron.com/node/holographic-universe): In the late 1940s, a young physicist named David Bohm sat at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley watching electrons move through a plasma, and what…
- [The Mandela Effect](https://www.apeirron.com/node/mandela-effect): In 2009, a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome attended Dragon Con, the massive science fiction and fantasy convention in Atlanta, and struck up a…
- [The Nature of Time](https://www.apeirron.com/node/nature-of-time): You have never experienced the past. You have never experienced the future. You have only ever experienced now.
- [The Simulation Hypothesis](https://www.apeirron.com/node/simulation-hypothesis): In 2003, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom published a fifteen-page paper in Philosophical Quarterly titled "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" The…
- [Wilhelm Reich & Orgone Energy](https://www.apeirron.com/node/wilhelm-reich): In August 1956, on a loading dock beside the Gansevoort Street incinerator on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, agents of the United States Food and Drug…