Apeirron
A field guide to the biggest questions humanity asks — consciousness, lost history, intelligence operations, and the nature of reality.
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The Apeirron Series
7Typeset volumes derived from the graph — one per section, each chapter a node. EPUB and PDF, served from GitHub.
Mind
30Altered 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…
17 connectionsMindCarl Jung & The Collective Unconscious
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.
15 connectionsMindConsciousness
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…
26 connectionsMindDaniel Dennett & Modern Materialism
Daniel Clement Dennett (1942--2024) was the most formidable materialist philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
6 connectionsMindDescartes & Cartesian Dualism
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…
8 connectionsMindDMT & The Spirit Molecule
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…
6 connectionsMindDualism
You are, right now, having an experience. Light enters your eyes. Electrical signals traverse your neurons. Neurotransmitters cross synaptic gaps.
6 connectionsMindEpicureanism
"Death is nothing to us." With that declaration, Epicurus (341-270 BCE) distilled an entire metaphysics into an ethical principle.
3 connectionsMindFree Will & Determinism
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…
6 connectionsMindIdealism
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…
11 connectionsMindKant & Transcendental Idealism
Immanuel Kant (1724--1804) never traveled more than ten miles from his hometown of Konigsberg, Prussia.
6 connectionsMindKundalini & The Serpent Power
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…
8 connectionsMindMaterialism
Materialism is the philosophical position that everything that exists is physical.
11 connectionsMindMaya & Non-Duality
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…
7 connectionsMindMorphic Resonance
In September 1981, the most prestigious scientific journal in the world ran an editorial recommending that a book be burned.
5 connectionsMindNear-Death Experiences & Reincarnation
On a morning in August 1991, a thirty-five-year-old musician named Pam Reynolds was clinically killed on purpose.
7 connectionsMindPanpsychism
Here is the problem, stated as plainly as possible: we live in a universe made of matter.
10 connectionsMindPharmacratic 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…
16 connectionsMindPlato & The Theory of Forms
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.
9 connectionsMindProject 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…
6 connectionsMindPythagoras
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,…
9 connectionsMindQuantum Consciousness & The Observer
The setup is the simplest in modern physics and it has never stopped being disturbing.
7 connectionsMindStoicism
Around 300 BCE, Zeno of Citium began teaching in the Stoa Poikile — the "Painted Porch" — in the Athenian agora.
5 connectionsMindSynchronicity
Sometime around 1949, in a consulting room in Küsnacht on the shore of Lake Zürich, an analysis had stalled.
9 connectionsMindTaoism & the Tao Te Ching
The legend is one of the most beautiful in the history of philosophy, and almost certainly false.
6 connectionsMindTerence McKenna & The 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…
6 connectionsMindThe 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…
12 connectionsMindThe Illusion of the Self
In 1739 a twenty-eight-year-old Scotsman went looking for himself and could not find him.
9 connectionsMindThe Law of Attraction & New Thought
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,…
5 connectionsMindThe Pineal Gland & The Third Eye
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…
9 connectionsOrigins
20Alchemy
Around the year 300, in the Greco-Egyptian city of Panopolis, a man named Zosimos wrote down a dream.
6 connectionsOriginsAleister Crowley & Thelema
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…
6 connectionsOriginsAncient 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…
8 connectionsOriginsAstrotheology & The Christ Myth
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…
7 connectionsOriginsAtlantis
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…
10 connectionsOriginsGnosticism, the Demiurge & the Archons
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…
7 connectionsOriginsGöbekli Tepe
In 1994, a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt visited a hilltop in southeastern Turkey that local farmers had been plowing around for generations.
5 connectionsOriginsKabbalah & the Tree of Life
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…
6 connectionsOriginsLost 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…
11 connectionsOriginsMegalithic Mysteries
In the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, three stones rest in the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek.
9 connectionsOriginsSacred 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…
14 connectionsOriginsSaturn & The 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…
7 connectionsOriginsTartaria and the Mud Flood
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…
6 connectionsOriginsThe Anunnaki & Sitchin's Sumerian Translations
In the early 1970s, a New York shipping executive named Zecharia Sitchin spent his evenings with photographic plates of cuneiform tablets, a Sumerian sign…
5 connectionsOriginsThe Book of Enoch & The Watchers
In November 1773, a Scottish traveler named James Bruce arrived in Marseille after a six-year expedition through Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
9 connectionsOriginsThe Hermetic Tradition
In 1460, a monk named Leonardo da Pistoia brought a Greek manuscript to Cosimo de' Medici in Florence.
23 connectionsOriginsThe 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…
8 connectionsOriginsThe Holy Grail and the Bloodline of Christ
In 1182, a French poet named Chretien de Troyes sat down to write a romance for his patron, Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders.
4 connectionsOriginsThe 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…
4 connectionsOriginsThe Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
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…
7 connectionsCosmos
9AATIP & The Pentagon UAP 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…
7 connectionsCosmosArea 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…
6 connectionsCosmosMajestic 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…
5 connectionsCosmosNibiru & Planet X
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…
5 connectionsCosmosSkinwalker 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…
8 connectionsCosmosThe 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…
5 connectionsCosmosThe Moon Landing Hoax
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.
5 connectionsCosmosThe Roswell Incident
In the first week of July 1947, something fell out of the sky and struck the high desert of southeastern New Mexico.
8 connectionsCosmosUFOs & UAPs
On December 16, 2017, the New York Times published an article that should have ended the world as we knew it.
13 connectionsPower
44Agenda 21 & Sustainable Development
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…
8 connectionsPowerBohemian 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.
5 connectionsPowerClimate Change Denial & The Manufacture of Doubt
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…
6 connectionsPowerColor Revolutions
On November 22, 2003, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched on the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, carrying long-stemmed red roses.
7 connectionsPowerCorporate Personhood & The Corporation
The most consequential sentence in American corporate law was not written by a judge, and it was not part of any ruling.
10 connectionsPowerCounterculture as 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.
18 connectionsPowerDenver International Airport
You land at Denver International Airport, walk off the jet bridge, and the first thing you see is a horse.
5 connectionsPowerEconomic Hit Men & The IMF/World Bank
Sometime in 1971, in an apartment in Boston, a young economist named John Perkins was being seduced and recruited at the same time.
8 connectionsPowerEdward Bernays & The Engineering of Consent
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,…
12 connectionsPowerFreemasonry
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…
17 connectionsPowerInvisible Control Systems
In 1928, Edward Bernays — nephew of Sigmund Freud and the father of modern public relations — published a book called Propaganda.
30 connectionsPowerKlaus Schwab & The World Economic Forum
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,…
11 connectionsPowerManufacturing Consent & The Propaganda Model
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…
7 connectionsPowerMoney as Debt & Fractional-Reserve Banking
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.
8 connectionsPowerP2, Banco Ambrosiano & Roberto Calvi
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…
7 connectionsPowerPredictive 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…
9 connectionsPowerSecret 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…
18 connectionsPowerSkull & 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.
8 connectionsPowerTechnocracy
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,…
7 connectionsPowerThe 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.
3 connectionsPowerThe Bilderberg Group
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…
12 connectionsPowerThe 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…
10 connectionsPowerThe CFR & Trilateral Commission
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…
15 connectionsPowerThe 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…
5 connectionsPowerThe Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth
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…
9 connectionsPowerThe 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…
41 connectionsPowerThe Eugenics Movement
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…
7 connectionsPowerThe Federal Reserve
On a cold November night in 1910, a private railway car sat waiting at a train station in Hoboken, New Jersey.
18 connectionsPowerThe Frankfurt School & The Culture Industry
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…
5 connectionsPowerThe 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…
4 connectionsPowerThe 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,…
6 connectionsPowerThe 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…
6 connectionsPowerThe Military-Industrial Complex
On the evening of January 17, 1961, three days before he handed the presidency to John F.
6 connectionsPowerThe 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…
23 connectionsPowerThe Petrodollar System
In the summer of 1974, a thirty-six-year-old former Salomon Brothers bond trader named William Simon, newly installed as U.S.
7 connectionsPowerThe Protocols of the Elders 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.
7 connectionsPowerThe 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"…
8 connectionsPowerThe Rockefeller Dynasty
On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v.
11 connectionsPowerThe Rothschild Dynasty
On the morning of June 19, 1815, a single horseman rode into the small French port of Ostend with a despatch in his saddlebag.
8 connectionsPowerThe 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…
42 connectionsPowerThe Shock Doctrine & Neoliberalism
September 11, 1973. Hawker Hunter jets of the Chilean Air Force put rockets into La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, while the democratically…
6 connectionsPowerThe Tavistock Institute
On June 24, 1947, a small group of British psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and social scientists incorporated a new institution in central London.
9 connectionsPowerThe Vatican & The Jesuit Order
On the evening of March 13, 2013, white smoke rose from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
9 connectionsPowerThule and 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…
11 connectionsOperations
529/11
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…
15 connectionsOperationsAIDS as 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…
5 connectionsOperationsAmerithrax: The 2001 Anthrax Letters
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,…
7 connectionsOperationsBCCI & Nugan Hand: The Intelligence Banks
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…
7 connectionsOperationsChemtrails
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.
6 connectionsOperationsCIA Drug Trafficking
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…
18 connectionsOperationsCOINTELPRO
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…
16 connectionsOperationsEpstein & The Blackmail Network
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…
8 connectionsOperationsGary 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.
6 connectionsOperationsHAARP and Weather Manipulation
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…
8 connectionsOperationsJonestown
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.
5 connectionsOperationsLockerbie & Pan Am 103
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…
5 connectionsOperationsMarilyn 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…
2 connectionsOperationsMKUltra
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…
20 connectionsOperationsOperation Ajax
On March 15, 1951, the Iranian parliament — the Majlis — voted unanimously to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
9 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
6 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
9 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
8 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
15 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
10 connectionsOperationsOperation 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.
5 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
27 connectionsOperationsOperation 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.
9 connectionsOperationsOperation 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…
13 connectionsOperationsPearl 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…
5 connectionsOperationsPope John Paul I
On the morning of September 29, 1978, the Catholic Church announced that the pope was dead.
6 connectionsOperationsProject 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…
8 connectionsOperationsProject Star Gate
Sometime in March 1979, a Soviet Tupolev reconnaissance aircraft went down in dense jungle in Zaire.
7 connectionsOperationsRex 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…
4 connectionsOperationsScientology & Operation Snow White
At dawn on July 8, 1977, 134 FBI agents executed simultaneous raids on Church of Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
7 connectionsOperationsTesla & Suppressed Technology
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…
8 connectionsOperationsThe Assassination of 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…
4 connectionsOperationsThe Assassination of 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…
6 connectionsOperationsThe 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…
8 connectionsOperationsThe 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.
6 connectionsOperationsThe Death of 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.
4 connectionsOperationsThe 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…
6 connectionsOperationsThe Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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.
10 connectionsOperationsThe Iran-Contra Affair
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…
12 connectionsOperationsThe Iraq WMDs & PNAC
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…
11 connectionsOperationsThe JFK Assassination
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.
9 connectionsOperationsThe 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…
3 connectionsOperationsThe 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.
7 connectionsOperationsThe 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…
7 connectionsOperationsThe 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.
2 connectionsOperationsThe Phoenix Program
In November 1969, a former Navy lieutenant named Anthony Herbert testified before a small congressional subcommittee that he had personally witnessed the…
7 connectionsOperationsThe 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…
4 connectionsOperationsThe 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.
6 connectionsOperationsThe Sinking of the 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…
2 connectionsOperationsThe Tuskegee Syphilis 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…
4 connectionsOperationsThe USS Liberty Incident
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…
3 connectionsOperationsWatergate
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…
8 connectionsModern
315G Health Fears & The 5G–COVID Theory
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…
7 connectionsModernBig Pharma and the Vaccine Conspiracy
In September 2009, Pfizer Inc. — the world's largest pharmaceutical company — pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge of misbranding Bextra, a painkiller…
16 connectionsModernCBDCs & The Cashless Society
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…
5 connectionsModernCOVID-19 & The 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…
9 connectionsModernDirected-Energy Weapons & The Wildfire Theory
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…
6 connectionsModernElection Fraud Theories
On November 7, 2000, the United States of America discovered that it did not know how to count votes. The discovery was not metaphorical.
4 connectionsModernGMO, Monsanto & Roundup
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…
5 connectionsModernHavana 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…
5 connectionsModernHyperNormalisation
At a Party congress somewhere in the long Brezhnev afternoon, a speaker finishes and the hall begins to applaud.
6 connectionsModernMass Surveillance
In 1975, Senator Frank Church — the Idaho Democrat who chaired the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence…
23 connectionsModernPaul 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.
2 connectionsModernPizzagate and the Epstein Network
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…
10 connectionsModernQAnon
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…
9 connectionsModernSandy Hook and the Crisis Actor Theory
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…
4 connectionsModernThe Boston Marathon Bombing
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…
3 connectionsModernThe Dead Internet Theory
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,…
13 connectionsModernThe Death of 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…
3 connectionsModernThe Disappearance of 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…
2 connectionsModernThe 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…
19 connectionsModernThe 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…
2 connectionsModernThe Noosphere & The Global Brain
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…
5 connectionsModernThe Oklahoma City Bombing
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…
4 connectionsModernThe Seth Rich Case
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…
5 connectionsModernThe Tupac and Biggie Murders
On the night of September 7, 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur — twenty-five years old, the most commercially successful and politically provocative rapper in America,…
4 connectionsModernThe Venus Project & Resource-Based Economy
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…
6 connectionsModernThe Waco Siege
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…
5 connectionsModernTranshumanism & The Singularity
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…
8 connectionsModernTWA 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…
4 connectionsModernVaccines & Autism — The Wakefield Affair
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…
7 connectionsModernWater 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.
6 connectionsModernZeitgeist (The Film Series)
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…
8 connectionsReality
11CERN & The Large Hadron Collider
In the autumn of 2016, a video began circulating on the internet that was, by any reasonable standard of conspiracy content, perfect.
5 connectionsRealityCrop Circles & Cattle Mutilations
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…
5 connectionsRealityCymatics & The Vibratory Universe
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.
6 connectionsRealityThe Aether & Zero-Point Energy
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.
5 connectionsRealityThe 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…
3 connectionsRealityThe Flat Earth
There is a belief so apparently absurd that its very existence demands explanation.
2 connectionsRealityThe 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…
6 connectionsRealityThe 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…
5 connectionsRealityThe Nature of Time
You have never experienced the past. You have never experienced the future. You have only ever experienced now.
13 connectionsRealityThe 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…
15 connectionsRealityWilhelm Reich & Orgone Energy
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…
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