What the Rapture Might Look Like & How It Already Does, pt. 2: Creating a Techno-Rapture

In the near future, true believers in Christ all over the world will mysteriously disappear from the earth. Jesus will descend from heaven and take his brides (Born-again Christians) into His kingdom…Anyone in whom the Lord Jesus Christ does not dwell will be left on this earth after the Rapture…The shocking effect about the Rapture is that many professing Christians will be left behind, while those very few who have been diligent in wearing their robes…will disappear.

–From a pamphlet entitled RAPTURE handed to me at Times Square station in NYC.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

–1 John 4:1

The Rapture might be coming. But it isn’t what the evangelical Christians are expecting, not quite. And here we’ll be fleshing out in more detail what I posited in Part 1 of this essay and the reasons why.

Can’t Have a Rapture Without Some Chips

It’s a little game called Immenentizing the Eschaton or bringing about “the end of days” or at least creating the illusion of it. Either way, it seems a fairly mad game. Nevertheless, it’s a game being played as a global ritual with very fascist underpinnings and technocratic-totalitarian goals. And one of the means of winning the game might be by implanting microchips in the majority of the population. This plays into the ritual script, with the majority of the population receiving the “mark of the beast,” the non-chipped, presumably Christian, minority being “raptured” (perhaps “disappeared” is a better term?), a massive Middle East bloodbath and a thousand year reign of peace by the Messiah to finish the story. And believe you me, this script is being used because a majority of the world–Jewish, Christian, Muslim and even some Buddhist sects–have indoctrinated some variation of the very same story in their faithful flocks.

But first they (whoever “they” might ultimately be) need the chips/”mark of the beast.” So getting the “end times” going comes by way of the “pro chipping” media propaganda and those who finance it or otherwise benefit financially from its effectiveness: corporations and their scientist-shills, but also the Televangelical Controllers of the (not-so) Christian (not-so) Right.

More on the Televangelical Controllers much later.

No Really, You Need the Chip: The Scientist Said So

Some of that propaganda includes arguments based upon fears of child abduction and murder, stoked by many of the usual corporate media suspects, who seem to cynically and hypnotically be running the same basic story, just with updates for each new abduction/opportunity to scare parents, and thus reinforce the hypnotic suggestion.

Compare this September, 2002 story from CNN.com…:

Worried UK parents are asking to have tracking microchips implanted into their children following the murders of two 10-year-old girls, a cybernetics expert says.

Scientist Kevin Warwick from Reading University, west of London, says parents can keep track of their children with a tiny microchip implant in the arm or stomach.

Such a chip could prevent an abduction from becoming a murder, he says.

…with the very similar 2007 story from the London Times:

If your child could wear an implant – a microchip that could tell a computer where he or she was at any time to within a few metres – would you buy it? After the horrific snatch of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her bed in Portugal, the answer from many parents seems to be “yes”.

The story then attempts to re-trigger the fear and suggestibility trance aimed for by the 2002 CNN story with a reminder of the two murdered 10-year olds and quotes the very same “expert,” Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick:

Professor Kevin Warwick, who developed the technology that made it possible for the first child in Britain to volunteer to be “chipped” in 2002 – after the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – has been bombarded with e-mails over the past few days from parents desperate to keep tabs on their children. As we talk, another e-mail drops into his inbox from a mother of two young children who says that she is deeply anxious about Madeleine’s disappearance and wants to know more about the chip technology.

I wonder: do you think Warwick has a monetary interest in mass-chipping?

Warwick himself, by the way, took a test implant himself back in the late 90’s (it had to be removed after a few weeks) in an experiment which demonstrated, to me, what are some laughable “benefits” for workers:

In his experiment, Warwick showed how the system could also benefit workers by programming it to switch on lights, computers and heating systems as he entered a room- and turning them off when he left.

The worker no longer has the burden of using hir hands or memory to do such things, they’ll be done for hir. Well, that must be a relief! But the article I’ve just been quoting (originally from our friends at the London Times again) goes on to show that Warwick’s experiment was really all about what the employers will gain, not just in profits, but in control over their worker-slaves [emphasis added]:

The technology is likely to have a strong appeal to companies with high labour costs, for which small increases in staff productivity can have a big impact on profits. It is also relatively cheap- just a few pounds for each person, according to Warwick.

For a business the potential is obvious,” he said. “You can tell when people clock into work and when they leave the building. You would know at all times exactly where they were and who they were with.“

And in case anyone might start to see the techno-totalitarian implications, the article offers this soporific statement :

Warwick admits that people will be “shocked” by the idea of companies asking their employees to have such implants. He said: “It is pushing at the limits of what society will accept but it is not such a big deal. Many employees already carry swipecards. I think this is just a step up from that.”

Gradualism, anyone?

And remember how Warwick was trotted out by CNN and The London Times in the “chip the kids” ad-cum-news articles cited above, both published in the wake of child-abductions? Here’s an interesting contrast to the picture of Warwick painted by those two stories.

From an article by WorldNet Daily’s Sherri Gossett back in 2003:

Warwick, who had previously been implanted with various chips as a part of research projects, announced to a flurry of press coverage, he planned to implant a British girl with a GPS-tracked device.

The announcement came on the heels of the tragic deaths of two abducted British girls.

An intermediary firm began handling requests from media who wanted to interview Warwick, dubbed “Captain Cyborg” charging reporters a rate of $125 for ten minutes of talk time.

It definitely pays to be the go-to “scientific authority” for the pro-chipping meme.
No, Really, Trust Us: The Trend-Setter Said So

The pro-chipping propaganda also includes the argument based on the illusion of convenience and fun, aimed at pandering to the mass population’s mindless consumerist addictions and well-trained tendency to emulate the lifestyles and behaviors of the wealthy. Such is the case when reporting on the micro-chipping of “VIP” guests at the posh Baja Beach Club in Barcelona. Here are a few choice passages from the BBC Science producer Simon Morton’s 2004 report [emphasis added]:

The idea of having my very own microchip implanted in my body appealed. I have always been an early adopter, so why not.

So again, we have the reassurance by a representative of science (or scientism, any way) for chipping. Not only that, his position is bolstered by his identifying himself with that much revered social class of our Spectacular capitalist culture: the trend-setter. But “trend-setting” in and of itself, should not be any badge of honor, especially when the trends seem to be artificially-induced by the needs of industry to sell their wares and captivate their potential customers.

And then there’s that particularly potent word “spell” itself: “early adapter“. This might trigger associations with the theory of evolution and the idea that someone who adapts such a trend is, in fact, evolving. The implication might be that those who are not early adapters are not as evolved. Likewise, the implication that those who refuse to “adapt” to this particular trend of microchip implantation are not evolving at all. Perhaps further embedded in this “early adapter” idea ( if we’re talking evolutionary theory) is that non-adapters will not survive. That’s one hell of a spell, right?

Maybe.

Continuing:

Last week I headed for the bright lights of the Catalan city of Barcelona to enter the exclusive VIP Baja Beach Club.

The night club offers its VIP clients the opportunity to have a syringe-injected microchip implanted in their upper arms that not only gives them special access to VIP lounges, but also acts as a debit account from which they can pay for drinks.

That’s a very interesting way of framing things. VIP clients–that is, the people we are conditioned to wish to be–are “offered the opportunity.” Simultaneously, this seems to suggest something that is a “choice” and a “benefit.” We all like the freedom to choose, don’t we? And opportunity has a very positive connotation, generally. And if we remember the previous section of the story, the suggestion is that the VIPs are being given the chance to be early adapters–to evolve.

Evolution as a privilege.

Let’s go to the next two paragraphs of the article:

This sort of thing is handy for a beach club where bikinis and board shorts are the uniform and carrying a wallet or purse is really not practical.

…the owner of the club…Conrad Chase…had come up with the idea when trying to develop the ultimate in membership cards and was the first person implanted with the capsule, made by VeriChip Corporation.

Just as in the case of the good cyborg doctor, Kevin Warwick, we are presented with the benefit of not having to be inconvenienced, while the disincentive of being monitored and dehumanized is not even mentioned. And just like with Warwick’s voluntary chipping, the article presents another reason to be put at ease about chipping via the example of the wealthy club owner Conrad Chase. If Chase got chipped first, it certainly couldn’t be all that bad, right? I mean, he’s just an early adapter. Besides, he’s also a VIP!

And, for different take on Chase and his club, there’s this report from that human lightning-rod Alex Jones :

I interviewed Conrad Chase for 30 minutes on my syndicated radio broadcast. He told me that the CEO of VeriChip, Mr. Bolton, had told him that there was a plan to use the VeriChip as a global implantable identity system. I asked him if whether in the future you would have to have a chip to get into the club period, and he said yes.

I said laughingly, that you’re not going to be a VIP in the world if you don’t have a chip, to which he responded that that was a great slogan that he would start using.

He went on to say that all gun owners should have to have a microchip implanted in their hand to be able to own a gun. He also said that the VeriChip company had told him that the Italian government was preparing to implant all of their government workers. He said that this is a great system that he believes will replace credit cards for buying and selling.

But Jones is probably one of those guys that Chase refers to as a “doom and gloom” reporter in the following fluff piece (available on YouTube). It’s basically yet another “chip” ad masquerading as news:

The Octopus and the Chip

But let’s talk about health care, another area where the pro-chipping propaganda is being utilized.

From VeriChip’s website:

The roots of VeriChip trace back to the events of September 11, 2001 when New York firemen were writing their badge ID numbers on their chests in case they were found injured or unconscious. It was evident there was a desperate need for personal information in emergency situations and that an injectable RFID microchip could help patients.

I love how quick the copy writer is to invoke 9-11 to imply that compassion lay at the heart of VeriChip’s birth. I’m dubious:

Working closely with Applied Digital, VeriChip was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary in December 2001 to produce and market the implantable device (also known as “VeriChip™”).

This is a great example of misleading language. First, the writer implies that VeriChip (or some anonymous altruists behind that name), collaborated with Applied Angel due to the “desperate need” shown by 9-11. Yet, the very next clause of that sentence gives the lie to this as we find out that VeriChip did not exist until it was created as a subsidiary of Applied Digital. Applied Digital, by the way, also owns Digital Angel which, according to Applied Digital’s website, has been a “leading edge developer” of RFID cattle ear tags since the 80’s and has been microchipping the family pet since the early 90’s. And while Digital Angel handles the livestock, Applied Digital Solutions handles GPS tracking for the military. It begins to sound like the “desperate need” the VeriChip site writer was really talking about filling after 9-11 was the need to capitalize on an opportunity to expand the scope of its parent company’s profits and influence.

VeriChip web-writer(s) may say in the corporate FAQ that the company’s product cannot be used to track individuals because it merely used passive RFID and is not GPS equipped. Yet, Applied Digital, the parent company is in the business of GPS tracking of individuals for the military. Furthermore, one of the other subsidiaries, Digital Angel, has certainly done a bang-up job of tracking pets with such technology:

Digital Angel Corporation develops advanced RFID and GPS technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets. Applications for our products include identification and monitoring of pets, humans, fish and livestock through our patented implantable microchips as well as message monitoring of aircraft in remote locations through integrated GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications systems.

VeriChip has plausible deniability with regards to tracking humans, but they’re being a little disingenuous. As should be obvious, all of the pieces for doing so are already in place via another subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions. And in fact, Digital Angel began “beta-testing” human implants prior to 9-11, on July 15, 2001.

We’re only touching the surface of the human-tracking Octopus. In that regard, we might mention Applied Digital Solutions has been backed financially by IBM, a company that pioneered the dehumanizing tracking of people when it provided its Hollerith numbering system and punch cards to the Nazi concentration camps all those years ago. And those Hollerith tracking numbers? They eventually ended up tattooed on the arms of the inmates at Auschewitz.

Towards a Psycho-Zombified Society

The technology behind all those microchip implants is RFID or radio-frequency identification. The technology, which utilizes radio waves, is mostly used to remotely identify products (which then can be used to identify and track the user/wearer, by the way). But a precursor to RFID existed as far back as the 50’s in the research of Spanish-born scientist Jose Delgado, who invented the “stimoceiver” and conducted experiments at Yale University until a press backlash that may have led to his move back to Spain in 1974, and the eventual burial of this country’s collective memory of his experiments. (He moved back to the U.S. quite recently-see this laudatory 2005 piece from Scientific American.) The stimoceiver, however, was not primarily concerned with tracking, per se. It’s primary function was control over and manipulation of the human brain.

From wikipedia:

Much of Delgado’s work was with an invention he called a stimoceiver, a radio which joined a stimulator of brain waves with a receiver which monitored E.E.G. waves and sent them back on separate radio channels. This allowed the subject of the experiment full freedom of movement while allowing the experimenter to control the experiment.

The stimoceiver could be used to stimulate emotions and control behavior. According to Delgado, “Radio Stimulation of different points in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effects, including pleasant sensations, elation, deep, thoughtful concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation, colored visions, and other responses.” Delgado stated that “brain transmitters can remain in a person’s head for life. The energy to activate the brain transmitter is transmitted by way of radio frequencies.” (Source: Cannon; Delgado, J.M.R., “Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and recording in Completely Free Patients,” in Schwitzgebel and Schwitzgebel (eds.))

The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred at a Cordoba bull breeding ranch. Delgado stepped into the ring with a bull which had had a stimoceiver implanted. The bull charged Delgado, who pressed a remote control button which appeared to cause the bull to stop its charge. Delgado claimed that the stimulus caused the bull to lose its aggressive instinct; skeptics suggested that the electrical impulse had caused the bull to turn aside.

That latter story even made the front page of the New York Times in 1965. But I guess that’s mostly gone down the memory hole. Now brain implants are being touted for treating epilepsy, blindness and other maladies, all areas of research pioneered by Delgado. However, Delgado’s research, funded as it was by Naval Intelligence, always had “dual purpose” capabilities. And those are quite frightening. One example is an experiment, described in Delgado’s 1969 book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society. (Like many very important books on how we are controlled, Delgado’s work has been out of print for many years.) It describes how Delgado, perhaps by accident, seemed able to alter an 11 year-old boy’s sexual orientation and cause gender-identity confusion via stimoceiver stimulation to part of the left-temporal lobe [emphasis added]:

The open expressions of pleasure in this interview and the general passivity of behavior could be linked, more or less intuitively, to feminine strivings. It was therefore remarkable that in the next interview, performed in a similar manner, the patient’s expressions of confusion about his own sexual identity again appeared following stimulation of point LP. He suddenly began to discuss his desire to get married, but when asked, “To whom?” he did not immediately reply. Following stimulation of another point and a one-minute, twenty-second silence, the patient said, “I was thinking-there’s-I was saying this to you. How to spell ‘yes’-y-e-s. I mean y-o-s. No! ‘You’ ain’t y-e-o. It’s this. Y-o-u.” The topic was then completely dropped. The monitor who was listening from the next room interpreted this as a thinly veiled wish to marry the interviewer, and it ivas decided to stimulate the same site again after the prearranged schedule had been completed, During the following forty minutes, seven other points were stimulated, and the patient spoke about several topics of a completely different and unrelated content. Then LP was stimulated again, and the patient started making references to the facial hair of the interviewer and continued by mentioning pubic hair and his having been the object of genital sex play in the past. He then expressed doubt about his sexual identity, saying, “I was thinkin’ if I was a boy or a girl-which one I’d like to be.” Following another excitation he remarked with evident pleasure: “You’re doin’ it now,” and then he said, “I’d like to be a girl.” (Delgado 146-147)

Delgado is quick to point out that these feelings were “probably” already latent in the boy’s psychology, but it’s hard to know. And while I personally see nothing wrong in the variety of sexual orientations and gender-identities expressed by individuals, I do see something wrong with the external manipulation or direction of those qualities. Delgado, as we’ll see in a moment, probably would disagree with this stance.

The Contradictions of Jose Delgado

In the spring of 2001, while he still lived in Spain, Delgado was tracked down by two writers, Magnus Bartus and Fredrik Ekman. They describe their interest in Delgado’s work:

One of the most important reasons why we wanted to meet Delgado is that we imagined him and his activities as belonging to a borderland between fiction and reality, between science and madness. People in psychotic states of mind often feel themselves controlled by foreign voices or spend their lives trying to prove that they have had a transmitter implanted inside their skulls that dictates their actions and thoughts all day and night. We ask Delgado what he thinks of the fact that his research provides a realistic edge to such fantasies.

He answers that he has on several occasions been contacted by strangers who say they want to have their implants removed and also that he has been sued by people he has never seen. Delgado is silent about the article that appeared in the Spanish monthly magazine Tiempo last year, where he was interviewed about exactly such accusations. The Tiempo reporter claimed that Delgado has ties with the Spanish secret police.

Bartus and Ekman go on to reference another rumor about Delgado’s spook ties (and keep in mind, it’s already been acknowledged that his Yale research received support from Naval Intelligence):

In the US, the CIA and government research in (and use of) different means of behavior control was made public in a series of congressional hearings in 1974 as well as in a Senate investigation three years later. Witnesses offered a glimpse of the CIA’s astonishing experiments in the so-called MK-Ultra program. The list of MK-Ultra experiments is like a group photo of the extended family of behavioral technologies: hypnosis, drugs, psychological testing, sleep research, brain research, electromagnetism, lie detection. The specific operations had very imaginative names: Sleeping Beauty, Project Pandora, Woodpecker, Artichoke, Operation Midnight Climax.

One of MK-Ultra’s fields of interest was electromagnetic fields and their effect on human beings. In 1962 it was discovered that the Russians had directed microwave radiation at the American embassy in Moscow with the hope of penetrating through to the ambassador’s office. The CIA immediately mounted an investigation under the codename Project Pandora. Concurrently with his research on the stimoceiver, Delgado had begun research on electro-magnetic radiation and its capacity for influencing people’s consciousness, and there is speculation that Delgado may have been involved in Project Pandora.

Throughout the interview Delgado expresses the idea that the brain is too complex to become yolked to the kind of dystopian mind-control feared or suspected by many citizen-researchers (among them that mythical bird called the “conspiracy theorist/nut”). But one begins to suspect that Delgado is an unreliable interview. Despite his own published works and statements, he tells the two reporters at one point that he has “never done experiments on people.” A moment later, as the two reporters look in their files for the evidence that contradicts him, he qualifies that “[t]here are incredibly stringent rules around experimenting on humans. All the experiments I was involved in had a therapeutic goal. They were for the patients’ best.”

What is in the patient’s best, in Delgado’s view may perhaps be summed up by this quote of his, which, in Reaganesque fashion, he does not recall making when Bartus and Ekman call him on it [emphasis added]:

We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically manipulated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective… Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.

If that’s not a fascist worldview, then I don’t know what is. And it certainly fits into the friendly fascist logic of Kevin Warwick’s pro-chipping/pro business cheerleading cited earlier.

And here’s something else to think about. Early in the interview with Bartos and Ekman, Delgado crustily responds to a question about when he stopped conducting stimoceiver experiments:

“When did you stop the stimoceiver experiments?” we ask him. To our surprise, he responds indignantly that he has yet to do so. “After Yale, I have continued my experiments here in Spain, both on animals and on humans.”

Keep in mind, this interview was only six years ago.

I’m reminded of all those strangers who Delgado admits have contacted him asking that their implants be removed or those other individuals, usually written off as mental cases, who believe they have been “chipped” and mind-controlled. (One such individual was the ex-Marine/terrorist Tim McVeigh). And I’m reminded of MK Ultra, the CIA mind-control program, exposed in 1977 and “officially” ended. Seems like research and development has never really ended. If that’s the case, then what I’m about to suggest starts to look a bit more plausible.

What the Rapture Might Look Like: Reprise and Refrain

Suppose the gangsters who hide behind the label of “government” and “business” push for global microchip implantation of the populace. The history of mind-control research and its very fascist assumptions, which history includes experimentation with chip technology not all so different from the RFID that VeriChip and Digital Angel are hawking, presents a creepy possibility. Behavior, memory and emotion could be controlled by some future version of these tools (or a version already existing in the black budgets of our so-called governments). Perhaps the perceptions of the chipped masses could be remote-controlled in such a way as to render them incapable of perceiving those who refused to be chipped. In conjunction with memory re-framing techniques used in NLP, these chips could be used to implant “false memories” of a Rapture of their vanished fellow-citizens: the die-hard fundamentalist Christians, libertarians, survivalists, deep ecologists, hippies and various Luddite and anti-civilization activists. Basically, all those individuals not assimilated into a future, worldwide techno-fascist Society of the Spectacle–the influence of whom, in simpler days, might have represented a threat to the collective trance of the masses that the Archons need to maintain their power. What happens to these vanished/raptured people? Well…that would be up in the air.

This is speculation, even if I happen to suspect it’s a very plausible, though disconcerting avenue for it. Maybe things will actually play out like this, maybe not. Maybe by presenting this scenario to you, it will help to wake people up (including yours truly) to live an authentic life outside the parameters under which we are daily manipulated. But if anyone tells you that this technology-induced fake Rapture I’m describing or the literalist Rapture of the Dispensationalist (so-called) leaders of the modern evangelical movement has to or absolutely will happen, then you should start to question their reliability, if not their motives.

And in the case of the televisual leadership of the evangelical Rapture Believers (Tim LaHaye, the late, despicable Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, et. al.), their reliability and their motives are suspect, as far as I’m concerned.

In fact, there’s evidence to show (for those with eyes to see and ears to hear) that these Televangelical Controllers in the fundamentalist movement are in on the game of “Immenentizing the Eschaton,” just playing a role in a global “end times” psy-op, of which the fake techno-induced Rapture may be only a part.

This starts to make more sense when you consider that the meta-message of both the secular pro-chipping propaganda and the Rapture-mongers like Tim LeHaye is exactly the same: mass chipping of the human populace is inevitable. That’s the message both sides in this sham Hegelian opposition share. And that message is bullshit.

But why and how would the Televangelicals benefit from promoting and fomenting a blood-soaked pseudo-Apocalypse?

The first place I’d suggest looking for that answer is toward the Moon(ie)…

To Be Continued.

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Stay tuned for the part 3, where we show the Televangelical Controllers’ links to Korean intelligence asset/cult-leader/super-rich crypto-fascist Sun Myung Moon. We’ll also speculate on the possible players waiting in the wings to play both Anti-Christ and Messiah (Moon’s one of many) in a possible fascist “end times” ritual/ psy-ops. We’ll also look at the curious 19th century origin of dispensationalism, which starts with the mediumistic trance of a 15 year-old Scottish girl. Most importantly, we’ll look at the possibilities for true liberation and authentic living outside of this programmed script for all the non-chipped individuals who stay true to themselves.