“Do Not Fear Some Old Man in a Mansion Somewhere!”: An Interview with Kent Daniel Bentkowski aka Kentroversy

Not too long after discovering Freeman Fly, I found Kent Daniel Bentkowski’s work at The Kentroversy Papers. The first things I read that engaged my attention concerned education, since he cited educator John Taylor Gatto, a man whose research on and experience within the “educational” system in the U.S. has influenced me greatly. Not too long after that, I read Kentroversy’s takes on financial issues that tend to reduce individual freedom, as well as his takes on everything from false-flag terrorism to the occult symbolism of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. A self-described research-journalist, even if you don’t necessarily agree with all of his conclusions, Kent’s research reports always have a basis in sources that are not only checkable but well-worth the time spent investigating oneself.

Kent’s life, like Freeman’s, who we’ve both interviewed, has been one wild ride. I recently conducted this interview via e-mail with Kentroversy. During the electronic conversation, we discuss JFK, education, Kent’s magickal practice, the influence of the late Robert Anton Wilson, why the Constitution is still important, and how he once got an actual window on the truth through the magick of a crisp $100 bill.

And. Wait for it… We also talk about the Rorschach-like antagonists of many a conspiracy researcher: the Illuminati, plus Kentroversy’s own encounters with the folks he describes by that title.

In your most recent piece dealing with the JFK assassination, you mention the effect this event had upon you at an early age. Was this what drew you to conspiracy research? What factors ultimately decided the focus of your investigations?

I was born on Thanksgiving Day 1961, and JFK was murdered the day before my second birthday.

Because I ended up with an extremely high IQ and a photographic memory ‹this is the earliest of all memories of my entire life. Because of this, the JFK event haunted me as I grew older. When I was twelve, I read Jim Bishop’s early book on the JFK murder, ŒThe Day Kennedy Was Shot. This was my first foray into matters of conspiracy, and I have to say, when I read the book, I knew that it was complete bullshit that was being sold to the readers. Years later, I would develop a term ‹ OFFICIAL-FICTION ‹ which would describe such unbelievable matters as propaganda, untruths, and complete nonsense.

For me, it is a simple matter of TRUTH ‹ which is the yardstick by which I measure my own life, and the lives of those around me. I bristle whenever LIES are put forth as explanations of events of historical importance ‹ and for me personally ‹ this is intolerable.

I investigate things for which I want or need answers ‹ answers that are NEVER going to appear in the mainstream news media.

Recently, I came to the realization that my own continued silence was providing these criminal elite with cover, and this made me an accessory-after-the-fact to real crimes that were being committed in my name, in your name, in the names of our family members and friends, and in the names of the rest of America.

This was about two and a half years ago ‹ and it took me about six months to decide what format would be best served by my own talents and skills.

Thus, THE KENTROVERSY PAPERS was born on June 17, 2005. I told NO ONE I was
going to do this, and I did no advertising or marketing ‹ even though I had been a successful businessman because of both marketing and advertising.

I learned a few things I had not heard before from your JFK piece, such as how Jack Ruby’s movements leading up to the assassination seemed to coincide with persons and places that later become important to the event. In addition, I earned of your first-person experience standing at the infamous School Book Depository window. Bill Hicks had a joke about that view being blocked off because they didn’t want people to see that the official story was bogus. How did you talk your way into access to that window view?

In 1992, I had to go on a business trip to Dallas for a medical convention ‹the annual meeting of the National Hemophilia Foundation. While my wife and I were there in town, I decided to go down to Dealey Plaza for some personal research. This was the first time I had ever been there, and it was fucking depressing. I felt all the pain and sadness that this location had been responsible for creating, and it was a heavy burden for my soul.

How I got myself three minutes in front of the window to which Bill Hicks referred, was to bribe an employee $100 to allow me into the building before it opened for the day. When I got to the window, I saw that the official story was bogus, because Oswald was a below par shooter, and he could not perform adequately to fit into the OFFICIAL-FICTION of the event.

By a certain employee of the museum walking away with a crisp $100 bill, I was able to prove to myself that what I felt in my heart and soul for the past 30+ years was in fact the TRUTH … this was an important moment for me, because it showed me that I could carry out my own investigations into anything that intrigued me. Immediately, the breadth and depth of that with which I involved myself, suddenly changed into many more possibilities than I previously imagined could be possible.

You’ve had quite an interesting life. You worked as an investment banker during the 80’s. You were once the official printer for the Seneca Nations in Buffalo, NY. After a hit-and-run in the early 90’s you were left in a wheelchair and used that event as an opportunity to pursue spiritual matters. You’re a self-initiate into the A .’. A .’. magickal system and worked on Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic Quarterly. On top of that, you do conspiracy research. Is there a golden thread that runs through all of these disparate experiences for you? If so, what is it and in what way does it help direct you?

The golden thread that runs through everything I do is TRUTH.

I was able to turn to magick when religion stopped speaking to me spiritually. Magick helped me to survive HIV, Hepatitis, and a few other problems and side effects of my health issues. It also helped me to protect and father a child who is HIV negative. When I suddenly found myself with a bunch of time on my hands, I was very keen to turn it into a monastic experience. And like a monk, I spend between 40-60 hours per week researching, reading, taking notes, outlining reports, and writing and publishing what I hope are important research reports.

Listening to my WILL and my INTUITION provides me with all the direction I need.

They are guideposts which help me find TRUTH … and this is because they are never wrong, nor do they reveal incorrect data.

During the years I was working as an investment banker, I had the Savings and Loan scandal surrounding me and cutting into my income potential. I was completely sold on the 1980’s Capitalist Yuppie image, and did my best to play the part. But, I wasn’t fulfilling my TRUE WILL. At night during those years, I was at home with my first-ever computer; the Apple IIe, trying to become the next Stephen King. I was honing a craft, but writing a lot of useless bullshit that will never see the light of day.

What really happened was in 1986, a cousin of mine married a member of the Illuminati. It would be soon after that event, when I would know what my TRUE WILL was. The moment the nickname Kentroversy came out of my best-friend’s mouth as a sort of a joke, I knew that Kentroversy was truly who I was, and it described me better than anything else I had ever heard before or since.

For some folks toiling in the fields of conspiracy research, particularly those with a right-wing or christian belief set, magick is viewed quite negatively. We needn’t even mention how Aleister Crowley is perceived! Yet, folks like yourself and the late Robert Anton Wilson have been able to derive positive benefit from magickal experimentation and practice, especially the Crowleyan/Thelemic variety. What are the right-wing and
fundamentalist christian conspiracists missing in their map of magick? And what makes the big difference in the nature and results of the magick done by you, Wilson or any individual?

Magick came into my life because of my lifelong desire for real answers.

I came from a very devout Christian family, which was quite restrictive on any ideas I may have held for finding out real answers. In fact, the role of organized religion is there to do the opposite ‹ to give less answers and not more ‹ and also to scare its subjects into fearing death. I always found it to be quite ironic that anyone would fear death, because in a quantum sense, death does not exist. All life is infinite, and it is both the laws of thermodynamics and the principles of quantum physics have proven this to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt.

When religion left me high and dry, I sought out some very spiritual, mystical, and psychedelic experiences. This suited my personality, my interests, and my skills to a much greater degree. I have practiced with the Native American Indian healers, worshipped with them, gone to many sweat lodges, and Kiva ceremonies. I have worked with the spiritists of LILY DALE ‹ which is a spiritist community about 45 minutes south of where I live here in the Buffalo, NY USA area. I also participated in the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, and will be linked up for my anticipated upgrade on December 21,
2012, as well.

What the majority of the people THINK they know about either Crowley or magick itself is the product of character assassination and lies and propaganda. None of it is true. When I came to know Crowley and his work, I was astounded at the differences between the perception of the man, and the actual truth as revealed by others who were there beside him.

Those right-wing Christian types you describe above fear most things that are different, and Crowley and magick are no exceptions in this area. Crowley demanded that all magicians develop an iron-will. He mandated “Do what thou wilt” which means “Do what your WILL tells you to do” and not “Let’s do whatever the hell we want, because we’re all Satanists, anyway.”

The importance of the fully developed WILL is incredibly empowering to the individual, and this is the reason why it is attacked so much. Think about WHAT INSTITUTIONS are attacking magick, and WHY they might want to control YOUR THINKING in this matter. Could it be that they do not want empowered and self-actualized individuals running around? Yes, this IS the way these people think AND behave whenever they get a chance.

In order to perform successful magick, four foundational aspects need to be addressed.

First, the WILL must first be developed and become an indefatigable part of the magician’s arsenal. Secondly, the sidereal time must be correct for what you are attempting to do. For example, if your goal is to evoke the Archangels Michael and Raphael for protection, then the time selected must be when those two angels have been known to reign. Third, you must have the proper ritual tools and scripts. In the above example, these would be created evocations that would honor and take advantage of the aspects of the angels under which they are the most likely to respond. Fourth, one must
create a thick web of SERIOUS correspondences, which interweave with one another, and greatly improve the chance for a successful operation.

Wow, to be compared to or spoken of in the same sentence as the late Robert Anton Wilson is quite an honor, as I loved Pope Bob a great deal. He was like a family member to me, and my life has been greatly enriched because of my having known this man and his work. I am a Discordian at heart, for sure.
The reason why those of us who have been as serious as heart attacks with our magick always end up more successful than those poseurs is simple. One must eat, drink, breathe, and sweat magick. It must become a core part of the personality and of the operating constraints of the individual.

Then, success comes simply because those of us who have been successful, DO THE WORK!

You’ve done a few magick rituals of great personal importance, including invocations to the Archangels Michael and Raphael and something called The 741 Working. Could you describe those rituals briefly, what they were used for and how it all played out?

Magick has been used by myself to protect my own health. I have a number of serious health problems; the blood-clotting disorder Hemophilia, Hepatitis, HIV+, Liver damage from the Hepatitis, and a whole series of muscle-skeletal issues, which arose from my having been run down in a hit and run auto accident, when I was trying to walk my pet wolf home from a swim at Lake Erie Beach, here in the Buffalo, NY USA area in July 1994!!

With an HIV infection, my ex-wife and myself were told that we should NEVER try to have children, because all that was going to happen was the mother and child were only going to die, anyway. This was all pre-determined, and we weren’t supposed to have a say in this at all, but just listen to the Œ”experts.” I thought this was bullshit, and proceeded to create my own regimen.

The first thing I did was evoke the Archangel Raphael ‹ which was used as protection during my lengthy convalescence after being run down in that hit and run traffic accident. I was in bed for three months ‹ and during this time I used as much blood-clotting products as I had in the entire previous TWO YEARS. I was in so much pain that I could not sleep for the first five days ‹ and when I finally DID fall asleep on the fifth day ‹ it was from my having passed out from complete and utter exhaustion!

During all my hallucinations and a Œ”bang your head against the wall” levelof pain, Raphael looked after me, and made sure that I was protected, as Iwould later have some very important (!!) work to do. This was done by myself, and for myself. Considering that I almost died (again!!) during this time, I was lucky to end up with only three crushed vertebrae in my lower back (lumbar 3, 4, and 5) –and the end result was that I was placed on a dosage of pain medication (Morphine) that is four times the stated lethal
dose!

This says something about tolerance AND the amount of pain I am in on a regular and continuous basis!!

In June 2004, when my wife informed me that we had gotten pregnant, I began to immediately author a series of protection-energy rites that were conducted under the nine full moons of the entire pregnancy. I called this complete set of rituals THE 741 WORKING. I had already used magick to protect my own life from HIV, and to recover from being run down by an automobile, so I knew it was something I had to contribute to the situation.

So, under the light of each succeeding full moon, my wife, myself, and the two Godparents got together to raise our energy in the idea of protecting the SON, who was present in his unborn state. The Godfather is a Christian, and is my best-friend. The Godmother was a Christian who later became involved in Wicca. Also, my wife and I both studied spiritism at a local community known worldwide as LILY DALE.

THE 741 WORKING was published in excerpted form in the first two issues of the Maybe Logic Academy’s Maybe Quarterly publication. This was in response to the many requests I received to publish a self-penned ritual in that medium. So, if anyone wants to look this up for themselves, go to the MQ website, and check out the LAMEN AND SIGIL 741 writings in issues one and two.

I called it THE 741 WORKING because of two reasons. First, those numbers;the 7, 1, and 4; had been following me around for many years, I had noticed. So, 741 became known to me as my own Qabalistic identifier and number, which relates to Kether, Amen, and what I have come to call The AHA Moment. The 741 Working was the ritual series that was also designed to turn my son into my magickal son, much like Crowley and Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones). I wanted to see if I could pass along the intelligences of the four
of us adults, down to my unborn son.

The results were very interesting, to say the least!

First of all, because we had evoked the Archangels Michael and Raphael to protect a child that has an HIV+ father, it was no real surprise when we were told that our son was an 11:11 baby. This refers to angelic intervention and/or involvement in whatever is taking place at that moment.
This was told to us right in the delivery room. When I came home the next day, after spending the first night in the hospital suite with my wife and our newborn son, I looked this up on the Internet. It immediately occurred to me that this was a significant statement toward proof of what we had done worked as we hoped.

Because these were monthly full moon protection rituals, it is now entirely fascinating to me that my son is completely in love with the moon. I even got him one of those MOON IN MY ROOM night light lunar replicas. He uses it every night, and now at 28 months, he frequently talks about “Moonie, high up in the sky.” He also loves this book GOODNIGHT, MOON. I took the book, and turned it into a PowerPoint presentation, complete with narration, and scanned pages from the real book, he was amazed at how Daddy could get his book into his computer.

The smile on his face told me that the couple of hours I spent scanning the book, and running it through PowerPoint, was well-spent, as he sure enjoyed it.

My son is a Pisces, and this is interesting, especially when we learn that when he is asked to draw pictures, he will draw something involving “fishies at the bottom of the water.” At this very moment, there is a picture of the ocean hanging on the fridge, and the requisite fishies are in attendance! He loves all kinds of fish, and likes looking at them and learning about them.

These are three of the results that are perhaps the most interesting, as they relate to different aspects of THE 741 WORKING.

How did you get involved with Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic Academy and the Maybe Logic Quarterly? Did you meet Wilson? And what have you taken away from your contact with Wilson, the man or his work?

Because I inhabit that world of Discordianism, I was sent an e-mail from a friend of mine who had heard about it, and knew that I would be interested in this project, based upon Bob¹s concept of MAYBE LOGIC ‹ which is to eliminate dualism and provide a choice that could be seen as NONE OF THE ABOVE. As a result, I was one of the very first of the founding members to join. When I told others that I was a mystic who used his own writing talent to author his own rituals, I received several requests for an example of
that which I had been referring. Since my son had been recently conceived, I could think of nothing more appropriate than publishing a copy of excerpts from something I called THE 741 WORKING.

However, there was no way to publish this because there was no Academy publication … yet.

We started talking in the forum and later, in a dedicated chat room about doing an Academy publication. And because I had twenty years of writing, editing, and publishing experience, I volunteered to become the founding editor of the MAYBE QUARTERLY. I ended up editing and organizing the first three issues, which I dedicated to Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit ‹ the Thelemic trinity.

The idea of the MQ was to have rotating editors, and after the first three issues, I stepped away, and others took over in their own capable ways. I published pieces in the first nine issues, but now, my association with the publication has come to an end, simply because of the success of The Kentroversy Papers and The Kentroversy Tapes websites, and now, my new podcast, which as I type these words, we have put out our first six
episodes. New episodes of The Kentroversy Tapes podcast come out every Moonday, and this is to honor my son, who at two years-old; is obsessed with “Moonie, high up in the sky.”

Sadly, I never got to meet Bob Wilson personally, and this was because he fell ill for the final time, after his dream of this online Academy had been realized. But, I did speak to him through e-mail and IM ‹ and he had told me that he was quite impressed with both my 741 WORKING and how alert my son came to be. All of my magickal writings have been online for the past few years, and no one has ever contacted me with any negative comments, or to tell me that I had gotten something wrong. In fact, all the comments I had ever received were quite complimentary and thanked me for sharing something
so personal.

What I have taken away from my 30 year experience of having the ideas of Bob Wilson in my life, is that I came to realize early on, that I was in control, and no one should be allowed to take that from me.

Also, a couple of the best-known Discordians in the truth-telling movement are Freeman Fly of The Freeman Perspective and Radio Freeman, and Adam Gorightly of Untamed Dimensions.

One particular point of focus for your research journalism is the deliberate dumbing down of American citizens through the educational system, based on the militaristic Prussian model. You’ve cited John Taylor Gatto’s excellent work as well as that of Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. For a person who may think that because they don’t have kids, the education issue isn’t important to them, what would you say?

As an intelligent person with the ability to see the big picture, some things just really piss me off. This is one of those situations, education.

When I was in public school, I was constantly in trouble, and was labeled a troublemaker. I would bring home these report cards that would have teacher comments like “does not get along with others,” and “does not respect authority.” If my son brings home comments like that, I pledge right here and now to give him $100 for each comment like this, to go into his college fund.

I see the deliberate dumbing down every single time I turn on my television:‹ Lucifer’s Dream Box ‹ as the late, great Bill Hicks called it. The moronic content of what passes for entertainment at this point in time, is truly frightening!

So, I had already been very suspicious of public schooling from my own personal experience. When having a child became a possibility in my life, I began doing all this research on what the future Kentroversy offspring might go through when THEY might be old enough to go to school.

Along the way, I discovered the two wonderful Earth Angels in the personages of John Taylor Gatto and Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. Gatto was a former New York City and New York State teacher of the year, accolades he had won a couple different times. He taught in the inner city schools of New York City, and worked for his entire career trying to change the system from within. However, he would go on to make more of an impact once he retired, and began his whistleblowing about a system that he knew was bogus and contained a hidden agenda.

Mrs. Iserbyt is an interesting person to have come forward on this issue, because she was the highest level individual to have ever done so. She was part of Ronald Reagan’s Department of Education, and this was ONLY because her own father was a member of Skull and Bones, the Satanic fraternity from the Yale University campus, to which the various Bush family members have also belonged. Well, one night after her own wake-up call (so to speak), Iserbyt had brought a U-HAUL trailer to her office, took into her possession copies of ALL the damaging reports, and studies that had been done to merge
our own education system with that of the Russian education system. She stored them in a safe place, which guarantees her personal safety, and has brought out the most damaging material on her website.

The result of these two people’s work has been a series of books, and I have copies of everything, and have read all the material. Coincidentally,Iserbyt’s book was exactly 741 pages, which as my own Qabalistic number, indicated to me that I was supposed to pay close attention to this material. I have done this, and what I have come to know has been admitted to by a few of the schoolteachers and school administrators to whom I have spoken about this matter in complete confidence.

All readers of these words, should check out the websites of these two brave and courageous souls:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com

And, the BEST PART about these two websites, is that both authors major books are now available as FREE PDF DOWNLOADS from each website! So, there is no longer any excuse for anyone NOT to check out the writing of BOTH Gatto and Iserbyt.

Now, for those who have no children or who do not want children in this lifetime, let me say this.

You STILL need to be informed of these matters, as everyone is being educated, conditioned, and brainwashed every time they watch television. Everyone watches television! Also, those of you without children, have children in your family anyway. You have nieces and nephews, and other relations with small children. These people need you to inform them of these matters, so they can protect their own children in the best way possible.

Let me say one last thing about children. As an HIV+ man with Hemophilia, who became infected because of the use of tainted blood-clotting products, I was told that there was no way that I would ever father a child of my own. This may have been the reality in December 1988, but, by the time we got to the spring and early summer of 2004, things had changed. On February 28, 2005 at 11:11pm, my son and only child was born.

When the nurse in the delivery room came up to me and said:

“Dad, would you like to hold you son, while we clean up Mother?”

Then, she handed me this bundle of innocence with this cute button nose, and I just held him in my arms, held him near my heart, and then the tears came flowing out of me like a firehose. They were tears of joy, tears of gratitude, and tears of accomplishment. And, I also cried that night for all my thirty-five Œbrothers-in-blood, other men with Hemophilia who were personal friends of mine, who had died of AIDS, because THEY will never get
to have that feeling that I was experiencing at that moment.

It was quite simply the happiest moment of my life. And, if I would have listened to my doctors, I never would have considered trying this at all.

The second happiest moment of my life came eighteen months later, when the doctors told us that our son was completely healthy, and clear of HIV. Even though he took preventative medicine through an eye-dropper for the first six-months of his life, he had no trouble tolerating it. Today, he is a healthy, rambunctious little guy, who is thoroughly enjoying investigating his environs.

That’s my boy!

You’ve mentioned on your site your plans for homeschooling your son. What practical advice would you give to those who think this would be too difficult or believe that this will actually put their child at a disadvantage in terms of socialization (the “My kid will be awkward and weird and won’t be able to relate to kids his age” argument)?

This extremely weak argument concerning the lack of socialization skills is the ONLY THING the establishment has been able to use AGAINST homeschooling. But, as a point of fact, any child who is socialized with ADULTS as their primary interaction, will have an EASIER TIME socializing with children, and NOT a more difficult time. When I was myself much younger, I hung around with adults more than with kids of my own age. This didn’t make me inept socially, in any way.

When I had gotten to high school in September 1978, I partied with my teachers just as often as I partied with my peer group. This was through the theatre club, and these same teacher-advisors were also members of a second theatre group, which was located outside of school in a suburb closer to Buffalo, than the Lake Shore area where I went to school, and where they taught me.

In both these theatre groups, I worked as lighting director, and had some of the most fun I had ever had of my entire life.

Although I do have to admit that when I walked into my own English teacher’s home for the first time, it caught me a bit off guard to seem him rolling a joint on a YES FRAGILE album cover!

That is when I said to myself:

“I am really lucky to have these people trust me this much!”

Feeling awkward and weird is part and parcel of the overall, universal teenage experience ‹ especially in high-school ‹ and anyone who thinks this is limited to those kids who are being homeschooled is only fooling themselves.

Anyone who doubts what I am saying here, should look up the local homeschool association in their area, and give them a visit. The homeschoolers will be happy to tell them about the reality of homeschooling. Please stay out of the public schools for this advice, because they have been propagandized into believing homeschooling is harmful.

What are your thoughts on Montessori and Waldorf-based education? They definitely seem to be more student-oriented and this would seem to be an advantage if one must put their child in schools. Then again, there’s the perceived New-Agey connection of the philosophies of Montessori and Rudolph Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education. (I make no value judgment regarding their spiritual philosophies because I’ve not looked into them extensively.)

My only concern for these alternate education modalities is the use of the term HEAD-START.

This is a code word for getting children into government-supervised schools at an ever earlier age. Some of these HEAD-START programs start when a child is only two years old.

Granted, both Montessori and Waldorf education seem to be better than regular public schools, but without any direct personal experience in this area, it is unknown to me what the true advantages are.

But, as a parent who is currently weighing these very issues, I can tell you that it is a harrowing decision, as one wrong move, and my kid is literally fucked for life.

What difference do you perceive between a reporter, a research journalist and a conspiracy theorist or researcher, if any?

A reporter is nothing more than a person who writes down and records the words and deeds of others that are considered to be Œ”newsworthy” by some abstract editor or publisher. They report what happened today, and this kind of reporting becomes obsolete very quickly. A Œ”research-journalist” is my own description of the function I fulfill. I focus on research that will still be important months or years from now, and that research informs my own journalistic behavior and output.

I work with NO outside editor or publisher, as I fill those roles myself.

The terms Œ”conspiracy theory” and Œ”conspiracy theorist” are now highly pejorative terms, that connote highly negative images and associations. This is a laughable attempt on the part of the United States’ criminally infiltrated government to attempt to denigrate the work of serious researchers, and research-journalists, such as myself.

I like to refer people to the definition of CONSPIRACY THEORY that appears in COLLINS’ SOCIOLOGICAL DICTIONARY:

According to this highly influential reference work:

a Œconspiracy theory is ONLY to be considered suspect or reprehensible, if it is;

a) delivered in an outlandish, irrational manner; and b) delivered WITHOUT decent evidence.

When these pejoratives are examined from within this context, one quickly realizes that these two conditions actually describe the government’s own conspiracy theories about the events of 9/11, as well as the entire 9/11 Commission report, which was a complete joke. And, they also describe a lot of the government’s other actions, such as false-flag attacks, political assassinations at home and abroad, and other forms of corruption and
outwardly criminal behavior and activity.

This is why people will frequently read the following words: “a conspiracy theory of the government’s own making” in my writing and on my websites.

Also Cadeveo, I personally do not write about THEORIES. All of my work is painstakingly researched, and at the end of everything I publish, I do provide my sources. So, no one can call Kentroversy a Œ”conspiracy theorist” because of this.

If it’s TRUE, it cannot be a THEORY!!

Your work approaches the issue of spiritual (or mental) liberation for the individual, what I’d see as the ultimate concern of conspiracy research, through investigations of the political, economic and educational aspects of our current cult-sure. How do these things fit together and why is it important for individuals and community to learn about them?

People have to understand that they have been more than just lied to by the evil slime that infests Washington, DC. They have been mind-controlled, propagandized, and conditioned into thinking in the way the establishment desires them to think. This should be fairly obvious to anyone who has been able to view mainstream news and the mass media with eyes that see, and ears that hear.

While FOX-NEWS is perhaps the most blatant example of this phenomenon, it is by no means the ONLY network that does this. They all do. Just think about the amount of time in the first half of 2007 spent on the matters of the suspicious death of Anna Nicole Smith, the mind-control breakdown of BritneySpears, and Paris Hilton’s arrest and subsequent jailing by these mainstream news outlets. Now, which is more important to the BIG PICTURE: ‹ the illegal immigration issue ‹ or the video footage of Paris Hilton crying because she just got a DUI and has to go to jail for a few days?!

In order for anyone to extricate themselves from any system of control, the individual first needs to understand how that system of control works, as well as what are the specific controlling elements within that system. The clear path to liberation appears when a person realizes that in order to take back their power, all they need to do, is stop participating in the control mechanism, as well as to STOP SURRENDERING THEIR OWN POWER to those who have shown through their own behavior ‹ time and time again ‹ that they actually hate us and detest us.

They consider us to be a huge drain on resources they feel are rightly theirs, and this is where the pejorative term USELESS EATERS comes from.

The real value in TRUE GOVERNMENT CRIME and PROOF OF CONSPIRACY comes when the light-bulb goes on and folks begin to realize that 95% of what they THINK they know is actually a LIE. Then, we see people dropping the RIGHT-LEFT PARADIGM and becoming armchair political scientists ‹ leaving behind their previous obsessions with things like television and sports ‹and televised sports!

Sheesh, what a waste of time:

“Gee Biff, do you think [insert favorite team here] will win the BIG ONE
this year?!”

Just think of all the energy WASTED on this idea, immediately above. By tens of million people in the USA alone! And, the more they can get us to pay attention to things that don’t really matter, is less time we spend on things that really DO matter! And, if they can get us yelling about that quarterback, pitcher, or goalie; so much the better, as we then have no time to yell about the trillions that disappeared from the Pentagon.

There’s a feeling out there that we’ve got limited time to turn things around or to make certain choices about the direction of our lives before they get made for us. (Cue ominous music) For someone out there who, say, has just started to wake up to some of the information you discuss and who is beginning to suspect that s/he needs to get hir house in order (has credit card debt, doesn’t own a home, has been mis-educated and has a lot of mental “debugging” to do, etc.), what practical advice would you offer? And what encouragement would you provide?

For someone who is looking to gain a quick overview of the entire globalist new world order agenda, I would direct them to the KENTROVERSY SPECIAL REPORTS section of THE KENTROVERSY PAPERS website, which are found on the front page of the site, in the right-hand table of contents. There, they can gain knowledge on everything from the manufactured problem of illegal immigration, to the implantable microchip, the various banking scams (credit cards, home mortgages, inflation, deliberate stock market crashes),
false-flag terrorism, as well as occult symbolism found in music, television, and film.

For someone looking for financial advice, I would direct them to my financial white-paper, which is entitled “Will You Survive The Coming Financial Crash?” This 35 page white paper contains a section of viable solutions, which I know work. Recently, I was contacted by a close friend of mine, who was a little embarrassed that he screwed-up his finances. I was able to talk him through the solutions section of the white paper, and he was immediately able to renegotiate more favorable terms in his dealings with his creditors.

This is available in both PDF and HTML formats at the following location –
the link for the PDF download of the white paper appears at the top of the sources list at the very bottom of the report:

Will You Survive The Coming Financial Crash? (Full Report) (April 30, 2007):
http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/2007/04/will-you-survive-coming-financ
ial-crash.html

People should realize that the only time is now, and those who attempt to place them under artificially short timelines are only trying to put them under fear and unnecessary stress, as they worry if they will finish “with enough time to spare.” No one of us truly knows HOW MUCH TIME they have left. And, this should NOT prevent anyone from trying to help educate people to the horrible truth that surrounds them.

To my own training, the most important of all the areas in which one should IMMEDIATELY begin repairing their own life, is in finance. This is because it is the area in which they are being taken advantage of in the most devastating manner possible. There are techniques that can be implemented immediately that should be undertaken by everyone, and to the extent that someone can follow these instructions to the letter, they can and will begin to see immediate results.

The subject of the Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt’s historical secret society is a very strange attractor, it seems. The very label seems to attract a disparate group of people with different agendas, from the crypto-fascists and racists who use the Illuminati as a code word for the people they hate while advocating or embodying very Illuminati-eque organizational and philosophical structures (e.g. the LaRouchers, some of the so-called “Christian”conspiracy theorists, and some folks surrounding David Icke) all the way to the agnostic mystics like Robert Anton Wilson. Sometimes you’ve got to ask, “Whose Illuminati are you referring to?”

We actually had this very conversation at Maybe Logic Academy in its first couple of months of existence, when both the academy and its¹ students and faculty were still finding their identities. It was suggested that we could be technically considered to be INTELLECTUAL ILLUMINATI — those enlightened ones whose basis of knowledge and ascension is based upon intellectualism. While that may be true in a semantical sense, as a marketing come on, it wasn’t going to sell any Academy memberships!!

Personally, I use the term ILLUMINATI as a term of convenience, more than anything. Since there is NO group with this precise name, I only use it to describe a series of behavioral characteristics that are prototypical to this certain class of person.

All the groups you name above are referring to different people when THEY use the term, and this is clear by the presentation of their work. As a group in the USA, we are talking about only 100,000 people in the inner-circle of Dante’s Inferno — pun intended! WE THE PEOPLE are 300 MILLION STRONG, and we could pound these assholes into submission tomorrow!
But, the trouble is that 295 million of those people believe they have no personal power, and they yell back at their televisions in abject frustration.

It is truly sad to see this … and especially to know it is ALL completely unnecessary!

The Illuminati has been a strange attractor for you, too. You’ve even mentioned a family member marrying into an “Illuminati” family. Tell us about that.

In 1986, a female cousin of mine married a member of the Illuminati, who is
interlocked with the Bush Crime Family and the Rothschild-Rockefeller Crime Family (yes, they are the same family!!). They got married at a local “Œclubhouse” called The Saturn Club, which is the Buffalo chapter of Ordo Saturnus. I was there for their wedding and reception, and it is just dripping with Illuminati and Astrological symbolism. It creeped me out to be there in that building, and officially, the club denies they are a chapter of Ordo Saturnus, and claims that they got that name because they hold their
membership meetings on Saturday nights.

They would then be called “The Saturday Night Club,” no?!

I invite everyone to check out my June 28, 2007 interview on RED ICE RADIO about this matter, which is available in the RED ICE RADIO subscriber section. Please check out the following link for all my RED ICE RADIO interview segments:

Red Ice Radio Regulars – Kent Daniel Bentkowski (aka Kentroversy):
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/regulars/kentroversy.html

In the above interview, I go into great detail about my experiences with the elite, and how much they are obsessed with their AGENDA, and how much planning goes into making it happen in the real world, and how far in advance that planning commences.

At the time, I owned a printing company named Graphitech, and had decided that I was going to do business with my own family members. After all, I had been an honest businessman, who had a high-quality product at a fair cost, fast delivery, and my company was growing very fast because I have the ability to bring in these large first-time orders. In an industry where the average first-time order is something small like office letterheads or business cards worth $500 to $2,500 — I was bringing in $30,000 first-time orders and sometimes even more than this.

Around this same time, a certain individual shows up at my office, and suggests to me that it might benefit my career path if I became a Freemason. I said that I needed to think about it, and would get back to him in a couple days. I had already been well into Freemasonic research by this time, and was not too keen on the idea of becoming a fellow traveler. The Freemasons claim they do not recruit, and have this saying “To Become A
Brother, Ask A Brother” which is their cover-story method of mythologizing their own order.

But, this is complete bullshit, because I was personally recruited.

I was told that my business would be a bigger success than I could ever imagine. I was told that I would never have to worry about money, because I would be set for life. I was told that if I ever got into trouble anywhere, I could call upon a brother, who would be obligated to help me, even if I was wrong or guilty. Everything sounded like things I might want to hear, but none of the pitfalls were ever discussed. I was never told what I might face if I disobeyed orders I had been given.

In the end, I said NO to an offer I wasn’t supposed to refuse. I fit the profile of the prospective member, and I was supposed to snap up the offer. I am certain that they wanted something from me, which was likely to be either my writing and communicating skills or business management expertise.

After I declined the offer to become a Freemason, I began to get calls from formerly satisfied clients, who suddenly could not do any more business with me. One after the other, as if someone placed a call to someone ordering this to take place, I lost nearly all my major accounts. I am certain that this was connected to my refusal of joining Freemasonry, although I cannot prove it. The timing just seemed very suspicious to me, that’s all.

Some of the inside information that I gleaned from these people was in 1988, I was told that George Bush Jr. would be President in the near future. In 2000-2001, I was told the same thing about Hillary Clinton. And in 2006, I was given the word that George P. Bush (Jr’s nephew) was being groomed to become the first-ever Hispanic President of what will be by then, the North American Union.

As I often say to people:

“Now that you know the agenda, watch it happen before your very eyes!”

You’re one of maybe two people, including interviewer Mike Hagen, who has picked up on mystic-artist Paul Laffoley’s assertions about the WTC. Briefly tell us about Laffoley’s revelations, why you think there’s been silence regarding them, and what conclusions you draw from it.

Paul Laffoley is one of my two favorite living artists, the other being Roger Dean, the man who did all the famous YES album covers depicting these sci-fi landscapes. When I heard that Mike Hagan was having Paul on his show, I listened in for THAT REASON ALONE. When Paul started talking about working for Yamasaki, the chief architect on the World Trade Center project, my ears pricked up.

Then, he starts mentioning that he knew one of the major contractors was BIN
LADEN CONSTRUCTION, and that he and others were asked to draw up plans to
wire in explosives into the towers as they were being built. I was amazed to hear what I was hearing. Immediately after this, I wrote up an article and posted it to my website. The article discussed these facts that Mr. Laffoley brought out, which although they were disturbing, they were not all that surprising.

The very next day, I got an e-mail from Laffoley’s webmaster, who thanked me for covering the story. I soon found myself talking to Mike Hagan, and he told me that in a follow-up conversation with Mr. Laffoley, he found out that not a single news journalist in this entire country, save for he and I, had covered this story. Not even Alex Jones would touch it. The same with Michael Moore. I sent copies to each of these two men, and all I heard in return was their silence.

Because what Laffoley has to say does not fit the OFFICIAL-FICTION of the 9/11 false-flag event, it has been ignored by the mainstream media. While it does say something about my commitment to truth in all its¹ forms, it is a stunning indictment on the state of the corporate mass media in this country. Not a single mainstream news outlet would cover this story.

But, Kentroversy was there when NO ONE ELSE had the guts to talk about this obvious complicity, foreknowledge, and involvement in high-treason against the American people!!

In my eyes, this is just another example of what we already knew, that the news media are NOT reporting anything except for what they are TOLD TO REPORT. This is WHY these news outlets are all losing readers, viewers, and listeners. When one can get the truth from someone like me, WHY would they waste their time with CNN, MSNBC, or FOX-NEWS?

Also, I can think of NOTHING more important that I should be doing right now– and this is something which my readers and listeners are picking up on. I now have a two-year plus track record of being CORRECT about the subjects about which I research and report, and this has added considerably to my credibility and to my integrity.

Who do you admire and who have been your greatest inspirations –e.g. as a father, a husband, a research journalist, a magick practitioner and seeker of spiritual truth?

Those who inspire me the most are those who have come up against what seemed
like insurmountable odds, and persevered or reigned victorious, in spite of those odds. I also find great inspiration in those who thumb their nose at the status quo ‹ those who live the way they want to in spite of opposition from their family, friends, peer group, co-workers, or even their neighbors.

As a writer, I admire people like Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac, Kerry Thornley, and folks of that ilk. As one who thinks OUTSIDE THE BOX, I need to be connected to the counterculture, because our mass culture is completely fucked up.

Anna Nicole Smith?! Britney Spears?! Paris Hilton?!

Who cares about these twits, anyway?!

As a researcher, I admire all those Silicon Valley computer geeks that placed the technology of a library right on the top of my desk. This immediately made me about 1,000% more effective in what I do, because I no longer have to run off to a library every time I need to fact check something.

As a father, my primary role model is my best friend, who has two wonderful young sons who are both out of high-school. This is the same person who named me Kentroversy. So, not only has he given me the perfect name under which to bring my message to the world, he also shows me how to be a loving but fair parent.

As a husband, the one who taught me more than anyone was my own father, who was on his FIFTH marriage by the time I hit my own sixteenth birthday! Dennis taught me what NOT to do! So, whatever I saw him do, I strove for the opposite ‹ which worked quite well, actually.

As a mystic, I have been inspired by the following people — John Dee, Abramelin The Mage, the builders of the Egyptian Mystery School, Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley, Charles Stansfeld Jones, John L. Crow of Thelema Coast To Coast, Grant Morrison, Lon Milo DuQuette, and Peter J. Carroll. And because he was ALSO a magician, Robert Anton Wilson also must go on this list.

I also greatly admire the man and respect the work of divination scholar and sidereal mythologist Michael Tsarion. Anyone unfamiliar with Michael needs to get over to his website, and begin educating themselves about this fascinating visionary.

Finally, as a seeker of spiritual truths, I respect all those who fought against the established order of their time. Presently, this includes many in the Truth-Teller, Patriot, and 9/11 Truth communities. Cindy Sheehan, William Rodriguez, and all of my friends in the esoteric research community appear on this part of the list.

I always try to pay attention to my influences, and pay tribute to them whenever I can.

Is it accurate to describe you, politically, as a Constitutionalist? What exactly does that “label” mean to you? And why does the Constitution (or any document of ruling principles or government structure) still matter?

Actually, I personally describe myself as a CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONIST.

Here, I believe, it is important to make the distinction between just being a supporter of the Constitution, and a PROTECTOR of that same document. A lot of my writings do refer to Constitutional matters, which I believe are important, especially as the criminal cabal that has seized power in Washington, DC is so intent on throwing the Constitution in the paper shredder.

I want people to know where I am coming from WITHOUT my having to use pre-established labels like LIBERAL, CONSERVATIVE, INDEPENDENT, and so forth. Those are words of the dying paradigm.

When I announce that I am a CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONIST — I never get any
of those confused looks where a person fails to understand my own political beliefs.

Why a Constitution STILL MATTERS is because as long as we have the potential of usury and criminality, certain people in politics need to be held in check, with their every move monitored. Also, that tradition plays into TRUE PATRIOTISM … and NOT this phony baloney JINGOISM of the present time.

Will our Constitution survive the onslaught of the Neo-Nazi-Cons?

I sure hope so, as I would like my son to have a future that is more than just survival …

You’ve been involved in magickal-spiritual pursuits and conspiracy research for decades. Describe how your views have changed over time.

My views have changed with the times because I have made an effort to keep an open mind about EVERYTHING.

It would be a mistake of epic proportions to assume something to be the ultimate answer, one that ends my research on a particular subject. This was where knowing Bob Wilson came in handy, as he was all about keeping things realistic and subject to change at any given moment.

When I was younger, I thought that what I was told was true — that ANYONE COULD become President of the United States. This was when I began working on my Congressman’s re-election campaigns for seven years in the 1980’s. In 1988, my Congressman, Jack Kemp, ran for President. He ran for the Republican nomination, which I was told by my family Illuminati-insiders that the next President was going to be Bush, Sr.

During those years, I was a registered Republican!

Yes, Kentroversy was once a Republican, no kidding!

Jeez, that feels like admitting to one of the worst crimes I can currently imagine — sort of like being a SPY in the enemy camp!

The more I learned, the more I came to realize that ALL of this is staged– and this is how I KNOW that Hillary Clinton is going to be the 44th President of the United States.

God, help us all to weather this oncoming DARK NIGHT OF THE POLITICAL SOUL…

As far as mysticism and magick are concerned, the more aptitude I acquired, the more I was able to incorporate these concepts into my life.

For example, this has given me an experts level knowledge of HOW the global power elite operate, and to understand and describe their symbolism and numerology, and so on. So, this helps me in my work to a fantastic degree, and I am able to use this knowledge in every area of my life, which helps me to identify needs and how to best address them within the parameters of my own life, and the life of my family, and my spiritual family.

Is there anything else you’d like to mention or add that we haven’t addressed here?

What I would like to do is close on the following thoughts …

We are at a very unique point in the history of our world, as far as spiritual ascension is concerned. The entire significance of 2012 relates to the Precession of the Equinoxes, and our planet traveling toward the galactic center of our own Universe. We have just hit an area of increased photonic energy, and this is also known to our enemies. This is WHY they have redoubled their efforts of place us under FEAR, TERROR, and continue to
attempt to disconnect us from our true spiritual heritage.

We are being fed a hoax known as GLOBAL WARMING, when in fact, our entire solar system has been heating up. Think about HOW people are being manipulated in this matter, especially with the 777 Live Earth Concert, which was a Rothschild operation, by the way.

I believe that I survived death multiple times so I could BE HERE NOW, to coin a phrase from the book of the same name by Baba Ram Dass.

Having my experiences, knowing what I know, and especially the successes I have had along the way — have shown me that there IS something more to this life. The prospects of this are incredibly exciting to me, and for me to play the role of teacher at this point is a natural part of my own destiny and the extension of my own FREE WILL.

So, what can we HOLD ON TO in this most uncertain of times?

We can all realize that there are no accidents, and we are ALL here for a reason right now. My reason is going to be much different from yours, but together, we are bringing LIGHT into the same dark tunnel — the LIGHT OF TRUTH.

People ask me almost every day now why I am not being harassed by the people about whom I write. The reason is simple — I do NOT fear them and I do not acknowledge their power over me — which they do not have, anyway! I am protected by my own higher-power, and this is a field of quantum energy that some refer to as GOD. Call it GOD, Angelic Energy, or the quantum substructure of the Universe — they are all one in the same. And, they are ALL made of LOVE …

Life is infinite, and because I know this, I do not fear death. I have already had the textbook post-death experience, and I was SENT BACK to do what I am doing today.

So, I implore all those reading these words — please DO NOT become afraid of some old man in a mansion somewhere. Those people are cowards, as they hide away in their ivory towers, and never come out to face WE THE PEOPLE.

About two and a half years ago, I came to the realization that I had become
an ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT — to real crimes that were and still are –being carried out in the name of the American people. By my going public with what I had come to understand was the hidden truth as I discovered it to be, I was in a position to remove this heavy burden and fight back in the way most commensurate with my own skills and abilities.

This was when I decided to do THE KENTROVERSY PAPERS website.

From that point forward, it has been one Kentroversy after another … !!!

Thanks to Kent Bentowski for the extensive interview. You can find his research reports and very candid perspective, click the hyper-link to either one of his sites: THE KENTROVERSY PAPERS (”among the Top 1% of all blog sites, as ranked by Technorati”), where you can find over 450 of his reports, and the new THE KENTROVERSY TAPES, “a multimedia interview archive, as well as being the central location where THE KENTROVERSY TAPES podcast can be downloaded every Monday.”

Kent lives in the Buffalo, NY area with his wife and son.