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- Dec 18, 20243h 49m
keep it like a secret
old PTC ep
- Oct 12, 20232h 19m
Hanussen (Pt. II) EJH & Crowley in Cairo, Mandrake Moonchildren, Hitler's Mass Hypno Lessons, Hanns Ewers, & the OSS Langer Report
In this Parapower Mapping + Things Observed collab we continue our deep dive into all the high strangeness surrounding the hypnotist, stage performer, occultist and Hitler acquittance Erik Jan Hanussen. We discuss his time in Egypt and how this relates to the infamous occultist and spy Aleister Crowley. We also discuss the training Hanussen gave Hitler in hypnotic techniques as well as a very interesting ritual involving a mandrake and a graveyard involving the furher (atleast according to Peter Levenda). We cover a polish circus performer and srongman Zishe Breitbart and the Werner Herzog film Invincible that fictionlizes Breitbart and Hanussen. We delve into Hanussen's possible work for intelligence, the strange sexual proclivities of certain Nazis, Third Reich Astrology, the first self-proclaimed satanist and a whole lot more. And we haven't even gotten to the third installment of this series where we delve into the Reichstag fire and the strange death that Hanussen may have been involved with at a Grand Prix race. Giant thanks to PPM for all the hard work hehas put into researching Hanussen. Go follow all his work because he is the man and you're missing out if you don't! You Should check out ParaPower Mapping on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Also make sure you check him out on twitter @KlonnyPin_Gosch !Also subscribe to his patreon: ParaPower Mapping | PatreonSorry if there is any problem with the audio. File all complaints with me because that would be my faultSongs:Are you a hypnotist - The Flaming LipsQuicksand - David BowieSatan Says Dance - Clap Your Hands Say YeahUnder the Rotted Flesh - Cannibal Corpse
- Oct 5, 202355 min
[PATREON PREVIEW] Hanussen (Pt. II) EJH & Crowley in Cairo, Mandrake Moonchildren, Hitler's Mass Hypno Lessons, Hanns Ewers, & the OSS Langer Report
In this Parapower Mapping + Things Observed collab we continue our deep dive into all the high strangeness surrounding the hypnotist, stage performer, occultist and Hitler acquittance Erik Jan Hanussen. We discuss his time in Egypt and how this relates to the infamous occultist and spy Aleister Crowley. We also discuss the training Hanussen gave Hitler in hypnotic techniques as well as a very interesting ritual involving a mandrake and a graveyard involving the furher (atleast according to Peter Levenda). We cover a polish circus performer and srongman Zishe Breitbart and the Werner Herzog film Invincible that fictionlizes Breitbart and Hanussen. We delve into Hanussen's possible work for intelligence, the strange sexual proclivities of certain Nazis, Third Reich Astrology, the first self-proclaimed satanist and a whole lot more. And we haven't even gotten to the third installment of this series where we delve into the Reichstag fire and the strange death that Hanussen may have been involved with at a Grand Prix race. Giant thanks to PPM for all the hard work hehas put into researching Hanussen. Go follow all his work because he is the man and you're missing out if you don't! You Should check out ParaPower Mapping on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Also make sure you check him out on twitter @KlonnyPin_Gosch !Also subscribe to his patreon: ParaPower Mapping | PatreonSorry if there is any problem with the audio. File all complaints with me because that would be my faultSongs:Are you a hypnotist - The Flaming LipsQuicksand - David BowieSatan Says Dance - Clap Your Hands Say YeahUnder the Rotted Flesh - Cannibal Corpse
- Oct 2, 20232h 12m
UNLOCKED - Erik Jan Hanussen: Nazi Nostradamus, Sexual Blackmailer, & Psychic Spy-A Things Observed + PPM Collab
What's up my fellow observers. I am proud to release the first part of an investigation into Erik Jan Hanussen with ParaPower Mapping. You Should check out ParaPower Mapping on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get his podcast. Also make sure you check him out on twitter @KlonnyPin_Gosch !Also subscribe to his patreon: ParaPower Mapping | PatreonBelow is a description of some of what we discuss from the man himself Klonny:Synchronicities b/w Hanussen & Hitler's lives; Levenda & Lewis's contention that EJH taught Hitler mass hypnosis; his possibly embellished birth in a holding cell in Vienna; his vaudevillian upbringing; Hanussen's possible Sabbatean or Frankist lineage (via a Spence essay); the presence of said sects in the Steinschneider hometown of Prossnitz; his "Orientalist" & esotericist uncle Moritz; EJH's childhood obsession w/ Emperor Nero; his purported capture of a highwayman at 9 years old; EJH running away to join the circus as a preteen; EJH's intro to sexual blackmail as telepathic paparazzo for the Viennese tabloid Der Blitz; his manipulation of a printer's strike; his conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army; his WWI service; his time in a burial squad & his cemetery séance; mentalist routines in the trenches; Hanussen bribing a military censor to feed him letters so he could use them as proof of his clairvoyance; his abortive attempt to fake war neuroses; EJH going AWOL for 2 weeks to perform in Vienna, which led to him winning the hearts of the Austro-Hungarian royal family... leading to his transfer from the front lines to a performing unit at the family's behest; EJH's growing fame as a mentalist & psychic detective post-WWI; his manipulation of the experimental psychologist Joe Labero, who he tricked into teaching him "muscle reading" to expose a fellow magician—a technique that would become central to EJH's routine; history of muscle reading, which brings us to US neurologists & psychologists like Dr. Beard & William James; Hanussen & Freud discussing hypnosis in Vienna; the undeniable connections b/w the two men via Freud's acolyte Schilder, who observed Erik; EJH's work as a hypnotist at the Institute for Breath Therapy; Hanussen's psychic "detection" of the culprit behind the theft of 100ks of kronen bills from an Austrian mint; the possibility EJH conspired crimes only to solve them & boost his legend; his opportunistic attempts to manipulate the "Vampire of Düsseldorf" killings for media coverage; the Vampire's (aka Peter Kurten) disgusting bestiality paraphilia = the sex magickal ritual killings of animals at Crowley's Abbey of Thelema; the Vampire -> to Fritz Lang's noir oeuvre, particularly M & the Dr. Mabuse trilogy; the likelihood Dr. Mabuse was directly inspired by EJH, connecting to the TV series Babylon Berlin, which has a hypno criminal mastermind character who was definitely inspired by Dr. Mabuse & EJH; the show's allusions to EJH's sexual blackmail & the private séance that he performed for the Krupp family; and we set the stage for Hanussen's arms trading, espionage, & Nazi-filled pleasure cruises in the subsequent installment... Plus much more.Giant thanks to PPM for all the hard work who has put in to research Hanussen. Go follow all his work because he is the man and you're missing out if you don't!Music:John Lee Hooker - Graveyard BluesThe Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle BoyRobert Wyat - Stalin Wasn't Stalin
- Sep 20, 202342 min
[PATREON PREVIEW] Erik Jan Hanussen: Nazi Nostradamus, Sexual Blackmailer, & Psychic Spy-A Things Observed + PPM Collab
You can find the whole thing at both the Things Observed patreon as well as the ParaPower Mapping patreon!Below is a description of some of what we discuss from the man himself Klonny:Synchronicities b/w Hanussen & Hitler's lives; Levenda & Lewis's contention that EJH taught Hitler mass hypnosis; his possibly embellished birth in a holding cell in Vienna; his vaudevillian upbringing; Hanussen's possible Sabbatean or Frankist lineage (via a Spence essay); the presence of said sects in the Steinschneider hometown of Prossnitz; his "Orientalist" & esotericist uncle Moritz; EJH's childhood obsession w/ Emperor Nero; his purported capture of a highwayman at 9 years old; EJH running away to join the circus as a preteen; EJH's intro to sexual blackmail as telepathic paparazzo for the Viennese tabloid Der Blitz; his manipulation of a printer's strike; his conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army; his WWI service; his time in a burial squad & his cemetery séance; mentalist routines in the trenches; Hanussen bribing a military censor to feed him letters so he could use them as proof of his clairvoyance; his abortive attempt to fake war neuroses; EJH going AWOL for 2 weeks to perform in Vienna, which led to him winning the hearts of the Austro-Hungarian royal family... leading to his transfer from the front lines to a performing unit at the family's behest; EJH's growing fame as a mentalist & psychic detective post-WWI; his manipulation of the experimental psychologist Joe Labero, who he tricked into teaching him "muscle reading" to expose a fellow magician—a technique that would become central to EJH's routine; history of muscle reading, which brings us to US neurologists & psychologists like Dr. Beard & William James; Hanussen & Freud discussing hypnosis in Vienna; the undeniable connections b/w the two men via Freud's acolyte Schilder, who observed Erik; EJH's work as a hypnotist at the Institute for Breath Therapy; Hanussen's psychic "detection" of the culprit behind the theft of 100ks of kronen bills from an Austrian mint; the possibility EJH conspired crimes only to solve them & boost his legend; his opportunistic attempts to manipulate the "Vampire of Düsseldorf" killings for media coverage; the Vampire's (aka Peter Kurten) disgusting bestiality paraphilia = the sex magickal ritual killings of animals at Crowley's Abbey of Thelema; the Vampire -> to Fritz Lang's noir oeuvre, particularly M & the Dr. Mabuse trilogy; the likelihood Dr. Mabuse was directly inspired by EJH, connecting to the TV series Babylon Berlin, which has a hypno criminal mastermind character who was definitely inspired by Dr. Mabuse & EJH; the show's allusions to EJH's sexual blackmail & the private séance that he performed for the Krupp family; and we set the stage for Hanussen's arms trading, espionage, & Nazi-filled pleasure cruises in the subsequent installment... Plus much more.Giant thanks to PPM for all the hard work he has put into researching Hanussen. Go follow all his work because he is the man and you're missing out if you don't!
- Sep 10, 20231h 2m
Getting Spooked with Tanner Boyle Part 1 - Alien PSYOPS, Abductees, ETs, Bosco Nedelcovic, The Finders, Eugenics, Gerry Irwin, Human Experimentation and the Mainstreaming of Ufology
In this episode I have on Tanner Boyle the author of the Fortean Influence on Science Fiction as well as the author of the Getting Spooked substack! You can also find him on twitter @TannerFBoyle1 In this episode we discuss the intelligence asset Bosco Nedelcovic who made a number of interesting claims that pertain to the stories of early abductees. Tanner also dives into his connections to The Finders cults, eugenicist groups and the counter-culture. We also discuss the story of the first American abductee Gerry Irwin and what his experience illustrates about the truth of other abductee experiences such as that of Betty and Barney Hill. Tanner and I in this episode dive into the question of whether or not the experiences of abductees and contactees is really extraterrestrial in origin or if it is more likely that these people were victims of intelligence agency operations and human experimentation along MKULTRA kind of lines. We also discuss the mainstreaming of Ufology with everyone from the New York Times to Tucker Carlson platforming the ideas of UFOs and aliens. We also discuss what the purpose and utility is for the intelligence agencies and the National Security State in propping up a certain narratives concerning UFO's and aliens. And stay tuned for the next installment of our conversation where we get into the Adamski affair and the Manhattan Project scientist who is actually incredibly based and sheds some light on how Abductions as intelligence agency ops as well as whether or not Tanner and I belive in aliens, aliens as Djinn/demons and much more.This conversation was so much fun, and I think you all will love it as much as I do!Tanner F. Boyle | SubstackThe Fortean Influence on Science Fiction - McFarland (mcfarlandbooks.com)Music:Sacred Space - Guided by VoicesTry to Find You - Guided by VoicesCynthia - Blue Rodeo
- Aug 27, 202346 min
DC SNIPERS feat. Katie - Murder, Cover-Up, Strange Connections and PTK VIBES Part 1
In this episode I have on Katie who you guys may know of on twitter as @mildred_florsh! We discuss the DC Snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo including Muhammad's military service and all the trouble he would cause during this time while simultaneously climbing his way up the ladder. We discuss his strained relationship with his wife, his wife's connection to John Ashcroft. Yeah, you read that right. We also cover Lee Boyd Malvo's rough childhood and his manipulation (brainwashing?) which kind of gives some PTK Manchurian candidate vibes which we dive deeper into in the second part. We discuss the murders, Muhammad's criminal career, his plan to start a compound to train children and much more. This was a really fun conversation, and the second part is even crazier so stay tuned for that! Make sure to go follow Katie on twitter!
- Aug 6, 20231h 27m
Council for National Policy feat. John Brisson: The Franklin Scandal, Iran-Contra, PROMIS Software, Alex Jones, Unification Church, New Age, Theosophy and the Corruption of American Christianity and Alternative Media
In this episode I am joined by John Brisson of We've Read the Documents to discuss his research into the Council for National Policy. We discuss the CNP and how it has steered conservative politics through its powerful members who belong to the highest echelons of Government, Big Business and American Mainline Churches. We discuss the CNP and how it relates to a variety of topics including but not limited to: the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, the World Anti-Communist League, Iran-Contra, Drug Trafficking, Latin American Death Squads, Craig Spence and his network of call boys, the Franklin Scandal, John DeCamp, the Coors family, Tim LaHaye and the Left Behind series, the PROMIS software scandal, Alex Jones, Kabbala, alternative media, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Trump, QANON, PSYOPS, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Theosophy, New Age, Transhumanism, Zionism, Libertarianism, Cato Institute, Bill Weld, the John Birch Society and much more. You won't want to miss this one!Brisson's work:We've Read The Documents | John Brisson | Substack Profile TwitterBY THEIR FRUITS on Apple PodcastsThe Farm Podcast Mach II on Apple Podcasts
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