Not content with pretending to be dead
children, reptilians, Atlanteans, famous people, a vibrator or toilet paper, Sunette Spies has
now taken to speaking as an owl on The Role of Owls in Existence. Desteni and their loyal and obedient
Destonians have for a long time insisted that Sunette Spies is an
'interdimensional portal' and not a 'channeler' and that she does not
do 'channeling'.
Yet the title of Spies owl talks (@9.99
Euros each) is Channeled Message From the Owl. Apparently Sunette the owl knows 'what True Mediumship is all about'.
Meduimship, channeling, 'portalling', it's all the same thing: superstition and fraud.
Following the well-worn New Age tradition of
misappropriating scientific terminology to promote essentially religious doctrine, the title of another
'interview', or 'portalling, or possibly 'channeling' is The Quantum Existence of the Elephant.
So when
you make your next generous donation of hard-earned cash to the Non-Profit Company, Equal Life Foundation, and click 'animal
research' now you know what it's for: selling mp3s of 'channelings'
of animals.
And Desteni say that the idea that they are a cult is a hoax?
Desteni Hoax Theory: the Desteni 'tools' make some people feel so inferior that they resort to perpetrating hoaxes
On a new page at http://desteni.org/cult the Desteni group attempt to address criticism. Expressing a point of view is of course not the same as perpetrating a hoax but Desteni put forward the theory that expressing the point of view that Desteni is a cult is the same as creating a 'hoax'. They go on to state that anyone criticising
Desteni is spreading hate and lies as a reaction to experiencing
themselves as 'inferior' to 'the tools' of Desteni. This seems to
slightly contradict their previous idea that people who say Desteni
is a cult are perpetrating a 'hoax'.
Hoaxers know what they are doing. Hoaxing is a conscious act. Whereas, someone who reacts and lashes out
against something because they feel inferior to it is acting without
awareness of what they are doing.
Then again, if we assume that both things are true
then Desteni are proposing that the reason why so many people are
critical of Desteni is because they have decided to tell lies in
order to compensate for their conscious feelings of inferiority in
relation to the 'tools' of Desteni. But in that case, surely when so
many people react in such a manner, and so many more just ignore the Desteni 'message' then this must be a
result of the way Desteni communicate their ideas?
One of the headings at http://desteni.org/cult is 'Deceptive information about Desteni buzzwords'. This suggests that
they intend to describe deceptive information to do with Desteni
buzzwords but actually that's not what it's supposed to mean. It's
just badly worded.
The reasons why Desteni is deceptive, fraudulent,
a scam and a cult has been explained several times over by numerous
different people from various backgrounds and at a whole range of
different venues, including the Cult Education Forum where there are over a hundred pages of discussion on the subject.
As for the idea that Destonians are 'communists',
this perception arises from the fact that the way they present 'Equal
Money System' is such that it comes across as a blueprint for a totalitarian state a bit
like, for example, Soviet Russia. However, Destonians don't really
have any genuine political ideas at all, apart from their vague and
incoherent fantasies about what it would be like if Desteni ruled the
world.
Under the heading, 'How
to identify deceptive information', they state: 'Apply critical
thinking and common sense while evaluating the information
presented'. Needless to say, the claims made by Desteni that human
beings were 'designed' by reptilians, or that a Desteni 'Equal Life
Party' is going to be voted in by the people to run a one-world
government that is 'best for all' are irrational, false and utterly
ridiculous. Such ideas defy common sense and are devoid of any of the
concepts or principles of critical thinking.
They state: 'always check the source of
the information in question'. The best and most reliable sources of
information that prove Desteni is a scam and a cult are desteni.org
and associated websites, but as stated in our disclaimer, editors of this blog encourage readers to do their own research
and cross-referencing.
As well as perpetrating a 'hoax', and
telling lies because they feel 'inferior', Desteni also have another unexplained theory that
critics of Desteni are running 'scams'. This is even more silly, not
least because there is no evidence whatsoever that anyone who has
ever criticised Desteni has done so in order to try to con anyone else to part with their money.
The Desteni Equal Money System Website
was
re-launched on April 14th this year. One of its main functions is to register 'votes' for Desteni Equal Money
'policies'.At the time of
writing, end of July, the most votes for a given policy is only 435.
There are around 100-150 people
actively involved in promoting the Desteni Equal Money System. One might expect
that 100-150 people, all of whom are constantly blogging and v-logging, could in
three months gain the interest of a lot more than 400 or so others?
But,
no. The Desteni Equal Money System is a sham and the Destonians know it better than anyone else. That's why these days they are far more
interested in detracting from it with their 'Journey to Life', where they confabulate blogs made up of endless paragraphs beginning with 'I forgive myself for
allowing and accepting...' etc., liberally peppered with links to Desteni products for sale at eqafe.com.
Their 'Journey to Life' is of course dictated by their guru, Bernard (Creation) Poolman, the main man in Desteni, whose Creation's Journey to Life blog contains such gems of gobbledegook as:
I forgive myself that I have accepted
and allowed myself to not realize that Liefe on Earth is One BIG LIE
Built through Smaller Lies that are accepted and allowed so that the
Big Lie seems too Big to Ever challenge, instead of Looking at the
Small Lies and see How these Small Lies Built the Character of the
Big Lie as Human Nature that is too Weak
and Sinful to Ever Change.
I commit myself to SHOW that it is
Possible to understand in Actual detail Exactly How All of Creation Functions and thus to Be the One that Determines How Life on Earth will be
Lived.
The Destonians' blogs are also inspired by blogs of Poolman's two main cohorts, Sunette (Heaven)
Spies and Esteni
(Earth)
De Wet.
As for the claim made on the Equal Money website that
The Equal Money System (EMS)'
...'project is managed and directed under the auspices of the Equal
Life Foundation, a Non-Profit Organization, constituted under South
African Law, duly audited as per legal requirements
this post at the Cult Education
Forum suggests that the Desteni Equal Life Foundation may quite possibly be operating illegally:
At http://equalmoney.org it states that
Equal Life Foundation is a "Non-Profit Organization".
A Non-Profit Company and a Non-Profit
Organization are two different things. Equal Life Foundation is not a
"Non-Profit Organization". It is in fact registered as a
Non-Profit Company. This is confirmed by a search at http://www.cipc.co.za
A company incorporated for public
benefit or other object relating to one or more cultural or social
activities, or communal or group interests; and
The income and property of which are
not distributable to its incorporators, members, directors, officers
or persons related to any of them.
Read more:
http://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,62042,112520#msg-112520 Income of the Equal Life Foundation is distributed to its incorporators, members, directors or officers because Eqafe products are sold via an Affiliate Program where profits from sales are distributed amongst representatives of the Equal Life Foundation; that is the Destonians.
At the equallife.org 'About' page, 'The
main object for which the' Equal Life Foundation 'Company is formed'
is described as in order:
to undertake research and education in
the areas of:
Leadership Skills Development
Psychology
Food Production and Management
Environmental Studies
Educational Curriculum Software
Development
Equal Economic Remodelling
Global Warming Solutions
Group Behaviour
And other areas related to the
promotion and establishment of equal rights on a global scale.
All of which refers to Desteni profit-making projects
such as the Desteni I Process, which is a Multi-Level Marketing Scheme (so-called Leadership Skills
Development and Psychology), sale of working holidays at the Desteni Ranch (Food
Production and Management and Environmental Studies), and the sale of
Techno-Tutor software (Educational Curriculum Software Development @ €2,490 a shot)
and Journey to Life blogging and v-logging which is to promote Desteni on the Internet under the
pretense of being about global 'equal Economic Remodelling' and 'Equal
Rights'.
The Equal Life Foundation does not
appear in any way to be a Non-Profit Organisation or Company. It seems to be
in order to make money for and distribute income amongst 'Destonians', those persons who finance and support the core Desteni group, that is Bernard (Creation) Poolman,
Sunette (Heaven) Spies and Esteni (Earth) De Wet.
If any Destonians can prove that Equal
Life Foundation is in fact a Non-Profit-making company or organization and does NOT distribute income amongst its 'incorporators, members, directors, officers
or persons related to any of them', they are
welcome, and if so the above statements will be retracted and this
post deleted.
Ivan Rauscher The New Age Has Not Been Realised Since the 1990s, along with the rise of the Internet, the New Age movement has adopted conspiracy theories as a way of explaining why its vision of a golden age of peace and oneness has not been realised.
Ideas from the culture of conspiracism provide a rationale for why the flourishing of a
new perfected race of human beings with supernatural powers (as
propounded by the figures that inspired the New Age such as Helena P. Blavatksy of the Theosophical Society and Rudolf Steiner of the Anthroposophical Society)
has been deterred since it was promised in the heady days of
the psychedelic 1960s when ‘New Age’ first came to the fore as a consumer
marketing phenomenon.
Patterns
of New Age social tendencies both then and now could be said to be common to religious cults
throughout the ages. However, in the twenty-first century the cultic aspects of
the New Age are motivated far more by advertising and marketing
than the political radicalism, social idealism or religious fanaticism of the
60s or previous eras. The New Age movement takes an entrepreneurial approach to the philosophy of occultism.
Historically it emerged in the 1960s
out of a re-appropriation of nineteenth to early twentieth century occultism which was derived from philosophies of the Renaissance, Eastern mysticism and ancient religions as a reaction to rationalism and science. The New Age scene now is a commercial market for ‘alternative spirituality’ as opposed to the corruption
of modern mainstream religion. It sells the notion of the development of an advanced new type of
humanity bringing a future world of ‘oneness’. In all its many guises the billion-dollar industry that is the New Age movement is enthralled by
autocratic leaders claiming to be in possession of the all-encompassing truth about life and death. While appearing
to take up liberal, humanistic attitudes with re-interpretations of traditional religious philosophies, the New Age offers none
of the revolutionary, ecstatic spiritual and social transformations once hinted at in 1960s counterculture. It is infested with flimflam, quacks, con-artists,
frauds and snake oil for consumers of self-help mumbo-jumbo. The New Age reduces social problems to trite notions of self-development where subjectivism and transcendence take precedence.
Critical thinking in New Ageism is generally regarded as ‘dualistic thought’.
Proponents of
New Age philosophies rely on the bland assertion
that pseudo-scientific and supernatural concepts about, for example,
channelling, Homoeopathy, UFOs, Ascended Masters, indigo children, Kinesiology,
orbs, quantum portals to other dimensions
etc, are going to make the world a better place -- as well as the faulty paradigm of
‘you create your own reality’. The Conspiracy Theory Industry Via its contemporary assimilation into New Age and ufological circles, conspiracy theory culture has in the past twenty years or so reached more mainstream quarters. Yet its historical background is in lunatic fringe, far right-wing ideologies and Christian fundamentalism. The activities of conspiracy theorists amount to reproducing information detailing hidden or symbolic meanings found in the way governments, the media, rich people and nefarious organisations are said to be working in unison to orchestrate world events. The information distributed by conspiracy theorists is supposedly in order to ‘wake up’ what they describe as brainwashed, ignorant ‘sheeple’, apparently as an end goal in itself.
Conspiracy theory culture involves a lucrative industry selling books, DVDs,
lecture tours, radio shows, sponsored websites, conferences etc.
A symbol of evil for conspiracy theorists
Distracting ‘conspiracies’ about a ‘New World Order’ and a cabal of
international bankers ruling the world from behind the scenes, as popularised by the likes of Peter Joseph Merola’s ‘Zeitgeist Movement’ movies, have much in common with anti-Semitism. They suggest that a predominately Jewish plot is to blame for the world’s
problems, as did the well-known Nazi, Adolf Hitler. The now largely defunct Zeitgeist
Movement is also awash with New Age dogma.
Similarly, Bernard Poolman, the buffoon-like, patriarch figurehead of the morbid South Africa-based sect known as ‘Desteni’, with
its pseudo-radical ‘Equal Money System’ (EMS), alleges that ordinary people have not forgiven themselves enough for allowing financial elites to cause
all the problems, ‘the Jew in every man is a Zionist’ and ‘Hitler had it’
because he saw that ‘the Jewish principle’ must be eradicated. Supporters of EMS, known as ‘Destonians’ regard Hitler as self-forgiven due to the benevolent actions of Poolman when he met Hitler in ‘demon dimensions’. Poolman is a misanthropist and represents the world as polarised and split between the members of his group and everyone else; people who are not Destonians whom he demonises as untrustworthy supporters of the evil system of abuse run by the Elite. In typical obscurantist New Age fashion, Desteni promotes a new kind of purified human being
and a future world of ‘oneness’ that cannot be questioned. Any criticism or questioning of their ideas they represent as symptomatic of what they call a ‘polarity system’.
Desteni cashes in on conspiracy theory culture and the industry that surrounds it. They attempt to appeal to potential recruits with speculations on common conspiracy theories about UFOs, aliens, the Elite, the Illuminati, vaccines, HAARP, global warming, the New World Order, inter-dimensional reptilians and so on, as they are filtered through the Desteni ideology, which is a re-worked version of New Age spirituality and occultism they falsely equate with ‘equality’. Nearly all Destonians, that is, supporters
of EMS describe their inclinations towards the New Age and conspiracy theories. Indeed, content of the Desteni material has no other points of reference except those pertaining to New Age conspiracism: occultism, contemporary spirituality, pseudo-science, quack medicine and conspiracy theories. What the Equal Money System is For
Supporting EMS involves taking up a rigid dogma about a future new age of ‘equality and oneness’ that is bound to replace capitalism. It is mainly centred on recordings of speeches by Bernard Poolman and Sunette Spies. EMS is a marketing device for the sale of Desteni-branded
‘self-development’ entertainment products for New Age conspiracists, but is often described as
‘communist’ or ‘socialist’ because it seems to suggest a totalitarian system of enforced collectivisation similar to Soviet Russia. The concept behind EMS is that
at present
human activity and thought take shape as machine-like, pre-programmed systems that are corrupt and evil and need to be replaced by a different, more natural ecosystem of pure equality. This is ‘equal money’, for which Destonians make the outlandish claim that it can spontaneously emerge out of everyone in the world actually agreeing to ‘vote’ for it. If this managerial, bureaucratic vision of how an imaginary technocratic global society will organise itself in the future has any relevance, it is because it relies entirely on the widely-held belief in the illusion of cyberspace democracy. It is essentially just a neoliberal corporate concept of marketing. Indeed, this is how EMS functions: as a marketing slogan for a corporate brand. Its only purpose is to convince people to give money to or make money for the Desteni organisation. And so the question is: What would Desteni do with the money they make? Their core material has a strong element of Nazi mysticism which the group have partly censored. The aim of Nazism (National Socialism) was and is the salvation of the world by means of eugenics and the extermination of so-called inferior races. Eugenics has to do with selective breeding to alter the character of an organism or species and the systematic eradication of perceived undesirable biological traits. One of the most vociferous supporters of Equal Money System, Marlen Vargas Del Razo has stated it is Desteni group policy that Eugenics is Best for All Life in Equality. She calls for
‘the sterilization of "defectives"’ and writes that
If we look at what’s best for all, the only reason that we would prevent a suitable creation of a human being at a genomic level would be having a particular sentimentalism or preferences for certain races linked to cultures/ languages, all programs that were deliberately created to have the current inequality we have.
This suggests that ultimately the major part of Desteni finances would go towards research into the genetic engineering or breeding of their equals and the extermination of whomever they regard as unequal.
Taoist Yin-Yang symbol: New Age oneness
Reptoid Revelations of Equal Money Ex-BBC broadcaster, David Icke's suburbanite, sci-fi tales of a system of mind control run
by inter-dimensional shape-shifting reptilian aliens to enslave the world
from the beginning of time
are central to his conspiracy theories. Icke's ideas have been around for a while but he has popularised them (see: The Occult Reptilian Saga). They have been borrowed and re-used
to construct one of the most significant parts of the Equal Money System cult's core material. Supporters of the EMS have as their main focus the de-programming of themselves from ‘systems’ of inequality which they say have been designed by inter-dimensional
shape-shifting
reptilian aliens. Sunette Spies regularly entertains them all by pretending to be one or another imaginary reptoid, usually the one they call Anu, said to be the leader of the creators of humans.
Conan the Barbarian knifes a reptilian
The use of the term, ‘reptilians’ in conspiracy theory culture
is often understood to be a veiled reference to ‘the Jews’. The reptilians can be traced back to fictional
creations of early twentieth century pulp fiction
fantasy and horror authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, who was a rabid
anti-Semite, and Robert E. Howard, a white supremacist and creator of Conan the Barbarian,
by way of various modes of occultism including works by Maurice Doreal, founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver around 1930. Doreal
wrote about a malevolent ‘Serpent Race’ and was inspired by Guy and Edna
Ballard's I AM Movement, an explicitly fascist organisation in turn
inspired by Helena P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society. After David Icke failed to register communications from Desteni, Poolman claimed that he had Icke’s ‘higher self’ ‘portalled’ and found out that ‘Mr. Icke was actually in
the Service of the Reptilians’ (quote from now deleted Desteni video, ‘Five Age of Knowledge with
David Icke's Reptilian Control’ -- see also Desteni on David Icke). Curiously, anative of Kwa-Zulu-Natal where the Desteni farm is located, named Credo
Mutwa, a Zulu shaman, has the friendship and endorsement of David Icke as he claims that the Zulu people have known about a reptilian agenda for centuries, and Bernard Poolman has stated he has consulted with one or another Zulu shaman, but not apparently Credo Mutwa. Like all New Age conspiracists, Destonians are preoccupied with fantastical and bizarre myths, self-perfection; totalistic notions of truth and saving the planet combined with obscurantism, paranoia and pointless mystification. Of course there is no inter-dimensional reptilian mind control; nobody needs to watch Desteni YouTube videos to know that there need to be major political changes and a re-structuring of the economic system in favour of more equality.
Universal Craziness Vessel Desteni's message about equality is good but that does not mean Desteni itself (the group) is not a cult. It's possible to have good ideas and still be a cult. Desteni members get so lost in the selling pitch of Desteni's message that they forget about democracy. Desteni is not a democracy. And, ironically, desteni members do not stand in equality within their own group. There are a few who dictate messages from above while others have to follow like lost sheep. Have you seen videos by Desteni members, especially Sunette Spies?
The first of Desteni’s new ventures is a website called eqafe.com. This is an online “bookstore” where the Destonians are selling “Self-Perfection Books, Audio & Music.” The site looks like sort of a half-assed Amazon or Barnes & Noble, where you click on and see “book” covers featuring serious-looking faces of “authors” hawking their titles. The titles are things like Journey Into the Afterlife and The One System that Rules us All. There are also a lot of titles about reptilians. One of the first things I noticed about Desteni was that most of them believe in conspiracy theories involving reptilians, similar to (though not exactly like) the anti-Semitic cosmology promoted by British conspiracy loon David Icke.
However, once you begin to click on these titles, the Eqafe.com business model becomes more suspect. For instance, click on a title at random—let’s say, Reptilians—The Relationship Between Sex, Intelligence and Religion. First of all, no author is given for this work. A tiny little icon in the upper right corner tells you that this is not actually a book, but an MP3. The price? €9.99. At today’s exchange rate that’s $12.53. Seems a little pricey for an audio file, doesn’t it?
It gets worse. The summary page, which contains a lot of Desteni psychobabble, lists no fewer than 57 other titles in the “Reptilians” series! And they’re all €9.99. Thus, if you wanted to investigate the depth and breadth of the “Reptilians” series, all 58 of them, it would cost you €579, or about $726. That’s right—over $700 for a bunch of MP3s about how imaginary reptilians have supposedly manipulated human history.
Information recently surfaced at the Cult Education Forum on another of the latest Desteni ventures called TechnoTutor. It's a software programme originally available at Desteni-Universe for free in 2008 and now sold by Cameron Cope and other Destonians affiliated with a company named Perfect Mind Technologies for €2,490. Muertos continues:
Where did I find this information on Techno Tutor? On this site, New Earth Publishing, a European website selling various things…including Techno Tutor. How much does this product cost? €2,490. At today’s exchange rate, that’s $3,123.
I want to stress that this is a circumstantial case that Techno Tutor may be a Desteni front, not a conclusive case. I could be wrong. If I am wrong, correct me. Let’s hear what Techno Tutor really is and really does, in the form of verifiable testimonials from parents—not affiliated in any way with Desteni—who purchased this product for $3100+ and feel satisfied that it directly improved their child’s school performance. I would also like to hear about whether Techno Tutor is in fact the “Vocabulary Builder” or “Vocabulary Purifier” allegedly invented by Ferdi Poolman, and if his issues regarding ownership and representation of the software have been resolved to his satisfaction. I believe, given the issues that have been raised about Desteni and its leader Bernard Poolman, it’s entirely justifiable to ask reasonable questions about the relationship of this Techno Tutor program to Desteni and why high-commitment Desteni cult members are the driving forces behind its marketing.
Ivan Rauscher System? What system? Supporters of the Equal Money System (EMS)say that within the next ten years by ‘walking the Desteni process’ they will form an ‘Equal Life Party’, run for political office and thereby EMS will bring about ‘heaven on earth’.
Supporters of EMSclaim it is an alternative to capitalism, yet EMS has not been shown to have any relevance to anyone not involved in the Desteni process who might,
broadly speaking, be critical of capitalism. If ‘equal money’ was a ‘system’ it would be
recognised and treated as such, not just by its proponents, but by
independent third parties. It
would have a recognisable presence in the political sphere and be discussed amongst real-life, off-line communities and
in the media, whether mainstream or alternative.
But EMS does not exist outside the realms of Desteni websites or the Desteni farm in South Africa. The proposals they make for EMS have no actual political context.At least four years after it was
announced, EMS is only ever taken seriously and openly supported by those people who call themselves Destonians on their own websites,
blogs, Facebook and YouTube pages. They make it plain they are not interested in spreading their message any further than their obscure corner of the Internet. Supporters
of EMS are also openly opposed to
political activism yet they talk about ‘standing up’ for EMS as if it were a form of online consumer activism.
The Destonians say that purification and perfection of themselves will lead to ultimate transformation and improvement of the whole wide world but they do not demonstrate their claims in any concrete way. In their blogs, if they're not writing about petty personal concerns then they often cut and paste poverty statistics and other data to do with corruption or social problems or select news items highlighting a given social problem,
discuss it
all in a superficial manner
using the somewhat incomprehensible Desteni jargon, and then just claim that the solution is EMS. All their system amounts to is repeating ‘join us’ and ‘investigate EMS’ in so many v-logs and blogs as if this is somehow going to overload the Internetand achieve the effectof forcing the capitalist system to give way to everyone in the world becoming Destonian. Cyber-Mania
Addiction to the Internet induces a state of existential
delirium. The sense of the body disappears outside of real time, subdued by the
hypnotic consumption of information. The digital market exploits language and emotions
at the expense of thinking, doing bodies and actual personalities with real
characteristics. It achieves this through
cybercultural conditioning which harnesses
subjectivity to computers. For the Internet-centric Destonians, this same state of distraction reaches such a peak that on their multiple Facebook pages, YouTube channels and blogs they talk and write as
if they were not already living, breathing physical bodies. They are working
towards ‘birthing life as the physical’, or ‘breathing equal and one with the
physical’, while their stated aim is to eventually ‘stop the mind’ and delete their
personalities, which they claim will help bring about EMS in the future. It seems they are expressing a psychological state of cyber-mania in which their subjectivity has been made dependent on, and is dictated by, content of websites the aim of which is to get them to keep returning to the same websites at the expense of getting on with their own lives.
Psych-Training The main EMS website is supposed to represent a worthy democratic political project. However, the actual purpose of EMS is to promote the sale of Desteni products.
EMS centres on psychological modification of personal behaviour by strict adherence to elaborateinstructions from the core Desteni group, all of which are based on ideas taken from occultism and New Age philosophy. Destonians
are solely preoccupied with meaningless New Age style buzz words, formulaic
slogans and techniques as repeated in 1000s of YouTube
videos of their oracle, Sunette Spies. The
New Age parlour trick known as channelling, which Desteni re-name
‘portalling’ (dead people and imaginary entities from other dimensions) is central to
the EMS. All EMS supporters are big fans of Spies' self-help pop psychology as
it has been communicated through these slightly sinister videos and manufactured into consumer ‘products’ for what they call a ‘Life-Style concept that is simply achieving financial freedom slowly but surely’. EMS is of no practical relevance to equality or any political issue at all. It is essentially a marketing tool to promote online training in reinterpretations of New Age occultism centred on weird ideas about the mind, the self, subjectivity and transcendence.
Any questions Destonians attempt to raise about economic exploitation and inequitable chances in life revolve around the templateDesteni
offers to individuals for minor celebrity status amongst other people calling themselves ‘Destonians’. They provide the chance to build an online
presence centred on trivia of personal behaviour, self-confession
and superficial discussion of seemingly controversial
themes as prescribed by Desteni.
A ‘buddy system’ is available to all participants. The possibility of opportunities for any masochists with a peculiar fetish for sexual encounters ‘within and as’ Destonians are offered through a course in re-defining relationships as agreements. They are supplied with ready-made catch phrases to repeat such as ‘applying the tools’, ‘a dignified life for all’, ‘within and as the current system of abuse’, ‘all as one as equal as life’ or ‘equal money system’, all of which have the function of advertising these so-called ‘Desteni I Process’ courses in ‘Life Skills and Self-Mastery’.
Working for the Charity Corporation As is standard in capitalist business, some stuff is offered to consumers for free as a teaser and more advanced
products have to be purchased. Alternatively, they can be bought in
exchange for blogging to promote the company and/or other favours.To help boost self-esteem and increase productivity, the ‘tools’ of the Desteni I Process are said to
help its promoters take ‘self-responsibility’, as though they
are supposed to be model workers serving a corporation with
the best interests of its employees at heart. Desteni are opposed to corporatism yet a
key part of their plan is to establish an Equality Corporation. Destonians are
expected to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to help this private
corporation come to fruition.
Destonians use images of
starving and poverty-stricken people to promote EMS, as if it is a charitable concern that
helps the disadvantaged. In their self-contradictory fashion, Desteni call charity capitalistic and evil yet ask for
donations. All Destonians are unpaid or paying volunteers
working to raise money for Desteni, which is a capitalist for-profit business, or for their apparently non-profit making front organisation, the Equal Life Foundation. They are operating exactly like a charity but do nothing to help the disadvantaged, the starving or poverty-stricken. They appear to be more interested in making money out of getting potential customers to identify with the EMS and Desteni
brand names as if they were somehow signifiers of a trendy,
eco-friendly lifestyle with a radical edge.
Sentiments of social justice, anti-capitalism, equal rights and equality are summoned up by Desteni to persuade potential recruits into working as full-time salespersons for a consumer marketing business. EMS is
an advertising slogan for an online money-making scam. EMS has been contrived to make it seem like Desteni is for the greater good when it is a hierarchical, authoritarian sect that follows a creed of ‘self-perfection’, views outsiders as degenerates and scapegoats for ‘evil’ and its recruits as easy meat for psychological and social control. EMS is promoted as a solution to
capitalism but it is a capitalist business solution as to how to market a worthless product. While they make an unconvincing attempt at seeming to oppose it, Destonians are effectively mimicking the prevailing capitalist consumer ideology as it feigns to appeal to humanistic instincts or values when its only instinct is to make money and its values are monetary.
Destonians commodify their interior lives for the profit and entertainment of the core Desteni group in South Africa.
Their constant emphasis on ‘self-forgiveness’ as the key to freedom appeals to the same trivial and obsequious self-centredness glorified by the demands of corporate consumerist society as it tries to turn everything and everyone into a commodity.
Useless Junk The pseudo-radical supporters of EMS exemplify how neoliberal capitalist ideology holds the alienated and oppressed
hostage to their own exploitation.
Their assumed attitude about being opposed to consumerism is such that all they have to offer is investment in the consumer marketing of a corporate brand of anti-human New Age conspiracism. The Desteni material, with its second-hand occultism,
pseudo-history and pseudo-science; and the Destonians' hypnotised angst, their drone-like
complacency and cultic mumbo jumbo doubletalk are a retreat
into escapist fantasy.
As long as they stick to the rules and propagandise for Desteni and
‘equal money system’ they won't be taking any initiative for social or political change. Instead they will be pretending they are ‘stopping the mind’, stopping thinking, feeling or having
emotions while typing pre-programmed catch phrases on to computer screens until they are ‘birthing life as the physical’. They will be composing advertising jingles, churning out spam blogs and videos of themselves talking about narcissistic neuroses and items they've read
in the news. They will be touting ‘self-purification’
and the sale of baseball caps,
stickers, mp3s of rambling speeches by Sunette Spies and Bernard Poolman, selling branded aprons, hoodies, ringtones and other useless junk. They will try and convince themselves that it all makes sense when they already know it has just been designed to con certain kinds of idealistic, misinformed or naive people such as themselves into parting with their money and doing what the Desteni core group tells them to do.
