The Voice of a Sane Organization? - Desteni Doomed - 1

Ivan Rauscher

In a recent recording published on YouTube entitled Spoon Bending Secrets in the Matrix, spokesman for 'Desteni', a 'Group of People Exploring Equality & Oneness Principles', Bernard Poolman claims all forms of group activity and mass movements run on ectoplasm. He describes ectoplasm as 'a phenomena' that was 'prevalent in the 1950s – big-time'.

Ectoplasm was not prevalent in the 1950s. The apparent phenomenon began dying out in the 1930s. This is because ectoplasm and so-called 'materialisations', which had never been prevalent but took place in Spiritualist séances of the 19^th to early 20^th Centuries, were proven by scientific and psychical researchers to be fraudulent, as was Uri Geller's spoon-bending.  

If, as Poolman suggests, ectoplasm is in every human body and the driving force behind all groups and mass movements we would still be none the wiser. Although he claims no-one understands it, he fails to define what it is and offers no evidence it exists.  

Ectoplasm was a spectral trail of goo that appeared to issue from the orifices of Spiritualist deep trance mediums. It was said to be the 'life force' connecting them to 'spirit realms' and was faked by use of muslin, paper, egg white and trick photography.

Ectoplasm and spoon-bending are charlatanry, as is 'deep trance mediumship', which is synonymous with 'channeling'. That is, pretending to be a conduit for otherworldly entities, as practised throughout New Age religion and having its roots in 19th Century Theosophy, Spiritualism and prior religions or forms of spirituality.

The term, 'channeling' became popular in the 1970s along with the advent of Jane Roberts' 'Seth Speaks' act in which she went on about 'multidimensional reality'.

Sunette Spies is supposed to communicate 'interdimensionally' and be able to 'interview' the so-called 'mind consciousness systems' of entities or things. 'Mind consciousness systems' is an invented phrase of Poolman's Desteni. It practically means the same as 'spirits', just as 'dimensions' would be an alternative name for 'spirit realms'.  

After Spies' videos appeared on the web in 2007 many commentators described them as a prank, evidence of multiple personality disorder, possession by demonic forces, some form of mind control or schizophrenia. 

The Desteni material states that Spies trained with Poolman for at least two years prior to releasing her videos, originally described as 'channelings' on the Desteni-Universe website in 2007. This was later changed to 'portal messages'.

Desteni tried to define Spies as different to a channeler. Their reasons were nonsensical or futile, such as that she never got as tired as easily as a channeler would, spoke for a wider range of entities than any channeler, or had no prior background or training.  

Someone calling herself a 'Destonian' recently made a remark typical of inhabitants of the universe of 'desteni':

it also doesn't really matter 'who' comes through the Portal -- if you watch the videos on YouTube you will notice that every being in every video conveys the same message, the same principle -- and so you're really just dealing with 'one voice' coming through the portal.

As Poolman said: Understand that the message from Desteni is not really the message from the portal. The portal is a demonstration of what is possible in the physical. The message is actually from me.

Bernard Poolman has as yet only ever published audio recordings and a few still photos of himself, but there are thousands of videos of Sunette Spies acting as a 'portal' to his 'mind consciousness system'.

Apparently to offset the chance that he might be perceived as some kind of crank, he states that Desteni is 'one of the most sane organizations the world has ever seen'. If this is the case and Poolman's idea about ectoplasm is in fact true and only he really understands it then why is Desteni not a mass movement?

Desteni Doomed - 2: Cult Awareness

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Sunette Spies Channels Owl & Quantum Elephants

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?

Equal Money System Reptilian Channeling Cult

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, a native 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.


Who Cares? 

The Christian fundamentalist conspiracy theory sub-culture has portrayed occultism or the New Age as a Satanic tool of an evil ‘New World Order’ financial elite. Despite this, as conspiracism has been adapted to suit the aims of the New Age movement, the odd claim is made by New Age conspiracist groups that they are not ‘new age’ because ‘new age’ has been created by the NWO / Illuminati / Jewish / reptilian mind control system of the elite. Yet the same groups such as Desteni are wholly preoccupied with ideas and methods based exclusively on re-interpretations of New Age fads, techniques and topics, all of which are in turn derived from the more traditional philosophy of occultism.

The developing trend for New Age conspiracism, including forms of expression such as Desteni, the Galactic Federation of Light, WingMakers, David Wilcock, Thrive Movement, Ashtar Command Crew, the Cassiopean Experiment, Imzaia Movement, Ashayana Deane, Amitakh Stanford and others, is such that each have in common the same propensity for ‘channelled’ information from quantum portals to ‘inter-dimensional reality’ as it conveys bizarre, incoherent philosophies and conspiratorial interpretations of psychology, politics and world events, and of course the typical New Age prescription for the future transformation of all human activity and redemption from evil.

New Age conspiracists tout themselves as a messianic vanguard with an apocalyptic vision of a pessimistic present and a glorious future. They posit the over-arching evil of a perceived hidden Matrix of mind control and brainwashing, salvation or redemption from which is only available according to their instructions. Their seemingly political ideas are inseparable from fanciful clichés of occultism about things like the Illuminati, the lost continents of Lemuria or Atlantis, or inter-dimensional reptilians.

Their political viewpoint betrays an extreme naivete in matters of the political. Their leaders claim exclusive access to non-existent, invisible realms. They are obsessed with decline, impurity and decadence as opposed to their fantasies of a future conformist, corporate society of oneness. These fraudulent leaders of New Age conspiracist groups most often favour some form of a fascistic, techno-theocratic society run by themselves and/or non-existent alien overlords.

New Age conspiracists want to condition people into accepting repressive political ideologies run according to pseudo-science and religious concepts where irrationality, ignorance and superstition hold sway. Their uncritical, cult-like behaviour shows that they live in a fantasy world and they wish to impose it on others. The New Age conspiracists' world-view does not operate according to facts or truth or reality. But they don't care. They don't care about facts or truth or reality. They don't care about real imagination. They create their own realities. 

See also:
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/82916/occult-america-by-mitch-horowitz/9780553385151

A Culture of Conspiracy Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America by Michael Barkun

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248120
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis
http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace

Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s by Camille Paglia

http://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/paglia_cults-1.pdf

Zeitgeist Exposed

http://www.socialistunity.com/zeitgeist-exposed

David Icke And The Politics Of Madness Where The New Age Meets The Third Reich
http://www.publiceye.org/Icke/IckeBackgrounder.htm

Desteni FAQ

http://www.scribd.com/marvico/d/38163281-Desteni-FAQ

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http://www.youtube.com/user/destenitruth

http://desteni-cult-review.blip.tv

http://destenigossip.livejournal.com

Desteni Discussions

Apart from discussions at the Cult Education Forum and websites listed in the MAIN LINKS in the sidebar, several more on Desteni have taken place at various other sites, such as:

Music of Mind Control

• 2017/11 radio WFMU (wfmu.org / 91.1 fm, Jersey City) broadcast weird emo goth from Desteni

Vice

• Meet the Struggling South African Cult That Tried to Kill Demon Hitler

Orthelius

• You can also abuse the term Basic Income for personal gain by #LIG #ELF #desteni

Quora.com

• Equal Money System
• Desteni

Listverse

• 10 Bizarre Tales About Adolf Hitler

Reddit

• Desteni
• Stress, Crime and a Basic Income
• Cult-Debunker Accuses Equal Life Foundation of Deceptively Using the Term, “Basic Income Guaranteed”
• The first e-sect ever made?
• A friend of mine is part of a South African cult called Desteni....
• Are Atheists Prisoners of the Mind as Well?
• Lao Tzu in Modern Society: "Do Your Work, Then Step Back"
• Let's identify conspiratard groups
• Rolling Jubilee - Clear Debt to get More Debt - Why this is no solution
• Proposal: Exclude the Desteni cult
• Interesting cult I found surfing youtube
• What makes people turn to religion?

Skeptic Project

• Desteni

Muertos Blog (republished on Skeptic Project)

• Deconstructing Desteni: A Critic Serves Me Word Salad
• Desteni's Enemies List: An Inherent Contradiction
• The Desteni Cult and Conspiracy Theories: Pandering to the Paranoid
• Desteni: A Conspiracy Cult. (UPDATED!)
• The Desteni I Process: Amway forConspiracy Theorists

Ex-Scientologist Message Board

• Desteni Productions ??? Cult ???  
• Desteni – The MLM Cult

David Icke's Official Forums

• The Desteni cult
• The absolute deception of desteni production 
• Hey anyone know about Desteni?? 
• Desteni Productions 

Noble Realms

• The Dead Series

Godlike Productions

• Whois Desteni - Is She A Crystal Child?
• DESTENI What the hell is up with this
• The meaninglessness of empty words and Desteni Productions, xeeatwelve.com, amongothers.
• this is the desteni of the universe
• Rep ‘Occult order’ in Australia? Central Bureau? Desteni? Anyonegot more info? Please
• Desteni:missing children are the key to the truth of this reality
• Living Income Guaranteed!!

Above Top Secret

• The Truth about Desteni Productions
• Kurt Cobain from the afterlife! [Desteni Productions]

El Reptiliano escéptico

• Desteni - La secta de los calvos

La Conspiralocura

• Desteni - La Secta de los Skinhead - Canalizaciones de ANNONAKIS.

Educate-Yourself

• Of the Annunaki, Channeled Reptilians & Distractive Psyops

Gibbon

• South African Group: Desteni

The Desteni delusion - Imagine this

By SimulacronX on 28 Jul 2010

My critical perception of some main traits and oddities in the thought-reform cult Desteni. First ever "video". I was a bit angry at them then, but nonetheless, at least I was being self-honest. Ha. Haha.