Regular readers of this blog will tell you that it isn’t our style here at Monkeyinmymind.com to feed into the negative and endless terror-cycle repeating everyday on cable news and the MSM websites.  Giving our valuable life energy to disturbing and violent occurrences only perpetuates those undesirable outcomes, due to a simple law of the universe that states: “thoughts create things.”

So our attention to this disturbing outcome at Fort Hood, Texas feeds energy and attention and focus into the consciousness that created the horror on 11/5/09.  That being said, I will attempt to keep what I’m about to say brief, because I’d like to address some cursory issues that we have discovered since the tragedy.

But First, a Movie Review?

Friday evening after work I took myself to see the new George Clooney picture, “Men Who Stare at Goats,”  which I found to be flawed, yet mostly entertaining.  The main problem of the film is its tone and its purpose.  Regarding its tone, it feels something like a facsimile of Cohen brothers film (perhaps due in part to its cast members’ Clooney and Bridges being Cohen bros alum), without the intelligence and wit underlying many of their screenplays.  Regarding its purpose, viewers are left not sure of what to make of what they’ve just seen.  Is it fantasy?  Is it real?  While of course we watch and enjoy countless fictional stories, in the case of this film, how real the story is does enliven our enjoyment and appreciation of what we’re seeing.

Anyway, the main thing I wanted to mention about “Men Who Stare at Goats” is a short scene that appears somewhere around the midpoint of the film, in which the movie depict a situation in which one of the “New Earth Army’s” psy ops soldiers goes off the deep end and steps onto an Army base with a gun and winds up killing himself in a scene that is chillingly reminiscent of the Fort Hood Massacre… Watching the scene, I was in horror and heard audible gasps in the theater when the images came up, as I am sure most of the audience had been feeding themselves over the previous 24 hours on the images and stories of the Fort Hood situation and must have been as shocked as I was when we witnessed a scene in the movie playing out in a strikingly similar fashion.

What Are The Odds?

While I am absolutely not contending that there is any conscious connection between the events of 11/5 and a movie that was released on 11/6, I do find it incredibly baffling how similar the visual images of the two events were.  Did one cause the other?  Of course not.  But is one a reflection of the other?  Obviously, yes.  What are the odds of this movie releasing just 24 hours within the timeframe of the attacks?  The film, which is about paranormal and psychological experiments on soldiers, was shot months or perhaps even a year ago, and yet it was released on virtually the same day that a member of the Army’s psychological community allegedly perpetrated a horrible crime against his own forces.

While I am NOT attempting to say that the film and the recent events at Fort Hood share a causal relationship in the physical world, I will assert that the consciousness that created the horror on Fort Hood was the same consciousness that created that fictional scene in that movie, and it is this negative consciousness that we must protect ourselves from.

Government Mind Control Program?

Besides the thematic and dramatic connections between the film and the actual events of 11/5, a few other facts about this case demand at least some attention.

• One is the disclosure that the alleged shooter was supposedly under investigation, or at least on the FBI’s radar, due to anti-American comments the shooter allegedly placed up on websites several months ago.  Being a former military officer myself, it is unconceivable to me that an officer, a major with over ten years of military and psychological training, would place inflammatory comments on websites and still receive a promotion to Major.  I will accept that somehow that information was not shared between the FBI and the military, as information-sharing is one the largest roadblocks to inter-agency coordination in law enforcement and the war on terror, but it is truly remarkable to me that someone so deranged was able to slip through the cracks, especially in his field of speciality.
• The other thing I find incredibly baffling is how a guy like this alleged shooter was actually able to pull the trigger so many times and so efficiently against his comrades. It takes years of training to help individuals overcome the natural-born aversion to killing that humans possess (extremely well documented in the book, On Killing by Major Dave Grossman, one of my West Point psychology instructors).  With zero weapons training (Army doctors do not attend basic training and at most would receive at best only weapons familiarity training) it is quite remarkable how he was able to first, summon the will and resolve to murder his fellow soldiers, and second, carry out the task with such “success.”
• Thirdly is the simple fact that this individual was trained extensively about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  HIS JOB was to counsel soldiers experiencing battle fatigue and to also help prepare them to transition from a warzone to home when their hitch was up. That he himself became the victim of PTSD and carried out these killings as his response to his disaffection with the military and as a result of the supposed taunts his received as a man of Middle Eastern descent without ever serving in combat or experiencing true debilitating battle stress is a bit of stretch for me.

Is the military really that inept at training people to deal with PTSD that they could actually manufacture a victim of PTSD without the prerequisite “traumatic stress” that causes the disorder in the film place?  Inconceivable!

• But what really struck me was the fact that this individual attended Virginia Tech University, which will unfortunately live in the memories of many as the site of perhaps the most grisly gun attack in United States history.  The fact that these two shooters are fellow alums I will accept possibly as coincidence, but further research reveals that apparently the Central Intelligence Agency not only recruits frequently at Virginia Tech but also has a facility at the University.  There are also apparent connections between DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), an agency behind numerous high-concept military technologies, and Virginia Tech.  Two mass murderers within the last few years both attend Virginia Tech, the supposed site of government psychological training and experiments, one of whom is a government-trained psychiatrist?  The only real explanation I can wrap my ahead around that doesn’t involve some sort of conspiracy or cover-up is the possibility that the Fort Hood shooter was on mind-altering drugs or anti-depression drugs that caused a negative reaction, a possibility that is rather plausible considering his position as a psychiatrist and his theoretical ability to easily obtain prescription drugs for the treatment of psychological disorders.

Bottom line, the are two main points I wish to get across in this post:

1) The consciousness of killing creates more killing. Studying killing, talking about killing, publicizing killing, replaying images repeatedly that are related to killing, are all ways of cementing into our collective psyche the consciousness of killing.   In this way, we are all slowly becoming more and more de-sensitized to killing.  We are enlivening killing by talking about it, literally giving it life.  In a way, we are becoming killers by delving so deeply into the consciousness that created the killing in the first place.  Remember, if we believe “thoughts create things” in the pursuit of our goals and dreams, then this universal law also applies when we think about things we may not want at all, but still wind up focusing on anyway.  If we want killing to end in our society then we must first divert attention away from death and towards life.

2) Don’t think that the facts are what they seem in the Fort Hood case. Whether what happened there is related to mind control, the themes expressed in “Men Who Stare at Goats,” and the massacre at Virginia Tech, will probably never be fully known, but certainly the evidence that at least “energetically” connects these events in the material world is somewhat alarming.  Even if these events are not causally related and I am simply regurgitating alarmist conspiracy theories, on a energetic level there is no doubt about their relationship to one another.  The common consciousness binding these events to one another is that consciousness of death and killing.

I am absolutely shocked and surprised that the alleged killer is still alive, but mark my words, and I hate to say this, but I would be absolutely flabbergasted if this guys survives the hospital.  We NEVER get mass-murderers alive.  They ALWAYS commit suicide on the scene before law enforcement gets to them.  That he is still alive is completely novel.  That he will survive is highly unlikely.

Which means we may never know the true motive behind these killings.

And the sooner we can divert our attention away from the horror and the confusion surrounding these events, the sooner we can get back to promoting the consciousness of life.