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Okay, what of more specific Conspirituality themes?

Well, for those we can go back to a 2013 essay titled Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order,

where he suggests that the loose ends in conspiracy theories, for example, about the JFK

assassination or 9-11 might be explained by Drumroll, please. The guiding spiritual force of

Synchronicity. Eisenstein posits conspiracy theories here in general as representing an alternate

history of the world, based on ominous coincidences that seem to not otherwise be explainable.

To illustrate this, he does a quick thumbnail sketch of the Jewish banking conspiracy, The Deep State,

and belief in an alien controlled Illuminati bent on establishing a new world order.

Before assuring the reader that his purpose is not to debunk these theories based on facts,

evidence, or reason, nor to quote unquote uphold the dominant historical narrative.

Instead, he proposes a third explanation.

Herein may lie an important truth encoded in conspiracy theories, not a factual truth,

but a mythological truth. There does seem to be a conspiracy running inside my psyche that keeps me

enslaved to fear and greed that indeed possesses technologies of mind control that presents the

whole world through a filter of lies that is associated somehow with the reptilian part of my

brain that manipulates me to serve an agenda inimical to my authentic happiness. Everything that

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