Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” ‘Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.’ – Confucius It’s rare that an event in our world has much of an effect on me. After all, we’ve been subjected to crisis after crisis, and horror after horror for the last 20 plus years. I’m old enough to know what life was like before 9/11 and Columbine, and I can recall the peace of mind we shared before twenty-four hour cable news commandeered the collective conscience. The new normal is anything but normal. I’ve learned to tune the programming out, but the fact remains… we are all targets of psychological warfare. Of trauma based mind control. It is done by the media through the repetition and replay of traumatic, shocking events. By exaggerating fear in order to bypass critical thinking. It’s done with imagery and symbols that are mostly ignored by the active mind, but speak directly to the subconscious mind. A type of hypnosis. Traumatic, tragic, and fear-inducing events, like what just happened at the Travis Scott concert at Astroworld Houston, become symbolic milestones in our lives, implanted deeply into the subconscious mind by people who know how group psychology works. Furthermore, we’re in an abusive relationship with government and media. They tell us what to think, and then punish us for deviating from their script. It’s classical abuse, and we are the abused.