The Spellbreakers Podcast

[0:00] Are Archons Real?

Eric: What's going on? Are Archons real? Are we just trapped forever? Are we just a farm animal for these entities? Is there any hope, Brendan? Help us.

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[0:13] The Gnostic Framework and the Demiurge

Brendan: A lot of this stuff. It's interesting you mentioned the NDEs and the OBEs. I've done s***loads of research into that realm and it overwhelmingly does not support what they're saying, that hypothesis.

And if you look at the past life regression database, Michael Newton, Brian Weiss, Joel Whitton and a bunch of other people, heaps of other people, the problem we have is most of these people who are pushing that idea. You mentioned the Gnostic thing. A lot of them have adopted this so-called Gnostic framework. And that's somebody else's stuff. It's somebody else's beliefs from 2,000 odd years ago. They didn't have a particularly well, let's say, sophisticated view of things or understanding of things.

That's one of the reasons I say to people, that's not a useful thing to do, is go back in time and take somebody's model of reality and then superimpose it on reality and use that as your primary filter. That's really not something I think is super helpful.

So the Gnostic thing is kind of a distortion of something that Plato, he kind of originated that. And then you talk about the demiurge and that is a concept that has been very bastardized and distorted until we get to the point where it's kind of meeting the Gnostic framework and the demiurge becomes Yaldabaoth, this demented creator being. The original Demiurge was simply the first expression or manifestation of the unmanifest. So there's nothing malicious about it. It's just the first aspect of created existence. Or if you like, something to mediate between the unmanifest divine and the creation.

So there's a lot to this to unpack. The short, I did a little article on this as well, getting into some of the material that people use to support the idea, on Substack. It's called the Soul Trap Psyop. So, yeah, you can see where I'm leaning with that.

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[2:19] Information Bubbles in the Collective Unconscious

Brendan: So it's a lack of perspective, and a lot of where this comes from is what I call, and this is a way of trying to explain something that is very difficult to wrap our heads around because it's not tangible, in the collective unconscious, I describe a layer of information or a bubble. You'd almost consider it to be part of the astral realms, but it's almost its own thing. It's almost its own independently existing level of reality. It's part of the collective unconscious, and certain types of personalities, certain types of visionaries, psychics, astral explorers and what have you, will go into this bubble in the collective unconscious and interact with it and have experiences, but not really realizing that maybe things aren't what they appear to be in the information field, in the non-physical realms, because everything is information being interpreted.

And a program, a belief system might be interpreted as a being, as some kind of entity. But then they see the entity and go, oh, well, it's whatever it might be. It's some kind of alien from somewhere. Instead of going, what might this actually represent? What kind of a program is this running in the collective unconscious? So that's one aspect that we could consider.

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[3:42] Victimhood and Tracing Ideas Back

Brendan: But yeah, it's an idea that's very unhelpful and it is imbued with and fundamentally informed by victimhood. And so that's one thing I don't like about it. People take this and they go, well, what a s*** show. We're trapped. Throw our hands up in the air. We're hopeless. There's no way out. It's like sim theory stuff. We're in a sim. We're trapped. We're in somebody's computer circuitry. We're never going to escape. That's not really useful or helpful, but it's also not true. So it's doubly unhelpful.

The Archon thing is an idea that people should really examine more closely. And I like to research things and trace the idea back in time, whatever it is. The idea of hell, the idea of Satan. Trace it back in time to the origin point, if you possibly can. And you'll usually find that what's happened is this core idea has become part of a bad game of Chinese whispers. And 1500 years later or 2000 years later, we have this really garbled mess up message that doesn't resemble the original idea at all. People have taken it and put their own spin on it and all this kind of stuff.

So yeah, I'll let you jump in there, man, because I'm going to start practically.

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[4:59] Love and Light Versus the Doomer Pill

Eric: No, please, man, literally every rattle you've made. It's been so on point. But anyways, yeah, I totally agree. And for me, I listened to Wayne Bush and a lot of these guys who talk about this concept, and I really applaud them for their work. There seems to be this phenomenon happening.

But where I think we get into trouble and where I think you and I agree is, for example, New Agers, right? They think everything is love and light and everything's good and never talk about negativity. And I think that breeds repression and actually really toxic, kind of psychotic people, right? But then on the flip side, there's the kind of doomer pill as well, right? And a lot of these Soul Trap guys, they literally think this realm is a pure, they call it a pure hell realm. And their argument is that there is needless suffering that doesn't need to be there. There is a lot of psychopathy and we are kind of a lower astral realm. I put us in almost a hell realm.

But then there's so much beauty and good things in this realm, in this existence, that to just classify it all as one big prison and my only focus is to escape, I think is very toxic and dangerous. Pretty much every death cult was the same. They thought, a derivation of the same ideology of, we need to escape here now. Whereas I think the opposite is true, that we need to be here now and be present and kind of transcend.

So, yeah, if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying these reports are more maybe people's interpretation or assimilation of a larger picture of reality. It's not maybe literally true, but it's their interpretation of reality. Am I hearing you correctly?

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[6:55] Misused NDE Data

Brendan: Yeah, it's a very, very limited view and a very subjective, limited viewpoint based on interpretation of things that could be seen from a more high-level integrated perspective.

For example, apparently what I've gathered is that a lot of the data points that have been used to support that idea, like supposed NDEs. People are claiming that they've had a near-death experience, but then when they talk about it, you realize they haven't had a near-death experience at all, and they just were in a situation where they thought maybe they might die. And then for some reason, people latch onto this and go, oh, well, that's a data point for the soul trap theory. And it's like, that's not even relevant.

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[7:43] What the Research Says: No Trap, Only Amnesia

Brendan: So if you look at actual NDEs, the body of near-death experience data is huge. And all of it, I can't even think of an exception. And this connects into reincarnation, which we should just mention. That NDE database is blatantly telling us that we are both the expression of the creator and the creator itself and that there is no trap.

The only so-called trap is that we are born into the earth system, the physical world system. And in order to get here and to be sane here and succeed in the experience, we have to go through a sort of state of induced amnesia. There is a crossing of the veil and a forgetting of what and who we are, which, by the way, the veil is thinning and we are starting to remember who we are. So the so-called trap is the forgetting, it's the amnesia.

And then people can become addicted to the experience of earth life. There are terms for this, like Tanha or Trishna, the hunger for the experience of the third density. Physical life. And that in itself could be a problem to some extent, because maybe you don't need to keep being here, so to speak. Maybe you could move on to broader vistas, or maybe you just need to go deeper into the non-physical realms to continue your development there. But you keep coming back here into the reincarnation cycle because you're addicted to that experience.

But it's not a trap. There's nobody putting you here against your will. There's nobody keeping you here against your will. But if you forget who and what you are and your amnesia runs deep enough, then maybe that can be a problem to some extent. Like I talked about with the hell realms, those are people who have deeply forgotten who and what they are. They've got deep amnesia.

But it's the same deal with the body of reincarnation research and past life regression, overwhelmingly. And we have tens of thousands of case studies. And they all say the same thing. We are not here because somebody put us here. We are not stuck here. We are not trapped here. And we are infinite consciousness. It's the same deal with NDEs and reincarnation data. All these different streams of research, actual proper robust research, tell us the same thing at the end of the day. So yeah, the soul trap thing, I understand why they say it, but at the end of the day, it's incorrect.