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Best matchCTM · AdaptedSoul TrapThe soul trap is a narrative framework suggesting that consciousness is captured, deceived, or forcibly recycled by external agents after death. The CTM identifies this as Archontic Misattribution—the tendency to interpret internally generated post-mortem constraints as hostile external control.Read the full entry →
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  1. InterviewIs The Soul Trap Theory A Psy-Op? Brendan Murphy DiscussesBrendan D. Murphy examines the soul trap theory — whether it is a genuine model of post-mortem experience or a psychological operation designed to generate fear. A rigorous cross-tradition analysis.The Spellbreakers Podcast · Eric Mace · 16 July 2024
  2. InterviewInterview with Consciousness Researcher, Brendan Murphy…consistent, whether we are living in a computer program, and why the soul trap and "don't go to the light" ideas misread consciousness-rendered afterlife environments.Circle of White Light Radio · Alan James · 5 October 2026
  3. InterviewConversations on Sol Luckman Uncensored w/ Author Brendan D. MurphyBrendan: Also, in that final chapter, I take apart the soul trap. I give it a really in-depth analysis, the soul trap meme, and the archons, that side of it, archons, trap handlers, all this stuff. And I pull it apart in a way that I think…Sol Luckman Uncensored · Sol Luckman · 31 July 2025
  4. InterviewMapping Consciousness: The Architecture of the Afterlife…Does it get into the Soul Trap? Is that what we're looking at here?Typical Skeptic Podcast · Rob Kalil · 6 October 2026
  5. GlossaryArchontic MisattributionArchontic Misattribution is the error of interpreting symbolic, egregoric, psychological, or interface-level phenomena as objectively existing external controlling entities. Within the CTM, many encounters with "archons," soul-trap mechanisms, cosmic authorities, or astral controllers result from mistaking rendered experience for independent ontological realities.CTM · Owned
  6. InterviewReverse Engineering the Afterlife…He has this exchange with the entity, interprets it as an archon administering the soul trap, and then simply refuses to comply and goes on his merry way. Any strong form of soul trap conjecture falls to pieces right there, because he just…Dawn of Discernment · Dawn Lester · 1 April 2026
  7. InterviewConsciousness & The Afterlife…But I don't stop at the surface level the way soul trap advocates do. They stop at the level of appearances and narratives. I try to get to the architecture and structure underneath — the dynamics of consciousness that create the appearance…Our Paranormal Afterlife · Simon Bown · 25 May 2026
  8. InterviewAfterlife, Past-Lives & Aether: The Enigmatic Fabric of Reality…If millions of people around the world ardently believe in the soul trap and pour massive amounts of psychic energy into that belief system, then at an astral level they are building a corresponding dreamscape — a collectively constructed…The Way Forward · Alec Zeck · 28 June 2024
  9. InterviewBeyond the Veils of Illusion…own frequency is going to attract to certain stories about what the soul is and the purpose of the soul and what this reality is. Because I understand where people are coming from when they say this is a soul trap. This is it.…The Fifth Dimension · Evan McDermod · 30 March 2024
  10. InterviewMoving beyond the Simulation & the Astral Freakscape toward InfinitySol: Yeah, you've written on the problems with the soul trap model. And I think I shared some of that on my Substack. Really, I would recommend everyone go over to Brendan's Substack and just read some of these articles on archons and soul…Sol Luckman Uncensored · Sol Luckman · 25 June 2023
  11. InterviewBeyond the Veil…We're not trapped. It's not a soul trap, not a soul harvest, the archons aren't in charge — that's not how it works.Here For The Truth · Joel & Yerasimos · 3 October 2024
  12. InterviewMapping the Afterlife…att: I was going to ask you specifically about that, because I'm really in agreement with you there on the whole Soul Trap thing, and I think what you're basically saying is that it, though it's been referenced, it doesn't really hold…The Exploration of Consciousness · Matt Presti · 29 September 2026
  13. InterviewExistence & Consciousness: Living Free with guest Brendan MurphyAnd again, this idea of a soul trap or reincarnation trap is very recent, super recent. And unfortunately, it seems to be fuelled by a lot of misinformation and people who are saying things that are super inaccurate, people who are talking…Living Free · David Armstrong · 1 May 2025
  14. GlossaryMisidentification Principle…The Soul Trap critique addresses a rendered transition mistaken for an imposed prison.CTM · Owned
  15. InterviewAndrew Fischer of Nature of Reality Radio interviews Brendan D. MurphyAndrew: But there's some other things I want to discuss with you before then, and that is the whole difference, if there is a difference between soul, spirit and consciousness.Nature of Reality Radio · Andrew Fischer · 23 December 2019
  16. InterviewUnlocking A Better Version Of You…That's part of their soul journey and they'll probably be needing a few more lifetimes to catch on to the nature of the game and start waking up.Nightflight · Judith Kwoba · 5 February 2020
  17. InterviewThe Afterlife is Not What You Think…But I don't empathize with the idea that we've got to escape, ascend, get out of the loop, break the trap — all that stuff that's gaining traction lately. I'm more aligned with something like the Daoist view, where they accept that there…Living Free · David Armstrong · 25 May 2026
  18. InterviewConversations on Sol Luckman Uncensored with Guest Brendan Murphy…send a one-page letter to the department and there's some poor soul sitting at the computer having to read this rubbish that people are sending in these applications.Sol Luckman Uncensored · Sol Luckman · 23 December 2023
  19. InterviewConsciousness, Structure and Religious Archetypes…epiphanies and things like that, about the deeper matters, about your soul, your psyche, oneness, and things like that.TruthSeekah Podcast · Derek Grosskurth (TruthSeekah) · 17 July 2020
  20. InterviewThe Grand Illusion, Library of Alexandria, The Planning Center…So you will get rich, but don't try to do it in this way because you fall into their patent-stealing trap.The Derek Loudermilk Show · Derek Loudermilk · 14 January 2024
  21. InterviewFind Your Own Truth with Brendan D Murphy…that's probably a clue as to the ultimate makeup of your, what super soul or higher self or whatever people want to call it.Master of Your Craft · Naranjan Nota · 18 April 2024
  22. InterviewThe Evolution of YOU — Version 2.0 with Brendan D. Murphy…nd as a collective, of course, I heard just talking with another friend of mine last week around the concept of soul groups, that it's the time that soul groups will start finding each other and we're going once we start to reactivate,…Courageous Love Now · Lara Helena · 10 February 2022
  23. InterviewBrendan Murphy Human Potential…the Orthodox Abrahamic religions still hold on the hearts, minds and souls of people, there are many that have kind of broken from that paradigm and have been exploring human consciousness and human potential.The Cosmic Switchboard Show · James Bartley · 25 November 2019
  24. InterviewBrendan D. Murphy Exposes the Conspiracies of the Collective Unconscious…The thought force is the soul, while the plasmoidal elemental essence, the virtual particles, comprise the body of the thought, the form. Such thought forms are sometimes referred to as artificial elementals, temporary mental constructs.X-US 2017 · Conference presentation · 14 February 2018
  25. InterviewWhat Happens After You Die? 23 Years of Research on NDEs, Reincarnation & Consciousness…But at the same time, there are always souls or spirits trying to break through to people in these situations. They've been referred to by various names — the Mercy Band, Band of Helpers — basically the same idea of spirits who are highly…Everything and Anything...and a Bit Gay · Zach Randles-Friedman · 12 July 2026