First Earth Battalion, the Theocratic Cult in the Military
Did you know military brass started a New Age cult within the elite ranks of the US military? They are still around, in one form or another.
In order to understand some facts about what is going on in the Charismatic Church right now, it is important to look at where some of its big players come from. I am thinking of two individuals in particular: Michael Flynn and Jerry Boykin.
While the media writes them off as harmless nuts, they are anything but. Flynn was the head of the Defence Intelligence Agency. Before that, he was considered the finest intelligence officer in the US military, and masterminded very successful campaigns to find and execute top anti- US militants.
Likewise, Jerry Boykin once was top brass in the CIA, where he advised top US officials like Janet Reno on issues. Before that, he was a member of the elite delta force, and was part of a number of attempts to overthrow foreign nations. He and Flynn combined have a depth of knowledge in regime change that probably rivals anyone in the US right now.
Flynn has recently been doing the Reawaken tour, a sort of big tent revival which combines charismatic song and preaching with the likes of Sean Feutch with pro-MAGA politics and prophecy. I have been following the radicalized community which he has created with fear and trembling for some time now. They believe violence is a solution. They hold Flynn up as a sort of demigod. They believe a cabal of “globalists” (often code for Jews) has taken over the government through the deep state, and that it is illegitimate. They are often fans of Q, the mysterious poster that said Trump was a secret agent to overthrow the deep state. In other words, they are primed for violence.
Boykin is a senior leader in Rick Joyner’s church, Morningstar. He is famous for stating he believes Jesus will carry a machine gun when he returns. He has been speaking at conferences offering tactical weapons training with members of Vineyard church. The head of his church, also ex-military, Rick Joyner, has been writing books, holding conferences and making prophecies predicting the second civil war. For those not familiar with irregular warfare (I will do a post on this), they are in the propaganda stage of an insurgency. This is not religion, it is not a game, they are preparing people psychologically for kinetic (violent) war.
So why are they doing this? Is anyone telling them to? What are their motives? My hope is to shed some light on this in this post regarding First Earth Battalion, the theocratic cult which was allowed to grow in the US military.
FIRST EARTH BATTALION, AN INTRODUCTION
When I first learned about First Earth Battalion, I started out with a fair bit of shock at the lack of professionalism and the amount of pseudoscience that had been allowed into the US military’s elite ranks. I just couldn’t believe it was real. However, as the shock wore off, the deeper implications set in. This was a group with intentions like the New Apostolic Reformation, an unaccountable organizational structure and sort of implicit approval from the command centre. In other words, it was a group of soldiers with a theocratic agenda and no accountability.
I first learned about them from Jon Ronson’s great book “Men who Stare at Goats” (get the book, not the movie if you want the straight goods). Jon is a great journalist, but I couldn’t help notice that his contacts had fed him a very positive story which even he saw didn’t comport with reality, that they were a group of idealistic hippies which wanted to change warfare towards non-violent methodologies. However, as Jon noted, their project was continued in the torture chambers of Iraq and Afghanistan. I couldn’t help but wonder if there was something deeper going on here.
Indeed there was. Jim Channon, the author of First Earth Battalion, went on a journey to find ways to improve what he called soldiers “cunning”. The example he gave was that in Vietnam, soldiers were to tender hearted to shoot directly at Vietcong. If you take his example seriously, what he was looking for was ways to make soldiers less empathetic to improve their deadliness. In other words, he was looking for a way to change their personalities, or induce metanoia, to use the psychoanalytical term for this process.
The path he chose was,…. unconventional to say the least. He went on a weird journey, knocking on the doors of every yogi, meditation teacher, martial artist, occultist and cultist he could find for solutions. One source he found was Esalon, a sort of headquarters of gurus, positive psychologists, behavioral psychologists and New Agers of all sorts. The heads of the movement were all there, Timothy Leary, Virginia Satir, Buckminister Fuller and the great student of Carl Jung, Joseph Conrad. We will come back to this, because Esalon turns out to be very significant in understanding First Earth Battalion’s intentions and purpose.
He also went to leadership seminar cult est. Est was a descendant of the famous Leadership Dynamics, which was famous for the sadism and trauma inflicted on participants to get them their breakthrough. The theory was that people are so self deceptive, they would never tell the truth about the barriers of their life without significant trauma. In Leadership Dynamics, this included being hung on a cross, being forced to eat rotten vegetables, being put in a coffin. Because Leadership Dynamics had been sued, its descendant had being significantly toned down, but its principles were the same. Trauma and stress leads to breakthrough. Channon decided to apply this to army training. Given how stressful and even traumatic basic training already was, one has to wonder what Channon did to exceed that.
You might ask are they relevant today? I was in a discussion with an extremist belonging to Goldcorp, an offshoot of the Boogaloo Boys that is connected with people both currently serving and retired from the military. I was trying to confirm some suspicions of where they were coming from and what their motives were so I asked them three questions. My conversation partner didn’t respond officially so everyone could see, but they liked all three of my questions:
The other two, Alexandre Dugin and Order of Nine Angles are equally terrifying, but that is to discuss another day.
FIRST EARTH BATTALION TRAINING MANUEL
To get a good understanding of what First Earth Battalion is all about, it is important to look closely at the training manual which Channon developed. He modeled it after the Whole Earth Catalogue by New Age enthusiast Stewart Brand. It’s actually quite beautiful, and just looking at it visually doesn’t describe how disturbing its content is, so I will try to provide commentary.
Right off the bat, what is being done is problematic: it is an attempt to establish a religion. That religion seems to be one of Warrior Monks, an elite force to guide evolution. This is a clear violation of the establishment clause.
If you want to understand what they mean by evolution, it is good to understand what Esalon member Timothy Leary meant by it: eugenics, the practice of breeding people to elevate the human race into a new superior race… like Hitler tried (who Leary was a big fan of).
https://medium.com/spiritual-eugenics/timothy-learys-psychedelic-eugenics-7cd28f42764d
The goal of First Earth is both utopian and spiritual: to create paradise. Nothing about serving the policies of civilian leaders. They have their own agenda. I hope people realize why this is problematic in light of the Contras scandel, when a bunch of old soldiers went to start a war without congressional approval and ended up selling weapons to the terrorist Iranian regime who has collaborated with America’s enemies around the world to wreack havoc. Now that was dumb by any standards. Being a soldier doesn’t automatically give you better ethical and policy judgment than civilian leadership. The whole of First Earth Battalion assumes it does.
It’s worth noting that space travel is important to First Earth Battalion, like it is for modern TESCREALists like Musk. Musk tends to collaborate with folks First Earth Battalion is networked with.
The goal of the project is to drive both personal and planetary evolution. Where spiritual evolution is being suggested, transhumanism and eugenics is usually in the works. Channon was close friends with the author of “The Aquarian Conspiricy”, Marylin Ferguson, who, like her friend Barbara Marx Hubbard, was very interested in boosting human evolution.
Here Channon borrows from an extreme Social Darwinist and new thought ideas (think prosperity gospel), writing off people who don’t succeed at his program as “cultural cripples” who just get what they deserve for thinking wrong. It is perfect form for cults to write people off for not thinking right. It’s a form of social control that puts people on the defensive, always struggling to remain right thinking rather than questioning whether the cult program is a good idea.
In a bizarre reflection of the New Apostolic Reformation, super powers are promised for people who eat food on the right “voltage” from foods. If you think they are using metaphor, you need to learn more about New Age religion.
Part of the problem First Earth Battalion is supposed to solve is the failure of Vietnam. In anti-Communist army circles, the narrative was the war was lost at home due to too much broadcasting of the horrors of war. FEB’s solution? More and better psyops and better control over the pesky reporters holding them accountable.
This is where things begin to get more problematic. This page suggests a red-brown alliance, and calls itself the third way. This is of course what early fascists referred to themselves as.
First Earth Battalion is envisioned as having its OWN elite hierarchy and chain of command of fellow evolutionaries, which begs the question, “Who is controlling this network?”
Jim Channon was a member of Task Force Delta, a task force built around new “evolutionary” ways of doing military. There’s more to speak about regarding the “technology” they speak of. My guess is that they are referring to the internet. The internet was a subject of Task Force Delta.
This paragraph stood out to me because traitor General Michael Flynn’s favourite saying is an abridged version of it: “Local action equals national impact”. Forgive my highlighting which is a tad ugly.
The most significant change in direction within First Earth Battalion was the emphasis on Psyop. This does not consider whether a domestic audience is targeted. However targeting domestic audiences is vital to later First Earthers like Michael Aquino. There is a tremendous distrust in these circles for democratic decision making without being “rightly guided”.
This page proposes exchanging with Soviet soldiers. The significance of this will become apparent later on.
Channon is clearly some type of theosophist, with an emphasis on some people being embodied angels. Mike Flynn has repeatedly hinted he is in fact the Archangel Michael.
Another obsession of First Earth Battalion is using electronic warfare to impact peoples’ thinking. Strangely enough, the Soviets were doing similar woo science at the time
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3.pdf
This might be the most revealing page in the manual. It gives us an exemplar of a “Warrior Monk”, Thelma follower, and Nazi admirer/ collaborator J.F.C. Fuller, who developed the doctrine of Blitzkreg for them. While Fuller was truley brilliant, he was also a Nazi by choice. This cannot be an oversight. You might have gotten a less dedicated Nazi if you had chosen someone like Erwin Rommel. Channon wanted a deeply convinced Nazi as an exemplar.
To date, the best work on First Earth Battalion has been Jon Ronson’s “Men Who Stare at Goats”. Jon provides invaluable insights about the movement, but there’s a slight problem with it. A close read of it seems to indicate that he didn’t find them. Rather, they found, selected, and attempted to groom him to tell a certain narrative, which is what they are good at. However, Jon is a good journalist, so he went much further than the info they gave him.
Somthing similar thing happened with Michael Hastings. McCrystal’s staff attempted to groom him to write a certain story: McCrystal was a mix between a rock star, a mystic and a hero. Hastings pushed past that, and it ended McCrystal.
Nevertheless, Men Who State at Goats does miss some important facts, and suffers from idealization of Channon as a kindly, well meaning hippie, which I believe is a fundamental misunderstanding of who Channon was at his core, a fascist.
So where was First Earth Battalion implemented? It’s hard to say the full extent, but two areas are clear: the Green Berets, and Army Intelligence. Green Berets are a force specifically trained in irregular warfare.
They are incredibly resourceful and versatile, parachuting behind enemy lines, teaching local combatants to fight, developing psyop campaigns, IEDs, whatever is needed to bring down armies and governments. Many go on to work for CIA special operations. They are trained to be insurgency and insurrection creating machines (supposedly in other countries).
As you can see, early First Earth Battalion was centred high impact services, ones which have huge implications for US security, for better of for worse.
THE PLAYERS
I am going to start out with ones we know, move to ones who we know are in the network, and finally go to those we strongly suspect.
JOHN ALEXANDER
Col. John Alexander was a green beret in Vietnam who participated in the brutal Phoenix Program, a torture and assassination campaign.
He showed an early interest in theosophy, trying to find the remains of Atlantis.
Alexander was stationed under legendary insurrectionist and John Bircher, John Singlaub, who had displayed an affinity for the occult at times in his life.
He then came to serve in the intelligence service to implement New Age/ First Earth Battalion idea.
Alexander somehow has become a fixture in the military industrial complex, trustwashing many of the wackiest UFO people. This is not a coincidence. He has been connected with them for decade.
He’s also an expert in “non-lethal combat” methods, many of which are bizarre, like foam cannons. They have one consistent fan that we know of, Jerry Boykin.
A lot of the ideas that came out of First Earth Battalion, like non-lethal force, seem to be about implementing a counterinsurgency strategy. Counterinsurgency theory was developed by *loosing* French colonialists with the goal of controlling the population without alienating them too much, causing further uprising.
Non-lethal force shouldn’t be understood as a kinder, gentler way of fighting. It needs to be understood as population control in a counterinsurgency campaign. So are psyops and arbitrary confinement and interrogation.
Alexander introduced neurolinguistic programming to the military. For those unfamiliar, NLP is a set of manipulation and hypnotic techniques developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. They developed them from observing a number of famous hypnotists and psychotherapists, some of whom were associated with the infamous MK Ultra program (like Milton Erikson for instance). They have become popular among sales people, con artists, and pickup artists.
MAJOR GENERAL ALBERT STUBBLEBINE
Now the way Ronson describes Stubblebine, we might be forgiven believing he is not mentally competent. Regardless, he does appear to have been a brilliant intelligence officer. He spent a great deal of time and capital mplementing the agenda of First Earth Battalion in the intelligence service. This includes attempts at using the paranormal in spying, using Ingo Swann the Stanford Research Institute paranormal program (many luminaries of SRI went on to be UAP “specialists”).
Stubblebine lost his command in the mid 80s, and went on to some pretty disruptive career. He and his wife, Rima Laibow went on to peddle all sorts of health woo, and became major anti-vax advocates. They also circulated 9-11 and New World Order propaganda. Stubblebine became an Oathkeeper. He also founded a civilian remote viewing company.
MICHAEL AQUINO: Warning CSA discussed
Michael Aquino was a deeply disturbed individual who was also for a time a highly respected Psyop officer. Aquino had begun in special forces, moved to psyop, and had written an influential paper on the role of psyop in society. While doctrine was to use psyop in the context of combat, Aquino advocated broad use of psyop on civilians foreign and domestic to make sure that wars weren’t lost from a fall in morale at home. What his vision ammounted to is a never ending war for people’s minds. He quite literally called it mindwar.
Aquino started a Satanic cult as an offshoot of Levay’s Church of Satan. He was kicked out of the army after an incident of child abuse which didn’t go to trial to avoid re-traumatizing the victim, but the evidence of his guilt was strong enough to get the army to act.
Aquino went on to be involved in all sorts of disinformation campaigns. His fellow “Temple of Set” participant, Zeena LaVey, laid the groundwork for the Satanic Panic and Qanon going on Christian exorcist Bob Larson’s radio show. He himself appeared on Q friendly shows like Sean Stone’s “The Buzzsaw”, and his partner in psyop, Paul Vallely, a Fox News commentator after leaving the Military, became a major Qanon promoter, trustwashing it with his stars.
Aquino was close friends with John Alexander, and shared many of his bizarre views about using “psychotronic” equipment to influence thoughts, although he preferred his “mindwar” methods, which involved changing environments to be conducive to influence.
ROBERT DAVID STEELE
Next First Earther to examine is Robert David Steele. Steele wasn’t in the military, but he was in the network. He was a CIA OSINT expert who taught courses to the army. He has expressed affinity of his ideas with FEB, and took over the “World Game” of Buckminster Fuller. Here he is idenfitying his work with First Earth Battalin.
Steele was an odd man to say the least. He seemed to have a grand plan to solve any problem. He seemed to worship Ron Paul.
His most influential move in life, which turned out to be a disaster for millions of people’s mental health, was he founded the deranged propaganda machine, the Tribunal for National with washed up guru/ rock star Sasha Stone. It was the place where the core Qanon propaganda was laid out before Q started posting.
As we would suspect of someone who created this giant antisemetic ball of lies, RDS was an anti-Semite, supporting forgery Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Now we are going into people I strongly suspect of being in First Earth Battalion, but don’t have definitive proof. First up:
JERRY BOYKIN otherwise known as machine gun Jesus man
As a staunch ‘Christian’ who is associated with extreme ‘Christian’ orgs like Rick Joyner’s Oak Initiative, and the Family Research Council, Boykin is not someone you would expect to be heavilyinvolved in an army occult cult. However, we will follow the evidence.
The first piece of evidence is that Boykin got his team to employ John Alexander’s bizarre foam guns during the “Black Hawk Down” event in Somalia. At the very least he was close enough to Alexander to risk his troops lives to test his product.
The second is the Waco siege. Jon Ronson details how the Army and FBI employed all sorts of weird First Earth Battalion inspired tactics like constant loud music which may have contributed to the volatile end of the siege. Boykin was advising Janet Reno during the siege.
Boykin was also present at the scene of another First Earth Battalion inspired campaign, the capture of Manuel Noriega, although its unclear if he ranked high enough to influence tactics.
Whether or not Boykin specifically subscribes to the New Age ideas of First Earth Battalion, he is clearly closely networked with them and employs their methods. This could have implications for radicalization in the military, as he was in Special Forces leadership for years.
Boykin is associated with the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a sort of independent organization claiming affiliation with the Knights of Malta. Knights of Malta traditionally were warrior monks. The symbolism of this should not be overlooked.
MICHAEL FLYNN aka Archangel Mike
So why is it likely that Mike was involved in First Earth Battalion? Well first of all, he thinks very “First Earth” like. In addition to his well documented history of covertly using occult (St. Michael’s prayer by Elizabeth Claire Prophet for instance, discovered by Jim Stewartson), he talks like First Earth. In his very first Western Journal article he almost quotes the manual exactly calling for heaven to be established on earth. Not only that, he has frequently hinted he is himself an angel, like in the manual.
Here is the excerpt from Western Journal
Now here is the First Earth Battalion quote:
Aside from these clues, the story arch of his life indicates he’s been close to members of First Earth Battalion. For instance, during the invasion of Grenada, he received dispensation from his commanding officer to participate in the invasion. This indicates closeness o his commanding officer, which appears to have been Stubblebine at the time.
His hero, and former boss, Stan McCrystal displayed First Earth tendencies as well, including introducing martial arts to Ranger training and a tendancy for, “creativity provocation”, indeed a rare trait in a military that values conformity.
Mike spent a lot of early years at Fort Bragg, and spent a significant amount of time working with Green Berets in JSOC, so the chances of him not encountering the ideology are extremely low. With his lateral thinking and interest in psyop, I expect he would embrace it.
So it appears that we have two high ranking military veterens, at the top of their class, possibly in a weird New Age cult based on psyops, playing a significant role in the New Apostolic Reformation. What could go wrong?
THE REAL REASON FOR FIRST EARTH BATALLION
So why was First Earth Battalion *really* set up? It appears we do have a somewhat more compelling answer than Channon provided. It’s tied up in a group that Channon had extensive ties with, the Esalen Institute.
Esalen was known as sort of a hub for the Human Potential and New Age movement, employing or hosting some of the biggest names in the movement including Leary, Adlous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Bucky Fuller, Allan Watt, Virginia Satir, and Stanlslav Grof. Channon was also tied to what I will call the “Aquarian crowd” like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marylin Ferguson, and UN deputy secretary Robert Muller (not the DOJ Mueller).
Now one thing which is really quite incredible about Esalen, is it was an eager participant in a KGB sponsored “exchange program”. Apparently founder, Michael Murphy was really interested in Russian psychic experiments similar to the ones that happened after FEB was founded.
Murphy was hosted in Moscow University, known for being the recruitment centre for the Russian security state. Now experience has demonstrated time and again that when the KGB lures you to Moscow, they usually are recruiting you.
Soon, Murphy had set up a parallel, separate “diplomacy” exchange with the apparent approval of occult obsessed Reagan. This was unprecedented, reckless and dangerous, as who would expect some elite New Age dude to go toe-to-toe with the KGB without any training?
Meanwhile, the Aquarian crowd was apparently under some interesting influences as well. Robert Muller’s boss was Austrian Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. Kurt had a secret, one which the Soviets knew and were leveraging. Kurt was a former Nazi war criminal.
I cannot establish for certain that Muller was under Soviet influence like Waldheim or Murphy was, but he certainly accomplished one thing very beneficial to the Soviets, getting mainland China admitted to the UN, giving them an extra safe vote in the security council.
Am I implying that First Earth Battalion’s founding was somehow tied to Russian intelligence? Yes, I believe that is a reasonable interpretation of the facts, probably the most reasonable one. It would also explain why Flynn, in FEB tradition, would visit GRU headquarter.
If in fact this assessment is correct, it’s a rather startling conclusion: Soviet/ Russian intelligence managed to infiltrate core aspects of the US security state, which have been creating destabilization and disinformation from within. And nobody seems to give a crap. That is what frusterates me about this.