10-07-2011, 06:14 PM
"… Secrecy begets paranoia; the need to seek for hidden answers and conspiracies behind everyday events develops when one social group is suppressed, ostracized or in some other way shoved to the sidelines and no longer "in the loop" of the dominant party, religion, or culture. When one does not know what the other knowsor what the other is doing, or discussingthen speculation leads to suspicion, which can color an entire belief system. This hard-wired paranoia of the Ismaili's and especially of the Nizari sect which became known in the West as the Assassinscontributed to the creation of an intelligence organization unparalleled in the East, and which in turn led to the creation of what were probably the world's first "terrorists." [See The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam, by Bernard Lewis, Oxford University Press, New York 1967, page 12.] The Nizaris developed a strategy of "precautionary dissimulation of one's true religious belief in the face of danger"
Chapter 12 in Sinister Forces (Book Two) on "The Roots of Terrorism"
"We must spend some time with the Jonestown episode because it pulls together several disparate scarlet threads in the tapestry of politics, drugs, intelligence agencies, religion, mind control, and murder."
Chapter 13 in Sinister Forces (Book Two) on "Heart of Darkness"
Chapter 12 in Sinister Forces (Book Two) on "The Roots of Terrorism"
"We must spend some time with the Jonestown episode because it pulls together several disparate scarlet threads in the tapestry of politics, drugs, intelligence agencies, religion, mind control, and murder."
Chapter 13 in Sinister Forces (Book Two) on "Heart of Darkness"
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"