Interview with Peter Levenda October 9, 2009 Sinister Forces

[Lauren Johnson]

Lauren - you're in great danger of rendering important subject matter banal.

Of performing alchemy in reverse.

Consider this.

The full title of Levenda's trilogy is: Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft.

Consider every word.

Then consider why a young Peter Levenda may have written the Simon Necronomicon.

And why an older Peter Levenda may play with the notion that a younger self penned such a work.

You should consider the short story There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges.

If you should enter the Zone, consider the life of Squeaky Fromme as parable.

Jan,

First I read around in the Simon Necronomicon. I can't say I read every word, but ... what am I supposed to do with these foul spirits roaming about? I know. I shoulda read the part about banishings first. But this is rediculous. Seriously, reading that book made me feel ill.

Second, I put up the video of Loreen with the following passage from Bk III of Sinister Forces in mind:

The Manson Secret is black magic, and it was black magic that informed the CIA's mind-control programs as well. These same processes are being used virtually without changeamong terrorist organizations and revolutionary cells throughout the world, who have realized that the most effective tool for violent action is the properly initiated cult member. Ecstasy is just another face of fanaticism; eros is another face of magic. Fascism is the natural environment for both, for it speaks directly to the passions and the unconscious mind, through the use of symbols, repetitive slogans, and group ritual; i.e., magic....Transmute the ecstasy or the eros to a high pitch of passionate dedication to a cause, and use the theory of the magical link competently, and you have created an assassin, or a priest, a lover, an actor; or a politician who cannot be stopped except by a bullet. (p.430)

I understand "Loreen" to be a witch living in divinity for a few moments and we through her we partake in the divine. We live in an ecstatic eternal moment through her. That is the intent. We are led into a "sinister force" that surely is not black magic. No, "Loreen" is not political witchcraft, but witchcraft nevertheless. Consider:

Hollywood is the new religion of America and, to a certain extent, of the rest of the world as well. Hollywood brings the godsthe stars, "every man and every woman is a star"down to earth, where they can be seen and heard and touched by the masses; not only Hollywood, of course, but also the music industry, and not only in California and New York but also in Bollywood and Europe and Mexico and Brazil and Venezuela and China and Hong Kong and so on. Americans emulate movie characters more than they do the saints of their religions: they dress like them, drive the same cars, have the same attitudes, talk like them, and eventually adopt the same cultural mores. Hollywood is a vast mind-control engine, which is why many independent films are ignored by the public: they do not want to think independently, they want to have their consciousness massaged by the old, familiar rituals. The tools of Hollywood are the tools of psychological warfare, of mind control and behavior control. Of advertising, in its most pernicious sense. (p435)

Loreen aka Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui of Moroccan parentage, is just a another human who shits and will die, not a goddess. But through the power of television and thousands of watts of electricity and experts on lighting, makeup, choreography, sound technicians, and maybe a stray musician, ... and, my god, I am a part of something much greater.

But note the dark figure that dances around her; he comes out of nowhere -- apparently conjured. And he dances her until she dances him into the ground in a final leap of transcendence. Could her craft take the direction of the Rollling Stones in Sympathy for the Devil? Could she be used to work the Manson Secret on us all. Why not? But for now, she's a white witch. She serves a greater purpose just as she is.

OK, I have tried to make myself clearer. Am I still doing alchemy in reverse? I confess that I am just starting to "get" what Levenda is saying. I'll need some time.