The Devil is an Egregore
A fictional entity, with no basis in reality, it was created or adapted by the Catholic Church. It terrorises believers into obeying and funding the Catholic Church. Catholics are afraid of falling into the Devil’s clutches in Hell if they don’t go to Church on Sunday etc. So for them, the Devil is real.
I say he’s a fictional entity with some authority, because as a kid I was quite indifferent to him, despite all the Hellfire nonsense from the pulpit. The only devils I encountered were abusive Catholic priests and monks.
Anti-semitism is an Egregore.
An entity that has grown over the centuries, and was fed by Nazis and Fascists to increase hatred against the Jews.
Egregious meaning ‘extremely and conspicuously bad’ comes from the same Latin root and describes Egregores well.
Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea what an Egregore was. Then Olivier Ledroit, my co-creator on Requiem, sent me a brilliant idea for them to feature in our long-running Resurrection series. He sees them as psychic thought forms that have materialised on Resurrection. They are composed of Zombies and the lying Ghouls that manipulate them. So I did some research on the subject.
I came across an amazing article by Max Borders. It confirms everything Olivier described.
It’s well worth a read and I quote some of the highlights below.
Media Manipulators and their Foul Egregores
Media manipulation can be understood as an attempt to shape our collective sensemaking. The manipulators conjure their egregores to push a pliant public in a direction the manipulators desire.
You see, the corporate media has mutated. Instead of tracking truth, it summons grotesque psychic entities.
It’s also used to describe a collective thoughtform that gets summoned when enough people concentrate on the same pattern of ideas.
The resulting collective consciousness resembles a psychic entity, that is, a creature with a life of its own. Egregores influence—and are influenced by—the thoughts of those participating in their creation
The process is both conscious and unconscious, as ideological mind viruses animate journalists, making them into zombies
So Egregores feed on hate, manipulated by others, notably ‘journalists’.
I needed to find an example of grotesque and foul hatred in the British media to inspire my own Egregore in Requiem.
So where would I look?
Well, of course. It had to be. It was the obvious place.
Readers comments in the Daily Mail.
Always the richest source of middle-class venom and bile.
Now until maybe a year or so ago, the Daily Mail would announce ‘These comments have been moderated’ or ‘These comments have not been moderated.’
They’ve stopped saying that now.
But I know readers’ comments are still being moderated because of the McCann case. The Mail has consistently taken the British State’s line, trashing the ‘disgraced’ Goncalo Amaral, the Portuguese detective whose conclusions – against the parents – have been upheld by the European courts. What the Mail would call a ‘bombshell verdict’, except they don’t mention it. It’s obvious from the readers’ comments, which consistently back the Mail’s view, that they are removing any pro-Amaral views, or criticisms of the parents, of which there are many to be found elsewhere.
So the readers’ comments below have certainly been moderated and approved by the Mail. Because it’s another subject dear to the Mail’s heart – pro-Israel and trashing anyone who dares criticize what’s happening in Gaza.
What surprised me was the unusual volume of readers’ comments. It was an absolute torrent of hate.
So whether they included sock puppet accounts and this was a calculated PR exercise by an outside agency for propaganda purposes, I have no way of knowing.
Perhaps there really are that many people who hate Greta Thunberg.
I’m not going to express an opinion here on her merits or faults because it’s irrelevant. So it doesn’t matter if narcissist Piers Morgan is correct in saying Greta is an attention-seeking narcissist.
What matters is that the Mail readers were suggesting she should be mass raped as a consequence of her actions, as you will see below.
And that she would ‘like that’.
How the Mail reader knew that, he doesn’t make clear.
7 Mail readers approved of his mass rape comment. 12 disapproved.
Others were in the same vein.
This ‘little girl’ needed ‘dealing’ with by Hamas.
Raping a ‘little girl’ is clearly acceptable, irrespective of politics.
And all this was said with the knowledge and therefore endorsement of the Mail, a national British newspaper.
By publishing comments encouraging the mass rape of a young woman, because she stands for freedom, or self-publicity, or because she’s ‘smug’, the Mail has seriously crossed the line.
That’s a Hate Crime.
To get some idea of the seriousness, in another report, according to the BBC: Kay, 26, and Parlour, 28, have been sentenced to 38 months and 20 months in prison respectively for stirring up racial hatred online during the summer riots.
But stirring up hatred on line with rape threats against a young woman is clearly different.
No one will take action against the Mail, because it is an arm of the State and obeys its orders, even if it hates Starmer as a (temporary) representative of the State.
Justice is selective and cannot apply where the State is concerned.
The venality of all concerned is self-apparent.
I started to copy the comments below, but there were so many and I was so disgusted by them I had to stop. Usually I study media propaganda because it’s relevant to what I write, but I hadn’t got the stomach to continue.
I’m told they continued in the same vein. And even included Meghan Markle meeting a similar fate. The Mail, of course, is legendary for its hatred of Meghan Markle and usually has two articles a day trashing her, presumably on the orders of the State.
This seems to be the fate that women deserve if they threaten the State in some way.
A monster spewing hate against outspoken women, an Egregore,is definitely being created.
Needless to say, it will meet with a most unpleasant fate in my version of Hell.
But somehow it’s not enough. Perhaps exposing these sick filth is all that is possible.
It's a fascinating subject, ignored by science, and yet having some level of psychic reality at least. A football crowd has a collective energy similar to an Egregore, Then there's the idea of a Tulpa - a materialised thought form that may be created by a magician and perhaps 'escapes' and has an autonomous existence. How far a Muse fits these criteria I don't know. Nine Muses are listed by the Greeks. It's a complex, interactive world, equivalent to the botanical kingdom or the animal kingdom, yet barely charted or given a vocabulary, because science says it doesn't exist and it's all a delusion. I must take a closer look at the Nine Muses and see if there any clues. They're roughly similar to the Nine Arts. The latter should start with oral storytelling and ends with Comics, the ninth art.
Hear, hear. Psychology rarely looks at things like egregores and similar psychic phenomena. It's good that the term 'egregore' is being popularised. There's a surprising number of articles about them on line