If this is your first visit to Ishtar's Gate forum, welcome. We're happy for you to read our posts as a Guest. If you wish to join us, only apply to do so if you're going to post. The way to become a member is to Contact Us and tell us something about yourself which will explain why you'd like to join, what you hope to learn and what you will bring to the Gate.... and we'll get back to you. The Occult Nature of the Olympics Closing Ceremony "Occult" just means "hidden" and so in itself, it is a neutral word. It is neither good nor evil. The outcome of any occult act lies in the intention of the performer of it. But as many are increasingly becoming aware, there has been a silent and subterranean occult war going on for some time across the world between various Freemasonic groups. While we're watching surface events, others are working the geometries, archetypes, leyline energies and numbers underneath that which appears to be happening on the surface, and these underground factors engage a part of our brain of which we're largely unconscious, which is why it's called the unconscious mind. However, like the seven-eighths of the iceberg which lies under the water, our unconscious minds are more powerful than our conscious minds (the eighth of the iceberg above the water) in dictating the direction of our lives. It's my belief that the main aim of all the psy-ops campaigns in recent