The Eagle's Nest

21/10/2024

WARNING LONG POST. I honestly can't recommend this book enough, and you don't even have to be an Orthodox Christian in order to appreciate it. In fact, I think Americans should read it through the lens that British society has had a profound influence on American society via British Common Law, British Protestantism, and the British strain of the Enlightenment, which has developed into a hyper materialistic/atheistic framework that's been championed and glorified by such notable British atheists as David Hume, Betrand Russel, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens (which has also inevitably bled into American society).

Yet British atheists have always been the "Middle Management" of the British Elite (and many would argue that they're actually knowing and willful pawns to the real elite). The real elite of British society (which includes massive swaths of their nobility and political classes) have been neck-deep into the Occult for centuries (e.g. Freemasonry, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Thelema, The Hellfire Club, Rosicrucianism, etc.). Unsurprisingly, when tracing whose financing and supporting such global movements as the "Great Reset" and "Build Back Better" movements, many of these Occultic groups are also neck-deep in them, and that's not a coincidence.

Now, are we just dealing with a bunch of rich old coots running around in a forest with their trousers on their heads? Read this book if you want to know the answer, because the author Dionysios Farasiotis pulls back the veil and reveals a world that atheists tell you doesn't exact, but which is in fact very real, and for me personally, reading it was like watching a trainwreck slowly unfold. I knew exactly how it was going to end, and you can't help but roll your eyes and want to smack Dionysios for making so many stupid decisions, but in the end, I can only judge him so much because my own path to Orthodoxy somewhat mirrored his (although I never had his interest in Occultic magic or "white light" witchcraft).

I was raised Roman Catholic and had a very negative experience with Christianity growing up because the Dallas Diocese (which my church was ruled by) had protected numerous pedophiles in its jurisdiction, including one (quite possibly two) at my own church (one priest was defrocked, while the other had allegations of sexual misconduct while teaching at a private school in Arkansas that still remain in limbo).

From there it was out of the frying pan and into the fire. I went to a college that was nominally Presbyterian, but I fell under the influence of a theology professor who taught there that was part of the "Jesus Seminar." They were a hyper-revisionist school of thought that viewed the entire New Testament as basically a work of fraud, and they had appointed themselves the arbiters of finding "the real historical Jesus" and tossing out whatever parts of the Scriptures they didn't agree with (and of course that meant almost all of it).

This professor was later caught in numerous sexual scandals with several student and was run off campus with his tail tucked between his legs, but the damage was still done. With the "one-two punch" of both my Roman Catholic upbringing as well as my college experience, I would actually have classified myself as an enemy of Christianity throughout most of my 20s and 30s. But I nonetheless had a mystical, spiritual side to me, and I knew that atheism was nonsense, so I instead turned to Gnosticism.

I took it very, very seriously and invested nearly two decades of training and study into it, with a strong emphasis in Hermeticism, Platonism, Stoicism, and Vedic Theosophy. When I started becoming interested in Orthodoxy (and yet wouldn't fully commit because of my ego and long-standing investment into Gnosticism), The Holy Spirit decided to give me exactly what I wanted through what can only be called a "Divine Chastisement."

What I found startling about this book is how similar many of Dionysios's experiences where with my own. He's in an Ashram in India under the strict instruction of a Hindu yogi and he starts having intense visions of the Greek god Hermes. Does that sound crazy? For an ex-Hermeticist, it didn't sound crazy at all. The central prophet/messiah/avatar to Hermeticism is Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes the thrice-blessed, which was a synchronized deity of both the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian God Thoth).

I had similar visions of this entity during my own meditations, and just like with Dionysios, those vision were accompanied with an intense magnetic draw to the Hindu god Shiva (who gave yoga to humanity and is perceived as the father of all yogis). I had the exact same experiences with Shiva, and when Dionysios tells his yogi about these meditative encounters and visions, his yogi immediately responds that he's on the brink of a "Kundalini Awakening."

Been there. Done that. Bought the t-shirt. 0 out of 10 would not recommend. At all. I got so good at my Hermetic mediations that I had a "breakthrough" and was "gifted" with my own "Kundalin Awakening," and oh wasn't I just hot stuff. I was so proud of myself. I had accomplished in a couple of decades what many Eastern practitioners spend their entire lives chasing and never attain or experience (this awakening is the goal of all Eastern yoga practices).

The veil dropped and over the next couple of years I was witness to paranormal/supernatural phenomenon that made me even more convinced I was an "Ascended Master" (snort, chuckle, barf), and yet again, Dionysios also had very similar experiences. But this all ended with a powerful backhand from The Holy Spirit (the greatest thing that's ever happened to me), and then the stark, black-and-white revelation to me of both the Divine and the Demonic Worlds.

Are you a yoga practitioner that one day also wishes to have a Kundalini Awakening? Well here's the reality of the entities hiding behind the facade of pseudo-enlightenment - imagine getting woken up in the middle of the night being choked-out by black entities hovering above you, your bed shaking violently, the box fan on your cabinet being repeatedly thrown to the ground, the sounds of claw marks scratching on the wall, and the most creepy of all, something pulling and playing with your hair. That's what you're actually tangling with, Champ.

This took place over several months and can only be called a Spiritual Purgative, which also included really committing myself to the Orthodox Faith as well as confessing my involvement with Gnosticism and the Occult (and the absolute FUBAR it unleashed upon me) to an Orthodox Priest.

At this point our society is absolutely drowning in Gnostic and Occultic practices, and you should take both Dionysios's experience and my own as a warning. Yet that backhand from The Holy Spirit also became the starting point for how I will live my life from this point forward until the day that I die, and I understand exactly what Christ was talking about when he told Nicodemus that to enter the Kingdom of Heaven you must be born again. That's what that backhand did, it fundamentally transformed me and gave me a new lease on life (despite my devotion to Gnosticism I was spiritually dead before that encounter), and it also showed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that The Holy Trinity is quite real and that demonic forces are both terrified and subservient to it.

Finally, this book provides an excellent account of Elder Paisios, now Saint Paisios, who is one of the most revered and respected Saints in modern Orthodoxy (and in reading Dionysios's interactions with him, it's not hard to see why). Had I been lucky like Dionysios and had the chance to interact with an ascetic of his caliber in my 20s, I probably would have become an Orthodox Priest, if not a monk. Alas, at 43 I don't think that's in the cards. However, this book has convinced me to start saving money in order to do a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, which is one of the holiest sites in Orthodox Christianity, and when you read the interactions between Dionysios and the various monks he seeks wisdom and advice from, it's not hard to see why. Some of them have attained such an integrated union with the Godhead that the presence of The Holy Spirit is quite tangible and palpable whenever you're in their presence, and it something I hope to experience myself.

This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various occult techniques. Eventually drawn back to the Faith of his forefathers Orthodox Christianity he visited the ancient monastic republic of ...

12/09/2024

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19/08/2024

Hello Facebook friends! So our fundraiser has officially broken a $1,000, and we're just a few hundred dollars away from our goal. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated, and no amount is too small!

You know when Jesus talked about storing treasures up in heaven? This is how you do it, bro. This is how you get a chest bump and a high five from Christ at the Pearly Gates because you helped build a playground for kids. Thank you to everyone who has donated! It is greatly, greatly appreciated!

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17/08/2024

Why are the elites so dangerous? Are they evil? You betcha. Are they also morons? Winner winner chicken dinner. To be more precise, they're like a pampered academic that's been told they're "brilliant" their entire lives but is highly sheltered and never experienced the real world, and the minute they do, so many of their pie-in-the-sky theories turn to dust. Case in point - do the elite want to force a CBDC upon you (Central Bank Digital Currency)?

You bet they do. The thought of being able to track your every purchase and movement, while simultaneously excluding and punishing you from commerce for engaging in "wrong think" against them (which would naturally lead to destitution and starvation) is a wet dream for a lot of them. But then in walks the hackers who unceremoniously take a p**s in their cheerios.

The more centralized a system becomes, the more fragile and vulnerable it becomes as well. This hack is just one of many that's taken place over the past several weeks, including the Crowdstrike snafu as well as CDK hack (which completely paralyzed the American automative industry).

As tensions heat up globally (many would argue we're already in World War III), the hacks will only get worse. As a side note, part of my job is working with government all over the world to help our clients export products abroad. If you think governments have sound IT systems, think again. I still deal with some agencies that ask for a fax number to be listed on applications - no joke. When's the last time you used a fax machine? Buckle up.

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11/08/2024

Hello Facebook friends! My church is doing a fundraiser to help raise money for a children's playground (we've had a lot of young families join recently). Any help you could give would be greatly, greatly appreciated (and if you can't donate, then sharing the link would also be greatly appreciated). Thank you and may Gold bless you and keep you!

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01/06/2024

My news feed is stuffed to the gills with people reporting on the Trump verdict, yet this is barely even registering a blip, especially since Ukraine has already used our weapons to attack a radar system near Kazakhstan that's part of Russia's early warning detection system for incoming nuclear ICBMs. It would be identical to an enemy nation attacking our NORAD detection system and intentionally trying to blind us from an incoming nuclear attack. The American people need to remember three things:

1)The belief that the MAD Doctrine (Mutually Assured Destruction) is what prevented the Cuban Missile Crises from going nuclear is complete and total poppycock. It should have gone hot and none of us should be here. The only reason it didn't was because of a Russian submarine officer named Vasily Arkhipov who denied both the captain of his submarine as well as the political officer from unloading their nuclear payload after they came under depth charge bombardment from the American surface fleet (and were absolutely convinced that the conflict had gone hot). MAD failed spectacularly, and yet historians and political scientists continue to lie about and mislead the public about it's efficacy, which in turn has given both the public and our politicians a false sense of confidence when it comes to nuclear brinkmanship. We view it like a WWF wrestling match where it's all choreographed, nothing could ever go wrong, and there's no way a loose nuke could ever fly. That's not the case at all, and attacking Russia's early warning detection system and trying to blind them from incoming nuclear missiles is a massive provocation in a war that we're already losing badly (more on that shortly).

2)We live in an age of weaponized incompetence. We've put so many morons in power that they collectively have become an existential threat to both Humanity and the planet. A perfect example of this is that the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firecrackers compared to modern-day nuclear weapons. An example of this is the RS-28 Sarmat, which is nicknamed "Satan." It's an ICBM platform that can deliver up to 16 nuclear warheads hitting different targets and can take out an area the size of Texas. They also have a nuclear torpedo called the Poseidon that can reportedly create a 1,600ft. tsunami of radioactive sea water that could absolutely decimate the Eastern and Western seaboards (or completely decimate a country like Great Britain, another belligerent in this war). Common sense should tell us that diplomacy and statesmanship should be used to ensure such weapons are never deployed, but in the age of weaponized incompetence, common sense isn't so common. In fact it's becoming an increasingly fleeting and precious commodity.

3)The Mad Doctrine only works if both sides are governed by rational self-interest, but what if the rational self-interest of the elites governing a nation is diametrically opposed to the state that they're governing? We're losing in Ukraine badly, and a gambling man would tell you that the Ukrainian military has entered into its "Berlin Phase" of World War II. They're forcefully conscripting convicted felons, 14 year old boys, and 60 year old men in order to have enough warm bodies to fight on the front line, and just like the dying days of the Third Reich when Berlin was pretty much all that Germany had left, they know the war is lost, yet their government is now openly trying to instigate a nuclear conflict in the hopes of forcing NATO and America even deeper into the war.

Western elites are also facing both a faltering global economy as well as growing public anger towards both weaponized incompetence and the culture of corruption that has completely engulfed and destroyed all of our civic institutions. In such an environment, what seems insane to the common man seems completely rational to a desperate elite trying to save his hide, especially if you have a bunker or a shelter in a remote and secluded location that might protect you from nuclear fallout (as most of them do), and you also happen to be a corrupt psychopath that would slit your own mother's throat for wealth and power (as most of them are). As most people know, the elite are trying to institute "The Great Reset," and if they can't convince the world to do that voluntarily, then they might pivot to the "Hard Reset," which might very well include nuclear war.

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29/05/2024

May 29th, 1453.

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27/05/2024

May God help us all, and I would strongly advise and encourage the faithful to include some prayers for World Peace, because I don't think we've ever been as close to World War III and a nuclear exchange as we are now, which includes the Cold War. This announcement from NATO comes a couple of days after Ukraine used American missiles to attack a Russian radar station deep in Russian territory (near Kazakhstan) that's part of it's early warning nuclear detection system for incoming ICBMs. To put it into perspective, this is comparable to an enemy attacking a NORAD military base in America (North American Aerospace Defense Command), which the Pentagon would most certainly take as an act of war. Let me put a few things into perspective for you:

1)The Ukrainian military is in complete collapse at this point. They were forcefully conscripting teenagers and sixty year old men a couple of months ago, and now they're trying to forcefully conscript convicted felons in order to have enough warm bodies on the front line. Once they get there, they last a few days tops, as the "military strategy" that's been deployed in this war is mass infantry assaults that mimic World War I trench fighting that then hit a steel wall of artillery, missiles, drones, Russian aircraft, and land mines. Hundreds of thousands have died, with an additional hundreds of thousands wounded and crippled. NATO and the US are also running out of armaments and ammunition to send to them, but even if we still had abundant supplies, Ukraine doesn't have the manpower to utilize those supplies, and most of the foreign fighters that signed up at the beginning of the war are either dead or fled the country after getting a taste of the what the front lines are actually like. The Ukrainian military probably has a few months left tops.

2)The American elite have also completely destroyed the American military through a mixture of DEI programs, vaccine mandates, p**sing and crapping on anything that remotely smacks of patriotism, along with plummeting recruitment numbers as the youth don't want anything to do with the American neo-conservative war machine (especially as it's gone completely off the rails and has become completely unhinged). There's talk of instituting a military draft in order to help increase numbers, and all I can say is good luck with that, as you'll have the exact same thing that you had in Vietnam - angry grunts fragging their officers along with a potential civil war on the domestic front (with many angry and disillusioned military veterans actively fighting against those trying to forcefully conscript their family and friends).

3)While it was just a whisper a few years ago, the behavior of the elites over the past few years has given credence to a theory that they actually want a nuclear war because A) They have bunkers and shelters in places like New Zealand, Hawaii, Patagonia, and The Rocky Mountains, and thus they think they can survive a nuclear exchange, and B) They know the global economy is doomed and at some point they're going to face the angry torches and pitchforks of enraged mobs, and thus a nuclear war provides the "cover" and "chaos" to escape through the backdoor and then bide their time until things "calm down" and "blow over" (we're dealing with thermonuclear war here, so those concepts should definetely be put in parenthesis because the fallout will be absolutely apocalyptic). As stated, their behavior is giving increasing credence to this hypothesis, and an animal is most dangerous when it's backed into a corner and has no place to escape, which is what they're increasingly faced with.

If my post comes across as "alarmist," my apologies, but it's too late in the day to blow smoke up your ass. We didn't just magically get here overnight, and we should have the balls and the backbone to stare the situation in the face. Make your peace with God and spend as much time with your family and friends as you possibly can, because things are probably about to get really hairy.

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16/05/2024

If you graduated S&S High School in 1999, we'll be having our 25th High School Reunion at 903 Brewers on June 29th (the last Saturday of the month) starting at 5pm. Be there or be square! Please share this post or tell anyone you know about the shindig.

If you went to S&S, didn't graduate in '99, but still want to hang out with the cool kids (I mean who doesn't, amirite?), please also feel free to stop by if you'd like.

Thus far we've got Zachery Thedford, Scott Fuhrman, Phil Sheridan Richard Ayala, and myself committed, with others like Ryan Miller (class of '98) FINALLY getting a chance to hang out with the cool kids (way to go Ryan!). We hope to see you there!

28/04/2024

For all of my Protestant friends, if you're looking for the theological overlap between Protestant and Orthodox Christian theology, I would highly recommend Dr. Michael Heiser's books, lectures, and podcasts. He was a theologian, ancient historian, and ancient linguist who taught at the University of Wisconsin whose work is just top-notch, and I've included a "juicy" topic that always seems to interest folks, Demonology, as an introduction. From there (if you're interested), some Orthodox scholars that you might want to research are Jonathan Pageau (I'll include one of his lectures in the comments below) as well as the Lord of Spirits Podcast, which is hosted by two Orthodox Christian Priests, Father Andrew Stephan Damick and Father Stephen De Young. One thing you'll notice is that there is A LOT of people who listen to Dr. Heiser who end up listening to both Pageau and the Lord of Spirits Podcast (and vice versa) because there's so much overlap between them.

What does the Bible say about demons? Are demons real?Get the book "Demons" by Dr. Michael S. Heiser https://bit.ly/logos_demonsGet "The Angels and Demons Bu...