Excellent descriptions of how the predators organizing civilization operate are provided in Carlos Castaneda's The Active Side of Infinity and Armando Torres' The Universal Spider's Web. These books about the Native American Toltec tradition describe beings that have no physical bodies in our dimension of reality but who structure culture and society to keep us vibrating: releasing emotional energy about things that are not actually happening. They feed on this vibration like plants feed on sunlight. There are different species of them and some are more helpful or hurtful than others.
Comparative Religion
For the sake of Western audiences familiar with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, the Torah, Bible, and Koran do talk about them:
These creatures are described in Mediterranean traditions as "archons" and are sometimes referred to as either angels or demons. In the Hekhalot teachings, "Torah angels" take Jewish mystics to a realm exactly like the Toltecs' realm of the inorganic beings to learn. More importantly, the Arabic word for demon is pronounced "shaytan" or "saytan".
Jesus spoke Aramaic, which is mostly Arabic. When Jesus says, "Get thee behind me, Satan" he is talking to one. The idea that Satan is one guy was made up by the Roman Church in its highly distorted Bible versions. It is like saying Elephant is one animal, instead of a kind of animal. The Roman Church is about 5% Jesus and 95% mind control.
According to Native American seers, there are several of these creatures for every human. Very few humans ever get completely free of them. Until we do, we are like a time-share where they control some of our thoughts and feelings. If we act on these thoughts and feelings, they also control our actions. It is not just perverted elites or politicians who are possessed by these things, we all are, to varying extents.
The Buddha's teachings of meditation and dispassion get us to stop vibrating emotionally and feeding them until they leave us alone. So does Yoga. Taoist teachings of recognizing and harmonizing with the natural order do the same. Zen contemplation does the same. Kabbalistic contemplation and prayer do the same. Mohammed's way of peace by submitting to God's will does the same. Jesus' teachings of listening to God does the same. Very few practitioners today take the teachings of their tradition all the way to success: liberation from remote control.
The Central American Toltec teachings that Castaneda and associates follow are enriched by hundreds of generations of people who have all succeeded in freeing themselves from the predators and who have perfected methods of getting free. Each generation had a group of teachers who succeeded and continued to refine successful perspectives and methods. These lineages are the only one of these traditions were women have been equal partners in the process and thus have tools more useful for women on the path.
Because the Toltec lineages were independent, and the later ones had nothing to do with controlling groups of people, the teachings were never corrupted by social organizations enforcing morality or idealism as control. They teach a science of consciousness and unification with nature rather than a system of coercion. They view God as an abstract force talking through all things, telling us how to be natural. There are no conflicting messages about "bend over for the priest" or "obey your lord".
Demons in History
There was a period of time when these creatures were more visible than they are today: People could see them. Jacob wrestled one. Thousands of indigenous Americans have also "wrestled the ally" and become powerful like Jacob did. Doing this gives the human doing it connection with one of these beings and taps different layers of reality and the powers expanded perception enable.
Some of these beings are harmless and helpful, but some of them feed on animal terror. Human sacrifice emerged all over the world about the same time when specific people made alliances with these beings. The beings demanded human sacrifices, and the individuals, who became powerful and became so-called leaders, tortured other humans to death to feed their allies. War is a system set up to feed these creatures and is the business plan of civiliesation.
A Religion of Suffering
The Roman Church was the front group controlling Europe between about 460 CE and 1860 CE. This was called The Holy Roman Empire. It was actually The Second Roman Empire. The kings of the individual European countries were under control of the Pope, and his favorite was called the Holy Roman Emperor. The Romans just shifted from being primarily a military-based empire to a dual military and religion-based one that recruited local allies as "nobles". The Empire's public bureaucrats shifted from being called "governors" to being called "bishops" and "kings" and its local business franchise owners were called "priests" and "lords". Both sets had essentially the same powers in the areas they controlled. Though the Romans initially controlled the Church, the Roman and local aristocracies eventually intermarried to produce both groups.
Both of the first and second Roman Empires were based on slavery and violence. The Church gangsters, hit men, and police were the Jesuits, the so-called Society of Jesus. There is no way to make what the Jesuits did and do fit in with what Jesus taught. According to anthropologist Marija Gimbutas, the Jesuits sacrificed about 8 million women in public ceremonies. They called them witches and other bad names. Men were sacrificed too. Anyone who pointed out the slavery scheme being run was tortured to death in front of their friends and neighbors to traumatize the survivors into a narrow box of perception and behavior.
The goals of this torture-to-death were two-fold: to feed the demons the Roman Church admistrators were allied with and to terrify local populations into submission. The central imagery in Roman Church buildings was of Jesus being tortured to death. The message was clear: "Look at the most righteous and pure of people. He is weeping as he is tortured to death. If you act on divine love for your neighbors, this will happen to you." It was backed up by seeing your friends and relatives tortured to death in even more gruesome ways if they every stood up to the Church and said it was evil bullshit.
Only terrified, traumatized people, trained to be cognitive conformists cannot see through this. Dozens of generations of fear and suffering have made even thinking about these things too terrifying to consider. We wander around like moronic children, thinking positive thoughts, holding an idealistic vision of the world, trying to be good, to avoid being punished.
There are Angels Too
Toltecs teach that by unifying our consciousness, intention, and activity, and graduating from this world successfully we become a type of high-speed inorganic being: a being without a body capable of moving freely across time and space. Such beings are discussed at length in Castaneda's The Art of Dreaming (a being known as The Death Defier) and in Armando Torres The Universal Spider Web (a being known as The Warrior of Time or Shaak'Atl). These angels return to visit, advise, and teach the living.
Interestingly, the Taoist immortals of Chinese lore fit this description. So does Babaji, the lineage sponsor in Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi (Yogananda was the messenger sent to Europe and America to rescue us with Yoga). Elijah is a frequent angel visiting Jewish seekers. Various Christian saints continue to appear to those who pray to them. So do various masters in Baird Spalding's The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East which came out in the 1920s; it was considered the first New Age book.
It is a good tie in. Around 1900, a group of American and British academics and scientists who have heard that there are people in Asia who can do amazing things go there, to the Himalayas, to find them. The meet the masters, who explain what they do in terms of Jesus' teachings. Jesus came to study with them and was part of their tradition before returning to the Middle East to teach. [Records confirm Jesus' presence in Indian and Tibetan monasteries in his teens and twenties.]
The Life and Teachings is probably the most useful point of entry for Christian readers who want to get over seeing everyone else as Pagans and understand that we are all part of a universal human tradition that was not specifically religious, but a way of perceiving the world and interacting with each other. Castaneda and Associates are probably the best point of entry for anyone who considers themselves atheist or scientific because they are not about any religion at all, but about deconditioning consciousness to admit information that quantum physicists have confirmed can be perceived and reformatting the body to interact with it. We can only act on what we perceive. Perceiving more means more options for activity and influence.
In either case, the price of admission is changing behavior. To perceive as natural animals do we have to behave as natural animals behave. The closer we are to that, the more we can perceive. Many native people today can still see the planet Venus in the daytime sky. They can also hear the voices of plants and animals. Only by giving up what we think we know can we notice what is actually here. There are traditions that teach how to do that. Yoga is one. Toltec tradtions are another.
