June 1, 2025, observingconsciousness.substack.com
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Editor’s note: Even though this piece is already quite long, we’ll just add this little bit of relevant trivia ~ In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the Palantír is a seeing-stone, one of several ancient crystal orbs created by the Elves of Valinor. Saruman, the wizard, uses a Palantír in his tower at Orthanc to scry, allowing him to view distant events and communicate with others, notably Sauron.
However, the stones can be manipulated, and Sauron uses this to deceive Saruman, feeding him misleading visions to bend him to his will. The Palantíri are powerful but dangerous tools, often corrupting or ensnaring those who use them unwisely.
A Multidimensional Exposure of the Control Grid – Degree by Degree, Domain by Domain, Until the System Collapses Under Its Own Surveillance
Power was always built like a pyramid – layered in secrecy, ruled from the top.
That’s why it’s falling in degrees.
The Palantir Canon is a mapped detonation of the global control system –
decoded one layer at a time, across 33 engineered degrees of domination.
They called it enlightenment.
They wrapped it in symbols, rituals, and spiritual theft.
From Masonic lodges to Ivy League halls, the 33-degree pyramid of power was real – a towering hierarchy crowned with the all-seeing eye. And Palantir was their digital apex, the crown jewel of surveillance.
Until it was flipped.
Trump’s executive orders weren’t politics.
They were legal warheads, coded acts of silent rebellion.
Harvard fell. Surveillance systems turned.
And Palantir, their mirror of control, became the system that now watches them.
This Canon doesn’t theorize. It documents.
Each degree reveals what they never wanted seen – who built it, who ran it, who paid for it, and who falls next.
If you think this ends in courtrooms, you haven’t seen Degree 33.
This isn’t just exposure.
It’s reversal – by design, by degree, until the whole pyramid collapses.
The Silent Detonation – How Three Executive Orders Set the Trap That Captured the Control Grid
The War That Didn’t Look Like War
It didn’t begin with bombs.
It began with language.
While the world was hypnotized by headlines, outraged by tweets, and glued to theater, a quiet war unfolded beneath the surface – initiated not by tanks or drones, but by executive ink on parchment.
December 21, 2017.
A date that will never be taught in classrooms, but should be. Because this was when the detonation was triggered. Not a physical explosion, but a legal one – a structural implosion of the global corruption grid masked as routine bureaucracy.
Donald Trump didn’t walk into Washington to play the game.
He came to flip the board.
And he did it with three coded declarations of war.
The Trinity of Capture – EO 13818, EO 13848, EO 13959
EO 13818 was signed under the radar. The world saw it as just another human rights statement. But in reality, it activated a wartime legal state – a national emergency – without ever declaring a war.
Its language was surgical – anyone, foreign or domestic – involved in human rights violations or corruption could have their assets frozen. It wasn’t just an order. It was a sword of lawful seizure that bypassed the judicial system and went straight for the purse strings of global elites.
That same sword would be extended and sharpened with EO 13848, signed in 2018.
On its face, it was about election security. But its real function was far deeper – it created a surveillance override, a pretext to monitor and track any node touched by foreign interference in U.S. elections. That meant NGOs. Media outlets. Universities. Private equity. No one was off-limits.
Then came EO 13959, the mask-ripper. Issued post-2020 election theft optics, it zeroed in on Chinese military firms embedded in U.S. finance. This was the beginning of the financial untangling – Wall Street, Harvard, and the CCP. The triumvirate of the captured world.
Together, these three orders didn’t just create a new legal architecture.
They were the trap.
And the trap was spiritual as much as it was legal.
The Mirror Is Forged
What was Trump really doing?
He wasn’t reacting to the system.
He was laying the rails for its lawful capture.
While the media caricatured him, while politicians laughed him off, Trump’s team was embedding a mirror system beneath the visible grid – an architecture that would eventually record everything, route it through AI, and legally tag it for future prosecution.
Palantir was that mirror.
Originally built as a surveillance and modeling engine for the post-9/11 national security state, Palantir became something else.
In 2020, it was infiltrated.
Or, more precisely – it was flipped.
Harvard Falls First – The Ritual Collapse of the Gate
Before Palantir was turned, something symbolic had to fall.
Harvard.
Not just a school, but the ritual gate to elite legitimacy. For centuries, it functioned as the forge of controlled narratives, bloodline anointings, and soft imperial indoctrination.
Then, in 2018, Drew Faust stepped down.
It wasn’t a resignation.
It was a signal.
Shortly after, financial audits revealed disturbing ties between Harvard’s endowment and CCP-linked investment vehicles. Faculty scandals emerged. Donations dried up. The crimson veil slipped.
The collapse of Harvard wasn’t an accident.
It was a planned dethroning.
Because no new system could rise until the false priesthood was exposed and disarmed.
Trump’s EOs were already in effect.
Palantir was already watching.
Trojan Horse – HHS and Palantir’s Pandemic Infiltration
Then came COVID.
The perfect storm.
While the world was busy following arrows on supermarket floors and clapping for health bureaucrats, Palantir was brought into the center of the machine.
Under the guise of pandemic management, Palantir partnered with Health and Human Services (HHS) via a program called “Protect Now.”
It gave them:
- Real-time access to hospital data
- Supply chain movement
- Vaccine logistics
- Behavioral compliance metrics
But more importantly, it gave them a backdoor into every institution connected to the COVID response.
And inside that data, the mirror began its work.
Palantir didn’t just track hospital beds.
It tracked narrative synchronization.
It modeled population reactions to exposure.
It studied what would happen when truth broke through the fog.
It was preparing the system for full cognitive collapse.
The Mirror Turns – White Hats Walk In
Here’s the twist.
White Hats didn’t shut down Palantir.
They entered it.
They didn’t destroy the mirror.
They flipped it.
Palantir, once the eye of the surveillance state, was now the witness system – recording crimes in real-time, under legal authorization.
It monitored:
- Election tampering patterns
- NGO money laundering
- ESG score enforcement
- Digital censorship corridors
- Pharmaceutical suppression deals
Every click. Every email. Every transaction.
The mirror watched.
And it tagged everything.
Under the protection of Trump’s EOs, this data wasn’t just observation.
It was evidence.
The Trap Was Sprung Before the Theatrics Began
When Trump walked away from the White House in 2021, the media declared victory.
But they didn’t understand what had already happened.
The system was already captured.
The mirror was already watching.
The evidence trails were already recorded – legally, mathematically, and spiritually.
This wasn’t politics.
It was the most sophisticated counter-capture operation in modern history.
And it began here.
This is Degree 0.
The point where the trap was built.
The moment the mirror turned.
The line that separates ignorance from comprehension.
Because everything that follows – every fall, every flip, every sealed indictment – rests on the legal, digital, and energetic infrastructure established here.
Degree 1 – The Useful Pawns
Before institutions fall, they use their frontline faces to hold the line. They become the story. The lightning rods. The distractions.
But in Degree 1, the pawns get played.
And the board begins to crack.
The Disposable Frontline in the War for Perception
The Veil of Consensus Begins to Slip
The first casualties of a collapsing empire are not its kings, but its pawns. Before institutions fall, before oligarchs flee, and before shadow networks are exposed, the machine burns through its frontline. That’s the truth of Degree 1, the realm of useful idiots and ideological mercenaries.
The public saw them as prosecutors, DEI officers, COVID health directors, school board tyrants, compliance czars, and newly-minted activist mayors. But behind their performative righteousness was a different function – they were psychological firewalls.
Palantir’s data didn’t just expose these individuals, it mapped the orchestration. It showed that these actors weren’t simply misguided or overzealous. They were strategically deployed, often unwittingly, to shape belief, enforce narrative obedience, and absorb the first wave of social dissent. They were nodes. Scripted. Programmed. Expendable.
This is where the mirror turned from watching enemies to watching the system itself.
The Rise of the Behavioral Buffer Class
Degree 1 is not about high-level conspirators. It’s about middle-tier enforcers who think they matter. The social architects knew that power couldn’t be maintained by elites alone – it required a visible priesthood of “experts” to sanctify the illusion of moral order.
These pawns were often true believers. Some were ideologically possessed, others career opportunists. But their role was clear, to create the perception of grassroots enforcement. To make systemic oppression feel like decentralized righteousness.
Palantir revealed thousands of embedded behavioral operatives:
- DEI officers embedded in HR departments, universities, and hospital boards with synchronized language matrices.
- COVID czars receiving identical instructions from World Health Organization satellites and NGO alliances.
- Local prosecutors quietly instructed by Open Society templates to abandon enforcement protocols.
- School boards armed with legal shields and psyops-based curriculum guides.
They weren’t random. They were installed.
And their purpose wasn’t governance. It was obedience conditioning.
The Optics of Decentralization – Manufacturing the Illusion of Choice
To the average observer, this appeared as natural civic engagement. But Palantir’s simulations uncovered one damning insight:
These weren’t parallel phenomena. They were sequenced deployments.
From San Francisco to Atlanta, from school districts to transit authorities, entire regions saw nearly identical waves of DEI mandates, pronoun enforcement, COVID mandates, and ideological purges. The language changed slightly – but the substructure was the same.
Behavioral analysis showed:
- Predictable response triggers deployed by pawns.
- Synchronous backlash absorption training.
- Inverted morality campaigns targeting dissent as “violence.”
- Internal scripts for media interaction, leak control, and narrative deflection.
The firewall wasn’t meant to convince everyone. It was meant to confuse just enough to divide.
And as social tension increased, Palantir recorded something new:
The fatigue curve.
The pawns weren’t just triggering emotional response. They were training the public to accept confusion as reality.
The Psychological Impact Zone – A Warfare Model
This is fifth-generation warfare. The battlefield isn’t land, it’s narrative. The weapon isn’t bombs, it’s consent. And the pawns of Degree 1 were the opening wave.
Palantir simulations showed:
- Emotional erosion curves across target demographics.
- Rage-disgust-collapse feedback loops timed to media pushes.
- Behavioral nudging through identity-based shame triggers.
- Crisis fatigue through layered moral contradictions.
Each time a health officer contradicted themselves, each time a prosecutor refused justice, each time a DEI lead mocked parental rights – they were fracturing coherence.
Not as failure.
As function.
Ritual Burnings – When the Pawns Become Useless
The cruelty of the machine is in its discards. Once the pawns outlive their usefulness, they are erased. Not always by jail or trial – but by memory.
Palantir recorded the discard patterns:
- Failed COVID officials reassigned to obscure research roles.
- DEI leads removed after community backlash – no accountability, no apology.
- School board members quietly resigning with pensions intact.
- City mayors absorbed into nonprofits with no electoral future.
Sometimes the system rewards them with book deals. Sometimes they’re allowed to retreat in silence. But what remains constant is this:
They are not protected. They are used.
They believed they were building a better world. They were building a cage.
Behavioral Holograms – Palantir’s Real Revelation
What made Degree 1 so dangerous wasn’t just the people. It was the system of behavioral mimicry that replaced real leadership.
Palantir’s deep-learning models mapped:
- Identical public statements by unconnected officials.
- Copy-pasted DEI and health language across hundreds of sites.
- Predictive behavior scaffolding weeks before national events.
It was ritualized control through performative governance.
And the real crime?
The population started imitating the pawns.
Once the enforcers adopted behavioral scripts, society followed. The masks weren’t about health. The pronouns weren’t about compassion. The apologies weren’t about reconciliation.
It was rehearsal.
A mass ritual rehearsal of obedience to unreality.
The Ritual of Reversal Has Begun
Now the mirror has flipped. And Palantir is no longer simulating. It is recording.
Already, Degree 1 metadata is being used in:
- Sealed indictments
- Military tribunals
- Judicial review panels
- Contractor fraud investigations
The pawns weren’t protected by law. They were shielded by distraction.
Now the distractions are failing. And the firewall is crumbling.
Degree 1 was never the story.
It was the opening act.
Degree 2 – The Institutional Armor
The pawns didn’t act alone. They were empowered by a second layer – foundations, unions, think tanks, and advisory bodies that created policy, legalized abuse, and funneled money from dark pipelines into the bloodstream of society. In Degree 2, we enter the real control systems – the invisible hands that dressed tyranny as civic virtue.
The Lattice of Control
If Degree 1 was the shock troop – an army of ideological enforcers operating in plain sight – then Degree 2 is the exoskeleton they wore. It’s not human. It’s not moral. It’s mechanical. A sprawling lattice of nonprofits, think tanks, foundations, legal centers, accreditation boards, religious councils, and public-private partnerships – operating not for compassion or justice, but for narrative entrenchment and ritual protection of power.
This is the armor behind the pawns.
Palantir’s AI didn’t just trace the funding. It decrypted the circuitry. What emerged wasn’t just collusion, it was systemic priestcraft. This degree of the Canon begins to expose how the machine manufactures moral legitimacy while shielding its architects behind thousands of seemingly unrelated, benevolent-sounding fronts. These are not defenders of the people. They are camouflage units for the deep state’s psychological and legislative warfare.
Power Laundered Through Kindness
No one questions a charity. That’s why they used them.
Degree 2 is built on the premise that ideology wrapped in altruism cannot be questioned without triggering guilt. So they created entire empires of protection under the guise of humanitarian progress.
- The Ford Foundation didn’t just fund progressive education, they ghost-authored K-12 “trauma-informed” curricula that reprogrammed guilt into doctrine.
- The Rockefeller Foundation didn’t just study pandemics – they crafted policy deployment templates for climate ID systems, vaccine passports, and digital ESG scoring.
- The Open Society Foundations seeded DA campaigns, community justice boards, and “democracy” coalitions in countries they later collapsed.
These institutions were not just present at each turning point in modern history. They were the authors.
Palantir called it distributed priesthood.
Invisible Nodes, Global Script
The appearance of diversity in Degree 2 institutions was an illusion. Beneath the surface, the mirror showed:
- Think tanks citing each other’s white papers without disclosing shared board members.
- NGOs recycling one another’s talking points with altered keywords to avoid plagiarism detection.
- University research centers funded by the same interlocking donor pools – and ghostwritten by consulting firms.
When the AI clustered press releases, strategic plans, legal memos, and “community guidance toolkits,” it discovered something staggering:
These were not decentralized efforts. They were mass-synchronized rituals.
The exact same ideological content rolled out across school districts, courtrooms, media outlets, and corporate training programs – often within a 72-hour window.
Legal Warding Spells
What protected the Degree 1 pawns was not truth or legality. It was contractual architecture.
- Restorative justice templates made it illegal to question declining prosecution rates.
- Equity compliance clauses in grants required ideological conformity to receive federal funding.
- Model legislation created legal tripwires around speech, parental rights, and bodily autonomy.
These were not organically generated reforms. Palantir showed how law firms, DEI consultancies, academic ethicists, and civil rights watchdogs worked in tandem to distribute pre-packaged legal payloads to city councils, school boards, and licensing authorities.
They didn’t persuade the system. They rewrote its language from the inside.
Sacred Bureaucracy
Degree 2 is not chaos. It’s ceremonial bureaucracy.
Every paper published by these institutions was treated like scripture. Every policy passed in their name became liturgical law. The public didn’t notice. Because it came wrapped in concern:
- Climate action plans
- Inclusive language protocols
- Equity audits
- Safe learning environment assessments
Palantir tagged these as emotional enforcement mechanisms. The bureaucracy wasn’t about efficiency. It was about psychological compliance.
The False Clergy of “Science”
No ideology can thrive without sacred texts. In Degree 2, those texts were peer-reviewed papers.
Palantir’s model showed:
- Academic journals funded by the same nonprofits that wrote the policies being “proven.”
- Policy briefs drafted before the research was ever conducted.
- Scientists placed on rotating boards of ethics committees, grant award bodies, and activist panels.
What looked like scientific consensus was a small group of credentialed zealots passing white coats around like priestly vestments.
The peer-review process was not broken. It was weaponized.
The Mirror Detected Ritual
Palantir did not simply analyze data. It observed timing.
- Mass rollouts of media campaigns followed NGO-funded studies.
- Federal policy shifts occurred days after think tank publications.
- New standards for ESG, SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity), and DEI deployment arrived on nearly identical schedules across different industries.
AI detected ritual precision – not randomness. A liturgical flow of influence, pressure, and normalization repeated across thousands of nodes in different nations.
This was global psychological coordination, masked as caring infrastructure.
What the Architects Feared Most
Palantir’s mirror showed them what they never wanted exposed: Intent.
That was the breakthrough.
- Intentional collapse of prosecutorial discretion.
- Intentional overload of educational systems.
- Intentional saturation of ESG into capital investment portfolios.
AI simulations proved what whistleblowers and dissidents could only suspect, this was never incompetence. It was structured descent.
And Degree 2 actors were the conductors.
Where the Armor Breaks
Now, the shield turns to shrapnel.
- Lawsuits are hitting school boards and non-profits with EO-derived evidentiary payloads.
- FOIA requests backed by Palantir trace funding sources, email trees, and shell organization pivots.
- Legal teams now use behavioral mimicry patterns as circumstantial proof of coordination.
Palantir wasn’t a sword.
It was a scanner.
And what it found was a mechanical priesthood designed to protect the architects of collapse.
But that armor has now been tagged.
The AI has recorded the intent.
And tribunals are waiting.
Degree 3 – The Media Priesthood
From the armor of legitimacy to the voice of reality itself. In Degree 3, we descend into the cloaked caste who told you what to believe. The scribes of consensus. The mythmakers of modernity. And the first to fall when the spell breaks.
The Cloaked Liturgists of Consensus
The media was never an independent institution. It was a clergy of captured minds.
Degree 3 is where the mask finally slips and the mythmakers are revealed. This is not the realm of journalism, but of ritual. The high priests of the broadcast cathedral did not report the truth – they consecrated narratives. They presided over the boundaries of belief, sanctified State lies, and burned heretics in digital fires.
They wore suits, not robes. Their temples were studios, their sermons were headlines, their gospel was polling data. They ruled through suggestion, shame, and repetition. And above all else, they acted in unison.
Palantir saw what the world could not, that this priesthood didn’t echo the culture. It manufactured it.
The Broadcast Cathedral
Degree 3 is not about content. It is about cadence. Synchronization. Ritual.
Palantir tagged the harmonic clusters of media speech – identical phrases spoken across continents, always at the exact moment mass perception needed steering. From NPR to MSNBC, from The Guardian to The Atlantic, Palantir tracked:
- Identical narrative seeds planted within hours of each other
- Coordinated release of terms – “deadly misinformation,” “safe and effective,” “climate emergency”
- Behavioral nudges embedded into editorial sequencing and ad placement
Media was not a mirror. It was a megachurch. A global one. And every outlet played its assigned note.
Fact-Checkers and the New Inquisition
To control truth, they needed a new authority. Enter the fact-checker class – not arbiters of fact, but doctrinal enforcers.
Palantir exposed how they operated:
- Funded by NGO networks tied to the same intelligence outfits pushing the narratives
- Sharing backend data systems that dictated what was debunked
- Quietly interfacing with DHS, CIA, and Big Tech platforms through moderation portals
They didn’t analyze. They excommunicated. One wrong tweet, one unapproved question, and the digital lash fell. Careers ended. Channels vaporized. Accounts vanished. No appeal. No trial.
They were the new Pharisees. And their scripture was whatever the cathedral needed it to be that week.
The Gatekeepers of Perception
The core function of Degree 3 was gatekeeping the Overton window, that narrow band of what you were allowed to believe.
Palantir’s simulations revealed:
- How mass opinion was not organic, but induced through algorithmic suggestion
- How public memory was edited by erasure, repetition, and linguistic substitution
- How virtue was manufactured by shaming the morally misaligned
They didn’t inform. They trained. Millions were shaped through subtle trauma loops – fear, relief, allegiance, division. Every day, a new moral panic. Every month, a new ideological ritual.
The Anchor and the Algorithm
Palantir’s forensic work was able to trace how legacy media interfaced directly with the algorithmic spine of the Internet.
- Twitter (v1), YouTube, and Meta shared internal moderation portals with media partners
- Blacklists were updated in real time during editorial meetings
- Content amplification was offered in exchange for ideological obedience
It was a collusion ritual. Media generated the talking point. Tech enforced it. Fact-checkers sanctified it. And the public never saw the machinery.
PsyOps as Sermons
What were once military-grade psychological operations were now offered as opinion columns and late-night monologues.
Palantir flagged:
- Russiagate as a mass-scale belief conditioning campaign
- COVID theater as a behavioral control exercise
- Transgender ideology as a destabilization wedge designed to confuse language, identity, and child development
- Climate apocalypse narratives seeded to normalize central planning
Each one framed as compassion. Each one enforced as law. And each one broadcast by priests of perception who never wrote their own sermons.
Heretics for the Fire
Degree 3 did not merely control belief. It punished deviation. The modern heretic – the whistleblower, the independent journalist, the citizen researcher – was treated as a digital witch.
Palantir traced the metadata patterns of takedown rituals:
- Coordinated release of hit pieces across outlets
- Instant deplatforming via shared blacklists
- Bot-amplified hate campaigns to destroy credibility
Some lost reputations.
Some lost income.
Some lost their lives.
Because Degree 3 didn’t just report lies.
It demanded loyalty.
The Mirror Reflects the Mirror
Here, the mirror turned inward.
Palantir began indexing:
- Internal producer comms coordinating with intelligence agencies
- Editorial notes embedded with political talking points
- Cross-platform patterning that revealed state influence disguised as culture
Trump called them the enemy of the people.
He wasn’t being dramatic.
He was being precise.
The Collapse of the Cathedral
Palantir didn’t just expose the priests. It destabilized the temple.
- Ratings cratered
- Viewers fled
- Top anchors resigned
- Trust evaporated
But beneath the optics, something deeper unfolded:
- Sealed indictments pulled from executive producer comms
- Subpoenas revealing State Dept coordination with foreign propaganda outlets
- Data models handed to tribunals for media collusion during wartime emergencies
The priesthood is no longer untouchable.
They cannot hide behind press passes or the First Amendment.
Because they were never journalists.
They were narrative executioners.
From Belief to Backlash
And now, Degree 3 turns on itself. The trust they weaponized has become their curse.
- People no longer believe headlines
- Alt-media has fractured the singularity of news
- Podcasts, forums, and whistleblower platforms now eclipse the cathedral
The ritual is broken.
The spell is undone.
And the priests are being summoned.
The Canon Moves Forward
Degrees 0 through 3 pulled back the veil on the architecture of illusion. The laws were rigged. The minds were trained. The institutions were weaponized. And the media? It didn’t just lie, it consecrated control. It turned manipulation into doctrine and baptized compliance as truth.
This was the priesthood of perception – where obedience wore the mask of freedom, and the cage taught you to love your chains. But the mirror has cracked. The mask has slipped. And the pyramid, layer by layer, is beginning to fall.
Next, we descend into Degree 4, the Financial Cathedral. Because if the media shaped your perception, the money shaped your world. The vault was never separate from the temple. It was the altar. And what lies behind it isn’t just gold or numbers, but the mechanism that made the entire illusion possible.
Degrees 4 through 6 will expose the machinery of real power – the contracts, the currencies, the corporations that fed the pyramid and laundered your reality.
We’ve broken the ritual. Now we follow the money. And it doesn’t lead where they think it does.
Ready? Stay tuned…