Klaus Schwab and his mouthpieces like Noah Huval Harare, have some definite ideas about their looming Fourth Industrial Revolution. They foresee a global society governed by a privileged ‘elite’ who make decisions on behalf of a technologically-shackled majority. They have told us that they hope to facilitate mankind’s evolutionary leap to his next phase, the Übermensch hybrid of flesh and machine.
Hand in hand with this technocratic revolution, is a certain belief system: science is a god, mankind is a parasite and the elite must be obeyed. What makes many of these ‘elites’ so sure of their superiority is their access to ‘secret knowledge’ which comes via contact with some form of discarnate entity. Those entities are variously referred to as personal spirit-guides, Ascended Masters (often from Atlantis), or extra-terrestrial beings.
For faithful Catholics, much is known about the dangers of communicating with discarnate beings like ‘spirit-guides.’ The Church has always condemned such communications, stemming from the Scriptural prohibition on divining spirits. However, the teaching around the existence of alien beings is more vague, with some Catholics giving their full support to the theory that sentient beings other than humans inhabit the universe.
This is a falsehood that must be unequivocally condemned as there is nothing in Scripture or Tradition to support such an idea; conversely there have been condemnations from the Church, albeit not very well known, from antiquity. Fortunately, there are a few serious commentators who are reminding Catholics that there is no mandate for them to believe in the existence of aliens.
Seen in the context of Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, these kinds of communications with demonic entities make sense. For Schwab and his peers are not imagining a world without religion; rather, they are reimagining a world whose religion is technology.
One of the most urgent problems related to the belief that extra-terrestrials are real and accessible is not so much that they don’t exist, but rather that demons are known to take the form of aliens in order to deceive modern men and women. In her recent book, Ursula Bielski warns of the demonic agenda which drives the ‘extra-terrestrial’ movement.
Bielski, a Catholic, is a paranormal researcher who formerly engaged in occult techniques in order to communicate with the spirit world. Bielski abandoned those practices when she came to understand that the spirits with whom she was engaging were not benign, but were demons. This led her to turn her attention to the burgeoning field of alien and extra-terrestrial phenomenon, where she found an astounding amount in common with the occult practices and principles she had encountered among the paranormal community.
One of the most interesting areas Bielski touches on in her book is the relationship between technology and the occult. She mentions that many tech experts communicate with the non-material world in order to receive inspiration for their inventions: some believe they are communicating with aliens, some with dead scientists, others with the superior spirits mentioned above. These communications are known as ‘downloads’ and tech experts have said they receive entire ‘files’ of information about new products, including schematics. These products in some cases have made millions of dollars for their human inventors.
None if this is, of course, beyond the realms of reality, as there is plenty of evidence to show how closely the tech tech industry is entwined with the occult. Take for example, the annual Burning Man event held in the Nevada Desert. Burning Man centres on a temporary city which draws tens of thousands to engage in almost a week of pagan revelry.
The event purports to celebrate creativity, self-expression and innovation through contemporary art and music, sexual license, and hallucinogenic drugs. It carries a clear anti-Christian message while embracing every philosophy found under the ‘do as thou wilt’ banner. Burning Man is beloved of New Agers, hippies and Wiccans – and also of Silicon Valley techs.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, among many others, have been regulars at Burning Man over the years, and in an HBO documentary, Musk even equated Silicon Valley directly with Burning Man. So this relationship between technology and this modern-day Bacchanalia can’t be understated.
Elon Musk has praised the art at Burning Man as “the best on earth.”
One Stanford University professor studied the relationship between Burning Man and the tech industry for over a decade after he visited the headquarters of Google and saw pictures taken at Burning Man in the lobby. (As an aside, former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was chosen for the job because, out of all the applicants, he was the only one to have attended Burning Man.) The professor found that Silicon Valley executives, computer programmers and information technologists, bonded in a spiritual way over shared projects they worked on at Burning Man, then took their experiences back to the workplace.
The artistic innovation and hedonistic license wrapped in a veneer of spirituality of the kind promoted at Burning Man are what makes employers and employees so valuable in the tech world. One longtime participant and tech insider said she experiences at Burning Man a “psychic level of collective unity”, describing the event as “Silicon Valley’s greatest incubator.”
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, among many others, have been regulars at Burning Man over the years, and in an HBO documentary, Musk even equated Silicon Valley directly with Burning Man. So this relationship between technology and this modern-day Bacchanalia can’t be understated.
Yet that kind of spiritual experience is at its heart, demonic: it is harmful to participants and opens them up to all manner of diabolical influence. Thus it’s no surprise to learn that some tech workers openly employ witches to help with demonic infestations and even with their legal matters.
This becomes relevant to each one of us for whom technology has become ubiquitous: who can deny the insidious harm and attractions of the digital world, even as we appreciate so many of its conveniences and innovations? To learn that tech developers as a group not only engage in pagan rituals, but also integrate that spirituality into their workplaces should give us pause.
If IT experts and programmers are engaging in overt or implicit pagan rituals, or even communicating directly with demons in order to access innovative technology, then what kinds of consequences would we expect to see in the tech world? Could there be worse consequences than the dopamine addiction, time-wasting and social media bullying that we see all around us – and in which we may sometimes be personally involved? How concerned should we be, not only about trans-humanism and other obviously anti-Christic designs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but also about the everyday technology on which we have come to rely?
Just as the True God “created the heavens and the earth” in principio, so in the latter days, the Prince of this world is assembling his ape of creation: the Metaverse, full of technology inspired directly from demons.
Although we may never know the full extent to which demonic inspiration has influenced modern technology, from time to time, we do get a glimpse. This somewhat disturbing incident happened to me around the time I was reading Ursula Bielski’s book, and I believe it’s related to the phenomenon she discusses. It is at least illustrative of the concerns raised in this article.
It concerns an experience I had with AI technology and although I’m not not a big fan of it, I do believe AI has a place when used in a limited capacity for some specific tasks. One of those tasks is converting text found in images to digital text.
I have been using some free online image-to-text software as part of a project I’m currently working on: converting a series of children’s Catholic History readers to digital form. The books, which are out of print, were written by an Australian priest in the 1940’s and are popular among home educators here. Now that they are in the public domain, I’m in the process of converting them to digital format to make available on my website. That process involves photographing the text with my phone then using the software to convert it to digital form which is then transferred to ebook creation software. It’s a tedious process, but is made somewhat less so by the use of AI.
Perhaps because the technology is relatively new, or perhaps because it is free, the resulting text needs to be checked carefully. There are often mistakes such as transposed words and phrases which must be put into the correct order; although time-consuming, this is still far quicker than laboriously copying out each word individually.
The charming little history book progresses chapter by chapter through ancient history: the story of Abraham, then Moses, through to the founding of Rome, then Hannibal and Caesar, all written for young children. The final chapter deals with the coming of Christ; the first Christmas when Our Lord was born in a stable. I ran the text through the AI software as usual, then transferred it to the ebook programme. When checking the resulting text, it contained something that startled me and has continued to do so the more I contemplate it.
Instead of finding words in the wrong order as I had in other sections, I found two words independently inserted into the text.
Here is the original as written by the author:
“Our Lord is there, the Holy One, the Promised One, Who is to save the world.”
This is what resulted after it was run through the AI software – the added words are in bold type:
“Our Lord is there, the Holy One, the Promised One, Who some say is to save the world.”
Please remember that the programme being used was not a Chat GPT-type affair: it is not programmed to answer questions or to offer advice. It is programmed simply to detect text and reproduce it.
Inserting extra words into text is an anomaly.
Inserting extra words that make sense is extraordinary.
Inserting words that carry an anti-Christian agenda is something else entirely; that is demonic.
I have no explanation for what happened. I don’t know if a demon intercepted the text to subtly add two words which could potentially introduce doubt into the mind of readers. All I know is that those two words should not have been there.
Ursula Bielski’s book is full of warnings about demons using technology such as phones, both landline and cell, as well as computers, to communicate with humans. Exorcists and their assistants have also reported this phenomenon, with some on record as having received texts from demons. Perhaps the former Facebook employee who told the New York Times that she is “convinced the devil lives in our phones” was not exaggerating.
Seen in the context of Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, these kinds of communications with demonic entities make sense. For Schwab and his peers are not imagining a world without religion; rather, they are reimagining a world whose religion is technology. Just as the True God “created the heavens and the earth” in principio, so in the latter days, the Prince of this world is assembling his ape of creation: the Metaverse, full of technology inspired directly from demons.
May we be given the grace to navigate technology with prudence and care, always attempting to use these tools, tainted as they are, for the glory of God.
