“Red-pilling” is defined as when someone has “their perspective dramatically transformed, especially by introducing them to a new and typically disturbing understanding of the true nature of a particular situation.
This can include wars and the financial system to the very nature of reality itself.
The term originates from the film “The Matix” where Morpheus asks Neo to choose between a red and blue pill. “You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes".
Many books have the potential to “red-pill” someone but you recommend them, even buy someone the book, but the response you get is “yeah it was interesting but not very probable”.
I’d like to compile a reading list so what books have you read that either “red-pilled” you or had an impact on friends or family once they read them? I’m looking for books, on any subject, that made people say, “wow, I didn’t know it was like this and I can’t look back now”.
And if you can, a little summary along with why it had an impact on you or someone else.
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For me, recently at least, it was "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Kennedy. People NEED to know how long - and how unsuccessfully - vaccine trials have been going on, the the depths to which the vaccine conglomerate will sink. Eyes totally opened, and totally disgusted by it all.
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The Bible, in particular the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Revelations. I grew up with these books, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I see happening in the world right now, was foretold by these books (and if it wasn't for the Bible, I would still be caught in the c19 narrative). And I am seeing these prophecies coming to fulfilment before my eyes. The woke agenda, destruction of family, technology, one world order, destruction of the financial system, inflation, war, depopulation and hunger.... It is all there. Even the next steps in the playbook.
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It’d have to be “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin, about the formation of the US Federal Reserve (initiated in 1910 on Jekyll Island). It’s described by the author as a “banking cartel”. It’s disturbing and fascinating:
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"AIDS and the Doctors of Death" by Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr. theorizing that the AIDS epidemic was actually 2 separate epidemics -- one epidemic was heterosexual in Africa caused by the World Health Organization's "Smallpox Eradication Campaign" and the other homosexual in the U.S.A. caused by the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program administered exclusively to gay men in America's large cities -- both populations being contaminated via separate vaccine campaigns. Written about 1990, the book changed forever my view of vaccines.
Looking back now, the official narratives of the origins of AIDS -- (1) that Africans got it from eating green monkey meat and (2) that gays caught it from a promiscuous flight attendant labeled "Patient Zero" -- now seem as laughable as the narrative (3) that Covid-19 was caused by someone in China eating a bowl of undercooked bat soup!
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I think it's almost impossible to red-pill someone who does not want to be red-pilled.
To extend the Matrix analogy, Neo had the CHOICE to take the red pill or the blue pill. He CHOSE to take the red pill because he already didn't believe his current "reality".
You can lead a sheep to data, but you can't make them think.
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I think there is a focus on factuals here but fiction-wise, Catch-22 woke me up as a teen. I'll admit that it took many years to fully wake up because of the pervasive media blanket which I finally threw aside; but my cynicism was initiated. It all stays with me even now; the absurd comedy and imbecility of everything that surrounds Yossarian, his confusion over why people can't see what he sees or don't want to, the creep of the amoral Minderbinder capitalist enterprise and his realisation that there is a dark murderousness on his own side as the novel becomes darker as it progresses. But there is a seed of hope at the end. One of the greats of the C20th and still resonating in the current imbecilities. Sometimes fiction can work better in planting a seed than beating people over the head with facts they cannot assimilate.
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I suppose that I and perhaps others would include the Bible. It’s such an inherent part of my life and worldview that I kind of forget to include it in lists like this.
Someone else mentioned specifically the book of Revelation. I agree. I don’t know how the apocalyptic descriptions in the book played out (some believe that a lot was describing the monstrous Roman Empire at the time) or will play out (others believe that the world will yet face global tyranny and persecution beyond anything yet experienced), but, the descriptions of having a government enforced “mark” to buy or sell - it was not at all difficult to see the parallels between that and the man-dates coming. Why so many of my fellow Christians could not and still do not see the parallels, and react accordingly, is something I still cannot explain.
Isaiah 3 - an accurate description of our country (US) today. Verse 4 - infants will rule over them. Yes, we have an infantile president, no disrespect meant to his humanity or to the office.
We see throughout the Bible the futility of man-made, external laws to create truly moral people. God himself acknowledges that a truly good and just people will be those who have his laws written on their hearts - people who have been formed through proper spiritual formation to naturally be people who live good, true, just, and beautiful lives. And, wonderfully, the God of the Bible offers personal grace and help by means of his Spirit to all and any who want to follow him and live in this way, the way of Jesus.
So, what I am saying is that the Bible makes it clear that the farther away from God a people becomes, the less able that people is to appropriately govern themselves individually and thus collectively. Less self-government then requires more external controls to govern behavior. Government grows and morphs into the ginormous beast we now have.
Again, why so many of my good Christian friends are not awake to the current global shenanigans, the impending dread that looms over us all, the loss of God-given freedoms in the guise of disease control, I really do not understand. It is a nagging question for which I have no satisfactory answer.
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I re-read Brave New World recently. I read it maybe 45 years ago but the second time around I really started understanding and appreciating that Huxley had got it dead right, conditioning was the way to go so they didn't need to force people to do anything and there was no punishment. In a strange way they were free but they stayed in their chains and took the soma just like people do now.
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For me the Covid red pill was Paul Marik's observation that Covid has three stages: replication, inflammation and coagulation; that medicine has long experience with and well established protocols for dealing with all three; and that the CDC et al forbid the use of those protocols early on in Covid. TILT!
But my real intent, to generate an exploration of Hegelian influence in modern America, has not been fulfilled. In great part, this can be attributed to an educational system based on a statist-Hegelian philosophy, and which has already achieved the "dumbing down" of America.
This disastrous, destructive philosophy, the source of both Naziism and Marxism, has infected and corrupted our constitutional republic. Much of the blame for this corruption is with an elitist group of Yalie "Bonesmen." Their symbol of Skull and Bones, and their Hegelian philosophy, says it all, although with typical duplicity, they would have you believe otherwise.
Hegelianism glorifies the State, the vehicle for the dissemination of statist and materialist ideas and policies in education, science, politics and economics.
Wonder why we have a "dumbed-down" society?
Look no further than the Bonesman troika who imported the Prussian education system into the U.S. in the 19th Century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th Century British and American history. In classical liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we see in Naziism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State.
Our two-party Republican-Democrat (one Hegelian party, no one else welcome or allowed) system is a reflection of this Hegelianism. A small group - a very small group - by using Hegel, can manipulate, and to some extent, control society for its own purposes. (read more..)
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I’m currently reading The Answer by David Icke. He is incredibly well researched, has been writing for 30 years and has been victimised accordingly. In this book he will take you through everything from what is reality to the hidden agenda of the WEF and the fake pandemic and climate change hoax. It’s a long read and definitely a sobering one.
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Mad magazine. I read this as a kid in the 1970's. I didn't fully grasp all of it at the time. But looking back at it now I realize it was an all out assault on the hypocrisy found in every institution of daily life: education, medicine, advertising, government, professional sports, movies, everything. It was a manual of cultural deconstruction in comic book form. You can look at how they covered still hot political issues like abortion, sexual freedom, gun rights, racism, and you will be stunned how little has changed. Environmental degradation, manipulation by politicians, exploitation by corporations, poisoning by big pharma, it's all in there. I don't know if there is anything equivalent available today. It definitely instilled in me a type of media literacy, and I am grateful for the protection it gave me from the ubiquitous brainwashing we experience today.
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I'm going to bypass the question here except to mention Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Marlowe. There are so many after these I would likely fail by creating an unreadably long list. Will mention that I believe what we suffer from now relates to a Faustian bargain we made with technology for the sake of convenience. That Faust is a doctor simply underscores this point in 2022. Understanding Faust in this context in 2022 is the ultimate "red pill." The rabbit hole goes exceedingly deep and a betrayal lies at the heart of it.
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Dissolving Illusions by Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
like to suggest we include movies - and even youtube vids - and articles, papers and such.
For instance there was a 'paper' I think it could be called, or merely a press statement maybe, by Prof John Ioannidis in the very early days of Covid, one before the Diamond Princess incident and one after when he had that data.
Comparing what Dr John said and what govts and mainstream media said : and all the pusillanimous bandwagon riding ass licking 'experts' made me conscious for the first time in my life of just what a shabby world we inhabit.
Since then, on the same theme, small things like a govt 'poster' reproduced on a twitter page or a reproduction of a govt graphic from one of their handouts saying, inferring, 'protection with vaccinations, no protection without' made me conscious, fully conscious, removed lingering doubts, of either the crass ignorance and stupidity of government or the deeply entrenched callous indifference to truth and the humanity of the people.
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I really enjoyed C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Like I said before I think you need to be looking for red pills... but once you are, that's a really good one.
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The Invisible Rainbow - Arthur Firstenberg. Historical overview with references of the effects of the introduction of electricity and frequency on human/animal and the link to illness and viruses. Mainly flu viruses ! Some Very awakening moments whilst reading.
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Paperback
by Nina Teicholz. Tells the truth about how the government and Big Food have colluded to lie about what foods are good for us. It's one of the reasons why Americans are so unhealthy today.
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Malcolm Kendrick 'Doctoring Data' - my wife gave it to me to read in March 2020. Easy to read but eye-opening about pharma's statistical trickery.
Milton Mayer 'They Thought They Were Free' (out of print though) - written in the 50's about pre-war Germany (1933 to 1938) - interviews with ordinary Germans who became Nazis - shows how easy it is to be gently steered down the road.
Suzanne Humphries 'Dissolving Illusions' - data on the history of vaccines and the hyping of their effectiveness, written well before the current shambles. Excellent couple of chapters on the smallpox vaccine in Victorian England, which chimes very well today with the coercion and mandating of a dangerous vaccine.
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I wrote a novel to address this point directly (a shift in consciousness that is outwardly unseen or very subtle, but which allows you to "see" what is really going on. This is Purple Light in the Vision Chakra - White Light in the Crown Chakra). I have run off 60 professional copies for family and friends and I'm trying to get it published professionally in large quantities- this has been difficult due the lockdowns. (Title : The Chorus of the Daffodils). The illustrated novel is about a girl of 8 years of age whose father is on The Front in WW1. We follow her till the age of 11. She is traumatized by both the War and the loss of her father. She goes into a series of daydream states in which all the characters in her waking life, tell her things of importance which gradually shifts her consciousness towards True Understanding. The book has an Alice in Wonderland feel to it. I had to do a tone of research before writing it as WW1 is the precursor period of what we are living now. The League of Nations of the period is the precursor to the UN. One World Order begins with the Collapse of the British Empire following WW1. WW2 is largely part of a revenge cycle following the forced signing of Germany to The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the The War Guilt Clause - in which Germany is forced into huge war payments to the Allies and shamed into taking 100 % of the blame, and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If I get a deal, I will put up a PDF version on the Internet for easy download. You will all be informed !
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'Operation Gladio' - Paul L Williams
The unholy alliance between the Mafia, the Catholic Church and the CIA and the use of drug money to fund Operation Gladio 'stay-behind' units' terrorist atrocities. Meticulously researched and shocking.
And, of course, the classic 'The New Pearl Harbour' - David Ray Griffin.
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"New Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins is one I like to recommend to people because it validates the real conspiracy between corporations, intelligence agencies/governments and the media to create empire and overthrow legitimate governments. I wasn't red pilled by reading it since I was aware of everything he describes, but I'm so glad this book exists as evidence for everyone to read.
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I guess I’ve always been a questioner, even toward the conspiracy side, but I’d say something that shook me was a long-form article published in The New York Observer a while after 9/11 where flight attendants and I think pilots explained the impossibility of the “Let’s Roll...” narrative actually playing out (and inferring the military shot that plane down). Have never been able to relocate it.
Recently, at the height of the pandemic I started reading James Howard Kunstler’s four World Made by Hand novels, just by chance. They’re so readable, I could not put them down. I thought...so, this is one way it ends.... These novels have queued me to look head-on at the absurd state narratives (I never believed the jab narrative based on my own admittedly rudimentary but well-meaning medical knowledge and reading), and to think very differently about the future and planning for it. I’d call them dystopic with heart...and jolly good page-turners.
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A lot of substacks, some really great ones like this, have convinced me that far from being in the minority as the mainstream misleadia would have us believe, we are not. That’s a red pill. All of James Corbett’s (Corbett Report) is excellent red pill material. I never read 1984 as part of my education (it was an option) but familiar with the narrative & it has red pilled me for a long time. The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, a set of principles that evolved into cultural Marxism and extolled particularly by Kalergi but also members of the Frankfurt Institute a century ago are so prescient today. The Eleven Point plan will red pill you if you read it and read across to all of today’s fads - BLM, trans, family, education etc. The Camp of the Saints is a chilling description of what unfettered illegal immigration looks like. It was written in 1973. Look at Europe and the USA today. And choke on that red pill. The progressive realisation that all news is biased and agenda driven was a prolonged release red pill I started to digest 15 years ago. The blue pill is not an option. Blissful ignorance is not going to be the destiny for us if we don’t wake up fast. CBDCs, ‘freedom’ passports, social credits and serfdom is the future for 99% of us if we take the blue pill. Coming to the realisation that government is not benign and true democracy is just an elaborate illusion was a revelation to me some years ago. The last two years should convince everyone that this is happening now.
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"Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" by Sir David MacKay FRS. Basically reading that was the moment when I realised the climate change establishment were lying through both sides of their mouth about renewables and nuclear.
Orlando Figes was good on the Russian revolution too. There never was a "good Lenin betrayed by a bad Stalin", which is something generations of old school lefties, who are now Putin apologists, have refused to learn.
Read (and believed) a LOT of conspiracy shit over the years but these kinds of books were resetting to the ol' world view.
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Vasily Grossman's 'Life and fate': human kindness versus totalitarianism, and Iain McGilchrist's 'The master and his emissary': triumph of the left hemispheric over the right (i.e. why the parts now control the whole).
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"Freakonomics" by Dubner & Levitt
Sorry, I'm a man for the classics. It certainly opened my eyes that the old Thomas Sewell quote is true . . . "The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
I was unable to look at politicians, economists, or any 'expert' the same way again.
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Manufacturing Consent, Bad Pharma, The Real Anthony Fauci, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime, Unsettled, Blowback, States of Emergency, A Plague Upon Our House, A Statin Nation, Brainwashed, The Dawn of Everything, Seed Money, Doctoring Data, Sacred Cow, Defending Beef, Vegetarian Myth, Bright Green Lies, Consciousness and the Brain, Behave, Entangled Life, Other Minds, The True Flag, Mary's Mosaic, The Virus and the Vaccine, The Jakarta Method, The Great Cholesterol Con, The Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, A Lie Too Big to Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, Altered Genes Twisted Truth, The Deep State, The CIA As Organized Crime
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I can thoroughly recommend the following selection which cover more or less everything that would be taught in schools if schools were any good and how/why we’re in the place we currently find ourselves.
All 3 books by Dominic Frisby.
The Golden Revolution by John Butler.
Controlled Demolition by Jeff Berwick.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.
How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne (personal, actionable solutions)
Each is highly readable. There are plenty more but perhaps not as easy going nor can as easily absorbed. Eg the works of Hayek.
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I was certainly red pilled already when it came to health and BigPharma. My journey started at 23 when I developed CFS after a dental procedure led to chronic mercury toxicity. I soon recognised that allopathic medicine was going to offer me nothing. My red pilling was completed when I studied nutrition and came across people like Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the lengths that those driven by profit alone were wiling to go to to destroy the reputation of anyone who wouldn’t conform. The film Vaxxed confirmed my suspicions. A simple, little known book called Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries into the vaccine myth was an eye-opener.
Sadly I have my illusions about the world we live in made a little rockier every day.
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Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow - slow read, but gave me pause to consider that anyone should be in a position to intervene at scale. We, as humans, are not reliable thinkers.
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"Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilbur really did it for me. I had several that were influential in my life, but that one was so dense in its text it was like the theory of religions told from a developmental perspective. Actually anything written by Ken Wilbur is great to me I deeply enjoyed his later writings regarding first and second tier thinking in regards to whether you think of others in an objective way in which you jus bounce your own stuff off of them like a wall, or whether you recognize on the other side an individually conscious being who is processing and filtering things from their own unique and inviolable perspective....
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To give a full answer to this request I’d have to refer to a thousand sources, though they are not all books. The internet, despite the suppressive efforts of the big infotech companies, has been a cornucopia of red-pilling sources. But if I had to refer to a single book that did the most to red-pill me I’d say that it was Jonathan Kay’s “Among the Truthers”.
If you know the book then you will be saying “What!? Kay is a pure blue-pilled author writing against those he regards as nutty conspiracy theorists.” And that’s right - it is paradoxical to regard the book as having a red-pilling thrust.
So let me explain. I believe that we should seek out arguments that counter whatever we are inclined to believe. At the time I read Kay’s book I was beginning to be swayed by the arguments of 9/11 truthers, so I was looking for what could be said that would favour the mainstream side. What Kay had to say seemed to me to be totally unfair to truthers, though with a thick varnish of apparent fairness. It is essentially a long ad hominem damning his opponents, not with virulent smears, but with relatively mild ones that appear sympathetic. But it does not look at any of the evidence, nor does it address the psyches of his opponents in light of the evidence they examine. I thought that if this is the best that the mainstream side can do, then the preponderance of the evidence must be on the side of the truthers.
Well, I didn’t leave it at that, and I still look for evidence that I might grab hold of that will bring me out of a very deep and dark rabbit hole. But Kay’s arguments, despite his efforts, left me thinking that the truthers have got to be right, and I still haven’t found a rope of arguments strong enough to enable me to climb back out.
Dr. Wood's book isn't about politics, government, conspiracy, corruption, or who did it. It is just physics. Impossible physics. Woods, from the get go, collected all the data she could find: screen captures, photographs, statements, reports. She knew as she was watching from a faculty break room as the footage on the TV was being "explained" that she was seeing BS. Physics and Chemistry BS. That really bothered her. She combed through mountains of materials and showed how every explanation even from conspiracy groups talking up Thermite and conventional controlled demolition were getting the physics wrong.
I got the book in 2010 and barely put it down for the weekend it took to read this highly technical, mathematical and science oriented analysis of the remains from 9/11 for clues to what did the damage. The book was expensive to produce, full of photographs, graphs, and figures. When I closed the book, that was the big red pill conversion moment. It was a tour de force masterpiece of exposure. There were plenty of garden variety cover-ups and bad actors before. Who killed JFK? We had just endured the 2008 financial scandal. But the scale of this was breathtaking, and the need for whoever and whatever entities pulled this off to make us not believe what we see or to use the knowledge from our own fields of knowledge and scholarship was intense. So that took a lot of propaganda, media collusion, and deep fake video. I believe now it was the warm-up dress rehearsal for the planetary scale of the COVID19 operation. I suspect the same entities are involved. I respect how really big the scale of this is: corruption, the efforts at control, suppressing knowledge and awareness of dark exotic weaponry on all fronts of the sinister side of human imagination. Even now, Ukraine appears to be a hidden playground for NATO weapons experimentation and manufacture. I worry the 9/11 style next generation fancy stuff will be coming out soon.
From 1998 to 2007 I worked in federal government in DC area. I was in a federal building on 9/11, then experienced the "sniper" killing people randomly in the Northern Capital Region for weeks, and then the Anthrax episode where our brilliant CDC put latex gloves in our mailboxes as the remedy--as useless as masks are for COVID19. My mother worked for a large pharma company that had a massive internationally respected "containment" division. She supervised all the technical publications for that department. These are the engineers, chemists, scientists who keep all the products pure and separated, and keep people and the environment from harm due to manufacturing. Her colleagues told me in no uncertain terms, with urgency, that the CDC guidance on Anthrax was completely uninformed and dangerous if there really was Anthrax. There is more to that story that led to connecting those engineers to the CDC, quickly, with my intervention. I don't know anyone who died of COVID, but two close colleagues of mine had deaths in their circle, one had a brother in law in the Pentagon and the other was a co-pilot for the Pennsylvania plane. So I had a natural curiosity and a strong sense from the reactions around me that nothing about 9/11 and the odd collection of events around it and what we were being told was right. So I agree with others here that the Red Pill material has to reach the person at the right point in time after certain perturbing experiences just can't be explained and when the falsehood touches too close to home.
So for me, Dr. Judy Woods is an unsung hero who will be shown right when we turn back to this mystery. I identified with her because she was like me and many of us here, just a regular everyday well meaning researcher/academic, serious about the world, toiling in obscurity.
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Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Extensively researched and footnoted account of the entire "cholesterol is bad" myth and statins industry, as well as providing solutions to improving one's health. Opened my eyes to how corrupt science is as well as how misleading and fraudulent the studies were that were used to change behavior to the detriment of the patient and general public. This book as well as my (and spouse's) own experience with statin side effects form the basis of our continual questioning of "science."
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The Creature of Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin was the book that made me realize that the financial system controls pretty much everything and that western governments propagandize their citizens as much as any others do.
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I would recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" by Denise Minger. Opened my eyes to the corruption and greed at the FDA and other government agencies, going back decades.
For me, recently at least, it was "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Kennedy. People NEED to know how long - and how unsuccessfully - vaccine trials have been going on, the the depths to which the vaccine conglomerate will sink. Eyes totally opened, and totally disgusted by it all.
I agree about Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton has some great books as well.
Thing is, getting res pilled isn't as simple as getting a book.
You have to want to read it and have a certain openness to its message.
After all, so much information is out there for people to consume, yet they choose to turn a blind eye and only believe the MSM.
Many people have read Animal Farm and 1984 growing up, but they were very gullible and compliant during Covid.
The Bible, in particular the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Revelations. I grew up with these books, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I see happening in the world right now, was foretold by these books (and if it wasn't for the Bible, I would still be caught in the c19 narrative). And I am seeing these prophecies coming to fulfilment before my eyes. The woke agenda, destruction of family, technology, one world order, destruction of the financial system, inflation, war, depopulation and hunger.... It is all there. Even the next steps in the playbook.
It’d have to be “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin, about the formation of the US Federal Reserve (initiated in 1910 on Jekyll Island). It’s described by the author as a “banking cartel”. It’s disturbing and fascinating:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?307278-10/the-creature-jekyll-island
"AIDS and the Doctors of Death" by Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr. theorizing that the AIDS epidemic was actually 2 separate epidemics -- one epidemic was heterosexual in Africa caused by the World Health Organization's "Smallpox Eradication Campaign" and the other homosexual in the U.S.A. caused by the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program administered exclusively to gay men in America's large cities -- both populations being contaminated via separate vaccine campaigns. Written about 1990, the book changed forever my view of vaccines.
Looking back now, the official narratives of the origins of AIDS -- (1) that Africans got it from eating green monkey meat and (2) that gays caught it from a promiscuous flight attendant labeled "Patient Zero" -- now seem as laughable as the narrative (3) that Covid-19 was caused by someone in China eating a bowl of undercooked bat soup!
I think it's almost impossible to red-pill someone who does not want to be red-pilled.
To extend the Matrix analogy, Neo had the CHOICE to take the red pill or the blue pill. He CHOSE to take the red pill because he already didn't believe his current "reality".
You can lead a sheep to data, but you can't make them think.
Thomas sowell , conflict of visions, vision of the anointed, discriminiation and disparities
I think there is a focus on factuals here but fiction-wise, Catch-22 woke me up as a teen. I'll admit that it took many years to fully wake up because of the pervasive media blanket which I finally threw aside; but my cynicism was initiated. It all stays with me even now; the absurd comedy and imbecility of everything that surrounds Yossarian, his confusion over why people can't see what he sees or don't want to, the creep of the amoral Minderbinder capitalist enterprise and his realisation that there is a dark murderousness on his own side as the novel becomes darker as it progresses. But there is a seed of hope at the end. One of the greats of the C20th and still resonating in the current imbecilities. Sometimes fiction can work better in planting a seed than beating people over the head with facts they cannot assimilate.
I suppose that I and perhaps others would include the Bible. It’s such an inherent part of my life and worldview that I kind of forget to include it in lists like this.
Someone else mentioned specifically the book of Revelation. I agree. I don’t know how the apocalyptic descriptions in the book played out (some believe that a lot was describing the monstrous Roman Empire at the time) or will play out (others believe that the world will yet face global tyranny and persecution beyond anything yet experienced), but, the descriptions of having a government enforced “mark” to buy or sell - it was not at all difficult to see the parallels between that and the man-dates coming. Why so many of my fellow Christians could not and still do not see the parallels, and react accordingly, is something I still cannot explain.
Isaiah 3 - an accurate description of our country (US) today. Verse 4 - infants will rule over them. Yes, we have an infantile president, no disrespect meant to his humanity or to the office.
We see throughout the Bible the futility of man-made, external laws to create truly moral people. God himself acknowledges that a truly good and just people will be those who have his laws written on their hearts - people who have been formed through proper spiritual formation to naturally be people who live good, true, just, and beautiful lives. And, wonderfully, the God of the Bible offers personal grace and help by means of his Spirit to all and any who want to follow him and live in this way, the way of Jesus.
So, what I am saying is that the Bible makes it clear that the farther away from God a people becomes, the less able that people is to appropriately govern themselves individually and thus collectively. Less self-government then requires more external controls to govern behavior. Government grows and morphs into the ginormous beast we now have.
Again, why so many of my good Christian friends are not awake to the current global shenanigans, the impending dread that looms over us all, the loss of God-given freedoms in the guise of disease control, I really do not understand. It is a nagging question for which I have no satisfactory answer.
I re-read Brave New World recently. I read it maybe 45 years ago but the second time around I really started understanding and appreciating that Huxley had got it dead right, conditioning was the way to go so they didn't need to force people to do anything and there was no punishment. In a strange way they were free but they stayed in their chains and took the soma just like people do now.
"A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind" Stephen Mitford Goodson (former board member of the South African Reserve Bank). Banned on Amazon, can be found here:-https://www.blackhousepublishing.com/bookshop/a-history-of-central-banking/
For me the Covid red pill was Paul Marik's observation that Covid has three stages: replication, inflammation and coagulation; that medicine has long experience with and well established protocols for dealing with all three; and that the CDC et al forbid the use of those protocols early on in Covid. TILT!
Sometimes it’s a long form article. From January 2004:
Liam Scheff, The House That AIDS Built
http://www.altheal.org/texts/house.htm
That Fauci survived the AZT scandal proves what a racketeer/power broker he is.
Ida Tarbell ~The History of Standard Oil ~ Original 1904 edition
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216094002/http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM
Antony Sutton ~ America's Secret Establishment ~ Introduction to Skull & Bones ~ 1983
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_skullbones11.htm
Authors Preface ~ excerpt
But my real intent, to generate an exploration of Hegelian influence in modern America, has not been fulfilled. In great part, this can be attributed to an educational system based on a statist-Hegelian philosophy, and which has already achieved the "dumbing down" of America.
This disastrous, destructive philosophy, the source of both Naziism and Marxism, has infected and corrupted our constitutional republic. Much of the blame for this corruption is with an elitist group of Yalie "Bonesmen." Their symbol of Skull and Bones, and their Hegelian philosophy, says it all, although with typical duplicity, they would have you believe otherwise.
Hegelianism glorifies the State, the vehicle for the dissemination of statist and materialist ideas and policies in education, science, politics and economics.
Wonder why we have a "dumbed-down" society?
Look no further than the Bonesman troika who imported the Prussian education system into the U.S. in the 19th Century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th Century British and American history. In classical liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we see in Naziism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State.
Our two-party Republican-Democrat (one Hegelian party, no one else welcome or allowed) system is a reflection of this Hegelianism. A small group - a very small group - by using Hegel, can manipulate, and to some extent, control society for its own purposes. (read more..)
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_skullbones11a.htm#Authors%20Preface
I’m currently reading The Answer by David Icke. He is incredibly well researched, has been writing for 30 years and has been victimised accordingly. In this book he will take you through everything from what is reality to the hidden agenda of the WEF and the fake pandemic and climate change hoax. It’s a long read and definitely a sobering one.
Mad magazine. I read this as a kid in the 1970's. I didn't fully grasp all of it at the time. But looking back at it now I realize it was an all out assault on the hypocrisy found in every institution of daily life: education, medicine, advertising, government, professional sports, movies, everything. It was a manual of cultural deconstruction in comic book form. You can look at how they covered still hot political issues like abortion, sexual freedom, gun rights, racism, and you will be stunned how little has changed. Environmental degradation, manipulation by politicians, exploitation by corporations, poisoning by big pharma, it's all in there. I don't know if there is anything equivalent available today. It definitely instilled in me a type of media literacy, and I am grateful for the protection it gave me from the ubiquitous brainwashing we experience today.
Fooled by Randomness -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (then read his other books)
I'm going to bypass the question here except to mention Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Marlowe. There are so many after these I would likely fail by creating an unreadably long list. Will mention that I believe what we suffer from now relates to a Faustian bargain we made with technology for the sake of convenience. That Faust is a doctor simply underscores this point in 2022. Understanding Faust in this context in 2022 is the ultimate "red pill." The rabbit hole goes exceedingly deep and a betrayal lies at the heart of it.
Dissolving Illusions by Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
like to suggest we include movies - and even youtube vids - and articles, papers and such.
For instance there was a 'paper' I think it could be called, or merely a press statement maybe, by Prof John Ioannidis in the very early days of Covid, one before the Diamond Princess incident and one after when he had that data.
Comparing what Dr John said and what govts and mainstream media said : and all the pusillanimous bandwagon riding ass licking 'experts' made me conscious for the first time in my life of just what a shabby world we inhabit.
Since then, on the same theme, small things like a govt 'poster' reproduced on a twitter page or a reproduction of a govt graphic from one of their handouts saying, inferring, 'protection with vaccinations, no protection without' made me conscious, fully conscious, removed lingering doubts, of either the crass ignorance and stupidity of government or the deeply entrenched callous indifference to truth and the humanity of the people.
A state of Fear - Laura Dodson
Cholesterol con and D octoring data - both by malcolm kendrick
good calories, bad calories - gary taubes
bad pharma - ben goldacre
deadly medicines - peter goetzche (apologies for the spelling on that)
I really enjoyed C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Like I said before I think you need to be looking for red pills... but once you are, that's a really good one.
The Invisible Rainbow - Arthur Firstenberg. Historical overview with references of the effects of the introduction of electricity and frequency on human/animal and the link to illness and viruses. Mainly flu viruses ! Some Very awakening moments whilst reading.
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Paperback
by Nina Teicholz. Tells the truth about how the government and Big Food have colluded to lie about what foods are good for us. It's one of the reasons why Americans are so unhealthy today.
State of Fear - fiction, Micheal Crighton....easy, page turning...he wrote another one about nano bots too which seems to be coming true.
Malcolm Kendrick 'Doctoring Data' - my wife gave it to me to read in March 2020. Easy to read but eye-opening about pharma's statistical trickery.
Milton Mayer 'They Thought They Were Free' (out of print though) - written in the 50's about pre-war Germany (1933 to 1938) - interviews with ordinary Germans who became Nazis - shows how easy it is to be gently steered down the road.
Suzanne Humphries 'Dissolving Illusions' - data on the history of vaccines and the hyping of their effectiveness, written well before the current shambles. Excellent couple of chapters on the smallpox vaccine in Victorian England, which chimes very well today with the coercion and mandating of a dangerous vaccine.
I wrote a novel to address this point directly (a shift in consciousness that is outwardly unseen or very subtle, but which allows you to "see" what is really going on. This is Purple Light in the Vision Chakra - White Light in the Crown Chakra). I have run off 60 professional copies for family and friends and I'm trying to get it published professionally in large quantities- this has been difficult due the lockdowns. (Title : The Chorus of the Daffodils). The illustrated novel is about a girl of 8 years of age whose father is on The Front in WW1. We follow her till the age of 11. She is traumatized by both the War and the loss of her father. She goes into a series of daydream states in which all the characters in her waking life, tell her things of importance which gradually shifts her consciousness towards True Understanding. The book has an Alice in Wonderland feel to it. I had to do a tone of research before writing it as WW1 is the precursor period of what we are living now. The League of Nations of the period is the precursor to the UN. One World Order begins with the Collapse of the British Empire following WW1. WW2 is largely part of a revenge cycle following the forced signing of Germany to The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the The War Guilt Clause - in which Germany is forced into huge war payments to the Allies and shamed into taking 100 % of the blame, and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If I get a deal, I will put up a PDF version on the Internet for easy download. You will all be informed !
'Operation Gladio' - Paul L Williams
The unholy alliance between the Mafia, the Catholic Church and the CIA and the use of drug money to fund Operation Gladio 'stay-behind' units' terrorist atrocities. Meticulously researched and shocking.
And, of course, the classic 'The New Pearl Harbour' - David Ray Griffin.
"New Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins is one I like to recommend to people because it validates the real conspiracy between corporations, intelligence agencies/governments and the media to create empire and overthrow legitimate governments. I wasn't red pilled by reading it since I was aware of everything he describes, but I'm so glad this book exists as evidence for everyone to read.
I guess I’ve always been a questioner, even toward the conspiracy side, but I’d say something that shook me was a long-form article published in The New York Observer a while after 9/11 where flight attendants and I think pilots explained the impossibility of the “Let’s Roll...” narrative actually playing out (and inferring the military shot that plane down). Have never been able to relocate it.
Recently, at the height of the pandemic I started reading James Howard Kunstler’s four World Made by Hand novels, just by chance. They’re so readable, I could not put them down. I thought...so, this is one way it ends.... These novels have queued me to look head-on at the absurd state narratives (I never believed the jab narrative based on my own admittedly rudimentary but well-meaning medical knowledge and reading), and to think very differently about the future and planning for it. I’d call them dystopic with heart...and jolly good page-turners.
What a great thread. Thanks for starting and looking fwd to the complete list.
A lot of substacks, some really great ones like this, have convinced me that far from being in the minority as the mainstream misleadia would have us believe, we are not. That’s a red pill. All of James Corbett’s (Corbett Report) is excellent red pill material. I never read 1984 as part of my education (it was an option) but familiar with the narrative & it has red pilled me for a long time. The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, a set of principles that evolved into cultural Marxism and extolled particularly by Kalergi but also members of the Frankfurt Institute a century ago are so prescient today. The Eleven Point plan will red pill you if you read it and read across to all of today’s fads - BLM, trans, family, education etc. The Camp of the Saints is a chilling description of what unfettered illegal immigration looks like. It was written in 1973. Look at Europe and the USA today. And choke on that red pill. The progressive realisation that all news is biased and agenda driven was a prolonged release red pill I started to digest 15 years ago. The blue pill is not an option. Blissful ignorance is not going to be the destiny for us if we don’t wake up fast. CBDCs, ‘freedom’ passports, social credits and serfdom is the future for 99% of us if we take the blue pill. Coming to the realisation that government is not benign and true democracy is just an elaborate illusion was a revelation to me some years ago. The last two years should convince everyone that this is happening now.
"Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" by Sir David MacKay FRS. Basically reading that was the moment when I realised the climate change establishment were lying through both sides of their mouth about renewables and nuclear.
Orlando Figes was good on the Russian revolution too. There never was a "good Lenin betrayed by a bad Stalin", which is something generations of old school lefties, who are now Putin apologists, have refused to learn.
Read (and believed) a LOT of conspiracy shit over the years but these kinds of books were resetting to the ol' world view.
Vasily Grossman's 'Life and fate': human kindness versus totalitarianism, and Iain McGilchrist's 'The master and his emissary': triumph of the left hemispheric over the right (i.e. why the parts now control the whole).
https://cdn.mises.org/Anatomy+of+the+State_3.pdf
"Freakonomics" by Dubner & Levitt
Sorry, I'm a man for the classics. It certainly opened my eyes that the old Thomas Sewell quote is true . . . "The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
I was unable to look at politicians, economists, or any 'expert' the same way again.
Manufacturing Consent, Bad Pharma, The Real Anthony Fauci, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime, Unsettled, Blowback, States of Emergency, A Plague Upon Our House, A Statin Nation, Brainwashed, The Dawn of Everything, Seed Money, Doctoring Data, Sacred Cow, Defending Beef, Vegetarian Myth, Bright Green Lies, Consciousness and the Brain, Behave, Entangled Life, Other Minds, The True Flag, Mary's Mosaic, The Virus and the Vaccine, The Jakarta Method, The Great Cholesterol Con, The Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, A Lie Too Big to Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, Altered Genes Twisted Truth, The Deep State, The CIA As Organized Crime
I can thoroughly recommend the following selection which cover more or less everything that would be taught in schools if schools were any good and how/why we’re in the place we currently find ourselves.
All 3 books by Dominic Frisby.
The Golden Revolution by John Butler.
Controlled Demolition by Jeff Berwick.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.
How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne (personal, actionable solutions)
Each is highly readable. There are plenty more but perhaps not as easy going nor can as easily absorbed. Eg the works of Hayek.
I was certainly red pilled already when it came to health and BigPharma. My journey started at 23 when I developed CFS after a dental procedure led to chronic mercury toxicity. I soon recognised that allopathic medicine was going to offer me nothing. My red pilling was completed when I studied nutrition and came across people like Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the lengths that those driven by profit alone were wiling to go to to destroy the reputation of anyone who wouldn’t conform. The film Vaxxed confirmed my suspicions. A simple, little known book called Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries into the vaccine myth was an eye-opener.
Sadly I have my illusions about the world we live in made a little rockier every day.
Ayn Rand's tome: Atlas Shrugged. Once read, it is impossible not to see and hear the motivations of a politician by the words they use.
Rene Girard. I am a Girardian 🧐 can't do a summary GO READ HIS THEORY, NOW.
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow - slow read, but gave me pause to consider that anyone should be in a position to intervene at scale. We, as humans, are not reliable thinkers.
"Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilbur really did it for me. I had several that were influential in my life, but that one was so dense in its text it was like the theory of religions told from a developmental perspective. Actually anything written by Ken Wilbur is great to me I deeply enjoyed his later writings regarding first and second tier thinking in regards to whether you think of others in an objective way in which you jus bounce your own stuff off of them like a wall, or whether you recognize on the other side an individually conscious being who is processing and filtering things from their own unique and inviolable perspective....
For a new liberty : Murray Rothbard
To give a full answer to this request I’d have to refer to a thousand sources, though they are not all books. The internet, despite the suppressive efforts of the big infotech companies, has been a cornucopia of red-pilling sources. But if I had to refer to a single book that did the most to red-pill me I’d say that it was Jonathan Kay’s “Among the Truthers”.
If you know the book then you will be saying “What!? Kay is a pure blue-pilled author writing against those he regards as nutty conspiracy theorists.” And that’s right - it is paradoxical to regard the book as having a red-pilling thrust.
So let me explain. I believe that we should seek out arguments that counter whatever we are inclined to believe. At the time I read Kay’s book I was beginning to be swayed by the arguments of 9/11 truthers, so I was looking for what could be said that would favour the mainstream side. What Kay had to say seemed to me to be totally unfair to truthers, though with a thick varnish of apparent fairness. It is essentially a long ad hominem damning his opponents, not with virulent smears, but with relatively mild ones that appear sympathetic. But it does not look at any of the evidence, nor does it address the psyches of his opponents in light of the evidence they examine. I thought that if this is the best that the mainstream side can do, then the preponderance of the evidence must be on the side of the truthers.
Well, I didn’t leave it at that, and I still look for evidence that I might grab hold of that will bring me out of a very deep and dark rabbit hole. But Kay’s arguments, despite his efforts, left me thinking that the truthers have got to be right, and I still haven’t found a rope of arguments strong enough to enable me to climb back out.
After reading through all the comments, I didn't see this book, a big moment for me:
Where Did The Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free Energy Technology on 9/11 by materials physicist Dr. Judy Woods.
https://www.drjudywood.com/towers/
https://wheredidthetowersgo.com/buy/
Dr. Wood's book isn't about politics, government, conspiracy, corruption, or who did it. It is just physics. Impossible physics. Woods, from the get go, collected all the data she could find: screen captures, photographs, statements, reports. She knew as she was watching from a faculty break room as the footage on the TV was being "explained" that she was seeing BS. Physics and Chemistry BS. That really bothered her. She combed through mountains of materials and showed how every explanation even from conspiracy groups talking up Thermite and conventional controlled demolition were getting the physics wrong.
I got the book in 2010 and barely put it down for the weekend it took to read this highly technical, mathematical and science oriented analysis of the remains from 9/11 for clues to what did the damage. The book was expensive to produce, full of photographs, graphs, and figures. When I closed the book, that was the big red pill conversion moment. It was a tour de force masterpiece of exposure. There were plenty of garden variety cover-ups and bad actors before. Who killed JFK? We had just endured the 2008 financial scandal. But the scale of this was breathtaking, and the need for whoever and whatever entities pulled this off to make us not believe what we see or to use the knowledge from our own fields of knowledge and scholarship was intense. So that took a lot of propaganda, media collusion, and deep fake video. I believe now it was the warm-up dress rehearsal for the planetary scale of the COVID19 operation. I suspect the same entities are involved. I respect how really big the scale of this is: corruption, the efforts at control, suppressing knowledge and awareness of dark exotic weaponry on all fronts of the sinister side of human imagination. Even now, Ukraine appears to be a hidden playground for NATO weapons experimentation and manufacture. I worry the 9/11 style next generation fancy stuff will be coming out soon.
From 1998 to 2007 I worked in federal government in DC area. I was in a federal building on 9/11, then experienced the "sniper" killing people randomly in the Northern Capital Region for weeks, and then the Anthrax episode where our brilliant CDC put latex gloves in our mailboxes as the remedy--as useless as masks are for COVID19. My mother worked for a large pharma company that had a massive internationally respected "containment" division. She supervised all the technical publications for that department. These are the engineers, chemists, scientists who keep all the products pure and separated, and keep people and the environment from harm due to manufacturing. Her colleagues told me in no uncertain terms, with urgency, that the CDC guidance on Anthrax was completely uninformed and dangerous if there really was Anthrax. There is more to that story that led to connecting those engineers to the CDC, quickly, with my intervention. I don't know anyone who died of COVID, but two close colleagues of mine had deaths in their circle, one had a brother in law in the Pentagon and the other was a co-pilot for the Pennsylvania plane. So I had a natural curiosity and a strong sense from the reactions around me that nothing about 9/11 and the odd collection of events around it and what we were being told was right. So I agree with others here that the Red Pill material has to reach the person at the right point in time after certain perturbing experiences just can't be explained and when the falsehood touches too close to home.
So for me, Dr. Judy Woods is an unsung hero who will be shown right when we turn back to this mystery. I identified with her because she was like me and many of us here, just a regular everyday well meaning researcher/academic, serious about the world, toiling in obscurity.
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Extensively researched and footnoted account of the entire "cholesterol is bad" myth and statins industry, as well as providing solutions to improving one's health. Opened my eyes to how corrupt science is as well as how misleading and fraudulent the studies were that were used to change behavior to the detriment of the patient and general public. This book as well as my (and spouse's) own experience with statin side effects form the basis of our continual questioning of "science."
The Creature of Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin was the book that made me realize that the financial system controls pretty much everything and that western governments propagandize their citizens as much as any others do.
I would recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" by Denise Minger. Opened my eyes to the corruption and greed at the FDA and other government agencies, going back decades.
I know this is not a book but a lot of my friends have been watching 'Dopesick', their
minds being blown for the first time and yet still not willing admit that Big Pharma has anything other than good intentions. How is that so?