2023 - The Year of A'arab Tzereq, The Kraken Awakes

Elizabeth: You know I think I found something rare.

Geoffrey: What?
Elizabeth: This plant.  I think its a Grex.
Geoffrey: A what?
Elizabeth: G-r-e-x.  That's when two species cross-pollinate and produce a third completely unique one.  And listen to this. ''Epilobic.  From the greek epi: upon and lobus: a pod.  Many of the species are dangerous weeds and should be avoided.''

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

IMPORTANT UPDATE 

Kevin McCarthy was the name of the actor who played the original protagonist in Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 and then reappeared in the 1978 version in a cameo role as the guy running in the street trying to warn people of what was coming.  Kevin McCarthy is also the name of the new Speaker of the House in the United States of America.

PREVIOUSLY ON THE DARK CONCLUSIONS

As you will see if you go back over the Dark Conclusions the previous movies we have witnessed are Clash of the Titans (2020), Rocky Horror Picture Show (2021) and most recently A Clockwork Orange (2022).  It is our firm belief that these movies did a lot of the legwork/heavy lifting for the year and could account for the vast majority of the major throughline.  Yet the ''War of the Alex and Dim'' persists, Prince Harry (previously Rocky) continues to ''go spare'' about his spareness (harvesting organs for the heir), a Ukrainian grain ship runs aground in the Suez (a throwback to the Steve Reeves' movie of '21) and ''the Kraken'' (XBB.1.5) awakes (i.e. Clash of the Titans reference).  Krakens do not awake every year nor did Prince Harry for that matter.  While this could be a case of ''Previously On'' (it is January after all), or subtle folding of the previous stories into IoBS (which is highly likely through names like Harry and Elizabeth and parallels like the Kraken tentacles and the Alien-plant tentacles), I think this could also be a glimpse into ''the Clockwork'' nature of the Qliphothic gates*.  As I discussed before in the evocation and interaction of the ''demons'' we are witnessing (Karens, Rockies, Franks, Alexes, etc) a Qlipha, once open, will interact with the other Qliphoth - they are not stepping stones through Hell from Station to Station as it were, they are trying to light up the whole damned Infernal Tree.  Similarly a Frank can develop into an Alex can develop into a Matthew.  A cross-pollination, if you will, of both narrative and psychology.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

The first of our major synchronicities was the funeral of the Pope.  In the opening moments of the film you can see a catholic priest swinging on a park with some children.  In the real world Benedict XVI just died casting his coverups of sex crimes within the Church into sharp relief.  Many victims wanted him to swing for that.

JEFFRIES AND MCCARTHY

The second major synchronicity was the introduction of the character Geoffrey which synchronized with the battle for the position of Speaker between Jeffries and McCarthy in the US Congress.  McCarthyism is often seen as one of the foci of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an exploration of the whipped up fear of communist infiltration of the American public life.  To be clear, I am not saying there is not currently a ''communist infiltration'' of the American public just that it, inevitably, is also whipped up.  In addtion to this, Prince Harry discussed Prince Andrew (Eddie) association with Epstein and a diplomatic incident surrounding the case occured in the Virgin Islands.

WAR TORN CITIES AND THE GREX

The third major synchronicity relates to Elizabeth's line to Jeffrey about the Grex, a hybrid species that often occured in the ''war torn cities of Europe''.  Covid Variant XBB.1.5, likened to a ''Kraken'', is indeed a hybrid ''recombinant'' that occured when two different variants of coronavirus have been grafted on to each other within an infected individual.  The Kraken, alongside a powerful reference/callback for the Apocalypse Squad about Clash of the Titans, suggests the tentacular growth of the white amyloid clots that rumour would have are growing inside many people right now.  A terrifying thought. 

MATTHEWS

So far we have encountered three important Matthews: Matthew Perry; Matt Hancock; and Matt Gaetz.  The first two were featured in the so-called ''trailer'' for IoBS which ran between Halloween and New Years, the Qabalistic justfication for which is that ''the path'' (or trail...) must be included in order to ''complete the Tree.'' This is of strategic importance for us because as we learned during ACO, the cast are presented to us in the trailer and/or early in the year: see Alex Jones, Alex Johnson, Alexandria Occassio Cortez, Alec Baldwin together with a somewhat ridiculous cluster of Alexeis, Oleksiys, etc.

In his novel, released during the trailer, Matthew Perry (of the important Friends precognition and synch) discussed the ''Big Bad Thing'' which was about being slowly eaten alive from the inside out.  At the same time, Matt Hancock the former Health Secretary of the UK, who resigned after kissing a dark haired coworker, bizarrely, almost inexplicably, appeared on ''I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.''  Finally Matt Gaetz was challenging the election of McCarthy for Speaker and he purportedly wants to investigate covid and the medical response which would effectively cast him as an embattled environmental health agent in an organization now ostensibly headed by the Spectresque WEF.  While not quite a perfect strike this final Matt is probably the one to watch.  I could certainly see Hancock appearing on chatshows as the health situation worsens, giving his two cents, but Matt Gaetz is surely in a better position to channel the full extent of the role.  Including the end of the film.

Just like many individuals struggled to avoid channeling Alex last year (repressed Dionysian energy, the inability to fight back effectively against oppressors leading to sadistic acts on companions and lovers) so many will be challenged this year in holding back the ''demonic spirit'' of Matthew.  And just like they gave us some Alexes to idolise last year so this year they will give us some Matthews.  Although it would seem logical to identify with Matthew and fight back against the Body Snatching system, you know from the film where this will inevitably lead you.  Extreme paranoia and depending on your reading of the final moment either a heartbreaking ''Do it to Julia'' style betrayal or an absolute absorption into the Hive.  There are no heroes in the Qliphoth. 

POD PEOPLE

If Alex (Samael) was our ''archdemon'' last year and the droogs were the ''horde or legion'' aspect then this year the horde has to be the Pod People.  We know from the book that the Pod People only live for a few years before disintergrating and the species drifts on to another planet and we know that liberal cities such as San Francisco were in the upper tiers of those % genetically modified as well as those targetted by other aspects of the depopulation program (see Rocky Horror).  ''A few years'' takes us to the longevity price of living in domed (i.e. hyper sterile) hyper-promiscuous cities that we see in Logan's Run.  Is it possible that the IoBS will only happen or be concentrated in certain cities before the rest of the world becomes aware of the situation?  And the effect will be less pronounced in parts of the world that were less subject to the program?  If MM3 is the subsequent movie then an IoBS dieoff even at 5-10% may be enough to throw a system already falling apart to completely break down.  Especially in parts of the world that are fundamentally dependent upon the safe marketplace in more developed economies... Just like Rocky Horror was peculiarly concentrated in the UK, IoBS may be peculiarly concentrated in San Francisco and other classic centres of Pod People.  I'm not implying this is a good thing as MM3 implies we all have to deal with the fallout of the collapse of the cities.  With the release of the Twitter files and the already exceedingly high excess deaths could revealing the contamination be part of the plan?  Is it another example of people being scared to death?  To me this explains the emotionless aspect of the Pod People, the one question that you have to ask to know your own heart lies buried forever unspoken because it is far too scary to even ask.

THE GOOD NEWS

Focus on the good news?  Absolutely.  Jesus Christ died for your sins.  Accept him as your Lord and Saviour and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  Renounce the Darkness.  Focus only on the Good News.  Turn off the Dark Conclusions, return to nature and live for as long as you can in the way that God intended for you.  There is no need to be afraid.  This already happened.  These experiences are only the Angels freeing you from the Earth of your memory.  Go and be in peace.

Would be demon hunting alchemists who have returned to hell for one last Egg Shen style showdown with the necromancers* then you still need exactly the same physical tools as you did for the previous years: tinctures; silver; garlic; holy water; melatonin; six demon bag; lactoferrin; time machine; tea tree oil; cryptic grimoires; exorcism manuals; etc - and exactly the same emotional tools: courage, logic, neutrality and love.  'twas ever thus. Day will break.

''Ten and not nine.  Ten and not eleven.  Understand in wisdom and be Wise in Understanding.  Examine them, investigate them, think clearly and form.  Place the word above its creator and reinstate the Creator on his foundation; and they are ten extending beyond limit. Observe them: they appear like a flash.  Their boundary has no limit for his word is with them: ''and they ran and returned.''  And they pursue his saying like a whirlwind and they prostrate themselves before his throne.''

Ch.2 V.1 Sefer Yetzirah, Saadia Version

Geoffrey: Dangerous?
Elizabeth: In the Garden. See?  Look how quickly it roots.''Their characteristic rapid and widespread growth pattern was even observed in many of the large, war-torn cities of Europe.  Indeed some of these plants may thrive on devastated ground.''

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

*Necromancy = divination by the dead, i.e. infection rates + death stats = predictive modelling of pandemics, etc.