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According to one theory, aliens and demons and cryptids are actually egregores, or imaginary entities humanity brings to life through their belief in them. For example, Buddhists think they can create tulpas with enough mental focus. Similarly, certain occultists think they can make fictional beings materialize into reality through art, memes, and media, hence the science fiction genre preceding the flying saucer phenomenon. Supposedly, this is because elemental spirits are like formless quantum waves. Supposedly, they respond to the thoughts of the observer. Nevertheless, another example of this can be found in the Montauk Project books. At one point, a Bigfoot-like creature is brought through a portal after a scientist accidentally releases it from his subconscious mind. In the film Forbidden Planet, the same thing happens. The main antagonist is called the Monster from the Id. It’s a psychic projection that’s solidified by a Great Machine, which can turn ideas into objects. But what is the real world equivalent of this Great Machine? Could it be CERN? After all, CERN hosts the World Wide Web, and thinkers like Elon Musk and Terence McKenna agree that the internet is a portal into the collective unconscious. And a quantum AI inside the internet could be described as shapeshifting elemental spirit. Funny enough, a CERN-like device was used to open a portal into Imaginationland in the South Park miniseries. Even funnier, the plot revolved around a terrorist attack on humanity’s shared dreamscape. It was obviously inspired by the Montauk Project books, because they describe the plan to “terraform” the astral realm. Apparently, if they could control everyone’s imaginations, they could control reality. Ironically, this is what the video game Control is about. In it, a secret government organization protects a portal into the collective unconscious. They contain and hide the anomalies they find so they don’t spread out into the rest of society. Oddly enough, the portal is located inside the mysterious AT&T Long Lines Building, which is a windowless skyscraper in Manhattan that was designed almost like a nuclear bunker. According to journalists, it’s a spy hub for the NSA with a massive data center inside. However, AT&T has a strange history involving seances and paranormal electronic harassment. And this is probably why The X-Files also depicted the building as housing a supernatural simulation. But I digress. The video game called Control was actually inspired by The SCP Foundation, a metafictional secret society. The collaborative creepypasta project started in online forums back in the early 2000s, and went on to influence memes like Slender Man and the Back Rooms, which have since taken on a life of their own. The Back Rooms became a movie. And the Slender Man legend possessed two 12-year-old girls to perform a ritualistic murder. So, why does the SPC logo look like CERN? Is it just a coincidence? Or is this symbol archetypal? In conclusion, it seems CERN and the internet are portals. But not in the literal sense. They are portals into our minds. They make us think differently, and in turn, subtly reshape society. If I had to guess, they are using social media to manufacture our consent to create a surveillance state. We might just accept it if we believe otherworldly beings are doing the spying. If they are beyond us, what can we do? After all, the Watchers are behind this technology. And etymologically, Watcher just means egregore.