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Writer's pictureDeric Hollings

Spooky Business


 

The above image was featured in a 4th Psychological Operations Group (4th POG) recruiting video for the United States (U.S.) Army, as the unit apparently considers themselves ghosts in the machine. I’ll delve more into this description in a bit.

 

For the sake of clarity, I’m aware that the 4th POG and other units discussed herein have an airborne component that utilizes an ‘A’ designator: 4th POG(A). Although I’m intentionally not citing the airborne distinction, these components are henceforth inferred when discussing units.

 

Responding to the 4th POG YouTube video, one commenter stated, “You can’t hide in the shadows if you glow in the dark.” This response infers the term “glowie,” of which one source clarifies:

 

Normally used for the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] but also used for agencies like the ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation], etc. Their inability to blend in to the native population’s habits, patterns and speech makes them stick out like a sore thumb to the population, hence they “glow in the dark.”

 

Often, the terms “feds” (e.g., FBI) and “spies” (e.g., CIA) are conflated. Although feds and spies fall under the U.S. Executive Branch, they maintain different roles. All the same, bureaus, agencies, and otherwise generally claim to maintain a similar goal: national security.

 

One remains skeptical of this goal. In any case, the irony of U.S. federal law enforcement personnel and members of the intelligence apparatus glowing in the dark is that the CIA has a history of being referred to as “spooks,” hence the spooky ghost insignia of the 4th POG.

 

Oh, wait. I said that I’d address the ghost-in-the-machine description, didn’t I? Per one source, this “term [was] originally used to describe and critique the concept of the mind existing alongside and separate from the body.”

 

When practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) with clients and when presenting concepts of this psychotherapeutic modality to readers of my blog, I invite people to consider that irrational beliefs with which people disturb themselves are like a type of software.

 

Of this, I stated in a post entitled Mind Tricks, “Not to oversimplify matters, I think it’s important to note that the mind is not the same thing as the brain. Whereas the brain is the hardware, the mind relates to software—with understanding that some people oppose this comparison.”

 

REBT theory maintains that when an unexpected Activating event occurs and a person uses an irrational Belief about the situation, it’s one’s unhelpful attitude and not the undesirable circumstance that causes unpleasant emotional, bodily sensation, and behavioral Consequences.

 

Regarding REBT, think of ghosts in the machine as disruptors of adaptive functioning. From this perspective, people upset themselves using cognitive software that operates more like malware (a virus) that infects otherwise healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral outcomes.

 

Rather than remaining self-disturbed, an individual is invited to try Disputation which may lead to an Effective new belief that’s used in place of an unproductive self-narrative. With the ABC model, a person learns to stop needless suffering which is caused by unhelpful assumptions.  

 

Presuming that you understand the irrational belief-consequence (B-C) connection of a ghost-in-the-machine description for REBT, I now return to the matter of spooky business. Along with the 4th POG, the U.S. Army maintains the 8th Psychological Operations Group (8th POG).

 

Both the 4th and 8th POG fall under the category of “PSYOP,” sometimes referred to as “PsyOps.” Regarding this term, one source elaborates:

 

Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and large foreign powers.

 

The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic activities available to the U.S. […]

 

Between 2010 and 2014, PSYOP was renamed Military Information Support Operations (MISO), then briefly renamed PSYOP in August 2014, only to return to MISO shortly thereafter in 2015. The term was again renamed back to PSYOP in October 2017.

 

Having served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1996-2007), I can appreciate the ever-changing acronymic terms used by the military. For instance, I served as a Marine Security Guard (MSG) when protecting U.S. embassies and consulates abroad.

 

Later, the Corps changed the acronym to MCESG (Marine Corps Embassy Security Guard). At any rate, I had no idea what the purpose of the U.S. Department of State (DOS) was when assigned to the DOS by the U.S. Department of Defense. I was quite ignorant at the time.

 

However, it didn’t take long for me to realize that my diplomatic service was in support of spooks. In an article entitled How to Spot a Spook, which is featured on the CIA website, one author states of embassy spooky business:

 

The reason the CIA office was located in the embassy—as it is in most of the other countries in the world—is that by presidential order the State Department is responsible for hiding and housing the CIA.

 

Like the intelligence services of most other countries, the CIA has been unwilling to set up foreign offices under its own name, so American embassies—and, less frequently, military bases—provide the needed cover.

 

Have you ever seen a ghost? If so, was it phosphorescent? Spooks with whom I maintained contact at consulates and embassies glowed in the dark, so to speak. One remains uncertain as to whether or not luminescence benefits PSYOP personnel. Yet, I digress.

 

You may’ve seen glow-in-the-darks and not been able to detect their spooky features. I’ll provide a potential example. Both the 4th and 8th POG are garrisoned at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. Perhaps you are relatively familiar with the base, though in relation to a different name.

 

Per one source, “Fort Bragg changes name to Fort Liberty, part of U.S. Army plan to rename installations honoring Confederate soldiers.” Are you tracking so far—do you understand? (Nod your head north and south, if so.) Now consider what a separate source states:

 

The United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), USACAPOC(A), or CAPOC was founded in 1985 and is headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

 

USACAPOC(A) is composed mostly of U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers in units throughout the United States. The size of the Command is nearly 13,500 Soldiers, which is 76% of the Department of Defense’s Civil Affairs forces and 63% of Psychological Operations forces.

 

(You can’t accurately say that I didn’t alert you to military use of acronyms.) Okay, let’s recapitulate. The 4th and 8th POG are active units of the U.S. Army PSYOP division and the CAPOC is a reserve component of the Army’s spooky business. You tracking?

 

I realize that some of this information can be a bit confusing. However, I have confidence that you’re able to comprehend the process I’m outlining herein. You with me? Okay, underneath the glowing chain of command, one source maintains:

 

The 440th Civil Affairs Battalion is a civil affairs (CA) unit of the United States Army Reserve based in Fort Carson, Colorado and organized under the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade, 351st Civil Affairs Command, United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne).

 

Don’t let the term “Civil Affairs” fool you; we’re talking about spooky business here. Perhaps you’re old enough to remember that the same Fort Carson installation mentioned by the aforementioned source was a base on which a questionable “murder spree” took place.

 

For now, let’s file that informational tidbit away in our short-term memory cabinet along with data related to a separate series of murders committed by soldiers on Fort Bragg, and which was purportedly linked to use of Mefloquine (Lariam). Where was I? Oh yes, a potential spook example.

 

On June 8, 2023, U.S. representative for Colorado’s 5th congressional district, Doug Lamborn, posted the following on X:

 

Welcome & congratulations to LTC Tulsi Gabbard, who recently assumed command of the @440thCA_BN - the newest battalion in the US Spec Ops & Psy Ops Command (Airborne). I wish outgoing commander LTC Matthew Daly & family well in their next endeavor & thank him for his leadership.

 

Am I expressly stating that Gabbard is without a doubt a glowie? No. All the same, one thinks critically about her ostensibly spooky business as she’s being considered for next director of national intelligence. Regarding her role in PSYOP, one source quoted Gabbard as stating:

 

I have my 440th Civil Affairs Battalion out here in Hawaii. We have other civil affairs teams pushing out across the Pacific through the FSM [Federated States of Micronesia], RMI [Republic of the Marshall Islands] and other locations, and actually putting their civil affairs skills to work.

 

Pop quiz time! Do you recall what “civil affairs” means in regard to the current post? It’s a branch of the U.S. military that engages with the civil population of a territory to support military operations and achieve national interests which favor the U.S. You know, “Our democracy.”

 

Apparently, Gabbard has put her “civil affairs skills to work” elsewhere in the globe. According to the American Psychological Association, these skills include “tapping into social psychology research, such as the literature on learning, motivation, cognition, culture and persuasion.”

 

“All right, Deric,” you may say, “What are you getting at with all of this? It’s not like the ghost in the machine has anything to do with U.S. citizens, right? I mean, the 4th and 8th POG, as well as the CAPOC, are engaging enemies of our nation. So why write a lengthy post about it all?”

 

I can appreciate the skill of critical thinking. In fact, it’s what the main objective of the current post is intended to foster. Keep in mind, imaginary reader, that the official website for the U.S. Army’s spooky video campaign states:

 

Much like the PsyOp discipline, the video is persuasive and intended to elicit an emotional response. Emotion has power. Each scene has a purpose, every sound an objective. Which emotions are triggered varies depending on the viewer and it is developed in a way that each subsequent watch can trigger different emotions.

 

Bear in mind that from an REBT perspective ghosts in the machine are disruptors of adaptive functioning through use of the B-C connection. By its own admission, U.S. Army PSYOP ghosts in the machine intend to disrupt adaptive functioning of an intended audience (i.e., the globe).

 

This includes propagandistic recruitment campaigns aimed at U.S. citizens, as well as whatever sociopolitical disruption in which these spooks engage across the globe. Their actions arguably affect you and me, whether directly or indirectly.

 

Of course, I’m not self-disturbed about this matter. Nevertheless, I think it’s important to understand that even a conventionally attractive politician who you may believe brings hope for a brighter tomorrow could be engaged in spooky business. According to one source:

 

The [Obama] administration also introduced the euphemism “violent extremist” instead of terrorist, a term that is now applied to domestic activists with no connection to any foreign power or influence […]

 

In 2022, an extensive report by the Washington Post revealed widespread concern inside DOD that psychological operations were being waged both recklessly and ineffectively by the armed services. The report was spurred by research from the Stanford Internet Observatory which detailed over 150 instances of Facebook and Twitter removing accounts linked to U.S. military influence campaigns.

 

The Pentagon also has pushed for new powers to fight adversaries in cyberspace. The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act gave the Defense Department a green light to engage in offensive psyops campaigns, including clandestine operations that align with the same definition as covert, meaning that the armed forces can carry out influence operations that deny an American connection, according to an analysis by Lawfare.

 

Are you starting to see the bigger picture? Luminescent apparitions which infect your social media feeds, let alone the Mockingbird media content to which so many people expose themselves, may be seen glowing from outer space, so to speak.

 

Spooky business of this sort is expressly intended to stir your emotions in relation to an unhealthy B-C connection. Are you tracking? Perhaps one final example is in order to finalize this psychoeducational lesson.

 

Since I addressed the spooky business of media, I invite you to reflect upon coverage concerning the Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada and the terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to one source:

 

US law enforcement is looking for clues to unravel the mystery behind the Tesla vehicle that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this week, giving seven people minor injuries.

 

The man who rented the Cybertruck - then drove it to the city and parked it in front of the hotel - has been identified as Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a 37-year-old active-duty US special forces soldier.

 

The feds are apparently trying to “unravel the mystery,” as it was the FBI that reportedly pressured social media companies to quash information about the Hunter Biden laptop. Perhaps they could enlist the help of the 51 spies who also labeled the laptop as Russian disinformation.  According to another source:

 

A U.S. Army veteran from Texas who was employed by Deloitte is the suspect in a bloody New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed at least 15 people and injured 30 more.

 

Federal investigators identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, as the man who intentionally rammed a rented pickup into revelers around 3:15 a.m. on Bourbon Street as people were ringing in the new year.

 

There appears to be at least one connection between the two men who reportedly committed these incidents. Per one source, authorities say that “the two men likely overlapped at Fort Bragg and again in Afghanistan.” Have you ever seen ghosts? If so, were they phosphorescent?

 

Now, go back to that mental file cabinet of yours and retrieve the data about the Forts Carson and Liberty deaths. Understand that the individuals involved in those events were (1) in the U.S. Army, (2) had been deployed to the Middle East, and (3) were connected through duty stations.

 

Although there is a correlation between those events and the incidents involving Livelsberger and Jabbar, I have no evidence to state a factual claim about whether or not there’s a PSYOP afoot. Indeed, this is precisely how spooky business functions.

 

For instance, it was in 1999, when undergoing MSG training through the DOS that I learned of how feds and spooks were spying on U.S. citizens. This was two years prior to the 9/11 terror attacks which ushered in the anti-Fourth Amendment Patriot Act.

 

However, I was bound by nondisclosure statutes and couldn’t inform people about what I’d learned, and which led to my distrust of the U.S. government. As well, my last meeting with a CIA spook took place in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in Lima, Peru.

 

That glowie bragged about how the U.S. government—both feds and spies—had manipulated sociopolitical matters in South America which served the interests of the U.S. and not the countries in which consulates and embassies were hosted. Spooky business, if you ask me.

 

I left Peru in March 2001, unable to share with anyone what I’d discovered. That’s when I became so disillusioned with U.S. hegemony that I asked myself about the nation in whose military I served, “Are we the baddies?” Essentially, the U.S. toppled governments.

 

Still, if asked for evidence to support such an accusation, I couldn’t provide any. This is because of the secrecy by which I was bound. Feds and spooks conducted mass surveillance on U.S. citizens and our country was anti-democratic in its operations abroad. Spooky, spooky, spooky!

 

It wasn’t until Julian Assange published a series of classified material leaks from Chelsea Manning, regarding how the U.S. truly functioned in 2010, and Edward Snowden shedding light on the matter of surveillance in 2013 that my beliefs were personally validated.

 

Noteworthy, both Manning and Snowden were directly involved with spooky business. Nevertheless, had they not come forward to reveal how feds and spies operated, I likely wouldn’t be writing the current post. Are you tracking?

 

In regard to by blog, I receive many visitors from nations participating in Five Eyes surveillance and espionage—the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. About this matter, I’m not self-disturbed. (Spooky ghosts don’t frighten me.)

 

Perhaps one day it’ll be reported that I completed suicide by two gunshot wounds to the head, as was the case for investigative journalist Gary Webb who looked into spooky business. Or maybe I’ll die from a mysterious automobile crash like journalist Michael Hastings who probed too deep.

 

It could very well be the case that I somehow manage to firstly shoot myself in the head and secondly blow myself up in a vehicle equipped with full self-driving capability, as was apparently the case with Livelsberger. One supposes that any of these scenarios are possible.

 

While I realize that without being able to offer definitive proof about information I sometimes post within my blog, people associated with these Five Eyes entities may be able to rely on PSYOP protocol by dismissing my ramblings as little more than “conspiracy theories.”

 

That dismissive term was coined by the CIA in order to discredit critical thought and people who call attention to the ghosts within the machine. Admittedly, that tactic of flippancy is quite effective.

 

As an example, take a look at sociopolitical subreddit posts on Reddit or chat forums on 4Chan and you’ll likely discover PSYOP in action. Everything from QAnon content to Russiagate, and many topics in between, bear the earmarks of spooky business about which I learned as an MSG.

 

Unlike the B-C connection ghosts in the individual machine which I try to help people exorcise from their cognitive software, there are ghosts in the collective machine of the globe which are intent on sowing the seeds of confusion. I encourage you to be aware of their propaganda.

 

After the reported success of the first 4th POG video, the U.S. Army released a sequel YouTube video. The hardly clever propagandistic material stated, “In the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” That’s a bit too on the nose, if you ask me. The U.S. has done a lot of oppressing.

 

Still, the outright insidious quote contained in the video is from the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, stating, “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” Ummm, was it not the CIA that was involved with his assassination? (I’m asking for a friend.)

 

Responding to the 4th POG YouTube sequel video, one commenter stated, “What happens to our nation when these same weapons of war are used against our own citizens, institutions, and branches of government?” That individual seemingly understands the value of critical thinking.

 

Do you? If you fail to use thinking that is rational—in accordance with both logic and reason—what might you fall for when spooky business is afoot? What may be the consequences of a B-C connection when allowing collective ghosts in the machine to influence you?

 

Perhaps you’d irrationally participate in a riot, as was the case with the January 6, 2021 (“Jan 6th”) U.S. Capitol so-called attack that in my opinion had fed and spook PSYOP fingerprints all over it. Worse still, you may condone the oppression of those who participated in the event.

 

If villainizing your fellow citizens is appealing to you, you very well may receive a Presidential Citizens Medal for your spooky business. For the rest of us who don’t value the demonization of a U.S. citizenry, maybe exorcizing ghosts in our individual machines is warranted.

 

Tomorrow is January 6, 2025, and I’ll be interested to observe who does and doesn’t advocate spooky business that I have little doubt will occur. Given the occurrences of Jan 6th, I suspect that glowing shenanigans will play a role in the events of tomorrow.

 

After all, it will have been four years since I watched a livestream of Ashli Babbitt being killed when she was unarmed and ostensibly not presenting a reasonable threat to anyone. If feds and spooks weren’t properly held accountable for that act, what’s to stop a PSYOP from again happening?

 

In any event, I’ll continue using the REBT technique of unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve suffering when faced with spooky business. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance, unconditional other-acceptance, and unconditional life-acceptance.

 

Because I have no control and little influence over other people and most matters in life, I’ll practice UA in spite of spooky business that impacts you, me, and the population of the world. Besides, what else could I possibly do when ghosts within the collective machine haunt as they do?

 

Very little, that’s what. Now, what will you do? When understanding that spooky business is at hand, will you self-disturb with B-C connection apparitions? You don’t have to do so. Knowledge is empowering, as is the function of REBT to relieve your self-induced suffering.

 

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life—helping you to sharpen your critical thinking skills, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

 

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

 

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

 

 

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

 

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