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The obscure Psychonetics cult

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I've been spending the past couple of

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days going down quite a weird rabbit

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hole because recently someone commented

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about Russian psychonetics on one of my

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videos. Okay, they told me to look into

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Russian psychonetics. I've never heard

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of that. It's not the same as this

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popular book with like a similar name. I

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don't know if you've heard of that [ __ ]

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but I can't find the comment they left

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now. I even searched up in the YouTube

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comment thing. I can't find it, but I

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swear someone commented that. So, I

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started looking into it and it was

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basically a group of techniques that

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this Russian, of course, it's a [ __ ]

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Russian. They're always doing [ __ ] like

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this. There's always like some weird

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cults or like lucid dreaming or some

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[ __ ] the Russians are doing. His name is

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Dr. Oleg Bakitio. You know, there's so

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many names in this that I won't be able

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to pronounce. I'm sorry. But he made

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these techniques psychonetics, which are

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basically about dealing with high stress

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situations. And it was actually used for

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the used for the military, sorry, in

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combat. And the reason he made these

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techniques, I think, was for the Soviet

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military, which there's a bunch of weird

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[ __ ] surrounding all these psychonetics

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things, which I'll get into. But it can

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also be used for like software

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engineering and consciousness, expanding

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consciousness and doing things that

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require you to like spread your

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attention instead of focusing on one

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thing, if that makes sense. And it can

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be used to improve your creativity. And

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there was even some people talking about

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on these little niche underground forums

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which are the only places I saw other

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people speaking about psychonetics

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mentioned of supernatural like

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abilities. For example, someone talked

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about how he had heard that one guy

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could see a really good knifethrower in

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the military and then after an hour of

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meditation and implementing psychonetic

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practices, he could master knife

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throwing just from watching this [ __ ]

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guy do it. bro, after an hour of

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meditation and having like flu like

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symptoms, he was really good at that.

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And so that guy on that forum was it was

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just a comment. He was saying he didn't

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know if that [ __ ] was true, but he had

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heard a lot of weird [ __ ] about

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psychonetics. Now, I will briefly go

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over the techniques because I actually

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think that the law and the history

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behind it is more interesting. It

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involves like the government, the

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military, terrorism, secret languages.

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Like there's a bunch of really strange

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[ __ ] surrounding this, bro. But the main

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technique, right, and I looked through a

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whole document and I even tried some of

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these. The main technique of

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psychonetics is deconentration of

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attention. And this is when you

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deconentrate your attention. Wow. Who

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could have [ __ ] thought, bro? But

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this is what it is. Like, so when you

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normally focus on one thing, and I

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actually thought this was funny because

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it was similar to the dream yoga [ __ ] I

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talked about before, it was like the

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opposite of focusing on one thing. So

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instead of doing that, the exercise

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basically had you look at like a square

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of numbers or some [ __ ] and focus your

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vision on the center of it. And instead

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of focusing on it, you want to put your

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attention, and I'll send you the link to

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all this [ __ ] if you want to do the

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exercises. you put your attention on

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like the top left corner without moving

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your eyes to the top left corner. So you

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can even do this now without looking at

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anything. It's like you can if I'm

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staring at you, right? I can put my

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attention to the left but I'm still

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staring at you. Like I'm not putting my

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eyes there. And like the whole point of

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this was just like if you get really

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good at deconentrating your attention,

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you can kind of do things like you can

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kind of perform well in combat. Or there

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was an example of a diver who used this

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to like I guess get through really high

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stress situations underwater because

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instead of just focusing on one thing at

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once, you need to focus on like eight

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different things at once, right? And

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most people think this is impossible,

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but after training after training

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deconentration of attention, apparently

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you will get really good at this. And

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one example he gave was like people who

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need to look at nuclear reactors and

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[ __ ] and monitor that monitor that

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because they have to look at like

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[ __ ] 50 different uh things at once,

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right? And you can't do that if you just

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focus on one thing. So you need to

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spread your attention. And if you get

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really good at this, you will apparently

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be able to like pick out objects in your

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field of vision without looking at

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anything. So if you're just looking

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straight, you will be able to pick out

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an object from your left vision. Like I

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don't know if this sounds really useful

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but like there was just a bunch of weird

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[ __ ] and I will talk about some of the

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weird abilities or not weird but like

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cool abilities people apparently got

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from these techniques right and another

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one of the techniques was dealing with

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perceptual uncertainties and this is

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when for example you look at an illusion

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that has two possible ways to look at

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it. For example, if you look at like a

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2D drawing of a 3D cube and you can

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there's like different ways to look at

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it. So sometimes the um bottom left side

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will seem to be at the front and

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sometimes the top right side will seem

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to be at the front right and then it

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kind of switches between your vision

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because there's two ways to perceive it.

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This is a perceptual uncertainty. And so

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the exercise he he said was to look at

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this cube or any other illusion. Sorry

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I'm speaking so quick. I need speaking

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so quick. This is so [ __ ] bad. I keep

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doing this recently. [laughter]

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His the technique was to look at this

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cube and basically control how your

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brain is seeing it, which is actually

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different. Which is actually difficult.

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Sorry, cuz I spent like an hour looking

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at this [ __ ] ass cube, bro. And

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[laughter] I really struggle to control

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it. But apparently once again this will

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unlock kind of supernatural like

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abilities where you can look at

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something and understand it and

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understand its depth on like a whole

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deeper level. Now to be honest, this guy

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was kind of vague posting. This guy was

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kind of [ __ ] vague posting about what

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kind of [ __ ] this unlocked. Everyone was

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very vague about this, right? And there

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was also some other [ __ ] like will

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meditation which is meditating on your

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will or something. I don't [ __ ] know.

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And there was [laughter] a bunch of

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other strange exercises. But I feel like

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the history, as I said, is actually more

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interesting than the actual like

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techniques because it's very weird.

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And as I said, it involves a lot of

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strange [ __ ]

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Let me get water.

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Sorry, I speak too quickly.

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Um, but yeah, I need to speak about the

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history of this cuz it's quite it's

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quite peculiar. And to do that though, I

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need to speak about a whole another

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person and kind of tie it in. And this

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guy is called John Oji Jada, I think it

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is. I don't know how to pronounce his

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name once again, but this I'll just call

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him John. This guy John was an American.

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And this may at first seem like a whole

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different story, but this all connects

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with the psychonetic Russians. Okay, so

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this guy John, he was really into

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creating languages ever since he was a

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kid. This is an American. And he

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actually had a twin and he created a

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language with his twin that they spoke

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with each other in in. And I actually

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didn't know this, but that's a thing

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called cryptoasia. Bro, that's literally

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a [ __ ] thing, you know? Bro,

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apparently 50% of twins have a madeup

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language. Can you [ __ ] believe that?

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Like that's crazy. Like they just make

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it up by themselves. Like it's just

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natural for them. That was insane. I had

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never heard that, but I don't know if it

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stem from that, but this guy just had a

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crazy

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interest in languages. And ever since he

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was like a teenager, he was making up

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his own languages. And then he actually

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started doing a PhD to like research

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languages. I don't know the exact name

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of it, but the problem was he didn't

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have enough money to do the full PhD.

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So, he had to become a truck driver. And

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he kept saying to himself as he was like

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being a truck driver, I'm going to go

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back and do the PhD and whatever,

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whatever. But he never ended up being

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able to go and do it. I guess he didn't

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ever get enough money or kind of just

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that [ __ ] passed, right? But despite

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that, even though he was a truck driver,

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kind of in secret without anyone

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knowing, he was working on a language

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called Ithquil, I think it is. I think

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that's how you pronounce it. IQquil.

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Now, this language, oh, there's some

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interesting [ __ ] about this, [laughter]

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bro. There's some interesting [ __ ] about

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this. He actually turned up at a lot of

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language conferences where people, it

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was like full of people who created

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their own languages. And this John guy,

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he was smart. He was wicked smart, bro.

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Like, he would start speaking at a

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conference and speak a madeup language

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of someone in the audience. And the

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person in the audience, that would have

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been the first time they had heard

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someone speak their madeup language. So

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John, this [ __ ] just learned

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languages so quickly and knew everything

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about languages and he spent decades

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making this language of his IQ, right?

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He spent decades on it. And so after a

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while of this, he gets a call from the

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University of Effective Development, I

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think it was called, which is which was

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somewhere in Russia or Ukraine. I don't

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know like right now it would be a bit

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hazy if it was Russian or Ukrainian. I

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don't really know. It was probably

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Russian. Um, and the University of

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Effective Development was ran by the Dr.

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Oleg guy, right? And this is where a

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bunch of students were training

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psychonetics. So they had a whole

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[ __ ] X-Men Academy, bro. And so Dr.

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Oleg um kind of sends a message to this

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John guy and he's saying like we want to

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talk to you at the University of

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Effective Development. We want to

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arrange a trip for you, right? And so

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this John guy's like this is [ __ ]

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crazy because no one knows about my

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language. I mean he did write a whole

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website about his language but no one it

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never really went mainstream or

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anything. It was just known upon known

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amongst a bunch of like little niche

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[ __ ] who are into languages. So

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he receives this email asking him to go

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on a trip to like some Ukrainian country

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or whatever. So he goes there with a

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translator cuz he can't speak Russian.

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And I think the Dr. Ole guy says that he

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wanted John to speak about Ithquil, his

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language at this conference. And so they

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touch down at this Ukrainian airport or

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whatever. And they meet with a woman, a

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young woman from the University of

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Effective Development. And this young

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woman tells John that they've been

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learning his language for the past two

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years, bro. She tells him, "We've been

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learning your language for the past 2

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years, and amongst us, you are a legend,

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bro." That's I mean, she didn't say she

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didn't say, "Bro," but she said that to

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him, right? And obviously John is like,

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"What the [ __ ] I've never heard of

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these people. I had no idea a bunch of

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Russian students were learning my

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language. Why are they doing this?

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What's happening?" kind of thing. So

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that whole thing happens, right? And

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John does a little like press

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conference. He speaks about his language

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in front of these Russian students,

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these psychonetic guys. And later in the

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night, he's in a room with Dr. Oleg. And

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Dr. Oleg is telling him about

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psychonetics and telling John about the

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psychonetic techniques and explaining

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deconentration of attention to him. He

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just got up a laptop and showed him the

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[ __ ] Now John's looking at this like

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he's like, "Okay, interesting." But he's

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also saying like, "Why are these people

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so interested in my language? Why are

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these Russians involved in this weird

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[ __ ] that he didn't understand? Why are

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they involved in my language?" Right?

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So, he didn't really get that, but he he

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said it was funny because as the night

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went on, John was sitting on a sofa with

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Russian students at his feet, like

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looking at every word he was saying and

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paying close attention to him as if he

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was a [ __ ] god, right? So, they

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adored him. These Russians he had never

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heard about adore John. They loved his

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language because his language ith right

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was so unique and it's really strange

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like you can basically convey

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a really really complex like English

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sentence in like onequil word which

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looks very complex to say. So it's I

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think that's why the psychonetics liked

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it because it was a way for them to

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convey very complex things that were

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hard to do in normal English in

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ithquill. So they basically after that

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required every Russian student at the

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University of Effective Development to

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learn this language, this madeup

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language. And John was considered a

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legend among them, right? And John said

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after this he cried. He literally cried

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because for decades he'd been working on

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this [ __ ] underground. He'd been a truck

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driver with no renown. Oh, that [ __ ]

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rhymed. That rhymed, bro. I'm so I'm so

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poetic. Um, but yeah, he had been doing

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this. He got no recognition. And now all

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of a sudden there's hundreds of Russian

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students required to learn his language.

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So that made him cry and he went home to

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America. And then a time passed and he

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got in he got um invited to another

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conference in Ukraine.

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This was somewhere in Ukraine. I don't

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remember if the I wrote down the exact

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place, but this was another psychonetic

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conference, right? And this was when

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things got much more interesting and

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they found out a lot more interesting

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information when John was sitting with

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his translator in the seats watching the

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conference and Dr. Oleg was speaking

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and they started I don't know if it was

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John or the translator, but one of them

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started searching up Dr. Oleg as he was

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speaking and they found out some weird

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[ __ ] as well. Actually, I should speak

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before about what Dr. Oleg told John.

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This is what Dr. Oleg told John before

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this conference, right? Dr. Oleg told

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John that he had been working, I think,

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as a medical student in the Soviet

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Union, but he got expelled from the

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college for distributing provocative

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literature. Whatever the [ __ ] that

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means. [laughter] I don't know what that

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means, but Dr. Ole got expelled for

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that. Right. And then after that, the

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KGB, which of course is like the Russian

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police or security services or whatever,

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they said Dr. Oleg was politically

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unreliable, whatever that meant. Keep in

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mind, Dr. Oleg is telling this telling

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all this to John. He's being completely

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honest about this. So, he was called

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political unreliable and he got

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imprisoned for two [ __ ] years. And

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then after he got imprisoned,

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he got let out and then he became a

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psychologist. He got into psychology and

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from there sprung psychonetics. Once he

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got into psychology and when he created

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psychonetics, ironically, even though he

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got arrested by the government, the

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Soviet Union then wanted him to teach

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psychonetics to their military, right?

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And teach them that [ __ ] So then he

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started working for the government. So

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that's basically how psychonetics came

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about. That's like the crazy law about

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it. So there's that whole thing Dr. Oleg

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told John. Okay, now let's continue to

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the press conference when John was

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watching Dr. Oleg speak and he was on a

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laptop reading Russian articles and

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getting them translated and finding out

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some more weird [ __ ] about Dr. Oleg that

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the man didn't feel it was necessary to

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tell John before right now he finds Dr.

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Oleg has a lot of weird theories and

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[ __ ] in articles and on blog posts

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basically Dr. Oleg wanted to create some

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kind of state where there were Russians,

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Ukrainians and I think combined with

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some more regions from that area. And he

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was also saying some [ __ ] that kind of

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made Jon discom um uncomfortable sorry

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when he was reading it [snorts] and this

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is what Dr. Oleg was saying in

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interviews. He was he was saying he

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wanted to develop an intellectual

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special forces that can bring about the

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establishment of a great power in

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greater Russia and give birth to a new

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order, a new race as well that can be

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called superhuman. So this Dr. Ollet

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guy, this Dr. Ol guy literally wanted to

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create a race of [ __ ] superhumans

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through his psychonetic techniques,

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[laughter] bro. And then and so John

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John saw this and he was uncomfortable.

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He was like, "What the [ __ ] I didn't

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know this guy wanted to create some

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superhuman race and a superstate." But

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you know the the worst thing or the

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weirdest thing happens next. Another guy

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gets up on stage. What is his name? I

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wrote it down. I don't Oh, his name is

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Gavena.

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Okay. So this guy was the whole time as

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he was seated recording the thing with a

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little camcorder, right? And so when he

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gets called up to stage, he goes on and

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he's still holding the [ __ ] cam

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recorder. This dude is [ __ ] talking

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on stage about psychonetics while

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recording with his [ __ ] cam recorder,

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like recording the crowd. And this makes

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John uncomfortable once again. He's

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like, "Why the [ __ ] is this Russian

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recording me?" And so Gavveno starts

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talking about how he was recently in

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prison, bro. And he was reading Dr.

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Oleg's book in prison and looking at the

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psychonetic techniques and he starts

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talking about expanding consciousness

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and [ __ ] cuz he was reading all about

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that in prison and John was like why the

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[ __ ] was this guy in prison? Who is this

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guy? And so the translator's face, the

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translator is obviously Russian. His

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face goes pale seeing this guy Gavveno

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on the stage. And you know why it goes

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pale is because he turns to John and he

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says to John, "John, you know this guy

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is like the number the number two

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terrorist in Ukraine right now." He

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literally says that to John. John's

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like, "What the fuck?" And John starts

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typing on his laptop and reading about

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this Gaveno guy and he sees, yes, this

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guy has been arrested several times on

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terrorism and weird [ __ ] and he's been

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involved in faright terrorist groups and

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all this stuff. And this is just making

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John so uncomfortable combined with what

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he read on Dr. Oleg and he was like,

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"What the [ __ ] Why are they using my

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language to create some superstate and

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super race [laughter] of supernatural

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[ __ ] So after this, Dr. Oleg

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goes home. He goes home, right? And he's

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telling Dr. Oleg like, "I don't want to

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be involved in this anymore. This is all

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sus." And you know what is funny? After

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that, he reads the journal of Gavveno.

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Gavveno posted a blog about his

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experience at the conference. And you

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know what he's saying on his blog? He's

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saying, "So, I saw some Americans in the

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crowd." And he posted the video of his

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cam recorder that he was using on the

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stage. And he's like, "These guys were

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definitely from the Pentagon. These guys

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were definitely [ __ ] agents, bro.

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This guy's posting on this blog saying,

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"So, these were they were these

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Americans and they were definitely

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agents. They were asking all the

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questions someone from the Pentagon will

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ask." So now you have the Russian

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terrorist was like he was fully

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convinced John the creator of Ithquil

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and the translator was working for the

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CIA and that they came to Russia just to

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attend the psychonetics conference just

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to like get [ __ ] out for the CIA and

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find out what they knew. So that's all I

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have for that. [laughter]

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[gasps] But like that was a

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that was just a rabbit hole I've been

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going down the past couple days. Oh, it

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doesn't end there. [ __ ] There was

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another thing I [laughter] forgot. It

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doesn't end there. So, Dr. Oleg, Dr.

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Oleg, right? [ __ ] um a few years

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after that, he got arrested in Ukraine

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for hiring 200 people to try and

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overthrow I think the Russian embassy or

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the Ukrainian embassy or some [ __ ] like

19:40

that. He he there was like a plot to

19:42

overthrow a government building in

19:44

Ukraine, I think for Russia. And

19:47

apparently he was going to hire 200

19:50

people and pay them $500 and they got

19:53

molotovs and cocktails and all that

19:55

[ __ ] He got arrested for that. So like

19:57

what the [ __ ] going on? And I saw some

19:59

guy wrote an article where he was saying

20:02

the 200 people Oleg was going to hire

20:04

for that plot were probably the

20:06

psychonetic students. [laughter] So,

20:08

this guy was involved in some X-Men [ __ ]

20:11

where he was getting his students

20:13

reportedly to try and overthrow a

20:15

government building um after learning

20:17

all these psychonetic techniques. What

20:19

the [ __ ] is happening in Russia, bro?

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What the [ __ ] is happening in Ukraine?

20:24

I'm sorry this shit's hyping me up, but

20:25

like what is going on here? But that's

20:28

the rabbit hole I went down. Sorry, I'm

20:31

kind of like rambling. It's all over the

20:33

place. That [ __ ] is very interesting.

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But farewell. Do not join the Discord.

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This shit's making me laugh cuz of like

20:40

how [ __ ] weird it is. But do not join

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the Discord. Leave me a mean comment. I

20:45

did not kill myself, okay? I'm not

20:47

suicidal. If I get if I [ __ ] hang

20:49

myself after revealing this information,

20:52

I am not suicidal. Goodbye. Unsubscribe.

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Dislike the video. I love you. I love

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you.

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