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15. We were warned about the destruction of Jerusalem in Luke 13:31–35: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
16. Matthew 23:13–14: “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”
17. Ephesians 6:12 (King James Version): “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Chapter 17: A Fall
1. William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43289/easter-1916.
Chapter 18: Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
1. Sri Ravipati, “McCarthy Defends Releasing Jan. 6 Footage to Tucker Carlson,” Axios, March 7, 2023. https://www.axios.com/2023/03/08/mccarthy-defends-jan-6-footage-tucker-carlson-fox-news.
2. Ella Lee, “Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Wasn’t ‘In Charge” of Capitol Police on Jan 6,” USA Today, July 27, 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/27/fact-check-nancy-pelosi-isnt-in-charge-capitol-police/8082088002.
3. “Oversight,” United States Police Capitol Police, https://www.uscp.gov/the-department/oversight.
4. “Medical Examiner Finds USCP Officer Brian Sicknick Died of Natural Causes” (press release), United States Capitol Police, April 19, 2021, https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/medical-examiner-finds-uscp-officer-brian-sicknick-died-natural-causes.
5. Adam Klasfeld, “Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Died of Natural Causes After Suffering Two Strokes Day After Jan. 6: D.C. Medical Examiner,” Law & Crime, April 19, 2021, https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-died-of-natural-causes-after-suffering-two-strokes-day-after-jan-6-report.
6. Richard Luscombe, “Chuck Schumer Attacks ‘Shameful’ Fox News Over Use of January 6 Footage—As It Happened,” Guardian, March 7, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/mar/07/biden-medicare-taxes-desantis-trump-2024-live-updates.
7. “Senator McConnell Calls Tucker Carlson’s Depiction of January 6 Attack a ‘Mistake,’” C-SPAN, March 7, 2023, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5060662/senator-mcconnell-calls-tucker-carlsons-depiction-january-6-attack-mistake.
8. Emily Brooks et al., “Tucker Carlson Shows the First of His Jan. 6 Footage, Calls It ‘Mostly Peaceful Chaos,’” The Hill, March 6, 2023, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3887103-tucker-carlson-shows-the-first-of-his-jan-6-footage-calls-it-mostly-peaceful-chaos.
9. “About the National Archives of the United States: General Information Leaflet, Number 1,” National Archives Publications, https://www.archives.gov/publications/general-info-leaflets/1-about-archives.html.
10. Brandon R. Burnette, “Daniel Ellsberg,” The First Amendment Encyclopedia, https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1435/daniel-ellsberg.
11. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Tucker Carlson Talks Exclusively with Key Capitol Police Officer Ignored by Jan. 6 Panel Amid Footage Release,” Fox News, March 8, 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-talks-exclusively-key-capitol-police-officer-ignored-by-jan-6-panel-amid-footage-release.
12. Julia Pierson, “Written Testimony of USSS Director Julia Pierson for a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing Titled ‘White House Perimeter Breach: New Concerns About the Secret Service,’” Department of Homeland Security: Testimony, September 30, 2014, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/09/30/written-testimony-usss-director-house-committee-oversight-and-government-reform.
13. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Former Lawyer for ‘QAnon Shaman’ Says Jan. 6 Footage Wasn’t Shown to Client, Calls Prison Sentence a ‘Tragedy,’” Fox News, March 9, 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-lawyer-qanon-shaman-says-jan-6-footage-I-shown-client-calls-prison-sentence-tragedy.
14. “Watching Congress in Session,” U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/visit/know-before-you-go/watching-congress-in-session.
15. “Visiting the Capitol Galleries,” United States Senate, https://www.senate.gov/visiting/common/generic/visiting_galleries.htm.
16. “Gallery Level,” History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives, https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Capitol/1857-1950/Gallery-Level/.
17. Scott Bomboy, “Looking Back: The Electoral Commission of 1877,” National Constitution Center, January 4, 2021, https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-back-the-electoral-commission-of-1877.
18. “Historical Artifacts: Passes,” History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives, https://history.house.gov/Collection/Search?Term=Search&Classifications=Historical+Artifacts%3A+Passes.
19. History.Com Editors, “Andrew Jackson Holds ‘Open House’ at the White House,” History, March 3, 2020, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house.
20. Paul Dickson, “The Bonus Army,” Bill of Rights Institute, https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-bonus-army.
21. John McLaughlin, “Hunter Biden Story Is Russian Disinformation, Dozens of Former Intel Officials Say,” citing Politico story, October 20, 2020, https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say; Natasha Bertrand, “Hunter Biden Story Is Russian Disinfo, Dozens of Former Intel Officials Say,” Politico, October 19. 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276.
22. “Did Trump Spread Russian Disinformation During the Debate?,” CNN Politics Facts First, https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9c.
23. “Mueller Finds No Collusion with Russia, Leaves Obstruction Question Open” (press release), American Bar Association, March 25, 2019, https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation.
24. David Smith, “‘The Perfect Target’: Russia Cultivated Trump as Asset for 40 Years—ex-KGB spy,” Guardian, January 29, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book.
25. Jennifer Jacobs and Mark Niquette, “Trump Team Hoping ‘Peacefully and Patriotically’ Will Be Shield,” Bloomberg, February 10, 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shield.
26. “Trump-Russia Steele Dossier Source Acquitted of Lying to FBI,” BBC News, October 18, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382.
Chapter 19: Red Sparkly Shoes
1. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980).
2. Susan Sugarman, What Freud Really Meant: A Chronological Reconstruction of His Theory of Mind (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
3. Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022).
4. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951).
5. Sylvia Plath, “Daddy.” First published in Ariel, 1965. Reprinted in The Collected Poems (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2.
6. The Zimbardo experiment in 1971, at Stanford University, found that formerly normal groups of people could very quickly, when assigned roles of “prisoner” or “guard,” become obsessive about rules and internalize their assigned roles to the point of both cruelty and of submission to cruelty. Saul Mcleod, “Stanford Prison Experiment: Zimbardo’s Famous Study,” Simply Psychology, May 18, 2023, https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html.
Chapter 20: The Last Taboo
1. Ora Nadrich, Time to Awaken: Changing the World with Conscious Awareness (Seattle: Amazon Digital Services, 2022).
2. Ephesians 6:12 (King James Version).
3. “When Does Kali Yuga End? Symptoms of the Age of Kali,” Popular Vedic Science, July 30, 2022, https://popularvedicscience.com/history/yugas/when-does-kali-yuga-end.
4. Celeste Longacre, “What Is the Age of Aquarius?,” Almanac, April 3, 2023, https://www.almanac.com/what-age-aquarius.
5. “Counting: Tomorrow, The Day After Tomorrow,” Explore Mesolore, http://www.mesolore.org/tutorials/learn/18/Counting-Tomorrow-The-Day-After-Tomorrow/48/Ages-of-Creation.
6. Homer, The Odyssey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919), book 1, line 178.
7. Christopher Hall, “Blue Is the Rarest Color: Language and Visual Perception,” Burnaway, August 30, 2018, https://burnaway.org/magazine/blue-language-visual-perception: “One of the first people to seriously study Homer’s use of color was the 19th-century classics scholar and British Prime Minister William Gladstone. In 1858, Gladstone published a seminal 1,700-page study of Homer’s epic poetry, which included a 30-page statistical analysis of Homer’s use of color. Gladstone notes that, compared to modern writers, Homer rarely mentions color, and what is mentioned is mostly limited to shades of black and white, with red, yellow, and green making only occasional appearances. Black is mentioned almost 200 times, white about 100. Red is mentioned fewer than 15 times, and yellow and green fewer than 10. Moreover, Homer’s descriptions of color can be, at times, completely bizarre: skies the color of bronze, stars are an iron or copper hue, sheep wool and ox skin appear purple, horses and lions are red, and honey glows green. Most conspicuous, however, Gladstone noted the complete absence of the color blue. Nothing is ever described as ‘blue.’”
8. Gary Lupyan et al., “Effects of Language on Visual Perception,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24, no. 11 (2020): 930–44, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.005.
9. Dan Cohn-Sherbok, “Mystical Explanations for the Existence of Evil,” My Jewish Learning, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mystical-explanations-for-the-existence-of-evil.
10. Geoffrey W. Dennis, “What Is Kabbalah?,” Reform Judaism, https://reformjudaism.org/beliefs-practices/spirituality/what-kabbalah.
11. “Mysticism: Saint Teresa of Ávila—The Ironic Doctor by Francine Prose,” The Value of Sparrows, January 12, 2013, https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/mystical-women-saint-teresa-of-avila-the-ironic-doctor.
12. “5 Powerful Tips to Get Rid of the Negative Energy Attached to You,” Times of India, April 11, 2020, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/de-stress/5-powerful-tips-to-get-rid-of-the-negative-energy-attached-to-you/photostory/75082932.cms.
13. “But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices. Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.” Exodus 7:11–12 (King James Version).
14. Mark A. Wrathall, ed., The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021), https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-heidegger-lexicon/AADB99E1404A1EF2961658F9C6242205.
15. Maria Cohut, “Synesthesia: Hearing Colors and Tasting Sounds,” Medical News Today, August 17, 2018, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322807.
16. William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” in Auguries of Innocence (Gehenna Press, 1959).
17. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself (1892 version),” from Leaves of Grass (New York: Norton, 1973). Source: Leaves of Grass (final “Death-Bed” edition, 1891–92, David McKay, 1892), https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version.
18. Taylor Orth, “Two Thirds of Americans Say They’ve Had a Paranormal Encounter,” YouGov, October 20, 2022, https://today.yougov.com/topics/society/articles-reports/2022/10/20/americans-describe-paranormal-encounters-poll.
19. Russell Heimlich, “Mystical Experiences,” Pew Research Center, December 29, 2009, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/12/29/mystical-experiences.
20. Chabad.org staff, “The Rebbe: A Brief Biography,” The Rebbe, https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/244372/jewish/The-Rebbe-A-Brief-Biography.htm.
21. Chabad.Org staff, “The Rebbe.”
22. Barry Dunford, “Iona: Sacred Isle of the West,” Sacred Connections Scotland, https://sacredconnections.co.uk/index.php/iona-sacred-isle.
Chapter 21: Not Dead Yet
1. Cindy Weis, “Report 18: Vaccine ‘Shedding’: Can This Be Real After All?” DailyClout, May 13, 2022. https://dailyclout.io/vaccine-shedding-can-this-be-real-after-all.
2. Ioannis P. Trougakos et al., “Adverse Effects of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: The Spike Hypothesis,” Trends in Molecular Medicine vol. 28, no. 7 (April 20, 2022): 542–54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2022.04.007.
3. “Vehi SheAmdah”: “And This Is That Promise,” Hebrewsongs.com, https://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=vehisheamdah.
Epilogue
1. Oscar Francis, “Revealed: Police Used Sound Cannons Against Parliament Protesters,” New Zealand Herald, June 28, 2022, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-police-used-sound-cannons-against-parliament-protesters/PIBFZEHRIOEADS7SK4Y4SWM464.
2. Katherine Fung, “Banks Have Begun Freezing Accounts Linked to Trucker Protest,” Newsweek, February 18 2022, https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-linked-trucker-protest-1680649.
3. “U.S. to End COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement for International Visitors Arriving by Air or Land,” Snowbird Advisor, May 8, 2023, https://www.snowbirdadvisor.ca/news/us-end-covid-19-vaccination-requirement-international-visitors-arriving-air-and-land-2023-05.
4. “Sweden’s Birth Rate Falls to Lowest in 17 Years,” News@thelocal.SE, February 22, 2023, https://www.thelocal.se/20230222/swedens-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-17-years.
5. Naomi Wolf, “The Covenant of Death,” Outspoken, August 26, 2023, https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-covenant-of-death.
6. Veena Raleigh, “What Is Driving Excess Deaths in England and Wales?” British Medical Journal 379 (October 20, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2524.
7. “Excess Mortality: Cumulative Deaths from All Causes Compared to Projection Based on Previous Years,” Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-covid.
8. Ed Dowd, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths,” LondonReal, March 29, 2023, https://londonreal.tv/ed-dowd-cause-unknown-the-epidemic-of-sudden-deaths.
9. Luisa Colón, “The New COVID EG.5 Variant Symptoms to Watch For, According to Experts,” GoodHousekeeping.com, August 27, 2023, https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a44913133/eris-eg5-covid-symptoms.
10. Tina Reed, “Pfizer Signals Future Cuts Amid Waning COVID Demand,” Axios, August 2, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/08/02/pfizer-covid-vaccine-revenue-down.
11. Allison Gatlin, “Moderna’s Game Over? Not Quite, As Company Boosts Its 2023 Outlook,” Investor’s Business Daily, August 3, 2023, https://www.investors.com/news/technology/mrna-stock-moderna-earnings-q2-2023.
12. Fox 5 Atlanta Digital Team, “Morris Brown College Implements Two-Week COVID-19 Mask Mandate as Cases Climb,” Fox 5, August 22, 2023, https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/morris-brown-college-implements-two-week-covid-19-mask-mandate-as-cases-climb.
13. Elizabeth Prann, “Rutgers Will Still Require COVID-19 Vaccine, Masks,” KXAN.com, August 22, 2023, https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/rutgers-will-still-require-covid-19-vaccine-masks.
14. Charlotte Nickerson, “Learned Helplessness Theory in Psychology (Seligman): Examples & Coping,” Simply Psychology, April 20, 2023, https://www.simplypsychology.org/learned-helplessness.html.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Naomi Wolf’s books include the New York Times bestsellers Vagina, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, in addition to The Beauty Myth, which the New York Times called “one of the most important books of the 20th century.” A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University. She is cofounder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company, and currently reaches more than 70,000 subscribers with her Substack column, Outspoken. Wolf lives with her husband, intelligence analyst Brian O’Shea, in the Hudson Valley.
