Most concerned: Vice President J.D. Vance, who was on the line the other day with some of the richest men on the planet: Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google chief Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. The Vice President, whose Silicon Valley ties made him the White House point man on A.I., now had a stark warning for his allies: bring your technology under control.

Ironically, there’s a movie out and the main villain is “Doctor Doom,” who uses the occult and technology to control humanity “for the greater good.”

“Not a coincidence at all; seeing as digital IDs are coming closer to what the Bible warned as ‘The Mark of the Beast’ (the occult and technology),” comments a reader from Ireland.

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On another front but similar: the moves by the White House and several states to loosen strictures on psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine, psilocybin, LSD (MM120), and MDMA for medical use. A 2025 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that a single dose of the psychedelic LSD could ease anxiety and depression for months.

The most significant update is indeed the executive order signed by President Trump on April 18, 2026, titled “Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness.” It doesn’t legalize these substances for everyone, but it forces the FDA and DEA to move faster on drugs that have “Breakthrough Therapy” status. They have especially been heralded by podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz.

The U.S. is currently at a tipping point with twenty-four states (plus D.C.) having legalized recreational marijuana.

We urge huge caution. Even drugs like marijuana or THC (now available across America, including via mail order) can be open portals for negative spirits, let alone hallucinogenics such as psilocybin and LSD, the latter promoted, in the flower-child Sixties, by professor and satanist Timothy Leary. (“Turn on, tune in, and drop out.”) At Harvard, Leary experimented with psilocybin, a synthesized form of the hallucinogenic agent, concluding that psychedelic drugs could effectively transform personality and expand human consciousness.

Psychedelics long have been used by various cultures in occult rituals.

We recall college days in those raucous days and a classmate we had to take to a drug treatment center because, after taking LSD, he kept experiencing “flashbacks” during which he’d be incommunicado for hours, jumping up and down wildly and shouting that he could see the devil. “I’m God. I’m the devil,” he repeated endlessly.

With others, the “Hat Man” is a recurring shadow person hallucination, often described as a 6’10” silhouette in a wide-brimmed hat.

While associated with sleep paralysis and terror, he is heavily reported as a specific, shared hallucination induced by abusing high doses of the antihistamine Diphenhydramine (Benadryl/DPH), rather than classical psychedelics.

The Hat Man is widely known in online communities (Reddit, TikTok) as a common, terrifying hallucination experienced during delirium caused by consuming large, dangerous doses of Benadryl. He is described as a dark silhouette, often wearing a trench coat and fedora, sometimes with red eyes. He typically stands in corners or watches the sleeper.

In the Eighties, students at Berkeley plastered the campus with posters of a sometimes similarly spooky messianic figure they called “Bob.” He was depicted as a bland, square-jawed 1950s salesman, usually with a fixed, vacant grin, and a Ward Cleaver-style haircut, always clutching a smoking pipe and apparently meant to be a parody of clean-living and religion. It operated as a sort of “secret handshake” for counter-culture types.

(Health watch postscript: Abuse of Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) can cause severe health issues, including rapid heart rate, seizures, and death.)