Conspiracy theories, cults and religions are very similar

Founders of modern cults mix in logical common sense with very bizarre material we are asked to accept as the truth. In Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard gives a perfectly logical piece of information like "outflow equals inflow" when explaining how to get results from promoting something, and no one can argue with that because it is obvious and can be tested and proven.

He can also talk about implant stations on Mars and Venus and interplanetary civilisations such as Helatrobus and Marcab Confederacy, the latter of which he claimed used to rule Earth but now uses it as a prison planet. These are examples of 'Advanced' material and 'Space Opera' in Scientology teachings. With information like this we can only trust what he saying is the truth, not believe him or adopt a sceptical viewpoint. Scientologists choose to believe. Hubbard actually covers himself by saying only to believe what he says "if it is true for you."

The Hare Krishna Temple devotees shun alcohol and drugs, and that makes a lot of sense for health reasons but at the same time they will not eat garlic or onions or mushrooms because they say these foods cause modes of "ignorance" and "passion." Eating plenty of sweet desert foods is OK though even though it is full of white sugar. I once questioned a devotee about this and he told me their spiritual master His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada liked to eat sweet food. So basically that made it all right to eat sugary foods!

Ufology, the study of unidentified flying objects, starts off with the fact that all around the world for very many years there have been sightings of lights in the sky and of objects that are thought to be spacecraft. The problem is that all photographic evidence for these sightings is usually very debatable.

Not only that but there are no sightings or meetings with aliens that can be verified and are accepted by mainstream science despite thousands of reports by people who claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrial visitors and to have seen landed craft.

Conspiracy theories and ufology work hand in hand so to speak. Both have the belief that there is a sinister and secretive organisation in control of the Earth. It is referred to as the "Secret Government", the "Shadow Government", the "Hidden Hand" and the "Cabal". It is believed that aliens are at the top of it all and all secret societies and all religions and cults are controlled by those at the top of a pyramid of power. Because it is secretive the public gets denied access to what is really going on.

Often material that has come from alien abductees and contactees ends up as part of some conspiracy theory and passed along as fact. David Icke is a leading conspiracy theorist and author. Two of his most bizarre claims are that the world is run by shape-shifting alien Reptilians who can appear as humans. These lizard beings are also known as the Draco. The idea is that these aliens hybridised with humans many thousands of years ago and that purest of the bloodlines are maintained in the elite families of Earth. All the royalty and main banking families are are said to be of this nature. US presidents and British prime ministers are said to be pre-selected for their positions because they are from bloodline Reptilian extraction.

Did Icke have direct experience of this strange theory? No, but he got told about it by several different people including author Stewart Swerdlow. They both could have read about the Alpha Draconis Reptilians in the works of Alex Collier. In Collier's work too is the idea that the Moon is actually hollow and was brought here as an immense spacecraft. It is used as a secret headquarters for the Reptilians. Icke is now circulating the idea that the Moon is hollow.

These fantastic theories become accept as beliefs of many people who study the works of an author like David Icke. The YouTube website has hundreds of videos posted about Reptilians and showing famous people said to be shape-shifters.

Chemtrails is another conspiracy theory that has spawned hundreds of videos on YouTube and a growing army of believers who have the belief that the contrails we see across the skies are actually composed of aluminium/aluminum, barium and other pathogens and are part of a secret plan to cull the world's populations as well as being used for weather modification and military purposes. The scientific evidence for this theory is severely lacking but all manner of patents and military documents are held up as evidence, as are reports of aluminium in water and soil samples, which actually could be expected seeing as in the form of aluminium silicate it is clay, one of the most widely distributed substances on the planet. That the authorities and mainstream news is very quiet about the existence of chemtrails is said to be proof of how covert the operation actually is.

Very many people no longer trust politicians and this has led to a serious decline in the number voting in elections. This is not surprising though because leading politicians make public statements which are subsequently found to be false. A prime example being when then UK PM Tony Blair was saying that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and that was given as a reason to make war on the nation.

Politicians often make promises when standing for election and then when they get in fail to keep them. The public are tired of hearing political lies.

Singer-songwriter Neil Young made a powerful statement in his song Let's Impeach the President taken from his album Living With War. Here Young was addressing the subject of President Bush's lies about Iraq and its WMDs.

The people of the US and the UK both had their political leaders going on about how Iraq had WMDs and that was justification for invading the country. Bush and Blair were subsequently seen to be lying and British peace campaigner the now late Brian Haw began to call Tony Blair "BLiar."