Gregg Braden claims to have found a message encoded into the human DNA. The message reads "God eternal within the body" or, alternatively, "God within the body" (For a detailed account of his methodology see his book, The God Code). Suffice to say, for this brief abstract, his methodology included the use of gematria as related to the Hebrew alphabet/language. Now, using what may be thought of as English gematria, or what I call CryptoNumerology, we find support for Gregg's claim. The system used here is the simple English Alphabet Code (EAC) of A=1 through Z=26 (For a detailed explanation of what CryptoNumerology is and how/why it works see CryptoNumerology: How and Why It Works). Using this system, words and phrases are converted into numbers by calculating the sum of the letter values. For reasons too complex to explain here, the value of the number 9 has a long history of significance in sacred texts, sacred geometry, Pythagorian mathematics, and mythological lore. The single digit value of 9 is often "hidden" within larger numbers. For example, the well known "666" from the book of Revelation in the Bible reduces to 9 by the method known as "cross-adding". This simply means calculating the sum of the individual intigers in the number until only a single digit remains: 6+6+6=18, then 1+8=9.
Something Big is About to Happen Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden speaks about this time in our evolution, and the messages that have been left for us.
Fluoride - Adverse Health Effects Source from:History of Water Filters
Fluoride can be one of the most volatile and active harmful chemicals in the body. Fluoride can attack mercilessly, against any age group, but its effects are especially harmful to developing children and the elderly. The detrimental effects of fluoride are varied. Below is a list of some of the recently documented, harmful effects of drinking fluoridated water:
1) Fluoride is known to cause dental fluorosis, a defect of the tooth enamel caused by fluoride’s interference with developing teeth. Its visible signs are mottled or yellowed teeth. Nearly 30% of children drinking fluoridated water suffer from dental fluorosis on two or more teeth (Hileman, 1988).
2) Fluoride is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Fluoride enters the brain and enables aluminum to cross the blood-brain barrier, resulting in increased risk for these diseases. Fluoride has also been associated with low IQ and mental retardation in children (Hileman, 1988).
3) Fluoride can cause a crippling bone disease called skeletal fluorosis. In more mild forms, symptoms of this disease include chronic joint pain, similar to the symptoms of arthritis. Arthritis has now reached near epidemic levels in the United States, and the connection to fluoridated water should be considered.
4) Fluoride depresses the activity of the human thyroid gland and has been commonly used as an effective treatment for patients with overactive thyroids. Fluoride may depress the activity of the healthy thyroid, as well, resulting in an underactive thyroid, a common cause of obesity. More than 20 million people in the United States receive treatment for thyroid problems.
5) Fluoride disrupts the activity of normally functioning hormones. Fluoride can reduce levels of melatonin, the sleep hormone, in the body, causing chronic insomnia (Hileman, 1988).
Most European countries have now rejected the process of water fluoridation. Their children’s teeth have not suffered from this rejection. The cost/benefit ratio of fluoridated water no longer warrants the presence of fluoride in drinking water.
Contamination resulting from corrosion of pipes and natural elements - Lead
Lead is a dangerous metal that has been linked to several serious health problems. Lead does not normally occur in ground or surface water sources though lead mining and smelting could result in contamination of surface water. When released in the environment, lead chemically bonds into soil and does not make its way into groundwater. Because lead so rarely occurs in water sources, municipal water systems do not normally treat for it.
Lead typically makes its way into drinking water through the corrosion of pipes in homes. Water normally enters the home lead-free but it picks up lead as it travels through pipes to the tap. In 1978, government officials banned the use of lead in home plumbing systems, but any houses built before 1978 may contain lead piping. Lead has remained one of the most problematic contaminants in drinking water supplies, due to the inability of city water systems to regulate its presence.
Both short-term and long-term exposure to lead in drinking water can cause serious health problems. The effects of lead in drinking water are most serious for pregnant women and young children. For children, lead can cause delays in normal physical and mental development as well as deficits in attention span, hearing, and learning ability. Pregnant women should be especially wary about lead in drinking water as it can cause severe problems in their babies’ development. For adults, short-term exposure to lead can cause interference with red blood cell chemistry and slight increases in blood pressure. A lifetime of exposure to lead can cause kidney failure, stroke, and cancer.
Dr. Russell Blaylock on Alex Jones Prison Planet TV TheAlexJonesChannel| December 04, 2010
Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D. is a retired neurosurgeon and author whose trailblazing research has tirelessly documented the fact that there is an epidemic of neurological disorders in the western world which are directly connected to toxins in our environment, and how this relates to the larger global eugenics program behind population reduction. In this fascinating interview, Blaylock reveals how depopulation programs forged by the Rockefeller foundation in association with the Nazis were the basis of modern day incarnations of eugenics like fluoride poisoning and vaccinations.
Blaylock explains how the eugenics movement began in America through Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie funding and what originated as The Science of Man project, which was an effort to socially engineer humanity to weed out those deemed "undesirable" to the elite. Rockefeller funding via major universities then bankrolled eugenics programs for the next several years, information about which was gleaned and exchanged with the Nazis in Hitler's Germany. Once eugenics had attracted the negative connotations of racial superiority and genocide, the pseudo-science was reborn under the umbrella of molecular biology and DNA.
The goal is to alter behavior by chemically changing the way in which the brain functions. One of the primary methods through which this is achieved is by fluoridating water and food supplies. Blaylock explains how fluoride opportunists seized upon falls in dental cavities, which were occurring naturally as a result of increased calcium intake and better diets in the west, to claim that mass fluoridation was the answer, while burying a plethora of studies that proved adding fluoride to water did not reduce cavities at all and in fact in several instances increased dental cavities.
Fluoride's Deadly Secret - Part 1 of 5
Rockefeller, Eugenics, Re-engineering Human Emotion & Thinking Capabilities, Fluoride does not reduce Cavities, Bottle Water Fluoridation, Effects Increases Cancer Risk, Bone Fractures, and IQ Reduction.
Fluoride's Deadly Secret - Part 2 of 5
Hyperactive and Lethargic to babies. Altering behavior, Thyroid Gland, Reduces Infertility/Reproduction, MSG and Aspartame. Vaccination! Harming the Immune System, Disrupting the Developing Brain, Shorting Lifespan, Increasing the Number of Vaccines.
Fluoride's Deadly Secret - Part 3 of 5
Military DNA Vaccines, Damaging the Brain, Psychotropic Mind Control Drug in Water, Altering Thinking, and Global Elites Methods of Hiding & Selling Their Ideas Through Empaty.
Fluoride's Deadly Secret - Part 4 of 5
Eugenics, Sterilization, Social Engineering, Molecular Biology for Bad, Force Behavior Changes, Removing the Ability to Think on Your Own, Contaminated Products, and Aspartame Approval with all its Health Risks.
Fluoride's Deadly Secret - Part 5 of 5
Swine Flue H1N1 False Pandemic to Vaccinate the Population.
Vaccine Wake-up Call for Parents: Your Children Are Being Taken - September 6, 2011
Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC
John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorized on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.
I do not believe in Darwin's Evolutionary Theory but have my own idea about the origins of mankind. A very good lecture by John Maynard.
Royal Institution Discourse (1995). In modern organisms, there is a division of labour between two kinds of molecule: DNA, which stores and transmits genetic information, and proteins, which do all the work. They are connected by the 'genetic code', whereby DNA specifies what kinds of proteins can be made. This process of translation is well understood, but it is far too complicated to have arisen by chance in the primitive oceans. How can this apparent paradox be resolved. Lecture by John Maynard Smith Origin of Life - Part 1 of 6
Hereditary and Inheritance
Origin of Life - Part 2 of 6
The Essence and RNA Molecule
Origin of Life - Part 3 of 6
Storing, Transferring and Implanting Information
Origin of Life - Part 4 of 6
RNA and Amino Acid
Origin of Life - Part 5 of 6
Evolution Transition on Chromosome, Cells and Molecules
Origin of Life - Part 6 of 6
Animals could be speaking telepathically. Speaking and Writing.
John Maynard Smith, who died in 2004 at the age of 84, was one of the major figures in 20th century evolutionary biology. He was professor emeritus at the http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/faculty/biology/maynard.htm University of Sussex. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv. Interview on subjects such as natural selection, game theory, evolution, animal behavior, human behavior, cooperation, sexes, genetic code, and consciousness.
Here is the full DVD focusing on Carl Jung's work, discussing Alchemy, the Republic, and Carl Jung's book Psychology and Alchemy. This video discusses the idea that Platonic metaphysics is an Intellectual Yoga, a spiritual tradition which is magnificent, structured, aggressive, descriptive and psychologically profound. Enjoy the Lost treasure of Plato.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 1 Carl Jung > Plato > Alchemy > Hermetic. Platonic Tetralogies > The Divided Line> Allegory of the Cave upper World.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 2 The Mind & The Eye = Intellectual & Visible. The Sun. Golden Sections > Cognitive Functions > Images Seen > Sources > Realm of Opinion. Understanding > Exercise > Realm of Intelligent.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 3 The Relationships in the Divided Line. Nature and The Visible World. Platonic Ideas. Transformation to something Higher.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 4 The Gift of God or The Sudden. To be one. Quoting Philosophers. Meditation is the Communication with the Self in an Altered State of Mind. Imagination and dreams. Noetic.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 5 Gain knowledge of the Soul in Past > Present > Future through Dreams.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 6 Alchemical Study of Philosophy by Carl Jung. Partial Revelation and Divine Faith. Lorenzo Valla and Pseudo Dionysius.
Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 – August 1, 1457) was an Italian humorist, rhetorician, and educator. His family was from Piacenza; his father, Luciave della Valla, was a lawyer.
In 1431 he entered the priesthood, and after trying in vain to secure a position as apostolic secretary, he went to Piacenza, whence he proceeded to Pavia, where he obtained a professorship of eloquence. His tenure at Pavia was made unpleasant by his attack on the Latin style of the great jurist Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Valla wandered from one university to another, accepting short engagements and lecturing in many cities. In 1433 Valla made his way to Naples, and the court of Alfonso V of Aragon Alfonso made Valla his private Latin secretary and defended him against the attacks on account of his public statements about theology, including one in which he denied that the Apostles' Creed was composed in succession by each of the twelve Apostles. These charges were eventually dropped.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 7 The Catholic Church, Colonizations, and Europe. Manipulation and Reformation. Heretical. 13th Century University and Professor Professors the Faith.
Platonism & Alchemy - Part 8 Philosophy lived only in Rome > Athens > Alexandria > Syria. The prosecution of philosophers. Christian Literature. Metaphysics and Symbols.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book to accompany the series was also published.
Note: I think some of the theories are very commercialize and control. The information about the universe and life is undeniable. Don't take everything said here as its face value. There is so many different ideas and ways things came to be or is. A very interesting documentary, one that will make you question our existence. I only posted the first part of all these videos. Do follow up the rest from their respective channels, believe me its all there.
Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" 1. Ann Druyan Intro * Benefits of the end of the Cold War 2. Opening 3. The Cosmos * Introduction * Dr. Sagan launches a Spaceship of the Imagination (a dandelion seed)... 4. Spaceship Universe * ...to a hundred billion galaxies... * Where we are located (the Local Group), light-years 5. Spaceship Galaxy * ...to a billion trillion stars, M31... 6. Spaceship Stars * ..to the Milky Way, globular clusters, pulsars ... * ..to an inhabited exoplanet, Orion Nebula... 7. Spaceship Solar System * ..to a yellow star, nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets and flying through Valles Marineris 8. Planet Earth * Eratosthenes and the circumference of Earth 9. Alexandrian Library * The modern-day city of Alexandria in Egypt * The ancient Library of Alexandria 10. Ages of Science 11. Cosmic Calendar * The Cosmic Calendar: from the beginning of the universe to the arrival of humans 12. End Credits
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean - Episode 1 (Part 1)
Episode 2: "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue" 1. Opening 2. Spaceship Cosmic Matter 3. Heike Crab * The story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors 4. Artificial Selection 5. Natural Selection * Evolution through natural selection 6. Watchmaker * Intelligent design 7. Cosmic Calendar * The development of life on the Cosmic Calendar, and the Cambrian explosion * DNA and its functions in growth, replication and repair; mutations 8. Evolution * Animated evolution, from microbes to man 9. Kew Gardens-DNA * Journey into the cell nucleus 10. Miller-Urey Experiment * Common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms * Creation of the molecules of life in the laboratory; the Miller-Urey experiment 11. Alien Life * Speculation about life in Jupiter's clouds 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * RNA can control chemical reactions as well as reproduce itself. * Comets have a lot of organic molecules in them. * A comet may have caused the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event.
One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue - Episode 2 (Part 1)
Episode 3: "The Harmony of the Worlds" 1. Opening 2. Astronomers vs. Astrologers * Astronomy vs. astrology 3. Astrology * Careful observations, fuzzy thinking and pious fraud. 4. Laws of Nature 5. Constellations * Constellations and ancient astronomy 6. Astronomers * Anasazian ceremonial calendar 7. Ptolemy/Copernicus * Ptolemy and the geocentric world view 8. Kepler * Johannes Kepler … 9. Kepler and Tycho Brahe * … and Tycho Brahe 10. Kepler’s Laws * Kepler's laws 11. The Somnium * The first Science Fiction book: The Dream 12. End Credits
The Harmony of the Worlds - Episode 3 (Part 1)
Episode 4: "Heaven and Hell" 1. Opening 2. Heaven and Hell 3. Tunguska Event * The Tunguska event 4. Comets * The composition and origin of comets 5. Collisions with Earth * Asteroids and impact craters * Lunar impact seen by Canterbury monks in 1178 (Giordano Bruno (crater)) 6. Planetary Evolution 7. Venus * The controversial theories of Immanuel Velikovsky * The planet Venus in fiction and fact 8. Descent to Venus * Venera landers 9. Change * Human impact on the global environment 10. Deaths of Worlds * Venus as an example of the greenhouse effect 11. Conclusion 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * The hellish conditions of Venus are a reminder of increasing greenhouse effect.
Heaven and Hell - Episode 4 (Part 1)
Episode 5: "Blues for a Red Planet" 1. Opening 2. Martians * H. G. Wells and The War of the Worlds 3. Lowell * Percival Lowell's false vision of canals on Mars 4. Edgar Rice Burroughs * Barsoom (The Martians' name of Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction books) 5. Goddard * Robert Goddard and early rocket-building 6. Inhabited Planets * Remote Sensing 7. Mars * Mars probes 8. Viking Landers * The Viking probes and their search for life on Mars 9. Life on Mars? * The work of Sagan's friend, Wolf V. Vishniac 10. Mars Rover * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's suggestion 11. Terraforming Mars * The possibility of terraforming and colonizing Mars 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Mars is relevant to the global environment of the Earth. * Humans on Mars. Blues for a Red Planet - Episode 5 (Part 1)
Episode 6: "Travelers' Tales" 1. Opening 2. Voyager, JPL * The Voyager probes 3. Traveller's Routes * Centuries of sailing ships explorers. 4. Dutch Renaissance * The Netherlands in the 17th century * The persecution of Galileo Galilei and his compeers by the Roman Catholic Church for their views on heliocentrism 5. Huygens * The life and work of father Constantijn and particularly son Christiaan Huygens and his contemporaries 6. Huygens – conclusion * Christiaan Huygens' discoveries. 7. Traveller's Tales * Exaggerations in the past. 8. Jovian System * The Voyager probes (first images of Jupiter... 9. Europa and Io * ....and its moons) 10. Voyager Ships' Log 11. Saturn and Titan * Saturn and its system of moons, including Titan 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Image processing reconstructs Voyager’s worlds. * Voyager’s last portrait of the Solar System. * Tiny blue dot. Travelers' Tales - Episode 6 (Part 1)
Episode 7: "The Backbone of Night" 1. Opening 2. What are the Stars? * Sagan's childhood in Brooklyn, New York 3. Brooklyn Schoolroom * Teaching children about the cosmos 4. Mythology of Stars * The realization that stars are suns; the Milky Way mythology of the !Kung bushmen and ancient Greeks. 5. Ancient Greek Scientists * The history of ancient Ionia, Thales * The tyrant Polycrates 6. Science Blossoms * Anaximander's use of a stick to tell time and season, Theodorus of Samos, Empedocles and the water thief 7. Democritus * The Ionian philosophers: Democritus... 8. Pythagoras * ...Pythagoras, Theodorus, Anaxagoras 9. Plato and the Others * Plato, Aristotle, Aristarchus and The Pythagoreans were suppressors of knowledge, advocates of slavery and of epistemic secrecy 10. Distance to Stars * Christiaan Huygens 11. Evidence of Other Planets * Teaching children about the cosmos 12. End Credits The Backbone of Night - Episode 7 (Part 1)
Episode 8: "Journeys in Space and Time" 1. Opening 2. Constellations * Constellations and how they change over time 3. Time and Space 4. Relativity * The speed of light and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity o Time dilation, redshift, blue shift 5. Leonardo da Vinci * Leonardo da Vinci's designs 6. Interstellar Travel * designs for spaceships that could travel near light speed 7. Time Travel * Time travel and its hypothetical effects on human history 8. Solar Systems * The origins of the solar system * Possible other worlds 9. Cosmic Time Frame * The history of life 10. Dinosaurs 11. Immensity of Space * Commonality between the numinous and Earth's future. * World at a critical branch point in history where our actions will propagate down through the centuries. 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Sagan’s novel Contact regarding supraluminal travelling. * Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology and wormholes.
Journeys in Space and Time - Episode 8 (Part 1)
Episode 9: "The Lives of the Stars" 1. Opening 2. Apple Pie * Atoms (electrons and nucleus) 3. The Very Large * Powers of ten, the googol and the googolplex, infinity 4. Atoms 5. Chemical Elements * The periodic table of elements 6. Nuclear Forces * Protons and neutrons 7. The Stars and Our Sun * The lifecycle of stars; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes 8. Death of Stars * The end of the Sun and of Earth, supernovae, red giants, pulsars 9. Star Stuff * The creation of different atomic nuclei in stars * Radioactivity and cosmic rays 10. Gravity in Wonderland * Gravity and its effects; gravity as the curvature of spacetime, the wormhole hypothesis 11. Children of the Stars 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Supernova SN 1987A. * Neutrino astronomy.
The Lives of the Stars - Episode 9 (Part 1)
Episode 10: "The Edge of Forever" 1. Opening 2. Big Bang * The origins of the universe, the Big Bang theory 3. Galaxies * Types of galaxies 4. Astronomical Anomalies * Galactic collisions, quasars 5. Doppler Effect * The Doppler effect 6. Humason * Life and work of Milton L. Humason 7. Dimensions * Flatland, hypercube & the four-dimensional and closed universe 8. The Universe * An infinite universe vs. a god 9. India * Creation myths, esp. Hindu cosmology 10. Oscillating Universe * Contracting and re-expanding vs. ever-expanding universe 11. VLA * The Very Large Array in New Mexico, dark matter, the multiverse hypothesis 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Milky Way is perhaps a barred spiral galaxy. * Galaxies strung out along odd, irregular surfaces.
The Edge of Forever - Episode 10 (Part 1)
Episode 11: "The Persistence of Memory" 1. Opening * Bits, the basic units of information 2. Intelligence * The diversity of life in the oceans 3. Whales * Whales and their songs o The disturbance of the whale communications network by humans o Whale hunting 4. Genes and DNA * DNA and the brain as libraries 5. The Brain * The structure of the human brain: brain stem, Paul McLean's Triune Brain Model: reptilian brain, limbic system, cerebral cortex * The frontal lobes as critical in long-term planning * Neurons and connections between them, the two brain hemispheres, the corpus callosum 6. The City * The evolution of cities and … 7. Libraries * …the history of libraries, …. 8. Books * …books and writing 9. Computers * The development of computers and satellites, the potential for global collective intelligence 10. Other Brains * Intelligence on other worlds 11. Voyager * The Voyager Golden Record 12. End Credits
The Persistence of Memory - Episode 11 (Part 1)
Episode 12: "Encyclopaedia Galactica" 1. Opening 2. Close Encounters * Betty and Barney Hill abduction and UFOs 3. Refutations 4. UFOs 5. Champollion’s Egypt * Jean-François Champollion's translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs 6. Hieroglyphics 7. Rosetta Stone 8. SETI * Our way of communicating with extraterrestrials (SETI) 9. Arecibo * Arecibo Radiotelescope 10. Drake Equation and Contact * The chance of technical civilizations existing elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy; the Drake equation 11. Encyclopedia Galactica * A look at a hypothetical encyclopedia consisting of other worlds in the galaxy 12. Cosmos Update 10 years later * Fewer sightings of UFOs, more stories of abductions. * META scanning the skies for signals.
Episode 14: "Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan" Some versions of the series including the first North American home video release included a specially made 14th episode, which consisted of an hour-long interview between Sagan and Ted Turner,[8] in which the two discussed the series and new discoveries in the years since its first broadcast. This unique episode was not included in the DVD release.
Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan - Episode 14 (Part 1)
Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical. It was designed as a "tongue-in-cheek rather than serious" take on conspiracy theories. It contains groups named similarly to real world organizations, such as the Society for Creative Anarchism. It can be played by two to eight players. Depending on the number of players, a game can take between one and six hours.
Description The game is played with a deck of special cards, money chips (representing millions of dollars in low-nominal unmarked banknotes) and two six-sided dice. There are three types of cards:
* Illuminati * groups * special cards
The players take role of Illuminati societies that struggle to take over the world. The Pocket Box edition depicted six Illuminati groups: The Bavarian Illuminati, The Discordian Society, The UFOs, The Servants of Cthulhu, The Bermuda Triangle, and The Gnomes of Zürich. The deluxe edition added the Society of Assassins and The Network, and the Illuminati Y2K expansion added the Church of The SubGenius and Shangri-La.
The world is represented by group cards such as Secret Masters of Fandom, the CIA, The International Communist Conspiracy, Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow, California, and many more – there are over 300 official cards available. Every group and Illuminati has some Power, Resistance and Income values; most of the world groups have an Alignment. The game is written with the usual SJG humor. The game uses a multitude of conspiracy theory in-jokes, with cards such as the Boy Sprouts (where sinister youth leaders influence the world leaders of tomorrow), the Orbital Mind Control Lasers, the Mafia, two headed Anti-Nuclear Activists, or Trekkies.
Special cards represent unexpected phenomena and features, for example increasing Income or Resistance of a group.
The game is played in turns. The primary Illuminati (player) activity is taking control of groups. During an attack to control the attacker must overcome the Resistance of attacked groups with combined Power of his groups (affected by Alignment of attacker and attacked), money spent, and influence of special cards. The attacked group can be defended by spending money and special cards by other players (especially by the controlling Illuminati if the group is already controlled). After a successful attack to control the card is placed (along the special markers) next to Illuminati, or another already controlled group forming a power structure.
Each group has its own money, best marked by placing each group's money counters on that group. Money is moved slowly, only one step at a time between groups once per turn. Money in the Illuminated group is accessible for defense of or attacks on all groups in the entire world. Money in the groups can only be used in attacks by or against that group, but gives double defense bonus when spent.
Other types of attacks are attacks to neutralize (a neutralized group is removed from attacked Illuminati power structure and returns to the table - to the world) and attack to destroy (destroyed groups are removed from the game).
Besides attacking groups and themselves the players can trade, form alliances, and many other activities. In one variant of the game, players are allowed to cheat, steal money from the table and do anything it takes to win.
The aim of the game is fulfilled when Illuminati build a power structure consisting of given number of cards (depending on number of players), or when Illuminati fulfill its special goal, such as controlling at least one card of each alignment (the Bermuda Triangle), controlling a combined power of 35 (the Bavarian Illuminati) or hoarding 150 megabucks of money (the Gnomes of Zürich).
Although the game can support two players or seven players, a group of four or five is considered ideal. Some Illuminati might seem unbalanced, such as the extremely high-income Gnomes and the low-level Discordians, but sometimes their true value is not visible at first or valuable only in certain circumstances. Planning the power structure is important, since groups close to the Illuminated core have a defence bonus. Also, since groups can easily "block" each other's control arrows, through which groups control other groups. The flow of money is also important, as a large lump of it will boost defensive/offensive of the owning group when spent. Tactics such as playing off opponents at each other, backstabbing and concealing your true motives are encouraged in this game.
The game has attained cult status in some circles, been referenced in some geek media (like User Friendly comic strip). It is also mentioned in Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons, which concerns an apparent attack by the revived Illuminati; the game is referred to as an online computer game, but references to Steve Jackson make clear that the reference is to this game.
Interview on Off The Hook just after the secret service case Steve Jackson creator of The Illuminati Card Game.
Steve Jackson Interview Part #1/4( Illuminati card game creator) Private Privacy Act
Steve Jackson Interview Part #2/4( Illuminati card game creator) Law
Steve Jackson Interview Part #3/4( Illuminati card game creator) Distribution
Steve Jackson Interview Part #4/4( Illuminati card game creator) CIA and Lies
Mitchell Gibson Interview on Medicine, Health, Science and Miracles. Tthis video was filmed live at the Wellness Television Studios. Find more information about Dr. Gibson and his work at his website TYBRO.COM INC.
