Chase Hughes, a 20-year military veteran and leading authority on behavioral profiling and psychological operations (PSYOPs/SCOPs), reveals how engineered division destabilizes individuals and societies while ancient texts and direct consciousness exploration point to a fundamental reality of oneness.
The Mechanics of Modern PSYOPs
PSYOPs are coordinated efforts to shape public belief, now operating continuously through media ecosystems incentivized by attention retention rather than information.
The media business model evolved from open propaganda (1900s) to ad-supported news (mid-century) to 24-hour outrage cycles (post-2008) where anger maximizes screen time and ad revenue.
No central conspiracy is required; the system rewards whoever captures attention longest, and outrage is the cheapest, most reliable hook.
The “FATE” model (Focus, Authority, Tribe, Emotion) describes the mammalian influence cycle: threat/novelty grabs focus, an authoritative voice offers clarity, tribal echo chambers validate, and emotional swings (vindication then rage) lock in compliance.
Once a population is destabilized by constant threat signaling, it latches onto any clear authority — like a falling person grabbing the first solid object, even barbed wire.
Social media amplifies this by showing users the smartest version of their own side and the dumbest version of the opposition, creating false consensus and dehumanization.
Horizontal division (left vs. right) prevents vertical scrutiny (elites vs. non-elites); the real fracture is between decision-makers and everyone else.
Compliance is enforced not by governments but by ordinary people unconsciously policing injected norms — “moors and folkways” — making social rejection feel like genetic extinction.
COVID as the Largest PSYOP in History
Hughes identifies the multi-government COVID response as the most visible PSYOP ever, shattering trust even for previously credulous people (e.g., his mother).
Dissenting Harvard MDs and the mRNA technology inventor were silenced, signaling that the idea cannot survive debate — a hallmark of PSYOPs.
The “vending machine model” of prayer (transactional, outcome-dependent) mirrors how authorities framed compliance: do X, get safety — but the bargain was false.
Both political sides participated; the mechanism is structural, not partisan.
Engineered Division Creates a Psychopathic Society
Separation is the primary ingredient for manufacturing psychopathy: if I harm you and feel no consequence, empathy atrophies.
In groups larger than our brains can track (Dunbar-scale), “group psychopathy” emerges — individuals who would never harm someone alone become indifferent in crowds.
Ancient Mayans and Hermetic texts explicitly taught non-separation: “we are all one thing,” not merely connected but identical at root.
Modern urban design (high-rises without shared space, profit-maximizing layouts) eliminates reputation feedback loops that once enforced prosocial behavior.
Digital interaction cannot satisfy Maslow’s social tier; the loneliness epidemic is actually an isolation epidemic — people feel unseen even in crowds because they perform masks, not selves.
Shame concealment drives the performance: “if they like me, they like the costume, not me.”
Teenagers now face social enforcement from millions instead of dozens, driving anxiety, conformity consumption, and the belief that everyone else has it figured out.
DMT and the Code Beneath Reality
Hughes underwent 5 hours of intravenous DMT (41st person ever) to stimulate BDNF/NGF for his mesial temporal sclerosis and temporal lobe epilepsy; seizures ceased for 180+ days post-treatment.
DMT is not experienced as hallucination but as “death by astonishment” (McKenna) — 10,000x more real than baseline reality, feeling like “home” and pure non-judgmental love.
Returning felt like developing narcissism; the contrast between that realm and this one was devastating.
Over 1,000 neuroscientists now study DMT; none consider it mere hallucination.
A laser experiment (Danny Gold) reveals static, Japanese-like code on walls under DMT — 100% of subjects see identical symbols, which change when passing through living tissue, suggesting a consciousness substrate rather than wall property.
The code may represent how consciousness projects reality; wave-function collapse disruption is one hypothesis.
Users who approach DMT recreationally/egoically report being “banned” — the substance stops working entirely, implying sentience or rule-set.
DMT surges at death (rat studies confirmed); near-death experiencers uniformly report not wanting to return — same “home” recognition.
Ultimate question: is DMT conscious, or is it consciousness itself? Are we users or creators of consciousness?
Consciousness as the Fundamental Substrate
Dream thought experiment: in a dream, distance is illusory (you create the gumball machine and the space between); everything is made of consciousness.
This model may explain quantum entanglement (no true distance) and the inability to articulate the experience — language’s net has holes too large.
The Dao that can be spoken is not the Dao (Buddha); the felt sense of home/God/oneness is the target, not the description.
NDE/DMT overlap studies (clinical journals) show remarkable structural similarity, including a case of someone who experienced both.
Ancient Texts Converge on Four Universal Patterns
Hughes’ team fed several hundred ancient texts (Popol Vuh, Egyptian, Yoga Sutras, Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Septuagint, etc.) into a specialized research AI.
Most repeated phrase across all traditions: “Do not fear” (365x in King James Bible alone) — not always “for I am with you,” but “you’re afraid of nothing real.”
AI extracted the universal effective prayer formula (every answered prayer in all texts shared four elements):
Acknowledgment of the vastness of the universe and smallness of self.
Direct ask for something non-selfish (greater good / “the all”).
Complete surrender of outcome (detachment from result).
Repetition (ritual, rhythm, somatic anchoring).
Modern “vending machine/gumball machine” prayer (transactional, selfish, outcome-clinging) is the inverse and fails.
The formula fits on a Post-it but inverts how most people approach spirituality and agency.
Oneness as the Antidote to Engineered Psychopathy
Separation is “the biggest lie ever forced on the population of the earth” — not theological but operational: left/right, driver/pedestrian, “I won’t suffer if you suffer.”
If separation bakes the psychopath cake, oneness is the only viable exit.
Hughes’ post-DMT perception: “every time I look at someone else, it just feels like that’s us… that’s hurting us.” Morality becomes unnecessary when the other is recognized as self.
Ancient wisdom (Jesus, Rumi, Kabbalah, quantum physics) converges: one field, one ocean, one emanation — fragmentation is perceptual only.
Pre-modern societies had more time, interdependence, and nature contact — not romanticized, but structurally conducive to felt connection.
The path forward: reduce digital simulation, rebuild physical reputation-based communities, reclaim the “us” lens, and practice the four-element prayer as alignment with the substrate.
