The Megami
Tensei video game series has been a popular one over the decades. Since its first appearance on the
NES in 1987 (released on 9-11, no less), it has surpassed 19 million units in
sales. A spin-off series, Persona,
has
sold another 15 million units as of 2021.
Another
entry in the MT series is releasing in 2024, which makes this an
ideal time to explore the messaging that is at the heart of such a popular
video game series.
The
root of the MT series is a Japanese science fiction trilogy of
novels written by Aya Nishitani. Those
who have looked more deeply into science fiction will recall that there is a
heavy element of predictive
programming within it:
Researcher Michael Hoffman defines
“predictive programming” as follows: “Predictive programming works by means of
the propagation of the illusion of an infallibly accurate vision of how the
world is going to look in the future” (205). Through the circulation of science
“fiction” literature, the ignorant masses are provided with semiotic
intimations of coming events. Within such literary works are narrative
paradigms that are politically and socially expedient to the power elite. Thus,
when the future unfolds as planned, it assumes the paradigmatic character of
the “fiction” that foretold it.
This being
the case, it is all the more urgent to understand what gamers are being exposed
to in the MT series. Right from
the start, in the first
game in the series released in 1987, he is immersed in a deeply demonic
storyline, one that has a great deal of relevance for us today – the use of
technology to summon demons: ‘The
plot sees Akemi Nakajima, a clever high school student who is the reincarnation
of the deity Izanagi,
develop a computer program which summons demons from the realm of demons.
Initially using his program to gain revenge on his tormentors, the program goes
out of control and he unleashes a horde of demons.’
Rod Dreher wrote recently
about the real-world exploration of using technology to communicate with
demons:
In one of the
book’s later chapters, Pasulka profiles a woman she calls “Simone,” a top
investor in Artificial Intelligence and other tech fields. One thing that might
startle you (it did me) in coming to the UFO and related fields is that most of
those involved in it at a high level do not believe these are beings from other
planets. Rather, they believe that these are some kind of discarnate superior
intelligences from another dimension. I mentioned this in London this week to
an investor from California, who said yes, everybody he knows in Silicon Valley
thinks that, and some even hold rituals to summon these intelligences.
Simone believes
that AI is one way that these entities are opening up to communicate with us —
and she’s excited about it. . . .
The “he” is a top figure in this field, a
guy Pasulka has called “Tyler D.,” but who has been identified elsewhere on the
Internet as Tim Taylor.
“Tyler D.” claims to be able to “download” information from these beings —
information that has led to the creation of new biotechnologies. If Tim Taylor
really is Tyler D., then yes, the former NASA star has become rich as head of
an innovative biotech firm. . . .
Last week, I sent Dr. Pasulka some
interview questions about Encounters.
In them, I posed a query about Simone’s view, and described AI as a “high-tech
Ouija board.” Dr. Pasulka said she hadn’t thought about it that way, but yes,
that’s pretty much what Simone (and many others in that field) are talking
about: that AI is a vector that allows for the exchange of information with
discarnate higher beings.
More than three
decades after raising the subject, the ‘fiction’ of MT is now revealed
as reality by the scientific elite.
A similar
theme emerges in the 1990
entry of the series – using a nuclear blast to open a portal between our
world and the realm of demons: ‘The
story is set in "20XX", 35 years after a nuclear
apocalypse which devastates the world and permanently
opens a portal to the demon world of Atziluth.’
And once
again, a leading scientist, years later (2009), confirms
that his kind are interested in using destructive acts to peak into other
dimensions or allow something from them to come into ours:
A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that
the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined
scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an
extra dimension".
"Out of this door might come something, or we might
send something through it," said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for
Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters including
the Reg at CERN HQ earlier this week.
The LHC, built inside a 27-km circular subterranean tunnel
deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border outside Geneva, functions like a sort of
orbital motorway for extremely high-speed hadrons - typically either protons or
lead ions.
The differences are, firstly, that the streams of particles
are moving at velocities within a whisker of light speed - such that each
stream has as much energy in it as a normal
car going at 1000mph. Secondly, the beams are arranged in
such fashion that the two streams swerve through one another occasionally,
which naturally results in huge numbers of incredibly violent head-on
collisions.
The
possibility of a ‘nuclear apocalypse’ between the West and Russia and/or China,
because of Western interference in the Ukraine and Taiwan, is also closer than
ever.
Another idea
presented in the MT series is demonic attacks on people inhabiting the
cyberworld of virtual reality (Shin Megami
Tensei: Nine, 2002 release date):
. . .
The rest is
at https://orthodoxreflections.com/mainstreaming-the-demonic-megami-tenseis-un-orthodox-programming/.
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