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Oct. 8, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Everybody's in a cult except you and me
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I jokingly call this podcast everybody's in a cult except me.
And you know, a little bit of self-satire there, but I know you felt that way also sometimes.
Because you and I, we move through the world with an open mind.
We're open to new information.
We're open to uh topics that the mainstream would call fringe, like for example, we're interested in whether there are extraterrestrials, right?
Or we're interested in quantum physics, we're interested in, you know, remote viewing or you know, supernatural phenomena, all kinds of things.
And that's normal and healthy, actually, to have a lot of different interests, but we're also critical thinkers, and you know, we we're not afraid to ask big questions about lots of things, even if we take a lot of heat for doing so.
Like I remember when I was teaching uh uh chapters of the Bible, and then you know, everybody was cool with that until I started saying, uh, let's look at the history of how the Bible was actually compiled, and all the parts that were left out or taken out, like Enoch, the Book of Enoch, etc., the book of giants, and then some people started to get nervous.
Oh, you can't question it, right?
So you hit that barrier with a lot of different people on many different topics, and you come to realize that for the most part, everybody is in a cult, they're just different cults, different belief systems that they've never thought about.
They've I mean, they've never challenged them.
And some of those cults can be like a science cult, which is all the people that love Fauci and love vaccines and they believe in virology, they believe even though it doesn't make any sense, actually.
The whole contagion theory doesn't pan out.
But it doesn't matter.
They believe that all pharmaceuticals are good, so they're in a science cult, or sometimes it's called scientism, but I think it's just called a science cult.
And then you find out like lots of people are in this sort of Zionist cult, this sort of end times, you know, apocalyptic, messianic, uh, like the world's gotta end for Jesus to come back and everything, and it's like whoa, why are you accelerating us to the end of the world?
You know, that's bonkers.
You I mean, even if you believe that Jesus is coming back, why are you in such a hurry to end the world?
You know what I mean?
Like, maybe let's not start World War III.
And lots of people are in lots of different cults.
There's of course the leftism cult, which is sort of the climate cult combined with the LGBT cult.
So the climate cult is completely insane.
And the people who believe in that cult, they think that carbon dioxide is bad for plants somehow.
And then, you know, you got the LGBT transgenderism cult, which thinks that you can chop up baby's genitals to heal them.
It's like that's crazier than the ancient Aztecs and Mayans that would like toss children down the steps of the pyramids, you know, in central and south America and so on.
Like that's crazy.
That's some kind of weird priesthood cult child sacrifice thing, and then you realize not that much has changed.
Because we still have all this child sacrifice stuff going on.
It's called abortion.
There's the abortion cult and the organ harvesting aspects of that, that a lot of people who are into that, they love that, they praise that, they celebrate that.
It's a cult.
It's a total cult.
And then here's one that a lot of people don't think about, but many people are minions of the government obedience cult.
They think that government is their savior, and that whatever government tells you to do, you have to do it.
Oh, they mail you a form, you have to fill it out.
Yeah, I don't fill them out, I throw them away.
And nothing happens, trust me.
It's lost in the mail.
I don't know, it's in the garbage.
It got burned up, it got flooded out, it's gone.
Uh, whatever.
You can't even prove you sent it to me, so go pound sand.
But people are in government cults.
And those are the people who took all the vaccines, too, by the way.
Those are the people who they think that the IRS needs our money to fund the government, you know, laughable, laughable.
They can print all the money they need.
They don't need your money.
They're taking it from you to keep you down, obviously.
But there's the government obedience cult.
And then there's the transhumanism cult, which is the people who think that they're going to merge with the machines.
They're going to achieve longevity by abandoning their human bodies and uploading their consciousness to Silicon.
They're going to live forever in an AI engine or something.
Can you imagine?
Those people are insane because if they actually do that, I mean, think about the process of doing that, right?
So you put on like a brain scan device, it scans your brain, and then it makes a copy of your neurology, it puts it in the machine, and then what?
Are you supposed to kill yourself?
To finish the transfer?
It doesn't make any sense.
All you've done is you've created an avatar version of you in the machine that's mimicked some of your neurology in the way you speak and so on.
But it it doesn't transfer your soul and your consciousness to the machine, okay?
So it's just really a it's an elaborate techno-suicide cult.
That's really all it is a suicide cultists who think that you know I can clone myself to an avatar in a machine, and then that's that's the new god or whatever.
So there's those people, and then there's the cult of the uh techno-enhanced humans who want to be augmented with all kinds of technology.
They want everything embedded, injected, um, you know, surgically implanted, like give me everything, and like put it, you know, replace my eyeballs, you know, replace have the brain implants, and I just want to become like a cyborg, you know.
There's that element in society that's also completely crazy.
Anyway, you you put all this together and you realize that that hence the title of this podcast, everybody's in a cult except for me.
And I'm talking about you too.
You know, I mean, I'm exaggerating it a little bit.
Most people are in a cult, but not you and I. And you know how you know that?
You know why I'm saying this with credibility?
Because if you've heard my podcast for any length of time, you've heard me say over and over again that I don't want you to worship, you know, me or anyone.
I don't want you to lose your mind and just have you know obedience to a person or a figure or an institution.
What do I always say over and over again?
I want to encourage you to think for yourself.
Period.
And I want to give you the tools to think for yourself, tools like our AI engine at Brighton.ai, or you know, free audio books, like you can download my audiobooks and you can listen to them for free.
And you'll notice that in the audio books, I don't say anything crazy like, I'm your Messiah, you know, I'm your I'm your Jesus.
No.
It's like you get educated, you get informed, make up your own mind.
Your situation is unique, your life goals are unique.
I want you to be the best person that you can be in in whatever you know goals and vision you have for yourself.
How do you want to experience life?
I just want to help you achieve that and help you stay as healthy and as wealthy, you know, and as as happy as possible.
I am not asking you to join any kind of cult or you know, any kind of uh movement, other than I guess just the decentralization movement, you could say, which is all about bringing power back to yourself.
See, that's the difference.
Every cult that I've mentioned so far wants you to hand over your power to somebody else and then to trust in them to tell you what to do.
That's true with the scientism cult, the climate cult, the Zionism cult.
You know, it's true in the government cult, especially they love to tell you what to do, the medical cult, you know, all the ones I mentioned, the transhumanism cult, they want you to give up your power and merge with some kind of institution or system that then has control over you.
I want you to do the opposite of that.
I'm like the anti-cult person.
I want you to quit the cult and think for yourself.
I want you to live a life that's decentralized.
I want you to find your own sources of information and knowledge and skills.
I want you to discover your own truths.
I want you to experience and explore life from a first-person perspective instead of living it through someone else or believing just, you know, whatever sort of default belief systems that they spoon-fed you.
And I know that if you're listening to this podcast, you already agree with me on this.
That's why I said up front, you and I can both say the same thing.
Like everybody else is in a cult except us.
That's not entirely true.
We may know other people who are also not in a cult.
But the vast majority of people are cult-like in their obedience to systems.
And the reason they are that way is because it's it's just it's convenient.
It's the lazy brain way to move through the world, is to just sign on to some kind of cult system and just be part of that club and just go along with everything they say.
It's easy, it's cognitively low risk.
But what you and I do, which is thinking critically and challenging things, and it doesn't mean we're always right, but we're always interested in the truth.
We're always learning.
But we don't we don't hand over our power to anybody else.
We don't automatically believe any institution or any authority figure or any so-called expert, including in science or medicine or government or finance, you know.
I mean, look at the mainstream narratives on money and finance.
They say, oh, don't buy gold, you know, it's an ancient relic.
Oh, yeah, really?
Well, why are all the central banks in the world buying it as fast as they can?
If it's got no use in the banking system, why why are all the banks buying it and loading up on it and stacking it, huh?
You see, we challenge ourselves and we challenge the institutions.
We we don't swallow anything by default.
And sometimes we have to check ourselves, sometimes we have to correct ourselves and say, you know what?
My first impression of that was wrong.
I got that thing wrong, and I learned something since then, and now, you know, boom, here's here's the the new revelation that we can share.
Like, for example, during COVID, at first I got it wrong.
At first I thought it was all real.
I did.
And I was very fearful of it because at the time I believed in virology.
Uh now, looking back, I know that they use virology to inflict fear upon people as a means of control and to get people to line up to be injected with you know deadly bioweapons to achieve depopulation and so on.
But in the early days, I did not know that.
And so I had to correct myself.
And I did, and I did it publicly.
I said, you know what?
I was wrong about that.
And now I know that virology is a fraud.
And we have to have the courage to do that, each and every one of us.
You might believe something right now that you find out five years from now just isn't true.
Or you might find that there are gaps in your knowledge.
And I found that out too.
For example, even with all my focus on nutrition and herbs and natural medicine and so on, I had a big gap, which was light.
And I have addressed that gap.
I've I've brought light into my life, you know, sunlight, jogging outdoors in the sun.
And that was something that I was missing.
And you might find there's something that's missing in in your worldview also that needs to be added.
So we're always amending our worldviews based on new information, which means we're also expanding our knowledge base and expanding our wisdom based on new information.
Whereas somebody who is obedient to a cult, they can never learn anything new.
You notice that the science cult people, they can never learn that vaccines are dangerous.
They can never learn that a prescription drug is dangerous.
They can never learn anything that goes against their financial interests that are pro-pharma, pro-FDA, etc.
They're incapable of learning new things, which is one of the signs of being in a cult, is that you can't take in information that challenges your cult belief system because the cult is a mental prison for those people.
And, you know, this is also true.
I've I've noticed about like uh Zionism, like Christian Zionists who believe so strongly in, you know, that Israel is the country that's gonna save us all, and that therefore the means justify the end, and even if Israel has to slaughter, you know, millions of people, it's all worth it because Jesus is coming to save us.
Like you can't even talk to those people in a way that in any way challenges that belief system because it's just been so ingrained into their reality, they can't get outside of that, period.
It's like trying to talk to a transgender person, like a biological man pretending to be a woman, and you're like, hey, there's no such thing as transgenderism.
You're just a crossdresser, and you know, you're playing a role.
You're LARPing.
You're basically you're you're not a tranny, you're a LARP.
Uh LARP means uh L-A-R-P live action role play.
So yeah, you're you're a LARP, you're a man pretending to be a woman and cross-dressing as a woman, and but they can't see that.
They're like, no, I am a woman.
It's ma'am.
Uh no, you're not, actually.
Yeah, that's that's what a LARP would say, though.
So good job on the LARP.
You know, you're really role-playing very well.
Nice job.
Give that man a round of applause.
But you're not a woman, period.
I mean, you're not a woman with a period.
Um, you're you're you're not a woman because you can't reproduce.
You don't have the hardware for it.
And you can't just swap it out, it turns out.
So uh, but but it doesn't matter because again, everybody's in a cult except you and me.
And so when you talk to people, and you probably noticed this, I'm sure you have.
When you talk to people about topics that uh challenge people's reality, they lose their minds.
They lose their minds.
All of a sudden everything, oh, we we can't talk about that, we can't go there.
Like people believe in masks.
There's almost a mask cult.
Like some people loved masks so much that they just continue to wear them even long after the the COVID scare.
They're still wearing masks right now.
Some of them wearing a mask in their own car.
It's like the mask became a security blanket.
It's like um so you're you're kind of like a I don't know, like children suck a thumb.
Yeah, you you're wearing a mask.
Is it's it's like an adult version of thumb sucking.
You know, you're wearing a mask because it makes you feel comfortable to have something touching your lips, I guess.
I don't know.
Uh it's that kind of weird cult-like behavior, but some people are really into that and and they become dependent on on the mask behavior.
Now, believing in any cult will get you into trouble because it makes you blind to reality.
Just like the mask cult people can't realize that the masks are actually harming them.
Or, you know, the science cult people are actually they're injecting themselves with deadly bioweapons that sometimes kill them.
And even when they die, they still don't realize it.
I wonder if their souls are like, you know, uh, I'm I got killed.
I got killed by the thing that I thought was gonna save me.
I you know, I wonder if the soul is like screaming down from heaven.
It's like, how can I be so stupid?
You know, but we never hear that because we don't hear from the dead.
As far as I know.
Uh because I'm not using Ouija boards and stuff.
That's probably a Ouija board cult, come to think of it.
I'm surely there's a satanic cult.
I mean, that that's that goes without saying.
So the look, the bottom line is, of course, the reason I'm recording this is because I just want to encourage you to keep doing what you're doing, which is thinking for yourself.
That's gonna serve you very, very well.
And it doesn't mean you can't be part of groups, doesn't mean you can't, you know, go to church or uh be published in a science journal or you know, go to a climate conference or whatever.
Just don't don't make a belief system your entire identity if that belief system makes you blind to the world.
I say take from every teaching the parts that work for you to that are also based on values, morality, integrity, of course.
But the parts that work for you to help you achieve your life's mission, which hopefully is a mission that benefits others, be a good person.
I taught this during my Bible sermons.
That Be a good person.
And it's actually not that hard to be a good person, it turns out.
It's very easy to be a good person.
You just have to treat people with dignity and respect.
And take steps to share your knowledge or your abundance or with the world.
You know, help the people around you.
Have compassion.
Be of assistance.
It's it's actually not that hard.
This is I kind of jokingly said that based on the rules of entering heaven, as described here and there in the Bible in the book of Revelation, especially.
If you look at the rules, it's like, yeah, I can do this.
This is this is not crazy difficult.
And it's amazing that so many people fail.
They fail to be a good person because they get focused on greed and power, you know.
And then some of those people become cult leaders, and then they exploit other people to you know to maximize their own personal power, and then they get suckers to go along with them to be part of their cult.
So just think for yourself as you're doing.
Uh take the parts from every system of learning or instruction or belief systems.
Uh, take the parts that work for you that are congruent with your life goals that are congruent with morality, and then live your best life.
You know, be healthy, be honest, operate with integrity, uh have generosity, give to people, and to the extent that you can uh practice forgiveness, have patience with people.
Uh not that I'm always perfect on all of that.
Sometimes I'm very impatient with people if they're evil, you know, if they're if they're harming others, I can become very impatient.
But we can all do better.
We can all do better.
It doesn't mean to walk through the world, you know, blind to reality.
You got to deal with the problems sometimes, but you can walk through the world with a sense of optimism and a sense of um decentralized personal power.
And that's what I encourage you to do.
Be a good person, take care of yourself, pursue your life's goals, and help others.
You know, it's it's it's a very simple formula.
And no matter what faith you follow, in every faith that's ever been taught in the world, you go to heaven or the equivalent of heaven if you do those things in every faith.
You do.
Yeah.
You you don't you don't even have to go to any particular church, you don't have to attend church to be a good person in the eyes of God, it turns out.
I mean, Jesus was walking around the countryside, having church wherever people would gather.
It doesn't have to be a building.
Church is within you, it's within you and your community, you know.
I mean, that's what church actually means, but whatever.
We'll talk about that another time.
Thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com and Brighton.com.
And uh, yeah, thanks for listening.
Be well.
Take care.
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Thanks for watching.
I'm Mike Adams of Brighttown.com and naturalnews.com.
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