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SPECTRE film poster. “Hail the Pale King, Death.”By: Jay Dyer

In this episode of Esoteric Hollywood, I break down the recent Paris attacks purportedly by “ISIS” and the odd connections to the 2015 film SPECTRE.  SPECTRE’s plot involves 007 on the trail of the shadowy international criminal syndicate originally found in the Fleming novels, emerging from SMERSH, Soviet counter-intelligence.  Ominous parallels emerge in SPECTRE, as we learn the syndicate is behind a series of bombings and terror attacks, globally.  Echoing the Charlie Hebdo incidents earlier this year, the connections with SPECTRE appear too close…

Aaron Franz joined in the conversation as we looked at the film The Recruit, which more than any other film we’re covering in this season was moulded by CIA entertainment liaison Chase Brandon.  Like so many films, it tells the story of a young person inducted into a secret world with secret rules and codes of thinking and behaviour, and in doing so inducts the audience into that same world.  We discussed this dynamic from various angles – black operations, secret societies, occult or mystery school philosophies – before studying Brandon’s appea