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Did The 'I AM' Cult Influence Star Wars?

No really, I am asking you

Jul 26, 2024
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Force Lightning | StarWars.com
Emperor Palpatine shows off his spiritual side

“They project at their meetings what they call the destructive ‘BLUE LIGHTNING,’ analogous it seems to the ‘DEATH RAY’ of the pulp magazines,” Gerald Bryan wrote of the ‘I AM Activity’ in 1940. His book Psychic Dictatorship in America remains the only standalone volume of historical research on the strange, …

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