The Philosopher King vs the Vampire Parasites
What you can do about the parasites that control you and likely contribute to homosexuality, alcoholism, low IQ, sugar cravings, obesity, gut and skin problems, and more.
Note: I tried shortening the overlong intro which takes up half this post, but I just couldn’t resist taking the summary I had whittled it down to and then rewriting and re-expanding it, probably even larger than it was to begin with (the same thing is happening with this intro to the intro right now!). If you’re here for both the journey and the destination then read on to learn how the big reflects the small, how the banking parasites feeding on blood money reflect the intestinal parasites feeding on your life blood and how both can lead to unexpected outcomes like mind control and sexual degeneracy. But if you prefer to skip all the metaphors and just find out how parasites affect health and what can be done about it, then go here.
The Philosopher King
Simple organisms like bacteria may not appear to be social, but they inte3ract with each other and the world around them based on their inherent interests to form a sort of superorganism, which from the supremely democratic inputs of its constituents develops it’s own automatically emergent complex behaviours in relationship to its surroundings. More complex lifeforms like humans contain a collection of organs which might each be conceived of in some sense as a similar collection of individual cells acting in concert with each other to create an outcome which is greater than the sum of its parts.
Taking a step up the ladder of complexity complex lifeforms like animals may organise themselves in a sort of democratic way to create emergent behaviours like a flock of starlings with no leader wheeling through the sky in their synchronized aerial dance.
Other animals like lions, wolves, or humans do not act like this. Humans always establish hierarchies driven by their natural competition for power. These hierarchies may be apparent or hidden, but they are ever present. In simple tribal societies they are obvious, with a single leader of the group that everyone knows. In more complex societies each grouping of individuals develops its own hierarchy: the leader of the blacksmiths guild or the leader of the army for example. These leaders upon attaining the pinnacle of power still yearn for more and compete with each other whether visibly or not to dominate other groups. So eventually a king naturally emerges, who dominates a certain territory, and of course the cycle continues as kings compete with each other to expand their territories to their naturally defined borders which can be maintained and defended.
So, throughout history vast empires have risen, always driven by a single powerful conqueror.
However, once established they have proven to be relatively short-lived by evolutionary time scales. They run into various problems as the landscape changes around them and outsiders continue to vie for dominance. Internally perhaps the primary problem which eventually leads to senescence and being overtaken by invaders is the problem of entropy, natures tendency towards disorder, requiring ever present energy to maintain order, at a macroscopic level the problem boils down to maintaining distributed governance over vast territories with vastly different populations, akin to organs in a body.
For example the Holy Roman Empire, established in 962 AD and lasting until 1806, was initially characterized by power concentrated in the hands of strong emperors. But over time the empire fragmented as power was decentralized to various princes and nobles, who ruled scattered fiefdoms with conflicting aims.
While the empire experienced periods of prosperity, particularly under rulers like Charlemagne, it gradually deteriorated, under less compelling rulers, into a loose confederation of states. This decentralization left it vulnerable to outside invasion and disruption, most notably from the Ottoman Empire and later from France in the Napoleonic Wars, which ultimately led to its complete dissolution.
What is the solution?
“Until philosophers are kings ... cities will never have rest from their evils …”
-Plato’s Republic
Plato argued that the ideal state, which would ensure the maximum happiness for all its citizens, could only be brought into being by a “philosopher-king,” possessed of a profound knowledge of the most important subjects such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to politics.
In every other domain of human life and even in metaphysics most of us accept that there must be a singular authority at the top, without which chaos would reign. Whether it be the entire universe - dependent for order on a singular Creator - or a family, a company, or a basketball team. The same requirement, that the buck stop somewhere, must surely apply to states, countries, empires and human bodies too.
But even the wisest rulers face serious challenges in governing varied peoples with multifarious customs and competing interests.
The British found that applying English common law uniformly across their diverse colonies was impractical due to the significant cultural, religious, and social differences. A perfect example is the experience of Britain in India.
To address their deep differences, the British introduced a system of "personal laws" that allowed different religious communities to be governed by their own traditional laws in matters of family, marriage, inheritance, and religion. For instance, Muslims in India were governed by Sharia law in personal matters, while Hindus followed their own Hindu laws. This system of personal laws recognized and codified the deep cultural and religious differences between the communities and allowed for a more flexible form of governance that respected local customs while still maintaining ultimate British authority.
This approach contrasts with the more rigid and standardized legal systems in other British colonies, such as Canada or Australia, where British common law was more uniformly applied due to the more similar cultural backgrounds between the rulers and their citizens.
Similarly in the empire of Alexander the Great, deep cultural differences were frequently accommodated. Rather than imposing Greek laws and customs wholesale after the conquest of Persia, Alexander wisely adopted certain local practices, such as elements of their royal protocol and governance style, to gain favor with the Persian elite. This strategy broadly applied in various specific ways allowed for more effective control over his diverse empire, which spanned multiple cultural and religious traditions.
Yet, such systems are fragile, reliant on their enlightened leadership. When wisdom gives way to incompetence, disorder follows, leading eventually to collapse.
To prevent this collapse we have to understand why wise leadership is corrupted, or succeeded by corruption. This isn’t just of historical interest, but can be metaphorically applied to human health, because our bodies are not just automated complex ecosystems comprised of thousands of different microorganisms cooperating and competing with each other and with our own human cells. They are also empires of a sort, managed by a higher principle, the body’s equivalent of the philosopher-king, the human heart, which is equally a physical, energetic, emotional, and metaphysical organ which when truly healthy in both a metaphysical and spiritual sense, strives for a proper balance amongst all the other organs in service of manifesting the soul’s imperative.
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Seeds of Disorder
Societal decay usually begins at the basic societal unit which is the family because the rulers reflect the people they come from, though a particularly terrible ruler can destroy a good society through mismanagement. When families uphold high moral standards, they produce strong, discerning citizens who demand virtuous leaders, and those leaders have an easier time maintaining order. The body’s decay can also begin bottom up due to environmental stressors or top down from the heart when it manages resources poorly.
“Morality” is essentially putting everything in its proper place and doing what is right according to every situation, which is just another way of saying what is beneficial in the broadest sense, and avoiding what is wrong, which is just another way of saying what is harmful in the broadest sense.
It’s easy to blame people for going astray, but a wise ruler, or a wise healer, has to ask what incentives or forces encouraged that to happen?
If societal incentives encourage immorality, corruption always seeps in at the margins, beginning with people simply allowing those immoral incentives to even exist.
At the moral margin some individuals always teeter between virtue and vice. When economic and social conditions incentivize bad behavior, more people succumb, shifting the moral baseline downward. Over time, corruption spreads, destabilizing communities and institutions.
As moral decay deepens, the most competent and ethical individuals disengage—leaving failing societies for more stable environments. Those left behind must now operate in an increasingly corrupt system, accelerating decline.
Which is why, historically, moral codes were so draconian-seeming and so tightly enforced. Our ancestors, who repeatedly weathered cycles of collapse, passed down moral frameworks intended to prevent the slide into destruction. Some of these, like sexual morality seem prudish and short-sighted, but upon close inspection turn out to be very far sighted indeed:
Ultimately immorality and resulting disorder in societies can be traced back to their failing sources of energy storage and delivery, just as “immorality” or disease in bodies can be traced back to failing energy systems too.
When energy storage and production fails, systems that depend on energy for resisting the forces of disorder, or entropy, break down and eventually collapse completely.
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Money and Morality
Societal energy here doesn’t refer to electricity or oil or steam or windmills or wood for burning. There’s something far more fundamental that powers human societies.
The energy of people themselves.
Like most energy on the planet it can be traced back to the “sovereign” of our solar system, the sun, which powers photosynthesis and plant growth, which in turn fuel animals, both of which feed humans and give them energy to do useful work which can over time create incredibly complex civilizations.
But, the only way humans can move from hunter gatherer tribes to complex agrarian economies and then to modern industrial societies is by storing the fruits of their labor in the form of what economists call “ capital.”
In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services.[1] A typical example is the machinery used in a factory. At the macroeconomic level, "the nation's capital stock includes buildings, equipment, software, and inventories during a given year."
At each stage of civilization the capital stock we stored at an earlier stage is built upon and therefore expanded into a greater stock of capital which is passed down to future generations, who can choose to continue expanding it to their benefit and the benefit of future generations, or can choose to eat the proverbial seed corn, to their short term benefit, but longer term detriment and to the detriment of all future generations.
In extremis a civilization in decline may take on debt to fuel current consumption, ie eat the seed corn of the future in a sense, and the further extremity of that is when instead of paying back that debt when the debt comes due, they instead roll it over by taking on even greater debt, and again roll that over, in a snowball process meant to extend the now unsustainable and unpayable debt until they themselves perish and bequeth it to their children and their children’s children, who will find it very difficult to grow their economy enough to pay it off since real growth, rather than the illusionary kind fueled by consumption, depends on stored capital which is by then long gone.
Now to the point of this section: what is money, if not the lifeblood of human capital? The delivery system which both serves to convert diverse stores of energy into a single energy currency and then delivers it where it needs to go in order to fuel further growth?
Imagine if that lifeblood was drained out of an economy or a human body. It would obviously weaken and if the drainage exceeded the ability to replace it, the economy would collapse, the body would perish.
In economies “draining” the energy is called inflation. Inflation making more units of money, which simply put is just a dilution of the currency. If you dilute the blood it carries less energy, if you dilute it enough you can’t survive any more. When you dilute currency, each unit buys a little less, which is what we experience as inflation - it takes more dollars to buy eggs.
The lifeblood of our bodies, our precious energy that we stored in the form of money is stolen from us by inflation. It can be so slow we don’t notice it, or so fast it collapses our ability to sustain ourselves and support our families. Either way it’s the worst kind of theft: the secret kind, because we’ve been tricked by liars into believing it’s necessary and even good for our society as a whole, even though it’s obviously and patently bad for each of us that experiences it.
Except it’s not so bad for some people. It’s not so bad for the fractional reserve banks that print completely new money out of thin air whenever they hand out loans that have to be paid back with interest, that always increase the sum total of money in the system, lowering its value everywhere. It’s not so bad for the people who cozy up to the banks and get this new money first and use it to build or buy something that has intrinsic value that many people want, like housing or an education or an iphone. All of those products and services will keep inflating, but so will the company’s stock prices and balance sheets of the owners of those stocks. Some people have the necessary background, and connections and starting capital to hack the system to their benefit.
We can’t blame them, they’re just responding to a set of incentives. The rich know that holding money is foolish because it loses value, so they take on ever more debt to buy up ever more stuff. They understand that in a fractional reserve system the way to “mine” money is to borrow it.
The only problem with that is that when you use stuff to store all your value, or energy, that stuff becomes really expensive really fast. Stuff that people need to survive and thrive, like eggs and houses and diplomas.
That’s why the perfect money, isn’t something you need to use, it’s something everyone wants, but no one needs.
Food doesn't make good money because people need to eat it, not hoard it, and it goes bad too fast.
Strips of cowhide don't make good money, because they rot real fast, and you have to kill cows to make them and we need cows and don't want to incentive rich people to raise and kill them en masse just for their hides.
Seashells don’t make good money because they break easy and eventually disintegrate, so they’re not a great store of value.
A perfect money is durable, portable, divisible, valuable, and hard to get.
If it’s too easy to get it, then you can too easily inflate its supply and prices rise quickly and the economy collapses. Too hard to get and you can’t increase the supply of money fast enough to keep up with a growing population and economy and that means the value of the money rises too fast, incentivizing people to just hoard it instead of investing it to grow the society for the future.
Money has to be hard to get, or make, or mine as the case may be, because it is a store of human energy that is exchangeable for any other form of energy, human or otherwise. Struggling to get, or make, or mine it, is the very means by which it is imbued with human energy to begin with. Of course the fact that other people think it’s worth getting is why you get it, to pay them for what they have of value that you want.
Now, a truly just economy aligns incentives to create moral behavior. Historically, gold succeeded as money because it met all the requirements of a good money and it not only retained its value, but grew in value slightly year over year, which encouraged some savings rather than overspending, encouraging thrift, investment, and healthy competition amongst those who wanted to grow their wealth even faster than gold’s usually mild deflation would allow.
Its slow supply growth (since it was hard to get) prevented excessive inflation or loss of purchasing power. And since no one could summon it into existence at the wave of a wand or the press of a button, it was a fair system. If you wanted gold you either made something valuable enough to convince someone else to exchange your goods for gold, or you went and found some and dug it out of the ground.
On the other hand modern inflationary monetary systems erode savings, fostering short-term thinking (too hard to save and build for the future when your being drained of economic energy), overspending (everything will only get more expensive later), speculation (to find investments that will meet or beat the inflation), and perhaps surprisingly moral decline - because basically everything bad goes together. What’s evil but extreme shortsightedness leading to every sort of harm? When you’re economically exhausted since you’ve been secretly drained of blood it’s easier to follow your whims and fancies than save up and get married. Easier to steal than work. Easier to cheat than play fair. If money loses value, people struggle so much to stay afloat they take financial and ethical shortcuts to stay ahead, and once they open the gates to immorality, even more follows and eventually people go to war over resources, all of which I tried to explain in much greater detail here:
The Empire of Being
The ancient Chinese described the body as an empire, with various organs representing various lands with their own characteristic features, economies and specializations contributing to the seamless functioning of the whole.
Modern science confirms that our body distributes control of various fundamental requirements amongst various organs, with the heart and vascular system balancing between them all, via control of blood delivery, thereby acting in a way as the "Emperor," as described in traditional medical thought. The Classical Chinese considered the mind to be contained within the blood, so it was intimately related to the cardiovascular system. Modern science confirms this too, since we know the brain controls every tissue in the body via the release of blood-borne hormones.
The body has a trash collection and elimination system. It has a food collection, processing and delivery system. It has a distributed system that determines whether it’s in a growth or pruning phase. It has springs and rivers and lakes of blood full of bustling trade.
Just like a nation, the body has an "army" in the form of the immune system, it requires resources in the form of food, water, light, socialization, emotional regulation, etc, and it can be harmed or even overthrown by “external invaders” in the form of toxins and pathogens, which tend to collect when certain organs are strained beyond their capacity. The pathogens are akin to the barbarian hordes that eventually overwhelmed Rome and any number of other empires before and after them. The organ strain primarily originates from imbalances at higher levels like the psychological, emotional, intellectual and spiritual, which then trickle down to the physical level.
Just as banking parasites undermine advanced societies by acquiring and protecting the immoral power to create money from nothing and drain the economic blood of people’s wealth, biological parasites infiltrate weakened bodies, diverting resources for their own survival. Bacteria, fungi, viruses and even some parasites may act beneficially when a body is healthy and full of energy, but unchecked growth, due to waning energy, leads to disease—just as unchecked corruption collapses nations.
Microbes in ecosystems have certain natural roles. What they do in a forest is what they do in the body, e.g. they can bind toxins in plants and in people, sequestering them from sensitive tissues like the brain. They help destroy and digest old diseased tissues allowing them to be replaced with new, healthy cell growth. Perhaps they’re more like buzzards than barbarians.
The reason they grow unchecked leading to disease is that the body’s energy systems are failing. Stress of all kinds: mental, emotional, physical, energetic, combines to overtax a body that is usually also chronically nutrient deprived. As the body’s tissues weaken, i.e. become less able to expend energy, they can no longer do the ongoing work of ridding themselves of cellular debris, trash, or all the external toxins we’re awash in due to the industrialization and plasticization of our economies. Pathogens step in to bear the burden of these deteriorating systems. Some of those pathogens are opportunistic parasites, which detecting an open niche, step into it with gusto.
Just as Christendom, which until 350 years ago outlawed all interest, first simply succumbed to usurious fiat banking inroads, but is now rapidly becoming overwhelmed by internal strife driven by the parasites who enrich themselves by debasing the money of others, our bodies can eventually become overwhelmed by various microorganisms or even our own cells driven mad, as is the case with cancer, using our resources for their own ends and disrupting the internal cohesion required to sustain a healthy life.
The only possible way to right a sinking ship is for a seasoned captain to take control of the entire thing and direct every detail of the repairs, democracy doesn't work when everything’s falling apart. Societies in an advanced stage of decline can only be saved by philosopher kings and diseased bodies can only be saved by sound hearts.
The Forgotten Microbe
Parasites are a particular type of pathogen that are thought to benefit from the host, without benefiting the host in any way, they’re the prototypical vampires of the microbial community. They can infect various organs, feed off the food the host consumes either directly in the GI tract, or after it’s been processed and absorbed from the bloodstream - i.e. many are literally bloodsuckers. They can also exert dramatic degrees of control over their hosts (a la the mesmerizing powers of an old-timey vampire) by hijacking the same signaling pathways the host brain and organs use to send hormonal messages. They do this in order to survive and propagate.
For example there’s a common parasite called Toxoplasma gondii that spends part of its life cycle in mice and another part in cats (and is a serious infectious threat to human cat owners too). Once it infects mice it changes their neurochemistry to make them attracted instead of repelled by the pheromonal stench of cat urine, increases their risk-taking behaviors and slows their reaction times. This greatly increases the likelihood the infected mice will end up being eaten by a cat, putting the parasite that was pulling the strings all along into its next host so it can complete its life cycle and continue to propagate.
Even more horrifying, the “zombie” ant fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is a parasitic fungus that infects carpenter ants, manipulating their behavior to ensure its own reproduction. The fungus attaches to the ant and drills into its exoskeleton. Fungal cells feed on the ant's insides and spread throughout its body. The fungus releases chemicals that compel the ant to leave its colony and climb to a high point, typically on a branch. The ant then bites down in a "death grip" and eventually dies, a fungal stalk shoots out of its head and releases its spores to infect other ants. This dramatic manipulation of the ant’s behavior ensures the fungus’s life cycle continues.
But, surely human beings aren’t so susceptible to behavior modification as ants and mice?
Well, you might be surprised just how sensitive your personality, emotions and behaviors are to external manipulation, though when you give it some thought you really shouldn’t be - just consider what relatively small quantities of alcohol and illicit drugs can do to people.
But it’s not just drugs of abuse we need to be concerned about, it’s also common over the counter drugs you wouldn’t expect and the changes often escape notice because they’re so subtle. But subtle or not they can have profound impacts on our choices. For example, over-the-counter Tylenol and ibuprofen make people less empathetic, which can significantly interfere with healthy relationships and even end important ones like marriages.
Similarly over the counter Benadryl can cause mood disturbances. Common Parkinson’s drugs like ropinirole and pramipexole can cause increased risk taking behavior (one man, profiled in an interview famously became a gambling addict). Ironically, some drugs marketed as “antidepressants” include the side effect of suicidality, especially in teenagers. Accutane, used for acne can also make its users depressed and suicidal. Smoking cessation drug Chantix can lead to hyper-aggression and suicidality. A very commonly prescribed class of heart and blood pressure medications, the beta blockers, often make patients less motivated and less emotional.
But the greatest self-altering drug most people use on a daily basis is social media. The famous Facebook emotional manipulation study from 2012 showed tiny effect sizes, but only because it was so crudely done. With modern AI-driven algorithms its childs play to manipulate users. Anyway, traditional media, private marketers and public institutions have been manipulating us for generations (it recently became legal for the US government to propagandize Americans).
As for parasites, it turns out we’re just as susceptible to having our inner selves hijacked by them as the ants and mice are.
Toxoplasma gondii, the same protozoan parasite we discussed infecting mice, is transmitted to humans primarily through contact with cat feces, contaminated food, or mother to child during pregnancy. Infected humans may show the same increased risk-taking behavior and slower reaction times found in affected mice. Studies suggest that chronic infection may be linked to personality changes, including reduced fear and possibly increased impulsivity. There are also associations between T. gondii infection and an increased likelihood of developing psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia.
Some personal preferences are also associated with a much higher chance of being infected by parasites. For example gay men are more than twice as likely (over 70% incidence) to be infected with parasites than straight men.
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However it is not at all easy to diagnose parasitic infections. Stool tests are notoriously unreliable, with different samples and different labs commonly reporting entirely different results. Many experts will order multiple stool tests over time from 3+ labs, knowing that even then they may miss the problem. The reason they seemingly go overboard like that is that often only one sample of many sent to one of multiple labs will reveal the parasites that are actually there.
What appear to be extreme measures turn out to be well justified.
Given the frequency of parasite die-off in our patients, it’s entirely possible that a significant percentage of all people with chronic health issues harbor parasites, and those who are diagnosed with them simply have the highest parasite burdens or happen to be tested during just the right time in the parasite’s life cycle.
On social media there are numerous examples of people reporting the sudden loss of desire for anal sex (a good way to increase likelihood of transmission) after taking ivermectin or some other anti-parasitic medication. In some cases they didn’t even make the connection until months or years later.
Same goes for alcoholism, sugar cravings, and smoking, to name only a few common behaviors that have been linked to parasites.
According to the research, alcoholic patients are more likely to be infected with the parasite Strongyloides. Drinking raises human stress hormone levels which make the female parasites more fertile, and make their young more infectious. The alcohol also alters the gut barrier and immunity which both also contribute to more severe infection with Strongyloides.
Below are the confirmatory experiences of real people replying to a series of threads on Twitter discussing parasites, many referring to their own and others experiences after taking ivermectin or other substances with anti-parasitic effects, often for something other than parasites, eg as treatment for COVID-19:
The Intelligence Thief
Turns out there are “IQ parasites” too.
A 2008 study found that Brazilian children infected with hookworms performed worse on cognitive tests than uninfected ones. Children infected with more than one type of intestinal parasite performed even worse than those infected with only one. Intestinal parasites in school children have also been linked to stunting of growth, physical weakness, and low educational achievement.
According to a 2010 study by University of New Mexico scientists Christopher Eppig, Corey Fincher, and Randy Thornhill, the prevalence of parasites in a country may be related to international differences in intelligence. The "parasite-stress hypothesis", suggests that children who get parasites use more energy fighting off the infection, leaving less energy for brain development. The study found a strong correlation between average IQ and parasite stress across all nations and within each continent, except South America. The scientists believe that infectious disease is the most powerful predictor of average national IQ, even when other factors like temperature, education, and GDP per capita are controlled.
Once you see it you can’t stop seeing it, or suspecting it may be contributory to any number of diseases, but it’s important to realize that simply killing off parasites without addressing the deeper underpinnings of disease will not solve the real problem that the disease is manifesting. Sure the symptoms may vanish in the short term, but if the underlying organ is still weak it will continue to build toxicity due to inadequate detoxification, and will be prone to being infiltrated by parasites once again, and even if none of that happens a new sign, symptom or full blown disease will usually crop up at some later date, because the energetic imbalance remains. And the energy depends on something in the psyche, where the real problem lies.
Don’t Oversimplify
While it’s important not to oversimplify anything when it comes to human beings, at least some of the time parasites may be the primary superficial cause of symptoms or historically marginal proclivities like same sex attraction. However, this doesn’t mean the parasites are necessarily the only cause, or the primary one.
Parasites tend to infect certain bodily environments more readily than others, and this isn’t by chance. When individuals deviate from societal norms, it subconsciously triggers their neurological fear circuitry which is genetically and epigenetically encoded and passed down across deep ancestral time, leading to a profound stress response that elevates cortisol levels, which likewise lead to elevated estrogen levels.
Modern science has proven that the experiences of parents can be passed down to their children epigenetically. Take for example male lab mice who were shocked each time they smelled almonds, a scent they would normally be attracted to. They were subsequently mated with female mice and the resulting children showed fear responses to the smell of almonds, despite never having been shocked themselves. If something like this can be passed from father to baby mouse in one generation, imagine the reinforcement learning from hundreds of generations before you, most of whom, certainly throughout recorded history, were rather prudish by modern standards.
The overactive hormonal milieu triggered by stepping out of line compared to ancestral norms creates a toxic, immunosuppressive environment in the body that becomes particularly inviting to parasites for the very reason that it leaves the body’s usually robust defenses for fighting off parasites weakened.
Moreover, it's widely acknowledged that engaging in anal sex increases exposure to a range of harmful microorganisms, so the overall microbial load in these cases can be significantly higher. What many people label "worms" or parasites often aren’t a single organism but rather what’s known as a pathogenic biofilm community. In these biofilm communities, a wide array of microorganisms connect and function together as if they were a single organism, held together by a fibrous matrix, much like our own cells and beneficial microbiome live together in a close-knit communal
”super-organism.”
Biofilms are a mucus-like substance and are formed for different reasons - some are beneficial and some harmful. The body, for instance, may create therapeutic biofilms as a protective measure against toxins and heavy metals. In contrast, pathogenic biofilms are formed by harmful microorganisms, including parasites, to shield themselves from the body's immune responses, antibiotics, and antimicrobials. By hiding within these biofilms, pathogens can evade treatment and persist in the body, making infections much more difficult to combat. This distinction between therapeutic and pathogenic biofilms is key in understanding how microorganisms, especially parasites, survive and proliferate in environments that should otherwise be hostile to them.
Managing Parasites
Historically, all over the world people took anti parasitic herbs or drugs with some regularity, the same way animals today are given regular dewormings. Many in third world countries have over the counter access to anti-parasitic pharmaceuticals like ivermectin and albendazole and take them.
However in modern industrialized societies we’ve mostly lost this concern with parasites, primarily I think due to a common logical fallacy of believing what we can see (or in this case detect) is all that exists, i.e. the famous streetlight fallacy from the old joke:
A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he lost. “My keys,” the man replies. The policeman helps him search for a while and then asks, “Are you sure you lost them here?” “No,” says the drunk, “I lost them in the park.” Policeman: “Then why are you looking here?” Drunk: “Because this is where the light is.”
Basically, our medical establishment doesn't believe any of us have parasites because every time they check for them they don’t find them.
Basically our parasite tests are no good for a number of reasons, which explain why different labs will give different results on the same test samples, and even if samples are sent to many labs, parasites may still be missed:
Intermittent Shedding – Many parasites are not consistently present in stool, blood, or other samples, leading to false negatives.
Low Sensitivity of Microscopy – Traditional stool tests rely on manual examination, which can miss parasites due to their small size or low numbers.
Inadequate Sample Collection – Single-sample tests may not capture intermittent parasite presence; multiple samples over days are often needed, but not often done, and even when they are can still miss parasite presence.
Morphological Similarities – Some parasites resemble debris or harmless organisms, leading to misidentification.
Immune Evasion – Certain parasites hide in tissues (e.g., liver, brain, or intestines) rather than circulating in blood or stool.
Limited Testing Methods – Many labs only test for a small subset of known parasites, missing rarer or emerging species.
PCR and Antibody Limitations – Molecular (PCR) and serological (antibody) tests may fail if parasite DNA or immune responses are too low to detect.
Unstable Samples – Parasites may degrade or become unrecognizable if samples are not properly preserved or analyzed quickly.
What this means is that we have to assume we have parasites. This seems a safe assumption to me since every single chronic disease patient we’ve treated with a proper sustained parasite cleanse has passed obvious visually identifiable intestinal worms in their stool. Not everyone who takes antiparasitics will pass parasites right away, but if they complete a comprehensive detox protocol that marshals their own immune system to mobilize dormant or hiding parasites from deep within biofilms, they invariably pass parasites within weeks.
So to treatment then. There is no generic protocol that is optimal for everyone. Some people will be happy with taking ivermectin and fenben every 6-12 months, whether or not they pass any parasites or feel any different after doing so. Others will add some herbs like turmeric, wormwood extract, oregano oil, or broad spectrum antimicrobial chemicals like chlorine dioxide. Others will add liver and gallbladder support, which is very important, since many of these affect the liver gallbladder system, and it’s a primary passage of elimination, with many parasites ending up in the stool after being ejected from various tissues and passing through the blood to the liver for final elimination. So castor oil packs and coffee enemas can be important. Also giving up anger and allaying chronic anxiety and fear are important for boosting health of tissues affected by parasites, these can be accomplished with various modalities like breathwork, inttellectyual regrounding and neural retraining. Binders like chlorella and others can be important if parasite die off releases toxins. Diet is likely more important than most will appreciate since it so intimately ties into gut and liver health, which are so important for successfully clearing stubborn parasites.
Overall it’s important not to be too extreme too fast especially utilizing unnatural approaches. Complex ecologise like the body resist changes to their equilibrium, even when the equilibrium appears unhealthy to us. The body demands respect, otherwise it resits or simply breaks under undue pressure. Take it easy and slow and you'll accomplish a lot more than if you take it too hard and fast.
Human Bodies and Human Societies
In the never ending competition for control of the a country or a body, the parasites can gain the upper hand and establish their rule from the shadows. Humans afflicted with parasites appear to be in control of their actions, but are not. The greed of parasites weakens and eventually kills their hosts, which ironically leads to their own destruction.
Countries afflicted with parasites appear to be controlled by their nominal rulers, but they are really controlled from the shadows. Human nature predicts competition will continue until there is a winner, so there can be only one who survives the game of thrones. Whether this game takes a generation or many, leaders of various factions will jockey for power behind the scenes until one rises triumphant.
In 1776 the US followed other European countries that had undergone revolutions to replace their monarchs and established a representative democracy with separation of powers in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. Coming up on 250 years later it is becoming more apparent that the system has been hijacked and corrupted by powerful special interests, which grow ever more powerful with each passing generation.
There is a game of thrones playing out behind the scenes, and if we don’t already have an absolute monarch, its only because we many of them ruthlessly fighting outside our perception until only one will remain.
The old system of transparent absolute monarchy is misunderstood in at least one significant way: the monarch was not free to do whatever they wanted. They served at the will of the people. In ancient China they understood this and said of those monarchs who pleased them that they had “the mandate of Heaven”. Those who abused their power found it stripped from them, usually along with their lives.
The idea of giving power back to the people, when in reality they already had as much of it as a group as they ever could, is actually the opposite, it’s the surreptitious theft of power. All it really means is there's no one actually in charge to point the finger of blame at when things go disastrously wrong and therefore only those who appear to be in power are ever held to account, never those who actually weild it. This allows disastrous policies like inflation and war to persist while supposedly competing parties come into power with well disguised new policies that just extend the most important older ones under new names.
Armies become peacekeeping forces, depopulation becomes sustainability, propaganda becomes behavioural science, neo-feudalism becomes stakeholder capitalism, censorship becomes content moderation, communism becomes universal basic income.
This is the only way humans have discovered for consolidating power in a single special interest group that does not reflect the interests of its host across generations, and sooner or later establishing a parasitic, power hungry world monarch driven by self-interest rather than the interests of his subjects. The polar opposite of a philosopher-king.
If not recognized and rooted out the parasites manipulating human societies eventually bleed them dry, utterly destroying them, and themselves of course, just as microscopic parasites destroy their hosts and die alongside them.
When someone has become influenced by parasites of any kind they can no longer trust themselves. They need to find someone wise and trust them against their own diseased inclinations. The wise are guided by higher principles, which ultimately emanate from the Divine, the only source of absolute truth that drives away all evil by eliminating the darkness where it thrives.
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