Sweet Sweet Carrot Cake

Here's a traditional soft pastry, very popular in English-speaking countries, which I've turned into a simplified vegan, gluten-free recipe with no added fat or sugar. It is very moist and may therefore be enjoyed without a cup of tea.

Ingredients

Serves 8:

- 200 g buckwheat flakes
- 3 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 large carrot
- 1 large apple
- 9 dried apricots
- 4 tbsp sultanas
- 240 ml hazel or almond milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

Instructions

Soak apricots and sultanas in a bowl of boiling water for about 15 minutes. In the meantime, peel and grate the carrot and the apple.

Grind buckwheat flakes into flour and add ground flaxseed, baking soda and cinnamon. Add vinegar, then gradually incorporate milk to a smooth dough. Then mix in the carrot and apple.

Drain the sultanas and apricots. Cut the latter in small pieces and add to the dough.

Transfer to a silicone cake mould and bake for 45 minutes at 180°C.

NOTE: I personally don't like sugar and find the ingredients of this recipe sweet enough. However, you may still add some sugar according to your taste (for example, you may add 2½ tbsp xylitol or birch sugar or a bit more if you prefer using traditional sugar). Otherwise, you may also add some chopped nuts to the dough.

Enjoy!

© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

Mind Your Perceptions!

Reality, in its essence, is neither clear nor dark; neither good nor bad. These distinctions arise from perception and not from perspective or the nature of reality.

Conditioned by experience and influenced by the masses and cultural narratives, the soul imparts its astral colouring to existence, taking its impressions for granted rather than examining them more closely. As Epictetus reminds us:

Men are not troubled by things, but by the way they look at them.

What we call ‘good’ or ‘bad’ does not exist per se: it is just a filtered interpretation, an opinion imbued with matrix programming, which does not even belong to you, but passes through you in the form of thoughts or suggestions.

Existential anxiety arises when we resist fundamental neutrality, clinging to preferences and aversions instead of observing reality as it is.

However, this non-polarised observing stance is the key that unlocks other quantum potentials and timelines. We give psychological meaning to something, but often mistake our interpretations for absolute truths, hence the crystallisation.

Gnosis offers a way to rectify this:

You have power over your perceptions, not over external events. Become aware of this, and you will find peace by psychically understanding the occult symbolism of everything around you.

Thus, in order to transcend the illusion of biased projections, it is necessary to recognise that reality itself is devoid of any intrinsic quality. It is astral influences and matrix programming that attach subjective weight, value and judgement to it.

Original text by Iso V. Sinclair translated from French by Eyael
© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

Witch Hunt

The righteous rise with burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill

"Witch Hunt", Rush (1981)

It's pumpkin season again! What was once turnip season is now only used to refer to bad scripts and cowards in French. Like the 10 of Spades or its tarot card equivalent, showing a character lying face down on the ground, with ten swords stabbed into his back, October is a dark month, often filled with a sense of dread and foreboding. Known in occult circles as Red October, the month of harvest, bloodshed, stagnation and loss of control, ends with masquerades where people pretend to scare each other by dressing up as monsters, ghosts or witches in order to be on the safe side. But number 10 is also a symbol of transition, like a bridge between two worlds, since death, in the true sense, is nothing more than a transfer from one state to another. Furthermore, in the Lenormand Oracle, the 10 of Spades is paired with a ship sailing away towards unknown shores — a possible reference to Charon's boat?¹

Burn the Witch

The myth surrounding witches reflects the abysmal depths of human ignorance, the hypocrisy of religions, and the psychopathic entities they worship. As French historian Michel Pastoureau wrote, “witches are not a phenomenon of the Middle Ages but of the modern era.” Indeed, hatred towards the feminine principle is nothing new, but now seems to be reaching new heights. Simply consider the increasingly violent abuse of transgender propaganda, or extreme religious obscurantism, attempting to impose their rules and views in Western civilisations.

Contrary to popular belief, it was not during the Middle Ages that the greatest number of crimes against ‘witches’ were committed, but during the Renaissance. The women considered as such were generally from the working class and most were healers, midwives or herbalists, holding ancestral know-how that competed with the humanist creed based on science and knowledge (rather than knowing). Their practice was therefore labelled “magical” in order to justify witch hunts.

‘Witches’ posed no threat to men as individuals, but rather to the archontic system, which used institutions (the Church, the justice system, official medicine) to eliminate anything that would slip beyond its control.

They were thus blamed for knowing too much, much more than the established institutions themselves. Their knowledge of lunar cycles and natural correspondences also allowed them to break free from imposed patterns and touch upon the very structure of ‘life’. That's why they were accused of transforming or metamorphosing others, a distorted reflection of their vibratory ability to dissolve existing moulds and what the matrix wants to crystallise — in other words, they showed that matter is energy and that all energy is malleable.

That sly come-hither stare
That strips my conscience bare
It's witchcraft
And I've got no defense for it
The heat is too intense for it
What good would common sense for it do?

"Witchcraft", Frank Sinatra (1957)

A far cry from the archetypal ugly old woman with a wart on her nose, ‘witches’ were guilty of being independent and arousing desire in men. This is certainly the greatest untold truth, as it still pervades certain religions. Many witch trials were, in fact, fuelled by shameful male fantasies. As men were unable to control their urges, the blame was put on women as ‘temptresses’ or ‘friends of the Devil’. Weakness always seeks to blame, and the cognitive dissonance was too overwhelming for the so-called ‘stronger’ sex. To the benefit of the clique of the archons who manipulate human emotions.

Last but not least, as archetypes of the rebellious feminine principle (like Lilith, Adam's first wife, accused of tempting Eve in the guise of a serpent), witches served as a reminder that incarnation in the flesh cannot occur without this fundamental principle. In a world ruled by a jealous patriarchal god, such power is intolerable for it cannot be subdued.

Spells and Charms

And that's where the trap closes in: everything beyond institutional control was rebranded as ‘magic’. But what is magic, if not the soul in action?² A force that manipulates forms, but without any connection to the spirit. However, a soul acting without its spirit always ends up creating its own shackles, as what it attracts through ignorance, it will sooner or later have to pay for.

The word sorceress (sorcière, as used in French) comes from the Latin sortiarius, ‘spell caster’, derived from sors, meaning 'fate' or 'destiny'. Magic is therefore a coded energy and a spell is an expressed intention that can be instantly broken by a supramental frequency (hence the importance of always vibrating at a high frequency). Non-consent will produce a boomerang effect that will not only render any act of magic ineffective, but this energy will have to find a target, and it will be those who emitted it who will suffer the consequences. The spell will thus rebound upon its authors with triple intensity.

Cover up in shade
Fly fast through the airwaves
Meet with pride and truth
Danger is great joy
Dark is bright as fire

"Witches' Song", Marianne Faithfull (1979)

It's worth noting that magic, whether black or white, remains the same, since it is once again a matter of swapping polarities. Polarisation is, moreover, a pernicious trap that must be overcome at all costs. Thus, praying for others is a form of magic, regardless of how noble the intention may be. Hence the well-known but misunderstood saying: “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.   

Furthermore, sort, the French³ for 'spell', is the same as sortir in the third person, which in this context means 'to step out'. A witch or sorceress is someone who breaks out of moulds and shatters boundaries. In its intransitive form, they stand out from the crowd, from the norm, and the matrix loops; in its transitive form, they expose what's hidden: knowledge, secrets, and invisible forces.

Treats or Tricks

But ‘taking out’ may also mean ‘unwrapping’. The matrix enjoys treating us to its glittering wrappers, promising solace and comfort. And as with Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, every bite is a gamble: 

“You want to be careful with those,” Ron warned Harry. “When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour — you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavoured one once.”

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling (1997)

That's the image of the Matrix: attractive packaging, but unpredictable taste — and more often disgusting than delicious.

And when it comes to booby-trapped treats, narcissists are true master candy-makers. On the outside, they come wrapped in shiny, colourful paper. But inside, it's not chocolate: it's all recycled and repackaged digestive waste. One might think the smell would eventually give away the packaging, but unfortunately, they always manage to convince those around them that it is not them who smell bad, but their victim, whom they torment to breaking point.

These human wrapped candies are not just dysfunctional individuals: they often serve as relays for archons. Their role is to trigger an emotional reaction in the other person and then reverse roles. They provoke, harass and manipulate until the victim breaks down. Then they point the finger: ‘See, HE (or SHE) is the monster.’ And as long as no one dares to unwrap the foil, the ploy continues.

As Above, So Below

From human wrapped candy to the treats of the archons, the basic idea is the same: as practitioners of black magic and trickery, the 'mighty' of this world always wrap their poison in the shiny paper of ‘progress’, 'morality' or ‘inclusivity’. The treats may change, but the bitter taste of political correctness remains as foul as what is humanly abject.

These ruling elites, who act as willing agents of the matrix, occupy positions of power in order to better reverse situations: hypnotising the masses, projecting their guilt onto those who escape their control, and naming the culprits to be burned — yesterday at the stake, today through cancel culture and political or media purges.

And make no mistake about it: witch hunts are not some distant memory from the Dark Ages. In Africa (and other parts of the world), women and children are still being tortured and killed on the pretext of witchcraft, as reported by Amnesty International⁴.

When I look out my window
Many sights to see
And when I look in my window
So many different people to be
That is strange, so strange
You've got to pick up every stitch
Must be the season of the witch

"Season of the Witch", Donovan (1966)

The archons are forever recycling the same scenarios, not so that the trapped souls may learn — what's the point when memories are being erased and manipulated? — but to sustain the cycle which feeds them.

Endnotes

1. ^  In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead. In some burials, low-value coins known generically as Charon's obols were placed in, on, or near the mouth of the deceased, as a viaticum for the soul's journey. The dead who could not pay the fee, and those who had received no funeral rites, had to wander the near shores of the Styx for one hundred years before they were allowed to cross the river.
2. ^  In French, 'la magie' (magic) sounds exactly like 'l'âme agit' (the soul acts). As explained in a note below, due to its specific vibration French is the preferred language used by occult societies. Therefore, even if, in this particular instance, the language of birds doesn't work in your language, it still has the same vibratory impact in all the fractal layers of the matrix simulation.
3. ^ Each language has a specific frequency that goes far beyond words. French ranks among the initiatory languages. Historically, it was and still is used in high occult lodges, particularly because of its rich and precise structure, which allows for complex codification of ideas and rituals.  
4. ^ Accused of being a witch, 90-year-old Akua Denteh was lynched and beaten to death in the streets of Mempeasem in July 2020. In some parts of Africa, witches are feared and hunted down. According to Amnesty International in Gambia, several hundred people have been arrested and detained. These people are tortured and forced to drink a hallucinogenic drink, compelling them to confess to witchcraft. 

© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

Biorhythms: The Invisible Score of Our Lives

Have you ever noticed how, when you're bursting with energy, the person closest to you is often feeling drained? When the other person is in a good mood, you’re the one who’s irritable. And when you’re thinking clearly, the other person seems confused. As if these phases of misalignment were being sustained by recurring energy patterns.

This is where the study of biological clocks, or biorhythms, comes in. These are a set of three regular cycles, calculated from our date of birth. The first, lasting 23 days, is said to affect our physical vitality; the second, lasting 28 days, our moods and emotions; and finally, the third, lasting 33 days, our mental state and communication.

These cycles are reminiscent of those of the Sun, Moon and Mercury, respectively, which are thought to have a similar influence in astrology.

Biorhythms are represented as sinusoidal waves, with optimal phases (peaks), depressive phases (troughs), or critical phases when the curve reaches the baseline (or zero point).

The point here is not to debate the scientific reality of these cycles or their validity, since anyone can observe them and judge for themselves. The real question would be: if these cycles are natural, what purpose do these intermittent shifts serve — both individually and collectively?

And what if, like astrological birth charts, these biological rhythms were in fact determined by matrix programming? A way of keeping us  within predictable fluctuations, limiting our peaks, and above all... preventing us from being too often in sync with others.

Picture a sound wave. Sound engineers often use a peak-limiting system, called a limiter, to keep the volume within a controlled range.

What if biorhythms played exactly that role for us?

Invisible limiters that prevent our peaks of energy, emotion or intellectual clarity from lasting too long.

Even more subtly: when two (or more) sound waves meet, if they are in phase, they combine, amplifying the volume and the power. But if they are out of phase, they partially cancel each other out, reducing the momentum.

What if the matrix were constantly engineering this misalignment?

When you’re high, the other person is low. When the other person is clear, you’re the one who’s confused. When you want to move, the other person has no energy. As a result, you’re never really in sync. There’s always a bit of friction.

And what does this friction produce? The infamous loosh, the emotional energy that feeds the system.

In this sense, biorhythms would not only be individual curves. They would also serve to shape our relationships, encounters, and conflicts.

Two people who are rarely in sync generate far more tension — and therefore much more energy that can be harvested by the matrix.

As if we were all connected to an invisible score, ensuring that harmony remains rare and dissonance is the rule.

So, the next time you feel this disconnection with someone close to you, instead of accepting it as an inevitable, pseudo-natural phenomenon against which you are powerless, ask yourself what would happen if you refused to play along and reclaimed your own frequency.

Because even if these cycles do exist, the greatest power still lies with you: the power to choose not to believe in them, and to consciously realign yourself with your axis.

© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

The Increase in Left-Right Polarisation in the Wake of the Charlie Kirk Shooting

What’s REALLY going on while ‘Right’ is pitched against ‘Left’? pic.twitter.com/z2rb5yGhdK

— David Icke (@davidicke) September 18, 2025

Hello!

I just want to say a few things about current events and current happenings because I see people getting caught in a pincer movement which is pitching left against right. It's gathered massive pace since the shooting of Charlie Kirk and I'm looking on agape at how people are falling for it. In some cases people who should know better.

Because once upon a time, in the wake of COVID and before, the alternative media kind of understood that we live in one party state. And as they used to say in America, when I was traveling there a lot, in the 1990s, “it doesn't matter who you vote for because the government still gets in.” And that seems to have been forgotten in this frenzy of pitching right against left. And I just want to offer the benefit of 35-36 years of investigating and researching this.

There is another level, which, if we don't understand, we will never get the picture. And that other level is what I call the global cult.

It's a global network of secret societies fiercely compartmentalised, so even most of the people in the secret societies don't know the real big picture. Only the inner core does. It's all compartmentalised right down the system. And this cult has an agenda to create a global dystopia, which involves the fusing of the human mind, brain, body with artificial intelligence. So artificial intelligence becomes the human mind. And therefore it becomes possible to create a hive mind in which people's thoughts and emotional responses are fed to them. And all these AI oligarchs, Musk, Andreessen and Teal and Sam Altman, Larry Ellison... they're pushing the world towards this.

And as I said before the Trump regime came in, he's being brought in to target that area, that mentality which became known as the MAGA – that was pushing back on this artificial intelligence dystopia; was pushing back on the destruction of freedom of speech and all these other impositions, digital ideas, etc. And this level (this cult level) works through both the left and the right – and the bloody center, come to that – to push this agenda forward.

And how it works is when the left are in power, they target freedom of speech. We've seen this with the whole woke mentality: if you don't use the right  pronouns, you get fired. And so many excuses were used and are still being used in areas where the left is in power to destroy freedom of speech and freedom of expression, freedom of opinion.

So then you bring in… because people – and this is the targeting of the the so-called right or the MAGA – they don't want that. But you still got to bring them in to the arena of supporting the destruction of freedom of speech.

And so what you do is you have people like Trump and these other people, Vance, and Musk, all of them, and they stand up: “Oh, we stand for freedom of speech! We've got to stop this wokery.” And the people that don't want the wokery and the destruction of freedom of speech, under that justification, vote for them. And they get in. And then, once they get in, they start being increasingly a mirror of that using different excuses.

So now we have a situation in which the right, in the form of Pam Bondi, the attorney general in the United States – a Trump clone – is using the very term 'hate speech' that they used and they opposed.

We're seeing people like Alex Jones (my god ,what's happened to this guy?) who is promoting this agenda using things like accusing the left in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, describing them as domestic terrorists. Now this is the same Alex Jones and the MAGA that were condemning the left dubbing the right, when they were in power, as 'domestic terrorists'.

And so we now have this fusion, 'dialogogy and dialectic' they call it, where you have the synthesis of two apparently opposing ideologies that now start to agree on the same ground. So when the left's in power, they use excuses to destroy freedom of speech. Now when the right's in power, they use different excuses to destroy freedom of speech using the very same terms like 'hate speech' and 'domestic terrorists'. 

It's a psychological game. It's a psyop on both left and right. And if we don't see this other level that works through both, then we are going to go on fighting each other while this level advances its agenda unchallenged.

Why do you think that Elon Musk suddenly appears at a rally, demanding freedom of speech, tells people to fight – gotta fight? Why are we having the same outcome, no matter left, no matter right, because they are both polarities of THAT. They are both pawns of THAT.

And that level is what we must not only understand, but we must focus upon and ask why.

Now, one of the great servants, one of the great agencies, vehicles for THAT, is the government and intelligence, military networks operating out of Israel. Not Jewish people in general, that level that runs Israel. This is why it operates in the United States. 

More and more people including Charlie Kirk were starting to see that, the massive influence it has. 

It has massive influence in Britain through people like Starmer; massive influence in other countries around the world in a covert way. And it's doing the bidding of that level. 

And so, when you look at things like the Charlie Kirk shooting, (appalling by the way, there's very little that he said that I agreed with, but you certainly don't respond to it like that),  but there are those immediately... What you can see, when one of these horrible events happens, be it 9/11, be it whatever, you have a story that is given to you immediately. That's why on 9/11, within minutes of it happening, the name of Osama bin Laden was introduced. Because  that was where they wanted to push you.

And if you notice, whether it's the assassination of  President Kennedy, of Bobby Kennedy, of Martin Luther King, whether it's 9/11, whether it's the invasion of Irak on weapons of mass destruction as an excuse, what you find is that the initial story or given is never the true story that comes out later. And so when I'm looking at this Charlie Kirk situation from that level, I'm looking immediately:  “What is the story they want us to believe?”

And immediately, the story appears with the MAGA media pushing it that it's the left. And so what you have then is a reaction against the left by the right: Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! End of free speech. “We support not having free speech anymore.” That level is pissing itself with laughter at the naivety that it has instigated.

And then there's others come along and say: “Oh no, it was Israel because he was pushing back against Israel and that would have been a nightmare for Israel if if he'd have brought the Christian Zionists along with it.” But when you look at that level, well, both can be true and other possibilities can be true because what they want you doing is focusing on what they tell you is the perpetrator.

I can't say, at this moment for sure, whether Tyler Robinson did it or didn't, or it's a patsy, or was under mind control... I can't say that. There's a lot more research that needs doing before we can come to conclusions like that. But what's happening is that it's being pushed.

You've got ludicrous FBI story... The FBI, by the way, that serves that level through the generations. I mean, think J. Edgar Hoover for a start. And it's been telling you stories about these massive events like 9/11 etc. And they invariably turn out not to be true. They've even been exposed again and again for using their agents and operatives to set up and a terrorist attack and then move in to stop it and claim credit for it when they set it up. This is the FBI that's telling you the story of Charlie Kirk's shooting.

One thing you know about the FBI and these other people – like the alcohol, tobacco and firearms organisations, the NSA, the CIA, all of them, MI5, MI6 – is whatever story they're telling you suits that level and ain't for you to tell you the truth.

So you can have people... and I'm not relating this to the Charlie Kirk shooting because I don't know yet, there is more research to do, but I'm using it as a a blueprint for  how it's done. You can have the front of the spear as the person that's focused upon, the person who does it if you like, but then you've got to start working back through all these different levels to find the people that actually orchestrated the firing of the spear, the arrow. And in that way, you can have someone of the left or someone of the right carrying something out, but if you go back through the smoke and mirrors and into the shadows, you'll find who actually orchestrated it and made it happen.

And all that is what the alternative media should be doing, but largely is not in its algorithmically-promoted central core that's taken over the alternative media since COVID. And it's about time they bloody started and stopped being hacks and propagandists for the system. Because Trump's as much as part of the system as Biden was and Obama was because they're puppets of THAT.

I'm sitting here after... what 35/36 years – 1990 I started out of seeing all this unfold and seeing the patterns of how it's done and I'm looking on with shaking bloody head at how easy it has been for THAT to play the string section of what claims to be the alternative media. Now, there are some good people, some intelligent people, who are seeing it, who are doing it the old way by understanding how the game works. But there is the central core that gets all the numbers and the algorithmic support is playing the game of THAT on a scale that's beggar's belief. It's got to stop and if it doesn't stop, then we need to call it out, which I'm doing.

So that's just a few thoughts on the situation we're in. What they want is a civil war not just in America, not just in the United Kingdom, but around the world, so that we're so busy fighting each other that we leave that level alone to go about its business of imposing dystopia.

And remember this, as I'm speaking here, Trump's in London meeting the bloody king and Starmer. Appropriate, really. And in America, they're using the excuses of the left to impose blocks and deletion of freedom of speech. In Britain, we have a government, that claims to be left, that is using – and has done since it came to power – to excuse their destruction of freedom of speech basically the right.

It's exactly what I'm saying: when the right's in power it targets the left to destroy freedom of speech. When the left's in power it targets the right to justify freedom of speech.

Come on people, let's wake the hell up while we still can because we're being played !

Well, many people are and it should end. And it should end NOW! Because if we don't see it, It's going to be played off against each other until dystopia rules completely.

Transcribed by EY@EL
© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

Never

Here is a new counter-earworm (or anti-song) designed to vibrationally reverse the matrix programming loops that constantly replay in our simulated experience.

Who hasn’t been caught in a toxic pattern in this predatory world, built on suffering as one of its fundamental pillars? As long as we persuade ourselves (or let ourselves be persuaded) that we are responsible for human baseness — skillfully orchestrated by the astral — this algorithmic cycle will keep repeating endlessly.

But sometimes, suffering and disillusionment reach such intensity that a saturated soul refuses to perform this deadly role once more. That’s when everything can finally change.

The ray of the Spirit exposes these repetitive patterns and burns them away — provided the person no longer allows parasitic thoughts (which are not their own) to invade their mental space. Provided also that they stop feeding, with their vital energy, the emotions triggered by those same thoughts or beliefs. Then, they move from perception — where they project themselves into what does not belong to them — to perspective, from where they can observe with neutrality, detachment, and lucidity, and choose to act strategically rather than reactively.

You don’t play chess the way you play football: imagine Karpov headbutting Kasparov in the middle of a game! And remember: in the end, all the pieces — kings and pawns alike — go back into the box.

As with my previous anti-songs (“Au nom du Père” and “Âme mnésique”), "Jamais" was generated by AI from my original lyrics, remixed with my limited resources, and brought to life with computer-generated imagery in a music video I designed myself. It was a long process, because contrary to what many may think, AI doesn’t do everything with a single click: it requires testing, adjusting, retouching, assembling — and a lot of time. Please excuse the technical limitations: the quality doesn’t reflect the message, but only the free versions of the tools I had to work with.

"Jamais" is not a complaint — it’s the closing of a loop. A clear refusal to replay the same patterns. It’s also a way of vibrationally recycling wounds into creativity.

Let go of your excess baggage, not of your vital energy!

Jamais

You, the friend who betrayed me
The false innocence of your denial
The true malice of your envy
Oh oh oh

For too long, you have fed
On my wounds
So often, you have taken
What brings reassurance

Made my emotions a lever
And my voice your shield
Never ever…
Never taking the risk
Never showing your true face
Never…
Oh never…
Oh oh oh oh
Never again

You, the friend who defiled me
The shrill silence of your unspoken words
The muffled indecency of your contempt
Oh oh oh

I had to fight your battles
In your place
Always had to seal your cracks
In the mirror

Become the echo of your gossip
The counterweight to your ego
Never ever…
Never taking the risk
Never exposing yourself
Never…
Oh never…
Oh oh oh oh
Never again

But the ray of the Spirit
Dispels the mists
Pierces through the night
Dissolves the bitterness
Of dormant memories 
Rekindled by the light

Tears away the veils
Of fear and resentment
Its burning ardour
Troubles the astral
Eclipses the stars
Pain, and misfortune

You, the friend who betrayed me
The false innocence of your denial
The true malice of your envy
Oh oh oh

For too long, you have fed
On my wounds
So often, you have taken
What brings reassurance

Made my emotions a lever
And my voice your shield
Never ever…
Never taking the risk
Never showing your true face
Never…
Oh never…
Oh oh oh oh
Never again

Become the echo of your gossip
The counterweight to your ego
Never ever…
Never tainting your image
Never exposing yourself
Never…
Oh never…
Oh oh oh oh
Never again

Never again…

© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More

Crime Time

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

Back from the land of Uncle Charley, let's make a quick stop in my former adopted country — more specifically in London, at 221B Baker Street, home of the most famous fictional detective of all time. The very same detective who, as suggested by the 9 of Diamonds this month, invites us to be patient and persistent in spite of obstacles and challenges. It also heralds the end of a cycle (represented by a coffin in the Lenormand oracle) and the beginning of a new phase.

Private Eye vs Blind Justice

It is often wrongly assumed that Sherlock Holmes, the legendary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, was the first and original literary detective. Actually that title is held by Auguste Dupin, penned by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841 (in The Murders in the Rue Morgue). The following year saw the release of The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue, in which crime investigation intertwines with the social background, and where the sleuth roams the filthy alleys of the city in an effort to restore justice.

Two opposing archetypes: the cerebral detective introduced by Poe as a logically-minded parlour investigator versus the ‘action’ investigator portrayed by Sue, immersed in the social fabric and the underworld, driven by some humanitarian or moral cause. One of them looks at clues from a rational perspective, while the other digs into the dirt of people's lives.

Poe's character inspired Inspector Lecoq (in The Lerouge Case) by Émile Gaboriau, the ‘father of detective fiction’ who, in turn, influenced Conan Doyle in the creation of Sherlock Holmes.

But if these fictional detectives managed to captivate generations of readers, it is above all because they borrowed from their flesh-and-blood counterparts who, in ‘real’ life, helped solve some of the greatest crimes in human history.

One of them is Eugène François Vidocq, often regarded as the first private eye in history (1833), followed by Allan Pinkerton, who started the first private investigation agency in the US (1850), and William John Burns, known as the ‘American Sherlock Holmes.’

The Hound and the Wolf

But what happens when the detective encounters his perfect opposite? When the bloodhound of the system, with his infallible flair and relentless logic, meets the elusive wolf with his ever-changing mask, acting only on instinct and playing with the law to better circumvent it? This is where Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc's gentleman thief, steps in. Leblanc, whose pen occasionally challenged Conan Doyle's to the extent of reinventing Holmes as Herlock Sholmes (for legal reasons) for a memorable literary duel.

They measured each other with their eyes, now open enemies, avowed and quivering. Lupin, a little irritated, went on: “Several times, sir, I have met you on my way. That is several times too many; and I am tired of wasting my time in foiling the traps which you set for me."

The Blonde Lady, Maurice Leblanc (1908)

Their confrontation continued over time: four years after their first encounter, Lupin provoked the British detective in the press and burgled a hotel despite the presence of the latter, who nevertheless managed to recover the stolen items. Their clash highlights the incompatibility of their methods: faced with Sholmes/Holmes' deduction and relentless logic, Lupin relies entirely on his intuition and improvisational skills. With his casual attitude towards facts, he outsmarts his careful yet rigid analysis.

The dog's nose, however long, points in one direction at a time.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Thus, in Leblanc's stories, the English detective is always defeated in the end, not by violence, but by imagination, bravado, and elegant plot twists. Lupin symbolises vivacity of mind, adaptability, and cunning counter-power against rigid order.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Henriette Tiarks

He embodies the art of free trickery, the proverbial ‘side step’ of someone who moves their pieces around the game board, while Holmes just keeps feeding the loop without ever stepping out of line.

Murder Party

And when it comes to flair and intuition, what could be more natural than extending from literary duels to other playing fields? For whether in fiction or games, crime always follows the same set of rules: a murderer, a motive, and a weapon. Now the next step was to turn it into global entertainment.

So in 1949, nearly half a century later, was created the legendary Cluedo (a play on 'clue' and 'ludo', the Latin word for 'I play'). In the famous British murder mystery game — which has been adapted into a variety of formats (a film, television shows, video games, fiction and non-fiction books, escape games, etc.), the object is to determine who murdered the game's victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used.

You see, but you do not observe.

A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)

Nowadays, in an increasingly Orwellian society, the pervasiveness of the figure of the unfailing detective is hardly a surprise. The reason is that the matrix needs to perpetuate the classic narratives of good and evil. For the system, it is not a matter of morality but of survival. And whenever the polarity is reversed, it's all about either redemption or corruption.

It doesn't matter which 'side' you're on, as long as you don't break out of the cycle. Indeed, what would happen if, instead of turning the wheel, the guinea pigs decided to step aside and observe it? 

What do you think they might discover?

© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.

Share:

Read More