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God, School, 9/11 and JFK - Bruce de Torres
GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free
Copyright © 2021 Bruce de Torres. All Rights Reserved.
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De Torres, Bruce
GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free—1st ed.
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1. HISTORY -- United States. 2. Education -- United States -- History. 3. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. 4. COVID-19 (Disease) 5. Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald) -- 1917-1963 -- Assassination. 6. Secret societies -- United States. I. Bruce de Torres II. Title
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Publisher’s Foreword
Lou Costello: Now how did I get on third base?
Bud Abbott: Well you mentioned his name.
Witness 88: All of a sudden he heard an explosion. He glanced over to the southeast and observed what he thought was a firework ascending into the sky.… He stated this object which was ascending left a wispy white smoke trail. About midway through its flight, the smoke trail stopped and the object turned a bright red in color.… He stated that he now thought it was some type of boating distress flare. All of a sudden, it apparently reached the top of its flight. He stated that the red fireball then arced from the east to the west. At this point he observed an airplane come into the field of view.… He stated that the bright red object ran into the airplane and upon doing so both the plane and the object turned a real bright red then exploded into a huge plume of flame.
–TWA Flight 800 Eyewitness Quotes
http://flight800.org/eye2.html)
There are and have been many witnesses to the treacheries of our day. Many of these perfidies then become highly managed arguments looking to distort the turmoil of daily life. Amplifying nature’s divides of right/left, liberal/conservative, rich/poor etc. Leaving us with empty rhetoric, false hopes and mired in unyielding positions.
I first heard the term conspiracy theorist tossed at me in the early 1970s, after divulging some of my research about an earlier conversation with my retired intelligence officer father and his author/professor friend.(Which took me years to understand let alone accept.) I then took up conspiracy theory
as an intellectual discipline.
One of the first things I learned was: a conspiracy theory doesn’t have to be true to be effective. Which means that one needs to be very careful about what one believes, especially about what one will take action from. Caveat Lector!! Be aware of what you read! And in this day and age one should also be aware of what we watch and hear. That doesn’t mean to cloister away, rather, do research, but please be warned that just because someone wrote something down or said something doesn’t make it correct.
We live in very wild times, with multiple agendas, being played by many differing folk – using every trick to be found. Add in everyday confusions and anyone can be taken for quite a ride (as some found out), while many others are engaged in fruitless, time-wasting sham struggles.
Bruce de Torres’ GOD, SCHOOL, 9/1, AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free explores the fevered conspiracy fertile soil of America in the early 21st Century. Delving deep into the current miasma and looking back into the past, Bruce asks questions and looks for answers. While I do not concur with everything, his basic premise is sound. Many of our institutions have been corrupted – and everyone visits some blind alleys along their way.
Bruce began his journey, after exploring the events of September 11, 2001. I have found that to be a common starting point for many, some it was the JFK assassination, for me it was my father’s talk.
Others started their questionings after the crash of TWA Flight 800 – the tragic event roiled the Internet, and web traffic spiked to new heights: CNN quadrupled its hits per day and the New York Times’ on-line traffic doubled. Websites were set up to research and investigate the explosion and crash, one emerged above the rest with many articles, research and … a leader. Soon, there was infighting over evidence
and verbal attacks, the focus was lost, and a collective effort of independent researchers to try to understand a highly significant very public life-changing
event was effectively stopped.
To me, hindsight said the TWA 800 episode was a test run for the disruptive assaults on the 9/11 Truth Movement.
I went to meetings, only sadly to see them go up in flames of discord, driving interested people and real discussion away. Deja vu – all over again…
What does the future hold? I am hopeful that we are beginning to understand our situation, and work towards our better nature. Now is the time for all men and women to come to aid of their fellow humans, and use discussion, hard work and our heritages to create a more promising world and future for our children! The old games are known and finished!
Onward to the Utmost of Futures!
Peace,
RA Kris
Millegan
Publisher
TrineDay
April 13, 2021
For Linda, John, Bob, Tom, Mark, Mike, Ann, Veronika, Alex, and Glebs
Table of Contents
cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Publisher’s Foreword
Dedication
Introduction
1) Common Sense
2) The Universe
3) Identity
4) The Internal Talking Mind
5) God
6) School
7) 9/11
The Towers
The Pentagon
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
The Smoking Gun of 9/11: The Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (the Salomon Brothers Building) at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11
Suspiciously
Al Qaeda
The CIA
MKULTRA
Back to 9/11
8) JFK
9) A Brief History of the United States
10) Covid-19
11) Check, Please
Sources
Chapters 1 -4, Common Sense, The Universe, Identity, The Internal Talking Mind (Energy, Consciousness, Reality)
5. God
6. School
7. 9/11
8. JFK
9. A Brief History of the United States
10. Covid-19
11. Check, Please
Index
Contents
Landmarks
Introduction
Bruce de Torres has written an important book. God, School, 9/11 and JFK is as well timed as it’s profound. In some cases extremely so. Starting with a review of humankind’s relationship with spirit – as opposed to institutional religion – the text modulates through a review of that other religious institution – public education – to explore the various ways in which human minds and bodies are cultivated like GMO hothouse tomatoes into a sickened and circumscribed derivation of the wild and beautiful original.
This is buildup to a whirlwind tour of history, and especially the suppressed modern events and patterns the public dismisses as conspiracy. Using documented sources, de Torres smashes the house of mirrors in which many are lost, exposing how major events and pretty much every war have been misrepresented, with the complicity of a vassal media, allowing a small oligarchy of bankers, transnational businesses, and powerful families to consolidate their influence and control over governments, especially via unelected agencies and the United Nations. Everything from the assassination of JFK to 9/11, from dirty wars in the Middle East, Africa, and every continent to 2020’s manufactured biological crisis and the lockdown of the planet – all of it – ties together. Again and again we see elites benefiting, while the rest of humanity is immiserated, and sometimes genocided.
Amidst this, I appreciated the robust quotes from iconoclasts like Walt Whitman and Carl Jung. This is a good read in addition to being informative. And timing really is everything: had this very book been released even just a few years ago, it might have been of only fringe interest. Yet today – with illusions evaporating like rain on Georgia asphalt – de Torres’ book hits the mark, and offers crucial, footnoted information just when it’s needed. If you’re already familiar with alternate historical perspectives, this book will serve as a valuable reference; it would be a great gift to help awaken friends and relatives oblivious to the digital prison being erected around them by big data and that collusion of big business and government we call fascism, or these days, technocracy.
Guy Crittenden, hipgnosis.co
February 2021
1
Common Sense
…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
– Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Energy – the stuff of which all is made – seems to be conscious. It seems to become a particle or a wave based on how it is observed.
Until it becomes one or the other, it seems to be potential.
That is the stuff of which we are made.
Energy seems to have burst into existence about fourteen billion years ago (the Big Bang theory). The universe is expanding. Everything is moving away from everything else. The elements, stars, planets, and background radiation – the noise coming from every direction – are what they would be had they evolved from a sudden appearance of what we are pleased to call energy.
This theory has not yet been confirmed, however, because energy, at the smallest sizes, acts too strangely to be measured. Its first moment is incalculable, its sudden appearance unprovable, and what may have been its cause or prior condition unknowable, so far. Science has recently shown that black holes shed information. Black holes have so much in common with the universe, a new theory of its origin is always to be expected.
Here’s mine: energy burst into existence because it wanted to. It was and is it’s intention to exist. The intention is the ability.
If true, we are here because we want to be. Thoughts come to us, and become things, because they want to; they, too, are and have the intention to exist.
If we knew that to be true, we would choose our thoughts carefully, to choose what we create; we would confirm what we were told, to build lives on the truth.
We have our work cut out for us.
Seventy percent of Americans identify as Christian. Ninety percent of us go through public school. Christianity and school teach us to obey, not to choose our thoughts. Obeying, we let our institutions trample our rights and kill people all over the world.
Habits, such as obeying, are invisible. They must be looked for, to be seen. They are strong, from years of practice. They attack when they feel threatened. They have the intention to exist. They cannot be destroyed, only replaced.
When we resolve to choose our thoughts, we re-enthrone our sovereignty and self-govern.
When we see that the official stories about God, school, 9/11, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are lies that cause harm, we stop obeying liars and protect ourselves from them.
Those who deceive intend to enslave.
Those who would be free make the truth their god.
Is it simply us versus them? Forces in the shadows playing us, we the people, against the middle and both ends. Continuous fighting against each other creating strife, dissension and death. How do we stop it and create a better world for all of us and our children and their children? We need to understand where we have been, how our institutions have failed us, and what we can do to make that better future for all.
2
The Universe
How energy manifests depends on how it is observed. (We can make it be particles or waves, a particle that goes backward in time, or a particle that appears in two places at the same time.) Which implies that energy is conscious.
If energy is conscious, is the universe, which is made of energy, conscious? Is the universe one vast infinite intelligence?
That would explain a lot.
A man decides to go home. At that moment, his dog, in his home far away, gets up, goes to the front door, and lies down to be there to greet him. Tests confirmed this after the family noticed what the dog was doing. No matter how far away the man was or where he was sent, when he was told to go home by those conducting the test, his dog would go to the front door. (From The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Aspects of The Extended Mind by Rupert Sheldrake.)
Ann is walking to the subway. She suddenly knows her cats are in danger. She runs home and opens the door. Her apartment is filling with steam. A hot water pipe had burst. She saves her cats.
Fred is taking a nap. He dreams that an old friend is driving a convertible, near a beach, crying and screaming his name. A few hours later that friend calls. When Fred dreamt it, the friend was driving a convertible, near a beach, and her cat jumped out of the car and was killed. At that moment, she cried and screamed Fred’s name.
Is every thought everywhere? Does that explain the coincidences
we experience? Or the remote viewing done by our military and intelligence services? (Remote viewing: the ability to see in one’s mind things that are far away.) Are there infinite universes, infinite dimensions, infinite versions of every event – all possible pasts, presents and futures – happening simultaneously, perpetually, as science or science-fiction can imagine?
Are you and I, wondering how spirit is perceived, like fish wondering how water is perceived? Is it all spirit? All alive?
Many people, revived from death, say that deceased loved ones welcomed them to an indescribably beautiful realm, where they felt an overwhelming love and knew that everyone and everything is infinitely and eternally connected.
When we die, do we see what’s really here?
To see anything, we must be what can see it.
To see our creator, the intention to exist, everywhere, makes this heaven.
3
Identity
We are what we behold. And we remain what we behold, until we realize we are beholding. Then we burst into existence as what we really are: awareness. Then we can choose our thoughts. Till then, they choose us. Here’s an example:
I decided to be an actor in the sixth grade. I did play after play through college (where I majored in acting and directing), then in summer-stock, Los Angeles, and New York City (where I started getting on television and into the unions).
Then one day I had a conversation with Donna. We were doing Move Over, Mrs. Markham in Pennsylvania. Donna was studying Sanford Meisner’s technique at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and I asked, What are you learning?
She said, Let me do you. Let your performance come out of you in response to what I’m doing right there in the moment.
I had heard of it before. It sounded like what I was discovering in many plays and auditions. I was excited to try it that night.
It was like having bandages removed from my eyes. I watched my scene partners like my life depended on it. I matched their speeds and volumes, and said my lines as my breathing at those moments just happened to produce them, and the audience exploded with laughter. During one scene, they laughed so hard, I felt I had to tone it down or someone would get hurt.
I got back to New York and started getting cast in everything I auditioned for, or so it seemed. Ann Powers saw me in a show by Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes, and said in the New York Times that I was the funniest and most vocally gifted member of a fine cast.
But something else was starting to happen. I was paying attention to people in life the way I did on stage, and I felt the same magic, fun, love and connection. But I also felt anger and frustration. I realized I was angry and combative most of the time, offended by everything, seeking to control people with my anger. I would say and do bizarre things, to show off my creativity and originality, I thought, but really, I now saw, to drive people away, who just wanted to get to know me.
I realized I was a fool.
Oceans of rage and grief tore through me. I destroyed my father on the phone, night after night, for weeks, blaming him, his management of our home when I was a child. He conceded my points. He defended and explained himself. It helped. So has, in the years since, learning about codependency and chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, especially as explored by life coach Richard Grannon, whose work is easily found.
I decided to stick around, just to see what would happen next. Maybe I was wrong about even this, my perception that my life was hopeless.
Then a friend gave me Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Everything is energy. Thoughts become things. We can create whatever we want. I wondered, what would people pay a million dollars for? What would be that valuable?
I thought, what do we value?
We value what helps us live. We want to exist.
Is that why energy burst into existence? Because it wanted to? Is it – is everything – the intention to exist?
I sat up. I had just seen, as I searched for the cause of my habits, how every question summons answers ad infinitum, as if they want to exist. I started reading about and discussing energy with everyone I could. I found these ideas everywhere, in science and religion, poetry and philosophy, in every culture, as far back as we have records: this is a magical realm. Everything is conscious. Everything is alive. Everything is connected. Everything affects everything.
There is no place where we stop and the rest of the universe begins.
All influences all.
Everything is a mirror.
We perceive what we project.
We can project whatever we want.
There is only one.
Perhaps the one was lonely. Perhaps it – we – manifest like this to have companionship, many people and things to admire, which, to be perceived, must appear to be outside us, not us.
Perhaps forgetting we are everything is the price of perceiving ourselves to be one among others.
Perhaps forgetting was intentional, to make life an adventure, harrowing while we compete, wonderful when we love.
Maybe those most scared and cruel are having their first lifetime, and they deserve the most compassion and help – as we protect ourselves from, and constrict the harm they can inflict.
Maybe the ecstasy we can feel with each other, with nature (and with music) is the self perceiving itself inside the disguise of an other.
Maybe animals are spirits who were here before, and they returned to comfort and inspire us with unconditional love, even though they know we can be cruel to them.
I set out to write this book, not to make money but to become who writing it would make me, certain that these ideas would excite many as they excited me. 9/11 happened along the way. I decided to include it and similar things and position them as problems to be solved by their truth and by these ideas about energy, love, and identity.
Whether we are individual eternal spirits or the one and only, playing this game of being a human, we have no reason to rush. Each moment is as good as the next. Each moment is either enjoyed, or it is not.
The urge to merge
and the need to individuate pull and swing us as they reflect two truths: we are one and, as humans, we are separate; eternal and temporary; flowing between two poles (as depicted by the symbol for infinity, the figure-8 on its side); the inner and the outer; the female yin of stillness and receptivity; and the male yang of action and assertiveness, each with the other inside. When we merge, we feel the ecstasy of our true nature, our unity, our oneness. But we can let others think for us, and lead us to bad places. When we individuate, we can maintain boundaries, stay in charge of our thoughts and feelings, and remember that our experiences are ours, not to be imposed on others, and others have no right to impose their thoughts and feelings on us. We can negotiate and collaborate as equals and trample no one for the sake of our goals.
Our urges must be examined and comprehended, and self-control acquired, if we would live together in peace.
Peace requires trust.
Trust requires the truth.
These ideas give hope, which we need, to face life’s challenges, and they let us have fun, which lives in what we share.
Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
– Walt Whitman, Beginning My Studies, Leaves of Grass
4
The Internal Talking Mind
Albert
Einstein, genius physicist, pondered the nature of existence for a lifetime, and consoled a widow with this: People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
That’s what mystics have been saying for centuries. That’s what Neo learns about the things he sees in the matrix in the movie of the same name. They are really computer code. Green zeroes and ones. And he learns to control those things
by treating them as what they really are. He is the One
for whom his fellow human beings have been looking.
We’re all the One.
Existence seeing itself. Whirlpools of energy that really, really seem to be separate human beings.
Other people are real. They are, however, really you. Reflections and perceptions with perceptions of their own.
We never lose, giving to others, for we only give to our self.
We never run out.
Everything we could possibly imagine might exist, in this realm or in others, science as well as mystics can imagine. We might peer into infinity when we daydream. We might summon into this realm all we might like by welcoming it, encouraging it, making it feel great (as well as by buying or building it).
Unfortunately, many of us have internal talking minds that do not welcome or encourage. They carp and complain. They talk to exist. To be the only thing heard.
Our mind is a raging fire,
said playwright David Mamet in a commercial for an online class. Thinking is that cruel tyrant within us,
said John Adams. Its clamors, he said, can be hushed by genteel antidotes, like cards and backgammon.
I was in a band. That’s me on the right. Michael, enduring me in his ear, drew this picture.
A picture containing text, linedrawing

Description automatically generatedI was a mind connected to a mouth, oblivious.
If we don’t choose our thoughts, they choose us.
In this realm of the senses everything comes with its opposite. Up comes with down. Left comes with right.
Does the intention to exist come with the intention not to exist? Are they the two wolves fighting inside us, per the Native American parable? Which one wins?
asks the young one. The one we feed,
says the wise one.
Psychologist Carl Jung realted that until we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our lives and we will call it fate. We will think it comes from others and we are victims. If part of us wants to die and we project that part onto others, we will think they want to kill us and we will want to kill them first.
Maybe we are restless, not because we want to die, but because the intention to exist does not feel that it exists. Maybe we create things in order to prove that we exist, and to exist as our creations. Maybe we destroy in order to change the status quo, the feeling that we don’t exist.
Maybe being infinite power, trapped in an individual, is unbearable, and we flail until stopped by a superior force, ideally, loving parents, which proves two things: we exist and we are not alone. Without parents, the world is the force into which we smash. Putting our feelings into words calms us down and lets us start to control our feelings. Later the point is expanded, if we can’t express our feelings with words, we use fists.
The need to test ourselves, to the point of risking death, is obvious in our youth, in our violent sports and partying, our frenzies of strength and recklessness. We laugh at death and go right up it, to conquer our fear of it and to show off for each other.
In rituals of male initiation in many cultures, something like this happened: men take the boy whose time has come and leave him in wilderness to survive on his own. He does not know that the men are watching and protecting him. If he had been free as a child to watch and learn from adults, perhaps he easily finds water, food, and what is needed for clothing, shelter, and weapons. When he is redeemed by the men, he is given a new name and maybe even new scars, to prove he is someone new, a man, no longer a boy, and he is celebrated as an equal and given all the power and responsibilities of an adult. When they return to their people, he might be introduced
to his mother, who will meet this man
as if for the first time. He might be given a wife and told to have children. His existence, his significance,