No sooner had Greenwald brought Gonzalo to the attention of his 1.8m followers and exactly a week since he vanished – a discombobulated Gonzalo briefly reappeared live on The Duran podcast. He explained that he’d been picked up by the SBU, that he was under investigation and forbidden from leaving the city, but that he was well. This was a great relief for anyone like myself who had been following this emotional rollercoaster of a story. The delight could be seen by most people across Gonzalo dedicated chat spaces all day long. But a minority felt the story was fishy, questioning if it had all been a big con to gain attention and began to wonder if we had all been manipulated.

A man of moral conviction or manipulation?

“Behind the propaganda ministries, the controlled press briefings, the censored news, and the artificially orchestrated political rallies lies the face of the Magician as Manipulator.”

– Moore and Gillette: King Warrior Magician Lover

It seems our age is one of distrust and deceit. It could be argued it’s always been this way. But the information age has taken it to new levels. The onus is on the individual to parse fact from fiction, fake news from fair views.  The spectre of nuclear war is menacing the world for the first time in decades, a technological threat imposed on humanity thanks to the work of the Shadow Magician. His grip on modernity is overbearing and war is a time when the shadow archetypes dance. The extreme amount of energy that goes into war brings the Tyrants, Sadists, and Manipulators within men to life. The first weapons wielded by the Manipulator are lies and propaganda.

The Daily Beast article took aim at Gonzalo and ran with the headline, “How a Sleazy American Dating Coach Became a Pro-Putin Shill in Ukraine”. To shill is to be a plant for an organisation and to manipulate an audience to the benefit of an organisation. The article completely frames Gonzalo as a Manipulator being paid to peddle Russian propaganda.

The article publishes quotes from independent experts refuting Gonzalo’s claims about war in Ukraine as “non-sense”. Alexander Motyl is credited as an “expert on Ukrainian affairs at Rutgers Universty” and seems to be responding to what boils down to Gonzalo’s personal interpretations of the available data about the war. There are three unsupported and unexplained retorts included from Motyl, who states, “it’s far more likely Ukranians see the world around them, contrast it to Lira’s narratives, and conclude that he’s deranged and harmful.”

The article continues, referencing another “Ukrainian affairs expert” who assumes Gonzalo is “likely a fictional persona created by the Kremlin to spread its message.” But with no evidence to support this the publication needs to legally cover its back and makes sure to include the following: “Lira is not fake. Nor is there any evidence that he’s a paid Russian agent. In fact, he’s actually attempted to publicly distance himself from propaganda content that uses his clips.”

At this point, it’s fair to say The Daily Beast is employing gaslighting; “Look at this Russian shill. We’re not saying he’s a Russian shill.” You can read through the article for yourself and make up your own mind. It seems a true hit-piece, short on substance and heavy on insinuation, that helps to paint a target on the back of a man in an active war zone (although The Daily Beast doubts that Gonzalo is really in Kharkiv).

“Whenever we are detached, unrelated, and withholding when what we know could help others, whenever we use our knowledge as a weapon to belittle and control others or to bolster our status or wealth at others’ expense, we are identified with the Shadow Magician as Manipulator.”

– Moore & Gillette: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover.

Without any solid evidence, The Daily Beast wants its readers to believe that Gonzalo Lira is a liar and a manipulator. But why?

A quick look at the website AllSides.com, which rates media outlets on bias, pegs The Daily Beast far out to the left of the political spectrum.

Although The Daily Beast maintains that they are “Independent,” their reporting has grown increasingly partisan. During the 2016 presidential election, AllSides started to note the shift, but waited to see if it was just a momentary phase. However, a year after the election of President Trump, the Daily Beast’s articles are still heavily biased.

 

Source: All Sides

It seems the crime of Gonzalo Lira, in the eyes of The Daily Beast, was simply painting a completely different picture of the war in Ukraine than that portrayed in the western media.

A man accessing the Magician in His Fullness spreads awareness and insight, speaking the truth no matter what the consequences are to himself. He knows to intentionally propagate a lie is to abuse those listening. Lying warps minds into a false worldview, obliterating trust. Trust is the fabric that holds societies together. Without trust, relationships die and civilizations fall.

“Many human magicians, in whatever profession or in whatever walk of life (occult practitioners as well), are consciously using their knowledge and technical proficiency for the benefit of others as well as themselves.”

– Moore & Gillette: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover.

As Coach Red Pill, Gonzalo Lira was providing advice to young men – he was accessing the Magician energy to turn raw experience and insight to the advantage of others. This is a clear example of a man accessing the Magician in His Fullness.

When his personal context was flipped, to a war he was caught up in – he simply used his energy to scan the horizon of the crisis and interpret the data coming to him from both the outside and the inside claiming to explain events how he truly sees them. In the middle of a propaganda war, where people are either too trusting of one side or don’t trust a thing that they hear, Gonzalo claims to be an independent source of opinion, caught up in the war, saying things that make him unpopular within the country he resides and putting himself at risk.

It’s said that the Magician often comes on line in a crisis. It was clear to anybody who had watched Coach Red Pill content over the years that during the outbreak of war and especially after he was kicked out of his hotel in Kiev and returned to a besieged Kharkiv, this was a man under stress. The stress of being in a war zone, of being hunted by authorities and of making life-defining decisions, like to flee Ukraine or stay put. Gonzalo explained that he had decided to stay put, see the war through to the end, and continue to produce content with his commentary.

Clear, careful thinking based on inner wisdom and technical proficiency is a hallmark of a man accessing the Magician in his fullness.

“Pushing lies, pushing false information… I just don’t get that mentality at all.”

– Gonzalo Lira: Russia AND the US Miscalculated In This War

Can Gonzalo Lira be trusted to be telling the truth? That’s for each of us to come to our own conclusions. The Daily Beast came to theirs and I would suggest, as master manipulators themselves, whose craft it is to twist stories to fit their far-left narratives, their hit-piece on Gonzalo was a case of shadow projection. The title of that article could be reversed to read: The Daily Beast Is a Pro-War Shill and a Politically Manipulative Mainstream Media Mouthpiece. 

Gonzalo’s refusal to flee Ukraine, even when his safety is at risk from both war and the Ukrainian groups he speaks against, preferring to see it through to the end, is similar in sentiment to that of Viktor Frankl, the German Jew who survived the Nazi concentration camps. In his classic book Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl spoke of the opportunities he had to escape the camp but instead preferred to “not try to influence it [fate] in any way, but instead let it take its own course.”