A man livestreamed himself being mutilated, and thousands of people reached for their phones to record it.

Content Warning: This episode discusses self-harm and graphic violence. The description of what Leah witnessed runs from approximately 33:50 to 35:30. Skip that window if you need to. The rest of the episode is safe to listen to.

They have been running a desensitization campaign for fifty years, and it worked. Leah traces the slow build from gorier films and occult symbolism in music videos to the moment a real human being harmed himself live on TikTok and the collective response was to repost it for engagement.

This episode connects Edward Bernays and the birth of propaganda, the CIA's long presence inside music and film studios, predictive programming through outbreak movies, and the Ariana Grande video Perez Hilton reviewed the day before his incident. It closes on the theory Leah cannot shake: that we are all operating in some degree of collective dissociation, and that the trauma making that possible is exactly what mind control exploits.

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Please do not go looking for either video. If you saw one and something has felt off since, close the door in prayer and tell someone you trust. And if you are struggling with self-harm or thoughts of hurting yourself, reach out to someone today. You are worth the help.

Pray for Perez Hilton, his three children, his mother and sister. Pray for Ariana Grande.

"If you have one foot in each kingdom, you are protected in neither."

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• The kingdom of darkness plays the long game. Fifty years of escalating gore, occult symbolism in music videos, and violence in video games built the tolerance that made a real livestreamed mutilation shareable content.
• Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew, built the American public relations industry and ran wartime propaganda. He is the reason you eat bacon and eggs, and the reason women started smoking. The Century of the Self documents how deliberate all of it was.
• Predictive programming is observable. A wave of outbreak films in the early 2000s trained a fear response and a dependence on government answers, and in 2020 the public performed exactly that script. Watch what themes are running now to see what is coming.
• Rap was shaped in collaboration between music executives and government programs with the specific intent of increasing violence in the Black American population. The CIA has had staff inside film studios and record labels for decades.
• Perez Hilton reviewed Ariana Grande's petal video, in which she chainsaws a panel of industry executives and stands covered head to toe in blood, the day before his own incident. Pieces of entertainment built this way carry ritual intent and are designed to open doors.
• The most disturbing part was never the video itself. It was how many people watched a human being in crisis and immediately calculated the engagement.

Protect your eye gates and ear gates daily. Research before you watch. Ask the Lord directly whether something is for you.

Featured Scripture

Romans 12:2

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

Application: A mind shaped by whatever the culture feeds it loses the capacity to test anything. Renewal is what restores that capacity. Fifty years of engineered desensitization is conformity running on a schedule, and the defense against it right in the Bible: guard what forms your mind, then test everything against the will of God.

Timestamps

00:00 — Called to Be Set Apart in the World
04:30 — Social Media Is the Devil's Domain
06:54 — Taking Back Territory Online
09:20 — Edward Bernays and the Birth of Propaganda
11:41 — The Desensitization Campaign Explained
16:22 — The CIA Inside Music and Film Studios
18:45 — Predictive Programming and Outbreak Movies
21:11 — Who Benefits If This Is a Lie?
23:37 — The Perez Hilton Video: What Happened
29:30 — Content Warning and Prayer of Protection
33:50 — What I Saw and What Jesus Said
39:58 — Rituals Designed to Open Doors
44:50 — Are We Collectively Dissociating?
54:31 — Ariana Grande's "petal" Video
58:43 — Connecting the Ritual to the Video
1:03:24 — How to Protect Your Eye and Ear Gates

Resources and Connect

The Century of the Self (documentary on Edward Bernays and the birth of PR): Adam Curtis, BBC Two, 2002. Four parts, roughly four hours. Part 1: https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04

The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 1984: https://amzn.to/4wBDfoq

All books in Leah's Amazon Book Recommendations: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe

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Dr. Robin Perry Braun on Faith on the Fringe (trauma-based mind control and dissociation):

https://plinkhq.com/i/1894554711/e/1000783702683

Dr. Robin's own sites: https://drrobinbraun.com | https://ibrt.net

Faith on the Fringe (Leah's other podcast): https://faithonthefringepodcast.com

Kingdom Talk Podcast with Malaine Lea Butler:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kingdom-talk-podcast-with-malaine/id1813854951

Joyful Jesus (Sean's apparel brand): https://joyfuljesus.life

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Scriptures for Further Study

Romans 12:2. Do not be conformed to this world; be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

2 Timothy 1:7. God did not give a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.

2 Corinthians 4:4. The god of this world blinds the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see.

Psalm 101:3. I will set no worthless thing before my eyes.

2 Thessalonians 2:11. A strong delusion sent so that they believe the lie.

Philippians 4:8. Whatever is true, honorable, pure, and lovely, think on these things.

Matthew 6:22-23. The eye is the lamp of the body.

John 14:6. I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Matthew 7:7. Seek and you will find.

Genesis 1:28. Take dominion over the earth.

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