Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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TruthStream Media (so ironically named) made a video on initiation rites. They allege we're all secretly being initiated into a new society by a presumedly pagan cabal. But...are we?


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Original article and video:

therayfield.com/why-youre-wearing-a-mask-the-pagan-ritual-of-transformation
youtube.com/watch?v=3RVG8qNLdoY


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Toelken, Barre (1996). The Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University Press.
Dundes, Alan (2016). "Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century" in Haring, Lee. ed. "Grand Theory in Folkloristics". Indiana University Press.
cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/publications/2016census.pdf
members.newsleaders.org/diversity-survey-2015#:~:text=Overall%2C%20the%20survey%20found%2C%20there,12.76%20percent%2C%20are%20racial%20minorities