IONS, and the Stargate lineage

The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and Paul N. Temple. Multiple independent sources confirm IONS supplied early private funding for the SRI remote-viewing experiments — Puthoff, Targ, the Geller testing — that became the Army and DIA Project Stargate program.

IONS is not a defunct fringe outfit. It is a live, funded 501(c)(3) with a physical campus in Petaluma and an active YouTube channel, currently running a "Science of Channeling" program fronted by its director of research — a program that defines channeling broadly enough to cover intuition through trance mediumship, and gives institutional cover to exactly the kind of authority a channeled persona claims.

Oliver Markley's prophecy graph, and the date that keeps moving

Markley has recycled the same "civilizational tipping point" graph across decks in at least 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2016. The date slides forward each time it fails — 2020±8 becomes 2022±8 — and is never retired.

His "Type II Wild Card" framework classifies an event as highly probable to a "knowledgeable minority" and low-credibility to "most others." That is not a forecasting tool. It is a device that pre-frames outside skepticism as the audience's failure rather than the claim's — the same move Q makes with "future proves past."

His own 2011 citations confirm he draws the remote-viewing and "mental time travel" forecasting methodology directly from the IONS/SRI psi lineage. The 2016 Austin deck runs on Barbara Marx Hubbard's "Conscious Evolution" curriculum outright.

The selection passage — and why it is filed at this tier, not higher

Hubbard's Book of Co-Creation, which she described as channeled from what she called "The Presence," contains a passage that has circulated for decades: that one-fourth of humanity is electing to transcend, one-fourth is resistant and cannot be reached, and that "the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body" — closing with "We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."

Held at this tier, it still does work. The mentor of the woman writing that Schoenberger was chosen, and a named figure on the Tipping Point roster above, produced a channeled text organizing humanity into a saved fraction and a fraction that has to go. That is the apocalyptic structure of chapter 03's "trad" assessment, arriving from the other end of the political spectrum.

Three names on one page

Thrive — the documentary at the center of the Gamble/Hubbard pipeline. · Watch on YouTube ↗

The worldwidetippingpoint.com interview roster carries Barbara Marx Hubbard, Foster Gamble and Lisa Clapier on the same page.

Hubbard directly mentored Clapier, and is the sister of Patricia Marx Ellsberg, wife of Daniel Ellsberg — the bridge between the New Age and whistleblower archetypes that runs through this entire file. Thrive credits Hubbard in the film and describes her as a close collaborator of the Gambles on their own site.

That is a documented three-way overlap tying the noetic-futurist sphere to a woman who was, in the same period, writing that Schoenberger was chosen.

Clapier's own site puts Hubbard on the homepage

BeautifulExchange.com, tagline "Media for Stewards of Life," was Lisa Clapier's media platform. The Wayback Machine's capture of Feb 2, 2011 (archived homepage) reads "Official site of BeautifulExchange.com - Visit us LIVE at the Zen Home!" at an address in Salt Lake City, with two evening events: "Meet Emmy Award Winner Gary Malkin and His 'Wisdom of the World' Transformational Media at 5:30pm" and "Introducing Barbara Marx Hubbard, President Of The Foundation For Conscious Evolution at 6:00pm via live video call." Three people are pictured and captioned: "Lisa Clapier, Host, Founder of BeautifulExchange.com"; "Barbara Marx Hubbard, President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution"; and Gary Malkin, "Emmy Award Winner and Founder of WisdomFilms.com."

The site's 2013 "Who is BeautifulExchange.com?" page signs her "Founder and Ambassador." Her quoted statement says she had "been working within the evolutionary field of conscious evolution, lifestyles of health and sustainability, with many evolutionary leaders, for nearly two decades," and that the platform exists to broadcast "evolutionary best practices." Its Pay-Per-View page promises viewers they can "work directly with, and experience, evolutionary leaders and their effective bodies of work."

That documents a working relationship: Clapier as host and founder, Hubbard as the featured guest of her launch event. The pages do not use the word "mentor," and they do not say what else passed between them. Where this chapter says Hubbard mentored Clapier, this is the evidence on file, and it supports the contact, not the word.

Lisa Clapier on camera: Hubbard on her show, Occupy LA, and "Ukraine is Russian"

1. The Torch, with Barbara Marx Hubbard. The video is titled "The Torch TV Show Host Lisa Clapier and Barbara Marx Hubbard." A title card introduces Hubbard as "Founder & President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution." Clapier interviews her in person and tells her: "what I've witnessed in you and all the other great visionary leaders." Hubbard gives her line on "vocational arousal": nature's purpose now is "not to join our genes to have the babies, but to join our genius." The 2011 web page above announced Hubbard by video call. This clip puts the two of them in the same room. The clip carries no date.

The Torch. Clapier (dark jacket) and Hubbard (red), 1:36.

2. Occupy LA, City Hall, 2011. In a street interview in the camp, she defends the people there and then says:

Lisa Clapier · Occupy LA, 2011"Listen, we've been infiltrated, and the reason we know we've been infiltrated is because the people who were sent here to work for government agencies or big corpora, black ops, once they spend time with us, they actually, they're us."

Occupy LA, 2011. 2:02. This is the "Occupy LA Media" stage of the persona timeline (chapter 24). She admits the camp was infiltrated and then tells viewers not to worry about it.

3. TYT, The Point with Ana Kasparian, about March 2014. The on-screen question is "Will these sanctions discourage Russia from repeating its actions with other countries?" Asked about Obama's sanctions after Crimea, she says she had just spent "an hour talking to somebody from Russia this morning who's a friend," and then:

Lisa Clapier · TYT, The Point, about Mar 2014"Crimea is Russian, and this is a 900-year-old history… in the 50s, it was given away, and America was facilitative in that… And so Ukraine is Russian. Kiev was the capital of Russia for all those years."

TYT, The Point. 2:18, from my own screen capture. The date comes from the on-screen question; I have not found the original upload.

What the record says. Kyiv was the capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval state that both Ukraine and Russia claim as an origin; it was never the capital of Russia. The 1954 transfer of Crimea to Soviet Ukraine was a decision inside the Soviet Union, and the United States had no part in it. "Ukraine is Russian" is the claim Putin later put in his July 2021 essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians," seven months before the full invasion (overview).

Why it is here. The same week Russia annexed Crimea, on an American progressive network, she repeated Moscow's case almost word for word and credited it to a Russian friend she had spoken with that morning. Four years later she was in the Unity4J campaign for Assange and was asked inside its Discord, "Why are you promoting QAnon?" (top of this file). TYT is also where Wes Clark Jr. interviewed Sean Stone in December 2016 (below). Who her Russian friend was, the clip does not say, and this file does not guess.

From Hubbard to Binney in four public steps

• Hubbard and Patricia Marx Ellsberg were sisters. Patricia married Daniel Ellsberg in 1970. Her own biography says she co-led teleseminars on The Emergence Process: The Shift from Ego to Essence with her sister (Monkfish bio; Wikipedia).
• Daniel Ellsberg and William Binney are both on the Courage Foundation's advisory board, which also lists Ray McGovern, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou (board page).
• Both received the Sam Adams Award, which McGovern's Sam Adams Associates gives: Binney in 2015 and Ellsberg in 2022, with Julian Assange in 2010 (recipient list).
• Binney is in this file's own cast. He is in the "Brains · former IC" column of the table in chapter 01, and the VIPS material is in chapter 05.

Sean Stone: the node I flagged in 2020, and what holds up

The public record. Sean Stone, son of the director Oliver Stone, hosts Buzzsaw on Gaia (Gaia profile) and hosted a show on RT America until the network shut down in 2022 (Wikipedia). Buzzsaw season 2, episode 2, "Alien Factions of the New World Order," with Project Camelot's Kerry Cassidy, aired April 13, 2017 (episode listing). Robert David Steele's own site carries a tagged series of "RAW" interviews with Stone (robertdavidsteele.com). On public pages, that puts Stone on the Gaia platform whose chain runs through this chapter, and inside the Steele orbit of chapter 05.

"Sean Stone and Nora Maccoby." An interview between the two, on my channel S3301. The video does not record the original show or its date, and this desk has not traced it. It is direct evidence that the two have spoken on the record. · Watch on YouTube ↗

The Maccoby link, a second way. A Gaslight Gallery page for the exhibition "The Architecture of Transition" (gallery page) says Maccoby's "latest collaboration, an Oracle deck of her paintings, 'Visions of a New Earth,' written by Sean Stone and" a co-author "of the Sacred Breath Academy, will be released soon." The page is undated; its "Sunday, May 7" artist talk fits 2023. That documents a collaboration between Maccoby and Stone, not only an interview.

The Steele link, and the ITNJ thread. A capture of a blog post dated Jan 25, 2021 shows a five-way video call titled "Robert David Steele, Simon Parkes, Charlie Ward, Sacha Stone & Sean Stone." Steele died on Aug 29, 2021. The common thread on the public record is the ITNJ: Sacha Stone founded it in 2015, and Wikipedia says Steele served as "chief counsel" at one of its child-trafficking hearings and that Stone was a guest speaker on Steele's Arise USA tour (Sacha Stone). The ITNJ's own Rutube channel lists Steele as "Chief Counsel," Cynthia McKinney as "Commissioner" and Binney as "Technical Commissioner" (chapter 05). In the Binney video Steele says Sacha Stone "bullied me into being chief counsel." Chapter 05 now carries the ITNJ's own video of Binney seated as a "Technical Commissioner" of the same commission (Mar 2019).

Who is documented as pushing Q. Raw Story says Steele "gained a following among QAnon conspiracy theorists" (Aug 30, 2021), and Wikipedia says he "promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory" (Steele). Wikipedia calls Charlie Ward a "prominent QAnon promoter," citing The Times (Jan 25, 2021) (Ward). Neither Stone's Wikipedia article mentions Q. So the capture documents Sean Stone on a call with two people described as Q promoters; it does not show him saying anything about Q.

The Clark link: Stone on TYT, weeks after Standing Rock. On Dec 29, 2016, TYT's "The Conversation" channel published "Sean Stone Interview With Wes Clark Jr. On The Young Turks" (27:18), in which Clark interviews Stone about Stone's documentary A Century of War. Clark's Standing Rock deployment (chapter 24) had been that December. So the public record holds a triangle: Maccoby photographed with Clark on Sep 22, 2016 (chapter 12), Clark interviewing Stone on Dec 29, 2016, and Maccoby credited alongside Stone on an Oracle deck (above). I have the auto-transcript. It covers Stone's film and his book New World Order, the Anglo-American establishment, unions, oil and Islam. It does not mention Q, St. Germain or Standing Rock. A stretch of the transcript (about 6:28–10:44) is garbled and I have not checked it.

"Sean Stone Interview With Wes Clark Jr. On The Young Turks." TYT's The Conversation, Dec 29, 2016, 27:18. · Watch on YouTube ↗

What I said in 2020. I made a livestream about Stone's circle (this is from the auto-generated transcript; the first hour is music). Around 1:03–1:09 I walk through the Sacred Breath Academy's site and point to the phrase "the only way out is through", which I tie to Schoenberger's Cicada puzzle and to Clapier's writing, and to the "Sacred Feminine" language that Snow White, Clapier and Unanimous also use. Around 1:28 I note that Stone had a show on RT. Around 1:33 I say the connection explained how "these people" linked to "big figures like Bill Binney, Michael Flynn ... Paul Vallely ... all of them involved in Q." That was my claim then. It is filed here at Claimed: Q's naming of Binney is documented in chapter 05, but no document in this file connects Stone to Binney, Flynn or Vallely.

The St. Germain clip: Stone's own words on Q. Documented A correspondent's private message of Sep 24, 2020 read: "19:40. Sean Stone mentions that St Germain is associated with Qanon." I now have the clip: my own screen capture of the YouTube page, which shows the title "Buzzsaw 20/20 - Peter Mt. Shasta talks the Magic of St. Germain, Part 1," premiered Feb 23, 2019, with the player at 19:51 of 26:07. The video is gone from YouTube now (archived link: Wayback). In the capture, Stone, as host, says:

Sean Stone · Buzzsaw, Feb 23, 2019"People also associate him with QAnon, by the way. He seems to have come up around the recent Q revelations and other things, so he is very much potentially present in our current political turmoil as we enter a new phase of consciousness."

The clip. My screen capture of the YouTube page, 2:09. Stone is on the left, and the Q lines are his (0:09–0:28). The rest is Peter Mt. Shasta's account of St. Germain as Francis Bacon. A second capture continues with Shasta on Shakespeare ("the will of the I am, Will-yam") and Bacon's New Atlantis heralding America as "the continuation of the old Atlantean Empire."

Why it matters here. This is February 2019, early in Q. On his own show, Stone ties the "ascended master" St. Germain to Q and to "our current political turmoil." The October 2017 Cicada agreement names Schoenberger "professionally known as Thomas St. Germain" (chapter 09), and the Dilley paper ties St. Germain and the "I Am" movement to him (the "I Am" line). The match of names is documented. Whether Stone had Schoenberger in mind is Claimed: nothing in the clip names him.

Stone’s partner and the Sacred Breath Academy. Documented In a Shoutout LA interview (page dated May 26/27, 2020) Stone wrote: “My partner in life the past couple of years has been my lady Kaya Leigh, a successful entrepreneur in her own right, having founded the Sacred Breath Academy to train people in ‘breath work’ internationally. She is a mystical shaman, a loving goddess, and a gentle soul.” Later public pairings: a May 29, 2021 “Memorial Day Weekend Event” whose speaker line reads “Sean Stone, Kaya Leigh, Gary Cromp” (Memorial Day 2021 event page), and a video listed as “Sean Stone – ‘The Great Awakening’ with special guest Kaya Leigh at PermaCare Village” (YouTube listing).

The Academy’s own pages do not name Stone. A Sep 2019 Wayback, Sep 2019 capture lists “Kaya and Aeleo” and “Aeleo Malakai Azure” beside Kaya Leigh in its menu, so Stone is not shown as an owner or co-founder, and this file does not call him one. What the pages do show is the vocabulary: Kaya Leigh as creator of the “Sophia Breathwork Method® for women, designed to awaken and empower the Sacred Shakti and ancient remembrance of the divine feminine” (2018 and 2019 captures); a Sep 2019 post, “Divine Union,” asking whether romantic partnership can make people “more raw, more naked, more soft”; and a current testimonials page that lists Sacred Feminine Breathwork and Sacred Feminine Alchemy trainings, with testimonials about “sensuality & sexuality” and “sexual liberation.”

Why it matters here. It puts Stone, the man who told his audience that St. Germain is “associated with QAnon,” inside the sacred-feminine breathwork world, with the same Sophia and goddess words the Sisterhood of the Rose uses in chapter 27. The shared words are documented. A working link between the Academy and Cobra’s Sisterhood is Unverified: I found none. Allegations about the couple posted by critics (a 2020 X post, a church-hosted PDF) are one-sided and I have not used them.

Stone at PermaCare Village, posted Oct 25, 2020: “we’re going to build our own.” Documented I have a transcript of the video listed as “Sean Stone – ‘The Great Awakening’ with special guest Kaya Leigh at PermaCare Village” (YouTube listing). It is a 7-minute excerpt that opens mid-answer and closes by inviting people to food, fire and music. All the speech in it is Stone’s. He refers to Kaya Leigh in the room twice (“as she said,” 3:44; “I remember hearing you say…” 2:04). The video was posted on Oct 25, 2020, per the YouTube page. The recording itself may be earlier; the “new normal” and mask lines fit that pandemic autumn.

Sean Stone · 0:00“We are intelligent, sovereign souls with ancient wisdom and knowledge… we have limited ourselves and we’ve agreed to be limited in this human incarnation. But we are being asked to stand into our power… because this is just the dawning.”

Sean Stone · 3:02“Who invented money? We know who invented those. Birth certificate is a certificate of port. A birth at a port. It’s for cargo. It’s your corporate asset. That’s what a birth certificate is.”

Sean Stone · 5:09“The future is not about going and being a lawyer or a doctor that serves a false establishment that teaches incorrect information and actually harms more people than it helps. So actually what we’re getting is a complete inversion of a sick society. So my new normal is not the new normal of masks and isolation.”

Sean Stone · 6:34“We’re building the new earth. And this is what it looks like. It looks like us saying, well, your society doesn’t accept us. Great. We’re going to build our own… let’s go enjoy some food and fire and maybe some more music and welcome the new moon. And the new earth.”

What the record says. A U.S. birth certificate is a state vital record. The idea that it makes a person a “corporate asset” or “cargo” is a sovereign-citizen claim with no basis in law. He does not say who “invented” money, and this file does not fill that in.

Why it matters here. This is the sacred-feminine, “great awakening” register of the Academy’s circle with its anti-institution layer attached, in Stone’s own voice: doctors and lawyers as a “false establishment,” the mask rejection, and a call to withdraw and “build our own” society. It does not mention Q, Cobra or the Sisterhood, and nothing in it links them. What it adds to the entry above is that Stone is not only a guest in this scene: the video’s title makes him the featured speaker, with Kaya Leigh as his guest.

More on Stone, on the Conspiracy Distillery channel (PeerTube, posted January 2023): Sean Stone - 2012 is Now; [PROPAGANDA] Sean Stone - Hollywood, D.C.; Sean Stone - The Death of RDS, and his "Best Kept Secret".

Sean Stone in 2024: the same story, the same cast, on a bigger stage

This is not old history. In October 2024, two weeks before the election, Tucker Carlson Network premiered All the President's Men: The Conspiracy Against Trump, a six-part series directed by Sean Stone. I've spent nine years documenting the stories it retells. Here they come back as a polished documentary, told by the people at the center of them.

"All the President's Men," trailer. Tucker Carlson Network, 2024. Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Bannon and Tucker Carlson appear on screen. · Watch on YouTube ↗

Who is in it, in his words. On 21 Wire Live with Patrick Henningsen, Stone said the idea came from Igor Lopatonok, who directed Ukraine on Fire (the film his father produced), and that filming began in 2021 with Rudy Giuliani. He listed the cast himself (at 3:51): "Papadopoulos and General Flynn, Roger Stone, Rudy again, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson." The episodes cover Papadopoulos, Roger Stone (with Jerome Corsi and Randy Credico), Michael Flynn, Kash Patel and Carter Page, Giuliani on Ukraine and 2020, and Tucker Carlson on the media and January 6. Bannon "comments on all of the episodes."

What he says, and what the record says. Each quote below is from that interview, with the time it starts.

How many of them run through Biss and Binnall. The lawfare chapter (here) traces a pipeline from Tanya Cornwell Biss to Steven Biss to Binnall Law Group to the suit against Professor Dilley. Put the series cast against that pipeline:

• Kash Patel (an episode of his own). Documented Steven Biss filed Patel's $25M suit against Politico in 2019 and his $50M suit against CNN in 2020 (Techdirt; Fox News).
• Michael Flynn (an episode of his own). Documented Jesse Binnall is Flynn's lawyer in the 2023 wrongful-prosecution suit, which the Justice Department settled in 2026 for about $1.25M (Boston Globe). Steven Biss represented Flynn's brother Jack and Jack's wife Leslie in their $75M suit against CNN over a QAnon segment (Raw Story). Flynn's other brother, Joe, appears in the Defango chapter.
• The 2020 election story (Giuliani's episode). Documented Jesse Binnall led the Trump campaign's Nevada election contest and testified to the Senate on Dec 16, 2020 about "election fraud." A Nevada judge found the evidence of "little to no value" (testimony; Nevada Independent). Stone's 39:39 line repeats that story.
• Carter Page and Flynn, in a 2017 email. Claimed Tanya Cornwell Biss wrote in 2017 that "MY FRIEND THOMAS" was "the man who introduced Steve to Nunes Carter Page general Flynn etc." (the email). That is her claim, not proof of an introduction.
• Jerome Corsi (in the Roger Stone episode). Corsi was the bridge from Q to the mass audience in 2018 (chapter 02).
• Steve Bannon (in every episode). See Bannon and Traditionalism.

That is two of the six episode subjects with their own lawyer in the Biss/Binnall practice, the 2020 fraud story carried by Binnall himself, and a third name sitting in the 2017 email. I am not saying the lawyers made the series. What I am saying is that it is the same small circle, and in 2024 it got a network and a director to tell its version.

Not new to me. In 2019 I did 40+ livestreams on these same people, including "LARP Slayer 24: Bannon / Cambridge Analytica / Flynn / Biss / Schoenberger / QAnon" and "What do Devin Nunes & General Flynn have in common?" (the list).

The Gaia pipeline

Gaia, Inc. is a separately owned public company — there is no corporate or financial ownership tie to IONS, and claims otherwise should be dropped. The connection is distribution, and it is continuous: Gaia's "Divine Science" series co-features IONS researchers alongside actual former Project Stargate and SRI personnel, including Joseph McMoneagle and Russell Targ, plus Geller. One episode offers to teach viewers remote viewing.

Gaia also hosts the full Thrive documentary, Gamble interviews, and a Hubbard tribute episode. The chain is Stargate → IONS → Gaia → Thrive/Hubbard/Gamble, and every link is a documented content or personnel relationship rather than an inference.

It extends downward, too: a January 2019 Anonymous Official video description states the channel partnered with Gaia to amplify its message, carrying a referral link — a monetized cross-promotion, not just alignment. Cite the description text; the compiled overlay graphic circulating with that screenshot is a third party's exposé, not a primary source.

Where this stops, and why the line is drawn here

The evidence supports a persistent professional circuit that manufactures prophetic urgency, monetizes it, and shares a roster with the Cicada network. It does not yet support the stronger claim — that the network engineers real-world disruptive events rather than narrating and selling anticipated ones.

Those are two different propositions with two different burdens. Keeping them apart is the only reason the first one is worth publishing.