Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. EST, the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets convenes a landmark hearing, Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Experiments.
Chairwoman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — the same congresswoman who chaired last week’s Disclosure Foundation Forum at the Kennedy Caucus Room — will lead the examination.
The witnesses: Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow at Brown University and author of the biography of CIA mind control architect Sidney Gottlieb, and Tom O’Neill, investigative journalist and author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.
Here are 3 questions I want Congress to ask:
Why does Esalen Institute, the CIA-adjacent consciousness research center in Big Sur, California, maintain an active online archive of the very MKUltra doctors who experimented on children?
Why do the CIA and intelligence insiders now leading UAP Disclosure rarely mention MKUltra, especially the experiments on children and Experiencers?
Who made the decision to hold Jake Barber’s Psionic event at Esalen, October 14–18, 2024, to emphasize calling in orbs/craft in a well-known CIA location known for research into consciousness, drugs, and sex?
Land Minds Congress Won’t Approach
Earlier this year, I published a Substack: Part 3: Psionics: Paranormal Experiments with Children: Innocents at Risk--Exoconscious Adult Responsibilities. I documented a disturbing convergence: the CIA’s MKUltra mind control program, paranormal experimentation on children, the Esalen Institute, and the current Psionics movement connecting through UAP Disclosure circles.
That convergence is more timely and relevant today than when I wrote it in March 2024.
Here are the convergences. Tread carefully. There may be Land Minds.
MKUltra: What Congress Already Knows
MKUltra ran from 1953 to 1973. It was a sprawling CIA program of behavioral research — drugs, electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, psychic manipulation — conducted on soldiers, prisoners, psychiatric patients, and members of the general public. Without their consent.
Most well known, it used LSD. Less well known, and almost never discussed in UAP or Disclosure circles — MK Ultra experimented on innocent children.
The CIA’s own documents, surviving after Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973, confirm that children in hospitals, orphanages, foster care, and adoption systems were among the subjects. The methods included interrogation, drugs, electroshock, hypnosis, and psychic manipulation.
Tuesday’s hearing will examine the CIA’s decades-long refusal to fully declassify its actions. Luna has already escalated the investigation. In May, CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that the Agency seized 40 boxes of MKUltra and JFK files from DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s office, actively preventing their declassification. Luna gave the CIA a 24-hour ultimatum to return them.
Those seized files have not been fully returned. What’s in them? That question may be addressed in Tuesday’s hearing.
Esalen: The Psionic Playground at Big Sur
Here is where the story takes a turn that Tuesday’s congressional witnesses are unlikely to address, but Exoconscious Humans need to address.
The Esalen Institute — the famous human potential center in Big Sur, California, founded in 1962 as the epicenter of the consciousness revolution has a documented, archival, ongoing, and deeply troubling relationship with the CIA, MKUltra, and the paranormal experimentation on children, directly connected to MKUltra experiments.
According to Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, the CIA invested in research at Esalen into ESP. Esalen was embedded in the post-WWII mind control network that included MKUltra architects, the UK Tavistock Institute, and the Macy Conferences — the same circle of physicians, psychiatrists, scientists, and anthropologists who designed behavioral warfare. Land Minds.
The Tavistock Institute directly connected to Esalen’s founding, pioneered “shock trauma” therapy and psychological warfare, including covert chemical dispensing and public panic management. These are not fringe claims. They are documented.
And today, Esalen maintains an active online archive of the MKUltra doctors who experimented on children.
Esalen’s MKUltra Hall of Disrepute
I call it the MKUltra Hall of Disrepute. Here are the MKUltra scientists that Esalen archives:
First Place of Disrepute, Lauretta Bender — From 1940 to 1953, Bender, a child neuropsychiatrist, administered electroconvulsive therapy to at least 100 children aged three to twelve, diagnosed with “autistic schizophrenia.” Some reports suggest the number was twice that. Her archive is maintained at Esalen.
Second Place of Disrepute, D. Ewen Cameron — Cameron experimented on children at the Allan Institute at McGill University — a CIA front institution. His methods included “Psychic Driving” (repetitive audio messages to erase and reprogram the mind), high doses of LSD, paralytic drugs like Curare, and prolonged sensory deprivation. CIA victims later sued and received partial compensation. His archive is maintained at Esalen.
Third Place of Disrepute, Louis Joylon West — West trained at Cornell’s Human Ecology Fund, a front for CIA-funded research into interrogation, coercion, and torture. The Human Ecology Fund funneled grant money to behavioral scientists to finance research into interrogation, coercion, and torture methods. He conducted research on juvenile delinquency and psychiatric disorders in children in institutional settings. His archive is maintained at Esalen.
Distinction of Disrepute, Alfred M. Hubbard — Known as the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD,” Hubbard’s LSD work with “children, primarily delinquents” was cited as 85% successful in a paper published by New York Medical College. His associate Harold Abramson’s archive is maintained at Esalen.
This question demands an answer: Why does Esalen — currently hosting UAP Disclosure events, Silicon Valley investors, and Psionic summits — maintain a curated archive of these Scientists and their child experiments?
The Esalen Psionic Event: Why It Became Personal
In my Psionics Part 3 Substack, I documented something that immediately set off a child-protection alarm for me.
Ross Coulthart, a prominent UAP journalist, described attending a Psionic event at Esalen from October 14–18, 2024. Also present: Jake Barber (who describes Psionics as “digital intelligence” for calling in craft), Alex Krokus (moderator of the SALT Conference connecting Silicon Valley investment capital to UAP technology), and James Hodgkins (described as an Esalen Psionic Asset, member of Esalen’s Ennea Explorer’s Club, a patron-funded psychic explorer network).
In Coulthart’s own words from his Engaging the Phenomenon interview:
A group of 20-30 people lay on yoga mats on the ground. A “psionic” claimed he was “inside” a non-human craft, flying it with his mind. When they didn’t see the blue orb he predicted, someone with a camera at the top of a hill had captured it — a glowing blue orb floating adjacent to the Esalen hot springs.
Where, Coulthart noted, “all these naked boys and girls from Esalen were swimming.”
Naked children. At night. Adjacent to a group of Silicon Valley investors, UAP journalists, and psionic agents calling in craft — at an institute that archives the MKUltra doctors who experimented on children.
I am not making an accusation. I am naming what I observed and asking the questions that Exoconscious adults are morally obligated to ask.
The Land Mind Congress Ignores: Psionics, UAP, and MKUltra’s Convergence
Here is the question I want Tuesday’s hearing to address.
Why do the CIA and intelligence insiders now leading UAP Disclosure never mention the history of MKUltra, especially the experiments on children?
Christopher Mellon. Avi Loeb. The UAP Science Advisory Council. The Disclosure Foundation. Not one of these institutional voices has connected MKUltra’s consciousness experimentation to the current Psionics movement within through Disclosure.
And yet the connections are structural, not coincidental:
Psionics — the deliberate rebranding of natural human psychic abilities as digital, engineered, AI-compatible “electronic consciousness,” is the direct descendant of MKUltra’s effort to weaponize and control human psychic capacity.
Esalen, which hosted the CIA’s ESP research and today archives the MKUltra child experimenters, is now hosting UAP Disclosure psionic events with Silicon Valley investors. Gathering ‘Individuals of high net worth,” per an amused Coulthart.
Jeffrey Kripal, Associate Director of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research, also compiled a massive archive of UFO scholars and researchers at Rice University, creating a direct institutional bridge between MKUltra consciousness research and mainstream UAP Disclosure academia.
Has Kripal made a public statement about the MKUltra child experimentation documented in Esalen’s own archives? I have found none.
The convergence is in plain sight:
MKUltra children became the data to build mind control systems.
Psionics became the rebranding for Experiencer psychic experiments.
UAP Disclosure became both the delivery and the disinformation system.
What Exoconscious Humans Know: Why Exoconsciousness Matters
This is why Exoconsciousness matters now more than ever.
MKUltra’s entire program was built on a single premise: that human consciousness — especially psychic, intuitive, and contact-based consciousness — could be captured, weaponized, metered, experimented on, harnessed, and monetized by investors.
Bottom line: MK Ultra believed that innocent children’s open, trusting minds were assets to be harvested, not protected or nurtured.
Exoconsciousness holds the opposite position.
Natural human consciousness — including psychic ability, contact with non-human intelligences, and the full spectrum of multidimensional experience — is foundational. It belongs to the sovereign individual. It is not an asset to be mined by intelligence agencies, Silicon Valley investors, or psionic technology developers.
The Nine Principles of Exoconsciousness are, in a very direct, powerful sense, the antidote to MKUltra’s program:
Exoconsciousness: Nine Interlocking Principles:
(1) natural human consciousness amidst brain-centric or artificial reality constructs
(2) innate psychic abilities amidst synthetic mind and body control
(3) human intelligence amidst AI and AGI
(4) individual moral sovereignty and conscience amidst algorithmic ethics
(5) spiritually ensouled humans amidst technological-genetic hybridization
(6) individual dignity amidst engineered, AI-sourced government and social structures
(7) natural law, including the laws of nature and plasma science amidst geoengineering
(8) inalienable rights amidst AI governance, tokenized economy
(9) cosmic equality and peace amidst the threat of space war
This post draws on research first published in Part 3: Psionics: Paranormal Experiments with Children and integrates this week’s MKUltra congressional hearing announcement from the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. Read the full Psionics FIVE Part series for complete sourcing and documentation.
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