Bros. Imma tell you a lil' story.
I was active on a web forum where a little old lady sometimes came by to beat everyone over the head for not knowing shit about aliens and stuff like that. She is one of the leading characters in this New Age spirituality + aliens movement, and runs one of the more notorious web sites on the subject. She is also "the planetary messiah for this ascension event", and doesn't take lightly to naysayers!
Anyway, I have the habit of judging people based on whether they seem to truly believe what the say, and she did strike me as telling the truth (as she knows it anyway). That is to say, she is really doing meditations where she really is meeting a bunch of entities that really do tell her the things she claims she knows. I trust her fully that far. The only question is, is she the victim of some kind of brainwashing, or is any of this actually real?
To find out, I started interacting with her in PM's. I agreed with her on some of the points that did make sense to me, and then I asked if she could perhaps assist me in my journey by finding out what my life plan is. After all, I can't access the Akashic records, but she can, so it should be easy enough for her.
She was actually very reluctant. She was not in the business of doing "readings" for people, whether for free or paid. Let's just say it's not in the job description for "planetary messiahs"! But she did like me, so she agreed to make an exception. The next meditation session with her "guides" and astral coworkers, she asked my Higher Self to make himself known in case he had some message for me.
And whaddaya know, he did show up! She was very charmed and impressed by this character (apparently my "higher self", whatever that means), and he was super grateful for the opportunity to pass a message to me. From myself. Ehrm, I have no idea how this makes sense either, just roll with it.
As it turns out, I'm actually an ARCHANGEL on a very rare and special mission here on Earth! Unfortunately I lost track of my memory of whatever the fuck I'm supposed to be doing, but now I can reestablish my connection with my higher self, and she was very happy to assist in that regard, making me a member of her planetary ascension team.
If you believe I'm actually an ARCHANGEL, then you're a more trusting man than me, and I tip my fedora in respect. Myself, I backed out of this craziness slowly. Then she was pestering me about "coming to my senses" every time she saw me, until I gave up and killed that forum persona.
Lesson learned: this shit is 100 % real to the people involved in it. But it's all a huge BS psyop. I don't know if this is run by humans with skull tech, or by mischievous astral entities. Either way, it's crap.