About the Podcast
The Project
Psyop Cinema approaches film as a form of cultural engineering, as a tool for shaping public values and perceptions. From an early age, both of us developed an appreciation of filmmaking as an artform with an unparalleled power over human consciousness. Our life journeys took us through the study of depth psychology, comparative religion, and occultism, by which we came to understand the symbological and ritual dimensions of the movies that we loved so much. These studies also clued us in to how symbolic and ritual language can be deliberately manipulated, enacting specific transformations of the human.
We realized that film must be understood not only in terms of aesthetics and spirituality, but also in the context of deep politics. Studying the medium in this light forced us to confront the unnerving truth about the dark side of filmmaking. Advanced psychological knowledge garnered through mind control programs like MKUltra, coupled with new audio-visual techniques, has drastically expanded the manipulative power of movies. Inspired by the work of people like Jay Dyer, Dave McGowan, Jasun Horsley, and William Ramsey, Psyop Cinema is dedicated to exposing and analyzing culture creation and mass mind control in the film industry.
Meet the Hosts
Thomas Millary
Thomas is a recovering pop-culture junkie, whose obsession with film long coincided with his interests in the strange and spooky aspects of spirituality. After years of fixation on the paranormal, occultism, mysticism, and psychedelia (and countless time spent watching and discussing films), his research, life experience, and conversion to Orthodox Christianity revealed to him some sinister truths about his interests. With an academic background in religion, philosophy, and theology, he now channels his aptitude for analyzing films into an attempt to decode the true purpose and messages of Hollywood. By recovering the realities that the entertainment industry distorts and conceals, Thomas hopes to help dispel the spiritual darkness of pop-culture and promote a pro-human future.
Brett Carollo
Brett’s obsession with film began at an early age, and by his teenage years, he was a committed cinephile. His later studies in depth psychology and comparative religion revealed to him that films are windows into the collective psyche. His misadventures with psychedelia and pop culture occultism, and his subsequent conversion to Orthodox Christianity, further clued him into the fact that film—and culture in general—is also a tool for manipulating mass consciousness at a fundamental, spiritual level. Thus, bringing to bear a deep politics perspective on the study of film, Brett examines how the medium is used by powerful agencies, often in a clandestine manner, to engineer public values, attitudes, and worldviews.
