Predictive Programming and Ritual Stagecraft -The Batman Movie Shooting Synchronicities

"The horrific shooting at the screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado late last night bears eerie similarities to a scene in the 1986 comic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. In the comic, a crazed, gun-toting loner walks into a movie theater and begins shooting it up, killing three in the process. The passage concludes with the media blaming Batman for inspiring the shooting, though he is not involved in the incident at all.

"The 1986 comic, written and drawn by Frank Miller, was a key inspiration for the Chris Nolan Batman films. It helped to reimagine the character away from his Saturday morning cartoon image and into a dark, grim avenger. The point of this particular scene in the comic was to show just how far Gotham has fallen since Batman had retired.

To those who will dismiss the link between the preceding comic and the Colorado shooting as a “mere coincidence,” permit me to paraphrase Police Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) in the Batman movie now showing in theaters: “You’re a detective now. For you there are no more coincidences.”

In magic, the highest ritual imprinting of the Group Mind is accompanied by blood sacrifice.

And of course the bat has not traditionally been associated with goodness, but rather the opposite, from the bat of the “Dracula” mythos, to the masonic bat caves of New Mexico, the Bat Towers of Florida and Texas, and Die Fledermaus. But in America, where heads-is-tails and sinners are saints, the ominous bat image has been reversed and transformed into a crime fighter.

Within 24 hours of the shootings, when the investigation should begin in earnest, the Washington Post (online July 20, 6:47 p.m.) has closed the case by issuing the familiar lone-nut declaration: "The only near-certainty is that the gunman (James Holmes) acted alone and not as part of a terrorist group or other conspiracy.” A similar semi-omniscient statement was issued by the establishment media in 1977 in the immediate aftermath of the apprehension of “lone nut” David Berkowitz as the “Son of Sam.” Years later this “near certainty” was deflated when it was revealed that Berkowitz had not acted alone. There were other conspirators and another shooter. This fits an observable pattern, as in cases such as the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Bobby and Martin Luther King. (Recall that Gary Oldman portrayed “lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald in the movie “JFK” and Dracula in Coppola’s version of the classic film).