The Battle Across Time
Yet another possibility is they have an opposition, a team of enlightened or en-knowledged beings who have been opposing their control since it started - a battle for Man across time, hidden in the lost annals of our race as (perhaps) the Seven Rishi, or the Seven Lords of Light fought against the powers of Darkness, handicapped by their desire to allow us to develop our path to Light by choice.
But there is another thought… If our reality truly depends on what we perceive, then maybe they need us to be despondent, to see the negative of life, to lose hope and foresee only an ever deepening loss of freedom and advance, where our world is so circumscribed we can hope only to be good servants of the poor overlords trying their best to keep us all alive. Then, they get the world they want, possibly forever.
And if 2012 is really a crux, truly a time of growing energy as we pass from Kali Yuga into a more enlightened Age, maybe if they can make us hopeless, the energy will not be used to bring a new age of enlightenment but instead to confirm into the darkness, our lives, our hopes and our futures and leave them as absolute rulers of an endarkened people, with the Darkness being powered by the very Light that was meant to bring us out of the mire.
This possibility is rather nasty to think upon – we should all make a determined effort to find ways to be positive in our lives, to see good things, to find hope for ourselves and others, if for no other reason than to ensure this doesn’t come to pass. Just the possibility of this being in our future should be a goad sufficient for us to stop playing the doom and gloom game and to work at bringing a little glow of positive feeling into our lives
And we will be surprised at how such a glow can infect those around us.
Be a little bud-light in your own life.

So on this level, I imagine they (the hidden puppet masters behind the stupid public figures) are quite confident they can tell us anything and enough people will believe it that they can get away with whatever they wish.
When we look around, the world seems further than ever from the kind of world envisaged by those who read the message of the Christ. Whether or not we accept the religion of the Church, or even profess to a Christian life, the words of the Christ and other avatars or messiahs lead to thoughts of a better world. The possibility of a world where Mankind loves without rancor, where we can trust one another and where we might all work towards a more enlightened life for all is enough to make most people fall silent as they have a brief moment of wishing.
A problem with thinking about the origin of it all, the Creation, is What created the creation? Thinking about it can get one really twisted up inside as we try to wrestle with concepts that may not only be unknown, but may actually be unknowable within this Reality. I don’t know if the Origin CAN be known until we know just what the Creation is. Until we know that we can’t really know what is outside the Creation, so it becomes a Known Unknown.
On the subject of souls, I think perhaps if we can move away from the religious connotations we find evidence of something other than bodies for both Human AND other life. The Hundredth Monkey effect was not, after all, about humans. Watch a school of fish all turn simultaneously - there is no water effect that can cause it; any such would cause more of a ripple effect to pass through the school, just like you see them do when they react to danger. But at more peaceful times, the school acts as one.
What it seems to point at is that the only constant seems to be Consciousness, and that reality is a construct of Consciousness - if that is so, then it would seem eminently feasible for there to be more than one truth while we exist at the lower levels. Even if, at the connection level where all Consciousness is One, there is only Truth, we are not at that level and so can only see what is true for us.
My thoughts on this are a bit complex to put down, but I’ll try.
Another issue is the amount of astronomy encoded into story, myth and scripture. When you first learn of it, it can be easy to think, coincidence, but after a while, when you’ve seen it over and over, it becomes exceedingly difficult not to accept it all as being planned into the texts. Precessional numbers and stories are also there in an amazing amount. Somebody encoded that stuff, and to do it they had to have a level of knowledge at least equal to ours.
So, if we don’t take a group of immortals seriously, that leaves a couple of secret groups, running an agenda across the ages, following a plan laid down in a time when, according to the fables we are being taught, high technology was a slightly sharper rock on a stick.
Add to all of that, the Essenes - the 3rd major religious group from before and shortly after the time of the Christ. For some strange reason they don’t get much of a run in the bible yet the major players seem to have been Essenes. The Dead Sea scrolls, a far more authoritative source than the second hand copies of copies of long lost texts from which we derive our modern bible, tell a different story of those times. The Essenes appear to have been a rather hidden group of manipulators and it isn’t hard to see them playing out some long-running scheme as they prepared the maids for the role of mother of the Messiah.
Another one to read is Ralph Ellis. Ellis has looked into the history of the Hebrews, of Jesus and the origin of the Judaic religions. What he finds is fascinating. Check out
There are darker possibilities - I wonder sometimes if it’s the magicians trick - look over there, watch that hand, ooh, voila, I have produced something from where you didn’t see it coming.