Monarch?
Going down these rabbit holes has brought some clarity to my younger years, but it has also left me with new questions. My social media has become a running archive of notes, thoughts, links, and observations gathered from years of quietly researching from home and trying to make sense of pieces that never quite fit together. Lately, I keep stumbling across references to “Project Monarch.” Google summarizes it as a “conspiracy theory alleging a secret CIA mind-control program involving trauma-based programming.” Even typing those words feels surreal to me because years ago I would have dismissed the subject outright. But then I look at the photos. I look at the old California pictures of my parents from the 1960s. I look at the baptism photo that came straight from Grandma Woywod’s album, still attached to the page after all these decades, with “Fr. Patrick Peyton” written carefully across the back. I look at other photographs that appear to include people connected to worl...
