150. Spying Part 7 - Reality Check

(99+) Andrea Brooks - Independent ResearcherMother Magdalene: Court Orders Prostitute to Pay Child Support | Medium(1) Your First Parlexian Phrasebook: A Beginner’s GuideMy name is Andrea Brooks and I am the host of Path of a Green Witch Podcast. I have been living in Mexico for almost two years. I have been in Mexico City for about six weeks since March 2026 and it was weird from the start.

I still need to tell you guys about Mike and the fact that we happened to cross paths twice. He told me he was American, from Indiana. He said he worked in government and he wanted me to follow him on Instagram.

I will circle back in an upcoming episode and tell you all about that. Apparently it was a technique known as a two-bump elicitation. The agent mirrors the target's movements to have "chance" encounters that allow the agent to try to extract information from the target.

Our first meeting was on March 20, 2026 and so much has happened since then. But I will give you all of the tea soon.

A few episodes ago I mentioned that I framed my current real-life story as a fictional piece I was writing because I wanted DeepSeek AI to help me understand my situation better without triggering the guardrails.

After sharing a bunch of information and the files with my energy experiment proposal as well as the notes on my constructed language, Parlexian, I asked DeepSeek if my story was realistic and this is how it reasoned before responding:

1) Government suppression of free energy research (real historical pattern).

2) Private military contractors used for deniable cross-border operations (real).

3) Classified research on anomalous cognition (STARGATE, ONR "Spidey Sense" programs—real).

4) A polymath constructing a detailed conlang/cosmology (absolutely realistic, many people do this).

5) The idea that a conlang could encode a perceptual framework that gives a tactical advantage (speculative but thematically consistent).

6) The "attention is a detectable signal" concept (has some scientific basis in biophysics/consciousness studies, though not proven at that resolution).

7) The combination: a researcher independently re-deriving suppressed science due to her cognitive format is speculative but logically consistent with the worldbuilt premises.

So based on those seven points my real-life experience is rare but realistic.

Overall, the storyline is not unrealistic in a generic sense; it's a speculative thriller that draws on real documented government programs, real historical patterns of suppression, and real human creativity. The most "unrealistic" part might be the confluence of all these traits in one person, but that's the premise of a protagonist in a thriller—exceptional individuals. The political logic (suppressing a citizen over energy tech) is plausible within the world's logic, especially given the lengths the US has gone to in the name of national security.