Written by Andrew K. Arnett

Jeffrey Epstein has a disturbing fascination with a poisonous plant used for turning people into ‘zombies.’

The territory is getting darker. Things have been leading up to this for some time. You could feel the pulse of humanity speed up. But the Epstein Files dump—it’s like mainlining crystal in a Vegas alley. The collective mind of society exploding like a mushroom cloud.

For a guy like me, it is dazzling and a horrible thing to behold. Like fishing with dynamite. It doesn’t seem fair. But Lord knows there have been lean times. At this point, we need a new axiom—any weirdness that could happen will happen.

I’m half expecting Paul’s double to peak out from behind the curtain and say, “It was me all along.” Yes, yes we know, Paul is Dead. But it’s always nice to hear it straight from the mouth of the dead man himself.

Over the weekend, Rep. Tim Burchett was weeping on the Benny Show about the plain awfulness of the stinking pile of evil collectively referred to as The Epstein Files. ‘If you get a chance to look at it, don’t,’ he mused. ‘Look the other way. It will haunt you.’ And this is coming from a suit and tie guy. A man who strolls the halls of the Senate as casually as you walking up to a barista at Starbucks and ordering a hot latte.

But Burchett isn’t your typical politician. He has one foot firmly planted in the high desert of the strange. He knows things. He’s been calling on UAP disclosure for a number of years now. And if Burchett tells me to look the other way, I can respect that but, like a horrific 30-vehicle pile-up on the Colorado freeway, I’m not looking at anything else.

Speaking of which, I was sitting at the Denver airport Monday night, waiting on a flight to Las Vegas. It was heavily delayed due to severe storms. While I scrolled, a TMZ ‘breaking news’ item popped up on my feed. The story, titled, “JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES ASKED ABOUT ‘ZOMBIE DRUG’ PLANTS HE KEPT AT NURSERY,” suggested that Epstein may have been growing a collection of poisonous plants traditionally used in making a ‘zombie.’ This was a topic near and dear to my heart, not because I’m a horticulturist but because I’ve been researching the topic for a New Dawn article on MKULTRA.

Like a festering scab, I felt compelled to pull back the layers to this despicable story. Sure enough, it’s an ugly business.

One email, dated Tuesday 27 January 2015, is forwarded to Epstein by someone named Antoine Verglas. The subject line of the message reads: “Scopolamine: Powerful drug growing in the forests of Colombia that ELIMINATES free will | Daily Mail Online.” The email links to a Daily Mail Online article which references a Vice documentary called “World’s Scariest Drug” from 2012 that investigates the topic of “Devil’s Breath” aka scopolamine. Scopolamine is used in Columbian criminal activity as it renders its victims severely disoriented and suffering amnesia, with no free will of their own.

Another email, sent directly by Epstein to a person named Ann Rodriguez, on 3 March 2014, has a message that simply says, “ask chris about my trumpet plants at nursery,?” ‘Trumpet Plant’ is another name for “Devil’s Breath,” aka “Angels Trumpet,” and “Zombie Flower,” which contains scopolamine.

A third email, sent by Guillermo Farinas to Juan Antonio Gonzalez and copied by Joseph Manzaro, references an explicit case of scopolamine dosing. Described as a “victim impact statement,” Joseph Manzaro describes a disturbing occasion when he was dosed with scopolamine. The message reads:

“The next thing I remember was waking up again and hearing Bony Rivera telling Eric Mejias that I was waking up! He said “He’s waking up cuz, WHAT should I do? Eric Mejias then told him not to worry, just give it a minute, he’ll fall back asleep again, I gave him a LOT of that Scopolamine! [HE MUST HAVE GIVEN ME A LOT BECAUSE I AM PRACTICALLY IMMUNE TO THAT STUFF! AS A CHILD I HAD TO TAKE IT QUITE A BIT TO GO DEEP SEA FISHING WITH MY DAD ON THE WEEKENDS WHICH I LOVED! I JUST HATED BEING SEASICK AND DEVELOPED QUITE A LARGE TOLERANCE TO SCOPOLAMINE! I KEPT THAT TO MYSELF THOUGH] After hearing this, I quickly pretended to go back to sleep so that I could find out more about what was going on with me”

What do we know about scopolamine? It is an alkaloid present in the genus Datura belonging to the nightshade family which includes Jimson weed, thorn apples, and the aforementioned devil’s trumpet. By all accounts it is a nasty drug that can cause severe hallucinations, fever, delirium, respiratory depression, arrhythmia, psychosis and death. Curiously enough, in India, Datura is a sacred offering to Shiva in Hinduism.

I may be jumping the gun here but I think it is obvious why Epstein and Co. are interested in scopolamine. It is for its ability to render a person a living /dead zombie. I wrote about the process of creating a zombie in an X article from January 30. Using traditional Haitian voodoo techniques, the Bokor begins by delivering the “strike” or First Powder. This is a secret potion administered to the bloodstream of the victim usually through an abrasion or open wound. The active ingredients that make up the First Powder are tetrodotoxin (TTX) from the pufferfish and bufotoxin from a toad. The effects of this vicious brew causes a slowing down of heart rate and breath to a near-fatal paralysis, mimicking death to the point of actual burial of the victim.

After the “corpse” is exhumed, the witchdoctor administers the Second Powder, or “The Reanimation.” This contains Datura starmonium (Angel’s Trumpet). It renders the victim zombie-like and subservient. At this point, the Bokor can get the “zombie” to do whatever he wants.

The third step in this process, to maintain the zombie in this ghost-like mental state, is to steal the victims’ ti bon ange (part of the soul). A form of mind control is applied with more drugs, threats of physical punishment, and threats of sending the person back through the zombification process.

This rabbit hole gets weirder the deeper you go. In fact, the rabbit that built this hole was not normal, like Frank—the six foot humanoid rabbit in Donnie Darko.

Andrew K. Arnett is a writer for New Dawn Magazine and author of the book  The Crowley Conspiracy available on  Amazon