Two tv shows and a football game, that is where the waffles have shown up. Is there significance here? Yes, I think there is, and this post will make a case for the esoteric symbolism of waffles in popular culture. Ridiculous? Continue reading and judge for yourself.

The show Stranger Things debuted July 15th, 2016, on Netflix. Here’s a very brief summary of the plot:

Set in the 1980s, the series centers around the residents of the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Upside Down, after a nearby human experimentation facility opens a gateway between it and the normal world.

The girl who escapes the government facility has a number tattoo’d on her and the number becomes her name. Before we continue to the waffles, a bit of context on the significance of the number 11 is in order. I am consulting an old book by W. Wynn Westcott for this esoteric perspective:

This seems to have been the type of number with an evil reputation among all peoples. The Kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the Decad, and just as the Sephirotic number is the form of all good things, so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect.

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John Heydon says that by it we know the bodies of Devils and their nature; the Jews understand by it Lilith, Adam’s first wife, a she-devil dangerous to women in confinements.

Numbers and their significance will be a part of our look at the second show this post will consider, a show called Severance, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We haven’t even had our FIRST bite of waffles yet!

The brand of waffle in Stranger Things is the iconic EGGO brand of waffle and it becomes an important part of the story at the end of season 1 when the Hawkins Sheriff, Hopper, leaves waffles in the woods, implying he knows, or is hoping, that Eleven is still alive.

Ok, let’s shift to show number 2. Here’s a summary of the plot from Wikipedia:

Biotechnology corporation Lumon Industries uses a mindwipe medical procedure called “severance” to separate the consciousness of their employees between their lives at work and outside of it. Due to their divergent life experiences, the consciousnesses of the employees in the work place (dubbed “innies”) split from their consciousnesses outside of it (dubbed “outies”), to the point that they become distinct personalities with their own agendas. One severed employee, Mark (Adam Scott), gradually uncovers a web of conspiracies at Lumon, and the mysterious project the employees are unknowingly working on.

The corporate environment of Lumon is a hyper-exaggerated caricature of corporate culture, and it’s within the cheesy corporate incentives of Lumon that we find the most cherished incentive of all: the WAFFLE party! I shit you not, dear reader, and we haven’t even touched on the football game yet, where our mighty GRIZZLIES fell to the JACKRABBITS by a score of 23-3.

Two shows with heavy “mind-control” themes should hint at what waffles symbolize, and it’s NOT what Food And Wine says.

Stranger Things is a show, in part, about nostalgia, that invokes not only the early 1980s aesthetic, but precarious childhood balance between security and possible disaster. Kids ride their bikes around their neighborhood unsupervised with the guarantee of safety, but they probably suspect something sinister is lurking beneath the peaceful façade of white picket fences—most people are suspicious there’s always a chance our happy lives could crumble around us. Eggo waffles are a necessary set piece, not only to invoke a time in which everyone simply served syrup drenched waffles to their children without question but to also symbolize the near-banality of life in Hawkins, Indiana, before Eleven was released from her cage. Everything—down to the breakfast food—seemed to be the perfect, but all it took was one small crack (or girl) in the foundation to bring the whole town down.

Nostalgia? No, I think COMPARTMENTALIZATION is a much better fit for what these waffles are supposed to signify in these two shows because THAT is what a traumatized mind does when faced with overwhelming experiences of pain and terror; it disassociates, then stashes traumatic memories into segmented compartments so that the core personality can keep going.

Now, how does a football game fit into all this? GREAT question, and the answer begins to take shape with the nickname chosen by the THREE wide-receivers for the Griz: WAFFLE HOUSE! From the link:

Montana’s wide receivers have adopted the nickname “Waffle House” after the restaurant chain that’s popular in the South and Midwest. It’s a place that’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, just like how the Griz wideouts feel they should be open all game, every game.

What am I supposed to do with this? Identifying a synchronicity is one thing, but extracting what it might mean, or point to, is quite another. Thankfully, I’ve become well-versed in synchronicity work, so my antenna were fully tuned to the football game for any ancillary data that might come in for closer scrutiny, and this is what I came away with: the slogan in an ad for the University of Montana.

Before we get to the slogan, I need to mention the doula character in Severance. Why? Because it hit me on a personal level I’m still having a hard time unpacking. I’ll try to keep this brief because I already have a novel-length manuscript on this topic bouncing around my head like pinballs.

My partner in synchronicity is the sister of Sean Stevenson, and she’s a black woman. Her brother died in Montana where, I can personally attest, there are NOT THAT MANY BLACK PEOPLE, and since Sean and his alleged assailant were black, and the town I live in is gripped by the WOKE orthodoxy of “Liberalism” gone insane, race has been an unavoidable aspect of my own writing on Sean’s case.

I say all this because the doula in Severance is a black woman from Montana, and her name is Alexa, almost the exact name of another woman I’m friends with who worked at our local jail as a nurse. All of this contributes to what I have gleaned from snacking on esoteric waffles, and now I will share that gleaned-meaning with YOU, dear reader.

WHAT’S MADE IN MONTANA IS REMAKING THE WORLD

Yes, THAT is the slogan I saw on the ad for the University of Montana, and it gave me chills. Why? Because I’ve already done plenty of dot-connecting, and this slogan isn’t just a PR boast, it’s a fucking threat that the world better take seriously, and I’ll tell you why.

The biomedical industry has a giant foothold in Montana and it makes perfect sense why. The remoteness of this state was probably a contributing factor in creating a level 4 biosecurity lab in Hamilton where a guy who inspired people like Anthony Fauci used to work, and Hamilton is just an hour south of Missoula, where the University of Montana is proudly promoting its biomedical partnership with companies like Inimmune (Zoom Chron, June 28th, 2020). Are you beginning to see the significance here?

It gets worse when you understand that the president of the University of Montana, Seth Bodnar, is a Rhodes Scholar who attended Oxford, is a West Point Grad, and was a corporate man working as a top executive at GE’s Transportation Digital Solutions division before coming to Missoula. Also, his wife just happened to be into promoting telemedicine BEFORE the pandemic hit. Isn’t that nice? And, for the political cherry on top, this power couple is friends with Jim Messina, a critical cog in the reelection of Barack Obama.

I could go on with connecting influential dots, but I think you get the point, which is something is happening up here in the woke bunker stronghold of Montana, and what that is just might have far reaching tentacles.

So pay attention because there is SO MUCH MORE to come!