Bookmark this thread above. Nicole Shanahan has opened up about her near-death experience during the 2024 campaign—and her journey to Christ—since the election. Now, she refuses to be silent about what she sees as demonic influence in America, from Burning Man to Washington:🧵

A week before the 2024 election, Nicole Shanahan revealed that a friend questioned her move to run for Vice President with RFK Jr. Why? He said D.C. needed “something that politics can’t give it.” “I think it actually needs an exorcism.”

Nicole used to be a “devoted Burner” herself. She attended Burning Man for almost 10 years, from 2014 through 2022. Now, she’s asking herself if the festival is demonic. She refers to The Screwtape Letters and its companion essay, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, by C.S. Lewis as a

“The most delectable souls,” as portrayed in The Screwtape Letters, are those with the most passionate qualities. It doesn’t matter whether that passion is used for good or evil—only that the passion provides “substance” for demons to feast on. Lewis wrote that the souls of

Burning Man is much more than just a festival to Burners. It’s a spiritual, even religious experience for tens of thousands of people. Many call it “home.” Nicole remarked about her first time there: “I had never experienced anything close to this before.”

The experience at Burning Man is a sharp contrast to the modern world, so much of which is spent in front of a screen. “Here, movement was different. Not sullen, not weighed down.” “It feels like a sudden immersion back into the elements.” Nicole was “hooked” on the experience

Nicole compared the experience to “an entire lifetime distilled into mere hours.” “A single ‘playa hour’ can carry the weight of countless parties, one-night stands, profound conversations, and fleeting moments of human connection.” But there’s a catch: The ecstasy of the

Nicole spent several years at First Camp, where leadership runs the event. Celebrities, movie stars, diplomats, royalty, and other VIPs stay at First Camp. But Burners “cloak themselves” in created identities, or “playa names.” “Sometimes I never even knew the real names of

From the outside, the experience looks like pure chaos. Orgies, drugs, sexual assault, and preventable deaths. “Overdoses happen so frequently that they rarely interrupt a party.” Burners “openly practice magic, summoning spiritual entities as if for entertainment.” Now,

Whether or not this is truly demonic, Nicole said she knows what it did to her spirit and brain—“and it was not good.” “The truth is that dark and terrible things happened nearly every year I attended … ” One man “hurled himself into the fire and died.” A young woman tried to

But the dark side of Burning Man is an “accepted reality.” Burners believe that the experience they feel to be so transcendent is “vital enough to risk a few lives here and there.” And, of course, powerful elites fund it all to use as their “personal playground.” It’s not just

Nicole was changed by her first year at Burning Man. “It was as if my own soul had been jolted awake, moving in ways it never had before.” San Francisco felt “unrecognizable” when she returned—and the change left her “fearless.” Her takeaway from Burning Man was that “life is

“For many, Burning Man is nothing short of a religious experience.” Nicole was once one of the people who made pilgrimages to the Temple, where people bring artifacts or photographs to burn in a great fire. The fire isn’t just a release of suffering—it’s worshipped. “As the

So, is Burning Man demonic? Nicole is now looking at her years there through the lens of Christian theology—and she sees Burning Man as a “powerful vehicle for deception.” “In fact, it may be one of the most effective tools for Satan to misdirect souls away from our Heavenly

Nicole described art that “mocked virtue itself.” “There was, and remains, a striking irreverence for Christian tradition.” Burners made confessions, sacrificed possessions, and prayed—“not to God, but to idols.”

The founder of Burning Man once told Nicole that “the burning of the Man symbolized the release of the soul.” Now, she asks: “To whom is that soul being released?” Who are the spiritual entities that Burners summoned as if for pure entertainment? Or the “spirits” released in

Burning Man united a “nucleus of power” that Nicole said she “never witnessed assembled in one place before.” It’s an event funded by powerful elites to use as a playground. “The stern executive suddenly wears crystals and stones around his neck.” “The scientist speaks freely

Now, Nicole warns that Burning Man is a slow, gentle road to Hell—just like C.S. Lewis described. “Before you realize it, you become an empty vessel—lost, pretending, unable to find joy, and unable to find God.” Seeing her past through the lens of Christian theology, Nicole