Joseph Mercola – a leading figure in the anti-vax movement and one of the wealthiest and most prolific alternative medicine proponents in the world – derived some of his health advice via a ‘channelled’ spirit named Bahlon, according to new footage released by the Office for Science and Society at McGill University.
In the video, Mercola is seen during multiple extensive business consultations with Bahlon via the help of ‘psychic’ channeller named Kai Clay – otherwise known as Christopher W. Johnson, former CEO of the branding company Whitehorn Group.
During the channelling sessions – videos of which Mercola shared to other staff members within his organisation – Mercola claims to use knowledge from Bahlon, alongside insights generated by ChatGPT, to derive some of his health advice. Mercola also claims in the sessions to be regularly self-administering carbon dioxide enemas, claiming they feed his microbiome and create a forcefield to protect him from the alleged dangers of electromagnetic frequencies like 5G. Bizarrely, he attests to giving similar CO2 treatments to his pet dog, to whom he alleges he has fed samples of Mercola’s own blood.
The exposé also reveals worrying plans to recruit “millions” of members of the public to “march with weapons” on veterinarians – a call to arms that is especially concerning given that Mercola flaunts a Glock 45 handgun during the sessions, kept in a drawer in his home office.
After reviewing 50 hours of leaked footage – dubbed “The Mercola Tapes” – Jonathan Jarry, science communicator at the OSS, has released extensive excerpts as part of a new documentary on Joseph Mercola and his ideas. The video shows Mercola’s claims that the Catholic Church forms the heart of “the Global Cabal”, in apparent support of claims made during an ongoing religious discrimination lawsuit brought by former Mercola Chief Business Officer Ryan Boland and former Chief Editor Janet Selvig (Mercola’s sister), who allege they were fired because of their strong commitments to the Catholic church. The suit specifically highlights the role of Christopher Johnson and his claims to channel “a high-vibration multidimensional entity from the causal plane” called Bahlon.
Mercola, whose website receives 10 million visitors per day and whose wellness empire is revealed in the video to be worth more than $300 million, was named in 2021 part of the “Disinformation Dozen” – a small group of major health misinformation promoters – and has a number of ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In 2023, Mercola hosted a town hall in Cape Coral, Florida, as part of RFK Jr’s presidential run, before Kennedy’s appointment as head of Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services.
In the Tapes, Mercola shares his fear that he could be involuntarily committed for appearing delusional: “I’m already whacked out. I’m an anti-vaxxer. Now I’m doing the spiritual stuff. My behaviour suggests I’m a nutcase!” He believes he will earn more Nobel Prizes than anyone before him and that he will destroy the insurance industry and bring about a “Mercola bank system.”
“The people who made Dr. Joe Mercola rich need to know where he gets his health information these days: from ChatGPT and from a branding expert who closes his eyes and pretends to be channelling an entity,” says Jarry. “In my opinion, the grandiosity and paranoia I see in the Mercola Tapes should serve as a case study in what can happen when you reject mainstream scientific knowledge and crave any sort of alternative, no matter how divorced from reality it is.”
