Matthew J. Bell | Bankers Trust, Nicholas Roerich, & The Mystic Stone From Sirius

Summary

Synchromystic researcher Matthew J. Bell traces Bankers Trust, a J.P. Morgan-linked bank he calls 'the bank that touched everything,' from the founding of the Federal Reserve to suspicious airline put options placed before 9/11. The same bank's name was reportedly printed on the casket carrying the Chintamani stone, a mystical relic said to come from Sirius, which was delivered to the Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, spiritual guru to FDR's vice president Henry Wallace. Host Greg Carlwood and Bell connect these threads to the pyramid on the dollar bill, French occultism, Theosophy's Ascended Masters, and the question of who holds the Stone of Destiny today.

Key takeaways

• 1Pre-9/11 put options on United and American Airlines spiked to about 25 times the year-to-date average and were traced to a firm acquired by Bankers Trust (Alex. Brown), whose former chairman A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard became the CIA's third-ranking official by March 2001; about $2.5 million in profits reportedly went unclaimed.
• 2The Bankers Trust Plaza (later the Deutsche Bank building) was badly damaged on 9/11, and about 700 human bone fragments were reportedly found on its roof. Its earlier headquarters at 14 Wall Street was topped with a seven-story stepped pyramid modeled on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
• 3Bankers Trust figures were linked to the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that produced the Federal Reserve Act; Benjamin Strong left the bank to become the first governor of the New York Fed, and Jeff Bezos and Jerome Powell are cited as Bankers Trust alumni.
• 4In October 1923 in Paris, the Roerichs reportedly received a fragment of the Chintamani stone in a casket marked 'Banquers Trust.' In 1928 a Bankers Trust vice president, J.F. Schmidt, wrote a letter asking officials in Bombay to 'facilitate' Roerich's journey through India.
• 5Henry Wallace addressed Nicholas Roerich as his guru and, as FDR's Treasury-era ally, helped put the Great Seal's pyramid on the dollar bill in 1935. Helena Roerich claimed the Ascended Master Morya told her 'it is the most grievous error to deny the stone.'
• 6Referenced works include Nesta Webster's 'Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,' Michael Hoffman's 'Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare,' Patrice Chaplin's 'The Portal' and 'The Stone Cradle,' and the research of Louis Buff Parry on the Stone of Destiny.

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Transcript excerpt

It's the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine. From the Sunshine State, I'm Greg Carlwood. And we've all heard the Shakespearean phrase, all the world's a stage. But what about the script? Who writes that? And how many are there? Because so often we find repeating themes, dates, names, and archetypes that suggest the seemingly infinite possibilities of a complex and chaotic reality actually tend to align. Moving along some sort of cosmic grooves and metafictional plot points weave between the world of creative arts and real events in a way that makes one wonder what even is real. And while we on the outside are left wondering, it also feels as if a certain class of esoteric insider Michael Hoffman calls the cryptocracy has somewhat cracked this mechanism and games it regularly. It seems like terms like synchromysticism, twilight language, and revelation of the method all have their hands on some part of this mystic elephant. And the ever-increasing examples of the phenomenon only help the uninitiated to further map its shape. Well, returning to the THC stage is the now thrice great Matthew J. Bell. He's a self-motivated reality researcher, well-versed in the synchromystic arts, and he produces a wide range of deep-diving material under the synchromystic moniker on both YouTube and Substack. He's even been taking things a little bit further lately, defining and refining a slightly new approach to these things he's calling synchromystique, or analytical synchromysticism, pulling from the perspectives of names like James Shelby Downer, Jim Brandon, and Michael Hoffman on one hand, and fusing them with insights from Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauly on the other. ...

Excerpt from The Higherside Chats, Aug 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.