If the first video is yours, the music is way too quiet to hear. Clearly, the video needs music to dance to, or it looks like you are miming instead.
More seriously, WhiteWidow, I'm going to say that I'm sort of on your side (although you would seem to have gone of quite a tangent). Historically speaking, most very bright people have explored metaphysics and conspiracies and such (Newton + alchemy, Conan Doyle + spiritualism, say). I would say this is because the temptation of putting together many hints and clues that seem obscure into grand theories is a great draw for theorists and thinkers.
Personally, I love to read about so-called conspiracy theories, and at least half-believe many of them. However, I have found it helpful to temper my reading with anti-conspiracy books, those that pull apart such theories and tell the many ways in which they can be deceitful.
A good place to start is with the James Randi Educational Foundation (James Randi is a professional magician himself and was one of the first to really get into writing about this in books, as far as I know). This book is quite good to start with, for instance, in terms of general knowledge: book link I picked up a couple random books a few years ago from the university library that discussed how alien sightings could very well have been faked, and how the psychological phenomenon of sighting aliens developed historically (first as angels, then later random flying machines (before "everyone" agreed on what they were seeing), then aliens as we "know" them). If you like that topic, this site looks pretty cool: UFO info site (I know I'm going to read through it myself at some point; I think it was one of this guy's books I read first on that topic: link)
Lately, I've been reading "Scams from the great beyond" by Peter Huston, which tells many of the ways in which all sorts of things can be faked, from ESP to aliens to crop circles and beyond (largely from a stage magician's perspective). It's really good. I was also recently reading Oliver Sack's new book on Hallucinations recently, which tells of an extremely large number of ways that they can come about. These examples aren't directly on topic, but they are related examples that I know enough about to write about.
My basic point for you is that there are so many ways in which psychic phenomenon can be faked or misunderstood, that it is very difficult to find out what is true. Anyone can go out and make a website, and even if it is well-networked with other websites and has a ton of content (David Icke, I'm looking at you; they don't need another link to their site), it doesn't mean that it is any more realistic than any of the other websites or books. I liked reading the theories, for instance, about the Lady Gaga videos and how they are "evidence" of mind control from the MKUltra project in the media. Maybe they are, maybe (and probably) they aren't. Or perhaps they just look like they are to fool people (to have fun or make extra money by looking scandalous). Was there an MKUltra project? Apparently yes, by that name, but what it really was and what it did leads to a lot of online speculation that may not (probably is not) any better than the historical fakes that are brought up in some of the books mentioned earlier. The sites that tell you how to tell if you are a fairy or an ancient spirit, which is what I suspect lead you off to your current suggestion that you are actually Lucifer (like these guys an otherkin link), probably not very true. But who knows, really... at least you recognize that it is just a "grandiose idea."
It's good to leave things at that level, with everything plausible as an idea, but then to try to gain more knowledge and facts. And of course, who doesn't want to get the best facts possible, to reach more accurate conclusions (to wade through the fraudsters and the misguided to learn things that may actually be true)? So, as in any research, check your sources, try to find out who is saying something and what their real motivations are. That's what I try to do, anyway.
(A vague caveat from Neil Gaiman's comic "The books of magic":
"Doctor Thirteen: I've been professionally investigating the occult for fifteen years, now, lad. Magic, spooks, witch-cults. You might call me a professional debunker. In fifteen years, I haven't seen one thing that was not susceptible to rational explanation. Either it was a hoax, or a fraud, or — often — people wanting so much to believe in powerful forces outside of our ken that they'd convince themselves of the existence of magic, taking simple coincidence or delusion as proof of their superstitions...
John Constantine: He doesn't believe in magic. And he's right. Magic doesn't exist, for him. You have to choose it, you see.")
Finally, for fun, here is a related song and an album that I heard for the first time on youtube in the past week:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JnCWT-_O8[/youtube]
There is a whole chapter on how to fake bending spoons in Huston's book, btw.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrcWO1rGbY[/youtube]
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