I may be overly optimistic, but I don't think there's anything these sociopaths can do downstream, here in the material realm, that is capable of blocking our upstream connection.
As one of my favorite poets, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote, "Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
These new idols will be shattered in the dust, right along with the old ones. It's just a question of when.