I was delighted to see that Jon Rappoport recently joined substack.com. I’ve been a reader of his for years on his nomorefakenews.com site. A while back I’d even purchased one of his ‘Exit from the Matrix’ compilations.
A key component of those series is about expanding our ability to imagine. He offers practical lessons. Initially I must admit, I was surprised and perhaps even a little disappointed. Did I really need assistance imagining?
Lately though I’ve seen the brilliance of it. So often over the last two years I’ve thought how mass formation (which I refer to as a spell) is tied to a lack of imagination. Many of us, simply can not imagine there could be forces out there who would attempt, via a global plandemic, to take over greater control of the world. If you can’t even imagine the possibility, you certainly can’t see it unfold, let alone anticipate it.
This lack of imagination is akin to an invisible container placed around our minds: what I’m calling the fishbowl effect.
We can all agree that a fish born into a fishbowl would never suspect there was anything more to its existence. Having always known existence within a limited space, that allows for small repetitive spins around the bowl, the notion that there might be a far bigger space in which to roam would likely never occur to our fishbowl-fish.
Unless of course this fish had a big imagination.
We’re a lot like that. Our world has been reduced and contained and that’s the world we’re born into. Like the fish in the fishbowl, it’s all we’ve ever known.
So much of what we’re dealing with has to do with those imposed limitations. Our references and contexts are often both invisible and restrictive. Generally speaking we don’t tend to walk around as beings aware of our infinite nature; in wonder at our place in the larger cosmos, or the possibilities of our potential.
Our understanding of reality - including ourselves - has been largely pre-defined for us.
It’s not a mystery why we accept it. We move through the world as its laid out for us. If we follow the rules as provided and do ‘the right thing’ we get to be ‘successful’ in the way the world has defined success. (Which usually is a debt-slave system that traps us.) If we don’t, we pay the price, which comes in many forms, from societal shunning and shaming to credit scores boxing us out, to all out censorship. (Or worse.)
In our pre-defined fishbowl world, ‘smart’ people rise to the top. (Psychopaths to the tippy-top) Most people work hard to become professionals in their fields and their efforts are rewarded with money, success and respect. I’m certainly not saying there is anything wrong with hat. Hard work is worthy and deserving of success. It’s the designated framework within which our efforts operate that I’m interested in pointing out.
Ours has become a culture that elevates certain kinds of people, pursuits and opinions while diminishing others. The emphasis on a materialistic worldview for instance, has dominated the climate of education and its inevitable link to our larger culture and economy. (Parents would more likely advise their child to get a degree in accounting for instance than become a theatre major.)
We have a culture that both creates and elevates the ‘expert’. And while there is nothing wrong with the idea of an expert - who gets to decide who is and who isn’t?Which expert gets to become a talking head on the ubiquitous box that delivers the daily programming? And who gets to decide that other genuine experts who don’t agree should be targeted attacked and censored? (Or worse.)
I personally know a PhD scientist, who got the jab while pregnant. In her world, it made sense to skip caffeine while pregnant but not to pass on an experimental gene-altering jab. Huh. She also gave her 5 year old the injection. She didn’t have to, it wasn’t required by school or anything. She just thought it was the right thing to do.
As we’ve seen - more visibly in the last couple years than ever - intelligence does not necessarily translate into basic smarts. Chances are if you’ve bought - hook, line and sinker - the current version of reality without question, you’re a prime target for manipulation. If however, you have your doubts, you’ve looked into other views, done research and you’ve allowed yourself to imagine the unimaginable - you fared better in the latest psyop.
I’m no scientist or PhD but somehow I knew enough to see that going along with the current school of thought and agreeing to be a guinea pig (apologies for mixing metaphors) was divorced from common sense. Maybe even from an innate sense of survival.
And I’m not saying those who get advanced degrees aren’t learning anything. (Or that all of them are unable to think for themselves.) I’m sure they know many things I don’t know. And I applaud the desire to know and to strive towards better versions of ourselves. What I am saying is that somewhere along the line in our school system, critical thinking and common sense was intentionally disconnected from that pursuit.
If higher levels of formal education make us better instruments of manipulation, maybe it’s time we take a closer look at that? The adage ‘Knowledge is Power’ is only true, if that knowledge actually translates into better choices and freedom. If it locks us into slavery and agreement to irrational narratives, (that cause self-harm!) then I’d suggest we’ve been duped.
The natural spark of curiosity and wonder that humans embody - seen so naturally in children - has been intentionally dampened for a long time. In fact TPTB would like to snuff it out completely. And the place where we supposedly go to ignite curiosity is exactly where that dampening has been accomplished: schools.
It’s hard not to hear Twain’s famous line, “Never let your schoolin interfere with your education.” He understood that what schools taught came with an agenda attached to them. I think we’re only beginning to appreciate just how big (or, paradoxically, small) that agenda was.
Fish swim in schools, moving in an autopilot kind of unison. And children taught in schools learn to do the same.
Appropriately this was all tied astrologically to the age of Pisces which we are leaving behind. Now, as Clif High has pointed out, we’re in the age of Aquarius and the school mentality is breaking apart as individual thinking and action enter; signifiers of this new age. We’ll still need to cooperate with each other, but not at the price of sacrificing our individuality.
We’ve been hemmed in for a long while. Somewhere out there - in a world we can’t perhaps imagine - TPTB have decided that even the small freedoms granted us in our metaphorical fishbowls, is a bit too much and they are clamping down. It’s almost as if they know they are in a race with the onset of a new age. (Likely they do.)
As this dawning age brings a fresh new energy, we are waking up - one individual at a time - to our respective fishbowls. The invisible containers have become visible; the urge to shatter the glass is palpable and the curiosity about what lies outside its confinement, is growing.
A new current is flowing out there; it comes with a much large space. This brings many new possibilities and new personal responsibilities as well. That’s exciting.
Perhaps we start imagining what that might look like?
I certainly am praying that people will wake up and get out of the material world and make real connections, not those that look socially elevating. Way too much is placed on money and all of the attachments that comes with it. Also those attachments to those certifications behind or in front of people's names. What do they really mean? In 1970 I lived in a 3rd world country that was trying to make it to the second world, and that popped my bubble. Reality was quite different.
Yes!! One of my recent posts was asking folks to start imagining the future the way we want it so we can collectively co-create it! Please share your views on what you think that future looks like! I’m earnestly curious. Especially from deep thinkers.
As a theatre major, I’d like to think my imagination goes beyond the fish bowl. Then again, the theatre scene in Chicago has bend the knee to wokeism and I have been transformed into a pariah for holding covid views outside of the norm. Some theatres here still require a passport for entry or participation.
I practice autonomous learning with my kids. The thought of an institutions offering meaningless rewards (in the forms of thumbs up, gold stars, grades) in exchange for learning academics exactly the way that it’s being taught alongside obedience is a no for me. I rather them not know fractions but understand compassion and retain their critical thinking skills and their creativity which all children inherently have.
Thank you again for your words of wisdom. Please write about how you see the future!